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  • (Non-Cosmere) The Raven Tower - Post-Read

    In this episode, Nick and AJ finish their detour out of the Cosmere with a spoiler-filled review of The Raven Tower, by Anne Leckie!


    The last 10 minutes contains spoilers for Hero of Ages, and (more vague) spoilers for the tropes behind the overarching narrative of Stormlight Archive through Oathbringer.


    Discussion points:

    • Just not that funny... which is fine!
    • Parallels to Shakespeare
    • Prose - beautiful and haunting
    • I'm protecting you from myself
    • Denouement is a fancy word
    • Silences and the Silent
    • Lost in Translation... sometimes on purpose
    • "This is a story I have heard" and the book's themes
    • Similar tropes to Cosmere
      • 1 hr 8 min
    • 23 - Mistborn: Secret History - Post-read

      In this episode, Nick and AJ discuss:

      • Ice Age memes
      • Teaser for more-Cosmere Connected books
      • Death of Superman
      • How Secret History Overlaps with Era 1
      • We talk about adding Video (which BTW didn't work out)
      • AJ loves punching
      • Viewing into the infinite isn't good for the Ego... unless you're in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
      • Your heart is in the right place, but YOUR BOWELS ARE NOT
      • Heartwarming vs. Menacing visions
      • Character moments
        • Shard's intent vs. vessel
          • 42 min
        • (Non-Cosmere) The Raven Tower - Pre-Read

          In this extra, off-schedule episode, Nick and AJ discuss the premise of Nick's most re-read book, The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie.


          Discussion points:

          • "Book reviews" are a sub-genre of memoirs
          • Comparing and contrasting Leckie vs Sanderson, The Raven Tower and the Cosmere
          • Premise and tropes that are visited in this book
          • Nick completely fails to sell AJ on reading this book... but she'd already agreed anyway
          • There will be a reckoning.
            • 19 min
          • 22 - Mistborn: Secret History - Pre-Read

            In this episode, AJ and Nick give a spoiler-free review of the novella "Mistborn: Secret History"


            Discussion Points:

            • Kelsier Fortnite
            • Publication order confusion
            • Reading right after Era 1 is better anyway
            • Who's POV is it, anyway?
            • Premise of the book
            • Character development, get hype for Cosmere connected books
            • Other books to read first or what to watch out for
              • 17 min
            • 21 - Mistborn 3: Hero of Ages - Cosmere Connections

              In this episode, Nick and AJ discuss Cosmere Connections, especially focusing on its place within the larger Cosmere! Spoilers for all published Cosmere books, especially Mistborn Era 2.


              Discussion points:

              • Avengers: Endgame
              • The many meanings of "Mistborn"
              • Words of Founding (aka, Nick proves AJ wrong for once)
              • Kandra to keep an eye on
              • Shards! and History of the World
              • Fortune, and the best laid plans of Shards and Men
              • Silver Metal
              • Retcons and Homages
              • Ties with Secret History


                • 53 min
              • 20 - Mistborn 3: Hero of Ages - Post-Read

                In this episode, Nick and AJ discuss and review Hero of Ages! This episode contains spoilers for HoA as well as the previous Mistborn books, but no other books in the Cosmere.


                Discussion Points:

                • How is babby formed?
                • Climax review - Mistfallen, Atium, Spikes, Ascension
                • Our favorite and least favorite scenes
                • Parallels between the Lord Ruler and Vin/Elend
                • There's a monster named "human", do you think the author maybe had multiple meanings with that?
                • One sided conversations
                • Dystopias within a dystopia
                • What we learned about the Kandra, Koloss in HoA
                • Savantism
                • Thirsty memes from WoA and HoA
                • Copperminds and Engineering
                  • 1 hr 1 min
                • 19 - Mistborn 3: Hero of Ages - Pre-read

                  In this episode, Abby and Nick (but mostly Nick) discuss our spoiler-free review of Hero of Ages, Book 3 in the Mistborn Series!

                  Discussion Topics include:

                  - How about that weather at the end of the world?

                  - Hot takes served cold; avoid the audiobook on this one

                  - The payoffs in this book are good, and there's a lot

                  - Meta-discussion about the epigraphs

                  - Nick rambles for 20 minutes recapping the plot of the previous books

                  - Who's alive in this, anyway?

                  - What we're reading next

                  33 min
                • 18 - White Sand - Cosmere Connections

                  In this episode, Nick and AJ discuss White Sand, especially focusing on its place within the larger Cosmere!


                  Discussion points:

                  - Social media is hard

                  - The Dark Side of the Moon

                  - Face in the Clouds

                  - Magic system explanation

                  - Where else the sand appears, and how it is used

                  - Nick's Engineer is Showing

                  - Autonomy

                  -Worldhoppers Review - and why Khriss is frustrating, but Aarick is so interesting

                  41 min
                • 17 - White Sand (Post Read)

                  Nick and AJ discuss White Sand - the Graphic Novel Omnibus Edition, and the Graphic Audio edition! Spoilers for both these Versions of White Sand.


                  In this episode:

                  King of the Hill,

                  Preferring the Graphic Audio,

                  Plot summary,

                  AITA?,

                  Themes in the book,

                  how the magic system works (part 1),

                  Sanderlanche/Plot twists,

                  Nick is oblivious about romance, and

                  We're thinking about getting social media now!

                  53 min
                • 16 - White Sand Pre-Read

                  UPDATE after recording the episode: Nick and AJ both recommend the Graphic Audio version of White Sand over other currently available versions.


                  In this episode - AJ and Nick provide a spoiler-free review of White Sand, including: the trouble with unified standards, Reading as a Skill, Perception vs. Investigation, Revision Control, White Sand as a coming-of-age story, and then more dunks than a basketball game.

                  45 min

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