Straight culture wins again! 🥴 Love on the Brain, Tender is the Flesh, & Other Books I Read *Wrapup* 

YES!! increase his height every time, along with the size of his--

Okay, but this would actually be a genius long-game joke, the slower the progression, the better!

@@withcindy yk what they say about big hands..

she needs to just write monster smut at this point

​@@spongebobonmollysiggy shade's villain origin story

The main girl probably has to crane her neck just to look up at him

same lmao

😂😂

Even heteros deserve BL hands too

Damm im gay and i didn't thought about it , im so ashamed

@@ik1149 tbf, Yaoi was never meant for the gays. They cater to women

First thing I thought about, it's them Junjou Romantica hands

@@TheFlowerbeast That used to be the case but it's slowly changing. A lot of male mangakas are venturing into the genre and some of the newer stories are being fleshed out beautifully. But the horrid, internally homophobic, obviously made with a straight-person-who-has-no-idea-how-real-homosexual-relationships- work, still exist and are being born as we speak. Light cannot exist without darkness I'm afraid.

oh it 100% makes sense, theyre all the same characters but that means if u like one book u will definitely like the other !!

Someone should recommend this to John Oliver. He thirsts for big, tall, broody Adam Driver :D

Holy shit, that's it!! That's why this was giving me "The Love Hypothesis" vibes.

@@laurakuhlmann1626 and horses

I loved the Love Hypothesis and hated Love on the Brain, so not necessarily 🫠

her fanfic roots is her success tbh!!

Omg what I don't remember that line

@@withcindy Oh yeah it was in a goodreads review, Ali Hazelwood didn’t write it lol. I wish I could add more context to the sentence, but I straight up don’t remember the rest of the review lmao

Maybe comparing Ali's LIs' eggplants to the protags' small peaches? 🤷🏾‍♀️

Yes, I remember this. It was Chandler Ainsley's review.

Immediately after reading these comments I went straight to Goodreads to find Chandler Ainsley's review since I follow her so her reviews are always the first one's to show up for me and I found it. The review was for a book called Stuck with You and she said, "I don't like knowing an authors sexual preferences. Give me variety so your IM - SO - FUCKING - SMOL - HIS - DONG- IS - MASSIVE - IT- WILL - CRUSH - MY- POLLY - POCKET - PUSSY kink isn't so obvious. give me a 6 ft chick with a honey - I - shrunk - the - kids Chad. With peace and love, a size medium." I nearly choked😭

Yesss finally I can look cute 🥺😭

the day that actually happens the world will stop turning

ali hazelwood could never lol but if anyone has any recs for romances with short kings, pls share

@@marianbaroi7526 Fool by Christopher Moore! It's light on the romance & has raunchy humor, but Pocket is my favorite Short King 👑

THIS PLEASE

i gotta rope my friends into more reading vlogs!

I do like to multitask

Shrekfest was indeed iconic

That is one HELL of a Tinder bio

OMG, same! 😂 I love your description, by the way!

I liked it better than the love hypothesis tbh!!

REAL OMG

LMAO not the soukoku projection 😭😭

the game !?

soukoku catching strays omg

LMAOOOO NOT THE PSYCHIC DAMAGE. it seems like the 3rd book is gonna have variety... he's BLONDE instead of black haired!!

i lost my mind reading that line oh my god WHAT

@@Kam_i_ if I had to read it so does everyone else I apologize for the mental distress that may have been caused

omg, this sentence is so cringe

Just because I am pedantic nerd like that I would not read that book because my answer to the question "What would Marie Curie do?" is spell her full name. It's Skłodowska. Maria Curie-Skłodowska was her name. Curie was her husbands name. I feel like a real life badass woman physicist would know that.

joke's on u, i grew up reading shoujo manga!!

@@withcindy If Maas can make you lose your mind, I wonder how some shoujo series nowadays will break your spirit.

i wouldve loved to have him as a therapist!! he seemed so open to everything and very transparent with what he was going through too

one of my fave sponsors lately tbh!!

