you all prolly dont give a shit but does any of you know a way to get back into an instagram account?? I was stupid lost the login password. I would love any help you can offer me!
@Owen Ryland Thanks for your reply. I got to the site thru google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff now. Seems to take a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
The relief I felt at hearing you echo my thoughts on A Discovery of Witches! I keep seeing nothing but rave reviews and felt like wow, I must have read a different book...I despised it for the same reasons you so clearly articulated in this video. I almost felt guilty sending it to my used bookstore, but now I am sending it off joyously for someone else to read; I don't need that negative, frustrated energy every time I glance at it on my shelves bringing me down!
Plenty of people out there who love it... best to let it try and find one of those people! And yes! I picked it up because of the overwhelmingly positive reaction I saw. I was bamboozled. ;)
Omg I forgot about vampire yoga and how bad that book was, I just had war flashbacks to that awful book 😂 When I read it I didn’t know it was a romance, I just picked it up because I saw it everywhere and it sounded interesting. I totally agree that the set up was great, I was really hooked. And then the plot just got completely abandoned and I could not even remotely understand why people love that series. The romance is terrible and the love interest dude is so creepy
I'm almost sad I caused the war flashbacks but also, come, join me in my misery. Matthew is SO CREEPY. I get why people might like the premise, even with the abandoned plot and all, but then they put creepy mcmurder vamp as the main male and cry mcwitch tears as the mail female and.... what. Did I miss something?? What did everyone else READ??
So I have not been able to figure out why I loved/hated A Discovery of Witches. It seemed like it had everything at the time but you said exactly what I could not articulate! I kept waiting for the heroine to act or discern or make a move that showcased the power she was supposed to have and it doesn't happen until the last book (I think?). Also, she is this super-intelligent character who cannot see two feet in front of herself when it comes to magic, plot, or Matthew. Thanks for that!
It's SO pretty! I usually unhaul books that are 2 stars and below but I'm holding onto this one because look at it! I didn't even mention about the icky racist stuff in THW either. The MC is the worst and makes comments toward her one friend who is a POC that I was like... girl, are you racist? Anyway.. I think you wouldn't like it.
LISTEN! Ninth House was absolutely terrible. There was so much info dump, it read like a TV show AND Darlington basically carried the storyline. I DNF'd at pg. 170. I don't think I'll be going back...
Yeah, can't say that I have any reasons for you to go back-- it doesn't get better. Even Darlington ends up feeling hollow. Good for anyone who put up with that info dump and still managed to like this book. It wasn't me.
First of all, I love that you can hear kitten yelling in the background 😂. Secondly, vampire yoga. Is it just yoga but with vampires? Does it have special vampire nuances? Sounds like a choice haha.
Hard agree on Ninth House, as always. Also, thanks for convincing me to get rid of A Study in Charlotte and its sequel. I'm tired of crappy relationships and I wasn't super interested in it to begin with.
Yeah, can't say that I can encourage you at all to give it a try. The dynamic between the Watson and Holmes was so freakin' weird and Watson is portrayed in such A Nice Guy kind of way, when it was super clear to me while reading that he is actually the worst.
your review of Ten Thousand Doors of January is one of the main things that gave me the courage to DNF after only 3 pages of that book and I feel so free 😂 okay one of my biggest book pet peeves is when it takes ages just for the summary stuff to happen! I know that publishers write the synopses, not authors, but why would they think that's a good way to market the book?? RETURN OF VAMPIRE YOGA! 😂 okay wait her superpower is CRYING SO HARD OVER A DUDE SHE ALMOST DIES? wow, I hate it. yes to EVERYTHING you said about the Charlotte Holmes books. I only read the first one and I am definitely not continuing. no worries about the string of Ninth House feelings, you gotta detox from that book somehow! clearly I am a negative person because I love these videos LOL
LOL...I haven't read A Discovery of Witches, but I did watch the first 3 episodes of the series, and what you said is exactly what I felt! It started so well and then it went all downhill after that.
SO many books! I can't imagine that you would enjoy ADoW, honestly! At it's best, it's tropey and generic. At it's worst... yeah, skipping it might be the call!
Oh man, I think what I have learned is that we have very different taste sometimes and maybe I should try Discovery of Witches? Lol! I'm sorry you had some things that really didn't work for you this year.
I'm a little disappointed we didn't see Diana almost drown herself in the show with her sad tears. How could they leave that out? I know Watchmen is trash because I loved it when I was like 20 and I was a hugely trash person when I was 20. - Rebecca
Really enjoy hearing your thoughts and seeing the differences in how we experienced a book. While I enjoyed reading, I definitely was rolling my eyes during A Discovery of Witches for example and enjoyed the 2 others books more because of the history aspects of it and reading Watchmen was interesting because of the problematic aspects, so watching the show whenever I do will be dope to see just how different it is.
