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It's nice to see the guy is not some 7ft billionaire in a suit with trauma. Some guys are just into kinks and never needed something to 'push' them into it.
PSA about wax play, there are actually special candles made for this use case that melt at lower temperatures for safety. Using any old random candle can seriously burn you.
Kink play is just larping for sex nerds. I've been saying this for years. I love that there is a clear divide between kink mode and regular dork for the dom. We need more of that.
That's why some of the cringey dialogue worked imho. Sometimes things that are hot in the context of a fantasy (or even vanilla sex) are sort of funny and ridiculous outside of that context, and that's okay. It'd be way worse if we were meant to take it deadly serious, but since we know it's a game in-universe the cringe becomes kind of cute instead of genuinely embarrassing!
wait, no, not the weird goth who stabbed someone once as a love interest... that's not a booktok bad boy, that's just a description of me in middle school 😭 i was even a high school goth who hung out with the anime kids, don't do this to me
Not me also stabbing someone as the love interest Not goth cause I knew then dark colors didn't work for me First person was worth pencil, second was spork
ALRIGHTY EVERYONE HERE'S WHAT R.A.C.K MEANS FOR ANY WHO DON'T WANT TO GO TOO FAR TO LOOK IT UP! According to Urban Dictionary, "Risk-aware consensual kink: a philosophical view that is generally permissive of certain risky sexual behaviors, as long as the participants are fully aware of the risks." Have fun with the video, and be informed. ❤🤗
It came about because Safe Sane Consenual has ableist connotations. What some people might consider "insane" is just high risk. Some people would find needle play or suspension "crazy". It also gives more room for negotiating scenes and promotes safer play.
I'm guessing some of these authors might have peaked in or shortly after high school so this is the age range they see as the "glory days" or something. That said, I would like to see more stories of this nature that feature older adults - people in their 30s are having hot sex too!!!
@@cakt1991I don't think they're coming off kink shame-y at all, big ass age gaps are very common in romance and when they are, the girl is almost always a teenager or just coming out of her teens. And it's pretty creepy, tbh, how many books do it. We already see enough of this shit in visual media and in real fucking life so. I'm not saying it can't work in fiction, but it's too fucking prevelant, and then some people act like it's ok, justifying it instead of just admitting it's a kink. I say this as someone who kind of likes age gaps, depending on they way they're written. They just tend to be written awfully and for no real purpose?
@@cakt1991I totally get where you're coming from, but I don't think the prevelance of age gaps is due to that. For some authors sure, but at this point I think the big pointless age gap is due to it being so common in romance.
@@joyc.e.7511 how many romances have you read? I reiterate my statement that I read hundreds per year and, they don’t seem to be as common as these fear mongerers claim. I can think of one I tried and put down, because it made me uncomfortable, so I’ll give you that; it depends on the skill of the writer. But it worked for other people. But it’s the acting like every one of the thousands of romances coming out every year are age gaps written the exact same way, especially with the OP. These books are very much a niche that got elevated by BookTok. One of my favorite age gap books was about a woman in her 40s and a man in his late 20s or 30s (I can’t remember, it’s been a while since I read it). There are authors like Cathy Yardley proudly writing Gen X romance, and in her case, she also includes biracial Asian rep (and bisexual and asexual rep in the well-recommended Role Playing). I can think of so many recs and BookTubers and reviewers who give those recs. If people framed it like that, instead of being weird about it and *implying* (even if you don’t mean to) that all romance = bad and “all the same,” because of some books in a specific niche don’t give you what you want, maybe more romance readers would be welcoming and show you that there are parts of the genre you might like.
It's odd! Teenagers a year fresh out of high school are still awkward and trying to learn how to become adults. They're horny but not THAt horny! This story would have worked better if they were all like over 20...
Either she "zoned out" or she "tuned her out" but you don't "zone [somebody] out." (As an editor, I'm kinda hating these excerpts. But maybe it's just this style/voice is not for me.)
I take “zoned her out” as purposely spacing out or ignoring. Like, “I should/could be listening” but I’m going to follow my train of thought instead. I think it subtly shows she kind of a jerk to even her friend.
@@pithygrapefruit Yes, I know. But I don't think the diction the author used is incorrect or sounds off and had I read it myself, I would not have noticed it.
@@LiciaM it is incorrect though. You are using the definition of one phrase to explain a feeling you get from a word that’s being used incorrectly. Whether you notice it or not depends on the type of reader you are. For many people, that throws them out of the story. For you , it doesn’t.
The goth kids in my high school were called “the darksiders” as they wore nothing but black. I was friends with most of them, despite not being goth myself (I was a skater kid). I actually really enjoyed that time, most of the kids were all friends or at least friendly to each other. It was a small town and we had all been through school with each other since like the 5th grade. So you had football/basketball players hanging out with goth kids and band nerds hanging out with cheerleaders. Good times, the parties were great, everyone got invited.
