# ACOMAF - Recap

An episode of [Smut Syndicate](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1850296328), 18 Sep 2026, 34 min.

Audio: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2553001/episodes/19825484-acomaf-recap.mp3

Welcome back to another Fantasy Friday on Smut Syndicate as we continue our recaps of SJM books until the release of book 6. Dive into A Court of Mist & Fury. Click here to text us any questions, comments or book recommendations :) Support the show Live Laugh Mortal Trash

## Transcript

[0:07] SPEAKER_00: Hello, hello, hello.
[0:09] SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to another Fantasy Friday on Smut Syndicate.
[0:12] SPEAKER_00: We are your Fay Bay's Charlie and Danielle, and we are continuing with our recaps of Aquatar with Book Two Accord of Mist and Fury.
[0:22] SPEAKER_02: Hell yeah.
[0:22] SPEAKER_00: Now, remember, these are just a quick run through to refresh your brain, and they are crazy.
[0:29] SPEAKER_00: This isn't the gibberish of how we speak, so good luck translating.
[0:35] SPEAKER_00: If you're a learned individual, maybe skip this one.
[0:38] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you will not have a great time.
[0:41] SPEAKER_02: This is for smooth-brained people only.
[0:43] SPEAKER_02: If you got lumps in there, get the book out.
[0:47] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you and your lumps are not welcome.
[0:52] SPEAKER_00: Many, many spoilers ahead into the cauldron.
[0:57] SPEAKER_00: Um, okay, so Farah and Tammy are back in the spring court.
[1:02] SPEAKER_00: Farah is an emotional wreck after her time under the mountain, which, yeah, justified.
[1:06] SPEAKER_00: She killed people, shit happened.
[1:09] SPEAKER_00: It was, it was all just the scene.
[1:11] SPEAKER_00: It was messy.
[1:11] SPEAKER_00: And Tamlin is just Mr.
[1:14] SPEAKER_00: Stoicism.
[1:16] SPEAKER_00: He is hyper focused on protecting Farah.
[1:18] SPEAKER_00: Uh, but his protection is like not fab.
[1:23] SPEAKER_00: He basically locks Fayra in the manor and he's like, I'll just protect you.
[1:28] SPEAKER_00: I just need to protect you.
[1:30] SPEAKER_00: And we still obviously got our red-haired goddess, Lucian, is still hanging and slanging.
[1:37] SPEAKER_00: He doesn't like that Fabra has no freedom, but he's also like, eh, what can I do?
[1:42] SPEAKER_00: You know, like I tried talking to him.
[1:46] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[1:46] SPEAKER_00: I'm just out here brushing my hair.
[1:48] SPEAKER_01: I mean my one eye against the world.
[1:52] SPEAKER_00: Well, and I think he also, like, you know, you gotta remember, Tam's got all of his power back.
[1:58] SPEAKER_00: I don't know if I would want to be like, he ripped someone's throat out.
[2:02] SPEAKER_02: Like, he's the only little girl who's ever done anything even remotely hot.
[2:07] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he's he's on those uh roids now, so I don't know if I want to upset him.
[2:13] SPEAKER_03: He's juicing.
[2:15] SPEAKER_00: Juicing.
[2:16] SPEAKER_00: Tam is juicing.
[2:19] SPEAKER_00: And your girl has got some new friends.
[2:21] SPEAKER_00: We meet Ianthi, the high priestess who serves as like Tamron and Farah's advisor.
[2:28] SPEAKER_00: And like Farah basically lets her explain it like life to her, like she's stupid.
[2:34] SPEAKER_00: She tells her how to dress, how to act, and she is a real CNX Tuesday.
[2:39] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[2:39] SPEAKER_00: Because she puts Farah in an ugly wedding dress, and honestly, like she does a lot of bullshit, but that one, girls who purposefully make their friends ugly, unforgivable.
[2:50] SPEAKER_00: Unforgivable, okay.
[2:52] SPEAKER_00: So it is the day of the wedding.
[2:54] SPEAKER_00: Okay.
[2:55] SPEAKER_00: Farah's gonna marry Tamlin.
[2:57] SPEAKER_00: It's just like great.
[2:58] SPEAKER_00: Also, but like she's got a green like ring, which I kind of like I love that, okay?
[3:03] SPEAKER_02: Like I love the emerald ring.
[3:05] SPEAKER_00: I love the emerald ring.
[3:07] SPEAKER_02: You fuck with the emerald ring, okay?
[3:08] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm a redhead.
[3:09] SPEAKER_00: Green is our color, but I don't know why he gave her a freaking emerald ring.
[3:14] SPEAKER_00: She doesn't have green hair or red hair.
[3:15] SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's a ring.
[3:19] SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay, fine.
[3:21] SPEAKER_00: Reason.
[3:22] SPEAKER_00: The voice of reason.
[3:24] SPEAKER_00: Um, so it's their wedding.
[3:25] SPEAKER_00: Pharaoh's walking down the aisle, and it's also like giving twilight vibes, you know, in Twilight when she's like walking and there's like bodies everywhere.
[3:34] SPEAKER_02: She sees like all these rose petals and is like, oh she's like walking down the aisle to let the bodies hit the floor.
[3:41] SPEAKER_00: She's like, whoa, he really needs to get off the juice.
[3:45] SPEAKER_02: Like, shit is getting lit.
[3:46] SPEAKER_02: He's like crushing Red Bulls on his head.
[3:48] SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
[3:50] SPEAKER_00: Just wait for his bride.
[3:52] SPEAKER_00: 100%.
[3:52] SPEAKER_00: Ultimate Chad wedding.
[3:54] SPEAKER_00: Yes.
[3:54] SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
[3:56] SPEAKER_00: Can you paint this for me?
[3:57] SPEAKER_00: Can someone paint this for me?
[3:59] SPEAKER_00: Like this, I might be able to justify AI use for that.
[4:04] SPEAKER_00: Because I want to see that.
[4:05] SPEAKER_00: Um, she was wearing this horrible, poofy, just horrific dress.
[4:10] SPEAKER_00: Something that I would wear for fun, not for real.
[4:12] SPEAKER_00: And she's like panicking.
[4:14] SPEAKER_00: She is praying to the old gods and the new for someone to come save her and stop this.
[4:18] SPEAKER_00: And snack crapple pop.
[4:20] SPEAKER_00: Reese shows up and he calls in Farah's debt.
[4:24] SPEAKER_00: The one week every month in the night court.
[4:27] SPEAKER_02: Which loving.
[4:29] SPEAKER_02: The best part is like all of the guests are shit in their pants.
[4:33] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they just dip.
[4:34] SPEAKER_00: Everybody leaves.
[4:35] SPEAKER_00: And also that Reese is not, he's not like chill about it.
[4:42] SPEAKER_00: He's like, Farah didn't want to get married.
[4:45] SPEAKER_00: They're like, let us just finish the wedding.
[4:46] SPEAKER_00: He's like, Wedding's done, bruh.
[4:48] SPEAKER_00: Like her.
[4:48] SPEAKER_00: Everybody left.
[4:50] unknown: Yeah.
[4:50] SPEAKER_00: Like, she thinks you're gross.
[4:52] SPEAKER_00: She, the muscles, it's too much.
[4:54] SPEAKER_00: Like, she's not there.
[4:57] SPEAKER_02: He started screaming.
[4:59] SPEAKER_02: She got the ick.
[5:01] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[5:02] SPEAKER_00: She got the ick and was like, no.
[5:05] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[5:05] SPEAKER_00: So we go to the night court.
[5:07] SPEAKER_00: This first go-around at the night court.
[5:09] SPEAKER_00: Fayrah meets Rhissan's cousin Moore.
[5:13] SPEAKER_02: She's nothing to ejaculate over.
[5:19] SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
[5:20] SPEAKER_00: Okay.
[5:21] SPEAKER_00: So she was the Morrigan.
[5:23] SPEAKER_00: Her word means truth.
[5:25] SPEAKER_00: And she is his third in command in the go-between between uh Reese and the Hewn City.
[5:32] SPEAKER_00: Yep.
[5:32] SPEAKER_00: But I have a few little thougties about more is.
[5:38] SPEAKER_02: Oh, she is a little thoughty for sure.
[5:40] SPEAKER_00: I have a little thoughty, yeah, about her.
[5:43] SPEAKER_00: I've just I've never connected with her character.
[5:46] SPEAKER_00: And so I have seen some of the theories.
[5:49] SPEAKER_00: And again, I don't like to go down theory rabbit holes because I find if you get too into the theories, you're almost like disappointed when SGM doesn't put them in her books because you're like, yo, yo, yo, this random girl on the internet told Jam finished the book.
[6:06] SPEAKER_00: Why didn't you do that?
[6:07] SPEAKER_00: I was like so sold on it.
[6:09] SPEAKER_00: Like it just gets way too crazy way too quickly.
[6:12] SPEAKER_00: But I have seen a lot of theories about the more not being maybe being bad.
[6:18] SPEAKER_00: Maybe she's a naughty thoughty.
[6:20] SPEAKER_00: And I could see it.
[6:23] SPEAKER_00: It totally makes sense to me because I her and I are not best friends.
[6:29] SPEAKER_00: We are not life bonded.
[6:30] SPEAKER_00: We are not, you know, we don't have friendship bracelets.
[6:32] SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, if she went bad, I wouldn't be super upset.
[6:36] SPEAKER_00: So maybe.
[6:38] SPEAKER_00: Um, and there is also a part in this book where Jurian says, like, oh, still lying, Morgan?
[6:43] SPEAKER_00: Like, I see you're still into your lies or whatever.
[6:45] SPEAKER_00: It's like, mmm, interesting.
[6:49] SPEAKER_00: Um, so after her week in the night court, she returns home.
[6:53] SPEAKER_00: Tam Tam is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
[6:56] SPEAKER_00: And he, after this, actually locks Fabra in the manner.
[7:00] SPEAKER_00: Like, first off, when she shows up, he's like, tell me everything.
[7:02] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[7:03] SPEAKER_00: It's like, girl, spill the tea, but not in a fun way.
[7:06] SPEAKER_00: In a like, explain everything.
[7:08] SPEAKER_00: I'm reading.
[7:08] SPEAKER_00: I want to read your text messages.
[7:10] SPEAKER_02: This guy kidnaps you to his yeah, to his land for like a while on or off day.
[7:17] SPEAKER_02: Yo, yeah, just tell me everything you learned.
[7:20] SPEAKER_00: Love you, miss you.
[7:21] SPEAKER_00: It's like, no, tell me absolutely everything.
[7:23] SPEAKER_00: I want to hear about it 19 times.
[7:26] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[7:26] SPEAKER_00: And then next time that he goes out, he's like, Yeah, girl, you're still not going.
[7:31] SPEAKER_00: And he goes even crazier than that.
[7:33] SPEAKER_00: He like locks her into the manor.
[7:35] SPEAKER_00: Everybody else can come and go.
[7:37] SPEAKER_00: She can't even like properly open a window.
[7:39] SPEAKER_00: There's no breeze.
[7:40] SPEAKER_00: There's no air.
[7:41] SPEAKER_00: So she totally freaks out, engulfs herself in this like black protective shield.
[7:48] SPEAKER_00: And more comes and collects her and brings her back to the night court.
[7:53] SPEAKER_00: And Pharaoh's like, Oh, I am not going back to the spring court.
[7:56] SPEAKER_00: Which yeah, girl.
[7:58] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[7:59] SPEAKER_00: You know.
[8:02] SPEAKER_00: Multiple times.
[8:03] SPEAKER_02: And all he wants is for you to put on that pink dress.
[8:06] SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
[8:07] SPEAKER_00: Beautiful pink Philly dress.
[8:09] SPEAKER_00: And you're just fab.
[8:10] SPEAKER_00: And and you know, like, bro, I want to wear a fucking pink dress too.
[8:14] SPEAKER_00: But you know what?
[8:15] SPEAKER_00: But you ain't gonna shave your legs every day.
[8:17] SPEAKER_02: I also want to punch dudes in the throat when I feel like just let me let me live.
[8:22] SPEAKER_00: I want to wear the wig of a man.
[8:24] SPEAKER_00: Like just wig of a woman.
[8:26] SPEAKER_00: Yes.
[8:27] SPEAKER_00: Yes.
[8:27] SPEAKER_00: Let me be who I'm gonna be.
[8:29] SPEAKER_00: So Ree shows her the Valaris, the city of Starlight, and he introduces her to his inner circle.
[8:36] SPEAKER_00: Okay, so we have Azreel, Danielle's Bay forever.
[8:42] SPEAKER_00: The Shadow Singer, Slinger, the Spy Master, he's an Illyrian warrior.
[8:48] SPEAKER_00: And the news just like released today is that in book six, there is for sure as's POVs, so it might be an as book.
[8:58] SPEAKER_00: Well, we don't know.
[8:59] SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
[9:00] SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
[9:01] SPEAKER_00: I know.
[9:01] SPEAKER_00: Girl.
[9:02] SPEAKER_00: I know.
[9:03] SPEAKER_00: I know.
[9:04] SPEAKER_00: It just oh can October come already.
[9:07] SPEAKER_00: Um, we have Cassian, the Illyrian bastard, the general of Reese's armies.
[9:13] SPEAKER_00: I was actually quite shocked that Cassium was not your go-to.
[9:16] SPEAKER_02: Oh, he's such a fucking dweeb.
[9:23] unknown: No.
[9:24] SPEAKER_02: Dweeb.
[9:25] SPEAKER_02: He would annoy me within like an hour.
[9:27] SPEAKER_02: Like somebody needs to shut this guy up.
[9:30] SPEAKER_00: I just I thought that Cassium was gonna be your number one bae.
[9:34] SPEAKER_00: Um, I am obviously a race on girl, and I would love, I'm gonna, you know what?
[9:39] SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna put something on Spotify, a little, what is it called?
[9:43] SPEAKER_00: A poll.
[9:44] SPEAKER_00: Tell me which one is your bae, because I am very curious.
[9:47] SPEAKER_00: I feel like most people like Cassian.
[9:50] SPEAKER_00: Like I a lot of people like Cassian.
[9:53] SPEAKER_02: To you, yeah.
[9:54] SPEAKER_00: A lot of people.
[9:55] SPEAKER_00: Anyway, so then we meet Amron.
[9:57] SPEAKER_00: She has something old, she has something new, she has something borrowed, she has something blue.
[10:01] SPEAKER_00: No, she's just, I don't know, she's magic.
[10:04] SPEAKER_00: There's something magical underneath her skin.
[10:07] SPEAKER_00: She's also something made.
[10:09] SPEAKER_00: She's like, her and Farah are like bays because they're like same, same but different.
[10:14] SPEAKER_00: Love it.
[10:15] SPEAKER_00: Um, they realize okay, so now she's like, yeah, I'm gonna work with you.
[10:19] SPEAKER_00: We're gonna team up, we're gonna do this.
[10:21] SPEAKER_00: We're gonna be the mega ranger and take them down.
[10:25] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[10:25] SPEAKER_00: And they're gonna go to the prison to meet the bone carver.
[10:28] SPEAKER_00: And I want to give him widow kisses because I love the bone carver.
[10:35] SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I love the bone carver.
[10:38] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love the bone carver.
[10:39] SPEAKER_00: I am really praying that some of the theories are right and that he's not dead or that he comes back or something.
[10:46] SPEAKER_00: I love the bone carver.
[10:47] SPEAKER_00: Um they ask him if it's possible for King Hibern to bring Jurian back, even though he is just stuck in a fingerbone and an eyeball.
[10:56] SPEAKER_00: Um, and and they they have the cauldron, obviously.
[10:59] SPEAKER_00: So he's like, uh, yeah, with the cauldron, he could do it.
[11:02] SPEAKER_00: And he's like, yo, you gotta find the book of breathings, and that should help you stop this shit.
[11:07] SPEAKER_00: So they're like, okay, fuck, we got a goal.
[11:09] SPEAKER_00: Good.
[11:10] SPEAKER_00: But first, let's have a little test.
[11:13] SPEAKER_00: We're gonna see how sneaky Fayra can be.
[11:16] SPEAKER_00: And they go to see the weaver in the woods, which again is the next best character.
[11:20] SPEAKER_00: Like, you get him like pretty much like back to back.
[11:23] SPEAKER_02: I told you Azrael was like my man.
[11:26] SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
[11:27] SPEAKER_02: She is the weaver.
[11:28] SPEAKER_02: She is my bitch.
[11:30] SPEAKER_02: I love her.
[11:32] SPEAKER_00: Oh, that right?
[11:34] SPEAKER_00: The character is just it, it's kind of you.
[11:38] SPEAKER_02: I'm eating that one so self-absorbed.
[11:40] SPEAKER_02: Like, which one can I uh see myself being?
[11:44] SPEAKER_02: Yes.
[11:44] SPEAKER_00: No, but I can I could see you like, you know, let's say that the world just totally goes nuts on bananas, and yeah, people just skin people and make a hair thatched roof out of it.
[11:59] SPEAKER_00: And like sing weird songs and like have like roasting like meat.
[12:04] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, girl.
[12:06] SPEAKER_00: That's me.
