protagonist killing her father: "aw big sad" protagonist killing her potential love interest who's the son of a dictator/a weirdo who's into boats: "B-BUT HOW CAN I, JUST LOOK AT HIM"
"YA protagonists who suck at assassinations, weird fake feminism" This does not narrow anything down- Now what, you're gonna tell me she let out a breath she didn't realize she was holding?
being an assassin in a ya-novel is so lucrative, you don’t even have to be good at your job and you get at least two love interests along with your paycheck
the plot for a special place for woman sounds like if white teens from twitter and tiktok decided to write a book lol specially with the witchy/astrology stuff.
@Clara ok but. I've never once met a taurus I didn't like so I have no idea what she was on about lmao. Imo astrology is fun unless you let it dictate your relationships and make u feel justified in being rude as hell 😬
@@debbystragier2154 astrology is not the issue. the issue is getting into anything so much that you let it take over your life. i hate the fact that tiktok astrology people have made everyone look down so much on something that is a fun, healthy and interesting thing for many others to enjoy.
Who sends death threats over a person having an opinion about a fictional character in a book written by someone else? What are they going to do if someone doesn't like their cooking, poison the local drinking water and kill the town? What happens if they become a writer and someone *(gasp)* doesn't give them a good review? Are they going to transform into Lauren Hough and hunt down their reviewers in a pumpkin carriage before the stroke of midnight?
That part as a writer and reader I don’t get the hype around Game of Thrones Books they are a 2 star at best but you have those over hyped fans that are plain annoying like this book isn’t even good
As an asexual, I always laugh if the whole plan is just seducing. Also, "on one hand you have a colonizer on other hand you have a guy named blazer" cracked me up🤡
I would be so creeped out by most of the stuff the assansain will do to let their targets gaurd down. Like, I would get a restraining order- maybe that could be an interesting rom-com plot.
I wish there was a protagonist that was doing seduce and destroy thing only to find out their target saying mam/sir please stay away from me, it's like kissing a wall
y/a books that have any sort of crown on the cover are immediately a red flag in my mind bc they always end up having the same sort of plot just in different fonts 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
fr fr its always a crown, rose, dagger/sword/pointy stab stab, a snake, thorns, aesthetically pleasing *blood* it used to be the pretty skinny white girls who had really long brown or red hair hiding their face and/or drowning in a huge ballgown with the occasional junkyard of flowers on the cover and if its not fantasy its coloured silhouette people or shape blockey people (these are always romance books in a realistic fiction type setting)
the girl from “ash princess” should’ve broken the colonizer’s arm because if you’re not going to kill him, might as well let him give you a job so you can have some sense of agency
Cindy: reads 800 pages of fairy smut and makes a 2 hour rant review about it, even making soap in the shape of a fairy dingdong Also Cindy: I don't put any effort into this channel
The “If the shoe fits” book is kinda ironic in a way. You got the book, didn’t think of reading and now you’re passing it on. You found out “the shoe” didn’t fit for you, and now it’s being passed on to the next person.
The amount of people who disrespected cindy when she told us to unsubscribe and do something better with our lives but are still here without one breath of hesitation is just........❤️😂🙌
@@ev7785 While they aren't my favorites of hers they were definitely much better covers than the majority of popular books that had been coming out at the time. When SoC abd Ck came out I was intrigued by those more than any others I saw tbh and thats more than I can say for all the books that were coming out with almost copy and pasted covers that made me immediately avoid the book edit: sorry if this paragraph is hard to comprehend I just took nausea meds and I can't think straight
Random oponion: fandoms are sometimes so shitty that is almost unbelievable how they take away one person's will yo read the book or watch an anime. It is honestly so tiring and hard to find a chill fandom. Hope you're okay, love ya
Rule of Wolves is like the Grishaverse equivalent of Avengers: Endgame, we just see what every character in that universe is doing even if it doesn’t matter to the plot
Throne of Glass lead: 'I'm a cold-blooded killer, I can kill everyone in this table right no- Is that candy that was placed suspiciously in my room while I'm in the middle of a mystery where other people are dying?! *nom* *nom*
but the title is SO TRUE I feel like most books always TRY and kill off their characters but fail since they need to stay alive for the sake of the plot.
Can you imagine being an unemployed assassin in these YA worlds unable to find work, and hearing again and again that amateurs keep getting hired despite being terrible at their one job 😅 You get what you pay for 🤷
the camera quality getting shittier and shittier is an allegory about book twitter that no matter how good they are at reading it doesn’t mean they’re gonna get smarter
I think people approach the rating system on goodreads too much like product reviews, where anything less than 4-5 means something is trash. That and people tend to lean towards extremes, it's either 5 or 1 star. I really appreciate how you actually use the scale like it was intended to be used cuz yea, something can be average and mediocre and that's okay. It's still got value.
I blame how schools grade. You know, how 100-90% is best, 89-80 is acceptable, 79-70 is concerning, and anything at or below 69% is failure or borderline failure. It makes sense when grading understanding of a subject, but since it's the most prolific type of attitude for rating things it bleeds into other styles
Why commit murder when you can instead procrastinate all day until Cindy uploads to talk about murder? Big brain. These YA Protagonists got nothing on me.
Yess, that's why I love her. Not some fking Celaena Sardothien whose beauty sleep is more important than surviving a tournament where you can fucking die or devouring goddamn candy someone left on her bed without stopping to think if it's poisoned or not when there's a REAL assassin walking around the castle and butchering everyone. Like seriously? Even a child has more sense than that. I am not even an trained assassin (ngl kinda wish to), but I wouldn't have any problem killing someone if it meant I would live. Also if we're talking about TOG, why tf would you wish for everyone to know you're the greatest assassin in all of Erilea (or whatever that world is called) while competing in a tournament with like 23 other assasins/thieves (a bunch of weaklings tbh;one of them couldn't even use a bow? Tf are you even doing in this tournament dude?). Isn't it better to remain unnoticed by others and NOT become the target of killing???? And all just because you feel petty. Pleeeeease.
Honestly, Rule of Wolves felt a lot like a fanfiction. A good fanfiction, but a there were soamy cameos crammed into this and unnecessary fanservice. I liked it, but i had higher hopes.
@@juliacorreal I had high hopes after six of crows duology. In king of scars I didn't mind it too much, but I felt like it got out of hand in rule of wolves. I still enjoyed it and it wasn't bad, but still a bit of a letdown 🤷
@@freds2699 I agree wholeheartedly, though there were still some parts of KoS I didnt like too. I cant make sense of the Saints appearing until now, it was so uncalled and unexplained???? "The creation at the heart of the world does everything and everything is possible even becoming animals" wow cool I wish the author hadnt established the contrary up until now?
Cindy, I'm so sorry people in the Six of Crows fandom are sending you death threats, I will never understand why some people behave so horribly. I hope you're doing well ❤️
I have a genuine question about YA novels that start with murder, assassinations, wars and things like that... I don't know if this authors have heard of a demographic called *New adults*, cause... YA is for FREAKING 13 YEAR OLDS, YOU KNOW THE AMOUNT OF EDGYS YOU'RE CREATING, LAURA?
Right! They always forget about that. Most YA books are made for people on the older edge of teenager-ness. There needs to be a better middle ground for sure.
Oh Cindy, I'm so sorry about all those people who sent you those death threats (not only because you already died reading SJM). They are fictional characters, not real people. And even if they were real people, you have all the right in the world to have your opinion about them and not like them. I feel so sorry about it. I hope you get some good energy and maybe you should watch some Uncle Iroh scenes, he is the best person to give you good advice and make you feel better about yourself. I wish you a very good jasmine tea.
The lost potential of a secret feminist witch club makes me sad, like why didn't she just write the whole book about that instead of "white feminism is bad? Who knows 😉" You either commit to the witches or you don't involve them at all!
@@belovednighteyes Throne of Glass (like all the books) The Queens Assassin Red Queen The wrath and the dawn Mortal instruments Shadow and bone Three Dark Crowns Renegades The winners curse
Cindy should review Wattpad original novels again, such as Your Best American Girl by whereagardenwas; Loving Lakyn by sharnahespinosa; Yours, Forever by insouciancy; Found by moonpilots, to just name a few.
i have a feeling that cindy’s memoir alone would be super exciting, but if she narrated an audiobook for it too??? (cough, cough, hint, hint readwithcindy 500-500)
I totally agree about Nikolai being the side character in his OWN book, I didn’t mind reading Nina BUT THE DARKLING? It would’ve been better to see more of Nikolai and Zoya😭
I agree in KoS honestly. It claims that it's his book but he's like just another prospective:/ he's not a main focus at all in his own books which is ridiculous.
@@aimun5255 I wouldn't say he became less interesting, it's just she focused in everything that's not intresting about him which actually amazing in its own way lol.
Lol they were SURPRISED you gave rule of wolves 3 stars? It is SUCH a 3 star book esp since it's rickety foundation is based on shadow and bone while trying to achieve a much more complex and divided plotlines than even six of crows
@@juliacorreal Right? It was trying toooo much, it was kinda fun ngl at parts but it's clearly just an attempt to squeeze out more money while the hype is alive which I respect tbh but lol it's NOT the masterpiece some bardugo stans think it is
@@aimun5255 I agree, there were some very fun parts, but there was soooo much attempt at showing how hopeless their situation was and how smart Nikolai & gang was that I was just exhausted by the time I finished it. Also I hated the rhythm. It was all over the place due to the multiple characters in different places. Something super cool would happen with Nikolai or Zoya and the next chapter would be Nina wandering around. I almost hurled my kindle across the room so many times!
I always interpret a three-star rating from you as you saying: "Hey, I personally didn't love the book, it's okay, and that's fine. But I can understand and see why some people may like, or even enjoy, it."
Also I have to wholeheartedly agree with you. I'd rather read a book with new characters than a fanservice spinoff milking the hell out of old favourite characters without actually furthering their story substantially or meaningfully.
yea i get leigh bardugo will profit a lot from continuously writing more books in the grisha world but she could totally just start new series with new characters!! that would be way more fun
When I read Ash Princess I only kept reading bc it had a non white protagonist but that whole series was a disappointment. She ends up with the colonizer prince and she was always so reluctant to let him face consequences for how he participated in the oppression of the native people. I still have the books but I regret buying and reading them.
