CRESCENT CITY MAY BE SARAH J. MAAS’ WORST BOOK-VLOG & RANT[CC]
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Hey hey! I did it. I finished Crunchwrap City by Sarah J Maas. I am forever changed and I JUST WANT TO DANCE. This was such a journey, I had some plant friends with me thankfully 👀 so hope you enjoy my ramblings. Thanks for watching!
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“Sarah, if you don’t shut the hell up” 😂😂😂 Loved every minute of this
no no no it's the hel up😁
The amount of sheer JOY I felt seeing the length of this video 🍿
I agree I love her long videos.
"Here's my problem with the book... everything!" 🤣
I've not read any of SJM's books. I loved watching this video. Thank you for taking one for the team.
This video was so good, tbh I'm always down to watch you rant and roast tf out of books 😂 also let's be real, SJM could publish a 900 page grocery list and her stans would buy 6 editions of it and the special alternate dust jacket.
😂😂😂😂
This makes me sad bec. it doesnt sound like neither her writing, characterisation and plotting has gotten better.
@@moustik31 the fact that it had actually gotten worse...
"Did he not wash his naughty parts and his booty?"
💀💀💀💀😂😂😂😂
it was only when I reread Crescent City that I realized Danika is Aelin (in terms of personality and how she does things/keeps secrets)
Lidia's powers sound so similar to Aelin's I thought it was referring to her when I first read Crescent City, but that only gives me hope🤣
"Ok that's unfortunate but I don't really have any emotions" .... I am crying with laughter
i love around 21:50 where it feels like you're ranting to Nigel while yall are on your walk and nigel is kinda like ur so right girly pop
"I'm from South Carolina, I have trauma." I'm sorry I laughed way too hard at that being from Florida.
Coyote Ugly city!!!! I'm dying at how accurate this description is!
I didn't realize until I started watching your videos that I'm 100% confusing Sarah J. Maas and Cassandra Clare. I get so confused telling them apart, I just know they both have huge fantasy series out.
And neither of them can write a book less than 800 pages.
Both of them created super long fictional series and can't stop milking the hell out of it.
They're the same person (metaphorically)
They are basically the same to me, except Maas is desperate to be spicy.
I feel like we’re just having a gal time and chatting. I love this style
You said nugget stones and I lost it at Easter eggs popping up on screen. 😂😂
The energy of this review IS CHAOTIC and I'm 100% here for it
I think Sarah Janet should hire ghostwriters 👀
My thing with SJM is people act like she’s doing something new when in reality she’s just taken troupes that have already existed in anime, movies, kdramas and even telenovelas and repackaged them for her audience. The reuse of troupes isn’t bad but the fact that people think she’s doing something new is what confuses me😂😂😂😂 I’d really be interested to know why SJM is such a popular author. Her books are okay but they get more credit than they deserve. I do appreciate that she can actually have a plot in her books unlike someone (From Blood and Ash I’m looking at you👀)
I imagine the main people who genuinely love her books are people who dont read much of anything else, so they wouldnt know much about other writers who already did these tropes (which is probably why SJM gets away with such bad writing, because her core-audience just hasn't been exposed to much good writing)
Yes, I think she is average too. I do like her ACOTAR-Series quite a lot though (except the first book), (and I felt a bit forced to read this too because of the cross over and got disappointed by the messy and a little bit flat plot in CC3 especially.)
I'm also surprised that so many see her books as very smuty/spicy. To me, they are the level of a normal adult romance book, and the spicy scenes are a bit repetitive and are definitely not that graphic/explicit with the flowery descriptions. But people talk about them as if they were erotica.😂
Also, all her books have sooooo much Sailor Moon in them. (And after some googling I found out that she is actually a big fan). I actually like it for some strange reason even though it's quite obvious. Cresent City with Bryce and the star inside her, Throne of glass with all the name similarities and character descriptions. ACOTAR with Amarantha looking like Queen Beryl and then the plot with the Culdron. 😅
I like her books for what they are, but I definitely think she is over hyped when it comes to the quality of the writing.
I would like to point out that she was inspired by Zootopia to write this book.
She what?! 😂😂
the way I laughed omfg
lmaoo'
Excuse me?
LOL
Alpha-hole?! And special elf headphones?! Why not earbuds? Love laugh dance, indeed. Thank you for your roast review. Hilarious!
