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@nafothergill

Жыл бұрын

Hello I know I already mentioned this book in your previous video. And I promise after this I will never mention it again well at least not for a very very long while like potentially a year or two. But if you want to read a good book I suggest you read under the udala trees by Chinelo oparonta I know I am spelling that name very incorrectly. The book is written by a Nigerian author, it's about a young woman growing up in Nigeria during the Nigerian Civil War and on top of dealing with the war and her father's death she also has to come to terms with her sexuality as a lesbian. This is a beautiful heartbreaking historical fiction novel about a young Nigerian woman trying to blend into Nigerian society while also trying to gain acceptance from her mother and herself. While also dealing with for the Nigerian Civil War and the death of her father.

the fact that colleen hoover wrote a book about her mom, with the idea that "if i get out of this abusive relationship, my daughter won't continue the cycle", only to then make it her entire career to write abusive, toxic romances that are portrayed as desirable just... tells me everything i need to know about her.

@Clubsandwichchav

Жыл бұрын

on the mark

@swimminginhoney

Жыл бұрын

Makes you wonder if her previous abuse has made her more accepting, or even desiring, of being in toxic, abusive romantic relationships because that’s how trauma has shaped her view of all relationships. Never read any of her books but sucks to clearly need some therapy quite so publicly. Hope she gets better.

@pjp6

Жыл бұрын

Couldn’t have said it better!

@skylarjohnson7779

Жыл бұрын

@@swimminginhoney yeah, that makes sense. Go to therapy, Colleen, stop trauma dumping on people who just want sappy romance and smut.

@astrocytes

Жыл бұрын

@@swimminginhoney The abusive relationships in the books and many readers buying into it as a romance, to me it reads like a form as self-punishment. Like 'see, all of my readers think the relationships are normal, _I_ was the problem.'

"Oh well he's still a good dad, he just hits his wife" made me laugh so hard 😂 haven't read that book but that line gives me enough to know I shouldn't read it 😅

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

yeah stay away :(

@astrocytes

Жыл бұрын

People who abuse their SO's, abuse their children, unless their children learn how to be invisible, or the SO distracts the abuser so they abuse the SO in place of the children.

@_Daemon_Sultan_

Жыл бұрын

“Oh? Your dad hits your mom? But he takes you to get icecream sometimes and doesn’t hit you!”

@rae3804

Жыл бұрын

All her books suck you're not missing out

I honestly believe It Ends With Us deserved to score the highest, but mostly because the audience who needed this book deserves so much better.

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

exactly :(

@jaginaiaelectrizs6341

Жыл бұрын

I find myself wondering.... because it's supposedly a very personal story, doesn't that make it at least potentially even more worrisome? Like ... if _she_ *is* the daughter, does she have such a messed up perspective on this guy in the book, because it was her own dad that she thought was still such a great dad even though he had abused her mom??? 👀 (idekk??)

@wawahals

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@rixanoz

Жыл бұрын

@@jaginaiaelectrizs6341 quite possibly, and entirely worrisome since a book goes through several people before publication, and no one intervened.

@marymurphy1877

Жыл бұрын

@@jaginaiaelectrizs6341 honestly that would be a rather more interesting and nuanced book- because it is really hard for people with abusive parents to come to terms with when a parent is sometimes abusive and sometimes a good parent. showing that dichotomy and a child struggling to realize that their parent is both and the repercussions of that sound more interesting and helpful than whatever this is that she actually wrote.

don't feel bad for criticizing "it ends wih us", bc colleen hoover, in her other books, romanticizes the exact same type of abusive relationships that she supposedly "reprimends" in iewu. she's a massive hypocrite, and does a lot of harm with her books

@klee5981

Жыл бұрын

THIS!! Like she only shows it as bad when it’s something personal to her, but all the other forms of abusive l/toxic relationships?? Romanticize those asap!!

@LunarEleven

Жыл бұрын

I don't think she's a hypocrite, I think she is lacking in self-awareness. I don't think she even realizes that she still has a toxic mentality. It's sad but her own deep-seated issues are so problematic and she needs to be responsible and get more therapy. People think they are fixed because they become aware of the root cause of their problems. But this is like knowing the equation exists but not knowing how to solve it. You don't actually know anything useful. Hypocrisy requires that she understands why what she's writing is problematic and publishes it anyway. I don't think she even sees what's contradictory because her understanding of healthy relationships is so warped.

