Welcome back to FanCastic: The Fan Casting Podcast, where we fan cast all your favorite fantasy, Romantasy, and fiction!

ROUND TWO, BABYYYY!

Oh, sick, you came around for part two and we love that for you (&us)!

Let's finally get to the meat and potatoes of this season premier, shall we? It's time to recap (FULL SPOILERS) and rant about A Court of Thorns and Roses aka ACOTAR book 1!

INSIDE THE EPISODE:
✨ Our re-read review & The Ballad of Tam Lin
✨ Feyre, The Acherons, & the Human Lands
✨ Welcome to the Spring Court - So you forgot about those monsters too, huh?
✨ Calanmai - Feyre GO BACK TO YOUR ROOM (lolol)
✨ Summer Solstice - Oh, cool, another party during the end of times
✨ The Human Lands - Feyre hates it
✨ Under the Mountain - How was this only the last 100 pages!?

Thank you for sticking around. Join us next week for the Fan Cast!

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OH, WE ARE SO BACK.

Welcome back to FanCastic: The Fan Casting Podcast, where we fan cast all your favorite fantasy, Romantasy, and fiction!

After a summer full of reading, screaming about fictional characters, and keeping up with all the latest bookish drama, Emyli and Loretta are officially back on the mic with their bookish bullsh*t. And because we apparently missed talking to you way too much, the first episode back from summer break is already TWO PARTS. Naturally. (Oopsie…)

In our Welcome Back episode, we’re catching up with old listeners, welcoming new ones, and getting into everything we’ve been obsessing over since the Season 2 finale.

INSIDE THE EPISODE:
✨ Our return to the mic + life updates
✨ All the tea from the Forbidden Love event in Nashville
✨ Our SPOILER-FREE ARC review of Sweetest Fiend by Raven Kennedy
✨ Everything we’re thinking about ACOTAR 6 & ACOTAR 7
✨ Bookish community drama
✨ What we’ve been reading over the summer
✨ And, as always, plenty of opinions and laughs

PART TWO: Watch or listen to part two for our full A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) Book 1 recap, where we revisit Feyre, Rhysand, Tamlin, the Spring Court, Amarantha, and all the “oh I got got about that” moments that started one of romantasy’s biggest fandoms.

LINKS:

We’re honored to be nominated for Best Podcast in Romantasy Illustrated! If you love what we do, we’d be so grateful for your vote.

https://www.romantasyillustrated.com/bestofawards

LISTEN:

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/3jspwu12jLUSnunw1I0oBJ

Apple Pods - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fancastic/id1797998553

YouTube - @FanCasticPod

FOLLOW:

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Threads - @fancasticpod

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Season 2 has come to an end, and we're wrapping things up the best way we know how: with one final fan cast, plenty of bookish discussion, and a heartfelt thank you to the listeners who made this season so special.

This week on FanCastic: The Fan Casting Podcast, Loretta and Emyli look back on some of their favorite moments from Season 2, revisit standout fan casts, share the books that completely took over their lives, and squeeze in a little New York Knicks appreciation with a special "Think Fast" fan cast.

Then it's time for the main event: our Season 2 finale fan cast for Heat of the Everflame by Penn Cole. As we continue our journey through the Kindred's Curse Saga, we're casting some of the characters we hope play an even bigger role in Burn of the Everflame. Along the way, we discovered just how in sync we've become as co-hosts when we landed not one, but TWO identical casting picks.

As we close out our second season, we want to thank every single listener who has joined us for this adventure. Whether you've been with us since Episode 1 or just recently discovered FanCastic, thank you for every stream, download, review, comment, and share. Reaching 30 episodes this season has been an incredible milestone, and we're so grateful to have built this community of readers, dream casters, and fandom enthusiasts alongside you.

While we're on summer break, you can keep up with our current reads, bookish adventures, convention coverage, and behind-the-scenes shenanigans on Instagram. You can also find us this summer at Forbidden Love in Nashville and Books Gowns & Crowns in San Diego before we return this fall for Season 3.

Be sure to follow FanCastic wherever you listen to podcasts, leave a rating and review, and connect with us on social media so you don't miss any updates while we're away.

We'll see you this fall for Season 3. Until then, happy reading!

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