@@TheFlowerbeast That used to be the case but it's slowly changing. A lot of male mangakas are venturing into the genre and some of the newer stories are being fleshed out beautifully. But the horrid, internally homophobic, obviously made with a straight-person-who-has-no-idea-how-real-homosexual-relationships- work, still exist and are being born as we speak. Light cannot exist without darkness I'm afraid.
The thing about Ali Hazelwood's books is that they all started as Reylo fics and she just changed the names (and hair) and published them. So the reason all of her male romantic interests are that big and tall and massive is that they're all secretly Adam Driver. When you accept that, it all makes sense. 😅
Every time Ali Hazelwood gets brought up, I think of this one negative AH book review I saw that contained the sentence “polly pocket pussy”. It’s been MONTHS and that sentence still confounds me
@@withcindy Oh yeah it was in a goodreads review, Ali Hazelwood didn’t write it lol. I wish I could add more context to the sentence, but I straight up don’t remember the rest of the review lmao
Immediately after reading these comments I went straight to Goodreads to find Chandler Ainsley's review since I follow her so her reviews are always the first one's to show up for me and I found it. The review was for a book called Stuck with You and she said, "I don't like knowing an authors sexual preferences. Give me variety so your IM - SO - FUCKING - SMOL - HIS - DONG- IS - MASSIVE - IT- WILL - CRUSH - MY- POLLY - POCKET - PUSSY kink isn't so obvious. give me a 6 ft chick with a honey - I - shrunk - the - kids Chad. With peace and love, a size medium." I nearly choked😭
Knowing that Ali hazelwood is a fanfic writer made sense because reading her works I have never finished a book so fast 😭 it didn't feel like a book at all, more like a 300k word fanfic in epub form.
I'm really glad to hear you had fun with Love on the Brain! Personally, I took one look at the back, read the first line ("Like an avenging, purple haired Jedi bringing balance to the man-splained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do?) And took so much psychic damage that I keeled over in Walmart. But you enjoying it for what it is- a cheesy, over the top romance- reminds me that not everyone feels the same way I do about books and what makes them enjoyable and that's OK! I do wish the author could add a little more variety to her love interests, though- it's kind of hilarious to see two identical men with two different love interests for two different stories.
Just because I am pedantic nerd like that I would not read that book because my answer to the question "What would Marie Curie do?" is spell her full name. It's Skłodowska. Maria Curie-Skłodowska was her name. Curie was her husbands name. I feel like a real life badass woman physicist would know that.
Every minute of reading Love On The Brain was torture I tried to gaslight myself I was actually just reading a really bad soukoku fic because at least then I would actually love the characters.
Not being Asian and not knowing anything about San Jose, what my bones know still hit the generational trauma and difficult family relationships and coming to terms with how to be happy/how to love/be loved - spot so deeply. I loved the inclusion of the audio recordings from her therapy sessions and that her therapist was open to being included!
ngl, I'm married to a 6'5" behemoth-- his father has joked that he has "hands for high-fiving mattresses" 😂😆 so I didn't even blink at those bits in Love on the Brain, lmao
Thank you for the Tender is the Flesh spoiler, the one other review I had seen about it refused to give it away because she does like the book and it made me curious but not enough to actually read the book or search for more reviews
Tender is the Flesh got 5/5 stars of me because of the reality of it. The biggest take I got from this book is that people don't care if something is "wrong" as long as it benefits them. We embellish horrible actions by giving them "nice names". In the book they tackle a lot the subject of words and how much they impact our worldview.
Same, it was pretty on point with what it wanted to bring across. Especially with its unlikable protagonist. To me his ending (killing jasmine) was very much "don't just point out the flaws of a system and then continue partaking in it". Not to lay it too thick with the vegan propaganda but to me that just screams "don't talk about animal welfare just to continue eating them"
I really loved Love On The Brain and how much I had to suspend my disbelief. I'm simple really, a book with a big man and dark hair really seals the deal for me. Also the fact that she was so funny, I kept laughing out loud at certain parts. It was like reading a diary in the best way.
i loved the tender of the flesh discussion you had with your friends. i just finished the book not even 30 minutes ago and everything he did with jasmine rubbed me the wrong way and i was happy to know you guys saw it too lol
i think the protagonist just isnt supposed to be likeable at all. the way he treats Yasmine is a huge red flag about how deeply misogynistic he is. the ending surpised me but it also made a lot of sense to me, personally. he never really cared about her.
Dunno if you're stick with this format but I really enjoyed it! Especially when you were telling your friends about the book you read because I also loved getting the tea 🍵
Me seeing the cover for Love on the Brain and listening to Cindy describe how tall and big the male character is: YUP that's a published ReyLo fic right there
Reading tender is the flesh is like "yes, the society, humans are evil, now do something" and she never does. Like I get the metaphor, I just wish she didn't smack me over the head with it.
