All Episodes
Unresolved Textual Tension — 240 episodes
2 Dungeon 2 Carl: It's Crawler Time (Dungeon Crawler Carl 2/3 | Matt Diniman)
why is the main character even here?? (The Poet Empress | Shen Tao)
ROASTING Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter (Heather Fawcett)
were VIKINGS really that DIRTY?? (Eaters of the Dead | Michael Crichton)
ROASTING Paladin's Grace / Strength (T. Kingfisher)
do characters even need agency really?? (The Summer War | Naomi Novik)
ultimate cat daddy?? (Dungeon Crawler Carl | Matt Dinniman)
white people suck (blood) | The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephan Graham Jones
vikings + toxic boy mom = The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Shauna Lawless)
Litfic or FURRY masterpiece?? (Bunny | Mona Awad)
Speculative Biology of ICE PLANET BARBARIANS (hard scifi rewrite)
The ORIGINAL Spelunking Horror: Alice In Wonderland (Lewis Caroll)
There Is No Antimemetics Division | qntm
making out with joan of arc to save history (The Everlasting | Alix E. Harrow)
finding a witch to burn in the weird west?? (Red Rabbit | Alex Gracian)
Best or WORST Jane Austen fanfic?? (The Other Bennet Sister | Janice Hadlow)
how REAL is The Handmaid's Tale?? (Margaret Atwood)
why do we do this to ourselves (rewriting The Savior's Army pt2)
REWRITING The Savior's Army, by Jenna Moreci (Pt1)
Jenna Moreci is Bad at Writing (Savior's Army prose breakdown)
It's FINALLY here - ROASTING The Savior's Army (Jenna Moreci)
ROASTING The Will of the Many (James Islington)
CONCLUSIVELY ranking the Witcher Series
ROASTING The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy (Brigitte Knightley)
Here at the end... was it worth it?? (The Witcher | Lady of the Lake)
Responding to YOUR Alchemised Comments and Opinions
ROASTING Kill the Beast (Serra Swift)
ROASTING published dramione fic (Alchemised | SenLinYu)
ROASTING Sword of Kaigen (M. L. Wang)
You've all FAILED me (Spinning Silver | Naomi Novik)
ROASTING the book WORSE than TWILIGHT?? (Shiver | Maggie Stiefvater)
things get GRIM in the Witcher (The Tower of Swallows | Andrzej Sapkowski)
is this the CURE to ROMANTASY?? (Blood Over Bright Haven | M. L. Wang)
roadtrip through war crimes (Witcher | Baptism of Fire | Andrzej Sapkowski)
Bioengineering gets DANGEROUS (A Drop of Corruption | Jackson Bennett)
ROASTING A Cruel Thirst (Angela Montoya)
ROASTING The Starving Saints (Caitlin Starling)
KNOT AGAIN: roasting MATE, by Ali Hazelwood
unraveling the MADNESS of The Raven Cycle
solving crime with SHROOMS?? (The Tainted Cup)
DON'T look at the boobs on the statue (The Witcher | The Time of Contempt | Andrzej Sapkowski)
Best and WORST of the YEAR (4 Year Anniversary)
ROASTING Katabasis (R. F. Kuang)
BAMBI'S revenge?? (The Only Good Indians | Stephen Graham Jones)
the WITCHER show massacred our children (The Blood of Elves | Andrzej Sapkowski)
the short story is better than the book?? (Buried Deep | Naomi Novik)
ROASTING A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping (Sangu Mandanna)
the next ACOTAR?? (The River Has Roots | Amal El-Mohtar)
ROASTING House of the Dragon fanfic (A Fate Forged in Fire | Hazel McBride)
yes, the unicorn happens (Sword of Destiny | Andrzej Sapkowski)
ROASTING Some Desperate Glory (Emily Tesh)
The WASTED potentional of The Listeners (Maggie Stiefvater)
ROASTING The Ashes and the Star Cursed King (Carissa Broadbent)
grumpy robots feud for eternity (The Infinite and The Divine | Robert Rath)
The pope's dirty dozen?? (The Devils | Joe Abercrombie)
a sedated ROAST of Wild Dark Shore (Charlotte McConaghy)
Tentacle Girlfriend?? (Someone You Can Build a Nest In | John Wiswell)
