I felt like she was touching all bases in one saga... I know kids today are looking for representation and asking for it (and inclusion, like the vague description of the characters so as not to define a race) but make it flow, chill and be subtle.
@@steinistein8611 a coming out that last 6 pages. I'm bi and the first time i said i liked girls out loud was so hard for me that i just said that "i like girls". Why would someone give an entire speech on their sexuality during a normal conversation? Ted talks last a lot less than that.
@@melisacaceres8740Her coming out was like 3 sentences long. Basically: I am bisexual. I like sex with both genders but only form real romantic attachment with women. The rest of the monologue was about her relationship with her family, Azriel, Cassian, Nephelle and Andromache. And Feyre wanted to know the part about her relationship with Azriel and Cassian so it is not like she overshared or anything. So how is this too long?
There's really no excuse for this lack of representation. Queer relationships, at the core of them, are the exact same as hetero relationships. The love, the care the way they behave as a couple, even the lust. It's just their gender identity that are different. In fantasy you can even have an advantage by changing the society so these relationships are accepted, so that way even if the author isn't queer they can still write the relationships without the baggage and hardships of the reality of our society attached.
I felt uncomfortable about the feminism being pointed out so much in the book. Like there was comparison and I was already rooting for tamlin so the other books I was super confused 😅
And have the "lesbian" offhand mention she does like sleeping with dudes. Because differing romantic and sexual orientations are a thing, but God I don't think that's what the author was going for.
Does that mean that straight authors should not write gay characters? Should they only write about what they know? That’s a very closed minded opinion lmao
Vtmb2 coming 2020 No.... they totally can, just don’t spend 6 consecutive pages on a coming out. And do their research on what it’s actually like to come out. And maybe decide which characters are lgbt before the series starts, which it doesn’t seem like SJM did.
@@charlotteharwood1271 If you actually watched her videos on these books, you'd know why she's so critical. You can like them, but that doesn't mean her critiques aren't valid.
BoredomIsAnUnderstatement Actually I have seen them, and to be fair, why did she continue reading this series after book 1 if she thinks they are so terrible? It really makes no sense to me. I do understand some of her points but to me it comes off condescending towards the author, not constructive criticism.
@@charlotteharwood1271 Honestly, I get why she kept reading. It's the same reason why I read horrible fanfics that I know I'm going to despise: masochistic curiosity. The desire to see exactly how bad it can get. Plus, I'm pretty sure people were begging her to keep reading the series -- half the people because they wanted to watch her rip it a new one, the other half because "oh, it gets so much better, just read the next book, you'll love it!"
"Him silencing her, is a metaphor,,,, for how he silences her. It's very nuanced, it really makes you think." Three years... three years, and this line still fuckin gets me
Oh god. I work in a bookstore and I just sold these books to a woman looking for a gift for her 13 year old daughter. I had no idea. I got this woman to give her child a porn novel. What have I done.
I rolled my eyes at that one line (in the novella I think?) where she was all, “The painting was a pretty lie~” and there was no elaboration or anything. It’s like she’s just tying up pretty sounding words together and trying to make it sound as elegant as she can… and failing 💀
Whats odd is i'm straight and i just wrote my gay character coming out as "yeah i like puss is there anything wrong with that?" Suffice to say i have massive writers block right now... perhaps i'll pull a Maas and do an EIGHT PAGE COMING OUT SCENE
Cindy: "One of the fairies comes out as a lesbian." Me, a lesbian: "Well, that's kind of nice." Cindy: "In a six page monologue." Me, still a lesbian but not as happy about it: "...Oh. Oh no."
What was that madness? I'm not even into men or women and I thought this was a bit much. Whatever happen to coy hints and people living life? I confuse...
@@yazoofantasy No to me. It's how I like to write tales and will keep it that way. People first, what makes them "extra" comes second. If that makes sense.
i just watched half hour of a woman i've never heard of before talking shit about a elf porn book i've never heard of before. that's the content i'm here for, thanks algorithm
@@EmilyHernandez-jt4cs I mean, that still happens to mortals too. Some of your family is going to die when you are still alive. An immortal could do a lot to protect their family long term. They could still be watching out for their great-great-great grandkids.
But Mor likes both males and females right? She isn't a lesbian. She didn't say "women" because in the book universe, "male" and "female" is how they refer to faeries, with "man" and "woman" used for humans...
The fact that Mor would rather string along a guy who's head over heels in love with her for over 500 years rather than just tell him shes not interested is truly wild. She doesn't have to admit shes gay, she can just say it's not gonna happen smh
I mean, if it's been 500 years, she's only ever treated him as a friend, and she's sleeping with all these other guys but very noticeably not him then it's kinda on him to take the hint at this point lmao. Plenty of people know their crushes don't reciprocate without their crushes straight up telling them so.
Actually admitting that she was into girls would be _better_ because then she could at least have plausible deniability and say that it was a recent thing she discovered about herself
So, is it one line the rest empty pages? Or copy and paste "I'm a lesbian." in repeat for the word count, and easier time to fill one mla line with an autobiography from you? Because either way, it's possibly short or better than the stuff mention in the book.
I mean her whole relationship with Azriel and Cassian and Andromache was also talked about and Feyre asked questions in between that she answered. The whole: I am bisexual part was about 4 sentences long.
@@DD-gl3gx istg my friend came out to me last year (and we both live in pretty homophonic countries and environments growing up and it was their first time coming out too) and it was still literally "I like dick too" "ok cool do you wanna order chinese"
When reading the original book I had trouble differentiating between Lucian and Tamlin. Never understood why she fell for Tampon. He was always a tad bit of a douche. "You are free to do whatever you want - except leave the mansion."
Tamlin: locks Feyre into his house Fandom: fuck you Rhys: makes Feyre his bitch, dresses her intu rugs,makes her drunk in front of every high fae Fandom: oh how lovely
You forgot to add that he literally got her killed (she was later brought back but point still stands) by not revealing to her a very important piece of information, despite his claims about Feyre having the right to make her own choices as the free woman she supposedly is.
not only that he locked her in because he literally watched her die like 😭i feel like sarah did him so dirty by making him just turn into a lowkey asshole
@@treceslez Not to mention how he sends her into the witch's house with LITERALLY no backup to 'prove herself' - this wasn't teaching her self defense, it was LITERALLY testing whether she was good enough for him! And it's scary to think that if Feyre had 'failed' he would have just let her die. Because there's no scene later where he tells her 'I was keeping an eye out and would have come to help if you had needed me.' Polar opposite from Cardan in The Cruel Prince, when he tells Jude he would never have let the nixies get to her in the river scene earlier (which astute readers had already figured out.) It gets me because I write these kinds of situations all the time; only my heroines are tough stubborn girls who are constantly trying to prove themselves and show 0 vulnerability because they've been hurt in the past. So they keep getting sent on dangerous missions because my hero knows she'll get the job done and not complain and he trusts her even though she doesn't trust ANYONE. Then she gets herself hurt and the hero feels guilty he didn't help more and there's a conversation where he tells her he won't think any less of her if she needs help and she can trust him to have her back, which builds their relationship, voila. Cheesy, I guess, but I think it's important not to prioritize being 'able to take care of yourself' over 'having each others' backs.'
