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  • @ReadswithRachel
    @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +36

    FREE TOYS AND GIFT CARDS! Everyone who signs up to my giveaway with Bellesa wins something! www.shopbboutique.co/vibe/readswithrachel-yt

    • @Kimberly_Sparkles
      @Kimberly_Sparkles Месяц назад +2

      The thump doesn't work well for mid-size fat or larger women, especially if you have a lot of FUPA. Just FYI. I experienced visceral disappointment when you brought it up. XD

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +6

      @@Kimberly_Sparkleswhat no way?! As a fellow FUPA owner it’s been the play for me. Everyone’s body is so different though, what works for others does not work for me. I’m so sorry it wasn’t the one for you! Fingers crossed you find the vibe to vibe with ❤

    • @Kimberly_Sparkles
      @Kimberly_Sparkles Месяц назад +1

      @@ReadswithRachel Possibly, it's the combo of short arms and round fupa. I'm part T Rex evidently.

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  25 дней назад

      @@Kimberly_Sparklesokay that made me laugh out loud

  • @Seren-Star
    @Seren-Star Месяц назад +842

    It’s certainly an experience seeing how omegaverse went from normalizing same sex couples having biological kids together into normalizing knotting between heteros

    • @E_Does_YT
      @E_Does_YT Месяц назад +98

      I can’t deal with the main stream-ification of Wattpad tropes- it’s both deeply unsettling in a way I can’t describe and absolutely hilarious to watch

    • @jasminv8653
      @jasminv8653 Месяц назад +120

      ​@@E_Does_YT omegaverse comes from ao3 supernatural fanfiction though, not wattpad romances

    • @nobody4248
      @nobody4248 Месяц назад +1

      I really want to make a white women joke right niw.

    • @CommanderDarcy
      @CommanderDarcy Месяц назад

      The heteros always invade our spaces 😭😭😭

    • @booktales1687
      @booktales1687 Месяц назад +10

      What? I didn’t even know they could have biological kids. That’s so sweet. All I’ve heard of it is knotting 😭

  • @valerielevasseur8674
    @valerielevasseur8674 Месяц назад +368

    I keep forgetting the protagonist is called Misery, then hearing "remember how misery loves peanut butter?" It sure does.

  • @circuslollipopart
    @circuslollipopart Месяц назад +525

    i find it sooo funny that the werewolves in this are called "weres" when the origin of the word werewolf is literally old english for "wolf-man", with the prefix "wer" meaning "man", so essentially these werewolves are just called "men"

    • @bbo7002
      @bbo7002 Месяц назад +60

      Ok but I am literally ALWAYS going on about this whenever there's werewolf/were-adjacent media around. My family is probably sick of me crying about old & middle English but I can't STOP im sorry 😭

    • @robertborland5083
      @robertborland5083 Месяц назад +37

      Honestly, "wearg" might work better than "were" as a one-syllable, Old-English term for werewolves in this case. (The term "warg" Tolkien used to refer to the orcs' malevolent mounts is something of a blend of "wearg"/"wearh" and its Old Norse cognate "vargr".)

    • @jasminv8653
      @jasminv8653 Месяц назад +10

      ​@@jaginaiaelectrizs6341 imagine if an old english word suddenly got reintroduced for anything else though 😂 oh yeah, i'm making some scrambled eyren for my brethren today....

    • @Yanmay851
      @Yanmay851 Месяц назад +5

      @@jasminv8653 eyren is middle english tho, not old english, but it's a cool idea for fantasy stuff

    • @daddytchaik
      @daddytchaik Месяц назад +8

      yeah when I first read it I got excited bc I thought it meant we would get different were-animals? I don’t get the point of shortening it when they are just werewolves

  • @haunting_bluejay
    @haunting_bluejay Месяц назад +261

    Ali Hazelwood has one formula "Smart yet dumb smol girl who doesn't know that the big standoffish man is crazy in love with her"

    • @exomake_mehorololo
      @exomake_mehorololo Месяц назад +32

      Can we get that trope banned? Can we make smart yet dumb protagonists illegal? Cause it's been trodden to death and there is nothing to add

    • @Axel_Was_Here433
      @Axel_Was_Here433 6 дней назад

      Yeah like The Love Hypothesis, I recently had the misfortune of reading that one and I hated every minute of it 😭

  • @Artbyhurricanyounot
    @Artbyhurricanyounot Месяц назад +460

    Ali missed the opportunity to name the love interest Company

  • @ebony7177
    @ebony7177 Месяц назад +357

    This shows true love. The fact that Carlos hasn't run screaming from you anytime you say "Hey, wanna hear about a book I just read?" shows that he is your one and only. He's your ride or die cause I would've locked myself in a room with the cat screaming "Nooooooooooo! Fourth Wing makes no sense and I can't take anymore!" 🤣🤣

    • @nancyjay790
      @nancyjay790 Месяц назад +8

      I can't always talk about stuff like this with my husband, not because he wouldn't try to listen etc but I know by now that some subjects just fly through his ears and out into the ethernet. He's still a terrific person who is my best friend and all the other stuff.

    • @kit922
      @kit922 23 дня назад

      Ooooor he has a VIP front row seat to our queen's video

  • @sarahlarock4070
    @sarahlarock4070 Месяц назад +519

    I really look forward to the reviews of ridiculous spicy books! The fact you have to explain 'knotting' basically immediately is both hilarious and unfortunate. 😂

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +111

      Wait til you hear me yell this weekend about Gothikana

    • @nicolefucci7258
      @nicolefucci7258 Месяц назад +8

      @@ReadswithRachel oh I’m excited!

    • @marymac3572
      @marymac3572 Месяц назад +27

      Petition for Rachel explaining new and 'exciting' terms to Carlos to be included in future episodes.

    • @CursedCatTruffa
      @CursedCatTruffa Месяц назад +4

      ​@ReadswithRachel Oooh, that book is SO bad! I cannot wait to hear your take!

    • @billyalarie929
      @billyalarie929 Месяц назад

      @@marymac3572YES

  • @tesscarlson5552
    @tesscarlson5552 Месяц назад +351

    I’ve always been firmly of the opinion that straight omegaverse is just gender roles but hornier. (I’d actually be kind of interested in reading something with a male omega/female alpha relationship though…)

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +142

      GENDER ROLES BUT HORNIER I AM DEAD ☠️

    • @rainydayjules
      @rainydayjules Месяц назад +78

      I know that a lot of fanfics refer to it as a “secondary gender” which I think has the potential to be interesting in storytelling actually but in the end it just boils down to the sex dynamic lol

    • @bctc1085
      @bctc1085 Месяц назад +17

      @rainydayjules I remember in a fanfic I read this guy got dropped in alternate universe hims body. And when the whole explanation of the sexes happened, he just replied with so basically, I'm a woman ,. The love interest was dumbfounded and concerned

    • @asteridshydrangea-jt2hf
      @asteridshydrangea-jt2hf Месяц назад +39

      @@bctc1085well, it’s accurate - queer omegaverse is established societal gender roles but hornier too? 🤷‍♀️ all of the things said about women are said in a derogatory way about gay men (and straight men to imply they’re ‘lesser’ or acting ‘gay’) IRL (hormonal, hysterical, submissive/weak) and they say those things specifically to compare them in a demeaning way to being ‘womanly.’ A/B/O worldbuilding is usually RL patriarchal myths writ into biological justification, including the way misogyny is used against gay men in the patriarchy.
      Which is fine, people interpret oppression violence and other issues they deal with through the lens of fetish or kink all the time. In more or less widely accepted ways. But acting like queer a/b/o isn’t doing the same thing is funny.

    • @randomthoughts0829
      @randomthoughts0829 Месяц назад +14

      ​@@asteridshydrangea-jt2hfI actually had an idea for omegaverse with queer themes that also sort of kept sexism. Like female alphas aren't treated as good as male alphas and are sort of forced to either downplay their womanhood or their alphahood. Meanwhile omega boys are still treated as the "boys will be boys" type but are also still seen as fragile babies who need to be coddled. Not to mention being trans and nonbinary and all that

  • @VariousAndSundryBee
    @VariousAndSundryBee Месяц назад +293

    Your explanation of knotting has me crying and laughing and cringing and choking and dying 10/10 completely understood

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +58

      Imagine me sitting at my computer editing this footage with my head in my hands like “how tf did I get here”
      Real thing that happened 🫠

    • @teslashark
      @teslashark Месяц назад +5

      @@ReadswithRachel Sanity is for the weak!

  • @SalayaSkystone
    @SalayaSkystone Месяц назад +136

    "You're a hacker. You can't mind palace your way into the answer?" Is now my go to meme in my mind palace

  • @HeartseekerJinx
    @HeartseekerJinx Месяц назад +67

    Someone pointed out in another video how the names mirror Reylo (Lowe = Kylo, Misery = Miss Rey) and I’ve never been able to unsee it since then.

    • @amandapanda5087
      @amandapanda5087 Месяц назад +8

      I'm not surprised, the Love Hypothesis was Reylo fanfiction

    • @HeartseekerJinx
      @HeartseekerJinx Месяц назад +17

      @@amandapanda5087 I think everything Hazelwood has written has been Reylo fanfiction tbh

    • @gregoryvn3
      @gregoryvn3 26 дней назад

      Ewwwww

    • @rubeuspotter719
      @rubeuspotter719 20 часов назад

      Are we talking about Star Wars Kylo and Rey? Because that’s gross. But yeah I see it.

  • @kerrikearse2944
    @kerrikearse2944 Месяц назад +124

    In the style of “ Misery Lark” your Ali Hazelwood name is your emotion during your workday + the state bird where you grew up. My name is “Jaded Cardinal.”

