Sip Between the Lines

Since we’re a quarter of the way through 2024 (!!!), we’re doing a book check in this week! We chat about how our reading has been going so far and how we’re doing with our goals. Before we get to that though, we discuss our Reader Types from the Bookfinity quiz. The link is below if you want to find out your type too! We finish off the episode with a few mini (spoiler-free!) reviews on: None of This is True by Lisa Jewell, Recursion by Blake Crouch, and The Only One Left by Riley Sager. 

Reader Type Quiz:

https://www.bookfinity.com/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwq86wBhDiARIsAJhuphn_Ym6ZSslaMMbv2BKh_INvS47HxXFGstJ0m80HXiXVU5u8q9L516oaAt0aEALw_wcB

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This week we ask each other bookish “would you rather” questions and discuss our reasons behind each answer! But first, in our Sip and Dip portion, we provide our Weekly R.E.P.O.R.T. (reading, eating, playing, obsessing, recommending, and treating). This episode is full of chatting, tangents, and more!

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**SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE**

We each picked a book for the other host to read this month! Sadie picked The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J Maas for Shannon to read, Shannon picked The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes for Sadie to read. We discuss why we picked these books, what our first impressions and final thoughts were, and if we will finish the series.

The discussion on The Assassin’s Blade starts at: 06:50

The discussion on The Inheritance Games starts at: 24:08

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Starting off strong with the fantasy theme, our Sip and Dip question for the week is about what 3 items someone would need to collect to summon us via cauldron! Then we discuss our fantasy book recs in several categories. Check out all our recs below!

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YA Fantasy:

OG’s: Twilight, Eragon, Harry Potter, Hunger Games

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Powerless by Lauren Roberts

Children of Blood and Bone (1) & Children of Virtue and Vengeance (2) by Tomi Adeyemi

Red Rising Saga by Pierce Brown

Lightlark by Alex Aster 

Matched series by Ally Condie

Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Pre-Social Media:

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness 

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn (Twelve Houses series)

BookTok/ Current Fantasy:

Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent (War of Lost Hearts series)

Weyward by Emilia Hart 

Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

Caraval by Stephanie Garber 

Lightlark by Alex Aster

Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J Tuli (Artefacts of Ouranos series)

Dance of Thieves by Mary E Pearson

Throne of Glass series and A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J Maas

Most Anticipated TBR:

Crescent City series by Sarah J Maas

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig (The Shepherd King series)

The Aspect of Essence by Samantha Amstutz

When the Moon Hatched by Sarah Parker

Priory of an Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon 

The Poppy War by RF Kuang

Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson

This week we’re answering some book-related questions (mostly… but there are a couple of personal ones too). We want to thank all who contributed and asked us questions for this episode! We first chat about what we’re currently watching before starting the Q&A portion (which includes lots of book talk and a handful of tangents!).

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Happy March! Moving on from our love theme from last month, join us for a chat about our favorite fantasy elements and tropes. Then we dive into some fantasy books we’ve read recently that we loved, we DNF’d, we can’t wait to read, and more! The books we discuss are listed below.

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Children of Fallen Gods by Carissa Broadbent

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Turn Coat by Jim Butcher

Changes by Jim Butcher

Manacled by SenLinYu

Season of the Dragon by Natalie Wright

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas

Crowns of Nyaxia (series) by Carissa Broadbent

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid

Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L Armentrout

Powerless by Lauren Roberts

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

The Seer and the Sword by Victoria Hanley

Fear the Flames by Olivia Rose Darling

Zodiac Academy by Caroline Peckham

***NO SPOILERS***

We’re discussing and “sipping” between the lines of our February book club pick: “Tress of the Emerald Sea” by Brandon Sanderson! There are NO spoilers in this episode so listen on to hear what our thoughts were about this book and our discussion about some beautiful themes woven into this whimsical story.

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Trope: A commonly used theme or device.

We see tropes everywhere in books and this week we’re specifically focused on romantic ones! For our Sip and Dip, we chat about our personal love languages before discussing what we like and dislike about certain romance tropes.

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Happy Galentine’s Day! We’ve got all the girl chat and girl themes this episode! As a celebration for today, in our Sip and Dip we explain 3 words that describe the other person and things we love about them. Go tell your besties what you love about them too! We then jump into a girl themed discussion including what female characters we’d want to meet, our favorite female authors, and of course, our book boyfriends.

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To kick off the month of February we are recommending some romance/ romantasy books and series! All of the books we chat about in the episode are listed below. Before we get to our recs, we quickly dip into a chat about 3 things we are loving right now. Then we discuss some basic romance novel questions and finish the episode announcing our February book of the month: Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson!

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ALL OUR RECS!

- Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J Tuli

- Rule of the Aurora King by Nisha J Tuli

- Anything and everything written by Sarah J Maas!!

- Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent

- From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L Armentrout

- How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

- Mad About Yule by Genny Carrick

- Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

- Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score

- Darling Venom by Parker S Huntington

- Verity by Colleen Hoover

- Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn

- Happy Place by Emily Henry

- People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

- Book Lovers by Emily Henry

- The STEMinist novellas by Ali Hazelwood

- Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

- The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

- The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

- The Loch Effect by Genny Carrick

- The Deal by Elle Kennedy

- The Selection series by Kiera Cass

- The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard