Hosted by Ro (and the occasional guest host) I Talk Sh*t & Read is an uncensored podcast about all things book. Tune in as she gives into her urge to talk about books, bookish topics, film/tv shows and interview authors and fandom personalities. Ro’s a book addicted, pop culture and film junkie always down to share her unique perspective on speculative fiction and push ahem share recommendations about what’s missing from your TBR pile.
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Hosted by Ro (and the occasional guest host) I Talk Sh*t & Read is an uncensored podcast about all things book. Tune in as she gives into her urge to talk about books, bookish topics, film/tv shows and interview authors and fandom personalities. Ro’s a book addicted, pop culture and film junkie always down to share her unique perspective on speculative fiction and push *ahem* share recommendations about what’s missing from your TBR pile.
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July 19, 2023
Ro's Reading List: 3 Must-Read 2023 SF/F Books (Part 1)
<br /> My TBR pile is out of control in the best of ways. I've had more time to read this year, but less time to review and share the gems hiding among the stacks littering my living room. Thus is born a new segment: Ro's Reading List. Where I'll highlight some of the books I've read recently that you're going to want to add to your TBR list. <br /> Top Three Recommendations: <br /> The Faithless by C. L. Clark <br /> <br /> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/14805/9780316542760"></a>Pub Date: March 07, 2023 <br /> <br /> Snapshot Review: If you've listened to the <a href="https://www.mtrnetwork.net/author-interview-c-l-clark/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> before, then you already know I was all-in with C. L. Clark's Magic of the Lost trilogy before I hit the midway point of <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/14805/9780316542753" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Unbroken</a>. The second installment, The Faithless, is here with more political intrigue, power struggles, and tumultuous relationships. <br /> Clark works all their strengths infusing this often brutal and gritty story with a simmering tension. The drama and angst between characters unravels in a painstakingly built world. Luca's locked in a battle to regain control of Balladaire from her increasingly reprehensible uncle Duke Nicolas Ancier who refuses to relinquish his regency in favor of her rule. And now Touraine must reckon with both her intense feelings for Luca and her complicated relationship with the empire that stole her youth and her freedom in order to protect the gains made by the revolution in Qazāl by being Luca's ally in truth, and in-person. Clark turns down the volume on the action to make room for deadly court intrigue. But this stellar follow-up offers enough murderous plotting and complicated heated relationship drama to be worth every single word put to page. <br /> The Faithless' a harrowing stone cold groove written by someone unafraid to drag you through your feelings, challenges your belief systems, and leave you with (problematic) favs. Nothing should be taken for granted, especially not victory in love, or war. Set aside some time. You're not going to want to put this one down once you start. 10/10 absolutely *recommend. <br /> ***<br /> Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker<br /> <br /> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/14805/9781250825926"></a>Pub Date: April 4, 2023<br /> <br /> Snapshot Review: Terry J Benton-Walker's Blood Debts builds exactly the right tale of generational magic (and curses) set in a New Orleans you need. <br /> Sixteen year old twins Clement and Cristina Trudeau, heirs of a powerful magical legacy, are in mourning for their father and caring for their sick mother. On the anniversary of the greatest magical massacre that saw their family thrown from power, the twins discover that their mother isn't sick, she's cursed. If they're to save their family and avoid another massacre, this estranged duo will have to rebuild their trust that's been lost with the swiftness. Benton-Walker's New Orleans lives and breaths with fierce relevance. <br /> The Trudeau's intensely personal battle happens against a backdrop rife with political artifice and dangerous societal divides as unsettled gods and the undead lurk in the shadows. Debts' shifting points of view add narrative insight with a deeply relatable edge and a side of tension. The character development keeps pace with the deepening drama offered with witty dialogue rife with biting one-liners. The allegory's unapologetic and the cliffhangers stress-inducing. So go on ahead and put in a pre-order for the sequel, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/14805/9781250825957" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blood Justice</a> now. <br /> If contemporary fantasy is your bag, then Blood Debts' blood-soaked tale of family drama steeped dangerous magic and life-altering generational trauma is absolutely it. *8/10 would recommend. <br /> ***<br />
June 13, 2023
Interview with Author Matt Wallace
A Conversation with Matt Wallace<br /> I had the opportunity to sit down with author Matt Wallace and discuss his epic fantasy trilogy. This epic opens with a seeming utopian society that relies on an expendable fighting force known as the Savages. Now there are plenty of books about empire building and fantasy worlds about a lurking evil beneath the surface of a seemingly peaceful society. But the Savage Rebellion offers action, intrigue, hidden dangers, and shifting loyalties bound up in an examination about the costs of ruling. <br /> Listen in as I chat with Matt about how the Savage Rebellion came to be and writing metaphorically without off the rails. Then go read (or listen to) the three books in the trilogy. You'll thank me later. <br /> Click the Image to buy Matt Wallace's Savage Rebellion trilogy: <br /> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/14805/9781534439214"></a><br /> Synopsis: They call them Savages. Brutal. Efficient. Expendable. The empire relies on them. The Savages are the greatest weapon they ever developed. Culled from the streets of their cities, they take the ones no one will miss and throw them, by the thousands, at the empire's enemies. If they live, they fight again. If they die, there are always more to take their place.