ROASTING The Serpent and The Wings of Night (Carissa Broadbent
Florida, but less weird with aliens (Absolution | Jeff Vandermeer)
foes before bros (Vicious | V. E. Schwab)
You're on a path in the woods and that's BAD (Slay the Princess)
Does ALL MY RAGE inspire... sadness?? (Sabaa Tahir)
Dark Fantasy in Plague Ridden France (Between Two Fires | Christopher Buehlman)
Lost its way?? Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Heather Fawcett)
When a house crushes on you (Starling House | Alix E. Harrow)
SLICE of Tudor Life (get it it's a pun) | Bring up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel
Tentacles in SPACE (Children of Ruin | Adrian Tchaikovsky)
The TRUTH about Tudor politics?!? (Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel)
X Marks Our HEARTS in Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (Heather Fawcett)
SPIDER Boyfriend?? (Children of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky)
ROASTING The Lies of Locke Lamora (Scott Lynch)
Cozy or CRAP?!? (Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries | Heather Fawcett)
ROASTING Don't Let the Forest In (C. G. Drews)
ROASTING Onyx Storm (dear god let this be the last)
ROASTING Fundie Romance Novel (Shades of Blue | Karen Kingsbury)
Can we KNOT?? (Bride | Ali Hazelwood)
SCARIEST book ever?? (The Troop | Nick Cutter)
The ORIGINAL Scooby Doo?!? (The Hound of the Baskervilles / Sherlocke Holmes)
ROASTING Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno Garcia)
The ORIGINAL backrooms? (House of Leaves)
Wasp body horror in THE QUEEN (Nick Cutter)
Comment Response #4: This Time it's Personal
Is Stephen King ACTUALLY good? (Pet Sematary | Stephen King)
Catch Up With Maria
Rereading TSC 3 Years Later...
Deep sea horror (From Below | Darcy Coates)
ROASTING The Very Secret Society of Irreguar Witches (Sangu Mandanna)
Grimdark or... GRIMDERP?? (The Blade Itself | Joe Abercrombie)
17 Hours of Prologue (The Shadow of the Gods | John Gwyne)
the woke mind virus of ghosts (The Spirit of Bares Its Teeth | Andrew Joseph White)
Responding to comments on Shadiversity's horrid book
Year 3 Anniversary! Ranking a year of book
Will this book end the podcast?!? (The Spear Cuts Through Water | Simon Jimenz)
ROASTING Shadow of the Conqueror (Shadiversity)
please stop moping (The Queen of Attolia | Megan Whalen Turner)
Fixing World War Z
Is it any good?? (World War Z | Max Brooks)
please stop traveling (The Thief | Megan Whalen Turner)
ROASTING Reminders of Him, by Colleen Hoover
Is Shogun THE BEST adaption?? (Shogun | James Clavell)
Return of our Alien Boyfriend?? (Apostles of Mercy | Lindsay Ellis)
Sort of roasting THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS (Ali Hazelwood)
Too many bewbs in the Witcher?? (The Last Wish | Andrzej Sapkowski)
Who's most likely to marry Rhyssand??
Kids read this?? (House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer)
What that goat do (Slewfoot | Brom)
WWI Ghost Story (The Warm Hands of Ghosts | Katherine Arden)
ROASTING A Fate Inked in Blood (Danielle L. Jensen)
Does it stick the landing?? (Dune pt 2 | Movie vs Book)
ROASTING The Stardust Thief (Chelsea Abdullah)
Adapting ACOTAR into a videogame?!?
ROASTING Butcher & Blackbird w/Swell
Responding to YOUR comments #4 (Six of Crows edition)
Orc opens coffeeshop, hilarity ensues (Legends and Lattes | Travis Baldree)
Ranking our favorite romance tropes
ROASTING Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo)
ROASTING The Saint of Bright Doors (Vajra Chandrasekera)
Comment Response! (what books won't we read, atmosphere how to, why does Will hate male characters.)