[12:07] SPEAKER_00: You're right.
[12:08] SPEAKER_00: Oh, hey, if the shoe fits, lace it up and wear that bitch, cuz that's you.
[12:14] SPEAKER_00: Um, and so they want to see like what kind of theft favor can be and test her magic.
[12:19] SPEAKER_00: So she goes into the cottage not knowing what item she is supposed to collect, because the weaver has all these cool items all over the place, and she finds a ring.
[12:28] SPEAKER_00: It is a ring that just sings to her that uh Reese's mother gave to the weaver for safekeeping so that he wouldn't waste it.
[12:37] unknown: Okay.
[12:40] SPEAKER_02: I also want to know what that conversation was like.
[12:42] SPEAKER_02: Like, could you just hold on to this while anyone else that well I just launched my shit across the room?
[12:48] SPEAKER_02: Meanwhile, anybody else whoops that enters her little cottage is like being eaten alive.
[12:58] SPEAKER_02: And she's like, Oh, you want me to just hold on to your yeah, to that family heirloom?
[13:02] SPEAKER_02: I got you.
[13:02] SPEAKER_02: Don't worry about it.
[13:03] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right.
[13:04] SPEAKER_00: Also, I don't imagine that the weaver speaks fab English.
[13:09] SPEAKER_00: Like, I kind of get yeah, like riddles or like screaming, moaning.
[13:15] SPEAKER_00: Like, I really don't think that she's like, oh, hello, good to see you.
[13:19] SPEAKER_00: Come on in for a cup of tea.
[13:21] SPEAKER_00: Like, I feel like she's like, ah, like just scream.
[13:24] SPEAKER_00: I like, I don't know.
[13:27] SPEAKER_00: I just dance.
[13:29] SPEAKER_00: I'm totally different.
[13:31] SPEAKER_00: That's how the conversation would go.
[13:32] SPEAKER_00: And she would just throw the ring at her and be like, I gave it to her for safekeeping.
[13:37] SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
[13:38] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[13:39] SPEAKER_00: But also put this in your brain.
[13:40] SPEAKER_00: I think we should film that.
[13:42] SPEAKER_00: Really?
[13:43] SPEAKER_00: I think we should film that.
[13:45] SPEAKER_00: Um, so she's successful.
[13:47] SPEAKER_00: Woo! She's a good thief.
[13:48] SPEAKER_00: We've got it.
[13:49] SPEAKER_00: Now they're gonna go to the summer court because they have one half of the book of breathings.
[13:53] SPEAKER_00: And Reese, Amran, and Fayra successfully steal one half of the book.
[13:58] SPEAKER_00: They're almost drowned, but they're saved by water rates, which are so kind of like low-key terrifying, but real badass.
[14:06] SPEAKER_02: I love them.
[14:07] SPEAKER_02: And I love that it was like to repay the debt because of the first book.
[14:11] SPEAKER_02: Like, right?
[14:12] SPEAKER_02: When you have a continuation of something super seemingly minuscule, but then like No, I think it's I think it's in this book because it's the the tidings.
[14:20] SPEAKER_02: The tithe.
[14:21] SPEAKER_02: Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.
[14:23] SPEAKER_00: Yes, there we go.
[14:23] SPEAKER_00: Tith, yeah.
[14:24] SPEAKER_00: Um, so it's yeah, it's at the beginning of this book, but again, it's something where you're just like, okay, interesting.
[14:30] SPEAKER_00: What was the point of that?
[14:31] SPEAKER_02: And then you get like five chapters later, like, that was the point of that.
[14:34] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they saved you.
[14:36] SPEAKER_00: And so, okay, they've got it.
[14:38] SPEAKER_00: And now they gotta go see.
[14:39] SPEAKER_00: Like, they've got half the book.
[14:41] SPEAKER_00: The book is creepy as shit.
[14:42] SPEAKER_00: It like talks to her and like also is like low-key insulting.
[14:46] SPEAKER_00: It's like, hey, liar, liar, pants on fire.
[14:48] SPEAKER_01: It's like, okay, idiot girl.
[14:50] SPEAKER_00: Stupid, illiterate idiot.
[14:52] SPEAKER_01: Here's go read mortal trash.
[14:54] SPEAKER_00: And it's like, whoa, what what kind of a book is this?
[14:58] SPEAKER_00: Like, what the hell?
[14:59] SPEAKER_00: Like, and so, like, okay, whatever.
[15:01] SPEAKER_00: They give it to Amarant, she squirrels away with it.
[15:04] SPEAKER_00: Now they gotta go see Phaerra's sisters in the Mortal Lands because they need to host a meeting there with the mortal queens, and they're gonna ask them for their half of the book because the book has the way that they have it, it has to be like freely given.
[15:18] SPEAKER_00: It can't be tricked.
[15:19] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but somehow they were able to steal the other half.
[15:22] SPEAKER_00: Whatever, it makes sense, okay?
[15:23] SPEAKER_00: There's rules, but they make sense.
[15:24] SPEAKER_00: There's rules.
[15:26] SPEAKER_00: Um, which also I kind of really like because Nesta and Cassian start to have a little, the little dance of love, if you want to call it.
[15:36] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[15:36] SPEAKER_00: Um, which I really liked because the whole time I was like, oh, okay, you guys are both kind of dicks to each other.
[15:42] SPEAKER_00: And I forgot that enemies to lovers exist.
[15:46] SPEAKER_00: That's a real thing.
[15:47] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[15:47] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it only took me like three more books to figure it out.
[15:49] SPEAKER_00: Because Esmot, um, after meeting with the queens, they are gonna go to the court of nightmares under the mountain.
[15:56] SPEAKER_00: This is what Amarantha made her court, like what she made it look like.
[16:01] SPEAKER_00: So it's like debauchery, craziness, and they're gonna go there to still this vision orb so that they can show the mortal queens the city of Valaris to show that they have a place of peace and that they only want peace, which is horrible because Valaris has not been shown to anyone.