I SCREAMED when i saw love on the brain on this title. i didn't quite like this book bc it just seemed like love hypothesis twin brother way too much, but I was dying for your reaction. cindy you're the only one who can always put me in a great mood I swear
tbh it was an improvement from the love hypothesis bc there were no forced PDA scenes or professor-student relationships!! once she took out the things i didnt like it was smooth sailing with this book lol
i really loved getting the input from ur friends while discussing Tender is The FLesh! it was interesting to actually hear live feedback & reactions to your review!
Cindy! I absoultely love this new format for these wrap-up's. Helps remind me that reading a book is embedded in life and accompanies me through discussions, hangs, and travelling.
so I haven't read tender is the flesh but just hearing about it it seems like the more interesting ending would be the guy being slaughtered as cattle? thematically I feel like that would make more sense for the whole capitalism/meat industry metaphor for your main character to go from consumer to consumed. also will be adding love on the brain to my junk food romance reading list if only bc I deeply respect that Ali Hazelwood keeps publishing her reylo fanfics lol
consumer to consumed is actually mentioned in the book! a character named Spanel is a butcher and literally says “today im the butcher, tomorrow i’m the cattle” and talks about that!!!!!! that IS mentioned in the book!
I actually really liked the ending because he never gets “punished”, just like irl where most people that do heinous acts don’t get punished or reformed or anything. I normally really liked Cindy’s reviews but i felt like cindy only analyzed it superficially and at times wondered if we even read the same book, and maybe we didn’t because I read it in its original language; Spanish. But alas, that’s the beauty of the human condition: we all interpret the same things differently:) The part about the puppies: the main character constantly mentions their love for animals and how his dogs had to be killed when the “virus started” like all other animals. He, just as his father, doesn’t believe that the virus is real and that eating human meat is the only option because doctors, governments etc. say that you need meat to survive and be healthy. He doesn’t murder humans per se but is like a manager so he couldn’t have taken the teenagers as Cindy suggests. Also it is illegal to even be close to animals, punishable by death and then being eaten by the carroñeros (idk how they called it in English; basically homeless people that live in the premises of the factory and eat the leftovers or the people that want to “sacrifice themselves” 2. The whole thing with Jazmín is so good for me; he does see her as a human but she is still a woman; aka a walking womb. And having relations with livestock is completely forbidden, punishable by death and being eaten. He opposes the system morally but practically still takes advantage of it… Idk it’s my favorite book and wanted to give my point of view, this is not hate for Cindy!
@@sleepysof THATS WHAT IM SAYING!!!!!! WE HAVE THE SAME VIEW POINTS! it’s also my favorite book and i definitely thought the review didn’t do it justice since i feel like the book is less of a romance and more of a perspective of grief and macros’ journey through that
@Nikola oh yes 100% it gives me similar vibes to when people say lolita is their favorite romance. Yes and also how Marcos doesn't stop eating meat until his son died, just like many people don't care about others unless it personally affects them and they are forced to change their point of view (like regarding SA, Covid, the environment...). Marcos starts as hero, rebelling the system, questioning it, "saving" Jasmin etc. we later realize that it isn't enough to just hate a part of the system to change it or to be a good person. In the end he is still a bad person and maybe it hurts more because for the 1st half of the book we thought he cared about people, and he did, just not about women. He still treats every woman in his life like an animal, something disposable, annoying, dramatic... which for me is like an allegory to all the misogyny in leftist and progressive spaces. (Could also apply to racism, xenophobia, homofobia, antisemitism, Islamophobia....) I watched maybeillreadtoday's review of the book and loved it. Just not the part that she said that antivaxxers were treated as disposable, I felt like a much better point would've been how people still treat disabled people as disposable because of covid, not wearing masks, getting vaccinated and saying that they had preexisting conditions so it doesn't matter... That said I think many people missed the point of the book, idk if there was something missed in translation but it's sad. I look forward to reading more books by the same author
Any Indian dishes you would recommend to an European who's main meal has been pasta and stuff with potatoes lately? 😅 I'm open to trying new stuff, maybe something easy to make at home?
@@iclynnx @Iclynnx A classic fulfilling Indian meal type from where I am is having some vegetable curry or gravy with an Indian bread like chapati/roti/naan or steamed rice! 'Aloo ki sabzi' (potato vegetable/curry), '(insert any vegetable) ki sabzi', 'rajma chawal' (kidney beans and rice), 'dal chawal' (pulses and rice), 'khichdi' (lentils and rice), and 'paneer' (cottage cheese)-related curries are very popular Indian dishes. You can look up quick, easy, simple recipes on TH-cam or blogs and you'll find it very do-able! I hope you enjoy them! ❤️
I have to say, the way you talk about the books you love and connect with has fascinated me so much to the point that I put those books on my To Be Read list. No joke, I love the way you talk about the books you enjoy and how you analyze the parts that you love from it. Love your channel so much :)
The author of Tender is the Flesh is my cousin and I swear to god I never got to understand wtf was she trying to do with this book. But ily Agus congrats on your success lol
some other comment pointed it out really well. that, in the end, the protagonist is still deeply sexist. he still sees Yasmine as an object to be used and once he's done with her and things get too inconvenient for him, he tosses her out she gave him what he wanted (a kid), so he doesnt need her anymore. he can go back to being with his wife and wont have to worry about Yasmine anymore there's definitely a lot of layers and i believe that, had she added in some kind of happy ending, the gutpunch that came with this book just would not have hit quite as hard
@mirandajones7816 Es un libro que leí hace años y me impactó muchísimo. Mi próxima lectura es Las Indignas. Me encantaría hacerle preguntas sobre el libro a tu prima, sería un honor ❤
Neuroscientist grad student here ; lol 😂 Ali has a neuroscience degree too , so she had to for her degree lol - That being said who knows what grade she got in it lol 🤷🏻♀️.
