Poison Princess was poison for my braincells
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“I haven’t even gotten to the autism rep yet, I’ve been too busy talking about the misogyny” The way my body recoiled
Yeaaaahhhh, as a newly diagnosed person, I was dreading it and it was worse than I even imagined. 😐
I literally just started the video, holy fu-
@@tinahatch7440 omg me too!
If you see a 🧩 you run for the hills
@@cognizant3252may I ask why? I'm most likely autistic but I'm not dinogst.
"Is this roofied"
"It can be "
Girl the flags aren't red anymore they are on fire
The flags are redder than China's 😅
@@brendanthedreamerthe flags are Infrared at this point
21:44 the fact that everyone from the arcana group has super powers, except for this one kid who only got a pocket knife and a thirst for blood is great, actually. It's giving me "I'm gonna defeat you with the power of friendship and this one knife I found" vibes.
Ah, the classic 2010's "Post-apocolypse" story where the girl is wearing a flowing gown on the cover for no reason.
Seriously. When she said post-apocolypse I was so confused.
"Not a single he-he ha-ha in my line of vision!" I am deceased.
I'm hardly a tarot expert, but hearing Evie was the Empress made me laugh out loud. The Empress is about femininity, fertility, and abundance. It's a good card but not my favorite, and seems like one that would be this author's favorite, if you know what I mean.
Not sure which deck she's using that has the archer, alchemist, etc. Those aren't cards in the Rider-Waite deck (most common/standard desk that most people mean when they talk about tarot). It's weird to me either way that you said Evie has to "defeat death", implying the bad guy is set up to be the death card and not the devil card. I usually take it as a sign someone doesn't know much about tarot if they see death as an evil card--it symbolizes change, transformation, and transition. It's considered a neutral card, unlike the devil (oppression, addiction, etc) or the tower (destruction, disaster).
Death and The Demon appear in the next book. The Demon Is evil, but not very intelligent, so Death, the morally grey love interest (because we need a love triangle ir it's not YA, apparently) manipulates him.
Literally when she was talking about the archer and the alchemist I was so confused. I personally pull the death card a lot and it’s one of my favorites since for me it usually means letting go of something old that’s been hurting me. Not all change is bad.
@@Pharm2be the characters get called that because of their abilities, but their cards are The Moon and The Hermit, respectively. It's Easy to get confused, though, because they are seldom called by their cards names.
@@Pharm2be Oh, and Death appears in the next book. He's the morally grey love interest. Because love triangle. He's super abusive.
Selena was an archer, but her card was The Moon, and the alchemist Arthur was The Hermit card. What you say about Death makes me think the author knew a little bit about the subject at least, but this video wasn't kidding about how rough this series was to read years ago when I was with someone who loved it. It's funny you say that about The Tower since, as I recall anyway, that card was one of the few unambigous Team Good cards in the series lol. I think The Emperor was one of the big bads along with The Lovers.
“She was soooo…another girl.”
My coffee almost came out my nose.
Jack: "I'm done with you!"
Me: "Good!"
Rachel: "He's not done with her"
Me: "Fuck!"
This same idea was done with Good Omens. Except it was ineffably, infinitely, apocalyptically better than this crap 😂👍🏾
I love how you were like “Brad? Dan? Something like that” and it turns out to Brandon, that’s exactly how my memory works just like “close enough, we have notes.”
For some reason (hearing about this book, even just 7 minutes in) I'm reminded of a fanfiction where the author said (through the characters) that the female lead was still a virgin since she'd only had sex with a woman and not any men.😱
The face I made when I read this. So gross.
I'm laughing so much, I know I shouldn't but that's so ridiculous
😐🙃
My first sexual experience was with a woman. When I told the next person this, a man, he said "So, you're still a virgin." -_- Ridiculous, but it happens.
This is a commonly believed thing and in both America and Japan lesbianism is accepted because they cannot penetrate each other (which is why gay men are frowned upon) and they even say that they believe that once they find the right men both will separate ala the penis curing them of their confusion. I have always hated this mentality because it's so stupid and backwards and also erases lesbianism into a trend or choice.
