here's the entire plot of ACOTAR so you don't have to read 500 pages (a court of thorns and roses) 

Our bond must be soo strong now, Cari... Since I binged-watched your Crescent City ones when they first came out. Love these to death!! 😂❤️

I rewatch these videos- so the connection could call you back from the cauldron at this point

@Lp Chambers STOP- 😩 I CACKLED 🤣💀

i rewatch them all the time tbh such comfort videos

I am half way through it so when I’m finished I will watch your amazing video please stay safe and enjoy your reading 📖 love you and your amazing channel love your family friend John xxxx

Same!

same actually lol

Same

Feeling so seen by this

same

Same

It’s pronounced fay ruh

It's like when I first read Eragon. i was like so wait Eragon is not the Dragon

THIS! Omg someone understands me!

It was the most obvious foreshadowing that she will be a ferry or Faye.

It's so true though 😂

I am in CH17 and... Shes so fukin dumb I swear

I’m laughing way harder than I should rn

Lucien out here wearing coral on mauve

@@TheNumnutRandomness ☠

Lmao

Genius I love you for this

the cherry on top is that feyre literally can't read 😂😭

LOL

STOP- TOO GOOD

Lmao

haha I love this comparison!

I’m not sure if you watched on but that’s the whole point.

I n H

Spoilers rant Yeah that is the point- the wolf was sent out as a trap for a human girl. Still then Tamlin’s and Lucien’s first interactions with Feyre make absolutely no sense…

lmfaooo this is so fucking funny

This made me laugh a lot

to be honest i also did not figure that out help

Feyre never experienced real, healthy love so how is she supposed to know.

@@mochiyeosang1908 true…

@@ering7822 also adding that she couldn't read so she wasn't experienced with logic puzzles either

I feel so dumb because I was legit like huh???? I skimmed over the riddle though.😵‍💫😑

Lmao fr 😭 I remember dropping the book halfway through reading it but listening was actually fun

@@PichuElric Exactly!!! The book is so vague in every aspect that matters, but these comments and summaries are so fun and relatable!!! I feel like it was more of watching a movie with a friend rather than groaning trying to read a book that on it's own is not nearly worth the hype in my opinion. This video made it fun! :)

I read the book but I now see I did not understand some parts lmao

Jokes on you I read the terms and conditions

well as we know she *can't* read for a significant portion of the series...

@@moose1277 yeah, but even her sisters can read. It doesn't seem like illiteracy is the norm.

idk if you’ve read the series but this video didn’t give the detail that the terms of the treaty weren’t widely known in the human real as it was created 500 years ago. 500 years is little time for Fae but lifetimes for mortals

Tbf do you read the terms and conditions of every app you use?

Did anyone actually like him in the first book?

@@notllikethat I actually thought he was very sweet, albeit a bit awkward but once Rhysand was introduced I had a feeling that he was the one that would end up with Feyre💀💀💀

@@notllikethat I did! But then my 'oh, god no' lights started flashing....

@@manifestingeverything215 I WANTED him to end up with Feyre! Rhysand!

@@manifestingeverything215 he was sweet at first but then he treated Feyre like a doll and trapped her in their house I would have left too

YES I said this straight away! And the gash to the hand is a twilight nod 😅

No but same, I know Feyre couldn’t read but they never told us she was stupid.

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IM CRYING

looooool

LMAO it's quite the discovery for sjm characters, like the number of times in ToG I mentally face palmed at their weird attitudes and dynamics. Like empathy and kindness exist y'all😭

@@universedonut159 yeah but they're all so jaded by the world they don't worry about kindness, they don't believe in that stuff. especially feyre.

The way i cackled at this comment 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

But wait, am I the only one who likes that SJM writes heroines who don’t marry the first boy they date??

@@taylorgayhart9497 That's not the problem for me, the problem is that Tamlin's character does a complete 180 and becomes an abusive asshole to make Rhys look better.

@@ThornheartCat I definitely think his transformation was way too extreme, but when I reread the series I did think she *attempted* to foreshadow some of his negative traits, she just don’t do a good enough job.

Agree, agree, yes and I have to say: SJM didn't need to go so hard on Tamlin in the end, like c'mon, Rhys is such a bully to him it's unbearable ...and all of it just so we, as readers, would ask & prepare for Tam's redemption (I mean, all of them need therapy, if we can have the basic understanding of people's trauma in these books - we should have some "aura healers" or something to speak through and mend the mental tall they've endured)

she is now hahaha

that was rhys and she didn't treat him great 😭

Wait how? I thought she did great lol, same with some of the battle strategies, meditations, etc.

@Nicole Hernandez well, have you ever devised battle strategies before? Cause, I thought she described painting well but I've never painted before either lol

I thought she nailed getting the initial idea for a painting!! The actual painting part eh (as a painter) but when you get that idea.. yeah that’s how it feels to me

She also describes piano playing like someone who’s never played piano before too lol

i did lol

doing that now 😂

I actually laughed out loud at this 🤣

Same, i only care about Lucien lol

Then they make him be with the most boring character in the entire series 💀

I hope SJM revisits Lucien and we see more of his character because throughout the rest of the books he kinda gets forgotten about and his personality he had in ACOTAR diminishes. I miss his sarcastic witty bangers 😢

Conscious eyeball.

I agree with you on lucien

Lucien is underrated frfr

Wasn't it eyeball on a ring with full continuous of human man that was lover of her sister? Because it's totally different to wear an eye of your enemy, than cursing your sister's lover for such pittyful existence XD

sjm writes it to be his ptsd-esque response to under the mountain/seeing feyre die but yeah what a switch :')

i think a key part to keep in mind as well is tamlin was *trying* to get feyre to fall in love with him. she's very independent so obviously he would pander to her independence and say stuff like "you aren't a prisoner". for a large part of the first book, i see tamlin as doing whatever he thinks feyre would fall in love with. NOT his actual personality. I do, however, feel like SJM's villain arc for tamlin was a bit of an abrupt switch with little foreshadowing.

@@deliriousdev_ bro he didn’t even want to do it for a vast portion of the book. Pretty sure he did it half involuntarily anyway lol.

I feel like people don’t see It from his pov. His love dies in front of him when he was a prisoner and helpless. Also the spring court is pretty superficial generally by all accounts. So he did what he thought was keeping her safe. But she had changed by the trauma too and he didn’t really understand that

it took, what, five chapters, for tamlin to go from amazing love interest to horrible abusive ass.

🙈

As a someone who writes as hobby it’s plainly obvious that Rhysand was accidentally created and most likely his original purpose was to tempt the girl with his handsome face(because she can’t see Tamlin’s) and add some spice in order to strengthen her and Tamlin relationship. But later the author fell in love with this side character and decided that he will be the main love interest.

@@NiksKoleva why do you think that?

Wow yes facts!

Sarah had already written a court of mist and fury though and in an interview explained she already knew rhysand was going to be the main love interest @@NiksKoleva

it is so clear to anyone who reads that rhysand was the clear love interest from day dot. dark hair suave mysterious with dark past and a morally grey character like cmon every fantasy romance book has that as the main male love interest@@NiksKoleva

I really disliked them more than I disliked the villains in the books lol

😂😂😂

I audibly yelled, "CARIIIIIIII!!!" and immediately replayed it 🤣

can u plz show me the Danika moment, I missed it the first time and I wanna laugh😅

@@baskats51 29:50

i would have literally believed that it was danika 💀

it's a good fiction if we don't think about projecting this character as real people.

It's plain bad lol 😂

Exactly how I felt. I like the acotar series because it’s entertaining lol it’s reeled with flaws and character inconsistency but it’s still a fun read

no no it's just bad the only thing sjm is good at is introducing absurdly pretty characters

I find it to be a perfect book to fall asleep to. Digests easy

Bffrrrr its based on irish, scottish, welsh, and english folk tales? Where faeries are from?

@@neverfae442ok true but this series isn’t exactly a good representation of those folk tales is it? faeries and other creatures from great britain’s folklore are really common in fantasy books and are almost completely removed from their original meaning - the tasks and the mask thing is clearly inspired by the psyche and eros myth. there can be multiple sources of inspiration for one piece of media

The Lentils out of the firepit task is 100% a reference to the grimm brothers Cinderella, where she has to do the same thing

@@sidiwvwhiDoesn’t necessarily have to be Cupid and Psyche OR any other culture tho-lots of folk tales have impossible tasks. Vasalisa the Beautiful was given impossible tasks by Baba Yaga when staying at her house, but luckily she had a magical doll that could come to life and do it for her. Quetzalcoatl was given an impossible tasks too (blow wind through a shell) and he cheated his way out of it, too. So was Thor and his posse with Skrymir, although that myth was more of a “oh my god Thors so strong the power levels are over 9000” It’s almost like….folk tales have similar themes and motifs because they’re made by humans, and humans think similarly because our brains are structured the same.

@@bean2365i’d bet money on the brothers grimm being inspired by cupid and psyche for that task storyline

Omg yes😂😂😂

😂😂😂😂😂

This book is a treasure trove hahaha

bruh i haven't read the books n i had to skip cari explaining that part oMggfuhfGGG

fr like i would have been SO EMBARRASSED

that is soooo embarrassing fuck off lmaooo

Wandering the manor at night with her mAp

Read that in an OZ book ...

This!! So much!! It bugged the hell out of me

Bothered me so much I can barely get through the 2nd book… she dropped Tamlin for no good reason

Because Tamlin has anger issues and locked her in a house when she had been traumatised by being locked up. They weren't mates, they weren't meant to be, Tamlin just needed someone to love him to break Amarantha's curse and it worked. Don't get me wrong, I loved Tamlin and was so sad when this other dude came out of nowhere and ruined everything.. but maybe just bc I relate to the whole shit man traumatises u and then ur saved by a good man thing... I hated all the times she was at the night court fulfilling the bargain and I just wanted her to be with Tamlin and then he exploded.. It was a little sudden and I found myself needing to catch up to accepting it as I wasn't ready yet, but I think it makes sense as Rhys saved her. She was starving and depressed.

​@@evwie Lets be honest here: all Tamlin's character development in 2nd book happen because of some real life issues of SJ Maas. That's literally it. I really would recommend to everyone consider book 2 and everything that comes after as separate/alternate universe, at least from the first one, because original idea for this story ends with that same book.

@@Sluxlifehe was selfish and controlling and liked the idea of her more than he actually liked her.

Same

Proof that SJM did NOT, in fact, intend to twist his character like that, she wouldn't have made him play the freaking fiddle otherwise lol

Didn't he say at one point that war and fighting is the only thing he's good at because that’s all he knew as a kid? When the heck did he find the time to learn how to play the fiddle?

@@ellaadair If he played an instrument with martial associations (trumpet, drum, flute) it would feel a little less contradictory. But no, fiddle!

@@Eloraurora You're right, it just seems so random that he plays the fiddle, since it seems to be more of a peaceful instrument. Next SJM is telling us he also knows how to play the harp😂

@@ellaadair For maximum silliness, I vote church organ. Because the one plausibility point in the fiddle's favor is ease of transport. No one's lugging an overgrown piano to the front lines.

I’ve been looking for that comment 😂

I work in the book industry and lots of books have "Wings" in the title name. But I can't hear the word anymore without immediately having flashbacks of this series 😂

😂😂😂

Right?!!!!!!

Like a lion with horns, yeah... And not stag horns, for sure 🙈 I mean, I understand the majority of us envision some kind of ram horns because of the movies, but hear me out: doesn't ram or bull horns make more sense for battle? 🤔

Same, I thought he was a lion 😂

Wait really? I always imagine like… a bear with antlers? Maybe?

I imagine tampon as the beast from mirror mirror🤣

But.. doesn’t that skewer your understanding of a story if you only hear it from someone else? At that point you’re not receiving/ understanding the information in your own experiences, it could be biased or told wrong too ( I had low expectations for the last book because of reviews/ the fans quick judgments including my own, but I was being closed minded ) glad I read it for myself, it happened to be my second favorite book of the series

How bored do you have to be to argue about a book you’ve never read?

@@debbystragier2154 no need to be hostile - many of my in life bookish friends keep recommending it and this provided me more details (plus trying to read one chapter) that I would not enjoy it. Figure of speech, not that serious.

I had so many people in my life actively shove me into reading these books and so I did. I was right, I dont like them lmao. I found this video like two days later and I was so mad I could have just watched this breakdown instead of slogging through a whole book just for my friends to be like "oh just read the next one! Its gets good!" No??? It doesnt?? 2 hours is condensed heaven compared to trudging through the books just so youre allowed to have a perspective on them

@@Nic_deanart i mean if you read enough books, especially ya/new adult books, you’ll get pretty good at being able to tell which books are to your taste and which aren’t. you could find another book similar to this and know there’s a pretty good chance you’ll like it just like i know there’s a pretty good chance i won’t

Lmaooooo thank you!!!

Same! I need one for Sorcery of Thorns 👀

I sign under every word, please, we need the whole collection 🙌🏻

@@caricanread I need this but for TOG

Honestly, she got me into listening to the book on audible. Performed by a full cast too with ambience effects so the immersion is 👌🏻

I'll literally never know why Tamlin was done so dirty in the other two books

The first book was SO boring tho. The other ones are actually interesting (amazing I’d say. Nice plot outside of the sex)

but there was a lot of stuff set up in the first book that made it so interesting in the first place that doesn’t get resolved until the second

I agree! I thought it was a good ending and made a perfect single plot.

This feels really true even though I never actually read the books. Like there were moments where I feel like the plot was actually really interesting. And like the fact that they were trying to tell her things that whole time? I live and die for people putting things together like that, I don't care if it's impractical. That might just be a product of this video, though, and the fact that she skipped all the weird sex and romance bits.

Honestly I think Throne of Glass is her Sarah’s best work when it comes to writing/story/plot. I wish it was more popular than the ACOTAR series

This is the most accurate description of how I feel about actually having enjoyed and read the trilogy in like... One weekend. I couldn't put it down, even though I was fully aware of how much I disliked simultaneously. Had to literally stop reading for a while at her reaction to the mating bond reveal though. Even for me that was a stretch of forced drama that was hard to tolerate lol

@@jilianh yeah, it was entertainingly stupid, but there were a few places where I had a distinct “that’s enough for today!” response. The bit where she gives him a bj while also noting the screams of the wounded and dying outside was another of those moments, for me at least.

LMAOOOO for me this was Az but then ofc SJM had to ruin my projections of him being a possibly decent dude with that one chapter on ACOSF. I definitely didn't like how Lucien developed into the later books, but I forgot I quite liked him in the first one. Also, edit: Personally, I enjoy hate reading the whole ACOTAR series, but there are also times where I have to drag myself through the book to finish it lol. I have not started on ACOSF (merely spoiled myself with that one Az chapter because I needed to witness my only likeable character's downfall), but I just might start it out of boredom over summer break.

saaaame XD

And the mice she was nice to helped her, although I've read so many versions of that fairytale that nowadays am not quite sure 🤔 if it were the mice or the birds.

yeah when I read the lentils bit i was pulled so hard out of the novel because I was like "if were gonna make her cinderella now, why does it only get three chapters???"

fun fact! cindarella is loosely based off the myth of eros and pysche. in order for psyche to proove her love she must do three tasks, one of which is sorting numerous grains of wheat and other seeds by a deadline, i think in the myth shes helped by hera? one of the goddesses who she cleaned their temple and did them a favour earlier. Anyway its based off that.

