explaining FOURTH WING to my husband 

Tell me which book to explain to him next 😂

"does he have a lot of descriptors but you dont know what he looks like?" and just like that carlos has taken out like 80% of male YA love interests!

This is a delight and a half to watch. I humbly ask that Rachel summarizes all horrendously bad books to Carlos from now on.

Girl, I cannot with this EDS rep! I dislocated my pelvis once having good sex.

After watching this video and hearing about her poisonings ... why didn't she get like poison powers and have like an acid damage dragon?

Dragon names are just warrior cats names but they all have to end with tail 😂😂😂

The secondhand embarrassment I felt when Carlos pointed out the lightning and shadow dynamic that I never noticed. I didn't think the book could get more on-the-nose. 😂

"a bunch of kids get roasted" = > I immediately imagined a dragon hosting a comedy roast for the students at the school

I’m just envisioning Violet on the parapet in Hermione Grangers voice going, “Riders have a 30% chance of dying up here. I read about it in Basgiath, a history.”

This school: I can excuse murder, but I draw the line at stealing.

“you gotta find the one that wants to kill you and obsess over it for years. i mean, look at us.” 😂

“Wait a minute, she lives there and she still got drafted?!” This took me out. 😂😂😂

If Carlos is down for it, I'd love to see you explain all the absurd, bad books you read to him. Because his level of huh? was some of the stuff I was thinking when you were telling us this plot. Plus he's funny and you two feed off of each other's humor so well.

23:46 “guarantee you he never held the flashlight properly for his father” made me laugh so much

I have EDS. Without getting into TMI territory, she should totally be worried about pulling muscles and dislocating stuff having sex. I pop my hip, have literally thrown out my back and there's been multiple instances of having to wear braces for days to recover.

I have EDS and the representation sucks here. I dislocate my knee walking down stairs and I've dislocated my ribs doing exercises. Like this shit is for the birds.

Through hearing you talk about this again, I realized that the reason the dragons aren't overthrowing their human overlords is because even though they are shown to be intelligent and stronger, the author probs believes in human superiority as it applies to evolution etc so they can't even imagine the idea that humans could be lesser than other species. This is just a theory though

Not the SHADOW DADDY!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

5:12 “Does he have a lot of descriptors, but you don’t know what he looks like?” 🎯 Dang, Carlos with the bullseye right out the gate 17:47 i used to climb trees all the time and it’s true-nobody ever looks up. That part checks out

You know its a happy couple when they cant stop laughing

As someone who has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome I got so excited for half a second before I remembered that this book is bad

"I would've pushed her." I LOST IT 😂😂😂

Rachel's exuberance + Carlos' dry humor = Perfection

I figured the brother was still alive, it’s like the author just went to tv tropes and made a list of random pages and threw them together with no thought of cohesion.

Oh, I think I get it! The author wanted the protagonist to start out as a member of the “bad guys” but not know it, hence the twist at the end. That’s why the college is so needlessly cruel. I’m going to guess that in the next book, we’re going to see the griffin people act humanely to contrast against it and the rest of the series will be about dismantling the empire or whatever. I bet there’s even a second twist where we learn that the dragons are even under some sort of mind control or weakened somehow, hence the strange powerset.

"Sabaa Tahir does not miss." We stan a man who knows quality literature lol

i hate this book with a burning passion and im so glad im not the only one that didnt like it. i felt like everyone on tt was lying to me when they said it was amazing. anyways my fav thing is how this world has rubber but not paper. they have modern surgery, watches, stopwatches and gyms but no paper, they have to write on parchment. and i love it even more how the book never explains any of it, you're just expected to accept it

You guys are like 1999 the Mummy's O'Connells of booktube - like yes very good looking and funny but also maybe I want them to be my parents 🤔🤔 This is my new favourite series from this channel ❤ I can't be mad at Fourth Wing's hype because it has gifted such amazing content

"this is a world called 'The continent'" I almost spit out the carrot i was chewing on. Okay i knew this is about dragons and yet when you said "riders" i thought you meant "writers" and was confused what the difference is to the scribes then.

I like how much he makes you laugh. I think all of us escaped fundies knew so many married couples where the husband ignored and belittled all of his wife's interests and passions while she was like "you must submit to your husband even though he never listens to you and seems to disdain your existence! That's what marriage is!" I'm glad to see y'all escaped that life.

