I read ACOTAR & I want my time back | Rant Review
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2023
- I finally read the A Court of Thornes and Roses series and it is…. Quite something!
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This book sounds too long and too painful so watching other people suffer through is a different kind of entertainment
This is so true 😭
You aren't wrong LMAO. The following books get a lil better but like if I'm being honest the only one I actually liked was nestas book
This is the shortest one in the series too. They only get longer and longer from here lmaooo
They’re trash. That said, I’m a raccoon. So I am here to spill the tea for people who don’t wanna read. My husband enjoys these kinds of videos but refuses to read it (valid). 😂
They are definitely not peak literature, but I like them because they are mindless fun. However, I get a kick out of watching people tear them apart also.
Ok so she’s able to figure out Tamlyn has a stone heart but CANT ANSWER THE RIDDLE?!?! 😒people have died feyra.
You have really cracked the case wide open with this one because it didn’t even MAKE SENSE that he had a stone heart!!
@@NeidaTeresaA Clockwork Reader theorized that it’s Howl’s Moving Castle fanfic and that was one of her main points to back it up funnily enough. So it might just be there bc of that.
@@theburgersystem126yeah I see it
The fact that Feyre (narrating) doesn't know how to spell the word "position" yet knows words like "effervescent"💀
Feyre should be way more distressed with the fact that she killed and skinned someone. That's genuinely horrifying.
well, fairies in this series are so annoying (and sexist, and always horny and creepy) that I have hard time feeling any empathy for them
Read a book the other day where the protagonist, who has been pretty morally grey, accidentally immolates an opponent during a fight and is mortified. There’s a line to the effect of ‘she no longer wished to be the one who decided whether he lived or died.’ Which I liked. Generally dislike the YA trend of just totally unflappable stone-cold badasses who just don’t react to things LOL.
@@pharoahcaraboo9610I'm interested, which book is this?
@@marinainacio7743 it's called 'ratha's creature' in 'the book of the named' series. it's an old xenofiction series about a fictional race of prehistoric feline and their sort of gradual coming into a more advanced society. think a somewhat more mature warrior cats (which predates warriors by several decades).
@@pharoahcaraboo9610 where was this in my childhood after Animorphs left me starving for more, seriously.
I cannot believe this stupid MC actually stabbed and killed two innocent people bc she couldn’t figure out that riddle 😭😭😭😭
She literally went through hell for a riddle I solved as soon as I read it, I almost skipped to the end of the damn book LMAO. She could have at least made it a hard riddle she's meant to not be able to solve like something a faerie would know but not a human. Like make the answer a flower that only grows far north of the wall or something
@@emackenzie NO BECAUSE SAME??! Like it was so obvious that “love” was the answer 😭😭. And she literally recognized that amarantha was definitely tricking her with the wording of the bargain and she didn’t even TRY to get clarification or negotiate like she later did w Rhys…🙄
At least with Katniss she was suffering from extreme PTSD and didn't understand the social dynamics of the victors nor did she know how much she could trust them. She was surrounded by nature and the will to survive and so her mind was elsewhere.
She didn't understand her feelings for Peeta because their relationship was extremely unconventional and most of the feelings she had towards him were that of comfort and not butterflies which is how she was likely taught love was. Not to mention constant stress and danger looming over her. She wasn't really given a life that allowed her to comprehend romance either. She was sixteen after all.
But this girl had plenty of time in luxury and thought. She doesn't have an excuse lol.
If Katniss has a million defenders, I’m one of them. If she has only one defender, I am that one, and if she has no defenders, I am deadddd
I genuinely hate how popular these books are, and when people uphold it as being feminist, or peak romance - acotar is simply for straight people who never read fics off of ao3.
Not to mention the amount of repetition in these things. God Sarah, we get it, you think you did something. 😭😭
every book that goes viral on booktok is for people who don’t go on ao3 🤣
@@wooogie672I think that's honestly what's saved me so much money in the long run. I just have to hear the description and realize there's stuff that I've read for free that's similar if noy better
I have found my people
omg same
I don’t understand why this is so popular, I tried reading the 1st book but it was so boring that I just went straight to ao3 and picked up a fanfic that was a million times better
if this is a good book or a romance for someone 😢😮
I pity those people, and yeah they are probably very straight, and use salt and pepper as all their spices as well
yeah most smut fics are better btw. and for free! lol
The most hilarious part of this series is that the King of Hybern, the MAIN VILLAIN who drives the plot for the next two books, never gets named. He is just “the king of that country”. That should tell potential readers everything they need to know if they’re wondering whether these books are for them. 😂
Thing is, she’s done this before but SO much better!! In her other series, TOG, one of the villains is named just the “King of Adarlan”. But there’s is a plot behind this. It makes so much sense in the end and it is actually really cool. In ACOTAR it just feels lazy
I 100% believe that she added that bit in later to explain why he doesn’t have a name.
She has a nasty habit of just... straight up not naming people. How long are we going to call Lucien's mother "the Lady of Autumn" for?
I HATED HIS ASS SO MUCH
i noticed that most of the people who disliked the series (myself included) absolutely LOVED lucien… which is both funny and sad because my guy gets paid dust for the rest of the series 😭
I just started the video (only five minutes in) and went to the comment section. THIS comment!!! I still have 20 pages I’m trying to suffer through but Lucien has been the only character I’ve liked this entire book.
Me to and I actually felt sorry for tamlin
I absolutely LOVED Lucien.. but could not get through the second book… I was so dissapointed that it is just a smut. Nothing else 😂
If nobody got me I know Lucien got me...
it's always crazy to me that rhysand sexually abuses feyre in the first book but it ends up being fine actually because he's a secret feminist
in the last book he also doesn't tell her that her pregnancy is dangerous for a long time, and it is portrayed as good and when her sister tells her it is portrayed as a bad thing to do
right?! he's literally an abuser throughout the books, but the fans' double standards are craaaazy. they excuse everything he does just bc he has a big d lol
ugh i really hate the double standards of this book and i regretted that i continued reading it all the way to the third book. I hate Feyre and Rhysand, i prefered if we were reading at the other sister’s story not hers(forgot the name but i was talking about the other sister who’s not bitchin all the time lol)
Maas grandma is beyond biased about that jerk Rhysand
frfr
when i was closer to the beginning of this video, i was like "feyra... naming your human protagonist after the fey? she's obviously going to turn into one" and i was RIGHT when you were describing how she loses her mortality i was hollering. it's the worst foreshadowing any book has ever tried to pull. why is feyra even a name in this universe, you would think that would be considered some kind of terrible luck to name a child after these seemingly wicked and evil beings. awesome video
Ya know, I never put two and two together. Now that you say that… hmm 🤔
Yeah first of all the trope of humans turning into other species especially immortal ones, is so awful I hate it more than anything in this world I swear 😂
Second, even if she didn't change species (did I tell you how problematic it is and how I hate it already? Well I'll tell you some more!) then having a name like that is pretty dumb anyway
@@KateeAngelcan I ask why do you hate it so much? I know the trope but I don’t really care about it (I mean, if it happens, at least I want a logical explanation, if it doesn’t, whatever) so I’m curious of why it’s so problematic
@@mirilovesyou2518 like imagine having a character turning into someone of another race, and that means they now better fit into society and have easier life. All humanoid species in fantasy and sci fi are basically so similar to humans, that you can view changing species as changing race. It is not the same as having a character turn into a cat or a bird, for example
It's even worse when you pronounce it as it's its spelled
Feyre
Fey (like fae)
re (re like recycling)
Fairy
LITERALLY JUST FAIRY
Also yes at “you will never have to guess the motivations of a SJM character because at some point they will get on a soap box and just tell you”
I think that’s a big thing that’s holding me back from really liking her books. Everything sounds good in theory but the execution is usually shallow and on the nose.
There have been times when I’m reading SJM books where I start to skim because all that’s happening in my head is “I GET IT ALREADY”
I agree!! I feel like the skeleton of a good book is there and if there was any mystery or intrigue to character motivations then it might be more entertaining, but it’s just laid out so obviously it gets EXHAUSTING!
Yes! Like I just wish she would trust her readers 😢😢
Wow she really does tell don't show
YES!!!! THIS! finally, thank you for putting it into words - i've been struggling to figure out what i'm feeling and it's exactly this. it's like, okay, just get on with it. show, don't tell. there's so much repetition and it's like dude you've said this 40 times before, i get it. you do'n't have to continually shove things down our throats in order for us to understand what's going on.
i’m a fan of the idea so seeing videos like these gives me the urge to rewrite the series and post it on ao3
27:00 yessss omg this was one of my biggest gripes with the series overall! It felt like it didn't have a relative place in time! Like I don't expect a fantasy world to fall directly somewhere on our real world timeline, but it needs to feel coherently rooted in a period of time relative to the fantasy world! It always felt so inconsistent, like I could never tell if we were going for a medieval folklore vibe, a 18th court drama vibe, or a 2010s prom vibe with how some of those dresses were described 😭
Not the 2010s prom vibes 😂 Now I'm picturing Mor in Sherri Hill LOL
@@NeidaTeresa no literallllyyyyy!!! The way they described her "iconic" red dress was always giving that one girl at prom who thought she was really cool for having a slit in her dress 🥲
No fr like a good example of a coherent fantasy timeline is six of crows, it’s set in the 17th century and Kerch is loosely based off the Dutch republic and ketterdam is modeled after Amsterdam and it makes sense given the plot, and there’s even things like mentions of new military weaponry like tanks which a few of the characters didn’t know what they were bc they were so new. And given that majority of places in SOC are modeled after real life countries also helps a lot in helping the setting make sense
no my rage progressively got more intense with each book by the time i got to ACOSF i felt like i needed to smoke a whole pack of cigarettes…please review all of them
I had to take a break halfway through ACOSF..... how are these books getting longer but less and less is happening 🤢
I’m trying to read the fourth book and. I just don’t know if I can.
4:48 I totally agree that Fayre is a blank slate that the cishet white target audience is meant to project onto. But Katniss? Nope, I don't agree. Katniss has a flat arc, but despite that she does have some development over the course of the series. She starts out as a reluctant hero, who is only concerned about her close loved ones and has little hope for change. By the end of the series, she makes sacrifices for others she doesn't know and settles down and has a family. She has a defined personality. She's stubborn, capable, practical and quick thinking. She also suffers from PTSD. More than what I can say about the heroine of this series.
i was looking for this comment!! katniss grows so much
"So much happens and yet nothing happens" is the whole damn series honestly XD
The thing that bothered me THE MOST about that book was the use of male and female as a replacement for man and woman. It's weird, but OK sometimes, but not ALL THE TIME, you can't say that "someone is a good MALE" and act like it's normal. (Also the sexism, and the weird treatment of mental illness, etc)
It’s so gender essentialist 🤢
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I've read too many fantasy/sci-fi books that think replacing man and woman with "male" and "female" makes it automatically more fantasy/sci-fi. It gets so awkward, especially when you hear transphobes and sexists always using the terms for biological determinism
@@Sootielove ABSOLUTELY. Also, I didn't read for YEARS and then started with ACOTAR, for the memes and I'm just now finding out that that's a fantasy thing?? Not to be mean to the author's, but I'm gonna stay FAR away from that.
@@Zombina638 fantasy books apparently use male and female as replacement for man and woman and as someone who doesn't read a lot of fantasy it was SOOOO weird in ACOTAR, I almost dnf'ed it multiple times because it made me cringe so much 😅
I'm so glad you saved the riddle for after describing the trials. Really drives home how much could have been avoided if Feyre had, if not immediately then surely the course of however many weeks or months she's UTM, at any point realized the answer to a riddle that a twelve-year-old would roll their eyes and scoff at for being too heavy-handed and obvious.
I’ve read the book, but I STILL doubted myself when the riddle came up in the video because surely it couldn’t be love. That was too obvious!
YESSS THE first thing i thought of when i read that book was "huh. this is... this is katniss?"
and then for the rest of the novel nothing about that aspect of her life (being a hunter who is used to provide for her family) is ever brought up again.
Honestly, I read enough bullshit in my middle school fanfic era that I wasn't too fazed by all the essentialist weirdness, the sexism, the SA etc. but I was absolutely LIVID about that fucking riddle. I got it the moment I read it, but I figure I was being stupid and it was a misdirect. Then I managed to convince myself that SJM was actually doing her job as an author when in that 'murder the innocents or kill Tamlin' scene the fey girl started singing the lullaby. I immediately mentally apologised to SJM bc I had underestimated her with the riddle - I was so certain that the lullaby contained the answer to the riddle. The lullaby had been set up earlier when someone sang it to that fey that was mauled, and when Amarantha gave Feyra the riddle all the fey laughed, implying it was something they didn't think Feyra, a human, could figure out, and then a la Chekov's gun SJM brought the lullaby back up in the pivotal scene. I was ready to be somewhat impressed with SJM actually using basic narrative devices and foreshadowing and then... it has absolutely NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FUCKING RIDDLE!!!!!! Instead it was some weird convoluted way for her to figure out Tamlin had a stone heart???
Please you said I can excuse sexism but I draw the LINE at that riddle!
I love how you can pinpoint the moment in book 1 where Sarah J Maas realized that Rhysand was a much more interesting character than Tamlin. Because he is. So she just rewrites Tamlin and hands over all that boyfriend development to Rhys.
Tamlin had potential tho
It was hilarious to read, like watching someone in the street realise they're going in the wrong direction and do a 180 on the spot 😂
Worst was how she went "oh ok we will go with this interesting guy now, but actually, he's not bad at all and he's actually a secret superhero and loves puppies and kittens" 😂
@@KayDI haven’t read ACOTAR but that sounds exactly like what happened with Chaol and Rowan lol
Rhysand was so much more interesting to me when his 'mask' was his character, because it was written so genuinely that it's hard to believe it wasn't something she changed her mind about. Like, I can understand "he needs to act like an asshole to keep up appearances with Amarantha" but then why does he need to threaten Lucien's mother like four times in the same private conversation?? She retconned so much (like Amarantha suddenly just having another Daemati we never hear about again) to make him more of a 'good' character so he could be the 'perfect' love interest
EWWW
Its like SJM makes her characters clueless but gives the reader all the info
Thats so weird
I accidentally stumbled upon a positive review of ACOTAR and I needed to cleanse my pallet with a proper rant. Thanks!
Feyre was no the badass hero girl Sarah thought she was. I listened to the dramatized version of the books and Feyre was constantly in her self-loathing and the shit was hilarious. "Im just a weak illiterate human" also when Amarantha said in her Juvenile voice, "So you don't know how to read, hahn?" Here's a challenge for you I was through with these thangs.
i love your little scream for lucien, i was also far more interested in lucien than tamlin lmaooo 💀
And then they shelf him for the rest of the series 😭 I kept reading for nesta but I’m reading the next book for Lucien
My mom was gushing about these books, and told me that I might like them… she’s been trying to get me to read them, and when I told her “nah”, she hits me with the “well YOU haven’t read them, so you can’t judge them yet”.
MOTHER. I DON’T THINK SO
I also love LOVE Lucien and I am so happy I am valid in this. For some reason, my friends and I have SUCH different types that every time they tell me which man they like in a book I’m thinking, “Oh girl…you need therapy.” So far I am glad Lucien is a favourite amongst the majority of us. I will say though, Sara does like to ruin a man so I'm scared. If he breaks my heart, no he didn't.
Dude the first book was MISERABLE to get through. I usually devour fantasy books but it took like a month for me.
Who opens book 1 of a new series with such a drawn out hunting scene? The first half of this book bored me to death
@@victorvale1015 FOR REAL
i started on acomaf in january and it’s now august and i’m only on chapter 16 after skipping 10 chapters bc i couldn’t give a shit
ok i was actually really into the first book lol. towards the end though started to feel a bit meh. then i started the second book of the series and couldnt get past 5 chapters. dropped it then and there and never looked back
I only listened to it in audiobook, so I could clean the house while listening to it because I was curious about them but not willing to give them any of my reading time and I was right. They are so cliche and terrible
As a writer and developmental editor with 12+years of experience, I have wanted nothing more than to take a red pen to this series.
It needs work because honestly this series really isn't that good, and lacks developmental guidance amongst so many other things.
I've read most of the first book and yea, it's messy, repetitive, snobby, and overall displaced as personally, it feels more befitting of New Adult due to the content, and honestly I haven't even touched the rampant sexism, abelism, undertones of homophobia, and how this series *desperately needs good sensitivity readers* and so much more. Sorry for the rant, this series gets to me. 😅
My toxic trait is I enjoy people roasting books that I absolutely love 🤣 No but seriously just found you on my recommended & you’ve gained a new subscriber! You’re doing great 💜
I'm so glad you did this because I NEVER EVER get tired of acotar slander and this was so funny 😭 my leeeeeeast favorite thing in any piece of media is when the solution is ~love~ (looking @ u harry potter) so that riddle really murdered me (not as much as it murdered feyre tho amiright)
I honestly don't mind when the answer is love so long as it's written well. But holy shit does SJM not know _how_ to write love. Every relationship is just simmering sexual tension and "I would kill and die for you" and little to no actual _romance_
losing my mind at the Feyre bullying 😭😭 you have such good comedic timing
Oh, sister, I knew the answer was "love" as soon as Amarantha mentioned that Feyre had to answer a riddle! 😂 I literally thought to myself... "wow, the author is gonna be real cheesy and make a long-winded poem all about LOVE..." and JUST LIKE YOU I knew the exact answer within the first line or two!!! 😂😂😂 ALSO.. I totally agree with you: I liked reading the progression of Tamlin's and Feyre's relationship, but after returning to the human world, I really didn't want to be bothered by the trials! I just wanted to know what the HECK was going on, lol! I really appreciate how you summarized this for others-I only wish that I had seen your video before actually reading the first book. 😅 Cheers to you! 💕
Oh my god this makes me happy because all my friends LOVED this book so I havent been able to rant about it myself. I spent MOST of my time reading this book trying to convince myself that I liked it.
The straw that broke the camels back for me was the "his heart is stone" revelation. What???? They produce this mystery as if its something super important. Alis told her that even though every other part of the curse had run its course and could be talked about now, that there was ONE big mystery still left. Something so important that Feyre couldnt be allowed to know.
But there was literally NO REASON for that to be a secret in the first place! I mean imagine if Tamlin looked over and told Feyre that his heart was made of stone while they were just chilling at the mansion. What would that impact? What would Feyre be able to do with that information?? NOTHING.
Its secrecy ONLY MATTERS in the context of Amaranthas plan, which was not even conceived of during the whole time that this "secret" was supposed to be kept from Feyre.
It was literally added retroactively to give Feyre a reason to look smart and come to some grand conclusion on her own, and to me its quite possibly dumber than the riddle = love stupidity.
When she died in the end but got brought back to life as a faerie bc she was tethered to the person she loved I was like “oh this is twilight but faeries lol” like we already knew but like WOW that’s so similar
How can anyone not love Lucien honestly
omg "The setting in this book is really nebulus. Colonial america... england... 1600s france... idk but I know there are queens and courts and the women wear long dresses and then think about a bitch like katniss everdeen trying to survive in that world"
this quote and then the spongebob worm reference had me howling 🤣🤣🤣
I’m so glad I found the place where people don’t think these books. As a struggling writer, seeing books like these get published and have a huge worshipping fan base is depressing. And now HBO is making it into a series…..
HBO?????
@@shannoncarolinedias6999 sorry not HBO. Hulu
Prythian/Hybern and all of that is set in the U.K. and when I say "set in the U.K." I mean "literally SJM took a map of England and slapped new names on top" because it’s completely unaltered
Thank you for confirming my opinions on Feyre’s intelligence. I couldn’t continue the series simply because I was so frustrated with her empty brain.
Can you blame her she can't read😂😂😂😂
I also tried to read the first book. I loved Folk of the Air and Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and thought because ACOTAR featured fairies, it would be right up my alley but could NOT get passed the 47,000 ellipses. -_-
I literally just caved and read this series this month. The timing on this vid….. and the way our thoughts are so aligned omggg
The riddle is so obvious. Of course the answer is going to be love. The riddle could be "Skibidi bappity do" and the answer would be love. That's just how these stories work.
I can't wait for the reviews of the remaining books in the series. I read ACoTaR a few years ago, when I was in college, and gave it 3 stars, it seemed way too mediocre for me. I never continued on with the series.
Please, do reviews for the other books. You're awesome! 😊
Edit: typos.
Thank you for watching ☺ I'm halfway through editing the next one right now and hoo boy its loong
OMG your mix of hilarious synopsis/ASMR/wine rant/impressions had me dying. So glad I stumbled onto your channel. Very surprised you don’t have more subscribers. Keep the book reviews coming!
I was doom-scrolling on here looking for something to watch, and I didn’t wanna watch anything. But I saw your thumbnail and my apathy went away. I’m glad I came over here and watched your video!
Thanks so much for watching and commenting! Omg the doom scrolling is so relatable 😂
yes the spring court part is so good! the world building and writing in that section is immersive and beautiful. the rest is such caca
No, absolutely, I hate this book sm. The world building is info dumping in one glob of conversation?? Everyone looks the same, but not? Every male in this book is henry cavill with new hair. Every female is skinny, fair and flawlessly skined girl from wattpad 2014 ff. Amarantha slowly tortured clare as soon as she saw her, but with feyre she gives her a chance to prove herself first bc plot. Also why is Amarantha this magnificent, also flawlessly skinned, pale, snow-white-ish woman who, in my head, looks like feyre but new hair, instead of like a war brute with a heavy build seeing as she was one of the cruelest faeries in the war. WHY DO THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME. And her world building left the spring court feeling like a mansion on a grassy plane, with a forest a few steps away (just me?). The big bad fairy king just exists and is bad bc he's bad. The sexual tension between tamlin and feyre felt forced and, yes, assault-like. I cannot imagine someone consenting to a fxck-ready fairy after almost being rxped by three goblin-like fairies from the night-court just bc he's standing there and wants her *now*. Kudos to Lucien, the one with personality who was also my fav, I never made it past the first book sorry 🫠🫠🫠
I so agree with you on the world-building and the badly paced romance of Tamlin and Feyre. I only got interested in the book when she went to the trials. Literally was bored through the first 2/3 but I wanted to see why my friends loved it. I still don’t know. 😂
The second you read the riddle I was like "yeah, that's love!".
Immediately subscribed!!!!! I genuinely hate how popular this series is because it is mediocre and the booktok girlies hype up the WORST books like omfg. Give indie authors a chance! I will watch and enjoy the whole hour of this youtube because I live for SJM and all of her books being bashed, same with CoHo
THANK YOU you said everything i felt and more. this book is almost insultingly bad, like sjm changed her mind about the plot/love interests but didn't bother to go back to edit. like she just wrote a straight first draft with no editing and got it published somehow
One of my problems with this book was that none of the characters were fleshed out, and if they were it was poorly done. There are a lot of holes and twists that were just random and often caught me off guard. The series, to me felt, too… flat, predictable, and fast paced with certain parts and too slow on many others.
You actually make this book sound better than it was haha. In listening it occurred to me that the trilogy was probably one book that got drawn out into 3 because she was now a star author. I actually like the general ideas and world building, but the execution was...painful. I did read the whole trilogy, I regret it. I want it to be made into a movie or something because it can only be made better.
READY for your videos of the next books! Love your commentary!
girl your energy?? I LOVE YOU, I DEVOURED THIS, I could watch you and listen to you for days, totally subscribed
only 16 minutes in but you dont know how excited i am to see another lucien stan !!
Lucian was the only reason I finished the first book, but not even he could get me to read the rest
Found you through my recommended lists and never been sooo lucky! I listened to this video on the way home from work and I was laughing so hard! All of your comments and gripes are so on point 🥲😂 it’s funny cause I read the books and actually enjoyed it but it’s so hilarious seeing it from other people’s pov (and realizing all these problematic things in it)
This video is hilarious, informative, and very, very enjoyable. I read ACOTAR and enjoyed it, it was the following books that disappointed me and made me cringe. I still can't bring myself to read the fourth book because I genuinely just don't care. Thank you so much for sharing your opinions on this book!
I can't get over the fact that her name literally has fae in it 😭 mainstream ya fantasy is so exhausting omg
the way you opened the video already had me in stitches. please this is going to be so good
I made it halfway through the first book and had to give up. It is objectively awful writing. I truly believe fans of this have never read anything good. This rant and some others I watched have convinced me that the series can’t decide whether it is an actual fantasy story with a plot and characters or just a trashy smut book and it fails at both.
ur fr so underrated the way you describe things is so entertaining
I really recommend the web comic Atonmen. It reads like a book. It's human x creature romance done right. Gargoyle and human woman. And it feels like an original story. Blew these new romance/light erotica out of the water.
THE TAMLIN IN HEAT WHISPERING😭
I’m excited to watch your video! A friend recommended ACOTAR to me (along with every other breathing being on this planet) and I decided to try the first book out.
I reread the first chapter becuase I couldn’t believe how everyone found this book so amazing. I liked the world building, the settings, and pretty much everything except the characters. Especially the main protagonist… she came off as a YA character who was naturally the best at everything, smarter than everyone, completely independent, beautiful, and every other good quality under the sun. It extremely frustrated me and I had to put the book down.
Good book for sure for teenagers (if there wasn’t so much humping) but the adult women I see raving about it just need to find a good series on AO3.
Before you even said imagine the Alaskan bull worm that’s exactly what I thought of😭great video! Excited for the next one!
girl I am so excited this popped up in my recommended because I haven't watched a review yet BUT I remember some girl in my creative writing course bringing this book to class
First 20 seconds and I can tell that this is going to be one hell of a video
Ngl the way miss Sarah writes her smut scenes reminds me of when I’m trying to find good M/M romance ( I’m a trans man) and I gotta like search super hard on kindle unlimited cause it’s all written by straight women writing under names that sound like it could be men like H. J Smith or whatever. She gives off the same energy with her scenes as them cause it just doesn’t seem like good sex? Like in some of the romances I’ve found they use wild shit like Vaseline as lube or god forbid none like good lord at least do some research before you write these I’m begging and praying lmao.