Same, it was pretty on point with what it wanted to bring across. Especially with its unlikable protagonist. To me his ending (killing jasmine) was very much "don't just point out the flaws of a system and then continue partaking in it". Not to lay it too thick with the vegan propaganda but to me that just screams "don't talk about animal welfare just to continue eating them"

hot topic is trying to take over youtube?!

I JUST SAW THAT TOO ITS HILARIOUS

They got the booktube girlies and the tumblr girlies captured.

i gotchu!!

nature is cyclical like that

my gf said the same thing, that the writing was like a peek into her own stream of consciousness lolol

omg ur living the main character's DREAM

Glad you enjoyed it! i think ill do these types of videos more often :)

That’s all of Ali hazelwood’s books and I love her for it lmao

aww ty sophia!!

i was being facetious lolol

i think the protagonist just isnt supposed to be likeable at all. the way he treats Yasmine is a huge red flag about how deeply misogynistic he is. the ending surpised me but it also made a lot of sense to me, personally. he never really cared about her.

the book really came for our necks huh

tbh it was an improvement from the love hypothesis bc there were no forced PDA scenes or professor-student relationships!! once she took out the things i didnt like it was smooth sailing with this book lol

I should bring more ppl in for these reviews !

i support ali getting her coin

consumer to consumed is actually mentioned in the book! a character named Spanel is a butcher and literally says “today im the butcher, tomorrow i’m the cattle” and talks about that!!!!!! that IS mentioned in the book!

I actually really liked the ending because he never gets “punished”, just like irl where most people that do heinous acts don’t get punished or reformed or anything. I normally really liked Cindy’s reviews but i felt like cindy only analyzed it superficially and at times wondered if we even read the same book, and maybe we didn’t because I read it in its original language; Spanish. But alas, that’s the beauty of the human condition: we all interpret the same things differently:) The part about the puppies: the main character constantly mentions their love for animals and how his dogs had to be killed when the “virus started” like all other animals. He, just as his father, doesn’t believe that the virus is real and that eating human meat is the only option because doctors, governments etc. say that you need meat to survive and be healthy. He doesn’t murder humans per se but is like a manager so he couldn’t have taken the teenagers as Cindy suggests. Also it is illegal to even be close to animals, punishable by death and then being eaten by the carroñeros (idk how they called it in English; basically homeless people that live in the premises of the factory and eat the leftovers or the people that want to “sacrifice themselves” 2. The whole thing with Jazmín is so good for me; he does see her as a human but she is still a woman; aka a walking womb. And having relations with livestock is completely forbidden, punishable by death and being eaten. He opposes the system morally but practically still takes advantage of it… Idk it’s my favorite book and wanted to give my point of view, this is not hate for Cindy!

@@sleepysof THATS WHAT IM SAYING!!!!!! WE HAVE THE SAME VIEW POINTS! it’s also my favorite book and i definitely thought the review didn’t do it justice since i feel like the book is less of a romance and more of a perspective of grief and macros’ journey through that

@Nikola oh yes 100% it gives me similar vibes to when people say lolita is their favorite romance. Yes and also how Marcos doesn't stop eating meat until his son died, just like many people don't care about others unless it personally affects them and they are forced to change their point of view (like regarding SA, Covid, the environment...). Marcos starts as hero, rebelling the system, questioning it, "saving" Jasmin etc. we later realize that it isn't enough to just hate a part of the system to change it or to be a good person. In the end he is still a bad person and maybe it hurts more because for the 1st half of the book we thought he cared about people, and he did, just not about women. He still treats every woman in his life like an animal, something disposable, annoying, dramatic... which for me is like an allegory to all the misogyny in leftist and progressive spaces. (Could also apply to racism, xenophobia, homofobia, antisemitism, Islamophobia....) I watched maybeillreadtoday's review of the book and loved it. Just not the part that she said that antivaxxers were treated as disposable, I felt like a much better point would've been how people still treat disabled people as disposable because of covid, not wearing masks, getting vaccinated and saying that they had preexisting conditions so it doesn't matter... That said I think many people missed the point of the book, idk if there was something missed in translation but it's sad. I look forward to reading more books by the same author

some other comment pointed it out really well. that, in the end, the protagonist is still deeply sexist. he still sees Yasmine as an object to be used and once he's done with her and things get too inconvenient for him, he tosses her out she gave him what he wanted (a kid), so he doesnt need her anymore. he can go back to being with his wife and wont have to worry about Yasmine anymore there's definitely a lot of layers and i believe that, had she added in some kind of happy ending, the gutpunch that came with this book just would not have hit quite as hard

i loooove garlic naan and curry!!

