hi! i just got home for xmas so i am battling jetlag and fading fast so just quickly - thank you for everything this year and im excited for whats to come 🫶 love always! also oops i guess im on booktok now - www.tiktok.com/@caricakez

@user-ly8gn4tg7l

4 ай бұрын

Now, we need the rest of TMI.

@user-ly8gn4tg7l

4 ай бұрын

I want to see a Feyre vs Clary paint off!

@ambergrey9985

4 ай бұрын

Thank so much Cari! 🩵 This is unrelatable to acofas but where are your earrings from? I love them!

@laurendenae5045

4 ай бұрын

CARIIIIIII once again you have proven that you are my best friend that doesn’t know I exist 😭😭❤️

@Boopah98

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this lovely festive gift. I will cherish every minute😂❤

"Has Rhysand ever done laundry? I don't think so. That's interesting." This is a very concise way of putting something to words that really bothers me about Rhysand the Uber-Feminist. He feels like a bunch of buzzwords in a trenchcoat

@hippie1325

4 ай бұрын

Her ending it with “but anyway!” made that part extra funny! Our feminist-king still has some learning to do 👀

@aficklefangirl2566

4 ай бұрын

also the really weird and creepy anti-abortion, anti-women-knowing-anything-about-their-fucking-body-let-alone-getting-to-choose-what-to-do-with-it, situation when Feyre got pregnant edit: and all the non-con, dub-con, & abuse from Rhysand in book one!

@mcowley895

4 ай бұрын

We love a performative king (jk let him suffer)

@kasshea

4 ай бұрын

Sorry but the fanfics are better than this. What a waste of printing costs.

@emackenzie

4 ай бұрын

@@aficklefangirl2566 oh but all that was fOr HeR oWn GoOd!!! He was just pRoTeCtInG hEr!!!!

feyre wanting a baby at 21 is crazy she should be at the club

@medea4751

4 ай бұрын

and the fucking reason is she wants something to remember rhysand by 😭 i cannot

@susannahbaird4426

4 ай бұрын

​@@medea4751but they have a death pact? So if he dies she does anyway? 😂

@RM-cj8uj

3 ай бұрын

I know, it's so wild

@cutienana92

3 ай бұрын

Omg for real. So she wants to have a child to keep a piece of Rhysand in case he dies and at the same time leave the child orphaned because she’ll die if he dies (and vice versa) . I haven’t read the last book so my prediction is that she’ll get pregnant soon. Then one of them will die for real and the other will choose to stay alive (thus breaking the death pact) for the sake of the child. I also predict that when she falls pregnant she’s going to be certain it’s the boy the Bone Carver showed her but when the baby is born it’s going to be a girl. (Similar to the Twilight saga with Reneesme)

@atherisGAY

3 ай бұрын

Especially since there are clubs canonically or am I mixing her books up... she should be snorting fairy coke and idk.. have sex in the sky, pregnant and barefoot at 21 is sad af

To be fair, Feyre having a social anxiety meltdown because she's going to her first painting class is one of the most relatable scenarios I think SJM has ever written.

@AnonJess

4 ай бұрын

I agree! I also felt that way about Nesta's self-loathing hike in SF. I bawled my eyes out for the me who had felt that intense hate for myself before.

@eileensnow6153

2 ай бұрын

I actually did this on the first day of my new dance class, and I literally told myself “Feyre wouldn’t back down from this” to get myself to go in. I’m glad I hadn’t read this book yet 😂

@MaddieLucaMalan

2 күн бұрын

yea the social anxiety panic, we've all been there.

God Feyre’s dumb ass: “I wanna live more of my life!” Two seconds later: “let’s have a baby!” 🙄🙄 like honey let that frontal lobe develop some more

@victorialopez8459

4 ай бұрын

I mean tbh SHES FLIPPING IMMORTAL like 😭 trust me home girl will have A SHIT TON OF TIME TO BE ON HER OWN WITH HER BOO THANG like wut? 😂 I literally don’t see the problem with her doing thing plus it’s not like she doesn’t have the experience being a caregiver / provider/ basically a mother… she literally took care of Nesta, Elaine, and her father for years even though she was a baby. So I would say she’s very mature for her age and I don’t think she needs that frontal lobe to develop more…

@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseforme

7 күн бұрын

idk why i remember thinking 'at least Feyre is older than most YA/NA protagonists, she's like 22-23 in ACOTAR, right?' but she's actually like 19??!>>!>!>>1

Cassian: Hey boss I don't feel comfortable with the unrest in camp, I think I'm going to stay here in case anything bad happens so I can help Rhysand: Cassian you're coming to my fucking christmas party

@emptyhead242

4 ай бұрын

Rhys is a mother hen, it's so funny how they talk about how dangerous and deadly he is.

Not Feyre at court in uggs! She’s serving her people AND she’s serving Christian girl autumn realness

@eshitasahu

4 ай бұрын

Girl 😂

@QueenXKnit

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@Milovatsi

4 ай бұрын

They definitely have Starbucks 😂

@chacharealclanky3580

4 ай бұрын

The spiritual successor to bella swan's sexy khaki skirt

@pinkxcute

4 ай бұрын

Christian girl autumn has me wheezing 😂

if Feyre could buy a bathtub full of egg sized sapphires and not make a dent in Rhys’ wealth then the crying into the scrambled eggs after Rhys read Nesta’s bar tab in ACOSF makes even less sense

@cricketcalin

4 ай бұрын

Either that or girl knows how to drink

@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseforme

4 ай бұрын

I mean she had other reasons to cry but yeah that seems like a plothole

@eshitasahu

4 ай бұрын

Umm…..I hate to be that person But, the crying into scrambled eggs wasn’t because nesta was spending a lot of money It was because nesta was spending a lot of money on GAMBLING AND DRINKING HERSELF INTO OBLIVION….she was making bad choices for herself, had stopped communicating with her sisters and participating in self destructive behaviour, she was crying because she was concerned for nesta (Also the fact that she never had much money for herself or her family, and she’s seeing nesta spending so much on drinking) PS: pls forgive any grammatical errors, English is not my first language

@annabeatrizzimmermann7708

4 ай бұрын

​@@eshitasahu i'm living for this "Um... actually" moment

@robinronin

4 ай бұрын

​​@@eshitasahu I mean, if my rich and powerful sister was forcing me into a relationship with a 300+ year old creep, I would also spend her money on alcohol to cope with the trauma of having my own sister literally s-x trafficking me 😂😬

Can we talk about how my boy Lucien has a crazy magic eye that can see what people think and nobody brings it up ever after the first book?

@Cakelynn6

4 ай бұрын

Continuity? What’s that?!

@malwinelogina9781

4 ай бұрын

Wasn’t it simply about seeing spells and curses? If he could mind read that would come up more

@lilyisoffline

4 ай бұрын

the eye sees through glamours, spells, curses, etc. it doesnt mind read haha

A Court of Trauma and Holiday Shopping

look, i know Tamlin is not the ideal love interest, he should be kept far away foi Feyre, but my god, how fucked up and cruel was to insert a part on the book for trashing him, like, "everyone's broken from the war! Their traumas are valid!! Except from Tamlin's of course, Rhysand is better and richer and has a bigger D hahahah" I'll start writing my own Tamlin redemption arc fanfic at this point, no shit.

@atherisGAY

4 ай бұрын

Do it, coward!

@Dani_77709

4 ай бұрын

It's so depressing honestly. Like gee thanks as if we needed to know that Tamlin is sui€idal now and then have Rhys just be that cruel.

@thatrantinggirl7376

4 ай бұрын

And rhysand even had the nerve to pout about tamlin not rising to the bait anymore, like leave him alone you bully😭 (I don’t even like tamlin but rhysand telling him he doesn’t deserve anything good genuinely broke my heart)

@user-ew9cy1ot9k

4 ай бұрын

I think Tamlin and Elaine should be together. Please write this into your redemption arc

@writerwiles2406

4 ай бұрын

Also how they just brushed over the fact that Tamlin's magic was needed to bring Rhysand back from death.

I'm sorry "You were the only person I felt I could talk to under the mountain 🥺" maybe because you were in a _prison cell_ and he was your _captor's lackey_ so he was the only one who _could_ be down there without _being killed_ ?????

@emackenzie

4 ай бұрын

I'm just not going to be able to shut up for ten minutes during this video am I? SJM stop romantacizing what Feyre went through (what _Rhysand put her through_ ) under the mountain challenge

@SirEriol

4 ай бұрын

"The villain usually locks the maiden away. You are the one who set me free". Yeah, but he kiiiiinda locked you up first, Feyre darling

Feminist Rhys hates Nesta because she's fiery and direct and loves Elaine because she's docile and gentle, hilarious, Nice Guy level

@avascott3104

3 ай бұрын

or it’s bc nesta treated his mate horribly back in the human lands while treating elain like some kinda treasure.

@user-iq2no3lk2i

Ай бұрын

Exbition A of male feminists lol. It's funny how even through the rosy glasses that SJM wants us to see him, he is still shallow and performative and actually is on par with reality in that way.

@kandralima4749

2 күн бұрын

Is it tiring to hate on everything and try to find faults everywhere instead of just enjoying things and letting people enjoy them?

@frnkrry8938

2 күн бұрын

@@kandralima4749 Why don’t you let us enjoy critiquing this novel?

I feel a hole in my chest because Danika is no longer haunting the wall 🥲

@Ceruleansquid-lo3iv

4 ай бұрын

where is she now? that's the real fear

@caricanread

4 ай бұрын

She’s behind you

@_laurenolo_

4 ай бұрын

jumpscare 😨@@caricanread

@yourlocalToeMuncher

4 ай бұрын

@@caricanreadthat’s even worse

@alicetoyou448

4 ай бұрын

⁠@@caricanread Hello, Bryce Quinlan My name is Rhysand Danika: and I’m Danika lol hi just wanted to see how lit it is here

Thank God Cassian showed up to give those women rights! (Feels like an oversight to have the plotline surrounding liberating women being about two men arguing.)

@emackenzie

4 ай бұрын

How else can SJM write the Feminist Series Of The Decade? /j

@yourlocalToeMuncher

4 ай бұрын

“Clearly if I mention it multiple times it will go away. I know a lot about this because of my mom” It’s just weird….

@libbyphillips3626

3 ай бұрын

It's really interesting to me how women's rights advocacy comes from the pov of a man protecting women rather than women themselves forming a community and fighting for themselves.

Don’t you love how feyre has like 5 houses with Rhysand now or something and yet never offers to share these houses with all the homeless she feels so bad for…it’s okay, rhysands hot and they’re in the sky

@grahamcrack

Ай бұрын

Feyre knows nothing but living like Jeff Bezos and crashing into veterans roofs mid-fuck

@eos_aurora

Ай бұрын

Correct me if I’m wrong but there aren’t homeless people in the night court?

@PhileasLiebmann

Ай бұрын

@@eos_aurora I think they are referring to the people whose homes sustained damage from the attacks of the city that hasn't been repaired yet and who now don't have undamaged roofs above their heads during the middle of winter.

@eos_aurora

Ай бұрын

@@PhileasLiebmann valid

IT’S TIIIIIIIIIIIIME!!!!!!!

@caricanread

4 ай бұрын

🥹🫶🦇

@Gothicwill

4 ай бұрын

*mariah Carey voice*

Not me crying over poor Tamlin. He didn't deserve to be character assassinated and then abandoned in his depression.

@alyssaclark6690

4 ай бұрын

A kindred spirit!

@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseforme

4 ай бұрын

Ikr. Obviously he's not a likeable character and does a lot of bad things but what annoys me us ge was written that way soley so rhys could sweep in as the "better option" (which canonically he is but yk)

@kellyschaos

4 ай бұрын

i thought i was the only one!! i hate when authors cant write well enough to come up with a reason why one love interest is better than the other without committing character assassination

@tansbizarreadventure

4 ай бұрын

frr like it makes me think that tamlin came to life and ran over sjms dog or something

@juliannakreft

4 ай бұрын

I find it funny that even though Tamlin is presented as a bad and unlikable character he is still one of the least awful male characters in this series. Seriously, when you objectivly compare what he did in the story to the others he comes out as a more positive and good person than all of Night Court people. And to add even more of the irony he is the one to save the lifes of both Feyre and Rhysand, as well as the land of Prythian, yet che main characters still villanize him.

↓ give cari a shoulder massage for carrying the weight of this fandom button

"Mor mentioned she is bi" is a very funny thing to say since she had like 10 page monologue about it 😭

@creampopz

Ай бұрын

No i was getting over it by page 4 of the monologue like miss wrap it up

PTSD is not a good reason to have a child omg😭😭SJM is insane

@medea4751

4 ай бұрын

at 21 and married to a crusty fucking 500 yr bat i cannot with sarah

I had no idea that feyre was 19 when the series started...she was literally my age getting taken by a old crusty fae lord

@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseforme

4 ай бұрын

That's actually on the old side for a YA protag 😭 i feel like they should be at LEAST 21 if the guy is immortal

@Lenlon703

4 ай бұрын

And she’s 21 rn wanting a baby.. I’m 21 and fearing pregnancy everyday

@bib4eto656

4 ай бұрын

​@@Lenlon703 I'm 30 and I'm fearing pregnancy every day. Not to mention how mentally unwell she must be after everything that happened to her.

something that's never sat quite right with me is that when feyre was pregnant they were like 'omgggg nooo u can't transform, it MIGHT harm the babyyyyy' as if that's worse than the baby AND feyre both dying like hello!?

@user-dg3rk2jw6f

4 ай бұрын

THIS

@Amazinglexi3

4 ай бұрын

I THINK ABOUT THIS PLOT HOLE SO OFTEN

@eileensnow6153

2 ай бұрын

_AND_ RHYS! He’s your High Lord! Just adjust her pelvis for a second!

@Emdez

6 күн бұрын

FRRR! I was thinking like, can’t Feyre just shift her birth canal, even? And shifting into an ilyrian shouldn’t even harm the baby because it’s making things bigger, not smaller!

I will never get over Elain being Karen in her weather-girl-by-boob-knowledge era.

That big sigh after talking about the sky sex was pure comedy and relatable 😂

no one can summarize a book like cari

@minzhang632

4 ай бұрын

frfr

I DNFed acotar 3 times and just decided to watch Cari’s videos instead and it has saved me SO much pain of reading all the retcons and choppy writing and unintelligent decisions made by stupid characters. Thank you for your efforts Cari 😌

@moony-_-.

4 ай бұрын

I can’t read the books without cringing every second so these recaps are golden😭🤣

@jessicabick1280

4 ай бұрын

Me too!! Cari is my hero ❤️

@Artbyhurricanyounot

4 ай бұрын

@@moony-_-. the eye roll at 33:02 it’s me trying my best to read anything by SJM

@moony-_-.

4 ай бұрын

@@Artbyhurricanyounot 😭🤣

@AnonJess

4 ай бұрын

What are your top fantasy recs, for people who didn't really care for ACOTAR?

I swear if SJM doesn’t give Lucien some happiness at some point I’m going to throw hands

@kirstonjack

Ай бұрын

Exactly

I just wish SJM would stop with the constant retconning and finding new unnecessary ways to bring up Tamlin. Like…lady. How many times are we gonna go down this road? We get it! The visit in this book and the visit in silver flames was just unnecessary soap opera drama 😂. Nothing Tamlin did was any worse than Rhys, so let’s pack up the rekindling drama with blonde boy and find a plot.

@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseforme

4 ай бұрын

I feel like they do equally bad things but for the most part tam does unforgivable things toward feyre while rhys does that more off-screen. Like, rhys is unnecessarily sadistic, posessive and violent but because he is less controlling of feyre (I'm excluding the pregnancy stuff here) it is written to be completely acceptable

@dustrose8101

4 ай бұрын

@@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseforme "equally bad things" is hilarious. Tamlin hasn't topped rhys's "drugged feyre and done sexually explicit things to her both against her will".

@kjiinmendoza2103

4 ай бұрын

@@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseformeand why would you exclude the pregnancy stuff?

@tansbizarreadventure

4 ай бұрын

im still waiting on someone to write an acotar fic where tamlin heals and gets a happy ending

@BN-hp8um

4 ай бұрын

@@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseformethis is just so wrong, the worst thing Tamlin did was locked feyre in a house, and bite her when on fairy drugs, technically against his will. Rhys puts her in harms way intentionally while also lying to her, twists her broken bone to force her to make a deal with him, sexually assaults her in front of a load of people while she was drugged and didn’t remember any of it, hides that her pregnancy can kill her then PUTS A BUBBLE AROUND HER so no one can touch her due to her being pregnant…sounds like Tamlin and putting her in a house…for her own good.., Both did awful things. It to pretend Rhys wasn’t as bad…yikes

So they actually did address Nesta getting more heat than Elaine, when she's just as bad? Elaine only gets overlooked because she's quiet and easy to tolerate, while Nesta's fiery and direct. But of course Rhysand doesn't see that🙄

@dustrose8101

4 ай бұрын

Elaine being easier to tolerate means she also gets the others rushing to her side when she's in distress, which makes them take her side when she's being the asshole to someone more abrasive like Nesta. She disrespects Nesta's boundaries in Silver Flames by continuing to talk about their father when it was clearly distressing Nesta and then gets all :( when Nesta snaps.

@devonbananastar4170

4 ай бұрын

Elaine isn’t as bad though, Nesta isn’t just direct, she’s a full on asshole 90% of the time. Being quiet is far better than being actively, unnecessarily, mean

@universedonut159

4 ай бұрын

@@dustrose8101 Yupp, true

@alicetoyou448

4 ай бұрын

Rhys treats nesta like shit for no reason. Nesta has done nothing wrong. She has helped literally everytime she’s been asked. She wanted to be left alone for a while. So she spent rhysand’s money? How sad to spend the money of a million or billionaire. Nesta has never been physically violent to anyone but Hybern, kelpies, and b slapping Grayson, but Rhys acts like she’s about to unalive Feyre at any minute which is ridic. To be fair, elain is fine, too, though I think she’s too mean to Lucien. Everyone handles shit differently

@emackenzie

4 ай бұрын

@@devonbananastar4170 They mean in the way they treated Feyre growing up. They're _both_ older than her and they _both_ left everything to her (which doesn't exactly make sense because there's more to do around a house than bring in raw meat for dinner but I digress, SJM). She should have aged everyone up slightly and made Elaine the youngest if she wanted everyone to treat her like the baby

I’m convinced SJM has an ex named Tamlin that did her DIRTY😂

@supernatural5354

4 күн бұрын

10000000% Tamlin is based on an ex 😂

Dang, Cassian burned a whole village to the ground because his mother died, Anakin style? This is supposed to be one of our good guys?

@Mackenzie_neu

4 ай бұрын

Yep but nesta not being nice to her sister is unforgivable 😊

@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseforme

7 күн бұрын

i would ASSUME he didn't kill the women and children but yeah idk

My face when Rhys thinks about how much he violated the kitchen table with Feyre after they mated: ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

i saw the title of this video and said out loud: “ACOFAS had plot?” i appreciate your dedication to creating almost 2 hours of content even for books that have literally no plot. saving the world one silly book at a time 💙

Plot hole… So Feyre’s reasoning for wanting a kid makes no sense… she wants to still have a pice of Rhysand should he die - but isn’t that pointless because whenever he goes she goes too, because they made that bargain - right?

@joypink5599

2 ай бұрын

Exactly what I thought, too.

@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseforme

7 күн бұрын

ur right 😭😭

Putting a winter solstice book review out on the actual day of winter solstice is top tier planning and I solute you 👏🏻👏🏻

this book truly highlights the major flaw of the inner circle which is "we just don't talk to each other about the important personal stuff because those are things we need to deal with on our own." like what the hell!!!! support your friends talk to them don't let them just sit in their pain. the whole point of ACOMAF was removing feyre from that isolating experience and giving her a support system to rely on and talk to. now she and all of her friends are going through pain and she's not talking to them about anything and changing the subject when things start getting tough. you are all miserable because none of you talk to each other about the things that matter most!! it's so infuriating to read.

@PhileasLiebmann

Ай бұрын

I mean I thought this was pretty damn egregious in all the books to be honest. Basically every time the reader/Feyre finds out something genuinely personal about a member of the inner circle that's not borderline public information about their family situation, whether it's Rhysand having PTSD nightmares or Mor's coming out or whatever, it's always "something not even the rest of the inner circle knows". Basically none of these people have ever been open and honest with each other about any of their deeper than absolute surface level issues despite having spent literal centuries together and constantly talking about being each other's family. It's completely unbelievable that these folks are or were ever actually friends.

7:40 feyre darling this was the perfect time to advocate for the illyrian women, aka YOUR SUBJECTS, who are suffering.. but of course building a paint studio takes priority!

Honestly, Nesta is the character I like most - haven't read the books, just Cari's reviews. She's the most realistic one of all of them. Her life was destroyed and her father was killed and she can't cope and needs help and almost everyone hates her but also wants to get all up in her business. She'd be on suic**e watch in real life. And in the Silver flames book (that's the Nesta one, right?) she's able to get back control of her life somehow. I mean, Elaine just exists in the kitchen. Yay.

@c_p1858

2 ай бұрын

Agreed, honestly I dislike Rhysand and Feyre the most lmao

Thank you for suffering so we dont have to 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 also SJM addressing how WEIRD the age gaps in this book are should have just stayed out of it because its terribly written and examined ☠️☠️☠️ she should have just left it alone as an unacknowledged strange habit of romance fantasy novels (since I'm not even 30 and marrying a 21 year old sounds DERANGED to me let alone if i were 500 and also a fairy). + All the feminist actions being taken by male characters because women cant advocate for themselves i guess is SO cringe and does not say what SJM thinks it does

@kazbrekkybar

4 ай бұрын

Yeah i was always really confused as to how so many readers just accepted this reallllyyyy odd age gap😭😭

@ladytopaz6358

4 ай бұрын

It’s even more cringe that apparently equality is dying out in the battle field regardless of sex. Instead of ya know having actual rights and equal social standing. God you can tell a white woman wrote this book because this reeks of white women feminism

JUST WANNA SAY I CALLED THIS So happy you’ve completed and collected all five pieces of the ACOTAR plot summary exodia.

@pinkxcute

4 ай бұрын

Is that a yugioh reference? Because never in my life did I think I would get a fantasy booktube🤝yugioh crossover

Ok but like when you say that Feyre wants the baby so she can remember Rhysand if he died is stupid because of that stupid vow they made that when one of them dies so does the other. Plot hole much?😃

Salam Cari, I just want to give my sincerest thank you for raising awareness to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. As a Palestinian, your compassion is truly appreciated.

you've collected all the infinity stones now cari😂

@caricanread

4 ай бұрын

just in time for her to release more books 🥴🥴🥴

@shareetz3154

4 ай бұрын

now i just wish Cari could Thanos-snap SJM’s books out of existence 😅😅

Cari, I’m literally counting the days until your HOFAS breakdown! I cannot wait to see how you handle the ACOTAR and Crescent City worlds merging!

So. Uber-Feminist Rhysand didn't do anything, he had his mom do it. And he's sort of not very feminist when he doesn't want to be. I'm getting more and more impressions that he's not that feminist, he's just a mama's boy.

1:03:54 Even in a cute holiday novella, the shadow of Danika looms over us all

I read fanfic and even I am cringing to another dimension at how ridiculous this series is 😭 I can’t take this seriously as an actual story when it sounds like they’re all variations of Perfect Guy Who Gives Gf Everything etc and the girl has the world revolve around her and they’re all like that and also supermodels. I don’t even know how to describe this type of fiction but it’s nauseating.

I remember reading this and the 3rd one in short succession years ago…Somehow I made it through the third one, but this one truly made the Inner Circle insufferable. Feyre’s super relatable problems of having so much money and not knowing what to get for her friends, Rhys “dying” (as a reader I did not believe for a single second he was going to stay dead) so her trauma from that is impossible to take seriously, the beleaguered “void” fabric metaphor…not only did this book not justify its existence (or price point) it made me actively dislike the characters I used to like…and made me feel embarrassed for liking them in the first place.

Bro wtf, I stopped reading after ACOWAR, and I had no idea SJM did Tamlin so dirty. Poor man is basically suicidal and everyone is still hating on him like he's the worst possible character in the series...? I...don't get it.

@KristiJesss

4 ай бұрын

oh because he is! hope that helps

@rachelbezek2198

3 ай бұрын

@@KristiJesssthere’s many worse characters?

@KristiJesss

3 ай бұрын

@@rachelbezek2198 and tam is up there for me. Just because everyone feels bad for the guy doesn't mean everybody has to like him. I find him boring and hes very fictional so I will stand by yes! he is the worstttt

@avascott3104

3 ай бұрын

babes he’s fictional 😭

I was drinking some water, and the sentence “I’m gonna put a baby in you” made me want to spit it out in disgust, so thank you I guess

Forever grateful to Cari for the ACOTAR videos. This is way too heterosexual for me to endure a reading of the actual books.

my flaming hot take is that i'm always on nesta's side simply bc I find feyre and rhysand kind of annoying. we are united in our haterdom

@kabina7994

4 ай бұрын

exactly! that's my sister at this point, i support her in her wrongs and her rights.

@kristengilbert9749

4 ай бұрын

Seriously! Feel like everyone in the Night Court is the worst at this point. I respect Nesta for rejecting them.

@medea4751

4 ай бұрын

delusionally supporting nesta in her rights and her wrongs whoo

@acebase555

4 ай бұрын

Legitimately Cassian and Mor are the only okay ones.

@c_p1858

2 ай бұрын

My people ❤ united in de extreme annoyance for Rhysand and Feyre and pity for Nesta and Tamlin

I need to know how Rhysand & others in the inner circle make so much money. From what I remember in ACOMAF they don’t have a tithe, so like, where does it come from then…

@shelbybishop5040

3 ай бұрын

I think they have a spice trade? Idk lol

@c_p1858

2 ай бұрын

Every time a reader rolls their eyes at something they do, they earn a dollar

now that hybern is dead I need to confess that my mind always pictured him as king dedede from Kirby. I can’t/won’t elaborate. that is all.

"Palms sweaty, mom's spaghetti" 😆😆😆

I just want you to know that I can't read any of these books anymore without your Bat Boys theme song playing in my head any time the three of them are together.

One of my cats died 2 days ago and I haven’t had the strength to do anything but grieve. I’m really grateful for the timing of this upload so I have something fun and lighthearted to distract myself. Thank you and happy winter solstice to you too! From a fellow Capricorn.

@atherisGAY

4 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry for your loss. My heart goes out to you. (Fellow Capricorn here! So early happy birthday to all of us)

@Deboryanne

4 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry for your loss. I can't imagine losing my baby dragon. They'll always be with us 🙏🏻✨

@margotmorgenstern

4 ай бұрын

As a Capricorn AND someone who recently lost their cat this hit too close to home :/ It’s an unimaginable pain to go through and, even though it may not feel like it right now, I hope you know you are not alone🤍

@jaduspeaks4754

4 ай бұрын

I'm in the same position - lost my 15-year-old cat two days ago. All I've really been able to do is watch KZread videos as a distraction. We're in the same boat, but it'll get better.

@moony-_-.

4 ай бұрын

So so sorry for your lost 💔

I'm gonna be so honest, you made these books sound so entertaining in your recaps I genuinely considered reading them for myself - until I learned sjm was apparently a zionist. So now more than ever, I want to thank you for making these videos, and I also really appreciate you raising money for Palestine!

@ashley-ls7yg

4 ай бұрын

thanking you for sharing this! I was looking into buying a book of hers but I will NOT if she’s a Zionist. !!

@user-dg3rk2jw6f

4 ай бұрын

​@@ashley-ls7yg same!

@susannahbaird4426

4 ай бұрын

​@@ashley-ls7ygif you still want to read but not give her profit try the library

@moimoi-dl2st

3 ай бұрын

​@@ashley-ls7yg second hand books are also still an option if you still wanna read em without giving her money

@supernatural5354

4 күн бұрын

When I was reading the second book I thought the whole Velaris and Hewn City thing sounded a lot like Palestine and Israel so I looked up SJM and someone wrote she's a Zionist and I was like yeah that checks out 😬

Poor Mor, she deserves so much.

@cecilyalexander7431

4 ай бұрын

She deserves mor

It drives me crazy how much Maas seems to be trying to critique the idea of mates when it is a fake made up thing and she is the one who made the rules for her own world. So when she tries to make a point with Elain and Lucien, it's like then why did you make up mates in your world when it forces people to do things they don't want and most people don't like theirs. Also with Rhysand's parents, why did you create a world where a 900 yr old and 18 yr old who don't like each other are forced together. And if the majority of mates in the world have people who don't like each other but are forced to be together then people would consider mates a bad thing, but Lucien says it was something he was excited about. It just irritates me that she created it to be so flawed and then is preaching about how mates may not actually be a good thing. It's literally what you make it because it's fake.

@meganknight5262

3 ай бұрын

And the fact that EVERYONE is getting one is insane. I find a story about choice and going against fate more empowering than this. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good soulmates story, but the fact that it’s forced is just gross. When I envision soulmates, I think of people choosing that they are the perfect fit together, not whatever weird, biological supremacy, breeding-focused shit this is.

@ll2323

3 ай бұрын

Yea it felt like it was something special at first, but then when Elaine just completely ignored Lucian, it’s like what’s the point?

@c_p1858

2 ай бұрын

And also the fact that the girls get excruciating periods? 💀 Like girl you know you could just….not?

i really love that cari still makes captions despite how long these videos are. its so appreciated

At this point i'm just hoping that sjm releases more books so you can do plot break downs of them

I can't get enough of these videos but I die that a 6 hour audio book is 1hr45 min to breakdown and I love every minute of your breakdowns.

My trans ass not realising Elain asking about changing what they were was meant to imply her wanting to be human again and not her questioning her gender though. I genuinely was like, wow, Amren, trans icon. I'm cry laughing at myself. I literally did the "But I was so caught up in the euphoria of being trans that for like a minute I lived in a world where Sarah J Maas didn't write ACOTAR" meme. Also, Elain, Lucien and Azriel becoming a throuple is the only valid way to end the almost love triangle SJM is building.

@the_sapphirerose

4 ай бұрын

Honestly you were so real for thinking that and Amren exploring her gender would have made an infinitely better story than "alien creature gets human body and needs to learn how to poop (which is clearly something that's been missing from all literary holiday novellas until now 🙄)"

@meganknight5262

3 ай бұрын

I feel like it was already a pain for SJM to make Mor queer, and since then, Mor has been hella sidelined. SJM is too much of a coward to have diversity like that in this story. Idk why but I get the vibe that a lot of characters would be hella transphobic due to the binary established within the world. Overall I hate how the world building set up a correlation between gender and sex, when that is so fucking false irl. Like how are you gonna support the “gender binary” when there’s magic and shit going on?

@BerrySD

8 күн бұрын

@@meganknight5262babes it’s fiction. They’re fairies. Not that deep.

"Rhyeesie Baby" hahahaha Love your nicknames for them. I read these last year and love/hated it. watching this was a lovely reminder of how silly these books are. Thank you Cari!

realizing all this happened to feyre starteing when she was 19 (ESPECIALLY all the romance) put the grossest pit in my stomach. people love immortal romances btwn an 800 year-lod and a 20 year- old or even teenager, but try recontextualizing it to a 20 year old with a 90 year old. yikes

@missragsdale

4 ай бұрын

but i mean, when the 500yo still acts and thinks like a 20-something-year-old, is it really an age gap?

@inter_esting

26 күн бұрын

​​​@@missragsdale It is. Just because the 500+ year old act and at time look 20 doesn’t change the fact that they are hundreds and/or thousands year older

@missragsdale

26 күн бұрын

@@inter_esting but since it's an impossible situation for anyone irl to find themselves in, it's always seemed strange to me to get so hung up on the age differences.

Came for the bat boys and sky banging, stayed for ur personality 😌 Me and my bf religiously watch ur acotar summary videos lmao they’re wonderful thank u for them. and merry Christmas ❤

It’s the Cari Can Read Holiday Special. Love to see it.

This is like running a marathon. Actually, all of your plot breakdowns are. Elite athlete status. The effort and planning are appreciated.

i read all the acotar series alongside your breakdowns, same with cc, i don't know how i'm going to commit to throne of glass without your support 😭😭

@mikaylafantine2465

4 ай бұрын

throne of glass is soo much better and actually has plot!!! we love plot, but you’ve got it. the series picks up so quickly after the first book and it’s so worth it. i struggled through the other sarah j maas books too, so i get it

@Frenzywonder

4 ай бұрын

Me too, a Cari recap would be my only justification for reading the series

didnt even read this but damn sjm has such a strong hatred for tamlin like damn

I live for these spoiler-rich videos of yours. I've read the Sarah J. Maas books you've done so far, and your summaries are so much more satisfying than reading the source material. I know film adaptations of books aren't goin anywhere, but more youtubers are doing these types of videos, and I kinda wish they'd catch on widely enough so that, I don't know, some book-loving singer or actor would co-summarize book trilogies, and you can be the inaugural content creator co-host.

why does Rhys have to be SUCH a dick to Tamlin, as if he hasn't also done some really shitty things and as if him and Feyre don't owe their lifes to him.

for what it's worth, it's nice that this type of book mentions feyre's menstrual cycle even if it is done in the most deranged context i have ever heard. also kudos to you for continuing to read this after that heavy bit of pregnancy foreshadowing, i would've tapped out the second it got mentioned.

All the Red white and royal blue movie and cast edits are everything in this

SJM: In this book I'm going to address the age gap Readers: Great! SJM: ... Readers: And... SJM: And what? I addressed it. Readers: You literally just said don't worry about it and moved on SJM: Exactly! I addressed it!

if anyone has seen the withcindy video about this, I got this from that comment section, but the weaver lady is totally lying to fayre, and she is taking all the money back home to her wife and laughing about how she scammed the rich high lady. And you know what? I support her and want a story about her.

"Rhysand isn't scared of blood." *Brittany Broski voice* GIRL, I KEEP TELLING YOU, I'M AN ALLY

@medea4751

4 ай бұрын

LMAOOOO

Can I stand this series? No. Will I watch every single video you make on it? Yes. I have to understand the memes. Your edits kill me. 😂 Also as a grumpy bad b, I would like to say justice for Nesta.

i love you cari. ty for doing this video and doing the funraiser for palestine im always glad to see my creators use their platforms 😭

Cari you should transfer the audio from your videos into a podcast! your voice is really relaxing and since the videos are so long they would make sense as a podcast! love your acotar series btw.

A big closet for Mor? Will she ever come out of it?

@caricanread

4 ай бұрын

omg i cackled

Feyre wants a baby in case something happens to Rhys, so she’ll have something of him. Except she will be dead because they made ✨THAT✨ bargain 🤦🏻‍♀️

When Cassian and Rhys were talking about his and Feyre's age difference I noticed something. I don't know if anyone else has thought about it or not but Rhysand is the oldest male MC in SJM's universe. Rhys is older than Rowan and Hunt.

@thatoneturtle7734

4 ай бұрын

Az is 2 years older and cassian is inbetween their ages i think

@medea4751

4 ай бұрын

​@@thatoneturtle7734really i though az is the youngest

@medea4751

4 ай бұрын

​@@thatoneturtle7734at least that's the impression i got from their dynamic

Girl I am so happy to see the fundraiser for the video! As a Palestinian this is so heartwarming to see! 🌹🙏

i've only watched this videos and heven't read the books but I'm such a Tamlin defender! Like obviously he was horrible to Feyre at times and I'm VERY glad she left but I feel like SJM forgets that the guy was willing to sacrifice himself and his entire court for Feyre's safety in book one and that he saved both her and Rhy in book 3. His behaviour in book 2 wasn't acceptable by any means but it does make sense considering he was traumatised by seeing Feyra dying in front of him and feeling guilty over it. I just need the guy to get some good therapy and a support network and start rebuilding his life.

Well done! Round of applause 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 and thanks for taking the time and effort to craft these plot videos with a dash of humor!! It is very much appreciated. ☺

Cari - your videos do something so beautiful, I’ve been thinking about why I enjoy and rewatch them so much and I think I’ve realised why - your videos connect to something really core to the human experience. I find it hard to sit down and read books through, but your forgot the plot vids make me feel like a friend is telling me this crazy fantasy story with so much energy and fun - it’s something really nourishing and the way stories were told and passed along for thousands of years. Food for the soul type of stuff. Also you’re very funny and your videos crack me up and the way you tell them really helps make the stories so compelling. Basically love ya girl, keep doing what you do. ❤🎉

thank you for another amazing video!! and just another thank you for all the others this year, you’re incredible!!

this has made my day. i love you thank you for everything!!!

I love when you do summary videos about books. They're so unhinged, but so necessary. Also, happy holidays! ❤️

Rhysand spent MONTHS planning THAT and they dare say romance is dead… 😢

YEEEEAAAAA thank you SO MUCH for making this!

Ahhhhhhhh I actually screamed. I just found your page a couple months ago and I've binge watched your ACOTAR stuff at least 100x each. So glad your doing this one too!

I swear I looked for this. Im so happy right now. I just finshed this book and started on silver flame. Thank you. So much.

I see a plot breakdown, I click like IMMEDIATELY

thank you for using your platform for a great cause

YESSSSSSSSSSS THANK YOU CARI. I’m glad you’re home for Christmas, please take all the time and you can and enjoy it ❤ merry Christmas!

Cariiiiii nobody does it like you do it! Love your videos girl. I’d love to hear your thoughts on what you think is coming in future books