Smack and Gabi are back from being, um, busy and stuff, and we have a lot to catch up on! Smack goes feral and rabid for the first time since college over a Nebula finalist with an enormous cliffhanger and a contemporary werewolf black cat/golden retriever romance. Gabi “complains” about being trapped on a plane with hours of enforced reading time on her way to and from Brazil and recaps her vacation reading highlights. We also discuss our current and upcoming reads for the final month of Mysterious Galaxy Summer Bingo with a lot of anticipation for showdown throwdown. Most importantly, we are celebrating the release of Smack’s first novella, Death Valley Blooms, available as of today!! Order now at: https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781966503125

Books discussed this episode include:

• Asunder by Kerstin Hall
• Teixcalaan series by Arkady Martine
• Death Valley Blooms by S. M. Mack
• Fan Service by Rosie Danan
• The Scholomance series by Naomi Novik
• The Geographer’s Map to Romance (Love’s Academic #2) by India Holton
• The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam (Hart and Mercy #3) by Megan Bannen
• Evander Mills series by Lev AC Rosen
• The Sunken Archive series by Sylvie Cathrall
• The Dragonfly Gambit by A.D. Sui
• The Clocktaur Wars series by T. Kingfisher
• Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
• The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn