Welcome to our new end of the month specials where we look back on the month and yap about what we've read and any exciting bookish news.

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Join us this week as we yap about some trope recommendations if you're looking for something a little different. Trading Enemies to Lovers for......Spoiler free ofc!

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This week we finally sit down for our full spoilers, deep dive episode of Daughter of Stone by our very own B! Thank you to those who submitted questions and theories for this episode - it was so so useful!

Born into a family blessed by the gods, for years, Non believed she was powerless.

After failing her initiation ceremony, Non is left with nothing. No power, no friends, and she becomes her family’s greatest disappointment. But one night of heavy drinking and heartbreak changes everything.

Non is thrust back into a world she thought she’d left behind. Forced to reconnect with her estranged grandmother and enter a series of deadly trials to prove her worth as a vassal to the gods, Non discovers that her power is unlike any other. There’s a darkness inside that threatens to consume her.

Not one to do things by halves, Non finds herself drawn to a rival coven’s dangerously charming and very off-limits second-in-command. Will she fall in line and follow the path of light set out by her grandmother? Or will she let darkness prevail?

Inspired by Welsh Mythology and Legends, Daughter of Stone is a story of light/dark magic, found family, and forbidden romance.

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Join us as we sit down for the first time in 2026 and talk about all the exciting releases coming this year!

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Happy New Year Smutterflies!

This is our unedited livestream! Be prepared for chaos and some 10/10 book recs!

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Happy Christmas Eve everyone! What better way to get in the holiday spirit with some epic fantasy and heartbreak!

Duty. Blood. Honor. Power.
Saeris Fane doesn’t want power. The very last thing she needs is her name whispered on an entire court’s lips, but now that she’s been crowned queen of the Blood Court, she’s discovering that a queen’s life is not her own. A heavy weight rests upon her shoulders. Her ward—and her brother—need her back in her homeland…but the changes that have strengthened Saeris have also made her weak. Born under blazing suns, Saeris will surely die if she makes her way home through the Quicksilver. Which means that, once again, she must send someone else in her stead...

“Keep your mouth shut. Stick to the shadows. And for the love of all seven Gods, do NOT crack any jokes.”

Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate has defeated armies and survived all manner of horrors, but traveling back to Zilvaren with Carrion Swift might just be the death of him. The male just will not shut up. Hidden dangers await them down the narrow alleyways of the Silver City. Unfolding secrets pose impossible threats. Fisher must wrangle the smuggler and accomplish his goals quickly if he wants to see his mate again.

A darkness falls across Yvelia. The realm and their friends are in danger. Together, Saeris and Fisher will pass through fire and brimstone to save them.

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This week we got to sit down with Lindsay Cummings, author of Ravenminder and pick her brain about where the idea came from and what comes next for Ezer, Arawn, Kinlear and most importantly Six!

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This week we are talking all things Ravenminder by Lindsay Cummings! Think forbidden love, enemies to lovers, angry gods, twin brothers, animal companion and so much more! We ate this up so hard!!!!!

The sky is a dangerous place for a girl without wings.

In the war-torn kingdom of Lordach, Ezer has spent two years as the Ravenminder of Rendegard. Chained in a prison tower’s aviary, she pays the debts of the man she calls uncle, who rescued her after shadow wolves killed her parents. With three glittering scars on her cheek and mystical ‘strangeties’ unlike any magic in their world, Ezer is haunted by dreams of her death at the hands of an unknown warrior.

Then a Sacred Knight arrives to recruit Ezer for the fight against the enemy, the Acolyte. When her affinity with birds reveals itself on the journey to the Citadel, she is given a new mission: to help the Prince of Lordach tame one of the Acolyte’s captured raphons. Half giant raven, half black panther, these creatures are as loyal to the Acolyte as his strongest darksoul soldiers . . and only they can make the flight to infiltrate his lair.

While Ezer forges an unbreakable bond with the raphon, her heart becomes torn between the loyal Knight and the mysterious Prince. But as her dreams take on new clarity, she finds herself faced with a choice and a question: has the darkness been her destiny all along?

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