Daggers and Shadow Daddies

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  • Join us in our fantasy romance book club (not a deep drive podcast), led by a husband-and-wife duo inspired by The Fourth Wing and Iron Flame and incredibly excited for Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. These books opened the door to our love for the genre, and now we're diving into more highly recommended fantasy series. Tune in for engaging discussions, character explorations, and a "sprinkle" of romance! Book Club https://links.fable.co/aiMtu8GyWNb Book reading order: Fourth Wing (Re-Read) Iron Flame (Re-Read) Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
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Episodes
  • Ep 57: 'Iron Flame' Chapters 47-56 | Review & Discussion Part 1
    Jan 11 2025
    Listen in as we discuss chapters 47 through 56 of Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros. Podcast inspired by Shadow Daddy, Xaden Riorson, in The Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! https://links.fable.co/aiMtu8GyWNb Also enjoy our summary book notes: Chapter 47: • Initiates have reddish rings to their eyes that come and go depending on how often they drain • Asim eyes fluctuate in degrees of red and vein affected by emotions • Sages are responsible for Initiates, eyes are permanently red • Maven's are like generals and never captured • Cat insulting her, anger taking over her, choke hold while saying the finger move in Violets ear 😡, Cat wants a crown and found out about the engagement. • Nearly kills Catriona, cat still thinks she won, xaden broke it up, literally carries her away Chapter 48: • Removes her boots knowing she is into from Fourth Wing • My house, my chair, my woman • I wonder if he can read her intentions lol • All business, this is just to make her train sending energy to the orb (/s) • Onyx wraps around her mind and she hears his thoughts • Screams his name in an echo-y throne room • I thought she shocked him but really he is trying to resist her so she can see that she is not a convenient placeholder • She says she doesn't know how long they were engaged, he said that's the problem, you never ask.... betrothed • Infantry ex- lover, Xaden pushing her to ask him questions, her inferiority, and violet agrees with you that Cat is just like Xaden. • Overall Xaden is pushing her to face her emotions • Cat came to THEIR door in the robe 🤣 • Gave her a dagger to protect her from Cat, xaden never went down on Cat, doubt they cleaned up before his meeting and her classes 😂 Chapter 49: • Give patches to flyers, Violet welcomes Cat and fliers to Iron squad, Violet thanks her for teaching xaden the trick, Imogen cackles. • Ridoc is hilarious • I could use a snack, we do not eat our allies • Head to the library, sawyer flirts with Jesinia, books and weapons from tecarus (no need to ppl in Basgiath) • Dain points out translation is wrong, they talk about their history. • Calls out Violet for skipping ahead when translating, I thought she could embue but he embues the ward stone. • Tells her to be careful with her words, asks if she is in love with Xaden and would after he heard what xaden said, obviously she says yes Chapter 50: • No rider feels they've reached the limits to their power, venin temptation? • She forgot Dain was good with language. • Target practice is not going well... • Practicing Darth sideus magic realizing her power is beautiful, control doesn't overheat her • "Dragons make no mistakes" Tairn • Heaton is looking rough, they took 7 ppl, confused on the location and people talk Chapter 51 • On a roof?, chocolate cake • Chance of 7 inches of snow 😏 • Wants her to ask him questions, I bet he is aware she is scared to ask questions that will risk their relationship and doesn't want to offer up relationship ending info without her asking • They are screwed for the war • They figure out Flame, Dain quietly admits he like Xadens idea for squad arrangement. • She solves Breath and Flame
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    59 mins
  • Ep 56: 'Iron Flame' Chapters 43-46 | Review & Discussion
    Jan 3 2025
    Listen in as we discuss chapters 43 through 46 of Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros. Podcast inspired by Shadow Daddy, Xaden Riorson, in The Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! https://links.fable.co/aiMtu8GyWNb Also enjoy our summary book notes: Chapter 43: • Must walk the Gryphons to Aretia, narrow path with gryphon traps. • He didn't have time to question each flier for their intentions before heading on a secret mission • "You did not bond the inferiority that are gryphons, you bonded dragons. Take them for a walk to prove themselves." • Vi walking with Sloane and Maren (flier). Threshing is called harvest • Rhi with Cat, Liam didn't like Cat either. • Sloane likes her now. • Learn how fliers bond, brings a smile to her face 😂, Maren shocked at the question of what happens to the bodies • Aretia's first hatchling, unprotected. • Dain assisting jumping across, violet crosses with the sword. • The hilt is 8in., 7 Ridoc corrects, luella falls, Ridoc shot in the stomach Chapter 44 • Cat blames violet, sloane offers to toss her for fun. • Brennan saves Ridoc, but gryphon doesn't :( • Wyvern arrived, they can't see, violet gets on Tairn, no googles. • "You're faster than them right?" "Don't insult me" • Bait the wyvern, improving her aim, struck 4. • "Your difficult to impress" "I'm a black morning star tail..." • Collective mind between wyvern and venin, in a book from tecarus. Chapter 45: • Excerpt