looking back, hate is way too strong a word for the thirteenth child so i took it out of the thumbnail! that was more of a case of a book not meeting my expectations but metal slinger and bristol? actually bad. metal slinger was genuinely unreadable. i will never get over her multiple uses of 'in complete juxtaposition" - is this why reading comprehension is going down? because we're being written to as if we're actually stupid?
Not to be all tinfoil hat theory but I do wonder if the rise of ChatGPT and unnecessary AI features in software that spell things out for people like they're stupid and can't make judgements for themselves (the AI generated summary feature under UA-cam videos?? Hello??) has a trickle down effect in media. The "show don't tell" principle is especially glaring in movies and TV when it's ignored and you get a big exposition dump instead of moving plot scenes (looking at you, D+ Percy Jackson series). Technology is meant to enrich our lives, but not when it assumes everyone is stupid to begin with. When it's used so often to the point this mentality makes its way into a book, a good editor would point this out and reject the manuscript straight off the bat, but knowing how cutthroat the publishing industry has become in the age of social media I can bet they're willing to forego editors as long as they can get some slop out to drive up competition.
The real conspirscy theory is maybe publishers dont want to pay editors so theyre using chatgpt of making editors use it to then overload them with work
I feel like you’re thinking of Little Thieves by Margaret Owen! The fmc is the 13th child of a 13th child and her mom thinks she’s bad luck and brings her to the crossroads and gives her to Death and Fortune to raise.
Both Little Thieves and The Thirteenth Child are retellings of a fairly lesser known Brothers Grimm fairytale :3 I believe the original is called Godfather Death :3
@@capercaillieskye Yes I believe I said it was a Grimm fairytale in the video but I was asking what the other retelling I had read was called and the answer is Little Thieves :)
Girl, we turn to YOU when WE'RE down ❤ And you're just in time for me because I spent 2 hours today explaining to my boss that we are going wayyy over budget 🙃
I absolutely love your long videos. I like to watch while I shower or doing something that's about to take me forever to do and I'm dreading lol. I find so much joy in listening to you talk about books. I love that you don't give star ratings and love how honest you are. I also love your other channel. It's so inspiring seeing you traveling all around Korea (or anywhere really) by yourself! I'm so anxious doing things on my own in places I've never been. You have such a lovely energy that I find so comforting to watch/listen to. You are awesome🫶🏼
You're videos are such a comfort watch so in fact, THANK YOU for all that you do! I skipped the Mary E Pearson section of this video as I'm just starting it now but seeing the title of this video.. lol
Omg the heavy judgment on grammatical/spelling mistakes is soooo real!! I open a published book and there’s a glaring error!?? Immediate close for me tbh
First time watching your content, and I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I did. I stayed throughout the whole video and subscribed as well! As someone who’s usually quite picky about fantasy, I really appreciate the pain you went through for us. Looking forward to more of your amazing content! ❤
NEVER been this early. Literally saw the countdown on Insta stories when there were 20 seconds left and immediately headed over here to watch. This kind of video is the exact thing I need right now, so thank YOU Cari for providing us with amazing content.
I hated the thirteenth child sm - the main love interest called her a wh*re in front of a bunch of people then later said “my bad” and she’s like “there’s no way he could like ME! Poor ol’ me” 🤮
YES, i totally agree with what you said about successful YA fantasy writers failing at writing Adult fantasy! it makes no sense, i can’t imagine what the difference between the two is IN THEIR MINDS that makes the quality sooo different.
I started Metal Slinger a couple of days ago and know exactly what you’re talking about. I have so many notes on how poorly it was written. It defiantly could have used a couple of additional editing phases. I’m going to finish it (yes I am a masochist) and I do feel like the writing gets a bit better as the story goes on. I’m 44% of the way through and there aren’t as many parts that make cringe now as there were in the first quarter. Maybe my mind is starting to adapt and ignore the issues now.
Thank you for your service Cari ! 😂 I was considering adding Metal Slinger to my TBR so you saved me from a very painful read ! Looooved your very thourough rant about it, it's all I'll ever need to know about this book ! However... I read One for My Enemy based on your recommandation and other booktubers and I feel like I'm alone in this opinion but I really did NOT enjoy this book. I loved the first 100 pages but then people died and came back to life and we were never told how that was possible, there were no consequences even though it's like the most extreme magic out there to bring someone back. So I just stopped caring... All the characters made terrible choices and I felt like the author really disrespected some of her characters : the sisters that aren't protagonist all literally described in one paragraph - so she can tell us the relevant bit of magic we need to know about to further the plot - and that's it ! she moves on ! That's not how you introduce characters. The writing is very lyrical which is why I loved the beginning of the book but the plot was not plotting, the characters motivations didn't work and the magic system made no sense. please does anyone out there share my opinion on this book ?!
I 100% agree. I enjoyed the first half of One for My Enemy and had to force myself to finish the rest. Too many useless characters, the feud didn't make sense, too little action, magic system was messy, and there was no pay off. It was a case of so many (flowery) words yet saying so little. Overall, very boring.
i cant wait to see your review for hollow and the haunted!! the author is working on the second one now and im so excited😭 the ending had me in a daze for like a week!!