Hey Cindy!! I wanted to thank you for all you’ve done this year, you’ve done a lot for me and have introduced me to some amazing books! Your such an amazing TH-camr and I hope your account goes far!! :DD
Dude, that's the smoothest transition to an ad that I've ever witnessed. It was like you read my mind since I was absolutely wondering about where you got that amazing cardigan.
Adding What My Bones Know to my tbr immediately because everything about feeling bad about feeling negative emotions hit way too close to home. I need to read that and CRY.
HOT TOPIC SPONSORS PEOPLE?????? EXCUSE ME??!?!?!? HOW IS THIS THE FIRST TIME I'M WITNESSING THIS also, i LOVE the outfits you were showcasing!! (i think that's the right word, idk, it's small brain time for me)
when you were talking about the guy being "furiously big" at around 5:56 i immediately thought of this tall guy from the tv show marvelous mrs. maisel where he's getting angry but can't have a public outburst cos he looks like an "angry building" asjdsjkfhsl
Yo también lo leí en español y me pareció tan bueno? Tipo siento qué tal vez en inglés no se entendía tanto el contexto de todo y porque el personaje principal actuaba como actúa porque siento que si respondió las preguntas/críticas de Cindy?
I don't think so. I read it in English and I totally disagree with how Cindy interpreted the book. Like he is not a good person and it was so obvious to me!!! So it's not a translation thing.
We Stan Authors following Booktubers especially when they’re not casing the joint for reviews. I hope you two have an interview in the future. That’d be interesting.
Unrelated, but have you watched Everything Everywhere All at Once yet Cindy? Every person growing in asian household should watch it at least once in their entire life
Love on the Brain is exactly what I needed when I read it- it really is heteronormative crack and it is the perfect book to read when you just want something tropey and cute
I liked the ending of Tender is the flesh. I think it was more powerful this way, then if the MC changed and the author tried to insert a happy end into the world she built in her book. I don't think I would read this book tho - too ..real ?!, let's go with that word, for me. Loved your video and takes on these books.
I think the point of the ending of Tender is the Flesh is to have the reader condemn the main character for being a horrible person, but then have to grapple with the fact that many of his actions are similar to our own if we consume animal products
This was a really fun format! Thank you for suffering through needlessly bad books so we don't have to, and finding fun stuff for the TBR stack. You're smart and entertaining to watch no matter what you're reading. 😁
bruh tender is the flesh made me physically ill. like i thought i was going to puke reading it. it turned me into a vegetarian - i read it in july and haven’t touched meat since i cant even look at it let alone eat it 😩
I just finished "Tender is the flesh" and, my God, it was not good. I've never finished a book and felt like I've wasted my time, but that's how I felt with this one.
I've just finished reading What My Bones Know for Asian Readathon on your recommendation. Thank you so much for the rec! It got me thinking about my own mental health, so I really appreciate it! I listened to the audiobook, which was great as it's narrated by Foo and she includes extracts from her therapy sessions with her last therapist. It's really interesting to hear both their voices, so I'd recommend it if you ever fancy a reread. :)
Every time Levi was referred to as some sort of tree I lost it. 😂 I think at one point his legs were called Redwoods and I had to put the book down and laugh for 2 minutes straight. Honestly…I love it. I’ll read anything Ali puts out. Her books make me laugh.
You know you laugh at the size difference, but as a ‘small’ person living in Europe, I feel the walking extra fast just to match the speed of everyone. Or given I’m lazy, making everyone slow down.
What My Bones Know hits so hard that I had to read it over the course of two weeks even though I typically binge read a book because she kept dropping the mic and I would have to sit with something I learned for a few days before continuing
Ali Hazelwood should make her love interests taller and bigger every book until she's writing about literal giants
YES!! increase his height every time, along with the size of his--
Okay, but this would actually be a genius long-game joke, the slower the progression, the better!
@@withcindy yk what they say about big hands..
she needs to just write monster smut at this point
@@spongebobonmollysiggy shade's villain origin story
"He's so tall that at this point we're dealing with a long distance relationship" had me choking on my spit.
The main girl probably has to crane her neck just to look up at him
same lmao
😂😂
“This man got Wreck it Ralph hands.”
