I hated everything that happened in "Serpent & Dove" except for one scene
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Question of the video: if u were a witch who emanated a smell every time u used magic like Lou, what smell would it be? Mine would be hot cheetos
I was raised in a YA household. So my answer would be : Sandalwood whatever the heck that is
Patchouli oil #justiceforzendaya
Not gonna lie. Lime jarritos. I've drank so much of that in my lifetime that I'm pretty sure if I was to smell like something that'd be it.
Ngl, i would just smell like i hadn’t taken a shower for a month. So like real life.
That's tough, mine would be floo powder 😂it's a magical transport powder from harry Potter, just seemed fitting as the smell of magic yunno😂
the wiki describes the main character as being "slim with normal sized breasts" and im losing it
LOLLLL NOOOOOO
god i wish i was slim with normal sized breasts
@@iwakeupandboomimarat *big tiddy liddy*
Yet another unrealistic expectation for women ✌️😔
What the flapjack is "normal sized breasts" supposed to mean??!
The poorly used french in this book is like when you’re listening to anime songs and there’s just random english words thrown in for no reason
"Kiss kiss fall in love"
AlchameAngel or when its done in K-Pop
@@Witchy_Hoo...
ꂖ ꁏ ꁏ ꋊ ꂵ ꁲ ꀭ ꏹ ꌚ ꋖ ꂖ it true tho lol
@@xx_depressed_lilies_xx4281...
I know but i still listen to it...
Sarah J maas loving the book and Cindy not knowing because of the sticker placed over her name is the biggest plot twist in this video
That alone was more interesting than the whole plot of the book ngl
"You called her she...not it..."
*sobs* THE BASIC HUMAN DECENCY
Honestly sometimes I forget this is the standard a lot of men are held to irl 😭
jokes on y’all my pronouns are it/it’s
@@kodokuna. yuhhhh it/its pronouns are valid af
@@kodokuna. yoo letsgo it/its pronouns are valid as hell
@@kodokuna. ^^ ayyy it/its gang!! 👀
"Witches reproduce asexually"
Imagine, you're in the middle of the street, you see a woman and wonder if she's a witch. You get the answer when another identical witch splits off of her. You tremble in fear, as that witch produces another witch, they have started a colony...
thanks i hate it
Ohh so that’s how I was born
Frank -Undercover Dragon- plot twist... they were just twins standing next to each other
@@lifeabomination8050 username checks out
@@frostpersonal3758 Story checks out. You're free to go.
“Sometimes she pretends to be a man cause that’s how feminism works”
Me 😂
we love feminism~~
@@withcindy when u posted the video about your book, i was actually going to ask if your main character (or even the little sister) pretending to be male was an option or if that would be too cliche. but that is/was a reality for women just trying to get by in a man's world. i think it's all in how it's written.
Ngl, I really wanna see a character who pretends to be a man out of necessity and once doing so realizes "hey wtf this feels so right, am I trans?" Maybe I'll have to write that myself
@@wt8257 Wright it. Now.
@@wt8257 write it yourself and let us know after you’re done
THE COMEDIC PERFECTION OF SARAH J. MAAS' NAME BEING COVERED BY THE LABEL STICKER SFHJGSDFJ
😄😄 I was going to read that book then I saw the cover of the book and how she said she loved it. That's why I've decided not to read it. I don't think someone who writes things like that is able to like something good.
the only right decision...
i live for the idea that she might one day read and roast throne of glass
That took me out
Unrelated but I love your profile pic
Listening to that sex scene has not only confirmed to me that I'm asexual, but that I will not have a good night's sleep for a while
So you’re a witch too?
@@bluetube364 same here sis
Yeah, welcome to our coven😊
@@bluetube364 yup as aces we are witches and dragons
ayy yo ace gang lets goooo
"Why is a black witch named 'Coco'? Is there an Asian witch named 'Dim Sum'? I guess it could have been worse. I mean, there could have been an Asian witch named 'Cho Chang'."
5 minutes later and I'm still laughing at this.
I shouldn't be laughing...
But damn it's so funny
Miss Dim Sum you should act more like a lady!🤣
Laughs in walrus!... lololol
Hannah Atela I’m dying. Lol.
FUCK LMAO
oh shit
When your man calls you by your name instead of "it" 😩💦💦💦
omgggg makes me wet
💘💞💖💕💝💓💓🥵😍🥰😍😍😍🥺🥺😘😘🥰🥰 🥰🥰🥰🥰🤤💦💦💦
couple goals 😍
GET YOURSELF A MAN WHO-
@@unfortunateanchor1717 - CALLS YOU BY YOUR NAME!
When I said I wanted ace representation, THIS ISN'T WHAT I MEANT.
Honestly - same. Does anyone know good fiction books which have decent ace representation? Cause' it ain't in this book.
@@lamar6431 I've finally stared reading his books (I should have done so much earlier). I can't wait to meet this character. Thank you so much for the recommendation - I've been struggling to find ace representation (or at least good ace representation in books.) Thank you! :)
@@eveofjustice3286 you’re welcomeee. Btw, if you’re going to read them in order (his books) you’re going to have to wait a little till you see representation, mainly after PJO, but then there is more diversity.
@@lamar6431which one I just read them but I think I missed that somehow
@@asrieldreemurr1988 I haven’t read the trials of Apollo, but it’s in them. There is also diversity in his other books. The Kane Chronicles has a black main character for example.
When he was caught "beating her" in public and the marriage was arranged, I thought a more expected solution would have been to just say that she's a witch and he was doing his job. I mean, they don't know that she's a witch for sure, but isn't the point of the witch hunt blaming random women anyway? Maybe the guy could even feel bad about the lie and that's how they get romantic, and there could have been this whole reveal of her actually being a witch, but at that point he's cool with it. Unfortunately, we have to contrive the forced marriage anyway, because Hot Trends.
thats what i was thinking as well
That is such a better solution!
Honestly, yes, this is great. The way the whole decision of marriage happened was so bland like, Lou's supposed to be badass but she's asking someone else to protest the decision in her place? Also, if Lou protested the marriage, why didn't Arch Bishop himself just say they'd frame her as a witch if she didn't comply! Try to sell the fuckin alternative, at least try to convince me you're smart! But Straight up, if that were me and I were in hiding, I'd take the marriage deal cuz you know there's some privileges to being married to a chasseur. Then a few weeks later, have your husband slowly die of poison after secretly gathering funds to run away. The more they get to know each other, she feels guilty, tries to cure him but gets caught and shit goes sideways.
The archbishop was lou's father right? So maybe he did it to protect her
Fr Bro i thought the same thing.
"witches are asexuals"
where is my hogwarts letter then
SAME
EXACTLY
Jk Rowling was too busy being a bitch to send it
That's what I'm saying 😂
i tried to reply to this comment but youtube keeps deleting it because of inappropriate words :|
The author of the book: "tight little ass"
Cindy: "Excuse me, this is medieval France."
i literally laughed out loud i can'ttttt
Petite with a dash. Respect the world-building!
Keeley F I was about to be like ‘why doesn’t this have more likes’ but then I realized that it was posted 42 minutes ago
pardon, it's petit cul serré, because it'ç WoRLdBUilDing
"It's petite ass"
"Open mind, open legs." Is my new favorite quote and I'm so glad I found your channel.
Welcome aboard!
this book isn't set in medieval france, it's set in a renaissance fair full of people wearing 20 dollar costumes from Wish
Your comment gave me life 😂
Not the 20 dollar Wish costumes 😂
In the Evermore park
i kid u not a day after i finished this book i woke up in the middle of the night crying bc i heard someone sing big tiddy liddy in a fever dream
NOOOOOOO
I'm just imagining someone singing the song quietly and then the song slowly grows louder as the rest of the chaos of the dreams ensues
I would start sobbing too honestly.
@@blankslate7491 oh god that would be horrifying
@@NylaTheWolf that's the point
"The precise colour of the sea." You mean that thing notorious for having an insane variation in its colour? Lol
LOL
we all know the sea has only 1 color
I only sea one color
Something's fishy here...
I only sea one thing ... oh whale
I got really excited when you said that the witches emit a smell when using magic, I was like "OMG each witch can smell like different things"
Like, in my lil head, especially given that this is a romance book, you could have the lemon witch, the strawberry witch, the pine sol witch, and etc. And witches could go into industries that make their extremely potent aromas more believable, like a lumberjack which cutting down timber and smells like pine, like "oh that's totes normal" or a bread witch in a bakery, again "totes normal"
but no.
This author gave us B.O.
