Grab a glass of champagne and join us for an evening of festivities as we crown 2024 winners in the following categories:

- Best Protagonist
- Worst Protagonist
- Best Antagonist
- Best World
- Best Plot Twist
- Book of the Year

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Sam and Dan discuss chapter 1 - 16 of Hannah Kaner's Sunbringer, book two of the Fallen Gods Trilogy.

SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening.

In our first return to a world we have visited before on the podcast, we catch up with Kissen, Elo, Inara and Skedi. We explore the difference and challenges that the 2nd or middle book in a trilogy presents. We discuss the introduction of a new perspective, King Aaron, and we debate whether there is a good man somewhere inside him. And we put forward our (usually crackpot) theories for where this epic story is heading.

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Sam and Dan discuss chapter 42 - the end of Carissa Broadbent's The Serpent and the Wings of Night.

SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening.

We reach the mighty climax of Oraya's journey through Carissa Broadbent's world of sexy vampires, and so we come to some conclusions on what we thought of the story overall. We discuss how we felt about the Kejari as a plot mechanism. We discuss the twists and turns of the final chapters that took us by surprise. And we address the longest passage of eroticism that either of us has ever read. As usual, we ask our end-of-book key questions, and then we announce our next read.

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Sam and Dan discuss chapter 26 - 41 of Carissa Broadbent's The Serpent and the Wings of Night.

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Things got really hot and steamy in this section of the book, and we delve uncomfortably deep into the lusty and the romantic elements of Oraya and Raihn's relationship. As war breaks out, we analyse how Vincent is 'performing' as Vincent the King and Vincent the father. We try to guess who 'Nessanine' might be, as a character from Raihn's past. And, as usual, we make all kinds of predictions and guesses ahead of reading the final quarter of the story.

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Sam and Dan discuss chapter 13 - 25 of Carissa Broadbent's The Serpent and the Wings of Night.

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We dive yet further into this sexy vampire-romantasy. We get into some of Oraya's daddy issues. We theorise about what makes her special, and why she is sooo delicious to all the vampires. We assess the main love interest, Raihn, and debate whether we think we're headed in a more lusty or romantic direction... maybe it's both! And as usual, we have lots of predictions to share about where we're going to end up.

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Sam and Dan discuss the prologue to chapter 12 of Carissa Broadbent's The Serpent and the Wings of Night.

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We've got a brand new book to deep-dive into. It's supposed to be one of the hottest books of the year, featuring sexy vampires and a Hunger Games-style life-or-death contest.

We discuss our first impressions of the world and how it compares to other famous vampire stories we know and love, the main characters and, as usual, make our predictions about where this bloody story is heading.

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Sam and Dan discuss chapters 15 - 28 of Elizabeth Lim's Six Crimson Cranes.

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Having finished the book, we give our honest (sometimes too honest!) opinions on the climax of the story. We review the plot, the characters, the relationships and answer our regular end of book questions: would you like to live in this world, and would you recommend this book?

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Sam and Dan discuss chapters 15 - 28 of Elizabeth Lim's Six Crimson Cranes.

SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening.

Now that we're over half-way through the book, we discuss how much better we've got to now Shiori. We assess the suspicious actions of the highly unlikeable Zirina. There's a murder mystery afoot, and Shiori or her blossoming romantic interest, Takkan, could be the next target. And, as usual, we lay out our theories for where this fairy tale fantasy story is heading.

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