**A Critical Review of "Heartless" by Marissa Meyer**

I must admit that I was thoroughly disappointed with my experience reading "Heartless", the latest novel by Marissa Meyer. The book promised to deliver on its hype, but unfortunately, it fell short of my expectations. From the get-go, I felt like I was being sold a lie. The author's promises of romance, adventure, and fantasy were all too apparent, but beneath the surface, I found a lackluster story that failed to captivate me.

As I began listening to the audiobook, I couldn't shake off the feeling that something was amiss. The protagonist, the heroine, seemed like a blank slate, devoid of any real depth or character development. Her motivations and emotions were unclear, making it difficult for me to become invested in her journey. The King, who was touted as a central figure in the story, was equally underwhelming. His presence was more felt than seen, and his relationship with the heroine was reduced to shallow, Hallmark-card sentiments.

One of the most frustrating aspects of "Heartless" was its complete lack of world-building. The author's universe was woefully underdeveloped, leaving me feeling lost and disoriented throughout the story. The Amnesia storyline that emerged mid-way through the book only added to my confusion. It felt like a convenient plot device designed to explain away the author's lack of planning, rather than an organic part of the narrative.

The dialogue in "Heartless" was another area where the book fell short. The characters' conversations were often stilted and unnatural, lacking the nuance and complexity that I've come to expect from romance novels. The author's reliance on convenient tropes and clichés only served to further erode my trust in the story.

Despite my growing frustration with "Heartless", I couldn't help but feel a sense of schadenfreude as I listened to the audiobook. It was clear that many readers had been similarly disappointed, and it was almost satisfying to see the author's hype machine crashing down around them. However, this feeling was short-lived, as I soon realized that I too had fallen victim to the book's false promises.

In a surprising twist, I found myself wondering if my friends who praised "Heartless" were simply delusional. Were they truly oblivious to the book's many shortcomings? Or did they genuinely enjoy the story, despite its numerous flaws? The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I wasn't alone in feeling disappointed with the book.

As someone who values honesty and authenticity in a narrative, I was appalled by the lack of editing and proofreading that had gone into "Heartless". It's clear that the author had failed to consider her readers' experience, instead opting for a hasty publication that prioritized hype over quality. This approach may have fooled some readers, but it only served to further alienate me from the story.

In the end, I found myself feeling like an idiot for wasting my time on "Heartless". The book's overreliance on convenient tropes and clichés had left me feeling like a novice reader, rather than someone who genuinely enjoys fantasy novels. As I looked around at the comments section of this video, I couldn't help but feel a sense of solidarity with fellow readers who had shared my disappointment.

To those who have read "Heartless" and enjoyed it, I would love to hear your thoughts and feelings on the book. What did you find compelling about the story? How did the author's world-building succeed in drawing you in? Your insights will be invaluable in helping me understand what went wrong with this book.

As for me, I'll be taking a hard pass on any future Marissa Meyer novels. While "Heartless" had its moments of entertainment value, it was ultimately a disappointing experience that left me feeling frustrated and disillusioned. If you're looking for romance novels with substance and depth, I would recommend exploring other authors who have managed to overcome the challenges that Meyer faced in her latest effort.

**Monty's Review**

For those interested in seeing a more nuanced analysis of "Heartless", I've linked Monty's review in the description below. As always, his insights were spot on, and I found myself nodding along with his critiques throughout the video.

**The Future of Romance**

As someone who values honesty and authenticity in a narrative, I'm excited to explore more romance novels that prioritize substance over hype. If you have any recommendations for me, please let me know in the comments below. Are there any authors or books that have flown under my radar? Please share your thoughts, and together, we can build a community of readers who demand more from their fiction.

In the end, "Heartless" was a disappointing experience that left me feeling frustrated and disillusioned. While it may have had its moments of entertainment value, the book's many shortcomings made it clear that this was not a novel I would recommend to others.