In "The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel", each magic user emits a different smell. Like Nick's is mint, the main characters' are oranges and vanilla ice cream.
I was thinking the smell might come based on what the witch eats, the same way out vagaygays smell and taste different whether we had pineapple or nachos for dinner 😂
Sounds like strawberry shortcake
@@sin3358 I spit out my coffee reading this comment lol I xD
@@KDsage123 A YEAR LATE BUT THIS COMMENT REAWAKENED MY NOSTALGIA FOR THIS SERIES TY FOR REMINDING ME OF IT
When you have sex, bleeding a whole lot is actually a very bad sign. It means there isn’t a lot of lubrication and that the woman isn’t turned on lol. Even if there is slight tearing, there should not be more blood than you might get from a light period. The experience is natural and shouldn’t cause you LITERAL INJURY.
I read Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar in college and it’s semi-autobiographical and she writes about the main character’s first time and he did…nothing for her and she fuckin HEMORRHAGED!!!! I was disgusted and the guy did nothing to help her
i thought that she meant was to show they had period sex? 😭 i mean even then as someone who has periods I'd be surprised if it was really that messy, cuz my flow is way lighter when I'm laying down or in the shower... but I've never done that so idk
@@kai_fatallysapphicthe implication was for sure that losing her virginity somehow produced a full pint of blood, but really the most you should have is some light spotting. period sex is fairly messy if you're rough or have a heavier flow, enough to want to double layer a towel over your bedsheets. it usually ends up with blood on your partner and a lot of cleanup afterwards! definitely not something you do on bare, fresh sheets 😭
yeah, plus a lot of women break their hymen before intercourse without noticing because it takes little force to do so, and there's generally not much blood involved. in other words, bleeding all over the bed like she hemorrhaged wouldn't even confirm that they consummated, just that she had a horrible time!
@@kya_spectre there's people who never break their hymen in their entire life even
cindy: I hated everything in this book except for 1 scene
me: it was the sex scene, wasn't it
yes.
69th like.
readwithcindy I’d like your reply, but it has 69 likes.
@@wooyeah1738 90 now!
hahahhaahha
She could just say “he didn’t hit me.” Things would have been fine.
Nah that would be too SIMPLE AND LOGICAL!!!
That’s literally what I was thinking, if you’re gonna have a forced marriage story plot it needs to be plausible at least.....I can’t believe I just said that...
She _could_ have said that, but why would they believe a woman? Y'all are being unrealistic.
FloraNB sadly, I find it more believable that society would believe a woman who said nothing happened over a woman who said something did
He did not hit me, ints not true, its bullshit, He did not hit me. Oh hey l, Mark
The fact that you congratulated your friends on their baby right after you described a graphic sex scene, sent me to the stratosphere.
im sorry, she legitimatelt sings the words "big tiddy liddy" in a BOOK??? set in MEDEIVAL FRANCE????? WTF
A song that rhymes in English (but wouldn't in French or another language unless it was similar enough to English structurally)... Sung in medieval France... O.K.
“There could’ve been an Asian witch called Cho Chang.”
_”... wait.”_
Aurell S. I can only think of starkid damn
@@Isabel-js3yh "I'm Cho Chang, y'all!"
Isabel
Tbh same, Starkid’s Cho Chang is iconic
Does that name mean anything or allude to anything? I don't get the joke.
WhiteScorpio2 The Asian witch in Harry Potter was named Cho Chang
Cindy: makes fun of a bad book for almost 40mins
Me, who hasn’t read the book and has no plans to read the book: haha damn ur so right
Same
Yep me too 😂
And me!
thank u for ur unconditional support
This is why I loved all her reviews regarding the court of thorns and roses series. I’ve sworn off of reading that series and throughout all her reviews I just loved how her commentary further proved that I wasn’t missing out on anything good. So thank you so much for that Cindy, now I never have to read these shitty books and still decently understand their hot garbage
I was reading Serpent and Dove, and one of the things I realized is that Lou is 18. So when she mentioned Ansel's age, I was like, "Girl, you aren't that much older."
yeah she weird
“Is the an Asian witch named Dim Sun” finally got my phone to drop while laughing. Oh Cindy…. You are sooo brutal
As a French person, I would like to confirm, all of our bakers are named "Pain"
+
I-
Oof
you say "i wouldn't have known this character wasn't a baker if they weren't named pan" and i was immediately thrown back to the hunger games flashbacks. why peeta. why.
peeta walked so that pan could run
Wait, he was actually called “Pan”? As a francophone I thought it was just Cindy mispronouncing “Pain”
Lolol
I love that he is a witch hunter and is unable to identify a witch that's practically smacking her identity in his face. Nobody in this book is good at their job
Why are so many authors obsessed with the idea of “copper hair” I feel like every abusive leading man has to have copper hair is this Edward Cullen’s legacy?