about the venin recruiting fliers who didn't bond in the last 50 years. • Flyers react normal to death of friends, reflects on their threshing too. • Rhiannon village turned away refugees. • Vi can embue daggers, cat in a see through robe once when Vi knocked, Rhi in a relationship with Tara, supposedly Imogen is not in a relationship with Quinn but has a crush on Garrick...not buying it • "Civil is overrated" -Andarna when everyone is out on the flight field. Ridoc insults Andarna by calling her mini tairn • Heaton and emery on missions with Xaden confirming they are a lieutenant. • Sawyer wants to learn to sign, rhi's family moved to Aretia • Tyrrish rune class, the prices is tempering, neither flyer nor rider knew of this, banned a couple hundred yrs after unification. Skilled with runes can compete with signets. • Tyrrish knots teaches this • Cat first to succeed Chapter 46: • Vi describes Andarna power pearlescent • Xaden transporting weapons to tecarus, she is scared to ask questions that jeopardize her happiness. • Col. Mairi runes for the marked ones, for Fen Riorson's blood line, "only" child 👀, counters the signet of the rider of the dragon that executes. Melgren can't see the outcomes of battles with them in it. • Violet jealous of Cat being better than her at runes • Combining flyers and riders. • Cat challenges violet, Andarna suggests scratching her eyes out, tairn suggests her knee caps • She fights like xaden
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Ep 55: 'Iron Flame' Chapters 37-42 | Review & Discussion
    Jan 1 2025
    Listen in as we discuss chapters 37 through 42 of Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros. Podcast inspired by Shadow Daddy, Xaden Riorson, in The Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! https://links.fable.co/aiMtu8GyWNb Also enjoy our summary book notes: Chapter 37: • Another nightmare, I'm confused • She wakes, she's horned up seeing him sleep, and reflects on how thankful she is for him, blames her mom for the scars, morning boner. • X scene⚡️ • Committee meeting, holding hands, Brennan can't read the journal, one person thinks melgren knows where they are. • Xaden has a mark for Violet, Violet realizes all of the land is Xaden's, too many cadets to feed and no access to stealing weapons. • Andarna wakes Chapter 38: • Andarna reflects color around her, she is huuuuuge, can't open her wing. She couldn't sleep properly • She will never carry a rider, andarna doesn't know yet, she loves sheep • New classes, new history, violet panics over all of the possible consequences from what happened. • Translated the book and thinks there is blood magic • Kaori did not go with, I think Emetterio did, 4th wing the biggest, kept their squad. • They don't have wards hence the propose of the journals 🤦‍♀️ • Fliers attacking because the lost their suppliers, violet starting to plan going to get the luminary from Viscount Tercarus. • "Can you carry a luminary?" "That question insults me" "Can you carry a luminary while insulted?" • Dark wielder in Zolya, Mira's riot arrives. • Tairn has teine neck in his month lol • Lilith saw Mira after violet incident, Mira punches Brennan Chapter 39: • Ridoc makes an ice pack, her feelings are valid, she says her dad's heart gave out because of him. • What are Brennan's motives for "staying dead", xaden uses to wish for siblings 👀 • This is tame for them - Mira 🤣 • "I know how to raise the wards" love how she is relatably nervous • Brennan says the Viscount wants to see Vi wield. • Violet speaks confidently but wrong lol, "I've never done anything wrong in my life!" • Plans of sneaking out to Tercarus, Tairn sighs, Andarna eager Chapter 40 • Xaden gone, Felix begins training Violet, love how he's like why the he'll is strikes an hr useful. • Did Carr sabotage her training? Felix think he was scared. • Finger lightning like storm in X-men! • Glad orb, conduit, Felix points out she can wield lightning and xaden. • Mira and Brennan going with violet to get the luminary. • You sure you can find the way? I'm going to pretend you didn't ask that - tairn • Tairn never promised to not tell sgaeyl just that she is gone. Andarna not invited. • The fliers were expecting them, 2nd person with truth sayer, also a boolean signet. • Lol Xaden already there, you aren't where I left you Violence Chapter 41: • Palace shockingly beautiful, Violet realizes they aren't escorted and Xaden knows the place very very well. • Violet tells him to stop protecting her like last year, he said at gauntlet and threshing he didn't love her or know what she would become to him, Xaden is scared. • He calls her out for sneaking away after being unable to translate • "You know who sound like right now....Dain" • Everyone smoking hot but Cat is hotter 😬, pities Violet for no color as xaden laments the lack of color at basgiath • CATRIONA IS A BITCH 😡 • He tells her Cat can heighten emotions • Raining, sheer dress, one dagger, Fen Riorson's chest exchanged for an alliance, mira can't shield, Venin pops out Chapter 42: • How long was the dude in the chest? • "Great note he had a knife" 🤣 • Brennan joined, Mira can't shield, the venin couldn't pull past the rock wall • Pinned his boots, tairn lifts her, strikes the water, 💀 the venin • Second man to beg for her forgiveness... soon a third 😏 • Hand on thigh, Cat not intimidated, offers her an isle of peace. • Take flyer cadets to train, they must bring a crossbolt, for the luminary
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    1 hr and 25 mins

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