Best RevolverReads Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 35: But You Know That a King is Only a Man - Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson 57:29

6h ago57:29

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Send us a Text Message. While some of you are having your 🫧⋆｡˚💚 brat summer 💚˚｡⋆🫧, the wheel of doom had a similar yet very, very different kind of passionate, UK summer in mind. The lines we were bumpin' this July were “It’s one thing to be looked at, and another to be seen", “You are more than the sum of your traumas”, and “What is better than be…

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[PRIDE THEME] Episode 34: The Saddest Man Who Ever Lived - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 1:07:35

15d ago1:07:35

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Send us a Text Message. Hi! Sorry we're late, but we're glad we finally made it. We intended for this episode to be released as our June pick specifically for Pride Month. Unfortunately, due to illnesses, travel, and general buffoonery we were unable to get this one out on time. However, we're still sticking with our regularly scheduled programming…

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Episode 33: Ava's Looking For A Man In Finance - Twisted Love by Ana Huang 1:14:53

3M ago1:14:53

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Send us a Text Message. ✓ With a trust fund (🪦🪦) ✓ 6'5" ✓ Blue eyes Okay, we might have lied. Alex is technically 6'3" but I am sure Ava can vouch he compensates for the extra 2 inches elsewhere. Alright, some context would be nice wouldn't it? This month we bit the bullet and read Ana Huang's Ugly Love. Do you like the Grumpy/Sunshine trope? How a…

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Episode 32: Where Be The Dragons? - The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Pt.2 1:06:34

4M ago1:06:34

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Send us a Text Message. Spring has sprung and we've re-entered a world filled with magical swords, enchanted fruit, and dastardly dragons this April. Welcome to the final half of our review for The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. There were many questions left unanswered last month, like did we manage to prophesize plot points accura…

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Episode 31: Dragons Got Me Gallivantin' Side to Side - The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Pt.1 1:13:30

5M ago1:13:30

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Send us a Text Message. Come one, come all! Would you like to hear a tale filled with star-crossed lovers, dragons, witches, and an array of fantastical creatures? For the month of March, the wheel decided that it was time for an adventure of epic proportions and embarked us on a quest to save the world in The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha …

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[BONUS] Episode 30: The Olympics of Red Flags - Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn 59:33

5M ago59:33

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Send us a Text Message. Thirty, flirty, and... nosediving into a sea of red flags. It's February so it's time to dye your hair, change your personality, and wear things you totally never wear because they don't even belong to you, they belong to your roommate. You know how it is. Love is in the air and we're just going to change ourselves completel…

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[VALENTINE'S DAY THEME] Episode 29: Miles High Club - Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover 1:00:49

6M ago1:00:49

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Send us a Text Message. Good afternoon passengers. This is the pre-boarding announcement for flight 29RR to San Francisco. We are now boarding anyone so busy they have to tie their hair back with a pencil and specifically men who refuse to love due to a tragic backstory. Please have your boarding pass and identification ready. Welcome to this month…

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Episode 28: Fiction Is The Lie That Helps Us Understand The Truth - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 1:10:06

7M ago1:10:06

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Send us a Text Message. On this side of the Northern Hemisphere January is one of the darkest and coldest periods in the year. In honour of that, the wheel and Rebecca's taste in literature decided against any chance of uplifting anyone out of this gloomy time and drove us further into the dark with this month's pick. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeou…

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[BONUS - WINTER THEME] Episode 27: Draw Me Like One Of Your French Daddy Issues - Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin 1:05:59

7M ago1:05:59

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Send us a Text Message. In the dead of winter and at the shores of this tourist town you may find yourself cold, isolated, and contemplating how you ended up here in the first place. With nothing but time and the sound of the waves lapping over the din of restaurants along the coastline we thought it would be an amazing time to celebrate winter her…

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[2ND ANNIVERSARY EPISODE] Episode 26: Edward Cullen's High School Survival Guide: Bad Breakups 101 - New Moon by Stephanie Meyer 1:27:20

8M ago1:27:20

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Send us a Text Message. Two households, both alike in dignity, In green Forks, where Stephanie lays our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where her blood makes a vampire's mind unclean. Hello to December and hello to the second anniversary episode for Revolver Reads! In true Revolver Reads fashion we decided to continue our tradition …

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Episode 25: Blackmailing Our Way Into The Toronto Real Estate Market - Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier 59:33

9M ago59:33

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Send us a Text Message. Are you ready to listen to a book club podcast about a book titled after a fictional true crime podcast? Because I'm not certain that we were ready to get this meta this month. With our fate in the hands of the wheel, it thought a thriller filled with arson, new identities, and a chilling Canadian murderer would be a fitting…

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[BONUS] Episode 24: All Cruelty Springs From Weakness - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins 1:12:12

9M ago1:12:12

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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the 10th annual Hunger Games! This month, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins was selected as tribute. As the prequel to the acclaimed Young Adult series, The Hunger Games, we and our inner teenagers had high hopes for this novel. As a radical change from the original trilogy, we are taken front-…

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[HALLOWEEN THEME] Episode 23: The Haunting of Mojo Dojo Casa House - The Southern Book Club's Guide To Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix 1:10:11

10M ago1:10:11

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Send us a Text Message. We want to bring you back to a time when Cheers was on television, when MTV still played music videos, Reaganomics was in full swing, and pictures of scantily clad women were still legal in the workplace. Welcome to the late 1980's and welcome to our Halloween episode (for real this time). The author of this month's pick tho…

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[MISFIRE] Episode 2: Be Different And Be Damned - Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 1:01:45

11M ago1:01:45

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Send us a Text Message. Don't you love a story that is short and sweet? Because we sure do. It's too bad we joined Kiko's less-than-pleasant journey of self-discovery as she combated waves of self-doubt, a determined stalker, and burdensome familial expectations. Also, let's not forget the highly unexpected and highly suggestive (🌶️🌶️🌶️) surprise a…

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[BONUS] Episode 22: A Hot New Bombshell Enters The Portal - The Great Hunt (Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time') by Robert Jordan 1:11:07

11M ago1:11:07

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Send us a Text Message. Good morrow, my friends. We bring great tidings! In honour of the premier of season two for Wheel of Time we decided to bequeath a bonus episode unto all of you. We journeyed again into the fantastic world full of ogiers, trollocs, and wide expanses where one can begin the quest for the Horn. Though the journey was rougher t…

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Episode 21: What Is Past Is Prologue - Babel by R.F. Kuang 1:05:18

12M ago1:05:18

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Send us a Text Message. Is it just us, or do you feel like class was still in session for the summer? Between a witchy campus, a group of rarely sober students on a Vermont college, and now the Wheel has brought us all the way to an ancient school in the middle of the Industrial Revolution, we've been educated, to say the least. The Wheel of Doom h…

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Episode 20: Wine and Bunny Speak the Truth - The Secret History by Donna Tartt 1:11:52

1y ago1:11:52

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Send us a Text Message. If you thought this was the end of basic witch summer, think again! Join us in the pines of rural Vermont. If you travel deep enough you will find an assortment of buildings inspired by the Gothic era and brimming with dipsomaniacal undergraduates. But don't delve too far into grove, or else you may find yourself embroiled i…

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Episode 19: One Ex After Another - The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling 52:38

1y ago52:38

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Send us a Text Message. 🔮🦇🎃🦇 Happy Halloween!!!!🦇🎃🦇🔮 Just kidding! Or are we? You can take the girl out of Halloweentown but you can't the Halloweentown out of the girl. The temperatures may be soaring, but so is the chemistry between the two main leads in this spicy rom-com novel that left us absolutely bewitched. Vivienne Jones may be sweet, but …

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Episode 18: A Horror Lost in Translation - Red X by David Demchuk 1:04:00