Im 4'10" which was too small for the air force.

I'm still stuck on the fact that they have rubber. What's it made of? Rubber trees grow in a South Asian area, I think that Violet would complain about the heat with her pale, delicate but tuff self. HOW DO THEY MAKE RUBBER BOOTS? IS THIS WAR A RUSE TO GET THAT SWEET SWEET RUBBER TREES? WHO HARVESTS THESE TREES? I NEED TO KNOW 🤯

Can we please make this a staple of this channel, I need a whole playlist of this for every book you've ever read

Rachel: 🧐🤔😤 *passionately explaining the plot and dynamics* Carlos: 😏👉🏻👌🏻⚡ *creative interpretation through the magic of theatre*

38:39 The "dragon rider" and "griffith flyer" distinction for some reason reminds me of those 80s cartoons based on toylines, where there's a good team and an evil team, both have toys with the same gimmicks but with different names. Like the good team will habe a guy who "bonded with a tiger" and the evil team will have a guy who "enslaved a panther" and both are just an action figure sat over a toy cat but painted different... is very silly

My question is, why doesn’t she get an invisibility power or some stealthy power to become a spy/thief to steal information from the enemy? Its a natural way to use her scribe abilities due to handling information and her large memory. With a black dragon that’s the smartest and is probably hard to see at night and a dragon that can stop time, that would’ve been so cool

Rachel - "Good for her actually using the word 'clit'" Carlos - "The hell's that?" I need a season of Carlos commentary please 🤣🤣🤣

You two are couple goals! You just seem like each other’s best friends and I love that for you guys 💕 please make “explaining shitty books to my husband” a recurring segment lol

"He's massive. I look up and up..." Bro lemme tell u, either the author overestimated how tall 6'4 really is, or mc is tragically short. Two of my sisters ex-boyfriends were 6'5 and 6'6 respectively, and I'm 5'4. The only time I had to crane my neck up to look at them was when I was directly in front of them or beside them. For perspective, the top of my head is about chest level/shoulder level. Which is pretty much how any one foot difference is on a person. Your head ends where their shoulders begin. Standing a couple feet away is still only a minor incline for your neck. And ten feet away? They don't even look that tall. That's just how perspective works. Edit: so dude being apparently 6'4, and homegirl "not even reaching his collar bone" (which kinda sounds like she wasn't even close) would put her under 5'4 for sure. Girl's gotta be like 5 feet tall I swear.

So if you are allowed to end your classmates, why isn't she allowed to poison them? ...are they mad she only gave them the runs and didn't end them?

Man I really hate this trend of like, establishing our main girl as cool and tough by making her kill a lot of people with no consequence, it just makes characters feel so inhuman I guess? Like no matter how tough you are, a teenage girl suddenly having to kill is gonna be traumatizing for her, it’s gonna affect her emotionally. It also just establishes no value for human life except for our Main Characters

I could only read a couple of pages of this book but the reason her mother wanted her to be in the Ryder's quadrant is because of the socio-economic status and privilege it grants. Scribes are the lowest tier in their society's caste hierarchy.

"My dad could beat up your dad" "I'd have pushed her" R: "They're an intelligent species" C: (to cat) "UNLIKE YOUUU" "Can't have group lunches?! Shiiiiiit. No wonder they're losing" You two are an absolute *blast* together, we need more "Carlos reacts despondently to bad YA fiction" because I swear to Lucifer Morningstar himself, you two have cured me of all of my ills after watching this 🤣 I'm going to throw in a wildcard and request a reaction reading of "Trans Wizard Harriet Porber And The Bad Boy Parasaurolophus: An Adult Romance Novel" by two times Hugo Award finalist, bisexual taekwondo grandmaster from Home of Truth, Utah and holistic massage PhD, Chuck Tingle. Make it a charity stream with some "adult libations" ;)

Carlos is hilarious. Can this type of video be a regular thing. Rachel summarizes terrible books to her husband. 😆😆

The more I hear of this book the more it really sounds like a mashup of Anne McCaffery's Pern series and How To Train Your Dragon. The whole "dragons are horny so their riders are horny and are into the rider that corresponds to their dragon's mate" thing is almost verbatim from the intro to Skies of Pern. Wow

wait... if the black dragon that's dragon married to the zayden's dragon had another rider before, did the other rider and the zayden guy also fuck due to dragon lust?

this video made me realize that the nonsense of this book could actually be entertaining when explained to someone else lmaoooo

The horny dragons making their riders also horny is reminding me of Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern series.