The content warning took me off guard because most of those are like yeah sure that's spicy but CLOWNS I know it's like a thing but it took me off guard so much
Begging for It & Asking for It by Lilah Pace are really good! It deals with CNC and r*pe fantasies, and I found it to be well-written and rather healthy. The trigger warning was really comprehensive, and consent couldn't have been handled better. It was really refreshing to read after constantly hearing about dark romances that just forego consent altogether
@@Alexandra-ms9jj wow thanks for the rec!!! every time i read one of these ~questionable~ books that misses the mark i think there HAS to be someone who figured it out lol
Just based on the fact she was the bully at the beginning, I kind of hoped it would be a femdom book. I guess that's too much to ask of spicy booktok, though. Wake me up when the shadow mommies show up.
i absolutely despise it when people refer to their genitals by a gendered pronoun. Your vagina is not a "she". I'm glad you enjoyed the book! Definitely would not be for me but I'm glad you liked it. :) 🥤
i think it's a personal preference thing, if someone wants to gender their sexual organ why should that bother anyone else? i'm curious if that statement comes from a belief or from a place of personal discomfort
Talking about how this "Manson" guy was in the goth group, the skater group, and the anime group is so funny to me because my high school was so small that all of us weirdos with odd hobbies kind of hung out together - a real mash-up of stereotypes for sure!
For what it’s worth, I deeply enjoyed your choice of censoring sound effects. Also, I love your breakdown of why this book works! This kink is not my kink so I would never have read it on my own. And might I say, that cover is striking? Love the contrast and the lighting. Haaaaate that the guy’s name is Manson tho, that whole beginning gave big Ebony Darkness etc. Still, surprised and impressed and glad you had a good time! 🏓🥤🤡
Just for info: RACK (risk aware consensual kink) is an expansion on the standard ssc (safe, sane, consensual). It's playing with darker things (such as degradation, which can be rough on you emotionally) knowing how it might affect you, but still consenting. .. Loved your giddiness in this video! Recently read no place to hide, which also did a good job of being fun and dark and not abusive. I'm happy to see that's becoming more of a thing in dark romance, since the genre is almost synonymous with toxic relationships.
It's hilarious to me that among all the s#xual triggers there is "clowns", and I'm saying this with no judgment, clowns make me really uncomfortable, it's thoughtful to put it in the triggers, but it clashes so much with the other ones. 😂
I went to a p small high school (each graduating class was ~100 kids) & it’s so weird hearing descriptions of multiple outcast groups. We just had one rough amalgam of “well nobody else is gonna hang out with me”s: goth/emo/scene kids, anime kids, present & future queers, & undiagnosed neurospicies
Wait… a dark romance book that doesn’t glorify SA, has a good content warning list, came from booktok, and was given 4 stars by Rachel? …is this the fucking Twilight Zone?
🏓 This was extremely, viscerally unappealing to me, but the focus on consent and safety was good. It’s just not my thing, but I'm glad it's out there for people who's thing it is. You might enjoy these two books by Scarlett Gale, His Secret Illuminations and His Sacred Incantations. I enjoyed the plot and characters a lot, the worldbuilding was adequate if not imaginative, it plays with and reverses a lot of usually stale tropes, and it's femdom with plenty of focus on consent. The veiwpoint character has a lot of religious trauma, but IMO it's resolved in a satisfactory way.
I am so HAPPY you had a good time with this, you sound so content!!!!! Personally, I haven't read Haley yet, but one of my friends has, and she loves it (she's into the monster fucking), I was afraid you wouldn't like this because I do take your recommendations and rejections seriously xD And the fact you spent the whole video happily laughing and praising the consent and communication made me really happy for you.
I think you might really enjoy Hunger Pangs by Joy Demorra (there’s a high heat and mid-heat version): there’s a great scene of a couple establishing boundaries even as the sub thinks he’s not supposed to have any and the dom reassures him he’s allowed them.
Not a book per se, but I think Sunstone (comic) also has a great look at consent in kink while also having solid characters and relationships. Nonetheless, I loved this video so much. Might get this for a friend of mine
This comment is just to say that you saying "Jail. One jail please" lives rent free in my mind and just pops in my head at random times. I have no clue which review it was from, but i feel it can be applied to many things
I need to support this author. I love the positive spin with all the good scene and role play. And the boundaries! I was into this at a younger *illegal* age. I wish I knew all this.
damn like. yeah 100% fiction like this shouldn't be used as education, but there's a difference between educating someone who's unaware of k!nk vs just portraying a way that fantasies might play out in a way that's healthy. some ppl realize that they're into something without any context for safe vs unsafe k!nk, and i'd so much rather they pick up a book like this vs fkn haunting adeline or some bullshit. like. speaking from experience tbh, as someone who grew up homeschooled (barebones s3x ed, no discussion of consent, k!nk or healthy communication & communication), some ppl are gonna be educated by "non-educational" materials regardless 👀 so im always glad to know books like this exist lmao
I keep seeing that you have the Graceling series on your bookshelf(Bitterblue and I saw Fire and Graceling in a previous video) and I’d love it if you could talk about them because I would love to hear your opinions of them(I’ve only read Bitterblue but I’d love to pick up the rest) Sorry if this is a bother to you Oh and your Portuguese is awesome, keep going girl :)
@@ReadswithRachel você está fazendo muito bom, eu espero isso também! Obrigada 💜💜 (Eu também mostro teu mensagem para minha mãe e ela falou que você está fazendo bem também)
My best 5☆ 5 pepper spicy book this year is Taken by the Witch Queen by Luna Fury! It's sapphic, and the bdsm is very minimal and very consensual. And Luna Fury's brand new book Karmilla is really good too, it's a spicy retelling of Joseph S leFanu's Carmilla which is my fav classic vampire story. The Story of O by Pauline Reage is an unhinged bdsm book from the 1950s, it is insane.