I know Cindy said she wouldn’t do book reviews because people are looking for positive things only but I would sell my soul for the chance to have Cindy as a Beta Reader just so she can tear me apart
Cindy, thank you so much for putting effort into your videos! As much as I (and your countless fans) admire your humor, we know that it takes more effort to make a video. Please take care of your mental health!
cindy i just saw on goodreads that there are supposed to be 2 more books in the acotar series, although i haven't read them, im so excited for them to come out, so that you can later read them and hilariously rant
Why in the hell are you guys reading that series? Lol One book was more than enough (X__x) Or is it fun just to hate on it? Lol I genuinely wanna know!
I think people get pissy about your review because they are so insecure about their own taste they subconsciously feel like your opinion is the final decision on the book's objective quality and if they liked the book then that just means they have bad taste. So in their mind, it's a personal attack against them.
the ash princess really said “gatekeep 😜gaslight ✌️ delegate my job to a child 🤌” how can you call yourself an assassin without being able to assassinate
I am autistic and finally seeing books with people that are like me make me so happy. We still have a long way to go because I can barley find any but this is a great start. :-)
Tangentially related, but there's a Hindi song from an early 2000s Bollywood movie called "It's the Time to Disco" and your comment reminded me of that and brought back memories. Thanks for that, lol :-D
Just once, I would like a female MC in a YA novel to actually be competent instead of the author insisting that they're badass but 90% of the time they need to be rescued by whatever love interest is closest. Like I didn't fully like Children of Blood and Bone but at least the whole squad were equally good at their jobs.
@@carous_g I mean to be fair, the book never said Zelie was good at making decisions, just that she was good at beating people up. The story starts with her kicking ass and being full of emotions so her shitty choices weren't exactly OOC. Just stupid.
First more of the acotar series now talking about coward ya protagonists who can't kill people makes me wonder even more what she'd think of the folk of the air trilogy by holly black
@@withcindy Yeah..... I dunno if I want her to read it or not :/ It's kinda existing in a fun, shiny bubble in my mind, I don't want it to be popped by any inconsistencies my brain skipped over LOL
“She did something where I couldn’t believe the audacity…” Same. I can’t believe my cat’s audacity half the time. Now, I got used to the audacity of the humans around me, but not my cat’s.
3 stars really isn't that bad!! sometimes i read 3 star reviews just to get a more balanced idea and expectation for a book i'm curious about. we all have different ideas of what those funny little stars mean.
The protagonists logic is I can kill a fucking kingdom but when my super hot enemy takes off his shirt when I’m destined to kill him, I just can’t do it.
16:21 (roughly) Giving a Leigh Bardugo book 3 stars. I firmly believe we should hold high profile authors to the same level of content we hold debut authors. Because almost all stop being critical of their work at a certain point. Why should they? Fans will buy what they're going to buy, and these authors are surrounded by people who tell them they're wonderful. Obviously, they're so good now they can do a quick read through, then just publish, boom, without taking a hard look at what. That's how rough draft stuff gets printed. A host of people signing off who had no reason to make the book better, who didn't want that hard conversation with the author, and, at the end of the day, didn't need to have it. You see fantastic books devolve into meh follow ups far more often than the reverse. I support your three stars.
protagonist killing her father: "aw big sad"
protagonist killing her potential love interest who's the son of a dictator/a weirdo who's into boats: "B-BUT HOW CAN I, JUST LOOK AT HIM"
LITERALLYYYYY WHERE IS THE LOGIC
@@withcindyt
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The logic in this bus is NOT astronomical
NO ACTUALLY
No one:
Logic: “alright ima head out”
“ya protagonists who suck at assassinations, weird fake feminism” is just a description of a sjm book
wait a minute....
Throne of Glass is quacking! xD
Like I thought Sarah was an incel pretending to be a woman but like no she is a actual woman. Yikes
oh my god
SJM found speechless after this comment
Murder is murder unless it's murder, then it's actually murder
the math maths out
my brain was brain until it read this comment and decided to stop being a brain
video games loading screens be like
@@kenzahcarstairs5417 😂
Безумно можно быть первым
"YA protagonists who suck at assassinations, weird fake feminism"
This does not narrow anything down- Now what, you're gonna tell me she let out a breath she didn't realize she was holding?
true
Absolutely sobbing at this one
LMAOOOOO I CAN'T WITH THIS COMMENT
this comment murdered me
She did. Twice in fact.
“weird fake feminism clubs” rhysand got his own spin off?
😂😂😂 I-
PLEASE NO
YOU DIDN'T
I read this and I can’t stop laughing 😂😂😂
WAIT LUCAS-
being an assassin in a ya-novel is so lucrative, you don’t even have to be good at your job and you get at least two love interests along with your paycheck
damn ur right!! failing upwards!!
Lmao 🤣
all of a sudden I want to be a ya assassin protag.
And you're famous.
Ashy Princess: “Okay little Timmy, put this *magic powder* into the prince’s tea, and that 96 crayon set is all yours.”
LMAOOOOO and then her being shocked when Timmy gets un-alived
@@withcindy wait the kid died in the book?
(SPOILER COMING UP)
The kid gets killed cuz she got caught and the protagonist feels super bad and I'm like GIRL WHAT DID U THINK WAS GONNA HAPPEN
@@withcindy 🤣 The Protagonist got a kid killed, what an idiot.