[16:18] SPEAKER_00: That's how it was.
[16:19] SPEAKER_00: It's a secret, it's a secret, stop showing it to people.
[16:23] SPEAKER_00: And at this time, like Farah and Reese are really ramping up the Dance of Desire, and as embarrassing as it is to say, this may have been like the first time where I was like, you know what?
[16:36] SPEAKER_00: She should leave Tamlin and go with Reese.
[16:39] SPEAKER_01: When they were like doing the touching on the stuff.
[16:43] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, pretty much when it was like sexy time.
[16:47] SPEAKER_01: I was like, you know what?
[16:49] SPEAKER_01: Maybe Tamlin missionary Tamlin is like, yeah.
[16:54] SPEAKER_00: It took an embarrassingly time.
[16:59] SPEAKER_00: I am here for vibes, okay?
[17:01] SPEAKER_00: I don't think ahead, I don't come up with theories.
[17:03] SPEAKER_00: I just whatever the author tells me, I'm like, yes, 100%.
[17:06] SPEAKER_00: I love that.
[17:07] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[17:07] SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't, I don't question shit.
[17:10] SPEAKER_00: Um so then we get Starfall.
[17:13] SPEAKER_00: And can you tell me about your first time reading Starfall?
[17:17] SPEAKER_02: Literally, I wouldn't even be able to explain it into like words that make sense because it wasn't even like there was no thoughts, it was all feelings.
[17:25] SPEAKER_02: It was just right, like transcendent.
[17:28] SPEAKER_02: Like yeah.
[17:29] SPEAKER_02: Have you ever have you ever done ayahuasca and had an out-of-the-body experience?
[17:34] SPEAKER_01: Strangely, yes.
[17:36] SPEAKER_00: You gotta remember.
[17:37] SPEAKER_00: And you're I lived in the Amazon rainforest for a little while, so similar.
[17:43] SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, I thought that butterflies were my spirit guy.
[17:46] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[17:47] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[17:47] SPEAKER_00: So, okay, yeah.
[17:48] SPEAKER_00: You know what?
[17:48] SPEAKER_00: I thought it was at Starfall.
[17:51] SPEAKER_00: Great way to explain it.
[17:53] SPEAKER_00: Literally, if you read these books and you're like, eh, did you get to Starfall?
[17:57] SPEAKER_00: Because when you get to that and it's so magical, and you just pray that something like this could happen to you, or that, you know, like if you ever went into a coma, that this is what your coma would be, it's like, yeah.
[18:10] SPEAKER_00: Magic.
[18:10] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[18:10] SPEAKER_00: Star, oh, just pure magic.
[18:12] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[18:12] SPEAKER_00: Um, so after Fera and Reesa kind of suspected it for a while, but they have like realized that the High Lords who gave their little sparkle of power to seed it all over her chest when she was dead, girl.
[18:31] SPEAKER_00: To save her life, that they may have given a little bit more magic.
[18:37] SPEAKER_00: Um, and she can now like use other gifts.
[18:41] SPEAKER_00: Well, she's been using them for a while, but they're like, Wow, we figured it out.
[18:45] SPEAKER_00: Um, someone during this time has also been tracking Reese every time that he uses his magic.
[18:51] SPEAKER_00: And so he cannot use his magic anymore.
[18:54] SPEAKER_00: They're out, they're training in the Illyrian forest, I guess you would call it.
[18:58] SPEAKER_00: War camp.
[18:59] SPEAKER_00: War camp.
[19:00] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[19:00] SPEAKER_00: And Lucian finds them.
[19:02] SPEAKER_00: And he's like, Vera, I need you to come back.
[19:05] SPEAKER_00: Tamlin, he freaked out.
[19:07] SPEAKER_00: He's sorry, he's not gonna do it no more.
[19:09] SPEAKER_00: And she's like, You better stay away, or you're gonna go back in a body bag.
[19:15] SPEAKER_02: What do you tell him?
[19:17] SPEAKER_00: Woo! Love it.
[19:19] SPEAKER_02: So yeah, she's been training for like a week.
[19:22] SPEAKER_02: Okay.
[19:22] SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
[19:23] SPEAKER_00: Do not just do nothing.
[19:24] SPEAKER_00: I can now read.
[19:26] SPEAKER_00: I can read and I can kind of make fire and I can fuck around with hand water.
[19:34] unknown: Yeah.
[19:35] SPEAKER_00: You see these pants?
[19:36] SPEAKER_00: This means I'm not coming back.
[19:38] SPEAKER_02: Do you think anyone wants a roundhouse kick to the face when we're in these bad boys?
[19:42] SPEAKER_02: Forget about it.
[19:45] SPEAKER_00: And he was like, Whoa, I am afraid.
[19:49] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's pretty much she showed him her moves.
[19:51] SPEAKER_00: Um, so the next day they're out for a little fly.
[19:54] SPEAKER_00: And just as Reese is about to tell Faira something very important, he is hit with an ash arrow and taken away.
[20:01] SPEAKER_00: Farah, because you know, like she's the huntress, she hunts him down and kills all these motherfuckers.
[20:08] SPEAKER_00: Like, she it's actually real badass.
[20:10] SPEAKER_00: Like Fahrra in this one, she was comes into her yeah, she gets into her badassness quite a bit.
[20:18] SPEAKER_00: Um Reese is basically quickly, yeah, like a week and a half.
[20:23] SPEAKER_00: Um, Reese is basically at death's door.
[20:25] SPEAKER_00: So Farah's like, hey, we need some help, we need some backup.
[20:29] SPEAKER_00: She goes and gets the cereal, but she also kind of like mentions, she's like, I don't even think that the girl was real caught.
[20:36] SPEAKER_00: I think she was just kind of acting.
