Nothing could psychologically prepare me for the ground news notification telling me someone tried to assassinate Trump right after the sponsorship drop and thw gun play explanation
My mom randomly told me today that she decided to name her new cat Cindy after "that fun library gal you watch who makes sure you don't read bad books"
the fact that the author thinks rapists are either sketchy mexican immigrants or lavishly rich and powerful men working together a la eyes wide shut is very much cartoonifying the crime at hand meanwhile this man is stalking a poor woman and physically assaulting her despite protests, a much more commonplace and realistic depiction of violence against women. but hey! at least he has a blue eye!
It gives me the same vibes as the (usually white upper middle class) women on Tiktok that talk about flags that people are looking to traffic you that could be otherwise explained by people just being people, "If there's a tissue outside your car door on the ground, it means they're tracking you" etc. It just serves to sensationalise trafficking and completely neglects to acknowledge the fact that most people are trafficked by the people they know. All it does is encourage paranoia and profiling strangers, which always ends up circling back around to racism...
Actually in the original digital release and in the still available short story in the same universe those rich dudes were EXPLICITLY Jewish. I'm talking Jewish surnames and stereotypes about their features. She changed it in the print version because she got called out, but the side story afaik still has a lot of it. The books have been accused of being Qanon fanfic and I fully believe that's true. If you google the book plus antisemitism you can find some of the damning evidence. Nasty.
yeah, first video where i don't stop at the grape scene, but holy moly, it reads like a bad 13yo girl wattpad story. like he a facial feature that make him rare (eyes of different color obviously, the totally not overused trope), and she's boring af lol + how it's written, maybe this writing could fit another genre.
@@withcindy This is funny. I actually wrote a book about stalkers called Stalkers that features one of the main characters watching a WithCindy video. Back in 2020 or 2021. The protagonist was not an author, though. She was based more on my partner, and while it's also a romance, it's not a romance with her stalker, just another person being stalked.
I could have sworn that I put the link to the book in the description. Oh well, the video only got three views anyway, and the book sold less copies. ruclips.net/video/jyult5S2Y8Y/видео.htmlsi=SQCsALFRJiJRY8nL
@@Solscapes. Your books are like riding roller coasters made of warped wood, covered in retched up seafood, while the whole park is on fire around you. C-.
@@Sharpe1502 I remember one listening to a really goofy alien romance audiobook, and the narrator was reciting off some tangent in a particular voice, begins to laugh and softly say "can I do that again?" Then proceeds to do it again. They just left in, and it was glorious. So campy, so trashy.
That "it wasn't consensual...at first" is so disturbing to me because I've seen men make jokes like this about SA, and I can't wrap my head around a woman writing this
"Stalking isn't taking seriously, which is why so many women get murdered" said by THE STALKER OF SOME WOMAN HE SAW ONCE made my jaw drop. I have never seen such a hypocritical character in my life.
Why do these writers name their love interests like millenial boy-moms name their kids? Like "Zade" doesn't sound like a badass vigilante, it sounds like the crying blonde toddler in a Wal-Mart
As a therapist who works with many kids, teens, and adults who've been trafficked, it is KILLING me to hear about this book. I can't even make a witty comment because it is truly so out of a movie plot instead of even a teeny bit of research into trafficking. Also I can't believe this book is acting like he's a total pro on trafficking but doesn't have a SINGLE predator who's trafficking a family member; the vast majority of domestic trafficking is done by family members, and I figured a book so focused on edge would've jumped at the chance to use that statistic. Which is just more proof to me that they didn't do any research into this.
Way too many people have this weird hero complex/ fantasy about finding these big bad guys who are tormenting the innocents. Yet they conveniently ignore the actual facts because “none of my family would do something like that”
>fights guys who traffic women >later goes on a whole paragraph about how he wants to "break" this woman and "forcibly make her his" my brother in christ you're the guy you should be fighting
This was literally one of the nastiest parts of the book. Inserting the plot point of fighting human trafficking, something that especially affects women and young girls, then turning it around and making the "male lead" a violent, possessive piece of shit. So, controlling, abusing, and assaulting women is suddenly hot when it's a man you're attracted to? Truly horrific. This book set women back at least 100 years. Edit: Something about it also tells me Zade "fighting crime" was a plot point put in to defend the rest of his actions. Like, uhh, he rapes and stalks a poor woman, but at least he's hunting bad people!!! That excuses it, surely!!
@@libby2122its such a piss poor excuse too because he does the exact same thing! It's just so obvious the author is trying so hard to justify it when they didn't even need to because it's DARK ROMANCE
This is so obviously written by some racist suburban housewife with a cop husband who willfully refuses to understand what sexual violence and human trafficking actually look like in the real world. Real life human trafficking doesn't look like a random brown guy kidnapping women from their nice middle class lives. It looks like an abusive boyfriend coercing his girlfriend into doing s*x work even though she's not comfortable with it, or a step father abusing his stepdaughter when the mom is at work, or a landlord forcing a tenant to do s*x acts so she doesn't get convicted. Undocumented people are MUCH more likely to be victims of sex trafficking than perpetrators.
lmao i've watched people who actually can hack try to figure something out. Hacking is literally the art of googling something, googling another thing, seeing if there's someone who already did something you want, then frankensteining together a solution from the code of 4 other people with a few lines to make it work in your specific application. Certainly a real hacker *can* code things from scratch, but only an idiot does that for everything ever when it's often days of work compared to an hour of modifying something you found on github. Especially when everything is in a different language, no shit someone's gonna have to look up what something means when they need to read assembly or something if they aren't constantly writing in assembly (rare these days). The amount of googling does depend on what you're doing specifically, like is it reverse engineering, web exploitation, cracking, etc? But no matter what there will be googling. New tech is always being developed, and new tech means new vulnerabilities and new patches
@@silentraisin ah yes that is why I love working in comsci and cyber sec, nothing ever changes, and all you need to know has already been published 😂 (joking of course)
Him calling her little mouse gave me food poisoning 💀. I hate when love interests use nicknames like “little + small animal.” Mama… that’s a grown woman
A roommate of mine showed a picture of us roomates to one of her coworker who decided I was to be his wife. He nagged my roommate who, eventually, very akwardly told me about the situation and asked if she was allowed to give him my number. I said no and thanked her for asking me first. I had been flooded by stange friend requests for some weeks and I realized it was him. Then he slipped up and told my roommate he had snooped in their boss's office for her documents to find our adress but it was totally fine because he just wanted to send me poems and maybe some flowers and not do anything creepy because he was a romantic and a good guy and she didn't have to worry 'bout it. I moved.
This reminded me of a tweet I saw. A woman's neighbor was asking her why her bedroom door is always locked. To which she responds with, how did you know? Turns out that the neighbor tried to get inside her house to "surprise" her.
Honestly should be a confidence booster for writers out there. What you write probably won't be any worse than something H.D. Carlton, E.L. James, or Cassandra Clare has written. Assuming you don't look up to them as writers, then you probably will write something as bad as them idk 😂
@@paigeh4231Idk, I feel like Cassandra Clare at least is a better writer. I never really got into her stuff, but I heard her writing improves throughout the series she writes.
@@joyc.e.7511 fair enough. I haven't heard much about her later novels. I read a few many years ago, but none since because they were bad. But I totally get that people can improve over time with practice.