This book made me flash back to the day I learned that shit and wanted to vomit.
The Arcana of the Fool actually represents potential, beginnings and opportunity. Now does the author sound like she knows this?… nope.
I had the EXACT same thought. It's not a bad card, but the author clearly doesn't know enough about tarot to have done that on purpose
As someone who grew up in small town Louisiana, high school boys almost always had pocket knives on them. I remember teachers asking to borrow then when they couldn't find their scissors. 🤣🤣
Damn Louisiana does stuff differently than Florida lmao 🔪
@Reads with Rachel I vividly remember some kids having shotguns mounted in the back glass of their trucks. They would go hunting before school and change into uniform in the parking lots. It's wild out here. 😭
@@alexislirette3451 My parents grew up in a small town in southern MO. When my dad was in high school (late 70s/early 80s) most of the boys went deer hunting seasonally. Keeping extra clothes, a rifle, and ammunition in the trunk was normal.
Different times for sure.
@Sarah Taylor this was back in like 2014 for me 💀 they would occasionally do a ATV day where the police would escort a group of kids on the way to school for am "anything but vehicle" day. People would ride horses and 4wheelers and barbie jeeps on the last day of school. It was tradition when I graduated.
I graduated highschool in 2013, and all those things were normal at my small Pennsylvania school lmao. We always carried pocket knives, I usually kept mine in my backpack (mostly just for the ✨street cred✨. I don't think I ever actually used it. First day of deer season is basically a state wide holiday, schools are always closed that day because they knew no one would show up. The rest of the season, you could expect to see a lot of camo and orange and rifles in truck windows. When it wasn't hunting season, kids would even bring their farming tractors to school (probably the scariest thing yet lmao). And I remember some girls talking about soaking tamps in vodka before inserting them, their cooters would absorb the alcohol and they could get buzzed at school. God bless my teachers, the kids were wildin' on the Mason Dixon line 😅😅
When I was younger I never read women led fantasy or sci fi like this because I was the traditionally feminine girl these books made fun or or put down. It left me feeling horrible about myself and judgmental towards other women. So glad I’ve gotten over that period and more books are pro female friendship
One of my least favourite things is media that puts down a certain type of girl under the guise of feminism.
"Look at how badass our female lead is! She's not like those girly feminine girls, they're all weak/bitchy/self-absorbed/infantilised/slut-shamed" - or whatever mysogynisyic stereotype they choose to mock.
The implication is that the only way a woman can be a strong female lead is if they eschew traditionally female things.
The frustrating thing is that there's nothing wrong with a strong female character who doesn't like "girly" things, women can like/dislike whatever they like and be whoever they want, and breaking stereotypes is awesome!
But they then go on to put down other women, using mysogynisyic stereotypes! Like, come on...
It's okay to be feminine, it's okay to dislike traditionally feminine things, it's all okay - but putting down others just upholds patriarchy and makes people feel like shit.
@@r-pupz7032amen!
Oh my gosh same
This is why I love the Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce. One of the main characters, Sandry, is a young noble girl who loves embroidery, and most books would make her the butt of the joke, the other girls for the oh so special protagonist to be not like, but she’s just as brave, smart, powerful, and generally awesome as the other main characters. She’s really and truly friends with the other three protagonists, and she and the other two girls-temperamental bookworm Tris and breeches-wearing apprentice blacksmith Daja-never put each other down for being more or less feminine or feminine in different ways, get into catfights, or compete over the one boy, Briar. In fact, none of the four protagonists get dragged into gratuitous romances with each other, instead forming a sibling-like bond.
If nobody else has mentioned it, “lantern jaw” refers to someone with a prominent jaw/chin, often accompanied by strong cheekbones as well. Think most depictions of superheroes.
I know this is an old comment but I also imagine their chin glows à la Rudolph’s nose and no one can convince me that’s not the case
@@murph64
Lol! How does your comment only have 3 likes? This is some criminally underrated comedy gold, right here! 😋(Which, after having my ears assaulted by the nightmare fuel that is the phrase, "Hymen Safari" I can genuinely say was much needed/appreciated!)
