Here we go, Fandomtastic Fam! We're coming to talk about all things reading challenge 2023 related (aka giving epic recs!). Check them out here: 1. January: Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier; The Maid and the Orcs 2. February: Seduce Me At Sunrise by Lisa Kleypas; Kingdom of Stars and Shadows 3. March: Fumbled by Alexa Martin; Tattered by …

Today we're rounding up our November and December reads, so if you need any last-minute book recs to close out the year, THIS IS YOUR EPISODE 👀

Thank you all so much for your patience - the GLOW discussion with author extraordinaire Raven Kennedy is finally here! This episode does, of course, include spoilers for the Plated Prisoner series, so please keep that in mind as you're listening.

Here's an episode we had a lot of fun working on - our October and November roundups. The reading prompt for October was #WitchShit (listen for Ava's disappointing read) and for November's, it was "Read a Retelling" (listen for Steph's disappointing read). But we were also blessed with some pretty awesome books, so don't think this is JUST a rant e…

We know it's been a minute, but we have been reading (albeit...not too much). But we wanted to take an episode to update you on the books we've been enjoying over the past few months! We'll be talking about July, August, September, and our projected reads about October! Let us know in the comments what your favorite read has been these past few mon…

Welcome back to Fandomtastic, your one-stop pod for books, banter, and bumpin' uglies (if anyone has a better euphemism for s*x that starts with B, let us know). Today we're discussing 5 of the reasons why we had to jump into an unplanned hiatus this past summer. We know, we know, this isn't exactly the steamy discussion you're used to, but we can …

This episode is a little different, but I hope you enjoy an interview I (Ava) conducted with my friend, Britt; Britt is a force of the bookish industry! She's a bookstagrammer (@bibliobrittish), worked social media for an independent bookstore, and currently works for Bloomsbury (aka. Sarah J Maas's publisher). In this episode, Britt takes us behin…

Happy Monday, patrons! We're finalizing our May reads (a few days early, yes - but hey, it's been a slow reading month) and chit-chatting about June, aka Queertastic aka Read Something Gay! The books mentioned: - The Chorus of Dragons series by Jenn Lyons - The Plated Prisoner series by Raven Kennedy - Nemesis Games and Babylon's Ashes by James SA …

Hi patrons! This week's episode is dedicated to all things Lisa Kleypas (by which we mean, her historical romances, not her contemporaries haha). Please note this episode will contain spoilers for her Wallflowers, Hathaways, and Ravenels series! It will also contain: - A minor (major) rant about Devon - Why Garrett is not giving - A Fandomtastic tr…

Today we're discussing everything WANDERLUST: books, destinations, and most importantly, food. (Warning: this episode may cause you to feel VERY hungry)

Today we're posting our recap episode about all things Star Wars (as such, this episode contains spoilers for the movies, and The Mandalorian). But if you're not into Star Wars, that's okay, because this episode is novice-friendly - we play FMK, talk about the Rage that spawns in men only when women have Opinions about Star Wars, ships, Space Latin…

Happy Friday! We hope you've been enjoying the beginning of May! As a reminder, April's Readtastic prompt was "fake-dating" and May's is "read a book that gives you wanderlust." Here are all the books we mention in today's episode: Eclipse the Moon - Jessie Mihalik The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood The Beauty and the Baller - Ilsa Madden Mills A …

Today, Steph and Ava are recapping the much-anticipated second season of Netflix's Bridgerton. In this episode, we're making like Lady Whistledown and spilling the tea on everything we loved (and hated) about season two. This episode does contain spoilers for Bridgerton Season One and Two, The Viscount Who Loved Me, and To Sir Phillip, With Love.…

Here it is! The moment we know so many of you have been waiting for...Steph and Ava are diving into THE DRAGON'S BRIDE by Katee Robert. This was Ava's first monster-fucking book, and maybe if you joined our read along, it was also your first monster-fucking book. Whether you're a veteran or a virgin in this area, we hope you enjoy all of our though…

In one of our most anticipated and completely unhinged episodes, we joined Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis, the STEMinist novellas, and the upcoming Love on the Brain (August 2022) to talk steam, fandom, Star Wars, and…Ice Planet Barbarians? Want to join in on the fun with our live author events to ask your favorite writers your burnin…

In this episode, Steph & Ava talk about all the books they read in March (it was a...slow month, to say the least), and all that we're looking forward to reading in April. As a reminder, our March Readtastic Challenge Prompt was "Read a book with a green cover" and April's is "Read a book that incorporates the fake dating/relationship trope." We as…

We're wrapping up Season Two of Fandomtastic with our spoiler chat of Sarah J Maas's House of Sky and Breath - in this episode, we discuss the ending (!), the new characters we're falling in love with, the twists on our ships, and more! We also went live on Instagram on March 2, so don't forget to check out our other chat, if you're wanting more HO…

