This is like the 3rd or 4th review I've watched for this lol. Thank god I didn't read this book, but if I had, I think the whole "knot" convo at the end would have killed me on sight. The way she's so serious about it would have made burst out laughing. That's like the most basic you can with monster romance tbh. The way she's sooooo serious. I woulda died. I'm laughing just thinking about it. Girl was acting like it was forbidden or something.
I hate so much about this book. The spelling of vampires. The use of “weres” instead of “wolves,” it sounds like something out of lightlark. The use of “alpha.” The fact that Hazelwood didn’t commit to the bit and didn’t name the main love interest Company. I’m aware authors can do whatever they want with their books. Doesn’t mean the decisions aren’t STUPID. 🤣🤣 and I haven’t even read it!
Right!!! She should've either go full camp or go serious worldbuilding but she chickened out of both and we got a 2 star book instead of a 4 star. Real shame lol
Especially since the "were" in werewolf essentially means "man" so she was just calling them "men" the whole book. AND since the guy who accidentally started the "alpha" hierarchy myth realized he was wrong and has been trying to get people to stop saying that ever since.
I’ve seen this book all over RUclips and Goodreads and it wasn’t until I saw this thumbnail that I noticed the wolf on the cover lmao. This whole time I thought it was just a regular romance book. And though I have no intentions of ever reading this book, I can forgive the spelling of vampyre. It and vampyr (which is pronounced differently) are just less common, alternate spellings so they’re not wrong but I do think that authors like to use the alternate spellings to be different. I don’t blame them though, since there’s so many vampire books, they have to set themselves apart somehow. But no, calling werewolves just weres is ridiculous, it’s too much lol
Yknow, it would be kinda ironic if Ali wanted to set herself apart with the "vampire" spelling, cause I've seen the word "Vampyr" is lots of vampire media anyway
I probably would never write this stuff again in my life but like Where's the edge? I know I'm thinking of the Underworld series right now, but this type of stuff really needs edge if we're just going full Reylo again. Kidnapping? Mind control? Biological inconsistencies leading to discovering certain powers? Hello??? I haven't seen underworld in years and I know 2 of those things happen
i'm going to be outting myself as an avid fanfic reader here but... never understood the appeal of het omegaverse at all. and i've read a LOT of omegaverse before.
I think I'm more disappointed with how uninspired the monsters are. Like why do the whole weirdly sexist/predatory thing again when u can do literally anything else.
The multi colored blood was giving crazy ketchup and i couldn't get over it the whole time. I could have maybe handled the weird/vague/not great world building if the author hadn't been using real world places. Like ok sure whatever, we have tense borders and there's a river. sure. whatever. that's fine. but suddenly las vegas and europe are involved? ummm now it needs to make sense
I don’t understand the need for knotting with cis-het couples. Or maybe I just don’t understand the omegaverse. Or Ali Hazelwood’s lore. This book is beyond stupid.
Nah, knotting is a canine thing (idk for the rest of carnivorans). Dogs knot their mates, so. And since omegaverse arose out of teen wolf fandom, dog anatomy and all the stuff are all there regardless of primary gender™ of participants
@@sava-smthi could have sworn Supernatural spawned this stuff It could have been around the same time for all I know but I'm glad I was too young to get the werewolf craze ngl
@@sava-smthbut with human forms it doesn’t change? Hmm. I would think at that point it would go by human anatomy. Thanks for your response. I’m truly novice to all of it.
yk as an avid ff omegaverse reader & writer, its insane how cishet books w/a/b/o manage to amplify the...biological aspects, of omegaverse cause @ around 20:40 you talk about him marking her, when scenting would've got the job done why are you marking your wife b4 a public event??? JUST SCENT YOUR MATE
Okay why does a knot have to be problematic? Just say it's not your kink and move on, sex that involves stuff that are not your kink is always going to sound weird and gross. I feel the same way about toes but I understand that some people are into that.
Problematic literally just means complicated or multifaceted, and he didn't even use that word. I love it when people imagine things for other people to say and then get mad about it... But just to expand - it's absolutely real that animal parts can be gross to some people in a sexual sense AND that othering people's sex organs into something non-human and animal-like has been a racist thing especially against black men. Like, that's one facet of the context in which we talk about things below the belt that genuinely *does exist* in our culture. But if knotting is your kink then who is going to stop you? No one. Go free.
While I avoid using that kind of language because it's so off-putting, saying a trope is "problematic" does not automatically mean saying it's "reprehensible" or "immoral". The fetishistic way that some (but not all) interspecies romance discusses non-human traits can be pretty similar to the way that people fetishise inherent characteristics of real people. That is, it relates to a broader issue. Foot fetishism doesn't sound like "I had been with men before, but I could never have imagined sleeping with a man who has feet."
@@jasminv8653 knotting isn't my kink (and also im a lesbian) i just don't understand why you need to invent reasons to be grossed out by a kink . it can just. not be your thing - it feels like such a tenuous connection to draw between a book with a white love interest and a completely different type of animal.
This is like the 3rd or 4th review I've watched for this lol.
Thank god I didn't read this book, but if I had, I think the whole "knot" convo at the end would have killed me on sight. The way she's so serious about it would have made burst out laughing. That's like the most basic you can with monster romance tbh. The way she's sooooo serious. I woulda died. I'm laughing just thinking about it. Girl was acting like it was forbidden or something.
I hate so much about this book. The spelling of vampires. The use of “weres” instead of “wolves,” it sounds like something out of lightlark. The use of “alpha.” The fact that Hazelwood didn’t commit to the bit and didn’t name the main love interest Company. I’m aware authors can do whatever they want with their books. Doesn’t mean the decisions aren’t STUPID. 🤣🤣 and I haven’t even read it!
Right!!! She should've either go full camp or go serious worldbuilding but she chickened out of both and we got a 2 star book instead of a 4 star. Real shame lol
Especially since the "were" in werewolf essentially means "man" so she was just calling them "men" the whole book. AND since the guy who accidentally started the "alpha" hierarchy myth realized he was wrong and has been trying to get people to stop saying that ever since.
@@monster-enthusiast she went like: "fellas!"
@sava-smth if the book kept calling the werewolves “the fellas” I would’ve thought it was funny and probably would’ve liked it a little more.
@@dontfretreadbooks "the hairy lads: the book"
I’ve seen this book all over RUclips and Goodreads and it wasn’t until I saw this thumbnail that I noticed the wolf on the cover lmao. This whole time I thought it was just a regular romance book. And though I have no intentions of ever reading this book, I can forgive the spelling of vampyre. It and vampyr (which is pronounced differently) are just less common, alternate spellings so they’re not wrong but I do think that authors like to use the alternate spellings to be different. I don’t blame them though, since there’s so many vampire books, they have to set themselves apart somehow. But no, calling werewolves just weres is ridiculous, it’s too much lol
I just call them shifters or by what animal they shift into in my writing. Were just seems clunky.
Also cuz the "were" in werewolf essentially just means "man."
Yknow, it would be kinda ironic if Ali wanted to set herself apart with the "vampire" spelling, cause I've seen the word "Vampyr" is lots of vampire media anyway
Man, as someone that adores werewolves, heteronormative alpha wolf romance is like actual torture.
I’m glad you avoided it then!
@@dontfretreadbooks lol
I agree with you: it's gross. Humans thinking of animal anatomy this way is weird and uncomfortable.
I probably would never write this stuff again in my life but like
Where's the edge? I know I'm thinking of the Underworld series right now, but this type of stuff really needs edge if we're just going full Reylo again. Kidnapping? Mind control? Biological inconsistencies leading to discovering certain powers? Hello??? I haven't seen underworld in years and I know 2 of those things happen
Was AH just trolling her readers with this? Thanks for distracting me from French homework again! 😌
Always happy to help procrastinate
32:24 lol
Vampires were my fave as a kid (probably cuz I wanted to be immortal and I'm not a dog person) but werewolves are my favorite now. 💪🏻
i'm going to be outting myself as an avid fanfic reader here but... never understood the appeal of het omegaverse at all. and i've read a LOT of omegaverse before.