I think Ben is worse since he literally refuses to believe he’s doing a horrible thing. At least Zade (wattpad-ass name) is like “I’m stalking her, I’m craaaaaaazy”
they're on the same scale mentality wise tbh, you got 1 toxic abusive man that's always right, and a SAssaulter that knows his wrongs and still does it, not knowing that by "breaking the rule" once, he's that label forever. (like you can't be trusted not to do it again when you've crossed this fat ass line)
I DNF'ed it when he first sees her picture and there's like, an entire page of "she's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, she doesn't need surgery or Photoshop, she's so perfect, I'm obsessed", it reads like a fanfic that a 13yo would have written about her favorite artist.
That's the most laughable part of this book. He just sees her and starts monologuing. It's especially funny when you realize that Adeline is a self insert for H.D Carlton. How do I have imposter syndrome when authors like these exist?
Whenever I search up book recommendations that are similar to Jane Eyre, I get "Haunting Adeline" and it makes me want to chuck my phone against a wall.
what if instead of delivering roses he gave her rose toys and the end of the book or whatever addy just has a mountain of rose toys in a closet and like she opens it up and she gets buried in rose toys and dies
I HATE how Addie is labelled The Manipulator. Why? Because she's attractive. It's literally an Incel Dog Whistle - Why Female Hot if Not Want Me? And don't even get me started on the "Of course it wasn't grape, she had an O!" justifications. This book is straight up Qanon Fan Fic.
i wanna go back to this… i don’t think that when zade says archibald “grows a vagina” that he’s calling him a coward- rather, it’s zade doing a hashtag #feminism and belittling the phrase “grow a pair” because you know, he thinks women are strong, courageous, autonomous even-
The scene where he’s just hiding in the grass outside her house with a rose in his teeth, combined with the fact that you called him a husky, it’s giving me smile dog like the creepypasta? and I can not get that image out of my head. Imagine being stalked by smile dog. Imagine smile dog mailing you severed hands. I’m losing my mind.
What I first thought of lmao. Honestly sounds preferable in some regards. At least it's an actual dog and not a horny half-husky half-human bush baby looking headass who has an inexplicably endless supply of roses at all times...
You know when a writer is lazy when they just TELL you how good a character is at something; with no showing, no proof, not enough background information to backup the claim. You as the reader just have to trust and believe if he's said to be the GREATEST hacker of ALL TIME, then it's true! If you don't believe it... maybe you're just underestimating the character!
This is why i remain A Little Life hater on its description of multitalented Jude (jokes aside, i do like the friendship a lot, but the constant telling instead of showing is painful)
I really dont get how someone who works on trafficking can think about anything else on the job. Or have sex/ think about anything sexual a second after.
That's the thing about stalkers: you don't have to be anything special to end up in their crosshairs. As far as I know, I never had a real stalker, but this guy waited outside of my house and exposed himself to me once when I was walking home from work. I'm a regular, average person. I was just there. Sometimes, that's all it takes
@@DarwinRoger893 yeah, it was several years ago now and I don't live there any more or work that job anymore. But it did mess me up for a while. I think the worst part was trying to get the cops to take it seriously (spoiler: they didn't even though I gave them a full description and his license plate number, even though he almost ran me over with his car when he saw that I was getting his plates.) It was also terrible because I knew that this guy knew where I lived, and because it brought up past trauma. But I lived! Thanks for asking and sorry for the rant
Nice to know you're okay. I was also flashed by a guy, in full daylight, jumping out from behind a tree outside my apartment complex just a few days after moving to a new city and I just stood and stared at his back while he ran off. I hadn't even unpacked. It's shockingly common.
@@msjkrameythank God you're alright. You'd think cops would take cases of stalking seriously considering how many people die from that 🙄. I'm really happy to hear that you survived that. That's such a horrible thing to happen to anyone.
.... Are you at least sipping tequila with an sombrero hanging in the background? This "just existing" is ruining the vibe of this book. You really should think of the team, myself, as a woman, cut the brake-lines on my car and put all my money into blockbuster stocks ten minutes ago just to fit the theme.
I hated this book so much. I’m so angry at the writer. I would like to write her a 10 page letter about how she wasted my life. The 2nd book is too much sec trafficking for me. It’s not handled properly. She tried to make him like Batman. He is not.
It’s like the only way the author thinks a character can be “grey” is that they’re overall a horrible person but “hot” and think r*pists/p*dos are bad even tho he’s the same. Also I just hate how this book is written 😭😭 very wattpad coded
Nahh idk which way the cycle turns but I've of late been quite frustrated with fans seeing an _actual_ morally grey character and either complaining that they "ruined the villain" by making her have moral standards, or that she's actually a good person who would never commit any of the villany she canonically continues to commit Is there bo moral greyness because audiences can't comprehend it? Are audiences bad at spotting greyness because they're being fed sh*t ? Has it always been like this?
Yeah that's how bad writers get around writing actually interesting and nuanced morally corrupt characters. They just introduce someone way worse. Like if the character is a killer, they'll introduce a rapist. And here since the love interest is both a stalker and a rapist he then HAS to fight child traffickers. It's lazy and doesn't really redeem him at all, it just makes him seem like the biggest hypocrite on earth
I realized a big problem with most of these books is that they're panickly trying to make the guy seem like a good person despite everything he does to the MC. Like... Why?? Imagine if the authors of these went all in and actually treated this guy character like he's doing bad things. It could've been a nice psychological horror but instead it has to be the "I can fix him" thing.
I literally said this in good reads. Like why are yall trying so hard to convince me this guy isn’t the spawn of Satan. At this point, it’d be a better book if you just let him be psychotic. Why are they so against just creating a villain. He’ll, I’d probably like the villian more
I wrote a fanfic in one afternoon while recovering from wisdom teeth surgery, and I posted it to AO3 that same afternoon without having anyone beta read it. I think it’s still better than Haunting Adeline.
couldn't stand these books, but my fav thing about it is that adeline is such an obvious self insert from the author. literally just describing herself. they're twins. cracks me tf up. sincerely, a brown eyed mexican.
tiktok are just gooners in general 😭😭 theyre so desentisized by everything that they only care if the book has 100 chapters of ppl rawdogging in every sentence.
Read the Bloodsworn saga by John Gwynne it’ll restore it 🙏🙏🙏 (retelling of Norse mythology in a really interesting way that feels unique to the world yet still has ties to the source, plenty of action/battle so gore and death is a big TW, and everyone is a mature adult!!! Yippee!! Also just genuinely love how he writes women, which is to say the same way as men in the story)
stuff that makes me so mad abt some of these sexual scenes is that like, addie saying that she is in control isn't even explored as like, a way of her denying how her desires actually put her in harms way, it doesn't serve as anything for her character. like, if the book was a serious dark romance, it would try and explore how addie's danger kink actually led her to a dangerous situation where she can fucking die if she tries to oppose this man in a way that isn't sexually satisfying right? it could create conflict abt how she enjoys so much of it but is also not as in control as she would like and doesn't know if she can even stop him if she stops liking it but the author is so worried abt these themes being too uncomfortable to the readers who want to get off to sexy dangerous hacker assassin man, which is very ironic, given this is supposed to be a dark romance anyways
Yeah and the most confusing thing about these stories is that it's always the man taking the control over the woman and not the other way around. If addy took control of her stalker and uses him for sexual pleasure (as well as explore those themes you discussed) then maybe it might be appealing but the story would still need to properly frame or at the very least not try to justify the stalker
Another thing that gets me is the constant lampshading too. It would be better if Addy just made deliberately bad choices bc she wanted to and not bc she's a self proclaimed doofus all the time
The "I don't understand why I'm doing this, I'm so dumb, I shouldn't do that! *proceeds to keep doing that*" thing has a name. Its lampshade hanging, usually shortened to "lampshading" is a writing and/or manipulation technique, which involves intentionally bringing attention to something, in the context of writing it's usually blatant abuse of tropes, completely improbable situation or characters acting like no human ever would, and then just continuing without missing a bit, as is pointing a finger at something dumb was enough of a reasoning and explanation for it, and the author is now magically absolved. In the context of real life, it's a manipulation technique, in which a person brings attention to their flaws or bad behavior, often in a self-deprecating way, and then acts like that makes it okay. And it's manipulation, because it preemptively strips the other person of the ability to call that behavior/trait out, because then the manipulator will say something along the lines of "Yeah, I told you I'm an asshole" and expect to be forgiven. In writing, it doesn't have to be bad, even Shakespeare lampashes in the Twelfth Night, so it can be used to create humor or restore the suspension or disbelief, but they more often than not are just annoying XD In real life, they just suck, don't do that, if you know, you're doing somethign bad, just acknowledge it, change the behavior and reconcile with those you have hurt, just saying it's bad doesn't fix shit.