    • @user-kt3zv1cm5j
      @user-kt3zv1cm5j Месяц назад +15

      Queasy Eagle 😂

    • @whxmsii
      @whxmsii Месяц назад +14

      Neutral Blue Crane (the bird does not belong to a state but instead my country since I don't live in America)

    • @dazeslays
      @dazeslays Месяц назад

      unemployed black-capped chickadee

    • @jorieshouse
      @jorieshouse Месяц назад

      Vague Interest Mockingbird

    • @frognamedjog
      @frognamedjog Месяц назад +10

      Soulless blue crane 😔🙏

  • @AtticusRat
    @AtticusRat Месяц назад +89

    In all my years of reading Wattpad fanfiction, this is giving 2012 Wattpad fanfiction written by a twelve year old with unrestricted Internet access.

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +24

      100% I had a friend who wrote stuff that felt like this in middle school in her notebooks that she was hiding from her parents

    • @rebecca537
      @rebecca537 Месяц назад +5

      I love it because in the acknowledgment section, ali mentioned archive of our own, a predominantly fanfiction site.

    • @rebecca537
      @rebecca537 Месяц назад +2

      I know she got famous from i think a star wars fanfic, probably from that site, but still 😆

  • @voicememosforthevoid
    @voicememosforthevoid Месяц назад +116

    i haven't finished yet but i gotta say naming your twin characters Misery and OWEN is so funny to me. let's keep the corny going all the way through please

    • @asteridshydrangea-jt2hf
      @asteridshydrangea-jt2hf Месяц назад +22

      Should have had eccentric crackpot parents, Addams Family style, and they each got to name one kid and thought that ‘Owen’ was the weird, exotic one 😂 I feel like more fiction deserves weird parents that have to be circumvented because they lost track of social mores a century ago and think eating people over the tv remote is acceptable, instead of circumvented because they’re generic flat evil

  • @discendos2616
    @discendos2616 Месяц назад +69

    Me an ex dog groomer: HIS SCENT GLANDS???????????

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +29

      As a former vet worker I KNOWWWWWW

    • @asteridshydrangea-jt2hf
      @asteridshydrangea-jt2hf Месяц назад +11

      Wait omfg. Cats have scent glands in their cheeks (as well as anal) so I thought maybe I was confused and just didn’t know about dogs other scent glands lol but - I googled it and is my google search correct in suggesting dogs only have the anal glands ?
      ETA: like from what I’ve seen occasionally glancing at omegaverse on AO3 at 2 AM they usually put some on the neck, but everything a/b/o related in this book seems to come back to purely werewolf stuff so -

  • @TheReadingRambler
    @TheReadingRambler Месяц назад +48

    Everytime Maroon5 jumpscares me I'm like "well...HE is not in Misery"

  • @mcthurman8822
    @mcthurman8822 Месяц назад +76

    “Fake dates and fanged mistakes” is a good vampire/werewolf get together for political reasons. And the “bro and the beast” is a good omegaverse one, it is m/m and the premise is frat bro get transported into 80s romance novel.

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +18

      Okay that first one has a GREAT title I might need it

    • @dectren
      @dectren 26 дней назад +3

      YES Bro and the Beast is so fun!!

  • @thetamperer9784
    @thetamperer9784 Месяц назад +60

    I am adding "chicken coop building" to the list of things for my sapphic couple to do in that one concept I've been working on LMAO thanks

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +11

      WHEN ITS DONE I WANNA SEE

    • @angelawossname
      @angelawossname Месяц назад +4

      I have a lesbian chookhouse, at least, I'm a lesbian and I have a chookhouse.

  • @Destinnies
    @Destinnies Месяц назад +80

    I miss the person I was when I didn't know what Knotting meant in this sense

    • @amandapanda5087
      @amandapanda5087 Месяц назад +3

      I've unfortunately known for a while before this book came out... one fanfiction read is one too many.

  • @ihaveaname699
    @ihaveaname699 Месяц назад +137

    KNOT a great plot HA

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +22

      Knot great but definitely kNot bad for laughing at 😂

    • @nancyjay790
      @nancyjay790 Месяц назад +3

      ​@@ReadswithRachelYou do seem to have a gift for comedy and/or snark.

    • @soobindoll9561
      @soobindoll9561 23 дня назад +1

      Please that was good 😂

  • @cheyennetrumbos
    @cheyennetrumbos Месяц назад +30

    All of the cut-ins of "I am in misery", just made me laugh while working and listening to this.
    🐶

  • @blueriverbane69
    @blueriverbane69 Месяц назад +58

    first time ive heard it called hotdog water 😭

  • @user-kt3zv1cm5j
    @user-kt3zv1cm5j Месяц назад +86

    I once saw a video of feral or free-roam dogs that were interrupted by a pack mid-coitus, and the terrifying and no doubt deeply painful, at least uncomfortable, ordeal of the mating pair being stuck to each other while facing off a worked-up group of like 15 other dogs was so unpleasant that I just can't ever think about knotting without that video coming into my head 😂😂 talk about a mood killer

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +39

      All I can say is WOOF
      Pun intended

    • @thatrantinggirl7376
      @thatrantinggirl7376 26 дней назад +8

      Lmao, I read an omegaverse fic once where the couple was in the middle of having sex and they got ambushed by a group of bad guys. In this fic, the omega was the much bigger and stronger man so the alpha held onto his back as the omega just fought them. It was really funny and kind of a similar situation but omegaversified

  • @baka9466
    @baka9466 Месяц назад +98

    I found this book to be painfully mediocre. The only thing I liked was laughing at all the vanilla contemporary romance readers discovering knotting and being horrified (gay monster romances are one of my favorite genres, so I'm very familiar with omegaverse)

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +31

      Oh the plot made it the most mediocre thing ever ITS LIKE ALI DID NOT EVEN TRY. Her just stumbling into finding Sabrina like that? Was Ms hazelwood asleep??

