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Im through book 12. So far i still like them

Honestly I loved books 1-9, but the series lost me after that. It’s been a while since I read any of them though, I might change my mind 😅.

Im so upset, I loved the first book I thought it was kind of engaging but OMG the second book I dnf at 50%. Literally was just descriptions of everything that led to NOTHING, and I bought the three of them.

Great overview, thank you for contributing to the dearth of Skulduggery videos on this site. As someone who has read all 16 books and also doesn’t like Darquesse, let me just say that she’s kind of an annoying constant in the series 😩

Honestly book 15 was the best (i mean of course its the end of the second part)

This is actually awesome you have no idea how much I miss this series

Honestly I really enjoyed the next arc after the 9th book. Especially the ending in book 15 and the things leading up to it, was quite amazing. It's still a fun read and I am currently waiting for the 16th book to arrive.

I know I’m hella late to the video 😂 but you put into words how I felt about the show. the book vs the show are two different things. on one I hand appreciate some changes but others are super questionable… anyways I enjoyed the vid!!

I have never read anything from this author but found the similarities in book names with Holly Black's really funny - she apparently has another mafia romance book called The Brutal Prince. When it happens twice, it can't be a coincidence :D

Im afraid

Omg you were brilliant in this completly describes my feelings over this whole series. Literally so little of relevance happens in these books lots of stuff get throw in that dont matter for the actual plot which is the "im actually a goddess been lied to all my life and we need to break the damn curse ." These books makes the previous ones feel like a waste of timeee !!! So many hours to find out who killed the witches and vittoria ? Oh not antonio after all and also shes not dead! Ok so why spend so much time with it 😂😂

not me with that book on my nightstand waiting to be read 😭😭 if it really is lesbian davekat im in for a rid3

I agree with you SO much. I enjoyed the beginning of the first book and the setting and Wrath was a fun character, but then the story started dragging. So I decided to look up a review instead of finishing the series and based on your video I made the right choice. I would have loved to read more about their story but all that unnecessary filling is not worth it.

Does this part talk about Cardan and Jude? How do they live?

I finished this 2nd book in 10hrs straight, only to be left cold and crying and upset like. wtf

shouting out Psalm for the Wild-Built as a novella that got me through a reading slump of not finding something I was really into, pure comfort and insight that one

What a privileged person

THANK YOU 😭 I’m so glad I’m not the only one who feels this way. I like fantasy but I’m so over the “mean fae prince actually likes you uwu” or just a bunch of smut. I can’t help but judge a people a bit if they only read one genre/style of book. Like y’all don’t get bored?? Love your thoughts on everything, in terms of the bipolar meds it’s actually pretty common for artists to think they need to suffer to make good art but by the sound of the end I don’t think the author handled the concept very well. Anyway in love with the chair, I have a similar styled one. I was wondering what’s your thoughts on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue? Also do you have a booksta!

this might be your best video yet i love chaos

the argument that if you need to read deep into a thing to get into it it's not good in a video about homestuck is just so fucking ironic and i love it

This is the "official fangame" of novels

I have never heard of this series but I’m really excited to discover what it’s about! Thank you for explaining it, this type of videos are so fun to listen while working! ☺️💕

Well I’d like you to read “The Wise Man’s Fear”, largely because I’d enjoy watching you tear it a new one. “The Name of the Wind” was a great first novel: interesting premise and protagonist, lyrical prose and the promise of an intriguing narrative. However, the issues you have with it become almost unbearable in the second novel, where it became apparent to me that Rothfuss didn’t have a narrative plan; it’s just more side-quests with the core narrative spinning wheels. Just two words to tempt you: “fairy” & “rhymes-with-hex”. Once I learned more about Rothfuss’ background - i.e. dnd-er since his teens, perpetual student - it all started to make sense: he begins well but can’t stick the landing. I assume you’ve read the big fantasy classics (LOTR, ASOIAF, HP), so some lesser-known suggestions: Interview with the Vampire, by Anne Rice. Decades before sparkly creeper veglords, Rice created vampires with complicated personalities and elastic ethics. The Once and Future King by T.H. White. The reimagining of Mallory’s Le Morte d’Arthur with psychologically “real” Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot. Was the source for both Disney’s cartoon The Sword in the Stone and the Lerner & Loewe musical Camelot. Anything by Tim Powers, the best fantasy novelist you’ve never heard of. Specialises in taking historical events and injecting supernatural elements in a weird alternative history. What if Blackbeard the pirate was into black magic? (Yes, both Pirates of the Caribbean and Monkey Island ripped off Powers): “On Stranger Tides”. What if Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley actually encountered supernatural monsters that fateful Summer in Europe, the one in which Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein? “The Stress of Her Regard” Powers’ novels can be a bit pulpy but they’re great fun. The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie, Lord Grimdark himself. Inspired by George RR Martin Abercrombie wrote morally complicated characters and narratives. Yes, it can be “grimdark”, but also very funny if you appreciate dry English humour. FFS just read it for Glokta.

