Started by long time young-adult fiction fans Jazz, Ivy and Potatoes, the podcast [1]
reviews various popular and not-so-popular young adult novels by a wide variety of authors. Occasionally, the podcast delves into movie critiques and adult novels.
The episodes contain examples of:
- Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable:
- All the hosts have fun mispronouncing the fantasy names in the Throne of Glass episode.
- There's a plethora of bad accents in the Matched part 2 episode including a sailor voice used to read a poem
- Bad Impressionists: All the hosts get into this at some point during the episodes, from bad British accents to valley girl impersonations.
- Caustic Critic: A slight subversion, as the podcast hosts are often fair in their critiques but the point of the podcast is to snub the books.
- Formula-Breaking Episode: Did an episode on the movie Sharkboy and Lavagirl despite being a podcast that focuses mainly on books (and Potatoes insistence that they're talking about the novelization).
- Once an Episode: "We read bad books, so you don't have to!"
- Only Sane Man: Jazz in Uglies part 2, when Potatoes and Ivy are bothering her at the end of the episode by not doing the proper signing off technique.
- Product Placement: The hosts make fun of advertising on podcasts frequently.
- Running Gag:
- Episodes often contain references to the first episode of the podcast, Unenchanted. There are also episode long running gags. In the two Divergent episodes there is the gag of not calling the character Four by his name and instead giving him numerous numerical based names.
- There is a running gag from the first Uglies episode about the preposterous nature of the hoverboards and the explanation about how they work that shows up into the Matched episodes
- Scifi Writers Have No Sense Of Scale: A complaint in Uglies part 2 is the lack of understanding Scott Westerfield has on the time it takes the main character Tally to do things.
- Shout-Out: Shouted out TV Tropes and this very page in Matched part 2!
- Shown Their Work: They have a lot of background knowledge regarding young adult book tropes as well as background information necessary to disprove false information in the books.
