Sam and Dan discuss chapters 15 - 28 of Elizabeth Lim's Six Crimson Cranes.

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Now that we're over half-way through the book, we discuss how much better we've got to now Shiori. We assess the suspicious actions of the highly unlikeable Zirina. There's a murder mystery afoot, and Shiori or her blossoming romantic interest, Takkan, could be the next target. And, as usual, we lay out our theories for where this fairy tale fantasy story is heading.

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Sam and Dan discuss chapters 1 - 14 of Elizabeth Lim's Six Crimson Cranes.

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We travel to the Far East, in the fictional land of Kiata, where the story of Six Crimson Cranes is based. We discuss what we've learned about the magic system, we get to know our main protagonist, Shiori, and her nemesis,and step-mother, Raikama, and as usual, we throw our theories, predictions, and best guesses at where this story is heading.

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Sam and Dan discuss chapters 53 - the end of Mark Lawrence's The Book That Wouldn't Burn: the first instalment of The Library Trilogy.

SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers whole of this book. We strongly recommend reading the chapters we're covering before listening.

We give our assessments of the climax and where this first instalment left our our two time-travelling love-birds. We grade our previous attempts at predictions, and we explore some of the questions left to be answered in the next instalment of this trilogy. As you might imagine, we can't help but make some predictions and guesses at where this story is heading. Finally, we decide whether this is a world we would like to live in ourselves, and draw conclusions on whether we would recommend this book to others, before we reveal what our next read on the Escapists Anonymous podcast will be.

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