1y ago1:04:00

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Send us a Text Message. This month the wheel decided to bring us to a very special city in Canada. Welcome to the city where hockey tickets cost you an arm and leg, but the team hasn't won the Stanley Cup in nearly 60 years. The city where you'll never be able to afford property in unless you're into crypto and the city where a raccoon is the unoff…

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[LISTENER EPISODE] Episode 17: Red (Geryon's Version) - Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson 59:35

1+ y ago59:35

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Send us a Text Message. 🎶 Yo, listen up, here's the story About a little guy that lives in a red world 🎶 Welcome to our very first Listener Episode! Our amazing listeners placed their submissions and Maria's pick, Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, was chosen by the wheel of doom. Please join us in this roller coaster of emotional highs and lows …

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Episode 16: Biting The Hand That Feeds You - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn 55:52

1+ y ago55:52

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Send us a Text Message. Hoo boy! It's hotter than a June bride in a feather bed. The wheel of doom brought us back south and thank god because we needed something to drag us out of hibernation this March. Gillian Flynn dropped us into the wicked world Sharp Objects as Camille Preaker digs through the skeletons in her hometown's closet and ultimatel…

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Episode 15: My North, My South, My East and West - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 1:08:26

1+ y ago1:08:26

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Send us a Text Message. It's February and love is in the air [ardent sigh]. We hope you're prepared for one of the most breathtaking love stories of our generation because the wheel pick for this month swept us off of our feet. So grab a glass of wine, some chocolate, and maybe a box of tissues and listen to our passion blossom over Americanah by C…

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Episode 14: A Song of Pain and Ire - Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade 52:13

1+ y ago52:13

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Send us a Text Message. It's January so that means it's a new year and a new book we had to bite the bullet for. This month we were under the impression this month's read was going to be like taking a romantic walk down Rodeo Drive, finding a Hollywood heartthrob, and falling in love. Instead, the experience felt like waking up at the back of a Den…

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[BONUS - WINTER THEME] Episode 13: Hedge Animals Roasting By A Burning Hotel, Jack Torrance Sipping On Your Gin - The Shining by Stephen King 1:01:56

1+ y ago1:01:56

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Send us a Text Message. From our families at Revolver Reads to yours we wish you a Happy Hanukkah, a Happy Kwanzaa, a bright Yule, and a Merry Christmas! Here we are again with another novel by Stephen King. This time around it was much colder, but we had more clothes. Welcome to our special Winter Episode were we bundled up and took a drive throug…

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[1ST ANNIVERSARY EPISODE] Episode 12: Going Back To Hell From Whence We Came - Twilight by Stephanie Meyer 1:04:58

1+ y ago1:04:58

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Send us a Text Message. Happy December and a very happy anniversary to Revolver Reads! All roads lead to Rome-- or should we say Forks, Washington? In our special anniversary edition we decided to do an homage to the book that keeps haunting our conversations, much like a shiny vampire with nothing better to do. This December, we gifted ourselves (…

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Episode 11: To Die, To Game, Perchance To Ruin Friendships - Die Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans 50:04

1+ y ago50:04

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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to November, the month where we got cozy and took a visual adventure to a land far, far away. The Wheel of Doom rolled a nat 20 and chose the lovechild between Kieron Gillen's master storytelling and Stephanie Hans' breathtaking artistry in Die Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker. Don't let the page count fool you because…

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[HALLOWEEN THEME] Episode 10: Mung Diving Into Daddy Issues - Gerald's Game by Stephen King 57:22

2y ago57:22

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Send us a Text Message. Boo! 👻 Did we get ya? If we didn't, the King of Horror, Stephen King should have done the trick (or treat?) with this month's Halloween themed pick, Gerald's Game. Welcome to our second themed pick for Revolver Reads. We were taken captive by the tragically sad life of Jessie Burlingame while she lay trapped in her bed for t…

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[BACK TO SCHOOL THEME] Episode 9: For Furry Thou Art, and Unto Furries Shalt Thou Return - The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman 1:00:20