[20:38] SPEAKER_00: So it's like, okay, now you're friends.
[20:39] SPEAKER_00: Like, why don't you just hang with this chick?
[20:41] SPEAKER_00: Ask her to move into your like, you want to move to the night court, come be friends with us.
[20:46] SPEAKER_00: Um, and she's like, hey, he is dying.
[20:48] SPEAKER_00: How do I heal him?
[20:49] SPEAKER_00: And the cereal's like, oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[20:51] SPEAKER_00: Just do this, give this to your mate.
[20:53] SPEAKER_00: And hilarious, I didn't even pick up on the wording.
[20:56] SPEAKER_00: Like, I was just like, Oh, yeah, do it to your mate.
[20:59] SPEAKER_00: His pal.
[21:00] SPEAKER_00: And yeah, your buddy, your buddy over there.
[21:05] SPEAKER_00: And Farah is fucking pissed.
[21:09] SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
[21:09] SPEAKER_00: She's like, Don't, don't tell me anymore.
[21:12] SPEAKER_00: She heals oh, right?
[21:14] SPEAKER_00: She goes back, she heals him in Fsolit, they can winnow back to the Illyrian camp, Cassie and Amora there, and she's like, take me away from here.
[21:22] SPEAKER_00: And they just she gone.
[21:25] SPEAKER_00: And I don't know why, but even okay, I don't know.
[21:28] SPEAKER_00: I've probably read this book a hundred times.
[21:31] SPEAKER_02: Uh it's 150 times.
[21:34] SPEAKER_00: It's been a few, like 20 would not be an exaggeration.
[21:40] SPEAKER_02: It's also not enough, but go on.
[21:42] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's probably more than that, but for argument's sake, it just it's still every time I'm like, I I don't understand why you're mad about this.
[21:51] SPEAKER_00: Like, this this is great.
[21:52] SPEAKER_00: This is what we wanted, girl.
[21:54] SPEAKER_02: Like, yeah, but she's still just so conflicted.
[21:57] SPEAKER_02: Her mortal heart.
[22:00] SPEAKER_00: I'm not conflicted.
[22:02] SPEAKER_00: We've had a pick of the High Lord litter.
[22:05] SPEAKER_00: That's true.
[22:05] SPEAKER_02: She has one of them.
[22:07] SPEAKER_00: She's like, do I want my kids to have blonde hair or do I want my kids to have black hair?
[22:12] SPEAKER_00: Okay, but also Tarquin wanted a piece of that ass too.
[22:15] SPEAKER_00: That's true.
[22:15] SPEAKER_00: That's true.
[22:16] SPEAKER_00: Okay, fine.
[22:17] SPEAKER_00: Okay.
[22:17] SPEAKER_00: The girl's conflicted.
[22:18] SPEAKER_00: She's like, oh my God, I'm only gonna be 21 for once.
[22:23] SPEAKER_00: I'm never gonna look this hot again.
[22:25] SPEAKER_02: So am I supposed to sew my wild oats?
[22:29] SPEAKER_00: Those are your oats.
[22:30] SPEAKER_00: You can sell them wherever you want.
[22:31] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[22:32] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's true.
[22:33] SPEAKER_00: Okay, fine.
[22:33] SPEAKER_00: So she disappears this cabin for like five days.
[22:37] SPEAKER_00: And she's also painting all over this fancy, nice log cabin.
[22:41] SPEAKER_00: I would be fucking livid if I had some.
[22:44] SPEAKER_02: What am I just a fancy log cabin?
[22:48] SPEAKER_02: Like this was like family.
[22:50] SPEAKER_02: Like we've fucking generational.
[22:54] SPEAKER_00: We've hung out here for centuries.
[22:57] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[22:57] SPEAKER_00: You come in one time and are just fucking painting on the drapes.
[23:02] SPEAKER_00: I'd be like, what is sad?
[23:06] SPEAKER_00: Like it's wild.
[23:07] SPEAKER_00: Um after five days, Reese shows up and he's like, girl, I'm not weird.
[23:13] SPEAKER_00: I'm regular.
[23:14] SPEAKER_00: I just I want to see you.
[23:17] SPEAKER_00: And no, he tells her what he's been doing for his whole life.
[23:20] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[23:20] SPEAKER_00: And how he felt the mating bond forever ago when she was still mortal and still on the other side of the wall.
[23:28] SPEAKER_00: And this, I think this is my favorite chapter of any book.
[23:34] SPEAKER_00: The romance.
[23:36] SPEAKER_02: Because it is written so romantically.
[23:39] SPEAKER_02: Because no man would ever speak to a woman like that.
[23:42] SPEAKER_00: No, not at all.
[23:44] SPEAKER_00: And like talk about like trying to save you and like how he knew, uh, right?
[23:50] SPEAKER_00: It just is so good.
[23:53] SPEAKER_00: It's so good.
[23:54] SPEAKER_00: Ships she accepts the mating bond and Reese touches her where the bathing suit covers.
[24:00] SPEAKER_00: So he feeds her the onions.
[24:04] SPEAKER_03: Oh, yes.
[24:06] SPEAKER_00: And we get full bush in the nightcore.
[24:11] SPEAKER_00: Like if which is crazy because like sometimes I find when you read like romantic books, you forget or don't really realize like if there has been spice or if there hasn't been spice.
[24:23] SPEAKER_00: And to realize, like, whoa, I went a full book and a half without like descriptive spice.
[24:30] SPEAKER_00: You're like, wow.
[24:32] SPEAKER_02: Because there's so much other shit that's happening.
[24:34] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, really.
[24:35] SPEAKER_00: Well, there's like wars and people are coming back.
[24:37] SPEAKER_00: It's crazy.
[24:38] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[24:38] SPEAKER_00: So um they are they're good now.
[24:42] SPEAKER_00: They're together, they hear back from the mortal queens and they go, they they show them Valaris.