@klee5981

Жыл бұрын

@@LunarEleven That’s a fair point. But the way she made sure readers knew to acknowledge the author’s note kinda makes me feel like, to some degree, she is aware of the problems with what she writes. Especially since that came put after she started getting criticism. Or maybe that just means you’re right and she is genuinely so lacking in self awareness that she can’t see the very obvious. Either way, still makes her harmful whether she knows the damage she’s doing or not

@LunarEleven

Жыл бұрын

@@klee5981 Undoubtedly it really doesn't matter what her deal is, she's equally problematic regardless. It really sounds like she's unwilling to listen and consider that maybe this is toxic, so she has no excuse at this point because she's been thoroughly called out. Enough people enjoy this trash that I think she's over-validated and will not stop. Thanks, BookTok. She doesn't seem like a bad person, just confused and in need of an intervention because there are impressionable young women eating these books up 😔

@klee5981

Жыл бұрын

@@LunarEleven Yeah. But also there was that whole (alleged) situation where her son SA’d a girl and when the girl tried reaching out to CoHo she just blocked her and did nothing lmao so that’s definitely questionable. But you’re right, way too many people seem to enjoy her so all I can do is complain on the internet lol

I also read It Ends With Us for the first time in May of this year (mind you, in a single day). And honestly, growing up in an abusive household myself and seeing my mom get abused in a similar way to Lily's mother, the book struck a tender cord in my heart. I felt like I could relate to it (especially Lily's character) a lot, and I even had my mom reader it after I finished - she really liked it as well. THAT BEING SAID- I agree with you 100%!!! I really hated how Ryle wasn't even dealt with properly in the end. Lily just accepted that he'd have to be in her and her daughter's life forever and it's like, GURL- take him to court!!! He physically hurt you on multiple occasions!!! I was hoping that he would go to jail at the end of the book or get a punishment along those lines, but alas, CoHo chose to keep him as a pity case. He seriously faced no consequences in the end: he still got to see the 'woman that he loved soo much 🥴), he got to be apart of his daughters life, and he got to keep his job. Like, okay Ryle, your life was hard and you killed your brother but I'm not about to pity you when you're literally abusing your wife like wtf??? I hated the way that CoHo dealt with Ryle because it absolutely burns me up when abusers don't get what they deserve. Anyways, I ended up reading the sequel and it was even MORE maddening because THE BOOK WAS STILL ABOUT RYLE!!! Hello?! It was marketed as an Atlas and Lily love story, and then it turned into Ryle's shit-show once agaiin. I literally couldn't, last book I read by CoHo. 😭

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

omg noooo that makes me even more made because i thought maybe she wrote the sequel to deal with all the upsetting loose ends she left but i guess she chose to really commit to the nasty bits :( im glad you did find some comfort it in tho!

@renata374

Жыл бұрын

as someone who also grew in an abusive household i always stayed away from this book because ive seen people talking about how she never did anything to him because of his daugther? and even if i cant be sure thats true since i havent read it and could understand if she was just writing the story of her mother that idea annoys me SO MUCHHHH it should be the other way around if anything!

@Airam57

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying something about the sequel. It saves me the trouble of reading it. Ugh.

@jasmineirwin3948

Жыл бұрын

I also grew up in an abusive household. In my situation, nothing was dealt with either. I went in not knowing the trigger warnings, so most of the book was really hard to read. A lot of the details hit close to home. Especially when Ryle's sister was trying to defend him. Immediately after reading it, I thought it was good because it felt real. I have only read two Colleen Hoover books, so I can't defend her. That being said, the abuse in this book makes me sick, and I wish Ryle had been dealt with. Anyway I do agree with all Cari's points she made in the video.

@frenchgirl5878

Жыл бұрын

The fact that she chose that tragic back story for Ryle so that we readers feel sad for him is kind of disgusting. It kind of sends the message that abusers deserve our empathy because they’ve been through some stuff -_-

A 40 minute long video of you roasting books??? I’m in heaven 😂❤

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

LOL!!!

@sneakylinky1764

Жыл бұрын

Glorious, my favorite kind of video

@jaginaiaelectrizs6341

Жыл бұрын

She roasts them all so sweetly though! 🤍🤍

The thing that drives me nuts with It Ends With Us is that people, even including the author, told other ppl to go into it without knowing anything. But it was like it was supposed to be some twist that the guy wad abusive. It was so odd and like abuse shouldn’t be the punchline wtf. I had some preconceived notions about the book going in once I realize it was about abuse and I ended up being right (such as the guy having no consequences because he’s the dad, justifying his abuse, etc). I was like nah fam bye

@grimlesbians

Жыл бұрын

oh thats kind of evil. like idk how in her sitch she could act like that but it rly screams careless to me, as if domestic abuse is just a plot twist and its survivors r just a vehicle for the moral of the story instead of a real type of person that might pick the book up and read it. spoiler culture is... bad.

@hyunjinsanity

Жыл бұрын

Literallyyyy I got this as a gift and I'm fourteen-

@flaviawolfart

Жыл бұрын

The way I see it is that it wasn’t about the abuse being a plotwist but understanding how someone ends up in a relationship like that, and how is not always obvious that someone is abusive at first. Cause if you start the book thinking that it’s just a romance novel, you start off falling in love with the abuser alongside her, which messes up with your head later on when you’re supposed to hate him. My experience reading it without having any idea what it was about made the story better for me (doesn’t mean I agree with all of the author choices, of course)

@grimlesbians

Жыл бұрын

@@flaviawolfart that rly super does not mean that everyone should go into it expecting a romance novel. it can be very damaging. ur personal experience cannot override how irresponsible and harmful this is. "dont look up what its abt just go in!!!" is someth authors/other creative types do to be quirky and fun n thats just not appropriate behavior here.