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from book and busy enjoyed it at least I'm pretty sure I could be misremembering but I'm pretty sure she likes this book I feel like I trust Aaron okay trusting her less now that I'm 10% in anyway I digress let's talk about this book let's talk about this book this book's about a man character scarlet and she at the beginning of the book is living at this manor house she's vibing having a good time trying to avoid being married to people she doesn't want to be married to we find out that she is a trained assassin is not really doing Assassin things right at the moment she's been assigned some tasks in the past by her boss the Lord of Assassins and she's just no I'm not really feeling it my guy and so he's like okay go live in the manor house like with some people um go Vibe like go have a good time she's like okay sounds good until he sends word that he has figured out who ordered the hit on her mom right she killed her mom's like actual murderer like the actual assassin but she doesn't know why her mom was killed or who actually did it like who assigned the the hit and so she's going to listen to her boss and go find this person and kill them okay what an interesting premise like what a good setup for a book is it kind of giving thrown of glass yes sure sure it is what's not giving thrown of glass though is the what the is happening okay beginning of this book right we get introduction into this girl we we see her at the Manor House we've actually seen her kill her mom's assassin at the beginning of the book as well which is nice fun delightful with her two bestie girls what's interesting to me is that she's chilling at the manner house she knows she's going to go kill this person shouldn't know who the person is really like she's given a name and she's like I don't know who the this is I what I'll find him though I'll find him and I'll kill him great Dandy while she's there like while she's like chilling in the Stables talking to her like guy friend some random like member of the King's Guard or like commander of an army I'm not really sure he's fancy he knows his right she starts like having like verbal sparring with him she's like who the are you why are you here his name is rker by the way yes like the prison and what's confusing to me is that we don't know why this man is initially here at the Manor House it kind of seems like he's there on official business or something but instead he gets caught up fighting Scarlet she's like hey let's Spar I don't know who the you are why are you here and he's like you don't really want to you don't want to do this and she's like I certainly do and so she tries to like fight this guy who she doesn't know after a couple of spars with him after a couple of fights he's like you know what I will train you cuz she like asks him at the beginning of of their fighting like oh you should train me you're good at this and then eventually he agrees and now they're training I'm like what are you training for why was he there in the first place none of this makes any sense and that's what I want to say in this 10% Mark of this book nothing makes any sense I don't understand understand character motivations I mean I guess yeah I would want to find who killed my mom too other than that I don't really understand this girl's motivations I don't really understand this world she is trained as an assassin but also women aren't supposed to be fighters in this world she has to hide her skills why did this guy agree to train her why was he there in the first place I just want to know why he was there I want to know why he was there am I missing something am I a bad reader I don't think that's true though because I was reading some sentences over again as I was reading this book a lot of the sentences are just not strung together very well I think is what I would like to say about this book so far I mean I'm intrigued I'm intrigued I want to keep going I want to know who these other little assassin are because Scarlet didn't work alone to heal her mom's uh hired killer so who are these other chicks right I want to know who the Lord of Assassins is is he sexy hopefully she doesn't end up with this rer character he's boring as not sexy not a good name either I think his last name is like renf fall or something I like the alliteration get picking I'm going to go read more I'll I'll be back in a little bit sorry for the ambient smacking if you're new here pepper is always with me while he eats because he won't eat if I'm not here wait I'm 20% into Lady Of Darkness I think I'm enjoying it I am kind of understanding what's going on a little bit more and I think what's challenging about this is like I don't know what constitutes a spoiler because it's the first book in a series I feel like all of the stuff that's being revealed could be in the synopsis of the book I'm kind of too lazy to go and see what the synopsis of the book is so I'm going to try to keep it like condensed brief not tell you too much essentially we figured out that Riker has been living a double life and or has like a different identity it's kind of giving like aen Selena Vibes we find out his other identity kind of what's going on with him and a little bit more about his Secrets I still again don't really know why he was at the banner house the day that he was that still has not been revealed maybe he was just trying to seek out Scarlet we have figured out a little bit more about scarlet and her like past in history we know that her mom was murdered we don't