This week, we read A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Sierra joins me on this episode to discuss: 

• How I was able to steer clear of any spoilers up until this point


• Why Tamlin gives me the ick 


• The pure excitement that Sierra feels to FINALLY talk about this book with me

Open your book and press play on a podcast episode that will have you traveling Under the Mountain and through the woods to save the people you love. 

Mentioned in the Pairings section of the podcast:

• DRINK: Out East Cotes de Provence Rosé, Red Sangria 


• TV SHOW - Vampire Diaries, The Rings of Power


• BOOK - Crescent City, Beastly, A Court of Mist and Fury


• MOVIE - Beauty and the Beast, Twilight, Ella Enchanted

Quick Summary: When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world. As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she’s been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever.

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