@@thisstoryaintover thanks for putting throne of Glass and Acotar cause some booktuber's love them and some don't they can love whatever they want when teenagers read them they love it but when adults read them they see the red flags and problematic things in them (also you pretty 😍 everyday)
Honestly will never consider Cursed Child as canon, which is definitely a popular opinion lol, because it wasn’t written by JK Rowling herself so to me it’s not a part of the actual series. It’s more like a companion book based on a play by a different author. Does anyone like that book btw? I don’t think I’ve heard anyone say they legitimately like it 😄
Exactly. And she’s better at screenwriting too, as seen with Fantastic Beasts. Crimes of Grindelwald was a bit of a mess and hopefully the third movie fixes some of that.
Why does race matter to you at all tho? Why don't you make a booktube channel then?! No one is stopping poc from making channels. No need to be racist against the white people who work hard on their channels. You shouldn't need to put other people down in order to give a compliment
@@WhitneyDahlin Racist against whites? Are you really gonna play that card?? And for the record, I never said that I didn't like white booktubers, what I did say is that I am glad to find a PoC one, because the majority is white and feeling represented is nice. Did I say "white's content sucks" or "black people's content is better"? No. Is reverse racism a thing? Ir course not.
@@WhitneyDahlin I really don't think she was being racist. U clearly don't understand how it feels to not get represented. It's like white boys who love rap finally feeling acknowledged when Eminem came into the hip hop scene. Literally nothing to do with racism. I am sorry u felt attacked though.
Finally someone who remembers the rise and fall of Maximum Ride! I feel like you could say the same thing about the Uglies series too. I almost rage quit that back in the day. That aside, I actually agree with most of the opinions in this video. Cursed Child shall henceforth be known as The Play Which Shall Not Be Named.
Lol maximum Ride good tell he took on a new to the game co writer, .. Uglies great book. Pretty Wtf ..but ok Specials... No one no one asked for this Scott.
I saw the Maximum Ride movie and thought about reading the books but ended up forgetting about it. And I love your nickname for that book, I pretend it doesn’t exist
For me, the best thing about The Cursed Child was accidentally ending up at a late release party for the book at Barnes and Noble. I never would have been able to do that when the books of the real series came out because we lived too far away to have that late of a night as a kid. They had a lot of cool activities like Hogwarts classes and finding hidden snitches. It was fun seeing younger parents bringing their children to experience Harry Potter magic.
To each one's own. Me, I love SJM, knowing and acknowledging the problematic things that do come with her books. Especially ACOTAR since I know lots of not great things happened with the third book. Beautiful Creatures. I'm with you there. I loved the first book back when I first read it but after the second book, I just couldn't do it. Divergent....once the hype left so did my love for it. The third book didn't help things. Cursed Child. Pretty sure it's an anonymous decision in the fandom to pretend that play didn't happen. For Carry On, though, that's where you really shook me. That's one of my favs and I'm so excited for the sequel. For me, I can definitely say as a massive drarry shipper, I love snowbaz since they were canon drarry. I love how lighthearted it was. I think the best thing for Carry On is going into it, with the mindset that's it an ode and spoof of HP, making sure not to take things too seriously. I think readers who went in with that mindset ended up enjoying that book a lot more. The one thing I would change about the book, and hope so badly for the sequel, is I would stick to three POVS. Simon, Baz, and Penelope. Those were only POVS I cared about. Everyone else didn't do much, especially Agatha and the Mage who can CHOOOOKE. I would say try reading it again, this time with the physical book. Sometimes second time's the charm with this book
I'm in an odd position right now. Context: I like (not love) ACOTAR but cannot stand ACOMAF at all, and mildly tolerate ACOWAR for the secondary characters. Despite my unfavorable history with ACOMAF and ACOWAR, I went on with the series and I read ACOFAS because I am a completionist. It came back and bit me in the ass however, because the way Tamlin is treated in ACOFAS personally hurt me. I had just gotten out of a grueling period of depression and seeing Tamlin treated that way by Rhys was the last straw. Now I have just recently finished my reread analysis of ACOMAF and I have to give credit. Taken as an entity in and of itself the recovery arc Feyra undergoes is very well done, but I cannot stand Feyra and so I see past the author's attempts to make me sympathetic towards her situation. And what I discovered is earth-shatteringly controversial but Feyra is a fucking sociopath. And I mean this because all she ever does in ACOMAF and onward is find people to validate HER wants, HER needs, HER behavior and she is two faced most of the time (Tarquin in ACOMAF and the Spring Court in ACOWAR). I was never cheering for her at the beginning of ACOWAR because she is so narrowminded in her revenge plan against Tamlin that she NEVER considers the consequences of collapsing the Spring Court. She is never held accountable for facilitating Hybern's advance on the wall and hindering Tamlin's spying of Hybern's court, because that was his job!
the ToG series is my favorite book series because of how much it has impacted my life and how i motivated myself to be happier after reading it. that being said, i totally respect your opinion and i actually somewhat agree with you. representation is almost nonexistent in these books. both with skin color AND sexual orientation. for one, the nehemiah crap (i cried for days lmao) and two, maybe in one sentence she brushed on aedion possibly being bisexual. but that was it. and i also honestly feel like nobody can be single. it’s like every person absolutely needs a s/o to function properly. like, come on. i just want ONE strong, independent female. is that too much to ask for? either way, i still do love the series for my own reasons, but i do also acknowledge the good and bad in everything.
I LOVED divergent but completely hated Insurgent and Allegiant! I also agree about the lack of representation in throne of glass but i can't believe you didn't finish empire of storms! the ending of empire of storms DESTROYED me! so in a way, you are lucky 😂
Personally what I loved about Carry On, aside from Simon and Baz's relationship, was the deconstruction of fantasy tropes. Though tbh I thought the story in general was pretty great.
Ahh Maximum Ride is such a throwback! I never really got into the novels but I've picked up the manga adaptation recently and it's been good imo. Not really sure where it fits into the canon, but since you like manga, thought I'd mention it~ Loving ur vids btw 😘💖
I kinda have the same opinion on Carry on. I feel like Rainbow Rowell's contemporary writing doesn't really match with a fantasy story. I never really cared about what was happening while reading it, the characters and the plot were kind of boring. I still shipped Baz and simon tho lol
So I think I’m a few years older than you, and also I never got into YA fantasy, but I legit did not realize “Six of Crows” and “The Raven Boys” were part of two separate series. I mean they have different authors, which should have been a clue, but in my mind it’s just “crows/ravens, same thing.” Retreating back to my contemporary world now...
I agree so much about The Raven Cycle series! It was really disappointing! Gansey was the only character I liked too. Adam was extremely unlikeable and Blue was just bland. Oh yeah, I pretend the Cursed Child doesn't exist, haha. Burn in hell, demon book.
Personally I love Sarah J Maas books. Although I did dislike Queen of Shadows but I continued on with the series and loved it. In regards to the ACOTAR Series I really enjoyed them. I know people hate the Novella but personally I think I needed a chill book. I felt the other books were a lot and it was nice to just have something where they were rebuilding. It showed the aftermath of the war and the deep depression that some of the characters fell into. I know some people hated but I felt it was needed to end the series.
I fell out of love with SJM too. I keep going back and forth with Throne Glass series. Part of me feels like I should keep going and finish out the series, but i haven't felt the desire to read Empire of Storms. I don't entirely hate it series and still kind of have fun, but it would be almost a relief to pass it on. At the same I can't entirely let it go.
