Begging for these writers to stop giving their characters ✨edgy✨ names. I already didn’t take the book seriously because her name is *Raeve*. 😭 like why didn’t she just use Maeve??
I actually prefer that they use made up names in fantasy because I can’t be reading another book where the entire cast is just the names of every kid I’ve babysat. I can tolerate the stupidness because at least it’s not just another American author basically just making a fantasy Ireland. Raeve is just peak to me, because it screams that they still want it to seem Irishy and fantasy, but ✨different✨
I bailed out of this around 150 pages because I was so tired of made up words for normal things (day to dae and night to slumber? NOPE) & the weird flowery descriptions. Excited for your take on it!
These books are all starting to meld into one. I genuinely cannot tell one romantasy from another at this point. I was trying to explain something from Fourth Wing to a friend recently and I didn’t realize till like a week later that didn’t even happen in Fourth Wing, and now I can’t remember what book it DID happen in. Powerless maybe???
I think there’s just too many of them. Unless there’s a unique enough plot that makes me remember the general idea, I generally forget the character names. We’ve got: Divergent for adults Hunger games with a twist Thousand year old male leads where the protagonist manages to impress them Naive FL One that I actually did enjoy earlier this year was Assistant to the Villain and that was mainly because it was a fantasy office romance parody
thank god someone else noticed how WEIRD the swear word usage was in this book😭😭 "microcock" in a high fantasy is an absolutely wild choice, it takes away all believability and urgency to the story, this book had SUCH strange wording and phrasing throughout the whole thing, and then it tried to be egregiously poetic in the most bizarre places. complete agree that this needed about 5 more beta reads especially from people who have a much more critical eye/ear
One of the things I've found in the Romance/fantasy genre is the male love interest always does the same awful things the "villain" does but he's this tall sexy muscular shadow daddy. And the antagonist is always described as one of if not multiple of these things, short, bald, old, greasy, fat, small d etc. And it's so frustrating for me because if the author didn't try to make him as "disgusting and ugly" as humanly possible people would love him because he acts the same way as the beloved shadow daddy. And this is something that happens consistently
I think a lot of authors forget that you can have a villain whose sexy as hell but disgusting in other ways. Plus, I don't understand why so many MMC have to be awful and it's portrayed as hot.
Yes I very much have noticed that in romances with MF pairings that upholding the patriarchy is very much a plot point sometimes. I hate when these strong independent characters seemingly give up all their dreams and desires when The Man enters the page sm.
I’m glad I didn’t read this book! I was so excited when I saw the title. “When The Moon Hatched” sounds like some crazy existential horror and I was a little disappointed by what seemed to be a fantasy romance, and was even more disappointed when I couldn’t follow the premise from the splurge about it.
I'm so happy you're almost at 5k. I remember when you had like a little under 800 lol. You give excellent reviews on books, and I can't wait to see how your channel continues to grow. (I'll be editing with thoughts on the video) 5:51 Not the sexy rouge assassin trope T_T of COURSE she's part of the rebels. Where else would she be. 13:22 "Throws a snake" What??? Like how??? 16:42 I just realized that while I was listening this entire time. I have no idea what this story is about. This is the kind of book that makes me feel less bad about my short books, bc while they can be finished in an hour, they have a LOT.
normal animals on earth cannot achieve Escape Velocity, which is the speed necessary to escape the gravitational pull of the earth. There's a reason we have to use giant rockets to get astronauts off-world
Yeah as the atmosphere thins out they lose their ability to support themselves in the air, literally. Also the breathing thing lol That's assuming "space" in this series is a vacuum and not something like the Spell Jammer setting in D&D, mind. Or that the dragons aren't using other means of transportation like the dragons in The Dragon Riders of Pern who can teleport into space.
I read this and was so bored and then the worldbuilding was so confusing. I’m happy you reviewed this one because I was like …what is this? Why is this?
The "if you don't know what this book is about, don't worry, im gonna read the premise" only for the premise to be WHOLLY INCOMPREHENSIBLE fantasy word salad 😂😂😂😭😭😭 not only was it full of vocab we aren't familar with, but the structure itself felt like it was whipping back and forth on what we were supposed to be focusing on, absolutely awful Also it sucks that it kills your numbers, but I appreciate your positive book tastes and have def added a few of your reccs to my TBR. Maybe roundup lists could be good for community posts? Thank you for the giggles, i hope september is kind to you and your family 🙏✨️
Jokes on you, kiddo. I'm not doing the dishes. I'm trying to make sure that this problem statement covers all of the nuances of how this process is broken. And somehow it is easier to follow than the plot of this book I will never read.