🤣🤣 that is such a good point. Earbuds would work perfectly. And even the over the head ones should still decently work.
I'm still laughing at House of Bread and Onions from a few days ago 🤣
And we got a new banger House of Onion Breath 🤣
I lost it at the cockroach trauma part. Preach! I'm from Florida, palmetto bugs is just a polite term for cockroaches and they can all die in a fire. The trauma is real!
803 pages!?? 😱 That's cruel! Thanks for suffering for us Jess 🙏🏽
YASSSSSS!!! Give us the tea, Jess! And congrats on getting through another book! So proud of you!
You had me dying at the “her throat bobbed” 🤣 19:36
The commentary is, as always, TOP TIER. I am dying laughing and I haven't even read a single SJM book. I'm now off to live, laugh, love.... And dance through these dishes💃🏾 🤣🤣🤣
I feel you on not being grounded in the world. I only bought the hardback because Amazon gave me a 50% off code for it, and I stared at the map of the city I don't know how many times, but I still have no idea what anything looks like. I just accept things not making sense as par for the course when it comes to her books and just roll with the nonsense.
Edit: I'm realizing watching this, I have no memory of anything that happened in this book.
😂😂
You really went thru it to give us this high-quality content. We appreciate you!
Fae Telenovela is SPOT ON 🤣🤣🤣
I hadn’t even watched the video and I was in tears laughing.Dannon and yogurt; Hunt’s tomato sauce. 🤣🤣 He didn’t wash his naughty bits. THAT TRACKS! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Eating snacks in bed with your Squishmallow? TH-camrs! They're just like us! 🙂
Hel is the Norish Goddess of the Viking's verison of Hell. (Sorry huge mythology nerd.)Love your videos! :)
I think you mean, the goddess of the afterlife/dead. Not just "hell".
I think Hel in this sense is in reference to the realm, over the one who rules it. Helheim.
“Hel? You think you’re inventing something new?” I’m crying 😂😂😂
I suspect, SJM watched the Thor movie with Cat Blanchett and that's why Hel is spelled that way.
Edit: everytime you said "Bryce loved to dance", I started singing: "GUILTY FEET HAVE GOT NO RYTHM"
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Bryce and Hunt talking with their eyes was copied right from them fever books 😂that’s exactly how Mac and Barron communicated
The writing in Crescent City followed by a brief skim of Sarah J Maas's catalogue made me so mad at the low quality and paucity of originality that I started writing fiction again.
Thank you for gracing us with this video. The editing was AMAZING, love all the angles and the snacks, it was like talking books with my bestie and I LOVED it. And thank you for taking one for the team on this - I've never read Sarah Janet and don't intend to start, but videos like this really make me feel solid in that decision.
THE MALE FEMALE THING DRIVES ME FUCKING BONKERS OMG lmao. I legit almost didnt make it through this monstrosity on that alone
Lmaooo Jess you crack me uppp!! Crunchwrap City I cannot! 😂😂😂
The whole video is good, but your dramatic reading of the dance excerpts brought it to a whole new level. 🥰
I have not read this book but I understand Jess' frustration. For example, wouldn't specially-shaped fey headphones just be regular headphones in a world full of magical creatures?? And WHY would magical beings not have their own magical inventions that cater to their own abilities instead of our lame human shit! Sure, it's in an urban city so not forest-based, I get where she was going but where was the unique technology that comes with developed, city-based, fantasy worlds??? And this is where I agree that this is lazy writing. Where's the innovation? Where's the imaginative, unique, fantastical stuff that should be in a fantasy world?? So you create a metropolitan city filled with (almost) every fantastical being but as a writer you do not take advantage of letting your imagination run wild and create some cool stuff? Sorely disappointing. But, they have cellphones and headphones cause it's in an urban city, and busty redheads and brooding men with wings cause that's what her fans like and what she seems to fantasize herself?? But that's about it. I think the reason why it's rated so highly is because the people who would dislike it are done reading her work. They know what to expect, they know they won't like it and they don't even care to criticise it anymore. Clearly only her fans are rating it cause nobody else is bothering to read it.
I Love ur Comment. 😊
Only you would notice that someone didn't wash their booty 😂😂 This video was freaking amazing! Nugget stones 😂😂 At least you got the message of the book, though. Hope your living, laughing, and loving!
Before watching: will this book get Jess out of her reading slump or put her directly back in? The suspense is killing me.