@@withcindy you know you wrote your protagonist wrong when she lead to the death of a child 💀
“you know those cheesey graphic t-shirts that have a slogan and a horrible font”
me staring at cindy’s julie and the phantoms shirt
EXCUSE YOU MY SHIRT IS GREAT
@@withcindySIS NOOOOO ITS ICONIC
@@withcindy dude your shirt is amazing! I love JatP!
I have one from the show too but it's from the original brazilian one so its not cool anymore 😭
I JUST REALIZED THAT
im sorry but "her mom got murdered right before her eyes. that's how you know it's a young adult story" literally *SENT ME* LMAO
It’s so true! It’s not for children or young adults unless someone immediately looses a parent.
WHY IS THIS SO ACCURATE THO
I feel like Cindy has given Leigh Bardugo every single star rating possible 😂 we love a versatile queen
TRUUUUUUU
I ruined your 666 likes
the plot for a special place for woman sounds like if white teens from twitter and tiktok decided to write a book lol specially with the witchy/astrology stuff.
thats what i thought the book was making fun of until i realized it was.... not
@Clara this is why i hate people who are into astrology so much.
@Clara ok but. I've never once met a taurus I didn't like so I have no idea what she was on about lmao. Imo astrology is fun unless you let it dictate your relationships and make u feel justified in being rude as hell 😬
@Clara we Taurus’ are winning
@@debbystragier2154 astrology is not the issue. the issue is getting into anything so much that you let it take over your life. i hate the fact that tiktok astrology people have made everyone look down so much on something that is a fun, healthy and interesting thing for many others to enjoy.
Who sends death threats over a person having an opinion about a fictional character in a book written by someone else? What are they going to do if someone doesn't like their cooking, poison the local drinking water and kill the town? What happens if they become a writer and someone *(gasp)* doesn't give them a good review? Are they going to transform into Lauren Hough and hunt down their reviewers in a pumpkin carriage before the stroke of midnight?
No no nowadays we get death threats for making spelling mistakes, it's ok we will get accustomed to eat them for breakfast soon
Now I can't get the image of Lauren Hough in a pumpkin carriage out of my head 🤣
"What happens if they become a writer and someone (gasp) doesn't give them a good review?" Act like Gabbie Hanna did I presume.
@@lordfreerealestate8302 I know right?
That part as a writer and reader I don’t get the hype around Game of Thrones Books they are a 2 star at best but you have those over hyped fans that are plain annoying like this book isn’t even good
As an asexual, I always laugh if the whole plan is just seducing.
Also, "on one hand you have a colonizer on other hand you have a guy named blazer" cracked me up🤡
different sins on the same level
As a fellow asexual,same
I would be so creeped out by most of the stuff the assansain will do to let their targets gaurd down. Like, I would get a restraining order- maybe that could be an interesting rom-com plot.
I wish there was a protagonist that was doing seduce and destroy thing only to find out their target saying mam/sir please stay away from me, it's like kissing a wall
What's surprising is these seduction sometimes works in those books...I'm an asexual too and I'll never understand how their brain works...
saying Cindy isn't talented is like saying the ocean doesn't have water.
call me a desert then cuz....
Checkmate Cindy, Oases and Underground Springs Exist…
YOU HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO ACCEPT THAT YOU HAVE GOOD QUALITIES!
❤️
@Joe Awad From like a meteorological standpoint oceans aren't considered deserts, but I think Antarctica is considered one lol
Then cindy’s as wet as Feyre… wait a minute. Nah I don’t think that’s possible nvm.
"Anyone can orchestrate a murder, but no one wants to do the hard part of murdering." I mean, if we look at history, this sentence is pretty accurate.
y/a books that have any sort of crown on the cover are immediately a red flag in my mind bc they always end up having the same sort of plot just in different fonts 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
The way ur not wrong
Wow, you're not wrong.
fr fr its always a crown, rose, dagger/sword/pointy stab stab, a snake, thorns, aesthetically pleasing *blood*
it used to be the pretty skinny white girls who had really long brown or red hair hiding their face and/or drowning in a huge ballgown with the occasional junkyard of flowers on the cover
and if its not fantasy its coloured silhouette people or shape blockey people (these are always romance books in a realistic fiction type setting)
@@Sadie-rai or it's all
@@angelambrosia6397 Oh god yeah I have seen some mix them all together. It would be good for a horror story I guess...
Damn Cindy changes her background more times than she has hated on ACOTAR.
i change my background to escape from acotar
@@withcindy like you, Sarah j maas follows me everywhere i go
I cannot escape
the girl from “ash princess” should’ve broken the colonizer’s arm because if you’re not going to kill him, might as well let him give you a job so you can have some sense of agency
THIS COMMENT LOL
ur profile pic is me reacting to the protagonist of ash princess
I'm laughing so hard at your profile pic omg
Cindy: reads 800 pages of fairy smut and makes a 2 hour rant review about it, even making soap in the shape of a fairy dingdong
Also Cindy: I don't put any effort into this channel
The author of the last book really said "Live, Laugh and Witchcraft"
LITERALLY
The “If the shoe fits” book is kinda ironic in a way. You got the book, didn’t think of reading and now you’re passing it on. You found out “the shoe” didn’t fit for you, and now it’s being passed on to the next person.
omg ur right. next level marketing tactic
The amount of people who disrespected cindy when she told us to unsubscribe and do something better with our lives but are still here without one breath of hesitation is just........❤️😂🙌
yall really dont LISTEN
@@withcindy Eve Brown would join us too tho
if I'm not unsubscribed after the latest Sarah J Maas sponsored mental breakdown I'm never not subscribed
One thing we can all agree on: Leigh Bardugo was blessed by the cover gods.
