Episodes

  • Fated Friends: Life in our 20s
    Nov 13 2024

    As millenial moms reading romantasy books about 20 year old shadow babies, we thought we would reminisce about our New Adult experience. In this episode we cut Feyre, Violet, etc some slack because being 19-23 was probably the craziest times of our lives.

    8:35 - Advice for undecided majors

    18:12 - Veronica's experience as a beauty queen!

    21:01 - Our biggest lessons learned

    43:58 - Crescent City question answered

    51:26 - Emma's theories as a halfway reader of TOG


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    53 mins
  • Sam & Veronica: Fourth Wing theories, ranking SJM books + Sam's reading list!
    Nov 9 2024

    Veronica takes a trip to see **the inimitable Sam** and we (finally!) get Sam's takes on the pod. Sam is the first person who introduced Veronica to the world of SJ Maas books and breaks down her journey into reading romantasy including what is on her reading list. Sam and Veronica dive into Fourth Wing and Onyx Storm theories for what's to come in Rebecca Yarros' world of Basgiath.

    This episode contains plot spoilers for throne of glass series, ACOTAR, and Fourth Wing.


    Find us on Instagram @shadowbabiespodcast or email us at shadowbabiespodcast@gmail.com


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    48 mins
  • Part 1 - A Court of Wings and Ruin
    Oct 16 2024

    In this episode we chat about the third book in Sarah J Maas' ACOTAR series, A Court of Wings and Ruin (ACOWAR). We deep dive into this epic fantasy and dissect our favorite flawed heroes and theorize on the next books...


    We are two millennial moms chatting about romantasy books, friendship, motherhood, neighborhood things and more after bedtime.

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    46 mins
  • Mini Episode: Onyx Storm Teaser Theories!
    Oct 2 2024

    Welcome to the Shadow Babies Podcast!

    We are two millennial moms chatting about romantasy books, friendship, motherhood, neighborhood things and more after bedtime.

    In this episode we quickly jump on to discuss the Onyx Storm teaser and our theories for the 3rd book in Rebecca Yarros' Empyrean series. See you in Basgiath!

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    17 mins
  • Fated Friends and Friendship Breakups
    Sep 23 2024

    Welcome to the Shadow Babies Podcast!

    We are two millennial moms chatting about romantasy books, friendship, motherhood, neighborhood things and more after bedtime.

    In this episode, we're in between book chats and taking time to talk about friendship, how we met and our early mom dates, and a personal story about friendship breakups and how to think about endings.

    We'll be back next time with a discussion of Book 3 in Sarah J Maas's ACOTAR series, A Court of Wings and Ruin.

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    35 mins
  • Episode 3: A Court of Mist and Fury (Part 2)
    Sep 19 2024

    In this episode we dive into the second half of Sarah J Maas' A Court of Mist and Fury.

    We discuss the family of characters in the Night Court, fan girl over Mor (some spoilers from Book 3) and the love story of Feyre and Rhys.

    (40:16) We have a follow up to the How Do You Think question from our last episode and an overlap with an episode from the Handsome Pod

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    46 mins
  • Episode 2: A Court of Mist and Fury (Part 1)
    Sep 15 2024

    Welcome to the Shadow Babies Podcast!

    We are two millennial moms chatting about romantasy books, friendship, motherhood, neighborhood things and more after bedtime.

    In this episode we are both re-reading A Court of Mist and Fury, the second book in Sarah J Maas's ACOTAR series, and we dig into the first half of the book. We also dive into our favorite book boyfriends (it's Xaden and Rhysand :) )

    The second half of our episode we dive into friendship and motherhood as romantasy readers

    23:25 We chat about how we think and why this project works so well between us

    28:54 Veronica discusses her humanities major and career journey

    32:54 We share our favorite book boyfriends



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    38 mins
  • Episode 1 - A Court of Thorns and Roses
    Sep 15 2024

    Welcome to the Shadow Babies Podcast!

    We are two millennial moms chatting about romantasy books, friendship, motherhood, neighborhood things and more after bedtime.

    In our first episode we discuss Sarah J Maas' A Court of Thorns and Roses. We share a recap of the book with *spoilers* and dive into what makes this series so popular, how we found romantasy, and what it's like to reread an SJ Maas book (very good!)


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    32 mins