    • @baka9466
      @baka9466 Месяц назад +25

      @@ReadswithRachel I would forgive people for forgetting it was a paranormal romance because other than the smell thing, they weren't exactly wolfing out or anything. It was basically a supposedly smart woman taking a lot of baths and a bunch of people having a cookout. The mystery was so disappointing

    • @steverainbow2.0
      @steverainbow2.0 Месяц назад +2

      Yes i agree with you 100%

  • @slyharu8829
    @slyharu8829 Месяц назад +33

    With all the talk about the knotting before I read it, I was expecting some a bit closer to fanfiction levels, but this was so… mild 😂 Never knew knotting could be written to be so vanilla

  • @AModelWhosRead
    @AModelWhosRead Месяц назад +44

    I was listening to this while doing my makeup and had to stop because my eyebrows were coming out two completely different shapes from laughing so hard

  • @mikankitsune0440
    @mikankitsune0440 Месяц назад +66

    The politicking in Bride isn't politicking it's polidicking.
    Also, when it comes to Vampire and Werewolf subgenres, I follow the 3Gs Rules: *Gay, Gothic, & Gruesome.* if it doesn’t have some or all of that, it's probably not that good.😅

    • @doobat708
      @doobat708 Месяц назад

      Have yuo read Hunger Pangs by Joy Demorra?

  • @maightandmagic
    @maightandmagic Месяц назад +30

    the hot dog water analogy made everything within me shrivel up. that's just asking for an infection.

    • @jaxj968
      @jaxj968 Месяц назад +6

      THE EMOJI BRO???? HOW DID YOU EVEN TYPE THAT???????

    • @nienkeachternaam2938
      @nienkeachternaam2938 5 дней назад

      @@jaxj968 Maybe a copy paste from somewhere? As a kid I used emoji websites to get emojis for my emails. And having said that now I feel really old hahaha

  • @sms4077
    @sms4077 Месяц назад +27

    you can absolve SJM of blame for the phrase slides in to the hilt (or any similar version thereof)-- that one was old loooong before her time.

    • @asteridshydrangea-jt2hf
      @asteridshydrangea-jt2hf Месяц назад +8

      This lol, my eyebrow went up. Sword and sheath imagery has also been around as innuendo for a long time, probably where it came from. Also when people don’t want to just come out with the cruder possibility lmao

  • @ThatPurpleGirl81
    @ThatPurpleGirl81 Месяц назад +51

    I enjoy shifter books but that's why I don't understand why everyone lost their damn minds over Bride. Wolf smut has been around forever and done way better so why booktok pushed this particular book to the front of the class is baffling. I guess this is to Omegaverse what 50 Shades was to BDSM. 😅
    ETA: 🐶🥜

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +6

      I think you’re right!

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 25 дней назад

      Yeah, if she literally had fangs and explained odd vampire sex characteristics woo i guess it could be, but why?

    • @bumbabees
      @bumbabees 20 дней назад

      ive heard a few different people say the people on booktok seem like people who didnt have a wattpad phase when they were younger and...i think that explains a lot.

  • @s.y.k.a1912
    @s.y.k.a1912 Месяц назад +15

    "I don't have teeth down there"
    I'm sorry but, stories about vagina dentata *EXISTS*😭😭😭

    • @aiglentinaa
      @aiglentinaa 29 дней назад +3

      I hope you don’t sleep comfortably tonight after giving me that terrifying imagery

  • @steverainbow2.0
    @steverainbow2.0 Месяц назад +50

    Noooo 😂😂😂😂😂😂 you explaining what is knotting 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +17

      IT WAS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES OK

    • @steverainbow2.0
      @steverainbow2.0 Месяц назад +2

      @@ReadswithRachel hahaha 😂😂🤣🤣 I am Dying Laughing 🤣🤣🤣

    • @ctuten5275
      @ctuten5275 Месяц назад +1

      I am here for it! Hahaha

  • @Evelyn_Okay
    @Evelyn_Okay Месяц назад +23

    I think knotting is getting so popular bc it's basically a "forced" only-one-bed trope, which leads to obligated pillow talk and cuddling. 🐶
    (Bc that's the only way the fmc can make the love inrest enjoy hanging inside - I mean hangouting with her)

  • @TheCranberryKnight
    @TheCranberryKnight Месяц назад +11

    The name Lowe is derived from "Lowell" which means wolf. The creativity is astounding.

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +4

      Is it really?!