I genuinely don't understand why people enjoy this stuff??? Like... why? Okay, you got a weird kink, sure, that's fine, we all do, right? But... folks, yall deserve better than this. Y'all deserve things that are written WELL.
ok but. what's the deal with the hands. she got *severed hands* in her mail. and... THEN WHAT? what did she do with the hands??? i feel like at the point where you've been on a hot date where the guy disappears leaving only blood behind and then get SEVERED HANDS in the mail and you DON'T tell the cops you're now straight-up accessory to murder. like bestie.
Adeline’s weird speech reminded me of a video I watched called, “Euthanasia Fan Fiction” where the RUclipsr Owl Criticism breaks down the story and message of the book A Little Life. He references an interview with Hanya Yanagihara (the author) where she essentially says that some people may be so irreversibly traumatized and damaged that they are beyond healing and, “better off dead.” And then there’s Adeline over here saying, “Sometimes people just aren’t meant to live through that trauma.” It’s a weird message to send to your BookTok audience.
is “An array of computer screens line the ten-foot long desk, and all my other illegal devices in here.” the actual line from the book? 😭i can’t get over how that implies that the desk is an illegal device
Booktok hackers: A hot bad-boy with a massive desk full of contraband in a dark and moody room, masterfully evading firewalls as he edits hundreds of lines of code. IRL Hackers: A trans catgirl on her laptop finding the TSA’s No-Fly List casually sitting in an airlines unsecured server.
So like...if Archibald had been a good dude, like...spent his time volunteering at a charity clinic and arranging toy drives for orphans, would Zade have let him go? Or is it just convenient justification after the fact? Because I have the feeling it's the latter.
I already knew what happened in this book from another RUclipsrs review, but god, the part with how Daya talks to Adeline and Adeline hesitantly describing the confusion she has with consent is really, really heartbreaking, especially with Daya immediately responding by teasing Adeline and making it about kink, when you consider how overwhelmingly SA victims doubt themselves and blame themselves, often making excuses for the person who assaulted them. It hit very, very close to home, where I still struggle to describe my assault as an assault because of "liking it"... I know you bring this up anyways, but man, how awful. I keep forgetting that stories that do this kinda stuff can be a trigger for me. Anyways. Great video as always, happy to see you tear apart these books! :)
i remember the first time i heard about haunting adeline and thinking it was some cool horror game with some psychological themes kinda like silent hill. you can imagine the face i made when i found out what it really was. these authors must stop with the cool titles only for the story to be slop......
REAL!!! I tried reading it because of recommendations, I genuinely also thought it was something similar to Silent Hill!!! I fricking love SH and man I was so disappointed 😭
I love how Zade claims himself as a feminist that saves women and children but at the same time this whole book is just him assaulting her multiple times and having weird violent thoughts about her... Isn't it just so romantic? 💖💀
no bc I read the blurb in a bookstore a while ago and thought *i rly hope Cindy covers this ‘cause I am definitely not reading it myself* and lo and behold 💀
Maybe it's just the ace in me but I've never understand why books harp on how long it's been since the character's had sex. Is 1 year really that long?
1st. Hair looks so GOOD 💖 2nd. The sheer over confidence to be like “there’s nothing any book could teach me anymore because I am such a pro” meanwhile my lowly brain is like “oh you have x years of experience… you are inept and know nothing”
It feels sliiiightttlyyy interesting that all the things he’s into are the aesthetics of all the stuff he’s majorly against?? Like for all his high-horsing about women being forced and not having choices, he’s very into being in control and forcing…
@@samantharose1001it would be interesting for a character to note how performativity reveals hypocrisy in what people claim to protest against but unfortunately, for this book, it just makes the character somehow more unlikeable and a hypocrite
As a brown-eyed Mexican, i thank you for acknowledging we exist and have feelings. But also, this brown-eyed Mexican loves your content so thank you for what you do 🙋🏽♀️💗
tbh that "gun" scene that all readers were giddy about is literally SO weird lol... she gets SA'ed and gets stockholm syndrome and thats a love strory?? what in the hell... and there's cliffhanger and the author has a sequel after adeline gets kidnapped like brother in christ no one cares about her or the book, they (fans of this disgusting book) deny the SA and want to be adeline like ewww!!!! queen, booktok had officially gone insane when they recommended this to a 16 yr old biker kid... i choose the bear bc i'd rather be mauled by one than evee hear about a book from booktok... 😭😭
@@headinthebooks904 no seriously like WTF !! and i was gonna say that entire gun scene etc was SA too but this "romance" book is written so unseriously i cant even say it without watching nikki carreon's vid on it again to actually understand the severity...😭😭
@@headinthebooks904 please do !! she goes into depth and i just love her goofiness too lol 😭💀 just like our queen cindy ♡ also !! there is no part 2 for nikki's video bc she has yet to make one i think if i rmbr correctly
Not to mention that the author is using kink/bdsm terminology incorrectly. That was not "gun-play", that was s*xual ass*ult at gun point. Kink without consent is not kink, it's r*pe. And the point of content/trigger warnings is to allow the reader to make an informed decision about the content they want/can consume. It is so fcking irresponsible for the author to mislabel/misuse a tag like that. P.s. sorry for any misspelling.
thank u!! i was filming something professional that day (wont be able to share until late august) so there was a makeup artist that did my makeup and hair. i normally do not look that good LOL
Firstly, Your hair looks good❤ Secondly, I started to feel physically sick when he talked about wiping her police report records. He claims to feel so terrible about the trafficking of women and children then goes on to take advantage of an already crappy system.
I was laughing so hard at the 'rose stem between his teeth' part. If I'm Archie I don't know if I'll be terrified or just supremely confused... and then I'll laugh.
i didn't even see the title at first. i just saw you serving in that thumbnail and instantly clicked. also this book sounds like a nightmare and we thank you for your sacrifice.
I think It's funny how this book is so popular that it's literally recommended to EVERYONE, no matter what age on Amazon. But it's also hard to miss inside a Barnes and Noble.
BnN doesn't stand for Barnes and Noble it stands for BUST A NUT. Isn't something I'm ever going to forget. LOL I'm likely going to fold it into my personality and say this exact phrase anytime someone shortens Barnes and Noble to "bn" so thanks
Nothing could psychologically prepare me for the ground news notification telling me someone tried to assassinate Trump right after the sponsorship drop and thw gun play explanation
me posting this video after trump's assassination attempt is me establishing an alibi
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@@withcindy😭😭😭😭
I cant believe it was 2 weeks ago already😂
@withcindy this made me laugh!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
My mom randomly told me today that she decided to name her new cat Cindy after "that fun library gal you watch who makes sure you don't read bad books"
omg i wanna see the kitty!!
this comment should be cindy's new yt channel banner
Cat tax!