SIS ME TOO and it’s just made 200 times worse by the fact that my friend rhys is a very tall and awkward 17yo computer nerd who wears legend of zelda tshirts, has a messenger lunchbag, and has literally never shown romantic or sexual interest in another human being.
I never understood why people held this series up as a great example of a woman getting out of an abusive relationship when she just jumps into an unheathily codependent relationship with another guy. Her whole new life was just an extension of his. She didn't have her own friends or her own thing going on, she just became an extension of him. None of this is a good portrayal of a healthy relationship or character development.
I actually think that this is why Nesta is a better character. Her book sucked but I like that she developed her own friends and her own life outside of Cassian.
Yeah and the "vigilante" dialogue is ankward imo, show don't tell. You can say it once but you don't have to have multiple paragraphes or a long dialogue. I'd trust more a dude that doesn't brag about his feminism that a dude who does. (Mostly when he's partially that..)
Brooooo im so glad you said it!! Like ppl hate tamlin/feyre but LITERALLLY, fey/rhys is the same thing! The biggest lot twist ever would have been that rhysand was mindmanipulating her the entire time. If maas had the BALLS she wouldve done it
As a Scottish person, if I had a penny for every time I've seen an american author use my country's culture and mythology as a back drop for their weird porn books, I'd have two pennies. Which isn't a lot but it's weird it's happened twice. but fr it's hilariously saddening seeing a famous character in Scottish mythology being used this way Tam Lin sweetie I am so sorry lol great video Cindy!!
“I’m not homophobic,,,, but the gays don’t deserve rights after this scene.” As a bisexual, I stand by this statement. This video made my day, the funniest thing I heard all day.
I'm bi, and this type of coming out is freaking tiring (even people do this irl). _Nope, you are not closeted, just an emotionally manipulative edgelord._
"The only character I remember is Cassian just because he had this weird sexual tension with Nesta that was never explained." .......Girl, I have some news for you.
@@Velvetstatics a court of silver flames - but to be real honest it was my favorite out of the series… I’m sure there’s issues with the plot but the smut… the smut was probably some of the best I’ve read from a novel before
even then she didnt manage to completely vilify him, he still remained a decent..fae being lol he still did whats right even after all the shit that feyre pulled. whats the most infuriating tho is that everybody in the books treats him like a piece of trash bc the only way for SJM to show how bad he is is to constantly demean him thru other characters. and ur sitting there thinking - what did he do to deserve this treatment really? it’s so stupid
@@rukiasbankaiioh I'm reading the book and the question keep running in my mind what did he do to deserve this. Infact it made me hate feyre. Who I didn't like before because of the way she describes her sisters
After randomly having this in my recommended feed, seeing an *obviously* trashy YA novel that I’ve never heard of, a woman straight up pouring hard liquor into a 32oz water bottle, and watch as she proceeds to roast fairy p0rn... I thank RUclips analytics as I subscribe, still slightly buzzed from my moscato
That lesbian character is so badly written. "I sleep with men in part because I enjoy it" if the author wanted to respectfully portray lesbians and how they face compulsory heterosexuality they would've never written shit like this my GOD that one actually pissed me off
M_MKULTRA I’m not being sarcastic I’m genuinely curious. Would it have been better if she said something like “I sleep with men because it’s the norm, I don’t enjoy it, but I didn’t know women were an option”?
@@awkwardotter13 that's in essence what compulsory heterosexuality is. It involves lesbians or gay men sleeping with the opposite sex because it's expected of them or because if they're out of the closet it can put them in danger. It's a sensitive topic though, and you need to be respectful when portraying it in fiction which this book was not.
@@Pepstep_07 wow, you made me sad, I barely slept around because I can't go beyond that sense of rejection when you don't feel for the other person (like having a one night stand, you barely know them) so to imagine having to do it because it's expected gave me the chills. I read the monologue late at night and felt it was lukewarm, besides not representing lesbians right she was awful enough to keep that guy pinned there for 500 years. Dismiss him with any excuse you want but give him closure, it felt like she was seeking attention from everyone around.
WTF. Yeah no thanks. Women motivated by being rewarded for toeing the patriarchal line is a really interesting theme to explore because it's so goddamn pervasive irl, but if that's what the author was trying to get at (?) sounds like she terribly missed the mark with the same old shite.
As a bisexual woman who has come out to her family three different times let me say this: stop writing coming-out scenes as these big dramatic speeches because usually when we come out, it is to people we trust and usually it comes down to one sentence: "I'm [insert lgbtq+ identity here]. I wanted to let you know because you're my family and I trust you". Them's the deets. Also the fact that the lesbian coming out scene that was written was somehow only there because of a man is so laughable, I can't.
My closest friend sent me a video that another RUclipsr made to help people say they're coming out. Happened 6yrs ago. She (she uses she/them pronouns) had been terrified that I wouldn't want to be friends with her anymore if I knew and my response was to first reassure her that I don't hate her and never would and that it was kinda obvious with how she had been with one specific friend of ours. That friend doesn't know about this to date but yeah 6yrs down the line she's still one of my closest friends and I'll always be there for her.
Gosh, I also came out three-four times, because the first time my mom didn't take it good and thought it was everything about my dad's economic problems (now she denies this happening), second time she didn't get it, third time I literally cried until she heard me, and last one I told her specifically I was both into women and men. hardest shit ever just to tell my mother "oh yea, girls are also pretty".
personally, i refuse to come out at all. I'm just my nonbinary lesbian self and if i feel safe to do so I'm completely open about it, but otherwise i don't feel like mentioning it to my family because for me i only need my own acceptance. however, everyone is different of course! I'm a very private and antisocial person, so that's why this feels right for me
The irony is that I loved these books when | read them, but ended up agreeing with everything you said in all three videos (meanwhile laughing 99% of the time) and now realise how bad they are. Brilliant content, really needed this over COVID. Thank you.
no because same, i used to think the whole series was amazing but its been 2 years since i read it and with this critique and some others i realize how shitty everything was 💀
@@keijiqahara honestly! 😂 I felt like a complete idiot for wasting my time on these now. (even buying the series once I'd read them from the library)... Now I might never read them again in the same way 😂😂😂.
It always draws me out of the scene when authors mention “too sensitive skin” as a sign of arousal b/c I always associate overly sensitive skin with the time I had a crazy high fever and just the sheets touching me hurt
Ikr? I have super sensitive skin myself and will sometimes break out into hives because of a weird clothing texture or something. It's as far from arousing as one can get!
When I was premenstrual and telling my bf he couldn’t touch me because I didn’t even want my clothes touching me much less anything else. Yeah, being super sensitive is great. 😬
nesta and elain: *fall into cauldron* nesta and elain. omfg we didn't want this now we don't die, have incredibly good looks and magical powers! why did you do this to us??????
Well I’m sure it was pretty traumatic for them and they got their bodies changed for an experiment against their will. And they were always taught to fear these people. I would be pretty scared too. I just hope they learn to love it later on.
Well, it's because: A.) It was forced upon them. B.) The sisters only knew fae as monstrous, human-eating slavers. So they thought they would become that. C.) They now have powers they cannot control nor do they understand them. D.) They have to deal with Ricesand and his groupie so.
Lol, I was one of those people who started the series as a hardcore Tamlin fan. I only read the first book because my friend recommended it to me, but I couldn't even get through the first one hundred pages of the second book because I hated Rhysand so much. My friend told me all about how Rhysand actually ends up being a good guy and Tamlin is the asshole, but I just couldn't bring myself to finish the series knowing that my favorite character was going to be the worst. Honestly, I think Rhysand would have been a FAR better villain, because he was so much smarter, more calculating, and more intimidating than Amarantha ever was. He was intelligent and he was playing the game, and even though I hated him, I respected him for it. If he had a redemption arc through the series and ended up being allies with Feyre and Tamlin, I think I would have liked this series so much more, but to suddenly have characters do a 180 like that ... it didn't make sense to me. So now I'm watching these videos to understand the major points of the series so my friend and I can still talk about it, because I can't bring myself to finish these terrible books. 😂
I started reading because my friend recommended but if I knew it was a love triangle I would have bailed. I liked Tamlin and Feyre together but not really there were issues but I still hate the way he was turned into a villain. I read book 2 but won’t finish the series.
It's the worst when authors do this, as a reader you feel cheated. It isn't a good look on the author either, because, to me at least, it gives the impression they don't care about readers or that they see the readers as fools. A trilogy that I was really enjoying had the first two books making you root for this one guy. The author set everything up for him to be endgame, it was what made sense. There wasn't even a love triangle, because for the entirety of those first two books the MC only interacted with this one guy and she was completely head over heels, but in the third book suddenly a new guy appeared and just like that the MC and this new guy were supposed to be literal soulmates and the first guy we rooted for in the beginning for *two* whole books got tossed aside. It was infuriating. And to support this new pairing the author had the first guy act so out of character out of nowhere and for no reason other than to have the readers rooting for the new guy instead. To this day it makes me angry. Anyway, sorry for ranting lol, I just wanted to say I understand the frustration.
@@treceslez Lmao I totally understand, can I ask which trilogy it was? Because I swear that sounds so familiar to me but I can't remember the name of the series.
@@hnichole Oh, it's a self published trilogy written in my native language, I don't think it hasn't been translated to English, but there surely are a lot of other books with this exact same problems, some authors really love character derailment xD
P.O.V: We're her neighbor and our parents don't let us read books, so everytime Cindy makes a video, we rush into this one special spot to listen to her talk about books like fairy pr0n tales.
My father bought these for my younger sister when she was NINE innocently believing that they were pg rated fantasy. Oh nooo they were not. This is possibly worse than letting your child on wattpad
my dad bought me a murder mystery book and LITERALLY NOTHING IN THE DESCRIPTION OR ANYTHING SAID IT WAS GONNA HAVE SEX IN IT LIKE I ASKED FOR A DETECTIVE STORY NOT THE DETECTIVE AND THE VICTIM HOOKING UP??? also fun quote “her breasts were large, suitable for a man’s hand”
I have mine written on notecards because I don’t have a very good memory, and there are power-points to accompany it because sometimes people need a visual aid.
I haven't read it because I can't afford to lose any more brain cells, but the few parts Cindy read seemed more like a "I need to get this off my chest and sort my head, please listen"
In fairness this was originally on fictionpress before it got taken down for publication. Think of it like Fictionpress walked so Wattpad could run lmao. Basically yeah it was kinda a wattpad story
Feyre: I was Tamlin's doormat until Rhysand said I could be his wingscratcher
we love character development 😍
Omg that's how you spell Feyre? I thought it was Farah 😅 (also my autocorrect turned Feyre into Dryer)
@@asmergoli249 i mean if the shoe fits...
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Oh no that sounds so much worse now that I remember..... lmfao
Feyre: god,,,,,,,, i love,,,,,,, dicc,,,,,
Cindy: kim, there's people that are dying
Feyre: I want,,,,, the succ,,,,,
Me: ma'am this is a Wendy's
readwithcindy Someone give this girl some water.
@@QuinntheDruid bottle full of vodka
This comment aged "well" ?
POV: You're trying to clean your apartment while your neighbor loudly reads fairy smut
A moment of silence for my apartment neighbors
Always felt like a common hazard in the realm of reviews. *shrugs* Oh, well...
LMAO
This is one hell of a writing prompt right here.
@@stoppickingurnose7852 It would be a much better book
Book 1 - Sarah J Maas discovers painting
Book 2 - Sarah J Maas discovers feminism
Book 3 - Sarah J Maas discovers the gays
Sarah is still trying to find the B in lgBt
*invents
I felt like she was touching all bases in one saga... I know kids today are looking for representation and asking for it (and inclusion, like the vague description of the characters so as not to define a race) but make it flow, chill and be subtle.
@@123brunasdo Sarah still hasnt found any of them lmao. Every character is shit representation
Isn't that how it goes in art school?
Oh. Oh dear god. That monologue. No. She clearly has never even spoken to a lesbian for her to have written that drivel.
Avalon le Fay correction she has never spoken to a real human being
I haven't read this book, what exactly makes it so wrong? From the few snippets I don't really see it
@@steinistein8611 a coming out that last 6 pages. I'm bi and the first time i said i liked girls out loud was so hard for me that i just said that "i like girls". Why would someone give an entire speech on their sexuality during a normal conversation? Ted talks last a lot less than that.
@@melisacaceres8740Her coming out was like 3 sentences long. Basically: I am bisexual. I like sex with both genders but only form real romantic attachment with women.
The rest of the monologue was about her relationship with her family, Azriel, Cassian, Nephelle and Andromache. And Feyre wanted to know the part about her relationship with Azriel and Cassian so it is not like she overshared or anything.
So how is this too long?
@@ducklingscap897it’s a 6 page monologue lmao that’s enough in and of itself. girl is just yapping endlessly
the gay monolouge was like hearing a customer tell a retail employee their entire life story
I can relate to this on a personal level. I worked in retail and I would get some of those customers. 🤣
IT WAS
i knew i knew that feeling somewhere lol
As a retail worker, I cannot tell you how excruciating it is. And that dialogue gave me the same queasy “get me out of here” feeling
Ma'am, this is a Wendy's
At least Feyre wanted to know all this and asked for it. Unlike us people in retail 😅
"We don't even remember Tampon's name" GIRL I LOVE THIS
lol
2:33. Just incase I came back for a good laugh 😂😂
Bro I did not even realize that she said tampon. I really do be forgetting his name quickly...
Honestly same haha
for a moment I was like "wait is his name really tampon?"
'I will read the entire monologue-'
me, in tears: please don't
Me: please do
“This isn’t a sex scene but it’s still kinda relevant”
Smooth transitions
"Last book he was a feminist? This book he is Saint Theresa" AMEN
Edit : dang thank you for the likes folks
WOKE KING
I love the humor.
... my head hurts. XD
don't you mean saint therhysand?
ANGRYCAPSWTF
Nah, saint therhysa
Me, a known lesbian: he-
*The 6 page monologue with 70 ellipses:*
Me, a known heterosexual:
This is how I got converted to be straight
i'm dead
The headthrob is real. Murder to all crazies like that. Shame, shameful.
