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Dom why do you self censure in support of organization that never gave crap about you or anyone on this platform, until they needed you to make a point?
If you keep going over books without movies, I wonder if you will go over more conservatives propaganda books. Like the one written by Ben Shappiro. its always interesting to see more progressive people's views on them. Another crazy book is Trigger Warning where a "traditional man" has to save a college full of modern liberals from a terrorist attack.
@@izimmzskizzmz I'd suggest starting off with either short stories or poems. when i was 14 i was already trying to write a novel and that was a mistake, im trying to write 2 right now, but im writing either 1 poem or a couple of poems a week. Just pick a subject you feel passionate about, and start writing and see what you come up with, and build up from there, that would be my advice.
The fresh hell that a MAGA cruise would be. The combination of Trumpesque catering (beige banquet), the elderly demographic, and the level of Republican rage - I feel like half the passengers would be dead by the end. It would take one blue haired crew member.
Horror story for ya-you're a coast guard vessel who comes across an abandoned cruise ship, got all the MAGA banners and what not that was reported missing weeks ago, you and your crew climb aboard and discover the entire ship turned on itself and destroyed itself and all it's a charnel house full of bodies, you notice the dead have strange growths on them, some so extreme they're growing into the walls, you find the ship's log and it's an account of a descent into madness because someone got sick from visiting a tropical island that was on the no go list by the State Department and brought a disease on board but because they didn't believe in medicine, doctors, or any of it, they all succumb to the disease and eat each other or turn on each other, and the only thing the final poorly written log note says, "They are coming"
Ya know, this has a very distinct domestic horror vibe. A widow, not yet ready to move on, pushed towards a mysterious man who seems to win over her family instantly, everyone playing on her love for her daughter to strong arm her into "moving on" from her dead husband when she's not ready and noone knows anything about this new man who acts so strangely and abruptly leaves for hours at a time without warning... Just saying, the vibe is there, it just needs a twist ending and boom, domestic horror.
I have a lot of respect for people who review bad books. Watching a bad movie is brief, and sometimes can be fun. Forcing your way through a bad book is torture.
I’ve tried doing a bad book before and it was a chore to get to the end. It wasn’t on the levels of E L James or MAGA but just enough to be like ‘why am I supposed to be rooting for this person? They’re horrible!!!’ At least with a bad movie you can MST3K your way through it but you can’t with a book, though I’ve tried before and it doesn’t work.
@@BLZ231the difference is it would have been a normal cruise just with his name everywhere in gold. Now its kinda a weird mix between haunted house thats falling apart and a really shitty mascot theme park.
@@cypher787 yep. I used to say this as a joke, but I don’t think it’s a joke anymore: Trump could eat a baby on live TV, and these freaks would still support him.
The premise is harmless enough, but the way it is written turns it into the story of a slimy doctor who deliberately causes a single mother's injury so he can coddle up to her parents and force himself into her life.😬 Also why is everyone addressing eachother with full names in this book?😂
If I had to genuinely guess, my hypothesis would be that Liberty Adams doesn't exist at all. The VAST differences between the content, style and writing competence of the first and second books suggest to me that they were probably ghost-written to-order by some kind of online author mill and each book had a different ghost writer. Someone (or a group of someones) saw the open market for "MAGA Romance" and decided to cash in on it, but were too lazy to write anything themselves, so paid other people to write some books on the general theme and invented the "Liberty Adams" identity to sell them under. The reason that we see so much variance in, for example, the amount of the book dedicated to right wing propoganda vs the actual romance is because we are seeing different paid-by-the-word ghostwriters' interpretations on the brief "write me a MAGA themed romance novel in X-thousand words".
I would also like to add to the comment about speculating her gender that by stating that this kind of behavior and mentality is solely indicative of men it erases the very real misogyny and misogynoir committed by other (more conservative) women, which can be just as dangerous.
The whole "take your ring off, it's been four years" is particularly baffling to me. My father still wears his wedding ring, and it's been close to ten years since my mom passed away. Also, to the best of my knowledge, "classic courtship" should be... well, dating? Getting to really know someone before you move on to a more serious form of commitment? Maybe Liberty knows something I don't...
My father ist still wearing his too and it has been exactly ten years and two months sine my mother passed away. He even has plans to ask a goldsmith to combine it somehow with my mother's ring.
The title alone is enough to make me flinch. Saying that any family that isn’t your typical Mum, Dad and however many kids isn’t a “real family” is just kind of awful. A single parent and a kid is just as much a family as any other type. I’m not a single parent, or even a parent at all but it’s just a horrible statement to put out there
I couldn't agree more since my mum raised me and my older sister mostly by herself even when she splitted with my dad who then got remarried but still get along after the divorce.
Exactly, you don't even need kids to be a family. Sometimes a family is two people, usually living in a romantic relationship. Sometimes its multiple people living in a romantic relationship. (As long all consent no issues. I do have issue if only one has the ultimate choice. That sister wives comes to mind as an example. He can date and "marry" multiple women, but they can only date/"marry" him.) Sometimes it's close friends' who know they have each other's backs and support each other. Sometimes the best family is the one you create yourself but have no blood ties too. A family is created; not given. Sometimes we get lucky with blood relations but even then, you gotta create those bonds.
I THINK the line at 9:54 is meant to be a double-entendre. Take him out as in punch, Take her out as in "on a date". But yeah it does come off as "If i couldnt knock him out i'd settle for injuring you"
Med student here: "case" is actually a thing in medicine, too. Usually when you're describing a patient for educational or research purposes, but it can also refer to a surgical case. So, she got that one right.
Am I the only one that wouldn't be surprised if this book was partly written by AI? The way Dom is describing it near the end makes it sound like it, and it would explain why it was free on the website.
@@faithlessone423 At least a 50/50 shot that they're paying the same amount but the contractor is just trying to make a living wage by cranking stuff out faster.