London is Hungry (Mortal Engines | Philip Reeves)
The Book That Wouldn''t Burn | Mark Lawrence
Roasting NIGHTBANE, Lightlark's sequel (Alex Aster)
Saving the universe with tea (Keys to the Kingdom 5-7 | Garth Nix)
What if the universe was run by British people (Keys to the Kingdom 1-4 | Garth Nix)
Unhinged lesbian fairytale deconstruction (Princess Florinda | Tamsyn Muir)
Ok, but make it sapphic (Swordheart rewrite)
We made it to 10k! (Q&A)
Roasting ALL THE MURMURING BONES (Angela Slater)
Roasting DIVINE RIVALS (Rebecca Ross)
Manic Pixie Hobo (The Slow Regard of Silent Things | Patrick Rothfuss)
ROASTING Fourth Wing's Sequel IRON FLAME (Rebecca Yarros)
Hot man trapped in sword?? (Swordheart | T. Kingfisher)
Responding to your comments
Lesbian Haunting?? (A Guest in the House | Emily Carroll)
Enter the Brandoverse (Mistborn | Brandon Sanderson)
The Original Childhood Horror (Coraline | Neil Gaiman)
Trapped in a museum world?? (Piranesi | Susanna Clarke)
Rewriting THE CYBORG TINKERER
Necromancer Lawyers (Three Parts Dead | Max Gladstone)
A godkiller, knight, and girl walk into a bar (Godkiller | Hannah Kaner)
The world ends, but DON'T PANIC (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy | Douglas Adams)
Roasting A COURT OF WING AND RUIN for nearly 2 hours (Sarah J. Maas)
Mexican Cowboy Vampires?? (Vampires of El Norte | Isabel Cañas)
British Book Ninjas?? (The Left-Handed Booksellers of London | Garth Nix)
Ranking a Year of Books | 2 Year Channel Anniversary Livestream
Gothic romance meets fairytale?? (House of Salt and Sorrow | Erin A. Craig)
ROASTING Fourth Wing for over 2 hours (Rebecca Yarros)
Math magic space empire (Ninefox Gambit | Yoon Ha Lee)
Movie vs Book: Howl's Moving Castle (Dianna Wyne Jones)
What happens after the Annihilation movie?? (Southern Reach | Jeff Vandermeer)
Anhillation Movie vs Book (Southern Reach | Jeff Vandermeer)
A Song of Ice and Fire's prose is good, actually
Roasting SONG OF ACHILLES (Madeline Miller)
A Natural History of Dragons review | Marie Brennan
Game on, AI | Critiquing ChatGPT's Fiction
The CW wishes it could be this good (The Raven Boys | Maggie Stiefvater)
Silkpunk Kite Duels?? (Grace of Kings review | Ken Liu)
Roasting A COURT OF MIST AND FURY for nearly 2 hours (Sarah J. Maas)
How to win the dragon war (Temeraire 6-9 | Naomi Novik)
Roasting book eating vampires for over an hour (The Book Eaters | Sunyi Dean)
Roasting SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN for two hours (Shelley Parker Chan)
Nightmare Wolf Has Relationship Problems (Sweet Dreams Are Made of Teeth)
John Dies at the End review | David Wong
Critiquing Our Own Writing
Siege and Storm (Leigh Bardugo)
Guards! Guards! | Terry Pratchett
Editing THE SAVIOR'S CHAMPION's 1st Chapter
Napoleonic Dragons! (Temeraire 1-5 | Naomi Novik)
Comparing SHADOW AND BONE book to tv series (season 1 vs book review | Leigh Bardugo)
Roasting NOT GOOD FOR MAIDENS for nearly an hour (Tori Bolavino)
Dark Academia in NINTH HOUSE (Leigh Bardugo)
ROASTING Titanic Girl Squad Heist (A Million to One | Adiba Jaigirdar)
Apocalypse Cannibal Fairytale (Nettle & Bone rewrite)
Dark lesbian Sleeping Beauty retelling (Malice | Heather Walter)
Daughter of death and fortune steals from the rich (Little Thieves review | Margaret Owen)
Roasting ACOTAR for an hour straight (A Court of Thorns and Roses review | Sarah J. Maas)
Fantasy world turned into tourist trap (Dark Lord of Derkholm | Diana Wynn Jones)
Girl builds bonedog to kill a prince (Nettle & Bone | T. S. Kingfisher)
Greek gods hunted by mortals every 7 years (Lore review | Alexandra Bracken)
