"Satan's not an amazing villain, but he has his moments." Quotes for the centuries.

@luellavanallen9481

3 жыл бұрын

Should be placed on the back of the bible as a book blurb lol.

@randomuserwitharandomname6183

3 жыл бұрын

All of his quotes are quite iconic

@porkerpete7722

3 жыл бұрын

Satan standing there ain't scary, but how he controls people through vices, is a pretty cool premise.

@antoniomariamacri7500

2 жыл бұрын

C'mon, he is always hinted to be this unimaginably powerful dude, but no one seems to remember that this guy is supposed to be stuck in a frozen lake since millions of years, he can destroy the world but not crush some ice.

@deathkorpsofkriegguardsmen8488

2 жыл бұрын

in the bible god killed more people then satan.

I’m mad that the main character is named Luce and there isn’t a twist reveal where secretly she’s Lucifer

@elenakh5561

5 ай бұрын

Exactly!

@Griwes

3 ай бұрын

I've been expecting this to be the twist the entire time. Man.

@annabeatrizzimmermann7708

4 күн бұрын

i never got over this!!!! once i figured she was mixed in the angel shenanigans i was like my girl lucifer for sure!! but no, we can be a little silly in this angel fantasy romance.

The biggest insult to injury is that the first book happens in a TWO WEEK period, and the whole series happens in ONE AND HALF MONTHS.

@emjenkins464

3 жыл бұрын

Oh jeez, I've read dubious series but they took place over like 4/5 years

@anetacubelic813

3 жыл бұрын

TwiztedGames wtf i never knew this

@Madrid1234apa

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, they share dozens of past lives

@glanni

3 жыл бұрын

omg that's game changing information

@Tamaki742

3 жыл бұрын

That is somehow more absurd than the fact that the whole 50 shades trilogy happened in the span of... At least a month?

I can't believe a Love-Triangle litterally caused hell to exist

@kadijahamad9862

3 жыл бұрын

sounds legit

@markd.9042

3 жыл бұрын

Fitting.

@merrittanimation7721

3 жыл бұрын

This sounds like a Terrible Writing Advice gag, but it's true.

@idontknowanymore9966

3 жыл бұрын

fitting

@alexmalik6204

3 жыл бұрын

😂

James before book one: "I think Christian mythology is underutilized in fiction" James after book four: "God could have just stopped Satan being evil at any point? What was the point to any of this?"

@sonofthewolfguardianofthef1214

3 жыл бұрын

That’s why God needs to be portrayed as the most powerful, but not all powerful and extremely Narcissistic.

@andrew_cunningham

3 жыл бұрын

@@sonofthewolfguardianofthef1214 It's no longer Christian mythology then, is it? You just have a minimalist re-colour of the Greek pantheon.

@sonofthewolfguardianofthef1214

3 жыл бұрын

Andrew Cunningham so, if god and angels and what nought actually existed humans would have a perfect, completely unflawed understanding of how these unreasonably powerful creatures work? Also didn’t the Bible “detail” God fighting other creatures? If God actually had to fight another creature then he wouldn’t be all powerful. Essentially you have a situation in which the only understanding you have of the world is given by the guy on top. That leaves it open for writers to actually make things interesting by having God lie his happy little ass off. It would fallow Christian mythology but put into question how much of it is true and how much is actually just mythology.

@frankbruder3097

3 жыл бұрын

@@sonofthewolfguardianofthef1214 , so you think God should be portrayed the way he is in the Bible? What a radically orthodox idea. Christian audiences would probably hate it.

@sonofthewolfguardianofthef1214

3 жыл бұрын

Frank Bruder meh, still a net positive for the story.

Stilettoes as part of a school uniform in a boarding school for troubled kids? Why not.

@ninototo1

3 жыл бұрын

Thats what i thought haha

@maximk9964

3 жыл бұрын

I'm assuming they mean the Sicilian stabby knife, right?

@abbie_joan

3 жыл бұрын

honestly if that was my school uniform i would be breaking uniform constantly so i could wear normal goddamn shoes that i won't break my ankles with

@dawnmayflower4422

3 жыл бұрын

Are you talking about St Trinian’s? 😂

@mr.narwhal9034

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao whenever someone mentions a stiletto all I can think of is Eye of the Needle.

This entire series can be summarized with "it was kind of a good idea, but they did nothing interesting with it."

@lightworthy

3 жыл бұрын

i so badly want/hope someone did a rewritten fanfiction version of it and actually touched on all of these ideas that were implanted (ESPECIALLY the lucifer not being evil & god not being pure idea, at least that they’re not 100% of either) because i’d DEVOUR those. if i was a better writer i’d write them myself

James, you touch your hair more than a shampoo commercial model.

@JamesTullos

3 жыл бұрын

Because I'm worth it.

@juno-9098

3 жыл бұрын

YES JAMES

@guestusersomething4340

3 жыл бұрын

YAASSSS KING

@shounenfury

3 жыл бұрын

Frick now ill never stop NOTICING this! It's like telling someone the floor is SLIGHTLY slanted XD you jerk!

@probablythedm1669

3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesTullos just use product to keep you hair in place like the rest of us. Embrace the dry wax. You deserve it! :)

Society declined when we stopped thinking of angles as just wheels with eyes.

@alissonlares2926

3 жыл бұрын

I love that visual. You can create so many things with this concept.

@eilir_adron

2 жыл бұрын

literally what fucking loser looked at this badass mass of winged eyes and flames and was like "nah imma paint a blue eyed blonde dude instead" wth

If I want to read a forbidden love story based in Christian mythology, I'll just reread "Good Omens" for the 20th time.

@taufanaugusta8884

3 жыл бұрын

_"... Secondly, the Earth's a Libra."_

@sakshikhatavkar3562

3 жыл бұрын

That or watch Supernatural from Season 4 onwards. Honestly, not one love story can beat Castiel and Dean’s-especially in this Biblical/Mythological fantasy with angels and demons genre.

@hekate5561

3 жыл бұрын

Or of you want a romance with angels, but without much religion the Guild Hunter books are good. The world is quite interesting.

@xuniepyro7399

3 жыл бұрын

Bible itself is one big forbidden lobestory filled with more forbidden love stories inside. It's just that the forbidden love is different than YA type of forbidden love

@Luisneospied

2 жыл бұрын

@@sakshikhatavkar3562 didn't castiel die immediately after confessing his love to dean.

I think, the whole "you don't get reincarnated again, bc you werent baptized" could work better in other religions, bc, speaking as an amateur admittedly, abrahamic religions always seem to be definitive where you go after death. Either heaven, or hell(or purgatory), and not reincarnation, bc that concept is more common in east asian religions. "Only real christians get reincarnated" sounds more like an anime trying to use christianity in their story, without having the slightest knowledge about christianity.

@o0MissUEllen0o

3 жыл бұрын

In christianity, this is usually related to what happens after the apocalypse, the idea being that the dead will literally rise from their graves (so it's not actually reincarnation of the soul into a new body because the separation of body and soul doesn't originally exist in christianity). So usually one of the conditions of being "woken up" when the time has come would be being baptised.

@sashka222

3 жыл бұрын

I think it depends on the sect of thinking and individuals in my experience. I have seen Orthodox Jews who believe in reincarnation whole heartedly. And some that only believe in the apocalypse with the donkey and the horn and the massiah.

@aimimoque1155

3 жыл бұрын

This is so true! 😂

@susiechoban1542

3 жыл бұрын

You still must be baptised in order to go to Heaven with the Rapture.

@gibbcharron3469

3 жыл бұрын

@@susiechoban1542 Depends on the sect. Some folks think that believing in/accepting Christ into your heart is enough, without any need for worldly acknowledgement of your conviction.

Renaissance art seems to be when we stopped depicting Angel's as flaming wheels within wheels with a million eyes

@PhileasLiebmann

3 жыл бұрын

Well, there were always Angels that either looked like or at least were able to look like normal people or people with wings presumably to be a bit more palatable to mortals they interacted with and that imagery was later used to represent all angels as far back as the first Christian cults in the Roman Empire, presumably because a dude with wings is easier to draw than whatever the fuck a seraphim is supposed to be. But Renaissance art really codified the "Angels are winged pretty good boys" trope, which is not what angels (even the human looking ones) were at all in the beginning. They were primarily God's enforcers and warriors and they weren't afraid to fuck up some sinners in the most brutal ways possible and show it off too. Flaming swords and all that.

@andrew_cunningham

3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, just looked into that. Never realized Evangelion was a return to form.

@JM-mh1pp

3 жыл бұрын

I blame romans, when christianity spread to Rome it picked up a lot of art direction from them, and they wanted to make pretty things, middle eastern religion with eldrith abominations, dark visions and god presence literally burning you to crisp was not exactly their style.

@susiechoban1542

3 жыл бұрын

Jakub Mike Christianity spread to “Rome” in like 300-400 years after Jesus’s birth, dude. Christian art was scarce, and really started to flourish when the newly-Christian former-pagans mixed their new religion with their own traditions. But that’s literally an entire millennium before the Renaissance era. That’s the decadence of antiquity, and what prepared the ‘mediaeval’ epoch. So no, you’re completely off-base here.

@gildedpeahen876

3 жыл бұрын

which i wish we never did. a fat baby is never gonna have to tell u BĒ NØT ÅFRĀÏÆD every time they pop up. angels are some crazy intimidating ish

Miss Sofia wipes your memories of her whenever you stop reading the book.

@jadebladehawkboss1663

3 жыл бұрын

Miss who?

@skyblade7438

3 жыл бұрын

JADEBLADE HAWKBOSS Idk, when did I make this post?

@Nothing-1w3

3 жыл бұрын

What post?

@gabbyfringette7250

3 жыл бұрын

It's true, I read these books, or at least some of them, I can't even remember how many. I don't remember any of it except that I did read it?

@lordofspaghetti5454

3 жыл бұрын

who is "miss Sofia" never heard of her, huh.

Treacle is actually just a sweet syrup made during the refining of sugar. So he was just giving her sweetened milk, not drugging her.... And god, I can't believe I felt the need to supply that clarity for a series so decidedly unworthy of it.

@johannageisel5390

3 жыл бұрын

Does James not know the Glorious Revolution Of Treacle Mine Road?

@melaustin3305

3 жыл бұрын

@@johannageisel5390 That apparently slipped by, though tbf, it isn't like it lasted very long >_

@johannageisel5390

3 жыл бұрын

@@melaustin3305 How... how can you! ... * _sobs in Reg Shoe_ *

@PhileasLiebmann

3 жыл бұрын

That's all well and good, but like what is happening in that scene then? Because even with hindsight it really sounds like that incarnation of Lucinda is about to die again (presumably by immolation) and Daniel is doing or giving something to her to ease the pain of passing and he's really torn up about it because this has happened to him like hundreds, maybe thousands of times. Or is that supposed to be like metaphorical and what he's giving her to ease the pain is the time with him or the sweet milk because I guess that's her favourite drink in all her incarnations or something? It's really super unclear.

@lightworthy

3 жыл бұрын

@@PhileasLiebmann i always read it as a “favourite drink but also it’ll help you be asleep/not in pain while you die in like 10 minutes” type thing especially after actually reading past that point because as far as i remember he never is said to having... “helped” it happen as far as i remember? at least not like that.

if you wanna have a big laugh: listen to James talk about Satan as a villain and imagine that he's talking about the Bible, not this series (58:54)

@jorgi6961

3 жыл бұрын

)))))))))

@kapybara8079

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty accurate though

@tallulah.9143

3 жыл бұрын

also, him confusedly yet joyously exclaiming "Hey! I'm Korean" XD it killed me

I heard the words "love triangle" and my eyes rolled harder than a bowling ball thrown by Arnold Schwarzenegger

@keepuwu-ing7653

Жыл бұрын

Sameee love triangles are so messy and not in a fun way

This series was EVERYWHERE during the Twilight knock-off boom. Every bookshop with a YA or 'Dark Romance' section (which was what they called the Twilight knock-off section,) had it. And it seems like people are only just now remembering it existed.

@merrittanimation7721

3 жыл бұрын

I hadn't even heard of it before now. And I was in the age range for it at the time.

@pau8957

3 жыл бұрын

never read it but i had lots of friends so obsessed with these books!!

@violenciarivas7797

3 жыл бұрын

IKR, Fallen and Hush Hush were a legitimate plague back then but it seems like people forgot about Fallen

@MachineMan-mj4gj

2 жыл бұрын

"Dark Romance" what crap. A dark romance should be actually dark and fucked up. I'm talking big age gaps, unequal power, unhealthy fixation, and tons of lies and sex. Get all up in them taboos and make the reader feel filthy, dammit!

@cintiavargas6617

2 жыл бұрын

This book is admittedly my guilty pleasure, I know it’s not perfect and it doesn’t make much sense but I love it 😅

you putting the US map up for us to visualixe what u were saying was the coolest and most considerate thing ever Mr James, thank you. i didn't have to google the map and try to figure it out myself lmao

@kousetsuhana

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! So was adding "in the us" when mentioning hulu. It's great when people from the us acknowledge we might have no access to their subscription services, or we might but the catalogue will be different for us. Non-usa fans of James sending love x

@ps1hagridoufofcharacter

3 жыл бұрын

@@kousetsuhana I'm joining in as an European!

@denizkaragullu6239

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr, people on the internet just assume you are from The US and that you know the states or only use imperial etc.

@violenciarivas7797

3 жыл бұрын

ikr!!! when he talked about it i just shrugged it off bc i didnt understand it and i wasnt willing to stop the vid to search it online but then he showed the map and i was like OH OK WOW. sending love from 🇦🇷!

@theblueclue3843

3 жыл бұрын

ya shoutout to americans who realize there are non-americans out there

I've added time-travel into my novel that's flawless: the character lays down, and travels forward in time by the mystic art of a long nap. It's a magical nap, so it can go as long as they want.

@rbck8826

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@Weirdanimalboy

3 жыл бұрын

Top 10 Fantasy Powers Fans Wish Were Real

@SpicyButterflyWings

2 жыл бұрын

So astral projection via dreams?

@chloechlumsky8760

Жыл бұрын

how do u go back

@ssighs2304

5 күн бұрын

I had a power like that before my tbi...I miss my old brain sometimes.

I want an Angel YA romance where the angel is still in the original biblical horror terror stage. “Oh Jason, I love your amorphous form and thousands of eyes and wings. That, that is what I’ve always wanted in a (gender unconfirmed) man, eyes and wings.” This is the monster romance we deserve

@sakshikhatavkar3562

3 жыл бұрын

Oh-you mean just about any AU of Trueform!Castiel and Dean??

How are you gonna have the main character be in love with Lucifer and not do ANYTHING with that?! And to not have any actual opinion on the argument between God and Lucifer!? Also please please do the Immortals series there is just SO MUCH content there

@RingTheBella

3 жыл бұрын

!!!! Such a great idea that could have gone a million ways and instead you pretty much get nothing why even make it part of the story???

@a.w.4708

3 жыл бұрын

Because, you know... Lucifer is just probably some Hot, powerful badboy. Not like Angel Who Hates Humanity. (seriously, making Lucifer falling in love with Our Protagonist is always missing the definition of Lucifer.)

@profsrlojohn635

3 жыл бұрын

@@a.w.4708 I mean, biblically he was the top angel. The most powerful and beautiful of them all. That's why he's so tempting. He looks enticing. The problem occurred when that went to his head and decided he could replace God.

@a.w.4708

3 жыл бұрын

@@profsrlojohn635 Yes, beautiful and powerful, but not handsome, sexy and badboyish. He (or they - Lucifer don't have sex) hates humanity, and hates it mostly for it's imperfections so picturing them as imperfections-loving rock-style motor-riding Hot boy is not very this kind of Beauty. Even white diamond from Steven Universe is more accurate picture of Lucifer than this Harley dude, and she was probably created based on author's image of God, so Lucifer's opposite!

@profsrlojohn635

3 жыл бұрын

@@a.w.4708 oh I know. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder however, so it's not too much of a stretch to say Lucifer, being the duplicitous individual he is, takes form of whatever someone thinks is beutiful. It seems rather in-charecter to be honest.

My 15 yo self when Sophia was revealed to be a villain: 👁️👄👁️

When you said that the main character’s name is Luce, I was really 100% convinced that the plot twist was going to be that she was Lucifer reincarnated. But I guess that would have been too interesting

This whole time I thought Luce was short for Lucifer 👀 would have been an interesting change to the story

@thatangelread

2 жыл бұрын

I want somebody to write a fan fiction on this. Or even a whole new book if they actually can write a good book.

@anaribeiro6615

2 жыл бұрын

Plot twist: it was Lucifer all along

I remember my friend and I reading this around the 7th/8th grade and we were so bored we decided to work together to make a fanfiction with Penn as the main character instead. She eventually learns witchcraft and becomes more powerful and confident wanting to save Lucinda and Daniel from their fate, trying to find a way to make them human while also slowly falling for Cam as they work together along the way.... I don't remember us finishing the story because we discovered anime. 🤣🤣🤣

@hopekeeley2122

2 жыл бұрын

“I don’t remember finishing cause we discovered anime” story of my life

Am I the only one who gets irrationally angry when an author dedicates whole paragraphs to a character's appearance? I feel like they could make their point in one to two sentences. Like, I know they're pandering to the Deviant Art crowd, but it's just so uninspired.

@NankitaBR

3 жыл бұрын

I get wanting to paint a good picture of who your character is, and they can even have all this paragraphs about that, just spread them more across the book. Don't put it all in a big exposition dump; they can give one, maybe two paragraphs of appearance (if they are not incredibly long paragraphs), then give us some story, then later put another one or two appearance paragraphs, and just keep doing that for all the characters they want. When it's all at once is just *so boring*

@validark

3 жыл бұрын

The best thing is give overall appearance when you first intro the character (general build/height/hair colour/length/dark or light eyes) and then gradually introduce bits whenever another character is close to them like "x noticed the small scar beside ys mouth" "x was shaken by the :insert emotion: in ys :insert colour: eyes"

@kadijahamad9862

3 жыл бұрын

Exorikk I’ve just assumed it was a rule of thumb that you should never do that. Besides, I always found it pretentious. Personally, I prefer to describe something that stands out about the character. For example, my protagonist has grey eyes and it’s something people tend to notice about him first, especially because it contrasts with his dark skin. I find trickling in information about their appearance is more fun. Like there’s one point where he’s sleeping next to the man he loves and his partner traces the shape of his nose and remarks how he never used to have a hump. And the protagonist responds with something along the lines of “it was broken by a friend of mine. Never left my face undefended after that lesson.”

@user-dc5xe9tv7n

3 жыл бұрын

Its ok as long as you're aware its irrational.

@brenna_marie

3 жыл бұрын

I lap that up, as I am a description hoe. I could read an entire book of someone just describing something. Interesting how we’re on the exact different sides.

Yes! Now James is using tabs to aggressively analyze terrible books, like Krimson Rogue. This is gonna be fun! I saw the trailer for the movie a while ago and was intrigued until I realized it was a Twilight clone.

@AaronRotenberg

3 жыл бұрын

You know a book is bad when it looks like a clown vomited on the pages.

@caitlynnhatch9254

3 жыл бұрын

I saw the movie. I hated it... and i read the books. Was not worth the four + year wait. seriously it was finished in like 2012 i think, released in 2017. My FRIEND found it, put it on cause she knew i loved the books. yeah no.. movie was awful.

@alexthefangirl6136

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, I didn’t think the movie was bad. It wasn’t good by any stretch of the word, but compared to the book? It was tolerable. Unremarkable-but tolerable. The book made me rage quit.

I can't believe first time my name gets used in a book as a main character (and not a crazy fairy lady) and its all f*$king horrible. UGGHHHHH

@oddeyes9413

3 жыл бұрын

If it makes you feel better, there's about a 0% chance of my name being used as a character name in a novel period. 😓

@squibble311

3 жыл бұрын

f

@rey4874

3 жыл бұрын

OH MY GOSH NO JOKE THE MC IN MY STORY IS ACTUALLY CALLED LUCINDA HOW IN GODS NAME

@miriamk5571

3 жыл бұрын

Lol I was horrified by the fact that the main character of Fallen is named Lucinda- it ain't my name or even close, but I have an OC named Lucinda whom I appreciate very much and I'm offended that her name was used in such an awful book

@TheRonnieaj

2 жыл бұрын

If it makes you feel better, one of my friend’s name is actually Luce. Just Luce. And she would be appalled as well.

Wait, if Luce is a fallen angel, how come she can go into a church that Daniel can't? How come she's so killable? How come she had no memories of it? How come she has no angel-powers? Is she conceived and born and grow like a human? Why? How? Are Luce's parents special in some way? If they aren't, how are they giving birth to an angel? Hmmm...I suspect the author did not think too hard about that twist...

@PhileasLiebmann

3 жыл бұрын

From what I understand the curse was basically transforming her into a technically mortal woman except for the reincarnation, so she was actually human until God lifted it. Which leads me to question why God tied the being human bit into the curse in the first place and didn't just turn her into a reincarnating human woman permanently and then cursed her, that would've been way more sensible, but I digress. That still doesn't explain why Daniel didn't want to tell her that she had been an Angel before (which he must've known the whole time), which most likely might've helped them lift the curse on their own centuries ago if she'd known to control her time travel power earlier to find out what was going on. Unless he knew that for some reason Satan wanted to use that opportunity to gain the upper hand in the war, in which case why? And also Satan didn't actually need Lucinda for any of that, so… there is no point to any of this.

@sakshikhatavkar3562

3 жыл бұрын

This is EXACTLY Anna’s plot arc in Supernatural imao. She’s chooses to fall from Heaven because human life and free will attracts her. She physically rips out her grace and hides it in a tree somewhere. She’s reborn again as a human(though the body is still her vessel and her true form is still inside the grace she’s hidden away.) She has no idea about her past until the apocalypse is nigh and she hears voices speaking inside her head. These are angels conversing with each other through a connected link inside their grace-“angel radio” if you might. Eventually the main characters get to her and help her find out that she’s actually an angel and she gets her grace back(has obligatory sex with one of the main guys because heteronormativity) and then is killed off after a couple of episodes.

@oddeyes9413

3 жыл бұрын

@@sakshikhatavkar3562 I was thinking that too.

something about “i’m korean today” made me choke on my dinner. i have no memory of finishing this series but i do remember reading the first one, one of those forgotten middle school (i think) books

@idontknowanymore9966

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know what to say but Oli London vibes, I’m sorry koreans

I think that the epilogue "drugging" thing was more of like, he had known her for so long that he already knew everything about her, including what she drinks to fall asleep. And he had been giving it to her in her past lives to help her fall asleep. Not drugging her lmao

I first heard about the movie adaption as an ad on KZread that had Chinese subtitles. It was odd, to say the least...

Yeah James, this accurately sums up how I feel about this series too. Now for you to read the Hush Hush series.

@JamesTullos

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know if I'm strong enough.

@rosehathaway9129

3 жыл бұрын

Fallen is actually boring, but Hush Hush isn't. They're equally as stupid, but at least you won't lose brain cells while reading it

@kaleramen

3 жыл бұрын

I remember likening that book series when I was younger... is it really that bad? Probably lol

@thaissa215

3 жыл бұрын

Oooh I don't remember anything about Hush Hush, just the fact that I hated the love interest lol

@jillierancher

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, please do Hush Hush! I remember it ruining my vacation lmao

They literally pulled a Deus Ex Machina near the end

As soon as I heard the ending, I immediately thought "hey, I have an idea for a better ending that keeps to the theme of "our personal love is more important than anything"". At the end, all of the other armies see Luce and Daniel and are inspired by them and go "huh. Yeah, I do love my love interest more than God/Satan" and they all defect. That way, it ends with the scales still in balance or whatever, but both God and Satan are alone and have to duke shit out themselves. There, now the main characters have actually made an impact on their world, changing it for the better (because now the only people stuck in this war are the only two people who actually give a shit about it).

@oddcrafter1270

Жыл бұрын

I like it!

Petition for him start reading really good fan fiction that we recommend because some fan fics could be actual good novels

[James opens by showing he used the KrimsonRogue annotation system] The book is gonna be _bad_ and that means this will be good...

Do the Dante Valentine series. It's a steaming pile of romantic garbage, but the worldbuilding is actually kinda cool. Not to mention it has Fallen DEMONS, which is just hilarious.

@jackieelizabeth8614

3 жыл бұрын

How does that work? Does that make them good demons?

@OmniforcePrime

3 жыл бұрын

@@jackieelizabeth8614 No they're normal demons that 'Fall' in love with mortal woman. The woman get some powers, but the demons are basically cast out of hell and lose a lot of their power.

@gabrielaubry1334

3 жыл бұрын

@@OmniforcePrime CRINGE!

@mnemosyne1337

3 жыл бұрын

@@OmniforcePrime so shouldn't they be Risen Demons since they rose from Hell?

@thefruitsong

3 жыл бұрын

Oh god. I remember that series. I had to tap out midway during book 2.

So the main charcarter is called Lucinda... Such level of subtlety! What´s next? The reincarnetion of Amon-Ra is called Ramon, or maybe a latin boy is called Jesus but in his birth certificate it is spelled with a "z"... At this point why not just cut any semblance resemblence of wit and call her: *LUCI*a *FER*nanda.

@littlearies3862

3 жыл бұрын

Jesus > Zesus > Zeus.

@maadtee6281

3 жыл бұрын

Obviously Amon Ra is the reincarnation or Amon, Lucifer son

@marcoasturias8520

3 жыл бұрын

@@maadtee6281 that one could be interesting. That the reason why amon ra is seen as a Sun god is because when he was created, the fall from heaven of Lucifer, out of the pure hatred the first angel felt, Amon combusted into existence into a ball of flames as bright as the king of asters!

I just realized how much this reminds me of those weird quiz websites for teens where they'd have a "choose your own adventure" type quiz with extremely edgy love interests...

Your shirt, can I just say, that mind control arc was just flawless.

@peebo6929

3 жыл бұрын

Andrew Diaz Hell yeah I knew someone else would get it.

brooo I remember reading this after twilight in highschool... Twilight has its faults but it is still entertaining and easy to read through. I did not finish the first book fallen I had to go back and read it a year later and it was still boring, Hell what stood out to me in this book was the villain's monologue about how dumb it was for the plot to revolve around a teenagers romance... Like seriously this book was shitting on its own premise. That was the first book I dropped solely for the lack of interest it got out of me.

Ok so Insta love is so annoying. It's so unrealistic that even in a fictional setting it takes me out of the story completely. Like no one acts like that. XD if you make people act like not real people, then they don't feel like real people. Like those characters that have only 1 character trait. Example; "The Bully" , "The blonde", "The love interest who for some reason is completely perfect in every way and for some reason loves a dull girl who isn't pretty at all apparently"

@kadijahamad9862

3 жыл бұрын

Liz x x the bad boy who smokes cigarettes and has a dark past

@juljul184

3 жыл бұрын

it would've been so funny if she sees him for the first time and waxes poetic about his eyes and good looks and then he opens his mouth and he's just a huge asshole and all her feelings fall apart. the rose colored glasses immediately crack. and from then on she keeps running into him but absolutely hating it cuz he's an asshole. also with the context that they have reincarnated and loved each other in past lives it would be even funnier. but nah.

I never read those books, because in the midst of the twilight hype this book was called "Engelsnacht" (Angels Night) and had such an atrociously bad looking cover that I never even picked it up in the store to read the description. Turns out I didn't miss a thing.

That description of God throwing Lucifer away faster than the speed of light times the speed of sound was so cancerous and cringy.

I think the writers basically wrote each book as a season of a TV show. Big cliffhanger ending, lots of filler, with a twist around sweeps week.

I remember reading the first book when I was 13/14 years old and I hated every single character in this book with the exception of Penn (not that I loved her, but she was at least an okay person) and then she just dies and I was like "wait, I LITERALLY have no reason to keep reading this series because I really don't give a f*** about what will happen to any of them".

Back in high school I read first book and was convinced that the twist will be that Lucy is actually lucifer but I guess not lmao

"Gospeed" is probably the dumbest and funniest thing I got from this review. lmao

@f_mva

2 жыл бұрын

the author owes copyright money to killua

"God was kinda being a dick here" is a quote I'm gonna try to use more often

I actually read a extremly good time-travel story recently. (It's a fanfiction, but hear me out) It uses the concept that you don't send your physical body back in time, but your conciousness. So you just land in your body when it was further back in time. The story was awesome, had me on the edge of my seat

@mariahgumm8314

3 жыл бұрын

What's it called? I'm intrigued.

@lunab541

3 жыл бұрын

So like the movie The Butterfly Effect?

@bilbobaggins3739

3 жыл бұрын

So like Xmen days of future past?

@kristyanrichtr8959

3 жыл бұрын

Oooh, that's sounds similiar to a movie in my country named "Probudím se včera" (I wake up yesterday), where the guy travel 30 years into the past and it's kinda funny. (Like one scene, he's in school and has Russian class and gets send to the board to be tested, but his present self already forgot it, so know, he doesn't remember it either now and he has to improvise)

@CipherDorito

3 жыл бұрын

Like "Soma" (rpg).

That title... This is gonna be good 🙂

Also, I would like to point out, canonically Satan and Lucifer are two different beings. Satan (a being of pure malice) and was said to have already been created before Lucifer tried to revolt against God. Thus Satan became the figure that represented the sin of Wrath, while Lucifer became the patron of the sin of Vainglory (Pride).

@mnemosyne1337

3 жыл бұрын

So then is Lucifer the devil or Satan? Also if Lucifer is the devil what happened to Satan? And are Beezlebub and Azrael other beings?

@toyguismailov4199

3 жыл бұрын

@@mnemosyne1337 Lucifer and Satan are the devils of treachery and wrath.Beelzebub is just a demonized version of a pagan god or a high-level demon,Azrael isn't even a demon he's the angel of death

@a.w.4708

3 жыл бұрын

Also, Lucifer is name given to The Snake-Like creature in Eden by Milton.

@susiechoban1542

3 жыл бұрын

Shearyar Khan Lucifer is one of the Princes. There are many different beings, all separate and different.

@a.w.4708

3 жыл бұрын

@@susiechoban1542 isn't Lucifer the uncanonical name for the most important devil? Like there is this cherub named Lucifer (by Milton) and Satan, but Lucifer is a bit more important?

I tried to read the first book, and almost died of boredom halfway trough.

Christian mythology is under utilized? Have you watched any anime ever?

@Revsoshi

3 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking of black clover

@oddeyes9413

3 жыл бұрын

Seraph of the End.

@six1712

3 жыл бұрын

Devilman Crybaby

@lars7935

3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes my favourite part of christianity: Depressed Fanta kids.

@WASDLeftClick

3 жыл бұрын

That’s what I was thinking. Christian mythology has been used so commonly in Western literature for so many centuries that I just groan whenever it shows up. I fully stopped watching Supernatural when they introduced angels and demons because I was so disappointed in them for doing the same old tired shit.

I really like how u are the most forgiving critical reviewer

Is that...a spongebob anime shirt?

Am I the only one who thinks the biggest inspiration for Cthulhu’s appearance is probably just biblical angels

@sweetnova3084

3 жыл бұрын

How

@JM-mh1pp

3 жыл бұрын

Or the author living by the sea and seeing all the crap that fishermen bring to market every day.

"was ist diese Pferdescheiße ?" that got me dying of laughter... you missed the e at the end of scheiße, you just said scheiß, but that was honestly impressive ^^

I did not remember having read this entire series until you recapped everything, that's how memorable this was.

"[…] there were always little morsels that I could get into, that I could enjoy, but it never amounted to much of anything." So it's like… the Sherlock of Twilight clones?

You actually committed the crime already when you read the books

Me buying fallen when I was 11 because of the picture on the cover >

Hey, I know it's not a story or a book but Dark (the Netflix series) is very good at doing time travelling stuff. Don't know whether or not you would count it tho :(

Your description is amazing, also nice Spongebob the Anime shirt!

@cozycr8485

3 жыл бұрын

Suponjibobu

Getting to know angels and maybe falling in love with one: “I’m the one who gripped you right and raised you from perdition”

@TheaTheGenius

3 жыл бұрын

OMG Cass! S4&S5 Supernatural angels were ICONIC!!!

@sakshikhatavkar3562

3 жыл бұрын

OMG I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT. I mean seriously-if they can’t do an angel romance like Cas and Dean they just shouldn’t do it. It saves us from being introduced to such crappy titles.

@Rivenlore99

3 жыл бұрын

@@sakshikhatavkar3562 Oh, definitely. And the angels from SPN may be rude, but y'know they're better then this ya representation

@kara_keegan_2242

2 жыл бұрын

Omfg😭😭😭

So Daniel, a neutral fallen angel, could not go into a church, but Luce, a neutral fallen angel, could. Huh??

I've read this series, given to me by a relative that thought it was a YA fantasy novel (since i was into books like Maze runner and percy jackson at the time) and since i didn't want to let it go to waste i decided to give it a go and boy oh boy, let's just say i put Luce in the same shelf as Bella from Twilight and Elena from TVD and leave it at that.

Now confirmed, James loves slow burn 🥰

I was like "oh nice i wanted to read that book so let's watch it." After a few minutes i realized i saw another review of it already and how BAD it is and was just sad xD

You might wanna check out the TV show Dark on Netflix. I found it the tightest written piece of entertainment I’ve (ever?) seen. As a whole product, the entire thing is a masterpiece, and I think you’ll find they did something truly extraordinary in it.

@denji5426

3 жыл бұрын

i have been binging that since last week, it's really fucking good

finally i can know what the hell happens in these books! i recognize the cover of the first book from middle school when it was displayed in the library, but i think i got a couple pages in and nope'd out.

I'm so glad you addressed how Daniel treats her. There was this trend in ya when I was a teen where the romance leads were all kind of assholes and I never understood the appeal.

I am really really hoping for James' takes on like.. the Vampire Academy series and its spinoffs, or the Mortal Instruments because those series were also beloved tween schlock for me, and i think they might actually hold up slightly better

Man your reading muscles must have abs of their own. How fast do you read and how!?

james. dont hurt yourself with these books.

I loved this series when I was a teenager but now that I'm older I can't believe I liked it

Hey, former art history major here! The popularization of portraying angels as beautiful humans with wings, halos, etc. is commonly attributed to Renaissance painters and sculptors, though there were certainly plenty of examples of humanoid angelic figures portrayed in Medieval art as well. I could go into a bunch of stuff about the Renaissance and renewed interest in the sciences and anatomy and how the idea of man being made in god’s image led Renaissance artists to portray the human body as being more spiritually beautiful and important than it had been in previous eras/artistic movements, but I’ve already rambled on long enough 😅😂

Did anyone notice that he said that the main love interest transferred from Los Angeles? (The City of Angels?)

Seeing the covers in this thumbnail unlocked a forgotten memory

Maybe it was just because I was in middle school when it was popular, but I feel like Angel Fiction, and playing around with that mythos actually did have it's time in the sun. Like... There's this series, there's Blue Bloods, there's Unearthly, there's Halo, there's Hush Hush... And those were the popular ones, there's oodles that weren't as popular as well. For what it's worth, Blue Bloods is an angel/vampire/reincarnation hybrid story, and is by far the best of the bunch. I don't see people talk about it very often. Maybe it just wasn't as well known?

He meantioned Darksiders, that only proves he is a man of culture.

I swear your grown-out hair has it's own presence in this video 😂. Also, as soon as the concept of the God being (maybe) not so good came up I couldn't help thinking about Onision's book. And you brought it up. And put a HxH reference into the vid. It came together so well for me, my brain got the references. A satisfying meal.

OMFG I remember reading these books. I stopped at the second book and I wrote in my review: This book is called Torment, which is about right because that's what reading this felt like.

they meet each other in collage, the angels are watching them, being happy that they are gonna be happy ever after, and then suddenly a truck comes crashing and sends them to another world to defeat the demon lord.

@rbck8826

3 жыл бұрын

TRUCK-KUN!

instalove/love at first sight is fine ... but only if both feel the same way. if only one of them immediately fall head over heels whilst the other wants nothing to do with them to the point of flicking them off yet STILL the one falling persist in chasing, thats just creepy.

You talking about falling out of love after who knows how many reincarnations reminds me of an episode of Blood Ties, where that sort of happens.

Very long comment incoming, with spoilers from the books. I was anxiously waiting for you to cover these books. Personally, I really enjoyed the Fallen series despite its flaws. I have a guilty pleasure for stories with forbidden love and with angels as part of the plot, I was all in. This book series is not for everyone, and your criticism is very informative and well thought out. I believe Lauren is a fantastic writer, but she does better with her side characters than with Daniel and Luce, despite thinking they’re alright in my opinion. For me, Torment was the weakest book. It’s basically Fallen again, but with Luce having feelings for Miles and transferring to another school. The ending did leave suspense when she began to travel through Announcers, but it was at the end. My favorite either has to be Passion or Fallen in Love. Passion is really interesting for me as it shows Luce’s past lives and Bill (despite being the obvious villain Lucifer) was a snarky but somewhat funny companion. Fallen in Love highlights the side characters, who help make the books tolerable, have their own stories of love, either sacrificing the chance of being with them so they can be happy (Roland), or another take of forbidden love that will have consequences due to the inevitable battle (Arianne). That said, I’m glad you enjoyed Passion despite your overall opinion on the series. At first, I was not into the ending for Rapture, but considering that Daniel and Luce don’t have to worry about the curse every 17 years, having a final life together is honestly bittersweet. But I do see your reasons on why it’s a middle finger to you. I thought it was interesting to have the focus be on Cam in Unforgiven since he also has a love interest he keeps reuniting with, but the ending... After reading Waterfall, Lauren’s endings have been cryptic for the sake of being cryptic. I was so confused I had to read the last chapter twice and I still don’t know what exactly happened. Lauren could have ended the series with Rapture and stayed with it. I believe it’s more fulfilling to come to our conclusions on how the other angels live their lives as Luce and Daniel are reborn as humans. And yeah... the less said about the movie the better. I loved the casting for Daniel. Jeremy Irvine was a perfect choice for him and he’s the reason why I was able to get through the movie. The way the distribution company advertised it was absolutely awful. The budget was also the reason why the movie was bad. I can understand being at a different location than Georgia to make it cheap, but the special effects were just... why? And I’m really curious, do you plan to read the Teardrop series? It started out interestingly, but the second book made me frustrated because it was meant to be a trilogy, and Waterfall ended so abruptly that I was honestly sad at how a series with interesting potential was wasted. If you do plan to read the series, be sure to look up the extra story Lauren posted on Wattpad, but read it after Teardrop so you can understand. Even though we have different opinions, I’m glad you covered this! Looking forward to more of your videos. Edit: regarding your question about Luce’s parents, I believe they probably just have no memory of her as history basically gets rewritten. I asked this to myself too when I first read Rapture, but I think it makes a bit of sense that her parents are still living, but did not have any children due to Luce being reborn.

... Seriously, "Christian Angels and Demons Urban fantasy" is underused? It's one of the most common cliches! And "Angels are actually bad this time" is one of it's most common iterations. And in my opinion is very non-canon, something like writing book set in Nordic mythology but make Loki the Father of Odin and it's Odin who kills Baldur and Ragnarok is about fishing or something. Like... Definition of devil is "angel who hates humans" and make it more caring and loving humans than common angels is literally missing the point of devils.

@samiraansari5686

3 жыл бұрын

Well, I don‘t think that angels and demons are underused, but I do think that Christian lore has lots of other aspects, which are in fact underused, especially when you look at the catholics and their thousand saints. But usually I think the respect for (or fear of) people still practicing the religion keeps authors from using those elements or really doing anything creative with them, except for „demons are hot“ stories.

@a.w.4708

3 жыл бұрын

@@samiraansari5686 I think what's keeping authors for taking something else than Hot Demons is not respect, because Hot Demons are one of the most disrespectful things to the original I could imagine. It is probably laziness. C. S. Lewis was Christian and created entire universum based on protective angels in Cosmic Trilogy, so you definitely can do it in respectful way.

@TheaTheGenius

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr, angels and demons are like the first thing to get put through the angsty hotness filter after vampires and werewolves. It was one of the easiest ways 2000ds YA authors could copy twilight without endlessly recycling vampires. Personally, I think you can do some increadibly interesting things with 'evil angels', like explore the nature of morality, self righteous conviction, the dyhcotomy of good and evil, etc. Season 4 and 5 angels from Supernatural (before the show went to shit) were very well done, IMO, and they treaded prrtty close to the evil side. Sadly, I dont see many writers banking on this. Mostly, they just do the 'angels are bad actually' because a leather clad, chain smoking bad boy with a pair of wings and a sixteen pack that can cut glass is more appealing than a goodie two shoes in diapers that flies around playing a harp.

@sakshikhatavkar3562

3 жыл бұрын

Thea M I know right? Supernatural’s S4 and 5 were unarguably the BEST seasons of the show, and Castiel’s entrance one of the most awesome scenes I’ve ever seen. That being said, angels were presented as these complex beings who were soldiers in a war against the “evil” forces of hell but also a sort of a dysfunctional family trying to keep together after their father abandoned them. Lucifer was literally terrifying and the younger angels’ inclination to joining him too was very reasonable-he was beautiful and powerful and maybe filled up the hole left by God. They were cold and calculating, only caring about orders and as S6 depicted-they didn’t understand the concept of freedom and when finally given the free will, they just chose to follow Castiel instead. But they were also confused, and as Rafael put it, they just wanted home. They wanted “paradise”. And it made angels much more fascinating, and honestly I would’ve watched a spin off series only based on them(I couldn’t care less about the Winchester brothers honestly.) Also if we’re talking about the romance aspect-Castiel’s unabashed, universe-bending, unconditional love for Dean that makes him rebel against God and heaven and everything he’s known is so inherently beautiful. There’s none of that glitz and glamour and hyper sexualisation of the YA novels and yet it hits so powerfully. Season 4 through 6 Castiel is a thing of beauty to watch-as he goes from a ruthless enforcer of heaven, to doubting his superior’s orders and finally full on rebellion against heaven for a man he fell in love with. The man who’s very touch corrupted-Castiel laid a hand on him and he was lost. But he also found himself. Castiel never expected Dean to love him back and Dean never thought Castiel had the capacity to love in a romantic sense and that’s what makes it so much more heartbreaking. Because even in his last moments, Castiel saves Dean, yet again. He still thinks Dean Winchester is beautiful, and he’s not just talking about his face. Castiel knows the man’s soul, he’s intimately familiar with all his scars, he watched Dean spill blood and commit atrocities in hell and despite it all he thought that this man was worth fighting the entire world for. This man was worth saving. And that’s why he ‘gripped him tight and raised him from perdition’. I’m sorry but you just canNOT come even a tiny bit close to that kind of love.

I've read the entire series and only because I was in boarding school, I was desperate for the escapism. it started so well then just went downhill really bad. I cant even recommend them to anyone. but I definitely recommend The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove by Lauren which as far as I remember I enjoyed.

I remember reading a sample of Fallen that came with a magazine when I was 12 or 13, while still totally in an enjoying-Twilight phase, and I was like "no... This sounds pants, I don't think this is well written" lol

"All of their struggles up to this point were pointless, they were worthless, God could have stopped them, He could've just saved the world" Uh, didn't you just describe Christianity?

The story reminds me of The 7 Deadly Sins.

James referenced Dylan is in trouble I can die happy

Wait I thought fallen angels couldn't enter churches so how did luce?

@kara_keegan_2242

2 жыл бұрын

Even demons can go in churches

I'm actually amazed if you read books so fast and release these reviews, unless you have read them in the past or something which I doubt.

@bilbobaggins3739

3 жыл бұрын

His backlog of books must be huge for such consistent uploads.

"Christian mythology is highly underutilized in popular fiction" Let me introduce you to the shadowhunter universe. HAHAHAHA

@samiraansari5686

3 жыл бұрын

Okay, but I would argue that considering all of the cool aspects of catholic lore and the endless possibilities it could have, you can‘t really call what shadowhunters does „utilizing“ the mythology. More like badly inserting some popular words like „nephilim“ or „demon“ into a meaningless plot, alongside with classical fantasy creatures like fae.

@TheaTheGenius

3 жыл бұрын

Literally any YA paranormal romance that came out in the post Twilight craze period. If it wasn't sexy vampires, it was sexy angels/fallen/demons. It was just a way for redo their own version of Twilight while pretending theirs is actually a different book with totally different mythos you guys.

@sakshikhatavkar3562

3 жыл бұрын

Imao you really haven’t heard of Supernatural have you? It is inherently shitty for the most part but the only redeeming factor about it is the larger-than-life, literally universe-saving love story between Castiel, a fallen angel and Dean, the righteous man he rescued from the fires of hell.

@V2ULTRAKill

3 жыл бұрын

@@samiraansari5686 yeahh Christian imagery and christian mythology are different The closest thing I have seen to properly using christian mythology as a whole, was the SMT games

@kara_keegan_2242

2 жыл бұрын

@@sakshikhatavkar3562 omfg I still have emotional trauma and heartbreak over that stupid show

James: The 3rd one is pretty good actually. I enjoyed that one. 2017 Me, who stopped reading it halfway through and hid it behind better books: *yeah, sooo good*

i fully thought the twist would be lucinda was some kind of reincarnation of satan??? or at least somehow related to him, i mean her name is basically just a female version of lucifer. but no apparently shes just another powerful angel? was the third most powerful called Ludicrous??

"Was ist diese Perdescheiße?" - "What's that horse shit?" 1:24:10

@BlueArcStreaming

3 жыл бұрын

Pferdescheiße

@johannageisel5390

3 жыл бұрын

@@BlueArcStreaming Der Ferd hat fier beiner an jeder saide einer Und hat er mal keiner Umfallt