🧜♀️🧜♀️🧜♀️ Water nymphs! Sounds like an interesting read with a lot of theme exploration!
@rachaellawritesАй бұрын
@@MsDuckiebee it was soooo good! I'm dying for the sequel 😫
@MsDuckiebee3 ай бұрын
I super enjoyed Emily Wilde and I really want to get the sequel but having read the first at a lake next to a campfire really makes me want to read the sequel somewhere aesthetic as well haha. Let's see if I can figure out how to do an emoji on KZread...🧚♀ There we go!
@rachaellawrites3 ай бұрын
Reading by a lake sounds like the absolute perfect backdrop for a book like this 😍
@somegamerchick35685 ай бұрын
You missed the part where Stella knew Keith was going to die and did nothing because he didn't want to be in a community run by them. You've droned on about how Cast treats marginalized people but don't even mention her obvious racism and sexism towards white men. I also think much of her writing is trying to reach a word count. I never understood people going for word count instead of just trying to write a good story. And I say this as someone who has written a 170k+ word book and working on another that's already at 39k words. She can come up with good ideas but focuses on all the wrong things and ends up with a steak dinner that is mostly fat and grizzle with burnt sides and undercooked lumpy mashed potatoes. I also couldn't finish this book and I was listening to it on audible.
@rachaellawrites5 ай бұрын
I do think the characters were pretty awful toward men and the duology presented a perspective of "all men bad until proven otherwise", which is not a particularly nuanced or effective approach toward criticizing patriarchy. However, I do have to note that racism against white people isn't really a thing. Racism is an ideology employed to conceal or deny the material contents of the dispossession of land, labour, and resources of an oppressed peoples by the dominating group, which doesn't describe white people. White people are, instead, the dominating group doing the oppressing. That doesn't make P.C.'s faux empowerment message of "all white men bad; all men of colour good" any less dehumanizing, though. P.C. does definitely write waaaay too long. It's a problem I've seen across her work, and she just really desperately needs an editor to tell her to focus and trim out the filler. A little filler and fluff can be fine - done right, it fleshes out the characters and offers everyone a moment to breath in between higher stakes scenes. But I swear 75% of her books are filler. It's exhausting to slog through.
@somegamerchick35685 ай бұрын
Racism is judging someone based on the color of their skin. PC doesn't write faux empowerment, it's "I'm perfect and better than you and if you don't think the way I do you're a terrible person." Chad and Keith were just side characters that PC wrote and blatantly told you that if you didn't cheer for their deaths, you're a bad person. Stella should have done more to save Keith, and Chad was treated like shit before he had done anything wrong. How she handled them pissed me off so bad I actually wrote a hate-fic chapter about them into my own writing that I'm tempted to keep in there because it came out pretty damn good. The concept of the mist was good, but by the end of the first book, it was clear it did whatever PC wanted it to do. (A fact I used in my hate-fic to transport a hermaphrodite gay incubus to their world with.) Even in the house of night books, her characters she has deemed pure and beyond reproach do objectively horrible things (Zoey throwing two guys into a street and not caring when they get run over). It is either praised or never acknowledged by any of the characters. I can get through wordy descriptions, Robert Jordan did it numerous times with the Wheel of Time and I love those books. But I do agree, filler for the sake of filler is annoying. It's something I try to avoid in my own writing and during my editing process I'll trim away anything that doesn't add to the story or the characters, but I acknowledge that during the writing process it can help you if you're in a slump. it's just knowing what to trim and what to keep of the filler.
@BoldBoC5 ай бұрын
I stopped after Chapter 5. Thank you for this review. Lets me know there's no point in forcing myself to finish.
@rachaellawrites5 ай бұрын
lol glad I could save you some time!
@MsDuckiebee5 ай бұрын
Ace rep is interesting because it can be hard to mention a lack of certain feelings casually. I'm glad you had a good run of reading this month! Thank you for warning me about the non-fade to black moments haha
@rachaellawrites5 ай бұрын
Yeah, I'd love to see more casual ace rep, but it's understandably tricky to convey. And if you ever want me to clarify the spice levels of romance books, let me know! I don't always think to mention it in reviews, though I probably should 😅
@MsDuckiebee5 ай бұрын
@@rachaellawrites Send me the peppers 🌶 🌶🌶
@jeremyu80115 ай бұрын
'Promosm' 💖
@MsDuckiebee8 ай бұрын
I might pick up Everything for You. Ive never really read romance before but it sounds like a good one to start with. I can understand being hesitant to bring physical books around the child so dont feel pressured to speed up that process
@rachaellawrites8 ай бұрын
It's a really good romance! Do be aware that it's quite smutty, though - I can't remember if I mentioned that when I was reviewing it lol
@MsDuckiebee9 ай бұрын
Interesting selections! I'm wanting to read more urban fantasy so I'll put Spellbound on the list!