Harrow the Ninth will give you more of an understanding of the story universe's lore for sure. After that you have Nona the Ninth which in my opinion is the easiest book to get through after the three and if you have made it to Nona and have decided that you like the first two books sufficiantly enough, you will definitly enjoy the third book. Sadly no word on when the fourth and (supposedly) final book is meant to be coming out. Some sources say around October or so, other's claim very early next year, but as of current a release date is yet to be revealed.

Hi! In regards to whether or not TLT is Homestuck fanfiction: Tamsyn Muir's most famous fanfic, The Serendipity Gospels, has elements in common with TLT (skeleton/juggalo face paint, main characters who vacillate between being kismeses and moirails, space cult that resembles Catholicism with extra murder, and other things that are spoilers for the rest of the series), as well as a couple of scenes that are extremely similar between the fanfic and the published book. They're very different stories with different plots, but if you read TSG you can definitely pick up on some similarities.

reads like a dnd campain (derogatory)

homestuck is a worldview. because it is a masterpiece. because it is infinite. because it is everything. because it is funny when people say it isn’t everything, and that it is ‘something’. anyways god i have so many opinions for homestuck ^2 and how it has potential still. fuck mmmmm yes

I only saw the first episode of the show and this made me lean toward skipping the rest. The whole point of the book was women being rock stars, both literally and figuratively. They're struggling and sometimes making bad choices, but they're doing their best. The guys are all the worst. I'm not thrilled to hear that the show kind of took away the women's agency.

did you read the 'wrinkle in time' series as a kid? they're actual intelligent fantasy for a younger demographic, so slay

The locked tomb series is my current favourite piece of media like, generally. I think they're incredible, meticulously crafted books, but I absolutely understand how it's not for everyone. Before you read harrow, BE WARNED: It's even more confusing than gideon, it plays with switching narration perspectives, jumping timelines, and a very unreliable narrator (due to severe mental instability). But its my absolute favourite of the series for a reason. It is, at its core, a very powerful narrative about grief and survivors guilt with a cast of super fascinating, super messed up characters. But its also not a beach read, and demands your full attention. (And yes, all the unhinged things you heard about it DO happen. Lobotomy? Sexy amputation scene? Threesomes on the dinner table? Its all actually in there) All in all, if youre willing to go out and do a little bit of extra digging to fully "get it", I absolutely recommend the series. I think its gotten this popular for a very good reason. If you are looking for someone to explain the first 2 books in a succinct and very entertaining way, I simply *must* point you to Suzy L's brilliant video "the locked tomb pre-nona recap"!

my profile pic makes this immediately obvious but as soon as that ending song came on, i lost my MIND anyways i read GtN while i was recovering from top surgery and on all kinds of pain meds and i absolutely loved it, so if that says anything about what’s needed to enjoy it the first time…💀 (i have since reread it and listened to the audiobook, but that initial read was easier in the haze of recovery.) i do love it, but i did not understand a goddamn thing about the plot until about the same part of the book as you

I wish Homestuck was real

Man died! Yaay! She killed a man with blunt weapon of unexplainable dumbassery of every female character in here combined

For reference, you probably didnt stop at "act 6 of act 3 of act 5" cause act 5 only 2 acts within it. If you ever wanna get back on it, just remember that act 6 had 6 acts- and act 6 act 6 itself had 6 acts too, culminating in act 6 act 6 act 6 aka [s] collide(the final battle), followed by act 7(the finale). If you ever try to finish it, please tell me if you cried during [s] terezi: remember.