LMAOOOOO Edward I love you but I blame YOU for this
Smh, they have to be Edward’s legacy😭
It's strange since everyone hates gingers
Also the icy blue eyes, it’s like bad boys™️ are not legally allowed to have any other eye colour💀
Lmao it's just like korean manhwa male lead characters, most of them have black hair and red eyes 😂
I had this as an audiobook. Imagine hearing big tiddy liddy on a crowded ny train and praying your wireless headphones don't short out
good god,,,,
Someone had to read that line multiple times.
it's nyc. you know you've seen weirder.
@@Udontkno7 I'm used to seeing spectacles on the train but I never want to be one 😂
everyone just,,,, goes quiet,,,, ,, ,
no one:
cindy: OPEN MIND OPEN LEGS
👁👄👁 i see it
WHERE is this T-shirt
669
This book is literally the definition of, “I’m not laughing with you, I’m laughing at you”.
Cindy crawling into bed to scream after she found out Sarah J. Maas said this was her favorite book has the same energy as Truth crawling out of her well to shame mankind
Tbh a witch named Dim Sum sounds more realistic than Cho Chang.
the sad thing is ur right
threelonelymoomins Dim Sum be tastier too
@@higherbeinglinmanuelmolera7908 😳😳😳
Imagine if there was a hispanic witch named Salsa de Valentina
Or Taco de frijol xD
Taco De Canasta
Brazilian witch named Arroz Com Feijão
Giovana C uma bruxa brasileira chamada samba e futebol kkkkkk
@@comradeernie7686 o gritão q eu dei 😂😂😂
"Fuck the me too movement, what about the church?"
You did it you broke the catholic church down to its bare essentials
"the poor mans versions of Nina and Matthias" i'm already choking up this is incredible i--
Cindy is so cursed that in a few years, when she publishes her book, there’s going to be some sort of mistake and one of the blurbs is gonna end up being written by Sarah J. Mass 🤣
LMFAO i would love that actually
@@withcindy "Cindy Pham's debut novel is truly awe-inspiring and it remains surprisingly entrancing until the end despite the serious lack of faerie dick. The main character seems to be gay however she did not come out through a 6-page monologue so we will never be able to know for sure. The LGBT community deserves better" - Sarah J. Maas
Susana Vieira
*SNORT 🤣😂
Sarah J. Mass is one of my favourite authors of all times.You mustn't have read Throne of Glass.The series which lead me to love books.💘
Serena sinha Cindy literally did an entire series on her books
Asexuals keep getting done dirty by these romance books
so i just finished reading this book and wanted to see people's opinion on it. abt the asexual thing, its not the sexuality. its asexual reproduction, meaning they produce offsprings without needing a second parent. example, an amoeba parent splitting into two to produce two daughter cells. thats a misunderstanding.
AdiMadee Z how does Lou have a dad then? Was she the only one?
@@hanaomer4419 they just assumed that witches produced offsprings asexually, as there arent any male witches. its not that they arent sexually attracted to other people/witches. the witches in the book have relationships with other witches, which promotes that witches can be lesbian. other than that, during modraniht (lou's sacrifice), reid, beau and ansel sneak into the château as consorts. also proving that witches have sexual attraction to males.
@@hanaomer4419 I'm pretty sure reid was joking anyway it's not a serious point that he was trying to make
@@hanaomer4419 pretty sure all witches are female, but they didn't mention warlocks so........ 🤔😅
Graphic sex scene in a YA novel + only one black character (who almost dies)... no wonder SJM loves it so much 😂
😂🖤
I have to give props to the person that designed the art in the cover, the plot doesn’t sound like something I would enjoy but the cover is beautiful and it would defined make it stand out
Girl spilled blood on bed like she was Feminist Tarantino
LMAO
Are we even gonna pretend to be surprised that the only scene Cindy liked was the sex scene?