Did you actually count the number of ellipsis? You mad lad
@@t.thomas8919 fucking,,, pardon?
The lesbian monologue was so powerful it gave Cindy a girlfriend years later
Omg yesss
That's what we call foreshadowing
The way this series trouble broke [woke?] Cindy. It'll be taught in freshman lit someday.
wait did she actually..? congrats! : D
“We don’t even remember Tampon’s name anymore.” I’M WHEEZING
Tampon who???
My favorite joke in this video 😂
@@withcindy idk? tampon gregson??
ME TOO
I love these comments cus I know u were completely straight face when writing
I don’t think that Sarah J. Maas has had a single homosexual thought in her entire life.
I don’t think she has had a single thought in her entire life
@@caelahc.959 god I wish that were me
Must be a pretty boring life
@@qold5900 As a plot device, not an expression of SJM's sexuality.
There's really no excuse for this lack of representation. Queer relationships, at the core of them, are the exact same as hetero relationships. The love, the care the way they behave as a couple, even the lust. It's just their gender identity that are different. In fantasy you can even have an advantage by changing the society so these relationships are accepted, so that way even if the author isn't queer they can still write the relationships without the baggage and hardships of the reality of our society attached.
"him silencing her... is a metaphor for him silencing her"
I actually choked on my ice cream because I was laughing so hard
Ah yes, the reverse English Teacher.
SJM’s feminism is so inconsistent that she actually created a WHOLE NEW THING for men to measure who is better
It's not new trust me.
@@TuberoseKisser My god nooooooooooooo
I felt uncomfortable about the feminism being pointed out so much in the book. Like there was comparison and I was already rooting for tamlin so the other books I was super confused 😅
@@kikibyde that happens when a writer changes views mid writing
Imagine using your telepathy to send each other memes.
That's the only thing I would do
That’s the only thing I do anyways.
666 likes I can't change it lol
That would be a better book
Hello generation x.
you know it's a straight author when they spend 6 consecutive pages on a coming out
And have the "lesbian" offhand mention she does like sleeping with dudes. Because differing romantic and sexual orientations are a thing, but God I don't think that's what the author was going for.
Haven't gotten to that point in my own relaxing writing. I call this a victory! XD
Does that mean that straight authors should not write gay characters? Should they only write about what they know? That’s a very closed minded opinion lmao
Vtmb2 coming 2020 No.... they totally can, just don’t spend 6 consecutive pages on a coming out. And do their research on what it’s actually like to come out. And maybe decide which characters are lgbt before the series starts, which it doesn’t seem like SJM did.
@@PossibleBat I'm straight. Straight people can write gay characters.... but the author needs to be informed enough to not poorly write them.
so what i’m hearing is rhysand solved sexism
rhysand actually gave women the vote
And he made his mate his equal in power unlike all the other high Lords who just don't want to acknowledge the title of High Lady
Rhysand invented women's rights 😌✊
Rhysand threw the first brick at Stonewall
@@artificialraspberify rhysand invented all rights. he was abraham lincoln
Pov : you are cindy's therapist, who is listening to cindy's acotar trauma.
“Cindy, look, I care about you, but your just like *too* fucked up for me to help you. WHERE THE FUCK DID YOUR PARENTS FIND YOU”
Lol!!!
true equality is sj maas making her queer characters just as annoying as her straight ones
😂
beautiful :)
diversity win! queer women can be insufferable!
It’s giving “I’m not racist, I hate everyone equally”
That's what happens when a highschool wattpad fanfic writer grows up
it's inspirational
Shut uP SHUT UP SHUT UP
Don't insult fanfic writers like this lmaaaooo
Daenerys Targaryen SJM actually had her start with online fiction (not Wattpad but fictionpress) so you’re not wrong lol
I don't want to end like this! Is there no hope?
Cindy read this trilogy so we didn’t have to she died for our sins man
this comment made me lol, thank you
The books are actually good, idk why she’s so critical. If you like Throne of Glass by Maas you’ll most likely enjoy this series.
@@charlotteharwood1271 If you actually watched her videos on these books, you'd know why she's so critical. You can like them, but that doesn't mean her critiques aren't valid.
BoredomIsAnUnderstatement Actually I have seen them, and to be fair, why did she continue reading this series after book 1 if she thinks they are so terrible? It really makes no sense to me. I do understand some of her points but to me it comes off condescending towards the author, not constructive criticism.
@@charlotteharwood1271 Honestly, I get why she kept reading. It's the same reason why I read horrible fanfics that I know I'm going to despise: masochistic curiosity. The desire to see exactly how bad it can get. Plus, I'm pretty sure people were begging her to keep reading the series -- half the people because they wanted to watch her rip it a new one, the other half because "oh, it gets so much better, just read the next book, you'll love it!"
You reading that coming out scene cured me of my homosexuality
This is how conversion therapy works
@@withcindy so then is mike pence a maas fan? 👀
Honestly I'm not even gay but I think I got straighter
Honestly same. Like,,, i pReFeR fEmAlEs.
Helen Monaghan my bi flew away
"Him silencing her, is a metaphor,,,, for how he silences her. It's very nuanced, it really makes you think."
Three years... three years, and this line still fuckin gets me
it's the "bone apple titty" for me omfg
5:34 note to self
@@StraysoftheBeyond 17:48
@@StraysoftheBeyond boner apple titty version 19:52
Oh god. I work in a bookstore and I just sold these books to a woman looking for a gift for her 13 year old daughter. I had no idea. I got this woman to give her child a porn novel. What have I done.
King of Crawdads
You’d better hope the daughter is a lesbian, so she can revel in those 6 pages.
At least is fairy porn
Big fucking oof lol
@@thedarkoverlordofall "revel"? ha.
Juliana Geppert
Hell yeah
As an Australian, hearing them say “mate” so much was truly a nightmare
Bahahha thats how i read the thumbnail too
As a Brit, I had the exact same issue 😂
Olivia Becker
Y’alright _mate_
Fawn as none of those I could still understand from the way I was told things
Omg I know hahahahha
Feyre: it’s still a mess
Tamlin: **victoria justice voice** I think we ALL are a mess
Does that mean rhysand is Ariana grande?
readwithcindy yes
@@withcindy * thinks about it * That is actually a very apt metaphor
The way SJM writes about painting makes me think she’s never actually painted before 😭
right?? as an artist it just sounded like SJM googled the fundamentals and made feyre list them off constantly
I rolled my eyes at that one line (in the novella I think?) where she was all, “The painting was a pretty lie~” and there was no elaboration or anything. It’s like she’s just tying up pretty sounding words together and trying to make it sound as elegant as she can… and failing 💀
The way she describes painting is the way I bullshit my way through art assignments
@@Ophiotaurus_AKA_Bessie Hot
@@lydiademarek big mood
Straight people writing gay characters: six page long coming out monologue
LGBT+ people writing gay characters: "so, like. I'm gay. Yea."
