All the Backlist! January 10, 2025

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

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0:00.0	You're listening to All the Backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.
0:15.7	I'm Sharifah.
0:16.6	Today is January 2nd, 2025.
0:20.2	And today I'm going to talk about a couple books I really like.
0:25.4	As you might know or have guessed, I'm new to all the backlist. I'm in the rotation now,
0:33.8	having just come off of retiring SFF, yeah. And because retiring SFF yeah is still fresh I thought
0:41.4	I'd pour one out today and talk about two science fiction and fantasy reads and there are two
0:49.8	books I love that I read a while back, that I feel inclined to recommend to everybody. So, before I
0:59.8	tell you about those two titles, let's hear from our sponsor. Today's episode is brought to you
1:08.5	by Blood at the Root by Ladarian Williams.
1:12.5	Let me tell you all about this book.
1:15.8	This book was an instant New York Times bestseller.
1:20.6	It's a cosmopolitan, a Best YAA Book of the Year, and a USA Today bestseller.
1:25.2	And, and it's at the top of my to be read list, just saying.
1:29.7	So in it, a teenager is on the run from his past. He finds family.
1:34.2	He never knew existed in the community he never knew he needed at an HBCU for the young,
1:39.9	Black, and Magical. Enroll in this fresh fantasy debut, unlike anything you've ever seen before and get your life. Because, okay, so we follow Malik, right? He's on the run, like I said, he goes to Cayman University,
1:46.9	where he encounters feuding covens, magical politics,
1:51.5	love and family, and old evil dating back to the Haitian Revolution,
1:55.8	forbidden knowledge, and buried mysteries.
1:58.8	Like I said, it's giving. It's got it all and it's giving.
2:02.1	Make sure to check it out.
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