Idk I used to have a massive Sarah J mass kick a few years ago and the sex scenes are what is burned into my mind. The term “velvet wrapped steel” haunts me to this day. I liked some things in the books but I disliked more things than I liked so I stopped reading
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I resonate with you on the trying to find mlm books written by actual gay men part but VELVET WRAPPED STEEEEL?????!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!? 😭😭😭😭😭
@@o.g.186 yes 😭 idk why she chose that term to describe it it’s awful!
I got 1 minute in to this video and immediately hit subscribe. Incredible intro, absolutely a work of art.
Thank you so much 😭🙏🏽
I started the first book out of morbid curiosity and am now essentially trying to finish it out of spite (I’ve been struggling for 3 months off and on) and your recapping them may be the only thing that pushes me to finish bc this video was so entertaining
Edit: or maybe this was enough and I don’t need to see the rest of the book with my own eyes lol
I loved this review! I have not and have no intention of reading this series, but I love your energy enough to watch your reviews of the series. Now I have an idea of what my friends are talking about when they’re discussing this. 😂😂
First I watched your video on the second book, loved it. Now watching this one. I really needed this kind of perspective. Like I enjoyed books a lot and my escapism was satisfied but lots of things were handled badly. When I went into fandom I just saw lots of toxic rants about ships that don't actually matter. Because Rhysand is shit. I liked him for a while with all of questionable 'feminism', but the last book... nope. He is just like Tamlin, but Maas likes him.
He is even worse than Tamlin, he didn't even turn controlling cause of PTSD, he just learned his wife was pregnant. He is like one of those men IRL who switch into being controlling toxic abusers when a woman becomes dependent on them (usually during pregnancy)
@@KateeAngelAnd Feyre just shrugs like that’s Rhys 🤷🏾 It’s also funny that she was unsettled by the idea of being a housewife at the spring court but is basically a housewife after the trilogy is over, decorating and shopping and shit.
jUsT liKe tAmLiN ?????! 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Kid,
Tamlin >>>>>> Rhysand
i read this book and i remember getting to the riddle and immediately going "its love" and then also immediately going "it's probably something else because that's just way too obvious the book isn't gonna be like that" and lo and behold. i was right and sjm is not as smart as she thinks she is.
I just "read" the first book (via audiobook) and I'm almost surprised that Maas wasn't sued by Robin McKinley's publisher for ripping off Rose Daughter 🤔 I understand that it's a "Beauty and the Beast" retelling but this was SO similar. When it comes to fairy tale adaptations, I much prefer Robin McKinley, Jane Yolen, or Gail Carson Levine. Highly recommend any of their novels over this! I'll probably go through the other books in this series to pass to time, but as a huge fairy tale fan I wasn't overly impressed by this either.
I heard this series was possibly a self-insert of The Black Jewels Trilogy & I wonder if I’d enjoy that one, because this just wasn’t for me. But I’ve heard good things about the original inspiration.
so funny i'm also diving into the series out of curiosity! i loved your reaction to lucien because i also find him the most charming character of the series. i'm enjoying the start of ACOWAR because of how many more lucien scenes there are hahaha. Idk if it's because i'm mainly getting through the series via audiobook, but i'm on book 3 and still have barely an understanding of the war history and hybern's/durian's/etc's place in all of this! i totally agree on your assessment of feyre. As a person who enjoys drawing, I really wanted to relate to her as an artist, but it just felt like a trait to make her seem 'relatable' or 'normal' as a human, but i wasn't really sold on it. and then you would expect as a hunter she would have some pretty good survival/critical thinking skills but she failed to deliver so many times! That trait only seemed to become relevant to move the plot forward rather than as a part of the way she navigates the world. She wasn't even that guarded in the manor. I enjoyed the trials (particularly the worm) because it felt like we got to see that part of feyre more, but even then there was a whole lot of weird stuff going on there! Anyway, it'd be interesting to see your thoughts on the rest of the books! From scattered comments I've seen on RUclips, the series just seem to get worse with latter installments, but hell I'm along for the ride lol
here's the thing...i love sarah J Maas...not because the books are well written or the plot is complex and well thought through
(i would argue both of those statements are not true)...but the characters are so relatable and she can make me feel things when I don't want to fee things....so i keep reading despite the flawed plot lines and themes
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I read the first 3 books and i enjoyed them so much - but in the same way you enjoy trash tv. I hate it but it keeps me so entertained. I loved your review
😂 I've Always said ACOTAR is Twilight but make it Fae, even down to the 2 🤮 love interests. I knew I clicked on your video for a reason. 🤣
🤔 IDK, could the answer to the riddle be...LOVE. 😂 SJM'S heroines are Always red shirts. 🤨Too stupid to live. SCOTTY, beam her down. She's not going to make it back to the Enterprise, I'm afraid. 😉
I'm so glad that you reviewed this book series. I have so many thoughts on this, and none of my friends will read the series because they constantly complain about how trash it is, but I really need a sounding board for all of my opinions. 😂
I’m terrible with riddles, but even I knew the answer halfway through reading it.