This episode dives into everything we read for February (it was not...impressive) and everything we're planning to read for March...which, at this point, fingers crossed. Godspeed to us all haha. Books we mentioned: Nuts by Alice Klayton Kulti by Mariana Zapata Rosalie Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall Battle Royal by Lucy Parker Under One Roof …

Happy HOSAB week, everyone! To avoid any form of CC spoilers, we're diving into the throw back of all throw backs: Throne of Glass. This episode dishes on all the popular theories that floated around during the TOG-era, and we'll be exploring our reactions to them, then and now, post-TOG. Happy listening!…

*If you listen closely, you can hear Ava screaming in the background* We had the opportunity to interview one of Fandomtastic's all-time favorite authors, Danielle L Jensen; ICYMI, Danielle is the author of the Bridge Kingdom series, the Dark Shores series, and the Malediction trilogy, all of which we endorse big time. In this interview, we learned…

Happy Friday, Fandomtastic Fam! Due to some brain shenanigans, this episode is late; sorry about that! But there's still enough time to listen before HOSAB comes out, and that's what we're focusing on this episode! We'll talk theories about everything from: Threesome suspicions The...weather? A mental "generational gap" And more!…

Happy Friday, Fandomtastic fam! This episode dives into everything we read during January - including the books selected for our reading challenge, including what we liked... and what we didn't. We'll also be chatting about the February reading challenge, so stay tuned! Books Ava mentioned: Everything here Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis H…

This episode is wholly dedicated to talking about our OTPs (and threes...and more!). Steph and Ava dive into the delights of shipping fictional characters (and some of the non-delights). Tune in to catch our OTPS, our NO-TPs, the ones we dream about and the ones that will never be (even though we wish they were...)…

If you've been a listener for a while, you might recall that Steph runs several bookish events and Ava...has been to a few. Whether you're wanting to learn more about how bookish events are organized and structured, or just hoping to snag a few tips about how to make the most out of your bookish adventure, this is the episode for you! We're diving …

Although we took this episode to explain what a reading challenge is, here's the quick and dirty: January: Read one of Steph's recommendations February: Read a foodie book March: Read a book with a green cover April: Read a book with the fake dating trope May: Read a book that gives you wanderlust June: Read a book with a queer protagonist July: Re…

Happy Friday, Fandomtastic Fam! Today we're chatting about our bookish manifestations for 2022 - the books we want to read, the books we're going to start reading, the books we want to fall into our laps in 2022, the shows we're going to watch, the music we're going to listen to - ALL OF IT! What are YOU looking forward to in 2022?…

Happy Friday, Fandomtastic Fam! Today we're bringing our audio transcript of our JLA chat to you! Please keep in mind that this episode is coming to you after the release of A SHADOW IN THE EMBER, so there will be spoilers for both the Flesh and Fire series and all of the current releases within the Blood and Ash series - there are also some exciti…

Today Steph and Ava are rounding up all of the books we read this year, the fictional characters we lusted over, the Marvel content we devoured, the books we didn't quite make it to, and more - this is our "year in the life" of Fandomtastic.

Happy Friday, Fandomtastic Fam! In October, we had the delight of hosting Lynette Noni, author of The Prison Healer trilogy (and much more!), for a Patreon-exclusive Zoom! Lynette was amazing to chat with, and we had the opportunity to ask some burning questions about her past and future works! Please note this chat does contain some spoilers for T…

Happy Friday, Fandomtastic Fam! Anchor, our hosting site for the platform, unfortunately bungled our scheduling, so while this episode was meant to go up November 26, it...didn't. Sorry for the delay! But for those of you who were waiting, and we appreciate your patience - here is the audio transcript of our Zoom event with Raven Kennedy, author of…

Thank you to everyone who joined our BDB read-along; whether this was your first time diving into the world of the Brotherhood, or your fiftieth, we hope you enjoyed the Brothers as much as we do! We're coming at you with a recap of the first six books, from Dark Lover to Lover Enshrined, and here you'll hear: Our favorite steamy scene (for once, S…

Happy Friday, Fandomtastic Fam! Today, we're excited to be bringing you our first audio recording of an author Zoom: this week we're featuring Shelby Mahurin, the author of the Serpent and Dove series (so this episode will include spoilers for the series)! This audio is a direct recording of our chat with Shelby, and we hope you enjoy listening to …

This episode is dedicated to one of our favorite (sexiest) creatures: vampires! In this episode, we talk about: The OGs: Twilight and The Vampire Diaries A book Ava loved...and Steph hated Our favorite vamps - and the ones who didn't scratch our itches ALEKSANDER SKARSGARD And so much more!

