CONGRATULATIONS ON FINISHING YOUR MASTERS. That's QUEEN STATUS 👑👑👑 THIS IS GAME OF THRONES? HUH? What do you mean??? during your vlog snippets LOL. I guess it's time for me to add Ember in the Ashes and experience this joy from the beginning. YAPPATRON 3000 LMAO. GIRL. You're anything but a bot, I need your yaps to make my day. The slight jab at FW (and Powerless... and probably some other books) but how are you so right 🥲 I think we're in a weird era where people want a weak female protagonist, BUT they want the female empowerment and lay it on too fast and too thick. Wait but OK, I literally do the exact same thing. HOW ARE WE THE SAME LMAOOOO. I have audiobook on 1.5 - 2x speed depending on how easy the narrator is in my head (I'm really bad with accents even the slightest 😅) and I will have the ebook version pulled up on my screen on one monitor, and a game on the other one LOL. It's just the perfect balance that rubs my brain the right way. And again!! SAME, I love picking up crumbs and THINKING about what could happen. I just enjoy being the smart one 🤪 I love books with crumbs for us to think about -- everything is sounding so good @ book 2. The way it seems like this characters are so FLESHED out ✨Even if it's a minor character -- I feel like a lot of the time minor characters are used as plot devices instead of being real people who we get snippets when our lead interacts with them. MISS? YOU went from, "I gotta go sleep," and then you kept reading LMAO. "Death doesn't mean anything," TRUE. SO TRUE. AGHH. I love when it happens because it's so brain melting and then I go into a spiral. And for some reason, I love spiraling. LMAO, the screaming oh my god for the update, then you said 69 nice so casually, and I'm crying 😭why am i laughing so hard. THE HEAD SHAKE AT THE END, I'm so scared when it happened. This is what I'm so scared about long running series that aren't completed so people can tell me because... the wrap up is always the hardest 😭It sounded like they want the popular characters to have good ending from the hype but... why 🥲some of us love pain and suffering. Am most definitely adding this series on my TBR, and will just be breathing while I get to the final book so maybe I won't be as disappointed. I'll just turn a blind eye 🤪
THANK YOUUUUUU it was a journey for SURE 💖💖💖 literally me just going on my GoT tirade hahah its just thatdisappointed me in EXACTLY the same ways, started off amazing but then fell short in the EXACT same ways (once not afraid to kill off beloved characters but then suddenly at the end they have plot armor, built up to something over every single book/season and then its over in 3 seconds in the most anticlimactic way, etc.) i can't believe this has happened to me TWICE!!! AHAHAHAHA im fking screaming because i love that you immediately knew EXACTLY the books i was talking about 😭😭😭 it's so true, because it's fine having a weak protagonist, but they need to actually DO that!! they'll say 'oh they're so weak' and then immediately make them the special special who immediately wins every time and is the chosen one likeeee???? since when!! you can't have both from minute one! YESSSS we are NOT beating the twin allegations!! 100% the right way to put it, it rubs my brain in the exact right way!! honestly that's one of the best parts of reading fantasy and books with great world building, like i do love to turn my brain off and enjoy lighter reads but i forgot the HUNGER that overtakes me when i NEED to find out if im right about a little theory i have!! oh absolutely like so many books these days feel like the ML and the FL and MAYBE one other character (usually a third prong of the love triangle lmao) and EVERYONE else feels like NPCs with no real agency, but this series has me so invested in the random little journeys of smaller side characters! I STAND BY WHAT I DID lmao im so wishy washy about oh i shall stop reading now, goodbye!!! hard cut to me literally having finished the book AHAHAH i couldn't put it down!! no you're so real for that because I too love spiraling!!! i need to FEEL!!!! HAHAHAH i was wondering if anyone would actually clock what i said AHAHAH 'nice' 😛 im so glad you're still adding it to your tbr though, like i DO love the series i just wish the ending wrapped up everything a bit more comprehensively and took its time so it wasn't as rushed, but all in all a MASSIVE net positive and i love the series so much!!!
GIRL, I AM SUPPOSED TO BE ON A LOW BUY LOL. The library wait is 8 months 💀, but I NEED to read! I love a multitasking QUEEN! I am the same! I need to increase the speed to either match my reading pace or faster. Since ensemble dramatized audiobooks being released more often, I've been leaving them at 1 speed. It feels like watching a play? Hearing a play? Does that make sense? I just really appreciate when they go all out, but I know any other time I would lose my mind lol. The speed I listened to Braiding Sweetgrass before going to bed was DEMONIC. When the spidey sense are right. It feels so good! But I've been wrong so many times that I doubt myself now LOL. Nooooooo! I feel like book endings have been really hit or miss lately. Mostly miss/mixed. I'm not sure if this is a growing tread in writing, or if I'm making the wrong picks 🥲. I will still check the series out though! I know for a fact you have 🤌 taste!!
