Feyre seems like the type of person to trauma dump on you and then when you talk about how your day kinda sucked she stops you and tells you to “stop trauma dumping”

@RoseGoldReads

2 ай бұрын

EXACTLY!!!

I’ll say that one thing I’m honestly confused about is why people didn’t expect Tamlin to try and get Feyre back considering the reputation Rhysand had deliberately curated for himself. Tamlin doesn’t know Rhys isn’t evil.

@AvatarNaty

Ай бұрын

Okay, but Rhysand *is* kind of evil. He had to have done *something* to cultivate the image of being an evil SOB, and his actions in ACOTAR and manipulations in ACOMAF further prove this. Like, my dude did not need to terrorize Feyre during their second meeting in ACOTAR. He did not need to get Claire Beddor killed. There was zero reason to torture her in order to force her to accept a pact while they were UTM. He tries to act like it was all a mask, all a ruse, but he still killed and tortured people. He still did that. Does that. Gleefully.

@goldiebelan

21 күн бұрын

Thank you 👏🏽 💯 and he’s a good person I would’ve never brought my ex partner back to life either… yet he still gets all the hate.

Cassian murders an entire village with the help of Rhys and Az, and this is supposed to be some compelling part of his story and trauma. Umm, ok? Tamlin makes poor decisions in how he (attempts) to protect Feyre, and struggles with managing his emotions and PTSD, and is deemed an irredeemable monster by all of Prythian. Lucien is treated like shit by the entire (sanctimonious af) Night Court because he “didn’t do enough” to protect Feyre, EVEN THOUGH he continually risked his life for her Under the Mountain. Like…please make this make sense.

I used to want a Tamlin redemption arch but after thinking about it I don’t want it anymore. Now I love Tamlin and I’m super pissed about what Maas did to him. I don’t see him as a bad guy all I see is author intervention so that she can make him an asshole so everyone likes Rhys better. The reason I don’t want a Tamlin redemption arc is because EVERYONE hates him. His redemption arc isn’t going to be like Nesta’s at all. His redemption arch isn’t going to change people’s minds and make them love him again. There is no way for Maas to undo or change all of this hate and bitterness towards him because then she’s going to have to point out the faults of Feyre and Rhys and we all know Maas isn’t going to do that to her fav retconned babbies. So I used to want one but now I just want her to wither kill him or leave him alone.

@mariellescritique3544

8 ай бұрын

Thank u! 😊

@sciencefantastic

8 ай бұрын

Thank u so much. The sheer amount of character assassination done to Tamlin makes me so angry.

@Sabrina-si3du

7 ай бұрын

@@sciencefantastic I will defend him till I die. Do I agree with everything he did? No, absolutely not but Feyre AND Rhys did both equally as bad things as Tamlin did.

@starhigh6663

7 ай бұрын

Completely agree. Atp, if SJM even tries to redeem Tamlin, I'm sure she'll do it by having him grovel at the feet of her precious court of dreams. I'd rather she forgets about him. Which is a bit sad to say, because Tamlin's story still has plenty of potential... in the hands of a better writer. Feyra fell in love with him while he was still beautiful and beloved by his people. Now he's broken and alone, struggling with a ton of trauma no one seems willing to acknowledge- a literal beast most of the time. If she were to give him a second chance with someone else, she'd be writing a far more convincing beauty and the beast retelling than she did in ACOTAR.

@Sabrina-si3du

7 ай бұрын

@@starhigh6663 Thank you for saying it. Nobody allowed not even Sarah J Maas let Tamlin have his PTSD and his trauma we got to see Rhys. We got to see Feyre but we never got to see His. Also I would love to see Tamlin with Elaine together I think that would be a better beauty and the beast retelling but I don’t think that’s gonna happen.

i kinda just feel bad for Lucien. He's the best character and gets the short end of the stick every time #JusticeForLucien

@girlsaysstuff

8 ай бұрын

Lucien is the only character in this series I respect and he deserved WAY better

@morleywritesbooks

8 ай бұрын

SAME!@@girlsaysstuff the amount of mental gymnastics used to justify treating the poor guy like trash. Lucien is goodest boi in this series

@Annalisa814201

8 ай бұрын

Same! and wait until elaine rejects their bond and he ends up losing his mate too 🌝

@morleywritesbooks

8 ай бұрын

honestly, Lucien deserves better than anyone even associated with Feyra imo@@Annalisa814201

@H0bO

5 ай бұрын

#JusticeForLucien but also for Tamlin because his author/creator assassinated him when she realised she hated him

These books are impossible to engage with because it’s so obvious the author isn’t interested in telling a story, she just wants to show off how cool and sexy her OC’s are. Only the OC’s are one dimensional, shallow, vapid hypocrites and her men are all literally the same person with different hair colors.

