Episode 99 – A Court of Wings and Ruin
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Y’all know TFW you’re an extremely powerful faerie who has an important role to play in a war to save all of magic-kind, but you’re also extremely DTF? Meredith Goldstein (@MeredithGoldste), author and advice columnist for The Boston Globe’s Love Letters column and podcast, knows all about that feel, so we invited her to discuss A Court of Wings and Ruin, as well as the rest of Sarah J. Maas’s Court of Thorns and Roses YA fantasy series. If you take a drink every time we mix up the titles of these books, then you probably won’t notice all the times we mess up the characters’ names!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: What Happened in A Court of Thorns and Roses?
What Happened in A Court of Mist and Fury?
“The Mate Rules” in Sarah J. Maas’s series
Candy pairing: Kait says a bag of trail mix with gummy penises, Meredith says cotton candy, Renata says edible underwear.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about horny fairies so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:17.7 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:18.7 | And for this episode, we read A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Mass. |
| 0:24.2 | Joining us to discuss this overwhelming installment of the Court of Thorns and Roses series is Meredith Goldstein, a Boston Globe advice columnist who once got into a heated fight with a Boston Globe copy editor about how to spell fairy. |
| 0:38.9 | Hello, Meredith. |
| 0:39.9 | Hello. |
| 0:40.3 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:41.7 | For starters, I would like you to go on the record with your preferred spelling of fairy. |
| 0:46.0 | Well, I mean, I'm all for different spellings, but I feel like when you get into these kinds of books, like there's an E in there, right? |
| 0:53.0 | Yes. |
| 0:53.2 | So, but if you're like a Boston Globe copy editor who's like more interested in like the spotlight team, this is not the argument. It's not the argument you want to be having, but we had it and I won. Are you saying there's not going to get a movie where Mark Ruffalo just screams, F-A-E-R-I-E? Yeah, no, that's... I would pay to see that movie. |
| 1:12.6 | I would, too. Let's kickstart it. |
| 1:18.1 | Also, right off the top. |
| 1:20.4 | Is there a difference between Faye and Ferry? |
| 1:23.3 | Because I feel like there is, but I don't know what it is. |
| 1:26.6 | I mean, I feel like traditionally, and this is just in my reading books like the books about like folklore instead of having friends when I was a kid, I think that the fay are considered like the more, I don't want to say evil, |
| 1:44.9 | but like the darker creatures, |
| 1:47.4 | like they're the ones who steal your babies |
| 1:48.8 | and replace them. |
| 1:51.0 | And like, |
| 1:52.7 | are you want to stay away from them |
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