There's something deeply frustrating to me (someone with a schizospec disorder) about the use of psychotic symptoms as a fakeout in books. The "I hallucinate and am mentally ill but actually I'm not and it's just magic teehee" trope is so. Ugh.
Like, one, it perpetuates and reinforces the real world harm many of us who experience psychosis face in the form of people telling us that actually we just have a Gift or can speak to God or see spirits or whatever else and that we don't need to seek treatment or take medication. And, if it isn't already clear to you, people doing this to us inevitably leads to some of our deaths.
But even beyond that severe aspect of ableism, the thing that really bugs me is that we just aren't allowed to see ourselves in fantasy. A character can be psychotic and have magic! Do non-psychotic people not realize how infinitely more compelling it is to write a character who has to juggle hallucinations *and* visions instead?
It is such a struggle to find good psychosis spectrum rep in fantasy. One of my favorite series of all time does it so beautifully. The psychosis is induced by a traumatic magical ritual and written in a way that felt so real and accurate to my experiences. Also, the character it happened to is canonically bipolar and written so well and that made me super happy.
I am rambling here but I love when fantasy includes us! I have a short story where a schizophrenic man dies, becomes a ghost, and is still schizophrenic. (And very upset about it when he realizes all the symptoms of his mental illness still manifest.) And that's one of the kinds of things I want to see more of. I have characters who are mentally ill and have magic and mentally ill characters who are mundane people living in a fantastical world. And it is very frustrating that I almost exclusively see things like this written by psychosis spectrum people (though I really don't trust other people to write it well given how awful people are to and about us in general.)
yo can you drop the name of that book? i'm very interested
I’ll be honest, I don’t have the confidence to write a story that centres around someone on the psychosis spectrum. A lot of my stories are very character driven and tend to deal with a lot of internal conflict, and since I have never experienced psychosis, nor have I been able to get a good in-depth idea of what it’s like to live with a disorder that causes general and severe psychosis in their everyday life through an individual with a disorder like schizophrenia, it’s a topic that’s pretty scary for me to write and something I wouldn’t have any idea where to start with. I’ve truly only ever known what it looks like on the outside. I understand what’s happening but I don’t have an emotional understanding of what’s going on, which makes it incredibly difficult if not impossible to write a story focused on a character who deals with a mental disorder like schizophrenia on the daily and is dealing with all sorts of issues through their day-to-day life, while also adding other sorts of internal and external conflict that aren’t just focused on the disorder. When I create characters and stories for those characters I try to make them feel like very real humans, so that means whatever mental and/or physical disorders and mental and/or physical health issues they have need to be written as just another aspect of them, not the focus of their story.
Apologies for the rambling but I was hoping this could give some insight into why some writers - even amazing ones - don’t do this. In having them do so, you’re getting them to write something that’s so alien to them they may execute it poorly or they execute it well but they focus too heavily on it and there’s the potential for it to be the only real defining thing about the character - not what you want when you’re writing a character with any sort of disorder, mental or physical issues or mental or physical limitations. Writing someone with trauma, depression, ptsd and unhealthy coping mechanisms isn’t difficult for me because while I may not have all of those things, I have an emotional understanding of those issues and how they can wreck the lives of the sufferers in a way they may be oblivious for the longest time. Any sort of disorder on the psychosis spectrum is a very different situation where the most emotion understanding I have of it is how genuinely terrifying it can be for the sufferer, as well as how surprisingly tranquil it can allegedly also be depending on aspects like the culture the sufferer grew up in.
@@katierasburn9571 It's the Doctrine of Labyrinths series by Sarah Monette. First book is Melusine, I think.
@@crazyminegamer2339 Yeah, it's definitely fair for any individual author not to feel comfortable writing something they worry about not doing justice, but the issue is beyond that. It's the same issue of representation I get frustrated with a lot because, for example, I'm also mixed Nahua and almost every time people portray Nahua culture in (English) novels and aren't Nahua, it's either unintentionally offensive in a way that they really could've fixed or an absolute garbage fire. (To be fair, I haven't read as many lately because they pain me greatly so maybe there are better ones out there now.) And this isn't a Nahua specific thing, but with the portrayal of really any indigenous group.
It's a lot bigger than the actions of individual writers out of context because a lot of people are choosing to portray these things and are doing it in a careless way pretty intentionally. Like, the use of characters with psychosis as a "they're a crazy dangerous psychotic serial killer".
Not really a great reply to you (especially to such a long and thoughtful comment that I really do appreciate) but my physical health is pretty bad right now and it's making my brain a little fuzzy. I hope it makes at least a little sense?
@@thirdprince4028 Yeah… What you’ve listed off is why I’ve chosen not to tackle topics I don’t have a full understanding of. It really bothers me when I see something like DID, psychosis or Antisocial Personality Disorder used to explain someone being a crazy killer. Plenty of ordinary, sane, neurotypical individuals are killers, and they’re no less monsters than those with mental disorders. At most the mental disorder may explain the escalation - for example, someone with anger issues lashed out on their partner and kills them. Then they calm down, realise what they’ve done and panicked - but that’s it. Genuinely makes me feel like no representation is better than bad representation, because then at least these issues aren’t being stigmatised.
Lantern jaw means there's a switch on the side to turn on the lamp
In my experience it doesn’t matter if people know if someone is autistic or not, if they’re gonna treat them like shit, they’ll do it anyway. My experience: being alive and autistic for 47 years.
This is the week for bad autism rep (I tried to watch Wolf Pack last night).
This is born out by data as well. NT people, when given just an image of people's faces (no other info), are less likely to trust or want to talk to autistic people.
They only get us right by mistake. Everytime they have a Canon autistic character they just do it so badly. Like they just take every autism stereotype, put it in a blender, feed it to a bot and churn that out and it rankles
Okay, I'm Acadian, and my daughter's name is Evangeline (Evie), and I and my youngest child are on the spectrum, AND I read tarot (lantern guy is the Hermit btw), so I take exception to any of this being used in such a cruddy book! Also, my dad is the baby of his family, and the family calls him "Bebe," and my cousins even call him "Oncle Bebe." Because in Cajun French, we don't typically use "bebe" as a term of endearment. We'd say "cher" (which sounds more like "shan" but with the n subsumed and not fulled sounded--it's a complicated language).
I was about to comment that bebe is...the weirdest romantic endearment she could have picked here lmao, i was thinking 'cher' also
I like the name Evangeline. It's the name of a cocteau twins song
French, FTW! 😂
I was like, why is she using the term of endearment most commonly used on literal family members when cher is RIGHT THERE? Even 'darling' would have been better than bebe.
Typically, the Empress in tarot is depicted as pregnant, so I'm not exactly sure where this virgin obsession comes from...
As a reformed Juvenile deliquent anytime I snuck a drink to school it was disguised in a water bottle or soda bottle (ah the early 00s🤣). Also as indigenous woman the whole "Choctaw cheekbones" thing was extra icky. This book sounds like the opposite of a good time
“It was the popcorn that did it” - I laughed so hard at this 😂
Tbh I didn't think the phrase "he's looking at my butt" would make me cringe that hard, but here we are! 😬
😂
I also wanted to add that the obsession with the female leads virginity is because of her being the Empress. The empress is a creator, nurturer, and represents feminine energies, and is usually represented in the tarot by a pregnant woman. That's pretty outdated, and most tarot youtubers will tell you that they'd like to see less pregnant women in the tarot and creative makers represented in some other way. But you said this book was published in 2013, so that view of the Empress card tracks with the times. I wonder if in the other books the MC will come to full power when she gets pregnant?? That would be hilarious and so stupid.
Yeah, for me I read The Empress not as traditional femininity and pregnancy but as nurturing, general parenthood, taking up responsibility for others, and/or being the "mom friend" who worries about everyone else but can neglect themselves. That way it can apply to anyone and not just women since men can be just as nurturing or take on too many responsibilities for others.
I googled lantern jaw and the first image that popped up was John Kerry. The second was The Crimson Chin. So I guess I’ll just mentally picture him as a mix of the two.
Not the Crimson Chin 😭
I was drinking water and then you said Blake Lively cosplayer and I spit water all over my monitor, which, I guess, needed the cleaning. So thanks. 🤣
Jack sounds like a parody character.
He follows no rules...even his own. XD
I hear the term lantern jaw and I think classic Superman. That guy on the cover does not look like classic Superman.
There was a time in my life I would have loved to be paid/commissioned to read books and share my opinions about them.
Seeing the shit you have to endure. I'm glad that fantasy never came to pass
💀 no cause i want her to finish the series 🤣 if that other person doesnt commission more, then i will
I read this book soo early, like back when it first came out, and istg at the time every other reviewer was giving this 4-5 stars. Somehow my one-star review got to the top of the list on goodreads, and for a LOOONG time I got a LOT of hate for it, lmao. Literally a decade later, thank you for finally making me feel validated, ahaha.
@strwbrryshampoo yeah, it’s the 2nd most popular in the community review, my name there is Tomoe. Though keep in mind I wrote it literally over 10 years ago, so I may not have been very…. polite XD
I just read your review and another one by Ferdy that's the top four review. You guys have a way with words lol
Every time you mention the baddies on bikes, I imagine them on like... Walmart bicycles, with tassels, and maybe a basket... and a bell.
It's been super exciting to see your name across Reddit/Tiktok in a positive way. A ton of people talk about how much they trust you and your reviews!
That’s good to hear! Thank you for telling me ❤
For a hot minute I thought you were going to roast the manga Poison Princess! It's a gothic tale about Lycoris (Spiderlily), an orphan girl who was raised (along other female orphans with poison flower themed names) literally on poison, so she could be an assassin (every part of her body is poisonous, even her clothes have to be handled carefully by normal people).
As someone with an interest in tarot, i think this woman is making cards up on the spot
Lantern Jaw - think of the giga-chad meme face. It traditionally has just referred to a person with a prominent jaw and a chin that generally juts forwards rather than back. Reminiscent of a general lantern shape.
so it's the Simpsons lemon tree episode with a 35 year old man on the cover then, gotcha.
Okay but this is high-key one of my favorite guilty pleasure series. 😂
I was going to say the same thing about the book cover, that is absolutely a 30 year old man, it's so baffling how the marketing team couldn't find an actual 18year old to pose for the cover.
"When I don't like a book, I yell about all the parts of it!" HAHA SAME, it's so hard when I'm doing a rant review not to spoil things, because it's like, it's bad because all these things piled on each other, it's rarely ONE bad thing on its own.
Good morning Rachel - just wanted to say that I work editorial in educational publishing at one of the big 5 & there's a Jay Kristoff book on my floor's take table today... my coworker also watches ur videos and we giggled about it together lol ♥️ appreciate your videos so much :)
This comment made my day 😂❤
Isn't the whole "people with superpowers befriend each other only to realize that they are meant to hunger games each other so only the strongest remain" how an early season finale of supernatural played out?
Ya I think it was the season 2 finale lol
I remember reading the second or third book and there was a spicy scene. The main character mentioned she got laser hair removal prior to the apocalypse. I thought that procedure didn’t work for people with blonde hair…
Ah, the weekly reminder that being a New York Times Best Seller really means nothing at all.
this was my guilty pleasure series in high school 😔
This is par for the course with Kresley Cole. I haven't read a single book of hers that didn't contain internal misogyny. She is auto DNF content for me.
I'm not like a tarot expert or anything, but I have a deck and a couple books about the symbolism through the ages and there is no such card asThe Alchemist. Or The Archer! Maybe in a specialty deck made up of like fantasy character archetypes, but in your standard deck, even if it isn't Rider-Waite, that is fully an author invention.
This gave me flashbacks. A long time ago I read a hunger like no other by the same author. It was very memorable, because it was the first (maybe only?) book where I hated the main guy so much, SO MUCH, that I stopped before the end when
- spoiler - not that you should care about that trashfire...
his head gets cut off in the ... maybe last chapter of the book idk. Obviously dude is a vampire so he will come back, relationship achieved etc etc. But that was honestly the only version of an ending for the so called couple I could live with.
To this day, that is how that book ended for me.
EDIT I should say, I actually enjoy trash sometimes. It can be fun. But that one broke me.
I hate the female in that book. I read the rest of the IAD series because I didn't have anything better to do at the Time, but I hate every single one of the valkyries. And Lothaire! God I loathe that guy.
NO BECAUSE WHY I JUST KNEW IT WAS A VAMPIRE HAHAHA
I read that and the other books in that collection in high school. It made me so mad.....I absolutely rage quit lol 😆
@@fuunosenshi I don't think I've hated a character more. I could be wrong but it would be a close call
So they’re people with Tarot themed magic powers that are drawn to each other? They’re stand users
I remember trying to read this like 10 years ago when I was in high school and I got maybe 3 chapters in before deciding I did not want to put myself through the rest of it
Women are perfectly justified when complaining that a particular male author can't write female characters effectively. I think men have the right to complain when certain female authors can't write men effectively. I resent how all the males are portrayed in this, serial killers, thugs, potential date rapists. Hard pass.
Yeah that’s fair
My favorite thing about this series is that on multiple occasions, the main character gets shamed for not wanting to have sex and the male love interest(s) get all rapey about it.
i don't think you're stupid rachel. apparently lantern jaw means a thin jaw with a strong/prominent chin. the only reason i know this is because i had a high school lit teacher who once said she was in love with john kerry's lantern jaw....anytime i see that term (or any awkward focus by mc on love interests chin/jaw) i think of my hs teacher and cringe lmao XD
I'm fairly certain that there isn't a card called 'the alchemist' in the major arcana. I'm not familiar with the minor arcana, but she doesn't seem to be using them. He'd much better fit The Hermit or The Devil. The Archer isn't a card either. She could have used The High Priestess or The Star instead, maybe?
bringing a flask is so dumb, I had a friend in high school who was an alcoholic and she would just bring a coffee cup full of whiskey
I went to public high school and some of the trouble kids would have the teachers sniff their water bottles to see if it was actual water or if it was vodka, so it def happened. Not in a flask, though - that’s just dumb
Edit: also love the pun at the end about a tarot book being TAROT-ble
I don't remember a poison princess in the tarot deck. There's four base suits, of wands, cups, coins and swords, then twenty one trump cards. People like to pretend they can tell the future with them, but they're just playing cards.
I never really believe in them telling the future. But the major cards are fun to use in characters for what they represent... or at least how Persona taught me
I remember being so disappointed with this book
I love the concept Tarot based powers! But Evie was the worst, and Jackson is just....🤢🤮
Also, as someone who loves Tarot ....the author doesn't know jack.
She knows Jack…daniels 😂
@@ReadswithRachel 🥃🤣
endangered hymen safari 💀
ohhh i have so many thoughts on these books and i’m so glad someone commissioned you to read it… despite them being in a post apocalyptic world it really is just a backdrop for terrible teen romance with (spoilers ahoy) TWO different men over the age of 18(with one being death who is like 3 centuries old 🤮🤮) even though she’s 16 at the beginning of the novels and only turns 17 closer to the end? and like the story totally could worked with evie being an adult, because i think she’s actually the youngest of the arcana??? this book series just makes me so mad for so many reasons (ESPECIALLY the pregnancy later holyyyy fuck)
Ikr!! Back in the day, I ate these up, but when the author disappeared for a few years, and I matured... The reread doesn't hit the same way. It is waaaay more cringe now. I would love for it to be rewritten as less of a teen drama, and more post-apocalyptic game with a splash of romance here and there.
I don't know about you, but hymen safari is a stroke of literary genius 😂
I remember reading this series when I was younger….I only kept reading cause I liked the poison ivy powers….but oh boy does it get so bad I remember having a break down
Came to comments to learn what a "lantern jaw" is but I remain uneducated lol
I….😳😳 the fool is potential. New beginnings. Adventure. It’d make more sense if Evie were the fool👀
had to rewind several times when you said "endangered hymen" like god
This is one of my favorite series so watching this was a treat because I rarely hear anyone talk about it lol. I’m sorry your Patreon members made you read this but I, for one, had a blast watching it. 😈 Amazing content like always! ☺️💗
I’ve read all of the books in this series up until the forever-delayed last one and sad to say it only goes downhill from here. Especially when the second love interest shows up in the second book.
longtime watcher first time commenter. coming out of the woodwork because i had the overwhelming drunk girl in the bar bathroom urge to tell you your whole outfit is so cute. love the shirt with the cozy hat, love the casual look with the dramatic eye makeup
also fun fact an upperclassman in the geometry class i took freshman year did show up to class drunk and openly drinking out of a flask one day. i think the teacher wasn't there yet and campus was pretty empty since it was a voluntary early period before the official school day began, because i don't remember her getting in trouble. anyway love your stuff hope you have a wonderful day and read something good to make up for this drek!
Lantern jaw; Long thin jaw with a prominent chin, says google
So he's the crimson chin?
Princess & the Frog fanfic LOL🤣
Vodka in a water bottle was SUPPOSEDLY common at my high school but I never heard of anyone being caught drunk which seems impossible bc if you drink a whole water bottle of vodka you're definitely not going to appear sober.
if it helps you feel any better, the way you react when loosing your mind over bad and stupid books (especially your edits) are at least very funny and youre incredibly charismatic ddkjkj
Thank you 😅❤
The Frog Princess didn't deserve to be involved in this 😔🤧
"Hymen safari" is not a phrase I thought I would ever hear.
Ranging ball of anger! I choose you!!! 😂
Just OMG - the blurb alone is like a misogyny checklist. Beyond the pale.
Oh, dear. This is...I just can't. Glad it's you reading it and not me.
This book was given to me as a present. I dont usually read romance/adventure books, so I wanted to see if this book had a fandom of some sort. Give me more motivation to actually read it, ya know. Then I found this. Thank you for posting. Now I know I won't have to waste my time reading this lol.
I got this audio book to listen to on the train. ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT I was not okay.
Man, just listening to this makes me glad I’m making progress in my writing and how I want my story to play out in a future novel. This is exactly the kind of story I would write back when I started out in eighth grade - less plot focus, more character focus to fulfill hidden desires and ridiculous fantasies. In fact, I did one that was considered a “Romeo and Juliet” idea, except “Juliet” has magic. I’m glad THAT wasn’t published today, even online despite friends telling me they loved it 😂
This unlocked a suppressed memory
This is so almost Handbook for Mortals
The empress is usually seen as a symbol of like maternal energy? In a lot of imagery she’s pregnant. I guess she is linked to nature but more in like an abundance sort of way and definitely not poison. And the alchemist isn’t really a traditional card? Googling shows that maybe it could mean temperance but that would have nothing to do with being a serial killer and everything to do with having restraint? Also the fool is a really good card to get (new beginnings, unlimited potential innocent enthusiasm) but the pairing with autism is YIKES. Idk. Also the archer also isn’t a traditional card hut it looks like it might be the chariot which is about moving forward and being very goal oriented/focused while blazing a trail. Idk. I don’t know what deck she based this off of but it’s not the traditional rider Waite that I know.
oh god I didn't even think about "innocent enthusiasm" with the autistic character. somehow that's even worse than just taking "the fool" autistic boy at face value.
The popcorn apocalypse
The apopcornlypse! 🍿😱
The names of some of the cards are "accurate" to Tarot, though the lantern guy usually is called the hermit and not the alchemist.
The autistic character being the fool is even more insidious when one realizes that the fool is to represent a youth walking joyfully into the world. They are taking their first steps, and tjey are exuberant, joyful, and excited over new prospects/experiences. It's supposed to be a card of new beginnings, opportunity and potential, but with how you describe the narrative, the author went more for "this person has the mind of a child!" than anything else.
When you said 'Brad.. Dan?" My brain went straight to 'bran'
the way if I just saw the cover I'd assume the characters are early to mid twenties in age but NOPE! they're high schoolers because of course they are
I remember reading this in high school - I got so mad at Jack, the supposed "love interest." Think I read book 2 because I thought it would get better, it did not. (Look I just wanted Death to show up) But Jack is even worse in book 2
Well that was a yikesaroni of a book.
I've read almost the entire series (didn't read the last book). Kind of loved it. However it was HEAVY on the romance.
The aPOPalypse, one could say.
the girl in the gown and the guy in the t shirt on the cover is just so jarring
The amount of books like these that you've covered and I read in middle school/early high school is shocking (and I'm not sure what it says about me)
8:56, I never brought a flask to high school. We just used Gatorade bottles.
I always think my writing and story-telling is really bad but then I watch your videos about 1 star reads and think to myself.. maybe I'm bad but at least I didn't write tHAT
As someone from Louisiana I can confidently say that yes, teenagers brought flasks to school. I have a memory of looking into my bag, that doubled as a purse when not at school, and seeing that I forgot to take out my flask. It just kind of lived in my Mary Poppins level purse and I usually put it away after whatever house party I went to on the weekend.
One student got either suspended or expelled for drinking during an exam. The kind of yearly exam that we would take in an auditorium instead of a classroom. aka he was dumb as hell because it's the one time of year we have multiple teachers actively looking at what we are doing. One guy didn't get to walk at graduation because he did an eightball at prom and got caught. Again, dumb, he could have waited until the after party, but nope, right in front of 20 chaperons being the only person over 6'3" also was not in his favor.
What I'm getting at is that what you described from the book about high school in LA seems on par to what I personally went through. Including conversations about V-cards(yes I hate that as much as you do) because just like relationships, if your friend was doing it they wanted you to be doing it too.
As I'm from the city, the bayou thing and Cajun French was not common in my area. Though one of my family friends is fluent in Cajun French and posts in both Cajun French and English. His dad also plays a mean banjo. Seriously, anytime I was at their house during band practice was a trip.
A more likely pet name would be cher over bebe which sounds like beb in Cajun French aka babe. So though it could technically work in that context I'm pretty sure it would be followed up by a chuff of laughter. Also, we all have wildly different accents even with someone who grew up 15 minutes away there can be a VAST difference in how we pronounce certain words. It's very nuanced.
Just for fun, as a reference for those either not from the states or who've only every heard poorly done NOLA accents on TV...Looking at you Scott Bakula looking at YOU. Ellen DeGeneres, Tyler Perry, Jared Leto, Lil Wayne, Ian Somerhalder, Anthony Mackie, Terry Bradshaw, Tim McGraw and Shane West all have Louisiana accents if anyone is curious about how we sound.
"SHE'S SO ANOTHER GIRL" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀
""with those cheekbones, he probably has Choctaw ancestry-" stop it"" killed me lmfao
Okay so when I was like 15-16 I read this and was obsessed but then re-read it at an adult and was like WHAT IS THIS THIS IS NOT WHAT I REMEMBERED 😂😂😂
It is funny how I read that flask/alcohol at school part and never questioned it because I’m European. LOL. Here, you’re of age at 18, at 16, you can legally drink beer and wine.
The Fool in tarot doesn't mean "idiot" or "stupid". It means hopelessly optimistic and ignorant of how the real world works. I am curious how much this author knows about the major arcana though.
My guess would be nothing, as they don’t seem to understand the meanings of most of the cards, and some of the cards they mention aren’t actually real arcana. I’m pretty sure they just made up Archer and the Alchemist, because you will not find either of those in an actual tarot deck.
@readswithrachel I’m rewatching this vid after your worst books read in 2023 one and I just saw the Kirkus review about Poison Princess. I don’t really take Kirkus seriously but look at how it opens:
‘Mixing romance, a plant-killing apocalypse and mystical mumbo jumbo, this YA debut brings tears for the trees killed to print it.’
😂😂😂😂😂