@kgal1298

7 ай бұрын

It's gotta be painful to realize that these books are crossing over with Crescent City and she's got a couple more books in this series to write then.

@sciencefantastic

7 ай бұрын

@@kgal1298 THe pain is excrutiating, trust me.

@jackrichardson9863

6 ай бұрын

It's because this is so obvious that it's frustrating when she drops worldbuilding hooks like the idea that the rest of the world is allying with Hybern against Prythien and then deflates it almost immediately. It's like SJM thinks so little of her readership's intelligence that she thinks she can trick them into thinking her smut novel has real worldbuilding when it doesn't.

@rgaijin

2 ай бұрын

@@jackrichardson9863 i mean she is getting away with exactly that since most of her fans who love these books think they are just next level shiz

I've never read it, but based on your and WithCindy's review, my favorite character is Nesta. She seems sensible. My least are probably Freyre and Rys because they both seem a bit.... sanctimonious?

@NeidaTeresa

8 ай бұрын

Ugh LOVE nesta my hateful queen 😍

@sleepysadpoet

8 ай бұрын

Nesta is BPD coded and you can't convince me otherwise As a person with bpd I related heavily to her.

@britt6184

6 ай бұрын

​@@sleepysadpoetIike her because she's the only one with some depth to her. While I view Feyre as SJM's most tolerable female protagonist in each of her main series, she is still not that good. I can hardly stand the protagonists of her other books so that's a pretty low bar.

@Baneberryy

4 ай бұрын

i havent read acotar and dont plan to but i love listening to ppl talk abt it - i have bpd too and i've been thinking the same thing!

Justice for Tamlin! The young version of me who first read these books would be horrified by my new opinion lol

@vfa9761

8 ай бұрын

we looove some character development for ourselves

Based on this video and other acotar recaps, I would say Lucien is probably my favorite? He’s just a guy trying his best who consistently gets a raw deal. How could you not root for him? Honorable mentions to Nesta, because I think her meanness is funny, and Elain, because I always have a soft spot for weird girls. My least favorite might be Feyre? idk I just remember getting real pissed when I first heard about the stuff she did at the spring court in this book. iirc, didn’t she try to set it up so that she would get caught with Lucien in a compromising position? Just to make Tamlin lose it a little more? Like, the spying and the sabotage is fine, but taking a guy who’s in a precarious position and who’s just trying to be as good a friend as he can be, and using him to trigger your ex-who is also his boss and friend-is so unnecessarily cruel. Like, honey. You’ve moved on. You’re married to hashtag feminist rhysand. You do not need to inflict this kind of emotional damage on these people.

“I don’t even know what’s so interesting about her” 😂 I like Feyre and respect a lot about her and also, you’re not wrong about that lmao.

The whole "let's kill Lucien because of succession" shit makes no sense... First, he's the only one they're trying to kill. Second, he's the youngest sibling, so why would he be a problem for succession? and third, somewhere in the books it's said the magic "chooses" the next High Lord (how that happens is never really explained), so... And it's implied Lucien is the son of the High Lord of Day, so him being targeted because of succession issues makes no sense.

@kittywiththeblackhat

8 ай бұрын

It says in the books that even though it's mysterious they can smell who's closer in the line of succession, somehow. I guess because he is the son of a different high lord he smells next in line ish? I know I'm confused too!

@emackenzie

6 ай бұрын

High Lord succession doesn't go by age and they don't know Lucien isn't Beron's son, but since he was disowned after the Jesminda fiasco he's fair game to kill

1:15:00 I just want Elain and Lucien to escape to the Summer Court with Tarquin and never have SJM touch them again. Let the characters who keep getting spit on for others' development be free

@jackrichardson9863

6 ай бұрын

If this series teaches us anything, it's that the more SJM interacts with a character the more she ends up shitting up that character

A 2 hour long video roasting this overhyped trashy series that Hulu thinks everybody loves? Yes please! What bothers me about Feyre being High Lady of the Night Court is that the courts are tied to the magic of their High Lord. Feyre has no magic tying her to the court or it’s inhabits because she MARRIED into thr “family”, she doesn’t directly come from there and so her title is just a title her rich husband gave her that holds no weight. Also can I just say that Rhysand being so f*cking rich has always bothered me, he’s supposed to be the most powerful High Lord and yet you can’t control the Hewn City or the Illyrian camps just cuzzzzzzz tradition? And Feyre’s father who only has like 5 lines and then comes in out of nowhere and immediately dies is so stupid. And Feyre and Rhysand f*cking in a camp surrounded by dead or dying soldiers is so f*cked up Also also, spoiler for Acosf, Sarah wrote Rhysand putting a shield around Feyre so no one or nothing could touch or harm her which is exactly what Tamiln did in the second book so Rhysand becomes the new Tamlin Sorry for my rant!