Hhhhh
AWWWWWW how cute 😂🥺💕
I saw the thumbnail and mentally rubbed my hands together like a fly, ready for my trash.
Mmmm The smell of garbage
ommmm that's me! This is such a good analogy
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the fact that the author thinks rapists are either sketchy mexican immigrants or lavishly rich and powerful men working together a la eyes wide shut is very much cartoonifying the crime at hand meanwhile this man is stalking a poor woman and physically assaulting her despite protests, a much more commonplace and realistic depiction of violence against women. but hey! at least he has a blue eye!
You pretty much summarized it all
It gives me the same vibes as the (usually white upper middle class) women on Tiktok that talk about flags that people are looking to traffic you that could be otherwise explained by people just being people, "If there's a tissue outside your car door on the ground, it means they're tracking you" etc. It just serves to sensationalise trafficking and completely neglects to acknowledge the fact that most people are trafficked by the people they know. All it does is encourage paranoia and profiling strangers, which always ends up circling back around to racism...
Actually in the original digital release and in the still available short story in the same universe those rich dudes were EXPLICITLY Jewish. I'm talking Jewish surnames and stereotypes about their features. She changed it in the print version because she got called out, but the side story afaik still has a lot of it. The books have been accused of being Qanon fanfic and I fully believe that's true. If you google the book plus antisemitism you can find some of the damning evidence. Nasty.
The reality of sex trafficking is usually people you know sadly.
It's really fucking racist and untrue what alot of these kinds of people think.
@@kyokunskittyno wonder this woman couldn't find a publisher oof
The most unrealistic thing about Zade is that he doesn't own a fursuit like sir, you're a hacker, where's your uniform???
All I can see is him wearing a husky fursuit to match his creepy eyes 😂
💀💀💀not the husky fursuit
@@isaacizaccFUCK 💀💀😭😭
A hacker without a fursuit is like an angel without its wings
No but fr, why are all hackers furries?
this book really has it all. racism, misogyny, transphobia, a qanon-adjacent portrayal of human trafficking and pedophilia. truly a booktok classic.
Them Booktok girlies are not well and they have a porn addiction cause they were just drooling over this man who ran over two women like wtf 🤬
I missed the transphobia. Was it what she said when she was imagining cutting his dick off?
and don't forget fapthobia!
@@ayangyi and now antisemitism as of the second part of this video.
yeah, first video where i don't stop at the grape scene, but holy moly, it reads like a bad 13yo girl wattpad story.
like he a facial feature that make him rare (eyes of different color obviously, the totally not overused trope), and she's boring af lol
+ how it's written, maybe this writing could fit another genre.
"The protagonist is an indy author--" I cackled at how blatant of a self-insert that was.
The call is coming from inside the house
@@withcindy This is funny. I actually wrote a book about stalkers called Stalkers that features one of the main characters watching a WithCindy video. Back in 2020 or 2021.
The protagonist was not an author, though. She was based more on my partner, and while it's also a romance, it's not a romance with her stalker, just another person being stalked.
I could have sworn that I put the link to the book in the description. Oh well, the video only got three views anyway, and the book sold less copies.
ruclips.net/video/jyult5S2Y8Y/видео.htmlsi=SQCsALFRJiJRY8nL
@@Solscapes. Your books are like riding roller coasters made of warped wood, covered in retched up seafood, while the whole park is on fire around you. C-.
@@matthewatwood207 Quit stalking me, plz.
I’m willing to bet that that Audible narrator did not get paid nearly enough to deliver that “Kitty cat” line.
Props to her for committing
That narrator's rent was due
@@Sharpe1502 I remember one listening to a really goofy alien romance audiobook, and the narrator was reciting off some tangent in a particular voice, begins to laugh and softly say "can I do that again?" Then proceeds to do it again. They just left in, and it was glorious. So campy, so trashy.
@@Reverse_Cowgirl-cat what was the book? I am curious haha
@@ichibanohimesama I want to know too!!
Not me being mexican, fat and having brown eyes. Im Adeline´s worst nightmare help
zade is gonna come after u
Girl so am I a fat, brown eyed Mexican. We can haunt her together I guess 😂
oh goodness me too
wait explain
Omg is it u on the pfp???? Cuz daaaaaaaaamn ★彡
That "it wasn't consensual...at first" is so disturbing to me because I've seen men make jokes like this about SA, and I can't wrap my head around a woman writing this
ya....
I mean i kinda have a non consent/dubcon kink but that is NOT okay in real life
@@luthientinuviel3883 i think you could’ve kept this to yourself. not the opinion but the first part
It's a kink lots of people have, so it's nothing too surprising, tbh.
@@luthientinuviel3883 no one needed to know this
tbh if i was archibald and i saw a blue eyed man holding a rose between his teeth panting at me in the dark i'd freak out too
OH MY GOD😭 absolute nightmare fuel
*insert so I started blasting meme*
“She doesn’t want anyone to get hurt” as if someone didn’t lose their hands
LMAO RIGHT
"bbbbut i don't want anyone to get hurt :(" madam A Man Is Dead
Right? Like does Zade’s body count need to outnumber the local police department or something?
"Stalking isn't taking seriously, which is why so many women get murdered" said by THE STALKER OF SOME WOMAN HE SAW ONCE made my jaw drop. I have never seen such a hypocritical character in my life.
Not even Joe from YOU?
Said in the same book that romanticizes stalking 💀
Most unrealistic part of this book is a self published author selling out venue bookstores
LOL TRUE
😂😂 Too true
Why do these writers name their love interests like millenial boy-moms name their kids? Like "Zade" doesn't sound like a badass vigilante, it sounds like the crying blonde toddler in a Wal-Mart
It is an Arabic name, but I don't think - based on the author's racism- that she chose it knowing this but because it sounded "cool" and "edgy" lol
@@Ezra_Ali Thanks for letting me know! I'll understand when it's in context now.
@@Ezra_Ali Yeah I was thinking that. It kinda sounds like 'Zayn'
And he’s wearing a bright under armor hoody holding an iPad with ketchup on the case playing slime videos
@@SirDolce398 not the writer reviving her old 1D fanfic....
As a therapist who works with many kids, teens, and adults who've been trafficked, it is KILLING me to hear about this book. I can't even make a witty comment because it is truly so out of a movie plot instead of even a teeny bit of research into trafficking. Also I can't believe this book is acting like he's a total pro on trafficking but doesn't have a SINGLE predator who's trafficking a family member; the vast majority of domestic trafficking is done by family members, and I figured a book so focused on edge would've jumped at the chance to use that statistic. Which is just more proof to me that they didn't do any research into this.
Way too many people have this weird hero complex/ fantasy about finding these big bad guys who are tormenting the innocents. Yet they conveniently ignore the actual facts because “none of my family would do something like that”
>fights guys who traffic women
>later goes on a whole paragraph about how he wants to "break" this woman and "forcibly make her his"
my brother in christ you're the guy you should be fighting
the call is coming from inside the house
This was literally one of the nastiest parts of the book. Inserting the plot point of fighting human trafficking, something that especially affects women and young girls, then turning it around and making the "male lead" a violent, possessive piece of shit. So, controlling, abusing, and assaulting women is suddenly hot when it's a man you're attracted to? Truly horrific. This book set women back at least 100 years.
Edit: Something about it also tells me Zade "fighting crime" was a plot point put in to defend the rest of his actions. Like, uhh, he rapes and stalks a poor woman, but at least he's hunting bad people!!! That excuses it, surely!!