really know anything about her mom besides the fact that she was a Healer and we kind of think we know potentially who would want it out for her mom these are being revealed to us we also have like more questions I think than answers but we're heading in a direction that I think that I enjoy like Magical elements of the story are coming together a lot quicker than something like Throne of Glass which I personally really enjoy we know that there are Fay like pretty early on in the story we are getting into contact with some Fay already even though Fay are like not supposed to be in this particular land like they've been banned from this land and or like there is a full shield or something put up to where like the can't enter these lands but apparently they're here which I think makes for an interesting story it's kind of giving like any other fantasy romance have ever read but it is fairly well told like the sentence structure is confusing me at times but the way that things are executed and the direction we're heading I think is interesting what's also interesting is that um I asked Olivia today K queen of fantasy if she had read this book or the series because I did confirm that Aaron has read these books and did enjoy them and I was curious if Olivia had read them and what her thoughts were and she said she had not read this series and that Aaron says the series is dark I was not expecting that so I mean we're not there yet but apparently the ending of this book is is potentially dark I didn't read any of the content or trigger warnings so like we'll see what that entails I'm a little nervy I'm a little nervy I will also say there's a lot of cussing in this book which doesn't bother me as someone who says a lot I mean I'm going to say in this Vlog I'm sure if I haven't already I wasn't I wasn't really expecting that considering some of the language usage paired with it it's not that they didn't say curse words back in the olden days some of the language usage other than it just feels a little like incongruous and I use that word a lot but it just it fits often when I talk about books like when things just don't quite match up I think I like it um I am curious I did I think I think we just found out the identity of the third wraith because Scarlet has like two sisters in arms sisters who like murder people cuz she was obviously trained up as an assassin we learned the identity of the third one and I'm wondering if there was like a falling out cuz we have not like spoken her name very often but we do like learn her identity in this like flashback that I just saw we also know that our heroine has these like fevers that she takes a tonic for at night I say fevers I mean she just takes a tonic and I it's very much giving Shrek has anyone ever like made that connection taking her potion so she like doesn't turn into an ogre at night I really wish that that would be the case for this one it would be so much more fun I'm having a good time still I'll update you probably the 50% Mark I can't really see anything like super crazy happening between now and then and frankly I want to take a little bath um I had my bar class earlier today and I'm sweaty and I want to sweat out more in the bath you know what I mean just really cleanse my sins and my dirt wish me luck I'm going to bring my um not my maxi pad Kindle that I read on into the bathroom just going to bring my phone look at this boring ass phone case I have a cute one coming soon and if it comes in this Vlog I'll show you anyway I'll be back did I mention that I'm currently undergoing a house renovation a bathroom renovation specifically not totally relevant to this video but it does explain why pretty much all the clips for this video are being filmed right here hope you don't mind let's talk about my final thoughts and feelings on Lady Of Darkness so we can move on to heartless Hunter I love that title I think it's really fun I like the cover of the book didn't realize it was going to be ya but that's fine I've heard good things so I'm excited about it lady of darkness is one that I have complicated feelings about I can't tell if this one took me 3 days to get through cuz it was boring and I was bored at parts or if it's just because I'm having a hard time reading in general right now I wouldn't have any way to prove that cuz I wasn't reading anything else during that time period except for this book but let's start with my 50% and onward thoughts and then we can kind of talk about overall thoughts okay the last 50% of this book was both good and bad I would say from like the 50 to 70% Mark I felt like the book had a lot of luls I think that a lot of the conversations and the lack of conversations had especially between rker and Scarlet were kind of frustrating it felt like we were repeating a lot of the same things over and over again I feel like some of the flashbacks that we got were kind of unnecessary I think the point was to like flesh out character relationships especially between scarlet and some of the people she's been like romantically involved with or had some like trauma with really understanding someone's background but I don't think a lot of the flashbacks were honestly needed I don't think they really helped the story that much especially is it Cassian or whatever like especially his backstory like I didn't I didn't care that much that that being said from the 70% markk on things did start picking up and the plot definitely went in a direction that I was expecting but still had a lot of like pleasing twists and turns I was a little