Daggers and Shadow Daddies

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  • Join us in our fantasy romance book club that is all vibes and no facts, led by a husband-and-wife duo inspired by The Fourth Wing and Iron Flame and incredibly excited for Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. These books opened the door to our love for the genre, and now we're diving into more highly recommended fantasy series. Tune in for engaging discussions, character explorations, and a "sprinkle" of romance! Book Club https://links.fable.co/aiMtu8GyWNb Book reading order: Fourth Wing (Re-Read) Iron Flame (Re-Read) Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
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Episodes
  • Ep 64: 'Onyx Storm' Chapters 16-20 | Review & Discussion Part 2

    Ep 64: 'Onyx Storm' Chapters 16-20 | Review & Discussion Part 2
    Feb 15 2025
    Listen in as we discuss chapters 16 through 20 of Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros.Podcast inspired by Shadow Daddy, Xaden Riorson, in The Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! https://links.fable.co/aiMtu8GyWNbAlso enjoy our summary book notes:Chapter 18:• Halden guard his lover, halden still alive, Xaden "apologizes", but says he heard everything • Aimsir is the answer, Rhi asks if Xaden knew, violet think Xaden being venin is why he lost control• History of 2nd krovlish uprising• Letter to violet, tells her to ride for Cordyn, dain for krovlish by Asher, go to devereli, find a merchant, give rarest item. Only trust mira• No magic beyond the continent, tairn is surprised the irids left the continent. • Xaden shows up, head down and asks if she loves him, he looks feral, jealous 😭 • Jealous of her leathers, sheets and knives. He brings up the throne scene 😂 pull yourself together Xaden! I like Venin Xaden haha• She admits she did love him 😭 he says he never loved cat so not the same• Kissing and smooching, using his shadows to hold her arms up, pretty sure Ryan suggested this in Fourth wing 🤣🤣• Pulls himself away from her, distracts him with the research, the need halden to demand a change of course • Wouldn't the cure for xaden be to leave the continent? Chapter 19:• Excerpt: fliers should keep their gem next to their heart or else downfall• Riot of 8, halden got Mira to go with, they leave andarna in samara. • 12 hrs until she feela pain from being away from andarna, makes sense riders would die being gone too long from dragons just like Barlowe and channeling from the ground• Tairn doesn't listen to Grady lol, wielding in drained territory draws venin, mira think grady is trying to fail the mission• Officers go in the house, Aura and Vi stay out, aura panicks when xaden pops out and torches Grady 💀, town on fire, begs him to stop putting out the fire • Wyvern takes out Aura • Xaden grabs violet, wrapped in shadows, tairn grabs them, violet worried to wield, tairn corrects xaden has been closer while she wields 😂• They make it back to samara, mira did get the stone (cracked and hazy) a note to the lightning wielder from theophanie • Theophanie knew, (Xaden doesnt know how to block the venin??)Chapter 20:• Vi researching devereli, no answers from barlowe, and the manuscript • Violet has an inkling about her dads hypothesis and not telling us!• Ridoc wants to go, sawyer has a metal prosthetic leg and joining classes• Ridoc froze the inside of the orange• Drake, Cat's cousin, at the meeting, mira missing.• Violet a bad ass bitch!! Daaaaaaammmnnn• Demands to choose her squad, puts Markum in his place as he wants to search aretia, tells ateos she speaks for the empyrean• Halden impressed lol • Xaden has been given many proposals • At the end, violet gets her way and she is impressed ridoc didn't make any remarks, "i kept the inside thoughts inside"• Mira punches Drake in the nuts 😂 and she calls out the absurdity of the squad, tairn agrees
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    48 mins
  • Ep 63: 'Onyx Storm' Chapters 16-20 | Review & Discussion Part 1

