YES!!! I'm so excited to do this book tag, and thanks for the mention! And same, anything Ayn Rand I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole, lol. Congrats on a hundred subs!!
AHHH Oh my god I can't wait for your answers to this LOL Me and my friend Page are constantly smack talking Ayn Rand and it feels so validating to find other people Not Into That Shit I swear. And thank you!!! You're so close to 100 too!!!!!!!!!
I have her link in the description, but don't forget to check out Nicole's original video if you're planning to do this tag :, ) This tag blew up and I want to make sure the original creator gets their well deserved views as well!
thank you!!!! I felt no desire to continue on, but I am sort of interested in how it all wraps up. BUT I've also seen reeeeally mixed reviews on the third one?? AND THEY'RE ALL SO LONG.
Yeah my main problem is that I read them like 2-3 years ago... and have no memory of the plot? Just a vague lingering annoyance at some of the characters. Almost worse than HATING it.
I don't like smut heavy romance as well! I get so bored! Like, I know you guys wanna do it. Okay, just do it. I thought Lock Every Door and Home Before Dark were boring too! Have you read Final Girls? I think that's the only one I liked. Great tag!!
I haven't read Final Girls only because I'm so worried I'm gonna hate it and then I'm just gonna be giving the author yet ANOTHER low rating hahaha Also you should do the tag too I'd be interested!
smut scenes are so freaking awkward dude and I read the kiss quotient and that was... a ride. so many sex scenes in literally the first twenty pages, plus I listened to the audiobook so pulling up to the stop light with that going was ya know a great time. a book without ANY sex scenes that a romance book Is something to talk about, legit nothing happens until the last 40 pages which was chefs kiss from me.
EXACTLY OMG i listened to get a life chloe brown and was just sitting there embarrassed as hell like "oh we gotta skip this" and tried skipping thru and it was only even more awkward LMAO I'll have to look into something to talk about. i'm always drawn to romances for their like plots and fluffiness and a break from my fantasies but whew. they can be a lot LOL
bonding over hating something is truuuuue friendship. Also, I'm with on Daisy Jones, just doesn't sound too interesting to me? Kind of with you on the fae thing? It's the new vampires, but less scary? I just can't take them very seriously 😂Shook by your take on Riley Sager 😂If you like romance and mysteries together, the Charley Davidson books are some of my favs. The romance is fun and there's usually only about one smut scene per book.
“It’s the new vampires” IS SO TRUE Hahaha I feel like everyone needed a new sexy paranormal creature for their romances and threw a dart and landed on “fae” but I kinda wish they’d pivot to Cryptids. I’m tryna date Mothman. Also I will take your romance rec!! I have been trying to find a night break from all my fantasies
@@ShipwreckedLibrary giiiiirl, I'd take cryptids any day, that sounds so much more interesting! lol Omg, definitely let me know if you start the series, it's my favorite!
I have the same problem with super steamy romance. Not a fan. I didn't realize that Get a life Chloe Brown was like that....noooo I was so looking forward to reading it but I prob won't like it then.
It's REALLY sexual, so definitely not my style. I might recommend The Unhoneymooners though if you haven't read that one already! It contains a few sex scenes (I think two?) but most of it is about the two main characters hating each other and then slowly starting to like each other. Also Red, White and Royal Blue!
I hated Daisy Jones so good call. I loved Evelyn Hugo tho. 🤷🏻♀️ I had to read Ayn Rand in high school and that’s enough to me. Wow I had no idea about Stephanie Meyer.... 😬. I’m very Puritanical now 😂😂😂 this year has really shown me how much my tastes have changed since I was young. I would recommend American Royals which is a goood fun YA romance.
I doubt you’ll see this, but a good romance book is outlander. It does have sex scenes but they aren’t about the sex. They are written like any good sex scene, an exchange of emotions. There is actually a lot I can learn from them as a writer (Diana Gabaldon even released a book about it, “I give you my body…” how I write sex scenes.) They are very good books as well, incredibly written with a writing style I fell in love with. Content warning for the books, they contain rape and other stuff of that nature.