Indian food is bombbb

Any Indian dishes you would recommend to an European who's main meal has been pasta and stuff with potatoes lately? 😅 I'm open to trying new stuff, maybe something easy to make at home?

@@iclynnx @Iclynnx A classic fulfilling Indian meal type from where I am is having some vegetable curry or gravy with an Indian bread like chapati/roti/naan or steamed rice! 'Aloo ki sabzi' (potato vegetable/curry), '(insert any vegetable) ki sabzi', 'rajma chawal' (kidney beans and rice), 'dal chawal' (pulses and rice), 'khichdi' (lentils and rice), and 'paneer' (cottage cheese)-related curries are very popular Indian dishes. You can look up quick, easy, simple recipes on RU-vid or blogs and you'll find it very do-able! I hope you enjoy them! ❤️

@@iamshraddhakhedkar Thanks for the tips!

I'm so glad! more to come then

Embrace ur inner teen goth!!

aww thank you so much!!

I'm so glad! hope u feel better

Whatcha eating for dinner?

Yay! Thank you!

Yay! Thank you!

if it makes u feel any better i downloaded an app to track how many times i cry in a year and so far 17 days into january i have shed tears 10 times

WE LOVE FLEXIBLE GYMNAST CHARACTERS WITH WRECK IT RALPH HANDS

Neuroscientist grad student here ; lol 😂 Ali has a neuroscience degree too , so she had to for her degree lol - That being said who knows what grade she got in it lol 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Thank you so much! I did!

Wow, thank you! ❤️❤️

You got this!

Hope you like it!

🥺🥺🥺 im gonna save this comment to remind myself of how sweet u are

i hope the rest of ur week gets better!!

Will try!! thank u

thank u!!

always

big oof but good luck!!

I'm so glad! hope u have a better rest of ur week

it helps im normally dressed frumpy until this video

yummm naan is so good! especially garlic naan!

i finished a smutty dark romance book this month and will def be dedicating a video to it next month

im rlly rooting for them lmao

U know they are such a minority otherwise 🥺

@@withcindy I'm a straight minority. 🤷💞

But I love me some gays.

You're so welcome!

im honored!!

Glad you liked it!!

there may be cultural context im missing too? :0

I also enjoyed it quite a bit!

Yo también lo leí en español y me pareció tan bueno? Tipo siento qué tal vez en inglés no se entendía tanto el contexto de todo y porque el personaje principal actuaba como actúa porque siento que si respondió las preguntas/críticas de Cindy?

I don't think so. I read it in English and I totally disagree with how Cindy interpreted the book. Like he is not a good person and it was so obvious to me!!! So it's not a translation thing.

hope u enjoy!

Hope you like it!

I don't see why they wouldn't !!

thank u fatima!!

@@withcindy OMG it took me a year to find out Cindy hearted my comment and replied to me xD, I'm so effing oblivious.

im honored!!

YESSS GO READ

Glad it was helpful! good luck

You are so welcome 🤗

I will definitely post more videos like these!

He's really loving the series!

Yay! Thank you!

gonna start editing it tomorrow!!

missed u too!!

I love it! It's such a cute color

oooh did jack like this book??

I rewatched it over the weekend with my friends! Such a good movie

😊 thank you

i liked it better than the love hypothesis bc there was no forced PDA or professor-student relationships lol so i could just vibe

thank u!! more to come

i had no idea they sponsored ppl until they reached out to me LOL

Righttt?!