even im not surprised
THE CHO CHANG REFERENCE I CAN’T
Not sure if anyone has said, but the whole consummation thing actually used to be a thing in Europe. If I'm correct, you can file for annulment or divorce quicker if you claim there was no consummation. So it might just be like a "historically accurate" take (also the watching them consummate was also a thing)
I remembered my mom said that when she was a kid, there was a marriage in her city, and the next morning the bride's family actually did take the marriage sheet and hung it in front of the house. So people could see the blood stain and know she was a virgin when they consummated the marriage. And that she could have been abandoned and badmouthed in the city if the sheets weren't bloody and she didn't feel pain. So that was a thing, apparently, at least in small, religious rural cities in the 1970s'.
@@anacecilia1387 imagine having to be that girl
No, not really. You could request annulment if someone was not following through with their "conjugal duty" but that had nothing to do with whether you lost your virginity or not.
That kind of thing happened like a couple times with literal royals where the important thing was having children that could be heirs to the throne, definitely not a dude from what's essentially an ecclesiastic organization.
"Witches can give birth therefore they're women"
"Witches can only give birth with other witches therefore they're asexual"
I am confusion-
we don't have time to unpack all that
@@withcindy the sex scene was the only thing that carried the whole book 😂😂
Whyyyyy
@@withcindy I read this as john mulaney i-
I’m so confused as to how all infertile women aren’t women anymore...
"there could've been an asian witch named cho chang" SHE WENT THERE 💀
teehee
As a random person, who hates reading books, stumbling across the "I read A Court of Wings and Ruin and now I’m an alcoholic" video, then went to "I read A Court of Frost and Starlight and it ruined my Christmas" and now this, I haven't stopped laughing.
Goddamn I am so sick of a male character getting introduced being an absolute asshole to the female lead and having to inevitably brace for when they get together. It does not matter the genre or the target audience, every damn author thinks this is a great way to introduce the love interest.
Shout out to our queen and savior Tamora Pierce, she introduced a sexist, hot asshole in First Test and then never made Kel hook up with him or even like him, true icon.
“sexist hot asshole” 💀💀
@@kavya71954 She also killed him unceremoniously in the third book. It was beautiful.
@@nomisunrider6472 as she should but why is his sexism considered hot…?
@@kavya71954 Kel notes several times that Joren is objectively a beautiful guy and on another man she might have found his features attractive, but his misogyny and bullying is too repulsive for her.
What book is this
Book: tight little ass
Cindy: _Ma'am, this is medieval France._
It is _petité ass_ with the accent mark cause you gotta respect the world building
@@JustinPageSlayer that'd be peh-teet-ay TT-TT I think she meant pétit, which is wrong too
@@thatb1h855 Yeah, I couldn't think of _where_ she wanted accent mark to actually go XD. I'm sure the _world building_ understands. And if it doesn't well, it can shove it up its _petité_ ass
@@JustinPageSlayer I'm crying it's PETIT no accent mark
@@zoeb3573 I'm sorry, but Cindy disagrees, and she is CLEARLY a linguistic master
"I guess it could have been worse, there could have been an Asian witch name 'Cho Chang' ... Wait -"
I wheezed.
I sighed, disappointed but not surprised
Was there really a character in that name??!! I didnt read the book
@@reemgaga5622 Yes, Harry's crush before Ginny. I'm pretty sure they kissed in the movies.
Amy G. Dala they kissed in the books, too.
Amy G. Dala NOOOO
17:28 "It's like she could smell the problematic love story, and she started salivating."
I almost woke everyone in my house with my laughter. God! This line is so funny!
Somebody needs to find Cindy her emotional support himbo, quick
I think it’s too late
"Sometimes she pretends to be a man, because that's how feminism works" Never change, Cindy, I'd move mountains for you
just like how rhysand moved mountains?
readwithcindy I literally KNEW you were going to reply something along the lines of that. I watch too many of your videos.
readwithcindy He moved them with HIS mountain if you know what I’m sayin’
@@barelyfunctioning3982 ;) ;)
@@barelyfunctioning3982 of course he did, he _does_ have the biggest wings, after all
i truly read the cover as “serpent dave” and i’ll never recover
That's the spin off
Serpent Dave sounds like a super sketchy reptile store in a Florida strip mall.