I am LIVING for the chaotic energy and omg your husband immediately guessing that she gets lightning powers had me losing it 😂😂

I think it would be interesting if the main characters find out that the war is actually between the dragons and the griffins and both sides are just using humans as pawns/cannon fodder. I doubt the author will be going in that direction.

You really snatched up a keeper. Dang. Also he’s straight up braver than any US marine for volunteering for this.

I'm from a different country and for the longest time I thought you were saying "writers" quadrant 😂 I was like damnnn a whole quadrant to write books?? Count me in!

OMG Carlos calling all the stupid plot turns at the opening is 😂 U both got the sass haha

This is the new standard on how to find a badly written book: if you can't get your best friend/husband to like the book you just read, it's usually bad

I love how he’s like “what’s her rank?” so naturally.😂

You know what would have been such a great way to have us learn about the other characters? Having Violet have to come up with clever and different ways to defeat them. Like, lets just take away the brother book and give her more agency and knowledge of the place she literally lives in, and have her utilize secret passage ways, unknown cracks and crevices, etc to sneak around and spy on her opponents. That way she can learn what makes them tick and how to psych them out, take them out before the fight, distract them, etc, while we, the audience, also learn about them and gain any type of emotional connection to them. That way we actually see Violet's intelligence and her resourcefulness instead of just being told by the author that she's soooo smart.

Did anyone alert you to the fact that the words are Gaelic, but apparently she did not accent them properly? Haha that seemed like something that would piss you off too 😂 like Básgiath means “death wing” but Basgiath means “palm wing” hahaha

It is absolutely not on purpose but it’s funny to me that the small, catlike dragon has the same name as a warrior cat. Also the “small dragon everyone sees as useless but is actually just a baby” thing is literally DIRECTLY from the How to Train Your Dragon books

i love carlos hitting his vape after the word “mating” came up. me too carlos. me too

“He has a teacup collection he’s embarrassed about…” 🤣

i wanted to write my favorite quotes in a comment but i would've commented TOO MUCH this was SO FUNNY

I stg whenever I see a fantasy nerd's spouse they are complete sassafrasses who can spot a plot hole from across 2 counties

The “HER SISTER WAS A WITCH” reference was very much appreciated

This story would have made so much more sense if this was a warrior based society that was not actively at war.

Carlos’s monotone commentary fits so well with your snark. I love this!

Damn, gal. Your hubby can get it. 🤣 Bring him on the channel more often 😏

I was having a crummy night and this made me legitimately laugh out loud. Thank you and Carlos for your sacrifice.

Yay! Mr. Reads with Rachel!

That spot on guess for what her powers would be based on her love interest’s powers was hilarious. 😂 I loved this. I hope you go through more awful books together.

OH MY GOD, A MR. READS REVEAL?!? (in all seriousness though, could this turn into a series? i love your dynamic LMAO)

You two bounce off each other so well! Your both so in sync, and Mr. Reads is so funny! I thank him for his willingness to be in a video! Such a fun listen~

Literally smiling ear to ear this entire video

someone else with EDS here ! i haven’t had issues with my pelvis (yet) but i have to be careful what i’m doing or my knee will pop out of place. and that goes for doing anything. a few weeks ago i was trying to fall asleep and felt one of them trying to slip out of place?? anyways this book is ridiculous and i’m not looking foreword to having to explain that no, i’m not just like that girl in a book you read 🙄

All this talk about your husband on your channel and I am thrilled to finally have the opportunity to see that he does indeed live up to the hype. Commence yearning for this exact kind of relationship.

