Episode 72 – Red Queen
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2017
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Kait, Renata, and their guest Anna (of LCARS Librarian and Women Write About Comics) read Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. It’s a confusing melange of everyone’s favorite YA dystopia tropes, like “love triangle,” “government-sponsored competition,” and “manic pixie blood girl.” Listen now for the return of Fucking, Marrying, Killing, and a discussion of dystopian menstrual blood art!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: This Woman Is Using Her Own Period Blood To Create Beautiful Photographs
Candy pairing: Anna says red velvet candy corn, Kait says generic grocery store knockoff candy, Renata says Shock Tarts.
Coming up next: Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers where we read about a whole lot of blood so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:16.5 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:17.9 | And for this episode, we read Red Queen by Victoria Aviard. |
| 0:22.6 | Joining us to discuss this derivative Y-A-Fantasy is Anna, teen librarian and bleeder of red blood. |
| 0:29.0 | Hi, Anna. |
| 0:30.2 | Hey. |
| 0:31.4 | Welcome. |
| 0:33.0 | Thanks to this podcast. |
| 0:36.2 | By the way, just for full disclosure, Anna is also my awesome co-worker and also was recently elected to the Prince Committee. |
| 0:45.1 | So basically she knows what she's talking about and has really cool co-worker. |
| 0:52.4 | And Red Blood. |
| 1:02.2 | Yes. I mean, definitive so this book uh so this book sucks didn't you we were reading this because you guys read it before right yes we talked |
| 1:10.1 | about it we yeah we both I mean not like I previously had read it before, right? Yes, we talked about it. |
| 1:11.4 | I mean, not like, |
| 1:13.6 | I previously had read it like when it kind of first came out and was getting buzz. |
| 1:17.2 | I don't know, when, Anna, when did you read it? |
| 1:19.4 | Yeah, same. |
| 1:20.6 | Like, definitely only the first book was out, and I was like, |
| 1:24.3 | oh, I should probably read this because, like, |
| 1:27.1 | Reader's Advisory, and then I should probably read this because, like, readers' advisory. |
| 1:29.6 | And then I didn't read the other books. |
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