uncertain of like where this book would leave off I could tell what direction we were heading in I didn't know what point in that Journey we would hit and it definitely leaves off on a cliffhanger we're definitely moving to new locations we're probably going to meet new people and be introduced to new ideas but yeah I was I was pleasantly surprised I would say by some of the reveals that happened there were two reveal s that I wasn't expecting one that was like being led up to that I think all of us kind of could see coming but two that I just honestly didn't really expect and I appreciated that there were still surprises there I don't think either of them were outside of the realm of possibility uh for things that you could guess I think a lot of people will probably guess some of these things especially if you read a lot of like romancy that didn't make them any less pleasing as a reader uh and I definitely think it makes the relationship between scarlet and rer a little bit more interest in going into book two which I may or may not be reading I'm not entirely sure at this point but I'm intrigued I guess enough with the series I guess when I think about my overall thoughts about this book I think I'm kind of really stuck on the fact that the middle part of this book lagged so much and I just don't ultimately know if I like the way this book was written the beginning sentence structure like you know with the first few chapters was kind of challenging for me I feel like there was a lot of confusion there I feel like there are still loose threads again like why was he there in the first place was it just to look for her I I don't know I feel like there were just like a couple of pieces missing for me and or a lot of time spent on a lot of boring things I kind kind of wish the book had been condensed just a little bit and or we could have gotten to a farther place in the story cuz we left off on a great Cliffhanger but I don't know that we needed to like wait that long to get to that point if that makes sense so this is a really tough one I appreciated some things I didn't love other things I will say I think this book in particular is the most similar to Throne of Glass that I have ever read and I know a lot of people hate when people make comparisons to sergy mass she's not the only Romany writer out there I get that but I think it's a good Benchmark for a lot of us and I think that if you are looking for comparable books like it's nice to have a comparison in this case I would say this book is similar in not only the vibe and overall feeling of the book but also similar character relationships and character Dynamics it's not the exact same you're not going to be bored if you read this one and so in that case I do think it's a pretty good one to pick up if you like Throne of Glass and maybe like acatar didn't totally work for you I think that this might be kind of up your alley the only other thing I would say is that I kind of wish that reker wasn't being set up to be like the hero in the story I think I've already mentioned that I was kind of unsure like oh is he going to be like endgame I'm pretty sure from what we know that it is going to be endgame with them but I'm wondering like how many books are actually in the series like how long am I going to have to read about these two characters in particular not that I don't like Scarlet cuz we haven't really gotten to know much of Scarlet's power shall we say um and I'm curious about that yeah it looks like it's a five book series and I'm pretty sure the series is finished yeah which is nice I just feel like that's a long that's a long time for us to read about characters getting together I don't know like am I going to really care about their journey I do prefer a little bit more attension I think in my romance like I don't think this is the best romance out there but I think romances in Throne of Glass aren't that great either so like your mileage may vary I do hope we get more from the side characters too I feel like in the first Throne of Glass Boke it was very like Selena centered that we started getting more povs from other characters Andor started to understand them more I hope that happens as the series Carries On because there are characters I'm interested in is it Casas I think he's kind of cool so I don't know I think I would read this one between three and four stars I think if I hadn't been so bored in the middle I could probably give this four stars it just like it's not perfect for me I don't think the writing connected with me like I wanted it to but it's honestly still a really solid Romany book and I'm really glad that I picked this one up uh so ain's taste stands up it sure does so I'm I'm glad that I I'm glad that I picked this one up not that it's like an Aon taste test or anything but I it's weird I trust aon's judgment even if we don't know what have the same taste in books right she's got strong opinions and I can appreciate that so moving on to heartless Hunter I have the audio book of this which is exciting I am wondering if like switching formats is going to be more exciting for me and get me more engaged uh this is one that I would say that I'm the least interested in of all of the books too which again I think the audiobook will help with I am saving which one am I reading oh when the moon hatched for tomorrow that one I've heard so many good things about and I know absolutely nothing about it granted I didn't really know anything about any of these books so I think that's giving me um really nice reading experience