Edit: "Is he mixed, is he light-skinned Black, is he a tanned White?" I want to know too.
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House of onion breath. Love you Jess
Got me a coffee and a snack, I'm seated and excited!!!
It took me 4 months to finish this book. I have so many issues with this book. The fact that I had no experience of the books before and I still think it's something else is madness. I read another urban fantasy book called Ashes of Blood before I read CC and I was like this indie book was better with a better main character. The way people were crying their eyes out over Bryce and Danika's friendship..lawd.
Should have read throne of glass first
@@anaquil currently trying to battle through ACOTAR I'm good.
this was the first book I ever opened up where I saw the first ten sentences of the book and said "wtf am I reading???"
Omg you acting out the flying with the cell phone…I died 🤣🤣
Omg the “dark tan” “amber skin” bs just kills me - why does this happen so much
As far as S.J. Goes for me… her only work is the first ACOTAR.
That is it. Nothing else exists.
Her penchant to completely change characters personalities to fit her favorite tropes pisses me off.
I get to liking her characters then she turns them into asshats. Screw that noise… 💔
Edit: I’m also ACE so, how people feel during “awkward sex scenes” is me even in “good sex scenes” (literally cannot tell the difference) so her just adding more sex and meaningless pages is… not… something that makes a book better?
I didn’t think she would ever read another SJM book 😂
Flapping his ass to the top of a building on his phone. Priceless
😂😂 that was very funny
I read this book when I had Covid last year, and honestly? I think it made my synptomns worse.
This book is such a mess!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Period 😂
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I absolutely love how unhinged this book got you
Honestly the best thing about the Crescent City world is the messenger otters.
The flying up a building wings out while on the phone took me out! 🤣
I'm imagining this story happening in a grocery store with all those delicious product names
I’m hollering at the Waffle House. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 take that medicine girl. We love that for you.
I'm partway thru the video so you might say this, but I wonder if Sarah has hit the mega-author place where no one will edit her books in the way they need to be edited. Or maybe the idea wasn't good from the start and because she's big money no one can say "shelve this project, Sarah J!!!" like a normal editor-author situation
At this point she was just free writing and never went back to see nothing made sense. She doesn't interact with her fans and I suspect she knows her fans will eat up everything she puts out with Bloomsbury and call it a masterpiece.
Special nuggets 🤣 I always love your energy and take on the books you talk about.
Watched this just for the well deserved rant. This was my first SJM book. The only thing that.made this series bearable is buddy reading it with 2 other family members.
But it has so many issues. I hate the ambiguous descriptions of skin tone. I think the author must have received criticism about not having people of color so she made them "golden" or "light brown".
About the use of the word "Hel". That's from Norse mythology. She is a goddess of the underworld. Which is NOT the same as the Christian Hell so I hated the way she substituted one word for another when they are not the same. She just picked mythological creatures from a lot of mythologies and threw them in the pot and didn't respect the cultures she took them from.
You can't call a being an "angel" which has a real world analog but never explain what they are in your universe. Many authors have done it by simply saying people saw these beings and saw them as divine.
The world building was terrible. What is this world? I think at some point she describes them eating Indian food? How? How is the food from that culture in this world? Is this Earth? Or is it just lazy world building?
I don't get the SJM hype.
They don’t edit her books because they know people will still buy it anyway.
I’m assuming that spelling of Hel is a reference to the Norwegian goddess of the underworld (but I haven’t read the book so I could be wrong)
It is, the book is honestly very overinflated with references to different mythologies.
Same as naming someone Rune.... Mythology is her free real estate
It is I watched Thor 3 too many times
Hel is spelled like that in Throne of Glass and ACOTAR too
Oh this is about to keep me entertained for the next hour 👀 Also side note, I pictured Crescent City sorta like New Orleans when I read this. Mainly bc of all the quarters and NOLA also being called Crescent City. If it wasn't for that idk how I would begin to picture it lmao
I honestly can't imagine reading the book, but listening to the plot from cari can read,, I lowkey enjoyed hearing just the plot. I feel like i would not be able to finish the book if i tried to read it though idk just getting the crucial bits satiated my desire to Know
Your rants bring me great joy!
