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- My name is Shauna and I am here with Olivia.
And this is your PCJ Pop for the week.
Mine is gonna be a book series,
something that Olivia forced me to read
with thread of Violence on my life.
- I said we're ending the podcast if you don't read them.
- Pretty much.
- So I have read all of the "A Court of Thorns and Roses" series
by Sarah J. Maas.
There is an entire other book series, but two of them,
oh my God, I don't know if I'll read "Thrown of Glass."
The one that I am gonna Pop is called "Crescent City."
That is the name of the series.
There are three books in the series,
"House of Earth and Blood," "House of Sky and Breath,"
and "House of Faleim and Shadow."
These all follow Bryce,
Quinlan and Hunt Athalar in the city of Lunathian,
"Increscent City," or "Crescent City,"
maybe I think they're the same thing, right?
"Lunathian, Crescent City."
As they uncover dark secrets and fight powerful forces,
I don't know why I was so reluctant to read these.
I think it's because they are so thick.
- They're huge. - They're huge.
They're massive.
- They're huge. - They're massive.
But I really like "The Court of Thorns in Roses,"
so I don't know what my hesitation was.
- You heard modern like "Fairy Tale,"
which is like today's technology,
but in a magical world.
- I think that's so cool about it.
And Bryce is so cool.
I love her as a main character.
She reminds me a lot of me and you.
I mean, she's younger than us in the book.
She's in her 20s,
but she starts out as a party girl who wants to go out
and drink with her friends and go dancing.
- She's not like a virgin.
- She doesn't suffer Bella Swan as a...
She's not like, "I'm not like the other girls.
I'm innocent and pure."
No, she's like, "I like to drink.
I like to screw.
I like to dance."
- I love women.
- Yes.
And then she kind of gets thrown into this world of,
adventure and mystery and murder.
And just it's so good.
And there's so many complex characters.
And there is Sommutt in it, which I love obviously,
but it's romantic and it's conceptual.
And it's between like,
adults and the Sommutt is well written.
And it feels earned.
Like, I don't know.
I love these books.
- A sham does so well.
- Yes.
- I'm on the third book.
So no spoilers.
Anybody I don't know how it ends.
And there's probably gonna be a fourth, right?
- So yes, there are four houses in Midaguard.
And so we have three of those houses.
There is a suspected fourth book,
but the next three books that Sarah J. Mouse,
the next two books that are coming out
within the next six months are both Aka Tar books.
- So unclared.
- Yeah, a quarter thorns are roses.
So unclear when Crescent City is coming,
but the assumption is,
yes, because there's a fourth one.
- I love that.
- Yeah, very good.
- Thank you for convincing me to read these books.
- You're very welcome.
You're very welcome.
And we get to keep this podcast.
So that's nice.
- Thank God.
We don't almost cancel there for a second.
- Yeah.
- You can listen to it on Spotify if that's your thing.
- You can buy it in your local library if it's there.
- It is gonna be kind of a rough time
to try to get that book right now leading
up to these Aka Tar ones.
- The fourth local.
Find your local bookstore and give them a try.
- Very worth it.
And yeah, this is my second time rereading it this year.
- Oh my God.
- This year.
- You're insane.
- I know.
- It's so good.
- There are like 800 pages of pages in my God.
- Yeah, so very worth it.
- My pop this week is gonna be the Crescent City series
by Sarah J. Mance.
And that'll do it for this week's PCJ Pop.
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