@@dontfretreadbooks or maybe merch is just the thing to catapult you to the next level. 😄 with Spooky Season upon us, I can imagine all sorts of ways to incorporate that with Edgy Shadow Boo. I love your commenting guidelines, BTW. Especially challenge the argument, not the person.'
My reaction to that synopsis was "THAT'S ENOUGH SLICES" starting in the FIRST HALF. When I say synopsis's should work like movie trailers (give the reader/viewer the hook IN THE START OF THE BOOK/movie) I DID NOT MEAN THE EQUIVALENT TO A FIVE MINUTE NETFLIX TRAILER.😑
Omg. I’ve got a worse one for you: To Bleed a Crystal Bloom by the same author. For context, I read When the Moon Hatched all the way through. I DNF’d TBaCB around the 50% mark when the FMC decided to express some glands on the rough stone floor like a cat in heat. IYKYK. I summed it up as “It has mostly been [the FMC] wandering around, painting rocks and pining for her adoptive daddy.” It’s bad. All the worst parts of When the Moon Hatched x10. Give it a go if you need an excuse to be bored and yet also somehow so angry.
TBH there's people on TikTok I follow because our taste in books don't align at all and when they post about how much they love a book (like this one) I know it won't be for me and I skip it. Your review helped me know that skipping this book was the right decision for me thank you!
With insults specifically, if you use one every other sentence it loses its emphasis. My mom doesn’t swear often so when she calls a fly a rat bastard after trying to kill it for five minutes, it’s very meaningful. If you use it in a book, swearing can tell you things about the character and who or what they’re swearing at. Like, if they’re cursing bc they tripped while running away from something, you can ask a lot of questions about that. What words are they using? Are they swearing because they tripped, they’re mad at themselves for tripping or there’s going to be negative consequences if they get caught by this thing they’re running from?Is this something that happens often because they have bad coordination and/or some other issue that affects the way their legs move? Is it surprising to the character because they rarely trip while running? There’s a lot there to work with, especially if you’re a nerd like me who enjoys asking questions related to small actions that characters make, or aspects of the world. That’s one of the best parts of writing for me and I know it won’t be true for everyone but it can be very fun.
I used to think creators on RUclips were exaggerating about the algorithm and positive reviews, but then I paid attention and...yeah, my algorithm NEVER gives me positive videos. I have to look on a creator's page and go through to find anything positive. Take this video - this is my first video of yours I'm watching and the algorithm probably only gave me it because a. negative and b. I watched another (also negative! Fancy that) review of this book just a couple of days ago by someone I'm subscribed to. So I think maybe people aren't lying and they DO want to see positive videos...but also they're not going to defy the algorithm to go looking for them and you really can't blame creators for leaning into what gets them views. Bills need to be paid and all that. So yeah, I sympathise - and also I like book rants, so in the end I win. Also what you said about fantasy swearing was really interesting. I have to admit, I thought you made up the word sparkleshit as a synonym for purple prose at first... (In retrospect, I am so sorry) It doesn't sound like a fantasy swear word at all, it sounds like what you said - the author inserting edge. Our swearwords come from things that are taboo - so if the author put more thought into it, the swearing could have been... idk, moon-related, or dragon corpse-related. Which sounds way more fun.
I DNF'ED this at chapter eight. The revenge kill in the first few chapters was so unnecessary and try-hard, and I could already tell I wouldn't like the protagonist. It's crazy this book is 700 pages long. The plot sounds like a lot of "and then this happened."
I am glad to have discovered this channel idk why I am very picky about who I listen to talking about books. I now have 2 people to watch! Also I have been meaning to read that manga you mentioned too so good taste
lol I am dying of laughter when you were talking about the spice (or lack of it) 😂 I was going to try this but I’m just at the point that I’m not picking up any romantasy and it’s a shame because I want to love it.
2:42 Damn I thought you said "duel-beaded noble" here and was like you could probably read between the lines and figure that nobles wear beads for every duel they win as a trophy and status symbol. And then I realized you said "dual-beaded", which I have no idea what that means. But I might use the duel-beaded idea, it's kind of cool
I’m legit surprised that this got published and is getting so much attention and is so poorly put together Meanwhile I wrote something and threw it on Wattpad and I feel like it’s 80% than what’s traditionally pubbed these days because I just wanted to tell a story
I was captivated by the premise of this book but the writing was wild. I had to douvle check that it was a woman writing it because there was such a 'men writing female characters' vibe that it put me off from the beginning. I think I got 20 or 30% in before giving up, I really couodnt push through it
Hey I like how you call us out about doing stuff while listening to this review I was making kimchi. Also. I'm very glad I didn't pick up this book and I'm sorry you had to
8:50 I really like this point. Fourth Wing felt like it was written by a preteen who just discovered swear words and thought they were cool. There’s a finesse to writing swearing in fiction. When it comes to how to use swear words effectively, I always think back to Bojack Horseman, where the writers only used “fuck” once a season to hammer home intense, shocking moments in Bojack’s life. And yeah, creating good fantasy swear words that don’t sound stupid is surprisingly difficult. I’m writing an animal fiction and trying to think up swear words cats would say fried my brain.
Hearing the description is painful. Like why does it sound like I'm being sold something. The first sentence on the first page should be the thing that hooks people in. This honestly shows that whoever wrote this had no intention of writing a decent story, but wanted someone that'll look and sound good on social media.
I've only come across one instance of dragons in space working, but I feel like dragons-as-moons (or their eggs) could work in a serious story if either the world physically wasn't like our world (like the heavens was a physical plane above were the regular people lived) or they were treated as the eldritch beings they obviously would be if they were *literally moon-sized*. From what you've described, these dragon-moons were just slapped onto the background as a plot device without any more thought given to how it would affect the world. Like, do the dragon-moons affect the tides? Did they disrupt the planet's orbit since they weren't there since the beginning?? (The unserious example of dragons in space is from Terry Pratchett, so you know it's going to be absurd, but also it wasn't that absurd because the dragons still followed the pre-established rules of the Disc, and they were less "flying in space" and more "gas-powered slingshot through space" so while it's ridiculous, it isn't breaking the laws of Disc-physics)
@bbo7002 I completely forgot that myth about dragons hatching from the moon! (Though it was more allegory, wasn't it? I have a hard time discerning what's actually magic and what isn't in Game of Thrones) I wonder if Parker got some inspiration from that as well 🤔
The dragons in the Pern series work as well, but that's because they're well established as being able to teleport and can hold their breath up to about 15 minutes. So they essentially have a low cost "launch".
So my most anticipated book of the year was S.A. Mclean's The Phoenix Keeper and... I was so tempted to to DNF it too many times. It was supposed to be a cozy romantasy but the actual romance didn't start up until like 75% of the way through, most people seemed to enjoy the book but I would be curious what yout opinion is.
My problem with this books is that i felt like all the set up in the first 1/3rd of the book had like no connection to the last 2/3rds? I listened to it on audiobook and it was getting so annoying by the end, the last 2/3rds was just random romance and fucking around doing nothing and then in like the last 30 mins something happens to tie things together. About 1/2 of this book should have neen trimmed ouy
I’m so mad I brought this book. I used to say away from romantasy but I been trying to be open. I actually enjoyed “A Fate Inked in Blood” and “Games Gods Play” it wasn’t perfect but it was still enjoyable. But most romantasy books I haven’t been finishing and this book is one of them. I been trying to give more fantasy female writers a chance but so far the only ones I really like is Jacqueline Carey and NK Jemisin. If anyone has any recommendations for good female fantasy authors please let me know. I love the way Brandon Sanderson does the romance I like it to be in the background but you feel they care for each other.
@@JaeGemini I don't know about romantasy, but Diana Wynne Jones is a fantastic fantasy author. I've only read some of her children/YA books. She does have more mature books, but I can't haven't read them yet.
The cover of this book caught my eye since I was on the hunt for a good fantasy book, as I hadn't read any in a while. Read the plot synopsis, and saw how damn LONG the book was, and went, "Hahah NOPE! Nevermind!" Glad I made that choice. When will that idiot SJM's curse of "Sassy, edgy assassin/warrior FMC and bad sex scenes and SA" shit end?
There are some interesting concepts that I actually liked but it was too much going on and barely stitched together plot, from hearing the gods singing and the interesting magic system and the other that she transforms into, to dragons…Idk lol
Listening to u read the synopsis and like. Why does it feel like book synopsis be giving away TOO MUCH nowadays. Its like with movie trailers recently. After a while they tell me everything and I dont even feel like watching the movie lol.
The word synopsis stands for 'plot summary' so a synopsis isbdefinitely meant to give away the plot. However, I think that book BLURBS have become lousy, and no longer tease a plot properly - usually the blurb is like one tagline, and then you they had to add the whole synopsis in if the reader wants to know anything.
I got the book today and read around ten pages before I decided to put it down and never pick it up again. Your review was the only negative one I could find, which really shocked me because this book is AWFUL. It's written like wattpad fanfiction. These "booktok" books are destroying the book market.
The premise and some of the bits and pieces sound good and it's a shame it really is just a lot of build up. I still am heavily interested in reading it for myself.
@4:27 Not me doing my dishes while I listen to this 👀 Maybe it's just your style but I feel like I take more notes (on writing) from bad book reviews. Edit: whhhhhhhy are there almost 100 chapters in this book? Nonsense.
I genuinely cannot follow what is going on. I am an MVP at following coocoo crazy stories while writing myself, it just plays in the background, I could probably give you a summary of this book, but what the f*ck (I'm not sure if you're allowed to swear in a comment section) like I cannot follow this story at all
I haven't read the physical book, but the audiobook is awful. The constant use of alliteration delivered by a narrator with all the inflection of a corpse was tortuous. I'm not sure I made it past the 30 minute mark before I returned it to Audible.
I just listened through that premise and I was just trying to type something up and I legitimately had to stop and look at my phone in bewilderment because you had to KEEP GOING?! I don’t understand long-winded and drawn-out Goodreads blurbs because they tell me so much about things I barely care about. They struggle in balancing the art of capturing interest and giving details about the material most of the time with these books and it’s dizzying!!! I avoid them altogether because it’s just TOO MUCH!!!! Let me breathe!!! Hats off to you for the delivery, D. I think it would’ve taken me 120 takes to get through it.
I was captivated by the premise of this book but the writing was wild. I had to douvle check that it was a woman writing it because there was such a 'men writing female characters' vibe that it put me off from the beginning. I think I got 20 or 30% in before giving up, I really couodnt push through it
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Ah, my favorite romantasy: Raeve Shadow Legends.
Begging for these writers to stop giving their characters ✨edgy✨ names. I already didn’t take the book seriously because her name is *Raeve*. 😭 like why didn’t she just use Maeve??
I genuinely thought it was Maeve for like 1/2 the book haha. When I realized it wasn't, I went back to double check.
I actually prefer that they use made up names in fantasy because I can’t be reading another book where the entire cast is just the names of every kid I’ve babysat. I can tolerate the stupidness because at least it’s not just another American author basically just making a fantasy Ireland.
Raeve is just peak to me, because it screams that they still want it to seem Irishy and fantasy, but ✨different✨
I think Maeve is already used in Red Queen.
@@bronzeplayergaming2244 i think you’re thinking of Maven
That synopsis had me so lost, so I can only imagine how confused I’d be while reading the actual book.
It literally gave me a headache 🤕
I just cackled so loud with "I'm about it. Imma be mindful. Imma be cutesy."😂😂😂
I bailed out of this around 150 pages because I was so tired of made up words for normal things (day to dae and night to slumber? NOPE) & the weird flowery descriptions. Excited for your take on it!
WHAT? No... Youve got to be kidding me
I'm at the first few pages and I feel the same way already
These books are all starting to meld into one. I genuinely cannot tell one romantasy from another at this point. I was trying to explain something from Fourth Wing to a friend recently and I didn’t realize till like a week later that didn’t even happen in Fourth Wing, and now I can’t remember what book it DID happen in. Powerless maybe???
Same!
I think there’s just too many of them. Unless there’s a unique enough plot that makes me remember the general idea, I generally forget the character names.
We’ve got:
Divergent for adults
Hunger games with a twist
Thousand year old male leads where the protagonist manages to impress them
Naive FL
One that I actually did enjoy earlier this year was Assistant to the Villain and that was mainly because it was a fantasy office romance parody
thank god someone else noticed how WEIRD the swear word usage was in this book😭😭 "microcock" in a high fantasy is an absolutely wild choice, it takes away all believability and urgency to the story, this book had SUCH strange wording and phrasing throughout the whole thing, and then it tried to be egregiously poetic in the most bizarre places. complete agree that this needed about 5 more beta reads especially from people who have a much more critical eye/ear
“As frequently as my depression will allow” literally.