Good news and bad news. Good news is I like the video and the thought you put into choosing the books. Bad news is I'm kind of liking the Fey these days. Most of ny ESO characters are Fey. So, um, yeah. :)
You who taught me that Pixies were PURE EVIL???? Just kidding, I wouldn't doubt that if you shuffled the mortal coil, you'd pass over and become a wandering Fey spirit yourself. Probably the very mischievous kind too!
@@ShipwreckedLibrary I read it this year and I really enjoyed it. Surprisingly in depth world building for a stand alone novel, a strong female lead, and casual Bi and Trans Representation. It was just a good time overall.
Mistborn😍😍 i actually really liked Home before dark because of the slow pace, but I can see why you can dislike it. I agree about the romance thing 100% it drives me crazy especially those quotes they put on the cover!!
A friend of mine says I should get my dad on a zoom call and do a video with him HAHAHAH He is a very strongly opinionated man on the paranormal. Thank you for watching too, I just checked out your channel and subbed!
As soon as I was reading the first chapter of the second book and it was Lila, my brain was like "Rachael, please don't" so I had to move on LOL But I do like VE Schwab's writing and some of her other works, she's deff an author to look out for. As for Murakami, ehhhhh???? I'd google some of the quotes about women from his books. They're all so...hard to stomach omg I haven't read anything by him personally yet so I can't REALLY say but...........yunno
ok listen I know you said you don't want to read daisy jones... but let me just say: I did not have any interest in DJ. I thought I wouldn't like the book. But I'm not even kidding it's the best audiobook I have ever heard, the production quality is INSANE and I was absolutely shocked by how much I found myself caring about the story and its characters.
I had to read Addie Larue after your video literally bought it that day I think LOL Also I love her middle grade Cassidy Blake series, ngl. I am admittedly interested in the daisy jones’s audiobook JUST for how much people talk about it, I love a good audiobook. You might get me with this one
Good to know that you are a fellow skipper of sex scenes! 😄 I don't have any contemporary romances I'm comfortable recommending at this point - I need to reread them first. But! Ilona Andrews' Edge series is a quartet of romances, and I want to say that the first book has no sex at all? It's been a while since I've read them though. But the world building is very interesting.
I appreciate a lot of long paranormal romance series because A LOT of them don't have sex in them until like a few books in? They focus a lot on world building and plot and I reeeeeeally appreciate that aspect!
YES! Exactly!!!!!!!!! Some of the quotes I've seen have been so????? How can anyone read that and be like "totally fine, definitely a normal way to write about women"
I feel like people hate Lila because she’s just sort of written like a male character. V.E. Schwab wanted her to be an antihero, which is a trope that we allow men alllll the time. It’s that bristly, sometimes cruel but ultimately hopeful trope to reflect the duality of human nature. Lila’s not explicitly likable, and for some reason when we read that on a female character, we all have this violent reaction to it. I understand the internalized misogyny rubbing people the wrong way, but otherwise, if Lila were a man, no one would bat an eye.
I think that's a super valid point, and I do agree that female characters are not treated equally to male characters when they're displaying the exact same characteristics. But I just didn't like Lila in the first book, and after trying the second, I really couldn't get into her vibe at all. I am, however, always willing to defend Schwab from the unnecessary critique her writing gets. Being a female author in a male dominated genre is never easy, and I'm sure that's where some of the internalized misogyny comes in.
okay hi welcome to my pitching Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuinston as a romance novel. there are sex scenes, but they're not graphic?? it's just like the emotions?? there's no physical descriptions of anything and it's super ambiguous??? don't know how to describe it, but like I am a sex neutral (bordering sex repulsed) asexual person and it never bothered me, in fact it's probably my favorite book. so yeah that's the pitch because the romance is my favorite romance I have ever/will ever read. okay cool.
the ONLY reason I liked the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was the additional world building and that she genuinely never paints Snow as a "good person", but other than that it't just meh.
Ah yes, another who is not a fan of the Fae! Sure they can't technically lie but they sure aren't keen on giving you the truth either. 😒 And...was that a Cowboy Bebop reference at the end with the Space Cowboy?
