WELCOME TO THE DOWN-LORE!

A podcast where we — your hosts, Claudia and Natalie — discuss & dissect the tropes, trends, and most importantly, LORE in our favorite fantasy books and series.

We both dove back into reading for fun in 2022, and quickly realized that one of the best parts of reading is getting to gush about books with your friends who’ve read them too! After multiple emotional support FaceTimes and voice memos sent to a plethora of our book besties (one of which led to a 5 page agenda/notes doc for a 1.5 hour debrief that low key inspired this whole podcasting idea), we decided to just…keep doing what we’re doing but record and share the fun with all of you!

The Down-Lore is a podcast where we chit chat about all of our fantasy reads (think: classic faves, booktok darlings, new releases in 2024, etc). We’re her ...