Rant Review | Worse Than Haunting Adeline?? 

"I am not a man -- I'm a beast. I am annihilation." This is what incels in a COD lobby sound like. So ridiculous.

I feel like the author constantly reminding us that these guys “aren’t like Zade” was because as she was writing, she realized the descriptions of the encounters are the same.

“Piercing the back of my thigh. It didn’t break skin.” So… it didn’t pierce your thigh?

I don't even remember Jay from the previous book but I'm obsessed with him being written like a gay stereotype as soon as it's revealed that he is attracted to men.

As a nurse who has been assaulted by a patient having active post-anesthesia hallucinations to the point that I still carry scars like 5 years later and then not only took care of the patient again three nights later but lied to her about the injury to my arm and blamed my non-existent cat (because it wasn’t her fault the anesthesia affected her in that way and she was actually very sweet when not, ya know, seeing demons), no way on God’s green earth would I have walked into that room to get Zade to “talk about it.” I’d have set my damn nursing license on fire first. I do not tell that story to brag about how great I am, just to show how high my tolerance for bullshit is and point out that he still exceeds it.

"Was there any indication that Jay was bi?" Girl I don't even remember Jay as a character LMAOO.

HI! icu nurse and power lifter here: those beds….. weigh 570 pounds. anyone who can lift 570 pounds with only soft restraints attached to their wrists, and heck why not give him the benefit of the doubt and slap some ankle restraints on there too, should be dissected like a lab rat or at the bare minimum should be in a different line of work. i cackled hysterically hearing that little temper tantrum of his

Me getting thanked in the first five minutes 😊

Re: "She was someone's daughter." - Actually, she was her own person. This line really got under my skin; a lot of the time in my Christian community women were described only in relation to the men in their lives, and it has taken time to unlearn that. Re: diamonds - Diamonds are quite easy to brake, you can do it with a hammer.

I’m so glad you addressed her alleged conflation of SA and spice. Real gross feeling.

I’m just disappointed she didn’t continue the pattern: from Haunting Adeline, to Hunting Adeline, to Hnting Adeline

Simultaneously, thank you and I'm sorry.

The '2 months later' timeskip had me losing my goddamn MIND. Like okay, MAYBE if the s3x traffickers kept moving Adeline to different places every time Zade was getting a lead on them, crossing state lines, sending her overseas to other countries maybe then I can buy it taking 2 MONTHS and he doesn't even find her, she ESCAPES ON HER OWN WTF 😭

I'd be SO pissed if some rando girl stole MY diary, read it and on top of that had THE AUDACITY™ to write on the blank pages I had left. Adeline cannot stand something not being about her, how dare we? 😤

no bc this is the worst set of books i’ve ever read. when i said that- i got 💀 threats like?? i don’t wanna read about abusers- esp abusers who are men?? 😭🙏🏼

Adeline has IBS. Called it!

How Carlton depicts "dark" topics in her books is extremely negligent. Stereotypical depictions of human tr*fficking do real harm to real survivors. Authors like her exploit and sensationalize survivors' trauma for personal gain without supporting the survivors whose experiences they're overshadowing.

Incredible. When she just summarizes the plot, it sounds genuinely horrifying with the constant rape and torture, but when she actually reads it, I am laughing my ass off, because the writing is so unserious. A My Immortal ass book.

Zade this whole book: 🎶I am the monster rawr rawr rawr🎶

For what it's worth, your dark humour is one of the reasons you're one of my go to reviewers. Imo, it generally doesn't come across as carelessly laughing at dark situations but rather at how carelessly these dark situations were written

“putting the unc in uncomfortable” had me cackling

So we have both haunted and hunted Adeline. What's next? Hallucinating Adeline? Hydrating Adeline? Herpaderping Adeline? What will this book series do next!?

I jokingly answered "let the bodies hit the floor" when you asked what song was playing to drown out the torture sounds around 40:00 and when I tell you I HOLLERED 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 God what a masterpiece of a review. You are a much braver woman than I am, and you have both my respect & my pity for enduring these doodoopoopie books.

two hours AND it's a part one? thank you for the meal

My sense of humor can best be described as "pitch black" so personally i love your jokes. Your sense of humor is why I'm a subscriber.

