Hi Readers and Happy May!

We're still on a reading hiatus but found this rant of an episode in our 2025 library.

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Thank you Reddit for inspiring yet another H&B episode: this week we're getting judgy. What is your book? You know the one. If someone says it's their most favorite, artistic rendering of the genre, an utter masterpiece. and you just, can't? Every single recommendation they make is tainted by it.

Books and authors mentioned this episode:

Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49826643-daughter-of-no-worlds?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=9pUDfXymEa&rank=1

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13928.Daughter_of_the_Forest?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=6XPbWHXyby&rank=1

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25128811-ice-planet-barbarians?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=jPaU0ULUMi&rank=1

Zodiac Academy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46261182-the-awakening?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=JBiMKOnXaD&rank=1

Blade Dancer by S.L. Viehl

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/664640.Blade_Dancer?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=FfyIT0V8pY&rank=1

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50892338-legendborn?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_9

Linnea Sinclair

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/202269.Linnea_Sinclair?from_search=true&from_srp=true