@@libby2122its such a piss poor excuse too because he does the exact same thing! It's just so obvious the author is trying so hard to justify it when they didn't even need to because it's DARK ROMANCE
This is so obviously written by some racist suburban housewife with a cop husband who willfully refuses to understand what sexual violence and human trafficking actually look like in the real world. Real life human trafficking doesn't look like a random brown guy kidnapping women from their nice middle class lives. It looks like an abusive boyfriend coercing his girlfriend into doing s*x work even though she's not comfortable with it, or a step father abusing his stepdaughter when the mom is at work, or a landlord forcing a tenant to do s*x acts so she doesn't get convicted. Undocumented people are MUCH more likely to be victims of sex trafficking than perpetrators.
Fucking hate how these books try to redeem the love interests through any means possible. Just own up to the fact that this guy is fucked up
Most unrealistic part is that this man, as a computer scientist/hacker, doesn’t need to google things to remember what functions do *wheeze*
LOL He's just that much of a genius
broooooooooooooo he read all the comp sci books, he's got data structures and algorithms in his blue eye
lmao i've watched people who actually can hack try to figure something out. Hacking is literally the art of googling something, googling another thing, seeing if there's someone who already did something you want, then frankensteining together a solution from the code of 4 other people with a few lines to make it work in your specific application. Certainly a real hacker *can* code things from scratch, but only an idiot does that for everything ever when it's often days of work compared to an hour of modifying something you found on github. Especially when everything is in a different language, no shit someone's gonna have to look up what something means when they need to read assembly or something if they aren't constantly writing in assembly (rare these days).
The amount of googling does depend on what you're doing specifically, like is it reverse engineering, web exploitation, cracking, etc? But no matter what there will be googling. New tech is always being developed, and new tech means new vulnerabilities and new patches
@@silentraisin ah yes that is why I love working in comsci and cyber sec, nothing ever changes, and all you need to know has already been published 😂 (joking of course)
literally
Him calling her little mouse gave me food poisoning 💀. I hate when love interests use nicknames like “little + small animal.” Mama… that’s a grown woman
🐁🐁🐁🐁
Ah, my little Polybua occidentalis…
Maybe it can be tolerable if they gave a cute reason for it and the man saying it isn't her r4pist
I am once again thinking of the "eyes on me damp beast" "things i say to my dog when i bathe him" tumblr post
these pet names don't hit the same in english
A roommate of mine showed a picture of us roomates to one of her coworker who decided I was to be his wife. He nagged my roommate who, eventually, very akwardly told me about the situation and asked if she was allowed to give him my number. I said no and thanked her for asking me first. I had been flooded by stange friend requests for some weeks and I realized it was him. Then he slipped up and told my roommate he had snooped in their boss's office for her documents to find our adress but it was totally fine because he just wanted to send me poems and maybe some flowers and not do anything creepy because he was a romantic and a good guy and she didn't have to worry 'bout it.
I moved.
That’s absolutely horrifying and disturbing, I’m glad you moved and are hopefully safe now
Wow this gave me goosebumps ! Glad u moved
This reminded me of a tweet I saw. A woman's neighbor was asking her why her bedroom door is always locked. To which she responds with, how did you know? Turns out that the neighbor tried to get inside her house to "surprise" her.
Jesus Christ, stalking is more terrifying than people think it is because of all the romanticization. Being back stalker horror
The real hero of this story is that audiobook narrator, she really did read that, I hope she got paid well because I could never
she committed to the bit fr
cindy with black hair ????
cindy with black hair talking about haunting adeline ??? YESSS
gotta go dark for dark romance
I thought I would miss the blonde when she was growing it out, but she looks stunning!!
@@rachreid8746 for me, the best look she ever had really !!!
I love it, looks so good
The hair looks so good!!!
i am constantly reminded of how easy it is to write a bestseller despite terrible writing and overall quality
it just goes to show that success is not based on merit lol
Honestly should be a confidence booster for writers out there. What you write probably won't be any worse than something H.D. Carlton, E.L. James, or Cassandra Clare has written. Assuming you don't look up to them as writers, then you probably will write something as bad as them idk 😂
@@paigeh4231Idk, I feel like Cassandra Clare at least is a better writer. I never really got into her stuff, but I heard her writing improves throughout the series she writes.
@@joyc.e.7511 fair enough. I haven't heard much about her later novels. I read a few many years ago, but none since because they were bad. But I totally get that people can improve over time with practice.
@@joyc.e.7511was she not accused of plagiarism though? (or am I confused?). Plagiarism hardly makes one a better writer
Zade's competing with the Nov 9th guy to see who can be the absolute worst love interest this decade.
I think Ben is worse since he literally refuses to believe he’s doing a horrible thing. At least Zade (wattpad-ass name) is like “I’m stalking her, I’m craaaaaaazy”
@@ABalloonInNeed Zade also hasn't physically maimed Addie (so far) so, he wins that too.
they're on the same scale mentality wise tbh, you got 1 toxic abusive man that's always right, and a SAssaulter that knows his wrongs and still does it, not knowing that by "breaking the rule" once, he's that label forever. (like you can't be trusted not to do it again when you've crossed this fat ass line)
@@user-sg4ov7ng4h I haven't seen part 2 of Cindy's review but I agree that neither of these dudes know when to stop or even what "no" means.
The two final bosses of radioactive-levels of toxic
I DNF'ed it when he first sees her picture and there's like, an entire page of "she's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, she doesn't need surgery or Photoshop, she's so perfect, I'm obsessed", it reads like a fanfic that a 13yo would have written about her favorite artist.
That's the most laughable part of this book. He just sees her and starts monologuing. It's especially funny when you realize that Adeline is a self insert for H.D Carlton. How do I have imposter syndrome when authors like these exist?
Whenever I search up book recommendations that are similar to Jane Eyre, I get "Haunting Adeline" and it makes me want to chuck my phone against a wall.
Oh ....
NOT JANE EYRE NOOOOO :(
I mean is Jane Eyre any better? She's no role model for a smart woman either.
Take that back right now 😭
@@aesinamwhat are you even talking about
what if instead of delivering roses he gave her rose toys and the end of the book or whatever addy just has a mountain of rose toys in a closet and like she opens it up and she gets buried in rose toys and dies
That would have been the perfect sponsor opportunity
The silence after "I am not a potato" was so loud and you're so true for that
Sometimes silence speaks louder than words
Legit I cackled at that 😂☠️
I had to laugh
It’s giving.. aphmau
the gacha phase flashbacks were strong 💔💔
I HATE how Addie is labelled The Manipulator. Why? Because she's attractive. It's literally an Incel Dog Whistle - Why Female Hot if Not Want Me? And don't even get me started on the "Of course it wasn't grape, she had an O!" justifications. This book is straight up Qanon Fan Fic.
the way she never manipulated anything at all in this book lol
It’s incel content for women.
I think I miss this “ it wasn’t grape…”. Where was it?
That explains the magat "Mexicans are evil traffickers" thread too.
@@AliceL-i9x the fandom justifying the grape scenes
i wanna go back to this… i don’t think that when zade says archibald “grows a vagina” that he’s calling him a coward- rather, it’s zade doing a hashtag #feminism and belittling the phrase “grow a pair” because you know, he thinks women are strong, courageous, autonomous even-
@@will_dream Zade and Rhysand must battle now to determine the true king of feminism
Gives Rhysand a run for his money
The scene where he’s just hiding in the grass outside her house with a rose in his teeth, combined with the fact that you called him a husky, it’s giving me smile dog like the creepypasta? and I can not get that image out of my head. Imagine being stalked by smile dog. Imagine smile dog mailing you severed hands. I’m losing my mind.