I thought that too for a second, but Dom mentions that this book was released between 2020 and 2021 - A.I. started to turn into a 'trend' pretty recently, so this seems unlikely.
Hi, software developer specializing in large language models (I.e. GPT etc) here. Like @@dragonexe2297 said, the technology wasn’t really sophisticated enough in 2020 for this
Many people have said this, but as a wannabe writer I disagree. Good authors keep it consistent , us mediocre ones can be unrecognizable from one book to the other, so I wouldn't jump to conclude it is several people.
I have suspected that this tripe of a "romance" novel trilogy is the result of a four-way collaboration from the four prominent media personalities at The Daily Wire: Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles and Andrew Clavan.
I noticed this whole thing was just everyone telling this girl what she should feel and how his job and his wanting her is more than enough reason to commit to him. This seems to be a running trend in the "nice guy" manosphere. No thought towards actual compatibility or proper bonding
You know satire has surpassed reality when you have to actually look to see if a Trump-themed cruise (ugh, oh the horror) is real. By the way, thank you for shouting all of us non binary friends out!
Here's another possibility: the books were written by different authors. The Liberty Adams pen name is a company name, like Franklin Dixon on the Hardy Boys or Carolyn Keene on Nancy Drew.
Of all the things in this book that would drive me insane, I think the worst would be having every character referred to by first and last name over and over again. Humans don't talk like that!
Tell me you’ve never watched J-dramas or certain anime without saying a word about it. Not saying it’s prevalent in those forms of media, but it’s definitely not unheard of for characters to always be Full Named.
The more excerpts Dom reads, the more I'm questioning whether Chat GPT wrote most of this book. A.I. writing tends to favor full character names and perfunctory diction. It also tends to struggle with syntax and punctuation.
Yeah as soon as Dom mentioned that it felt like it was written by AI I muttered a bit of an oh no to myself with the realization that might actually be the case. Especially if it WAS written more recently and not in 2021 like the Dom suspects.
I wish Douglas Adams would come back again and his death was actually a cover story for him doing some interdimensional travelling to inspire his next book.
on the topic of "don't assume someone is a man because they do X, Y, Z" there are asshole women too. I point you to JustPearlyThings, Mikaila Peterson, Blaire White, Candice Owens, JK Rowling, etc, etc. Women are just as capable of perpetuating patriarchy and misogyny. If anything, the existence of such women is integral to the maintenance of patriarchy. If all women agreed that things were shit, we probably would have made a lot more progress by now. That some percentage of women not only go along with it but actively maintain it helps sell the narrative that everything is fine just the way it is.
That's fair. Tbh I was under the impression the theorizing about "Liberty" actually being a cis dude was specifically bc of how the word "female" was used, since incel culture online has kind of trademarked calling women "females" in that specific manner as their thing.
When I was younger(young teen) VC Andrews wrote amazing books. They were dark and disturbing. They featured things like incest and rape and family abuse. And then all the sudden the books became very tame. Because she had died, and now had a ghost author. It was so disappointing.
@@danielramsey6141 darker themes like these in writing and fiction in general are very normal. it's a healthy, safer way to explore things and even cope with traumas rather than seeking them out IRL in some way. Creative outlets including things often considered taboo are very important
My personal head cannon is that the author of My Immortal grew up, fell down an alt-right rabbit hole because of what happened with JKR (you decide if they were interested in perpetuating or stopping it) and then returned to their roots and wrote this.
my friends and I decided to read that fic out loud for a laugh... it was funny at first but the constant bits about cutting herself got a bit old pretty fast.
A traditional courtship is basically super exclusive dating before engagement, without living together and in some cases not being alone together. The courtship period can be of any length before engagement.
Yup, because that’s what really goes down GREAT with bereaved kids; having a new partner pushing into their lives and calling themselves their new daddy/mommy when their parents body’s barely cold.
I completely agree with your theory on this book doing 'baby's first novel' I used to write quite a bit when I was younger and a lot of what made my writing bad was mirrored in the book, the way dialogue doesn't flow right, the way the chapters are likely written out of order, putting on paper whatever scene just popped in the writer's head without much through about coherency, the way the characters seem to change work / desires / characterisation, ect
Thank you for the statement about respecting people’s gender and pronouns, even if you don’t agree with them. Not only is it a great way to fight transphobia (however unintentional), my experience with the romance community suggests that Liberty being who she says she is, simply using a pen name for anonymity, is not outside the realm of possibility. I mean, when there are authors like EL James, Anna Todd, and Jamie McGuire (she’s also a MAGA author), with works rife with internalized misogyny, Liberty has good company.
Cosigning this comment in a big way, I really appreciate that Dom went out of his way to double down on that. Especially considering how belligerent people were being about it on the last video. Its like that one meme, watch the leftism leave people's bodies the instant someone disagrees with them. -.- At least so far things look way more civil on this one at least!!
It is interesting to see the relief at not having to do everything in this book, as that is something that women frequently want! I just finished a book with that as a primary draw of the romantic interest. Usually this is paired with other characters unthinking putting a lot of responsibility on the MC, like insisting she work on vacation while they have fun, or asking her to organize all the kids not just her own, or she has 2 jobs. Etc.
I laughed when she had to have her sister tell her that he was a Republican. 😂 like he’s on a Trump Cruise Ship! Of course he’s Republican, did she think he’d stumbled onto the ship by accident? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He is the ship's doctor and he just works there. This might be a Maga-cruise, but the next one might be a Pride-cruise: same boat, same crew, different passengers.
