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Thank you! My wife asked me to read ACOTAR because she started the series this year and she adores it. I finished the first book, saw how both Tamlin and Rhysand treated Feyre, and immediately asked her WTF. She said I had to keep going. That it got better. That I just didn’t understand. I understand that lying, manipulation, physically harming someone, and forcing them into a life long commitment that is two steps away from slavery is not romance. And while Rhysand does some okay things in the second book it does not excuse his actions in the first book, he never sees any consequences for it, and he continues to withhold the truth from Feyre while CONSTANTLY putting in situations where she nearly gets killed. None of it is romantic, none of it is okay, and I do not see the attraction at all.

Ok well I love the series BUT I totally agree the whole feyretamlin thing is weird like not fully developed to me and feyre is v hypocritical

I do think that morally grey as its name suggest it doesn’t have a definitive meaning. If anything the words I would describe a morally grey person. Would be a realist and a pragmatist. Their actions is closer to survival of their lives . But also if they could help they would. If they have the power do so. In a way you can it morally selfish. I feel like most characters will do actions that aligns to this. Personally, I love characters like that when they are well-written. I’m willing to look past everything if the writer is capable of pulling it off. I don’t relate to their actions, but I can relate to their emotions. I can understand them but I won’t ever excuse their actions. The psychology behind such characters is what makes it compelling to read. That’s why I fascinated with grimdark fantasy.

I hate when people say stuff like this to me 🙄 I love my audiobooks ❤

8:47 the term you're looking for is character assassination and i agree. Reducing tamlin's character to a villainous caricature just to elevate rhysand feels so cheap and lazy. #justicefortamlin

I love chaotic good characters. So far the best reprenstation of it is Toph from Avatar the last air bender.

I agree with a lot of what you say but still enjoyed the books. The magic system is also bad and questionable. But I liked the characters enough to keep reading. 😊

I always have mixed feelings about this. There's nothing wrong with listening to audiobooks, it's just another way to enjoy books, but it is a different activity. So why use "read an audiobook/book" when that's not what you're doing? 😅 Someone who watched movie Hobbit wouldn't say that they had "read the movie/book".

ITS NOT ABLEST TO USE WORDS BY THEIR CORRECT MEANING. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with listening to a book but call it what it actually is and that’s listening NOT READING. Why are you so desperate to say you READ it? Why do you feel defining the actual form in which you consumed that content is ableist? Listening will never be reading AND THATS OKAY but are two different forms of media consumption and should be labeled correctly. By your logic a podcast is reading Watching a film is just reading a script It’s not the same. You listened to the book you did not read it it’s okay to say you listened to it I promise you’re still just as valid

reading as in words for words not sounds for words

I listen to audiobooks from time to time. But I get more from reading it

As some one whose Dyslexic audiobooks are the best

Audio books have opened up so much for so many people.

Whether or not something "counts" feels like a sad way to engage with other people about books. Who cares how they enjoyed it, talk about the content together.

I keep having to say, you reading to your child before bed does not count towards their reading goals. And multitasking, which is what you’re generally doing while book listening is not a thing. So comprehension flies out the window. But making book reading a competition? That just sucks.

"Reading" is the process of looking at a series of written symbols and getting meaning from them. When we read, we use our eyes to receive written symbols (letters, punctuation marks and spaces) and we use our brain to convert them into words, sentences and paragraphs that communicate something to us. You were listening to an audiobook.

I agree with the other comment. It does depend what you use the audiobook for. I have books playing in the background while doing work but sometimes when I'm commuting I do listen more attentively. When I replayed a section from work, I don't remember some passages. But when I replay the one from the commute, I end up being bored and skipping sections because "I already heard this." before. So it does count as reading but only when you do attentively listen and retain information. I mean if you answer reading comprehension questions well afterwards then that checks.

For me personally, it depends. Like I don't think it counts when I'm just using it as background noise because I won't recall shit, but when I'm sitting in the train or car and actively listening, heck yeah! But like reading is a hobby we make our own rules.