No, Cindy. It’s yaoi hands. That man has the old ass yaoi hands of early BL days of Japan.
Even heteros deserve BL hands too
Damm im gay and i didn't thought about it , im so ashamed
@@ik1149 tbf, Yaoi was never meant for the gays. They cater to women
First thing I thought about, it's them Junjou Romantica hands
@@TheFlowerbeast That used to be the case but it's slowly changing. A lot of male mangakas are venturing into the genre and some of the newer stories are being fleshed out beautifully. But the horrid, internally homophobic, obviously made with a straight-person-who-has-no-idea-how-real-homosexual-relationships- work, still exist and are being born as we speak. Light cannot exist without darkness I'm afraid.
The thing about Ali Hazelwood's books is that they all started as Reylo fics and she just changed the names (and hair) and published them. So the reason all of her male romantic interests are that big and tall and massive is that they're all secretly Adam Driver. When you accept that, it all makes sense. 😅
oh it 100% makes sense, theyre all the same characters but that means if u like one book u will definitely like the other !!
Someone should recommend this to John Oliver. He thirsts for big, tall, broody Adam Driver :D
Holy shit, that's it!! That's why this was giving me "The Love Hypothesis" vibes.
@@laurakuhlmann1626 and horses
I loved the Love Hypothesis and hated Love on the Brain, so not necessarily 🫠
Every time Ali Hazelwood gets brought up, I think of this one negative AH book review I saw that contained the sentence “polly pocket pussy”. It’s been MONTHS and that sentence still confounds me
Omg what I don't remember that line
@@withcindy Oh yeah it was in a goodreads review, Ali Hazelwood didn’t write it lol. I wish I could add more context to the sentence, but I straight up don’t remember the rest of the review lmao
Maybe comparing Ali's LIs' eggplants to the protags' small peaches? 🤷🏾♀️
Yes, I remember this. It was Chandler Ainsley's review.
Immediately after reading these comments I went straight to Goodreads to find Chandler Ainsley's review since I follow her so her reviews are always the first one's to show up for me and I found it. The review was for a book called Stuck with You and she said,
"I don't like knowing an authors sexual preferences. Give me variety so your IM - SO - FUCKING - SMOL - HIS - DONG- IS - MASSIVE - IT- WILL - CRUSH - MY- POLLY - POCKET - PUSSY kink isn't so obvious. give me a 6 ft chick with a honey - I - shrunk - the - kids Chad.
With peace and love, a size medium."
I nearly choked😭
Knowing that Ali hazelwood is a fanfic writer made sense because reading her works I have never finished a book so fast 😭 it didn't feel like a book at all, more like a 300k word fanfic in epub form.
her fanfic roots is her success tbh!!
I loved the little group discussion over tender is the flesh
i gotta rope my friends into more reading vlogs!
Came for the book content, stayed for the Shrekfest
Shrekfest was indeed iconic
A Hot Topic sponsorship and cute pastel clothing?!! ✨Girlbossing at its finest✨
Yesss finally I can look cute 🥺😭
Cindy combining all of her different types of videos for this one is so iconic
I do like to multitask
petition for ali hazelwood to write a short king character and make our main girlie have the biggest fetish for it 🤞
the day that actually happens the world will stop turning
ali hazelwood could never lol but if anyone has any recs for romances with short kings, pls share
@@marianbaroi7526 Fool by Christopher Moore! It's light on the romance & has raunchy humor, but Pocket is my favorite Short King 👑
THIS PLEASE
I'm really glad to hear you had fun with Love on the Brain! Personally, I took one look at the back, read the first line ("Like an avenging, purple haired Jedi bringing balance to the man-splained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do?) And took so much psychic damage that I keeled over in Walmart. But you enjoying it for what it is- a cheesy, over the top romance- reminds me that not everyone feels the same way I do about books and what makes them enjoyable and that's OK! I do wish the author could add a little more variety to her love interests, though- it's kind of hilarious to see two identical men with two different love interests for two different stories.
LMAOOOO NOT THE PSYCHIC DAMAGE. it seems like the 3rd book is gonna have variety... he's BLONDE instead of black haired!!
i lost my mind reading that line oh my god WHAT
@@Kam_i_ if I had to read it so does everyone else I apologize for the mental distress that may have been caused
omg, this sentence is so cringe
Just because I am pedantic nerd like that I would not read that book because my answer to the question "What would Marie Curie do?" is spell her full name.
It's Skłodowska. Maria Curie-Skłodowska was her name. Curie was her husbands name.
I feel like a real life badass woman physicist would know that.
Every minute of reading Love On The Brain was torture I tried to gaslight myself I was actually just reading a really bad soukoku fic because at least then I would actually love the characters.
I liked it better than the love hypothesis tbh!!
