Smack and Gabi reconvene in the new year to catch-up on the final quarter of 2021 starting with a review of their experiences at Sirens, a conference dedicated to examining gender and fantasy literature.  In this episode, they itemize their very reasonable book hauls (Gabi walked away from the auction with a tote bag stuffed full of books, while Smack scored some long-anticipated novels at the Sirens bookstore), chat about their favorite conference sessions, and celebrate Gabi’s murder mystery win, all while taking only a minor detour to rant about a recent read.

Books discussed include:

• Payback’s a Witch by Lena Harper
• Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
• Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Bone Witch trilogy by Rin Chupeco