Season 3:
Dreadful
by Caitlin Rozakis
This is season promises to be all light and fluffy! Just what we needed!
From Goodreads: A sharp-witted, high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and a garlic festival - all at once.
It’s bad enough waking up in a half-destroyed evil wizard’s workshop with no eyebrows, no memories, and no idea how long you have before the Dread Lord Whomever shows up to murder you horribly and then turn your skull into a goblet or something.
It’s a lot worse when you realize that Dread Lord Whomever is… you.
Gav isn’t really sure how he ended up with a castle full of goblins, or why he has a princess locked in a cell. All he can do is play along with his own evil plan in hopes of getting his memories back before he gets himself killed.
But as he realizes that nothing – from the incredibly tasteless cloak adorned with flames to the aforementioned princess – is quite what it seems, Gav must face up to all the things the Dread Lord Gavrax has done. And he’ll have to answer the hardest question of all – who does he want to be?
Dread Lord Gavrax has had better weeks.
Episode 25: Mouse Skull Magic
We think we're in for a treat with this season's read: Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis. The story follows Gav, a Dark Wizard who's forgotten who he is and what the heck he's doing. All he does know is that no one else can know that he doesn't know anything! Just smile and nod, Gav! You're doing great!
Episode 26: Demons and Damsels
Did someone say DAEMON?! We are convinced that Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis is just the prequel for Here There Are Monsters by Amelinda Berube. Gav is definitely the forest demon. He knows all about mouse skull magic and negotiating a blood bargain.
Dreadful is tickling out funny bones and making us do a few spittakes. It's also proving to be fairly thought-provoking without being too serious or dark or heavy, and man do we appreciate it! And here we were worried that we weren't going to like a light and fluffy book. HA!
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Episode 27: Squids and Snail Slime
Get ready for the giggles, because Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis is so funny, and honestly it's giving us life. Gav is no closer to figuring out who he is, or what this nefarious plan is, but he is learning that being a good person is harder than it looks, and he may have been a little bit overconfident in his abilities to be good. But hey, he tried, and he wasn't totally unsuccessful.
Episode 28: Secrets, Secrets
We are continuing this hilarious journey of Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis. More secrets are made and uncovered, and we honestly do not know what will happen next! And it seems that neither does Gav. It's pretty hard to play charades when you yourself don't even know what's a lie and what's the truth. Pretty soon things are going to start unraveling, and we're here for it! As long as nothing bad happens to the goblins.
Episode 29: As They Say in Showbiz: The Garlic Festival Must Go On!
As we continue to go through this hilarious comedy, Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis, we are getting more surprises, more laughs, and (if you can believe it) more tears. But as long as the garlic festival is still garlic festivalling, then we'll probably be okay.
Episode 30: Garlic Truly Is the Most Powerful Thing on Earth
Hey book girlies and gamer guys! We apologize for our short, unannounced hiatus. Springtime has been unexpectedly busy, what with preparations for the garlic festival and whatnot. We were so proud of being back on our game three weeks ago. Oops! We're really sorry, and we'll try to not let it happen again, but we're not making any promises because we are who we are.
Episode 31: Two's Company, Three's a Crowd, and Four Dark Wizards Makes a Bad Party
More shenanigans, more heroes, more dilemmas, and more dark wizards are making their mark on this story, and we're here for it. We're on the edge of our seats in anticipation for what's coming next. We think we know how this story might end, but we're not sure how we're going to get there, and that's the fun of it!
Episode 32: Now You See Me, Now You Don't
Things escalate quicker than we were expecting, and we're left feeling... a little off. Will Gav finally make the push into hero territory and be an actually good guy? Will Valevna continue to be wiley? Will Eliasha remove that stick from her ass? Will Xaxus still be an overgrown old-man-child? Will Zarconar continue to be a scary force of nature? Will the goblins continue to goblin like no goblin has ever goblinned before? So many questions, and we're not sure if we have any answers.
Episode 33: Unfathomable! And It Was All Grrribeetle's Idea
If there's a limit to how much fun we, as your hosts, can have on this podcast, we definitely surpassed it several chapters ago. We did not think it was possible to laugh so hard, but was this a much needed reprieve from the drudgery of daily life. Whoo! Plans are made, alliances are formed, and garlic will always be sold! Patrons enjoy this special and exclusive extended edition of this episode with TWO bonus passages included.
Episode 34: A Ritual to Remember
How are we already done with this book? We had far too much fun and wish it could keep going! But there's a lot to get through in this last episode of season 3. Two rituals, for starters, and saving the world, and defining oneself, and all the craziness in between. We'll be back in two weeks for our next season. In the meantime, stay as sassy as literally everyone in this book.