Ep 208 - Magic Bites, by Ilona and Andrew Gordon

Overdue

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Arts, Books, Andrew Cunningham, Literature, Podcasts, Comedy, Craig Getting

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Magic Bites, the first novel in a longrunning series by wife-and-husband writing team Ilona and Andrew Gordon (known collectively as Ilona Andrews) does throw out some interesting ideas. The relationship between magic and science is neat, and some of the action set pieces work well.

But in other places, unfortunately, it fell flat for Andrew—characterization is often two-dimensional, the magical near-future Atlanta often feels contradictory and hastily drawn, and the prose is just clunky enough to highlight the novel’s problems rather than mask them. We talk about all of this plus voting, how phones work, and the pitfalls of judging an entire body of work by the strength of the debut.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Well, it's almost election day.
0:47.2	And our election coverage continues.
0:49.7	Wall-to-wall election coverage over to 2016.
0:53.5	Welcome to the spin room.
0:55.6	I'm just spinning around voting all the time.
0:58.6	This spin is to go vote.
1:00.4	That's the spin.
1:01.4	I've looked at all the polls.
1:03.3	All the polls say vote.
1:05.3	If you are not America, find something to vote on.
1:09.6	Like I don't know if there's like a McDonald's is like asking you which shake you like better
1:14.2	or something, but go find something to vote on.
1:16.8	Like just vote your conscience somewhere about something.
1:20.8	Welcome to Overdo.
1:21.8	There's a podcast about the books that you've been meeting to read.
1:23.4	My name is Craig.
1:24.4	My name is Andrew.
1:25.4	So following other works of media that I've seen, that's pretty good.
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