As promised, here is our recap episode of A Shadow in the Ember - this will be full of spoilers, so please keep that in mind! In this episode, you'll hear: There ARE right answers, and they are draken Kneektos? Nike-toss? NYTAS??? A definitive ranking of the FBAA series "There's no such thing as a stupid dragon--" "Stupid dragons???" And more shena…

Want to know what Steph and Ava read, watched, and listened to during spooky season? Now you know! In this episode you'll hear book recs of the witchy and spooky variety, movie recs of the monster-fucker variety, and....our announcement for the November read-along 👀

Happy Friday! Today, Steph and Ava chat about our reactions to our recent From Blood and Ash reread, as we prepare for A Shadow in the Ember and our Patreon-exclusive Zoom with JLA in November! In this episode, we discuss: Kieran Kieran Kieran The Joining (feat. Kieran) and Kieran! Please keep in mind this is a recap episode, so while there will be…

Happy Friday! This week we're bringing you a much-requested episode: a chat all about villains. In this episode, Steph and Ava discuss what it takes to be a "true" villain, how we feel about redemption arcs, some of our favorite villains of all time, and, of course some book recommendations. Please be warned there is a spoiler for Star Wars: The Ri…

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few months, you'll know that Steph and I [Ava] are absolutely, hands-down obsessed with Raven Kennedy's THE PLATED PRISONER series; just as a quick recap, the series currently consists of GILD, GLINT, and GLEAM, with the fourth book GLOW set to release in 2022. This past month we hosted a read alo…

Happy Friday, Happy October, and, most importantly, HAPPY SEASON TWO OF FANDOMTASTIC! 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Thank you so much for your patience during our between-seasons hiatus, we're so excited to be back! As you may know, we have so many exciting things coming your way, authors we're so hyped to meet and talk about, incoming episodes that rank among our all-time…

It's hard to believe it, but...with this episode we wrap up Season One of Fandomtastic! 😱😍🥳 Thank you so much to our patrons, our listeners - your support has meant the world these past few months, and we are so, so excited to cook up some amazing content for Season 2 (we won't be gone for long, and we'll of course be releasing bonus epis during ou…

This was such a fun episode for us (Steph & Ava) to record, because it delves into one of our favorite subjects: villainy! Specifically, the mysterious Koschei who is mentioned briefly in A Court of Wings and Ruin but really makes his grand entrance in A Court of Silver Flames - as such, this episode will have spoilers for the ACOTAR series, so ple…

We can hardly believe it, but thus marks the end of our Throne of Glass reread! We want to thank all of you for joining us on this journey, whether it was your first time or your fiftieth, and we hope you enjoyed this reread & our subsequent recap episodes! In this episode, you'll find: Manon: Motivational Speaker, Life Coach, Killer of Men MVP Mom…

Today we're going to be discussing Tower of Dawn, the book that kind of took us all by surprise. In this episode, you can expect to hear: Massive Sartaq fangirling Chaol lenience (*le gasp*) The moments that left our jaws hanging on the floor And more! As always, thank you for your patronage, and we hope you enjoy this week's episode! If you're fee…

We have reached Empire of Storms in our Throne of Glass read along, which means that we have reached one of the most painful cliffhangers in...all of existence. In this episode, you'll find: Just a bit more Aedion slander A new fleet of ships (*ahem* Elorcan) Mate musings MAEVE SLANDER Thank you for listening, we appreciate you, and hope you'll enj…

We are now on to QUEEN OF SHADOWS in our Throne of Glass reread! It's hard to believe we're already here, on this pinnacle book, but Wyrd knows we're thrilled. And we had a lot of feelings about Queen of Shadows. In this episode you'll hear Okay...a bit more Aedion slander #LysandraDefenseSquad HMS R.O.W.A.E.L.I.N The ship that never sailed... and …

Here is our HEIR OF FIRE recap episode - this is basically just a Rowan Whitethorn stan episode. But don't worry, you'll also hear us chat about: The emotion of the Celaena-Aelin transition Manon(!), Queen of Our Hearts Slaedion - Aedion Slander ;) The exact moment Steph fell in love with Rowan (and who can blame her) Chaol discourse And more!…

This episode marks our (Steph and Ava's) recap of the second Throne of Glass book - Crown of Midnight! While maybe not everyone's favorite, we can't deny that this book was full of exciting twists, surprises, and new characters that have a huge impact on later books in the series - which is why we had so much fun chatting this episode! You'll hear …

Covered in this episode: Steph & Ava dish out all of our thoughts and feelings on the book that started it all, Throne of Glass. This episode will include some shots fired at an unnamed character, fangirling over an unexpected favorite, and some serious admiration for the worldbuilding of Sarah J Maas - move over, Marvel Multiverse, this is the era…

Covered in this episode: Steph and Ava tackle the five novellas that make up The Assassin's Blade (which Sarah recommends reading before the rest of the Throne of Glass series, despite TAB releasing after the first TOG book!) We talk Sam, Celaena's trials, and foreshadowing! You can expect: "Shots fired and he hasn't even shown up" Rolfe: Will he m…

I [Ava] am so, so, so excited about this episode - it is quite possibly my favorite that we've ever recorded. With the Summer Solstice and Father's Day right around the corner, we talked about our favorite daddies (😏) of the ACOTAR series, which means you'll be enjoying some: Tarquin Propoganda Tarquin Propoganda Tarquin Propoganda "No but I am the…