Straight ppl are the most dramatic
@@withcindy have you met a theater gay
For example, my coming out to my mom:
Me: hey mom boys are disgusting so I'm dating girls now
That's it that's all it was
@@RavensCake okay true (I'm a theater gay)
Whats odd is i'm straight and i just wrote my gay character coming out as "yeah i like puss is there anything wrong with that?" Suffice to say i have massive writers block right now... perhaps i'll pull a Maas and do an EIGHT PAGE COMING OUT SCENE
Cindy: "One of the fairies comes out as a lesbian."
Me, a lesbian: "Well, that's kind of nice."
Cindy: "In a six page monologue."
Me, still a lesbian but not as happy about it: "...Oh. Oh no."
What was that madness? I'm not even into men or women and I thought this was a bit much. Whatever happen to coy hints and people living life? I confuse...
I have yet to experience another instance of coming out in six page monologue. And after this I don't really want to...
@@t.thomas8919 Maybe for the author coy hints are for the weak and over-rated. That or the editor can't say 'no'...
actually she's bisexual
@@yazoofantasy No to me. It's how I like to write tales and will keep it that way. People first, what makes them "extra" comes second. If that makes sense.
i just watched half hour of a woman i've never heard of before talking shit about a elf porn book i've never heard of before. that's the content i'm here for, thanks algorithm
Thank you algorithm.
bibi_s I just discovered this video, went back to watch the previous videos, and then went back to her roasting more fairy porn
My friend sent me this and said I’d like it 🤣
Yep
Me rn!!!
"Last book he was a feminist, this book he's Saint Theresa." I'm howling.
“Which is like super devastating because they. did. not. want. pointy. ears.”
I YELLED
It is not just that, you become immortal. What if from one day to the other you become a different being.
@@nikoletak Wouldn't that be a good thing? I still don't get it.
@@TacticusPrime Being immortal no. Because your family dies and your still alive
@@EmilyHernandez-jt4cs I mean, that still happens to mortals too. Some of your family is going to die when you are still alive. An immortal could do a lot to protect their family long term. They could still be watching out for their great-great-great grandkids.
"i prefer females" said NO LESBIAN EVER
legit
But Mor likes both males and females right? She isn't a lesbian. She didn't say "women" because in the book universe, "male" and "female" is how they refer to faeries, with "man" and "woman" used for humans...
I'm really into my FEMALE LOVER
Whenever I hear female as a noun used unironically I just think of incels
@@phisograph _Faemales_
sj maas after adding a six page coming out scene: we did it boys, homophobia is no more.
Next world problem to solve: racism. Have a character come out as black
readwithcindy will that one be 6 pages long or will she up her game and make it longer
@@withcindy JK Rowling did that with Hermione 😂😂
thing is... i didn't expect like- i did but i lowkey didn't
readwithcindy And so with the removal of his amulet James turned out to be a Jamal
The fact that Mor would rather string along a guy who's head over heels in love with her for over 500 years rather than just tell him shes not interested is truly wild. She doesn't have to admit shes gay, she can just say it's not gonna happen smh
Goddam that's depressing
I was astounded and angry
I mean, if it's been 500 years, she's only ever treated him as a friend, and she's sleeping with all these other guys but very noticeably not him then it's kinda on him to take the hint at this point lmao. Plenty of people know their crushes don't reciprocate without their crushes straight up telling them so.
Actually admitting that she was into girls would be _better_ because then she could at least have plausible deniability and say that it was a recent thing she discovered about herself
Exactly, kinda cruel on her part in my opinion
As a lesbian, I always give a monologue worth 6 pages of text every time I come out to someone
You came out to this RUclips comment section and your nonologue was only worth 1 sentence, so I feel lied to.
So, is it one line the rest empty pages? Or copy and paste "I'm a lesbian." in repeat for the word count, and easier time to fill one mla line with an autobiography from you?
Because either way, it's possibly short or better than the stuff mention in the book.
I mean her whole relationship with Azriel and Cassian and Andromache was also talked about and Feyre asked questions in between that she answered. The whole: I am bisexual part was about 4 sentences long.
I recently came out as bi to some friends and all I did was “oh btw I’m bi” now I feel like I missed out on a long rant
@@DD-gl3gx istg my friend came out to me last year (and we both live in pretty homophonic countries and environments growing up and it was their first time coming out too) and it was still literally "I like dick too" "ok cool do you wanna order chinese"
This book should be known as the fifty shades of fey..
Aditi Kataria most underrated comment
You nailed it!!!!!!!
I cracked up after reading this!!!!
🥵
Oh SHIIIIIII-
Sarah J Mess really thought she did that representation by having a 6 page monologue about a lesbian.
PHEW her impact!! LGBT+ ally queen
Wow that's insane did it need to be that long
We stan a woke writer who respectfully represents minorities 🥰😫✊✊😌
Oh, it isn't just her...
She believes she met the quota she lacked in Throne of glass, where everybody is hetero and with a couple
"We don't even remember what Tampons name is anymore."
I LOST IT.
When reading the original book I had trouble differentiating between Lucian and Tamlin. Never understood why she fell for Tampon. He was always a tad bit of a douche. "You are free to do whatever you want - except leave the mansion."
One minute in: bottle filled with vodka
A second later: bottle half empty
U u u u h
Recipe: one shot of vodka
Cindy: w a t e r b o t t l e
who needs electroshock/conversion therapy when you can just read that monologue out loud to me and every other gay person alive?
mike pence take notes
I want electroshock therapy to forget these books exist.
Summer camp has been canceled, now it’s just going to be an SJM bookclub led by Pence.
Enfys Best that is a torture reserved for Guantanamo bay
This made me cry laughing thank you for this
Tamlin: locks Feyre into his house
Fandom: fuck you
Rhys: makes Feyre his bitch, dresses her intu rugs,makes her drunk in front of every high fae
Fandom: oh how lovely
You forgot to add that he literally got her killed (she was later brought back but point still stands) by not revealing to her a very important piece of information, despite his claims about Feyre having the right to make her own choices as the free woman she supposedly is.
okay but… have you read Chapter 54? 🥹❤️
@@Neha-xl4nf doesn't excuse Rhy's actions 🤷♀️
not only that he locked her in because he literally watched her die like 😭i feel like sarah did him so dirty by making him just turn into a lowkey asshole
@@treceslez Not to mention how he sends her into the witch's house with LITERALLY no backup to 'prove herself' - this wasn't teaching her self defense, it was LITERALLY testing whether she was good enough for him! And it's scary to think that if Feyre had 'failed' he would have just let her die. Because there's no scene later where he tells her 'I was keeping an eye out and would have come to help if you had needed me.' Polar opposite from Cardan in The Cruel Prince, when he tells Jude he would never have let the nixies get to her in the river scene earlier (which astute readers had already figured out.) It gets me because I write these kinds of situations all the time; only my heroines are tough stubborn girls who are constantly trying to prove themselves and show 0 vulnerability because they've been hurt in the past. So they keep getting sent on dangerous missions because my hero knows she'll get the job done and not complain and he trusts her even though she doesn't trust ANYONE. Then she gets herself hurt and the hero feels guilty he didn't help more and there's a conversation where he tells her he won't think any less of her if she needs help and she can trust him to have her back, which builds their relationship, voila. Cheesy, I guess, but I think it's important not to prioritize being 'able to take care of yourself' over 'having each others' backs.'
no one:
the lesbian side character: * six... pages of... coming out... monologue *
this book made me homophobic
@@withcindy wouldnt blame u lol
@@withcindy listen i'm a Lesbian and this book made me homophobic
@@sileana555 she...what?