5 stars best book, but if you want to know what's going on,,, that does not improve, at all, not even a little. I am simply happy to enjoy the journey and find out what it was later lmao. You do learn a bit more about what has happened and is happening in each book, but it's near the end and still presented through characters with no idea what's up

you don't understand i was spiralling for days after seeing this title, and too afraid to click in fear it was true. the locked tomb series happens to be my favourite series out there, and, as a former homestuck fan who was hit in the face by the random tumblr references and the act structure in the books, and just the general insanity of what's happening most of the time, i kinda felt like this series is a spiritual successor of homestuck in a way. so the possibility of this being homestuck fanfiction had me quite literally losing my mind. edit, because i was so flabbergasted by the title, that i had to comment before finishing the video: personally harrow is my favourite out of the three, so i'd say it's worth the read. however, if being confused out of your mind and having to make a cheat sheet of the timeline as you go isn't something you enjoy, then maybe it isn't for you? personally, i'm one of those people that loves having a thousand theories of what's happening, being bamboozled and trying to figure shit out on my own, so i love these books, but i can acknowledge that they aren't for everyone. i will say that if you thought that having harrow as a narrator would make things easier to understand, you're very wrong, because, since it's her brain, the book just assumes you know what's going on just like harrow does, which later makes you realise harrrow is about as lost as we are. i do still think it's worth the read, since harrow has to be one of my favourite characters. she's just this weird little gremlin and exploring her brain is truly an experience. i'll also add that going through the tag as you read is very fun, because, to put it simply, everything is so batshit crazy that you can't tell the shitposts apart from the spoilers. i read a post saying that god is a twitch streamer, and i'll let you try to figure out if that's a spoiler or not.

Looks at your channel content. Yeah, that checks out. /positive

as a fellow homestuck survivor, i didn't know Tamsyn Muir had been in the fandom when i read Gideon but it made sense as soon as I found out. Also my feelings on it were like yours-it gets amazing at the 2/3rds mark but getting there is tough. Unfortunately, IMO book two is roughly the same in terms of pacing, the pov once again doesn't understand what's going on for a large part of it while tamsyn plants all the information she needs for the climax (which is once again really good). book three felt better in this respect, i'd say it's still following the same structure but the setup part felt less meandering and more meaningful to read?

A Little off topic but your eyes in the light are so honey gold its both Amazing to look at and mildly unsettling! Really winning with the genetic lottery on that one!

I'd almost call the books a kind of puzzle box experience that plays with, well, almost everything about how a plot works, who the viewpoint is, narrative tension, traditional genre constraints...I think the one thing the first book doesn't do a lot of things with is chapter headers?

I absolutely love this series, but I can also completely understand why someone wouldn't want to finish the series. I didn't like the first book as much on my first read, but on a second read it clicked. I continued because I really felt attached to the characters, so even though the second book was confusing I still enjoyed it because I wanted to figure out what had happened to them. However, I get why people would drop off the series because it is...a lot going on. I'd recommend maybe trying the start of the second book if you're uncertain about continuing the series and seeing how you feel.

i really recommend the audiobooks

Funny thing is that Tamsyn Muir was part of a little circle of Homestuck fan creators who are now moving into mainstream sf/f writing. Off the top of my head, that circle also included Arkady Martine (the Teixcalaan duology), Jennifer Giesbrecht (The Monster of Elendhaven and most of the writing on The Homestuck Epilogues), and _maybe_ Vivian Shaw (the Greta Helsing series). It will be interesting to see how Homestuck blends into mainstream genre writing over the next decade or two.

It's way better if you read Gideon the ninth as a murder mystery. It is an amazing series imo but idk if you will like it based on this video

“And certain colors” 😂😂😂

We can all be traumatized together it's ok

Well this was already on my reading list but now I'm obligated to read it.

Gideon the Ninth draws a lot of inspiration from the When They Cry visual novels as well as Homestuck, and When They Cry is well-known for a setup where "what is going on in the story" is itself the mystery, even when mystery is not the main genre. And you can absolutely see that influence in TLT All the Locked Tomb books are chock-full of foreshadowing and hints to the larger lore - they are amazing on a reread after you have read the series (and I bet they will get even better after Alecto comes out), or if you take notes and try to theorize as you go, or if you read along with a group/discuss after you finish so everyone can pool ideas. I personally adore this style but it isn't for everyone! [To give you an idea of how When They Cry stories are set up, without spoilers - the two completed works have 8 installments (Episodes) each, with most of the Episodes being alternate versions of events happening to a set of characters over a few days or weeks. The first four installments are Question Arcs; they present storylines of bizarre events and do not explain why they happen, but hint at what the explanations might be and encourage you to solve it yourself. Then the Answer Arcs give you different versions of events that have more context and explanation, allowing you to go back to the earlier arcs and realize "oh hey this happened for this reason!" The more recent of these two works, Umineko, drops more and more blatant hints but deliberately never outright states some of the main answers, because "nothing will be given to those who don't think". It is one of my favorite pieces of media and it takes over a hundred hours to read]

dont have the 8rainpower to watch this 8ut this video is pro8a8ly a good video annyways so i liked

oh my goodness you are stunning !!