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PCJ Pop #33 · Pop Culture Junkie®

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