Judging More Than Just The Cover: Book Club Amber Gregg

Team: Amber Gregg, James Moore, and Kate Ota.

Episode Summary: In this Book Club Discussion, we will have an in-depth analysis of Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale. Each month, we discuss a different best selling novel with a strong female lead. *Spoiler alert for the conversation.*

Join our lively book club discussion as we share our thoughts, insights, and favorite moments from these empowering tales. Whether you're a lifelong bookworm or just looking for your next compelling read, you won't want to miss this episode.

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Book Info: 

Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Magical Realism | Number of Pages: 362 | Location: London.



Cassandra in Reverse summary from Goodreads.com:

"If you had the power to change the past…where would you start?Cassandra Penelope Dankworth is a creature of habit. She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend, Will) and strongly dislikes what she doesn't (mess, change, her boss drinking out of her mug). Her life runs in a pleasing, predictable order…until now.• She's just been dumped.• She's just been fired.• Her local café has run out of banana muffins.Then, something truly unexpected happens: Cassie discovers she can go back and change the past. One small rewind at a time, Cassie attempts to fix the life she accidentally obliterated, but soon she'll discover she's trying to fix all the wrong things."



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Team: Amber Gregg, James Moore, and Kate Ota.

Episode Summary: In this Book Club Discussion, we will have an in-depth analysis of Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros. Each month, we discuss a different best selling novel with a strong female lead. *Spoiler alert for the conversation.*

Join our lively book club discussion as we share our thoughts, insights, and favorite moments from these empowering tales. Whether you're a lifelong bookworm or just looking for your next compelling read, you won't want to miss this episode.

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Book Info: 

Genre: Fantasy | Number of Pages: 624 | Location: Navarre (Fictional)



Iron Flame summary from Goodreads.com:

"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College—Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves.Although Violet’s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else’s, she still has her wits—and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules.But a determination to survive won’t be enough this year.Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College—and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end."



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Team: Amber Gregg, James Moore, and Kate Ota.

Episode Summary: In this Book Club Discussion, we will have an in-depth analysis of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. Each month, we discuss a different best selling novel with a strong female lead. *Spoiler alert for the conversation.*

Join our lively book club discussion as we share our thoughts, insights, and favorite moments from these empowering tales. Whether you're a lifelong bookworm or just looking for your next compelling read, you won't want to miss this episode.

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Book Info: 

Genre: Fantasy | Number of Pages: 528 | Location: Navarre (Fictional)

Fourth Wing summary from Goodreads.com:

"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die"



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Team: Amber Gregg, James Moore, and Kate Ota.

Episode Summary: In this Book Club Discussion, we will have an in-depth analysis of Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes. Each month, we discuss a different best selling novel with a strong female lead. *Spoiler alert for the conversation.*

Join our lively book club discussion as we share our thoughts, insights, and favorite moments from these empowering tales. Whether you're a lifelong bookworm or just looking for your next compelling read, you won't want to miss this episode.

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Book Info: Genre: Comedy/Mystery | Number of Pages: 389 | Location: Exact location unknown.

Murder Your Employer summary from Goodreads.com:

"A devilish thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine art of murder where earnest students study how best to 'delete' their most deserving victim.

Who hasn’t wondered for a split second what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist? But then you’ve probably never heard of The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of the homicidal arts. To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse (nor better) than death. The campus of this 'Poison Ivy League' college—its location unknown to even those who study there—is where you might find yourself the practice target of a classmate…and where one’s mandatory graduation thesis is getting away with the perfect murder of someone whose death will make the world a much better place to live.

Prepare for an education you’ll never forget. A delightful mix of witty wordplay, breathtaking twists and genuine intrigue, Murder Your Employer will gain you admission into a wholly original world, cocooned within the most entertaining book about well-intentioned would-be murderers you’ll ever read."

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Team: Amber Gregg, James Moore, and Kate Ota.

Episode Summary: In this bonus Book club discussion, we discuss two short stories written by our own James Moore (CHARLOTTE) and Kate Ota (THE UNDOING OF MAGGIE). You won't want to miss this!

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Team: Amber Gregg, James Moore, and Kate Ota.

Episode Summary: In this Book club discussion, we will have an in-depth analysis of The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer. Each month, we discuss a different best selling novel with a strong female lead. *Spoiler alert for the conversation.*

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Book Info: Genre: Action/Spy | Number of Pages: 521 | Location: Washington DC and Texas, USA.

The Chemist summary from Goodreads.com:

"An ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life. She used to work for the U.S. government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, they came for her without warning. Now she rarely stays in the same place or uses the same name for long. They've killed the only other person she trusted, but something she knows still poses a threat. They want her dead, and soon. When her former handler offers her a way out, she realizes it's her only chance to erase the giant target on her back. But it means taking one last job for her ex-employers. To her horror, the information she acquires only makes her situation more dangerous. Resolving to meet the threat head-on, she prepares for the toughest fight of her life but finds herself falling for a man who can only complicate her likelihood of survival. As she sees her choices being rapidly whittled down, she must apply her unique talents in ways she never dreamed of."

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