REAL OMG
LMAO not the soukoku projection 😭😭
the game !?
soukoku catching strays omg
Not being Asian and not knowing anything about San Jose, what my bones know still hit the generational trauma and difficult family relationships and coming to terms with how to be happy/how to love/be loved - spot so deeply. I loved the inclusion of the audio recordings from her therapy sessions and that her therapist was open to being included!
i wouldve loved to have him as a therapist!! he seemed so open to everything and very transparent with what he was going through too
As a tall woman who likes short men I can emasculate with my mere presence, I feel underrepresented in the romance industry.
That is one HELL of a Tinder bio
OMG, same! 😂 I love your description, by the way!
"Not me reading an anime book" We are one step closer to Cindy returning to her Weebo era. Waiting for the inevitable Sailor Jupiter cosplay
joke's on u, i grew up reading shoujo manga!!
@@withcindy If Maas can make you lose your mind, I wonder how some shoujo series nowadays will break your spirit.
10:37 The nature of humanity is just that every so often someone accidentally invents yaoi hands again
nature is cyclical like that
A Hot Topic sponsorship?! Cindy is living those nerdy goals 😎
one of my fave sponsors lately tbh!!
ngl, I'm married to a 6'5" behemoth-- his father has joked that he has "hands for high-fiving mattresses" 😂😆
so I didn't even blink at those bits in Love on the Brain, lmao
omg ur living the main character's DREAM
Strange Aeons posts a video on the history of mall goth on the same day Cindy reveals a Hot Topic sponsorship. Coincidence? I think not.
hot topic is trying to take over youtube?!
I JUST SAW THAT TOO ITS HILARIOUS
They got the booktube girlies and the tumblr girlies captured.
We appreciate Cindy for her consistency and dedication. She's always the best at what she does.
aww ty sophia!!
Thank you for the Tender is the Flesh spoiler, the one other review I had seen about it refused to give it away because she does like the book and it made me curious but not enough to actually read the book or search for more reviews
i gotchu!!
Tender is the Flesh got 5/5 stars of me because of the reality of it. The biggest take I got from this book is that people don't care if something is "wrong" as long as it benefits them. We embellish horrible actions by giving them "nice names". In the book they tackle a lot the subject of words and how much they impact our worldview.
Same, it was pretty on point with what it wanted to bring across. Especially with its unlikable protagonist. To me his ending (killing jasmine) was very much "don't just point out the flaws of a system and then continue partaking in it".
Not to lay it too thick with the vegan propaganda but to me that just screams "don't talk about animal welfare just to continue eating them"
I really loved Love On The Brain and how much I had to suspend my disbelief. I'm simple really, a book with a big man and dark hair really seals the deal for me. Also the fact that she was so funny, I kept laughing out loud at certain parts. It was like reading a diary in the best way.
my gf said the same thing, that the writing was like a peek into her own stream of consciousness lolol
i loved the tender of the flesh discussion you had with your friends. i just finished the book not even 30 minutes ago and everything he did with jasmine rubbed me the wrong way and i was happy to know you guys saw it too lol
i think the protagonist just isnt supposed to be likeable at all. the way he treats Yasmine is a huge red flag about how deeply misogynistic he is. the ending surpised me but it also made a lot of sense to me, personally. he never really cared about her.
Dunno if you're stick with this format but I really enjoyed it! Especially when you were telling your friends about the book you read because I also loved getting the tea 🍵
Glad you enjoyed it! i think ill do these types of videos more often :)
Not me crying all over again when you were reading the excerpts from What My Bones Know.
I’m so grateful that book exists.
the book really came for our necks huh
We get to read with Cindy, travel with Cindy, and eat with Cindy - but when will we live, laugh, and love with Cindy?
Me seeing the cover for Love on the Brain and listening to Cindy describe how tall and big the male character is: YUP that's a published ReyLo fic right there
That’s all of Ali hazelwood’s books and I love her for it lmao
Reading tender is the flesh is like "yes, the society, humans are evil, now do something" and she never does. Like I get the metaphor, I just wish she didn't smack me over the head with it.
I SCREAMED when i saw love on the brain on this title. i didn't quite like this book bc it just seemed like love hypothesis twin brother way too much, but I was dying for your reaction. cindy you're the only one who can always put me in a great mood I swear
tbh it was an improvement from the love hypothesis bc there were no forced PDA scenes or professor-student relationships!! once she took out the things i didnt like it was smooth sailing with this book lol
i really loved getting the input from ur friends while discussing Tender is The FLesh! it was interesting to actually hear live feedback & reactions to your review!
I should bring more ppl in for these reviews !
Cindy! I absoultely love this new format for these wrap-up's. Helps remind me that reading a book is embedded in life and accompanies me through discussions, hangs, and travelling.
I'm so glad! more to come then
Loved the group convo around Tender is the Flesh, felt like I was at a book club meeting
so I haven't read tender is the flesh but just hearing about it it seems like the more interesting ending would be the guy being slaughtered as cattle? thematically I feel like that would make more sense for the whole capitalism/meat industry metaphor for your main character to go from consumer to consumed.
also will be adding love on the brain to my junk food romance reading list if only bc I deeply respect that Ali Hazelwood keeps publishing her reylo fanfics lol
i support ali getting her coin
consumer to consumed is actually mentioned in the book! a character named Spanel is a butcher and literally says “today im the butcher, tomorrow i’m the cattle” and talks about that!!!!!! that IS mentioned in the book!