This was a fun video to watch! I'm familiar with BDSM (👀) but I enjoyed how you pointed out all the good and accurate parts. It was fun to see you embarrassed because you get giggly in the same way I do when I try to read something sexy to/around someone lol. Felt relateable. I was also very impressed with the trigger warning section. I also agree with the parts you found cringy haha. I'd enjoy if you did more videos like this if you wanted!
I am GENUINELY impressed that this was a Booktok rec and there's this much aftercare and proper steps with BDSM taken. It also genuinely sounded like a pretty good read, might give it a look sometime.
I know Harley from our Wattpad days (we don’t speak of it… never…) and when I deleted Twitter, we lost touch, but Harley is SO AMAZING and genuinely loved and cares about writing and safe kink. I don’t trust other books with such heavy topics, but I know they’ll do it properly so I have no worries going into any of their books.
At first with the title and cover, I had a completely different image forming in my head. Thank you for this review. If I got brave enough I might try to publish my own BDSM shmorn with plot book. But there are conversations about the dynamics of the relationship, usage of safe words because consent is sexy.
I'm about halfway through the video, I'm pleasantly surprised, especially after that wonky beginning. This is not my kink so I'm not intimately familiar from personal experience, but the establishment of consent again and again is really good (with any kink). It seems like a pretty good introduction to this specific kink for some readers! I'm a bit weary of the incoming clowns though, I'm kinda phobic. Edit: oooh even some character development! Aaa clown gangb*ng, one of my worst fears. Even aftercare? Nice. Some cringe sprinkled in imo, but I'm not the target audience.
I would love for you to read the Losers Duet i actually tought The Dare was okey since its so short but The Duet is SO good the character development is AMAZING i was so shocked since the book is a "dark romance" lol
Oooh! I never expected to see a smut book that gained a 4 star rating from you! This is so exciting! Degradation/humiliation is so not my kink but this sounds really well written, I appreciate that a lot. (I do like good girl a little. Just not in a daddy/daughter kink way. Don't connect children and sex please and thank you.) And AFTERCARE! YES!!!
This was turned into a full book duology and it's very good and significantly improves upon The Dare which was not the best because it was a lower effort short story! But the duology really does a great job of fixing the issues in The Dare
I am so surprised by this review that I want to read the book, but humiliation & degradation are triggers or me. It sounds like it's handled well, but I can't take that risk. I would love to know whether the series is worth reading, though, & how much those kinks play into it to know whether it's something I could skim or skip reading to still enjoy the stories. This really sounds like bdsm written how I like to read it so I'm intrigued.
having read the whole series, humiliation/degradation remain a big part of most of the kink throughout the rest of the books. i'm not sure if you could get a lot out of reading the series while skipping those scenes, a lot of pretty major development of the relationships between the characters happens then, and every single one involves both humiliation & degradation in some capacity. i hope that's helpful!
Idk why when you were talking about the song “not in love” all I could think of was that good charlotte song “I don’t wanna be in love” and now it’s stuck in my head 😂
If memory serves: I remember being a year out of high school and people be like: "High School was soooooo long ago. Why are we even talking about it?" Ya'll have miles, and eons to go and most people still have adolescent brains into their early 20s. Does NOT mean anyone is stupid into their 20s, just that a year out of high school isn't reunion territory.
Lol great review, your edits when it's your facial reaction while reading some of the spice and your mouth isnt moving. Those moments killed me laughing
I wanted to be a goth kid in high school SO BAD! Fast forward about a decade or so when I sat down and listened to Goth MUSIC and realized "hey, this shit's good???"
You are a true delight. I loved this. your respect and enthusiasm for sexual positivity and enthusiastic content and communication is very healing for those of us who were raised to think sex and desire and exploring our sexual interests is bad/dirty/shameful. Thank you!
As a person in the kink community I was so happy when I found this book. I loved it and the whole series. Saw this video and was so scared you'd hate the book but I'm happy you enjoyed it! :)
Wow, a book that gets consent RIGHT?!? Yeah, some of the scene dialog is cringe-inducing but I also think that can be realistic to being in the moment vs outside of it, I guess it all depends on preference. The kinks were definitely not my bag either but Manson consistently checking in with Jessica kept me engaged. I don't think you see enough male leads with his easygoing patience and confidence. I'd be interested in a longer narrative where the pair get to know one another better and Jessica getting into the local kink scene even without them being a couple, I like the idea of both characters growing emotionally and mentally healthy as they enter their 20s.
