Is the Plated Prisoner series an ACOMAF rip off?
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"God forbid we ever see binge eating as a coping mechanism." ... I did not realize how badly I needed some good representation of this until right now.
I have a question. I’m writing a Sci-fantasy with space pirates (they are a found family trying to get over past trauma) and I wanted the ship’s cook to binge eat as a coping mechanism. Would that be insensitive or ok?
Because I only really learned cooking, since I needed to eat more than my family.
So I wanted to make the binge eating person the chef, because he has direct access to the kitchen etc. More than anywhere else on the ship.
"We don't need anymore Andrew Tates in this world, we already have one and that's 10 too many." Omg I love you!
I want this on a shirt.
omg i love the artwork of auren with her foot on rotman's chair?? beautiful. i need her over me like that as well 🤧
Hard same
Incase no one has mentioned it, the term vagina is from Latin meaning “sheath” or “scabbard”. So that’s hopefully why all the penis sword references come from, but it could also be coincidence. Doesn’t mean it being used over and over again isn’t annoying as hell.
"We are gendering fire now?"
Have you ever seen German? Spoons are male, forks are female and knifes have no gender. German is fun!
I just read Babel by RF Kuang and I have a deep appreciation for words and their etymology now so I like hearing this
@@ReadswithRachel many languages are super weird when it comes to gender. Like things being gendered by articles in German.
Also, in German the default noun for any job is masculine (because patriarchy) and the female version has a female article and a female ending.
It's "Der Lehrer" so "male article" + teacher and "Die Lehrerin" so "female article" + teachess. If you want to have a gender neutral version for all teachers you have to basically splice the job with the female suffix: Lehrer*Innen so "teacher" + "esses".
It's interesting to see the original sexist gender structure and the modern attempts to fix it.
I was surprised I ended up loving this series. Gleam was especially 5 stars because I loved how Raven Kennedy handled Auren’s storyline.
Hearing this series be compared to ACOMAF has totally piqued my interest. That's my fave in the ACOTAR series, and I've been desperately trying to find another fantasy that hits that sweet spot ACOMAF hits. Gonna check this series out for sure!
I legit thought the name was spelled Oren because ore. but this gal is called Auren? it's so close to Sir Auron that I immediately like her more.
The letters for gold on the periodic table is Au
I thought of Auron, too!
Gold in Latin is aurum, so it might have something to do with that
My face when you said AUREN was the one with the gold magic: 😱
Finding all this stuff out secondhand is fun. I need to read this series. 🤣
He’s ALSO the king?! How were they never in the same place at the same time? Did he wear glasses? How did she not know he was the king when she saw the king? I REALLY need to read these books. I have too many questions. 🤣
He had a whole Clark Kent Superman thing going on and I watched way too much Lois and Clark growing up not to notice lmao
@@ReadswithRachel, sounds about right. I used to love that show, too! 🤣
It’s a dumpster fire like ACOTAR, et Al. And I am a fireproof racoooooooon. Lol
firepROOF RACCOON LMAOOOO
@@ReadswithRachel my SO called me a “flame retardant raccoon” and offered to customize a mug because they believed it was hilarious also. But it’s so true. I love hot garbage. So much. Lmao
I do enjoy the ACOMAF themes and the "sweet spot", and I absolutely love Auren, not-Rhys and the magic. Still I found myself skipping so much of her descriptions, and skipping ALL of Malina's pages, and just dragging myself by my fingernails to get to the end of Glow. The resolution is fine, but the journey there was exhausting. And that's considering I read SJM series, so I know what's to be fucking drained.
One thing that was really positive for me was that despite the sex scenes getting tedious, I did appreciate the way by the end of Glow Raven shows Auren's indecision and doubts whether she would ever want someone else rather than Slade, and if she is truly ready for throwing herself back at an *ETERNAL AND ALL CONSUMING* relationship. I felt like her doubts and fears and genuine hesitation were pretty accurate and realistic, and made me relate to that.
Ethereal means in a nutshell: otherworldly, heavenly, beautiful and graceful. Granted, it's more commonly used to describe females, but I guess for fae men that would kinda work too? I don't read a lot of romance because... it lacks the right kind of action for me. I prefer epic fantasy as a top choice :D But I did enjoy this video, entertaining and insightful.
I'm glad that I am not the only one who dislikes pregnancy tropes
the way i relate so much to the idea of keeping the yearning going, i feel like as soon as they end up together i get bored so if it happens too early i'm so over it
God I will never ever get over how much I loved Tamlin only for SJM to do him SO fucking dirty like that. I got spoiled for the rest of the series after ACOTAR (on purpose bc I was watching book reviews for the series) and when I found out what happened to his character I was SOOO disappointed and upset I dropped ACOTAR right there. I didn’t even finish the first book bc I was so disappointed 😭 honestly I think I dodged a bullet bc the disappointment would’ve been a thousand times worse had I continued with the series and found out on my own.
Tamlin had kinda given me Howl vibes and I’m a huge Howl’s Moving Castle nut, he wasn’t a prefect character obviously but I liked his flaws. His character really deserved better than the treatment that he got. I will forever be chasing that high that Howl’s Moving Castle and 1st half of ACOTAR got me :’)
Here here! I dropped just before everything Under the Mountain went down. Literally everything I hear about the rest of the series makes me sick to my stomach. I want my time and investment back.
@@crystalfairy912 in my mind they lived happily ever after in a non-heteronormative, non-toxic relationship 😴 fuck SJM!!!!
This is making me very glad I stopped at ACOMAF because I did not like the direction things were going at the end (and I wasn’t willing to wait for the next book to find out). But damn, you are so right about that sweet spot, it’s very *chef’s kiss* and now I kind of want to try this, so thank you for that ❤ (I didn’t especially like ACOTAR, but I made it through, so I can probably do Gild as well)
On an unrelated note...
I just want to take a moment to say that I hate Rhysand 😠
Same
@@ReadswithRachel thank you for your validation 💖
Gild should’ve been kept with glint and been one thicc book imo! They are parts one and two in my mind. Sjm owes me money for ACOFAS too. I think her gold was revealed early book 2 but it should’ve been shown back in book 1 imo. Also I’m so happy u finished glow and CC2 together cause is it just me or did they have the same exact ending?? (Fall into another world cliff hanger trope)
Am I allowed to point out that Meleana is also a medical term for bloody diarrhoea 😅
I did not expect being attached to them fckn ribbons 😭😭🤣
i loved these books and i love auren so much :) BUT i cant lie i skipped ALLL malina and kalia chapters like i really tried with the malina chapters at first but just couldnt get through them and also when she was being rude about auren that was the last straw for me 🫣❤❤ also im glad you like this series (also random thing is i don’t like acotar or sjm so i was surprised when i liked it tbh)
But it makes you hate them more.
For the case you take recommandation for reading from here. I could imagen, that you could like two books of the Author Rebecca F. Kenney. She writes dark fantasy romance, with often enemies to lovers and forced procimity. Not all books she writes are for everyone (some get very dark), but this are more on the middle ground. Especially:
Prize of the Warlord (I admit, I don't like the titel, but the book)
Captive of the Pirate King
The Horsemen of Sleepy Hollow (Really liked the version. It has an interesting backround for the Horsemen)
Forgott, she also wrote a dark mermaid romance. Have not read it yet.
I’m glad you ended up liking it. I agree with 99% of what you said which shocked me 🤣. I’m looking forward to your thoughts on LightLark.
just got the ebook! review coming soon:)
Excellent. I am seeing mixed reviews for it (from people who have read it).
Just finished reading the 4th book- unfortunately for me, once I start a book series I have to see it through. It was a very very painful read. It's all the same and extremely detailed to the point it just felt like a broken record. There is no action in-between, it drags on and on and the exciting stuff only comes at the end.
Correct. They’re not good. They’re like junk food. I like them while I’m consuming them if I mindlessly consume them, like potato chips, but they’re pretty bad.
Thank you! I was wondering if it's only me.. The dialogues are horrible (especially book 1), the tedious, continuous, endless overexplainations of characters' thoughts and backgrounds, the... simply *stupid* actions of the characters, all couples have the exact same pattern, their sex is always the same and never really loving or gentle, the constant degradation of women and the main character (she's not really allowed to grow as a person and woman, at least not as fast as I would have liked)..... It's all just 🤮
I binge-read all the books so far... I read them, but it's painful and I don't like it. Still, I want to know how it ends... 🙄
The first I heard of ACOTAR verse was it clogging all the Pinterest search results for the Tam Lin folk ballad. That's a petty grudge I'm not over.
(Also the dynamic you describe ACOMAF having pretty much just sounds like half the Transformers Animated fanfic I've read so, there's that I guess.)
My only complaint is the use of the word ‘baby’
Yes! Makes me cringe so hard!
Even though I was late, I knew I had to watch the newest video from Reads with Rachel. Got the popcorn ready and everything!
Kinda almost totally unrelated, but if you like love interests being separated and ridiculous amounts of build up, the Jacky Faber series is like 12 books long and the main love interests are only together for like half of the first book (which is only a couple of hundred pages) and then for like 7 scenes over the rest of the series 😂😂😂 Genuinely so frustrating but so good.
What you said about your sweet spot very much made me think of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
I would love to see your review of a court of mist and fury. I felt like that was my fav book and it had alot of very good moments
I wish I had reviewed it when I originally read it but now I can’t really review it the same knowing what happens in later books. I suppose I could do a “what went right” in that book comparison with the others
What is with fantasy romance novels and going o n about masculinity?
Once again Hubby is nearby and overhears the storm-cumming metaphor is like “WTF”, he’s never even thought to describe weather that way. He’s wondering what’s wrong with authors describing weather with ejaculation metaphors. 😂. Come to think about it, pun intended, IF I were to think what the weather would be like to fit that description, that’s no kind of weather I’ve ever seen or want to see.
Do you have any plans to review Hell Followed With Us? I just saw a tiktok about it and I feel like it’s a VERY thin line to try to walk with a story.
I do yes! I got it as a gift on my birthday back in July. I know it’s about christofascism and a fundamentalist cult which is what I grew up in so I’ll try to review it from that perspective
Guess I’ve got to finally read the books after book 1 so that I can watch this 🤷🏼♀️
By the way, do you plan to review another tik tok darling aka Lightlark by Alex Aster? I heard it's another ACOTAR rip off ahahaha. That would be juicy.
I’ve never heard of this before! I’ll put it on my list! Thanks for the idea 😃
Ooooof I just learned about it and I don’t know why but I have a bad feeling about this
@@ReadswithRachel Someone told me it's another CJ Piper case, I wonder how the comparison fares. Apparently author is rich, her sister is a business partner of Selena Gomez, and she has enough money to buy Times Square billboards for her book, but reviews say it's ACOTAR x Selection rip off.
Happy to tell you I have already started compiling notes for a video on this
@@ReadswithRachel Awaiting the video! :)
Okay so I finished book 3 and thought omg so similar to ACOTAR but I actually liked Auren and her arc WAY more than Feyre. I also did not like the 1st book as well.
Lol. Since I sat down to read a chapter and accidentally finished the whole book when I read ACOMAF, I guess I need to check this series out. Lol.
I literally stopped watching a different video when I saw this pop up!
Do you know how badly I want to ask you to read and review my smüt series of why choose novels? But then I’d have to move up to your $35 tier to pay for your therapy and I’m not sure I want to make that commitment. 🤣🤣🤣
LOL well for you, I’m willing to read it 💜
@@ReadswithRachel LOL! Well, I’ll look forward to your 1-star review about the lack of plot because it literally started as smütfics I wrote of my non-canon characters having seggs that I then tied together with the thinnest veiling of plot.
There are six chapters in the middle that have zero plot because they started life as one 26,000 word smütfic.
So…enjoy! I basically take the line of, “Nobody can trash my books harder than me.” I literally warned people in the dedication that it was too much seggs. 😝🤣
My thing is if I am going to be a well-rounded book reviewer who can recommend some thing in any genre then I need something in the smut genre don’t I?
@@ReadswithRachel, that is very true! Oh man, I'm going to laugh so hard if you review it. You can feel free to trash it if you do hate it, that's fine. I've heard everything from "the smut scenes are terribly written" through to "I came so hard I cried". 😝
@@ReadswithRachel I have something I want you to read but much like the above commenter I do not have 35 dollars to give. Plus, you will DNF that book. That’s not a question. It’s a guarantee.
Thank you for demonstrating what a pure actually sounds like, because I’m so confused whyyyyyy women think that’s sexy!!!
I think what they actually mean might be the throaty/vibrato quality that people get toward the bottom of their vocal range. Like an old-timey actress doing sexyvoice.
But it is funnier to imagine the kitty.
I like how u keep calling them Rhysand and Cassian instead of their actual names
OMG!! U HATE MOR? I HATED HER WHILE READING ACOTAR SERIES. I literally could not stand her
I can’t stand her Lmao
U hate late stage Rhysand? Oh boy
I read silver flames 1st, so i loved nesta. But I hated Rhysand. So wen I went to read the earlier books, I couldn't stand Rhysand most of the times...or mor.
So I got introduced to late stage Rhysand, which is why I found it hard to sympathise with him
I saw ur first vid on this, u sounded hopeful that this series will get better.
FINE! Fine. I’ll read it. Eventually,
I loved her other books (especially the Heart's Hassle series) but didn't love the first of this series, so I didn't read the rest.
have you ever read the black witch chronicles? that series has a lot of the things you like. not sure if its your jam but that's what it made me think of.
Not yet!
@@ReadswithRachel i loved the first book for sure.. a lot of people have called it racist but I think that's the point, the protagonist is raised in a society that's totally wrong and she slowly sees and learns that lesson
I LOVE LOVE this series!
#stayinthesweetspot
Whisper magic? Like giving someone a thought in their ear?
If so it has been done.
the whisper magic in this book is basically queen kalia (i might be a bit incorrect in explaining since i havent read these books since december 😭) im pretty sure has like really really enhanced hearing and can also project anything she’s heard in the past that someone has said to repeat for others to hear what that person said
@@moomin469 okay, that makes it more understandable
Thanks for letting me know
I don't know how I missed this video. Huh.
No pregnancies, please!!
Omg
Hahaha you're HILARIOUS! Thank you xo
OMG AUren… and gold? that’s so fun