[Spoilers MBotF, NotME, FoD, FoL Chapter 7]

And we are back, with verbosity & loquaciousness abound, though we highly suggest you watch/listen to the earlier episode as it follows directly from this, alas.

No matter; we return to the whore's tent, where the whore becomes a goddess - or something akin to it; to the unimaginative drunk awakening to dangerous power; and to the captain affecting cleanup of the Legion camp since civil war is, indeed, a messy business.

We do hope you enjoy nonetheless.

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[Spoilers MBotF, NotME, FoD, FoL Chapter 7]

Quite the loquacious man, is our Lee, to the point where this particular episode needed to be split in twain. Join us & be witness to the foul meeting between a Father & the unspotted Captain, one who styles herself Daughter Light & a truly horrid drunk, and perhaps the only good Issgin battling her own inner demons.

Incidentally, we are also stopping along the fault lines of the audiobook, with about the same amount of time allotted to our summary & analysis of the chapter as the audiobook. Lee has a lot to say, alright?

Pray, if you will, tell us if you have any watered - though warm, I'm told - ale: [email protected]

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So after a night of considerable drinking, and perhaps some less-than-rational decisions, we decided - eh, why not, let's sit down & record an episode on reading orders.

After we concluded that there is only one objective answer to this question & no dissent from common opinion shall be tolerated, we decided to at least entertain the possibility of dissenting from said common opinion. Intolerable! Heretical! THE SACRED TEXTS!

In spite of our transgressions, we do hope you enjoy this episode.

We're taking any & all recommendations, now (we don't bite): [email protected]

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In continuing with the "now the tale's tone must change" motif, we visit the Jaghut & observe their antics. Hood's army is gathering, and the Lord of Hate evidently disapproves of his methods. Arathan & Korya are stuck in the middle, and why do I make this sound so dramatic?

A group of Jaghut are arguing about themselves while Gothos is drinking tea. Korya - observing a bunch of humanoid blue people - decides it's a grand idea to test her "Mahybe" powers. Arathan is... angsty.

All this & more in this chapter. Stick around!

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What happens when two self-pronounced "hardcore" Malaz fans start reading Cradle? Chaos. Chaos ensues.

If there's one word to describe Cradle, it's "addictive." Or hilarious. Or "lampshading," insofar as the bloopers are concerned.

In short, it's a damn great series and we're just on Book 1 (technically at the time of publishing this, Book 2). We weren't really supposed to talk about it - it's more of a leisure read - but we finished it & decided we just HAD to.

Do note that this episode is more geared towards viewers that haven't really heard of us before, and therefore will have more... redundant bits for more regular viewers. We hope you enjoy nonetheless.

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[Spoilers MBotF, NotME, FoD]

This is a long one. Buckle up, kids.

From Caplo Dreem's incessant "Caplo-ing" (TM), the rise of an Eresal apparition, the incredibly cryptic flashbacks (and later flash-forwards) in the chapter, the stupid amount of double entendres ... you get the idea.

Chapter 4 is arguably one of the biggest mysteries of Fall of Light, and we're not even a quarter of the way through. Going from "lead unto me each & every child" to "Emurlahn" is a trip and a half. We suggest something strong - Lee helped himself to more than a little alcohol - and we also suggest you re-read the entire chapter, because we're guaranteed to have missed things. Seriously.

On the note of something strong, if you have any recommendations, send them our way: [email protected]

There will be justice. When that call came, echoing down the tavern, the two hosts of Smiley's thought it a sour joke.

Join us as we continue our exploration of Fall of Light, into the rearmament of the Hust Legion, the rise of the Last Fish & Denier of Life, Truth & Faith, into the pure heartbreak that is Wreneck, and beyond - to the shore, for each of us will come to the shore.

Lee also slips up in this episode but we took care to mute that part for fear of spoilers. Oops.

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[Spoilers MBotF, NotME, FoD]

In this episode of Smiley's, we get to meet the unequivocally best duo in the Malazan world (citation needed), talk about symbolism until the sun stops shining, and complain - endlessly - about the machinations of the Tiste. Seriously, people, when did "talking it out" stop being chic?

This particular episode of Smiley's - as well as the entire book - is like a woman, deserving a second, or even a third, glance. (we are directly quoting from the book, don't cancel us!) Nonetheless, we hope you enjoy.

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