It’s a very old and common task for the maiden protagonist in many old tales and myths. The first that comes to mind for me is some Russian ones dealing with Baba Yaga and the three impossible tasks she gives the young woman. This books is very mishmash with lots of old folk tale thing. Such as Tamlin being named after the Scottish ballad of Tamlin (he was a fairy and the woman who was the main character ran into him in the woods and they hooked up- he was a fairy- and she gets pregnant but doesn’t want to raise a baby alone so goes back into the forest to pick some abortive herbs and he comes back up like ‘wait hey you’re preggers?? Don’t abort it I wanna be a dad that sounds cool’ and she’s like ‘no f u you’re a fairy and would be a deadbeat I do what I want’ so they comprise cuz he used to be a man but was sleeping with the fairy queen but she’s gonna give his soul to the devil -as she does all men she sleeps with when done with them- and so she grabs him on their way to hell and the queen turns him into a bunch of animals to scare her- like a lion, wolf, bear, etc- and she holds onto him so the queen is like ‘you’re pretty brave. Alright keep him’ and they go back home and they have a kid together. Hence why Tamlin in ACOTAR can shapeshift (plus the whole beauty and the beast thing)

The three tasks and especially this one reminds me of the story of Psyche and Eros. It's one of the tasks Aphrodite asks Psyche to do in order to have her love back. It can be a forshadowing of book 2, since it is inspired by the myth of Hades and Persephone. I've also read the first draft of Throne of Glass is inspired by Cinderella, but I haven't finished the series. I am not a big fan of Sarah J Maas but I still enjoy her books. And as an Historian, I love how she uses inspiration from legends, myths and fairytale (wich are for most inspired by myths). For example, I felt like Crescent City (still haven't read book 2) is inspired by Norse mythology.

for shits and giggles

Feminist King

The main reason he made Feyre dance for him was to piss off Tamlin. He got to help Feyre forget herself and get a small jab at Tamlin, so while it seems questionable it's actually quite genius.

​@@lexi82815 I mean...is genius really the word for that 😂

Oh no! I completely disagree, this book is amazing! Its also one of the most popular and loved books in the bookish community

SJM’s other series, Throne of Glass does the exact same thing

@@annalinnenkamp3709 currently reading the series (on book 5, I'm a masochist) and it's just as bad as ACOTAR, if not worse

Yeah! I love the world building and characters, but the later books is just a love fest.

YES! THANK YOU!!! I completely agree. I was so excited to read this and after I was like "oh well that's not what I wanted." Also I couldn't stand Feyra so I didn't care about her at all so yeah not the books for me.

If you don't mind, what is the original Tam Lin and Bonny Janet story?

@@PichuElric Overly Sarcastic Productions has a great video about it (I believe it's called the myth of Tam Lin or something similar), but the jist is, Long ago there was a forest, where it was said that maidens should not go, for a mysterious figure Tam Lin would take them. It just so happens that this forest can under the domain of Bonny Janet's father, and was hers by inheritance. Her father was going to force her into an arranged marriage, so in an act of defiance and desperation she seeks out Tam Lin, as she believes him to be Fey and therefore able to help her with magic or whatever, fully aware that he would likely take her virginity. She finds him, they bone, and she becomes magic pregnant like overnight. Tam Lin reveals that he's actually a human (and also I think a lord), and he's actually kept in the forest by the Fairy Titania (she's gonna eat him like tomorrow). Tam Lin and Bonny Janet come up with a plan where Bonny Janet interrupts the fariy procession, and demands that she has a right to her husband/spouse. Titania is like "if you want him you can have him", and throws Tam Lin at her, and then turns him into fire or a lion or a stabby knife (it really depends on the retelling but I like the fire one), but as Bonny Janet is pregnant with Tam Lin's child he is unable to hurt her, no matter what form he takes. They abscond, Titania is pissed because she thought Tam Lin would kill her, but lets them leave as she is Fey as bound to her word. Tam Lin and Bonny Janet get married (her dad is like well you're pregnant with his child I guess I have no choice) and live like a fairly normal life after their weird ass meet cute The End.

@@notlurking2128 And then you get authors like Seanan McGuire who take the original Ballad of Tam Lin and RUN WITH IT. Highly recommend for fans of urban fantasy and/or fantasy mysteries

When she made Ireland the bad guys 🤨

And what really tops it off for me is that the courts' lands are just split by some random horizontal ruler-lines across the map. Lmao. That's Not how countries form! There's topography! Georgraphy! And other inconvenient things. Would love to think it's a dig at the horrendous similar practise of us Europeans messing up Africa with a map and a ruler back in the cursed colonial days, but sadly I don't think it is.

