Oct 13, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min · 13 segments
In this weeks episode of The Spicy Bookish Podcast, we talk all things Threshing Day; book 3 in the Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros. We are not deep diving or theorising the series as a whole, we…
Shall we just touch quickly, and I mean very fucking quickly, uh, on Rare?
Yeah.
Not good, is it?
No. So-
[laughs]
... it's not good.
It's-
It's not, it's really fucking bad
... absolutely terrible from start to finish.
It's still ongoing now.
I think when it first happened, it was like, "Oh, this is bad." And then as, as the day went on, going into Monday then as well, it was like, "Okay, no.
No, this is-"
Oh, this is worse
...
this is bad.
This is really bad.
This is really fucking bad.
And then it just continued to get worse and worse, and then we were like, "Okay, this is all anyone's talking about."
So you had all the authors that were obviously backing out.
Mm.
But then you had a load of people that were jumping on, you know, like, where they'd have, like, a screen print behind them, and then they'd be like, "Let me talk you through what's happened."
Yeah.
And I felt like I'd gone down, and I had about five of them one after the other, and I was like, "I already know what's happened."
Yeah.
Yeah.Why is everyone feeding me more information?
Shall we just touch quickly, and I mean very fucking quickly, uh, on Rare?
Yeah.
Not good, is it?
No. So-
[laughs]
... it's not good.
It's-
It's not, it's really fucking bad
... absolutely terrible from start to finish.
It's still ongoing now.
I think when it first happened, it was like, "Oh, this is bad." And then as, as the day went on, going into Monday then as well, it was like, "Okay, no.
No, this is-"
Oh, this is worse
...
this is bad.
This is really bad.
This is really fucking bad.
And then it just continued to get worse and worse, and then we were like, "Okay, this is all anyone's talking about."
So you had all the authors that were obviously backing out.
Mm.
But then you had a load of people that were jumping on, you know, like, where they'd have, like, a screen print behind them, and then they'd be like, "Let me talk you through what's happened."
Yeah.
And I felt like I'd gone down, and I had about five of them one after the other, and I was like, "I already know what's happened."
Yeah.
Yeah.Why is everyone feeding me more information?
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