What I first thought of lmao. Honestly sounds preferable in some regards.
At least it's an actual dog and not a horny half-husky half-human bush baby looking headass who has an inexplicably endless supply of roses at all times...
The "leaving the white girls out on the sun to cook" took me out as a white woman married to a brown-eyed Mexican I felt so attacked by this text 😂
Zade is gonna come over to rescue you
@@withcindyThis sounds like a threat 😂
@@minachernobog😂
@@withcindy I’d rather live in a cave system 😍
You know when a writer is lazy when they just TELL you how good a character is at something; with no showing, no proof, not enough background information to backup the claim. You as the reader just have to trust and believe if he's said to be the GREATEST hacker of ALL TIME, then it's true! If you don't believe it... maybe you're just underestimating the character!
No fr, like at least the main character is bonding but too bad we can see it too lmao 💀💀🤣
thats like 99% of romantasy and dark romance books
This is why i remain A Little Life hater on its description of multitalented Jude (jokes aside, i do like the friendship a lot, but the constant telling instead of showing is painful)
@@erinkatrina4201 I'm an avid A Little Life hater on the basis of, well, everything about it, but yes lmao that was so annoying 😫
The book line made me cringe so bad, it‘s so obvious she thinks hacking is reading green 1s and 0s on a black screen😭
I really dont get how someone who works on trafficking can think about anything else on the job. Or have sex/ think about anything sexual a second after.
Very true
Imagery of Gus Gus from Cinderella being into gunplay is not what I had predicted for my Sunday morning, but here we are
" Turns out BAN doesnt stand for Barnes and Noble, it stands for Bust a Nut." i had to pause the video. Cindy you comedic genius.
Literally. Made me choke on my orange juice.
That's the thing about stalkers: you don't have to be anything special to end up in their crosshairs. As far as I know, I never had a real stalker, but this guy waited outside of my house and exposed himself to me once when I was walking home from work. I'm a regular, average person. I was just there. Sometimes, that's all it takes
Yikes are you okay now
@@DarwinRoger893 yeah, it was several years ago now and I don't live there any more or work that job anymore. But it did mess me up for a while. I think the worst part was trying to get the cops to take it seriously (spoiler: they didn't even though I gave them a full description and his license plate number, even though he almost ran me over with his car when he saw that I was getting his plates.) It was also terrible because I knew that this guy knew where I lived, and because it brought up past trauma. But I lived! Thanks for asking and sorry for the rant
Nice to know you're okay. I was also flashed by a guy, in full daylight, jumping out from behind a tree outside my apartment complex just a few days after moving to a new city and I just stood and stared at his back while he ran off. I hadn't even unpacked. It's shockingly common.
@@msjkrameythank God you're alright. You'd think cops would take cases of stalking seriously considering how many people die from that 🙄. I'm really happy to hear that you survived that. That's such a horrible thing to happen to anyone.
Brown eyed Mexican here, just existing, eating my Oreos while enjoying the new Cindy video.
Sorry you have to catch those strays
Man we got hit with so many strays here!!
Brown eyed Mexican here building Legos
.... Are you at least sipping tequila with an sombrero hanging in the background? This "just existing" is ruining the vibe of this book. You really should think of the team, myself, as a woman, cut the brake-lines on my car and put all my money into blockbuster stocks ten minutes ago just to fit the theme.
But really, I'm sorry about the shit representation. I can only imagine how much it sucks.
I hated this book so much. I’m so angry at the writer. I would like to write her a 10 page letter about how she wasted my life. The 2nd book is too much sec trafficking for me. It’s not handled properly. She tried to make him like Batman. He is not.
LOLLLL
Oh god I forgot there's a sequel. I haven't read the first one. But I've seen so much of people talking about this series online.
not you reading 2 of these
@@sena167 I didn’t read the second one. My friend was complaining to me about it and I just scanned it. Probably spent like 20 minutes, scanning it.
I hate Jurgen Leitner copypasta, but with this author instead
THE AUDIO BOOK SAMPLE SENT ME TO ANOTHER DIMENSION 😭 SHARING IS NOT ALWAYS CARING CINDY
Not Zade falling so hard that he becomes a flat earther
This is actual gold
HELP LMAOO I LOVE HOW YOU NAMED THE SECTIONS
“and they hate brown eyed people” I’m glad I can survive
its an important takeaway
"Ugh, kitty cat" has me laughing, and I don't even have context yet!
It’s like the only way the author thinks a character can be “grey” is that they’re overall a horrible person but “hot” and think r*pists/p*dos are bad even tho he’s the same. Also I just hate how this book is written 😭😭 very wattpad coded
Nahh idk which way the cycle turns but I've of late been quite frustrated with fans seeing an _actual_ morally grey character and either complaining that they "ruined the villain" by making her have moral standards, or that she's actually a good person who would never commit any of the villany she canonically continues to commit
Is there bo moral greyness because audiences can't comprehend it? Are audiences bad at spotting greyness because they're being fed sh*t ? Has it always been like this?
Yeah that's how bad writers get around writing actually interesting and nuanced morally corrupt characters. They just introduce someone way worse. Like if the character is a killer, they'll introduce a rapist. And here since the love interest is both a stalker and a rapist he then HAS to fight child traffickers. It's lazy and doesn't really redeem him at all, it just makes him seem like the biggest hypocrite on earth
Along with some Hitler vibes as well
@@worm2976 sure, but this book still doesn't know the meaning of morally gray lmao
That's what they meant. That because of such books, people find actual morally grey characters boring
Stoppp the 'i am not a potato' line was so freaking goofy it almost killed me 😭😭🤣🤣💀
I cannot believe that was real
I realized a big problem with most of these books is that they're panickly trying to make the guy seem like a good person despite everything he does to the MC. Like... Why?? Imagine if the authors of these went all in and actually treated this guy character like he's doing bad things. It could've been a nice psychological horror but instead it has to be the "I can fix him" thing.
Girl, the book does fall on Horror 😭😭
I literally said this in good reads. Like why are yall trying so hard to convince me this guy isn’t the spawn of Satan. At this point, it’d be a better book if you just let him be psychotic. Why are they so against just creating a villain. He’ll, I’d probably like the villian more
I wrote a fanfic in one afternoon while recovering from wisdom teeth surgery, and I posted it to AO3 that same afternoon without having anyone beta read it. I think it’s still better than Haunting Adeline.
I would live to read that.
Me too!
couldn't stand these books, but my fav thing about it is that adeline is such an obvious self insert from the author. literally just describing herself. they're twins. cracks me tf up. sincerely, a brown eyed mexican.
Literally the character is an indie author herself 💀
Like do they think we don’t know…
TikTok is giving me trust issues with books and this one is the many reasons why
I saw this one being recommended as "a book so good that ruined other books for you" and I decided right then and there to stop trusting my algorithm.
Right? Every time I see one of those "books that are a five" lists with a booktok hashtag, I assume the worst.
Anything being hyped up on Booktook is bound to be total ass 9 times out of 10 😭
tiktok are just gooners in general 😭😭 theyre so desentisized by everything that they only care if the book has 100 chapters of ppl rawdogging in every sentence.