I think for me Watchmen was never saying, "wow isn't misogyny bad?" It was actively participating in it with its oversexualization of and gratuitous violence against women. For me, it didn't do anything else good enough for me to get over that fact, especially when we have a character like Rorschach at the head of it.
The basic watchman summary sounds exactly like incredibles lol. Also I could never get into the Charlotte series because I couldn't stand Charlotte. She was just so rude 9/10 times.
I feel the same about Ten Thousand Doors - I thought I would LOVE it and I was so damn let down by it. Honestly, I barely even got myself to finish it. It was just messy and honestly boring, and I was also put off by a white author deciding to make her main character some sort of hazy, nebulous, non-white identity - like you, the way she wrote about it made me uncomfortable, and I don't know why she made that choice. Personally, I enjoyed the All Souls trilogy, but I completely get that it is FAR from perfect, LOL.
Felt the same about The Hazel Wood and A Study in Charlotte! Couldn't figure out why they got so popular. The Hazel Wood felt so messy. Like a grab-bag of fairytale elements that didn't really do or say anything.
Yes!! That describes it perfectly: a messy grab-bag. It could've been really cool if it paid more attention to... everything. Plotting, pace, main character. It was the worst take on Alice down the rabbit hole.
I just watched ReadWithCindy's review of The Hazel Wood! She was also deeply disappointed by it. So the book that wastes a chapter on vampire yoga, abandoned the stakes it set up... Heh. And I hate dumb*ss/spineless female characters who won't shut up about how badass they are just because they're brunettes who know where to buy a leather jacket... They're like the people who keep saying "I'm a straight-shooter, I calls em like I see em" and then they turn out to be the shadiest most dishonest people you've ever met... 🙄 I never read fiction (mostly just memoirs) but I love hearing you guys roast the bad ones 😈
I had the exact same experience with A Study in Charlotte and The Last of August. I kind of liked A Study because the mystery was enjoyable but The Last reallllly came apart, nothing was happening and then suddenly it was so convoluted... I absolutely despised it and will not continue with the series.
I completely agree about A Study in Charlotte. I read it early in 2019 but I just could never get over how awful Jamie was (I believe I referred to him as toxic masculinity personified) and I hated that we read from his point of view. There was also SO much trauma in Charlotte’s backstory that it all felt heavy handed and it needed more nuance and time to discuss in an appropriate way.
I wanted to love Ten Thousand Doors for all the same reasons, but I slogged through it without absorbing much. I've considered giving it another try buuutt I think I'm convinced it's not worth the time. Your continued hatred of The Ninth House gives me life. I did not enjoy that book either.
What lipstick are you wearing? It looks great on you. It's interesting to see your opinions because I loved The Hazel Wood and I want to read A Study in Charlotte and I'll probably like it. 😂 As far as Alan Moore, he's brilliant in terms of world building and other aspects of the plot, but he can't write women for crap. That's just a part you kind of have to accept to enjoy any of his work really, unfortunately. Now I really want to read Ninth House because I want to see what I think in comparison to you. Thanks for always being respectful about what you think about books. There's a lot of booktubers that are condescending toward people that think differently from them, and you aren't, so thanks for that.
I'm very confused just from the premise of "Slayer". Please correct me if I'm remembering wrong but. . . (POSSIBLE SPOILER) In the final season of Angel isn't it revealed that the Watchers were all killed?
Thanks for sharing. I just finished Ten Thousand Doors and am still processing it. You make a good point about pacing, and I can see where you're coming from with issues of racism and colonialism getting treated with kid gloves.
When I read Watchmen about ten years ago, I came away thinking "I don't understand any of this," and also "Why does this make me feel icky?" Thank you for vocalizing (with far more intellectual vocabulary!) what I was probably feeling then and the likely reason why I've never tried to give the book another go. Really enjoyed this video -- you have a great critical eye! -Les
The Ten Thousand Doors of January is actually adult, not YA, but with definite crossover potential. Honestly, whatever it is, I also struggled with it even though on paper it should have been my jam. And I felt the EXACT SAME WAY about The Hazel Wood!
Discovery of Witches was such a huge disappointment! I got it on sale with the second book so I pushed through the first book and decided since I had the second I would try to read it. I got half way through and had to stop it was just uuugh.
I wondered after I finished the first if I should try to get through the second... but you are not the first person to tell me that it only gets worse. Yikes. I'll pass!
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