@flaviawolfart

Жыл бұрын

@@grimlesbians I never said that I agreed with it or that I would recommend that for everyone, I’m just giving another perspective about the reason why people tell others to go in without knowing the plot, and saying that it wasn’t about the plotwist itself. Some other things that can be damaging for society? Being rude with people on the internet for no reason. I was just trying to have a conversation with you, but never mind.

I LOVE that you brought up the "literary good" vs "entertainment good"! Sometimes I read an amazing, Nobel prize worthy book that challenges me or is reflective, thought provoking, beautiful etc. and love it, or sometimes I read YA fantasy absurdity and have a wonderful time. That's how I felt with ACOTAR and Caraval- yes, yes, I think these are "trash", but I had so much fun reading them and that alone is worth so much. I usually just recommend that category with the preface of "don't think too deep about this one"

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

i was with you until you used trash and caraval in the same sentence! get that slander out of here hahahhaha

@jilianh

Жыл бұрын

@cari can read I have an entire list of plotholes/unanswered questions I demand answers to for Caraval 😂 especially the original trilogy. That book/series was beyond outrageous and fun to read though I loved it. I felt like I was on a zipper ride at a carnival with the amount of plot twists/layers of lies in book one

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

you have to read once upon a broken heart! stephanie's writing has improved SO much and its related to the world of caraval!

@jilianh

Жыл бұрын

@cari can read Agreed- far more coherent/less plot holes. I just finished the Ballad of Never After yesterday and stared at the ceiling speechless for like an hour after 🙃 🫠🥲

@deathrockfairy1290

Жыл бұрын

Note there is a defense for Caraval, but not for ACOTAR. Clearly, these are the smarter readers on KZread...

cari makes a hobby of reading terrible books for our enjoyment, & i'm so here for it

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

:'''''')

I'm gonna say it. Most of Coho books are absurd and the amount those books are romantised is concerning. I've read 5 of her popular books and I'm scared for those those younger girls who base their standard for romance based on her books

@Midnightpinkmotor

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree, and also her being a SA apologist makes it all worse

@leazekrom5538

Жыл бұрын

I’ve seen wayyy too much adult women fantazising on Ryle (the abuser from IEWU) saying « well yeah but he’s hot and funny so I want a man like him 😜 » or saying that Lily was a b*tch for leaving a man that needed help… The damages that this book causes HELP 🥲

@celestialshiii

Жыл бұрын

absolutely agree .I visited some cousins of mine just the other day , and the youngest of them like around 16-17 years old had a STACK of CH books on her desk and when I tell you I actually panicked seeing them there-I asked her abt them and she seemed absolutely in love with them talking how she wanted a romance like the ones in the books and I've been thinking of that for days . Like she sincerely should either change her writing COMPLETELY or stop publishing altogether. This is HARMFUL. young girls like my cousin will enter the dating world with those books as the golden standard and that's notttt ok

@Midnightpinkmotor

Жыл бұрын

@@celestialshiii literally!! Especially since a good sum of her books gave non-con, and abuse in them. Also side-note, I’m 16 and I saw a lot of CH books on booktok and was think abt picking one up, (this ends with us) and thought it was some cute little romance book, which is insane to me that ppl market it as “romance “ even though there are a lot of triggering topics in it.

@ninasager5669

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Every single romantic dynamic in her books are “asshole guy gaslights weak no-backbone girl and she ends up falling for him and fixing him.” It’s so dangerous to be teaching girls that they need to be responsible for their partners inappropriate and unacceptable behaviors.

Small Pleasures left the same impression on me as A Little Life. Written well, but it felt like cathartic shock value was prioritized over plot. Like I finished these books feeling like I had not quite read a story, but rather a list of events.

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

ooooof yeah exactly :(

I agree with you 🤍✨ I recently read ‘It Ends With Us’. Truly, I felt like I was reading a book written by a traumatized 14 year old. I was quite confused as to what I was reading and why it’s been so popular. I was waiting for a deep spiritual and emotional healing to take place for the characters. Do I enjoy CoHo’s writing style? Yes. But after reading ‘All Your Perfects’ (thoroughly enjoyed) and jumping into this, I felt extremely confused at the maturity level the characters displayed and their way to properly heal and move forward from whatever struggles they were facing. They didn’t fight for their love which also pointed to immaturity- that of a high schooler.

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

yeah i bet this was therapeutic writing this for her but in the end maybe it didnt need to be published the way it was :(

@BAGS53

Жыл бұрын

@@caricanread I agree.

@lgee8383

Жыл бұрын

Good writing style? sis....

Cari: you clicked on this video.... Me: because i like the TEA and i enjoy people bashing It end with us :)

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

LMAO

@-Lotta-

Жыл бұрын

I enjoy people bashing her books in general 😂😅

@Saphia_

Жыл бұрын

Her books in general tbh.