Read the Bloodsworn saga by John Gwynne it’ll restore it 🙏🙏🙏 (retelling of Norse mythology in a really interesting way that feels unique to the world yet still has ties to the source, plenty of action/battle so gore and death is a big TW, and everyone is a mature adult!!! Yippee!! Also just genuinely love how he writes women, which is to say the same way as men in the story)
stuff that makes me so mad abt some of these sexual scenes is that like, addie saying that she is in control isn't even explored as like, a way of her denying how her desires actually put her in harms way, it doesn't serve as anything for her character. like, if the book was a serious dark romance, it would try and explore how addie's danger kink actually led her to a dangerous situation where she can fucking die if she tries to oppose this man in a way that isn't sexually satisfying right? it could create conflict abt how she enjoys so much of it but is also not as in control as she would like and doesn't know if she can even stop him if she stops liking it
but the author is so worried abt these themes being too uncomfortable to the readers who want to get off to sexy dangerous hacker assassin man, which is very ironic, given this is supposed to be a dark romance anyways
Yeah and the most confusing thing about these stories is that it's always the man taking the control over the woman and not the other way around. If addy took control of her stalker and uses him for sexual pleasure (as well as explore those themes you discussed) then maybe it might be appealing but the story would still need to properly frame or at the very least not try to justify the stalker
@@Lemoncakelover678 I have tried looking for romance novels that have women in control and they are shockingly few and far between.
Another thing that gets me is the constant lampshading too. It would be better if Addy just made deliberately bad choices bc she wanted to and not bc she's a self proclaimed doofus all the time
@@iamknife7 Have you found any good ones? All these books nowadays are all the same in terms of relationship dynamics. It's genuinely boring.
@@SirDolce398 tiffany reisz's books are great in that aspect
The line about Zade smiling at Archibald with the rose in his mouth is giving Cowboy BeBop villain energy 😂
HAHAHA UR SO RIGHT
The "I don't understand why I'm doing this, I'm so dumb, I shouldn't do that! *proceeds to keep doing that*" thing has a name. Its lampshade hanging, usually shortened to "lampshading" is a writing and/or manipulation technique, which involves intentionally bringing attention to something, in the context of writing it's usually blatant abuse of tropes, completely improbable situation or characters acting like no human ever would, and then just continuing without missing a bit, as is pointing a finger at something dumb was enough of a reasoning and explanation for it, and the author is now magically absolved.
In the context of real life, it's a manipulation technique, in which a person brings attention to their flaws or bad behavior, often in a self-deprecating way, and then acts like that makes it okay. And it's manipulation, because it preemptively strips the other person of the ability to call that behavior/trait out, because then the manipulator will say something along the lines of "Yeah, I told you I'm an asshole" and expect to be forgiven.
In writing, it doesn't have to be bad, even Shakespeare lampashes in the Twelfth Night, so it can be used to create humor or restore the suspension or disbelief, but they more often than not are just annoying XD In real life, they just suck, don't do that, if you know, you're doing somethign bad, just acknowledge it, change the behavior and reconcile with those you have hurt, just saying it's bad doesn't fix shit.
also why is zade's monologue about adeline's looks giving incel metal band lyrics 😭
NOOO ur so right
My mind immediately popped up Leeds from Colleen Hoover's book 'layla'
Scrolling through all these attempts (and triumphs) at jokes and THIS is the one that breaks me.
It made me want to put my fingers into my EEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYEEEEEESSSS
@@Lemoncakelover678At least Leeds knew he was in a horror novel and acted accordingly.
I genuinely don't understand why people enjoy this stuff??? Like... why? Okay, you got a weird kink, sure, that's fine, we all do, right? But... folks, yall deserve better than this. Y'all deserve things that are written WELL.
I'm trying to understand that my self with no luck.
People need to read more fanfic. A least if you didn't like it, it's free !
@@miyuu1317 those people are what happens when you don't have a weird wattpad or fanfic phase
Quotev has better written books than this garbage.
This feels like if a wattpad-style fanfiction made its way to a03
Omg that's a perfect way to describe this 😭
Everytime he talks about horrible men and what they're doing to women and children im like. My good dude, the call is coming from inside the house.
ok but. what's the deal with the hands. she got *severed hands* in her mail. and... THEN WHAT? what did she do with the hands??? i feel like at the point where you've been on a hot date where the guy disappears leaving only blood behind and then get SEVERED HANDS in the mail and you DON'T tell the cops you're now straight-up accessory to murder. like bestie.
She hungy 🥺🥺🥺
Adeline’s weird speech reminded me of a video I watched called, “Euthanasia Fan Fiction” where the RUclipsr Owl Criticism breaks down the story and message of the book A Little Life. He references an interview with Hanya Yanagihara (the author) where she essentially says that some people may be so irreversibly traumatized and damaged that they are beyond healing and, “better off dead.” And then there’s Adeline over here saying, “Sometimes people just aren’t meant to live through that trauma.” It’s a weird message to send to your BookTok audience.
It so gross to me too like they deem people with trauma as no longer 'useful' for the world as if they need to be
big eugenics energy 😬
Hitler had a name for that
This book pissed me off so much, it caused me to create a Goodreads account just so I could leave a review.
Wow, that's how you know you felt strongly about it!
That’s how you get them to stop
I am you. You are me. Did this 3 hours ago😭
is “An array of computer screens line the ten-foot long desk, and all my other illegal devices in here.” the actual line from the book? 😭i can’t get over how that implies that the desk is an illegal device
The "hacker" setup was so funny because you can tell that whoever wrote this had no knowledge of actual hacking LOL
Booktok hackers: A hot bad-boy with a massive desk full of contraband in a dark and moody room, masterfully evading firewalls as he edits hundreds of lines of code.
IRL Hackers: A trans catgirl on her laptop finding the TSA’s No-Fly List casually sitting in an airlines unsecured server.
Not the Hacker Desk™
The sex scenes in this book r actually making my skin crawl. U r god's strongest soldier for reading this book
Has the author even been to earth
So like...if Archibald had been a good dude, like...spent his time volunteering at a charity clinic and arranging toy drives for orphans, would Zade have let him go? Or is it just convenient justification after the fact? Because I have the feeling it's the latter.
Yep!!
I already knew what happened in this book from another RUclipsrs review, but god, the part with how Daya talks to Adeline and Adeline hesitantly describing the confusion she has with consent is really, really heartbreaking, especially with Daya immediately responding by teasing Adeline and making it about kink, when you consider how overwhelmingly SA victims doubt themselves and blame themselves, often making excuses for the person who assaulted them. It hit very, very close to home, where I still struggle to describe my assault as an assault because of "liking it"...
I know you bring this up anyways, but man, how awful. I keep forgetting that stories that do this kinda stuff can be a trigger for me.
Anyways. Great video as always, happy to see you tear apart these books! :)
The fact that this book isn’t labeled as horror with the isolation Adeline has is astounding
“Wrapped around him like a koala.”
An turn of phrase for the ages
Leave the koalas outta this Adeline
Does she also have chlamydia
This has the same vibe of “because there’s a Gretel on his leg.”
take a shower you smelly indian
the independent author writing their super sexy adored main character to also be an independent author Wow i wonder who they're trying to emulate
Hmmmmmmmm it's hard to tell
i remember the first time i heard about haunting adeline and thinking it was some cool horror game with some psychological themes kinda like silent hill. you can imagine the face i made when i found out what it really was. these authors must stop with the cool titles only for the story to be slop......
the book WISHES it was that cool
REAL!!! I tried reading it because of recommendations, I genuinely also thought it was something similar to Silent Hill!!! I fricking love SH and man I was so disappointed 😭
16:45 This monologue is giving "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo." 😭
I love how Zade claims himself as a feminist that saves women and children but at the same time this whole book is just him assaulting her multiple times and having weird violent thoughts about her... Isn't it just so romantic? 💖💀
Sounds like your average male feminist to me.
@@javierlopez9789 yeah true although zade is quite...alot worse than any other "male feminist"...