[24:49] SPEAKER_00: Thankfully, there is one who is swayed, and she gives them the book, but the old bitches are greedy and they don't want to share, so they don't realize that the book has been given.
[25:00] SPEAKER_00: But the old queens ended up betraying the inner circle and the cute little young queen, and they tell Hibern about Valaris, and the city is immediately attacked.
[25:11] SPEAKER_00: And Fera shows us her badass power.
[25:14] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, she's like flying through the air, she's doing hero slams into the ground, she's got water on her wolves.
[25:22] SPEAKER_00: And she's getting lit.
[25:24] SPEAKER_00: Like, and people are just watching her and they're like, that's gonna be our fucking queen.
[25:28] SPEAKER_00: Dope.
[25:29] SPEAKER_00: Like, I'd be like, Yeah, you got it.
[25:32] SPEAKER_00: Um, and thankfully, they're able to like take the city back, they're able to reinforce it, and they're like, Okay, well, it was like fun, chilling here, but like highburn gotta pay.
[25:43] SPEAKER_00: It's time to go.
[25:44] SPEAKER_00: Amoren gives them some spell, like, this is how you nullify the cauldron, go to his island, it's good.
[25:50] SPEAKER_00: So they all get there.
[25:51] SPEAKER_00: Everybody goes, I think, except pretty much for Amaron.
[25:54] SPEAKER_02: When they go, We can do this the easy way, or I could finally cross pay four guys off my bucket list.
[26:01] SPEAKER_00: Whoa! No, actually, they they do something different, and it's a trap.
[26:08] SPEAKER_00: Uh Hybert knew what they would be coming, which how did he know?
[26:12] SPEAKER_00: Oh, wait, because it's a trap.
[26:13] SPEAKER_00: That's how traps are disregarded.
[26:15] SPEAKER_00: It's a trap, yeah.
[26:17] SPEAKER_00: And Jurian is there, and he has been remade from his little fingy bone and the eye, and he is a little bit mad.
[26:25] SPEAKER_00: Not angry mad, but like scary mad.
[26:28] SPEAKER_00: We're like, oh, it's not fun talking to a crazy person.
[26:32] SPEAKER_00: Like, I thought we were gonna have a good little chit chat.
[26:35] SPEAKER_00: Like, why do you smoke crack all the time?
[26:37] SPEAKER_02: Like, it's just so many years to catch up on.
[26:39] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, pretty much like because he just, yeah, 500 years in a little fucking ring would make anybody crazy.
[26:45] SPEAKER_00: Totally.
[26:46] SPEAKER_00: And Tam Tam's there, and he sold everyone out to Hibern because he wanted to get his girlfriend back.
[26:54] SPEAKER_00: And he can't believe that anyone would ever dump him.
[26:59] SPEAKER_00: So he needs Hibern to free her from the bargain.
[27:02] SPEAKER_00: That's where he was always going.
[27:04] SPEAKER_00: Every time that he locked her in the house, he was trying to find someone to break the bargain.
[27:08] SPEAKER_00: And Hibern told him that he could.
[27:11] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's right.
[27:12] SPEAKER_00: Bitch! Like, come on.
[27:15] SPEAKER_00: And he's like, Yeah, I'll do it in exchange for your help and access through your lands because I'm gonna tear down the wall and I'm gonna fuck up all these humans.
[27:24] SPEAKER_00: Okay, cool.
[27:25] SPEAKER_00: And it's like, wow, Tamlin, you're a piece of shit.
[27:27] SPEAKER_00: And I auntie's like, Whoa, hold my beer.
[27:30] SPEAKER_00: She sold out Farah's sisters to Hibern.
[27:34] SPEAKER_00: Which is like, Yay! Because Farah trusted her and she was her only friend, and she told her all the tea.
[27:42] SPEAKER_00: And she was like, Oh, that's where your sisters live?
[27:44] SPEAKER_00: Wait, wait, wait, let me write this down.
[27:45] SPEAKER_00: Like, uh, oh, and so what schedule do they work at?
[27:49] SPEAKER_00: Work?
[27:49] SPEAKER_00: Oh, who they're normally at home alone?
[27:51] SPEAKER_00: Your dad's gone?
[27:52] SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
[27:53] SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
[27:54] SPEAKER_00: You guys leave the back door.
[27:55] SPEAKER_00: There's a key under the rock.
[27:57] SPEAKER_00: Cool.
[27:57] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[27:58] SPEAKER_02: So Bianchi is she a bitch.
[28:02] SPEAKER_00: She a rotten trifling ass hoe.
[28:05] SPEAKER_00: She a bitch.
[28:07] SPEAKER_00: Uh also, same.
[28:09] SPEAKER_00: Also, she's like a rapist.
[28:11] SPEAKER_00: Like, she a bitch.
[28:14] SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, I really I don't want to hang with her.
[28:17] SPEAKER_00: She can't sell with us.
[28:18] SPEAKER_00: Um, so Hibern tosses the sisters into the cauldron to make them Faye, proving to the old ass mortal queens it's safe.
[28:27] SPEAKER_00: Hey, if you guys become Faye, you could also beg a hide lord or two, just like Fayra did, which is like, damn.
[28:35] SPEAKER_00: Love that he says that to him.
[28:37] SPEAKER_00: Hey, you old ugly bitches.
[28:39] SPEAKER_00: If you go in here, you could be beautiful and a man would love you too.
[28:44] SPEAKER_00: Wow.
[28:45] SPEAKER_00: Whoa, that's it.
[28:45] SPEAKER_00: You're already clean.
[28:47] SPEAKER_00: That's verbatim from that's yeah, I know.
[28:51] SPEAKER_00: Air quotes.
[28:52] SPEAKER_00: That's literally it.
[28:53] SPEAKER_00: Okay, so Elaine comes out and Lucien's mating bond snaps into place.