@@jeepersjava honestlyyyy! I literally saw hyburn were the bad guys and was like 🤨🤨🤨

@Spacehootle * man I wish I were that nuanced ... I bet she just couldn't be bothered to think of the world building past chopping East Anglia off of England

I mean the story is the story. Maybe I’m a better storyteller but the story is the same 😂

This is how I felt like I know this is the same story but is this the same story 😂

100%!

😂🙏

Tamlin deserved better.

yes but it was so random in the story! i think sjm just needed a few more scenes or something cause it felt like you could take that part out and nothing in the plot changed hahah

She's very unlikable imo

LMAO

Hope the bread turned out well! 🥰

Yeah 100% This book is like a cute action fairy tale and then the other books are fan service for the fans who liked the bad boy 😭

I hate the mate thing too!! And it would be okay maybe if it was as rare as they claimed at the beginning but then *everyone* has a mate!

This. All of this. I liked the first book a lot for its take on faerie lore and the world of Prythian (okok yes I warmed up to Tamlin too 😭) and had such high hopes for the second one and wowwww it all went left SO fast and SO hard. In between the mate bs and dramatic shifts in personalities …I got over it real quick

The thing I dislike about her removing the power of iron is, that she reintroduced a magic ore later that serves the exact same purpose

@@lisalisa3635 omg i’ve never thought of that and you’re so right!

😂 thank you so much! starting in august I’ll have the next two vids up for you 👀

Now if only this was the only book in the series 🙂

Ikr! Like the books are undoubtedly silly/cheesy, but I can’t stop reading them 😭 It’s like a guilty pleasure sort of thing.

yeah the first book was fine ig. (sjms writing style isn’t for me tho) the rest are something else tho istg 😭😭

I really loved the second book, I thought it was way better than the first

Right? I got all excited like, ohhhh what gonna happen next but then I remembered that mass sucks at writing

@@luiza.limaneves I don't think she sucks at writing at all.

@@arrietty1619 to each their own ;))

Can you recommend any other fantasy romances?

There’s actually a lot of fairytales loosely referenced throughout the series, I noticed this as well

Oh Maas definitely knew that was part of Cinderella. She clearly did some loose fairytale research for this book. Obviously the forest and Tamlin's name is a reference to the Ballad of Tam Lin, and the idea of the three tasks to complete is very common in monstrous husband stories, which Beauty and the Beast falls into. I wouldn't be surprised if there's other things I'm forgetting, and that the fairytale motif will continue going forward with the rest of the series.

The Scandinavian folktale “East of Sun, West of Moon” is all over this book. I didn’t get any beauty and the beast vibes myself. It’s basically beat for beat the same.

@@kierafinneke5828 just had to look that one up and I can see the similarities in pieces, but I would still say that ACOTAR is mainly also inspired by Beauty and the Beast. East of the Sun, West of the Moon actually seems inspired by the story of Eros and Psyche, which is interesting since people have also compared it to ACOTAR

@@kat-bc9id East of the Sun, West of the Moon and Eros and Psyche both fall into the category of the Monstrous Husband archetypal story. There are many across the world, across cultures, and Beauty and the Beast likewise falls into this archetype. But East of the Sun, West of the Moon would not be based on Eros and Psyche, they'd have been developed independently of each other.

Aww I’d feel so unloved and sad if my husband wouldn’t ever read any of my books.

Ok but drop your mom's pen name! I love all of this stuff and I would love to support an indie author 💛

@@KelseyAMadas she writes under Jillian Burns! I'm not sure if or where you can find any of her books anymore, but my favorite of hers is called Primal Calling, with Harlequin publishing. I'd love to hear your thoughts if you find any!

@@KelseyAMadas Wow, thank you so much! I hope you enjoy them if you read any!

@@sanxxxx I only just realized that my husband hasn’t read my books. Ten years into marriage 😂 It wasn’t intentional, just kind of happened that way. So it might not be refusing to read them, might just be she knows it’s not is thing and didn’t ask?

omfg hahahhaha

thank you so much!!!

And treated like shit from the next book on

He’s on the wall the was facing me off camera, cheering me on 😭😂