I actually had to go back and relisten and still have no idea what you were talking about when reading the synopsis for metal slinger 😅😅 my brain had no idea if that was separate sentences or one really long run on
Girl I am so GLAD you agree with me on Bristol Keats. I was so so so excited about the release that I would go to a bookstore daily that had the pre-release just to read it before it actually got released. I had left it at 73% on my kindle and was planning on going back to it but you basically told us what happens so I was like phew, don’t have to suffer through that anymore 😂. What annoyed me so much about the book was that 1) it straight up tried to copy cruel prince (Stephanie Garber apparently called Pearson the new “faerie queen”) I mean, hello, Elphame??? 2) The romance was so non-sensical and stupid. When he said he loved her I was beyond confused. Like why? What’d she do that was so loveable? Hella odd. 3) if the chapters weren’t titled with the POVs I genuinely would not know who’s POV I was reading because it all read exactly the same. 4) The sex scene was awful 😶 something about bjs in books gives me an ick so intense I can’t help myself. That was my breaking point tbh 😂
Your videos introduced me to Erin A. Craig's books. I was about to get The Thirteenth Child but flipped to a random page and saw the phrase "your authentic self," which just took me right out of any semblance of a fairy-tale retelling setting. "Your true self" would not have but had such a sharp "nope" reaction. I enjoyed watching you talk about your experience with it.
Hey Cari, going to graduate my M.D program in a month - just wanted to say thanks for having brought me so much comfort throughout the years, and helping me find good books for the limited time I have had for reading! ❤ (Also, I love your inclusivity and strong moral values - thank you for being a force of good!)
I can feel your frustration through the screen, I've been in a reading slump these days and things I find are just "not it", I'm sorry you had a bad book experience, but why is it healing to see someone express their emotions like I'm finding an outlet. Decided to comment right after watching you commenting on Metal Slinger plot twist and how it doesn't logically lead to it. When it comes to twists and turns nowadays I always remember specific scene from the Glass Onion movie, when we see Janelle Monae for the first time, she's sitting in front of the puzzle box and her head is wrapped in a towel. Then she smashes the box with a hammer. This is one of those finest moments I think that are so small but also smart, showing, but also concealing, because before you find out that (spoiler warning for those who haven't watched) this is not who we think, but a twin sister, looking back it immediately starts to make sense the way it was presented, towel doesn't show her hair color, maybe her smart twin would find amusing solving the puzzle but she is did not bother. And it's full of nice small details that are simple, but they're working. Now, I'm off finishing the video.
Agreed on Metal Slinger. I struggled through to the end because it was so hyped and people said it had an amazing twist at the end but you can't have an unreliable narrator in first person pov. And yes, I was also thinking 'what about the people in the cages, are you just going to accept that without digging further?" and I also thought it was wrong of her to go to Acker's kingdom without seeing her mother and being in a position of power/equality derived from her position as a Princess. Surely you should think to learn about your people and your responsiblities to them.
I can’t explain why, but your book videos are just so comforting to watch. I was so excited when I got the new video notification. Thank you for making them. These are scary times, and it makes life a little bit easier ❤ ps I think a lot of your views on your long videos are me watching them a million times because I love falling asleep to them and I start where I fell asleep last lol
I’m only 25 minutes in but it’s clear from the start that Metal Slinger is doomed to fail 😂. I think I would’ve DNFd based on what you read from the start of the first chapter
totally felt the disappointment with metal slinger, i dnfed like 50 pages in. i’m in college and do NOT have time to read things that aren’t executed properly or with care
Hi, I really appreciate your videos, and I wanted to recommend my favorite book series right now: Yona of the Dawn. It's so good, and it has some of the best slow-burn subplots ever and great character development!
Courting of Bristol Keats felt like she was just trying to emulate those romantasys that are massive on TikTok. It felt like it was trying to hit all the beats but landed none of them I like her other series but I will not be continuing this
I was so excited for all three books 😭. Still going to read Thirteen Child and The Courting of Bristol (my first Owlcrate book, at least it’s beautiful 😅) because I own them lol. Love your reviews even when they make me sad 😭
I see people going through it this week in the comments so I'll just throw my two cents and tell the thing this video helped me forget for a while lol: I need to refer a teenage patient to a different professional because I'm not qualified to deal with his disability and his mom's been avoiding me the whoooooole week because she thinks if I don't have a meeting with her I can't let my patient go......... absolutely frustrating for me AND the kid who isn't getting the care he needs :) ANYWAY I've basically sworn off fantasy these past few years and am branching out way less than I used to, because reading new stuff feels like you felt during this video lol. I've been keeping to my favorite authors and series and reading some new YA contemporaries because those don't usually take much brain space. My brain's been very foggy these past few years when trying to read, so I'm taking it easy. I actually tried The kiss of deception's audiobook a few months back and couldn't get through the first 25%, I was too impatient and wanted to get to the "who's the assassin" part already so I DNFd it, but it was definitely a soft DNF. When this brain fog lifts I'm for sure coming back to it. So glad to get a heads up for the author's newer work lmfao so sorry you had to go through that for ur
I think sometimes writing styles just run so counter to our own internal language that it makes it hard to understand the meaning of sentences. I have a graduate degree in literature, but A Memory Called Empire might as well have been written in Arabic. It felt like I had to read every sentence three times, and got gibberish for my trouble. But I know some people felt it was beautifully written. To each his own, I guess.