literally i had such a long library wait for the physical so i started on the audio and then by some SHEER LUCK my library acquired more copies and all four of the physical books came through!!! it was a christmas miracle! WE ARE THE SAME!!! but yes 100% for the dramatised audiobooks i usually leave them as is or bump them to 1.25x if it's REALLY slow, but otherwise i like to immerse myself! funnily enough, you will know i LOVE a book when im reading it on like 2x speed but then LOWER it to 1x speed because i don't want it to end!! LITERALLY HAHAHA like the speed i listen to SOME books on would have people covering their childrens' eyes and rushing across to the other side of the street 😭😂 honestly these days i appreciate the times im wrong because then when i do end up being right it is so satisfying and i feel like a genius!!! I feel the same way, and honestly if a book is kinda eh and has a bad ending i definitely wouldn't recommend it, but i actually don't think the ending to this series was *THAT* bad, it's just the rest of the series was SO perfect that it fell so short in comparison! i really want to re-read the series again ALREADY so you can take my word for it that i love the series!! and right back at you, if you recommend a book i can take that to the bank because it will be a certified banger!💖💖💖
I started an ember in the ashes a couple months ago! I flew right through the first book but the second was a bit harder to get through 🙈 i just dont think i was in the right headspace but after watching ur reaction maybe i should re-read it 👀
i think i would have had the same problem if i hadn't been listening to the audiobook at the start of each book to keep me reading! it just kick-starts the reading and then once im fully invested i can just read physically, but i see what you mean about the second one! it was quite a dramatic vibe shift so it was hard to transition to it from book one. i hope you do give it another go when you're in the mood for it again! 💖💖💖
I can’t watch this, but I did want to tell you that I found An Ember in the Ashes second hand about a week ago, so now I have it and look forward to diving into it at some point! 😊
@ I also realized I have all of them on my audiobook app, but I just watched your other vlog and it sounded like the ending of the series wasn’t good? So now I’m torn 😂 I do want to see what I think of the first book though, and the writing
@ellenmadebookclub OH I forgot I mentioned it on my new vlog haha, TLDR so that I dont spoil, books 1-3 were the easiest 5 stars ive ever given (ESPECIALLY the audiobooks), and then because the rest of the series was SO perfect I just didn't like the way it was wrapped up, but I would still 10000% recommend the series, it could have been the worst ending imaginable and I'd still recommend it because of how much I loved books 1-3! (though don't listen to the audiobook for book 4 because they changed one of the actors and it was NOT good)
CONGRATULATIONS ON FINISHING YOUR MASTERS. That's QUEEN STATUS 👑👑👑
THIS IS GAME OF THRONES? HUH? What do you mean??? during your vlog snippets LOL. I guess it's time for me to add Ember in the Ashes and experience this joy from the beginning. YAPPATRON 3000 LMAO. GIRL. You're anything but a bot, I need your yaps to make my day. The slight jab at FW (and Powerless... and probably some other books) but how are you so right 🥲 I think we're in a weird era where people want a weak female protagonist, BUT they want the female empowerment and lay it on too fast and too thick.
Wait but OK, I literally do the exact same thing. HOW ARE WE THE SAME LMAOOOO. I have audiobook on 1.5 - 2x speed depending on how easy the narrator is in my head (I'm really bad with accents even the slightest 😅) and I will have the ebook version pulled up on my screen on one monitor, and a game on the other one LOL. It's just the perfect balance that rubs my brain the right way. And again!! SAME, I love picking up crumbs and THINKING about what could happen. I just enjoy being the smart one 🤪 I love books with crumbs for us to think about -- everything is sounding so good @ book 2.
The way it seems like this characters are so FLESHED out ✨Even if it's a minor character -- I feel like a lot of the time minor characters are used as plot devices instead of being real people who we get snippets when our lead interacts with them.
MISS? YOU went from, "I gotta go sleep," and then you kept reading LMAO. "Death doesn't mean anything," TRUE. SO TRUE. AGHH. I love when it happens because it's so brain melting and then I go into a spiral. And for some reason, I love spiraling. LMAO, the screaming oh my god for the update, then you said 69 nice so casually, and I'm crying 😭why am i laughing so hard. THE HEAD SHAKE AT THE END, I'm so scared when it happened. This is what I'm so scared about long running series that aren't completed so people can tell me because... the wrap up is always the hardest 😭It sounded like they want the popular characters to have good ending from the hype but... why 🥲some of us love pain and suffering. Am most definitely adding this series on my TBR, and will just be breathing while I get to the final book so maybe I won't be as disappointed. I'll just turn a blind eye 🤪
THANK YOUUUUUU it was a journey for SURE 💖💖💖
literally me just going on my GoT tirade hahah its just thatdisappointed me in EXACTLY the same ways, started off amazing but then fell short in the EXACT same ways (once not afraid to kill off beloved characters but then suddenly at the end they have plot armor, built up to something over every single book/season and then its over in 3 seconds in the most anticlimactic way, etc.) i can't believe this has happened to me TWICE!!!
AHAHAHAHA im fking screaming because i love that you immediately knew EXACTLY the books i was talking about 😭😭😭 it's so true, because it's fine having a weak protagonist, but they need to actually DO that!! they'll say 'oh they're so weak' and then immediately make them the special special who immediately wins every time and is the chosen one likeeee???? since when!! you can't have both from minute one!