@@ShipwreckedLibrary Not gonna lie, I miss the old animation styles from the 90s and early 2000s. And that opening? ICONIC! I can't wait to see what future references you use. ☺
I didnt care for Daisy Jones, Its just not a new story. I dont care about the "cool life of rock and roll" Its boring and romanticizes toxic relationships and drugs. Everyone seems to love Riley Sager I was thinking I gotta read it... so I know what everyones talking about. lol IDK
THANK YOU. I am very not into Daisy Jones bc the ~rock and roll~ lifestyle is sooooo fuckign boring and toxic to me. I would say if you're a HUGE horror fan, Riley Sager wont hit for you. BUT if you are kind of a light horror fan, you might like it! i found his stories so lacking, but people really love them!
YES!!! I'm so excited to do this book tag, and thanks for the mention! And same, anything Ayn Rand I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole, lol. Congrats on a hundred subs!!
AHHH Oh my god I can't wait for your answers to this LOL Me and my friend Page are constantly smack talking Ayn Rand and it feels so validating to find other people Not Into That Shit I swear. And thank you!!! You're so close to 100 too!!!!!!!!!
I have her link in the description, but don't forget to check out Nicole's original video if you're planning to do this tag :, ) This tag blew up and I want to make sure the original creator gets their well deserved views as well!
haha congraats on 100! And... sort of agree on A Darker Shade of Magic. I did finish the series, but don't think I should have probably.
thank you!!!! I felt no desire to continue on, but I am sort of interested in how it all wraps up. BUT I've also seen reeeeally mixed reviews on the third one?? AND THEY'RE ALL SO LONG.
Yeah my main problem is that I read them like 2-3 years ago... and have no memory of the plot? Just a vague lingering annoyance at some of the characters. Almost worse than HATING it.
OMG THE HARDCOVER COPIES OF MISTBORN ARE SO BEAUTIFUL OMG I WANT THEM
heheh red rising
my parents used to tell us scary stories about faeries (fairies?!), i ended up loving them xD
i love the unhoneymooners
i really like Did I Mention I Love You? by Estelle Maskame, it’s YA, but I make no promises lol
Same! Im so sad with the mass paperbacks. I think I'm gonna get the UK editions to match my second era Mistborn. But those hardcovers are gorgeous
I don't like smut heavy romance as well! I get so bored! Like, I know you guys wanna do it. Okay, just do it.
I thought Lock Every Door and Home Before Dark were boring too! Have you read Final Girls? I think that's the only one I liked. Great tag!!
I haven't read Final Girls only because I'm so worried I'm gonna hate it and then I'm just gonna be giving the author yet ANOTHER low rating hahaha Also you should do the tag too I'd be interested!
@@ShipwreckedLibrary I will do the tag! 😁
smut scenes are so freaking awkward dude and I read the kiss quotient and that was... a ride. so many sex scenes in literally the first twenty pages, plus I listened to the audiobook so pulling up to the stop light with that going was ya know a great time. a book without ANY sex scenes that a romance book Is something to talk about, legit nothing happens until the last 40 pages which was chefs kiss from me.
EXACTLY OMG i listened to get a life chloe brown and was just sitting there embarrassed as hell like "oh we gotta skip this" and tried skipping thru and it was only even more awkward LMAO I'll have to look into something to talk about. i'm always drawn to romances for their like plots and fluffiness and a break from my fantasies but whew. they can be a lot LOL
bonding over hating something is truuuuue friendship. Also, I'm with on Daisy Jones, just doesn't sound too interesting to me? Kind of with you on the fae thing? It's the new vampires, but less scary? I just can't take them very seriously 😂Shook by your take on Riley Sager 😂If you like romance and mysteries together, the Charley Davidson books are some of my favs. The romance is fun and there's usually only about one smut scene per book.
“It’s the new vampires” IS SO TRUE Hahaha I feel like everyone needed a new sexy paranormal creature for their romances and threw a dart and landed on “fae” but I kinda wish they’d pivot to Cryptids. I’m tryna date Mothman. Also I will take your romance rec!! I have been trying to find a night break from all my fantasies
@@ShipwreckedLibrary giiiiirl, I'd take cryptids any day, that sounds so much more interesting! lol Omg, definitely let me know if you start the series, it's my favorite!
I HATED Norwegian Wood and I’m so on the fence whether to give his books another try or not:(
I have the same problem with super steamy romance. Not a fan. I didn't realize that Get a life Chloe Brown was like that....noooo I was so looking forward to reading it but I prob won't like it then.