I kind of love going into books not knowing what the going on what book was I reading recently I I remember being like Oh my God what oh novel love story or a novel Love Story by Ashley Poston I didn't read the synopsis for that one and when the like plot on the back of the book came up in the book I was like oh my God what a crazy idea had I read that back of it like it wouldn't have been that crazy but I think it makes for a better reading experience is all I'm saying okay I'm going to go read and I'm going to try to get this done tonight so buckle up baby we're going downstairs and we're going to hang out and hopefully have a good time with one the backdrop in here is kind of giving Patrick baitman but we will persist and chat about heartless Hunter shall we um I'm digging this y'all this is a very different book than the last one I don't know if it's for sure ya it's labeled as ya on goodread and this author has only ever written ya so I'm assuming that's what it is but it's available on KU and Audi book is fantastic story is fast moving there's not a lot of like World building but I'm not upset about it essentially the plot the vibe of the story is that our heroine is a witch who is trying to help other witches not get taken I suppose by witch Hunters she has to give up her grandmother at the beginning of the story like there's been rumors swirling that her grandma is a witch and to prevent both of them from being murdered her Grandma's like hey you need to like turn me in um so no one suspects that you are a witch actually I'm not even sure like knew she was witch ahead of time but anyway um she has to give up her grandma this has lit fire under her ass to help other witches but in her like day-to-day life her like cover is that that she is a rich socialite who's inherited a bunch of wealth from her grandma which she was able to keep because she ratted her out and she is kind of vapid kind of into cloth like kind of just vibing little do they know she is is it the red moth or whatever she is like the resistance and I'm digging that the hero is obviously working for the other side he is the most notorious witch killer stoic and a little grumpy and it's giving what I needed Divine Rivals to give honestly the enemies to lovers realness is real I don't want to say beautiful writing but yeah it's beautiful writing it's like perfect for what it needs to be I feel like I am I know where I'm at if that makes sense like I can picture the world it's being described pretty beautifully from the beginning I was like oh this is different what I was just reading in Lady Of Darkness but it's not like too flowery as Divine Rivals was no it's kind of perfect I don't want to get too ahead of myself but I'm kind of interested in this our heroin does need to marry soon people are kind of on her case about like being unmarried and to like kind of maintain her position in society she needs to marry also I can see myself in the mirror and my posture is abysmal but we're just going to ignore that she needs to Mary and I think she's probably going to end up married to this witch hunter guy and I think that could be kind of a sexy little p ring and I'm kind of very excited actually to see what that ends up looking like they've set the characters up so well like it's not the most inventive story ever it's not like this is a crazy Dynamic we've never read before but a tried and true one executed very well and I'm into that like I don't need anything wildly unique when it comes to my Romany I just want it to hit and I think y'all feel the same way maybe I don't know I know a lot of people really originality and yeah we don't want all the books that we read to be like Sarah J Master R offs I get that but I think a lot of us when we go into reading romantic it's like we want a specific Vibe I also think that's why um there's been so much like Draco Hermione sort of fanfiction being read by people it's like we're looking for specific dynamics that can't really be pulled off in a setting other than fantasy right enemy lovers like you can't really have enemies in real life I mean you can I guess if you're in like the mob but otherwise it's just someone who's kind of a dick fantasy you can actually pull that off so anyway vibing loving it having a great time I'm gonna get 50% in tonight well I'm G to finish the whole thing tonight frankly but I'll update you one more time tonight and then um I'll tell you my final thoughts tomorrow all right so I hit the 50% Mark in this book and I'm still enjoying it I wouldn't say that my thoughts have really changed since I last talked to y'all just a little disappointing because every time I do an update I want to be able to give you like new and fresh information only thing I can really say is that things are unfolding differently than I expected but it's not unenjoyable I'm kind of enjoying Run's like SK and just how she is um trying to like live out her dreams and I also am well dreams how she's trying to like stay alive basically I'm also enjoying our hero and his backstory is definitely interesting and I wasn't expecting him to have as much complexity as he does considering there's not a lot of like set up for this world I wasn't expecting there to be a ton of care taken with why he is the way he is and kind of what he's been through but he like grew up in poverty for most of his life or at least around poverty his parents par s got like I guess I don't want to say like rose through the ranks but they became like the Royal Tailor or like dress makers for the crown uh many years ago