    • @steverainbow2.0
      @steverainbow2.0 29 дней назад +2

      No pleaseeeeee tell me this is a lie because is so basic and boring if this is true 😭

  • @Lyrastrax
    @Lyrastrax Месяц назад +61

    I appreciate you. Reading books for our entertainment so i can know which books to avoid and instead recommend them to my worst enemies. 😊

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +8

      You’re a genius

    • @Lyrastrax
      @Lyrastrax Месяц назад +2

      ​@@ReadswithRachel Thank you🤭

    • @vaelia1203
      @vaelia1203 Месяц назад +2

      wow your worst ennemies take recommendations from you? Even my own twin won't, I can't imagine someone who hates you... wait nevermind that might be why... ah siblings...

  • @OfWebsAndChocolates
    @OfWebsAndChocolates Месяц назад +38

    the name misery IS very odd. the only other time i've seen it used is for the book-within-a-book character misery chastain in king's 'misery'.

  • @TheReadingRambler
    @TheReadingRambler Месяц назад +21

    I appreciate the commitment to "vampire with a y"

  • @silentstephi
    @silentstephi Месяц назад +36

    I CACKLED AT THE MAROON FIVE OMGGGG

  • @Mushroomelixir
    @Mushroomelixir Месяц назад +85

    ONE OF THESE CHARACTERS HAD AN ALMOST IDENTICAL NAME TO MY UNCOMMON DEADNAME (AND WHEN I SAY UNCOMMON I MEAN NOBODY HAS BEEN RECORDED TO HAVE THIS NAME) AND WHEN I HEARD HER NAME I ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK.

  • @lauracamille4065
    @lauracamille4065 Месяц назад +6

    The snort-laugh I let out at "INSIDE YOU ARE TWO WOLVES" was enormous

  • @michellecgb
    @michellecgb Месяц назад +13

    It kinda took a bit of the fun out of it that we know they’re mates IMMEDIATELY and it’s constantly highlighted, meanwhile, Misery is stupid about it for most of the book

  • @eulacuteuwu738
    @eulacuteuwu738 Месяц назад +90

    i had to explain the whole omegaverse to my best friend a few days ago, needless to say the look on her face was amazing. cant wait to see ur reactions to the omegaverse themes in this book (even tho theyre pretty mild) 😂

  • @LuxIsPeachy
    @LuxIsPeachy Месяц назад +12

    I feel like my biggest grievance with Bride is she managed to make vampires super boring lol. They weren't immortal, they didn't have cool powers, and their society wasn't anything to write home about. No idea how they managed to fight werewolves in a war!! At least make them cool 😭

  • @Marie45610
    @Marie45610 Месяц назад +22

    A Vamp*y*re named Misery... ok. It already sounds like she's trying to be edgy but doesn't know how.
    I recently accidentally read a book that I think is part of the Omegaverse. It was a NetGalley book by Ruby Dixon. I failed to look into it first why the author sounded familiar before requesting the book. I skimmed those "spicy" scenes.
    If anyone is curious, the book was Bound to the Shadow Prince. It was way longer than it should've been by about 200-250 pages. It's a 530 page book. It had the idea of a plot, strung together by a collection of scenes and under-explained reasoning for why things happened the way they did.

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +9

      Why is Ruby Dixon writing a 530 page book nooooo 🫠

  • @XLovelyMeX23
    @XLovelyMeX23 Месяц назад +34

    Oh honey I've been waiting for this. Bride was a HUGEEEEEE letdown for me and everyone has been making me feel weird about it!

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +13

      It’s best use is for laughing at it. I had a good time laughing at it. Sometimes with it. Mostly at it. Except that last sex scene that really just ruined the comedy

    • @simplesimply3753
      @simplesimply3753 Месяц назад +3

      I was letdown too!

  • @CommanderDarcy
    @CommanderDarcy Месяц назад +10

    "I'm so sad- GLAD you asked" KSKSKSK Celestia bless everyone that ever had to explain what a knot is in... this context

  • @Dragoon601
    @Dragoon601 Месяц назад +11

    Books like these remind me that even though my writing is shit, as long as I can write sexy scenes well then my romance book will sell like hot cakes

    • @andiman44
      @andiman44 Месяц назад +3

      Nah they ain’t gotta be well-written

  • @dontfretreadbooks
    @dontfretreadbooks Месяц назад +8

    Intro had me like “no not while I’m eating dinner”

    • @moonstone___
      @moonstone___ Месяц назад

      or knot while you’re eating?

  • @angelawossname
    @angelawossname Месяц назад +12

    My bff, who is also a lesbian, bought over some leftover materials from when she built her chookhouse the other day so we could extend our chookhouse. Our first chookhouse actually came from lesbian neighbours who wanted to get a bigger chookhouse. All of my lesbian friends have chookhouses. I didn't realise it was a lesbian thing but it makes sense.

  • @kaialexander6806
    @kaialexander6806 Месяц назад +7

    When I heard the name "Lowe Moreland", I had to pause to take it in for - I shit you not - about five minutes now. His name is Lowe Moreland as in Low Moorlands, but moors are found upland not lowland.
    His name is Low Habitat-Found-Up-High.
    10/10, nailed it, so many fucking notes.