The first minute and a half reminding me why I love Dom. Also, the sponsor segment sandwiched between this book's nonsense gave me weird flashbacks to the surreal, 4th-wall-bothering ad breaks in UBIK. Ow my brain
Yeah, this isn’t some sleazy singles cruise. Single Mom(TM) would never fall someone who would go on one of those! Just watch her reject the one dude who treats her like they are on a singles cruise. Irrefutable proof that she’s not a meat market kinda gal. But Stalk-Doc McCharge? He’s not “shopping at the meat market.” No. His intentions are pure. So, even though she’s not on a singles cruise, it turns out, because of the leads’ pure hearts, they find true love on this non-singles cruise anyway. /s
Close! "Meat Market" is a relatively common negative descriptor for various singles events and dating apps, referring to a sense that the participants are overly focused on shallow assessment of physical appearances or in pursuit of the least difficult to persuade hook-up. So Allie is saying that the singles dance her family pushed her to attend isn't as sleazy-feeling as she was afraid it was going to be.
Yup, I agree with @allwillfall2me - meat market in my experience means lots of men looking at women like they are meat, frequently middle-aged men trawling for a younger wife
Our protagonist is really going to suffer when she tries to navigate the health insurance rules for getting the cruise ship treatment eligible for applying to the deductible.
Having been a single mother while also taking care of my sick mom I can say that for me the idea of someone coming in and taking the reigns for me sounds very appealing. There were times I wondered what idiot put me in charge, who gave me all this responsibility. I got through it on my own but there is still that fantasy or daydream of some guy who is capable,, who can handle a situation and take care of things (while being handsome and charming and confident but not arrogant at the same time)coming in and saving the day. Now that's a fairy tale for this woman. Lol.
Dom, i love your commitment to supporting the writers and actors strike. Seriously thank you. I don’t know if you’re taking a hit monetarily during this time, but know that I absolutely will not be abandoning you(or skipping ads😊) You truly are both a gentleman and a scholar and I love you for it.
Whats weird is that this wasn't a bad idea for a romance novel if a little unoriginal since while I don't follow romance novel trends single mother stories sounds like it would be one of the most plentiful. Its at least better then ladies first because this one doesn't feel like Liberty is trying too hard to prove her delusions as correct but wanted to make a legit romance novel with all the MAGA stuff feeling more forced then anything. Its like she realized too late into writing it that it doesn't conform to her brand so instead just put it in random parts like the cruise and thanksgiving conversation.
Can I just quickly express how awesome it feels to be included in the greeting as an enby (especially if we consider the context of the book you're talking about) - thank you!
A healthcare provider saying’ I’ll take it from here’ isn’t the first lesson of first aid is asking for consent, ‘do you need help?’ And don’t move the person.
Doctor examines her injured ankle and tells her it won't prevent her from becoming a mother? I have so many questions about this man's medical license and training...
10:21 Found this interesting because I recently found out that "positive anymore" is a legitimate thing. It's apparently used like "nowadays" in some dialects in the midwestern US, so our friend Liberty may be from that area.
While the lack of publisher or editor is a viable theory, I also think it's possible Liberty gave her pseudonym to a ghost writer for this one. Not a professional ghost writer, obviously, but it'd make sense if Liberty had other priorities.
7:17 I am an Autistic Aromantic Asexual. I have very little in the way of programmed dating conversation and yet I know the expected response to “ohnoIamnotdating” is “just making conversation,” “oh I was thinking of introducing you to literally-anyone-in-acceptable-age-and-gender group” and not “I am personally disappointed and not that you won’t become my sibling” even if you are attached to something that will detonate your pants if you lie
I marvel SO hard at your commitment to giving the bad books a fair shot. I would have a headache for WEEKS if I read a fraction of the stuff like what you talk about in this review.
The name brand drinks thing is surprisingly common in conservative fiction. I am not sure why, but my first guess would be to let the readers know that there is DEFINITELY no booze being consumed. Or in some cases, that there is no CAFFEINE being consumed, if the target audience is the LDS niche. ( The amount of times some Christian romance books mention Caffeine-free Diet Coke is almost amusing)
@@mirjanbouma SK8 Infinity is an anime about skateboarding and Adam is like the best skateboarder. He's also weird and creepy and says crazy things all the time. The dub of that show is hilarious and he's somehow even creepier there. The dub is where the line "Hey bitches and bros and nonbinary hoes!" pops out
Hearing you call the doctor "Mister TCG" gave me such whiplash cause I didn't recognize as "Take Charge Guy" but instead as "Trading Card Game"(curse my YGO hyperfixation) and for a minute I thought "There's at least that redeeming quality" until I realized what it meant...I feel very dumb right about now.
about the songs playing in the background, I feel like often less experienced writers (or any sort of artists, I'm totally guilty of doing this when I made music) will use aspects of more established writers' work, for example Irvine Welsh VERY often includes the music playing in the background, but there it makes sense, it has a lot to do with the characters, the time period, the subculture etc, or GRRM often describes clothing in great detail and I remember a book I worked on once, it was a kind of fantasy-action-erotica deal (very entertaining and a bast to translate) did the same thing, but when they ended up doing it in an intense fight scene, it came off as odd, I totally get the urge to do the thing our favorite authors do, to utilize these elements, but it takes practice to know when to get it right.
I also really wouldn't be surprised if the songs in question for this particular book were selected for, for a lack of a better term, virtue signaling to the audience type reasons (i.e., how right wing media in America recently tried to prop up those songs about small towns {or so Jason Aldean said, with certain images in the music video and contempt for protesters on display in the lyrics} or the one lambasting food stamps under the guise of working class vs. rich men values). There's also a few songs that people in a certain adjacent conspiracy group have declared anthems, so I'm sure the songs listed in the novel probably link back to those types of things (which I can't blame Dom for not picking up on if so, American culture war stuff like that is pretty exhausting for people on the outside). Edit: I guess dogwhistle or Tara Mooknee's Vice-Signal would also work, but whatever.