    Ep 63: 'Onyx Storm' Chapters 16-20 | Review & Discussion Part 1
    Feb 13 2025
    Listen in as we discuss chapters 16 through 20 of Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros.Podcast inspired by Shadow Daddy, Xaden Riorson, in The Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! https://links.fable.co/aiMtu8GyWNbAlso enjoy our summary book notes:Chapter 16:• He blacks out the pit, training her how to fight him 😭, kisses her in the dark• Her lightning removes his shadows, wants her to know how to track him since she is the only one capable to kill him• They are in a pub with Sawyer, they travel by wagons, Rhiannon realizes how powerful xaden is, maren notes he is more powerful than she remembers.• Rhiannon points out aaric and lynx haven't channeled yet• They talk about the gods• Dain says he has to get the research alone and she has to trust him Chapter 17:• Letter from asher sorrengail to violet: her dad and mother trust no one• Death roll read, cadets died from falling and bad weather, vi runs into sloane on archives duty, sloane still feels immense guilt,• dain gave jesinia the research, then to violet. • Sloane implies she agrees they shouldn't go north• 6 letter word to unlock and a rune.• "First love irreplaceable" • Me: Halden??• Ryan: Naolin• Everyone knows about the research and helping with journal password. Ridoc point out it could be her first love and who is it. Aaric asks "how many letters", ridoc calls out "is the 1st year entitled to info we don't have??"• Xaden enters with Garrick, ridoc says Imogen will be excited in class, infantry joining sparring class, violet gets xaden to choke while talking 🤣• Rhiannon, cat, quinn, and ridoc against garrick. Xaden furious at garrick• violet strikes the dagger, Halden slowly claps, she has to breath through see him :(, sits next to halden (a twin)• Calls him beautiful, short, and beautiful eyes which wander• Caught cheating with his professor?!?!?!• Vicount tecarus, get a jewel from the queen, a lesser magic amplifier, halden offers to change the course for grady mission. • Halden "misses" her, says he knows a riders first love is their dragon, apologizes to violet and tries touching her hair, and xaden punches him with his shadows through the pits wards
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    53 mins
  • Ep 62: 'Onyx Storm' Chapters 11-15 | Review & Discussion

    Ep 62: 'Onyx Storm' Chapters 11-15 | Review & Discussion
    Feb 6 2025
    Listen in as we discuss chapters 11 through 15 of Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. Podcast inspired by Shadow Daddy, Xaden Riorson, in The Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! https://links.fable.co/aiMtu8GyWNb Also enjoy our summary book notes: Chapter 11: • Excerpt about the consequences of humans bonding and how will balance be found. • Andarna is is an irid, theophanie is immortal, theo wants andarna, and mentions xaden will show up, tells Vi when she turns to pick her as her teacher and not Berwyn • Theophanie escape just before tairn snaps at her. • Garrick is there distance walker!! • Violet asks tairn if her knew, says they don't gossip about their riders but proceed to do it to violet by telling Brennan's dragon she is hurt 😂 • Xaden helps her out of the saddle and she flirts with "what else can you do with those shadows" • Brennan mends her, Marens brothers are there :(, they look familiar to Violet, aetos shows up mad, and Brennan goes by Sorrengail now • Aetos kicks xaden and Garrick out of the school, sounds like refugees no welcome in Nevarre? • Xaden kicks everyone out of the room and gives her kiss when she expected a scolding lol Chapter 12 • Letter from xaden to violet of hint leaving without saying goodbye • Kisses continue • They talk about his fear of losing her and at one point he yells "i know that" and the shadows fled... • Says he would drain the earth to the core to protect her • He talks about no being enough for her because he shouldn't touch her, she wants whatever he can give her :( • They all have second signets??????? Would that mean xaden has triple lol • Ends with her sharing the venin can wield lightning and trails off that she tells him everything that happened • Letter from Garrick to Imogen but it's really xaden to violet • Xaden slipped to protect civilians • Grady doesn't know what to do, has his dragon interrogate andarna, doesn't go well • HEATON IS ALIVE! • Jack looks like garbage, offers him an embued medallion, they can sense each other • He can feel her pain left in the cell • Rhi, ridoc, sawyer show up lol Chapter 13 • Excerpt: jesinia failed 3 exams?!?! And transfered to Pr Grady • Sawyer got dressed up, a haircut, and a "godsawful hunk of wood" to his leg before seeing jesinia 😭 literally cried • Ridoc bedhops like a frog 🤣 ridoc mocks Violet and Xaden fighting • Ridoc signs to jesinia that he is wants on the quest squad, she asks if an ice wielder is even needed. • Sawyer signs he wanted to be there, Oh my god they are so freaking cute pg 113 • Many missing papers in the archives, sounds like they will be leaving the continent, and they just remembered her father's research and need Dain to betray his father. • Confirmed sage and maven can wield signets • Their no longer allowed to kill each on the mat, xaden teaching signet sparring can no longer bang 🤣 Chapter 14 • Tell Rhi the complications of xaden teaching, Vi finds Dain, asks him for help to steal the research, Xaden and Kaori walk in on them talking 😱 • VI says yes they broke up and Xaden says no • Aetos denies exemption request, xaden says they can be sneaky, Dain walks her to class • Xaden argues with grady, xaden and Vi mentally flirt and he uses his shadows lol • Violet wants to go south but Grady decides north Chapter 15: • Signet sparring class begins, flirty thoughts, xaden been hiding in the warded pit. • No records of a dragon torching a venin, they're going to take sawyer put for the weekend and xaden doesn't want to go • Xaden spars a metallurgist, sawyer doesn't want to be apart of classes yet, bad ass fight, keeps eye contact with Violet while fighting • He fights everyone, one by one • Trager says to cat it seems like a waste of time to chase someone who doesn't want you when there are plenty of people who do 😱😍 • Ends with it being violets turn
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    1 hr and 16 mins

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