I think freckles are also supposed to suggest a ‘down to earth’ thing where she has ‘natural charm’ as opposed to wearing full coverage foundation etc. they’re not actually going to have a woman be unconventional in the way of being bushy haired, muscular shoulders etc. and JUST TO BE STRICTLY FAIR, the terrible juvenile dialogue from all characters is probably also more a marker of the writer’s incompetence than calculated thought. The subtext is there for sure, the internalized misogyny of painting the women talking about empowerment as ludicrous and evil, the spunky feebleness of Adeline…. But I think the dreadful dialogue is genuinely mostly incompetence in the execution of the prose. Because he also sounds like a try hard twelve year old. She probably thinks it sounds very clever and unorthodox.

Me realizing I'm the same age as Adeline 👀 the math ain't mathing

When Zade was raging I got an ad for anime where a dude was screaming and for a hot second I genuinely thought it was part of the but lol

I was going into the shower....hmm. Guess I'll be washing my hair to this MESS 😂😂 thanks for your suffering, Natalie 💀❤

girls , we’re eating tonight !!

Natalie: "Hi, jerks welcome back to my channel." Me: I'M SAT

The reason I hate this book is I believe it romanticizes SA. If this subject matter was handled in a way that wasn't childish, I still don't think I would like the book(Zade is a giant douche. There is no way around that.) But I could understand why others like this book. I also worry about the teenage girls that read this book and believe that they may come to the conclusion that some form of the character's "relationship" is normal. I don't categorize Haunting/Hunting Adeline as a dark romance. It just dark from beginning to end. I been reading/listening to dark romance for most of my adult life. I also have read, listened to or watch true crime in some aspect or another. The darkness isn't what bothers me, so much as the way the themes in these books are handled. I think it fantastic that the author had an idea, wrote it down and was able to get it published. I just wish some time and consideration was put into the themes that make up 90% of the books. P.S. Sorry for the novel and I absolutely love your sense of humor. I also completely understand why you would need it reading through these books. Thank you for providing us with reviews and rants.

Got into a fight with a delusional fan of this book because I didn’t read the second book, but why should I put myself through that torture when I knew Zade will still be assaulting her no matter what

Look, funny people engaging with bad media is one of my favorite things. Blame my enduring fondness for _Mystery Science Theater 3000._

I can't finish your video rn so rather than stopping it and messing with your analytics I decided instead to play it in the background with no sound 😊

Had to remind myself again that PDF file ring has little to do with PDFs.

Didn’t Jay say “I like my women willing” in the first book lol

the fact that the dude kidnapped Adaline just to sell her off is so stupid, like you already know "the megladon" is after you so why not just unalive her?It's so unnecessary to go through all of the difficulties that come with said kidnapping. If it is for the money then that implies that our megladon can't even protect Adaline from petty criminals and i think i like that interpretation more lol

The whole tattooing slave tracking numbers also brought up when black people were branded or had numbers and/or the master's last name carved into they skin to identify them if they tried to escape the plantation during slavery. Just all around ignorant and yuck. The whole treating women as property to be sold and beating and SA is also gives flashbacks of learning about the further horror of slavery in the south during college. And don't get me started with the whole castration thing. I honestly thought he was gonna buck break Luke before offing him.

I AM ANNIHILATION. Im dyyyiinggg stoppppp LOL

Between this and caricanread’s video on Crescent City 3 I have never felt so blessed by my favorite snarky book reviewers ❤

random compliment but i so appreciate how quickly and well you speak! most of the content i watch HAS to be put on 1.25/1.5 speed in order to keep up with my attention span or i start wanting to crawl out of my skin but i always get to watch you on normal speed, i love it 😭♥️

I’m sorry, but the clip of Yzma saying “Are you talking to that squirrel?” was what finally broke me. I am D E C E A S E D

Books like these are why I write what I write. Dark stories don't deserves be treated like this because "it's shocking". I hate it. It upsets me greatly.

Wait, the guy’s named Rocco? Isn’t that what Elmo’s pet rock is called? I’m never going to be able to take him seriously because I’ll always be thinking about that

How is this book worse than Haunting Adeline? I never thought that was possible. “No no square” had me gagging.