@spiritualscorpiowoman1530

8 ай бұрын

Girlllll!!! I cannot understand how the #feminist king can't do anything for the women in his danm court.

@blackmadonna6024

4 ай бұрын

Almost 100%! Only at the end there, I’m sure Feyre consented to Rhys shielding her unlike Tamlin just doing it without

@AvatarNaty

Ай бұрын

Feyre's status as High Lady is just really funny, because at any second Rhysand could revoke it, and if she ever tries to use her supposed authority as High Lady and someone disagrees with her, they're going to run to Rhysand, because *he's* the one with the power, the godess-given authority to command Night. Feyre has no personal power beyond the power she was given by others. Her faerie powers are other people's powers. Her title was given to her. Her money is actually Rhysand's. Her house is Rhysand's. Her friendship circle are Rhysand's first and foremost. Also, no. While the shield Rhysand put on Feyre was consented to (it was a compromise, but I'd love to see that conversation), what is really funny is Rhysand and Feyre locking up a traumatised *Nesta* "for her own good."

@blackmadonna6024

Ай бұрын

@@AvatarNaty That last part 💯

never read the books, from your summary (and cari can read's) nesta sounds like the best character, and least favorite would be rysand probably? mostly because he sounds disappointing, like if you're gonna present me a scary bad boy love interest then commit to it, none of this "he's actually super nice and is just good at Pretending to be mean, which he goes out of his way to do because he's such a good guy actually"

You know, Sarah J, outlines are a writer's best friend....

The nut smell thing killed me omg

@NeidaTeresa

8 ай бұрын

It’s so diabolical of her…. Like Sarah…… what’s going on 🫢🫣

Most of Maas's central character names and locations are swiped from Celtic mythology (fae, Prythian, Hybern, Tamlin). The ballad of Tam Lin that's a few centuries old is a fun song! I like Tricky Pixie's version of it.

@Artbyhurricanyounot

8 ай бұрын

I love your use of the word “swiped” because that’s exactly what she did. Snatched that shit and bastardized it 🤣 I LOVE Celtic mythology and lore, and my favorite series does SO well with it. These SJM books? 🗑️

@starhigh6663

7 ай бұрын

​@@ArtbyhurricanyounotWhat's your favourite series if I might ask? I'd love to read a good interpretation of Celtic myths.

@Artbyhurricanyounot

7 ай бұрын

@@starhigh6663 the sevenwaters series by Juliet Marillier!

@starhigh6663

7 ай бұрын

@@Artbyhurricanyounot Thank you! I looked it up and it sounds really interesting. The summary kinda reminds me of the Perilous Gard.

THE WAY I HAVE BEEN EAGERLY AWAITING THIS VIDEO!!!!!!!

@NeidaTeresa

8 ай бұрын

Omg are u a Leo 🫢 I love Leo’s!!!

@LeoGirl80

8 ай бұрын

@@NeidaTeresa Sure am! 8/13 🥰

Based on yours and Cari Can Read's recaps, my least favorite characters are Feyre and Rhysand (because hypocrisy) and my favorites... Lucien, for sure. I care about Tamlin even if it's mainly from sheer disgust with the unfair way he was treated in the second and third books and want justice for him. Also, Tarquin is baby.

I just finished a marathon of your videos cause they were so entertaining! I have one thing to add: After careful consideration, I don’t think Illyrians are supposed to be POC. here’s why: a) if you google illyria, it’s an area around the adriatic sea that actually exist. It basically is albania, the balkans, and a region of southern Italy, so they’re probably white in the way most Italians are, just naturally darker skin tone but still white. b) I think the description of skin tone is too inconsistent over the books to relate it to race, I don’t think she wanted to make it a thing, her main attempt of making a parallel to racism imo is when she talks about the lesser fae / higher fae situation. c) as a POC who technically is also from illyria (this is so funny to type lmao), I don’t see how the culture reflects on the traditions of these places, historically Albania (plus nearby areas) was considered by the Roman empire as an area full of fierce soldiers with badass armies and weapons (they were also said to use elephants in battle which was shocking to romans and kind of a big deal at the time lol). So that checks out with the insane training and how they’re fantastic warriors and everything. From that perspective, the cultural bigotry would be a reflection of the 100 BC warrior mentality (misogyny, rape culture etc.). If this was never what you thought and if this doesn’t make sense, I’m so sorry! Just wanted to add my two cents lol

@NeidaTeresa

8 ай бұрын

You just taught me so much 🫨thank you for commenting bc this actually really informs my reading of future books!

@Annalisa814201

8 ай бұрын

​@@NeidaTeresa you're so welcome!! glad you found it useful🤣

@ettaetta439

7 ай бұрын

My family's from Albania! I will never get over learning this information now 😭 first "The Mister" by EL James had weird af Albanian rep (making it seem like they're super uncivilized and don't even have bank cards, which to be fair might be true in the countryside but definitely not in a city) and turns out SJM threw some into her books? And they're the uncivilized misogynistic tribe? Wild lmao But since I rarely EVER see Albanians in popular media I don't mind tbh, at this point I'm grasping for crumbs just to see any sort of rep. Like go ahead and give me ur problematic fanfic, I'll still read it

"Things happen in the Spring Court and they very rarely happen anywhere else." Yep. That pretty much sums up this series.

Favorite Character based off of your description: Helion Favorite Character in the actual books: .... Azriel? I like 'em quiet and broody

@NeidaTeresa

8 ай бұрын

You and me both dude 🤭😂

I look forward to seeing your reaction to Sara pushing High King Rysand as a concept

Thank you for saying everything I felt reading this book, who knew Sarah J. Maas would make Stephanie Meyers seem like Shakespare? Cause the Edward/Bella/Jacob-thing is 100 times more complex and somehow more true to life than the steaming heap of s*** the Tamlin/Feyre/Rhys-thing is. And I will never forgive Maas for this. 🙄

@andiman44

6 ай бұрын

Have to disagree. Bella always loved Edward more as she always made it known and barely wanted to admit to loving Jacob too. Plus, the only romantic tension in the series was Edward delaying turning Bella into a vampire; it annoyed me that Meyer tried to portray them as star-crossed lovers.

I need these artists to give my boy Lucien his melanin back and give him some locs or braids and stop making him look like a white man in black face 😭😭

@NeidaTeresa

8 ай бұрын

White man in black face is even generous 😭 he looks like a white man who once thought about a black person in all of the fan art I’ve seen

@Artbyhurricanyounot

8 ай бұрын

@@NeidaTeresa a portrait of Lucien is the only piece of actoar fanart I have ever done and will ever do. Because NO ONE ELSE HAS DONE IT SO I HAD TO DO IT MYSELF 😭😭

THE CARRIE BRADSHAW OF PRYTHIAN!!! Oml you are SO right 😂

i stole the rights to nesta as soon as i read the end of the second book and the target bonus chapter

@cricketcalin

8 ай бұрын

What's in the target chapter?

Why do I wanna see the original version you filmed 😂

@scarletc.gilliam9575

8 ай бұрын

Me too. We need a director’s cut!

I need you to read the last book. A court of silver flames. I need someone to say all my thoughts out loud with wine. Because it's a shit show thrown together. I listened to it on audible. So if you don't wanna wait. Go there and read it.

based on your description i feel like eris is my fave с: just because the inner circle hates him. and my least favourite character is rhysand, i hate that man. mor is also very annoying, but rhysand is just the worst

I have been waiting for this video and sooo happy I can listen to it while I'm working! Of course I went back and listened to the ACOTAR & ACOMAF videos as well! You are hilarious!!

14 HOURS AGO LETS FUCKING GO (edit after watching) my favorite is azriel bc he doesn’t fucking say anything and my least fav is feyre bc she’s so goddamn stupid. and i have read the first 3 books bro they were fucking hell.

Its bad but i think everyone will get their "match" eventually and their own book. I def see a book about phoenix/swan lake coded lady with cassain, and then lucian and nesta. Or at least they'll have povs in the sarah j maas future books.

@fuunosenshi

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, Cassian and nesta are a pair of horndogs in their book... (They're a thing)... Firebird lady mostly disappears. And with the multiverse kind of thing SJM is doing with Crescent city and apparently TOG means you have to get all of her books to get a complete story about anyone. Not to talk about the five different special editions with different extra chapters each, which menas that you have to buy multiple copies of some of the books to get the whole story. Yeah, no.

@phos8392

8 ай бұрын

@fuunosenshi i actually confused the two, it's asriel I'm talking about with the swan lady queen we meet. Imo kinda disappointed with the multiverse the more i think about it and i didn't know about the special chapters which seems ridiculous

@sleepysadpoet

8 ай бұрын

Yeah Lucien & Elain are mates iirc & Cassian & Nesta are mates

the time i've been sat ready waiting for this

My favorite was probably Nesta and then Tamlin? Because they’re the only ones that felt remotely complex. I really liked Lucien at first but SJM just made him seem so much less likable after the first book :(

@blackmadonna6024

4 ай бұрын

I like Nesta and tamlin not primarily because I support everything they do but because theres just more to unpack with them. I find tamlin relatable to an extent in the hate he receives for decisions he had to make in a lose-lose situation while also submerged in the blinding forces of love and trauma, then naturally turning out as a result to be abusive and broken as anyone in his position would. I find him to be one of the most interesting and realistic characters. Less about supporting his choices and more about him making sense to me despite him being a total dick many times.

I forget to like videos often because im usually just listening to them. Asking me to like a video to hear more rants is a surefire way to get me to drop what im doing to like the video 😂

@NeidaTeresa

8 ай бұрын

🥹I really appreciate that! Thanks for your like 🥰

Idk how but I’m almost done with this video after starting with your acotar video this morning… thanks for brightening my day!!!!

YESSSSS IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!!!!

i've been waiting for this omg! having never read these books and with no intention to, my favorite character is lucien and my least favorite character is feyre.

Let me get a snack! I’m so excited!

😂 please read the novela and fourth book. Also i still believe tamlin and Lucian deserve better😢.

Hello again. Continuing from my last comment on your video on ACOMAF. I've mentioned before that Tamlin's physically abusive trait is kind of muddled by the fact that he's not personally doing anything, that he's not You can say "he does the usual abuser thing of apologizing and saying it's not going to happen again, even though it will," but it's literally not something he can control, and this whole "exploding" thing happened *once* naturally. The second time Tamlin exploded, Feyre was specifically needling him, trying to provoke him. It's even worse because Tamlin is currently under a lot of stress, being the double agent against Hybern, and Feyre is just throwing kerosene onto the fire here. Your point that Tamlin is believing people with "high authority" than his sentries, than the people who serve him, is one interpretation of events. A different interpretation is that he's a double agent, and his plan requires a positive relationship with Hybern in order to do the most work as a spy. He can't punish Ianthe, because that would damage his relationship with Hybern. He can't punish the Prince and Princess of Hybern, because that would damage his relationship with Hybern. He's stuck between a rock and a hard place. He *knows* Ianthe's a lying snake, but he can't *do* anything about it because that will damage his relationship with Hybern. Feyre isn't helping, constantly pushing him into situations where Tamlin must choose his Hybern over his own people. This all comes to ahead with the realisation that Tamlin's non-aggression pact with Hybern is the only thing preventing wholesale slaughter of Spring, and a violent invasion of the neighbouring courts -- something Tamlin is trying to prevent. Of course, Feyre fucks this all up. She doesn't so much destroy his court as push Hybern to decide that the non-aggression pact with Spring isn't worth it. Spring is destroyed. Summer is attacked. People were tortured, murdered, at best simply displaced. The High Lord of Spring has lost everything, despite his best efforts, and now the border between the Faerie world and the Human world is left to rot.

Okay, first, I agree with pretty much everything you have had to say about this series so far and I can’t wait for the ACoSF video! Second, I love the shade of green that you painted your walls

I love your book videos and you always look so pretty!!! 😊❤

@NeidaTeresa

8 ай бұрын

Aww thank you 🥹 i

I thought this was the worst book in the series. Then I read ACOSF and THAT is literally one of the worst books I’ve ever read.

Girllll i didn’t realize you posted!! I’m so excited to watch!

@NeidaTeresa

8 ай бұрын

Yay! Thank you! Hope you enjoy :)

I can't wait to watch this video omg!!

I SAW AZRIS IN THE THUMBNAIL AND CAME RUNNING. (ive been waiting for this but youtube took two weeks to show me it) ACOTAR has become one of those series I love to hate and Azris has slowly dragged me into the depths of obsession and crack that makes the whole experience at the very least enjoyable. thanks for the vid, i can't wait to rewatch ur series 100x

@NeidaTeresa

8 ай бұрын

OMG a sibling in arms!! The Azris ship will sail! I know it will!!!!!!!!!!

@user-jz2tx5fk3n

4 ай бұрын

Same here,I’ve been sustaining myself on Azris fanfics for months

I really like Nesta and Lucien and a lot of the side characters like Tarquin but I just dislike the IC with the power of 1,000 suns and Feyre is so stupid I can't stand it. I did like Cassian but then silver flames ruined him and Az (I like him bc he seems to be the only one with a brain, and is quiet and shy like me) is teetering off into dislike because of silver flames and I am worried what his character will be like in the next books.

I never thought about the jurian tamlin comparison before

Your review of this book is so smart. 👌 The juxtaposition is insane. Like it’s infinitely smarter than the actual reading experience loool. I was probably only kind of paying attention to the audiobook and I think I missed so many details 😅

God you're so right about everything

I'm glad you brought up the lack of people in this series. That was always something I wondered about--WHERE ARE ALL THE PEOPLE???

Well done for making it through the trilogy! :’D Have not read it but have watched as many of these scathing reviews as I can get my hands on. The only character that matters to me is Lucien and I think he and Tarquin should kiss about it. Also now that you’ve brought it to my attention Azriel and Eris should also kiss because the tension between them would be sharp enough to split the atom Rhys is my least favourite and Feyre’s a close second because she apparently sees anything in that detritus-shovelling slime of a man

@NeidaTeresa

8 ай бұрын

“Detritus-shoveling slime of a man” OO you ate with that!!

Don't you just love it when the book's own main character is pointing out the plot holes?

Tamlin been through enough justice for Tamlin!

Love watching your videos!🔥

Thank you for the summary. I read the first book and I refuse to suffer through any more of that writing. My least fave character is definitely Feyre and most fave would be Lucien. There was so much potential just frittered away. 😭

Thank you for summarizing these books. I've never read them; they are 10000% not for me. But I feel VERY strongly about Tamlin out of pure indignation about his character assassination + parallel experiences from other times where fandom was uniquely hateful about my fave but completely forgiving of other characters with similar/worse behavior. JUSTICE👏FOR👏TAMLIN👏

@blackmadonna6024

4 ай бұрын

OMG I love you for this

1:25:00 I have to wonder if that's why SJM says Helion isn't black? Everyone had him in fanart and stuff as a black man but at one point she says she sees him as a dark-skinned Persian man

@NeidaTeresa

6 ай бұрын

🧍🏽‍♀️…….the way I literally crafted a completely different person in my head 😂 like my Pisces moon delulu side really jumped out 🫢

@emackenzie

6 ай бұрын

@@NeidaTeresa I genuinely can't blame you because I did it too. It's a side effect of SJM's ambiguous representation and painfully vague physical descriptions of anything non-sexual

The Mor bisexual/homoromantic subplot was one of the worst things ever to be put into the written form. As someone who is bi, I was flabberghasted. The hilarious thing in the novella is she severely judges Nesta for drinking and sleeping around and SJM makes ZERO connection between Nesta doing this and Mor doing this. It's okay if Mor does it, but not Nesta.

I don't think there's audio. I went to two different videos and they play audio (Edit) WE BACK, IT'S GOOD NOW

@NeidaTeresa

8 ай бұрын

Oh that’s good, I’m glad it ended up working!

Wow I'm the 700 like 😂😂 , loving the video ❤🎉

I read the book! I think Tamilin DID try to protect her. Dude literally sent her back with money to her family before Amarantha came to claim him and his court. He knew he would be powerless UTM to do anything so he did what he could before then. It was Feyre that made the CHOICE to come back and put HERSELF utm for Tamiln. I really can't stand the flack every one gets around Feyre and Rhy from Tamlin, Lucien, and Nesta like they dont have trauma of their own to sort through. No lets act like they dont have a right to feel the way they feel about what happened to them. SJM really wheeped their trauma under the rug do feyre can swoon guilty free over rhysand.

I am so glad Im not the only one who absolutely lost their minds reading this series 😂 I finished the last book yesterday and my reaction was the same as yours... "THANK FUCK IM FINALLY FREE!!!" That being said Nesta is by far the most interesting and not.. brainless character so at lesst that made the last book slightly more tolerable.. emphasis on slightly 😂

the fact that feyre brings back her love interest within seconds but did not even consider her father maybe just for her sister to get closure....idk with every book and scene more maas seems like that type of woman who would crucify you for not wanting to build your life around heteronormativity like idk girl maybe be something else than someones wife ew

Love the usage of sycophants.

So like, I love to jump on any deep dive into this trash fire of a series because it feels so validating to hear actual, rational perspectives and criticisms that a lot of the devout fans like to sweep under the proverbial rug. I actually stopped listening to a podcast hosted by two straight white married women who gush and goosh over each chapter recently because they just kept straight up ignoring the actual issues and valid critiques and it got tiring listening to them give SJM the Gluck Gluck 5000 treatment every other week, lmao. But based on yours, Cindy's and Cari's vids (and admittedly, even the podcast) on this series thus far, Nesta is by far my favorite because she seems to be the only person in this universe that understands that Rhys and his Round Table of Homies are full of cum and bullshit lmfao. And, tbh, she's the better protagonist than Feyre could ever be, and her books are only bogged down because SJM's sex scenes are cringe af.

Would you say Tamlin... breaks wind? I'll see myself out.

Maas might weasel out of writing Omegaverse. But she does escape her underhanded anti-irish/hibernophobia

Oyo, just here to say that abuse is abuse no matter if it’s “instigated” or not. Saying an abuser wouldn’t abuse if the victim didn’t instigate insinuates that it’s the victim’s fault, when the abuser has full control over their actions and reactions, they just choose to react with abuse. Victim blaming is icky. Ok that’s all bye!

@NeidaTeresa

7 ай бұрын

Ugh ur so right 😖 I felt icky saying it but also she wrote it to have Feyre be like “He’s playing perfectly into my masterminded plan 😈” which felt icky too? Like she’s being abused but it’s somehow empowering for her bc she made it happen?! It’s really wild and part of why I think Sarah needs prison

@DrovShorna

7 ай бұрын

@@NeidaTeresa I completely hear you and agree that SJM is so bad at what she does lmfao. Having not at all read this one (I read the first one and was so bored out of my mind that I could not care less to spend the time on the rest - which is why I’m so grateful for videos like yours), my perspective is more that she was kinda sorta testing him and basically validating to herself that he’s too dangerous to be around and she’s right to have left him. But you actually did read it, so the context 100% could have been more predatory on her part

@DrovShorna

7 ай бұрын

@@NeidaTeresa like was she not legitimately sad that he actually was a terrible fucking asshole now??? No heartbreaking “I would have died for you and you do this?” turmoil going on?? I’m so curious but not curious enough to read it myself. Glad to have your perspective on the whole Tam thing so I don’t have to lolololol

@andiman44

6 ай бұрын

@@DrovShorna Also want to add that Feyre let Tamlin think she was having an affair with Lucien even though she knows he has sexual trauma from dealing with Ianthe. So she basically exploits his sexual trauma and destroys his relationship with the one person that genuinely cares about him. Feyre’s has her abusive moments too.

@AvatarNaty

Ай бұрын

I think the key issue with this is that Tamlin just doesn't have control over his actions and reactions. You cannot compare him to an abuser taking a swing at their partner, because an abuser *chooses* to lash out, but Tamlin *doesn't*. His *magic* lashes out and, while his magic is part of him, it is also *separate*. It's a *very* common trope. It's called Psychoactive Powers over on TV Tropes. Magic is tied to emotion, no conscious choice needed. If someone becomes so blind with rage, their magic will lash out destructively. If someone is terrified of being hurt, their magic will defend them. If someone running for their life, their magic might give them an extra speed boost -- or teleport them away. Feyre, herself, experiences this, as well. She describes it thusly: "I stopped hearing the words. Stopped hearing anything other than my heart, my breathing. Fire exploded out of me. Raging, white-hot flame that blasted into Beron like a lance. ... Beron shielded barely fast enough to block me, but the wake singed Eris's arm -- right through the cloth. And the pale, lovely arm of Lucian's mother." Feyre didn't choose to lash out at Beron. She experienced an extreme emotion and that emotion triggered her magic to lash out. Oh, sure, she follows that up with an intentional attack, a conscious decision to hurt the man. She also hurt the Autumn Lady when she did that. An innocent woman who just happened to be standing by. The Autumn Lady, who is in a horrible relationship with Beron. Worse, she hurt the Autumn Lady *using Beron's own power*. Yet, nobody treats this like how they do when Tamlin does the same thing. So, yes. While you're right, it doesn't change the fact that this situation is too fantastical for it to map one to one on a regular abuse narrative. You can map it, but it's like using the wrong puzzle piece that still somehow fits to complete the picture. There's something distinctly wrong about the whole thing. If SJM wanted to make him physically abusive, she should've just had him take a swing at her, push her up against a wall, something like that. No. SJM chose to write him as she did, so now we get Tamlin being a physical abuser because he nearly hurt / hurt Feyre with his magic, which, unlike traditional physical abuse, he had zero control over. This isn't to say that Tamlin doesn't have responsibility for what his magic does. He absolutely does. He should apologise, he should try and get therapy, because therapy is the only way he can regain any control over his emotions, but to compare him to an abuser taking a swing at their partner just doesn't work. It also *does* make Feyre incredibly toxic in this situation. It *is* her fault. She willingly walked up to a traumatised Bruce Banner, pushed every single one of his buttons, and welcomed the Hulk's fist to her face. She opened the werewolf's cage and threw herself at its claws just to prove how monstrous the man inside truly is. She gleefully provoked Aang into entering the Avatar State, before he could control it, and let herself get burned.

this video not having a million views is a crime

@NeidaTeresa

7 ай бұрын

Share it with your friends 😭 (also Clara Soares… também és lusófona??

@clarasoares8941

7 ай бұрын

@@NeidaTeresa omg i will now lmao! e sim, eu sou brasileira kkkkk que incrível achar um canal com reviews de livro tão boas e descobrir que a criadora fala português!

idk yall i love tamlin in the first book i think it was character assassination

I love that one of your qualifications is "having poc" 🤣

I haven't read the books, I've heard them mentioned over the years but it wasn't until last year that I saw an obsession with the series. Quite a few content creators I follow post about them, some even made fan content about them, but I had a "something feels off" vibe about the series. It wasn't until last week that I read shifty things about the author and yesterday that I decided to check KZread for further information, that's when I found your rant review videos. I didn't have time yesterday but I did today, and I watched all three of them, haha. So yes, you did confirm my suspicions and I won't read any of her books. I'll still watch your other reviews on the rest of her books, good luck getting through them, haha. Looking forward to watching positive reviews as well from books you enjoy (pushing myself to read at least one book each month).

Is this the end of FeyraFest 2023?

A summary of your summary: *sigh** what.

if you only listened to the books vs reading them i def recommend you read it cuz it seems like you miss major plot points/foreshadowing

Urgh her whole god complex of high lady makes this series unbearable. Feyre is such a hypocrite I cannot. Tbh I prefer Nesta, Lucien, anyone but her.

i havent read the books myself but from ur telling my favorite character is FOR SURE lucien!!! justice for lucien he was just trying to keep his head above the water while everyone around him was an absolute shitstorm and all the blaming of him when the main cast like got bored like hes not the most genuine and stable person in their whole midst!!!!!😭😭 bless his heart he needs a VACATION.. 2nd up would be the cunty council just as a whole lol i was having such a great time hearing about them + it was a glimmer of a series about a wide world with interesting people.. instead of feyre and her fuckbuddy drama that goes in circles😭 rhysand has to be my least favorite at this point... he had potential but once he was hit with the Love Interest Beam he changed so much and also not at all in a way that comes across extremely disingenuous 🙄 "im a male feminist guys are so disrespectful but im different can i see ur boobs btw" energy like maybe its all my bad personal experiences making it worse from my pov but i just want to get a can of bug spray😭😭😭 thank u so much for these videos they are such a fun time💖💖💖😊

Also also on the weird mate conditions in this - can gay people not be mates??? Cause if it’s based on reproduction, then a same sex couple just wouldn’t?? Idk why I’m questioning it, I doubt she put any thought into that really

Tamlin is too good I would never bring my ex partner back to life especially after what she did I hope Tamlin can get 2 books at least to soften the blow of hate. I’m not a Nesta fan she still gives me mean girl vibes. 😂 Feyre to me is so weird she came out acting like oh I’m a loner, I don’t want to be fea to oh I wanna be high lady , oh now I wanna be a mum and have kids likeeeee she seems like the moment she gets bored she’d call it abuse 😂 Idk why people want Elain to be with Tamlin she breeds evil to me idk why? All sisters can’t be perfect.. Azriel sadly to me is a simp.. only after women who don’t want him Sara is a write as you go writer and trust and believe she reads our comments and sees fan art. She made sure to let us know Rhys is white especially from the last Bryce book with his very blonde ancestor. A typical example. But I feel Nesta is Sjm golden child … watch as she makes her high queen …

Read the series. Favorite? Azeriel. Or Amren. Least favorite? Honestly? Elaine

Morgan's sexuality isn't a retcon since she's bisexual

As a reader who's been reading fantasy since I was in elementary school, and as a writer who's in the process of writing her own book, SJM is an excellent example of how not to tackle worldbuilding and such.

this rant review made me laugh so many times my goodness thank you for your service 🫡 i have read the books (after being tricked by the first book's semi-okay story) and my favorite character is a tie between tamlin/nesta because they're nuanced beings that recognize their faults and try to work on it and my least favorite character is rhysand because he literally reads like a republican senator who's married to a nineteen year old he groomed

@NeidaTeresa

17 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Omg you read tf out of Rhys 😂 I’m putting that in my back pocket lol

I’m half tempted to read these myself to see if they’re better or worse than Crave. Only half tempted though cuz I really don’t know if I can willingly put myself through another long, boring, poorly written, edited, and planned series lmao 🥲

@Sabrina-si3du

8 ай бұрын

I am 100% with you on this one. I've been debating it so much.

@sciencefantastic

8 ай бұрын

Plz plz plz don’t bother. They’re awful, so boring and insulting to basic intelligence. These books are overhyped and Maas is a terrible lazy writer

@tinyprettymoon

8 ай бұрын

@@sciencefantastic I’ve already decided I’m not going to but thank you for the reassurance. I just hate how the laziest authors and books get hype and the actually good ones never get talked about