  • @palamedes4740
    @palamedes4740 Месяц назад +29

    And Bellesa will not stay stuck, so that's a plus, Highly recommend no ER visits so far, we love to see it😂😂
    Jk jk the toys are great tho

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +11

      STAY STUCK???? NO FUCKIN WAY I’m gonna need you to warn me off whatever brand is staying stuck because I do not have the time or the courage to explain that in the ER oh my god

    • @palamedes4740
      @palamedes4740 Месяц назад +4

      @@ReadswithRachel Luckily no personal experience but I did hear horror stories from size queen wannabees 😬😬

  • @MeganTHEEcatlady
    @MeganTHEEcatlady Месяц назад +17

    “I wanna die.”
    **Relate.** 🙌🏾
    “I want to leave the Earth.”
    **RELATE.** 💃🏾
    “I am also in a state of misery.”
    WE MAKING OUT OF MY THERAPY APPOINTMENT WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🗣😭🔥🔥🗣😭🗣🔥
    Why are you always serving ✨relatable queen✨, ma'am, I can knot- 🤧
    (Thank you for the review! And for your 5-hour put together of “Fourth Wing”! Listened to it while getting my housework done, woo! 🥰)

  • @the_magic_celery
    @the_magic_celery 27 дней назад +4

    Huh, a book called Bride. Should have guessed it was about tying the knot... and using it too

  • @tyler-df3wy
    @tyler-df3wy Месяц назад +9

    For a quick demographic test that I feel is relevant for this video: pineapple in a hydraulic press

    • @noga9895
      @noga9895 Месяц назад

      The psychic damage I just took

    • @diesdas5851
      @diesdas5851 28 дней назад +1

      please no have mercy I cannot start my day like this

  • @jamiepx9
    @jamiepx9 Месяц назад +13

    Not a romance but My Heart Is A Chainsaw is a Horror/Mystery where main character is obsessed with slasher movies and is convinced one is about to happen in her small town so she needs to warn the "final girl". Has paranormal elements. I highly enjoyed it. It is written by Stephen Graham Jones who wrote The Only Good Indians.

  • @IlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIl.
    @IlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIl. Месяц назад +9

    one time in a previous life I wrote like 70 trashy erotic ebooks. bear and wolf shifter romances were huge at the time and I never got too far into that but I'd put that kind of thing in as a joke because at least at the time Amazon had a zero tolerance policy on anything resembling bestiality. I'd have the characters tell each other stuff like, "I'm definitely not a bear right now. I'm a human being."
    anyway if you're allowed to write about stuff like "knotting" now I might need to come out of retirement and publish an even more crude, obnoxious one.

  • @cloudyrainee
    @cloudyrainee Месяц назад +27

    Tbh, when I saw your comments on goodreads about it, I knew this was going to be a good rant video

  • @fallun9678
    @fallun9678 Месяц назад +6

    I am CACKLING at the Maroon 5 clips.. especially when he's NOT IN Misery yet! XD

  • @angelawossname
    @angelawossname Месяц назад +8

    I have read some queer spicy shifter romance. For the most part, it's just as bad and just as hilarious. For some trans writers/readers, though, omegaverse can be very important and I appreciate how it can be affirming to write/read about men who can get pregnant and female "Alphas". I can give you the names of some trans authors if you are interested. Edit: "Bro and the Beast" by L. C. Davis. L.C. Davis is a trans author, the book is super meta and doesn't take itself very seriously and mildly takes the piss out of omegaverse. "Evil Omega" by S. Rodman, a non binary transmasc author. Not as silly but still good. I have to admit, I do skim over the spicy scenes. Both available on KU.

  • @AuthorWASimpson
    @AuthorWASimpson Месяц назад +7

    Green blood? Is he Vulcan or something? Actually a Vulcan vampire would be interesting.

  • @Caroline_Creative
    @Caroline_Creative Месяц назад +7

    Chicken related sapphic romance rec -- hen fever by Olivia Waite. Actually so good- a cute historical novella!

  • @seraphonica
    @seraphonica Месяц назад +11

    weird that they mention vampires have trouble reproducing... can they not convert humans in this 'verse? usually the problem vampires have is too many, not too few.

  • @glamourpossum5292
    @glamourpossum5292 29 дней назад +3

    I never comment on anything ever, but I needed to laugh so badly the other day and the “I am in misery” snippets had me close to tears. Thank you so much for that, from a longtime fan 😂

  • @KRUKOLIBIDINOUS
    @KRUKOLIBIDINOUS Месяц назад +4

    I went to walmart with the goal of buying a cheap book to get back into reading, and I like vampires so I picked this up after skimming the back, I also grabbed some highlighters in case there was anything in the book I'd want to remember. I ended up highlighting every single time I cringed from the writing or what the characters were doing, and subsequently the highlighter was dried and unusable 1/3 of the way through the book.
    I had to put it down and buy other books because it was so bad I was dreading finishing it.
    In a way it did get me to read more, I'Ve read 2 whole books in an effort to avoid finishing bride 👰‍♀

    • @KRUKOLIBIDINOUS
      @KRUKOLIBIDINOUS Месяц назад +2

      Also bonus point, count the amount of times Misery says "I'm a vampire" if you count with shots you'd have alcohol poisoning