I actually really liked the ending because he never gets “punished”, just like irl where most people that do heinous acts don’t get punished or reformed or anything. I normally really liked Cindy’s reviews but i felt like cindy only analyzed it superficially and at times wondered if we even read the same book, and maybe we didn’t because I read it in its original language; Spanish. But alas, that’s the beauty of the human condition: we all interpret the same things differently:)
The part about the puppies: the main character constantly mentions their love for animals and how his dogs had to be killed when the “virus started” like all other animals. He, just as his father, doesn’t believe that the virus is real and that eating human meat is the only option because doctors, governments etc. say that you need meat to survive and be healthy. He doesn’t murder humans per se but is like a manager so he couldn’t have taken the teenagers as Cindy suggests. Also it is illegal to even be close to animals, punishable by death and then being eaten by the carroñeros (idk how they called it in English; basically homeless people that live in the premises of the factory and eat the leftovers or the people that want to “sacrifice themselves”
2. The whole thing with Jazmín is so good for me; he does see her as a human but she is still a woman; aka a walking womb. And having relations with livestock is completely forbidden, punishable by death and being eaten. He opposes the system morally but practically still takes advantage of it…
Idk it’s my favorite book and wanted to give my point of view, this is not hate for Cindy!
@@sleepysof THATS WHAT IM SAYING!!!!!! WE HAVE THE SAME VIEW POINTS! it’s also my favorite book and i definitely thought the review didn’t do it justice since i feel like the book is less of a romance and more of a perspective of grief and macros’ journey through that
@Nikola oh yes 100% it gives me similar vibes to when people say lolita is their favorite romance.
Yes and also how Marcos doesn't stop eating meat until his son died, just like many people don't care about others unless it personally affects them and they are forced to change their point of view (like regarding SA, Covid, the environment...). Marcos starts as hero, rebelling the system, questioning it, "saving" Jasmin etc. we later realize that it isn't enough to just hate a part of the system to change it or to be a good person. In the end he is still a bad person and maybe it hurts more because for the 1st half of the book we thought he cared about people, and he did, just not about women. He still treats every woman in his life like an animal, something disposable, annoying, dramatic... which for me is like an allegory to all the misogyny in leftist and progressive spaces. (Could also apply to racism, xenophobia, homofobia, antisemitism, Islamophobia....)
I watched maybeillreadtoday's review of the book and loved it. Just not the part that she said that antivaxxers were treated as disposable, I felt like a much better point would've been how people still treat disabled people as disposable because of covid, not wearing masks, getting vaccinated and saying that they had preexisting conditions so it doesn't matter...
That said I think many people missed the point of the book, idk if there was something missed in translation but it's sad. I look forward to reading more books by the same author
I can't go over it ...she called MANGA an anime book🤣
i was being facetious lolol
Not my teens coming back to haunt me in the form of a TH-cam sponsor!!!
Embrace ur inner teen goth!!
Being Indian, I love that my fav Cindy enjoys Indian food 🥺🤌
i loooove garlic naan and curry!!
Indian food is bombbb
Any Indian dishes you would recommend to an European who's main meal has been pasta and stuff with potatoes lately? 😅 I'm open to trying new stuff, maybe something easy to make at home?
@@iclynnx @Iclynnx A classic fulfilling Indian meal type from where I am is having some vegetable curry or gravy with an Indian bread like chapati/roti/naan or steamed rice!
'Aloo ki sabzi' (potato vegetable/curry), '(insert any vegetable) ki sabzi', 'rajma chawal' (kidney beans and rice), 'dal chawal' (pulses and rice), 'khichdi' (lentils and rice), and 'paneer' (cottage cheese)-related curries are very popular Indian dishes.
You can look up quick, easy, simple recipes on TH-cam or blogs and you'll find it very do-able!
I hope you enjoy them! ❤️
@@iamshraddhakhedkar Thanks for the tips!
I have to say, the way you talk about the books you love and connect with has fascinated me so much to the point that I put those books on my To Be Read list. No joke, I love the way you talk about the books you enjoy and how you analyze the parts that you love from it. Love your channel so much :)
Wow, thank you! ❤️❤️
yes love this format, especially the cooking (tbh burnt or not the banana bread looked delicious) and you chatting with your friends about the books
Yay! Thank you!
i’ve had such a shitty year so far and it’s only month 1, but cindy never fails to make me laugh uncontrollably 😭❤️
if it makes u feel any better i downloaded an app to track how many times i cry in a year and so far 17 days into january i have shed tears 10 times
Finally the straights get a win!
im rlly rooting for them lmao
U know they are such a minority otherwise 🥺
@@withcindy I'm a straight minority. 🤷💞
But I love me some gays.