2y ago1:00:20

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Send us a Text Message. We hope you said your goodbyes to summer because September is here and we've recorded our biggest #tbt yet. This month we are happy to announce our very first themed episode in honour of the start of Fall, Back To School. The Wheel of Doom's pick might have been too on the nose when we said we wanted something for "The Fall"…

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[MISFIRE] Episode 1: Sapphic and Beta Waves by the Beach - The Guest List by Lucy Foley 53:51

2y ago53:51

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Send us a Text Message. Hi folks. This month due to a number of seen and unforeseen factors we decided to not proceed with our August book, The Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold. This book has been post-posted to a later date in the future. We sincerely apologise for the last minute change and we appreciate your understanding. In lieu of our A…

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Episode 8: By The Pricking of Our Thumbs, Something Sadly Relevant This Way Comes - The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson 1:07:15

2y ago1:07:15

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Send us a Text Message. Is it hot this July or is it just us? No wait, that's just the hellfire waiting for us on the other side. This month we fanned the sweltering July flames with Alexis Henderson's The Year of the Witching A.K.A. Bethel, #1. Welcome to Bethel, a town suffering under the Puritanical rule of The Prophet and those who choose to up…

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Episode 7: Beauty and the Misanthrope - Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon 1:01:37

2y ago1:01:37

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Send us a Text Message. Happy June, folks. School is not, we repeat, not out for the summer. Welcome to St. Rosetta's Academy where the drama, angst, and young adults with too much money is plentiful. Class is in session and Of Curses and Kisses, the first instalment to the St. Rosetta's Academy series by Sandhya Menon, was at the top of our syllab…

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Episode 6: Warders Are Like Onions - The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan pt. 2 1:13:32

2y ago1:13:32

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Send us a Text Message. The pattern was completed for the month of May. We journeyed through the rest of the first instalment of Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series, The Eye of the World. It's safe to say we've secured the knot on this one (... or have we?). Join us for our final thoughts on the second part of The Eye of the World and please excuse…

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Episode 5: The Lion, The Witch, and The Audacity of This Dragon Reborn B*tch - The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan pt. 1 54:57

2+ y ago54:57

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Send us a Text Message. It's April and this month we weaved our way into the first instalment Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series, The Eye of the World. And let's just say this book has everything: a mopey protagonist, unclear prophecies, an ominous dagger, and a pack of furries. Grab your ale or ancient herbs and gather 'round the fire as we unwin…

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Episode 4: It All Goes Back To Twilight - Wallbanger by Alice Clayton 1:05:01

2+ y ago1:05:01

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Send us a Text Message. This March we bit the bullet and were sucked (and sucked) into at the first instalment of Alice Clayton's Cocktail Series, Wallbanger. If you couldn't guess by the name, no this not a book about home remodelling, it's a romance novel with a surprise that eclipsed all of our expectations. Everyone, please keep your hands and …

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Episode 3: I'm Not a Regular Reverend, I'm a Cool Reverend - The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor 1:17:58

2+ y ago1:17:58

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Send us a Text Message. This month we take the a trip across the pond in The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor, a horror-driven thriller novel and let's just say the waters were rough. Prepare yourself for ghosts, decrepit houses, a small town with a blood-soaked past, and Peppa Pig. Let's put our hands together and pray for for this down-on-her-luck Rev…

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Episode 2: What's In A Name? - She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan 1:06:20

2+ y ago1:06:20

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Send us a Text Message. Fist deep, mountain high. This month we dig our fingers into She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan, a queer historical fantasy surrounding the rise of the Ming Dynasty in 14th Century China. This tale has been compared to both The Song of Achilles and Mulan, but She Who Became the Sun was fated for greatness far beyo…

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Episode 1: And They Were Tentmates - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 1:15:32

2+ y ago1:15:32

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Send us a Text Message. This month we discuss The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, a re-telling of the classic tale of Achilles with a pleasantly surprising twist. In this ancient story, the novel revolves around Patroclus, Achilles' childhood friend and eventual partner in war, and let's just say they share more than a tent, if you catch my dr…

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