Actually IMO the six of crows and Ck covers don’t have the best cover design. But I agree that the King of scars and ROW have very intriguing covers.
@@ev7785 that's def ur opinion i thought SoC and CK covers were some of the best covers i've ever seen
@@ev7785 While they aren't my favorites of hers they were definitely much better covers than the majority of popular books that had been coming out at the time. When SoC abd Ck came out I was intrigued by those more than any others I saw tbh and thats more than I can say for all the books that were coming out with almost copy and pasted covers that made me immediately avoid the book
edit: sorry if this paragraph is hard to comprehend I just took nausea meds and I can't think straight
@@ev7785 the spayed edges really sold the design for me on soc and ck imo
Random oponion: fandoms are sometimes so shitty that is almost unbelievable how they take away one person's will yo read the book or watch an anime. It is honestly so tiring and hard to find a chill fandom. Hope you're okay, love ya
thank u
The easiest route is to just ignore fandoms, but then it gets lonely, so.
as someone who likes kpop i fucking felt that lol
As a Warhammer 40K fan, I generally avoid venturing too far into a slightly less than well lit corner of the fandom.
Six of Crows fandom was chill until the Netflix adaptation came so now everyone is jumping into the Six of Crows fandom
Istg, there are so many books with the exact cover as ash princess, I know cause I've read them
yeah like red queen!
@@withcindy and silver blood, oh God I'm getting flashbacks
Fr that is the most generic ass cover I've ever seen, also can we stop with the Queen/King/Prince/Princess of *insert random edgy thing*
Between the cover, the summary, and the wishy-washy protagonist, it sounds like that book was written in 2013.
Rule of Wolves is like the Grishaverse equivalent of Avengers: Endgame, we just see what every character in that universe is doing even if it doesn’t matter to the plot
That was so spot on I screamed YES and startled some unaware family members lol
But in endgame everybody fight thanos so it does matter to the plot in my opinion, while rules of wolves i heard contain a lots of bullshit
Throne of Glass lead: 'I'm a cold-blooded killer, I can kill everyone in this table right no- Is that candy that was placed suspiciously in my room while I'm in the middle of a mystery where other people are dying?! *nom* *nom*
I forgot about that lol 😂
I actually love that tho sjwjvoanf
Yes, mynameismarines called that out so hard. She was barely an assassin
but the title is SO TRUE I feel like most books always TRY and kill off their characters but fail since they need to stay alive for the sake of the plot.
these characters had only ONE JOB
The greatest and most powerful (and annoyingly abundant) suit of armor of all is plot armor, we all know this
This week’s form of escapism: watching jet lagged Cindy entertain me by talking about books
the things i do for u
Can you imagine being an unemployed assassin in these YA worlds unable to find work, and hearing again and again that amateurs keep getting hired despite being terrible at their one job 😅 You get what you pay for 🤷
just like freelancers in the real world!
Cindy's camera at the end was like ok that's enough feminism for today
WHEEZE
Her camera said “epilepsy warning 😝”
@@JacobFrederickWrites LMAOOOOOOO
the camera quality getting shittier and shittier is an allegory about book twitter that no matter how good they are at reading it doesn’t mean they’re gonna get smarter
I MEAN..... ur not wrong
“Are you a Libra? Because you can’t make a decision to save your life.”
*Me, a Libra, currently reading Ash Princess: I felt that.*
I was actually typing my comment "maybe the MC of Ash Princess is a Libra when Cindy told that in her video".
Being a libra suckssss, I'm indecisive as hell and I even annoy myself to death😂
Same 💀
As an extremely indecisive Libra, I don’t want to keep being called out
As a Libra, I don't think I'm indecisive! Actually, maybe... nah. I don't think so. Unless--
I think people approach the rating system on goodreads too much like product reviews, where anything less than 4-5 means something is trash. That and people tend to lean towards extremes, it's either 5 or 1 star. I really appreciate how you actually use the scale like it was intended to be used cuz yea, something can be average and mediocre and that's okay. It's still got value.
thank u! its also worth noting that the star ratings are really just for myself cuz other ppl can still love a book that i rated 2 stars
And also! That good does not equal everyone liking it, and a book being objectively bad does not mean everyone will dislike it.
I blame how schools grade. You know, how 100-90% is best, 89-80 is acceptable, 79-70 is concerning, and anything at or below 69% is failure or borderline failure.
It makes sense when grading understanding of a subject, but since it's the most prolific type of attitude for rating things it bleeds into other styles
Me: writing a story about assassins
Cindy: goes off about how YA assassins don't actually assassinate anyone
Me: adds more assassinations
Thank you
@@withcindy only for you 😘
Yo send me your email or something so you can notify me when you’re done writing, editing, and all that jazz. Im interested now
Im interested 👀
Why commit murder when you can instead procrastinate all day until Cindy uploads to talk about murder? Big brain. These YA Protagonists got nothing on me.
a better way to spend ur time!
If you can't assassinate, go to the assassin school in NeverNight... The one with the oinking sea.
NO
YES
🤣🤣
Yes
“ya protagonists who suck at assassinations, weird fake feminism” isn’t that just Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
Was literally searching the comments just for this reference lol
Oh hey Mabel, didn't expect to see you here!