I am here for Cindy's reading lines of Love on the Brain. I can listen to her read smut books and comments on it all day long haha
i finished a smutty dark romance book this month and will def be dedicating a video to it next month
"You're feeling bad about feeling bad." Yes! I need this book in my life.
The author of Tender is the Flesh is my cousin and I swear to god I never got to understand wtf was she trying to do with this book. But ily Agus congrats on your success lol
some other comment pointed it out really well. that, in the end, the protagonist is still deeply sexist. he still sees Yasmine as an object to be used and once he's done with her and things get too inconvenient for him, he tosses her out
she gave him what he wanted (a kid), so he doesnt need her anymore. he can go back to being with his wife and wont have to worry about Yasmine anymore
there's definitely a lot of layers and i believe that, had she added in some kind of happy ending, the gutpunch that came with this book just would not have hit quite as hard
@mirandajones7816 Es un libro que leí hace años y me impactó muchísimo. Mi próxima lectura es Las Indignas. Me encantaría hacerle preguntas sobre el libro a tu prima, sería un honor ❤
I don't even read very often and yet I watch every single one of Cindy's book videos.
im honored!!
Sis you look so beautiful in pastel colours!! Incorporate more in ur wardrobe!!!
Will try!! thank u
Yes, Tender is the Flesh slander!!
always
I am 1000% certain that Ali Hazelwood has never taken an anatomy class in her LIFE
WE LOVE FLEXIBLE GYMNAST CHARACTERS WITH WRECK IT RALPH HANDS
Neuroscientist grad student here ; lol 😂 Ali has a neuroscience degree too , so she had to for her degree lol - That being said who knows what grade she got in it lol 🤷🏻♀️.
Okay, gonna have to read What My Bones Know. I teared up when you read out some parts. This is gonna be a tough read.
big oof but good luck!!
ugh that sweater is so cute on you and the whole fit bout to make me relive my hot topic days. love the new format we love an innovative queen
Yay! Thank you!
Hey Cindy!! I wanted to thank you for all you’ve done this year, you’ve done a lot for me and have introduced me to some amazing books! Your such an amazing TH-camr and I hope your account goes far!! :DD
aww thank you so much!!
That sausage-octo really got me! Liked the format- best of all worlds smooched together. Now on to making some late night naan bread!
yummm naan is so good! especially garlic naan!
This is probably the first hot topic sponsor!! Congrats Cindy!
im honored!!
Wow. Powder blue looks so good on you!
I love it! It's such a cute color
Dude, that's the smoothest transition to an ad that I've ever witnessed. It was like you read my mind since I was absolutely wondering about where you got that amazing cardigan.
it helps im normally dressed frumpy until this video
When I saw Jack Edward's review of Tender is the flesh I immediately thought of The Promised Neverland too!! I'm so glad it got mentioned here
oooh did jack like this book??
Adding What My Bones Know to my tbr immediately because everything about feeling bad about feeling negative emotions hit way too close to home. I need to read that and CRY.
YESSS GO READ
HOT TOPIC SPONSORS PEOPLE??????
EXCUSE ME??!?!?!? HOW IS THIS THE FIRST TIME I'M WITNESSING THIS
also, i LOVE the outfits you were showcasing!! (i think that's the right word, idk, it's small brain time for me)
i had no idea they sponsored ppl until they reached out to me LOL
Righttt?!
A hot topic sponsorship with cute slaying outfits and book comments while showing so much delicious food! Love it!
PS: HAPPY BDAY!!
thank u fatima!!
@@withcindy OMG it took me a year to find out Cindy hearted my comment and replied to me xD, I'm so effing oblivious.
when you were talking about the guy being "furiously big" at around 5:56 i immediately thought of this tall guy from the tv show marvelous mrs. maisel where he's getting angry but can't have a public outburst cos he looks like an "angry building" asjdsjkfhsl
Ooo new format unlocked !!! love it 💖✨
Hope you like it!
slogging through exams and this really cheered me up :) thanks cindy!
You got this!
I rly enjoyed Tender is the Flesh lmaoo I read it in the Spanish so idk if some things were lost in translation
there may be cultural context im missing too? :0
I also enjoyed it quite a bit!
Yo también lo leí en español y me pareció tan bueno? Tipo siento qué tal vez en inglés no se entendía tanto el contexto de todo y porque el personaje principal actuaba como actúa porque siento que si respondió las preguntas/críticas de Cindy?
I don't think so. I read it in English and I totally disagree with how Cindy interpreted the book. Like he is not a good person and it was so obvious to me!!! So it's not a translation thing.
Cindy, I really love these types of videos. It feels like I'm just hanging out with a friend.
We Stan Authors following Booktubers especially when they’re not casing the joint for reviews. I hope you two have an interview in the future. That’d be interesting.
10:00 OMG he's reading ship of magic! The taste! You gotta read it Cindy if you haven't yet. The trilogy is really good
He's really loving the series!
