i reread the grisha trilogy & suddenly i'm a malina stan

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  • Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
  • to prepare for the release of the shadow and bone tv show, i decided to reread the grisha trilogy by leigh bardugo, and this is how it went.......
    i hope you all enjoy this reading vlog and let me know all your thoughts on the grisha trilogy! tbh i'm probably going to reread the six of crows duology next so let me know if you'd like to see that vlog too 🖤
    and i will also have a video about the show up soon!! i've watched it twice already and i'm so excited to talk about it ✨
    t i m e s t a m p s:
    0:00 intro
    2:13 shadow and bone
    16:20 siege and storm
    24:36 ruin and rising
    34:41 final thoughts
    s o c i a l m e d i a:
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    m u s i c:
    Song : Daystar - C u t e / • ✨샛별 - C u t e✨(Royalty...
    #shadowandbone #readingvlog
    thank you so much for watching 💛

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  • @ezgislaboduroglu1303
    @ezgislaboduroglu1303 3 роки тому +1632

    Everyone is arguing over Mal and the Darkling and I'm here in my corner just stanning Nikolai.

    • @justanotherpat
      @justanotherpat 3 роки тому +78

      Same 😂 I can't wait until we get to meet the TV show version of him

    • @Dynsdead
      @Dynsdead 3 роки тому +8

      Saaaaaaaaame 😂❤

    • @ezgislaboduroglu1303
      @ezgislaboduroglu1303 3 роки тому +20

      @@justanotherpat they had better cast someone who lives up to the expectations. Otherwise there will be blood 😂

    • @amyconcepcion7148
      @amyconcepcion7148 3 роки тому +32

      YES girl same, I was literally scrolling through the comments trying to find someone - ANYONE - who ships Niklina.

    • @ezgislaboduroglu1303
      @ezgislaboduroglu1303 3 роки тому +59

      @@amyconcepcion7148 haha I ship Alina with Mal. I ship Nikolai with myself 😂 😍

  • @withcindy
    @withcindy 3 роки тому +2105

    Glad to know the propaganda led by Monica and me worked

    • @mikaelaanderson526
      @mikaelaanderson526 3 роки тому +54

      Cindy lmao😭😭😭😭😭

    • @AClockworkReader
      @AClockworkReader  3 роки тому +395

      our malina gc is my happy place

    • @cozymonica
      @cozymonica 3 роки тому +95

      @@AClockworkReader our malina safe space 🥺 shoutout to maureen for realizing we’d need that ahah

    • @maureenkeavy
      @maureenkeavy 3 роки тому +54

      I’m here to make the Malina safe places a reality for us to yell our thoughts into the void hahaha

    • @LorisBookTrials
      @LorisBookTrials 3 роки тому +1

      Yea!!!!

  • @toloveabook9214
    @toloveabook9214 3 роки тому +1988

    legend has it that every time a shadow and bone fan who previously disliked mal watches the tv show, a malina stan is born

    • @aidenalexander5243
      @aidenalexander5243 3 роки тому +59

      way to call out my backstory

    • @anapaolaoria7971
      @anapaolaoria7971 3 роки тому +8

      this is so true LMAO

    • @reneevincett1880
      @reneevincett1880 3 роки тому +3

      literally

    • @Dasha-pv1xk
      @Dasha-pv1xk 3 роки тому +17

      the legend is true because it happened to me and I love Mal now! anddd now I am going back to re read this damn series and remind myself what the hell was I thinking 4 years ago when I read these books

    • @anapaolaoria7971
      @anapaolaoria7971 3 роки тому +5

      @@Dasha-pv1xk omg same, i wanna now why my 14 y/o hated mal💀💀💀

  • @graciesaunders7418
    @graciesaunders7418 3 роки тому +1516

    Darklina stans love to forget that if Alina didn't have powers the darkling wouldn't have given her a second look. Mal really is the only one who loved her for who she was

    • @inkylynx2777
      @inkylynx2777 2 роки тому +97

      Nevermind that Mal never freaking noticed her until she was pulled away from him. Nevermind that he called her a whore even though she put up with him chasing skirts. Nevermind that he's prejudiced against Grisha and hates that aspect of her (which, mind you, Grisha are analogous to displaced Jews so...). Nevermind that he gets pissy whenever she's in a higher position of social power than he is. Nevermind that he kissed a skank specifically to piss Alina off.
      And this is coming from someone who doesn't ship Alina with anyone, so no one can call me a Nikolina simp or Darklina simp.

    • @tamak0664
      @tamak0664 2 роки тому +44

      But isn't that the thing? Alina is an equal to the Darkling, that's their whole thing. And it ends up horrible cus he never wanted to accept her as his that, someone to spend the eternity with, someone to end the war and help him become a better person. I trully don't like Alina with anyone tho, she better go off and find some self love before deciding who to stay with 😌👌

    • @thenorthwillow1536
      @thenorthwillow1536 2 роки тому +36

      Um... Mal started pulling away in the 2nd book when it became clear that Alina was becoming more powerful. He didn't like that she didn't need him like she used to. He even CHEATED on her. That's unforgivable in my book

    • @martinalaspina3882
      @martinalaspina3882 2 роки тому

      But that was a chimical love directed by Morozova, wasn’t real as alexander was

    • @unknown_bitch6734
      @unknown_bitch6734 2 роки тому +6

      Nah I just think he is hot. That fact makes him better. I love a good villain based toxic relationship. Yes Im crazy, no need to say it. Also Mal isnt this perfect lil saint yall think he is. He doesnt love her Grisha side just like the Darkling doesnt love her otkazatsya side.

  • @nomdeplume1358
    @nomdeplume1358 3 роки тому +1351

    The Darkling is proof that a male character could do the most vile,m and heinous things but make him hot and suddenly everyone is thirsting for him because let’s be real if the Darkling wasn’t described as conventionally attractive and was hideous and ugly everyone would hate him, no one would be shipping him with Alina😭😭😭

    • @aratrikaroy8284
      @aratrikaroy8284 3 роки тому +19

      agreed

    • @Diana72910
      @Diana72910 3 роки тому +23

      No shit 😭 it would be stupid to deny it’s how humans biologically seek attractive people.
      humans love attractive people, it’s the same for female characters. I can separate fiction from reality so I love both female and male vile characters, even more if they are beautiful.

    • @majuneves3850
      @majuneves3850 3 роки тому +3

      @@Diana72910 or maybe ur bi lol

    • @Diana72910
      @Diana72910 3 роки тому +2

      @@majuneves3850 I am but that doesn’t change that women villains are accepted too*
      Edited comment cuz I didn’t read it well at first lol

    • @ko_ri1000
      @ko_ri1000 2 роки тому +12

      Nope it's not. There are so many characters out there with only good looks. Darkling was actually an interesting YA character it's not about looks. If I talk about audience shipping him with Alina there's a big reason. First of all their light and dark dynamic, their romance and time they spent. They were having chemistry but Darkling cared only for his agenda more.

  • @chanelletime
    @chanelletime 3 роки тому +1545

    okay all jokes aside the discussion about the darkling's character and how you're SUPPOSED to be enchanted by him is extremely true. you're supposed to fall into his trap and fall in love with him and then realize oh my god...this was his motive the entire time. Mal and Alina were separated in the book and he had no idea what was happening, we didn't get his POV in the books from what I remember, and then the two of them have this frustrating reaction to each other, it's a very very realistic and complex situation that I feel a lot of people miss. there is so much depth and nuance to shadow and bone it's more than just a ya fantasy series. there is so much to be dissected about the darkling as a representation of men in society who are idolized and worshiped for being powerful. this book? chefs kiss. I am so happy Mal's character gets to have a voice after so long.

    • @AClockworkReader
      @AClockworkReader  3 роки тому +273

      okay but you're absolutely right and i think the reason people have so much more sympathy for show mal is because we do get his perspective so it's a lot easier to see what's going on in his head. and people keep saying they changed him in the show to make him better and i'm like !!!!! not really!!! he's been like this the whole time it's just much harder to see and tbh he has way more nuance in the books than in the show 👀 still love show mal but book mal?? still superior.

    • @michellehsu9670
      @michellehsu9670 3 роки тому +41

      @@AClockworkReader how you literally summed up all my thoughts. I think the way Mal is portrayed in the show is very heavily influenced by the generally acknowledged opinion of the fandom about him. I feel like the writers wanted to overcompensate by shining more light on Mal's great characteristics in order for more people to like him and attract a general positive opinion on him. i love archie's performance, Mal's pov in the show and the more scenes that we had with him, but it is kind of sad that the writers were "forced" to strip away his other worse and more annoying, but very understandable and human traits just to make him more likeable while he was already a very fine character. At least that is the impression im getting, maybe im just overthinking things. Also how people act like they fundamentally changed Mal's character, like no?? they only shed more light on the more agreeable part of his personality. His goal was always to protect alina and thats one of the core elements to his character, and that is very much the same in the show, just brought differently. I hope we get to see more of his nuance from the books in season 2.

    • @nayrarodriguez3385
      @nayrarodriguez3385 3 роки тому +63

      I've exactly told this to SO MANY people that call Mal toxic for being mad at her in the first book. I would have reacted the same way if I had risked my life, had led my friends to death, thinking my best friend was being tortured since she had never written to me only to find her dancing with the "enemy". It is literally a very realistic reaction and that's the thing, Mal is a very realistic character. He isn't mysterious, he doesn't have a very dark past that will make you feel bad for him. He's charming, flirty, and very loyal, and sometimes is angry at the main character and it's okay.

    • @elisong6579
      @elisong6579 3 роки тому +11

      Its because the entire time we are in alina’s perspective, Leigh definitely made good use of that because we know only of what alina knows and are persuaded to feel somewhat similar to how she feels about others so we tend to fall into the darkling’s trap the first time. I havent read any of Jane Austen’s book yet but I’ve heard she does something like that too

    • @Naahi95
      @Naahi95 3 роки тому +17

      @@nayrarodriguez3385 Preach. Also Alina was mad at him too for not getting letters from him. But once they realised what happened and talked to each other they were cool again. LIKE BEST FRIENDS ARE.

  • @evelynvas3800
    @evelynvas3800 3 роки тому +776

    Malina as a ship has always been so precious to me. Their story is the sweetest, most comforting thing I've ever read about. I mean, Mal overcoming his own fears of power to stay beside her, trying his hardest to make her feel human when everyone around her treats her like a deity, him accepting to hunt down the amplifiers because 'they're the only thing he can offer her', the fact that he promises to spend the rest of his life finding ways to deserve her. And don't even get me started on "beauty, beloved, cherished, my heart."

  • @chanelletime
    @chanelletime 3 роки тому +667

    MALINA STANS RISE 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 WE WON FROM DAY ONE

  • @mri6041
    @mri6041 3 роки тому +1402

    To fellow malina stans, RISE!!! We have Cindy and now Hannah as well. Our nightly prayers are being answered

    • @mentallyunstable1926
      @mentallyunstable1926 3 роки тому +42

      shout out to all of us who’ve been shipping malina since our first read. we will gain more for our army

    • @js_4512
      @js_4512 3 роки тому +5

      @@mentallyunstable1926 yess!

    • @Naahi95
      @Naahi95 3 роки тому +21

      @@mentallyunstable1926 🙋 I shipped them when I didn't even know their names, that prologue about the two orphans got to me.

    • @undertheseatv
      @undertheseatv 3 роки тому +3

      @@mentallyunstable1926 I have not yet read the books I’ve been avoiding it for a long time already and I’ve heard the buzz about Mal (and that’s prolly affecting my reason on why I am not reading it) but after watching the show and having my fave book tuber reassure me that Mal isn’t a bad person makes me happy that I could get a good first impression

    • @drunkonbooks10
      @drunkonbooks10 3 роки тому +1

      Finally there are not many of us we must unite. (honestly though I went into the series thinking I'd hate Mal, but I love him and I ship him and Alina more than Darklina mind you Nikolai will always be my favorite but he didn't really fit with Alina)

  • @clava7851
    @clava7851 3 роки тому +717

    Going from a darklina shipper to a malina shipper is what I call ✨redemption arc✨

    • @nigeriangranny5321
      @nigeriangranny5321 3 роки тому +9

      TELL EM'

    • @mrithikasivakumar
      @mrithikasivakumar 3 роки тому +19

      OMG YES I SHIPPED DARKLINA WHILE READING THE FIRST TWO BOOKS BUT MALINA WON MY HEART! ALSO THE DARKLING MASSACRED AN ENTIRE VILLAGE??? DO PEOPLE FORGET THAT??? (obviously he’s done way worse but this was on mind first)

    • @clava7851
      @clava7851 3 роки тому +16

      @@mrithikasivakumar he literally created the fold and manipulated Alina. That’s big red flags for me 😅

    • @cambriabartlett3392
      @cambriabartlett3392 3 роки тому +4

      YES CHARACTER GROWTH

    • @luoiv7682
      @luoiv7682 2 роки тому +7

      @@mrithikasivakumar also that one time he kissed aline when he looked like mal

  • @hannahjbmcadam
    @hannahjbmcadam 3 роки тому +174

    you getting progresively angrier about people hating on mal is my favourite thing about this video

  • @alaryghost
    @alaryghost 3 роки тому +310

    You mentioned thinking Leigh wrote this modeled off abusive men in her life- she's mentioned before that she wrote the Grisha Trilogy while in an abusive relationship, and that Darklina is based off her relationship w that man. Which makes shipping Darklina extra sketchy to me lol

    • @avriiile
      @avriiile 2 роки тому +7

      Oh no...

    • @aralettesbookshelf
      @aralettesbookshelf 4 місяці тому

      I heard about that and I really want to know how she feels about people shipping Alina with the Darkling considering he's based on someone who literally ABUSED her.

  • @caitlynbell4167
    @caitlynbell4167 3 роки тому +698

    the show made Mal such a better character. maybe now it’s time for a re-read 🥰

    • @AClockworkReader
      @AClockworkReader  3 роки тому +78

      do it!! reread it!!!

    • @Filmsber5
      @Filmsber5 3 роки тому +25

      the only thing the show did is actually show mal's pov while in the book we could only see things from alina's pov

    • @leahdavis9434
      @leahdavis9434 3 роки тому +11

      @@Filmsber5 they also made him less annoying and more accepting of her

    • @Naahi95
      @Naahi95 3 роки тому +27

      @@leahdavis9434 I never found him annoying in the books tbh. Maybe it's because I read them recently as an adult, so I can totally understand Mal's perspective, even if the book only told us about it instead of showing it like the tv show.

    • @asterismos5451
      @asterismos5451 3 роки тому +8

      @@Filmsber5 I honestly think the difference in how he's perceived is down to the fact that we do/don't see his perspective. It makes such a difference.

  • @emilycrawford5027
    @emilycrawford5027 3 роки тому +256

    i thought malina in the books was sweet (especially where they end up in ruin and rising), but malina in the show was done SO WELL and took the main elements of them from the books and expanded on it SO MUCH MORE. and seeing mal’s persecptive when he was trying to get back to her the whole time added so much more depth to his character

  • @Celise
    @Celise 3 роки тому +644

    I forgive anyone who changes their mind and now loves Mal. It's okay, we've been waiting for you!

    • @EpicReads
      @EpicReads 3 роки тому +10

      Yes! Welcoming yall with open arms!

    • @love_for_ertugrul_gazi
      @love_for_ertugrul_gazi 3 роки тому +2

      I love both is that bad ?

    • @Celise
      @Celise 3 роки тому +1

      @@love_for_ertugrul_gazi honestly same

  • @drishti8822
    @drishti8822 3 роки тому +178

    Alternative title : Hannah fangirling over Mal for 40 mins straight

  • @zowho
    @zowho 3 роки тому +209

    I think because we don’t have Mal’s pov, and only get Alina’s, it’s very easy to only root for her and her feelings, rather than take a step back to look at how Mal might be feeling. At least when you’re a young reader, of course :)

  • @txyz1
    @txyz1 3 роки тому +547

    It makes me so happy to see people finally realise that there is only one superior ship😌

    • @sarannspiegel4490
      @sarannspiegel4490 3 роки тому +28

      same. malina deserves recognition

    • @isabellac8250
      @isabellac8250 3 роки тому +20

      exactly. i’m glad i’m not the only malina shipper out there🥲

    • @camilalecaros7171
      @camilalecaros7171 3 роки тому +21

      Right? When I finished reading I was like “Yes Malina forever!” And was shocked when I found out everyone hated Mal 💔

    • @polinaberisheva9938
      @polinaberisheva9938 3 роки тому +6

      been a malina stan from the start

    • @isabelaaraujo7351
      @isabelaaraujo7351 3 роки тому +1

      SAME!

  • @chelseacoull2316
    @chelseacoull2316 3 роки тому +222

    I don’t understand the whole debate around the darkling... he literally sends genya to be sexually assaulted over and over by the king AND MANIPULATES HER INTO THINKING ITS HER IDEA AND IT WILL MAKE HER A HERO INSTEAD OF A SERVANT! Who made her a servant in the first place? HIM! That should be the end of the debate no?😅 My brain does not comprehend 😂
    Mal is my love and my life and I will also die on that hill ✨

    • @jaydas8976
      @jaydas8976 3 роки тому +1

      Exactly

    • @litafanforlife
      @litafanforlife 3 роки тому +2

      Lol I truly do not understand the debate over the Darkling either.

  • @syedajaheen869
    @syedajaheen869 3 роки тому +324

    This video is all I wanted and finally SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T HATE MAL- LIKE I LITERALLY HAVE BEEN LOVE WITH HIM SINCE THE START AND I WAS SO CONFUSED

    • @abigailtorres8611
      @abigailtorres8611 3 роки тому +3

      SAME 💗

    • @thebooknitter
      @thebooknitter 3 роки тому +3

      Saaame

    • @sf7101
      @sf7101 3 роки тому +11

      samee, I never really got into the fandom because when I read it everbody was in love with the darkling+alina and I thought I read the books wrong :DD

    • @juliannyrodrigues9687
      @juliannyrodrigues9687 3 роки тому +3

      SAMEEEE

    • @jazzinikki01
      @jazzinikki01 3 роки тому +1

      SAME!

  • @anna--emilia
    @anna--emilia 3 роки тому +94

    it was bleak 8 years ago when the malina slander was at its peak, I felt so alone... I've finally found my people 😭

  • @kaylinpaiges
    @kaylinpaiges 3 роки тому +67

    oml I just realized that a main moral of this trilogy is to know how to spot and avoid toxic men and I love that

  • @camilalecaros7171
    @camilalecaros7171 3 роки тому +112

    That’s what I’ve been saying for years, Mal is not perfect obviously, he has flaws like any of us, he feels real and his reactions are understandable, I’ve always liked him

  • @herz5159
    @herz5159 3 роки тому +121

    SAMEEEE!!!
    I feel like many Mal/Malina haters have been influenced by the Internet not by Mal himself

    • @isabelaaraujo7351
      @isabelaaraujo7351 3 роки тому +2

      YES

    • @ilfak4986
      @ilfak4986 3 роки тому +13

      YES I KNOW RIGHT??? TBH I WASNT MUCH OF A MALINA SHIPPER (BUT i would rather be a hardcore malina stan than even CONSIDERING darklina tho lmao) BUT A LOT OF STUFF THEY SAY ON THE INTERNET ABOUT MAL IS JUST??? NOT TRUE??? he ACTUALLY has good character development

  • @abistorey6442
    @abistorey6442 3 роки тому +184

    Ik that some people don’t like the ending of Ruin and Rising, but I fucking loved it. Like I was balling my eyes out and everything, it was so perfect

    • @AClockworkReader
      @AClockworkReader  3 роки тому +30

      SUCH a good ending 😭😭

    • @LorisBookTrials
      @LorisBookTrials 3 роки тому +2

      Yes I Freaking Agree with you!!!

    • @rubydoe5942
      @rubydoe5942 3 роки тому

      was malina the final ship?

    • @Beth-zv4hb
      @Beth-zv4hb 3 роки тому +1

      @@rubydoe5942 yes

    • @jaydas8976
      @jaydas8976 3 роки тому +12

      Yeah the ending of ruin and rising is great, idc what anyone says. I’m glad Alina got the happy ending she deserves and that she gets to live a peaceful life with the man that she has always loved

  • @thecoldcomputer9042
    @thecoldcomputer9042 3 роки тому +401

    about the mal hate, people who read the book as teens should def reread them now that they are a bit older. after reading so many "bad boy" and "assholes to toxic lovers" stories, malina is honestly a breath of fresh air. they’re both teenagers trying their best to survive and just being very awkward in general. it actually gave me nostalgia lmao

    • @Naahi95
      @Naahi95 3 роки тому +32

      THIS. I read them recently, as an adult, and I was so confused about the Mal hate and the love for the Darkling. I mean I've read way more interesting bad boys, he seemed pretty one dimensional to me. Mal, on the other hand, felt more real and like a teenage boy, and I totally understood his perspective. So I think the age really matters when you read a series.

    • @majaELiZaLorenz
      @majaELiZaLorenz 3 роки тому +14

      I read the books as an adult the first time but I still didn't like Mal, because he is quite often just an Idiot, especially in the first two books. Not the horrible kind, but still not very nice. And I didn't ship her with the darkling or Nikolai either. I don't know why there always has to be someone out of all the characters.. I would have liked her to be single in the end, even though she deserved someone. But she deserved someone else, not necessarily better, but none of the characters from the book. (btw I'm not saying Nikolai didn't deserve her, HE was awesome!!) 😅

    • @jaydas8976
      @jaydas8976 3 роки тому

      I completely agree

    • @elainamcclendon5593
      @elainamcclendon5593 3 роки тому +11

      I am in up in age and dislike the both of them. Mal was very possessive of her, even a relationship between was never established. He also resented the fact that she had powers. He never cared about her. He was selfish and whinny. I dislike mal because they were supposed to be best friends, and he kept treating her badly.

    • @mrithikasivakumar
      @mrithikasivakumar 3 роки тому +11

      @@elainamcclendon5593 I mean Alina is just whisked away to the Little Palace after they both almost die. He also finds out she’s Grisha. They don’t have time to talk. Of course he’ll be bitter. She goes away and he receives no letter and then he sees her dancing with the Darkling, how else is he supposed to feel? He’s only a teen.

  • @thisstoryaintover
    @thisstoryaintover 3 роки тому +18

    ok your mal defense rant from 18 to 22 literally gives me lifee 😭 I need an edited clip version to throw at anyone who tells me mal is toxic

  • @alethiometer235
    @alethiometer235 3 роки тому +314

    everyone on booktube is suddenly becoming a Malina stan and I'm just here having never read a book in the grishaverse like: 👁️👄👁️

    • @AClockworkReader
      @AClockworkReader  3 роки тому +49

      read themmmmm

    • @alethiometer235
      @alethiometer235 3 роки тому +7

      @@AClockworkReader yep definitely been planning to for a while!

    • @xJillie
      @xJillie 3 роки тому +5

      @@alethiometer235 they are pretty fast reads!

    • @youcanwriterhymes
      @youcanwriterhymes 3 роки тому +3

      @@AClockworkReader they’re on my tbr..... idk when i actually even have time to read them

    • @Hannah-ix3sw
      @Hannah-ix3sw 3 роки тому +3

      show Mal > book Mal.

  • @thisstoryaintover
    @thisstoryaintover 3 роки тому +30

    ok the amount of satisfaction I feel hearing you recite Mal's speech at 13:23 😭😭

  • @sarahscott409
    @sarahscott409 3 роки тому +162

    Mal is my favourite Grishaverse character. BECAUSE HE'S SO HUMAN. He is flawed! He's a flawed person with a good heart who always strives to do what's best. I think his character was ahead of his time for when these books were published basically, when the whole 'mysterious bad boy' was more the type. The honest, well meaning love interest is more the type now. Like, I literally cannot articulate HOW MUCH I love Mal, and it's so so gratifying to FINALLY see people getting it asjkbfdbajgdf (I also think he's the kind of love interest you love more as an adult... because you realise, as an adult, that someone loving you does nOT mean 'adoration no matter what'. Someone truly loving you means them calling you out when you need to be called out. Because you're secure enough in your relationship to value honesty above all)
    I think people who don't 'vibe' with the trilogy don't actually understand what it's trying to do. It's a story about power and power corruption. And there isn't a love triangle. Amongst the power corruption story, it's the story of two soulmates who will move heaven and earth to CHOOSE each other time and time again, with a villain trying to tear them apart.

    • @Elix90
      @Elix90 3 роки тому +13

      Yes to all of this! That's honestly the best description of the discussion around these books I've ever heard, you nailed it! Mal was ahead of his time, appeals more to adults than teenagers, and these books doesn't actually have a love triangle (or square, looking at you Nikolai) it's about soulmates and all the people trying to get in their way. Thank you!

    • @j59424
      @j59424 3 роки тому +4

      Finally. Mal is my favourite character too. He is the only main character that doesn’t have power (even Nikolai have Prince’s charm and power) but he know how to best them. He is the only normal person and act like a normal sane person at the same time he is just so out of place in the whole series among Grisha and Politic. he was there only for Alina and everything scream you don’t belong and with Alina acting the way she does and people blame him, he was just miserable the entire series.

    • @almiranara
      @almiranara 3 роки тому

      wow you worded this beautifully!

    • @jaydas8976
      @jaydas8976 3 роки тому

      You worded this perfectly

  • @bethanyhenseler6852
    @bethanyhenseler6852 3 роки тому +67

    Welcome to team Malina, you are safe here.

  • @poppy786
    @poppy786 3 роки тому +75

    literally obsessed with this video... Malina shippers have WON with gaining Hannah and all the points she made... so true bestie

  • @annaj323
    @annaj323 3 роки тому +38

    i feel like mal and the darkling at the start of the book fit very popular tropes of bad boy and childhood friend who's in love with you, and i feel like leigh bardugo kind of flips a lot of things about these tropes on its head (by making the darkling actually /bad/ and not just some wounded boy, and making mal someone who isn't just a link to who alina was Before, but also the person who helps her move on to a stronger version of herself), but this is all done in such nuanced ways, and with so much complexity, that a lot of people who read these books keep seeing the tropes in the way they're normally used.
    we're so used to the childhood friend never wanting the main character to change, that as soon as mal shows the slightest sign of being upset by a way alina has changed, we're likely to instantly reject it, because of what this trope has taught us before. but when u look at mal with a more open mind you'll see that a lot of his opinions and views come from a good place, and that it's so much more complex than what is normally shown with this trope.
    meanwhile with the darkling, we're so used to the newly introduced badboy type to be the one to bring out the true and powerful version of the main character. so when the darkling starts saying things like "only i am your equal" and starts saying that he understands her and values her power, we're taught by earlier version of his trope to believe him, and see this a good thing for alina. while instead leigh flipped the trope on its head by having these phrases be a way of manipulating a young girl who's world has just completely changed. alina is not in a place to know who she is right now, to understand herself or her power, so when someone else offers her words of confidence she Will cling to those... which is such an easy way to make her the target of manipulation.
    there's so much nuance and complexity, but if you go into these books and cling too much onto what you Know of the tropes, you'll likely miss all of that complexity and end up hating mal and going "but the darkling is good for her!!" which i feel like a lot of the responses to these books have been in the past. i fully believe that had i read these books when i was younger, i 100% would have clung onto the original uses for these tropes and been a full on darkling stan too.
    i feel like recently more and more people have been discovering the complexity hidden within these books, and it's been making me so happy, because it makes the books /so good/.

    • @abigailtorres8611
      @abigailtorres8611 3 роки тому +5

      exactly, and for me, it's a different trilogy, where although there are many tropes used from other series, it differs in not resorting to the heroine always staying with the bad guy, and in this one, this time she chooses her best friend. It is more realistic because Alina even though she also had a connection with the Darkling, the author wrote it convincingly that even though there was an attraction between them, her home and heart belonged to Mal.

    • @Goiriath
      @Goiriath 3 роки тому +1

      This is a really good analysis. Thank you. I read the series and have been trying to figure out what is going on with the misinterpretation of Mal's character by fandom ever since.
      This provides another angle, also with everyone complaining Mal is holding her back when he supports her so much, and realising that's the *trope* role makes so much sense.

  • @lindsaygarcia3321
    @lindsaygarcia3321 3 роки тому +57

    Every time Hannah makes a review and takes us on her journey I just KNOW ITS GOING TO BE ICONIC

  • @sarah98lam
    @sarah98lam 3 роки тому +25

    I loved the nuance in the darkling's intentions. He fully believed he was doing the right thing and the "fine, make me your villain" line HITS DIFFERENT

  • @wrigleysings1940
    @wrigleysings1940 3 роки тому +50

    I’m so happy that you like Mal because he’s my favorite character and I could never understand why others hate him

  • @nicolepenagarcia
    @nicolepenagarcia 3 роки тому +160

    omg FINALLY someone who actually loves and UNDERSTANDS Mal's character. Literally every single thing that you said is just YES YES YES!!! How can people say Mal is TOXIC but then ship Alina with the Darkling????? Like wtf?? excuse me???? Are we even reading the same books I---

    • @litafanforlife
      @litafanforlife 3 роки тому +10

      It honestly makes no sense to me when people say Mal is toxic but then ship the Darkling and Alina. The Darkling is toxic, not Mal.

    • @Klutz_Krafts
      @Klutz_Krafts Рік тому

      they're both toxic though? The darkling resents her otkazatsya side and mal resents her grisha side. Even after they alina lost her powers, mal never would have sympathised or even cared if it wasn't for him also losing a huge part of himself.

  • @ty2887
    @ty2887 3 роки тому +47

    Me questioning 'why does everyone hate mal? ' since the beginning of time. I'm just glad he is finally getting the respect his character deserves !

  • @vo1dd-
    @vo1dd- 3 роки тому +185

    malina truly is the superior ship!! mal gets misunderstood so much by everyone, i think everyone just needs to reread the trilogy to realise he's actually not that bad

    • @pernilles-f260
      @pernilles-f260 3 роки тому +1

      Insomnia?!

    • @vo1dd-
      @vo1dd- 3 роки тому +1

      @@pernilles-f260 yes!! i love dc!!!

    • @pernilles-f260
      @pernilles-f260 3 роки тому +1

      @@vo1dd- We are getting so big, I was really not expecting an Insomnia here

    • @vo1dd-
      @vo1dd- 3 роки тому

      @@pernilles-f260 samee i didnt expect it either!! ive been stanning them since boca but even our growth between now and then is so big!!

    • @liliam1959
      @liliam1959 3 роки тому +1

      If I am being honest, he annoyed me a bit at the beginning, but now after having finished the 2nd book I'm like "why do you not talk to each other about it!??"

  • @canadianjules
    @canadianjules 3 роки тому +81

    Also I also reread shadow and bone before the show came out and I was SO confused bc I didn’t understand why everyone hates Mal bc obviously the Darkling is the biggest asshole to ever live but I think it’s a sign of how old I am now that I can understand Mal’s perspective bc I can see why people think he’s annoying but also they’re kind of in a stressful situation here and he just wants Alina to be safe and also doesn’t truly understand what she’s going through and I’m like YOU’RE NOT CONSIDERING HIS PERSPECTIVE LEAVE HIM ALONE

  • @siyak.1818
    @siyak.1818 3 роки тому +38

    Hannah falling in love with the Shadow and Bone trilogy is the plot twist I needed 🤧

    • @Elix90
      @Elix90 3 роки тому

      Yes to this!

  • @khadiisam26
    @khadiisam26 3 роки тому +79

    Omg Hannah you literally put all my thoughts into words, Mal is so hated for NO reason, I thought he was just being a realistic character and yeah people calling Mal toxic but then the darkling is literally just there 😩

    • @Naahi95
      @Naahi95 3 роки тому +12

      The Darkling's is like manipulating and killing people left and right, I never understood the love for that character.

    • @khadiisam26
      @khadiisam26 3 роки тому +8

      @@Naahi95 exactly, how can people romantisize a murderer. And Mal and the darkling cannot even be compared on the same level

  • @imonlylaurie
    @imonlylaurie 3 роки тому +18

    Yes queen, thank you I totally agree! I have always loved Mal even when I first read the books. Later on, when I discovered booktube and bookstagram I was so shocked that people said they hate him or find him toxic... I'm so glad that people are changing their opinions because of the show. We love a good Mal/malina stan.

  • @amishashrivastava9328
    @amishashrivastava9328 3 роки тому +43

    I used to think that I'm the only person who loves mal and i always hated when people said that he's not right he's toxic.

  • @sophiaalbertim9902
    @sophiaalbertim9902 3 роки тому +23

    It’s great to finally see someone who really understands Mal and his relationship with Alina

  • @youraveragemusicperson2176
    @youraveragemusicperson2176 3 роки тому +47

    As a Malina shipper from day one, I simply cannot handle everyone rereading tgt and becoming a Malina Stan all at once, this is just so funny to me. Honestly bless the show for getting people to understand how good malina really is.

  • @dorothea327
    @dorothea327 3 роки тому +37

    okay but i'm so glad hannah got turned into a malina shipper cause well that's the superior ship😌

  • @Kattnis100
    @Kattnis100 3 роки тому +26

    I've read the Grisha trilogy for the first time 3 months ago and liked Malina so much, and I was So surprised to find out that many people didn't like Mal at all! So glad you see him in a new light 🥺❤

  • @_ln_7199
    @_ln_7199 3 роки тому +50

    hannah about the darkling: he’s a murderer, i really don’t think i’ll like him that much
    kaz: 👀

    • @AClockworkReader
      @AClockworkReader  3 роки тому +36

      they are so different I could make a whole video just about this lolllll

  • @abigailsosa4352
    @abigailsosa4352 3 роки тому +23

    I honestly love the Darkling BECAUSE he’s so evil. He’s so calculating and manipulative yet I eat all that up! He’s such a good villian, I can’t 🤭
    On a lighter note, I do love that we got to see Mal’s perspective in the show. It makes things so much clearer and has converted me to a Malina stan. Something I never thought would happen!

  • @cozymonica
    @cozymonica 3 роки тому +13

    i get so so excited when people reread shadow & bone bc it deserves SO much more praise and love (as does mal 👀)!! i get so frustrated when people say mal is toxic or hates alina being powerful. he just wants to help her stay true to herself, and i’ll never understand people who hate on them or the series end. and i say this as someone who also used to hate him and the ending. 😩 tbh i think a big part of it is people aren’t used to male love interests who are like real and complicated people 👀👀 anywaysss so excited for you to read king of scars!

  • @maham8178
    @maham8178 3 роки тому +37

    YASSS FINALLY MALINA GETTING THE LOVE THEY DESERVE!!!!

  • @ceciliagln3355
    @ceciliagln3355 3 роки тому +14

    I love the fact that, in the end, Alina has three clear different paths, with three different men, and three very different outcomes and, above power, royalty, etc. she still picks love and her friendship with Mal. It is so beautiful that through and above everything, even though they made mistakes and mishaps, they still choose each other. They have such an unconditional love and friendship, it's so beautiful to me.

  • @xJillie
    @xJillie 3 роки тому +8

    I just read these for the first time this week and I can’t believe how much I love them! I was expecting to be mostly annoyed by them and they just blew me out of the water. I didn’t even know there was Mal hate at first. I loved him and totally empathized. I mean, how would I feel knowing that I could never really be with the person I love, while also having to be right next to them? Oof. Loved hearing your thoughts. It’s such a great series and I think very underrated. I’m in my late 20s now and a lot of YA just gives me major eye rolls, but this series is so well done. I’m officially obsessed.
    ETA I was straight up sobbing at the end. I really thought Mal was dead. And then that epilogue. A perfect ending!
    ETA 2 my awesome husband got me the collector’s S&B yesterday and there’s a letter from Mal to Alina in the back that shows some of what he was going through hunting down the amplifier. I already love Mal anyway, but getting that extra context made me feel for him even more.

  • @maebooks
    @maebooks 3 роки тому +42

    everyone is turning over to the malina side but i've been here the whole time!! it's weird to think of these characters as teenagers because of how much they go through and have to do, but when you remember they're literally 17 (plus a 10k year old darkling??) everything makes sense and malina is super cute

  • @dhruvik1711
    @dhruvik1711 3 роки тому +22

    Not me having a superiority complex because I always loved mal and malina 😌🤚

  • @michellexbeauty9832
    @michellexbeauty9832 3 роки тому +20

    mal is a realistic character. he isn’t what people seem to say he is.

  • @RissyReads12291229
    @RissyReads12291229 3 роки тому +46

    I first read the series when I was 24 and was kinda meh on all the shipping, but definitely thought Mal was the superior choice for Alina. Personally I'm a Nikolai stan.

    • @lyd7136
      @lyd7136 3 роки тому

      You have ✨taste✨

  • @moonchildslay
    @moonchildslay 3 роки тому +31

    girl your aesthetic is everything

  • @alisonbudzyn1134
    @alisonbudzyn1134 3 роки тому +66

    i actually rlly hated the idea of darklina bc all it does is show a seriously toxic relationship/partnership. i think i’ve always love malina in the books, because even if mal and alina apart are annoying by themselves, they actually portray a realistic/healthy-ish relationship.

    • @abigailtorres8611
      @abigailtorres8611 3 роки тому +4

      Yes, they have their moments of immaturity and can even be annoying, but you have to understand that they are teenagers. But their love is pure.

  • @vijaylakshmirathore2746
    @vijaylakshmirathore2746 3 роки тому +18

    I loved the show very much as well as the 📚. The show's execution was amazing. I still love Mal and Inej's characters very much. Glad you posted this video Hannah.❣

  • @skyycollector
    @skyycollector 3 роки тому +26

    i read the books for the first time just this year and i can't understan why the whole fandom seems to hate mal bc he's one of the most interesting characters in the books and he's sweet and dedicated and trusting ughh i will not accept mal hate speech

    • @elainamcclendon5593
      @elainamcclendon5593 3 роки тому +1

      Everyone hates him because he was selfish as hell. It took Alina losing her powers for her to finally be accepted by him, which is what he wanted. He was very possessive of her, even when a relationship was never established between them. He was jealous and whiny. When he was sleeping with Grisha women, nothing was said. He is just as bad as the darkling. And y'all don't see it.

    • @skyycollector
      @skyycollector 3 роки тому +6

      @@elainamcclendon5593 i knew that was most people's opinion so i read the books looking for those things actually, but the way i see it he spent the whole time saying he couldn't be with her and refusing her bc he knew she was meant for something bigger, more important, and he would just be an obstacle for her. idk i really didn't see him as that selfish and toxic as most people do

    • @skyycollector
      @skyycollector 3 роки тому +3

      i mean he even got that damned tattoo swearing allegiance to her as a saint, i don't think he would do that if he wanted her to lose her powers

  • @51pegasiB
    @51pegasiB 3 роки тому +8

    Aaah this video is insanely perfectly timed!
    I've just spent the last hours rereading the 1st book after finishing the show and falling head over heels for it... Exact same reaction than yours : how could the book that was "ok but too plain" could become such a revelation after having seen the show??

  • @arianedealswithsocialanxie8170
    @arianedealswithsocialanxie8170 3 роки тому +8

    The show's depiction of Mal and this BLESSED re-reading made me seriously re-evaluate my opinion of him. Thank you for expressing yourself so enthusiastically, it's contagious! ❤️

  • @sophiecarlisle9216
    @sophiecarlisle9216 3 роки тому +89

    Honestly Archie and Archie alone made me fall in love with Mal🤷🏼‍♀️

    • @majaELiZaLorenz
      @majaELiZaLorenz 3 роки тому +4

      Absolutely!! I love Mal in the show but I'm still not a fan of the book charakter

    • @sophiecarlisle9216
      @sophiecarlisle9216 3 роки тому +1

      @@majaELiZaLorenz yes!!

  • @gracevining220
    @gracevining220 3 роки тому +93

    omg yes malina shippers unite!!!

  • @anxiousleighwaiting
    @anxiousleighwaiting 3 роки тому +18

    the show has made so many people malina shippers i am so happy!

  • @danielaayers3449
    @danielaayers3449 3 роки тому +11

    Finally Mal and Malina get the love they deserve, so glad the Netflix show is opening peoples eyes to this!

  • @yuktamuniraj154
    @yuktamuniraj154 3 роки тому +17

    Ya'll hear her mal is not FUCKING TOXIC!!!! I'm so proud I found my people here and so many of them😭😭😭.

  • @hajiramalik7
    @hajiramalik7 3 роки тому +8

    one of my favorite points to make is that you can really draw some parallels between the Darkling and the Apparat. Technically, both of them wanted to manipulate Alina into some higher power type thing, saying things like you're one of kind and stuff blah blah blah and use her power for their own selfish reasons, But the darkling is better looking than the apparat and so we ignore the signs of toxicity from him but we catch the apparat's right from the get go. It's an interesting point how people's appearances can really change our perspective on them

  • @amandarobertson3772
    @amandarobertson3772 3 роки тому +22

    In the newer editions of the first book (NOT the movie editions but the blue paperbacks with the stag on the front cover) you can find some of Mal's missing letters to Alina while she was at the Little Palace. You know, the ones the Darkling disposed of?

    • @AClockworkReader
      @AClockworkReader  3 роки тому +5

      omg wait 😭😭 now i need those editions!!!

    • @amandarobertson3772
      @amandarobertson3772 3 роки тому +1

      @@AClockworkReader It's actually just one letter; you could probably just walk into any bookstore and read it real quick. Or just buy it and read it in the car and return it right after because you just needed a safe place to cry, lol.

    • @Naahi95
      @Naahi95 3 роки тому +4

      I read them recently so the copy I read had that letter and I thought Mal was so sweet and strong and then I found out that a lot of people disliked him and liked the Darkling as a love interest and I was like ??? Did we read the same books? When did Mal not care for her? I think that letter could've changed a lot of people's perspective and it was a mistake to leave it out of the first book.

  • @Ivy254
    @Ivy254 3 роки тому +12

    rIGHT I literally never understood why so many people seemed to hate Mal when i first read the books, way before the show came out. MAL STANS UNITE

  • @blackheartbooks
    @blackheartbooks 3 роки тому +16

    I always thought Mal was such a sweetheart

  • @nayrarodriguez3385
    @nayrarodriguez3385 3 роки тому +191

    People using the word "toxic" to describe Mal are Darkling stans or Darklina shippers. I think that explains it all.

    • @ig1441
      @ig1441 3 роки тому +40

      THANK YOU! Every time I see someone say Mal was toxic and annoying they’re the same ones who say the darkling and alina should’ve ended up together

    • @nayrarodriguez3385
      @nayrarodriguez3385 3 роки тому +18

      @@ig1441 exactly. They excuse the Darkling’s actions even some say he was right and if the others hadn't intervened, not so many people would have died, but a teenager acting like a teenager and actually growing is too much for them. 🙄

    • @WakaWakaShakira123
      @WakaWakaShakira123 3 роки тому +12

      i think mal's toxic mostly in book 2 (which i feel is ok to admit, and i know he does redeem himself in book 3), but i also don't ship darklina at all, he might have been part of a plot twist from good to bad, but he was even more toxic. i personally thought alina should have been alone or wished she fell for nikolai, but i heard show mal is rlly good so i'm happy since they do end up together :')

    • @nayrarodriguez3385
      @nayrarodriguez3385 3 роки тому +40

      @@WakaWakaShakira123 I honestly didn’t see mal as toxic in that book because... he was being pushed around. I would call him annoying, yes, but not toxic. Nikolai kept taunting him with Alina, he thought he was worthless around Grisha and a powerful prince and he was nothing of help to alina but a good tracker. Alina herself was keeping things from him (not blaming Alina on this, just seeing it from Mal’s perspective) and he knew he had to stay away from her because people already wondered if they had a thing and it would not be beneficial if she and Nikolai ended up marrying. He felt alone, useless. I was mad at him at some scenes, but I think his reactions were reasonable at some points. He started drinking and fighting, because what was Mal good for around so many powerful people? Nothing. All he had wanted was to protect Alina and he was not even good for that since the Darkling had so easily found them despite their efforts to hide.
      However, I respect your opinion if you disagree with mine. Everyone has their own interpretations on characters and it's not a bad thing.

    • @WakaWakaShakira123
      @WakaWakaShakira123 3 роки тому +2

      @@nayrarodriguez3385 yea i see where ur coming from, honestly i just love the fact that we care so much about these characters to analyze them like this, leigh bardugo did well ☺️

  • @asterismos5451
    @asterismos5451 3 роки тому +4

    Leigh has said before that she wrote Shadow and Bone when she was in a toxic relationship, so you are very right about how that influenced things. I'm really amazed at how this series has always been aimed at young teens and yet it manages to cover such difficult topics with this amazing nuance and understanding, like abusive relationships, abuse of power, rape as an abuse of power, etc.. It did so much and I'm so glad it's finally getting credit for that.

  • @toobashaikh5922
    @toobashaikh5922 3 роки тому +37

    Have I read or plan on reading grisha trilogy? No. Will I still watch the entirety of the video solely because it contains Hannah because I am her simp? Yes.

  • @BaileeWalsh
    @BaileeWalsh 3 роки тому +10

    I read the series for the first time earlier this year and I was genuinely confused as to why people hate Mal so much. I literally don't even know where to start especially because I agree with just about everything you say! Looking forward to your video on the show :)

  • @kenzie9220
    @kenzie9220 3 роки тому +15

    literally haven’t even watched the video yet but i know this journey is going to be iconic

  • @Elly5311
    @Elly5311 3 роки тому +7

    i am SO HAPPY WITH THESE THOUGHTS i simply do not get the love for the Darkling because he’s literally a textbook abuser, constantly gaslights and manipulated Alina, tries to use her kindness against her consistently, and is also a MASS MURDERER???? perhaps he’s so well written by Leigh that people are so taken with his charm which, again, TEXTBOOK abuser. and Mal is just,,,,,, not that??? he’s so lovely?? he loves her so deeply and you can tell that the whole way through??? yes he is very annoying sometimes and literally just talking to Alina could’ve fixed many issues but he’s also a TEENAGER i am so thrilled with the ending i’m glad they’re happy and the darkling is deceased

  • @deboramuller5973
    @deboramuller5973 3 роки тому +7

    I want to LIVE in this video!! Me reading the trilogy before the series came out was EXACTLY like that. It was so emotional, I connected so emotionally with them that I want to cry just to remember 🤧 Mal nation we won today 💕

  • @user-tz6yf3zp6u
    @user-tz6yf3zp6u 3 роки тому +6

    Omg we are the same girl! Watching you reread is how I was when I first read the book. All the pointers you made about Mal I fully agree with. Everything people said about Mal is exactly what the Darkling is..Toxic. So I don't understand what all the fuss it about. But ok it makes me realize that SOME people cant identify what a healthy relationship looks like or stan someone just because he is handsome or powerful. Everyone has their reasons. Leigh's good writing is proven well just by his influence. Anyway, I have always loved Malina and trilogy in general. Not terrible at all. As for the show, it made me stan Malina and the crows even more. Need the second season in my life now..

  • @judyyyyyy1857
    @judyyyyyy1857 3 роки тому +6

    I am literally so happy that you’re defending mal and also, yes! welocme to the malina ship

  • @BellsBooksAndCoffee
    @BellsBooksAndCoffee 3 роки тому +32

    Booktok told me to hate him and when I read it I didn't understand why because if I was in his shoes...yeah I get it.

    • @lyd7136
      @lyd7136 3 роки тому +4

      Booktok tells people to hate Mal and BookTube tells people to hate the Darkling but at the end of the day, they’re both flawed, both toxic, and both aren’t good for Alina. The third book in the trilogy, esp the ending, made that very clear…

    • @tiannab328
      @tiannab328 3 роки тому +12

      @@lyd7136 the ending of the third book made it clear Mal was bad for Alina? Lol okay.

    • @obscvritas3601
      @obscvritas3601 2 роки тому

      @@lyd7136 I wanna say this a maybe a result of the age range of people on either platforms? This, is probably gonna sounds condescending lol but Tiktok is a younger crowd and UA-cam tends to have older creators. How many of us in the older age range cringe at how we romanticized toxic relationships? Heck, I'll listen to songs from my adolescence and songs by current gen z artists and cringe st how toxic the ideas are.
      However, let's not put Mal in the same level as the Darkling. He's flawed, he's done some shitty things, but he learned and grew, just like the rest of us do. I don't think he's as selfless as stans say he is, but the Darkling is actually manipulative and genocidal. Mal is just kind of a jerk.

  • @junitadabusinskaite8048
    @junitadabusinskaite8048 3 роки тому +25

    I just had a thought of how the orphanage scene from ruin and rising would look like in the show. I'm literally crying, it would be awful and I'm not sure I would like to see it😭

  • @sarannspiegel4490
    @sarannspiegel4490 3 роки тому +10

    hannah, i’m so glad you’re a part of the malina nation now 💚

  • @moonchildslay
    @moonchildslay 3 роки тому +14

    i just realized this is a 38 minute video lol WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED

  • @moonchildslay
    @moonchildslay 3 роки тому +15

    QUEEN HANNAH TALIKNG ABOUT QUEEN BARDUGO'S BOOKS YAY

  • @jem9490
    @jem9490 3 роки тому +3

    i love you so much for this omg i didn't expect to shed tears watching this but i also cried when you were crying over mal and alina 😭 actually after finishing the series for the first time, i was so ready to talk to other readers and gush about mal and alina's relationship and character development but when i looked at the reviews, i honestly felt like there was something wrong with me and like i read a completely different story. so yes, i feel so validated throughout this video so thank you! 💛

  • @shreyabhattacharjee7394
    @shreyabhattacharjee7394 3 роки тому +8

    God, I literally SCREAMED when I read the title because I WAS SUCH A HARDCORE MALINA SHIPPER WHEN I WAS 15 AND EVERY BOOKTUBER SHIPPED HER AND THE DARKLING OR HER AND NIKOLAI, and i was so sad cause I felt like the odd one out but now MY FAVOURITE BOOKTUBER ships THEM!!!! I'm in heaven 😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @leslecturesdelouise
    @leslecturesdelouise 3 роки тому +6

    The end got me crying of happiness because Mal and Alina deserve the world 🤧🤧❤

  • @ZeynepBKeles
    @ZeynepBKeles 3 роки тому +22

    HANNAH YOU'RE MAKING ME INTO A MALINA STAN I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS

  • @nikoletta3855
    @nikoletta3855 3 роки тому +7

    I was a malina stan from day one and honestly I'm so glad we malina are finally gaining more people. People used to send so much actual hate on malina shippers it was unreal

  • @sarahs4354
    @sarahs4354 3 роки тому +7

    i think the older you get, the more you understand mal and the merit behind the grishaverse as a whole! yes its a very ya series plot wise but THE WAY THE CHARACTERS ARE WRITTEN AND DEVELOPED IS SO MATURE AND REAL AH i kept seeing everyone hate on him on tiktok before i read it and im like?? why?? and show mal is just so amazing, archie renaux is>>>

  • @piratedash
    @piratedash 3 роки тому +9

    This is my new favorite video from you! I've been defending Mal for years 🤣

  • @BasilReacts
    @BasilReacts 3 роки тому +6

    As someone who read the end of ruin and rising (for the first time in 2018) and almost started crying just before a school assembly started over *that* Mal scene it’s so good to see people finally start to ship them.

  • @martinarosique1579
    @martinarosique1579 3 роки тому +18

    YES!!!!! yesyesyes I agressively clicked this video malina is the superior ship

  • @justvynexa
    @justvynexa 3 роки тому +14

    Malina lover from the beginning
    DEFINITELY a Malina lover after the show.
    I reread this series when KoS was coming out, but like... I’m feeling like a reread again since watching the show.

  • @fla6652
    @fla6652 3 роки тому +4

    I'm so happy you loved Mal (and the series)💕 he deserves the world😭💕

  • @michelledayane1876
    @michelledayane1876 3 роки тому +6

    THAT'S IT
    Mal deserves better, the hate he gets it’s nonsense. They say he doesn’t have a personality just because he’s not funny enough for them or bad.

  • @caroline704
    @caroline704 3 роки тому +3

    i’m so glad that you love mal now! i read the series last year and read your review after finishing and i was so sad to hear you didn’t love mal bc i love mal!!!