One of the things I've found in the Romance/fantasy genre is the male love interest always does the same awful things the "villain" does but he's this tall sexy muscular shadow daddy. And the antagonist is always described as one of if not multiple of these things, short, bald, old, greasy, fat, small d etc. And it's so frustrating for me because if the author didn't try to make him as "disgusting and ugly" as humanly possible people would love him because he acts the same way as the beloved shadow daddy. And this is something that happens consistently
I think a lot of authors forget that you can have a villain whose sexy as hell but disgusting in other ways. Plus, I don't understand why so many MMC have to be awful and it's portrayed as hot.
@@TheCrazyChickUpstair I hate how finding a nice and good MMC is almost a rarity
it’s moralizing beauty and its real weird especially bc its usually used to justify toxic behavior
Yes I very much have noticed that in romances with MF pairings that upholding the patriarchy is very much a plot point sometimes. I hate when these strong independent characters seemingly give up all their dreams and desires when The Man enters the page sm.
This sounds like a very unedited wattpad fic that got self published
The way he said eyes were sometimes called "orbs" had me thinking the same thing. That's a very fanfiction-coded descriptor
"...for fans of witty banter and strong sassy protagonists..." is a surefire way to get me to avoid a book lol.
Ok the blurb is SO CONVOLUTED! the book was too big for its britches.
too big for it's britches is an EXCELLENT criticism for some books
I gasped when you said "while you do the laundry or the dishes." I literally stopped washing the dishes just to comment this.
I know what my videos are good for 😂
organ in my chest DRIVES ME NUTS 😭 that has single handedly put this book in my no pile
I’m glad I didn’t read this book! I was so excited when I saw the title. “When The Moon Hatched” sounds like some crazy existential horror and I was a little disappointed by what seemed to be a fantasy romance, and was even more disappointed when I couldn’t follow the premise from the splurge about it.
4:26 the way I’m doing laundry in this moment and dishes next 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm so happy you're almost at 5k. I remember when you had like a little under 800 lol. You give excellent reviews on books, and I can't wait to see how your channel continues to grow. (I'll be editing with thoughts on the video)
5:51
Not the sexy rouge assassin trope T_T of COURSE she's part of the rebels. Where else would she be.
13:22
"Throws a snake"
What??? Like how???
16:42
I just realized that while I was listening this entire time. I have no idea what this story is about. This is the kind of book that makes me feel less bad about my short books, bc while they can be finished in an hour, they have a LOT.
This book took so many words to say absolutely nothing.
normal animals on earth cannot achieve Escape Velocity, which is the speed necessary to escape the gravitational pull of the earth. There's a reason we have to use giant rockets to get astronauts off-world
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ngl when he started talking about birds leaving the atmosphere I was picturing some poor feathery round boi burning up in the attempt
@@chellyfishingI was just remembering that one Pokémon episode about the Pidgey lol
Yeah as the atmosphere thins out they lose their ability to support themselves in the air, literally. Also the breathing thing lol
That's assuming "space" in this series is a vacuum and not something like the Spell Jammer setting in D&D, mind. Or that the dragons aren't using other means of transportation like the dragons in The Dragon Riders of Pern who can teleport into space.
I read this and was so bored and then the worldbuilding was so confusing. I’m happy you reviewed this one because I was like …what is this? Why is this?
I still don’t know why it is 🥲
I had this on audio. 4 hours in and I didn't know what was going on. The synopsis says fast pace 😂 wild!
The "if you don't know what this book is about, don't worry, im gonna read the premise" only for the premise to be WHOLLY INCOMPREHENSIBLE fantasy word salad 😂😂😂😭😭😭 not only was it full of vocab we aren't familar with, but the structure itself felt like it was whipping back and forth on what we were supposed to be focusing on, absolutely awful
Also it sucks that it kills your numbers, but I appreciate your positive book tastes and have def added a few of your reccs to my TBR. Maybe roundup lists could be good for community posts?
Thank you for the giggles, i hope september is kind to you and your family 🙏✨️
I might do something like that. Thank you for the kind words and for watching.
My excitement for this review is UNMATCHED! I can't watch yet, but I'm commenting because I can't contain my excitement. I'll hopefully watch soon.
I DID IT! I was mentioned TWICE! Well, once by name, but TWICE! I DID IT MOM!
Jokes on you, kiddo. I'm not doing the dishes. I'm trying to make sure that this problem statement covers all of the nuances of how this process is broken. And somehow it is easier to follow than the plot of this book I will never read.
Damn you’re really gonna hit me with the “kiddo”??