More interesting plot: girl gets sold into human trafficking and not being "pretty" enough has to play in the human hunting games all the while leaving notes diary pages and clues behind as she's moved around Meanwhile the detective trying to find her reading these pages left behind and falling in love with her or his idea of who he thinks she is

this book is especially weird because while the first one is really messed up because of the "romance" element with the abuser, it was the whole plot of the book. The reason the abuse happened was that the author is depraved and thinks it's romantic (when the abuser is sexy). But HALF of this second book is just gratuitous abuse against women (depicted as actual abuse because the men are ugly). Just scenes of r and S/A and violence that serve no purpose, there's no commentary (I don't think the author is capable of doing that to be fair), it doesn't lead to character development, it's not integral to the story, nothing. It's just literal torture porn.

It would be so funny if Adeline straight up fell in love with one of her captors from the beginning of the book, but that couldn't happen bcuz they're not described hot

no binch when you said “if i pass gas it’s over” i thought you were JOKING!!! i let that part go on for like a minute before i had to rewind and look at the text STOP

How do you have a pop culture clip for literally everything 😂😂😂

Haven't finished the video, but theorizing that Adelaide was originally written as a younger character (a child) in a previous edit of the book, but that she was aged up to avoid (even more) controversy?

I'm here for your wit, humor and narration...you're delightful 😅

I knew the annihilation line was coming but it still made my jaw drop

When you said to guess which song he was listening to I thought Bodies instantly 😂

I need you to stop being so funny!! I can’t actively listen and do my job at the same time 😂😂

the like sex trafficking ring is sooooo qanon thinking that a 26 year old girl would sell for that much when like they got like kids that people don't care about or look for that they could get so easily get also the most common trafficking is labor so it's wild he has so many sex trafficking rings to stop

Proud to be on the blame list for this video ❤

"what a dork" from the hospital scene KILLED me

The whole "octaves" thing always bugs me so much, it's a real pet peeve of mine. It gets used incorrectly like this book did, or there will be a line like "his voice lowered several octaves" which is always hilarious. An octave is a big jump in pitch, so when they say *several* I'm suddenly picturing that person's voice in dog-whistle range or ridiculously low bass range. For context: Ariana Grande's voice range is D3 - E7, which is just over 4 octaves.

When I was 15, I was more mature the Adeline. That is not a 26 year old woman who is supposed to eloquent enough to be a famous author.

the serious cap moment at 1:57:00 made me cry :') thank you for caring to be kind alongside all the silliness in these videos! also this outfit absolutely rules🖤

Gotta say, I really am loving the Rachel/Natalie crossover arc y'all are in.

Ahhhh incel romance. The main crux of dark romance genre. I’m sorry it’s just a fact. It’s like a pleasant surprise when I read a dark romance and the man can be a gangster and murderer but still ask for consent. It’s a hard life out here. 😂😂😂

Your rave reviews have become my comfort watches on YT. Have reaaaaalllyyyy been looking forward to this one (I don’t read dark romance) and I love your humor and summary❣️

at this point i think the recurring butterfly imagery in these terrible books is a marketing campaign by crazy town to get back on the billboard charts

I need you to read Devil's Night, PLEASE!! not because i love it, but because i LOATHE it, and i never seem to find critical videos of it, when it absolutely should, since it's one of the worst things I've ever read.

Throughout the video, your goofy voice while reading Zade's lines...Damn, Zade sounds like that to me now. LIKE YEAH

the derry girls clips are everything to me

I did not know you have teen boys! I imagine you're a great and fun mum. You making all those voices...it's really taking me out every time. Love your reviews, you and reads with rachel are my favourites.

I clicked on Part 2, realized I needed to watch Part 1, so clicked over here. But when you said you were only 50% of the way through and had to do a part two, my mouth dropped open. I'd forgotten. It had been so long, and this book so harrowing, that I forgot how I got here. (You made me laugh a lot, though.)

Decided to do the dark romance bingo while listening to it, and I got one!: Down the middle Stockholm Syndrome Typos Free Space “He’s hot so it’s cool” Inaccurate/incomplete TWs list I had 15 boxes checked though, probably more that could’ve been checked that I just didn’t think of.

What's with all the bathroom talk/jokes? like seriously. It's not even just Adeline, it's Zade too and it happens SO many times.

