here's the entire plot of ACOTAR so you don't have to read 500 pages (a court of thorns and roses)
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Once again, I let SJM take over a month of my life to bring you guys fairy smut.
I'm currently working on part two and that book is a monster (and also has so much smut. so so much smut. so i am cringing and taking many breaks lmao) but it will be up by august, i promise! sending love to youuuuu!***
***EDIT I HAVE FINISHED THE SCRIPT FOR PART TWO AND IT IS LITERALLY 65 PAGES LONG SO HELP ME GOD.
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Part One: 2:26
Part Two: 53:27
Part Three: 1:30:17
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----- Rhysand - / cc_zqlmginy
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----- Lucien - / cw1hqglops8
----- Danika - / calmxugtc1w
🖤 saramirza_art - / saramirza_art
----- Amarantha - / cuf30wnmfrt
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here's the entire plot of ACOTAR so you don't have to read 500 pages (a court of thorns and roses)
if you've watched any of these plot vids all the way through, our connection is now stronger than any mating bond. love you all.
PS it took me making this whole video to realize how few characters there are in this book. When I tell you that the character list for the second book is 3x as long... Buckle up for madness in Court of Mist and Fury
Our bond must be soo strong now, Cari... Since I binged-watched your Crescent City ones when they first came out. Love these to death!! 😂❤️
I rewatch these videos- so the connection could call you back from the cauldron at this point
@Lp Chambers STOP- 😩 I CACKLED 🤣💀
i rewatch them all the time tbh such comfort videos
I am half way through it so when I’m finished I will watch your amazing video please stay safe and enjoy your reading 📖 love you and your amazing channel love your family friend John xxxx
I’m a simple girl. I see a multi-hour breakdown of a book I’ve never read recommend to me, I click the video.
Same!
same actually lol
Same
Feeling so seen by this
same
"Faeries are not good" "So the protagonist's name is Feyre" literally already lost me lmao
Same
It’s pronounced fay ruh
It's like when I first read Eragon. i was like so wait Eragon is not the Dragon
THIS! Omg someone understands me!
It was the most obvious foreshadowing that she will be a ferry or Faye.
"She uses that beautiful brain of hers that's been missing for a lot of this book" when I say I cackled
It's so true though 😂
I am in CH17 and... Shes so fukin dumb I swear
I guffawed
I like to imagine that Lucien's little fox mask is just half a shade different than his hair and it clashes horribly
I’m laughing way harder than I should rn
Lucien out here wearing coral on mauve
@@TheNumnutRandomness ☠
Lmao
Genius I love you for this
Just realized with Feyre breaking every rule to not do X, she's literally the DW meme: "This sign can't stop me! Cuz I can't read!"
the cherry on top is that feyre literally can't read 😂😭
LOL
STOP- TOO GOOD
Lmao
haha I love this comparison!
obsessed with how Tamlin's plan hinged on the human(s) having not read the treaty. like if Feyre had read the treaty she could've just been like "there's no life for a life clause what the fuck are you talking about." roll credits
Jokes on you I read the terms and conditions
well as we know she *can't* read for a significant portion of the series...
@@moose1277 yeah, but even her sisters can read. It doesn't seem like illiteracy is the norm.
idk if you’ve read the series but this video didn’t give the detail that the terms of the treaty weren’t widely known in the human real as it was created 500 years ago. 500 years is little time for Fae but lifetimes for mortals
Tbf do you read the terms and conditions of every app you use?
The "separating lentils from the ash" task is straight out of the original Cinderella fairytale.
YES I said this straight away! And the gash to the hand is a twilight nod 😅
Also the "can see if she was touched because she is covered in bodypaint" thing is from The Mummy 💀some anck-su-namun shit
Sarah J. Maas has never been inconspicuous with where she gets her themes (HOEAB is actually cringe when it comes to the Shahar/Sandriel part). Only author I know who is more “in your face” with naming is Tomi Adeyami in “Children of Blood and Bone.”
I could not believe that Feyre didn’t get the answer to the riddle immediately. As soon as I heard it, I was like “ITS LOVE!! THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS LOVE!” And it LITERALLY took her dying to figure it out LMAO…
to be honest i also did not figure that out help
Feyre never experienced real, healthy love so how is she supposed to know.
@@mochiyeosang1908 true…
@@ering7822 also adding that she couldn't read so she wasn't experienced with logic puzzles either
I feel so dumb because I was legit like huh???? I skimmed over the riddle though.😵💫😑
ACOTAR kills me cause the entire first book is just like a tamlin love story and then book two rolls around and tamlin quite literally becomes the embodiment of a human punching bag.
Did anyone actually like him in the first book?
@@notllikethat I actually thought he was very sweet, albeit a bit awkward but once Rhysand was introduced I had a feeling that he was the one that would end up with Feyre💀💀💀
@@notllikethat I did! But then my 'oh, god no' lights started flashing....
@@manifestingeverything215 I WANTED him to end up with Feyre! Rhysand!
@@manifestingeverything215 he was sweet at first but then he treated Feyre like a doll and trapped her in their house I would have left too
Uh hot take: if you go around the woods dressed as a wolf and a hunter hits you, that's your fault. You're supposed to wear a bright orange jacket for visibility, so not doing that is already a big mistake. Dressing as an animal is just doubling down on it.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck but it's some idiot pretending to be a duck, he's gonna get shot by duck hunters, that's just how it works.
I’m not sure if you watched on but that’s the whole point.
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Spoilers rant
Yeah that is the point- the wolf was sent out as a trap for a human girl. Still then Tamlin’s and Lucien’s first interactions with Feyre make absolutely no sense…
lmfaooo this is so fucking funny
This made me laugh a lot
Literally the SECOND i heard Amaranthas riddle i said to myself "i bet the answer is love or some dumb shit" AND MY GOD THE WAY I GASPED WHEN IT REALLY WAS THE ANSWER 💀💀💀💀
No but same, I know Feyre couldn’t read but they never told us she was stupid.
DAMN 😭
the way you describe this is so much more fluent and cohesive than the actual books.
Lmao fr 😭 I remember dropping the book halfway through reading it but listening was actually fun
@@PichuElric Exactly!!! The book is so vague in every aspect that matters, but these comments and summaries are so fun and relatable!!! I feel like it was more of watching a movie with a friend rather than groaning trying to read a book that on it's own is not nearly worth the hype in my opinion. This video made it fun! :)
I read the book but I now see I did not understand some parts lmao
"Feyre doesn't know why she cares so much" girl there's something called empathy
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IM CRYING
looooool
LMAO it's quite the discovery for sjm characters, like the number of times in ToG I mentally face palmed at their weird attitudes and dynamics. Like empathy and kindness exist y'all😭
@@universedonut159 yeah but they're all so jaded by the world they don't worry about kindness, they don't believe in that stuff. especially feyre.
Feyre: I love you, no matter what she says about it, no matter if it's only my insignificant human heart, even when they burn my body, I love you.
Tamlin, 2 books later: ...So that was a fucking lie.
The way i cackled at this comment 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
But wait, am I the only one who likes that SJM writes heroines who don’t marry the first boy they date??
@@taylorgayhart9497 That's not the problem for me, the problem is that Tamlin's character does a complete 180 and becomes an abusive asshole to make Rhys look better.
@@ThornheartCat I definitely think his transformation was way too extreme, but when I reread the series I did think she *attempted* to foreshadow some of his negative traits, she just don’t do a good enough job.
Agree, agree, yes and I have to say: SJM didn't need to go so hard on Tamlin in the end, like c'mon, Rhys is such a bully to him it's unbearable ...and all of it just so we, as readers, would ask & prepare for Tam's redemption (I mean, all of them need therapy, if we can have the basic understanding of people's trauma in these books - we should have some "aura healers" or something to speak through and mend the mental tall they've endured)
Cari: “amarantha now wears the man who killed her sister as jewelry. That’s the kinda lady we’re working with”
Me: “is she, by any chance, looking for a consort?”
she is now hahaha
that was rhys and she didn't treat him great 😭
When Tamlin is playing his dumb little instrument and says “Dance, Feyre” 💀I CANNOT
One of the best takes I’ve read on this book/series is someone saying SJ Maas describes painting like someone who most definitely has never painted before.
Wait how? I thought she did great lol, same with some of the battle strategies, meditations, etc.
@Nicole Hernandez well, have you ever devised battle strategies before? Cause, I thought she described painting well but I've never painted before either lol
I thought she nailed getting the initial idea for a painting!! The actual painting part eh (as a painter) but when you get that idea.. yeah that’s how it feels to me
She also describes piano playing like someone who’s never played piano before too lol
As someone who actually dances, that part where Bryce “dances” chasing the demon in HOEAB made no sense. Sarah just chose the most known dance moves and put them together, not knowing that you can’t vault a car doing a ballet-esque leap.
watching this and realising Tamlin's switch up from 'you can live anywhere, you're not a prisoner' to 'im gonna protect you so you can't leave the house, you have to be a proper lady and rest' is kinda funny... like babe what happened to no prisoner?
sjm writes it to be his ptsd-esque response to under the mountain/seeing feyre die but yeah what a switch :')
i think a key part to keep in mind as well is tamlin was *trying* to get feyre to fall in love with him. she's very independent so obviously he would pander to her independence and say stuff like "you aren't a prisoner". for a large part of the first book, i see tamlin as doing whatever he thinks feyre would fall in love with. NOT his actual personality. I do, however, feel like SJM's villain arc for tamlin was a bit of an abrupt switch with little foreshadowing.
@@deliriousdev_ bro he didn’t even want to do it for a vast portion of the book. Pretty sure he did it half involuntarily anyway lol.
I feel like people don’t see It from his pov. His love dies in front of him when he was a prisoner and helpless. Also the spring court is pretty superficial generally by all accounts. So he did what he thought was keeping her safe. But she had changed by the trauma too and he didn’t really understand that
it took, what, five chapters, for tamlin to go from amazing love interest to horrible abusive ass.
Feyre would 100% take your channel name as a triggering insult.
Omg yes😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
good thing she can't understand it!!
I cannotttt lie, when I first read this book, like probably 5 years ago, I was way more in love with Lucien than Tamlin _OR_ Rhys LMAO
SJM managed to make a side character way more fun and interesting!! I thought it was so cute how he always more jokey and lighthearted and I was like??? FEYRE YOU FR CHOSE THE BROODING DRAMATIC OVERWORKED LORD OF A DYING KINGDOM OVER SILLY AND ENCOURAGING AND REDHEAD LUCIEN?? criminal....
Same, i only care about Lucien lol
Then they make him be with the most boring character in the entire series 💀
I hope SJM revisits Lucien and we see more of his character because throughout the rest of the books he kinda gets forgotten about and his personality he had in ACOTAR diminishes. I miss his sarcastic witty bangers 😢
I like how she tried to confuse us saying “ the mysterious hottie”
🙈
this is such a thorough 'summary' I could basically mark this as read on storygraph now 😂
i did lol
doing that now 😂
I actually laughed out loud at this 🤣
Ok but as annoyed i was by this book a few times, i have two things to say:
1. Lucien is a great character and i love him
2. too few people talk about how terrifying amarantha is, like shes wearing the eyeball of her enemy as jewelery, shes fucked up-
Also i laughed way to hard at isaac being shot wtf 😂
Conscious eyeball.
I agree with you on lucien
Lucien is underrated frfr
Wasn't it eyeball on a ring with full continuous of human man that was lover of her sister?
Because it's totally different to wear an eye of your enemy, than cursing your sister's lover for such pittyful existence
XD
Lucien is the only likeable character for me, besides maybe Mor and the other people in Rhys’ circle. Not Rhys though 💀
Also, if you guys have listened to the audiobook, I was laughing so hard when that random faerie died in Tamlin’s hall. I about lost it the fifteenth time I heard “sHe ToOk My WiNgS.”
Re-watching these, and just realized: the Suriel tells her to, "Stay with the High Lord," at a point where Tamlin is the only High Lord she's spoken to or seen. The Suriel later claims to have been talking about Rhysand all along, but... you can't _stay_ with someone you haven't even met yet. It's a retcon.
As a someone who writes as hobby it’s plainly obvious that Rhysand was accidentally created and most likely his original purpose was to tempt the girl with his handsome face(because she can’t see Tamlin’s) and add some spice in order to strengthen her and Tamlin relationship. But later the author fell in love with this side character and decided that he will be the main love interest.
@@NiksKoleva why do you think that?
Wow yes facts!
Sarah had already written a court of mist and fury though and in an interview explained she already knew rhysand was going to be the main love interest @@NiksKoleva
it is so clear to anyone who reads that rhysand was the clear love interest from day dot. dark hair suave mysterious with dark past and a morally grey character like cmon every fantasy romance book has that as the main male love interest@@NiksKoleva
this whole series just sounds like a “so bad it’s good” type of thing, which I can always get behind because of entertainment value and shit talking value 💀💀
it's a good fiction if we don't think about projecting this character as real people.
It's plain bad lol 😂
Exactly how I felt. I like the acotar series because it’s entertaining lol it’s reeled with flaws and character inconsistency but it’s still a fun read
no no it's just bad the only thing sjm is good at is introducing absurdly pretty characters
I find it to be a perfect book to fall asleep to. Digests easy
“Boy are we gonna hear about the wings”
GIRL what an understatement
I’ve been looking for that comment 😂
I work in the book industry and lots of books have "Wings" in the title name. But I can't hear the word anymore without immediately having flashbacks of this series 😂
Regina and Karen as Nesta and Elaine is BRILLIANT! I cackled so loud 😂
I really disliked them more than I disliked the villains in the books lol
This book made me LOVE Tamlin. I really wish there was a more realistic development or reason why Feyre and him didn’t work out instead of the sudden character change by SJ. It just too sudden and felt like a complete reversal of what 400 pages had built up.
This!! So much!! It bugged the hell out of me
Bothered me so much I can barely get through the 2nd book… she dropped Tamlin for no good reason
Because Tamlin has anger issues and locked her in a house when she had been traumatised by being locked up. They weren't mates, they weren't meant to be, Tamlin just needed someone to love him to break Amarantha's curse and it worked. Don't get me wrong, I loved Tamlin and was so sad when this other dude came out of nowhere and ruined everything.. but maybe just bc I relate to the whole shit man traumatises u and then ur saved by a good man thing... I hated all the times she was at the night court fulfilling the bargain and I just wanted her to be with Tamlin and then he exploded.. It was a little sudden and I found myself needing to catch up to accepting it as I wasn't ready yet, but I think it makes sense as Rhys saved her. She was starving and depressed.
@@evwie Lets be honest here: all Tamlin's character development in 2nd book happen because of some real life issues of SJ Maas. That's literally it. I really would recommend to everyone consider book 2 and everything that comes after as separate/alternate universe, at least from the first one, because original idea for this story ends with that same book.
@@Sluxlifehe was selfish and controlling and liked the idea of her more than he actually liked her.
Tamlin being a fiddler is something that always catches me off guard, regardless of how many times i read it 😂
Proof that SJM did NOT, in fact, intend to twist his character like that, she wouldn't have made him play the freaking fiddle otherwise lol
Didn't he say at one point that war and fighting is the only thing he's good at because that’s all he knew as a kid? When the heck did he find the time to learn how to play the fiddle?
@@ellaadair If he played an instrument with martial associations (trumpet, drum, flute) it would feel a little less contradictory. But no, fiddle!
@@Eloraurora You're right, it just seems so random that he plays the fiddle, since it seems to be more of a peaceful instrument. Next SJM is telling us he also knows how to play the harp😂
@@ellaadair For maximum silliness, I vote church organ. Because the one plausibility point in the fiddle's favor is ease of transport. No one's lugging an overgrown piano to the front lines.
That Danika jump scare had me flinching- the cackle I let out was almost worrisome
😂😂😂
I audibly yelled, "CARIIIIIIII!!!" and immediately replayed it 🤣
can u plz show me the Danika moment, I missed it the first time and I wanna laugh😅
@@baskats51 29:50
i would have literally believed that it was danika 💀
The semi-impossible chores are probably inspired by the myth of Cupid and Psyche.
When Psyche betrayed Cupid, she was left to wander the mortal world alone, until she went to Aphrodite and asked for her help. Aphrodite didn't like Psyche so she made her do these impossible tasks, like sorting a massive pile of different kinds of grains/seeds. Some ants came and did it for Psyche.
Bffrrrr its based on irish, scottish, welsh, and english folk tales? Where faeries are from?
@@neverfae442ok true but this series isn’t exactly a good representation of those folk tales is it? faeries and other creatures from great britain’s folklore are really common in fantasy books and are almost completely removed from their original meaning - the tasks and the mask thing is clearly inspired by the psyche and eros myth. there can be multiple sources of inspiration for one piece of media
The Lentils out of the firepit task is 100% a reference to the grimm brothers Cinderella, where she has to do the same thing
@@sidiwvwhiDoesn’t necessarily have to be Cupid and Psyche OR any other culture tho-lots of folk tales have impossible tasks. Vasalisa the Beautiful was given impossible tasks by Baba Yaga when staying at her house, but luckily she had a magical doll that could come to life and do it for her. Quetzalcoatl was given an impossible tasks too (blow wind through a shell) and he cheated his way out of it, too. So was Thor and his posse with Skrymir, although that myth was more of a “oh my god Thors so strong the power levels are over 9000”
It’s almost like….folk tales have similar themes and motifs because they’re made by humans, and humans think similarly because our brains are structured the same.
@@bean2365i’d bet money on the brothers grimm being inspired by cupid and psyche for that task storyline
I think this should be the official audiobook
Bruh the invisible palace staff reveal me made CRY laughing. Like omg could u imagine how cringe she looked? lmaoo😭😂
bruh i haven't read the books n i had to skip cari explaining that part oMggfuhfGGG
fr like i would have been SO EMBARRASSED
that is soooo embarrassing fuck off lmaooo
Wandering the manor at night with her mAp
Read that in an OZ book ...
this book honestly feels like a fever dream to me, i've never read another series where the first book gives you such a wrong idea of what's about to happen.
SJM’s other series, Throne of Glass does the exact same thing
@@annalinnenkamp3709 currently reading the series (on book 5, I'm a masochist) and it's just as bad as ACOTAR, if not worse
Sarah J Mass should be paying your a commission as you are the only person that ever actually succeeded at making me interested in her work.
On a sidenote, Rhysand is the one who invented feminism, right?
I finally get why my dad let me go on for hours about the books i was reading in middle and high school. There's something so fun and soothing about hearing someone describe something they're passionate about.
I’ve read this series like 5 times but when you read Tamlins beast description I was like WHAT?? I do not recall that at all. I always envisioned him as a big lion
Right?!!!!!!
Like a lion with horns, yeah... And not stag horns, for sure 🙈 I mean, I understand the majority of us envision some kind of ram horns because of the movies, but hear me out: doesn't ram or bull horns make more sense for battle? 🤔
Same, I thought he was a lion 😂
Wait really? I always imagine like… a bear with antlers? Maybe?
I imagine tampon as the beast from mirror mirror🤣
"we're gonna hear about the wings, boy are we gonna hear about the wings." When I say I lost it, I was tearing up laughing so hard. Your recaps are marvelous
He kept a list of words and wrote a poem for her.. Ik this book isn’t supposed to be good, but that’s genuinely so sweet
Oh no! I completely disagree, this book is amazing! Its also one of the most popular and loved books in the bookish community
If Rhysand can control minds why didnt he just... wipe out Feyre's memory or make her pass out... why did he make her drink...
for shits and giggles
Feminist King
The main reason he made Feyre dance for him was to piss off Tamlin. He got to help Feyre forget herself and get a small jab at Tamlin, so while it seems questionable it's actually quite genius.
@@lexi82815 I mean...is genius really the word for that 😂
I'm only like 20 minutes in, but I haven't laughed this hard in years...comparing Nesta and Elaine to mean girls, Feyre just being like, "oh yeah, I did....I did kill that wolf," not picking the being shredded to bits option, "how did he fit in the doorway," calling Lucien king of the third wheel, ".......anyway," referring to Tamlin as Beastie Boy, Feyre being offended they were shit-talking her house 😂😂😂 seriously this is golden
This book is a treasure trove hahaha
The lentils thing is a callback to yet another fairytale, Cinderella! The stepmother threw lentils at the unlit fireplace and told her to pick and count every single one. If she could do it before the day was over, she could go to the ball.
And the mice she was nice to helped her, although I've read so many versions of that fairytale that nowadays am not quite sure 🤔 if it were the mice or the birds.
yeah when I read the lentils bit i was pulled so hard out of the novel because I was like "if were gonna make her cinderella now, why does it only get three chapters???"
fun fact! cindarella is loosely based off the myth of eros and pysche. in order for psyche to proove her love she must do three tasks, one of which is sorting numerous grains of wheat and other seeds by a deadline, i think in the myth shes helped by hera? one of the goddesses who she cleaned their temple and did them a favour earlier. Anyway its based off that.
It’s a very old and common task for the maiden protagonist in many old tales and myths. The first that comes to mind for me is some Russian ones dealing with Baba Yaga and the three impossible tasks she gives the young woman.
This books is very mishmash with lots of old folk tale thing.
Such as Tamlin being named after the Scottish ballad of Tamlin
(he was a fairy and the woman who was the main character ran into him in the woods and they hooked up- he was a fairy- and she gets pregnant but doesn’t want to raise a baby alone so goes back into the forest to pick some abortive herbs and he comes back up like ‘wait hey you’re preggers?? Don’t abort it I wanna be a dad that sounds cool’ and she’s like ‘no f u you’re a fairy and would be a deadbeat I do what I want’ so they comprise cuz he used to be a man but was sleeping with the fairy queen but she’s gonna give his soul to the devil -as she does all men she sleeps with when done with them- and so she grabs him on their way to hell and the queen turns him into a bunch of animals to scare her- like a lion, wolf, bear, etc- and she holds onto him so the queen is like ‘you’re pretty brave. Alright keep him’ and they go back home and they have a kid together.
Hence why Tamlin in ACOTAR can shapeshift (plus the whole beauty and the beast thing)
The three tasks and especially this one reminds me of the story of Psyche and Eros. It's one of the tasks Aphrodite asks Psyche to do in order to have her love back. It can be a forshadowing of book 2, since it is inspired by the myth of Hades and Persephone.
I've also read the first draft of Throne of Glass is inspired by Cinderella, but I haven't finished the series.
I am not a big fan of Sarah J Maas but I still enjoy her books. And as an Historian, I love how she uses inspiration from legends, myths and fairytale (wich are for most inspired by myths). For example, I felt like Crescent City (still haven't read book 2) is inspired by Norse mythology.
Tamlin breathing.
Rhysand: I TOOK THAT SO PERSONALLY I FELT THAT IN MY SOUL
Better than an audiobook tbh. Would love for you to just tell me the local hot gossip with your story telling 😂
It is so much better! Not throwing shade to the person who read ACOTAR for the audiobook, but I was about to lose it the fiftieth time of “ShE tOok My WiNgS” when that random fey died in Tamlin’s living room.
I H A T E the strangle hold Sarah J Maas books have on YA fantasy, they always have such interesting world building and side characters but then all the focus is is how much the two main characters wanna bone.
Also when the original Tam Lin and Bonny Janet myth has a female lead with way more agency, that's a bad sign
Yeah! I love the world building and characters, but the later books is just a love fest.
YES! THANK YOU!!! I completely agree. I was so excited to read this and after I was like "oh well that's not what I wanted." Also I couldn't stand Feyra so I didn't care about her at all so yeah not the books for me.
If you don't mind, what is the original Tam Lin and Bonny Janet story?
@@PichuElric Overly Sarcastic Productions has a great video about it (I believe it's called the myth of Tam Lin or something similar), but the jist is, Long ago there was a forest, where it was said that maidens should not go, for a mysterious figure Tam Lin would take them. It just so happens that this forest can under the domain of Bonny Janet's father, and was hers by inheritance. Her father was going to force her into an arranged marriage, so in an act of defiance and desperation she seeks out Tam Lin, as she believes him to be Fey and therefore able to help her with magic or whatever, fully aware that he would likely take her virginity. She finds him, they bone, and she becomes magic pregnant like overnight. Tam Lin reveals that he's actually a human (and also I think a lord), and he's actually kept in the forest by the Fairy Titania (she's gonna eat him like tomorrow). Tam Lin and Bonny Janet come up with a plan where Bonny Janet interrupts the fariy procession, and demands that she has a right to her husband/spouse. Titania is like "if you want him you can have him", and throws Tam Lin at her, and then turns him into fire or a lion or a stabby knife (it really depends on the retelling but I like the fire one), but as Bonny Janet is pregnant with Tam Lin's child he is unable to hurt her, no matter what form he takes. They abscond, Titania is pissed because she thought Tam Lin would kill her, but lets them leave as she is Fey as bound to her word. Tam Lin and Bonny Janet get married (her dad is like well you're pregnant with his child I guess I have no choice) and live like a fairly normal life after their weird ass meet cute The End.
@@notlurking2128 And then you get authors like Seanan McGuire who take the original Ballad of Tam Lin and RUN WITH IT. Highly recommend for fans of urban fantasy and/or fantasy mysteries
The map of the world always made me laugh cause it was so clearly the laziest fantasy world building 😂 she just changed the names of the British Isles and called it a day I can't
When she made Ireland the bad guys 🤨
And what really tops it off for me is that the courts' lands are just split by some random horizontal ruler-lines across the map. Lmao. That's Not how countries form! There's topography! Georgraphy! And other inconvenient things.
Would love to think it's a dig at the horrendous similar practise of us Europeans messing up Africa with a map and a ruler back in the cursed colonial days, but sadly I don't think it is.
@@jeepersjava honestlyyyy! I literally saw hyburn were the bad guys and was like 🤨🤨🤨
@Spacehootle * man I wish I were that nuanced ... I bet she just couldn't be bothered to think of the world building past chopping East Anglia off of England
i haven’t read the book- but it seems like the cruel prince in a different font- complicated dad, mom died at a young age, useless sisters, girl who likes knives and literally just breaking laws and killing people, enemies to lovers, lucian being basically locke but also sort of valerian. this vid was iconic- 2 hr well spent bestie
I'll always say, A Court of Thorns and Roses should have been the first and last book in this series. By itself it was a twisted but kinda genius Beauty and the Beast/Howls Moving Castle-esque retelling. Had some really fun, exciting turns, not gonna lie. If only it had stopped there.
If only it had just stayed a standalone fantasy piece, no mate-shit happening with Rhys, Sarah Janet Maas would have gotten all the stars. All the characters were nicely fleshed out more or less, adding Rhys in as a minor antagonist but really not was also clever. The enemy is defeated, the story ends, the lovers reunite, people got trauma to deal with but all is well with the world as far as we know and we all get a great dark fantasy piece to forever keep in our shelves.
But instead it turned into a mind-boggling, shipping everybody, sex-crazed, drawn out, wtf word-vomit. I cannot with this series and Sarah Janet Maas needs an editor.
I'll literally never know why Tamlin was done so dirty in the other two books
The first book was SO boring tho. The other ones are actually interesting (amazing I’d say. Nice plot outside of the sex)
but there was a lot of stuff set up in the first book that made it so interesting in the first place that doesn’t get resolved until the second
I agree! I thought it was a good ending and made a perfect single plot.
This feels really true even though I never actually read the books. Like there were moments where I feel like the plot was actually really interesting. And like the fact that they were trying to tell her things that whole time? I live and die for people putting things together like that, I don't care if it's impractical.
That might just be a product of this video, though, and the fact that she skipped all the weird sex and romance bits.
You are the only UA-camr who I can stand to hear speak for 2 hours. I ate your crescent city videos UP. Please, I’m begging, keep these up. Specifically other acotar books just bc they’re so entertaining and an absolute turmoil the more they progress so PLEASE keep doing these I beg of you.❤
Lmaooooo thank you!!!
Same! I need one for Sorcery of Thorns 👀
I sign under every word, please, we need the whole collection 🙌🏻
@@caricanread I need this but for TOG
Honestly, she got me into listening to the book on audible. Performed by a full cast too with ambience effects so the immersion is 👌🏻
I can never be grateful enough to Cari for allowing me the pleasure of being able to argue about these books with examples without actually reading them. Honestly doing God's work.
But.. doesn’t that skewer your understanding of a story if you only hear it from someone else? At that point you’re not receiving/ understanding the information in your own experiences, it could be biased or told wrong too ( I had low expectations for the last book because of reviews/ the fans quick judgments including my own, but I was being closed minded ) glad I read it for myself, it happened to be my second favorite book of the series
How bored do you have to be to argue about a book you’ve never read?
@@debbystragier2154 no need to be hostile - many of my in life bookish friends keep recommending it and this provided me more details (plus trying to read one chapter) that I would not enjoy it. Figure of speech, not that serious.
I had so many people in my life actively shove me into reading these books and so I did. I was right, I dont like them lmao. I found this video like two days later and I was so mad I could have just watched this breakdown instead of slogging through a whole book just for my friends to be like "oh just read the next one! Its gets good!" No??? It doesnt?? 2 hours is condensed heaven compared to trudging through the books just so youre allowed to have a perspective on them
@@Nic_deanart i mean if you read enough books, especially ya/new adult books, you’ll get pretty good at being able to tell which books are to your taste and which aren’t. you could find another book similar to this and know there’s a pretty good chance you’ll like it just like i know there’s a pretty good chance i won’t
i wish feyre actually spoke the way that you portray her. would’ve made her like ability factor go way up! 😂
This is everything. The wardrobe changes 👏🏼 the small mic 👏🏼 the narration 👏🏼 the wand 👏🏼
“I love Lucian, he’s always just sat there like 😀”
Crying, this is so accurate. I love your big plot breakdowns, so was very pleased to see this pop up!
I’ve got a weird relationship with Maas’ work, tbh. Like I’ve read both Crescent City books (mostly because of your summaries, you just made it sound so insane I had to see for myself) and all but the most recent ACOTAR book (which I have, but I’m reading the Grishaverse series first). And while I do enjoy reading them, if someone starts dragging them, calling them trash or whatever in front of me I’m fully ready and willing to jump in like “haha, yeah”.
Sometimes I just want to roll around in the garbage, like the raccoon I am 🤷🏻♀️
Honestly I think Throne of Glass is her Sarah’s best work when it comes to writing/story/plot. I wish it was more popular than the ACOTAR series
This is the most accurate description of how I feel about actually having enjoyed and read the trilogy in like... One weekend. I couldn't put it down, even though I was fully aware of how much I disliked simultaneously. Had to literally stop reading for a while at her reaction to the mating bond reveal though. Even for me that was a stretch of forced drama that was hard to tolerate lol
@@jilianh yeah, it was entertainingly stupid, but there were a few places where I had a distinct “that’s enough for today!” response. The bit where she gives him a bj while also noting the screams of the wounded and dying outside was another of those moments, for me at least.
LMAOOOO for me this was Az but then ofc SJM had to ruin my projections of him being a possibly decent dude with that one chapter on ACOSF. I definitely didn't like how Lucien developed into the later books, but I forgot I quite liked him in the first one. Also, edit: Personally, I enjoy hate reading the whole ACOTAR series, but there are also times where I have to drag myself through the book to finish it lol. I have not started on ACOSF (merely spoiled myself with that one Az chapter because I needed to witness my only likeable character's downfall), but I just might start it out of boredom over summer break.
saaaame XD
I love that this breakdown isn't just a nonstop roast. Some of the tropes, cliches, and lazy writing in this series made me literally cringe (seriously, in the next two books how much can Rhys purr???) But I still enjoyed reading these books. I was entertained, it was a guilty pleasure easy read, and even through some of the predictable corniness I still genuinely enjoyed them. Reading them for the first time at 24 just reminded me of some YA nostalgia, things like the shadow hunters, Holly Black, even the twilight hay day... Felt like I was 14 again reading these! :)
100%!
Rewatched this while baking my first loaf of bread. Truly an exquisite experience
Hope the bread turned out well! 🥰
I have heard of this series for a couple years now and finally broke into. I AM SO FUCKING HAPPY I DID!!!!! It really brings me back to middle school/early high school reading Twilight and Hunger Games. It’s not a narrative masterpiece - but it’s fucking entertaining and really fun. I am so happy I got past my judgement of the fandom and joined in myself. 💕
She's back with the plot summaries! It's caricanread podcast time.
😂🙏
I love how you make the plot seem both complete coherent and unhinged as all hell. The LOOK at the camera is my favorite, you have a ton of presence and such a great ability to draw the audience in with your intensity. Thanks for continuing this series, it so fun!
As someone with ADHD who missed a great chunk of the audiobook for this story because I kept zoning out, this summary was SUPER HELPFUL !
Don't even have ADHD & I zone in & out often with audiobooks
I haven’t even watched this yet, but making Issac’s character picture the prince from howls moving castle automatically makes him my favorite.
I've never read ACOTAR and don't plan to, but I have watched lots of booktubers complain about it and "all right, just kill me outside would you? Let's not get the cottage dirty." Has made me like Feyre way more than she probably deserves in the book lmao
She's very unlikable imo
I love Lucien, he's basically a snarky free loader
Idk how but when I clicked on this video I thought it said 24 minutes and then I just sat here enthralled for two hours listening to you recap a book I've already read. Impressive.
Knowing they invested all this time in Tamlin to give her another love interest for the rest of the series pisses me off 😂I will never read it, ultimate betrayal
Tamlin deserved better.
"normally Feyre is pretty smart"
Like FUCKING WHEN???
😂😂😂
Poor Lucien honestly, the king of third wheels and Amarantha’s punching bag.
And treated like shit from the next book on
new hobby is get drunk while watching these videos bc it feels like my best friend is explaining a convoluted AF plot to me and it's just all around a good time
Work book club picked ACOTAR for this month's book - didn't have time to read it so am listening to this the night before ;)
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I remember reading this book and wondering what all the fuss was about. Then I read the rest of the main series and it’s a progressively worse dumpster fire from here on out. It’s kind of nice to have a refreshing, non roasty summary of the first book. A remembrance of the before times, if you will.
yeah the first book was fine ig. (sjms writing style isn’t for me tho)
the rest are something else tho istg 😭😭
I really loved the second book, I thought it was way better than the first
Your making the story seem more intresting than it actually is
I mean the story is the story. Maybe I’m a better storyteller but the story is the same 😂
This is how I felt like I know this is the same story but is this the same story 😂
I am now obsessed with these sjm books. The Audible graphic audio versions are both hilarious and cringe, but so fun nonetheless. It's a nice break from my usual crime and murder podcasts. Please never stop doing these forgot the plot videos ❤️
God, this recap is just reminding me of all the genuinely cool faerie stuff SJM put into this first book... feels like the later ones leave that behind, but like... the suriel... the bogge... the naga... maybe the iron and lying thing should have been a warning (and the mate thing... I'm sorry but I hatee the mate thing), but I truly enjoyed this book for all of that
Yeah 100% This book is like a cute action fairy tale and then the other books are fan service for the fans who liked the bad boy 😭
I hate the mate thing too!! And it would be okay maybe if it was as rare as they claimed at the beginning but then *everyone* has a mate!
This. All of this. I liked the first book a lot for its take on faerie lore and the world of Prythian (okok yes I warmed up to Tamlin too 😭) and had such high hopes for the second one and wowwww it all went left SO fast and SO hard. In between the mate bs and dramatic shifts in personalities …I got over it real quick
The thing I dislike about her removing the power of iron is, that she reintroduced a magic ore later that serves the exact same purpose
@@lisalisa3635 omg i’ve never thought of that and you’re so right!
“After Feyre doesn’t stink anymore…” the transition I never knew I needed.
I am only 18 min in and I love everything about this run down *chef kiss* - *slammed subscribe button*
Same
Have I read the entire series? Yes.
Will I watch multiple hours of someone breaking down these books? Absolutely.
This was amazing. I actually read ACOTAR in 2019, gave it 3 stars, and moved on with my life. I can't believe how much hype these books have now. And of course my FOMO is making me feel like I need to maybe finally read ACOMAF, so I came on here to see if I could find a summary of ACOTAR since I remember the general plot but not all the details. This was exactly what I needed. Thanks!
I’ve always wanted to re-read this series to slander it, but I’ve never had the time. This will be great!
LMAO
i’ve not read any of mass’s work, but these plot breakdowns are an absolute DELIGHT. i went ahead and looked up the plot summaries of the other books in this series on wikipedia and i’m very excited to watch your recaps of those stories now 👀 (if your heart calls you to it!!! only chase ur bliss!!!)
😂 thank you so much! starting in august I’ll have the next two vids up for you 👀
I was going through emails when listening to this, and the minute you said “Danika” I about fell of my bed and then remembered when this was written.
I can’t even tell you how hard I laughed at 29:52 when Danika showed up 😂
Me too 😂😂😂😂😂
Buckled in and ready to watch all 2 hours in one sitting ✅
omfg hahahhaha
I’m really new to the whole booktube scene but one thing I wholeheartedly love is the collective disdain for “let’s go of the breath they didn’t know they were holding”! So funny!
I haven’t even read a word from this book series and now because of you I’m SO invested
I literally had to bite down my laugh when you were like "oh apparently Tamlin is super good at the lyre, who knew" cause I was at work and I didn’t want my coworkers to think I’m weird
This is literally better than reading the book, you’re so good at plot explaining
Love these plot summaries. I can't stand Maas' writing style, but your flair and comedy make the plots and characters rather exciting to listen to. I know they are a lot of work, but I hope you do more and expand to other series after completing the ACOTAR books.
Right? I got all excited like, ohhhh what gonna happen next but then I remembered that mass sucks at writing
@@luiza.limaneves I don't think she sucks at writing at all.
@@arrietty1619 to each their own ;))
Can you recommend any other fantasy romances?
I haven't read the book and probably won't read this series. I've listened and read other reviews and my guess is that your 2 hr breakdown of this book is much more interesting and eloquent than the actual book. You ARE my ACOTAR series audiobook. Thank you for sharing!
this is the utmost compliment: i’ve had to try to rewatch this over 8 times because i fall asleep before the 45 min mark every single time no matter how far into the video i skip ahead
New fall asleep trick
I never thought i'd be this happy to see a 2 hour long video summary of acotar but here we are, you do wonders Cari. Also feels weird to not see Declan here. :(
He’s on the wall the was facing me off camera, cheering me on 😭😂
Picking lentils from ash is one of the most famous scenes in the Grimm version of Cinderella ("Aschenputtel"). It's one of the impossible tasks her evil stepsisters give Aschenputtel/Cinderella to prevent her from going to the ball. I wonder if Sarah J. Maas knew about this given that the story is loosely based on another fairytale? (I have no intention of reading her books but I live for your plot summeries :D )
There’s actually a lot of fairytales loosely referenced throughout the series, I noticed this as well
Oh Maas definitely knew that was part of Cinderella. She clearly did some loose fairytale research for this book. Obviously the forest and Tamlin's name is a reference to the Ballad of Tam Lin, and the idea of the three tasks to complete is very common in monstrous husband stories, which Beauty and the Beast falls into. I wouldn't be surprised if there's other things I'm forgetting, and that the fairytale motif will continue going forward with the rest of the series.
The Scandinavian folktale “East of Sun, West of Moon” is all over this book. I didn’t get any beauty and the beast vibes myself. It’s basically beat for beat the same.
@@kierafinneke5828 just had to look that one up and I can see the similarities in pieces, but I would still say that ACOTAR is mainly also inspired by Beauty and the Beast. East of the Sun, West of the Moon actually seems inspired by the story of Eros and Psyche, which is interesting since people have also compared it to ACOTAR
@@kat-bc9id East of the Sun, West of the Moon and Eros and Psyche both fall into the category of the Monstrous Husband archetypal story. There are many across the world, across cultures, and Beauty and the Beast likewise falls into this archetype. But East of the Sun, West of the Moon would not be based on Eros and Psyche, they'd have been developed independently of each other.
I love how you tell their story, wouldn't read but will damn well listen to you elaborate on their shenanigans!
I think this book gets a bad rep. I had so much fun reading this. It really is just a fun time - and I was on the edge of my seat when reading the final trials. Amarantha was legitimately terrifying!! I think SJM has a lot of really great ideas, and while some of her descriptions are worth an eye-roll, I still think it’s all in good fun. Not everything needs to be a masterpiece right, but this wasn’t terribly written, you could tell a lot of love went into writing this story. And I think that’s what makes a book special in it’s own way.
Really fun video :D
Now if only this was the only book in the series 🙂
Ikr! Like the books are undoubtedly silly/cheesy, but I can’t stop reading them 😭 It’s like a guilty pleasure sort of thing.
I just found out my DAD of all people is reading this series. I knew he was a huge fantasy nerd, but I really thought he'd think the romance (and smut) aspect silly! My mom is a romance(and smut) author, and he's never read any of her books to my knowledge, but maybe they just weren't in the right setting, lol. I personally am not a huge fan of high fantasy in general so have no interest in actually reading the books, but I wanna talk to him about it, so thank you very much for this!
Aww I’d feel so unloved and sad if my husband wouldn’t ever read any of my books.
Ok but drop your mom's pen name! I love all of this stuff and I would love to support an indie author 💛
@@KelseyAMadas she writes under Jillian Burns! I'm not sure if or where you can find any of her books anymore, but my favorite of hers is called Primal Calling, with Harlequin publishing. I'd love to hear your thoughts if you find any!
@@KelseyAMadas Wow, thank you so much! I hope you enjoy them if you read any!
@@sanxxxx I only just realized that my husband hasn’t read my books. Ten years into marriage 😂 It wasn’t intentional, just kind of happened that way. So it might not be refusing to read them, might just be she knows it’s not is thing and didn’t ask?
People giving plot breakdowns about these books are the only way I’m going to interact with this series, and this is one of my favorite ones I’ve seen so far 🤣
I love this, and btw Rhysand or whatever his name is gives MAJOR Damon Slavatore vibes
Your storytelling is impeccable...
I rarely comment, but I decided to just tell you to PLEASE do more of these! like I can listen to you talk about book plots FOREVER! hopefully you can do one for the infernal devices or other plus plus series!!
"After Feyre doesn't stink anymore" I'm hollering 🤣🤣This series of videos is my life source
Also the picture for Elain is so true because there is no character that is just THERE like Elain
I feel like I’ve struck gold when I came across your videos. Thank you so much for all the care and time you put into your channel!!
this is like the first video from your channel that ive come across and honestly watched this from start to finish entertained and invested af
made me to get thru the first book of a high fantasy series knowing what a pain it is to get thru so like girly u earned urself a subscriber 😭