HeyJaredSo, Book? A Fantasy and Sci-Fi Book Club Podcast
Five strongly opinionated friends dive into fantasy and sci-fi novels in this weekly book club.Each episode jumps directly into plot reactions, character analysis, likes/dislikes, and predictions.
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The Tainted Cup Ch 11 - 20 (opens the original)
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Book Club continues with The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett, with the second fourth of the book. There's a fair of information to begin making some end game predictions that are across a lot of possibilities. This discussion includes - were the engineers killed in a cult, a deep appreciation for the world building side of their biological science healing, how does the dead assistant play into the greater picture, is there a bullet hole truly, why does Din have perfect muscle memory, and
The Tainted Cup Ch 1 - 10 (opens the original)
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A new book hits the ground running in Book Club this week! We've read Foundry side by Robert Jackson Bennet and decided to take on his new-ish trilogy, The Shadow of the Leviathan, starting with The Tainted Cup. To kick off a new fantasy world, book club discusses the world building, the magic system, and the main characters. Everyone has a different visual for what the Leviathan looks like within their own mind's eye (with some millennial core references), we're enthused about Din and Ana's che
The Last Contract of Isako Ch. 38- End (opens the original)
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Today, everyone has the same opinion of the end of thisbook: that it’s bad. However, since this is book club, we get specific about our opinions and why we think certainchoices might have been made. Listen to find out! This book may join our very short ‘highly not recommended,’along with Midnight Library and Grace of Kings. OUR NEXT BOOK is The Tainted Cup, and we are reading to the end of CH. 10.
The Last Contract of Isako Ch 16 - 37 (opens the original)
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Book club theorizes on the third quarter of The Last Contract of Isako, by Fonda Lee. theories get potentially more realistic, or more away from the truth, depending on who you agree with most! There is a beginning to some payoff with earlier foreshadowing and a heavy desire to see a bigger resolution at the end of the book to quite a few open threads concerning the greater world building developed.
The Last Contract of Isako Ch 14-25 (opens the original)
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Book club reads the second quarter of The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee. Book club does what it does best and schemes some wild and maybe some more realistic guesses as to what is happening with Uchi's synthbody, who has Gray's waste, why the medical records were wiped, and who is and is not still alive between Martim and Uchi.
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