Já que você está treinando seu português, me sinto confortável pra comentar aqui ♥ Eu adorei esse livro, a primeira vez que li realmente foi um choque e dei uma nota baixa, mas depois eu Li Losers part 1 e li esse de novo, meu deus, que experiência. Os 4 garotos são maravilhosos e tem personalidades bem distintas, a história deles é bem marcante. Fiquei com medo de você detestar esse livro e detonar tudo que eu considerava uma boa representação de relacionamento não-convencional. Agora espero ansiosamente que um dia você faça uma resenha de Losers e, se possível, mais livros da Harley pq ela se tornou minha autora de spicy preferida. Edit: 🏓
Can I recomend Brazilian/Portuguese books to you?In Brasil we have: Helena, Esau e Jaco, Dom Casmuro, A mão e a luva (The hand and the glove), Casa Velha (Old House), Ressureição( Ressureiction), Quincas Borba by the author Machado de Assis.
One of my favorite spicy stories is The Fae Queen's Captive by Sierra Simone. It's perfect for anyone looking for sapphic and/or fey erotica. Boundaries are clearly communicated while still having a bdsm-ish dynamic. Could have gone a little more hardcore, but that's just to my personal tastes. It certainly still delivers.
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It's nice to see the guy is not some 7ft billionaire in a suit with trauma. Some guys are just into kinks and never needed something to 'push' them into it.
except for the fact he was abused as a teen😅
Yeah I agree, it's nice that he looks different and is not a 🤢 billionaire.
The cover art is giving Jungkook fan fiction 😭
The fact that I know which fanfic 😭😭
I don’t even know what I’m looking at on the cover 😂😂😂 I had to squint, tilt, pause, and zoom and I still don’t know what I’m looking at
@@stardoogalaxie9314 which one and where? Asking for a friend
@@greysonlb4224 I /think/ it's supposed to be a guy gripping his own mouth with both hands? It's so weird
@@empressfreya9872 thank you lol
Every time Rachel goes into a spicy monstrosity blind I both wince in sympathy and reach for my popcorn. 🥤
As a goth kid in high school, I feel very called out by Jessica. Leave my tripp pants and fishnets in peace
Hang on, I'm halfway through, and I'm not hating a spicy author? This book has an understanding of power dynamics and consent??
30 minutes in and I love this author. She is a queen amongst peasants
i hope Harley's pillow is always cool and the sheets always soft
@@ReadswithRachelgosh how dare you Rachel how dastardly evil your curse is!!!
PSA about wax play, there are actually special candles made for this use case that melt at lower temperatures for safety. Using any old random candle can seriously burn you.
@eveellisen was thinking the same thing. You can definitely get a blister from a fat glob of hot wax lol. That part made me wince.
Kink play is just larping for sex nerds. I've been saying this for years. I love that there is a clear divide between kink mode and regular dork for the dom. We need more of that.
That's why some of the cringey dialogue worked imho. Sometimes things that are hot in the context of a fantasy (or even vanilla sex) are sort of funny and ridiculous outside of that context, and that's okay. It'd be way worse if we were meant to take it deadly serious, but since we know it's a game in-universe the cringe becomes kind of cute instead of genuinely embarrassing!
The good name of Baggins deserved so much better 😭😭😭
Bilbo and Frodo deserve so much better fr fr, nobody degrades their name ever
LET MEN WEAR COLOR! WHY DOES EVERY MAN HAVE TO WEAR BLACK? LET THEM HAVE COLOR LET THEM HAVE PATTERNS THEY DESERVE FUN TOO! OMG
book men, like tropical birds and fish, need colors
right?? most men i see wear garish patterns and mismatched outfits, and sometimes it’s endearing
Trust me I have fun while wearing black
as a guy who almost exclusively wears Hawaiian shirts, I concur
@@heyheysheashea12 but their world is so dark they can‘t wear color 😔✊
wait, no, not the weird goth who stabbed someone once as a love interest... that's not a booktok bad boy, that's just a description of me in middle school 😭 i was even a high school goth who hung out with the anime kids, don't do this to me
@@GothVampiress i’m gonna need the lore here what do you mean you stabbed someone once
Not you casually dropping that you stabbed someone and leaving
I need more information 💀
PLEASE ANSWER GIRL😭😭
Not me also stabbing someone as the love interest
Not goth cause I knew then dark colors didn't work for me
First person was worth pencil, second was spork
@@vang.609 not the spork 💀
ALRIGHTY EVERYONE HERE'S WHAT R.A.C.K MEANS FOR ANY WHO DON'T WANT TO GO TOO FAR TO LOOK IT UP!
According to Urban Dictionary, "Risk-aware consensual kink: a philosophical view that is generally permissive of certain risky sexual behaviors, as long as the participants are fully aware of the risks."
Have fun with the video, and be informed. ❤🤗
Thank you so much for explaining this! 🌻😊 Hope your day is lovely.
It came about because Safe Sane Consenual has ableist connotations. What some people might consider "insane" is just high risk. Some people would find needle play or suspension "crazy". It also gives more room for negotiating scenes and promotes safer play.
I appreciate you not making me google that myself. My search history doesn't need to be any more bizarre.
@@lycianempire LMAO 😂❤
WHY WHY ALWAYS JUST ONE YEAR AFTER GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL?! WHAT IS HOT ABOUT THAT?! WHY ARE SO MANY WRITERS TERRIFIED OF ACTUAL ADULT WOMEN?!
I'm guessing some of these authors might have peaked in or shortly after high school so this is the age range they see as the "glory days" or something. That said, I would like to see more stories of this nature that feature older adults - people in their 30s are having hot sex too!!!
@@cakt1991I don't think they're coming off kink shame-y at all, big ass age gaps are very common in romance and when they are, the girl is almost always a teenager or just coming out of her teens. And it's pretty creepy, tbh, how many books do it. We already see enough of this shit in visual media and in real fucking life so. I'm not saying it can't work in fiction, but it's too fucking prevelant, and then some people act like it's ok, justifying it instead of just admitting it's a kink. I say this as someone who kind of likes age gaps, depending on they way they're written. They just tend to be written awfully and for no real purpose?
@@cakt1991I totally get where you're coming from, but I don't think the prevelance of age gaps is due to that. For some authors sure, but at this point I think the big pointless age gap is due to it being so common in romance.
@@joyc.e.7511 how many romances have you read? I reiterate my statement that I read hundreds per year and, they don’t seem to be as common as these fear mongerers claim. I can think of one I tried and put down, because it made me uncomfortable, so I’ll give you that; it depends on the skill of the writer. But it worked for other people. But it’s the acting like every one of the thousands of romances coming out every year are age gaps written the exact same way, especially with the OP. These books are very much a niche that got elevated by BookTok. One of my favorite age gap books was about a woman in her 40s and a man in his late 20s or 30s (I can’t remember, it’s been a while since I read it). There are authors like Cathy Yardley proudly writing Gen X romance, and in her case, she also includes biracial Asian rep (and bisexual and asexual rep in the well-recommended Role Playing). I can think of so many recs and BookTubers and reviewers who give those recs. If people framed it like that, instead of being weird about it and *implying* (even if you don’t mean to) that all romance = bad and “all the same,” because of some books in a specific niche don’t give you what you want, maybe more romance readers would be welcoming and show you that there are parts of the genre you might like.
It's odd! Teenagers a year fresh out of high school are still awkward and trying to learn how to become adults. They're horny but not THAt horny! This story would have worked better if they were all like over 20...
Either she "zoned out" or she "tuned her out" but you don't "zone [somebody] out." (As an editor, I'm kinda hating these excerpts. But maybe it's just this style/voice is not for me.)
See that’s what I thought. The beginning of this was ROUGH
I take “zoned her out” as purposely spacing out or ignoring. Like, “I should/could be listening” but I’m going to follow my train of thought instead. I think it subtly shows she kind of a jerk to even her friend.
@@LiciaM that’s literally the definition of tuning someone out.
@@pithygrapefruit Yes, I know. But I don't think the diction the author used is incorrect or sounds off and had I read it myself, I would not have noticed it.
@@LiciaM it is incorrect though. You are using the definition of one phrase to explain a feeling you get from a word that’s being used incorrectly. Whether you notice it or not depends on the type of reader you are. For many people, that throws them out of the story. For you , it doesn’t.
The goth kids in my high school were called “the darksiders” as they wore nothing but black. I was friends with most of them, despite not being goth myself (I was a skater kid). I actually really enjoyed that time, most of the kids were all friends or at least friendly to each other. It was a small town and we had all been through school with each other since like the 5th grade. So you had football/basketball players hanging out with goth kids and band nerds hanging out with cheerleaders. Good times, the parties were great, everyone got invited.
The content warning took me off guard because most of those are like yeah sure that's spicy but CLOWNS I know it's like a thing but it took me off guard so much
Not only is the goth called Manson, but he wears a single white contact? That's terrible.
Thanks for this. Sexuality positivity and humiliation kink don't always have a Venn diagram overlap
Begging for It & Asking for It by Lilah Pace are really good! It deals with CNC and r*pe fantasies, and I found it to be well-written and rather healthy. The trigger warning was really comprehensive, and consent couldn't have been handled better. It was really refreshing to read after constantly hearing about dark romances that just forego consent altogether
@@Alexandra-ms9jj wow thanks for the rec!!! every time i read one of these ~questionable~ books that misses the mark i think there HAS to be someone who figured it out lol
what, you don't zone your friends out by sending them to the phantom zone area of your brain while they're giving us exposition? 🤪
Banished downstage. Speak to the audience, maybe they'll give a crap
Well... not on purpose, exactly.
CLOWNS???? CLOWNS????!??!!! C L O W N S ??! ! ! !
I'm unsure if I am less disturbed if they dress like Juggalos or like goth-y Pennywise cosplays.
The sex therapist clowns, the Juggalo gigolos
@@AlishaHerbiederbie Course it's juggalos, they're whiskey tangos
@@AlishaHerbiederbie Now, I'm ace, but I totes get juggalos.
Clown fetishes (yes, even your classic silly clowns) aren't honestly that uncommon if you've been to certain corners of the Internet
THE BEN SHAPIRO WAP CLIP HAS ME CRYINGGGGGG 😭😭😭😭😭😭
That content warning page was a breath of fresh air compared to the last video's (Butcher and Blackbird) joke of a list.
Right!?
I called myself a "diet goth" in high school. All black, metal music, but my mom was scared and made me go to church.