I've been looking forward to this . Hell yeah that's almost an hour
All the creatures is an urban fantasy staple. Lol this is a feature not a Maas-ism. That being said, if you hated HoEaB and it was this bad for you I need you to go read HoSaB lmao because I need that rant. Please and thank you. OMG Crunchwrap City....I'm dead
I'm so sorry for your suffering 😭 between this video and Mari's recaps I am SO GLAD I don't have to read this book!!
Live, laugh, love, …….. and dance 😏 oh my gosh I’m dying 🤣🤣 I DNFed this book, but I’d pay money to try it again only if it was you doing the audiobook WITH commentary. 🤣👏🏻 seems like DNFing the book was a good choice for me based on your struggle.
She can't dance anymore?? Footloose! Will Kevin Bacon save them all👀
The racial ambiguity -- shes done it again folks! lol SJM did the same thing with Rhys skin. Also... Im pretty sure she said its Hunt on the cover of Sky and Breath and he looks Asian so ?? What is she trying to do?
Hoodwink us, bamboozle us, run us amok, leadus astray and flat out deceiving us!
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She gets credit without putting in the work
I have not and have no plan to read this book, but I AM immensely enjoying watching all my favorite booktubers suffer through and rant about these bricks of books
Yea the lack of stakes in a SJM book is always annoying
Hahaha I do think I read SJM for telenovela level drama 😂
So I loved crescent city bc it pulled me out of a reading slump...however, I loved your review lmao I was laughing throughout this entire video (I CACKLED when you described Hunt flying and answering his phone). And random but I bought a copy of Half A Soul since you recommended it in a previous video. I can't wait to dive in! And I hope your next book is a 5 star read that cleanses your reading palette lol.
This was litterly one of the best book reviews I’ve ever watched
I had a hard week and I needed this laugh. Thank you 😆
I couldn't get past chapter 2 the writing wad so bad. Tempted to rate 1 star on goodreads, but I usually don't rate books I dnf early. Also, the word you're looking for is immersion reading. Thats my favorite way to read fantasy books. Feel like it helps my concentration and enjoyment.
The way you just hate-read this ladies book knowing good and well you don't like ms. Sarah Janet. 😂 I feel the exact way about goofy Colleen Hoover. I'm here for it!
"That sounds like improper gun handling" sent😂 me!
Ahahaha I enjoyed Crunchwrap Supreme City but I read it at just the right time (super mood reader). This was hilarious tho. My thought is that Heinz Ketchup is a tanned white. Those are the vibes I'm getting. And as a fellow southerner I don't think I can look at their wings the same way 🤣💀💀 roaches are NOT IT
LMAO!! 😂 You are so hilah-ree-ous!!!! And thank you for this review. I have been on the fence about this book for weeks! No thanks SJM, I will pass. 😊
Your dramatic reading is the best part of this very fabulous video.
The DANCING. I’m so glad I’m not the only one 😂
No interest in reading these but I’m laughing my ass off. 😂😂😂
The new titles have me wheezing 🤣 💀
I read like 70% of A Court of Thorns and Roses to see what the hype was about and DNF and sold it 🤭
Should've read Ilona Andrews if you wanted enjoyable urban fantasy. Highky reccomend. Still enjoyed your rant!
I hope you enjoyed your iced coffee ☕ Jess
Both SJM and Cassandra Clare should stop writing long books. Most of the plot feels like filler
Just wanna say I loved this book but this is the Best. Review. Ever. “Danaan Yogurt”😂😂😂
I didn't even get to 100 pages. I was irritated and bored. Gladly gave it to Goodwill. I don't know what people like about that book. It honestly made me feel stupid for wasting time and brain cells on trash writing.
I enjoyed the book but your one liners have me rolling
This was brilliant. I'll never read anything of sjm. Hahah i loled. More of this please!
I loved this so much. It made my heart so happy! ❤
41:35 the flapping with the phone lmao 7:50
41:32 flapping his ass😂😂😂
I think Coyote Ugly City is my favorite.
Why does everything I hear sound like a low budget early 80s fantasy /Sci-fi mash up movie 👀🤔 the names, the setting, the yuppie protagonists ... The dancing it out.
"""Ruhn dannon makes me think of Dannon yogurt """ 😋 😛me too girl, me too.😋🤭
39:48 😂 40:06 😂 GIVE THIS GIRL A SHOW
Yes yes yes.
The joy i felt i oive Mass and her books and I thought maybe this will get better In the second book. How is it possible that there is no chemistry between the main leads at all
Ok for good urban fantasy just give up this series and read Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews lol