@@sileana555 and here i thought her books couldn't get any worse....
”LAST BOOK, HE WAS A FEMINIST. THIS BOOK, HES SAINT TERESA” HAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAA IM QUACKING 🤣🤣
q u a ck
Aww beast! I loved this whisper in the dark episode
@@monokuma7184 hi yes omggg you know them!!! 🥺🥺
@@__gudetama__1239 hahahahhaha hi yes thank you!!! he’s the loml 🤌🏼😂
@@muffinte EXACTLY!!!! 🦆
I have a friend named Rhys, and hearing his name over and over in reference to sex is really screwing with my head.
Artie Thompson
I’m so sorry.
Relatable content
That is such a cool name
SIS ME TOO and it’s just made 200 times worse by the fact that my friend rhys is a very tall and awkward 17yo computer nerd who wears legend of zelda tshirts, has a messenger lunchbag, and has literally never shown romantic or sexual interest in another human being.
My cousin is called Rhys- ;-;
I never understood why people held this series up as a great example of a woman getting out of an abusive relationship when she just jumps into an unheathily codependent relationship with another guy. Her whole new life was just an extension of his. She didn't have her own friends or her own thing going on, she just became an extension of him. None of this is a good portrayal of a healthy relationship or character development.
I could not have said this better. You are completely and utterly right.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
[This is Perfection.]
I actually think that this is why Nesta is a better character. Her book sucked but I like that she developed her own friends and her own life outside of Cassian.
Yeah and the "vigilante" dialogue is ankward imo, show don't tell. You can say it once but you don't have to have multiple paragraphes or a long dialogue. I'd trust more a dude that doesn't brag about his feminism that a dude who does. (Mostly when he's partially that..)
Brooooo im so glad you said it!! Like ppl hate tamlin/feyre but LITERALLLY, fey/rhys is the same thing!
The biggest lot twist ever would have been that rhysand was mindmanipulating her the entire time.
If maas had the BALLS she wouldve done it
cindy: Tamlin silencing her is a metaphor for Tamlin silencing her
me: i want some of what she's drinking
It's so deep 😭😤
r/Imforteenandthisisdeep
Could this be made in a drinking game? Just wondering.
Me in every English lit exam
You mean vodka-
_I’m going to devour him from head to toe_
“From head to toe? Even his toe? Bone apple titty”
You do not understand how hard that made me laugh omf
"...Distancing the cries of the injured and dying..."
The
WHAT?
Yea... that happened.😳
Hearing people scream in pain is such a turn on though
I have a bff and crush named Rhys...I think he’s taking faerie bjs in a tent in the middle of a war behind our backs. h e c k
AlphaNathan Online sir this is Wendy's drive thru
oh....... so that's how our president does it
As a Scottish person, if I had a penny for every time I've seen an american author use my country's culture and mythology as a back drop for their weird porn books, I'd have two pennies. Which isn't a lot but it's weird it's happened twice.
but fr it's hilariously saddening seeing a famous character in Scottish mythology being used this way Tam Lin sweetie I am so sorry lol great video Cindy!!
I Love ur Comment. 😊
the other nickel is for outlander isn't it
we stan actual Tam Lin in this house-
@@marielle_critique35 he really was done dirty!
@@MT-lk7qt oop-
_"And at this point, we don't even remember what Tampon's name is anymore!"_ Haha! :^D
“I sleep with males in part because I enjoy it.”
Then... doesn’t that make you bi?
Its sex. It dont matter who it is.
technically she never says the word lesbian, gay , or homsexual.
She's just prefers to have relationships with females and wants ONLY to f**k men
@@santanas1879 ik. She wants the D, that don't mean she attracted to niggas
Homoromantic bisexual, I'd say.
I mean one can enjoy sex, but not be attracted to the one they’re having sex with. And sexual attraction doesn’t always match romantic attraction.
“I’m not homophobic,,,, but the gays don’t deserve rights after this scene.” As a bisexual, I stand by this statement. This video made my day, the funniest thing I heard all day.
This is how I became a homophobe
I give up my rights after this scene, not only do we not deserve them but we don’t even WANT them any more
XD best laughs I had in a while!
I'm bi, and this type of coming out is freaking tiring (even people do this irl). _Nope, you are not closeted, just an emotionally manipulative edgelord._
Same.
"The only character I remember is Cassian just because he had this weird sexual tension with Nesta that was never explained."
.......Girl, I have some news for you.
Oh no... Its out isn't it? What's the title?
@@Velvetstatics a court of silver flames - but to be real honest it was my favorite out of the series… I’m sure there’s issues with the plot but the smut… the smut was probably some of the best I’ve read from a novel before
@@lunarstream2105 that summarizes SJM’s writing style so well same for her other two series the smut is the only good part
@@lunarstream2105true, story and most of the characters are sht but the smuts are ✨perfect✨. Like creaming ecstasy perfect
Me at the beginning: "Oh, wow, what restraint! She's only drinking half of the bottle of--"
*Cindy keeps pouring*
"...ah. Fair enough."
just 2 shots
@@withcindy Exactly what went through my head as your poured the bottle.
What that video with a woman making a drink. Says two shots but just pours... XD *just two shots* Just wondering is all.
Can't believe Tamlin carried this entire book with his clapbacks
This comment made me laugh this morning, thank you
I have no words to describe how much I love this comment.
I can’t stop laughing 😂
Real
"Last book, he was a feminist. This book, he Saint Theresa"
THAT'S IT! I'M BEYOND DEAD. IMMEDIATE SUBSCRIBE
Poor Tamlin, Sarah vilified him and she didn’t need to go so hard at him. It’s like she had to make Tamlin horrible to make Rhysand be amazing.
even then she didnt manage to completely vilify him, he still remained a decent..fae being lol he still did whats right even after all the shit that feyre pulled. whats the most infuriating tho is that everybody in the books treats him like a piece of trash bc the only way for SJM to show how bad he is is to constantly demean him thru other characters. and ur sitting there thinking - what did he do to deserve this treatment really? it’s so stupid
@@rukiasbankaiioh I'm reading the book and the question keep running in my mind what did he do to deserve this. Infact it made me hate feyre. Who I didn't like before because of the way she describes her sisters
@@kikibyde same
Feyre : Its still a mess
Tamlin: *in Victoria Justice's voice* I think we ALL are
Oml I was looking for this
I’M DEAD
Take a shot every time someone mentions: “tHe wInGsPaN”
Oh shit Cindy is dead why did I suggest that
Also 11:30 killed me 😂
I swear to fuck that word/innuendo/devil's creation is almost as cursed as "firedick"
u wanna kill me?
