The Midnight Readers Podcast

Hey, readers, this week we're having a little fun and finally asking the question that has been haunting readers since the dawn of fiction:

Am I the Asshole?

Well, more importantly, is my favorite character the asshole?

We're putting some of our favorite—and most questionable—fictional characters on trial and examining their crimes against common sense, relationships, morality, and occasionally just basic human decency....

Welcome back, readers.

We’re going back under the mountain for the last time this week as we confront the last two of Amarantha’s evil trials. Rhys has finally made his mark on the narrative (and more importantly, Feyre) by bargaining for Feyre’s life. He’s betting on her ability to win this, but what do you think? How much will Feyre have to sacrifice for a shot at the win?

Also, who would’ve though...

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This week, Feyre is settling into life in the Spring Court, celebrating the Summer Solstice, and maybe...getting a little too comfy. Because sure enough, in walks that hot guy from Calanmai, and Feyre is shocked to find out, he's the High Lord of the Night Court, Rhysand.

Tamlin promptly sends her back across the wall, and Feyre does what she does naturally. She ignores his instructions and goes right back. Because ...

Hey, listeners. Things are getting very fairy in the Spring Court.

In this week's reading, Feyre has officially entered her "ignore every warning, break every rule, and somehow still survive" era. She hunts the Suriel, gets suspiciously cozy with Tamlin, and then wanders aimlessly into a magical sex festival she was VERY specifically told to avoid.

But then again, why is everyone withholding vital information that could litera...

Welcome back, readers! This week we’re finally getting started with ACOTAR part 1! We’re rereading the series with the whole universe in mind this time.

Feyre, young and used to caring for her ungrateful family, is thrust head first into the world of Prythian after accidentally killing a wolf… or was it just a wolf? A mysterious beast comes and whisks her away into the faerie world. And wow, is the fae world ama...

Heyyy, readers~ Grab your favorite drink and leave your ash arrows at the door. Welcome to the official trailer for Season 6 of our A Court of Thorns and Roses deep dive!

This week we’re setting the stage for Sarah J. Maas’s most iconic fantasy universe. Join us as we anticipate what this season has in store as we journey across the wall with Feyre Archeron, from barely feeding her family of four to discovering ancient...

Hey, readers ~ We’re back this week with a surprise update on the newest ACOTAR books. As soon as we saw this release, we knew we HAD to talk about it.

There’s so many discussions online right now about the new covers, titles, and potential leaks. What do you guys think about the new covers? Whose POV will we get? How will the new books relate to the Maas multiverse?

We’re hoping for some Throne of Glass crossov...

Listeners, things started out...really weird at Morning Glory Milking Farm...and somehow...they just got weirder.

This week we're wrapping up our inaugural One Night Read book coverage. Violet's questionable career choice has officially turned into a full-blown romance. She's crossed the line from professional to might have accidentally acquired a monster boyfriend.

Our heroine has discovered that sometimes the strangest career pat...

Well, listeners……We don’t know what to say for ourselves.

Our first “walk of shame,” on the podcast...And we’re loving every second of it!

Our first date is with a minotaur, with Morning Glory Milking Farm. Welcome to the newest bonus series on our roster, the One Night Reads~!

These are the books you can’t put down but maybe don’t want to be seen reading? The books you read in t...

Hey, listeners. Happy Stay Week! If you know anything about us, it's probably that we're all Stays, as well as readers, and what better way to celebrate than by doing what readers do best: imagining eight incredibly talented men in a fictional world.

This week we're throwing books out the window (metaphorically) to answer one very important question: What kind of MMC would each member of Stray Kids be in a fictional novel?

Would Ba...

Hey readers~ We’re back this week to finish up The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova!

After 700 pages of dusty libraries, cryptic letters, suspicious academics and officials, and enough archival research to make the Library of Congress jealous, Dracula finally steps out of the shadows and reveals himself. The plans and mysteries of this delicious, decadently described novel are mostly left on the plate for us to poke at and qu...

Hey readers~ This week we’re going to Bulgaria and meeting a whole new host of characters in Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian. Paul and Helen have discovered even more evidence, with the help of Turgut Bora (who we now know is in a special guard designed to hunt down Dracula himself), and they’re following it all the way to the source.

They gain a new babysitter thanks to the Cold War politics of the time, as we...

Hey listeners! Happy Tuesday and welcome back to the long, winding tale of The Historian.

We join Helen and Paul again as they ride off to Budapest with the help of Helena’s aunt Eva. Poor Paul is put firmly into the spotlight when he finds out that Aunt Eva has volunteered him as the keynote speaker of a history conference at Helen’s alma mater, a situation that has brought the attention of the cordial but mysterious ...

This week, we're diving into part two of The Historian, where Paul and Helen collect yet another suspiciously convenient and male Dracula scholar. I mean seriously?!?!?!? Everyone keeps finding cursed books like it's the scavenger hunt from hell, and they're all having an absolutely terrible time.

Our duo are also digging through yet another archive, just to uncover exactly enough vampire lore to make a certain undead librarian ner...

Hey readers! This week we’re returning to the story of Dracula’s mysterious burial and the book that continues to haunt historians centuries later.

As the narrator and her father explore the countryside of the vast Eurasian continent, we slowly unfold the story of who Rossi was and how entrenched Paul became in his disappearance. We meet Helen - a breath of fresh air in the stuffy pages of the archive - and learn that ...

Hellloooo listeners~ Welcome to the world of dusty tomes and secret histories!

To round out our dark academia picks we’re picking up the story of the late medieval Vlad Țepeș, AKA Vlad the Impaler! Or at least, our historians do.

This week we begin the story with an unnamed narrator who unveils the story of her father and his mysterious experiences in graduate school. A student of history, Paul is thrust into the world of 1...

🎉100 episodes. One hundred. Triple digits. Somehow, despite all evidence to the contrary, we've been allowed to keep microphones for this long.

To celebrate, we're doing what every bookish person secretly loves to do: judging things. Giving our opinions. Making it known. And fighting over it. Specifically, we're ranking some of the most popular book tropes from S-Tier masterpieces to F-Tier "Fuck you. I hope I never see you again....

Happy Pride Month, listeners! The curses of theater have come for us too - our audio got messed up this week (more than usual)! We knew we shouldn't have invoked the name of the Scottish play. Dammit. 😭We are so sorry, but we hope you enjoy the finale for If We Were Villains anyway.

Join us this week as the book comes to a dramatic close with a brother’s betrayal becoming a beloved’s sacrifice. Oliver’s tragic e...

Heyyy readers, Happy Tuesday. On this week’s episode we discuss Act 4 of If We Were Villains. Things heat up as Oliver is faced with his feelings right after discovering a revealing clue in the castle. Colbourne said the case was closed, so why is he sneaking around the school grounds?

Plus, James breaks Oliver’s nose and Oliver takes a trip to Dr. Alexander, right before a sudden tragedy befalls the friend group. Will...