@O_o-simp

Жыл бұрын

same girl slayyy

“The book that was on the boat, what the hell was that!” - truer words never spoken

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

lol!

Your thoughts on It Ends With Us are exactly mine! I appreciate that for some people it was a really therapeutic read and it’s a realistic portrayal of how hard it is to leave. But the message is so damaging and Ryle faces no consequences! It made me so angry.

Losing sight of the plot and focusing on the romance must be Kari Maniscaico’s defining trait because that totally happened in the final book for Kingdom of the Wicked series. Was it entertaining? Yes, but the plot just seemed crammed in there between the romance she wanted to write 😂

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

The first book was all about pasta, the next book all about smut 😂

@goddess2539

Жыл бұрын

Yes I love her writing and I sorta enjoyed Kingdom of the Wicked but I just couldn’t finish the second book in the series. The plot was going nowhere and it was so brain-numbing to read.

i hated it ends with us when i read it too but could never really articulate why i hated it, but your review is exactly how i felt. i felt like i was going crazy seeing so many people giving it 4 or 5 stars because it’s “an important topic” when i felt like the topic itself wasn’t handled well. I found it nauseating that ryle was able to have custody of their daughter and was so confused when we read about how he took care of lily during their pregnancy. it actually made me sick to read how he “kissed her forehead and made her breakfast.” that combined with his backstory that “explained” his aggression just made me feel like colleen was trying to absolve him of any accountability.

i have been obsessed with watching these videos from you! i used to be such a big reader, but fell off due to being so busy in school and then just lost the habit entirely. i recently tried to get back into it, but im not sure if my tastes changed or the genres i loved so much changed, but i haven’t been able to find anything that suits me! it felt like my already-limited time was being wasted in reading books that i couldn’t get into, so being able to watch these videos to get some perspective on what a story is really about has helped me learn more about the books that i might actually like (and dislike)! you are so calming and fun to listen to, and i am grateful to have found your channel. looking forward to more content from you!

You are literally echoing my exact same sentiments about It Ends With Us and I felt so wrong for feeling this way! There are so many other books with better depictions of DV and generational trauma…

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

:''''')

So glad someone is talking about how horrible 'It Ends with Us' was. The writing killed me!

THANK YOU for your great explanation of It Ends With Us. I had only read two other CoHo books (Verity and Reminders of Him) before this one, and none of them like, blew me out of the water, so I was excited to finally get IEWU off of the library hold shelf to see what's so great about it. I thought it might lighten my opinion of CoHo because I was feeling kind of book snobby. Unfortunately, I had no idea about the DV narrative before picking it up (somehow missed that spoiler) and was upset that, at least on my copy, there were no warnings on the text anywhere. I read it last week and have been chewing on it since. I didn't love it and the resolution fell flat for me. The author's note didn't really do much for me. I agree that the topic is important but I think there is a way to cover content like this....and this wasn't the best way. I agree with you though, she's a readable author, so I get why people fly through her books. I just personally probably won't read any more of them.

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

yeah i didnt know about the DV plot line either and the way i saw other people talking about it, i assumed it was just a sweet romance but...

@lindapic23

Жыл бұрын

That's terrible, there definitely should've been a warning. It wouldn't have been a plot killer either because I feel like it's obvious off the bat that her dad was abusive, not that a warning being a plot killer is passible.

You should read the Starcrossed books by Josephine Angelini. They're a trilogy from about 10 years ago and are pretty much "Twilight meets Percy Jackson". Not objectively good, but a very entertaining ride. Loved to read these with a school friend. There's also a prequel that came out recently and a sequel that's scheduled for next spring.

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

omg noted hahahaa

@EdenIsaacs

Жыл бұрын

omg i LOVED this trilogy in high school 😅

Omg it’s like 3 am and cari has 40 minute video I guess I’m not sleeping tonight 😂❤ THE LONGER THE BETTTER I rewatch your videos all the time cause it’s my comfort place

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

omg AHHHHH

you're quickly becoming one of my favourite booktubers 😍❤️

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

omg thank you!

I actually liked "It ends with us". I was about 16 when I read it and for me it opened my eyes how relationships can be abusive and the emotional complexity of getting out of such a relationship. But especially looking back now that I'm older, I can see its faults, it still holds a special place in my heart though. However! A friend of mine, 22 years old, has been in a relationship for like 2 or 3 years. She has recently read this book and told me she thought it unfair that Ryan did not get another chance from Lily. Like he could have attended therapy and gotten better and everything might have been fine. I lost it. I saw red. Like no no no. I told her why that would have been very bad, but I don't know if she understood

I just remember the scene from It ends with us at the beginning of their relationship when he doesn't take his scrubs off from working as a doctor in the hospital and she thought that it was sexy🤮 , like no, that is gross and no real doctor would take all the germs on that thing home with him. I couldn't root for the relationship after that and when he started to abuse her I was totally done.