Just based on the fact she was the bully at the beginning, I kind of hoped it would be a femdom book. I guess that's too much to ask of spicy booktok, though. Wake me up when the shadow mommies show up.
YES i want shadow mommies
Lol yeah
femdom.. read Mercy by Sara Cate and Madame by Sara Cate
@@gabriellasplanner5667 Thank you!! I'll have to check them out 👀
Masked and mine by Tilly ridge is also femdom it's a novella tho with cod cosplay
i absolutely despise it when people refer to their genitals by a gendered pronoun. Your vagina is not a "she".
I'm glad you enjoyed the book! Definitely would not be for me but I'm glad you liked it. :)
🥤
Can’t relate - downstairs doesn’t have a gender, but my boobs were “the lads” before I had them evicted 🤣
@@Coyoteari omg the lads lmfao
@@Coyotearilmao that's good, I'm happy you got them evicted!
i think it's a personal preference thing, if someone wants to gender their sexual organ why should that bother anyone else? i'm curious if that statement comes from a belief or from a place of personal discomfort
@@sylviona5327 having considered, i think you are onto something and it may just be a personal squick of mine.
Talking about how this "Manson" guy was in the goth group, the skater group, and the anime group is so funny to me because my high school was so small that all of us weirdos with odd hobbies kind of hung out together - a real mash-up of stereotypes for sure!
For what it’s worth, I deeply enjoyed your choice of censoring sound effects.
Also, I love your breakdown of why this book works! This kink is not my kink so I would never have read it on my own. And might I say, that cover is striking? Love the contrast and the lighting. Haaaaate that the guy’s name is Manson tho, that whole beginning gave big Ebony Darkness etc. Still, surprised and impressed and glad you had a good time! 🏓🥤🤡
Compareing the MC monologe when choosing to be degraded to the Haunting Adeline MC monologs of pretending she's in control is staggering.
When I saw "boot worship" in the thumbnail, I read it as "boo worship" and immediately wondered what ghosts were doing in a booktok book lol
I read it as boob worship 💀
6:52 that excerpt is very My Immortal 😭
OMFG YOURE RIGHT
That censor at 0:09 made me jump TT_TT I thought it was my cat
Yeah sorry about that you wouldn’t believe how many times RUclips demonetized this video 😂
Just for info:
RACK (risk aware consensual kink) is an expansion on the standard ssc (safe, sane, consensual). It's playing with darker things (such as degradation, which can be rough on you emotionally) knowing how it might affect you, but still consenting.
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Loved your giddiness in this video! Recently read no place to hide, which also did a good job of being fun and dark and not abusive. I'm happy to see that's becoming more of a thing in dark romance, since the genre is almost synonymous with toxic relationships.
It's hilarious to me that among all the s#xual triggers there is "clowns", and I'm saying this with no judgment, clowns make me really uncomfortable, it's thoughtful to put it in the triggers, but it clashes so much with the other ones. 😂
9:37 It's definitely supposed to be either "I zoned out" or "I tuned her out."
I went to a p small high school (each graduating class was ~100 kids) & it’s so weird hearing descriptions of multiple outcast groups. We just had one rough amalgam of “well nobody else is gonna hang out with me”s: goth/emo/scene kids, anime kids, present & future queers, & undiagnosed neurospicies
Wait… a dark romance book that doesn’t glorify SA, has a good content warning list, came from booktok, and was given 4 stars by Rachel?
…is this the fucking Twilight Zone?
Yes. Welcome to the twilight zone.
🧶 so many balls that are not of the ping-pong variety... 🤔
😭😭
🏓 This was extremely, viscerally unappealing to me, but the focus on consent and safety was good. It’s just not my thing, but I'm glad it's out there for people who's thing it is.
You might enjoy these two books by Scarlett Gale, His Secret Illuminations and His Sacred Incantations. I enjoyed the plot and characters a lot, the worldbuilding was adequate if not imaginative, it plays with and reverses a lot of usually stale tropes, and it's femdom with plenty of focus on consent. The veiwpoint character has a lot of religious trauma, but IMO it's resolved in a satisfactory way.
“Good for her but never me” - How everyone’s attitudes should be
It's Sunday morning. The mid-roll ad was for a church. I hope that congregation knows where their tithes are going 😂
the fact that youtube is paying me for this with their money is so funny to me
LOL! Hilarious.
Lmao. Hi Virginia
I am so HAPPY you had a good time with this, you sound so content!!!!! Personally, I haven't read Haley yet, but one of my friends has, and she loves it (she's into the monster fucking), I was afraid you wouldn't like this because I do take your recommendations and rejections seriously xD And the fact you spent the whole video happily laughing and praising the consent and communication made me really happy for you.
I think you might really enjoy Hunger Pangs by Joy Demorra (there’s a high heat and mid-heat version): there’s a great scene of a couple establishing boundaries even as the sub thinks he’s not supposed to have any and the dom reassures him he’s allowed them.
Not a book per se, but I think Sunstone (comic) also has a great look at consent in kink while also having solid characters and relationships.