To be fair i did get an x-ray on a cruise ship. They have like a full medical ward with multiple doctors, nurses, techs. Theyre hauling around thousands of people, including crew who will need routine medical care
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Dom why do you self censure in support of organization that never gave crap about you or anyone on this platform, until they needed you to make a point?
If you keep going over books without movies, I wonder if you will go over more conservatives propaganda books. Like the one written by Ben Shappiro. its always interesting to see more progressive people's views on them.
Another crazy book is Trigger Warning where a "traditional man" has to save a college full of modern liberals from a terrorist attack.
I love that you were wearing the money symbol shirt for the commercial. :D
Hey Dom I think the series I’ve read with the shortest chapters is the Maximum Ride books. Each chapter is about 3-4 maybe 6 pages tops
The more Dom reviews garbage books, the more confidence I have in my skill as a writer.
same here
I feel like writing takes so much patience and energy... I’d love to write a book, but I highly doubt I could
@@izimmzskizzmz I'd suggest starting off with either short stories or poems. when i was 14 i was already trying to write a novel and that was a mistake, im trying to write 2 right now, but im writing either 1 poem or a couple of poems a week. Just pick a subject you feel passionate about, and start writing and see what you come up with, and build up from there, that would be my advice.
yeajh, helps......lol, not enough to not mispell my first word here......but in general.
This comment made me burst out laughing. A good takeaway!
The fresh hell that a MAGA cruise would be. The combination of Trumpesque catering (beige banquet), the elderly demographic, and the level of Republican rage - I feel like half the passengers would be dead by the end. It would take one blue haired crew member.
Like the Conspira-sea cruises.
If they really want to go full trumper... banquet halls full of burger king
That sound more like the setup to a murder mystery novel where the detective lets the killer go.
Horror story for ya-you're a coast guard vessel who comes across an abandoned cruise ship, got all the MAGA banners and what not that was reported missing weeks ago, you and your crew climb aboard and discover the entire ship turned on itself and destroyed itself and all it's a charnel house full of bodies, you notice the dead have strange growths on them, some so extreme they're growing into the walls, you find the ship's log and it's an account of a descent into madness because someone got sick from visiting a tropical island that was on the no go list by the State Department and brought a disease on board but because they didn't believe in medicine, doctors, or any of it, they all succumb to the disease and eat each other or turn on each other, and the only thing the final poorly written log note says, "They are coming"
L take
and L stands for liberal coincidentally enough lol
Ya know, this has a very distinct domestic horror vibe. A widow, not yet ready to move on, pushed towards a mysterious man who seems to win over her family instantly, everyone playing on her love for her daughter to strong arm her into "moving on" from her dead husband when she's not ready and noone knows anything about this new man who acts so strangely and abruptly leaves for hours at a time without warning...
Just saying, the vibe is there, it just needs a twist ending and boom, domestic horror.
And then she kills him :)
Yeah I got a similar vibe. This could turn into some pretty interesting horror
It's the perfect script of next movie in the series, The Stepfather: MAGA
Looks like the guy from Netflix's "You" decided to become a Republican 😂
Basically A Lifetime Movie
I have a lot of respect for people who review bad books. Watching a bad movie is brief, and sometimes can be fun. Forcing your way through a bad book is torture.
I may be a little masochistic, but I really enjoy reading bad books. They're an excellent constructive outlet for all of my pent-up hostility.
I have so many books I've started and just can't get through. On the other hand, I do have some fun with bad movies.
Plus it’s WAY easier to drink to cope with a bad movie than it is to drink to cope with a bad book
I’ve tried doing a bad book before and it was a chore to get to the end. It wasn’t on the levels of E L James or MAGA but just enough to be like ‘why am I supposed to be rooting for this person? They’re horrible!!!’
At least with a bad movie you can MST3K your way through it but you can’t with a book, though I’ve tried before and it doesn’t work.
I can't even force my way through this video. The story is too boring and horrible for me to stand even just Dominic's summary of it.
"Kingdom of King Dom" is just immaculate. I love it.
I thought Domnic wanted to get rid of the BDSM connections?
You could call it his 'Dominion'
Do you suppose he rules over a lot of Sub-jects?
I want that on a t-shirt
I only have 1 question,where can i join?
You know how deep society has fallen, when Dom has to Google if a Trump themed cruise ship existed or not.
In fairness, even before 2015 I could see such a thing possibly existing given his ego.
@@BLZ231the difference is it would have been a normal cruise just with his name everywhere in gold. Now its kinda a weird mix between haunted house thats falling apart and a really shitty mascot theme park.
I'm genuinely surprised those aren't a real thing. Those people are cultists plain and simple.
@@Kris-wo4pj true
@@cypher787 yep. I used to say this as a joke, but I don’t think it’s a joke anymore: Trump could eat a baby on live TV, and these freaks would still support him.
The premise is harmless enough, but the way it is written turns it into the story of a slimy doctor who deliberately causes a single mother's injury so he can coddle up to her parents and force himself into her life.😬
Also why is everyone addressing eachother with full names in this book?😂
it's to make the word count less pitiful, since liberty couldn't be assed to add some actual plot
@nighttear12 Why are you coming for my highschool essays like this?
To pad the word count!
@@prcervi That is very very very very funny.
You know, considering the antivax movement exists, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the direction the sequel takes.
If I had to genuinely guess, my hypothesis would be that Liberty Adams doesn't exist at all. The VAST differences between the content, style and writing competence of the first and second books suggest to me that they were probably ghost-written to-order by some kind of online author mill and each book had a different ghost writer. Someone (or a group of someones) saw the open market for "MAGA Romance" and decided to cash in on it, but were too lazy to write anything themselves, so paid other people to write some books on the general theme and invented the "Liberty Adams" identity to sell them under. The reason that we see so much variance in, for example, the amount of the book dedicated to right wing propoganda vs the actual romance is because we are seeing different paid-by-the-word ghostwriters' interpretations on the brief "write me a MAGA themed romance novel in X-thousand words".