Girl I write for fun and I’ve watched so many of your videos that now I can’t stop hearing you “impersonating” the dialogue whenever my main characters say something😭😭

the million dollar baby excerpt had me cackling hahaha

Time for a Hollow Knight brain-cleanse! 😋 Thanks for wading through this 💩 so we don't have to! 😻

love the hypocrisy of "ugh fatphobia!!!" when half the descriptions of the "ugly" men in this book have been about how fat they are

The uwu voice is so funny pls never stop doing it 😭

So excited for this video! I tried to listen to the audiobook version of the second book and literally had to stop when Zade came back into the narrative. So I'm really excited to hear your take on the whole thing (since my cowardly and easily miffed self could barely get through the first half).

Rocco, Rick and Rio? Is it disney?! Are we 6?

Being a bi person who has terrible SA experiences in the past, I just love dark things and watching SA and R in books is cathartic ok? I honestly don't even have any triggers but never once would I have the inclination to read Qanon / incel fanfic tome of a book that's written like the author has no idea Wattpad or AOC is a thing 💀 so thank you for covering these books cause I'm addictive to your style of goofy humor ! You have no judgement for readers of dark romance like others and I appreciate it. Because someone needs to talk about this BS. I really appreciate you 🖤 you really took one for the team!

I think a problem a lot of these books have is that they just don't establish the characters as unique or interesting. The love interest usually falls into a single archetype, and the main character feels forgettable at best. I think if they spent more time on what drives these characters or what gives them a reason beyond just love, it would work much better within the genre.

You're one of the creators that makes me laugh out loud

You know what might actually be interesting - Adeline being her own person and being a part of the same agency as Z and is actually going into this as an undercover person. You'd have to change the whole first book but if they were on the same level of kind of weird and fucked up because they are in the same fucking insane industry, then maybe this could be tolerable

You are actually my favorite booktuber Relistening since part 2 dropped

The way the first half of this book was like going back and forth between an exploitative horror/thriller movie and an edgy incel throwing a mantrum because his chewtoy got taken away 👀

I’m so tired that the author can’t keep her pet names/analogies/whatever they are straight. Are they cat and mouse? Diamond and megalodon? Hunter and butterfly or some crap?

I commented on the author’s instagram if she donates to charities for victims of sex trafficking or stalking and she blocked me lol

I've given this video a bunch of extra views cos I kept falling asleep and waking up to find it finished (no shade to you, I have hypersomnia and it happens with any long video). Thankfully neither Adeline or Zade have infected my dreams yet

Zade asking how those guys can be “good guys” in the organ trade is so rich coming from him bc he’s a literal r-ist who doesn’t respect boundaries yet *we* are expected to believe he’s a good guy…? Like if they’re not good guys, neither are you lol

1:13:05 oh it definitely should have been rubber not plastic. plastic, especially shaped like an arrow (which to note ive never heard of plastic practice arrows but im not the only archer ever ofc) can easily pierce flesh. Rubber would still hurt but if theres not point/its dull it should be fine. Plastic is wild to me 💀

No, jerks is completely appropriate given what we put you through.

It’s. strange how juvenile the humour is for an erotica about child trafficking

Your sense of humor is part of why I absolutely love your vids!! I know I can always count on your reviews to be hilarious, thoughtful, and responsible regarding the darker themes and I think that can be a really difficult balance to achieve, but you nail it every time so thank you!! ❤

I’m 23, and I feel like a genius when I hear her inner monologues…

It’s like she has ESPN or something 😂💕 lol true

I wasn't expecting to cry during this, cause it's a fun silly time, but you telling me that I'm not what happened to me and I am worthy of love, it just got me. Thank you ❤

Just wanna say, in relation to the starting disclaimer on your jokes, that you’re my FAVOURITE booktuber solely because of the way you handle jokes. I know some great book tubers who, for me, come off a bit rude or even snobby. You have such a talent for making the review fun and in depth, but not being inherently cruel. As a viewer, it’s so enjoyable, and as a writer I never feel discouraged after watching your videos (like I sometimes project onto other tubers) just wanted to put that out there to celebrate the good that does land!

The alternate universe sequel could have been "Adopting Adeline"

Is this… not… just torture porn? Is it not? Am I mistaken? Because this much gratuitous violence and trauma in a book meant to be sexy is… alarming. If you’re gonna write torture porn. Advertise it as such. Or Yk, write it better HAHA