Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about dangerous crowboy and plastic girls so you don't have to.

I'm Kate. And I'm Renata. For this episode, we read The Company of Ventful Crows by Lana Peerchick.

Joining us to discuss this Aussie story of Fated Mates is writer, podcaster, and noted Corvid enthusiast, Margaret H. Willison.

Hello, Margaret.

Hello, friends.

Hello, fellow plastic girls.

It's like such a delight to be here. We're so happy to have you back.

Yeah, it's been too long since you've graced our murder with your shiny presence.

It's so true.

And I will say, you got on a little streak where you were like getting off easy and getting to read good books.

And you know.

And you guys had to end that.

Arguably you're kind of still on it.

I don't know.

In terms of bad books.

This could be so much worse.

Oh.

Do I agree.

I was telling Renata before we started recording that I, this is not the type of book

that I would normally read, but I didn't hate it.

And that's good because, okay, so so much, so much to cover before we really, really get

into it. I would say this doesn't, like, really have any content warnings, like, so much, so much to cover before we really, really get into it.

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