It's REALLY sexual, so definitely not my style. I might recommend The Unhoneymooners though if you haven't read that one already! It contains a few sex scenes (I think two?) but most of it is about the two main characters hating each other and then slowly starting to like each other. Also Red, White and Royal Blue!
@@ShipwreckedLibrary Adding to my TBR!
I hated Daisy Jones so good call. I loved Evelyn Hugo tho. 🤷🏻♀️ I had to read Ayn Rand in high school and that’s enough to me. Wow I had no idea about Stephanie Meyer.... 😬. I’m very Puritanical now 😂😂😂 this year has really shown me how much my tastes have changed since I was young. I would recommend American Royals which is a goood fun YA romance.
I have actually heard of really good things about American Royals too!! I might pick it up!!
I doubt you’ll see this, but a good romance book is outlander. It does have sex scenes but they aren’t about the sex. They are written like any good sex scene, an exchange of emotions. There is actually a lot I can learn from them as a writer (Diana Gabaldon even released a book about it, “I give you my body…” how I write sex scenes.)
They are very good books as well, incredibly written with a writing style I fell in love with.
Content warning for the books, they contain rape and other stuff of that nature.
Good news and bad news. Good news is I like the video and the thought you put into choosing the books. Bad news is I'm kind of liking the Fey these days. Most of ny ESO characters are Fey. So, um, yeah. :)
You who taught me that Pixies were PURE EVIL???? Just kidding, I wouldn't doubt that if you shuffled the mortal coil, you'd pass over and become a wandering Fey spirit yourself. Probably the very mischievous kind too!
@@ShipwreckedLibrary Pixies are evil. Elves are decent folk, so long as you don't piss them off.
I know you dont care for holly black but she did create a vampire novel called The Coldest Girl in Cold Town
I've heard of that one actually!! And I'm WAY more interested in vampires, so I might give that one a shot too!
@@ShipwreckedLibrary I read it this year and I really enjoyed it. Surprisingly in depth world building for a stand alone novel, a strong female lead, and casual Bi and Trans Representation. It was just a good time overall.
wow.... 101 subscribers???? the most subbed person on YT honestly
Mr Beast like WHOM
@@ShipwreckedLibrary 102
Mistborn😍😍 i actually really liked Home before dark because of the slow pace, but I can see why you can dislike it. I agree about the romance thing 100% it drives me crazy especially those quotes they put on the cover!!
I need to do this tag! I loved listening to you hate thing. Also I want to hear more about your dad’s opinions of fairies.
A friend of mine says I should get my dad on a zoom call and do a video with him HAHAHAH He is a very strongly opinionated man on the paranormal. Thank you for watching too, I just checked out your channel and subbed!
@@ShipwreckedLibrary yes! I love it. You really should have him on your channel. That would be interesting. Also thanks!
Yes!! I dislike Lila as well, at the end of the series I actually started being okay with her at the end, but the first book drove me crazy
As soon as I was reading the first chapter of the second book and it was Lila, my brain was like "Rachael, please don't" so I had to move on LOL But I do like VE Schwab's writing and some of her other works, she's deff an author to look out for. As for Murakami, ehhhhh???? I'd google some of the quotes about women from his books. They're all so...hard to stomach omg I haven't read anything by him personally yet so I can't REALLY say but...........yunno
congrats on 100 SUBSCRIBERS!!!
ok listen I know you said you don't want to read daisy jones... but let me just say: I did not have any interest in DJ. I thought I wouldn't like the book. But I'm not even kidding it's the best audiobook I have ever heard, the production quality is INSANE and I was absolutely shocked by how much I found myself caring about the story and its characters.
YESS ADDIE LARUE ok I'm glad u didn't write her books off completely
I had to read Addie Larue after your video literally bought it that day I think LOL Also I love her middle grade Cassidy Blake series, ngl. I am admittedly interested in the daisy jones’s audiobook JUST for how much people talk about it, I love a good audiobook. You might get me with this one
Good to know that you are a fellow skipper of sex scenes! 😄 I don't have any contemporary romances I'm comfortable recommending at this point - I need to reread them first. But! Ilona Andrews' Edge series is a quartet of romances, and I want to say that the first book has no sex at all? It's been a while since I've read them though. But the world building is very interesting.