At least she was cool. It's not that often that i am a simp for a female character. :D
Eve's T-shirt said "Sorry, bored now" - peak job interview clothing. I just reread the book yesterday :)
THANK YOU I was asking around and no one could remember
I wore a shirt that says "lazy af" on an interview, got hired and stayed for that company for 3 years so 💁🏻
And it was bright orange with a turquoise font like good god you really did wanna trigger poor Jacob with that one 🤪
do we really need 10 cinderella re-tellings every month? come on authors at least try to be unique.
whats another 483043003th retelling
We don’t
it feels even more prevalent than beauty and the beast retellings. we don't know any other fairy tales
you say this as they’re about to release camila cabello’s new cinderella movie 💀
@@jaycebradley8404 WHAT 💀💀
I wasn't staring at Cindy's chest... I was just reading her Julie and The Phantoms shirt...
riiiiiight
isn’t the shirt on her chest???
@@wandamaximoff4091 no???? 🤠
Murder develops anti-coordination and critical thinking
can it really be THAT hard
@@withcindy only one way to find out…
@@akshara2364 hello Thursday, how’s your mom doing today??
@@pxdden6664 she’s pretty obsessed with my new brother so i’m planning on killing him. how are you?
i legitimately thought i missed a book from the red queen series just because of the cover of ash princess💀
dude same
Samee
I just learned that it is not part of the Red Queen series
OMG SO I'M NOT ALONE THANK GOD
A Special Place for Women sounds like it was written by someone who unironically thought Midsommar was a hashtag girlpower movie
I WAS THINKING OF MIDSOMMAR TOO
YA author: my FL is a ruthless badass who could kill a child if she wanted.
The FL: B-but cute boy 🥺👉🏻👈🏻
b-but he could be a nice guy 🥺🥺🥺
The only YA protagonist who actually murders without any remorse is jude duarte
You beat me to it I was going to comment on that. I'd KILL for Cindy to read Cruel Prince.
Yess, that's why I love her. Not some fking Celaena Sardothien whose beauty sleep is more important than surviving a tournament where you can fucking die or devouring goddamn candy someone left on her bed without stopping to think if it's poisoned or not when there's a REAL assassin walking around the castle and butchering everyone. Like seriously? Even a child has more sense than that. I am not even an trained assassin (ngl kinda wish to), but I wouldn't have any problem killing someone if it meant I would live. Also if we're talking about TOG, why tf would you wish for everyone to know you're the greatest assassin in all of Erilea (or whatever that world is called) while competing in a tournament with like 23 other assasins/thieves (a bunch of weaklings tbh;one of them couldn't even use a bow? Tf are you even doing in this tournament dude?). Isn't it better to remain unnoticed by others and NOT become the target of killing???? And all just because you feel petty. Pleeeeease.
@@cj5867 sameeeee i thought she would've def read it already but turns out she hasn't 🥲
Honestly, Rule of Wolves felt a lot like a fanfiction. A good fanfiction, but a there were soamy cameos crammed into this and unnecessary fanservice. I liked it, but i had higher hopes.
SAME! I was so underwhelmed the entire time! And I really wanted to like it.
@@juliacorreal I had high hopes after six of crows duology. In king of scars I didn't mind it too much, but I felt like it got out of hand in rule of wolves. I still enjoyed it and it wasn't bad, but still a bit of a letdown 🤷
@@freds2699 I agree wholeheartedly, though there were still some parts of KoS I didnt like too. I cant make sense of the Saints appearing until now, it was so uncalled and unexplained???? "The creation at the heart of the world does everything and everything is possible even becoming animals" wow cool I wish the author hadnt established the contrary up until now?
@@juliacorreal oh god, yes! You're right. And then this sudden tree-business and the whole deal with the Darkling? Felt forced, somehow.
I literally just needed so much more of zoya and Nikolai and less of literally everything else
Cindy, I'm so sorry people in the Six of Crows fandom are sending you death threats, I will never understand why some people behave so horribly. I hope you're doing well ❤️
This unfortunately common, among fans of anything: they react like an aggressive mob towards anyone who criticizes it.
Fandoms always have this pocket of psychos
I have a genuine question about YA novels that start with murder, assassinations, wars and things like that...
I don't know if this authors have heard of a demographic called *New adults*, cause... YA is for FREAKING 13 YEAR OLDS, YOU KNOW THE AMOUNT OF EDGYS YOU'RE CREATING, LAURA?
Right! They always forget about that. Most YA books are made for people on the older edge of teenager-ness. There needs to be a better middle ground for sure.
Oh Cindy, I'm so sorry about all those people who sent you those death threats (not only because you already died reading SJM). They are fictional characters, not real people. And even if they were real people, you have all the right in the world to have your opinion about them and not like them. I feel so sorry about it. I hope you get some good energy and maybe you should watch some Uncle Iroh scenes, he is the best person to give you good advice and make you feel better about yourself. I wish you a very good jasmine tea.
♥️♥️♥️ I'm ok now!
@@withcindy I'm happy to know!!
“Anyone can orchestrate a murder, but no one wants to do the hard part of actually murdering”
- Hamlet, 1603
Hamlet had a point
The lost potential of a secret feminist witch club makes me sad, like why didn't she just write the whole book about that instead of "white feminism is bad? Who knows 😉" You either commit to the witches or you don't involve them at all!