  • @10puppyluv
    @10puppyluv Месяц назад +4

    Ive been reading fanfic for over 10 years, ive discussed omegaverse with my friends multiple times, ive read omegaverse fic on occasion and yet and yet i am still baffled by the use of "hot dog water" that may haunt me for awhile

  • @easilydistractedauthor
    @easilydistractedauthor Месяц назад +6

    The heroine half-assing investigative work only to have the answer fall into her lap near the end of the book has plagued Urban Fantasy forever. I want to help solve mysteries, not watch people have sex and make out. (Chicagoland Vampires still haunts me.) 🐕🥜

  • @NRB_EndArc
    @NRB_EndArc Месяц назад +2

    “I am in misery”
    Lit-
    Liter-
    Literally.

  • @ellys106
    @ellys106 Месяц назад +4

    Ali Hazelwood is like "a woman can be into STEM or she can have good social skills/the ability to read people BUT not both"

  • @rebecca537
    @rebecca537 Месяц назад +4

    Surprisingly there also seemed to be a lot of things her editors missed. I cant remember what exactly, but i read the book basically in 24 hours, and there seemed to be a lot of consistency errors and stuff, small things you wouldnt really notice if you read it over a few days, or if you were the author. I know she has an editor tho, wonder why they didnt pick it up

  • @rikkifishy
    @rikkifishy Месяц назад +10

    I don’t know if ABO stories is having a renaissance or if I just managed to hide from it this long after it blew up in my main fandom on AO3, but either way, I do knot like it.

  • @commanderkittin1873
    @commanderkittin1873 Месяц назад +3

    I've spent the last 10 hours dedicating every free moment to plotting out a new project which is.... a paranormal mystery with a background romance in which the main character is searching for her missing childhood best friend. so sitting down for this video was a trip lol.

  • @monster-enthusiast
    @monster-enthusiast Месяц назад +3

    I love the immediate anatomy lesson at the start of the video lol

  • @HinataUchihaInuzuka9
    @HinataUchihaInuzuka9 Месяц назад +4

    AHAHAHAHAHAHA as an omegaverse fanfic blob, your comments and facial expressions had me HOWLING (pun VERY much intended), Rachel. This was such a good listen while I worked. I read precariously through you, my bookish saviour. Cheers and I wish thee a happy Mother's Day (in Mexico, it's celebrated on May 10th).
    Also, her name didn't jump out at me cause ajajajaja in Mexican culture (and hispanic culture in general), women are often named some WILD names. Some notorious examples are: Soledad (solitude, loneliness), Dolores (multiple pains), Consuelo (Like, when you console someone after they die), Concepción (conception, yep, to conceive a child), Socorro (Help! yeah, what you shout when you're in danger), Pilar (Pillar, yeah w like, column), Remedios (Remedy), Merced (Mercy ahaha), etc. I'm sure there are more ajajaja

  • @singing_sal
    @singing_sal 28 дней назад +2

    It's always great when a booktuber can remove a book from my tbr. I knew this would either be a fun mystery or hilariously bad, but somehow I didn't see the omegaverse coming.

  • @GailRDelaneyNovelist
    @GailRDelaneyNovelist Месяц назад +2

    "Like lovebugs..." Good GOD, I will be unable to keep this out of my head every time I sit outside with the dogs and see the damn lovebugs!

  • @kaseygiard9013
    @kaseygiard9013 Месяц назад +2

    Sending you love. I've been there with losing the ability to read. It's so disconcerting. It came back for me, and I'm sure it will for you, too. You're so smart to take a step back and give yourself space. ❤️❤️❤️

  • @dylannoah8512
    @dylannoah8512 Месяц назад +19

    As someone who's been into omegaverse for a very long time and who reads monster romance and omegaverse novels for fun, as my primary genres of romance novels, I absolutely love watching people come across knotting for the first time. It is objectively a weird kink and yet it is so normal to me that getting to that final sex scene was just me going "Okay FINALLY."

  • @lndcruz721
    @lndcruz721 Месяц назад +1

    i love that you cut in that marron 5 song. its perfect lmao. I was also waiting for the pun of being in misery and i was not disappointed

  • @EviePontecorvo
    @EviePontecorvo Месяц назад +1

    Rachel, thank you for your service for explaining knotting.

  • @missmishka8379
    @missmishka8379 Месяц назад +5

    Not a book, but OMG do I forever love the Terminator movie for Kyle Reese being a virgin because there are more important things in a war torn future & he maybe fell in love with Sarah Connor's photo & myth & unintentionally saved himself for her. Yes, that's kind of just my headcanon, the "saving himself" but all that is one of the reasons why Terminator is my favorite romance movie ever.

  • @Mj-lr3nc
    @Mj-lr3nc Месяц назад +6

    Any Ruby Gloom fans in the house sitting smugly, knowing that we stan the superior "Misery" character?

  • @HelghastEnigma
    @HelghastEnigma Месяц назад +8

    Its just somewhat kinkier standard supernatural fiction, its not even remotely actually omegaverse, bloody normies, I swear.