LMAOOOOO I probably won't notice that if I didn't read your comment
what thats not what its called?
edit. i just checked the vide title, im just blind
The plot of the book Reid was reading was actually the plot of A Court of thorns and roses
You're telling me this is a published book and not just bad fanfic
The bar is very low
The quality of the prose is worse than fanfictions.
according to another comment i saw this actually used to be a fanfic on wattpad… you’re not that far off
At this point they will truly publish anything these days and that's actually kinda sad...
It's actually a Wattpad book entitled "La Dame Blanche" around 2017 before she deleted it.
When ur man stops dehumanizing you ❤🥰🥰💘💖💝💓💕💝💕💝💓💘💗
we love to see it
its truly heartwarming
we luv ittt 🥰❤️🥰💕💕💗💞💖💕💔💗💖💞💖
BWAHAAHAHAAHAHAHA
the bar really is six feet under huh
Your beef with Sarah J. Maas added 10 years onto my life
Sameee
The beef with Sarah j mass actually made me start reading her books to see if they were really that bad. They are.
@@jalexoneschanel1356 poor baby. Why did you do that?
@@jalexoneschanel1356 Not me loving Sarah J. Maas books-
@@andrikfelix6507 yeah whats wrong with her books
My dream as an inspiring author would be Cindy saying my book is good.
Although I suck at writing. And I haven't even started the first chapter.
"Favourite colour?"
"Blue."
"Boring!"
I dunno why, but this is what it took to make me hate this character.
this book: witches are asexual because they give birth to only witches
actual asexuals:
Is it for real? I legit lost some brain cells trying to understand.
@@ABJC94 don't 😂
Witches mitosis?
so i just finished reading this book and wanted to see people's opinion on it. abt the asexual thing, its not the sexuality. its asexual reproduction, meaning they produce offsprings without needing a second parent. example, an amoeba parent splitting into two to produce two daughter cells. thats a misunderstanding.
@@adimadeez thanks! I felt kinda uneasy about people taking offense from that word. It's been a scientific term in biology studies for much longer than the implied meaning here, and it's used correctly.
Now i just want to read a book where there's only one white person and their name is Mayo.
you made me choke on my pepsi :c
*Vanilla
Better name would be tofu. White and flavorless
Well, there is a tale in which a German girl is named Snow White...
Token white character, May O'naise.
The part about “you’re only a woman if you can give birth” really irked me, like what about trans women? Infertile women? Are they no longer women anymore? That kind of thinking is so damaging and there’s so much to unpack there (don’t even get me started on the asexual comment) Our value and identity as women doesn’t just amount to on whether or not we can give birth.
Oh man let me get started on the asexual comment then. "Witches only give birth to other witches, so they're basically asexual." Since when is a person's sexuality determined by the characteristics of the children they birth? Unless he meant that in a biological sense in which case an organism creating another organism describes all reproduction, sexual or not. Does Reid think that sex doesn't matter in sexual reproduction? Or that witches can give birth by themselves? Do they have a cloning spell??
@@guy-sl3kr I think he meant they reproduce asexually. No idea how that works.
@@kalyanigollamudi759 it would be funny if they just had huge bulge on day in their back (you know like budding in yeast) and the next day there's a clone witch saying 'hi mommy!'
You do realize that this is supposed to be set up in fantasy medieval France, right? If this wasn't the land of misogyny, I don't know what is.
I legit wanted to punch a wall hearing that
Anger + Thirst = Angst.
Remember boys and girls:
When in danger start singing “Big Tiddy Liddy” you’ll be fine.
It's a fool proof plan
got it, gotta get studying-
i cant believe the words "big tiddy liddy" were ever published
Me... Neither ..
That was my nickname in high school
big tiddy liddy goth loth gf
God same
“Are you angry or thirsty? I guess both” that’s lou’s whole personality 😭
The comment about Cho Chang SENT me. xD
The Church: "Thou shalt not suffer a which to live."
Cindy, true big brain intellectual: "Witches get stitches."
It's the same thing but with fewer words
now, this is a way to spend time while on quarantine
stay safe!!
you too!
facts!