It's sad that when seeing protagonists that suck at assassinations, I could think of like 12 books lol
they just cant do their job right
Any good recommendations?
@@belovednighteyes
Throne of Glass (like all the books)
The Queens Assassin
Red Queen
The wrath and the dawn
Mortal instruments
Shadow and bone
Three Dark Crowns
Renegades
The winners curse
@@morgan9793 clary and Alina aren’t assassins.
Three Dark Crown REVOLTS ME AT HOW BAD THEY ARE
the camera quality near the end represents cindy’s sanity dwindling
accurate
Cindy should review Wattpad original novels again, such as Your Best American Girl by whereagardenwas; Loving Lakyn by sharnahespinosa; Yours, Forever by insouciancy; Found by moonpilots, to just name a few.
she should also review he's into her, for a wattpad novel that got a film adaptation, it's pretty mediocre
She should review mine lmaooo but it’s not fantasy but still a YA
Are they good? Or like, really bad? Just curious.
@@TheBlueClover2012 bad would be an understatement.
YES
the into killed me. this is why we hire assassians.
exactly
i have a feeling that cindy’s memoir alone would be super exciting, but if she narrated an audiobook for it too??? (cough, cough, hint, hint readwithcindy 500-500)
omg ur right. double the profit off my trauma
omg can we talk about the julie and the phantoms t-shirt cindy’s wearing ?? we love to see it
yessss my fave pajama tshirt
I totally agree about Nikolai being the side character in his OWN book, I didn’t mind reading Nina BUT THE DARKLING? It would’ve been better to see more of Nikolai and Zoya😭
I wish we had more Nikolai. Also your pfp is amazing. You have immaculate taste.
Ash princess love interest sounds like he was named after a pokemon gym leader
I agree in KoS honestly. It claims that it's his book but he's like just another prospective:/ he's not a main focus at all in his own books which is ridiculous.
right?! he was like 🧍
Ironically his duology made him LESS interesting to me.....
@@aimun5255 I wouldn't say he became less interesting, it's just she focused in everything that's not intresting about him which actually amazing in its own way lol.
@@aimun5255 agree. he was kinda boring in the duology imo.
Leigh just didnt give him much growth ig but I still loved him. Zoya was definitely the central character tho
Lol they were SURPRISED you gave rule of wolves 3 stars? It is SUCH a 3 star book esp since it's rickety foundation is based on shadow and bone while trying to achieve a much more complex and divided plotlines than even six of crows
Not this DRAG💀
YES. It was so ambitious and it EXHAUSTED me to no end. There were some good moments, but in general a solid 3 stars.
@@juliacorreal Right? It was trying toooo much, it was kinda fun ngl at parts but it's clearly just an attempt to squeeze out more money while the hype is alive which I respect tbh but lol it's NOT the masterpiece some bardugo stans think it is
@@aimun5255 I agree, there were some very fun parts, but there was soooo much attempt at showing how hopeless their situation was and how smart Nikolai & gang was that I was just exhausted by the time I finished it.
Also I hated the rhythm. It was all over the place due to the multiple characters in different places. Something super cool would happen with Nikolai or Zoya and the next chapter would be Nina wandering around. I almost hurled my kindle across the room so many times!
"Are you a Libra?" Why are you calling me out like that, Cindy?
Takes one to know one
ah here it is my weekly serotonin boost coming from a woman who breaks down over books 💘
ur sick!!
I still can't believe that even when Cindy gives out diverse important books, we still choose to hound her for *certian* books iykyk
IF THIS IS A PERSONAL CALL OUT I DONT WANNA HEAR IT 😭😭😭😭😭
mmHMMMMMMMMM
😂😂 damn-
OH YES ASH PRINCESS i read this book in the beginning of the pandemic and it felt like a fever dream
it was very..... YA fantasy
Same. I tried to read the second book and just gave up.
Clearly ive been looking for love in the wrong places *grabs car keys*
lets go PUMP THE GAS
been looking for a job in the wrong place too… vroom vroom
Cindy’s Julie and the Phantoms shirt is giving me life
i love it too :3
I always interpret a three-star rating from you as you saying: "Hey, I personally didn't love the book, it's okay, and that's fine. But I can understand and see why some people may like, or even enjoy, it."
Also I have to wholeheartedly agree with you. I'd rather read a book with new characters than a fanservice spinoff milking the hell out of old favourite characters without actually furthering their story substantially or meaningfully.
yea i get leigh bardugo will profit a lot from continuously writing more books in the grisha world but she could totally just start new series with new characters!! that would be way more fun
When I read Ash Princess I only kept reading bc it had a non white protagonist but that whole series was a disappointment. She ends up with the colonizer prince and she was always so reluctant to let him face consequences for how he participated in the oppression of the native people. I still have the books but I regret buying and reading them.
I know Cindy said she wouldn’t do book reviews because people are looking for positive things only but I would sell my soul for the chance to have Cindy as a Beta Reader just so she can tear me apart
When I tell you I SOBBED MY HEART OUT at that last sentence of Rule of Wolves like I NOW NEED CLOSURE GIVE ME CLOSURE LEIGH BARDUGO
We're getting fed so well by Cindy this month
eat up babes
Cindy: “Can anything be ethical under capitalism?”
