Send us a text We are closing out #YAMonth with a throwback to 2005 Taiwo's bookshelf. This week we read Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson. Yes, that James Patterson. We've read five books over five weeks and we've truly grown as "young adults". I mean, we FINALLY completed our first ever #TightTwo! But we also return to our old ways of horrible memories for names. Well you win some, you lose some. Find out what caught us off guard, whose brain is just worms, and what IKYFL s...
Sep 30, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Send us a text We're just two Naija gyals, standing in front of the world, asking you to forgive us for changing up our format / putting out a late announcement yet again! (We've been very bad 😉) As the year drifts quickly to an end, we find our lives drifting as well to opposite ends of the earth (read: country). So that means a new format is in order! Find out how we're switching things up, and how our October schedule is breaking down in this month's announcements!...
Sep 27, 2020•16 min
Send us a text As we near the end of September and the air begins to gain that familiar chill of autumn, our YA book month is heating right the fuck up! This #HumpDay we are reading the horny af, 2007 classic, City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, the first in the Mortal Instruments series! *Stefon Voice* This episode has everything: A clutch two minute synopsis Mae Whitman worship A woman protangonist Demons & demon hunters Dated gender roles Werewolves Cucumber sandwich shaming A traitorous tw...
Sep 23, 2020•59 min
Send us a text Welcome back to another chaotic episode of Textual *voice cracks*. We are more than halfway through YA month and this week we had the immeasurable pleasure of reading a book with the sexiest cover to date, Incendiary by Zoraida Cordova! It's the Badass women for me. It's the diversity for me. It's the potential for sequels month for me. Let us know what it is for you and if we should make this theme theme a thing thang 😉 as we discuss Incendiary by Zoraida Cordova!...
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Send us a text Welcome back to another episode of Textual Deviants where the format is made up and the schedule doesnt matter! This week we ferociously, speed read Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson! After reading a particularly derisive 1 star review, we just HAD to tell [NAME REDACTED] just how wrong they are, point by point. Enjoy the takedown of the century (or at least of the hour), with our 5-star (plz rate us) rebuttal of a 1-star review as we discuss Tiffany D. Jackson's Allegedly!...
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Send us a text It's the Wednesday before Labor Day, so you know what time it is? It's the beginning of Back to School month! In this quite perfectly timed #WaybackWednesday we start our month of YA reads with The Rest of the Story by a Deviant fave, Sarah Dessen! In this episode we pinpoint 5 (6?) things that make a quintessential Sarah Dessen novel. So you know we had to list the 5 things that make this a quintessential TD episode. "Interesting, interesting, interesting." "And another thing too...
Sep 02, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Send us a text This month we're bringing you back to school special. This means nostalgia meets procrastination. We're a week late, but we hope it doesn't affect our GPA. This month, we are stepping into YA land, and we couldn't be more excited excited excited. We will be revisiting authors and towns from our past, as well as exploring new dimensions and potential favorites. Join as we mentally rewind, and hopefully unwind. September 2nd: The Rest Of The Story by Sarah Dessen September 9th: Alle...
Aug 26, 2020•15 min
Send us a text Quarantine's got us feeling like it's the roaring 20s again (pandemic, anyone?) So we decided to throw it back to a 1979 classic that throws it back to 1815! (#Meta!) Today we worship at the altar of the queen of sci-fi, Octavia E. Butler, and pay her homage by discussing her 1979 classic, Kindred! This one truly had us in our feelings, a stress read like no other. Grab your best anxiety reducer and buckle in for a crazy ride!...
Aug 26, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Send us a text Are you ready for the #MeToo era read you didn't know you needed (or in T's case, were reading?) This week we read the rich, (dollar bill bookmarks anyone!) imaginative retelling of the lesser known Greek witch, Circe by Madeline Miller. In this read, Miller questions the portrayals of women in Greek myths and leads us to ask some questions of our own, such as: Why is the theme of the week #DisappointedAndUnsurprised? (Hint: starts with m ends with en) What character does T see as...
Aug 19, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Send us a text The book we all begged for in 2008 is finally here! Is it 12 years too late or right on time? Does Edward watching Bella sleep age like fine wine or sour vinegar? And above all, is 672 pages ENOUGH pages to recapture our fading youth? That's for us to know and you to find out. Join us as we answer the call of the undead and (no longer) glittery in this week's episode, Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer! *During our reading of the reviews we discovered that the Quileute Tribe (depicte...
Aug 12, 2020•1 hr 25 min
Send us a text These two Naija babes are finally reading a book by another Naija gyal! This week's read sees us going back to our motherland in the comedy (?) My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. This one is really interesting, interesting, interesting for it's content. It also brings up some questions about us, like, which one of us would help our sister cover up a murder? Dive in as we uncover some childhood trauma!...