"Reid is like a booktuber that's always advocating for diversity in books but then you watch his vlogs and you realise that he only hangs out with white people" 🤣
This. 🤣
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live"
No sis, it's ✨witches get stitches✨
The author really knows nothing about France lol, French doesn't even have proper gender neutral pronouns so the whole scene of him calling witches "it" wouldn't make sense in the language they should be speaking
Arianna CG and also calling the head witch of the white witches "Morgane LeBlanc" and Not "LaBlanche" is Kinda weird
@@livenitup862 lol i hadn't notice it, how can a person get so many things wrong
Ça
@@zeera7080 which is the feminine form, as there is also ce, the masculine. So even the word 'it' would be feminized, meaning the author is still wrong.
@@Swordprincess777 "Ça" is not the feminine form of "ce". It's a contraction of "cela", and its counterpart is "ceci". They roughly translate to "that" and "this", respectively. I honestly have trouble with when to use "ce" vs. "ça", since they're similar (I'm learning French), but suffice it to say they're not the feminine and masculine versions of each other.
“Open mind, open legs” def my new tinder bio
yesss that'll get u the swipes
When cindy described her favorite trope of big buff men with no sexual experience, I never thought I'd relate to a youtuber so much
I’m tempted to read Sarah J Maas JUST to see the beef u got with her 👀
Fanfiction authors out there write better books for free and funzies while this woman is probably making a fortune with THAT
Not the first one to do so, and sadly will not be the last. Like most other industries the book publishing one can seem to be really unfair at times.
yep, i'm trying my very fucking best to write some chapters for one of story and the other one as well too!
As an aspiring fanfic writer, I felt this😔✊.
ive found oneshots better than published book series smh
@@monus782 69 I can't like.
Honestly I'm beginning to think being a new York times bestseller doesn't always mean you're a good and unique writer, sometimes it just means you're capable of catering to the thirsty middle-aged housewife community.
Anybody can be a New York times bestseller TbH, it's literally printed on every book at the store lol
@Jennifer Wang still... Cas and Cindy got a point.
There are so many books titled as (NYT) Bestsellers. But a lot of them go into the same niche and are often doubtful in their quality.
Don't know... maybe it's just taste 🤷♀️, still if you consider that Sarah J. Maas, E.L.James and the After-Lady sold their books to be Bestsellers it's really sad.
There could be so many more fantastic, original books out there, if people would just change the way books are advertised.
@Jennifer Wang yeah. Guess that's true too.
When I was a kid I read a book about a tiny kid who was really good at living at a mansion discreetly because her dad was the mechanic and she lived down in the furnace room. That book said New York times bestseller. It wasn't incredible but I had a blast reading it.
@Mae McCardle You are right! I love that book
Hey fun fact: this started out as SOC fic. I'm not kidding. It was literally SOC fic on wattpad
Explain please?🤨
Omg WTF
AYO WHAT??? IMA NEED SOME MORE DETAILS PLEASE-
WHAT?! I-wh
*windows log-off sound*
waHT
"blue"
"boRINg. MiNE Is GolD. Or ToRuQoisE. or EMerALd."
are we just going to let "big willy billy" slide by like that...
i ship billy and liddy
readwithcindy billy x liddy = biddy/ lilly
@@withcindy You'll be happy to know that in Book 2 it is revealed to the protagonists by an immortal god-like creature that Billy and Liddy were actual real people who existed and ended up getting married.
@@kajamiletic3223
Hell yeah
The church could have said "Omg she is a witch and that's the reason he was hitting her" and since nobody cares about a women they would be fine
they didnt know she was a witch yet! they couldve just said she was a thief tho
@@withcindy But did they have to know she was a witch at all? I mean, if all they care about is saving the man's reputation, that's the quickest and easiest way. It's not like the witch trials only killed actual witches.
The archbishop was trying to save her, he didnt want her to die. The readers just didn't know it at the time.
Or else, just have her say, in public, "This was a big misunderstanding, this man was not hitting me." If she doesn't want to do it, then offer her something she'd like in return. THERE ARE A THOUSAND WAYS OUT OF THIS SITUATION WHY IS MARRIAGE THE ONE YOU GO WITH
@@pennywright3274 you put way too much work and sense than the author did--but how else would she have her characters get married?
Yeah I’m DNF-ing this literally right now and came to TH-cam for some validation. Here it is, three years earlier.
I JUST WANTED A DECENT STEAMY FANTASY WITH ANGST. This was a messy mess.