Or "my mate"
readwithcindy remember Cindy, it’s your choice
After randomly having this in my recommended feed, seeing an *obviously* trashy YA novel that I’ve never heard of, a woman straight up pouring hard liquor into a 32oz water bottle, and watch as she proceeds to roast fairy p0rn... I thank RUclips analytics as I subscribe, still slightly buzzed from my moscato
the youtube algorithm is a blessing and a curse
@@misspurrheart it's blursed
Gabrielle Trinidad this is exactly how i found her
Gabrielle Trinidad SAME 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Seriously me rn
tbh the book could’ve been saved if rhysand and tamlin just banged it out bc the enemies to lovers energy is kinda strong with this one ngl
Tam x Rhys sounds a lot more interesting cause both have a lot of tension and hatred between each other.
everything could have been fixed if they both went down sloppy styles but alas sarah doesn't want us to be happy
"Tamlin walks into the room, everyone is pissed because no one likes him" I felt that.
"Who's mans is this?" is one of my new favorite phrases lol
Emily Gingrich you must not know any black people
Ceasonal ?? what
*six page coming out monologue:* exists
*me, a lesbian:* Am not against Gay s . But you are all so Anoying . God bles .
FUDKDCKSLZLSKFM
That monologue cured me of lesbianism
WUIHEJNDENJNK YEAH
@@Amorfis literally fucking same
HONESTLYYYYY
After the six-page monologue- "I quickly became homophobic, hating on gays became part of my lifestyle"
Wait is this a reference to that one satire thing called "homophobia" or am I just delusional
@@urdadsleftasshole69 yes it is
@@urdadsleftasshole69 yes it is
@@liv0072 nice
Wait, the one by Noel Miller? I love that
Feyre is the type of girl to say "apartment complex..? I find it quite simple."
Lmao
I had a good giggle at this, thank you😂😂
"several sex scenes later" is so iconic lol
Literally every fanfic I've ever written...
“Him silencing her is a metaphor... for how he silences her”😂😂😂
It's so deep 😭
That lesbian character is so badly written. "I sleep with men in part because I enjoy it" if the author wanted to respectfully portray lesbians and how they face compulsory heterosexuality they would've never written shit like this my GOD that one actually pissed me off
M_MKULTRA I’m not being sarcastic I’m genuinely curious. Would it have been better if she said something like “I sleep with men because it’s the norm, I don’t enjoy it, but I didn’t know women were an option”?
@@awkwardotter13 that's in essence what compulsory heterosexuality is. It involves lesbians or gay men sleeping with the opposite sex because it's expected of them or because if they're out of the closet it can put them in danger. It's a sensitive topic though, and you need to be respectful when portraying it in fiction which this book was not.
M_MKULTRA Ah that makes sense. I’ve read other books where it was done well but I think overall this book was just a dumpster fire XD
@@Pepstep_07 wow, you made me sad, I barely slept around because I can't go beyond that sense of rejection when you don't feel for the other person (like having a one night stand, you barely know them) so to imagine having to do it because it's expected gave me the chills. I read the monologue late at night and felt it was lukewarm, besides not representing lesbians right she was awful enough to keep that guy pinned there for 500 years. Dismiss him with any excuse you want but give him closure, it felt like she was seeking attention from everyone around.
WTF. Yeah no thanks. Women motivated by being rewarded for toeing the patriarchal line is a really interesting theme to explore because it's so goddamn pervasive irl, but if that's what the author was trying to get at (?) sounds like she terribly missed the mark with the same old shite.
As a bisexual woman who has come out to her family three different times let me say this: stop writing coming-out scenes as these big dramatic speeches because usually when we come out, it is to people we trust and usually it comes down to one sentence:
"I'm [insert lgbtq+ identity here]. I wanted to let you know because you're my family and I trust you". Them's the deets.
Also the fact that the lesbian coming out scene that was written was somehow only there because of a man is so laughable, I can't.
My closest friend sent me a video that another RUclipsr made to help people say they're coming out. Happened 6yrs ago. She (she uses she/them pronouns) had been terrified that I wouldn't want to be friends with her anymore if I knew and my response was to first reassure her that I don't hate her and never would and that it was kinda obvious with how she had been with one specific friend of ours. That friend doesn't know about this to date but yeah 6yrs down the line she's still one of my closest friends and I'll always be there for her.
Gosh, I also came out three-four times, because the first time my mom didn't take it good and thought it was everything about my dad's economic problems (now she denies this happening), second time she didn't get it, third time I literally cried until she heard me, and last one I told her specifically I was both into women and men.
hardest shit ever just to tell my mother "oh yea, girls are also pretty".
Every time I come out it's a quick one line joke that links to something that was said
personally, i refuse to come out at all. I'm just my nonbinary lesbian self and if i feel safe to do so I'm completely open about it, but otherwise i don't feel like mentioning it to my family because for me i only need my own acceptance.
however, everyone is different of course! I'm a very private and antisocial person, so that's why this feels right for me
the way i came out was bc my mom asked me if i liked girls and i said 'maybe!" like why is morrigan doing a soliloquy
Is everyone just going to ignore the fact that she drank that entire Nalgene bottle of pineapple vodka?
stay hydrated.
BY HERSELF LIKE HOW???
I thought that was water, omg
cindy: *starts pouring*
cindy: *pauses at the 16oz mark*
me: wow thats a lot of v-
cindy: *keeps pouring*
me: **oh no**
I was thirsty
@@withcindy is your kidneys ok like jeazus
The irony is that I loved these books when | read them, but ended up agreeing with everything you said in all three videos (meanwhile laughing 99% of the time) and now realise how bad they are. Brilliant content, really needed this over COVID. Thank you.
no because same, i used to think the whole series was amazing but its been 2 years since i read it and with this critique and some others i realize how shitty everything was 💀
@@keijiqahara honestly! 😂 I felt like a complete idiot for wasting my time on these now. (even buying the series once I'd read them from the library)... Now I might never read them again in the same way 😂😂😂.
LMAI SAME THO I WAS ROLLING WITH LAUGHTER THE WHOLE TIME 😭
@@reve.laurent A whole new world 😂 we have been enlightened 🌟
“Him silencing her is a metaphor...for how he silences her.” IM ROLLING-
It always draws me out of the scene when authors mention “too sensitive skin” as a sign of arousal b/c I always associate overly sensitive skin with the time I had a crazy high fever and just the sheets touching me hurt
Ikr? I have super sensitive skin myself and will sometimes break out into hives because of a weird clothing texture or something. It's as far from arousing as one can get!
Fr don’t that shit hurt tho
Like “ah yes sunburn, very seggsy”
as I read this I choked on my drink and nearly spat it all over my desk from laughing so hard
When I was premenstrual and telling my bf he couldn’t touch me because I didn’t even want my clothes touching me much less anything else. Yeah, being super sensitive is great. 😬
Me coming out to my dad: So, you remember how I explained that Loki was genderfluid? Yeah that's me too.
Sarah J. Maas: O, Horatio...
cindy: gay people shoudn’t have rights
me, a gay, after hearing that monologue: agree
Wow, I wish I had a six page coming out monologue. The extent of my experience was me telling my parents I'm a lesbian and then they offered me pizza.
I would take a pizza ANY DAY
#coming4pizza I second that vote!
@@t.thomas8919 coming for pizza...