Warship AI stuck in human body seeks revenge (Ancillary Justice review | Ann Leckie)
Carnivorious Horse Races?? (The Scorpio Races | Maggie Stiefvater)
Too Many Ghostwriters in the Kitchen (Remnants 4-7)
Introducing a noob to Warhammer 40k (Xenos / For The Emperor)
The BORING Baru Commorant
The OG Necromancer Girlboss (Sabriel review | Garth Nix)
WW2 with firebending?? (The Poppy War | R. F. Kuang)
Renaissance Magic Heist (The Gilded Wolves | Rashoni Chokshi)
Dracula's Lesbian Bride (Dowry of Blood | S.T. Gibson)
Ranting about THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS (Chloe Gong)
Beyond Murder Hogwarts (The Golden Enclaves | Naomi Novik)
Nona the Necrobaby (Nona the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir)
Girl gets bulled by hot faeries, decides to strike back (Cruel Prince | Holly Black)
How Bot is Murderbot? (Murderbot Diaries 1-4 | Martha Wells)
Agatha Christie meets Groundhog Day??? (The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Stuart Turton)
We need to talk about this tiktok book (Lightlark | Alex Aster)
Girl goes to live with Dragon and it's GREAT (Uprooted | Naomi Novik)
Girl gets sacrificed to wolf; surprise he's hot (For the Wolf | Hannah Whitten)
Did Snow White's Evil Queen have a point?? (Forest of a Thousand Lanterns | Julie Dao)
Poor girl pretends to be rich; things go awry (Mask of Mirrors | M. A. Carrack)
Lesbian Space Necromancers (Harrow the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir)
Does it Transcend YA? (Ember in the Ashes | Sabaa Tahir)
Roasting the Persuasion movie for an hour straight
Persuasion: the most romantic Jane Austen Book???
Special Victim's Unit: Tierre D'Ange (Kushiel's Avatar | Jacqueline Carey)
Faerie Grunge (Tithe | Holly Black)
Savior Rewrite 2: The Rewritening
This Book is so Incredibly Boring (Keeper | Kim Chance)
The Last Tale (Hyperion: Consul's Tale)
Jurassic Park BOOK vs Movie Review
Rewriting Savior's Champion / Sister into not being tired pieces of toast
Q & A
Crow Ex Machina (Black Sun | Rebecca Roanhorse)
They Let Kids Read This?? (Remnants 1-3 | K. A. Applegate)
Oh No the Main Character is a Slave Again (Kushiel's Chosen | Jacqueline Carey)
Star Trek Meets Final Destination?? (Red Shirts | John Scalzi)
Walking the Cyborg Beat (Hyperion: Detective's Tale)
Benjamin Button IN SPACE (Hyperion | Scholar's Tale)
What If Worldbuilding, but Thirsty (Kushiel's Dart | Jacqueline Carey)
Pain and Suffering in The Cyborg Tinkerer (Meg Latorre)
Hyperion: The Poet's Tale
Is Children of Blood and Bone a good debut?
Spiky Big Bird of Death (Hyperion: Soldier's Tale)
Fury Road meets YA in DUSTBORN (Erin Bowman)
1001 Nights of Boring in THE WRATH AND THE DAWN by Renee Ahdieh
Romance of the 3 Spurs w/Swell (Ice Planet Barbarians 4 and 5)
Nemotodes for Christ (Hyperion: Priest's Tale)
It got worse somehow: The Savior's Sister, by Jenna Moreci
Is Slasher Girls and Monster Boys actually scary?
Surviving Ice Planet Barbarians 1-3
Dune's SEQUEL Explained (Dune Messiah)
Roasting THE SAVIOR's CHAMPION for an hour straight (by Jenna Moreci)
where my alien boif at?? (Truth of the Divine | Lindsay Ellis)
Escaping Murder Hogwarts (The Last Graduate | Noami Novik)
Dune Book Explained (Frank Herbert)
Axiom's End is the alien fic we need (Lindsay Ellis)
Priory of the Orange Tree is so boring i can't even
Murder Hogwarts (A Deadly Education | Naomi Novik)
Is Iron Widow a Terrible Book?
Sandcastle Comic vs Old Movie: M. Night Shyamalan's latest genius adaption
The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden)
Spinning Silver (Naomi Novik) and Faerie King Thirst Traps