[28:58] SPEAKER_00: He's like, Oh, she's my bitch, which is yeah.
[29:03] SPEAKER_00: We'll get into it more in the next book and in book five, but I kind of love it.
[29:08] SPEAKER_00: Um I know it's not great, but I love it.
[29:11] SPEAKER_00: And Nestin comes out, and the bitch is big mad.
[29:16] SPEAKER_00: Nobody, it was not hair wash day, and now my hair is fucking wet and it's gonna be frizzy.
[29:23] SPEAKER_00: Which is like, I don't know, girl, like you're beautiful.
[29:25] SPEAKER_00: I was a problem.
[29:27] SPEAKER_00: I'd be like, beautiful and live forever, and like, okay.
[29:30] SPEAKER_00: Um, Fayra pretends to be freed from Reese's spell.
[29:34] SPEAKER_00: Highburn is like, yeah, I'll I'll snap it.
[29:37] SPEAKER_00: He snaps it.
[29:38] SPEAKER_00: She does some light thing breaking the wards around his castle so that everybody can like get out of there.
[29:43] SPEAKER_00: And she's like, Tamlin, take me back to the spring court.
[29:46] SPEAKER_00: I miss you so much.
[29:47] SPEAKER_02: Scared of that super hot, yeah, fucking guy over there.
[29:52] SPEAKER_00: That hot guy that I've just been banging for the last four days.
[29:57] SPEAKER_02: Get him out of my eyes.
[29:59] SPEAKER_02: I'm so hot.
[30:03] SPEAKER_01: Burns my eyes.
[30:05] SPEAKER_00: I just missed fiddle.
[30:08] SPEAKER_00: He won't even play one little fiddle for me.
[30:10] SPEAKER_00: And like his hair is trimmed to an appropriate length, but I don't find it everywhere all over the house.
[30:16] SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he doesn't turn into an animal and sleep at the foot of my bed.
[30:22] SPEAKER_02: Sick.
[30:23] SPEAKER_00: Damn.
[30:24] SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, that's exactly again, verbatim from the book.
[30:28] SPEAKER_02: I didn't write the book, I'm just retelling.
[30:31] unknown: Yeah.
[30:32] SPEAKER_00: Right.
[30:33] SPEAKER_00: As Jim's a freak, man.
[30:35] SPEAKER_00: Um, so now that her sisters are free, they're like, take, take the sister, take my sisters.
[30:41] SPEAKER_00: And they're like, what is that?
[30:43] SPEAKER_00: Take the sisters.
[30:44] SPEAKER_00: So the inner circle with her hands like in front of her face, blocking the side, take my sisters.
[30:52] SPEAKER_00: Like, what is what do you?
[30:53] SPEAKER_00: I can hear you.
[30:54] SPEAKER_00: No, you can't.
[30:55] SPEAKER_00: Um, the rest of the inner circle, everyone goes, they got the book, they go, everybody gone.
[31:01] SPEAKER_00: And it's just Pharaoh, and she's like, Well, I guess they're gone.
[31:05] SPEAKER_00: Lucian's like, that was my mate.
[31:07] SPEAKER_00: She she belongs to me.
[31:08] SPEAKER_00: And like, not right now.
[31:10] SPEAKER_00: They're like, you know what, those Illyrian pigs are gonna do?
[31:13] SPEAKER_00: And he's like, Oh, sweet Jesus.
[31:15] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[31:16] SPEAKER_00: Um, and she goes home with Tamlin.
[31:19] SPEAKER_00: And then we get, she always does these little, you know, she is a master at just making me scream in the last chapter of a book.
[31:29] SPEAKER_00: Fahrra is going to dismantle Tammy's court from the inside because it turns out that last night her and Ryguy got married in secret, and she ain't just his mate.
[31:42] SPEAKER_00: He had her sworn in as his high lady.
[31:47] SPEAKER_02: The only high lady in the only high lady of ever to exist, and you just made her mad.
[31:57] SPEAKER_02: She's gonna bite your dick off.
[31:59] SPEAKER_00: Ooh, clean off.
[32:01] SPEAKER_00: Clean off.
[32:02] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're you're fucked.
[32:04] SPEAKER_00: And then you're fucked.
[32:07] SPEAKER_00: The end.
[32:09] SPEAKER_02: And then there's a fiddle that plays on the outro.
[32:14] SPEAKER_00: We're describing this perfectly.
[32:16] SPEAKER_00: I wish that I could do a fiddle because my brain is going d-da-dink, d- and that is not a fiddle.
[32:21] SPEAKER_00: That's a fiddle.
[32:21] SPEAKER_00: That is a band joke.
[32:23] SPEAKER_00: No.
[32:25] SPEAKER_00: You know, you've heard a fiddle before.
[32:27] SPEAKER_00: When you were at the spring court, when a man is courting you, you know, when you're at the bar and a guy's like, hey, did you know that I play a mean fiddle?
[32:33] SPEAKER_02: And he just whips it out, and you're like, Yeah, like the time that we were at the Renfair and the guy with the fiddle fall wheels around for like an hour and a half.
[32:38] SPEAKER_02: I know what a fiddle sounds like.
[32:40] SPEAKER_02: It's sympathetizing.
[32:42] SPEAKER_00: So it does happen.
[32:43] SPEAKER_00: And he had long blonde hair.
[32:45] SPEAKER_02: You know what?
[32:46] SPEAKER_02: He was also wearing green and a bandolier, so we should have asked him more questions.
[32:52] SPEAKER_00: We were just too scared.
[32:54] SPEAKER_00: Now I wish that I could ask questions.
[32:56] SPEAKER_00: At the time, I was just too afraid, but now things were happening.
[33:01] SPEAKER_00: Well, guys, thank you so much for listening.
[33:04] SPEAKER_00: You can hit us up on all the socials at Smut Syndicate.
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