I don’t know anything about the Omegaverse but I’ll take your word for it.
@scorpiothesaint okay you're very right about that.
this book was knot epic at all and definitely did not meet my expectations, but it was a ride.
I am never reading the book but this was amusing!
Always happy to entertain
I think I'm more disappointed with how uninspired the monsters are. Like why do the whole weirdly sexist/predatory thing again when u can do literally anything else.
I just like that creatures in our world with green or purple blood are worms. Or that sulfur can turn blood green lol.
You deserve to find a good werewolf book and then we can all enjoy it together
I kind of liked The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice. werewolves are my favourite monsters but I haven’t found something that hits ✨just right✨ yet.
The multi colored blood was giving crazy ketchup and i couldn't get over it the whole time.
I could have maybe handled the weird/vague/not great world building if the author hadn't been using real world places. Like ok sure whatever, we have tense borders and there's a river. sure. whatever. that's fine. but suddenly las vegas and europe are involved? ummm now it needs to make sense
A great review to sink your teeth into... I'll see myself out
😂 it’s been real
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Knot! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Puns… 😂
I don’t understand the need for knotting with cis-het couples. Or maybe I just don’t understand the omegaverse. Or Ali Hazelwood’s lore.
This book is beyond stupid.
Nah, knotting is a canine thing (idk for the rest of carnivorans). Dogs knot their mates, so. And since omegaverse arose out of teen wolf fandom, dog anatomy and all the stuff are all there regardless of primary gender™ of participants
@@sava-smthi could have sworn Supernatural spawned this stuff
It could have been around the same time for all I know but I'm glad I was too young to get the werewolf craze ngl
het omegaverse is just...all the toxic aspects of straight relationships turned up to 1000%
@@sava-smthbut with human forms it doesn’t change? Hmm. I would think at that point it would go by human anatomy. Thanks for your response. I’m truly novice to all of it.
@@arkkon2740I thought it was a supernatural thing too. The gays of the SPN fandom to be more specific lol
yk as an avid ff omegaverse reader & writer, its insane how cishet books w/a/b/o manage to amplify the...biological aspects, of omegaverse cause @ around 20:40 you talk about him marking her, when scenting would've got the job done why are you marking your wife b4 a public event??? JUST SCENT YOUR MATE
Okay why does a knot have to be problematic? Just say it's not your kink and move on, sex that involves stuff that are not your kink is always going to sound weird and gross. I feel the same way about toes but I understand that some people are into that.
Problematic literally just means complicated or multifaceted, and he didn't even use that word. I love it when people imagine things for other people to say and then get mad about it... But just to expand - it's absolutely real that animal parts can be gross to some people in a sexual sense AND that othering people's sex organs into something non-human and animal-like has been a racist thing especially against black men. Like, that's one facet of the context in which we talk about things below the belt that genuinely *does exist* in our culture. But if knotting is your kink then who is going to stop you? No one. Go free.
While I avoid using that kind of language because it's so off-putting, saying a trope is "problematic" does not automatically mean saying it's "reprehensible" or "immoral".
The fetishistic way that some (but not all) interspecies romance discusses non-human traits can be pretty similar to the way that people fetishise inherent characteristics of real people. That is, it relates to a broader issue.
Foot fetishism doesn't sound like "I had been with men before, but I could never have imagined sleeping with a man who has feet."
@@jasminv8653 knotting isn't my kink (and also im a lesbian) i just don't understand why you need to invent reasons to be grossed out by a kink . it can just. not be your thing - it feels like such a tenuous connection to draw between a book with a white love interest and a completely different type of animal.