Delphine Roy deals with some themes that are not our favorite, but does seem aware of the difficulty and makes some fun choices within a very not fun context. Mind the trigger warnings here for sure.

MacLean really nails the prose as she goes full medieval. We liked it.

Meg and Alex are joined by Kelsea Yu to spend most of the episode talking about the ending of this book.

Good news! This book was wayyyyy less problematic than the first in the series, in that it was not problematic at all.

There are many things to enjoy about this book and a ton of well developed B plots. Maybe too many, but we could have looked beyond that if all the talk of erotica had lived up to the hype. As such, we liked this, but didn't love it.

Meg loved this, Laine didn't, so maybe don't start here if you're new to SciFi?

Meg and Alex are joined by Jim Butcher to discuss Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, which TBH sounds like a romp.

Laine isn't a bird person and apparently Meg isn't a this book person, so we struggled a bit here.

This series keeps getting more and more bonkers. There are moments of fun, but we untimately had trouble connecting with the characters.