but i think we have to take into account what the writer's goal is - in a memory called empire, we're experiencing a story about people from another world who are obsessed with epic poetry so it is intentionally written in an overcomplicated slightly bizarre way. With metal slinger for example, its merely a case of the writer not accomplishing anything she wants to do with the story. she doesnt world build, her scene setting is clunky, she has these strange time jumps which are strange only because she fails to create any sense of time passing, her plot holes are miles wide, etc. This wasnt a case of a writing style that did click imo, it was, on a sentence by sentence level, written poorly :/
@@caricanread oh sure, plot holes are objective-I just meant when you felt like you’d read gibberish with the goodreads page. Sometimes I’ll read something and be like, the grammar made sense, and I still have no idea what’s going on, why do people like this?
Im glad to hear that i wasnt the only one confused and underwhelmed by thirteenth child, makes me want to read little thieves more though! And i will cautiously tiptoe into bristol keats out of curiosity.. 😬
I really loved the thirteenth child. It was a subtle, quiet and thoughtful book. It didn’t have a huge climax, but it was still impactful. A 5🌟 for me genuinely. I cried at the end.
"Courting" read like a fever dream... I think the second book will be to this book, like the second book in Kiss of Deception was. It was wild but might have needed to be released at the same time or closer together.
I remember you raving about “Six of Crows” and I ended up picking it up. I have to say what an amazing read, the characters, the story line, everything. The second book fell apart once or twice in certain spots but kept to the strength of the first book. I ended up reading the Grisha Verse right after and I hate to say it but it was so predictable, its main plot line. Some things happening around it were fantastic. I have to say in my opinion I would skip the main storyline and stay in Ketterdam.
Hey, love your vidoes. Fun fact regarding the first book. In Czechia we have a movie fairy tale from the 60s that kinda fits the description of the The Thirteenth Child. It's callled Dařbuján a Pandrhola. I don't remember it much but it's about a poor man who is looking for someone to be a godfather of his newly born twelth child, but he cannot find anyone untill he meets death himself. They sort of befriend each other and the death becomes the godfather of the child. Because death likes the father, he gives him sort of a healing gift. He can heal sick people - the catch is that he cannot heal people if he sees death standing next to their head. That means they are meant to die. The plot also involves a rich stingy man that is evil and mean to everyone in the village. He eventualy gets sick. It's rly good movie often played in tv around chrismass time. So if anyone is interested, i reccomend to watch it. It's old but it's well loved through generations here.
Cari I highly recommend that you read the Winner’s trilogy by Marie Rutkoski, it is my favorite trilogy to exist. Her writing is so good, there so much angst, political intrigue and romance with a satisfactory ending. Would love to hear your opinion on it.
I just came to the ghost sex part and burst out laughing! You were going through it in this video, I'm so sorry! But thank you for the spoilers because ain't no way in hell I would be reading these on my own. Although I still plan on reading 13th child because I heard some really good recs for it, even from trusted people so I'm torn... But yeah, I'll give it a chance.
I just finished reading When the moon hatched and immediately thought "I need to know Cari's opinion on this.." potential for a plot explained video maybe?
Spoilery thoughts on The Thirteenth Child . . . . . . . I think that more than death itself, the book was discussing more of what you do with your life, and the gifts you have. There were some passages where Hazel asked how do people fill their years of life, or how she was the catalyst for Leo to do something with his life, and his influence and reach. It was also seen in the epilogue, how she recounts her life. How at the moment of death, all one thinks about is they want more of life, whether to live more or just a moment to recount and remember everything. I agree with you that the last chapter and epilogue was so good. And that it was episodic, but it could be because we're sort of following her from the time she was born. Honestly, i thought i was done with it at 30 to 50 pages to the end because why are there still a lot of things happening? We could've gone through with this 50 pages earlier. LOL. I'm not sure i LIKED it, but i quite liked it, especially some passages, and i really liked the epilogue.
I almost spent 30 dollars on the court of Bristol Keats cuz it sounded interesting and the hardcover is gorgeous but decided I should wait to read it from the library and thank goodness I did! I saved myself 30 bucks
The someone can immediately know how to heal a patient, unless they're marked by Death plot is from a Russian fairy tale called Godfather Death, which was adapted in an episode of Jim Henson's Storyteller
I had to skip the first part because The Thirteenth Child is my favorite book I've read this year and checked boxes I didn't know I needed/wanted. But i can understand why it might not click with some. 😅
I remember being disappointed by the book '11/22/63'. I've heard nothing but good reviews about it, and while I enjoyed it, I didn't love it while I was hoping I would.