I read Duncan's books when I was younger (ig high school ish age) and I wasn't rly active on social media, so my heart dropped when I realized she added anti-semitic and racist tropes into her books. What kind of person even does something like that.. I was so shocked and embarrassed that I didn't recognize the anti-semitism bc I didn't even know what "blood libel" was before the news came out. I read and loved Rin Chupeco's Bone Witch series though so I'm thankful they stood up for their fellow authors. Thank you for taking the right stand in the book community.

I need Part 3!!!

I'm SO glad I'm not the only one to hate the ACTOAR series

I really like your thoughts on this book! I had to take a long break from the series after this book because of the boring chemistry between Feyre and Rhys. Like you said, no character development and they’re tooooooo agreeable.

sjm must pay for her crimes. i cannot believe the basis of the main couple in the acotar series is “yes he abuses and SA her but he only does it because he secretly loved her the entire time <3” it is so evil.

Hey now. Let's not talk shit about Nesta. She's the only character in the story with as much contempt for the rest of the cast as I have.

For a while I didn't hate this book specifically because of its last like third, but now I'm starting to think the reason for that is because the book before that was so boring that, when something actually happened, my brain thought it was more compelling than it actually was.

Hey queen I know this video is 2 yrs old but I’m on the rhysand hate train because my friend is making me read these books. Just wanted to mention quickly that the dark triad is often interconnected with “evil” and psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder. So honestly it adds a whole new uncomfortable layer to fictional bad boys if they have dark triad traits

"Himself" just add it to "he placed himself near my...." like why?

And perry johnson movies, they sucked

The Disney Adaptation Of Artemis Fowl Be Like In The Corner: 👀

One of the worst imo is "meatstick" becuase Ive seen it too many times...

It’s why I like women

I was literally thinking the same thing then I looked at the caption ❤😂❤😂

Yassss. Exeptions: shatter me and if he had been with me

Can u recommend a book that my 13 yr old can read that is interesting and has a good plot

What about just "Member"

Nah cause glistening length is such an old classic

Pengornis

The worst one I’ve read was “Junior” like “his junior was touching me” It was BAD.. the book was good though I forgot what I was

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don’t forget velvet wrapped steel

I LOVE THIS 😭😭

Glistening Length is so new too me 😭

Well they do pulse, I have seen it before, pretty sure quite a few Women have seen them pulse before.

Big phat dild(O)

So you prefer to call it aubergine?

Honestly don’t like the movies nearly as much. I know it’s obvious, but the best has GOT to be The Hobbit. I don’t know if you’ve ever read The Hobbit, but I wouldn’t recommend. What I would recommend is watching it. The LOTR also NEVER drops the ball, but it’s not like it makes it exponentially better, LOTR is about as good as His Dark Materials in terms of adaptation.

yeah no mortal instruments rlly dropped the bag there...

I really loved the hunger games! Both the book and the movie. It was (almost) a perfect book. Love how distopian the districts feel and how they contrast the Capitol. Would've loved it more without the love triangle but oh well you can't have them all ig. Oh fun fact the German title of the book translates to "the tributes of panem"

I still have never read Percy Jackson. I tried when I was younger but didn’t get far into the first book. I do want to read it eventually because I think I’d enjoy it… But that means I do enjoy the movie(s)… Which I think at this point is one of the reasons I’m worried to read the books because of fandom I know a lot of differences from the books and if I read them and enjoy them and get into the proper world I don’t want to start hating something I did enjoy.

So I stopped reading Divergent after the 2nd book, but my mom still loved the series.. until the last book where she almost threw her phone (we had audiobooks) when Tris died and Peter lived.. I liked the first movie, but after the second movie I just lost interest and I was here and there in what I payed attention to for book three… I have actually wanted to watch the first Divergent movie because purely because of casting and basic world building I like occasionally like fanfics about Eric and Peter… but my mom will legit not mess with anything Divergent related despite once loving it because of the last book.