Welcome to the worst bestsellers where we read about horny dragons so you don't have to.

I'm Kate. And I'm Renata. And for this episode, we read Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yaros.

Joining us to discuss this Romanticie novel, endorsed by Tracy Wolfe, author of Crave, is Sarah Aswell, who is a writer and stand-up comedian living in Missoula, Montana.

Sarah is currently a senior editor at Scary Mommy, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, National Lampoon, Mad

Magazine, Reductress Forbes, and more. Hello, Sarah. Hello, I'm so happy to be here.

We're happy to have you again. Yes, welcome back. Sarah previously joined us to talk about

Are You There Goddess, Me,aret and now she she knows that mostly

guests don't get to read such good books as judy bloom although i know you you had already read

this to fulfill your dark curiosity about the book but it's it's true i could not i read so much

about it i could not not read it to find out what it was

really about and now here we are yeah now here we are and that is our life story as a podcast yes

and now here we are oh i didn't put any content warnings in the dock i mean there's a lot of

like casual fantasy death,

but I don't know, none that were, like, really upsetting to me personally. Yeah, there's, like,

a lot of people die, including at least one of the dragons that has a name, but no one, no one that the, the protagonist really cares

that much about.

It's one of these books where like the character development is so bad that death is

okay and you can just read through it.

Exactly.

Yeah, but there's no, there's no, like, sexual violence.

There's no, you know,

there's none of the big things we usually warn for. It's just, it's just kind of a bad book.

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