@rachaellawrites9 ай бұрын
If you like Spell Bound, you should check out F. T. Lukens other work. It's not all urban/contemporary fantasy, but it is all fantasy and it is all queer
@tafulu114410 ай бұрын
Would love to know why you continuously read P.C. Cast books and then proceed to break them apart and then shit all over them. You are specifically targeting her and her books. Please make a video explaining what she did to you? Because this has been a long standing part of your writing and I’m finding a whole slew of video reviews where you have nothing good at all to say about these books. So what’s your issue?
@somegamerchick35685 ай бұрын
She is an objectively bad writer and from my own observations, she's objectively evil. How she wrote and handled Chad and Keith in this book pissed me off. She's also a racist misandrist.
@sarahuher8358 Жыл бұрын
Oh good... I wasnt the only person hated the book 😂 Also. There was no automatic weapon. Logistically there was no way Alvin would have had it
@MsDuckiebee Жыл бұрын
You might have to slip in recording while doing laundry but I always love to hear what you're reading!!
@rachaellawrites Жыл бұрын
I'll consider the slight chaos extra spice to the vlog xD
@MsDuckiebee Жыл бұрын
@@rachaellawrites 🤣
@user-nu5si7ke3y Жыл бұрын
One of the worst books I’ve read! I was so disappointed…the synopsis on the sleeve seemed good and I was excited for a sci-fi/apocalypse novel that had female protagonists but WOAH. Filled with white feminism, dull characters, unrealistic dialogue, an abundance of grammatical errors, lots of ‘telling not showing’, and overall was just AWFUL. Definitely not worth the time to read.
@MsDuckiebee Жыл бұрын
You pick out some of the most interesting books! I'm adding a couple of these to my tbr!
@rachaellawrites Жыл бұрын
Huzzah! To be fair, I watch a lot of Booktube content, so I get a lot of recommendations from other people's videos 😅
@sarabeltran1102 Жыл бұрын
Is there apart 2 not that I would read it. But like where did the fog/mist come from?
@rachaellawrites Жыл бұрын
It is a duology, and the second book is coming out later this year. I believe the expected date is August 8th? I'm not sure if I mention it in the vlog or not, but basically the mist was a biological weapon deployed as part of a series of bombings across the US. How the mist functions is never properly explained, and I'm not sure if it will be in the second book.
@albeck8523 Жыл бұрын
Promo>SM
@kjharky Жыл бұрын
Good stuff. Another thing I found weird was all through the book they call it the fog and then they name the book The Mist. LOL
@rachaellawrites Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I found that a bit strange, too. I guess "Into the Mist" rolls of the tongue better than "Into the Fog", but it's still funny from a consistency perspective
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🧜♀️🧜♀️🧜♀️ Water nymphs! Sounds like an interesting read with a lot of theme exploration!
@@MsDuckiebee it was soooo good! I'm dying for the sequel 😫
I super enjoyed Emily Wilde and I really want to get the sequel but having read the first at a lake next to a campfire really makes me want to read the sequel somewhere aesthetic as well haha. Let's see if I can figure out how to do an emoji on KZread...🧚♀ There we go!
Reading by a lake sounds like the absolute perfect backdrop for a book like this 😍
You missed the part where Stella knew Keith was going to die and did nothing because he didn't want to be in a community run by them. You've droned on about how Cast treats marginalized people but don't even mention her obvious racism and sexism towards white men. I also think much of her writing is trying to reach a word count. I never understood people going for word count instead of just trying to write a good story. And I say this as someone who has written a 170k+ word book and working on another that's already at 39k words. She can come up with good ideas but focuses on all the wrong things and ends up with a steak dinner that is mostly fat and grizzle with burnt sides and undercooked lumpy mashed potatoes. I also couldn't finish this book and I was listening to it on audible.
I do think the characters were pretty awful toward men and the duology presented a perspective of "all men bad until proven otherwise", which is not a particularly nuanced or effective approach toward criticizing patriarchy. However, I do have to note that racism against white people isn't really a thing. Racism is an ideology employed to conceal or deny the material contents of the dispossession of land, labour, and resources of an oppressed peoples by the dominating group, which doesn't describe white people. White people are, instead, the dominating group doing the oppressing. That doesn't make P.C.'s faux empowerment message of "all white men bad; all men of colour good" any less dehumanizing, though. P.C. does definitely write waaaay too long. It's a problem I've seen across her work, and she just really desperately needs an editor to tell her to focus and trim out the filler. A little filler and fluff can be fine - done right, it fleshes out the characters and offers everyone a moment to breath in between higher stakes scenes. But I swear 75% of her books are filler. It's exhausting to slog through.
Racism is judging someone based on the color of their skin. PC doesn't write faux empowerment, it's "I'm perfect and better than you and if you don't think the way I do you're a terrible person." Chad and Keith were just side characters that PC wrote and blatantly told you that if you didn't cheer for their deaths, you're a bad person. Stella should have done more to save Keith, and Chad was treated like shit before he had done anything wrong. How she handled them pissed me off so bad I actually wrote a hate-fic chapter about them into my own writing that I'm tempted to keep in there because it came out pretty damn good. The concept of the mist was good, but by the end of the first book, it was clear it did whatever PC wanted it to do. (A fact I used in my hate-fic to transport a hermaphrodite gay incubus to their world with.) Even in the house of night books, her characters she has deemed pure and beyond reproach do objectively horrible things (Zoey throwing two guys into a street and not caring when they get run over). It is either praised or never acknowledged by any of the characters. I can get through wordy descriptions, Robert Jordan did it numerous times with the Wheel of Time and I love those books. But I do agree, filler for the sake of filler is annoying. It's something I try to avoid in my own writing and during my editing process I'll trim away anything that doesn't add to the story or the characters, but I acknowledge that during the writing process it can help you if you're in a slump. it's just knowing what to trim and what to keep of the filler.
I stopped after Chapter 5. Thank you for this review. Lets me know there's no point in forcing myself to finish.
lol glad I could save you some time!
Ace rep is interesting because it can be hard to mention a lack of certain feelings casually. I'm glad you had a good run of reading this month! Thank you for warning me about the non-fade to black moments haha
Yeah, I'd love to see more casual ace rep, but it's understandably tricky to convey. And if you ever want me to clarify the spice levels of romance books, let me know! I don't always think to mention it in reviews, though I probably should 😅
@@rachaellawrites Send me the peppers 🌶 🌶🌶
'Promosm' 💖
I might pick up Everything for You. Ive never really read romance before but it sounds like a good one to start with. I can understand being hesitant to bring physical books around the child so dont feel pressured to speed up that process
It's a really good romance! Do be aware that it's quite smutty, though - I can't remember if I mentioned that when I was reviewing it lol
Interesting selections! I'm wanting to read more urban fantasy so I'll put Spellbound on the list!
If you like Spell Bound, you should check out F. T. Lukens other work. It's not all urban/contemporary fantasy, but it is all fantasy and it is all queer
Would love to know why you continuously read P.C. Cast books and then proceed to break them apart and then shit all over them. You are specifically targeting her and her books. Please make a video explaining what she did to you? Because this has been a long standing part of your writing and I’m finding a whole slew of video reviews where you have nothing good at all to say about these books. So what’s your issue?
She is an objectively bad writer and from my own observations, she's objectively evil. How she wrote and handled Chad and Keith in this book pissed me off. She's also a racist misandrist.
Oh good... I wasnt the only person hated the book 😂 Also. There was no automatic weapon. Logistically there was no way Alvin would have had it
You might have to slip in recording while doing laundry but I always love to hear what you're reading!!
I'll consider the slight chaos extra spice to the vlog xD
@@rachaellawrites 🤣
One of the worst books I’ve read! I was so disappointed…the synopsis on the sleeve seemed good and I was excited for a sci-fi/apocalypse novel that had female protagonists but WOAH. Filled with white feminism, dull characters, unrealistic dialogue, an abundance of grammatical errors, lots of ‘telling not showing’, and overall was just AWFUL. Definitely not worth the time to read.
You pick out some of the most interesting books! I'm adding a couple of these to my tbr!
Huzzah! To be fair, I watch a lot of Booktube content, so I get a lot of recommendations from other people's videos 😅
Is there apart 2 not that I would read it. But like where did the fog/mist come from?
It is a duology, and the second book is coming out later this year. I believe the expected date is August 8th? I'm not sure if I mention it in the vlog or not, but basically the mist was a biological weapon deployed as part of a series of bombings across the US. How the mist functions is never properly explained, and I'm not sure if it will be in the second book.
Promo>SM
Good stuff. Another thing I found weird was all through the book they call it the fog and then they name the book The Mist. LOL
Yeah, I found that a bit strange, too. I guess "Into the Mist" rolls of the tongue better than "Into the Fog", but it's still funny from a consistency perspective
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