Backlist and Chill

Backlist: It's over, it's finally over! On this joyous day, we gather to celebrate the momentus occasion of having finished this fuckin trilogy! It's all uphill from here, folks. We're reading BLOODTRAITOR by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, published in April 2016. NGL it's SSDD BUT we did come equipped with some jokes this time, to make it a little more bearable for everyone. Now let's all hold hands and jump into this abyss together!

Chill: Cyna is drinking The Bitter End (whiskey + blood orange cocktail mix + lemon juice) and Ollie is drinking an Exactly What I Expected (St. George Absinthe Verte + ginger ale). Pics in the links!

Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.

Next time: It's finally over.

(2h 42m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, extensive discussion of rape, trauma, physical, mental, and emotional abuse against children as well as adults, slavery, and torture.)

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Backlist: Only book two into this terrible endeavor of ours and already we're struggling for words to accurately describe the MALAISE this series has put us in. This time the """"book"""" in question is Bloodkin by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, tragically published in April of 2015, and we gotta be honest with you folks: not a lot of nice things to say about it.

Chill: Cyna is drinking an ESH (amaretto + lemon juice + honey + lime Bubly) and Ollie is drinking an About What I Expected (St. George Absinthe Verte + black raspberry vodka + diet ginger ale). Pics in the links!

Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.

Next time: It's finally over.

(2h 22m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, extensive discussion of rape, false rape accusations, trauma, physical, mental, and emotional abuse against children as well as adults, slavery, and torture.)

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Backlist: Hello, friends! We are back for unlucky season thirteen and this shit is just THE WORST. Today we're talking about Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' fuckin' terrible novel BLOODWITCH, published January 1, 2014. Strap in for some slave empire NUANCE, yall!

This was supposed to be the best one, but it is in fact still terrible, and things will only go downhill from here. Luckily, we were able to weather this one, at least, together in person! So please forgive any sort of wonky sound issues, this was very new to us XD

Chill: Cyna is drinking a Plaguebearer (amaretto + creme de cacao + oatmilk + grenadine) and Ollie is drinking a Bloodwitch (St. George Absinthe Verte + Bruce Cost Ginger Ale Pomegranite and Hibiscus) Pics of our drinks TOGETHER, GASP!

Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.

Next time: Fuckin' Bloodkin.

Stay safe, friends.

(2h 54m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, extensive discussion of rape, trauma, physical, mental, and emotional abuse against children as well as adults, slavery, torture, and suicide.)

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Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. For the last time. Let's go.

Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.  See y'all next time (face 2 face!) for Episode 1: Bloodwitch.

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Backlist: We're back with SPELLBINDER, book three of the Night World series, published in October 1996, which is somehow simultaneously the MOST and LEAST LJ Smith of the Night World books so far. At least we got to see Lisa Jane flex her horror muscles again, though!

Chill: Cyna is drinking a Love Potion (Wendy's strawberry lemonade + raspberry licour + limon rum + TOO MUCH edible glitter) and Ollie is drinking a brilliantly-conceived Cup of Lethe (spike Arnold Palmer + ginger ale) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.

Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.

Next time: the EXTREMELY CURSED season THIRTEEN begins!

Stay safe, friends.

(2h 02m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, discussion of racism, murder, misogyny.)

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Backlist: We're back with THE Night World book, DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (originally published August 1996), in which LJ Smith tries, just really TRIES to write a murder mystery. Like, she did her best. To, ah, varying degrees of success for us. THIS MAY BE A CONTENTIOUS ONE Y'ALL. 

Chill: Cyna is drinking a Horny Goat (cranberry juice + limon rum + 7up) and Ollie is drinking a Starry Night (Wollersheim Dancehall Absinthe Blanche (RIP) + blackberry ginger ale) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.

Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.

Next time:  NIGHT WORLD VOL 3: SPELLBINDER

Stay safe, friends.

(1h 45m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, discussion of misogyny, sexual assault, racism, classism, violence, violence against animals/animal death.)

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We couldn't leave it that way with our girl LJ, so we're back, standing at the at the foot of the mountain, her unfinished masterpiece, her magnum opus (if you don't count the new Vampire Diaries I guess), NIGHT WORLD! And for once, LJ has provided us INFO. How did she plot the series? Which of LJ's core philosophical belief is WOVEN into each and every book? Which author does she (probably) have a wildly unreasonable grudge against and why? LISTEN AND FIND OUT!

Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.  See y'all next time (with booze!) for Episode 1: Secret Vampire!

Thanks for sticking with us, folks, and stay safe! Come and friend us now, while there's still time! @BacklistPodcast on Twitter, while it still exists.

Backlist: What happened, y'all? How did DARK VISIONS: THE POSSESSED (published 1995), a book literally designed for sexy, emotionally intimate rendezvous, end up being so fucking boring??? This is Lisa Jane's bread and butter! HOW???

So anyway it's a short one. 

Chill: NGL, we may have phoned these ones in, in our defense, so did LJ. Ollie is drinking A Waste of My Time (Wollersheim Dancehall Absinthe Blanche + honey + Nixie Watermelon Mint sparkling water), and Cyna soothed her throat with The Possessed (apple spice chai + Fireball) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.

Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.

Next time:  DARK VISIONS VOL 3: THE PASSION

Stay safe, friends.

(1h 17m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, discussion of racism and classism.)

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