Just Another Bookish Podcast

What happens when you inherit billions from a guy you've never even heard of? Well, that's what happens to Avery Grambs, the main character of the book we're discussing today: The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (first in a series).

Also, I changed my approach to these episodes a bit. I'm analysing more than just giving you the book's lengthy summary. Here are the new parts and general time stamps for everything in the episode:

Intro and new concept [00:00-05:55]

Premise [05:55-08:04]

Characters [08:04-15:01]

Plot in Short [15:01-21:14]

Setting [21:14-25:53]

Annotations [25:53-57:33]

Title explanation [57:33-58:32]

Cover explanation [58:32-01:01:29]

Review [01:01:29-01:02:48]

Outro [01:02:28-01:07:02]

Spoilers for the entire book ahead. This might be more interesting when you've read the story. This is by no means a good replacement of reading the book yourself and I don't own anything about this book.

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Happy 2025 to everyone who celebrates! In this episode, Silke gives you an overview of all books she read in the year 2024 (and of course she rants about Kelley Armstrong. What do you expect, she's my favourite author ever?)

366 days, 57 books, one person who loves ranting about all things bookish. Buckle up and get ready for a bookish recap in classical-ranty-JABP-style.

Fun fact: the raw audio of this episode was 2 hours and 45 minutes long and this episode was completely recorded and edited on the same day (I'm sick of my own voice, enjoy the episode)

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Episode 16 marks a year of podcasting. This Halloween Silke talks about Pariah by Thomas Emson (and really just shares her messy annotations). We're dealing with a paranormal Jack the Ripper retelling here, mainly following journalist Charlie Faultless and the Hanbury family as they try to solve an old mystery and delve into the paranormal world.

Spoilers for the entire book ahead. This might be more interesting when you've read the story. This is by no means a good replacement of reading the book yourself and I don't own anything about this book.

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Episode 15 is finally here! (more than a month after recording this one, finally edited it, sorry, procrastination) We're going to Tokio, to a café with a special urban legend. In this cozy fantasy tale, time-travel is real, but you need to be okay with drinking coffee if you want to do it. You've guessed it! We're talking about "Before the Coffee Gets Cold", so grab your mug of coffee (or tea), a cozy blanket, and get ready for a messy discussion of this low-stake cozy fantasy story!

Spoilers for the entire book ahead. This might be more interesting when you've read the story. This is by no means a good replacement of reading the book yourself so do that and I don't own anything about this book.

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After a month of procastinating editing this episode, it's finally here! In episode 14 Silke compares the first book in Holly Jackson's A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series to the first season of its adaptation.

Spoilers for the entire book ahead. This might be more interesting when you've read and watched both versions of the story.

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In the thirteenth episode (we got to my favourite number), Silke discusses the third and final installment of the Defy the Night series by Brigid Kemmerer.

Destroy the Day follows Tessa, Corrick and Harristan as they're all separated from each other and try to find their way back together while each dealing with different problems of their own.

One's stuck on a foreign island, one's been taken prisoner by pirates and one's left to try and retake Kandala's throne from the corrupt consuls that have taken over the Royal Sector.

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In this twelfth episode, Silke discusses the famous novel 1984 written by George Orwell. In a distopian world where privacy and free will can get you arrested, we follow Winston Smith as he secretly defies the all-mighty Party.

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In this short episode, Silke discusses the second book in the Defy the Night trilogy by Brigid Kemmerer, a political fantasy-romance series. This episode contains spoilers for the first book, so go read that before you listen :)

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Episode ten covers Verhalen uit de Drakenvleugel, a Dungeons and Dragons-inspired anthology combining eight short stories and a frame story in one book. Author and initiative taker Eva Linden also joins Silke for a chat about the bundle and writing in general. Fantasy lovers and D&D fans, this one's for you!

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This is the first episode on the Defy the Night trilogy written by Brigid Kemmerer.

Kandala is a country dealing with a mysterious disease. Outlaws Tessa and Weston try to keep those who cannot afford medicine healthy by stealing Moonflower petals to make a cure.

Meanwhile in the palace, ruthless Prince Corrick and his brother King Harristan are dealing with their own complications in the government.

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