every video ive seen on this book always skips summarizing it and just goes straight to ranting so im glad to finally know just why its so dumb lol!! i love your humor and your voice is super nice to listen to. new subscriber!!
edit: the point about stephanie meyer being mormon and that's the reason for her changes to the vampire lore is............... maybe im stupid but i never thought of that before.
Ohhhh this is the best review I’ve listened too. So entertaining 😂 And that’s coming from someone who was OBSESSED with the books at one point haha ❤
Ugh, i called my mom (retired librarian) after i read the first one and just like cried abt how much i disliked it 😂 this rant is so soothing (finding other people/videos that dislike the same things as me is a type of self care) ❤
I am so glad you thought of the worm from SpongeBob too! 🤣🤣🤣 that’s all I kept thinking about!
I have never heard the riddle before. There was all this buildup in the video. Then after the first line i went 'is it Love? No can't be that feels too obvious'
I picked this up a few weeks ago, and then I came to my senses. I just couldn't do it. Thank you for your sacrifice. 😂
bruh you have that naturally comedic vibe. I love that LOL.
also ‘the worst book series’ I am endlessly curious to what your thoughts on the kingdom of the wicked trilogy would be.
I love the commentary but man it hurts someone ripping into a series I love so much🤣 points are valid though
So she figured out at the last minute that tamlins heart was made of stone but couldn’t figure out the riddle.. right
babes I’m waiting in bated breath for your next video. mist n fury takes a huge ol turn imo,,, for better or for worse, idk, but definitely more entertaining than the first book. I don’t think I could read the first book again tbh, but the next ones are….interesting. I love your Nesta take tho. So many people in the acotar fandom hate her (for valid reasons prob) and love Feyre but nawt me ~ I love how you think Feyre is not very smart because I felt similarly looool she’s my least fav sjm protagonist by a lot. Anyways, you got a follow from meeee, great video
OMFG I JUST SAW U ALREADY POSTED AND TO SEE U ALREADY THINK ITS RADFEM NIGHTMARE
The next ones are even worse 😂
I'm thanking the algorithm for recommending me this video, lol 🤣. I really hate the ending, because as bad as her character was when she was human, Feyre was at her most interesing exactly because she was human. I cannot stand how OP she becomes. I find it very interesting that you like the first half better, becase as far as I saw(in reviews and stuff), most people prefer the UTM part because there is some action going on. Also Lucien and Nesta are my favourite characters in these garbage books.
However I will not stand for Katniss slander 😤. To compare Feyre with her in one breath, like please 😩.
Another bad part of Feyre being OP, is that I swear she barely ever feckin uses her powers, like the book says she has power from all of the High Courts and she does,,,, absolutely nothing with it. It almost feels like Maas forgot about it :/
your review is so fun to listen to you seem like a sweetheart thank u
I’m listening to the audiobook and the main character is sooooo EXHAUSTING!!! Like… she’s so boring and she goes on and on about a family that doesn’t seem to give a shite about her and yet she wants to go back. Also, it annoys me how in almost every chapter she’s in some type of danger and must be protected… 🫠🫠🫠. I don’t know if it’s just me but this book overall is just boring and nothing ever happens while stuff happens at the same time.
super entertaining review and recap!
Amarantha apparently makes bargains the same way as Barbossa from potc. Clearly Faera should have specified when and where!
Excellent summary of this book, which I couldn’t quite make myself finish…..So I’ll see if you like any of the subsequent ones any better.
So like burning man…..the wacky party. Great review!
thank you for making this, it was very entertaining
"I wish I knew what was going on"
"I do! Jump out the book and ask me!"
Quite literally my reading experience on the daily oh my godddddd