Unrelated, but have you watched Everything Everywhere All at Once yet Cindy? Every person growing in asian household should watch it at least once in their entire life
I rewatched it over the weekend with my friends! Such a good movie
Tender is the flesh is that book a bunch of redditors co-wrote together because anything that is edgy is good according to them
truuu
girl got sponsored by hot topic?! congrats! Loving your reviews as always :))
Love on the Brain is exactly what I needed when I read it- it really is heteronormative crack and it is the perfect book to read when you just want something tropey and cute
first off,, outfit is giving. second,, i have been waiting for you to review what my bones know for so long!! so excited to watch
Hope you like it!
About to eat this up. Thank you Cindy for serving yet again
You are so welcome 🤗
THAT BUTTERFLY DRESS, CINDY!!!!
Q-U-E-E-N!! 👑!!
def gonna wear it for spring!!
I love how naturally funny Cindy is and the honest reviews is what makes me want to pick up the books Cindy recommends.
Loved the Tender is the Flesh segment. I felt like I was hanging out with y’all 🥲
I liked the ending of Tender is the flesh. I think it was more powerful this way, then if the MC changed and the author tried to insert a happy end into the world she built in her book. I don't think I would read this book tho - too ..real ?!, let's go with that word, for me.
Loved your video and takes on these books.
This came in a perfect time!!! Omg I'm so happy to see you cindy💞💗 I'll watch this while eating dinner I'm lucky😭😭
Whatcha eating for dinner?
I think the point of the ending of Tender is the Flesh is to have the reader condemn the main character for being a horrible person, but then have to grapple with the fact that many of his actions are similar to our own if we consume animal products
This was a really fun format! Thank you for suffering through needlessly bad books so we don't have to, and finding fun stuff for the TBR stack. You're smart and entertaining to watch no matter what you're reading. 😁
I had such a frustrating and long work day but all is right again when Cindy uploads 😌💅
i hope the rest of ur week gets better!!
ily so much cindy!!!! u dont know how much you posting vids means to me!!
🥺🥺🥺 im gonna save this comment to remind myself of how sweet u are
I really like this concept of a vlogy kind of wrap up. it was so much fun to watch ☺️💞
bruh tender is the flesh made me physically ill. like i thought i was going to puke reading it. it turned me into a vegetarian - i read it in july and haven’t touched meat since i cant even look at it let alone eat it 😩
omg PETA should sponsor this book
Omg I love your ensemble 👏🏽
It’s giving Sapphic Cottagecore 🔥
P.S. All the outfits are fab!
😊 thank you
starting out with a hot topic outfit that is so adorable. this is already a hit! you look so cute! 😭
thank u!!
I just finished "Tender is the flesh" and, my God, it was not good. I've never finished a book and felt like I've wasted my time, but that's how I felt with this one.
Ty for validating me
right before u showed the fit i was literally like that’s so cute wth so it is inevitable i will be shoppingwithcindy HAHHSJAHHAHKDKD
i knew it would entice yall
Everytime I hear about tender is the flesh I think about the promised never land anime lol I’m glad someone finally said it.
not the promised neverland being tender's anime adaptation
I've just finished reading What My Bones Know for Asian Readathon on your recommendation. Thank you so much for the rec! It got me thinking about my own mental health, so I really appreciate it! I listened to the audiobook, which was great as it's narrated by Foo and she includes extracts from her therapy sessions with her last therapist. It's really interesting to hear both their voices, so I'd recommend it if you ever fancy a reread. :)
Every time Levi was referred to as some sort of tree I lost it. 😂 I think at one point his legs were called Redwoods and I had to put the book down and laugh for 2 minutes straight. Honestly…I love it. I’ll read anything Ali puts out. Her books make me laugh.
I'm already dying with the intro, istg you're so funny
You ain't ready for all the other book excerpts
cindy i am so glad to have found u
how did u find me!!
Haha i was literally going to say that reminded me of the promised neverland. Also that Shrek show looked hilarious yet inspiring
shrekfest was LITTYYYY
You know you laugh at the size difference, but as a ‘small’ person living in Europe, I feel the walking extra fast just to match the speed of everyone.
Or given I’m lazy, making everyone slow down.
i'm 5'2" so im the same!! i do think i walk fast tho for a short person lol
@@withcindy congratulations you’re taller than someone! I’m 5’1”!
Finally she’s here!! I missed you sm 🥺🫶🏻
missed u too!!
What My Bones Know hits so hard that I had to read it over the course of two weeks even though I typically binge read a book because she kept dropping the mic and I would have to sit with something I learned for a few days before continuing
i had to put the book down so many times just to comprehend what she just wrote before proceeding forward
How did you get a sponsor deal from Hot Topic?? That's like so rare, I've never seen anyone get an offer before! Good for you!
i think youtube is starting some program that connects brands to youtubers cuz they set me up with hot topic!
@@withcindy oh sick! Get that bag
THE CARE BEARS CARDIGAN I'm in love 😭😭
I’ve been feeling anxious today but this video was super delightful and calming! Thank you Cindy 💜
I'm so glad! hope u feel better