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Emily and Sam bring you on a chaotic journey of fantasy book reviews & discussions all while enjoying some of the cheapest wine we can find. Warning: We love cursing & spoilers are bound to happen when you bring in the vino! So sit back and relax with a glass of wine, and let’s deep dive into our favorite fantasy books!
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Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we're discussing chapters 100 through THE END! In the final chapters of House of Flame and Shadow, the dust finally settles—and a new world begins to take shape. Bryce wakes to Hunt at her side, choosing love and partnership over power, while Hunt himself turns down the chance to lead the angels, proving he’s done being anyone’s weapon. Bryce briefly returns to Prythian, handing over the Mask, Truth-Teller, and the S...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we're discussing chapters 97 through 99! Bryce opens a portal to her own black hole to consume the one created by the destroyed core—but gets sucked into space herself, watching the Asteri fall before grabbing Rigelus and dragging him toward annihilation with her. Hunt realizes Bryce gave him the Mask because a piece of her power lives in him, dons a mech-suit with Shahar’s help, blasts Rigelus into the black ho...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we're discussing chapters 94 through 96! Lidia unleashes her long-hidden fire power—tied to an ancient Fae bloodline—to save her sons and devastate Pollux, nearly sacrificing herself before the fire sprites and allies help turn the tide. Ruhn takes the antidote, discovers he can heal with his shadows, and fights his way back to the others as the resistance regroups. Meanwhile, Bryce weakens from teleporting unt...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we're discussing chapters 91 through 93! Tharion helps the group escape and later reunites with Lidia while searching for the antidotes he dropped, secretly saving her with one of the last doses as Pollux forces Ruhn to help hunt her down. Bryce and Hunt reach the core and discover the seven power conduits tied to the Asteri—two now empty—while Rigelus’s remains terrifyingly full. Chapter 92 raises the stakes as a cr...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we're discussing chapters 88 through 90! We launch straight into endgame tension as Bryce and her team slip into the palace far too easily, with Ruhn confessing his love to Lidia before they split up to find her sons. Bryce dons the Mask and animates the remaining winged souls while Hunt reclaims his Umbra Mortis armor, only for Rigelus to reveal he’s been watching them all along and has orchestrated a massive ...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we're discussing chapters 85 through 87! In these chapters, Bryce and her allies make their boldest move yet, recording and releasing a message that exposes the Asteri’s lies, their control through the water parasite, and the truth behind the Asphodel Meadows—ending with proof of Bryce killing Micah. As the fallout begins, the group scatters into safe houses, sharing quiet but powerful moments of connection tha...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we're discussing chapters 82 through 84! As tensions rise, Ruhn and Lidia finally give in to their feelings for one another, only for their fragile happiness to shatter when Lidia learns Pollux has captured her sons. In Crescent City, Hunt nearly kills Celestina for her betrayal, tearing through his halo with Helfire before Bryce intervenes, insisting Celestina must live to atone, and revealing her bold plan to use t...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we're discussing chapters 79 through 81! As tensions rise, Ruhn and Lidia finally give in to their feelings for one another, only for their fragile happiness to shatter when Lidia learns Pollux has captured her sons. In Crescent City, Hunt nearly kills Celestina for her betrayal, tearing through his halo with Helfire before Bryce intervenes, insisting Celestina must live to atone, and revealing her bold plan to...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we're discussing chapters 76 through 78! Bryce forces open a mysterious gate with Hunt’s power, only to realize it leads not to Hel but to the Fae world, where she confronts a stunned Nesta and desperately begs for the Mask. Though Nesta initially refuses, Bryce proves her resolve by offering her own parents as collateral and ultimately entrusting them to Nesta’s protection, securing the Mask just in time as danger c...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we're discussing chapters 73 through 75! Sabine publicly denounces Ithan as a traitor, accusing him of turning Sigrid into a Reaper and presenting falsified footage, but the Prime arrives and confirms Ithan’s claims, revealing even Danika knew the truth and hoped the wolves could change. The Prime names Ithan his heir and strips Sabine of her title, only for Sabine to stab her father with the Fendyr sword, allowing S...