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +2

      Yeah it’s not really omegaverse. That’s definitely what it’s been called though!

    • @HelghastEnigma
      @HelghastEnigma Месяц назад +5

      Yeah, but whomever decided to call it that is wrong and deserves to be subjected to reading wattpad tier Omegaverse fiction for a year, and nothing else.

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +1

      You know what that’s completely fair

    • @asteridshydrangea-jt2hf
      @asteridshydrangea-jt2hf Месяц назад +4

      @@HelghastEnigmasomeone else said it was to omegaverse was 50 Shades was to BDSM and I almost choked

    • @HelghastEnigma
      @HelghastEnigma Месяц назад

      @@asteridshydrangea-jt2hf and I'd have to say that's pretty accurate, and hilarious

  • @howdyitsren
    @howdyitsren Месяц назад

    thank you for making your pain to funny and entertaining for us your sacrifice is brave and appreciated

  • @akossiwak
    @akossiwak Месяц назад +1

    Thank you for the laughter! I desperately needed it! ❤️
    🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜

  • @geektrash180
    @geektrash180 Месяц назад +13

    I have a hard time accepting omegaverse in m/f relationships, it's just heterosexuality, you don't need to add the omegaverse to it.

    • @bzzzzzzzzzz2075
      @bzzzzzzzzzz2075 Месяц назад +10

      I mean, I've been on ao3 long enough, and in weird enough circles to have seen m/f omega verse that still feels gay. But that takes a special kind of bisexuality, and this author DOES NOT HAVE IT. Like, this isnt even really omegaverse, it's heteros with knots.

    • @geektrash180
      @geektrash180 Месяц назад +3

      @@bzzzzzzzzzz2075 agreed! pretty much what I was thinking!

    • @sarahfields3589
      @sarahfields3589 Месяц назад +1

      @@bzzzzzzzzzz2075 honestly it seems very basic shape shifter/vampire fic more than omegaverse.

  • @cheez-itmcgee
    @cheez-itmcgee Месяц назад

    this review was so fun that when the video ended i was like "wow, that was so short!" & checked the time. did not feel like 45 mins! 🐺 lovely video!

  • @thisisavivistanaccount7866
    @thisisavivistanaccount7866 Месяц назад +3

    i needed you to review this lol I didn’t trust anyone else

  • @kajielin4354
    @kajielin4354 Месяц назад +6

    I'll finish knitting a hat for my mom to this video lol

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Месяц назад +9

      You can kNot tell her that you did this or she will consider the hat tainted

    • @kajielin4354
      @kajielin4354 Месяц назад

      @@ReadswithRachel Yeah no way, I hope she never has to find out what knotting even is!

    • @theoctopusesgardener
      @theoctopusesgardener Месяц назад +2

      i misread “knitting” while listening to the anatomy explanation and i was a bit flabbergasted i’ll admit

    • @kajielin4354
      @kajielin4354 Месяц назад

      @@theoctopusesgardener Oh no! xD

  • @ledafrost
    @ledafrost 25 дней назад

    Another great review, and the toys are great! I picked one up from the last time they sponsored you and can confirm they are perfect for someone nervous about buying toys

  • @ts3323
    @ts3323 Месяц назад +1

    I'm so glad for those included Ms. Perky scenes 😂 one of my favourite movies

  • @m.a.w.
    @m.a.w. Месяц назад

    Rachel thanks you for suffering for us. I am so sorry you had to explain what knotting it. RIP Queen.

  • @d4rkbore4lis20
    @d4rkbore4lis20 Месяц назад +4

    Love your reviews as always, though I’ve gotta say I find it absolutely hilarious that a bunch of reviewers are attributing fanfic language in published media to sjm when I honestly think it’s just that a lot of writers these days got their start in fanfic before moving on to writing their own stories, and some of them simply haven’t been able to let go of fanfic smut style language/managed to mature their writing styles to be distinct enough beyond it.

  • @TheBlackstaff
    @TheBlackstaff 22 дня назад +1

    oh god I am writing a werewolf book the whole knot thing has traumatized me. I never even thought of that the internet finds new ways to ruin my fragile little mind.

  • @amenotora
    @amenotora 28 дней назад

    I love that you tagged in Ms. Perky for that moment

  • @kirathecat
    @kirathecat Месяц назад +1

    I cannot, I CANNOT, with this! And I'm not punning about that either. I am actively shriveling away. Kudos for keeping the tiny bit of sanity you had left after this Rachel.

  • @sidney9796
    @sidney9796 Месяц назад +1

    the double entendre of the "i am in misery" bit had me dying every time u played it 😭😭😭

  • @phoenixwaller
    @phoenixwaller Месяц назад

    Oh, just started, but LOL at the knotting description. I still think one of the best I've seen was during the omegaverse lawsuit when somebody used a balloon for illustration.

  • @Shrummrums
    @Shrummrums 14 дней назад

    The struggle while explains knotting. But thank you I’ve never been able to understand it

  • @jadedoni6447
    @jadedoni6447 Месяц назад

    I loved all the knot puns omfg 😂