I had the same thought
Would be an amazing thriller. Did he kill her husband? Since when has he been following her?
So, basically Erin Hunter.
I considered something similar, but ultimately decided it wouldn’t really make sense to put it up for free, then
Probably got ChatGPT to write it.
Calling your romance book "almost familly" feel like it's gonna have much darker topic
I was so scared it was going to be "we're technically not that closely related"
At least that would be fitting @@DefinitelyNotCursedPen
I would also like to add to the comment about speculating her gender that by stating that this kind of behavior and mentality is solely indicative of men it erases the very real misogyny and misogynoir committed by other (more conservative) women, which can be just as dangerous.
Yeah. Though this suddenly reminded me that 3 women wrote the screenplay for The Ugly Truth. So who knows.
@@Rabbitlord108 Really? I didn't know that 😓
@@A_Bookish_Obsession Yeah. It's thanks to Film Brain's Bad Movie Beatdown episode on it.
Mysogynoir? Please speak English
@@ldcg106Wikipedia: Misogynoir is a term referring to misogyny directed towards black women where race and gender both play a role
The whole "take your ring off, it's been four years" is particularly baffling to me. My father still wears his wedding ring, and it's been close to ten years since my mom passed away. Also, to the best of my knowledge, "classic courtship" should be... well, dating? Getting to really know someone before you move on to a more serious form of commitment? Maybe Liberty knows something I don't...
My father ist still wearing his too and it has been exactly ten years and two months sine my mother passed away. He even has plans to ask a goldsmith to combine it somehow with my mother's ring.
The title alone is enough to make me flinch. Saying that any family that isn’t your typical Mum, Dad and however many kids isn’t a “real family” is just kind of awful. A single parent and a kid is just as much a family as any other type. I’m not a single parent, or even a parent at all but it’s just a horrible statement to put out there
I couldn't agree more since my mum raised me and my older sister mostly by herself even when she splitted with my dad who then got remarried but still get along after the divorce.
Exactly, you don't even need kids to be a family. Sometimes a family is two people, usually living in a romantic relationship. Sometimes its multiple people living in a romantic relationship. (As long all consent no issues. I do have issue if only one has the ultimate choice. That sister wives comes to mind as an example. He can date and "marry" multiple women, but they can only date/"marry" him.) Sometimes it's close friends' who know they have each other's backs and support each other. Sometimes the best family is the one you create yourself but have no blood ties too. A family is created; not given. Sometimes we get lucky with blood relations but even then, you gotta create those bonds.
Somtimes it maybe even a single person with a pet(s).
@@sawanna508sorry but no caring for a pet and raising children are two totally different ball games
@@neinja66469 That doesn't necessarily make it not a family. Children aren't required for a family
"I'll never forget you, my darling" to "Whoa, sexy Republican, come to mama!" 😹😹😹😹 The delivery really helps. Thank you!
I THINK the line at 9:54 is meant to be a double-entendre. Take him out as in punch, Take her out as in "on a date". But yeah it does come off as "If i couldnt knock him out i'd settle for injuring you"
Med student here: "case" is actually a thing in medicine, too. Usually when you're describing a patient for educational or research purposes, but it can also refer to a surgical case. So, she got that one right.
Son of a trauma surgeon here - I was about just about to say this! Still sounds like a heinously awful novel, of course.
Dom's pronunciation of "LLLLIBERTY" is the gift that keeps on giving.
Am I the only one that wouldn't be surprised if this book was partly written by AI? The way Dom is describing it near the end makes it sound like it, and it would explain why it was free on the website.
I figured this too. Makes sense. You have to pay a ghost-writer less if most of the work is done by AI.
@@faithlessone423 At least a 50/50 shot that they're paying the same amount but the contractor is just trying to make a living wage by cranking stuff out faster.
I thought that too for a second, but Dom mentions that this book was released between 2020 and 2021 - A.I. started to turn into a 'trend' pretty recently, so this seems unlikely.
Hi, software developer specializing in large language models (I.e. GPT etc) here. Like @@dragonexe2297 said, the technology wasn’t really sophisticated enough in 2020 for this
Chatbot that someone proof read?
"MARVEL HARDER!"
I'm marveling! That is some dedication to your craft.
🤣
I'm curious if Liberty is a pen name for a group of writers. That would explain the writing inconsistencies.
Many people have said this, but as a wannabe writer I disagree. Good authors keep it consistent , us mediocre ones can be unrecognizable from one book to the other, so I wouldn't jump to conclude it is several people.
It's most likely a couple - the penname was traced back
I have suspected that this tripe of a "romance" novel trilogy is the result of a four-way collaboration from the four prominent media personalities at The Daily Wire: Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles and Andrew Clavan.
@@MichaelLovely-mr6oh the 8th circle of hell personified
Just from the cover: a cruise ship and a family... oh lord, it's Alvin and the Chipmunk: Chipwrecked
I just got a Vietnam war esc flashback to that blasted film
I can’t believe the Alvin voted for Trump
@@merrittanimation7721Really? The red hat didn’t give it away?
Holden Caufield's fursona @@christopherrobinhood9802
😂😂😂
I noticed this whole thing was just everyone telling this girl what she should feel and how his job and his wanting her is more than enough reason to commit to him. This seems to be a running trend in the "nice guy" manosphere. No thought towards actual compatibility or proper bonding
It was also an issue raised by female survivors of the IBLP in Shiny Happy People, which broke my heart.
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@@moustik31 yes! This!!!!!!
Well, gosh, I'm just a girl and I shouldn't have to think or make decisions or manage my life in anyway!