The fact that this book is set in the state I live in makes me extremely uneasy even knowing that he's not even remotely real😭😭that's how bad Zade is
be careful bb...
For some reason I almost misread your comment. I know, right?!
Hello fellow Washingtonians. How we all feelin'? 😭
Where is the guy that be running around with flags because this book would be a marathon
Dustin Poynter, and I think he may need to do some like Olympic level training if he were to read this book for a video lmao
I love that guy! *heel click*
Red/green flag guy wouldn’t survive :(
The author of Haunting Adeline is near the top my shortlist for potential My Immortal authors.
BIG if true
you might be onto smth...
how dare you insult the absolute QUEEN Tara Gilesbie that way 🤬🤬🤬
oh my god youre onto something
Wait.... 😮
the hets are WILDING. i don't think i've physically cringed away from my screen this badly in a While 😭😭
understandable
My positive affirmation for today: I am not a potato.
live love potato
NOT THE HUSKY IS THE AUTHOR OKAY 😭😭
edit: not the slurping and humping plss
DOWN BOY!! DOWN!
Cindy entering her dark romance era with darker hair was not in my bingo card but LOVE IT 😍
Gotta go dark for dark romance!
no bc I read the blurb in a bookstore a while ago and thought *i rly hope Cindy covers this ‘cause I am definitely not reading it myself* and lo and behold 💀
U manifested this
@@withcindy hopefully I don’t regret it
Maybe it's just the ace in me but I've never understand why books harp on how long it's been since the character's had sex. Is 1 year really that long?
honestly i dont think its a big deal to not have sex at all even for several years or ever
It’s weird. Like, you have your hand, don’t you?
"Sir, you are not Tuxedo Mask." 😂
Tuxedo Mask literally would never.
1st. Hair looks so GOOD 💖
2nd. The sheer over confidence to be like “there’s nothing any book could teach me anymore because I am such a pro” meanwhile my lowly brain is like “oh you have x years of experience… you are inept and know nothing”
It feels sliiiightttlyyy interesting that all the things he’s into are the aesthetics of all the stuff he’s majorly against?? Like for all his high-horsing about women being forced and not having choices, he’s very into being in control and forcing…
@@samantharose1001it would be interesting for a character to note how performativity reveals hypocrisy in what people claim to protest against but unfortunately, for this book, it just makes the character somehow more unlikeable and a hypocrite
As a brown-eyed Mexican, i thank you for acknowledging we exist and have feelings. But also, this brown-eyed Mexican loves your content so thank you for what you do 🙋🏽♀️💗
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOUR TAKE ON THIS LMAO
i used my last 2 brain cells to put this vid together
SAME!! The moment I saw the runtime I thought "this book is too long for 58 minutes 😭"
zade thinks he's light yagami but dude didn't even take a potato chip and eat it
tbh that "gun" scene that all readers were giddy about is literally SO weird lol... she gets SA'ed and gets stockholm syndrome and thats a love strory?? what in the hell... and there's cliffhanger and the author has a sequel after adeline gets kidnapped like brother in christ no one cares about her or the book, they (fans of this disgusting book) deny the SA and want to be adeline like ewww!!!! queen, booktok had officially gone insane when they recommended this to a 16 yr old biker kid... i choose the bear bc i'd rather be mauled by one than evee hear about a book from booktok... 😭😭
This is why dnf’d I can do dark romance but SA’d with a gun is not romance or a dynamic I can get behind 🙈
@@headinthebooks904 no seriously like WTF !! and i was gonna say that entire gun scene etc was SA too but this "romance" book is written so unseriously i cant even say it without watching nikki carreon's vid on it again to actually understand the severity...😭😭
@@xiaojinaah I’m totally with you! I’m gonna watch that video after this one now 👀
@@headinthebooks904 please do !! she goes into depth and i just love her goofiness too lol 😭💀 just like our queen cindy ♡ also !! there is no part 2 for nikki's video bc she has yet to make one i think if i rmbr correctly
Not to mention that the author is using kink/bdsm terminology incorrectly. That was not "gun-play", that was s*xual ass*ult at gun point. Kink without consent is not kink, it's r*pe.
And the point of content/trigger warnings is to allow the reader to make an informed decision about the content they want/can consume. It is so fcking irresponsible for the author to mislabel/misuse a tag like that.
P.s. sorry for any misspelling.
THAT HAIR CINDY PLEASEEEE 🥲🤤
hehe ty bb
Side note, you look sooooo good Cindy! Your hair suits you so well, and your makeup is * chef kiss *
thank u!! i was filming something professional that day (wont be able to share until late august) so there was a makeup artist that did my makeup and hair. i normally do not look that good LOL
I literally did not even recognise her at first!! The hair suits her so well!
@@withcindy I am living and loving it!
I hope the meeting was book related 👀 can't wait to find out! Hope it went well 😁
at this point whatever booktok recommends should be a do not read list
It should cause they smoking crack
Firstly, Your hair looks good❤
Secondly, I started to feel physically sick when he talked about wiping her police report records. He claims to feel so terrible about the trafficking of women and children then goes on to take advantage of an already crappy system.
YUPPPP
and he fucking framed someone for his murders,
HE COULD JUST FRAME IT ON HIS TARGET
I was laughing so hard at the 'rose stem between his teeth' part. If I'm Archie I don't know if I'll be terrified or just supremely confused... and then I'll laugh.
i didn't even see the title at first. i just saw you serving in that thumbnail and instantly clicked. also this book sounds like a nightmare and we thank you for your sacrifice.
Someone's gotta serve and it ain't gonna be this book
NOT THE REFERENCE TO TUXEDO MASK! I CAN'T! THIS IS TOO FUNNY!!! 😭✋
Zade is literally fighting evil by moonlight
Cindy's looking extra scrumptious this vid, the hair atee
its cuz i had it styled for once (rare occasion)
It's nice to have someone to summarize a bad/triggering book so that my urge to read it dies on the spot
I gotchu boo
If Cindy narrated this audiobook, I would listen. She reads it with the perfect amount of serious delirium.
ty for appreciating my reading
I have been YEARNING for another rant review!!
now u get one in 2 parts!
@@withcindy You should God of Fury. It's the fifth book of the Legacy of Gods but forget all the other books and read God of Fury
I think It's funny how this book is so popular that it's literally recommended to EVERYONE, no matter what age on Amazon. But it's also hard to miss inside a Barnes and Noble.
Closeted Furry author creates a metaphoric book about dogs disguising it as a dark stalker romance
Born to be a furry, doomed to be a dark romance girlie
Colonial insult to injury to dogs and animals to even be in the same sentence, let alone this? The trees did not deserve this?
Realistically, Zade would either be a furry, or a discord mod that got a google doc on him for dming minors.
Like, theres no in between
Let’s be honest he 100% tried to dm a minor “do you send”💀
"You taste like f***ing nirvana"
Sure, and she smells like teen spirit too ig
BnN doesn't stand for Barnes and Noble it stands for BUST A NUT. Isn't something I'm ever going to forget. LOL I'm likely going to fold it into my personality and say this exact phrase anytime someone shortens Barnes and Noble to "bn" so thanks
You're welcome, This will be my legacy
Not the diss on fiction books, I thought we have moved passed this as a society 😂
In a fiction book no less like
@@aishaaofthedays the ultimate twist lol
sadly i know so many men like this... so it is realistic 😮💨
(Past), my guy
I finally cracked at "fucker, i'm not a potato". 10/10 book, no notes.
thank u
It’s not kink without consent. It’s abuse. Period. I hate this book.