She Who Wrenches: A Mercy Thompson Re-Read-Along Podcast

Message us (questions, comments, topics? Let us know!)In this episode, Uncle Mike's Book Club discusses chapters 1-3 of Blood Bound. This is the episode where you find out what terrible people we actually are. It also begins a new running joke: we start the ongoing way to bring us back from tangents, “Meanwhile, at the Airport Ramada…” We discuss vampire lore across fandoms, vampires not letting go of the fashions from their human days, revisit what a single wide trailer doesn’t have room for, updates on Briggs’s vampire lore (and what would it REALLY take to destroy Wulfe?), if Blood Bound is the creepiest Mercy Thompson book, vampires can grow claws??, what level of naked is Mercy for her retelling of the events of the night with the sorcerer, how Mercy’s single wide trailer can apparently have a third bedroom AND the closets aren’t full and can fit a 6ft tall vampire, why Stefan can sometimes teleport and sometimes not—what are the limits??, if vampires in the Mercy-verse have mirror reflections, enriching your power-word word-power through unfiltered Ben swearing, which Chinese place do they get takeout from??, and speculation about Warren and Ben’s relationship.Random things mentioned: Days of Our Lives, how the different Mercy-verse readers pronounce names differently, Skeleton Crew (and Disney Star Wars), the creepy Doctor Who episode “Blink,” Kelly’s Band and baby bats, Weekly World News, Coast To Coast AM (you can actually find it in podcast form, though it’s no longer hosted by Art Bell), Meatloaf’s Bat Out of Hell, the Chili’s theme song (by way of Austin Powers), parts of the USA where everyone has blankets draped over their couches, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Demon sweat live, Sorcerer’s code, Repo Man and repossessing demon and devolving into a Night at the Roxbury reference, The Room’s “Anyway, how’s your sex life?” which has theatrical showings where people throw plastic spoons and they play football in tuxedos…As always, there are potentially spoilers for every single book published in the Mercy-verse: shorts, the Mercy Thompson book series, AND the Alpha and Omega book series (everything through Blind Date with a Werewolf, anyway). It’s okay if you aren’t caught up, as long as you’re okay with spoilers for books you haven’t read yet. Links:* Message us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/shewhowrenches.bsky.social * Check out our for-now website: https://shewhowrenches.carrd.co * Subscribe to the Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2566095/episodes/18525659* Podcast RSS feed: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2566095.rssChapters:00:00:00 Intro00:02:04 Recap Guy00:05:06 Start talking about Blood Bound00:09:40 More Vampire lore explored00:11:50 Meeting the new vampire at the hotel00:17:53 Goth Baby Bats, The Weekly World News, and Coast to Coast AM00:21:04 Back at the Airport Ramada (Stefan is drooling and Cory is killing)00:23:54 Mercy comes to with a vampire and a werewolf stare down00:28:49 Daniel the baby vampire already met the sorcerer backstory00:30:55 Stefan asks Mercy to testify in the Vampire Seethe Court00:31:37 Stefan the vampire asks to "sleep" for the day in Mercy's Closet00:33:39 Do vampires have reflections in the Mercy Thompson universe?00:35:00 Mercy can't sleep with a dead vampire in her closet00:36:53 Mercy's VW Rabbit has scars from the night with the vampires00:38:48 Meet Mrs. Hanna's Ghost00:39:55 Mercy goes to work fixing cars00:42:15 Mercy asks Zee about Sorcerers00:44:39 Mercy is approached by the reporter after hours00:47:02 Ben and Warren come to watch Mercy/ take her for a nap00:48:37 Mercy/Warren/Ben relationship hashing out00:52:29 Wulfe ponderings and episode close00:53:43 OuttakeRecording Date: