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Got a tattoo done -on my NECK- for this series in 2016. I then re-read it years later and realised I hated the books lol [rip]

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

wait REALLY!??!!? pls i need details

@franxie_

6 ай бұрын

@@caricanread I was a fresh 18 yr old and wanted a tattoo 😭😂 I genuinely loved this series in my teens, it was an obssessive thing for me. I got a 'falling' feather done on the side of my neck to represent Patch's last feather. Which could be worse tbh! It's somewhat a passable tattoo. But, yeah, I re-read the books and realised that Patch was a groomer-ish and tbh the books aren't great. 😂So now I am stuck with a tattoo of a series I hate LOL. At least it's cute.

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

@@franxie_ the feather is a look tho! imagine if you got PATCH with a heart around it. thank you 18 year old self for that foresight hahahah

@lupe16

6 ай бұрын

💀💀💀

@cartoonkelly7924

6 ай бұрын

It could always be worse. Can think of any examples but it could be worse.

14 year old me use to crying over these books vs 24 year old me crying over how ridiculous these books actually 😂

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

hahhahahhaa

@Sasu123456789x1

6 ай бұрын

I know exactly what you mean lol 😆

@satinsleeves

6 ай бұрын

SAME

@kgal1298

6 ай бұрын

Every time I read YA novels these days I scream. Maybe it's because I've actually studied lit and I know that if I had turned in half of what I've ready in these books to my any of my professors I would have had failed those classes.

@emmaolaru4607

6 ай бұрын

when i was 14 i loved these books as well, at the time i thought they were fantastic and i loved them, used to re-read them over and over again. 6 years later these are still my one of my favourites not because they are particularly mindblowing but because they are ridiculous, these are my feel-good books on a rainy and sad day

I don’t think I’ve ever been more unconvinced of two characters being in love than when I was listening to you discuss this series

@caricanread

5 ай бұрын

The chemistry was nonexistent

@jess1131

4 ай бұрын

Truly

Every single time someone talks about Hush Hush I always confuse it with Fallen. The other young adult fallen angel romance that came out in 2009. If I had a nickel, I'd have two nickles which isn't a lot...

@BeatrizSilva-cd8pt

6 ай бұрын

Yes 😅

@tansbizarreadventure

6 ай бұрын

OMGG SAMEEEE

@DragonFae420

6 ай бұрын

Ohhhhh! I do this every time too, I think I preferred fallen

@Aigra

6 ай бұрын

Is this the one about a girl who is sent to some detention school kind of thing for setting fire to someone or something? That's the only thing I remember from these fallen angels books and I was a bit confused about this video ...

@Allison-fs6bq

6 ай бұрын

@@Aigrayeah that’s from fallen - I got it confused too

My parents have a cat named Patches so every time I hear Patch I just think of the fat, orange-white, lovable little kitty that sits like a 40 year old man watching football.

@cat2helen

4 ай бұрын

My grandma's dog is named Patches and that's what I think of, when I hear the name. And yes he watches football too, with my grandma.

@mauratyson9580

2 ай бұрын

Patches is inherently a pet name. I don’t understand why the author decided to name a humanoid character that. I can’t stop picturing him as a cat.

I once ended up at a “meet the author event” for this series despite not reading any of the books. The only thing I remember is that the author was also obsessed with the front cover of the first book. Apparently they had the model jump on a trampoline to achieve the perfect “falling” motion

@gingerjessietalks7685

2 ай бұрын

That's kind of cute haha, that he liked it so much

There's one early 2000s fictional parent who is the absolute best. Charlie Swan, my dilf

@Pizzelle

5 ай бұрын

I watched the Twilight movie recently and he was seriously the best character in the whole thing. Justice for Charlie!

@nope19568

5 ай бұрын

Charlie swan sprinted so every other 2000s dad could fall flat on their face😂

@jaysha8553

5 ай бұрын

Well in the books when he learned Bella hurt her hand punching Jacob for kissing her he wasn’t concerned, all he said was “good for you kid”. Disappointed in book Charlie, but Movie Charlie 😍😍

@queenmarshmallow8013

5 ай бұрын

​@nope19568 the other parents tripped when they saw his mustache

OMG, I just remembered the scene where Nora has a flashback to the past where she's licking a piece of glass, because she's not like the other girls and she likes danger (like....girl)... and therefore, she likes Patch... so CRINGE lol

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

nora was really bella if bella left the house sometimes hhahahhaa

@Jem_Carstairs

5 ай бұрын

​@@caricanreadwait WHY IS THAT SO ACCURATE💀😭😭💗✨️

@annabeatrizzimmermann7708

5 ай бұрын

Nora is Bella listening to the intrusive thoughts lol

This was the series that got me into reading and got me into writing 😂😂😂 regardless of how cringe it is, I can’t seem to find a fault in the entire series

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

hahhaha whatever works

@crybabycasper

5 ай бұрын

Nooo, because same 😭 This series and Alyson Noel's, 'Immortals' had me heavily in a choke hold and helped me get back into reading and my own writing. Sure, they were heavily cringe but you know what... I love the cheesiness at times 🤣

@a.b.2405

5 ай бұрын

@@crybabycasperomg I remember the immortals series 💀😭

The only reason Nora’s taste in men is *not* the worst of any character in this book, is because V has dated the main big bad of the book *TWICE*

Just saying “no” to someone’s sacrifice is crazy 💀

Hush hush was 700% drama 5% whatever else the plot about angels was about

"He bent the bars and broke out of jail" I can't believe I used to read books like this, I died multiple times from laughter just whyyy🤣

Also just want to thank you guys - we reached 300k on this channel and if you told me 3 years ago that I could make talking about books into my full time job I would have said "wow, what a nice dream" :''') thank you from the bottom of my heart. this channel has changed my life in so many ways and brings me SO much joy. im honored to be losing my mind over fallen angels and vampires that like flo-rida with you all :'''')

@maiianthe3280

6 ай бұрын

Congratulations, Cari! I am honoured to be here. I recently saw a reel about having maps of every person who you’ve ever inspired, made laugh, and every person who appreciates you. I (and Ig 300k people!) would be on your map 😊

@maiianthe3280

6 ай бұрын

(I’ll tag you in the reel)

@Megan-uo8ge

6 ай бұрын

Cari please check out The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin trilogy!

@Meow-Meow501

6 ай бұрын

That’s amazing Cari! You really deserve this.

@bookoffholicbookwart5945

6 ай бұрын

Congratulations ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

I encountered first book as a Harry Styles fan fiction online over 10 years ago. Somebody online had copy-pasted the first few chapters of the first book and changed the male MC's name for Harry, the fic was left unfinished. Months later I picked up this series at a bookstore, two chapters in I was surprised at the constant feeling of deja vu as I read. It took me about two more chapters to realise it was not deja vu, I had actually read that before. I still think about it once in a while lol

@sweetlikecinnam0nn

5 ай бұрын

omggg this happened to me with the immortals series and zayn😭

@katiolycv

4 ай бұрын

This is the reason I ended up reading 50 shades as a 12 year old. I first found it as a Harry Styles fanfiction💀

@haleyc.3530

9 күн бұрын

@@katiolycvthat’s the twilight fan fiction, the Harry styles one is “after” I think ?

@katiolycv

8 күн бұрын

@@haleyc.3530 yes 50 shades was originally twilight fanfiction. however, what i read was after the books were published, someone simply changed christian grey's name to harry styles lmao

@haleyc.3530

8 күн бұрын

@@katiolycv lmaooo what that’s ridiculous

Can we also add the “Fallen” series by Lauren Kate to this Fallen Angels saga??

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

i have heard so much about this since mentioning hush hush!

@isadora1339

6 ай бұрын

@caricanread you should definitely read it, from what I remember, Fallen is slightly better than Hush Hush 🤣

@WittlePandaaa

6 ай бұрын

PLEASE, and then react to the first movie after

@lightworthy

5 ай бұрын

YES i read the Fallen series at the same time as i real the Hush Hush series. i have no clue what plot is which😂

@habibadesai1071

5 ай бұрын

OMG I came here to comment the exact same thing. Did they make a film as well?? It was such a chaotic book series, made ZERO sense but omg I devoured them as a teen lol

i only watched 11 minutes but i need to say that i am shocked at how nora still just continues her life like nothing happened after patch said he knew everything about her and came to this school for her when he'd never been to a school before. i'd be running for my LIFE.

The Maximum Ride series would be EXCELLENT for one of these deep dives! The continuity errors! The "character arcs"! ghost writers???? I'd die those books had a chokehold on 13 yr old me

@alyssasweeney8652

3 ай бұрын

Dude, I was in love with Maximum ride starting in 5th grade and into middle school. I read the first 4 books, and then Fang wrote the letter at the end of "Fang" and I cried so hard. Everything was just COMPLETELY unreadable for me after that lolol. The first 4 weren't amazing, but at least some of the character's were likable then, like Nudge and Iggy. It got weird real fast. I read Angel when it came out and that was it for me, I gave up on it. I don't even remember what happened in Angel I just remember it feeling like a fever dream. Still have no idea how the series ended lmao.

@stardustworlds1493

Ай бұрын

I liked "when the wind blows" very much. I don't know how much it has to do with the rest of the Maximum Ride universe though. I never quite got into these books, because I found them boring in comparison.

When I was a young lad, I'd often read the books my sister was reading after she was done with them so I could see and judge why she was crying. I remember reading the first hush hush and thinking. This? She's into this stalker creep? And that's what inspired me to start writing romance so I could introduce male leads who were Quality edit: I didn't realise people would actually be interested aha no I have nothing published right now, though hopefully in the near future if I don't slow down

@Natsu.dragneel448

6 ай бұрын

Do you have any released titles?

@KYX1994

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, did you end up publishing something? Let us know!!!

@frankie9373

6 ай бұрын

chad pilled move

@mariakai

5 ай бұрын

I'm interested if you've published anything, too☺️

@squidwardtentacles7144

5 ай бұрын

I'm commenting so I can come back to here if you released something.😅

These books DEFINED my tweenage years

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

:''''')

@kratzberglife

6 ай бұрын

Sameeeeee

@caricanread

5 ай бұрын

@@tell-me-a-story- dont be prickly here lol

This book series meant THE WORLD to me in middle school i screamed seeing this video in my subscriptions from you

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

omg hahahha ❤

Oh the horrific yet hilarious mess that this series is. I commend Cari for her suffering for the benefit of our giggles and entertainment 🙌

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

almost didnt make it out of Silence alive hahaha

@_laurenolo_

6 ай бұрын

@@caricanread your sacrifice will not be forgotten 🙇🏻‍♀️🫡

@kitfash

6 ай бұрын

She is our hero. I love enjoy books I'll never read through her. Thank you, @caricanread.

the book trailers were everything for books in these years

My friend got an advanced copy of Hush Hush before it came out and lent it to me and even at 17 as an avid twilight-adjacent copycat reader, I was like "Oh this is ROUGH"

deeply enjoying whenever Cari reads nostalgic cringy books many of us grew up with

More than an hour of unhinged review? YASS I live for longform cari content 😌✨

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

Fun fact Hush Hush was supposed to be a standalone book but Becca Fitzpatrick's Publisher/editor pushed for her to make it a series,so Crescendo (which is usually the most disliked book of the four) is just Becca finding ways to keep the story going. Also the touching Patch scars and the (spoilers) when they do the blood oath and he feels physical touch for the first time permanently altered my brain chemist.

@luisana52001

21 күн бұрын

Almost a decade later of me reading this for the first time as a teenager and I still remember that scene too! Honestly, it still has me in a chokehold. Nostalgia is something else man hahaha.

Oooh can I make a request for a Cari “Beautiful Creatures” series. THOSE BOOKS OWNED ME. The movie adaptation also wasn’t the worst of the teen novels-> big screen pipeline.

@alyssasweeney8652

3 ай бұрын

The movie made me so mad lmao

@aquicha8168

2 ай бұрын

God, I think I read two of these books. Only remember the caster(?) library, loved the concept

@peonyboyaudios5051

13 сағат бұрын

IM A GUY ABD THE MOVIE MADE ME CRY! For some reason I loved it but hated the fact that there was no conclusion aka 2nd movie at the time (don't know if it came out later) but being in a non English speaking country made it especially difficult to find such stuff

i bought and read all the books when i was 12-15 yrs old, i can´t wait to relive this mess

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

:''''')

@Marinlss

5 ай бұрын

me too, I remember being so lost by the last two books, specially the last one. I only read it for the romance but after watching this video I realised there was none?!

My memory of this book is that one of my colleagues on school was mispronouncing nephilim and I gently corrected her and she was kinda sad that the reason that I knew about fallen angels was because I had read the Bible not this book 😅

The first paranormal romance I read at 13, I was OBSESSED. Mostly with book 1 though.

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

book 2 and 3 were hard to get through hahaha

@tansbizarreadventure

6 ай бұрын

did we all just give up at book 1 lmaooo

@Geiafio

6 ай бұрын

@@tansbizarreadventureoh absolutely haha, it all goes downhill after book 1

@SaikolaM

6 ай бұрын

@@tansbizarreadventureI definitely did lol. I still have the untouched copy of book 2

@norabarnes9235

6 ай бұрын

Same! The scenes where he's trying to kill her but just CANT

I've never read this series, and I don't think I ever will, but upon hearing you read through the whole thing and describe what happened in it, Ive decided Detective Basso is my favorite character purely for the sheer "My job here is done" "But you didn't do anything" energy.

I remember my teacher recommending this book to me for my grade 8 book report. I actually cried reading it because I didn’t know how on earth i would write an analysis on it😭

Having no context for any of this is hysterical. The “It’s just a lot of angels hanging out in shady pool halls” really got me for some reason

The media was weight focused because the 90s were weight focused so we were raised by moms who were always on weight watchers and all the other diets😅 (the women who wrote 90% of these books)

This Hush Hush Series was my very first introduction to the book world at 13, so i have a very soft spot for all of this books and obviously after re-reading just recently i was a little bit sad that the hype that i had wasn't there now but i'll always gave this soft spot for this series and now that you, one of my favorite booktubers, are reading and reacting gave me so much happiness

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤

these books are rated 18+ but i initially discovered them in my middle school library 💀✨ (i can't wait to relive super angel gatorade)

@andiman44

5 ай бұрын

They’re actually rated 14+ on the jacket sleeve but even that’s a stretch. A 12 or 13 year old could read them and it would be fine.

@elnic_kai

5 ай бұрын

@@andiman44 damn guess I was just really illiterate and thought I was cool

@raveng1422

4 ай бұрын

I remember thinking this series was so scandalous in middle school and--SPOILER ALERT--Nora and Patch are never described as doing much more than kissing lol. My 24 year old self was quite disappointed re-reading these 😂 very PG 13

I will die defending this book. It was my comfort series when I was a sad teenager and I will always love it no matter how dumb I realise it is as an adult 😂😂😂😭😭

@whateveryouneed4858

5 ай бұрын

Go on buddy, we all have our guilty pleasures or books we are fond of even though they aren't that good. Mine is Eragon 😂

@raveng1422

4 ай бұрын

Same. I just read this series for the 4th time--8 years later. Very cringe but I am still in love. I think I'm in love with the chaos of it all. There is a plot twist every couple of pages it seems and it makes me want to read more and more.

@GhoulBunny

4 ай бұрын

Sameeeee

My brother bought this book for a school book report. He's never been much of a reader so I think he got it in the hope that my sister and I would read it instead. It worked, we explained it all to him well enough to get an A 😂

these books were my personality in middle school. i fucking wrote patch fanfic for creative writing hw😭 but i FORGOT about them until i started reading crescent city and when the whole angel-archangel stuff started i was like "OH SHIT NOT AGAIN"

This might be obscure because it's by a German author, but I reeeeally wanna see you read through the Ruby Red series! It's about time travel and a secret society and romance and family drama and I was obsessed with it as a teen!! Please read it (don't worry it was translated into English lol)

@Hola_Mochi

4 ай бұрын

OMG I loved that series growing up! 😆

@Link-dx1lx

4 ай бұрын

@@Hola_Mochi me too haha

@que9089

3 ай бұрын

I read that series so many times growing up, still read it sometimes for the nostalgia haha

Literally I was lost so much during the video. I screened at one point “WHOS RIXON” This was a rollercoaster and I loved it. Thanks for the ride

@raveng1422

4 ай бұрын

As someone who just read the books, I was also lost in this video at times. I swear the books aren't this confusing--some major details were missed! I enjoyed watching how someone else digested this series but I wouldn't rely on this video when making the decision of whether or not to give it a read. I think it deserves a lot more credit than it gets. Yes, it's cheesy and could benefit from more detail of the Nephiligm/Archangels but it's a good read with many twists and turns that make you want to keep on reading. 😊

@XxMCRroxnonstopxX

17 күн бұрын

I'd say you were lost because she just skipped over things... Most of the plot points. Like I'm unsure how she got to the epilogue without knowing that Vee was Nephilim? Was she actually reading this book or just skimming 😅 Why was she so confused the whole time 😂 the plot may be stupid but it really wasnt that confusing (I say this but I havent reread these books since I was a teen...though I don't remember being confused at all the first time I read them)

I have vague memories of reading the first book, looking forward to watching this and finding out what they were actually about... 😅

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

me and every series i've ever read hahahha

omg i remember reading this series in middle school! being in college and watching this makes my younger self so happy

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

This book had me in a chokehold.

omg i loved these books when i was in high school 😭😭 im pretty sure patch was the first ~book boy who left me giggling and kicking my feet (now look at me, 13 years later doing the exact same with jacks lmao)

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

omg not patch and jacks in the same sentence hahahhaa

I LOVED these books. I’ve been chasing the feeling these books gave me for 10 years 😂😂😂 I have yet to find a book with the vibes that these books gave me in high school. Made me want to move to Maine and live in the beautifully eerie setting that is hush, hush. I don’t care that it’s cringe, even as a 27 year old lmao

@shannonw9277

5 ай бұрын

I'm 27 and used to love these. After not being able to read for years, I read them again in 2020 and honestly still enjoyed them 😂 They got me reading again so I'm super happy with that!

I literally completely forgot I read and loved these books when I was a teen until I saw the thumbnail and so many memories just appeared in my brain

When I was a tween reading this I thought it was art and that Patch and Nora belonged together, now I think “holy shit this book is a horrific and unhealthy romance.” and “Marci deserved better”

this series got me into reading and to this day i have a soft spot for it even if is kinda of trash so I'M SO SCARED TO WATCH THIS LMAO 😭

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

it was ok trash! hahahhhaa

@emmaolaru4607

6 ай бұрын

this was my reaction when carie mentioned the book in the last video because same

Lmao every time Cari does the deep voice thing it sounds like Lance from Portlandia and it just SENDS me

My parents used to duo read this series and have conversations about them whenever my father caught up 😂 My childhood was honestly filled with them hyping up this genre of books (bc they also duo read the Twilight series) while my 8 year old self was sitting there watching cartoons. My mother, to this day, is upset that the Hush Hush movie never came to be

@shannonw9277

5 ай бұрын

This is so cute 🥺

@HiddenTalent_07

4 ай бұрын

Actually as of 2022, Paramount+ had said the movie is going to be released

this was my FAVOURITE series when I was way too young to read it I literally had patch on a baby name list for years bc of it wow I'm beyond excited for your recap omg

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

OMG WHAT

Forever grateful that I discovered Agatha Christie murder mysteries when I was 11 years old and just became a murder mystery fan instead of discovering YA in the early 2000s.

@tansbizarreadventure

6 ай бұрын

im jealous lmaooo

@Shapizable

6 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t change a thing tbh

@azurechan

6 ай бұрын

@@Shapizable fair enough :D I don't mean to imply I didn't read weird stuff as a preteen, it was just the subgenre of mystery where cats (and other animals) help humans solve mysteries, with or without the humans noticing. I was very happy at the time to discover there were multiple series with that premise and I followed them intensely.

I remember 14 year old me feeling SO BETRAYED because my high school librarian recommended this series to me. I barely scraped through the first book and seethed about how it was literally just an even worse Twilight rewrite 😂

"there's a tree with vee's name on it" IS A CRAZY SENTENCE like omg???

Time for a confession. These books are my guilty pleasure… actually not so guilty lol I LOVE this series and I think I always will no matter how cringe parts of it are 🫣. I devoured them in high school and have re read them time and time again, I just love them 😭😭😭

@marissas2251

5 ай бұрын

dude SAME...I know how bad they are but the obsession is way too deep at this point...

@Kirby08

5 ай бұрын

@@marissas2251 the way I could pinpoint any part of the book series from quotes from how often I’ve read them, like yes wayyyyyy too deep Lmao

My level of happiness is through the roof, this series honestly got me into the weird fantasy stuff I'm into now lmao Edit: The idea of Jules being Jughead is so funny omg

I am 30 minutes into the video, and I am so confused but your voice is so nice and the way you narrate things reminds me of the way I tell stories to my friends and how they tell stories to me so... yeah, keep talking miss girl. i am enjoying it

Me making this series my whole personality when I was younger 😂 I was obsessed with fallen angel book series after reading Hush Hush. Low-key wanna see you read the Halo Trilogy by Alexandra Adornetto now 🙈

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

got to look that up hahahaha

@tattooedkittykat

6 ай бұрын

@@caricanread Do it do it! 😆

@ana7177

6 ай бұрын

Omg I was obsessed with that series, I was planning to read it again but I know it will be bad the second time lol

@tattooedkittykat

6 ай бұрын

@ana7177 I feel like I ended up liking it better than Hush Hush but then again I haven't read it since I was in my early 20's. I would totally have to revisit it to see how it held up 🙈

@NapaCat

6 ай бұрын

​@@caricanreadangels on motorbikes that take FMC to Hell!

I love there were two unhinged fallen angel series around the same time. I was a Fallen girlie and that series was even more insane than this lol.

@kaywho6477

5 ай бұрын

I was obsessed with Fallen, it was so ridiculous 😂

today we're discussing the classics i see🚬

YA tv shows, movies, and books really had me in a chokehold 😭💀. Like whyyyy 🤣 I forgot these books were supposed to be a movie! I was waiting as a teen for it to happen but forgot about the series.

there’s absolutely nothing i enjoy more than watching 1 plus hours of you reading book series, always entertaining

Loved these when i was in middle and high school, though i remember feeling confused throughout the series at times. I just thought maybe i read too fast but now that i heard the plot recapped i understand that it was just seriously convoluted 😂

Ngl this series is my "so bad it's good" pleasure read. It was so ridiculous, I had a great time.

"i'm all legs......like a barstool" absolutely SENT MEEE LOL

Till now the best fallen angel books I've read has to be the 'AngelFall" series.

It's really funny to be chilling and then suddenly hear you cringe at something dumb that a character said or thought, it feels like sitting with a friend. This is a comfort channel for sure.

Ngl the way she pronounced Nephilim this whole vid made me cringe 😂😂 I love you Cari don’t ever change

reading the zebra-print shirt-dress scene made me tear up from laughing so hard omfg this is so middle-school coded for me HAHAHAHA

i can’t believe you read my teenage self’s favorite book series 😭 one day if you read captive prince by c.s. pacat i might truly pass away

this is my favorite series to re-read because of the ridiculosity and the nostalgia, glad i've found the world of people who feel the same!

The way I fell all over myself for Patch in these books in middleschool and now i cant get through 10 pages without cringing. Same goes for the Twilight series. My 14 year old self was a different breed, I dont know her 😂

@pilesofpeonies

5 ай бұрын

Literally same 💀💀 Younger me was on a different planet, I stggg

i had a friend in middle school who wrote an original story on wattpad with gay fallen angels and she had me edit it, but i didn’t realize that fallen angels were a popular thing at the time

Hi Cariii! Congrats on 300k, I'm sooo happy I found your channel

This couldn’t have come at a better time. Silly one hour, fifteen minutes, and forty seven seconds ago me was considering reading these books to see if it is as bad as I thought they would be. But YOU saved me time and sanity. I now realize it’s not worth it, even for the bit. Thank you!

I read these books as a young teen, and even then was like "what is even happening?" And ended up never finishing the series. It was really funny to see that it wasn't just me, and that these books were really just all over the place. There was another fallen angel series, Tormented, that I started reading at the same time that had very similar problems. Anyway, congratulations on 300,00! I really enjoy these 'So You Don't Have To' videos and can't wait to see the rest of the Shadow Hunters stuff. I would also like to recommend you check out the 'House of Night' book series for your videos, it has an interesting take on vampires and goes 'creative' places with the story.

Freshman me loved the books solely for the murder mystery plot but then totally never finished the series after the murder plot was resolved lol

I was just looking for a long video to listen to while cooking, this is perfect timing ❤

I remember picking up this book when I was like 15 or something bc the cover looked so cool. I bought it at a book fair, for which I used to save money every year, and I regretted buying it lol. I hated the protagonist so much! The worst of it all is that Nora thought that she was "not like other girls" but to 15 yo me she was?? Like I remember thinking that she was some sort of "popular girl", so to me she was a hypocrite. Also as you said, every character is just plain awful. Thankfully I borrowed this book to a friend and never saw it again, so it's no longer on my bookshelf lmao

I love this reading past popular series thing you do so please keep doing them!

YES!!!!!! I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE

Okay I haven’t started watching the video yet, idk if I’m emotionally prepared 😂 This used to be my FAVORITE book series…like I’ve reread AND relistened to the audiobooks so many times 🫣

Ahh yes! I absolutely love when you do these videos. Keep it up!!🩷🩷

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

thank you :''')

You've just made me so happy omygosh I remember staying up all night reading these for the first time and being too tired to go to school the next day

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. I have yet to see the video but, I was asking the universe for someone to cover it and you did!

I don't care if now I see them as cringy, I love them, I will always defend them no matter what, I build a connection with the saga, I read them when I didn't know ebooks existed and didn't have money to buy something better. I waited for the movie to announce, I have them in my bookshelf with pride. I see all the cringe, is just like twilight, I know it is bad, but one can just not help to watch it over n over again.

Omg I totally forgot about this series but I’m now remembering how much of a chokehold it had me in 🙃

I LOVE your Duchamp print! It makes me smile every time I see it. 😊❤

Omg i remember being obsessed with these!!! So stoked to hear what you think (and relive them with this video - i remember so little plot haha)

This is one of the first series I've ever read. As a teen, I was absolutely obsessed with it (and Patch), OBSESSED 😂 But years later, although I'm still fond of it, I see how unhinged and dramatic (and problematic) it really is. That's why, earlier this year, I sold my copies and let someone else enjoy them. Because I don't see myself rereading it, like ever, simply because I'm way too adult for that now 😂 (And if you enjoy it as an adult, good for you! It's just not sth that I see myself coming back to ever again, my TBR is way too long for that 😂).

my guilty pleasure is you binge reading early 2010s, trashy YA fantasy series...keep it up please 🤣

Thank you Cari for getting me through the outlining of my very painful sternum tattoo, can't wait for the next part of the Mortal Instruments series for when I get it shaded :)

I really didn't need you to make me put rereading these on my TBR Cari. THANKS. I loved these so much as a teen, and now I'm just up for a silly goofy time xD

Cari did you ever read the Immortals series by Alyson Noël? If not, I think you’d have so much fun with it for a video essay 👀

These are literally my fav kinds of videos ❤

@caricanread

6 ай бұрын

im glad :'''')

Yassss! I need the third part of the shadow hunters series, thank gosh u are finishing it 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

omg you posted just in time for me to download this for my flight, you're the real angel here