<br /> Evie is not a Savage. She's a warrior with a mission: to find the man she once loved, the man who holds the key to exposing the secret of the Savage Legion and ending the mass conscription of the empire's poor and wretched.<br /> But to find him, she must become one of them, to be marked in her blood, to fight in their wars, and to find her purpose. Evie will die a Savage if she has to, but not before showing the world who she really is and what the Savage Legion can really do.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/14805/9781534439238"></a><br /> <br /> Synopsis: A war has begun. Savages, the empire’s most valuable resource, have been thrown at their captors’ enemies long enough. If their rebellion succeeds, it will undo a nation. At the helm of this Savage uprising is Evie, the Sparrow General. It isn’t a title she asked for or particularly wants, but she is the last hope for several peoples at the edge of extinction. Back in the empire’s city seat, Dyeawan, a brilliant young strategist…<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/14805/9781534439269"></a><br /> Synopsis: The final war for the nation of Crache has begun. At the helm of the people’s rebellion is Evie, the Sparrow General. She has been captured by the Skrian, Crache’s vicious army, and is being brought back to the Capitol for punishment. But reinforcements are coming for her.<br /> <br /> Dyeawan, who has climbed from street urchin to Crache’s highest seat of power through clever schemes and ruthless bloodshed, finds trouble on every front once she arrives. The rebellion approaches, and there are whispers of a martyr within the city who holds enough sway to stage a coup. If she doesn’t act quickly, her rule will be short-lived.<br /> <br /> As the women who hold the nation’s future meet each other from different sides of the battlefield, will they be able to find a shared vision of Crache, or will they destroy each other first?<br /> <br /> The final book Savage Crowns releases June 13, 2023. It's a magnificent end to one hell of a ride <br /> <br /> Like what you hear? Subscribe so you don't miss an episode!<br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/super-tuesday-recap/id1055497887?mt=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><br /> <br /> <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Isfvxdnswbkt45lprti5ld4yoi4?t%3DSuper_Tuesday_Recap%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16" rel="nofollow"></a><br /> <br /> <a href="https://open.spotify.
May 29, 2023
Interview with Author Kat Howard
Conversation with Kat Howard <br /> A Sleight of Shadows released April 25, 2023 and immediately made Ro's top five list of April books. Listen in as Ro and Kat discuss her inspiration, writing process and her unflinching willingness to be ruthless when the story calls for it. Because, If you ask Ro, the best urban fantasy stories are the ones where things are dark and complicated. <br /> Enter The Unseen World where the source of magic's been corrupted and it'll take more than a single confrontation to resolve the matter. Kat Howard confronts the price of magic by creating a world that makes you stare the real cost of winning, and happiness, directly in the eye with An Unkindness of Magicians. And now returns, six years later, with A Sleight of Shadows that forces you to wrestle with the question: how do you have a happily ever after if the world doesn't want it?<br /> Click the Image to buy Kat Howard's Unseen World Duology:<br /> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/14805/9781481451208" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><br /> <br /> Synopsis: In New York City, magic controls everything. But the power of magic is fading. No one knows what is happening, except for Sydney--a new, rare magician with incredible power that has been unmatched in decades, and she may be the only person who is able to stop the darkness that is weakening the magic. But Sydney doesn't want to help the system, she wants to destroy it. Sydney comes from the House of Shadows, which controls the magic with the help of sacrifices from magicians.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/14805/9781534426818" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><br /> Synopsis: After taking down the source of the corruption of the Unseen World, Sydney is left with almost no magical ability. Feeling estranged from herself, she is determined to find a way back to her status as one of the world's most dangerous magicians. Unfortunately, she needs to do this quickly: the House of Shadows, the hell on earth that shaped her into who she was, the place she sacrificed everything to destroy, is rebuilding itself.<br /> "The House of shadows sits on bones. All of the sacrifices, all of the magicians who died in Shadows, they're buried beneath the foundations. Bones hold magic."<br /> The magic of the Unseen World is acting strangely, faltering, bleeding out from the edges. Determined to keep the House of Shadows from returning to power and to defeat the magicians who want nothing more than to have it back, Sydney turns to extremes in a desperate attempt to regain her sacrificed magic. She is forced to decide what she will give up and what she will lose and whether what must be destroyed is not only the House of Shadows, but the Unseen World itself.<br /> <br /> <br /> Like what you hear? Subscribe so you don't miss an episode!<br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/super-tuesday-recap/id1055497887?mt=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><br /> <br /> <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Isfvxdnswbkt45lprti5ld4yoi4?t%3DSuper_Tuesday_Recap%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16" rel="nofollow"></a><br /> <br /> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/1Lculi6blK0sv8Pv6H8cmz" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><br /> <br /> Follow Ro on Twitter:<br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.twitter.com/bookblerd">@BookBlerd</a><br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.twitter.com/TheMTRNetwork">@TheMTRNetwork</a><br /> <br />
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