I totally agree with you on It Ends With Us. One other thing, mostly due to tiktok, is that it's pretty much marketed as a romance book. I went into the book thinking that it was and I saw so many people online talking about and romantizing Atlas(? whatever his name was) to the point that it really kinda shadows the whole message the author was trying to portray. Before I read it, I saw no one taking about the main purpose of the book or any mention of DV at all so I think that a lot of other people are also going into the book thinking that it's just romance with a side of angst and domestic issue or something instead of something even somewhat serious

I think for me I ended up really relating to It Ends With Us, I grew up in an abusive house hold, I saw my mother go through it, who saw her mother go through it, and then it even hit my little sister and I saw her relationship play out EXACTLY like my mom and dad's, it was scary and uncanny. I truly believe that the cycle is an actual thing and we are drawn to things we see our parents like and do, same thing with drugs and alcoholism. Which is why I ended up feeling like the book was written for me, as tragic as it is, because yeah my dad maybe a good dad and yes he was definitely abusive towards my mother and no my mom didn't leave him, and no I don't hate him, I can't it's a really weird place to be in, my father isn't really that extreme as ryle ofc, but it's still no excuse and idk it's overall a weird spot to be in once you're in that situation. Though I agree with you, Colleen Hoover made it TOOO easy for ryle, he didn't deserve our pity and he didn't deserve to be let off the hook, also breaking the cycle is WAAYYY harder than what is showed, I agree it was simplified. And it doesn't mean that lily's daughter won't ever get into an abusive relationship, it's just that she won't grow up seeing her mother go through it.

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thinks crave is horrible 💀

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

lol!

@natalyaporter5730

Жыл бұрын

I started listening to the audio book, glad I’m not the only one who thinks it’s not a great read!

@ChemicalPenguinn

Жыл бұрын

From what I've heard it's literally twilight but if it was published in 2022

@-Lotta-

Жыл бұрын

@@ChemicalPenguinn it’s even more hilarious

Cari, I just wanted to thank you for really getting me back into reading. Your videos have been a real help, and now I'm finally writing again so, thank you. Honestly😊

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

that makes me so happy - thank YOU!

Love it even more to see you talk about the worst books this year, just pure comedy! 😁

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

bahahah :''')

*Spoilers* I laughed so hard when you got done describing Small Pleasures. From the way it ended, to that you thought there were witches in it and like where are they, to that it just left you with anger... I don't know I couldn't stop laughing for a good 5 mins. It was one of those belly, I can bearly breath but it's just so good laughing fits. Which I want to thank you for truly. I really needed that, my birthday was yesterday and it was pretty horrible so having a good laugh like this made things better.

@mynameis5227

Жыл бұрын

sorry to hear about ur bday ): everyone needs a good laugh sometimes!! happy late birthday!! ❤️

@vielente

Жыл бұрын

Happy late birthday🎂

I’ve never been this early to watch your videos omg! Happy holidays, Cari!! 🎄🎄🎄

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

wahhh happy holidays!!!!

I think It Ends With Us is really written for people who have been through that kind of abuse. I thought the abusive partner was written that way because that's how abuse victims feel. If they were just pure evil it would be very easy to walk away, but that's not the case usually. Usually the toxic person in your life is also really great sometimes. Books are not always prescriptive of how things should be, sometimes they are just a story for people to relate to, and I don't think I've ever related to a book more than that one.

I completely agree with you about IEWU. This is further proven by the fact that there are many CoHo fans who say they liked her abusive husband and wished she ended up with him. That just goes to show that CoHo did not do a good job of correctly portraying him as the abuser he is, he should have suffered SOME kind of consequence for his actions.

love that you're wearing the same outfit! We love a consistent queen

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

💗

You roasting books is the best!!! Also, a reading vlog would be really great!😌😌

You are the best Cari. This is the best book club ever. You gotta do this live.

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

❤❤❤

i just found your channel but your rants are EXACTLY how I feel/express myself about books/plots/characters and it makes me so happy lol especially since so far we seem to have pretty similar opinions on the books I've read :) which is awesome cuz now I trust your recommendations :P

Hi Cari! Your uploads are getting me through finals week 💕😆 Thank you haha

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

you've got this!!!

As a ghostwriter I can tell you that those sequels, trilogy, and up. The reason the tone changes and the story has a different connotation is because 9/10 you don't use the same ghostwriter. It can be for a number of things. Most ghostwriters don't know how to mimic the tone of a previous GW to keep the other books going. They tend to use their own tones and guidelines. Most of your "Authors" really don't care enough to read the work when they switch GWs.

@dishadharmraj6986

Жыл бұрын

I'm curious when "authors" use ghostwriters do they have to disclose that? Because I think it's kinda dishonest if they don't

@leanykakicsi6152

Жыл бұрын

Is ghostwriting always legal? Can you as a GW (or the “author” who hires you) get in trouble if the author lies about them writing the book instead of you?

@WealthyMompreneur

Жыл бұрын

@@leanykakicsi6152 no. There are NDAs in place to prevent the GW from even speaking about it. It is very legal as long as the GW isn't plagiarizing someone elses work. But that is also on the "Author" to check for errors, direction, plagiarism, tone etc.

My least favorite books for this year were: 1. Book of Night 2. The Whispering Dark 3. For the Wolf 4. These Twisted Bonds 5. An Arrow to the Moon Also! I'm listening to the audiobook for Light from Uncommon Stars based on your recommendation Cari and I'm quite enjoying it. Thank you for the rec! ✨️

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

the book of night was such a letdown :(

@tattooedkittykat

Жыл бұрын

@@caricanread yeaaahhh...I'll probably still read the second one to see if it's any better 😆

To be honest, I liked It ends with us. I understood why she didn't do anything about Ryle: it's the most common situation, women usually do not take their abusers to court and she still felt something for him (I'm not saying she's right, just that I understand her situation). I have an alcoholic father who was never violent, but he almost took my family to bankruptcy three times already and my mom still could not leave him (and I still live with them, even if I have the means to go away). Like, it's really hard to leave people behind, even if you don't love them anymore. There's a lot of emotional abuse in my home, but I've chosen to stay to make sense of who I am in the midst of it all and learn how to deal with the situation, so I don't judge Lily for wanting her daughter to have a father. Still, she should have pressed charges and she does get better at defending herself in the second book. And yes, the second book is still technically about Ryle, but it's so real! You cannot just shake an abuser off of your life! And she still had a lot of triggers. It was good to see her trying to let go of those learnt behaviours and learn how to be happy with Atlas.

@swimminginhoney

Жыл бұрын

I know what you mean. My dad tried to stab my mum while I was in the room and she let him babysit me after he came out of prison. Victims of abuse don’t always act the way they *should* for their own or family’s safety.

saw it ends with us in the thumbnail and clicked bc that book was so bad

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

:')

The Cartographers sounds like someone read Paper Towns back to back with multiple crime novels and then tried to reproduce the experience as a single story.

@isabellehall9217

Жыл бұрын

Yess, my thoughts exactly!

@josieanderson3842

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking of the Tomorrowland movie lol

@emably

Жыл бұрын

I JUST commented about Paper Towns re: the cartographers!! I simply couldn't believe the author chose to use a *real* paper town -- the same one featured in john's book -- and just... what? expect us to forget it? PT is literally listed on the wiki for Agloe lmfao

@jillianprice6279

Жыл бұрын

Definitely not the vibe, starts as a mystery, ends with fantabulism and lite magic. I really enjoyed it

cari I love your vibe this was such a fun video

The hatred I hold towards any and all coho books is so immense that I actively threw my copy of it end with us into the fireplace. The only good thing about that book was how it helped keep our house warm 🥰🙏

Omg I'm so excited lol Cari makes me laugh so much 😆❤️

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

wahh thank you!

oh nooo, i was so excited for the cartographers :( oh well, thanks for saving me the disappointment, cari 😂

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

i was so excited too :'''''(

@emably

Жыл бұрын

just read paper towns instead lol same fake town, better reading experience, more fun concept of dismantling the manic pixie dream girl trope~

With it ends with us, I don’t think the message is that if you leave your toxic relationship, the chances of ur kids being in one lowers. I think it’s more like, Lilly accepted what Ryler? Riker? What ever his name was. She found it easier to accept his abuse because her mom accepted her dad’s abuse and she later understood why her mother never left the relationship. By Lily making the choice to leave HER toxic relationship, she makes it easier for her daughter to also leave a toxic relationship if she ever finds herself in one. She sets an example of what the right thing to do is for her daughter. The cycle of accepting abuse ends. (Or at least lowers)

So bummed about the cartographer one! The beginning sounds so interesting!

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

same :(

ive fallen off reading so bad since i started college, ive read maybe 3 or 4 books for fun in the last 6 years but ive been watching your videos and you’ve made me yearn for the fun of it again. thank you :’)

I couldn’t even get through the first few chapters of It Ends with Us. It felt unreadable to me 🥴 immediately felt way too cheesy and didn’t enjoy the writing. But I remember really liking her other books when I was younger, so maybe my early high school self would’ve enjoyed the book 🤣 but also thank goodness I didn’t read it 🫣

Love your videos and summaries on books :D

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

thank you :')

Your feelings on The Cartographers seems so much like my feelings on Winter's Orbit this year. 🤝 Super intriguing looking murder mystery that turned into the biggest let down of the year vibes. Literally the biggest tragedy when reading.

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

noooo thats the worst feeling :(

Oh my GOD stalking jack was such a disappointment. Genuinely felt like i was eating my way through the stinkiest barfiest cheese imaginable every time i had to force myself to flip the page not a single thing about the experience was positive

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

LOL!!!

I just read my absolute favorite book of the year thanks to you ("fable"), and I just came back to browse through your channel for new ideas and immediately get hit with this gem - so I guess my first week of christmas vacation is gonna be "read trash, eat trash, be trash"

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

Omg hahhaha so glad you love fable tho!!!

Thanks for reviewing The Cartographers I felt like I was going crazy reading it

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

it had SUCH potential!!

Absolutely agree with you on The Cartographers. Enjoyed this vlog. 👍📚💕💕

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

such a letdown!

I thought I was crazy for falling off the Crave series. I ALWAYS finish a series, but I could not get through the 3/4th one. Thank you for validating my feelings 😂

@strawberrylime33

Жыл бұрын

I never read Crave, but I am considering reading The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh. Yes or No or God No! ?

I enjoyed reading It End’s With Us, mostly because it reminded me of the books I read in high school that got me into reading. (Very simple, easy read, yearn-y esq) But I do agree with your opinion about it. As someone who has been in an abusive relationship I understand completely the whole “I don’t want to ruin his life” POV and it is completely valid, but I also think it is very important for other survivors to see more people report things like this because it reassures them that it is okay to do. Especially the whole Marshall and Alyssa relationship she had. Them supporting her but pretending like nothing happened when being with Ryle alone also was very weird to me. However I am completely in love with atlas and I really enjoyed the mundane simplicity of Atlas and Lily’s relationship in it starts with us. Hated that Ryle was still such a huge part of the second book though. So much so I just want her to write a story where he is gone and it’s just lily and atlas living their best live.

About the last book, I think it'd be cool if it were a fantasy. Like imagine if the dad and his buddies found a magical disappearing town. They put it on a map n stuff. Somehow the mom gets trapped in said town and they lose the map and now they can't find the her or the town. And the dad manages to find the map again but he gets killed before he can use it. So then it's about the mc and the college buddies going on a mission to find a magical nonexistent town and save the mom. I think it would be neat if it were also one of those stories where the past unfurls with the present so it's like you get 2 stories in one. Maybe the dad was the only one that saw the town too so the college buddies don't quite believe it was real and they think he lied about what happened to his wife but since he died trying to get the map they're like "okay, we gotta see this through."

@thecraziestcrayon

Жыл бұрын

This would be super cool!

@janaandkai

Жыл бұрын

I would read it in one sitting!!

I almost screamed when The Demon Tide came up because I just knew what you were going to say even though I haven’t read it yet 😭 I have been putting it off for the exact reasons you stated it was bad. I felt the third book, while still enjoyable, was a big dip in quality. I absolutely adored the first two books and was constantly recommending them to people because I think they’re so underrated. It felt like a very rich world with a great cast of characters. I think part of the problem is how the third book splits everyone up. The university setting of The Black Witch and The Iron Flower worked so well, and I wish we could’ve stayed there longer. It sucks because I think about this series all the time, but I might just have to take your advice and let it go… SIGH

I always like your videos about books and your opinions on it because you are very honest talking about them and even though I haven't read the books I almost always agree with you when it's about books I've at least heard about (like Crave; even before watching your video on it I knew I wasn't going to read it and you just confirmed what I already felt about it... :D ). A few of my worst reads of the year are Blood Scion (I honestly disliked the book and thought to dnf it because it was torture to read for me; not because of the topics and themes but because of the plot itself), The Atlas Six (it felt less like a novel and more of a collection of philosophical ideas and scientific theories), some german books I don't want to mention because I feel like they aren't worth the effort and last but not least: Legendborn. I picked it up because of your review and I really liked and like the basic idea of the book but I just could not stand Bree. She does not care about anyone else, does everything she can to get what she wants no matter who is going to suffer because of it and she becomes way too powerful to be a believable character who could - in theory - be beaten. Sel is the only character I could stand and even like a little but all in all the book was just too much with a protagonist who was very hard to like.

this video shows up in my recommendation and i did not regret clicking on it! i'm a fellow fan of absurd and funny haha books because imo it's something perfect to read when you have so many things to think about and just want to read something that'll make you laugh to wind down lol i like all your funny haha 'recommendations' and i'll definitely check them out! anyway, you've gained a new subscriber! happy to be here! ^^

I think you were waiting for witches in small pleasures is because there’s another book called small favours that is very gothic and Halloween-y that you reviewed, so maybe subconsciously you were thinking about that

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

i read small favors last year i think and enjoyed it! maybe thats how i messed it up hahahaa

Ugh YES. I was so excited for Cartographers and was so so mad about the ending!!! I want someone to redo it and do it well. lol

Listening to your Small Pleasures review I got angry when you said what happened at the end and I never even read it LOL so I can only imagine how you felt X'D I was like WTF THAT'S THE END???

thank the lord you just made my day youre gorgeous i love you ahhhhhhhhh

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

💕💕💕

i’m so excited to dig in!!

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching!

I agree with what you said about The Cartographers! I don’t think I ever really enjoyed the book (I thought the writing was over done) and I only continued to find out what happens… And then we just got a really weird plot twist Lmao

No one is a cartographer in that book, cartographers make maps, they just collect and study them which makes them cartophiles

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

they actually do make maps in the book but yeah that just adds another layer to the madness haha

Sitting here with covid and I need this so bad rn

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

noooo hope you feel better soon!

Ooohh I started Stalking Jack the Ripper this morning 😂🎉 I remember the crave vlog and how I wanted to read the series based on your reactions and liking the first two books for the experience. maybe I'll give the audio book a try ❤

I don't like it when people say that this "Hate Colleen Hoover" bandwagon is anything new. People have ALWAYS hated her books from the very beginning. It's not new that people hate her writing style, her characters, her lack of nuance, her messages, and the fact that ALL of her books are about abuse. There is nothing wrong with hating on her and her books and it's NOT a new thing/ It's not a hate bandwagon, it's a ship that has been sailing for years. It's just that now she gets a lot more attention and more people read her books and realize she's a despicable person and her books are a representation of that.

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

who said that this is a new thing? where is this comment coming from?

Re: The Demon Tide -- I'm so glad to hear someone talking about this. I LOVED the first 3 books in The Black Witch series. I came out of the 4th book actually feeling insulted lol. When I went to Good Reads at the time, I was seeing tons of 4 or 5 star ratings and I thought I was crazy. The whole book felt like self indulgent filler from the author. I honestly wouldn't have minded if the plot didn't advance too much, if the book would have just focused on the few characters we already knew and THEIR relationships. Instead, I read 700 pages filled with like 20 new insignificant characters and their archs -- which I had been given no prior reason to care about. It was so strange, I actually found I would try to skip ahead past these random characters' POV's, and when I would go to skip ahead (mind you, I had already invested in 500 pages so I was just fed up by this point) -- I remember skipping through so many pages of meaninglessness that I actually started laughing and getting angry that the author actually had expected me to read all of that.

Totally agree with your thoughts on The Cartographers! Really cool premise, bad execution. Very disappointing. Thanks for your great videos, I always enjoy watching! :)

your voice is sooo relaxing🌌 Love your videos🐈

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

thank you so much!

I hate not finishing books and I couldn’t for the life of me finish the black witch chronicles. To hear you say you struggled too makes me feel much better

Saw the insta story and RAN. Always the highlight of my day 😊

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

💕💕💕💕💕💕

Oh my god! The mother plot in the cartographers was so similar to the plot of How to Train your Dragon 2 lol!!

You should definitely review this woven kingdom. I just read it and LOVED it. Especially the word building, the main character. It's slow burn but I liked that it gave me the anticipation feeling, let me get into all my feelings and under standing of the characters.

love seeing the short then having this play right afterwards

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

❤

I READ BOOK 5 Charm of the crave series, about what happened between Grace and Hudson it was fun and better than the two previous books, one more in the spring. Now on to the 3rd book in the Discovery of Witches series.

I tried to read It Ends With Us, but put it down after the first chapter. I really did not like the writing personally, it felt very young while dealing with very intense subjects. From what you’ve said, it sounds like I dodged the bullet. Not for me, it’s a shame because it is EVERYWHERE and it’s always recommended. I do kind of want to read Crave 😅

3 min in and cant help myself I NEED to know if u’ll make “ranking y/a fantasy books “this year 🌟truly my fave

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

yes i will try!! im working on the acosf plot wrap up so it might take me a bit but i'll make it!

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

here is acosf hehehee kzread.info/dash/bejne/oKl5tKOqequ4cto.html

im obsessed with your shirt! where is it from?

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

thank you! i got it a few years ago from a random shop here in korea!

I’m so glad I’m not the only person who loved the black witch series so much, especially the first and second book, and was so disappointed by the demon tide. It wrecked my excitement for the next book too

The black witch series is one of my favorites!! Iv seen almost no one talk about it. But I really thought it would wrap up after book three or four, I can’t believe there’s going to be a fifth… like wrap it up already

Cariii what’s the collection of your phone cover? Every time I see it I’m like 😍

I read “Small Pleasures” and actually really liked it, but I also choose to ignore the last page 😳

I just finished reading the cartographers and it's also worked its way onto my 'worst books of the year' list

omg i love your earrings!!

FINALLY someone else who hated small pleasures, I cried because I got so invested and the ending was sooo bad 😭😂

just binged all your other booktube videos in preparation for this... Also, tysm for recommending Babel! :D

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

wahhh thank you!!

who else just got the notification!! :,) ( also this is so slay bc i was just looking on ur channel to see if you ever reviewed it ends w us! to say the least i gave it like 1.75 stars💀 lmaooo)

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

wahhh thank you hahahaha

your description of stalking jack the ripper feels extremely similar to kingdom of the wicked, which makes sense since they're from the same author. i had to stop reading kingdom of the wicked at the third book because of the sheer amount of smut and the total disregard for the plot haha. the story was just so hard for me to follow even since the first book, it felt like a bunch of loosely related events strung together by enemies to lovers subplot

LMAOOO LETS GOOOOO! Lemme grab my tea because the tea is HOT 🍵

@caricanread

Жыл бұрын

honestly, small pleasures sounds like a book i would love. i really like that kind of sad and pointless story