Nonetheless, I loved this video so much. Might get this for a friend of mine
not robert smith + crystal castles being used at the start 😭😭 they don't deserve this
FRFR
well, the guy from crystal castles deserves much worse for how he treated Alice Glass
There were both emo and goth factions at my high school. The goth kids were chill and cool with everyone. The emo kids were violent.
🏓 this is the closest I could get to a ping pong ball
This comment is just to say that you saying "Jail. One jail please" lives rent free in my mind and just pops in my head at random times. I have no clue which review it was from, but i feel it can be applied to many things
I think it was a Colleen Hoover review 🤣
November 9 I think, if you want exact book
I need to support this author. I love the positive spin with all the good scene and role play. And the boundaries!
I was into this at a younger *illegal* age. I wish I knew all this.
damn like. yeah 100% fiction like this shouldn't be used as education, but there's a difference between educating someone who's unaware of k!nk vs just portraying a way that fantasies might play out in a way that's healthy. some ppl realize that they're into something without any context for safe vs unsafe k!nk, and i'd so much rather they pick up a book like this vs fkn haunting adeline or some bullshit. like. speaking from experience tbh, as someone who grew up homeschooled (barebones s3x ed, no discussion of consent, k!nk or healthy communication & communication), some ppl are gonna be educated by "non-educational" materials regardless 👀 so im always glad to know books like this exist lmao
Very glad to see such positive BDSM rep in a book like this! Lord knows we've had enough terrible examples.
I keep seeing that you have the Graceling series on your bookshelf(Bitterblue and I saw Fire and Graceling in a previous video) and I’d love it if you could talk about them because I would love to hear your opinions of them(I’ve only read Bitterblue but I’d love to pick up the rest)
Sorry if this is a bother to you
Oh and your Portuguese is awesome, keep going girl :)
Obrigada! Espero que eu posso falo sobre graceling realm esso ano, e um dos meus favoritas
(I tried lmao)
@@ReadswithRachel você está fazendo muito bom, eu espero isso também! Obrigada 💜💜
(Eu também mostro teu mensagem para minha mãe e ela falou que você está fazendo bem também)
Obrigada 🥹❤️ por favor diga sua mae obrigada para mim
I really enjoyed this and I’m glad to know I’ve been writing kink play well, despite not being kinky myself.
your commentary in this is video is probably one the funniest ones you’ve done. and informative. 10/10
My best 5☆ 5 pepper spicy book this year is Taken by the Witch Queen by Luna Fury!
It's sapphic, and the bdsm is very minimal and very consensual.
And Luna Fury's brand new book Karmilla is really good too, it's a spicy retelling of Joseph S leFanu's Carmilla which is my fav classic vampire story.
The Story of O by Pauline Reage is an unhinged bdsm book from the 1950s, it is insane.
This was a fun video to watch! I'm familiar with BDSM (👀) but I enjoyed how you pointed out all the good and accurate parts. It was fun to see you embarrassed because you get giggly in the same way I do when I try to read something sexy to/around someone lol. Felt relateable. I was also very impressed with the trigger warning section. I also agree with the parts you found cringy haha. I'd enjoy if you did more videos like this if you wanted!
this book feels like My Immortal after dark
I am GENUINELY impressed that this was a Booktok rec and there's this much aftercare and proper steps with BDSM taken. It also genuinely sounded like a pretty good read, might give it a look sometime.
This isn't "Dark Romance" this is giving, "Dark ER🌼tica".
I know Harley from our Wattpad days (we don’t speak of it… never…) and when I deleted Twitter, we lost touch, but Harley is SO AMAZING and genuinely loved and cares about writing and safe kink. I don’t trust other books with such heavy topics, but I know they’ll do it properly so I have no worries going into any of their books.
This was written by someone that is part of the community or did a lot of good research
I love how your hair looks in this video!
Oh thanks! I got it done for my birthday so it looks different now
i was blushing reading this one lol.
At first with the title and cover, I had a completely different image forming in my head. Thank you for this review. If I got brave enough I might try to publish my own BDSM shmorn with plot book. But there are conversations about the dynamics of the relationship, usage of safe words because consent is sexy.
FYI: The guy from Crystal Castles was super abusive, but the girl makes music on her own now as Alice Glass
I'm about halfway through the video, I'm pleasantly surprised, especially after that wonky beginning. This is not my kink so I'm not intimately familiar from personal experience, but the establishment of consent again and again is really good (with any kink). It seems like a pretty good introduction to this specific kink for some readers! I'm a bit weary of the incoming clowns though, I'm kinda phobic. Edit: oooh even some character development! Aaa clown gangb*ng, one of my worst fears. Even aftercare? Nice. Some cringe sprinkled in imo, but I'm not the target audience.
And thank you for being informative and positive about kinks! It's really important. 🥤
Not in love!! Haven't heard that song in ages! if nothing this video reminded me of a song that's pure mood!! Love it!!!
I never took myself to be particularly vanilla, but these glimpses into BookTube make me reconsider.
PSA: USE BODY SAFE CANDLES
Regular candle was is usually too hot and can burn you.
I would love for you to read the Losers Duet i actually tought The Dare was okey since its so short but The Duet is SO good the character development is AMAZING i was so shocked since the book is a "dark romance" lol
love the editing of this 😂
Oooh! I never expected to see a smut book that gained a 4 star rating from you! This is so exciting!