Lol basically same. It took me 20 pages of internal monologue drama to come to terms with it and my parents were like “that’s nice sweetie”
"They did not want pointy ears" 😂😂😂
it's the worst thing to have
nesta and elain: *fall into cauldron*
nesta and elain. omfg we didn't want this now we don't die, have incredibly good looks and magical powers! why did you do this to us??????
Well I’m sure it was pretty traumatic for them and they got their bodies changed for an experiment against their will. And they were always taught to fear these people. I would be pretty scared too. I just hope they learn to love it later on.
ok but fae in this world kept humans as slaves so it makes sense why nesta and elain don't want to be part of the fae
Well, it's because:
A.) It was forced upon them.
B.) The sisters only knew fae as monstrous, human-eating slavers. So they thought they would become that.
C.) They now have powers they cannot control nor do they understand them.
D.) They have to deal with Ricesand and his groupie so.
@@colt9836 poor girls
No one:
Nobody:
Cindy: *B O N E A P P L E T I T T Y*
“You know what, it’s your choice. Because I invented feminism.” 💀
Woke king
Lesbian character (I dont know her name): I am a lesbian *distance sound of a smart board rolling in* and heres my 100 page Google slide as to why
Tbf she was holding it in for like 500+ years
I was the 999th like
Are you talking about Morrigan? Rhysand Cousin
I wish I could go back in the closet so I could come out again with a 100 page Google slide presentation.
Lol, I was one of those people who started the series as a hardcore Tamlin fan. I only read the first book because my friend recommended it to me, but I couldn't even get through the first one hundred pages of the second book because I hated Rhysand so much. My friend told me all about how Rhysand actually ends up being a good guy and Tamlin is the asshole, but I just couldn't bring myself to finish the series knowing that my favorite character was going to be the worst. Honestly, I think Rhysand would have been a FAR better villain, because he was so much smarter, more calculating, and more intimidating than Amarantha ever was. He was intelligent and he was playing the game, and even though I hated him, I respected him for it. If he had a redemption arc through the series and ended up being allies with Feyre and Tamlin, I think I would have liked this series so much more, but to suddenly have characters do a 180 like that ... it didn't make sense to me. So now I'm watching these videos to understand the major points of the series so my friend and I can still talk about it, because I can't bring myself to finish these terrible books. 😂
If only you were there to give the author these ideas…😔
I started reading because my friend recommended but if I knew it was a love triangle I would have bailed. I liked Tamlin and Feyre together but not really there were issues but I still hate the way he was turned into a villain. I read book 2 but won’t finish the series.
It's the worst when authors do this, as a reader you feel cheated. It isn't a good look on the author either, because, to me at least, it gives the impression they don't care about readers or that they see the readers as fools.
A trilogy that I was really enjoying had the first two books making you root for this one guy. The author set everything up for him to be endgame, it was what made sense. There wasn't even a love triangle, because for the entirety of those first two books the MC only interacted with this one guy and she was completely head over heels, but in the third book suddenly a new guy appeared and just like that the MC and this new guy were supposed to be literal soulmates and the first guy we rooted for in the beginning for *two* whole books got tossed aside. It was infuriating. And to support this new pairing the author had the first guy act so out of character out of nowhere and for no reason other than to have the readers rooting for the new guy instead. To this day it makes me angry.
Anyway, sorry for ranting lol, I just wanted to say I understand the frustration.
@@treceslez Lmao I totally understand, can I ask which trilogy it was? Because I swear that sounds so familiar to me but I can't remember the name of the series.
@@hnichole Oh, it's a self published trilogy written in my native language, I don't think it hasn't been translated to English, but there surely are a lot of other books with this exact same problems, some authors really love character derailment xD
The inconsistencies in this series remind me so much of my life, characters suddenly change personality and nothing makes sense
wow maybe the book IS realistic after all
THIIIIIISSSS!!!!
Wtf, my character arc has been stagnant for a long ass time.
You too? I'm so sorry... XD
When you stuck Rhysand's face on all of the suffragists I was in tears crying
WOKE BAE 😍
Time stamp!!!
@@ninasfelicillow3228
Around 11:25 lmao
ditto to this! LOL Just died laughing.
Perfection.
Me: 100% new to this channel*
Queen alcoholic Cindy: * angry reading a terrible book*
Me: :D
The entire series of ACOTAR is literally the definition of the classic Wattpad story.
I have read few and trust they were better than this vomiting nonsense
At least middle school girls had more entertaining drama to write about than whatever this is
0:31-0:52
No one :
Absolutely nobody at all:
My last two brain cells : tWo SHoTs Of vOdKa
Blue Potato you thought of it too! Thought I was the only one 😂
I literally said that aloud omg YES
Blue Potato I thought I was the only one
P.O.V: We're her neighbor and our parents don't let us read books, so everytime Cindy makes a video, we rush into this one special spot to listen to her talk about books like fairy pr0n tales.
My father bought these for my younger sister when she was NINE innocently believing that they were pg rated fantasy. Oh nooo they were not. This is possibly worse than letting your child on wattpad
At least Wattpad has some good smut lol
atleast wattpad literally has "SMUT!!" written in the desc
Wattpad has some good shit tho...
my dad bought me a murder mystery book and LITERALLY NOTHING IN THE DESCRIPTION OR ANYTHING SAID IT WAS GONNA HAVE SEX IN IT LIKE I ASKED FOR A DETECTIVE STORY NOT THE DETECTIVE AND THE VICTIM HOOKING UP??? also fun quote “her breasts were large, suitable for a man’s hand”
@@cryingthrowingup4256 oh, well- I- hm. *ok*
Is anyone else deeply concerned for Cindy's liver after drinking that whole Nalgene of vodka? Not that I blame her, but still.
“Third and final book”
*Nervous laughter as I look at ACOFAS*
And there’s like three more books planned too lmao.
@ccbib She needs to just end the series lmao
hahaha... hahahaha aAHAHAHAA ...... bye
I don’t know the unanagrammed version of this title I assume it’s A Court Of Fear And Suffering
Platypus Girl acronym?
Umm, actually, I too do a two hour monologue whenever I talk about being gay. Thanks for the completely accurate representation sarah
Isabella Kee exactly. that’s how i came out
I have mine written on notecards because I don’t have a very good memory, and there are power-points to accompany it because sometimes people need a visual aid.
@@siriuslyconfused1 you're doing it right
I haven't read it because I can't afford to lose any more brain cells, but the few parts Cindy read seemed more like a "I need to get this off my chest and sort my head, please listen"
This book belongs on Wattpad. Not a bookshelf
I'm a Wattpad addict and yeah... I agree
I have a feeling that's where this series originated, and the person decided to take it down and actually publish it. It has happened before
Fr tho
I mean so did after but I guess publishers will just take anything nowadays🤷♀️
nahhh it doesn't even belong there
"in the last book he was a feminist... in this book he is Santa Teresa" MISS GIRL I CANT BAHJAHAHAHHAHAJAHHA
I thought I could only find wild ass books like this on Wattpad
In fairness this was originally on fictionpress before it got taken down for publication. Think of it like Fictionpress walked so Wattpad could run lmao.
Basically yeah it was kinda a wattpad story
TIL what smut, Wattpad and Fictionpress is