You know satire has surpassed reality when you have to actually look to see if a Trump-themed cruise (ugh, oh the horror) is real. By the way, thank you for shouting all of us non binary friends out!
Here's another possibility: the books were written by different authors. The Liberty Adams pen name is a company name, like Franklin Dixon on the Hardy Boys or Carolyn Keene on Nancy Drew.
wait... the hardy boys and nancy drew collections weren't written by just one author??
@@Panda-cute I had to go and look that up. But yeah, it's true.
Erin Hunter - the credited author of the Warrior Cats line of books - is another famous example
Of all the things in this book that would drive me insane, I think the worst would be having every character referred to by first and last name over and over again. Humans don't talk like that!
I'm not saying it was aliens...
Tell me you’ve never watched J-dramas or certain anime without saying a word about it.
Not saying it’s prevalent in those forms of media, but it’s definitely not unheard of for characters to always be Full Named.
I’m leaning towards the idea that “Liberty” is one of those collective writing groups
Man, and I thought my fanfiction writing had rough dialogue and punctuation. Makes me feel a bit better I guess knowing this exists.
I mean, this is also free on the net, so it basically goes into the Original Work section of ao3
@@lnt305 And that's where it should've stayed
As a beta reader and editor, it's really hard to look at the written passages of this book and not feel my brain go into meltdown. Ugh. It's so bad.
Your sacrifice has not gone unnoticed!
The more excerpts Dom reads, the more I'm questioning whether Chat GPT wrote most of this book. A.I. writing tends to favor full character names and perfunctory diction. It also tends to struggle with syntax and punctuation.
I was also wondering this. Big AI/underpaid overworked ghostwriter vibe.
Yeah as soon as Dom mentioned that it felt like it was written by AI I muttered a bit of an oh no to myself with the realization that might actually be the case. Especially if it WAS written more recently and not in 2021 like the Dom suspects.
The only problem is that ChatGPT has a better writing style. Maybe one of the other AIs doesn't?
@@KristenMSnyder If it was an early AI though, that would make sense
"Oh no, not again" -Douglas Adams, but Dom too probably
also John Hurt
😂😂😂
I wish Douglas Adams would come back again and his death was actually a cover story for him doing some interdimensional travelling to inspire his next book.
on the topic of "don't assume someone is a man because they do X, Y, Z" there are asshole women too. I point you to JustPearlyThings, Mikaila Peterson, Blaire White, Candice Owens, JK Rowling, etc, etc. Women are just as capable of perpetuating patriarchy and misogyny. If anything, the existence of such women is integral to the maintenance of patriarchy. If all women agreed that things were shit, we probably would have made a lot more progress by now. That some percentage of women not only go along with it but actively maintain it helps sell the narrative that everything is fine just the way it is.
definitely don't forget miss brett cooper🥲🥲
That's true, women can be as misogynistic just like men and it's called internalized misogyny.
That's fair. Tbh I was under the impression the theorizing about "Liberty" actually being a cis dude was specifically bc of how the word "female" was used, since incel culture online has kind of trademarked calling women "females" in that specific manner as their thing.
The phrase "cigar smoking whisky drinking feminists" gives me wild west vibes.
awesome
When I was younger(young teen) VC Andrews wrote amazing books. They were dark and disturbing. They featured things like incest and rape and family abuse. And then all the sudden the books became very tame. Because she had died, and now had a ghost author. It was so disappointing.
Did you ever let the publisher know that the ghostwritten books really fell down on the incest and rape front?
Someone should inform the ghosts about their writing if not.@@mattrobson3603
And now I question WHY this is even a desired reading indulgence.
@@danielramsey6141 darker themes like these in writing and fiction in general are very normal. it's a healthy, safer way to explore things and even cope with traumas rather than seeking them out IRL in some way. Creative outlets including things often considered taboo are very important
@@Panda-cute perfectly put!
All hail king Dom! No matter how much someone sucks, respect their pronouns!
Yesss! This!
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The cover of "almost a family" is just the family T-posting
Really? A romance book titled "almost family?" That carries some... implications. And I'm assuming that Liberty didn't want those.
Yes, I get the feeling she didn't think that one out. I mean, I hope she didn't.
@@BlueTressym the writing, Im not sure she's capable of thought at all so...
Fair point.@@Panda-cute
My personal head cannon is that the author of My Immortal grew up, fell down an alt-right rabbit hole because of what happened with JKR (you decide if they were interested in perpetuating or stopping it) and then returned to their roots and wrote this.
my friends and I decided to read that fic out loud for a laugh... it was funny at first but the constant bits about cutting herself got a bit old pretty fast.
I wasn’t physically prepared for Mr. noble to say good girl.
That's Dom Noble!
I didn’t think this would become a favourite thing but listening to Don rip apart terrible republican romance novels is incredibly compelling.
Oh Dom, the things you do to entertain us with your pain...
A traditional courtship is basically super exclusive dating before engagement, without living together and in some cases not being alone together. The courtship period can be of any length before engagement.
Oh, god, it's a trilogy. And I haven't said that with as much dread since the _Twilight_ years of YA novels. Stay strong, Dom, you can do this!
Yup, because that’s what really goes down GREAT with bereaved kids; having a new partner pushing into their lives and calling themselves their new daddy/mommy when their parents body’s barely cold.
Can’t believe I’m defending this trash but the dads been dead four years, not that he isn’t creepy though
Oh my God, it's here! Everybody stay calm! The most anticipated sequel of the year has dropped!
By god am I marveled by the sheer dedication of this man to his craft
I too am marvelling hard!
I shall marvel harder!
"Using periods like a napalm strike" is my new favorite term.
Could it be possible that "Liberty Adams" isn't a single person, but a group of people using the same pseudonym?
Almost certainly, some of which may be AI.