Degradation/humiliation is so not my kink but this sounds really well written, I appreciate that a lot. (I do like good girl a little. Just not in a daddy/daughter kink way. Don't connect children and sex please and thank you.) And AFTERCARE! YES!!!
This was turned into a full book duology and it's very good and significantly improves upon The Dare which was not the best because it was a lower effort short story! But the duology really does a great job of fixing the issues in The Dare
As someone who is part of the kink community, I think you explain things really, really well. I now to read every book by Harley Laroux
I am so surprised by this review that I want to read the book, but humiliation & degradation are triggers or me. It sounds like it's handled well, but I can't take that risk. I would love to know whether the series is worth reading, though, & how much those kinks play into it to know whether it's something I could skim or skip reading to still enjoy the stories. This really sounds like bdsm written how I like to read it so I'm intrigued.
having read the whole series, humiliation/degradation remain a big part of most of the kink throughout the rest of the books. i'm not sure if you could get a lot out of reading the series while skipping those scenes, a lot of pretty major development of the relationships between the characters happens then, and every single one involves both humiliation & degradation in some capacity. i hope that's helpful!
@cookkeh That is very helpful, thank you. I'll check if the author has other works without those specific issues
BAGGINS?!?!??
Idk why when you were talking about the song “not in love” all I could think of was that good charlotte song “I don’t wanna be in love” and now it’s stuck in my head 😂
If memory serves: I remember being a year out of high school and people be like: "High School was soooooo long ago. Why are we even talking about it?" Ya'll have miles, and eons to go and most people still have adolescent brains into their early 20s. Does NOT mean anyone is stupid into their 20s, just that a year out of high school isn't reunion territory.
That disclaimer is on point and i respect that.
Lol great review, your edits when it's your facial reaction while reading some of the spice and your mouth isnt moving. Those moments killed me laughing
please please please read "Losers" duet! although it's even more kinky but it's sooo good)
I wanted to be a goth kid in high school SO BAD! Fast forward about a decade or so when I sat down and listened to Goth MUSIC and realized "hey, this shit's good???"
THE CENSOR SOUND AT 0:09 SCARED THE SHT OUT OF ME ALJKSDNKDSFJLGNAÑL I literally jumped a bit
The meow and cat censoring had me cracking up.
You are a true delight. I loved this. your respect and enthusiasm for sexual positivity and enthusiastic content and communication is very healing for those of us who were raised to think sex and desire and exploring our sexual interests is bad/dirty/shameful. Thank you!
My fave booktube girlies knowing each other 🥺
I find it refreshing to see a booktok book that actually had a proper content warning
Has anyone checked that Harley LaRue isn't the author of My Immortal...? 👀😂
As a person in the kink community I was so happy when I found this book. I loved it and the whole series. Saw this video and was so scared you'd hate the book but I'm happy you enjoyed it! :)
Wow, a book that gets consent RIGHT?!? Yeah, some of the scene dialog is cringe-inducing but I also think that can be realistic to being in the moment vs outside of it, I guess it all depends on preference. The kinks were definitely not my bag either but Manson consistently checking in with Jessica kept me engaged. I don't think you see enough male leads with his easygoing patience and confidence. I'd be interested in a longer narrative where the pair get to know one another better and Jessica getting into the local kink scene even without them being a couple, I like the idea of both characters growing emotionally and mentally healthy as they enter their 20s.
Same! I’m actually very excited to continue the seeies
Já que você está treinando seu português, me sinto confortável pra comentar aqui ♥
Eu adorei esse livro, a primeira vez que li realmente foi um choque e dei uma nota baixa, mas depois eu Li Losers part 1 e li esse de novo, meu deus, que experiência. Os 4 garotos são maravilhosos e tem personalidades bem distintas, a história deles é bem marcante. Fiquei com medo de você detestar esse livro e detonar tudo que eu considerava uma boa representação de relacionamento não-convencional. Agora espero ansiosamente que um dia você faça uma resenha de Losers e, se possível, mais livros da Harley pq ela se tornou minha autora de spicy preferida.
Edit: 🏓
7:57 CRYING
love your videos, so fun to hear your thoughts on whatever you read !
I’m about to go read this book now😂🤣
This was great to come to after work! I’m excited to hear what you thought about this book!
Your videos always make my weekend more exciting! So excited to watch this
I loved this series so much hahaha.
Omg dying for the day when you read spicy books in pt
Damn it. I'm gonna have to add this to my list. I love BDSM themed books that are good examples.
Can I recomend Brazilian/Portuguese books to you?In Brasil we have: Helena, Esau e Jaco, Dom Casmuro, A mão e a luva (The hand and the glove), Casa Velha (Old House), Ressureição( Ressureiction), Quincas Borba by the author Machado de Assis.
One white contact in his eye? Was Manson trying to channel Papa Emeritus from Ghost?
One of my favorite spicy stories is The Fae Queen's Captive by Sierra Simone. It's perfect for anyone looking for sapphic and/or fey erotica. Boundaries are clearly communicated while still having a bdsm-ish dynamic. Could have gone a little more hardcore, but that's just to my personal tastes. It certainly still delivers.