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we're discussing chapters 70 through 72! Hypaxia creates an imperfect but usable antidote by modeling it after the synth and channeling all of Hunt’s lightning, meaning it isn’t permanent and leaves them unable to help Sigrid yet. When she warns that taking it would make him stronger than Sabine, Hunt drinks it immediately and proves it works by summoning ice and snow. Bryce and the others arrive at Nena to fi...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! Baxian opens up to Hunt about his brutal childhood, revealing that his Helhound mother was killed by a mob and his father was tortured to death by Sandriel’s legion, leaving him to survive alone until Sandriel recruited him as the infamous Snake. Hunt then asks Baxian to be his second-in-command, and Baxian accepts. Bryce outlines her plan for herself, Hunt, and her parents to travel to Nena to open the Rift, sending Ruhn, Dec...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we are covering chapters 64 - 66! Morven’s castle has been destroyed and overgrown, prompting Bryce to focus on getting as many people to safety on Avallen as possible. Lidia reveals that if they survive, she won’t return to the Ocean Queen, believing her service will no longer be needed. Declan suddenly regains phone service and reports that the Asteri have launched a massive strike, with Pollux and Mordoc wip...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we are covering chapters 61 - 63! During the First Wars, several Princes of Hel engineered new weapons—kristallos demons, thunderbirds, and ultimately Hunt himself—to hunt the Horn and empower the prophesied Starborn heir. Hunt learns he was created by Apollion and Thanatos, using both an Asteri scientist and his mother, to serve as a living power source for Bryce, though his diluted Helfire can’t kill the Asteri as ...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we are covering chapters 58 - 60! Ithan and Hypaxia are still helping out in the Meadows. Baxian, Tharion and Sathia are keeping watch while Hunt and Bryce hang out in Hel and get all the tea. We find out that Hunt was created by the Princes of Hel, but they did not hurt Mama Hunt. Apollion, Aidas and Thanatos tell Hunt and Bryce about what happened when they fought the Asteri and Bryce tells them everything sh...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we are covering chapters 55 - 57! Join us for some cheap wine AND cheap thoughts as we deep dive into these chapters! Morven and the Autumn King capture Flynn and Declan to get Bryce to do what they want. She blasts part of the cave and escapes with the crew. Ruhn and Lidia finally the conversation they've desperately needed to have and we get a lot of her background with her children, Ophion and th...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we are covering chapters 52 - 54! Bryce reveals that the Mask can raise the dead without a necromancer, and as her group explores the caves, they discover carvings of an eight-pointed star and scenes of Fae hunting Theia’s pegasuses while the ghouls cower from Bryce’s power. Meanwhile, Ducan and Seamus fail to break into Lidia’s mind, and she and Ruhn share a vulnerable conversation about their pasts and families bef...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we are covering chapters 49 - 51! Siggy is a reaper and we discover the Under King had something to do with it. Hypaxia thinks she may be able to reverse it. Flynn and his sister hate the way that Avallen affects their magic and it's messing with them. Bryce and crew head to the cave to start looking for answers. Join us for some cheap wine AND cheap thoughts as we deep dive into these chapters! Sup...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we are covering chapters 46 - 48! Well, Tharion is supposed to wait on the Depth Charger while everyone goes to Avallen, but that lasts about 12 seconds before he jumps and joins them. Once on the Fae island, they meet with Morvon who has Flynn's sister, Sathia. She has been asked to marry one of the murder twins but has refused. Jessiba, Ithan and Hypaxia have raised Sigrid...and it worked....kinda. She's a re...
Send a text Welcome to House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas! This week we are covering chapters 43 - 45! Lidia meets up with her boys and their foster parents - Davit and Renki. The Ocean Queen asking to see Lida and she tells Lidia they're all getting dropped off in Avallen. Ruhn runs into Lidia, asks a little about her children. She hadn't seen them since they were 18 months old. He asks her to tell him her story now, but she says he doesn't deserve to hear it. Bryce wants to vi...
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