A friend will pick up your mantle and take on your destiny as his own, but a BEST friend will do it all while carrying your severed head and hallucinating your voice as he does so :) This week we're talking THE FATE OF THE FALLEN by Kel Kade, following a forest-loving best-bro as he shoulders his friend's destiny to save the world while being constantly and continuously surrounded by death!  Fun times, right?  Also featured: pirating from The Mouse, a shot for every time I mention The Hero's Journey (by JOSEPH Campbell, not JOHN Campbell), and much more!

WHAT'S COMING OUT THIS WEEK:

MASTER OF SORROWS by Justin Travis Call

How much would you give to save someone?  Your name?  Your life?  Your identity?  We're confronted with the concept in THE GUINEVERE DECEPTION by Kiersten White, starring a queen who isn't all that she seems.  Also featured: the ultimate form of tree-hugging, the concept of teeth growing back, being soft and gay, and much more!

BOOKS COMING OUT THIS WEEK:

THE UNSPOKEN NAME by A.K. Larkwood

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We've spoken with Sarah Gailey before about their novel MAGIC FOR LIARS, but this week we've got something slightly more futuristic, but not in the lazers-and-jetpacks way. UPRIGHT WOMEN WANTED follows Esther, a girl in the futuristic SOuth West under the control of a fascist regime as she stows away with the Librarians, a group of folks handing out more than just Approved Materials.  It's here, it's queer, and we're here for it! Also featured: a dollar in the swear jar, who we want topping us, goin' through the desert on a horse whose name we forgot, story-braids, and much more!

WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK:

A CONJURING OF ASSASSINS by Cate Glass

We're possessed but don't call this exorcist - he's more likely to wreck me than save me.  Though, of course, that might be the best course of action - find out why with our review of PROSPER'S DEMON by K.J. Parker!  Also featured: local book reviewer sticks hands in hot bronze and refuses to tell listeners what it feels like, the morality of demon-hunting, bite-sized books, and more!

WHAT WE'RE EXCITED FOR THIS WEEK (besides PROSPER'S DEMON):

HIGHFIRE by Eoin Colfer

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The team of Magical Bomb Squad: The Novel is back in Magical Bomb Squad: The Sequel (otherwise known as THE MONSTROUS CITADEL by Mirah Bolender)!  Laura Kramer and Okane Sinclair are back and better than ever, only to find out that the worst monsters they fight are human.  Also featured: three dollars in the swear jar, me losing my domestication, the grumpy one being soft for the sunshine one, being gay for both Clae Sinclair AND Laura Kramer, and much more!

WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK:

Have you ever wondered if you were meant for another world beyond this one?  Welcome to the world of the Wayward Children, who get called to adventure in far-off worlds (be it Wicked or Sweet, Logical or Illogical).  In our latest installment COME TUMBLING DOWN by Seanan McGuire, Jack and Jill are back in a life-or-death adventure that only twin sisters can come up with.  Also featured: the breaking point of siblings, DUDE, the eating of kneecaps, Watsonian and Doylist explanations for a narrator, and much more!

WHAT'S BEING RELEASED THIS WEEK:

DEEP AND DARKEST RED by Anna-Marie McLemore

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I've got a monster cold this week, so let's see how well I do talking about fantasy on the high seas - we're talking THE BONE SHIPS by R.J. Barker.  When Joron Twiner loses the role of shipwife to the illustrious "Lucky" Meas Gilbryn, he has no idea how life aboard the black ship The Tide Child will change.  We had a marvelous time reading this book, but tune in to find out what we loved best.  Also featured: turning children into lightbulbs, magical beings so strong it scares the bejeezus out of you, oh my god find out why doctors hate this woman who had 13 children, and much more!

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WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK:

THE NIGHT COUNTRY by Melissa Albert

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Ready to ring in the new year with something sure to shiver your timbers?  Check out book 3 of the Tales of Pell trilogy, THE PRINCESS BEARD from Delilah Dawson and Kevin Hearne!  Sail the seas with the Clean Pirate Lucre, discover what elf butts have to do with the god of Pell, and figure out what happened to slumbering princess Harkovita.  Also featured: some salty opinions about Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien Tolkien, what a comedic fantasy trilogy will do for your shelf, the sound of my cat chasing his tail, a dollar in the swear jar, and much more!

SPLINTEGRATE by Deborah Temaris Christian

MAINLINE by Deborah Temaris Christian 

We're not saying everyone missed Jedeo as much as we missed Jedeo, but boy howdy are we pleased as punch to get a whole anthology of stories set in the hexarchate.  We're thrown back into stories of political intrigue, introspection on what it means to be a person, and shifty Shuos games with HEXARCHATE STORIES by Yoon Ha Lee.  Also featured: ghosts of Christmas fanfiction past, gay yearning, the exception to our anthology rule, and much more!

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NEW BOOKS RELEASED 12-17-17

THE HANGED MAN by K.D. Edwards

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

THE LAST SUN by K.D. Edwards