@@dontfretreadbooks Yup. Absolutely. 100%.
D I need merch with Edgy Shadow Boo on it 🙈😆
lol I dunno if I’m at Merch level yet
@@dontfretreadbooks or maybe merch is just the thing to catapult you to the next level. 😄 with Spooky Season upon us, I can imagine all sorts of ways to incorporate that with Edgy Shadow Boo.
I love your commenting guidelines, BTW. Especially challenge the argument, not the person.'
Thank you for doing the dishes with me. 😅
6:10 From one brother to another... I think you mad cute. Don't be dissin'
My reaction to that synopsis was "THAT'S ENOUGH SLICES" starting in the FIRST HALF.
When I say synopsis's should work like movie trailers (give the reader/viewer the hook IN THE START OF THE BOOK/movie) I DID NOT MEAN THE EQUIVALENT TO A FIVE MINUTE NETFLIX TRAILER.😑
Waaaayyyy too many slices 🍕
I DNF'd at 70%! It was making me so mad that I couldn't continue lol
Omg. I’ve got a worse one for you: To Bleed a Crystal Bloom by the same author. For context, I read When the Moon Hatched all the way through. I DNF’d TBaCB around the 50% mark when the FMC decided to express some glands on the rough stone floor like a cat in heat. IYKYK. I summed it up as “It has mostly been [the FMC] wandering around, painting rocks and pining for her adoptive daddy.” It’s bad. All the worst parts of When the Moon Hatched x10. Give it a go if you need an excuse to be bored and yet also somehow so angry.
‘Split you like an egg’
😂🤦🏻♀️
Im so happy that I wasn't the only one disappointed. I was starting to think my reading comprehension was getting poorer the older I got 😅
TBH there's people on TikTok I follow because our taste in books don't align at all and when they post about how much they love a book (like this one) I know it won't be for me and I skip it. Your review helped me know that skipping this book was the right decision for me thank you!
Happy to be of service
With insults specifically, if you use one every other sentence it loses its emphasis. My mom doesn’t swear often so when she calls a fly a rat bastard after trying to kill it for five minutes, it’s very meaningful. If you use it in a book, swearing can tell you things about the character and who or what they’re swearing at. Like, if they’re cursing bc they tripped while running away from something, you can ask a lot of questions about that. What words are they using? Are they swearing because they tripped, they’re mad at themselves for tripping or there’s going to be negative consequences if they get caught by this thing they’re running from?Is this something that happens often because they have bad coordination and/or some other issue that affects the way their legs move? Is it surprising to the character because they rarely trip while running? There’s a lot there to work with, especially if you’re a nerd like me who enjoys asking questions related to small actions that characters make, or aspects of the world. That’s one of the best parts of writing for me and I know it won’t be true for everyone but it can be very fun.
I used to think creators on RUclips were exaggerating about the algorithm and positive reviews, but then I paid attention and...yeah, my algorithm NEVER gives me positive videos. I have to look on a creator's page and go through to find anything positive. Take this video - this is my first video of yours I'm watching and the algorithm probably only gave me it because a. negative and b. I watched another (also negative! Fancy that) review of this book just a couple of days ago by someone I'm subscribed to. So I think maybe people aren't lying and they DO want to see positive videos...but also they're not going to defy the algorithm to go looking for them and you really can't blame creators for leaning into what gets them views. Bills need to be paid and all that. So yeah, I sympathise - and also I like book rants, so in the end I win.
Also what you said about fantasy swearing was really interesting. I have to admit, I thought you made up the word sparkleshit as a synonym for purple prose at first... (In retrospect, I am so sorry) It doesn't sound like a fantasy swear word at all, it sounds like what you said - the author inserting edge. Our swearwords come from things that are taboo - so if the author put more thought into it, the swearing could have been... idk, moon-related, or dragon corpse-related. Which sounds way more fun.
I DNF'ED this at chapter eight. The revenge kill in the first few chapters was so unnecessary and try-hard, and I could already tell I wouldn't like the protagonist. It's crazy this book is 700 pages long. The plot sounds like a lot of "and then this happened."
I am glad to have discovered this channel idk why I am very picky about who I listen to talking about books. I now have 2 people to watch! Also I have been meaning to read that manga you mentioned too so good taste
I’m honoured 🙏🏽
lol I am dying of laughter when you were talking about the spice (or lack of it) 😂 I was going to try this but I’m just at the point that I’m not picking up any romantasy and it’s a shame because I want to love it.