Tbh I think some of this is being taken out of context unintentionally but I don’t blame you because the author does a shitty job in general. I think the stuff like forcing people to consummate their marriage, think of married women as property, etc. is part of the contextualization for this time period. But again, the author is inconsistent with displaying historical accuracy, sometimes she will show characters who strictly believe in traditional marriage practices, other times they are using slang for comedic effect that doesn’t align with anything. This makes it incredibly difficult to know if she is contextualizing, or just inserting absurd things. I think the author wanted Reid to be extremely sexist and dehumanizing of witches at first, to emphasize that’s how he was raised to see the world, but it just didn’t translate really well since his development towards healthier beliefs isn’t really shown.....the author just tells you, ta-da he loves Lou and would never hurt her despite her being a witch. I kind of knew this book would suck when I saw the words “Pompous ass” repeated thrice on the same page. 😐
In my headcanon for this book, which I was entertained by despite its absolute trashiness, it's the witches who talk in slang and the common mortals who adhere to the norms of the time period. Which makes sense if you consider the fact that the witches have a whole-ass subculture that is matriarchal and sexually liberated and that most of them grow up far away from the Muggles, so if this were a better author it would have presented a nice contrast for the witches to have distinct speaking patterns that seem more "modern" to reflect the more modern values that they hold.
Well put
Cindy: * says book is melodramatic *
Also Cindy: * gets into bed and screams at ceiling because SJM exists *
I think that's a perfectly fair reaction
readwithcindy it really is
Same tho
its not melodramatic if it's valid
damn i wish you were the narrator for my life, an opinionated overseer that judges all my stupid decisions
me if i were God
Yes please
"This dumb hoe really texted her ex back after watching the Bachelor, what a dumbass move-"
I would love that.
Not even kidding , the way the two characters end up getting married here is veryyy similar to a very recent rape case in india. The man raped a woman , but the court agreed to drop the charges since the family proposed that the man and woman would just get married. Yes , that genuinely happened , i am in shock too gurl.🤯
This was commonplace in most places throughout history. Look up the famous court case from Sicily around circa 1970 that was revolutionary for the fact that, once the girl's family pressed rape charges and the judge ordered the rapist to marry her as a kind of restitutive justice, she just refused. It was a hallmark moment for Italian feminism and unheard of at the time.
Every time I remember that the main dude is a "chasseur" or however it's spelled it reminds me that the French word for shoe is "chaussure."
I think I'd like this better if it was a romance between a witch and a shoe.
you're the main character of a long ass tv show that was supposed to end 5 seasons ago and sarah j. maas is the reoccurring villain who was defeating several arcs ago but somehow keeps reappearing
GET ME OUT I HATE IT HERE
Lmao its okay you can say Pretty Little Liars
Basically Winx Club
Danganronpa V3 in one sentence
Like star vs the forces of evil? Or in this version it would be Cindy vs the forces of Fairy dicks or Cindy vs Big titty Liddy
"there could have been an asian witch named Cho Chang. Wai-"
YES 😂😂😂
Wait a minute.....
I saw this book all over tiktok so gave it a go and holy hell it’s a 1 star and I don’t trust booktok now bc I think their reading age is that of an internal misogynistic 13 year old. And SJM, despite her issues, is a significantly better writer than this utter trash.
@cherrycoke honestly… yeah. She’s never done the whole “forced marriage to an asshole” thing as far as I know. And she’s a bit better of a plotter than this 🤣
And ofc every author has their own issues and quirk, that’s part of being human, but I’d rather read SJM than this book.
I don’t read tiktok books for this reason. I’m personally not interested in books solely based on tropes
I mean Booktok does have its of hits and misses
14:57 little did she know that she’d be talking about a court of silver flames roughly one year later
if i never hear or read “big tiddy liddy” ever again it will be too soon
its always too soon......
readwithcindy Wait. That wasn’t actually in the book???
@SecretConceit No it was in the book. Repeatedly, actually and no, it doesn’t get funnier or less cringy.
can you imagine one those videos of italians singing on their balconies while they're in quarantine, but instead of singing "macarena" or "volare", they're singing "Big Titty Liddy"
the very idea troubles me
that would be worse than the coronavirus
This is a cursed concept
I'm italian and I've just decided that one of these days I'll do it
@@fabianap.-fabi.goodwell i'm italian aswell; almost at the end of week two of lockdown, i might actually do it just for the sake of doing something different
I know what to do
Lou actually didn't make the Archbishop fart, that was the witch Estelle. It wasn't very detailed, but it's cleared up in the sequel that just came out.