Ep. 069 - Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper
In our official Spooky-Oooky Halloween kickoff episode we discuss Lana Harper's sapphic, magic novel Payback's a Witch!
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The one where the gang finally talks about Legendborn by Tracy Deonn!
It took a couple of weeks (and a surprise episode!) but we finally got to discuss all of our thoughts about Legendborn!
Did we hate this book? Did we love this book? Was this book a warm hug? Who did we want Bree to end up with? Did those within The Order like to live? Did we make the crazy choice to record this AFTER a bonus Jonas episode (yes!)? For all other answers, and for questions you didn't even know we had, you're gonna have to listen to us break down this book intrigue by intrigue. (Like you weren't already going to?)
Check your local podcast listening app for our discussion of Legendborn in this week's episode of Textual Deviants (brought to you by the strike supporters of Disney Deviants)!
Read MoreEp. 067 - Bonus Jonas! Netflix's LOVE IS BLIND - A Pyramid of Toxicity
Love is patient, love is blind, love is toxic, and unkind...that's how that goes right? This we bring you a bonus episode so long, it MUST be the director's cut. This week, we bring you 2 episodes for the price of one. We are deep diving into the first episodes of Netflix's Love Is Blind. And we have important questions like...
1) You know it's still yelling even though you're keeping your voice down right?
2) What exactly is the current state of heterosexual love?
3) Are solo cups the champagne flutes of gym bros?
All this and more!
Read MoreEp. 066 - October Reads and We Read the Worst Book Ever!
We're back with a special announcement episode of Textual Deviants!
Join us as we discuss our spooky-ooky and spooky-lovely(?) October reads, Payback's A Witch by Lana Harper and Weight of Blood by podcast Author fave Tiffany D. Jackson!
Oh. You thought we were going to be discussing Legendborn? If there's one thing we've told yall, it's that we are a liars and frauds. And also, WE ARE SO SORRY BUT LIFE IS SO DIFFICULT AS ACTORS TRYING TO NAVIGATE THE STRIKE AND FIND A NEW JOB POST GRAD.
We hope we can make it up to y'all by bringing some of the juiciest Booktok drama straight to your ears! *Best Desi Arnaz impression* Nate Lemcke you've got some 'splaining to do! on this week's episode of DD's Textual Deviants!
Read MoreEp. 065 - Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
It's a bird! - It's a plane! - It's the Return of Them Bitches That Read a.k.a Textual Deviants!
Now let me tell you a little about two girls who are in solidarity with the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Yes, the industry is still on strike and so are we. So we are back with our first read in a long time and we're not sure if we remember how we used to do this, but we sure as hell are gonna have fun trying to figure it out!
For today's episode we read Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie and the description is as follows: A mysterious disease claims the world's children before bringing them back. To continue surviving, however, they need to ingest human blood. As you may guess from this synopsis, this horror fiction left us with many many feelings. Join us as we discuss our first impressions, a.ka first anxiety, existential dread, how Mr. Craiggory DiLouis had us questioning whether or not we want to be parents nd much more! Mister Craiggory DiLouis, you have some 'splainin' to do!
Read MoreEp. 045 Textual Deviants - THE BLOOD TRIALS by N.E. Davenport
Textual Deviants is back and better (read: rustier) than ever! In our much anticipated return to our textual roots, we tackle a listener suggestion, The Blood Trials by N. E. Davenport and from us to y'all, Mrs. Davenport might have just ate! Don't let the stunning cover or description fool. This is no YA novel, more like Adults ONLY! We follow Ikenna, our protagonist, (and fellow vaguely Naija gyal!) as she tries her best to figure out who killed her grandfather in the novel with a sci-fi/fantasy landscape. To make matters worse, the only way she will be able to figure it out is to pledge to participate in the Praetorian soldier (blood) trials, in order to get closer to the people she believes ordered the hit. Even worse? She has to manage to hide her blood gifts all while desperately trying to remain alive herself.Dive into Ikenna's world of the Mareenians and Khanaians with us as we discuss this weeks book deviation, The Blood Gifts by N.E. Davenport!
Read MoreBonus Jonas 001 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Welcome back to our friends to another episode of *record scratch* Textual Deviants! Did you miss us? Well we missed yall! So we declared this #SmartGirlSummer and decided to give you all the book content you've been craving. And what better book to start out with than one that has sat on the NYT Best Sellers list for 3 years straight? That's right, we read Delia Owen's Where The Crawdads Sing in this weekend's Bonus Jonas episode of Textual Deviants (brought to you by Disney Deviants)!
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