Relationship goals, man. Also, in the brother's defense, if I could, I too would fake my death to get away from my parents 😅

Speaking of _How To Train Your Dragon,_ the feathertail dragon reminded me of the Toothless from the book, who's also small and useless when he bonds with the main character

the way you laugh at his jokes I WANT WHAT THEY HAVE

THIS WAS SO FUNNY LMFAO I would listen to y’all’s podcast

We love Carlos

Oh, I just remembered another character named Dain that betrayed the main cast in DELTORA QUEST. Just another thing to add to the pile. God, there's just so much that's wrong with this book. 🤣 Also, you guys are so cute!! Please keep making more of these. ❤️

27:38 killed me 😭 This video is hilarious, Carlos is an icon, 10/10

Carlos is fucking funny dude lol

Oh this is me trying to explain my books im reading to my bf 🤣🤣🤣 he humors the convo for about 10 minutes on a good day, so I'm happy he was here for so long

"Big Ass Black Dragon" sounds like a Yugioh card.

Carlos sees RIGHT THROUGH this book. 🤣

I NEED this for lightlark

New subscriber here - - this was a great watch, ty! Also just saw Fourth Wings updated cover that says "Graduate or die" and it's sending me 🤣🤣

OMFG I'm just 5 minutes in and i'm DYING!! ALL HIS COMMENTS ARE FUCKING FUNNY AND THE FACT AND YOU LAUGHING MAKES IT EVEN BETTER OMG THANK YOU CARLOS (and thank you Rachel as well)

I know he wont, but can we get more book recaps with Carlos? Like i would love to see lightlark

If I remember correctly Carlos is Puertorrican. He deserves a mofongo for this

The pens annoy me soooooo much!! lol it’s a little detail but it’s just indicative of how she didn’t think the world building through at all!!

this video is pure gold also what I found annoying is that Violet is never doing anything, the plot conveniently comes to her, she is such a passive character which is boring. At least the thing with the list, who she´s gonna fight... it had been so cool if she was to go out herself, doing a little espionage mission so she actually accomplishes something instead of getting told by a random book and the action happening offscreen. Violet never thinks for herself but I think thats intentional bc Mrs Yarros thinks her readers are stupid and treats them as such. Violet is the most special snowflake character I have ever met, no flaws and somehow she is good at fighting but at the same time she´s not? It makes no sense. You can have a weak character but we could have followed her progression, how she actively gets stronger but no, that happens offscreen and she is still somehow weak? But at the same time skilled. And Xaden? he is the most one dimensional character I´ve ever met. I could not describe his character like whats his motivation? what are his flaws? does he have little ticks that make him special? Something, but no, he is 6´4 and hot. Oh and shadow powers, which are also so plot convenient. And where is this book enemies to lovers? It is dumbasses to lovers, like Xaden never tried to kill Violet, he helps her. Why? Plot convenience: their dragons are bonded so he just... gives up and loves her all of a sudden and they trauma bond (which is never a good option to bond characters), but other than that, no chemistry (the spicy scenes were fine, I´ve read way worse things) There is no tension, this book tries to make the stakes high, everyone could die any moment but Violet has THE BIGGEST PLOT ARMOR, so I never feel threatened, I know nothing is gonna happen to her, so why should I feel interested. The worldbuilding is catastrophic, so I don´t get started on that, but rubber shoes? But no guns, no modern inventions? And if they have rubber shoes, do they have factories? Maybe they should add a scientists quadrant to the war college, there is enough space at the riders quadrant. This book could have been great if she had an editor who actually edited her book and helped her to construct a better story. Oh and please someone give Violet Head&Shoulders in the next book, it´s concerning how often her scalp tickles like girl please be for real.

You two are oddly wholesome and adorable and I full on snorted my drink when your husband said, "the clit, what's that?" Also, in honour of you, I actually used the word clit in my latest love scene. Boy, I hope none of my students ever read that sentence above. This is not the Kate Macdonald you're looking for...

Wings of Fire has better dragon breed names and all of them are just a noun then “wing”

nothing but respect for MY Mr. Reads 🫡

love this dynamic, please make more videos like this 😭 i would love to see carlos's reaction to every booktok rec

I’ve seen the blurb for book two and inexplicably Violet is back at dragon college for her second year

this was amazing 😂 the way yall bounce off each other with the jokes and energy is EVERYTHING! couldnt stop laughing the whole video

stop im in tears this was actually hilarious

Please let this become a series, I’m praying to the poorly explained fourth wing gods