The universe may have attempted to stop us from getting this episode to you, but we did it. Might be a week late, but here you have it, anyways.
Maybe we were cursed by the same witches who tried to hex the moon?
Anyways.
Jess gushes about the historical mystery with a soupçon of thriller energy that is Kate Morton's The Lake House. Elements of Atonement and Diane Setterfield meet in this trans-century murder mystery.
Vee talks about reading High Fantasy in the midst of Black Lives Matter with A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, a coming-of-age fantasy about confronting your own shadow and upholding balance.
Oh, and fuck She Who Must Not Be Named.
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