I'm so glad someone agrees with me on divergent!!! It started out with so much promise then fell sooooo flat!! Throne of glass i do not agree, I love it and balled my eyes out in the final book haha. I also love the court of thorns and roses series haha. Cant wait for the next one! If you wanna donate me a court of frost and starlight.... haha. I like how it sets up the next series.
OFC ITS JAMES PATTERSON DUDE HAS SO MANY BOOKS omg yaaaa beautiful creature movie!! i think i watched it and wasn’t too bad lolll. i didn’t realize people didn’t like divergent till like a week ago hahah. guess she didn’t know what to do with the end... I FINALLY READ THE RAVEN BOYS AFTER A YEAR OF WANTING TO READ IT AND ITS SO GREAT AND I DONT EVEN LIKE PARANOMAL UGH 🥰😭 15:40 THE WRITING IS SO GREAT THO AND BEAUTIFUL UGH
I feel like The Raven Cycle is a series that you enjoy more after a reread because you pick up on so many more details the second time around and everything really falls into place. I know that won't be the case for everyone but I've read the series so many times and I'm so in love with everything about it. It's my fave series ever. Also I HATED Carry On with a burning passion, sadly. I really wanted to like it but it was probably my least favorite thing I have ever experienced.
I didn’t like the raven boys when it first came out but stumbled upon it again last year and powered through the whole series. Now it’s my favourite series of all time. I’m all about strong character centric books and I feel like now I’m mature enough to appreciate it and the writing style.
I struggled with Acomaf because she went from one abusive relationship to another. A man who loves you doesn’t...break your arm, put you on “display” in a court where his cousin was assaulted (clearly the men in that court have issues) and then he “allows” her to go off on her own and nearly get killed a few times to show her growth/independence or maybe that he “trusts” her....who knows lol but it’s written as if he is an advocate for women but his actions just don’t coincide with it. With that being said....I still read because I wanted to know what happened with her sister 😂
I was exactly the same with ToG! I went off it after QoS as well, and started thinking about the things you mentioned more, and I realised I couldn't just push those things aside. Especially what happened in the second book
I recommend physically reading the raven cycle. I wanted to reread that series and I tried the audiobooks and I DID NOT like the narrator at all. I gave them like fifteen minutes each and decided it was hard pass for me.
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I read Carry On so long ago that I don't even know how I actually felt about it 100% but I definitely remember going into it as if it was a simon x baz fanfiction so I wasn't really didn't pay attention to the plot or world-building of it at all aha
Im a massive fan of the raven cycle and I think you’re right about the audiobooks. I’m so glad I read them physically for the first time because there’s so much to notice that is so easy to over look with an audiobook. I do love rereading them through the audiobook though! When I don’t know what to listen to when I’m driving I just put on the audiobooks and get all up in my feels haha. I don’t want to be like OMG GIVE THEM ANOTHER TRY because I know taste is subjective and sometimes it’s difficult to change a first impression, but I do think there’s so much to gain from this series. For me in particular the characters are such a source of joy and comfort, and I know a lot of others feel the same, so I will always recommend this series if there’s even a small chance that someone else will feel even a fraction of the happiness this series gives to me. Great video!!
you and half the people who commented have basically convinced me that I need to re-read raven cycle phsycially lol so hopefully I love it the second time around! :)
Same with the SJM books and Cursed child Can’t stand either and I just haaate cursed child I also feel meh about Carry On I feel like I was just so on the hype train that I convinced myself that I loved it even tho it was just ok at best
dude i feel the EXACT same about maimum ride! I started read it and i thought it was really good, and then dylan existed. buuuut i kept reading to see if it got better. it didn't, and eventually i just got fed up with it and quit reading. i don't even know which book i stopped in bc i have zero interest in rereading anything to do with the books, even the summaries. all i remember was thinking that it got way too soap opera-y. i don't even know if that's accurate.
I have the whole Beautiful Creatures series along with the two that were written off that series. I just haven't read them yet, but I loved the movie Beautiful Creatures and hope to get to them some time this year. OMG! I loved The Raven Boys series. Noooooooo! Not Carry On! Carry On is my baby. 😭 Tip: Go into all your reads with low expectations. I do this with every book I pick up and find i end up enjoying more books than I thought.
Yessss same on like all the sjm books. Crown of Midnight is my fave within the series, but they lost me after Queen of Shadows. When I first read CoM Nehemia's death definitely bothered me and it still does (plus the main villain is queer?? and I was salty af) but CoM is still my fave TOG book. For acotar I'm like acomaf + last 1/3 of acotar >> the rest of acotar >>> acowar, acofas. I legit hide acowar and acofas behind the rest of my books and am ok with displaying the first two books. That's how much I don't like being reminded of books 3-4.
"I don't like carry on" :OOOOOO how dare you! Just kidding :D As for me I loved all the jokes and the sass and I found the characters to feel... I don't know... Real? Like actual human beings. Also it's so sweet and heartwarming it's my book comfort blanket. Whenever I feel like I can't take it anymore I just read the whole book in one day (sleep is for the weak) so I guess am pretty much biased towards it. :D Anyway, not everybody's cup of tea
I totally agree with the Maximum Ride series, but I only stick to the first 2 books! I don't think James Patterson knows how to stop when things should be stopped lol. Also I couldn't even finish the first Raven Boys book, I got bored xD
I really didn't like Beautiful Creatures because it made my brain hurt reading it, but I kinda liked the movie... I loved the Southern setting, so gorgeous! They really did a good job with it, the visuals were stunning... So yeah I stan the movie but hate the book hahaha I love your channel btw, just subscribed 😊
God I loved Maximum Ride when I was a kid, but wow what a turn it took! I'm very aware that I wouldn't enjoy them as much if I read them now, but those first few books were great at the time. I don't hear a lot of people talking about it so I'm glad to find someone else who read them and understands the disappointment haha!
ahhh i have to read cursed child even though i know i probably won't like it. i might have thought differently but after that last fantastic beasts movie i just know that I'm not gna be the person that loves everything jk rowling puts out anymore! and your reaction to acofas cracked me up 😂
The thing with the Raven Cycle is, that I can’t let go of loving it 🙈 even tho I know that it’s problematic, there are issues with the authors and there were racist parts (and she “stole” the genre magical realism of Latinx people), I still consider it a guilty pleasure 😂
Oh my god, Max Ride... I relate so hard. I went through a Max Ride phase. I got some good things out of it, and the first three were good, but then it didn't just go to shit it plunged headfirst into shit.
Tbh I originally assumed you were filming from the states but then I saw the "Indigo" sticker on one of the books and did a double take since I was pretty sure that was a Canadian chain and then I saw your description and now I am riding high on my deductive skills :P But I love seeing some Canadian booktubers of colour
Here's my Carry On feedback on why it's not for everyone. I personally liked Carry On' for a few reasons 1. Its post series vibe in that it's like someone is telling a story about characters after the previous series ended. That makes it actually feel like someone writing fan fiction about the characters. 2. It's cheesy and somewhat predictable and sometimes I need that when reading. A lot of books about LGBTQ+ themes are emotional rollercoasters. Those books are fantastic but kind of emotionally exhausting. As a gay man, sometimes I just want a cheesy calming read with gay characters; not every story needs groundbreaking drama and action. 3. Because of points 1 and 2, I could care less about the plot as long as the relationship progressed. Again, that is very fanfiction-like. The center of the story is the relationship and plot is secondary. It really feels like someone took a story from archiveoforown and published it. I could totally believe this was written by Cath from Fangirl. Do I think it's a literary masterpiece? No, I don't. Will I treasure it forever and likely reread it more than once? Absolutely.
You said WORD FOR WORD how I feel about ACOTAR. The first book sucked me in and I really liked the 2nd but then it all went downhill from there. I'm glad I got them from the library and didn't spend any money on them. lol Sarah Jane won't be getting any money from me lol
You should really read Tower of Dawn from the Throne of Glass series. It was one of my favorite books of the whole series and it had a better representation. You should give it a try. I really love your channel 🥰🥰 / a die hard fan ❤️
Thank you, so much, for including the Raven Cycle. I LOVED those books, until the last one. I had such high expectations for the final book but Raven King was just so...underwhelming. It ruined the entier series for me. I felt like one of my oldest friends had just stabbed me 37 times in the chest, buried me alive, and danced on my grave. Maggie Stiefvater is STILL my favorite author--I love her writing, and I love her characters. But Raven King...man was that a disappointment.
The biggest, BIGGEST book disappointment I've ever felt was War Storm in the Red Queen series. SPOILERS AHEAD. Like it had beautiful, well rounded characters, a bad ass storyline, a villain who I related to deeply. Yet as all YAs, the villain dies in the end. MY BOY WAS DONE DIRTY. WE DIDN'T GET A DEATH SCENE, WE DIDN'T EVEN GET A BODY. Like NANI, THE FUCK? 1ST HE'S KILLED WITH A LETTER OPENER AND 2ND SHE DIDN'T EVEN WRITE HIS DEATH SCENE? I'M STILL PISSED AND IT'S BEEN NEARLY A FULL YEAR SINCE THE BOOK'S RELEASE.
Yeah I adored the first book of the divergent series but I hated the 2 other books in the series. I just like to pretend that the other books don’t exist
I read Carry On because the fanfiction parts were actually my favorite in Fangirl (I didn't like that book too much though) but what I got was so... simply weak. Nothing in it was really developed, the plot, worldbuilding nor the characters. First half of it was boring and it only got interesting when Baz came in. Overall, I never understood the craze about it and I'm completely on your side with this
Please elaborate. Personally I'm with the popular opinion that HG series > Divergent series. The writing is better, the world is bigger, the characters are more interesting, and the plot is more dynamic and grounded. It's not perfect by any means, but it's my preference. But I'd love to know your reasons for the preference.
@@kb-ih7ni I guess I couldn't connect to Katniss like I did with Tris. The narrative made Katniss up as the underdog while always giving her the best of the best(the best designer, the best dress, the best weapons,etc.) and the upper hand(she knows archery better than the career kids and snuffed half of them). Tris, who was tiny and had to trust her wits in a fight and had ptsd from holding a gun after shooting her friend came off more natural to me. Also, while I'm not the biggest Four fan, I always hated Peeta(another unpopular opinion, I know. Not like I'm team Gale, but Peeta's fixation on Katniss came off creepy to me. He forced her into stiations she didn't had the power to say "no"-him being in love with her doesn't makes it okay, it makes him a bigger creep- and had the gall to be offended when she didn't fell for him. Peeta wasn't a good person, he was a textbook example of The Nice Guy.
Billur Aral the writer didn’t giver her the weapons to an under dog, she gave food to an animal that was about to get slaughtered all for the entertainment of the capital. Peeta wasn’t necessarily a “good guy” he was put in a situation where he had to survive and he used his previous relationship with her to do it. They got close yeah but it wasn’t cause he was a good guy. The only thing I like about divergent was that whole faction thing, like their own sorting hat. Otherwise take that away and it’s just another post apocalyptic based book.
@@joshuaadi2754 I wouldn't mind Peeta's sleazy ideas that much if both every character and the narrative itself didn't paint him as a paragorn of virtue (almost every character who talks about him mentions what a pure and swell guy he is), insisted him forcing Katniss into the starcrossed lovers act without her consent (and I don't buy the "but she's a terrible liar" crap. She gives out Oscar-worthy performences in front of the cameras and makes up lies on a whim, unless the plot needs her to be a bad liar) and calls Katniss cruel for leading him on and not falling for him, even thought she risked life and limb just to keep him alive. If the book acknowled this instead of calling Peeta the best guy ever, it would be fine. I'd buy he was only trying to survive in his own way, but as the reader, we know he's in love with Katniss and his method of survival is basically have her kiss him on camera if she wants to get sponsors. That's Christian Grey levels of creeply controlling. He was fully expecting her to love him back when they returned and actually had the atrocity to be offended when no, she was just rolling with his dumpass plan because why and how the hell she'd love him, they were on a murder tournement. He had no right to be upset eith her, when he should have been apolozing for everything and thanking her for saving him even thought leaving him would be easier for her. Katniss had nothing to apolizige or feel guilty for, yet he made her feel like shit for months. If Peeta's guile hero tendercies were more explored rather than his "camuflage" (painting cakes, right) and he actually felt guilty for what he had put Katniss throught, I think his character would have more potential. Their romance would feel more natural, with two of them getting to know each other without being forced by the cameras. Instead, his entire character is his obsession over his childhood crush he never got over. He has no goals or ambitions other than keeping Katniss alive. No friends he wants to protect from Capitol, no word about how he copes about his abusive mother, even his ptsd incuded nightmares are about losing Katniss and not how he almost died in seven different ways.
I feel like James Patterson makes the first 3 books series he wrights good and the other books just shouldn't be there I really love his story's though
I honestly don't remember if I ever read the cursed child???? like, I remember buying it and the plot and the first pages but I just CANT REMEMBER if I finished it, if I gave it away, if I sold the book or whatever
Only one person comes back to life in The Caster Chronicles, and you haven't even gotten to that part, yet are confused by people coming back to life....?
I totally agree with you with the raven cycle and carry on! I tried reading both series but I just couldn’t get into them. I actually ended up paging through carry on and only reading the romance scenes😭😅
I also didn’t like carry on but I still bought wayward son bc it’s so pretty but if I still don’t like that one I’m unhauling. If anything it would put my energy more towards rereading the raven cycle series bc the friend group in that one is ✨immaculate✨
Here's my confession. I don't like the Harry Potter series. Never have. I was a kid in elementary school when they first came out and I was/is an avid reader. Never liked the books. Didn't like how you had to wait years for the next book and the books were just "monster of the week" books with barely any movement on the main plot (Harry saving the world). The worst part was I couldn't join any book clubs or anything because all the readers talked about in Highschool was Harry Potter this and Harry Potter that and they were soooo insufferable! They converted to Wicca because they wanted to be witches like the book (some still are following some sort of witchcraft) these were the people who got the *VERY* common "I solemnly swear I am up to no good" tattoo the second they turned 18 and thought they were sooooo unique. Insufferable. All of them. So glad that dumb series is over and I don't have to hear about it anymore!!!!!!!!!
I respect you opinions! I haven't read some of them but I've heard similar reviews (throne of Glass) and haven't been able to try it. HP, I finished the 6th book and have been living vicariously through fan fics. ACoTR I read the first 2 and then couldn't....I noticed most of the issues in the first one, but I like retellings and thought this was a set up for something else...I didn't realize it was fanfic. That's how the second book came off to me, and the power imbalance for humans and fae I couldn't see actually working. The Divergent series I liked for the emotional growth for Tris. That's what made the series for me, but yeah plot wise I feel the author didn't want to redo the destroy the government and create a new one, and didn't quite have a world outside really thought out to be believable. For Beautiful Creatures I couldn't get into the world. Raven Boys, didn't care for the story, but I REALLY liked the author's writing style. I felt like the character's were like stereotypes of what they should be....doses that make sense? And all the parts that should have been exciting came off as a bit bland. I say this because I usually try to turn it into a movie in my head and I realized that none of the stuff I liked would actually be there, and it would be really boring. I will say I would love if the author would invest in having the 'murder squash' song made XD Carry On felt like fanfic. I felt like she knew what specific things she did and did not want and wrote it even if it didn't mesh. Like the divide between magic and non magic people felt forgotten in some parts. Didn't hate it, but didn't love it. Kinda curious how the sequel is even supposed to work... So there's my rant. Hope it gave you some amusement :)
Oooohhh the teaaaa I looooove!!! Divergent was such a bust. I loved the first book but the other two make me wanna rip my hair off. (Especially Allegiant, I hated that it was told in Tris and Four’s perspective but they sounded the same the whole time, there was no distinction in their voices) I think you’re the first person I see that doesn’t like the raven cycle, how refreshing lol. It’s just a series I’ve never been interested in :P
Yesss agree with Throne of Glass...I loved it so much because it brought me back into fantasy but the series just went off into a direction that was nothing like how it started. There were so many new characters who I didnt care about and it just felt like a whole new series...its pretty disappointing overall
Didn't like Cursed Child, but it didn't make me rage-y. However Divergent and Hunger Games, I would rent a steam roller and go back and forth over those series. I intensely disliked the heroines. But I was no a YA when I read them so my pet peeves are totally mine.
I FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE THAT UNDERSTANDS ME! I read The Raven Boys long ago and couldn't get to the third book. I just didn't connect with the characters, or the story, or anything. I can see why people like the series (the narrative it's sublime), but I just couldn't 😭😭😭😭 I said I would try again on the future but I'm not interested in rereading the first two books, soooo... Yeah. Subscribed! Kisses from Venezuela.
I really want to know what you mean by the "series became fanfiction". I've read some pretty amazingly well written fanfiction, and i genuinely don't know what that criticism means when used in this context... Different direction of the story than you expected? Unlikely pairings? Mad plot twists? Characters acting out of character? Because honestly most fanfic I read has none of that xD
hey! great question lol and I feel like I could've been more clear since I LOVE fanfiction, read a lot myself and I used to write some as well. When I said that I meant it in the sense that in book 6 the series seemed to think it was suddenly an AU Max and Fang fic focused solely on the relationship. And even tho I love that ship, it felt like they were both acting way out of character. hope that clears it up for you!
I'm quite successful at forgetting that Cursed Child exists lmao I read it 5 years ago, never reread, buried it behind other books I own and repressed the memory of reading it
I will forever be conflicted about Cursed Child because there is so much about it that's just... awful (AU Hermione being a horrible, bitter person because she's not with Ron was the WORST) but then there's Albus and Scorpius who are precious cinnamon rolls and a gift to the world. They should be rescued from the mess of the rest of the script.
I am the only one that I actually like the Cursed Child!! 😂😂 And I am a huge fan of Sarah J. Maas!! I find her writing style so addicting!! She and Cassandra Clare are probably my auto-buy authors!!!
Sarah j mass. And Brandon Sanderson are my fav others and this gets me alot of confusion from others and I don't understand y . so many people seem to hate Sarah I mass because she writes few poc but I don't see y this matters I prefer to be able 2 see the characters obscure so they could be anything sure but if I'm reading a book full of poc I don't care if there isn't white people I think to many people put 2 much emphasis on skin color and sexual preference
I think I stopped Maximum Ride at the same point. I assumed when I absolutely hated Fang that maybe my standards were really low and I just hadn't noticed the rest of the series was bad.
I agree with you about Carry On so much!!! I didn’t necessarily dislike the book, but I never understood the massive amounts of hype it gets, either. It was honestly so forgettable for me, which sucks, because I love Rainbow Rowell’s other books :/
A part of me really wants to reread maximum ride bc I was literally 12 when I read them and I just wanna see how much of a shit show it is 😂 great vid dude!
I also would like to reread them, it's been so long I don't really remember the story. I remember renting them from my local library and reading through them out of order by accident. I only own two of the books.
I loved carry on kind of because it was a contemporary in fantasy clothes. And I am more geared toward queer romance in general. I don’t think I would have like carry on if it was a straight romance, but I also really think that it would change the story a lot. I loved the magic system and how it was all about feelings and the whole thing about magic being able to run out. I will say I wish it had more world building but I think that since it was rainbows firs fantasy novel that it was a good one. Maybe there will be more of the world in the second book?
I don't consider Cursed child as part of the Harry Potter series at all. It was the biggest disappointment of my life😂. Glad to know someone else also doesn't like Divergent and Sarah J Mass books
I tried Cursed Child. It was God awful, I DNF'd and unhauled about 50 pages in. I have no idea who that book is for. Harry Potter fans wouldn't like it so.... Glad I didn't continue with Maximim Ride. I read the first three and even the 3rd one started getting a little silly. I still enjoyed those three, then kind of forgot about the series.
Omg I was about to comment and say how I disliked the Divergent saga and then you started talking about it lol. I really enjoyed the first two books but the third one was really a mess, I hated it and never even finished it😂
My Raven babies 😭😭😭
Ahh Lala 🙈🙈🙈 i really should reread it physically lol because I SO wanted to love it
I FINALLY READ THE RAVEN BOYS AFTER A YEAR OF WANTING TO READ IT AND ITS SO GREAT AND I DONT EVEN LIKE PARANOMAL UGH 🥰😭
@@thisstoryaintover thanks for putting throne of Glass and Acotar cause some booktuber's love them and some don't they can love whatever they want when teenagers read them they love it but when adults read them they see the red flags and problematic things in them (also you pretty 😍 everyday)
Honestly will never consider Cursed Child as canon, which is definitely a popular opinion lol, because it wasn’t written by JK Rowling herself so to me it’s not a part of the actual series. It’s more like a companion book based on a play by a different author. Does anyone like that book btw? I don’t think I’ve heard anyone say they legitimately like it 😄
Lol I think there are a few rare souls who truly do love cursed child and like more power to them but it still astounds me that they do
I actually enjoyed reading it 😂
I liked reading it. Nowhere near as good as the Harry potter series, but I liked it quite a bit
Exactly. And she’s better at screenwriting too, as seen with Fantastic Beasts. Crimes of Grindelwald was a bit of a mess and hopefully the third movie fixes some of that.
I loved the play when I saw it in London but the book 🤢🤢🤢
I'm so happy to finally find a PoC booktuber because white girls are almost the entire community
Why does race matter to you at all tho? Why don't you make a booktube channel then?! No one is stopping poc from making channels. No need to be racist against the white people who work hard on their channels. You shouldn't need to put other people down in order to give a compliment
@@WhitneyDahlin Racist against whites? Are you really gonna play that card?? And for the record, I never said that I didn't like white booktubers, what I did say is that I am glad to find a PoC one, because the majority is white and feeling represented is nice. Did I say "white's content sucks" or "black people's content is better"? No. Is reverse racism a thing? Ir course not.
Whitney Dahlin omg really...there was nothing wrong with what Camila said...unless you’re a minority/POC you just wouldn’t understand.
@@WhitneyDahlin Girl... no.... take several seats. 😂
@@WhitneyDahlin I really don't think she was being racist. U clearly don't understand how it feels to not get represented. It's like white boys who love rap finally feeling acknowledged when Eminem came into the hip hop scene. Literally nothing to do with racism. I am sorry u felt attacked though.
Finally someone who remembers the rise and fall of Maximum Ride! I feel like you could say the same thing about the Uglies series too. I almost rage quit that back in the day. That aside, I actually agree with most of the opinions in this video. Cursed Child shall henceforth be known as The Play Which Shall Not Be Named.
Lol maximum Ride good tell he took on a new to the game co writer, .. Uglies great book. Pretty Wtf ..but ok Specials... No one no one asked for this Scott.
@@ItsFaeveon Lol! My thoughts exactly!
The first three Maximum Ride books were fantastic 😍 I remember binge reading all 3 in a week, then quitting after book 4 🤣
I saw the Maximum Ride movie and thought about reading the books but ended up forgetting about it. And I love your nickname for that book, I pretend it doesn’t exist
@@ItsFaeveon Uglies was really good! Then it just went downhill from there lol
When you put up 'Carry On' my heart broke a little. 😭 (I'll be fine) #newsub
Me too! That's one of my favorite books
samee
The second you started talking about Maximum Ride; I knew it. The first three are the only ones I accept as canon.
For me, the best thing about The Cursed Child was accidentally ending up at a late release party for the book at Barnes and Noble. I never would have been able to do that when the books of the real series came out because we lived too far away to have that late of a night as a kid. They had a lot of cool activities like Hogwarts classes and finding hidden snitches. It was fun seeing younger parents bringing their children to experience Harry Potter magic.
Throne of Glass was so disappointing. The second book was essentially, "How many times will she wake up in his bed?"
Me until the last one: mhm mhm ok ok I can get behind that
*carry on comes out* GASP. TEARS. MY BB. MY CHILD. BAZ. SNOW. MY CHILDREN. IM SO HURT.
ME TOO HONEY AHH
always pretend the cursed child didn't happen 😅
To each one's own. Me, I love SJM, knowing and acknowledging the problematic things that do come with her books. Especially ACOTAR since I know lots of not great things happened with the third book.
Beautiful Creatures. I'm with you there. I loved the first book back when I first read it but after the second book, I just couldn't do it.
Divergent....once the hype left so did my love for it. The third book didn't help things.
Cursed Child. Pretty sure it's an anonymous decision in the fandom to pretend that play didn't happen.
For Carry On, though, that's where you really shook me. That's one of my favs and I'm so excited for the sequel. For me, I can definitely say as a massive drarry shipper, I love snowbaz since they were canon drarry. I love how lighthearted it was. I think the best thing for Carry On is going into it, with the mindset that's it an ode and spoof of HP, making sure not to take things too seriously. I think readers who went in with that mindset ended up enjoying that book a lot more.
The one thing I would change about the book, and hope so badly for the sequel, is I would stick to three POVS. Simon, Baz, and Penelope. Those were only POVS I cared about. Everyone else didn't do much, especially Agatha and the Mage who can CHOOOOKE.
I would say try reading it again, this time with the physical book. Sometimes second time's the charm with this book
I'm in an odd position right now.
Context: I like (not love) ACOTAR but cannot stand ACOMAF at all, and mildly tolerate ACOWAR for the secondary characters. Despite my unfavorable history with ACOMAF and ACOWAR, I went on with the series and I read ACOFAS because I am a completionist. It came back and bit me in the ass however, because the way Tamlin is treated in ACOFAS personally hurt me. I had just gotten out of a grueling period of depression and seeing Tamlin treated that way by Rhys was the last straw.
Now I have just recently finished my reread analysis of ACOMAF and I have to give credit. Taken as an entity in and of itself the recovery arc Feyra undergoes is very well done, but I cannot stand Feyra and so I see past the author's attempts to make me sympathetic towards her situation. And what I discovered is earth-shatteringly controversial but Feyra is a fucking sociopath.
And I mean this because all she ever does in ACOMAF and onward is find people to validate HER wants, HER needs, HER behavior and she is two faced most of the time (Tarquin in ACOMAF and the Spring Court in ACOWAR). I was never cheering for her at the beginning of ACOWAR because she is so narrowminded in her revenge plan against Tamlin that she NEVER considers the consequences of collapsing the Spring Court. She is never held accountable for facilitating Hybern's advance on the wall and hindering Tamlin's spying of Hybern's court, because that was his job!
Same with divergent. I was loving it in the beggining but the next 2 books were bad
the ToG series is my favorite book series because of how much it has impacted my life and how i motivated myself to be happier after reading it. that being said, i totally respect your opinion and i actually somewhat agree with you. representation is almost nonexistent in these books. both with skin color AND sexual orientation. for one, the nehemiah crap (i cried for days lmao) and two, maybe in one sentence she brushed on aedion possibly being bisexual. but that was it. and i also honestly feel like nobody can be single. it’s like every person absolutely needs a s/o to function properly. like, come on. i just want ONE strong, independent female. is that too much to ask for? either way, i still do love the series for my own reasons, but i do also acknowledge the good and bad in everything.
I LOVED divergent but completely hated Insurgent and Allegiant! I also agree about the lack of representation in throne of glass but i can't believe you didn't finish empire of storms! the ending of empire of storms DESTROYED me! so in a way, you are lucky 😂
Personally what I loved about Carry On, aside from Simon and Baz's relationship, was the deconstruction of fantasy tropes. Though tbh I thought the story in general was pretty great.
Ahh Maximum Ride is such a throwback! I never really got into the novels but I've picked up the manga adaptation recently and it's been good imo. Not really sure where it fits into the canon, but since you like manga, thought I'd mention it~
Loving ur vids btw 😘💖
I kinda have the same opinion on Carry on. I feel like Rainbow Rowell's contemporary writing doesn't really match with a fantasy story. I never really cared about what was happening while reading it, the characters and the plot were kind of boring. I still shipped Baz and simon tho lol
So I think I’m a few years older than you, and also I never got into YA fantasy, but I legit did not realize “Six of Crows” and “The Raven Boys” were part of two separate series. I mean they have different authors, which should have been a clue, but in my mind it’s just “crows/ravens, same thing.” Retreating back to my contemporary world now...
Lol I can see how that might be confusing haha 😂😂
I have not read Carry On because I would skip the “fan girl chapters” in Fangirl LOL
Lol true! I know a lot of people who weren't the biggest fans of those parts in Fangirl!
thisstoryaintover I was one of those people so I wasn’t interested 🤷🏽♀️
I agree so much about The Raven Cycle series! It was really disappointing! Gansey was the only character I liked too. Adam was extremely unlikeable and Blue was just bland.
Oh yeah, I pretend the Cursed Child doesn't exist, haha. Burn in hell, demon book.
Same
Personally I love Sarah J Maas books. Although I did dislike Queen of Shadows but I continued on with the series and loved it. In regards to the ACOTAR Series I really enjoyed them. I know people hate the Novella but personally I think I needed a chill book. I felt the other books were a lot and it was nice to just have something where they were rebuilding. It showed the aftermath of the war and the deep depression that some of the characters fell into. I know some people hated but I felt it was needed to end the series.
I fell out of love with SJM too. I keep going back and forth with Throne Glass series. Part of me feels like I should keep going and finish out the series, but i haven't felt the desire to read Empire of Storms. I don't entirely hate it series and still kind of have fun, but it would be almost a relief to pass it on. At the same I can't entirely let it go.
I'm so glad someone agrees with me on divergent!!! It started out with so much promise then fell sooooo flat!!
Throne of glass i do not agree, I love it and balled my eyes out in the final book haha. I also love the court of thorns and roses series haha. Cant wait for the next one! If you wanna donate me a court of frost and starlight.... haha. I like how it sets up the next series.
OFC ITS JAMES PATTERSON DUDE HAS SO MANY BOOKS
omg yaaaa beautiful creature movie!! i think i watched it and wasn’t too bad lolll.
i didn’t realize people didn’t like divergent till like a week ago hahah. guess she didn’t know what to do with the end...
I FINALLY READ THE RAVEN BOYS AFTER A YEAR OF WANTING TO READ IT AND ITS SO GREAT AND I DONT EVEN LIKE PARANOMAL UGH 🥰😭
15:40 THE WRITING IS SO GREAT THO AND BEAUTIFUL UGH
I feel like The Raven Cycle is a series that you enjoy more after a reread because you pick up on so many more details the second time around and everything really falls into place. I know that won't be the case for everyone but I've read the series so many times and I'm so in love with everything about it. It's my fave series ever. Also I HATED Carry On with a burning passion, sadly. I really wanted to like it but it was probably my least favorite thing I have ever experienced.
I honestly think I would enjoy Raven Cycle if I reread it physically because it's exactly the kind of series i would usually love!
haley Omg same re: TRC I think we’re soulmates
I didn’t like the raven boys when it first came out but stumbled upon it again last year and powered through the whole series. Now it’s my favourite series of all time. I’m all about strong character centric books and I feel like now I’m mature enough to appreciate it and the writing style.
I struggled with Acomaf because she went from one abusive relationship to another. A man who loves you doesn’t...break your arm, put you on “display” in a court where his cousin was assaulted (clearly the men in that court have issues) and then he “allows” her to go off on her own and nearly get killed a few times to show her growth/independence or maybe that he “trusts” her....who knows lol but it’s written as if he is an advocate for women but his actions just don’t coincide with it. With that being said....I still read because I wanted to know what happened with her sister 😂
I was exactly the same with ToG! I went off it after QoS as well, and started thinking about the things you mentioned more, and I realised I couldn't just push those things aside. Especially what happened in the second book
I recommend physically reading the raven cycle. I wanted to reread that series and I tried the audiobooks and I DID NOT like the narrator at all. I gave them like fifteen minutes each and decided it was hard pass for me.
I read Carry On so long ago that I don't even know how I actually felt about it 100% but I definitely remember going into it as if it was a simon x baz fanfiction so I wasn't really didn't pay attention to the plot or world-building of it at all aha
lol true! I feel like if i read it with lower expectations i could have loved it!
Im a massive fan of the raven cycle and I think you’re right about the audiobooks. I’m so glad I read them physically for the first time because there’s so much to notice that is so easy to over look with an audiobook. I do love rereading them through the audiobook though! When I don’t know what to listen to when I’m driving I just put on the audiobooks and get all up in my feels haha.
I don’t want to be like OMG GIVE THEM ANOTHER TRY because I know taste is subjective and sometimes it’s difficult to change a first impression, but I do think there’s so much to gain from this series. For me in particular the characters are such a source of joy and comfort, and I know a lot of others feel the same, so I will always recommend this series if there’s even a small chance that someone else will feel even a fraction of the happiness this series gives to me.
Great video!!
you and half the people who commented have basically convinced me that I need to re-read raven cycle phsycially lol so hopefully I love it the second time around! :)
You are literally so pretty
Same with the SJM books and Cursed child
Can’t stand either and I just haaate cursed child
I also feel meh about Carry On I feel like I was just so on the hype train that I convinced myself that I loved it even tho it was just ok at best
dude i feel the EXACT same about maimum ride! I started read it and i thought it was really good, and then dylan existed. buuuut i kept reading to see if it got better. it didn't, and eventually i just got fed up with it and quit reading. i don't even know which book i stopped in bc i have zero interest in rereading anything to do with the books, even the summaries. all i remember was thinking that it got way too soap opera-y. i don't even know if that's accurate.
I have the whole Beautiful Creatures series along with the two that were written off that series. I just haven't read them yet, but I loved the movie Beautiful Creatures and hope to get to them some time this year.
OMG! I loved The Raven Boys series.
Noooooooo! Not Carry On! Carry On is my baby. 😭
Tip: Go into all your reads with low expectations.
I do this with every book I pick up and find i end up enjoying more books than I thought.
Erica's Bookish World wow you loved the movies how interesting
@@TheAquamarine4 Yes, I thought the movie was amazing, in my opinion.
Erica's Bookish World That’s cool I really loved the first book, but I never could get to finish the movie I didn’t like it in the beginning
Yessss same on like all the sjm books. Crown of Midnight is my fave within the series, but they lost me after Queen of Shadows. When I first read CoM Nehemia's death definitely bothered me and it still does (plus the main villain is queer?? and I was salty af) but CoM is still my fave TOG book. For acotar I'm like acomaf + last 1/3 of acotar >> the rest of acotar >>> acowar, acofas. I legit hide acowar and acofas behind the rest of my books and am ok with displaying the first two books. That's how much I don't like being reminded of books 3-4.
"I don't like carry on"
:OOOOOO how dare you!
Just kidding :D
As for me I loved all the jokes and the sass and I found the characters to feel... I don't know... Real? Like actual human beings. Also it's so sweet and heartwarming it's my book comfort blanket. Whenever I feel like I can't take it anymore I just read the whole book in one day (sleep is for the weak) so I guess am pretty much biased towards it. :D Anyway, not everybody's cup of tea
I totally agree with the Maximum Ride series, but I only stick to the first 2 books! I don't think James Patterson knows how to stop when things should be stopped lol. Also I couldn't even finish the first Raven Boys book, I got bored xD
I'm glad I'm not the only one who would like to unread The Cursed Child. Sometimes I forget that book is actually canon.
I can't believe I forgot about Maximum Ride holy shit I feel exactly the same way about the series
I really didn't like Beautiful Creatures because it made my brain hurt reading it, but I kinda liked the movie... I loved the Southern setting, so gorgeous! They really did a good job with it, the visuals were stunning... So yeah I stan the movie but hate the book hahaha
I love your channel btw, just subscribed 😊
God I loved Maximum Ride when I was a kid, but wow what a turn it took! I'm very aware that I wouldn't enjoy them as much if I read them now, but those first few books were great at the time. I don't hear a lot of people talking about it so I'm glad to find someone else who read them and understands the disappointment haha!
I absolutely hated the way Allegiant started and DNF'd it
ahhh i have to read cursed child even though i know i probably won't like it. i might have thought differently but after that last fantastic beasts movie i just know that I'm not gna be the person that loves everything jk rowling puts out anymore! and your reaction to acofas cracked me up 😂
i came across your channel today and i got SO excited to find a poc booktuber!!! i love your videos so much :)
The thing with the Raven Cycle is, that I can’t let go of loving it 🙈 even tho I know that it’s problematic, there are issues with the authors and there were racist parts (and she “stole” the genre magical realism of Latinx people), I still consider it a guilty pleasure 😂
Oh my god, Max Ride... I relate so hard. I went through a Max Ride phase. I got some good things out of it, and the first three were good, but then it didn't just go to shit it plunged headfirst into shit.
Tbh I originally assumed you were filming from the states but then I saw the "Indigo" sticker on one of the books and did a double take since I was pretty sure that was a Canadian chain and then I saw your description and now I am riding high on my deductive skills :P But I love seeing some Canadian booktubers of colour
You totally get what I felt about throne of glass. I started loving it and it just went to shit later😬. I freaking loveeeeeee ACOTAR☺☺
Here's my Carry On feedback on why it's not for everyone. I personally liked Carry On' for a few reasons 1. Its post series vibe in that it's like someone is telling a story about characters after the previous series ended. That makes it actually feel like someone writing fan fiction about the characters. 2. It's cheesy and somewhat predictable and sometimes I need that when reading. A lot of books about LGBTQ+ themes are emotional rollercoasters. Those books are fantastic but kind of emotionally exhausting. As a gay man, sometimes I just want a cheesy calming read with gay characters; not every story needs groundbreaking drama and action. 3. Because of points 1 and 2, I could care less about the plot as long as the relationship progressed. Again, that is very fanfiction-like. The center of the story is the relationship and plot is secondary. It really feels like someone took a story from archiveoforown and published it. I could totally believe this was written by Cath from Fangirl. Do I think it's a literary masterpiece? No, I don't. Will I treasure it forever and likely reread it more than once? Absolutely.
You said WORD FOR WORD how I feel about ACOTAR. The first book sucked me in and I really liked the 2nd but then it all went downhill from there. I'm glad I got them from the library and didn't spend any money on them. lol Sarah Jane won't be getting any money from me lol
You should really read Tower of Dawn from the Throne of Glass series. It was one of my favorite books of the whole series and it had a better representation. You should give it a try. I really love your channel 🥰🥰 / a die hard fan ❤️
I decided that I wouldn't read cursed child and I'm really glad
it's all a part of tastes evolving and changing
i am so fucking happy i am not the only one who feels this way about carry on ! it's like you read my mind , everything you said i 110% agree with .
Thank you, so much, for including the Raven Cycle. I LOVED those books, until the last one. I had such high expectations for the final book but Raven King was just so...underwhelming. It ruined the entier series for me. I felt like one of my oldest friends had just stabbed me 37 times in the chest, buried me alive, and danced on my grave. Maggie Stiefvater is STILL my favorite author--I love her writing, and I love her characters. But Raven King...man was that a disappointment.
The biggest, BIGGEST book disappointment I've ever felt was War Storm in the Red Queen series. SPOILERS AHEAD.
Like it had beautiful, well rounded characters, a bad ass storyline, a villain who I related to deeply. Yet as all YAs, the villain dies in the end. MY BOY WAS DONE DIRTY. WE DIDN'T GET A DEATH SCENE, WE DIDN'T EVEN GET A BODY. Like NANI, THE FUCK? 1ST HE'S KILLED WITH A LETTER OPENER AND 2ND SHE DIDN'T EVEN WRITE HIS DEATH SCENE?
I'M STILL PISSED AND IT'S BEEN NEARLY A FULL YEAR SINCE THE BOOK'S RELEASE.
lol i'm so indifferent to the raven boys. you're not alone.
Same! People are so obsessed with it, but I'm honestly very disappointed.
Yeah I adored the first book of the divergent series but I hated the 2 other books in the series. I just like to pretend that the other books don’t exist
Can someone explain to me what is so problematic about the Acotar Series? Because I really loved it :)
I actually don't know what is wrong with ACOTAR, someone pls tell me.
I read Carry On because the fanfiction parts were actually my favorite in Fangirl (I didn't like that book too much though) but what I got was so... simply weak. Nothing in it was really developed, the plot, worldbuilding nor the characters. First half of it was boring and it only got interesting when Baz came in. Overall, I never understood the craze about it and I'm completely on your side with this
Unpopular opinion: I like Divergent better than the Hunger Games. *ducks from an array of arrows*
Please elaborate. Personally I'm with the popular opinion that HG series > Divergent series. The writing is better, the world is bigger, the characters are more interesting, and the plot is more dynamic and grounded. It's not perfect by any means, but it's my preference. But I'd love to know your reasons for the preference.
@@kb-ih7ni I guess I couldn't connect to Katniss like I did with Tris. The narrative made Katniss up as the underdog while always giving her the best of the best(the best designer, the best dress, the best weapons,etc.) and the upper hand(she knows archery better than the career kids and snuffed half of them). Tris, who was tiny and had to trust her wits in a fight and had ptsd from holding a gun after shooting her friend came off more natural to me. Also, while I'm not the biggest Four fan, I always hated Peeta(another unpopular opinion, I know. Not like I'm team Gale, but Peeta's fixation on Katniss came off creepy to me. He forced her into stiations she didn't had the power to say "no"-him being in love with her doesn't makes it okay, it makes him a bigger creep- and had the gall to be offended when she didn't fell for him. Peeta wasn't a good person, he was a textbook example of The Nice Guy.
Billur Aral the writer didn’t giver her the weapons to an under dog, she gave food to an animal that was about to get slaughtered all for the entertainment of the capital. Peeta wasn’t necessarily a “good guy” he was put in a situation where he had to survive and he used his previous relationship with her to do it. They got close yeah but it wasn’t cause he was a good guy. The only thing I like about divergent was that whole faction thing, like their own sorting hat. Otherwise take that away and it’s just another post apocalyptic based book.
@@joshuaadi2754 I wouldn't mind Peeta's sleazy ideas that much if both every character and the narrative itself didn't paint him as a paragorn of virtue (almost every character who talks about him mentions what a pure and swell guy he is), insisted him forcing Katniss into the starcrossed lovers act without her consent (and I don't buy the "but she's a terrible liar" crap. She gives out Oscar-worthy performences in front of the cameras and makes up lies on a whim, unless the plot needs her to be a bad liar) and calls Katniss cruel for leading him on and not falling for him, even thought she risked life and limb just to keep him alive. If the book acknowled this instead of calling Peeta the best guy ever, it would be fine. I'd buy he was only trying to survive in his own way, but as the reader, we know he's in love with Katniss and his method of survival is basically have her kiss him on camera if she wants to get sponsors. That's Christian Grey levels of creeply controlling. He was fully expecting her to love him back when they returned and actually had the atrocity to be offended when no, she was just rolling with his dumpass plan because why and how the hell she'd love him, they were on a murder tournement. He had no right to be upset eith her, when he should have been apolozing for everything and thanking her for saving him even thought leaving him would be easier for her. Katniss had nothing to apolizige or feel guilty for, yet he made her feel like shit for months. If Peeta's guile hero tendercies were more explored rather than his "camuflage" (painting cakes, right) and he actually felt guilty for what he had put Katniss throught, I think his character would have more potential. Their romance would feel more natural, with two of them getting to know each other without being forced by the cameras. Instead, his entire character is his obsession over his childhood crush he never got over. He has no goals or ambitions other than keeping Katniss alive. No friends he wants to protect from Capitol, no word about how he copes about his abusive mother, even his ptsd incuded nightmares are about losing Katniss and not how he almost died in seven different ways.
I feel like James Patterson makes the first 3 books series he wrights good and the other books just shouldn't be there I really love his story's though
I honestly don't remember if I ever read the cursed child???? like, I remember buying it and the plot and the first pages but I just CANT REMEMBER if I finished it, if I gave it away, if I sold the book or whatever
Only one person comes back to life in The Caster Chronicles, and you haven't even gotten to that part, yet are confused by people coming back to life....?
I'm not really a fan of the Maze runner books (I don't mind the movies) or Turtles all the way down.
I'm a Harry Potter purist since 2004 so I didn't read Cursed Child or Fantastic Beasts. I'm good thanks.
I totally agree with you with the raven cycle and carry on! I tried reading both series but I just couldn’t get into them. I actually ended up paging through carry on and only reading the romance scenes😭😅
I also didn’t like carry on but I still bought wayward son bc it’s so pretty but if I still don’t like that one I’m unhauling. If anything it would put my energy more towards rereading the raven cycle series bc the friend group in that one is ✨immaculate✨
Here's my confession. I don't like the Harry Potter series. Never have. I was a kid in elementary school when they first came out and I was/is an avid reader. Never liked the books. Didn't like how you had to wait years for the next book and the books were just "monster of the week" books with barely any movement on the main plot (Harry saving the world). The worst part was I couldn't join any book clubs or anything because all the readers talked about in Highschool was Harry Potter this and Harry Potter that and they were soooo insufferable! They converted to Wicca because they wanted to be witches like the book (some still are following some sort of witchcraft) these were the people who got the *VERY* common "I solemnly swear I am up to no good" tattoo the second they turned 18 and thought they were sooooo unique. Insufferable. All of them. So glad that dumb series is over and I don't have to hear about it anymore!!!!!!!!!
I respect you opinions!
I haven't read some of them but I've heard similar reviews (throne of Glass) and haven't been able to try it. HP, I finished the 6th book and have been living vicariously through fan fics.
ACoTR I read the first 2 and then couldn't....I noticed most of the issues in the first one, but I like retellings and thought this was a set up for something else...I didn't realize it was fanfic. That's how the second book came off to me, and the power imbalance for humans and fae I couldn't see actually working.
The Divergent series I liked for the emotional growth for Tris. That's what made the series for me, but yeah plot wise I feel the author didn't want to redo the destroy the government and create a new one, and didn't quite have a world outside really thought out to be believable.
For Beautiful Creatures I couldn't get into the world.
Raven Boys, didn't care for the story, but I REALLY liked the author's writing style. I felt like the character's were like stereotypes of what they should be....doses that make sense? And all the parts that should have been exciting came off as a bit bland. I say this because I usually try to turn it into a movie in my head and I realized that none of the stuff I liked would actually be there, and it would be really boring. I will say I would love if the author would invest in having the 'murder squash' song made XD
Carry On felt like fanfic. I felt like she knew what specific things she did and did not want and wrote it even if it didn't mesh. Like the divide between magic and non magic people felt forgotten in some parts. Didn't hate it, but didn't love it. Kinda curious how the sequel is even supposed to work...
So there's my rant. Hope it gave you some amusement :)
Oooohhh the teaaaa I looooove!!!
Divergent was such a bust. I loved the first book but the other two make me wanna rip my hair off. (Especially Allegiant, I hated that it was told in Tris and Four’s perspective but they sounded the same the whole time, there was no distinction in their voices)
I think you’re the first person I see that doesn’t like the raven cycle, how refreshing lol. It’s just a series I’ve never been interested in :P
Yesss agree with Throne of Glass...I loved it so much because it brought me back into fantasy but the series just went off into a direction that was nothing like how it started. There were so many new characters who I didnt care about and it just felt like a whole new series...its pretty disappointing overall
Didn't like Cursed Child, but it didn't make me rage-y. However Divergent and Hunger Games, I would rent a steam roller and go back and forth over those series. I intensely disliked the heroines. But I was no a YA when I read them so my pet peeves are totally mine.
I FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE THAT UNDERSTANDS ME! I read The Raven Boys long ago and couldn't get to the third book. I just didn't connect with the characters, or the story, or anything. I can see why people like the series (the narrative it's sublime), but I just couldn't 😭😭😭😭 I said I would try again on the future but I'm not interested in rereading the first two books, soooo... Yeah. Subscribed! Kisses from Venezuela.
I really want to know what you mean by the "series became fanfiction". I've read some pretty amazingly well written fanfiction, and i genuinely don't know what that criticism means when used in this context... Different direction of the story than you expected? Unlikely pairings? Mad plot twists? Characters acting out of character? Because honestly most fanfic I read has none of that xD
hey! great question lol and I feel like I could've been more clear since I LOVE fanfiction, read a lot myself and I used to write some as well. When I said that I meant it in the sense that in book 6 the series seemed to think it was suddenly an AU Max and Fang fic focused solely on the relationship. And even tho I love that ship, it felt like they were both acting way out of character. hope that clears it up for you!
I'm quite successful at forgetting that Cursed Child exists lmao I read it 5 years ago, never reread, buried it behind other books I own and repressed the memory of reading it
I totally agree with you on Maximum Ride!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will forever be conflicted about Cursed Child because there is so much about it that's just... awful (AU Hermione being a horrible, bitter person because she's not with Ron was the WORST) but then there's Albus and Scorpius who are precious cinnamon rolls and a gift to the world. They should be rescued from the mess of the rest of the script.
I am the only one that I actually like the Cursed Child!! 😂😂 And I am a huge fan of Sarah J. Maas!! I find her writing style so addicting!! She and Cassandra Clare are probably my auto-buy authors!!!
Sarah j mass. And Brandon Sanderson are my fav others and this gets me alot of confusion from others and I don't understand y . so many people seem to hate Sarah I mass because she writes few poc but I don't see y this matters I prefer to be able 2 see the characters obscure so they could be anything sure but if I'm reading a book full of poc I don't care if there isn't white people I think to many people put 2 much emphasis on skin color and sexual preference
I knew it that I will not read Cursed Child. I am okay with Harry Potter being 7 books only. 😁
I think I stopped Maximum Ride at the same point. I assumed when I absolutely hated Fang that maybe my standards were really low and I just hadn't noticed the rest of the series was bad.
I felt the same way about Divergent. I LOVED the first book and the other two was like... meh.
none of the divergent books were good was kind of sad for all the hype
I LOVE the first book in the “Matched” series, but the other two are terrible. I’d recommend reading the first one and the first one only :)
I hater the raven boys AudioBook but i gave it 5 stars when i read a pyschical copy?
omg you should really give the raven cycle another try!
I'm already planning on it based on everyone's comments haha
I agree with you about Carry On so much!!! I didn’t necessarily dislike the book, but I never understood the massive amounts of hype it gets, either. It was honestly so forgettable for me, which sucks, because I love Rainbow Rowell’s other books :/
Yes! I can see someone liking/enjoying it but I didn't really get the hype around it!
A part of me really wants to reread maximum ride bc I was literally 12 when I read them and I just wanna see how much of a shit show it is 😂 great vid dude!
I also would like to reread them, it's been so long I don't really remember the story. I remember renting them from my local library and reading through them out of order by accident. I only own two of the books.
I loved carry on kind of because it was a contemporary in fantasy clothes. And I am more geared toward queer romance in general. I don’t think I would have like carry on if it was a straight romance, but I also really think that it would change the story a lot. I loved the magic system and how it was all about feelings and the whole thing about magic being able to run out. I will say I wish it had more world building but I think that since it was rainbows firs fantasy novel that it was a good one. Maybe there will be more of the world in the second book?
Yes! although i didn't love carry on I'm curious to see if it gets better in the second book!
I don't consider Cursed child as part of the Harry Potter series at all. It was the biggest disappointment of my life😂. Glad to know someone else also doesn't like Divergent and Sarah J Mass books
I want to finish the Throne of Glass series but after that I'm officially done with SJM. I won't read ACOFAS for sure
I tried Cursed Child. It was God awful, I DNF'd and unhauled about 50 pages in. I have no idea who that book is for. Harry Potter fans wouldn't like it so....
Glad I didn't continue with Maximim Ride. I read the first three and even the 3rd one started getting a little silly. I still enjoyed those three, then kind of forgot about the series.
I honestly didn’t like fan girl at all ! :( and I think I’m the only one cause everyone else love it
Sarah j Maas throne of glass starts to get more diverse in tower of dawn.
Omg I was about to comment and say how I disliked the Divergent saga and then you started talking about it lol. I really enjoyed the first two books but the third one was really a mess, I hated it and never even finished it😂
Where'd you get the star map blanket thing that's in your back round?
society6!
I'm not even giving Sarah J Maas a chance lol