The Down-Lore

S1E12 - The Roots of Chaos So Far... Priory of the Orange Tree & Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

WELCOME TO THE DOWN-LORE! A podcast where we — your hosts, Claudia and Natalie — hop onto God’s Internet to discuss & dissect the tropes, trends, and most importantly, LORE in our favorite fantasy books and series. Today, we'll be discussing (at length... just like the books themselves) everything we've gotten from the Roots of Chaos series, by Samantha Shannon, so far. SPOILER ALERT!! If you haven't read Priory of the Orange Tree and/or Day of Fallen Night, we highly recommend reading them and then coming back to us when you're done :) Hop in and let's down-load this LORE!!

S1E11: All Time Faves

WELCOME TO THE DOWN-LORE! A podcast where we — your hosts, Claudia and Natalie — hop onto God’s Internet to discuss & dissect the tropes, trends, and most importantly, LORE in our favorite fantasy books and series. In today’s episode, we are going to talk ALL TIME FAVES!!! If you haven’t read these, your TBR is about to grow, I fear. Hop in and let's down-load this LORE!!

S1E10: Booktok Flops

WELCOME TO THE DOWN-LORE! A podcast where we — your hosts, Claudia and Natalie — hop onto God’s Internet to discuss & dissect the tropes, trends, and most importantly, LORE in our favorite fantasy books and series. In today’s episode, we are going to get into the TEA about our recent booktok reads that FLOPPED. We’re talking flopiana grande. We are going to dissect what we read, why, and what went wrong. SPOILER ALERT! We’ll be talking in great detail about WHEN THE MOON HATCHED by Sarah Parker and DIVINE RIVALS/RUTHLESS VOWS by Rebecca Ross. Hop in and let's down-load this LORE!!

S1E9: Childhood Favorites

WELCOME TO THE DOWN-LORE! A podcast where we — your hosts, Claudia and Natalie — hop onto God’s Internet to discuss & dissect the tropes, trends, and most importantly, LORE in our favorite fantasy books and series. Today's episode will take us back to where it all started... what we read in our ~youth~ that got us to be the meganerds we are today. No major spoilers to note. Hop in and let's down-load this LORE!!

S1E8: Dune

WELCOME TO THE DOWN-LORE! A podcast where we — your hosts, Claudia and Natalie — hop onto God’s Internet to discuss & dissect the tropes, trends, and most importantly, LORE in our favorite fantasy books and series. Today's episode covers the first book in the Dune series by Frank Herbert, the Sci-Fi Bible, the Genesis of modern science fiction. MAJOR SPOILER ALERT, but it's from 1965, so if you haven't read it yet... where have you been. Get to it, watch Timmy and Zendaya on the big screen, and then get back to us. Hop in and let's down-load this LORE!!