YESSSS we are NOT beating the twin allegations!! 100% the right way to put it, it rubs my brain in the exact right way!! honestly that's one of the best parts of reading fantasy and books with great world building, like i do love to turn my brain off and enjoy lighter reads but i forgot the HUNGER that overtakes me when i NEED to find out if im right about a little theory i have!!
oh absolutely like so many books these days feel like the ML and the FL and MAYBE one other character (usually a third prong of the love triangle lmao) and EVERYONE else feels like NPCs with no real agency, but this series has me so invested in the random little journeys of smaller side characters!
I STAND BY WHAT I DID lmao im so wishy washy about oh i shall stop reading now, goodbye!!! hard cut to me literally having finished the book AHAHAH i couldn't put it down!! no you're so real for that because I too love spiraling!!! i need to FEEL!!!! HAHAHAH i was wondering if anyone would actually clock what i said AHAHAH 'nice' 😛 im so glad you're still adding it to your tbr though, like i DO love the series i just wish the ending wrapped up everything a bit more comprehensively and took its time so it wasn't as rushed, but all in all a MASSIVE net positive and i love the series so much!!!
Queen I need to save this for after I read this series 😭💖
GIRL, I AM SUPPOSED TO BE ON A LOW BUY LOL. The library wait is 8 months 💀, but I NEED to read!
I love a multitasking QUEEN! I am the same! I need to increase the speed to either match my reading pace or faster. Since ensemble dramatized audiobooks being released more often, I've been leaving them at 1 speed. It feels like watching a play? Hearing a play? Does that make sense? I just really appreciate when they go all out, but I know any other time I would lose my mind lol. The speed I listened to Braiding Sweetgrass before going to bed was DEMONIC.
When the spidey sense are right. It feels so good! But I've been wrong so many times that I doubt myself now LOL.
Nooooooo! I feel like book endings have been really hit or miss lately. Mostly miss/mixed. I'm not sure if this is a growing tread in writing, or if I'm making the wrong picks 🥲. I will still check the series out though! I know for a fact you have 🤌 taste!!
literally i had such a long library wait for the physical so i started on the audio and then by some SHEER LUCK my library acquired more copies and all four of the physical books came through!!! it was a christmas miracle!
WE ARE THE SAME!!! but yes 100% for the dramatised audiobooks i usually leave them as is or bump them to 1.25x if it's REALLY slow, but otherwise i like to immerse myself! funnily enough, you will know i LOVE a book when im reading it on like 2x speed but then LOWER it to 1x speed because i don't want it to end!! LITERALLY HAHAHA like the speed i listen to SOME books on would have people covering their childrens' eyes and rushing across to the other side of the street 😭😂
honestly these days i appreciate the times im wrong because then when i do end up being right it is so satisfying and i feel like a genius!!!
I feel the same way, and honestly if a book is kinda eh and has a bad ending i definitely wouldn't recommend it, but i actually don't think the ending to this series was *THAT* bad, it's just the rest of the series was SO perfect that it fell so short in comparison! i really want to re-read the series again ALREADY so you can take my word for it that i love the series!! and right back at you, if you recommend a book i can take that to the bank because it will be a certified banger!💖💖💖
I started an ember in the ashes a couple months ago! I flew right through the first book but the second was a bit harder to get through 🙈 i just dont think i was in the right headspace but after watching ur reaction maybe i should re-read it 👀
i think i would have had the same problem if i hadn't been listening to the audiobook at the start of each book to keep me reading! it just kick-starts the reading and then once im fully invested i can just read physically, but i see what you mean about the second one! it was quite a dramatic vibe shift so it was hard to transition to it from book one. i hope you do give it another go when you're in the mood for it again! 💖💖💖
I can’t watch this, but I did want to tell you that I found An Ember in the Ashes second hand about a week ago, so now I have it and look forward to diving into it at some point! 😊
omg I'm so excited for you!!! I can't wait to hear your eventually thoughts on it! happy reading 💖🫡
@ I also realized I have all of them on my audiobook app, but I just watched your other vlog and it sounded like the ending of the series wasn’t good? So now I’m torn 😂 I do want to see what I think of the first book though, and the writing
@ellenmadebookclub OH I forgot I mentioned it on my new vlog haha, TLDR so that I dont spoil, books 1-3 were the easiest 5 stars ive ever given (ESPECIALLY the audiobooks), and then because the rest of the series was SO perfect I just didn't like the way it was wrapped up, but I would still 10000% recommend the series, it could have been the worst ending imaginable and I'd still recommend it because of how much I loved books 1-3! (though don't listen to the audiobook for book 4 because they changed one of the actors and it was NOT good)
@ Good to know! That makes me feel better 😊 Are there four total? I had 6 in my head for some reason, 4 would be more manageable
@ellenmadebookclub yes just 4! (thankfully!!! i actually thought the same thing, hence why I put it off for so long!)