I appreciate a lot of long paranormal romance series because A LOT of them don't have sex in them until like a few books in? They focus a lot on world building and plot and I reeeeeeally appreciate that aspect!
NOT 1Q84!!!! BECAUSE SAME!!!!!!!!!
YES! Exactly!!!!!!!!! Some of the quotes I've seen have been so????? How can anyone read that and be like "totally fine, definitely a normal way to write about women"
@@ShipwreckedLibrary i bought it like upwards of 4 years ago and keep almost unhauling it before being like bUT WHAT IF
I feel like people hate Lila because she’s just sort of written like a male character. V.E. Schwab wanted her to be an antihero, which is a trope that we allow men alllll the time. It’s that bristly, sometimes cruel but ultimately hopeful trope to reflect the duality of human nature.
Lila’s not explicitly likable, and for some reason when we read that on a female character, we all have this violent reaction to it. I understand the internalized misogyny rubbing people the wrong way, but otherwise, if Lila were a man, no one would bat an eye.
I think that's a super valid point, and I do agree that female characters are not treated equally to male characters when they're displaying the exact same characteristics. But I just didn't like Lila in the first book, and after trying the second, I really couldn't get into her vibe at all. I am, however, always willing to defend Schwab from the unnecessary critique her writing gets. Being a female author in a male dominated genre is never easy, and I'm sure that's where some of the internalized misogyny comes in.
my day was horrible, but then i watched this video now my bank account is full and my skin is clear.
sponcer....................luv u so much
Congrats on a hundo subs!
(also yes why did Suzanne Collins write that book? No really, Suzanne, I have some questions.
Thank you so much!!!! No but really, Suzanne, can you do a press release and explain.......Just explain.......
Woo over a hundred subscribers! A book I couldn't get in to was Lord of the Rings. I tried so hard, but It just kept putting me to sleep.
I haven't read Tolkein since I was like 13??? I haven't even read The Hobbit yet LOL
@@ShipwreckedLibrary The Hobbit is what got me into reading =D
HI VIDEO TWIN! POSTED THE SAME DAY!
ALSO CONGRATS ON 100 SUBS!!!!!!
OH MY GOD I ALSO DON'T LIKE THE FAE OH MY GOD
I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE
okay hi welcome to my pitching Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuinston as a romance novel. there are sex scenes, but they're not graphic?? it's just like the emotions?? there's no physical descriptions of anything and it's super ambiguous??? don't know how to describe it, but like I am a sex neutral (bordering sex repulsed) asexual person and it never bothered me, in fact it's probably my favorite book. so yeah that's the pitch because the romance is my favorite romance I have ever/will ever read. okay cool.
the ONLY reason I liked the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was the additional world building and that she genuinely never paints Snow as a "good person", but other than that it't just meh.
Ah yes, another who is not a fan of the Fae! Sure they can't technically lie but they sure aren't keen on giving you the truth either. 😒
And...was that a Cowboy Bebop reference at the end with the Space Cowboy?
YES HAHAH Someone noticed!!! Cowboy Bebop has to be my all time favorite anime. So nostalgic.
@@ShipwreckedLibrary Such a classic! I was just thinking I needed to go back and re-watch me some Cowboy Bebop. 😁
@@mistybradley1217 I have a spread planned for my reading journey using nostalgic old animes like cowboy bebop! It's so beautifully animated
@@ShipwreckedLibrary Not gonna lie, I miss the old animation styles from the 90s and early 2000s. And that opening? ICONIC! I can't wait to see what future references you use. ☺
I didnt care for Daisy Jones, Its just not a new story. I dont care about the "cool life of rock and roll" Its boring and romanticizes toxic relationships and drugs. Everyone seems to love Riley Sager I was thinking I gotta read it... so I know what everyones talking about. lol IDK
THANK YOU. I am very not into Daisy Jones bc the ~rock and roll~ lifestyle is sooooo fuckign boring and toxic to me. I would say if you're a HUGE horror fan, Riley Sager wont hit for you. BUT if you are kind of a light horror fan, you might like it! i found his stories so lacking, but people really love them!
new to your channel . lets stay in touch , im a genuine supporter ! nana