A Court of Fandoms and Exploration - A Podcast.

ACOFAE Podcast presents: Priory of the Orange Tree

A long episode for a long book.
This is Jessica Marie's first high fantasy book and a reread for Laura Marie and both still have questions.
Prior…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: The Black Witch

This one is heavy.
A book and series that no one really talks about anymore, The Black Witch is full of concepts and ideas that will make you feel a certain…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: Legendborn

After DNF-ing a new release, Laura Marie and Jessica Marie needed to read something that excited, inspired, and moved them and Legendborn did exactly that! A wond…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: Queen of Nothing | How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

The eyeliner, the highlighter, the tail, and the letters. It's Queen of Nothing and Cardan's novella and w…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: Netflix's Shadow and Bone

Everyone probably expected that Laura Marie and Jessica Marie would fall over themselves for Ben Barnes as The Darkling and everyone would be corre…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: a discussion surrounding "morally gray"

They aren't the villain. They definitely aren't the hero and they always have a plan. And usually a cool accessory too. They might no…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: Six of Crows | Crooked Kingdom

This is one that Laura Marie and Jessica Marie will have to revisit. Less of a deep dive and more of a shallow skim, Laura Marie and Jessica M…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: The Crown of Gilded Bones

Well THAT was unexpected! Laura Marie and Jessica Marie's love for Poppy, Cas, and Kieran is back as they gasp, rant, and yell at what did and what…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: The Grishaverse Trilogy: Shadow and Bone | Siege and Storm | Ruin and Rising

Have you ever read something, finished it, put it down, and then had almost no memory of what ha…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

How excited do you get when the name of a book is said IN THE BOOK!?
Laura Marie and Jessica Marie get pretty excited.
How many times does Laur…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: From Blood and Ash

Tropes, tropes, and more tropes!
Special girl doesn't want to be special, he's sworn to protect her, she must be kept pure, he is faster than he should b…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: Kingdom of Ash

This episode contains TEARS.
In true ACOFAE tradition, Jessica Marie finished Kingdom of Ash moments before we started recording and the feelings are REAL. I…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: Our first special guest!

Special guest alert!
We love adult women on Tiktok!
Our first guest needs no introduction: Tiktok queen, Nesta critic, Azriel expert, and all-around…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: The Cruel Prince and The Wicked King

The tail, the ears, the eyeliner. We came for Cardan and stayed for Jude. Welcome to Elfhame and the first non SJM fantasy book that Jes…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

Chaol. Love him or hate him, we all agree that if he’s the only way to get Yrene, then yeah..ok..fine. I guess sure he can come along for the …

ACOFAE Podcast presents: Empire of Storms

We almost titled this episode "Daddy Phantom Hands". IYKYK. The book that Laura Marie can't make herself finish and the book that gave Jessica Marie a taste…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: ACOSF: A Court of Silver Flames

There’s a lot to say. This is our longest episode to date. This episode was edited in haste. This episode has initial reactions, different op…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas.

Ever wonder what Jessica Marie sounds like at 4am? Then this episode is the one for you. As she powers through this episode without coffe…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: ACOTAR series recap (so far)

Don't have time to re-read 3.5 books to get ready for ACOSF? We've got you covered in this episode....kind of. Our ACOTAR series recap touches o…

ACOFAE Podcast presents: ACOTAR: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas.

Tune in as Jessica Marie looks back at initial reactions for ACOTAR and cringes, Laura Marie comes in hot with page num…