2:42 Damn I thought you said "duel-beaded noble" here and was like you could probably read between the lines and figure that nobles wear beads for every duel they win as a trophy and status symbol. And then I realized you said "dual-beaded", which I have no idea what that means. But I might use the duel-beaded idea, it's kind of cool
The beads are irrelevant I don’t know why it’s mentioned in the premise
I’m legit surprised that this got published and is getting so much attention and is so poorly put together
Meanwhile I wrote something and threw it on Wattpad and I feel like it’s 80% than what’s traditionally pubbed these days because I just wanted to tell a story
I was captivated by the premise of this book but the writing was wild. I had to douvle check that it was a woman writing it because there was such a 'men writing female characters' vibe that it put me off from the beginning. I think I got 20 or 30% in before giving up, I really couodnt push through it
Hey I like how you call us out about doing stuff while listening to this review I was making kimchi. Also. I'm very glad I didn't pick up this book and I'm sorry you had to
I noticed all the issues, and I still loved it 😂😅💀 maybe that’s my subconscious yearning for those simpler times of trashy fan fic
Ayy if you loved it that’s great!
8:50 I really like this point. Fourth Wing felt like it was written by a preteen who just discovered swear words and thought they were cool. There’s a finesse to writing swearing in fiction. When it comes to how to use swear words effectively, I always think back to Bojack Horseman, where the writers only used “fuck” once a season to hammer home intense, shocking moments in Bojack’s life.
And yeah, creating good fantasy swear words that don’t sound stupid is surprisingly difficult. I’m writing an animal fiction and trying to think up swear words cats would say fried my brain.
im so excited to listen to this, i DNF this book but still wanna know what happens loll 😊
We😂love hearing you suffer as we make breakfast too
That is the longest synopsis I’ve ever heard, and I still know *nothing* of the plot.
I read the book and still know nothing of the plot
I saw this book on Vinted, I am glad I have been warned for it 😂
Gods I'm so excited. I hated this book
Hearing the description is painful. Like why does it sound like I'm being sold something. The first sentence on the first page should be the thing that hooks people in. This honestly shows that whoever wrote this had no intention of writing a decent story, but wanted someone that'll look and sound good on social media.
Not going to lie, I found this book so boring and not clear in the world design. I was so disappointed!
I've only come across one instance of dragons in space working, but I feel like dragons-as-moons (or their eggs) could work in a serious story if either the world physically wasn't like our world (like the heavens was a physical plane above were the regular people lived) or they were treated as the eldritch beings they obviously would be if they were *literally moon-sized*. From what you've described, these dragon-moons were just slapped onto the background as a plot device without any more thought given to how it would affect the world. Like, do the dragon-moons affect the tides? Did they disrupt the planet's orbit since they weren't there since the beginning??
(The unserious example of dragons in space is from Terry Pratchett, so you know it's going to be absurd, but also it wasn't that absurd because the dragons still followed the pre-established rules of the Disc, and they were less "flying in space" and more "gas-powered slingshot through space" so while it's ridiculous, it isn't breaking the laws of Disc-physics)
@@xoPotatoTreexo ....wait, dragons as moons? moons as eggs? a melted crown??? what is this, game of thrones?? 👀
@bbo7002 I completely forgot that myth about dragons hatching from the moon! (Though it was more allegory, wasn't it? I have a hard time discerning what's actually magic and what isn't in Game of Thrones) I wonder if Parker got some inspiration from that as well 🤔
The dragons in the Pern series work as well, but that's because they're well established as being able to teleport and can hold their breath up to about 15 minutes. So they essentially have a low cost "launch".
Your hate just fueled my walk and I’m on a 103 day streak of 10,000 steps. Keep hating!
That’s impressive!! Keep going with your streak!
So my most anticipated book of the year was S.A. Mclean's The Phoenix Keeper and... I was so tempted to to DNF it too many times. It was supposed to be a cozy romantasy but the actual romance didn't start up until like 75% of the way through, most people seemed to enjoy the book but I would be curious what yout opinion is.