I completely agree with your theory on this book doing 'baby's first novel' I used to write quite a bit when I was younger and a lot of what made my writing bad was mirrored in the book, the way dialogue doesn't flow right, the way the chapters are likely written out of order, putting on paper whatever scene just popped in the writer's head without much through about coherency, the way the characters seem to change work / desires / characterisation, ect
That “… Marvel harder!!” got me good. Amazing job, mate.
Tell me you're into power play, without telling me you're into power play
Liberty: wait a sec
Thank you for the statement about respecting people’s gender and pronouns, even if you don’t agree with them. Not only is it a great way to fight transphobia (however unintentional), my experience with the romance community suggests that Liberty being who she says she is, simply using a pen name for anonymity, is not outside the realm of possibility. I mean, when there are authors like EL James, Anna Todd, and Jamie McGuire (she’s also a MAGA author), with works rife with internalized misogyny, Liberty has good company.
Cosigning this comment in a big way, I really appreciate that Dom went out of his way to double down on that. Especially considering how belligerent people were being about it on the last video.
Its like that one meme, watch the leftism leave people's bodies the instant someone disagrees with them. -.- At least so far things look way more civil on this one at least!!
About the “Case” thing, my guess is that Liberty was watching”House MD” and assumed that this is how real doctors refer to patients and emergencies
I thought that too, it’s referred to as such in House
It is interesting to see the relief at not having to do everything in this book, as that is something that women frequently want! I just finished a book with that as a primary draw of the romantic interest. Usually this is paired with other characters unthinking putting a lot of responsibility on the MC, like insisting she work on vacation while they have fun, or asking her to organize all the kids not just her own, or she has 2 jobs. Etc.
A Kingdome of King Dom shirt could be cool with an open book leaking letters or worlds drip onto a role of old school film.
A Kingdom Of Dom shirt, with a throne made of books!!!
I'm marveling, I'm marveling!! The things you do to entertain us. Phew. I could never. Thank you, daddy! I mean, Dom. Ahem.
I can't get Zapp Brannigan's voice out of my head while reading the Doctor guy's lines
Ya know, I feel like Zapp actually has slightly better social skills than Dr. Take Charge!
I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed getting to drop this on an unsuspecting friend and watch the "OH NO" reaction
the way you say “feeding her SOOP” is immaculate 🤌🏻
I laughed when she had to have her sister tell her that he was a Republican. 😂 like he’s on a Trump Cruise Ship! Of course he’s Republican, did she think he’d stumbled onto the ship by accident? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He is the ship's doctor and he just works there. This might be a Maga-cruise, but the next one might be a Pride-cruise: same boat, same crew, different passengers.
The first minute and a half reminding me why I love Dom.
Also, the sponsor segment sandwiched between this book's nonsense gave me weird flashbacks to the surreal, 4th-wall-bothering ad breaks in UBIK. Ow my brain
Might I offer you some brain bleach in this troubling time? *Passes over large bottle*.
I think "meat market" is supposed to mean attractive men... At least, that's how I'm taking it knowing this is intended to be a romance novel.
Yeah, this isn’t some sleazy singles cruise. Single Mom(TM) would never fall someone who would go on one of those! Just watch her reject the one dude who treats her like they are on a singles cruise. Irrefutable proof that she’s not a meat market kinda gal. But Stalk-Doc McCharge? He’s not “shopping at the meat market.” No. His intentions are pure. So, even though she’s not on a singles cruise, it turns out, because of the leads’ pure hearts, they find true love on this non-singles cruise anyway. /s
Close!
"Meat Market" is a relatively common negative descriptor for various singles events and dating apps, referring to a sense that the participants are overly focused on shallow assessment of physical appearances or in pursuit of the least difficult to persuade hook-up.
So Allie is saying that the singles dance her family pushed her to attend isn't as sleazy-feeling as she was afraid it was going to be.
Yup, I agree with @allwillfall2me - meat market in my experience means lots of men looking at women like they are meat, frequently middle-aged men trawling for a younger wife
"MARVEL HARDER" it cracks me up lol
Our protagonist is really going to suffer when she tries to navigate the health insurance rules for getting the cruise ship treatment eligible for applying to the deductible.
That was only last year?! I'd have bet it was no later than 2021 that you reviewed the first book. Gods, time flows in strange ways.
Ah Dom see the problem is that Google isnt the place to search for a MAGA Cruise
You have to look for those in Hell
If I ever needed an incentive to be a better person, avoiding those wankers would be more than sufficient.
@14:57 I love it when you call us "good girl", Dom :)
Having been a single mother while also taking care of my sick mom I can say that for me the idea of someone coming in and taking the reigns for me sounds very appealing. There were times I wondered what idiot put me in charge, who gave me all this responsibility. I got through it on my own but there is still that fantasy or daydream of some guy who is capable,, who can handle a situation and take care of things (while being handsome and charming and confident but not arrogant at the same time)coming in and saving the day. Now that's a fairy tale for this woman. Lol.
I respect Shelby Hotz so much. She is such a trooper. The years of support have earned her place in the outro.
Dom, i love your commitment to supporting the writers and actors strike. Seriously thank you. I don’t know if you’re taking a hit monetarily during this time, but know that I absolutely will not be abandoning you(or skipping ads😊) You truly are both a gentleman and a scholar and I love you for it.
I was concerned this review would depress me, but Dom worked magic to make it hysterical instead. Diet Coke indeed. Was this written by AI? Seriously.
Whats weird is that this wasn't a bad idea for a romance novel if a little unoriginal since while I don't follow romance novel trends single mother stories sounds like it would be one of the most plentiful.
Its at least better then ladies first because this one doesn't feel like Liberty is trying too hard to prove her delusions as correct but wanted to make a legit romance novel with all the MAGA stuff feeling more forced then anything. Its like she realized too late into writing it that it doesn't conform to her brand so instead just put it in random parts like the cruise and thanksgiving conversation.