Aug 05, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Send us a text Picture it. It was the summer of 2005. School had just let out and you find yourself at your local library borrowing the hottest book of the summer, Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightening Thief. Afterwards, you jam to Hilary Duff's latest album Most Wanted featuring hits like So Yesterday and Wake Up as you head to Rita's opening day. You are in bliss. Or maybe you're a Taiwo who somehow missed out on the existence of this series until the *movie that shall...
Jul 29, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Send us a text Wondering what read to buy next? Don't worry, we've got you covered. Well, we've got US covered, but we would love it if you join us. In this house we definitely judge a book by its cover, so next month, we have quite a collection. We have serial killers, sexy islands, and time travel. What more could a girl want?
Jul 22, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Send us a text This week we finally get what we've all been waiting for, a deep dive into the lusty waters of softcore porn! - *cough* We mean Get a Life, Chloe Brown! Honestly Chloe's managed to actually manifest a life through the power of lists, so we thought we might create one of our own! Camping with the person of your dreams and getting. It. On. Learn to play the guitar strictly through the power of osmosis. MORE SMUDGE An Amber Riley led HBO adaptation!!! Find out if we get everything we...
Jul 22, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Send us a text In this week's episode we dip our toes in the waters of (trill) rrrrromance. Our girl Chloe Brown is getting a life and we are here to check her list twice! And of course we have some questions. 1. What does the cat say? (Hint: it's never miaow) 2.What's the male equivalent of a manic pixie dream girl? 3. When will we get to the meaty softcore porn we know we are all here for! Join us as we cross the first half of Get a Life, Chloe Brown off our list 😉!...
Jul 15, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Send us a text In Part 2 of The Vanishing Half we finish up our thrilling ride on the Vignes emotional rollercoaster and are left speechless. Except for our weekly questions of course! Will our computers ever make it through an episode without technical issues? Is Brit Bennett a literary goddess fully deserving of her place on the throne of the NYT Best Sellers list? And last and certainly most important, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK KENNEDY AND FRANTZ??? We just took a DNA test, turns out we still hate...
Jul 08, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Send us a text In this episode we are transported through time and space to Mallard, Louisiana in the 1950s. Identical twins start off life on the same path but end up on complete opposite ends of the racial spectrum. Brit Bennett takes us on a rollercoaster of emotions and as we talk our way through it all we find our selves asking all of the important questions, like: How many takes of our intro do we have to do before we get it (semi) right? What does The Vanishing Half have in common with Br...
Jul 01, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Send us a text EXTRA EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT. So, you wanna know what we're reading in advance? How ridiculous you are. Well, you asked and so we answered. In this minisode, we affirm some core beliefs, and announce what books we will be reading in the month of July. Follow us on instagram for an exact episode schedule.
Jun 24, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Send us a text On the second, and much rockier of our summer walks we find ourselves meeting several new(?) friends in The Last House Guest. Will the finale leave us high and dry on the shores of Littleport, Maine? Will we continue our wild streak of confusing names? Will we fall face first into all of the glaring plot holes? All this and more to be answered in The Last House Guest Part 2! Twitter: @textdeviants Instagram: @textualdeviants Email: textdeviants@gmail.com...
Jun 17, 2020•59 min
Send us a text Today we take the first of two summer walks down the shores of very real, very rich Littleport, Maine. Opulence. Chaos. Murder. Will we ever remember the difference between Sadie and Avery? Did Sadie ever learn to apologize?? Will Megan Miranda live up to her incredible legacy??? Come and read into the sexy, sexy subtext with us as we discuss Megan Miranda's The Last House Guest! Contact Us: Textdeviants@gmail.com...
Jun 10, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 4
Send us a text On May 19th Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games prequel was released and the world would never be the same. Panem is back (Or are we simply back in Panem?) and better(?) than ever and so are we. Who continues our streak of fucking up names? Who will get mad at a completely fictional character first? And who among us will drop a huge secret about their involvement with the Hunger Games Trilogy (saga? idk)? Who knew that stories about uprisings could be such a pleasant distraction from ou...
Jun 03, 2020•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Send us a text Will Adaeze ever get over these blank pages? (Hint: she doesn't). Will Taiwo ever truly teach Adaeze how to pronounce Michaelides? Did Alicia Berensen kill her husband? Find the answers to these pressing questions and more as we wrap up our review of "The Silent Patient". And Join us next week, as we do a full book review of Suzanne Collin's "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes", a Hunger Games Prequel...
May 27, 2020•1 hr 25 min
Send us a text In the first part of our 2 part premiere, we read The Silent Patient, a #1 New York Times bestseller from 2019, at Taiwo's insistence. In this episode, we read the first part of the book, and discuss important topics such as unreliable narrators, blank pages, and how exactly one pronounces Michaelides. We hope you love this episode, and if you don't, fret not. There will be more to hate tomorrow...
May 20, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 1