My problem with this books is that i felt like all the set up in the first 1/3rd of the book had like no connection to the last 2/3rds? I listened to it on audiobook and it was getting so annoying by the end, the last 2/3rds was just random romance and fucking around doing nothing and then in like the last 30 mins something happens to tie things together. About 1/2 of this book should have neen trimmed ouy
I’m so mad I brought this book. I used to say away from romantasy but I been trying to be open. I actually enjoyed “A Fate Inked in Blood” and “Games Gods Play” it wasn’t perfect but it was still enjoyable. But most romantasy books I haven’t been finishing and this book is one of them. I been trying to give more fantasy female writers a chance but so far the only ones I really like is Jacqueline Carey and NK Jemisin. If anyone has any recommendations for good female fantasy authors please let me know. I love the way Brandon Sanderson does the romance I like it to be in the background but you feel they care for each other.
@@JaeGemini I don't know about romantasy, but Diana Wynne Jones is a fantastic fantasy author. I've only read some of her children/YA books. She does have more mature books, but I can't haven't read them yet.
The cover of this book caught my eye since I was on the hunt for a good fantasy book, as I hadn't read any in a while. Read the plot synopsis, and saw how damn LONG the book was, and went, "Hahah NOPE! Nevermind!" Glad I made that choice.
When will that idiot SJM's curse of "Sassy, edgy assassin/warrior FMC and bad sex scenes and SA" shit end?
Vacuuming at the mo ...
Hey now, give yourself more credit than that; you’re super cute ☺️
There are some interesting concepts that I actually liked but it was too much going on and barely stitched together plot, from hearing the gods singing and the interesting magic system and the other that she transforms into, to dragons…Idk lol
Soooo quicksilver next?
I’ve never heard of quicksilver actually
Listening to u read the synopsis and like. Why does it feel like book synopsis be giving away TOO MUCH nowadays. Its like with movie trailers recently. After a while they tell me everything and I dont even feel like watching the movie lol.
The word synopsis stands for 'plot summary' so a synopsis isbdefinitely meant to give away the plot. However, I think that book BLURBS have become lousy, and no longer tease a plot properly - usually the blurb is like one tagline, and then you they had to add the whole synopsis in if the reader wants to know anything.
I got the book today and read around ten pages before I decided to put it down and never pick it up again. Your review was the only negative one I could find, which really shocked me because this book is AWFUL. It's written like wattpad fanfiction. These "booktok" books are destroying the book market.
You're reading Gachiakuta!?
Yeah I’m gonna do a video on it soon. Might start writing it tonight if I finish my homework.
The sypnosis why?? 😂 is it so long?
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Oop, I don't think I even finished reading the synopsis when I first stumbled upon it. Synopsis that tend to ramble don't really hold my attention.
The premise and some of the bits and pieces sound good and it's a shame it really is just a lot of build up. I still am heavily interested in reading it for myself.
@4:27 Not me doing my dishes while I listen to this 👀 Maybe it's just your style but I feel like I take more notes (on writing) from bad book reviews. Edit: whhhhhhhy are there almost 100 chapters in this book? Nonsense.
You take notes!?!? Am I supposed to be giving homework?
Fast food and fast book food suck lol
I have a weakness for Vera’s Burgers tho
What happen to healthy romances?? I've read a lot of these popular romantasies and hardly any of them had a couple who have a good relationship.
i'm so tired of these "badass" assasin mcs that end up needing to be saved all the time
I genuinely cannot follow what is going on. I am an MVP at following coocoo crazy stories while writing myself, it just plays in the background, I could probably give you a summary of this book, but what the f*ck (I'm not sure if you're allowed to swear in a comment section) like I cannot follow this story at all
I couldn’t either 😭 also: I think you can swear in comment sections. People swear at me all the time.
Where are the positive reviews? I dont think I ever saw one
lol cause people don’t watch them.
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I haven't read the physical book, but the audiobook is awful. The constant use of alliteration delivered by a narrator with all the inflection of a corpse was tortuous. I'm not sure I made it past the 30 minute mark before I returned it to Audible.
I just listened through that premise and I was just trying to type something up and I legitimately had to stop and look at my phone in bewilderment because you had to KEEP GOING?! I don’t understand long-winded and drawn-out Goodreads blurbs because they tell me so much about things I barely care about. They struggle in balancing the art of capturing interest and giving details about the material most of the time with these books and it’s dizzying!!! I avoid them altogether because it’s just TOO MUCH!!!! Let me breathe!!! Hats off to you for the delivery, D. I think it would’ve taken me 120 takes to get through it.
I was captivated by the premise of this book but the writing was wild. I had to douvle check that it was a woman writing it because there was such a 'men writing female characters' vibe that it put me off from the beginning. I think I got 20 or 30% in before giving up, I really couodnt push through it