Yes, read more Ann Leicke! Ancillary Justice, and the rest of the series, then her weird fantasy. If nothing else, it will make you forget "Metal Slinger"
ancillary justice is fantastic, the world building is amazing, but it Is one of those books that’s going somewhere i Promise, but you do just kinda gotta go with the flow until everything comes together. so worth it, but u gotta trust the process
Listening to cari rant about metal slinger got me curious, and found out it has 4.32 stars in goodreads????!!!! Why??? Why???? This is so scammy 😬 i hate it when authors are so dependent on plot twist but disregard the consistency of a build up to that plot twist. 🤦🏻♀️
Two books that really let me down the past couple months were “House of Roots and Ruin” and “the spell shop”. Could’ve been 5 stars but made awful writing decisions at the end. I’m just begging to read a 5 star book again haha
I'm so sad to hear that you and a lot of other people did not like Bristol Keats! I was honestly on the fence when I first heard about it because while I LOVED all of Mary E. Pearson's previous books (Remnant Chronicles trilogy and Dance of Thieves duology), the minute I heard it was going to have fae I had a bad feeling it was going to be filled with popular Booktok tropes and wouldn't have any originality. It's a shame because she's a great writer, but I think I'm going to skip unless I hear that the second book blows everyone's mind
This will be my very first comment on any UA-cam channel ever but I am so desperate for you to read “Blood of Hercules” by Jasmine Mas. Im not sure if you already have read it or not but PLEASE, please make a reading vlog for it. I cannot describe to you why it is praised so highly (on my TikTok at least) besides it having a good plot concept but that was it! Truly the most vile reading experience I’ve ever had and seeing your reaction to the poor writing for Metal Slinger just made me crave your thoughts for Blood of Hercules because I know I have a lot to say about it but your opinions and reviews are unmatched. 35:40
looking back, hate is way too strong a word for the thirteenth child so i took it out of the thumbnail! that was more of a case of a book not meeting my expectations but metal slinger and bristol? actually bad.
metal slinger was genuinely unreadable. i will never get over her multiple uses of 'in complete juxtaposition" - is this why reading comprehension is going down? because we're being written to as if we're actually stupid?
Not to be all tinfoil hat theory but I do wonder if the rise of ChatGPT and unnecessary AI features in software that spell things out for people like they're stupid and can't make judgements for themselves (the AI generated summary feature under UA-cam videos?? Hello??) has a trickle down effect in media. The "show don't tell" principle is especially glaring in movies and TV when it's ignored and you get a big exposition dump instead of moving plot scenes (looking at you, D+ Percy Jackson series). Technology is meant to enrich our lives, but not when it assumes everyone is stupid to begin with. When it's used so often to the point this mentality makes its way into a book, a good editor would point this out and reject the manuscript straight off the bat, but knowing how cutthroat the publishing industry has become in the age of social media I can bet they're willing to forego editors as long as they can get some slop out to drive up competition.
The real conspirscy theory is maybe publishers dont want to pay editors so theyre using chatgpt of making editors use it to then overload them with work
cutting from the complete despair that something will be a duology, and thus, continue to happy Cari excited to read books is deeply funny
i was so innocent
I feel like you’re thinking of Little Thieves by Margaret Owen! The fmc is the 13th child of a 13th child and her mom thinks she’s bad luck and brings her to the crossroads and gives her to Death and Fortune to raise.
YES OMG THANK YOU
oh my gosh i loooove that book
Both Little Thieves and The Thirteenth Child are retellings of a fairly lesser known Brothers Grimm fairytale :3 I believe the original is called Godfather Death :3
@@capercaillieskye Yes I believe I said it was a Grimm fairytale in the video but I was asking what the other retelling I had read was called and the answer is Little Thieves :)
i listen to your videos while making dinner and i think i’ve pavloved myself into being hungry as soon as i hear your voice
And when I needed her most, she posted. Curled up watching after taking a stressful exam. Thank you!
hope it went well!!!
lighting up my candles, lying in my bed, and watching Cari, yessss
omg :'''')
Girl, we turn to YOU when WE'RE down ❤ And you're just in time for me because I spent 2 hours today explaining to my boss that we are going wayyy over budget 🙃
noooo omg good luck to you :'''''')
I love watching your longer vlogs while I crochet 💙💙💙
yeeee thank you!
I absolutely love your long videos. I like to watch while I shower or doing something that's about to take me forever to do and I'm dreading lol. I find so much joy in listening to you talk about books. I love that you don't give star ratings and love how honest you are. I also love your other channel. It's so inspiring seeing you traveling all around Korea (or anywhere really) by yourself! I'm so anxious doing things on my own in places I've never been. You have such a lovely energy that I find so comforting to watch/listen to. You are awesome🫶🏼
You're videos are such a comfort watch so in fact, THANK YOU for all that you do! I skipped the Mary E Pearson section of this video as I'm just starting it now but seeing the title of this video.. lol
good luck to you hahahha
Omg the heavy judgment on grammatical/spelling mistakes is soooo real!! I open a published book and there’s a glaring error!?? Immediate close for me tbh
On the first page too 🥲😮💨
I love your channel so much! Your plot breakdowns are AMAZING❤❤❤❤❤
thank you so much!!!
41:13 🎶Keep a little dirt under my pillow for the dirt man 🎶
“i need to rant” I NEED TO CLICK
THANK YOU!
First time watching your content, and I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I did. I stayed throughout the whole video and subscribed as well!
As someone who’s usually quite picky about fantasy, I really appreciate the pain you went through for us. Looking forward to more of your amazing content! ❤
AN HOUR long cari reading vlog I AM SO HAPPY
NEVER been this early. Literally saw the countdown on Insta stories when there were 20 seconds left and immediately headed over here to watch. This kind of video is the exact thing I need right now, so thank YOU Cari for providing us with amazing content.
wahhhhh thank YOU!!
For real, the kindle popular highlights make me roll my eyes SO HARD sometimes.
I hated the thirteenth child sm - the main love interest called her a wh*re in front of a bunch of people then later said “my bad” and she’s like “there’s no way he could like ME! Poor ol’ me” 🤮
perfect cari video for a chilly fall night!! so excited to watch this
the last time i was this early, sjm was still writing the crescent city
lol and sjm should of kept that in the drafts!
YES, i totally agree with what you said about successful YA fantasy writers failing at writing Adult fantasy! it makes no sense, i can’t imagine what the difference between the two is IN THEIR MINDS that makes the quality sooo different.
Even miss holly black couldnt do it 😭😭😭
I started Metal Slinger a couple of days ago and know exactly what you’re talking about. I have so many notes on how poorly it was written. It defiantly could have used a couple of additional editing phases. I’m going to finish it (yes I am a masochist) and I do feel like the writing gets a bit better as the story goes on. I’m 44% of the way through and there aren’t as many parts that make cringe now as there were in the first quarter. Maybe my mind is starting to adapt and ignore the issues now.
I'm normally more pro DNF, but everything after 59:28 just made my night.
whispers * i can't spell * hearing that as I procrastinate writing my book made me feel very seen, thank you
Everyone say "Thank you Cari for this scrumptious food 🥰🥰"
hahahhah 🥰
THANK YOU CARI FOR THIS SCRUMPTIOUS FOOD
6:10 girl just look at your storygraph 😭😭💜
girl i read 200 books a year and am not find it by scrolling through all of them with only a vague sense of the plot 😭😭💜
Please do another christmas romcom reading vlog this year!! Its one of my favourite videos of yours hahahd
The need for more book recommendations is always high!
sadly this is a vid of anti-recommendations lol
Thank you for your service Cari ! 😂 I was considering adding Metal Slinger to my TBR so you saved me from a very painful read ! Looooved your very thourough rant about it, it's all I'll ever need to know about this book !
However... I read One for My Enemy based on your recommandation and other booktubers and I feel like I'm alone in this opinion but I really did NOT enjoy this book.
I loved the first 100 pages but then people died and came back to life and we were never told how that was possible, there were no consequences even though it's like the most extreme magic out there to bring someone back. So I just stopped caring... All the characters made terrible choices and I felt like the author really disrespected some of her characters : the sisters that aren't protagonist all literally described in one paragraph - so she can tell us the relevant bit of magic we need to know about to further the plot - and that's it ! she moves on ! That's not how you introduce characters. The writing is very lyrical which is why I loved the beginning of the book but the plot was not plotting, the characters motivations didn't work and the magic system made no sense.
please does anyone out there share my opinion on this book ?!
I 100% agree. I enjoyed the first half of One for My Enemy and had to force myself to finish the rest. Too many useless characters, the feud didn't make sense, too little action, magic system was messy, and there was no pay off. It was a case of so many (flowery) words yet saying so little. Overall, very boring.
i cant wait to see your review for hollow and the haunted!! the author is working on the second one now and im so excited😭 the ending had me in a daze for like a week!!
spoiler but i looooved!
I actually had to go back and relisten and still have no idea what you were talking about when reading the synopsis for metal slinger 😅😅 my brain had no idea if that was separate sentences or one really long run on
WAKE UP EVERYBODY!!!! NEW CARI VIDEO JUST DROPPED!!!! I have never heard of these books so I’m excited to get into all the juicy details.
Making soup rn and watching Cari is the perfect fall night like !?
Girl I am so GLAD you agree with me on Bristol Keats. I was so so so excited about the release that I would go to a bookstore daily that had the pre-release just to read it before it actually got released. I had left it at 73% on my kindle and was planning on going back to it but you basically told us what happens so I was like phew, don’t have to suffer through that anymore 😂. What annoyed me so much about the book was that 1) it straight up tried to copy cruel prince (Stephanie Garber apparently called Pearson the new “faerie queen”) I mean, hello, Elphame??? 2) The romance was so non-sensical and stupid. When he said he loved her I was beyond confused. Like why? What’d she do that was so loveable? Hella odd. 3) if the chapters weren’t titled with the POVs I genuinely would not know who’s POV I was reading because it all read exactly the same. 4) The sex scene was awful 😶 something about bjs in books gives me an ick so intense I can’t help myself. That was my breaking point tbh 😂
Your videos introduced me to Erin A. Craig's books. I was about to get The Thirteenth Child but flipped to a random page and saw the phrase "your authentic self," which just took me right out of any semblance of a fairy-tale retelling setting. "Your true self" would not have but had such a sharp "nope" reaction. I enjoyed watching you talk about your experience with it.
Thank you for your videos Cari, they always bring me lots of comfort whenever I’m feeling anxious and need some grounding 💕
Hey Cari, going to graduate my M.D program in a month - just wanted to say thanks for having brought me so much comfort throughout the years, and helping me find good books for the limited time I have had for reading! ❤
(Also, I love your inclusivity and strong moral values - thank you for being a force of good!)
You’re videos actually make my day! Your my comfort channel and you got me back into reading ❤ you’re awesome and I can’t wait to see more videos
Watching your videos is risking my wallet (courtesy of the bookstore) but I love it so much
not this one hopefully lol
@@caricanreadno lol but now I want to read Little Thieves
I love you so much Cari. So thankful for your recommendations. I just finished The Thirteenth Child and loved it!
thanks for watching!
I can feel your frustration through the screen, I've been in a reading slump these days and things I find are just "not it", I'm sorry you had a bad book experience, but why is it healing to see someone express their emotions like I'm finding an outlet.
Decided to comment right after watching you commenting on Metal Slinger plot twist and how it doesn't logically lead to it.
When it comes to twists and turns nowadays I always remember specific scene from the Glass Onion movie, when we see Janelle Monae for the first time, she's sitting in front of the puzzle box and her head is wrapped in a towel. Then she smashes the box with a hammer. This is one of those finest moments I think that are so small but also smart, showing, but also concealing, because before you find out that (spoiler warning for those who haven't watched) this is not who we think, but a twin sister, looking back it immediately starts to make sense the way it was presented, towel doesn't show her hair color, maybe her smart twin would find amusing solving the puzzle but she is did not bother. And it's full of nice small details that are simple, but they're working.
Now, I'm off finishing the video.
this is like watching documentary footage when you know the story ends in tragedy
Can’t believe I saw this video within 6 views. I love your reading vlogs so much!!!
omg thank you!!!!
Agreed on Metal Slinger. I struggled through to the end because it was so hyped and people said it had an amazing twist at the end but you can't have an unreliable narrator in first person pov. And yes, I was also thinking 'what about the people in the cages, are you just going to accept that without digging further?" and I also thought it was wrong of her to go to Acker's kingdom without seeing her mother and being in a position of power/equality derived from her position as a Princess. Surely you should think to learn about your people and your responsiblities to them.
I can’t explain why, but your book videos are just so comforting to watch. I was so excited when I got the new video notification. Thank you for making them. These are scary times, and it makes life a little bit easier ❤ ps I think a lot of your views on your long videos are me watching them a million times because I love falling asleep to them and I start where I fell asleep last lol
I’m only 25 minutes in but it’s clear from the start that Metal Slinger is doomed to fail 😂. I think I would’ve DNFd based on what you read from the start of the first chapter
totally felt the disappointment with metal slinger, i dnfed like 50 pages in. i’m in college and do NOT have time to read things that aren’t executed properly or with care
to me, it felt like a book that was written to recreate every other book already on the market
Cari video! Time to get cozy and nod at my tv like im having a friend over for tea ☺️
I love the lesson on telling vs showing & writing in general LOL 😂
I HAVE BEEN SO EXCITED FOR THIS IM SO HAPPY!!
yeeeee thank you!!!!!
CARIIIIII….you were dearly missed ❤❤
thank you :''')
Yayyy Cari posted! Gonna crochet while watching this! This is the best way to spend my evening ❤️☺️
Reading vlogs bore me to dead, but there is just something in yours - maybe the commentary, that I LOVE
Over an hour long video??? Perfect end to the night 💖
Hi, I really appreciate your videos, and I wanted to recommend my favorite book series right now: Yona of the Dawn. It's so good, and it has some of the best slow-burn subplots ever and great character development!
thank you so much!!!
I have also been stuck in a pit lately of disappointing books 😭
dang rabbits! i'm sorry these were so bad but wonderful, cozy video.
needed a Cari video today 🥰
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Omg I'm so early! I adore your energy and love sharing a laugh with you watching your vids! Can't wait for the Nov wrap up!
thank you!!!
I found The Courting of Bristol Keats to be so good! I loved the omniscient view point and I got to hear Mary E Pearson talk about the book tonight!
Ooh I am excited for you to try ancillary justice, hungry for more sci-fi content.
Courting of Bristol Keats felt like she was just trying to emulate those romantasys that are massive on TikTok.
It felt like it was trying to hit all the beats but landed none of them
I like her other series but I will not be continuing this
it was sadly such a waste of my time even though the first few chapters were good :''')
I loved Metal Slinger. I absolutely cannot explain why because I don't disagree with a single thing you said. AND YET. 4 stars 😂
I was so excited for all three books 😭. Still going to read Thirteen Child and The Courting of Bristol (my first Owlcrate book, at least it’s beautiful 😅) because I own them lol. Love your reviews even when they make me sad 😭
I see people going through it this week in the comments so I'll just throw my two cents and tell the thing this video helped me forget for a while lol: I need to refer a teenage patient to a different professional because I'm not qualified to deal with his disability and his mom's been avoiding me the whoooooole week because she thinks if I don't have a meeting with her I can't let my patient go......... absolutely frustrating for me AND the kid who isn't getting the care he needs :)
ANYWAY I've basically sworn off fantasy these past few years and am branching out way less than I used to, because reading new stuff feels like you felt during this video lol. I've been keeping to my favorite authors and series and reading some new YA contemporaries because those don't usually take much brain space. My brain's been very foggy these past few years when trying to read, so I'm taking it easy. I actually tried The kiss of deception's audiobook a few months back and couldn't get through the first 25%, I was too impatient and wanted to get to the "who's the assassin" part already so I DNFd it, but it was definitely a soft DNF. When this brain fog lifts I'm for sure coming back to it. So glad to get a heads up for the author's newer work lmfao so sorry you had to go through that for ur
Nooooo!!! I have two special editions of The Courting of Bristol Keats already paid for lol
:''''') i hope you like it!!
It's Cari Thursday guuuys (for all the westerns fellas)!! It's so funny because I'm so happy and excited to see you get angry at books 😂
hahahaha happy to provide entertainment
I think sometimes writing styles just run so counter to our own internal language that it makes it hard to understand the meaning of sentences. I have a graduate degree in literature, but A Memory Called Empire might as well have been written in Arabic. It felt like I had to read every sentence three times, and got gibberish for my trouble. But I know some people felt it was beautifully written. To each his own, I guess.
but i think we have to take into account what the writer's goal is - in a memory called empire, we're experiencing a story about people from another world who are obsessed with epic poetry so it is intentionally written in an overcomplicated slightly bizarre way. With metal slinger for example, its merely a case of the writer not accomplishing anything she wants to do with the story. she doesnt world build, her scene setting is clunky, she has these strange time jumps which are strange only because she fails to create any sense of time passing, her plot holes are miles wide, etc. This wasnt a case of a writing style that did click imo, it was, on a sentence by sentence level, written poorly :/
@@caricanread oh sure, plot holes are objective-I just meant when you felt like you’d read gibberish with the goodreads page. Sometimes I’ll read something and be like, the grammar made sense, and I still have no idea what’s going on, why do people like this?
Just want to let you know, I recently finished the first YA fantasy book, thanks to you. I read Legendborn and I LOVE IT.
Im glad to hear that i wasnt the only one confused and underwhelmed by thirteenth child, makes me want to read little thieves more though! And i will cautiously tiptoe into bristol keats out of curiosity.. 😬
That first one is an old mexican movie called Macario! It's basically the same ability, beautifully made, I recommend anyone interested to watch it
I really loved the thirteenth child. It was a subtle, quiet and thoughtful book. It didn’t have a huge climax, but it was still impactful. A 5🌟 for me genuinely. I cried at the end.
"Courting" read like a fever dream... I think the second book will be to this book, like the second book in Kiss of Deception was. It was wild but might have needed to be released at the same time or closer together.
I remember you raving about “Six of Crows” and I ended up picking it up. I have to say what an amazing read, the characters, the story line, everything. The second book fell apart once or twice in certain spots but kept to the strength of the first book.
I ended up reading the Grisha Verse right after and I hate to say it but it was so predictable, its main plot line. Some things happening around it were fantastic.
I have to say in my opinion I would skip the main storyline and stay in Ketterdam.
Hey, love your vidoes. Fun fact regarding the first book. In Czechia we have a movie fairy tale from the 60s that kinda fits the description of the The Thirteenth Child. It's callled Dařbuján a Pandrhola. I don't remember it much but it's about a poor man who is looking for someone to be a godfather of his newly born twelth child, but he cannot find anyone untill he meets death himself. They sort of befriend each other and the death becomes the godfather of the child. Because death likes the father, he gives him sort of a healing gift. He can heal sick people - the catch is that he cannot heal people if he sees death standing next to their head. That means they are meant to die. The plot also involves a rich stingy man that is evil and mean to everyone in the village. He eventualy gets sick. It's rly good movie often played in tv around chrismass time. So if anyone is interested, i reccomend to watch it. It's old but it's well loved through generations here.
44:06 ok but the gasp i just gusped 😂😂😂😂😂
Cari I highly recommend that you read the Winner’s trilogy by Marie Rutkoski, it is my favorite trilogy to exist. Her writing is so good, there so much angst, political intrigue and romance with a satisfactory ending. Would love to hear your opinion on it.
I just came to the ghost sex part and burst out laughing!
You were going through it in this video, I'm so sorry! But thank you for the spoilers because ain't no way in hell I would be reading these on my own. Although I still plan on reading 13th child because I heard some really good recs for it, even from trusted people so I'm torn... But yeah, I'll give it a chance.
YESSS finally someone who hated metal slinger as much as I did 😫
I just finished reading When the moon hatched and immediately thought "I need to know Cari's opinion on this.." potential for a plot explained video maybe?
i read one chapter and put it DOWN hahaha
I almost dnf'd it too! I forced myself to finish it 😂
Spoilery thoughts on The Thirteenth Child
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I think that more than death itself, the book was discussing more of what you do with your life, and the gifts you have. There were some passages where Hazel asked how do people fill their years of life, or how she was the catalyst for Leo to do something with his life, and his influence and reach. It was also seen in the epilogue, how she recounts her life. How at the moment of death, all one thinks about is they want more of life, whether to live more or just a moment to recount and remember everything.
I agree with you that the last chapter and epilogue was so good. And that it was episodic, but it could be because we're sort of following her from the time she was born. Honestly, i thought i was done with it at 30 to 50 pages to the end because why are there still a lot of things happening? We could've gone through with this 50 pages earlier. LOL. I'm not sure i LIKED it, but i quite liked it, especially some passages, and i really liked the epilogue.
I almost spent 30 dollars on the court of Bristol Keats cuz it sounded interesting and the hardcover is gorgeous but decided I should wait to read it from the library and thank goodness I did! I saved myself 30 bucks
The someone can immediately know how to heal a patient, unless they're marked by Death plot is from a Russian fairy tale called Godfather Death, which was adapted in an episode of Jim Henson's Storyteller
yes i mention grimm's godfather death in this video!
I think maybe little thieves is what your were thinking of it’s a Goose girl retelling
thank you ahhhh that was it!!!
I had to skip the first part because The Thirteenth Child is my favorite book I've read this year and checked boxes I didn't know I needed/wanted. But i can understand why it might not click with some. 😅
i think it just missed a little spark for me, something was missing, but the ending had me crying!
@caricanread Oh I sobbed at the ending. I'm still thinking about the ending and it was satisfying albeit devastating bittersweet.
I agree with all of this! One of my favorite books of the year!
I remember being disappointed by the book '11/22/63'. I've heard nothing but good reviews about it, and while I enjoyed it, I didn't love it while I was hoping I would.
it hurts more when you go in thinking you'll enjoy the book :''')
@@caricanread it does.
Yay my cat’s favorite UA-camr posted
Loved the rant!😅 btw, what microphone are you using here?
Yes, read more Ann Leicke! Ancillary Justice, and the rest of the series, then her weird fantasy. If nothing else, it will make you forget "Metal Slinger"
ancillary justice is fantastic, the world building is amazing, but it Is one of those books that’s going somewhere i Promise, but you do just kinda gotta go with the flow until everything comes together. so worth it, but u gotta trust the process
I was so pissed when I got to the end of metal slinger lmao. Also was she just okay with being kidnapped as a child?! So confused.
I read The Thirteen Child! Toward the end, it felt especially quick and jumpy to me, and I'm not sure how I feel about it
Listening to cari rant about metal slinger got me curious, and found out it has 4.32 stars in goodreads????!!!! Why??? Why???? This is so scammy 😬 i hate it when authors are so dependent on plot twist but disregard the consistency of a build up to that plot twist. 🤦🏻♀️
Two books that really let me down the past couple months were “House of Roots and Ruin” and “the spell shop”. Could’ve been 5 stars but made awful writing decisions at the end. I’m just begging to read a 5 star book again haha
You: kai has a little stash of dirt
My brain immedietly: I have a jar of diiirt😂😂
Yay!!! New Cari vid!!
I'm so sad to hear that you and a lot of other people did not like Bristol Keats! I was honestly on the fence when I first heard about it because while I LOVED all of Mary E. Pearson's previous books (Remnant Chronicles trilogy and Dance of Thieves duology), the minute I heard it was going to have fae I had a bad feeling it was going to be filled with popular Booktok tropes and wouldn't have any originality. It's a shame because she's a great writer, but I think I'm going to skip unless I hear that the second book blows everyone's mind
Yeah it felt like she read a lot of fae books and thought she could try it when I loved how unique her other worlds were 😭😭😭
This will be my very first comment on any UA-cam channel ever but I am so desperate for you to read “Blood of Hercules” by Jasmine Mas. Im not sure if you already have read it or not but PLEASE, please make a reading vlog for it. I cannot describe to you why it is praised so highly (on my TikTok at least) besides it having a good plot concept but that was it! Truly the most vile reading experience I’ve ever had and seeing your reaction to the poor writing for Metal Slinger just made me crave your thoughts for Blood of Hercules because I know I have a lot to say about it but your opinions and reviews are unmatched. 35:40
So sad about Bristol Keats seeing as I just bought it. I'll have to read it for myself now, but I was really thinking it sounded good :(