Me: no it cannot. Come join your comrades.
One of us! One of us!
Ace!
The interviewer: doesn’t hire her
Eve Brown: *Im about to end this whole mans career*
And his arm
I was so hyped when Leigh Bardugo announced a duology focusing on Nikolai but after reading the books I think it wasn’t necessary 🥲
"Anyone can orchestrate a murder but Noone wants to do the hard part of actually murdering" Cindy fueling my murder agenda since today 2021
Cindy, thank you so much for putting effort into your videos!
As much as I (and your countless fans) admire your humor, we know that it takes more effort to make a video.
Please take care of your mental health!
Thank you!!
cindy i just saw on goodreads that there are supposed to be 2 more books in the acotar series, although i haven't read them, im so excited for them to come out, so that you can later read them and hilariously rant
here we go again
Why in the hell are you guys reading that series? Lol
One book was more than enough (X__x) Or is it fun just to hate on it? Lol I genuinely wanna know!
I think people get pissy about your review because they are so insecure about their own taste they subconsciously feel like your opinion is the final decision on the book's objective quality and if they liked the book then that just means they have bad taste. So in their mind, it's a personal attack against them.
Man it really ain't that deep 💀
this is gonna be a ride, isn't it. loving the content, Cindy !
thank u!!
the ash princess really said “gatekeep 😜gaslight ✌️ delegate my job to a child 🤌”
how can you call yourself an assassin without being able to assassinate
Cindy I love you . I’m so excited when your book publishes 😩 I will buy 6 copies and then use the pages to cover my depression
thats what the book will be there for
not me laughing at cindy’s review of ash princess while simultaneously fearing that my own novel isn’t much better 😅
Cindy after giving rule of wolves 3 stars:
*I'm gonna do something so controversial yet so brave*
The girlies won't like this but it had to be said
"That's how you know it's a young adult novel because you start the trauma early." That was the most honest thing I've heard anyone say all week. 🤣🤣
I am autistic and finally seeing books with people that are like me make me so happy. We still have a long way to go because I can barley find any but this is a great start. :-)
Do you have any recommendations? I tried looking at some lists but I wasn’t sure if they’d be good ones or not
@@NataliaNNS the kiss quotient!!!
Cindy: Let's talk about this book
Camera: Nah bish, it's time to disco
Tangentially related, but there's a Hindi song from an early 2000s Bollywood movie called "It's the Time to Disco" and your comment reminded me of that and brought back memories. Thanks for that, lol :-D
BASICALLY
@@s29nv1sr1 yes haha iiiits the time to disco 💃🏾 kaun mile hai kiskooo
A true girl boss outsources her executions via child labor 😤
Cindy: talking classism, racism and making observations about hypocrisy in feminism
Her Camera: 🍻🍻🍻
Just once, I would like a female MC in a YA novel to actually be competent instead of the author insisting that they're badass but 90% of the time they need to be rescued by whatever love interest is closest.
Like I didn't fully like Children of Blood and Bone but at least the whole squad were equally good at their jobs.
Except Zelie
@SaphiraSeraphina I liked that trilogy because the author kinda convinced me that the fmc was not redundant to the story
@SaphiraSeraphina hes so cruel 🥵🥵
@@carous_g I mean to be fair, the book never said Zelie was good at making decisions, just that she was good at beating people up. The story starts with her kicking ass and being full of emotions so her shitty choices weren't exactly OOC. Just stupid.
First more of the acotar series now talking about coward ya protagonists who can't kill people makes me wonder even more what she'd think of the folk of the air trilogy by holly black
I will not be touching that
Oh I'd thank the universe if cindy ever reads my favorite series (TFOTA) and bashes it. Coz we are here for torture. 😙✌🏻
@@withcindy Yeah..... I dunno if I want her to read it or not :/ It's kinda existing in a fun, shiny bubble in my mind, I don't want it to be popped by any inconsistencies my brain skipped over LOL
just spent a few minutes thinking you said "deep throat" every time you said "dethrone" and just rolling with it
NO
MEEE
“She did something where I couldn’t believe the audacity…”
Same. I can’t believe my cat’s audacity half the time. Now, I got used to the audacity of the humans around me, but not my cat’s.
3 stars really isn't that bad!! sometimes i read 3 star reviews just to get a more balanced idea and expectation for a book i'm curious about. we all have different ideas of what those funny little stars mean.
The protagonists logic is I can kill a fucking kingdom but when my super hot enemy takes off his shirt when I’m destined to kill him, I just can’t do it.
Exactly
The darkling in RoW was as useful as the seminar Rhysand went to to become a woke feminist ally
16:21 (roughly) Giving a Leigh Bardugo book 3 stars. I firmly believe we should hold high profile authors to the same level of content we hold debut authors. Because almost all stop being critical of their work at a certain point. Why should they? Fans will buy what they're going to buy, and these authors are surrounded by people who tell them they're wonderful. Obviously, they're so good now they can do a quick read through, then just publish, boom, without taking a hard look at what. That's how rough draft stuff gets printed. A host of people signing off who had no reason to make the book better, who didn't want that hard conversation with the author, and, at the end of the day, didn't need to have it. You see fantastic books devolve into meh follow ups far more often than the reverse. I support your three stars.
Cindy's moment of realness at 5:29. Sis same 😫