It does sound like one of of those Harlequin romance book series that you see everywhere only done horrible as humanly possible.
Re: song titles i bet its a leftover from fanfic where people will give you a song to listen to while reading a chapter to 'set the mood'.
Can I just quickly express how awesome it feels to be included in the greeting as an enby (especially if we consider the context of the book you're talking about) - thank you!
A healthcare provider saying’ I’ll take it from here’ isn’t the first lesson of first aid is asking for consent, ‘do you need help?’ And don’t move the person.
A MAGA guy who's not big on consent?
Naw, I can't believe that!
"Hold me in your arms"
"We don't even know each other's names."
"Linda"
"Doctor Sanchez"
i rellllly apprecate the nonby mention and we respect pronouns here , swag and love all around
Doctor examines her injured ankle and tells her it won't prevent her from becoming a mother? I have so many questions about this man's medical license and training...
Not questioning Liberty's gender, just Liberty's integrity, human decency and literacy.
I'm definitely on board with the possibility that this was AI-written. Seems to make the most sense.
10:21 Found this interesting because I recently found out that "positive anymore" is a legitimate thing. It's apparently used like "nowadays" in some dialects in the midwestern US, so our friend Liberty may be from that area.
While the lack of publisher or editor is a viable theory, I also think it's possible Liberty gave her pseudonym to a ghost writer for this one. Not a professional ghost writer, obviously, but it'd make sense if Liberty had other priorities.
Thanks for including non-binary friends ^w^
Such a small thing yet it always makes me feel happy!
I also really appreaciate the inclusivity!!!
I'M MARVELLING AS HARD AS I CAN!
your delivery of “feeding her Soup”
why are you so delightful and charismatic
1:32 the Kingdom of King dom! ALL HAIL THE KING! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🤴🤴🤴🤴🤴🤴🤴
LOVE IT!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
7:17 I am an Autistic Aromantic Asexual. I have very little in the way of programmed dating conversation and yet I know the expected response to “ohnoIamnotdating” is “just making conversation,” “oh I was thinking of introducing you to literally-anyone-in-acceptable-age-and-gender group” and not “I am personally disappointed and not that you won’t become my sibling” even if you are attached to something that will detonate your pants if you lie
It feel so refreshing to have good content made by decent human these days ! Keep doing what you do Dom !
I marvel SO hard at your commitment to giving the bad books a fair shot. I would have a headache for WEEKS if I read a fraction of the stuff like what you talk about in this review.
The name brand drinks thing is surprisingly common in conservative fiction. I am not sure why, but my first guess would be to let the readers know that there is DEFINITELY no booze being consumed. Or in some cases, that there is no CAFFEINE being consumed, if the target audience is the LDS niche. ( The amount of times some Christian romance books mention Caffeine-free Diet Coke is almost amusing)
I'm marveling as hard as I can at your awesome dedication Dom. 🎉 😅
12:53 I marvelled, I wept for your sanity, and I marvelled some more!
I’m marveling! I’m marveling! You don’t have to point so loudly!
I'm sorry but Dom's "Ladies, Gents, and Non Binary friends" reminds me of Adam from SK8. "Hey bitches and bros and nonbinary hoes!"
Tell me more about this Adam and SK8 because I have no idea what you're talking about but I am somewhat intrigued
@@mirjanbouma SK8 Infinity is an anime about skateboarding and Adam is like the best skateboarder. He's also weird and creepy and says crazy things all the time. The dub of that show is hilarious and he's somehow even creepier there. The dub is where the line "Hey bitches and bros and nonbinary hoes!" pops out
Liberty is actually Ferengi. They censored out the rules of acquisition.
Hearing you call the doctor "Mister TCG" gave me such whiplash cause I didn't recognize as "Take Charge Guy" but instead as "Trading Card Game"(curse my YGO hyperfixation) and for a minute I thought "There's at least that redeeming quality" until I realized what it meant...I feel very dumb right about now.
I'm not one for the "traditional family dynamic," but as a "Dom" yourself, I would have no objection to hearing you call me a "good girl," Mr. Noble 😊
about the songs playing in the background, I feel like often less experienced writers (or any sort of artists, I'm totally guilty of doing this when I made music) will use aspects of more established writers' work, for example Irvine Welsh VERY often includes the music playing in the background, but there it makes sense, it has a lot to do with the characters, the time period, the subculture etc, or GRRM often describes clothing in great detail and I remember a book I worked on once, it was a kind of fantasy-action-erotica deal (very entertaining and a bast to translate) did the same thing, but when they ended up doing it in an intense fight scene, it came off as odd, I totally get the urge to do the thing our favorite authors do, to utilize these elements, but it takes practice to know when to get it right.
I also really wouldn't be surprised if the songs in question for this particular book were selected for, for a lack of a better term, virtue signaling to the audience type reasons (i.e., how right wing media in America recently tried to prop up those songs about small towns {or so Jason Aldean said, with certain images in the music video and contempt for protesters on display in the lyrics} or the one lambasting food stamps under the guise of working class vs. rich men values). There's also a few songs that people in a certain adjacent conspiracy group have declared anthems, so I'm sure the songs listed in the novel probably link back to those types of things (which I can't blame Dom for not picking up on if so, American culture war stuff like that is pretty exhausting for people on the outside).
Edit: I guess dogwhistle or Tara Mooknee's Vice-Signal would also work, but whatever.
Not gonna lie, love how she uses the periods in this book. Adds the right amount of melodramatic flair to otherwise cliché scenes XD
I've heard that name dropping songs into stories is used by inexperienced writers to set the tone of a scene.
To be fair i did get an x-ray on a cruise ship. They have like a full medical ward with multiple doctors, nurses, techs. Theyre hauling around thousands of people, including crew who will need routine medical care