before they both passed away his life changed from there he is like making dresses for the heroin that's like how he's trying to wo her he's suspicious of her and thinks that she is the Crimson moth or whatever um which she is obviously but his way of trying to like infiltrate and like understand her and like what's going on I think is interesting and just like his backstory I think is interesting too it's like he doesn't seem to have a lot of trepidation with trying to come after her coming after Rune that is but also has a complicated past which I think makes his actions interesting um I also kind of to mention that there is sort of like a Brothers situation going on I don't know why I'm blanking on the hero's name right now but his brother Alex is Run's best friend and he seems to be pretty enamored with her I don't know if it's romantic but I know that our hero is like hesitant to after Rune at the beginning because he's like I don't really want to like go after my brother's girl even if they're not like together together yeah I also am liking there there's actual conversations being had too between run and evil man which I like and you might ask yourself wait how how is that happening well it's because he is trying to like woo her almost and she is trying to woo him to like take him off her scent or like get him off her you understand what I'm saying I don't know it's it's a fun time I'm going to keep reading and I'll update you on my final thoughts tomorrow all right guys we have two bars of battery I'm in my car I just went to Target did a little shopping and actually have a haul over on the Vlog channel it's not up yet it'll be up on Tuesday you're saying this on a Sunday I finished heartless Hunter and it was pretty great I loved this it is ya question mark there's some intimacy there's some intimacy I was not expecting I will say I liked this though I thought that the pacing never let up which was so fun it was reminiscent of quite a few things kind of like Divine Rivals that one series by Shelby mahuran Serpent and Dove it kind of reminds me of that a little bit it reminds me of like row fanfiction it's just a good time it's fun it's a dynamic that I think a lot of people will enjoy and I would recommend this I genuinely would again it's not going to be the most groundbreaking plot so if that's like what you're looking for in a romancy sorry this isn't that but it is really fun The Twist at the end I didn't necessarily see coming especially like this really big reveal that happens I loved it I thought it was fun and I think this is only a duology so I would definitely pick up the second book I think it comes out in like February of next year this is a lot of fun and I probably would not have picked this up on my own had it not been for this video because I don't know what it is about Romany y'all there are some amazing creators on YouTube specifically who read so much Romany Rachel from ravenhair reader comes to mind don't seem to pick these up which is crazy cuz I love romance and I do like fantasy fantasy for some reason and Romany I just like I don't always gravitate towards it cuz it's so much of a Time suck it's like an investment these 500 plus page books these series cuz it's like if I get into one book I've got to continue the rest of the series I need to start doing this more often because I'm having a whole lot of fun that like was not evident in this video like I'm genuinely having so much fun and this is like the palette cleanser I feel like I needed so yeah this is a good book I think I would read this like four stars it was not perfect I wanted maybe a little bit more longing here's the thing it's hard to strike the balance between characters getting to know each other like good character development relationship development and then also that yearning that longing it's hard to J to POS those sometimes you know if you get if we get the characters to know each other too well sometimes the earning doesn't necessarily take place in the way that I want it to I wish that the like physical stuff had maybe been drawn out a little bit longer but I've got a lot of good setup for the second book and I think things are going to get really interesting really interesting it does the like classic fantasy thing it's like I don't know if this is a spoiler to say this I'm going to put a spoiler alert just in case this is a spoiler to some people but it does that classic fantasy book thing where you start leading up to a romance like you start leading up to this idea of these two people being together there's a reveal that happens or like something bad happens at the end of the first book oh okay so this is the love interest is probably going to be the person that this person ends up with but they're going to have to overcome some in the second book for that to happen right that happens in this book it happened in the first book that I read too um as well I don't think that's a spoiler to say but maybe it is to some people fun times to be had by all all being me okay uh let's move on to when the moon hatch I have the audiobook version of this again Pro tip if you don't already know this I feel like a lot of people probably do but whenever you use Kindle unlimited if you check out a book you're using desktop CU I think that's kind of the only no I know you could do it on desktop I'm not sure if this applies to Kindle it probably does like if you do it within the app but Kindle unlimited you select a book put it in your library it offers you the audio book at a very discounted rate normally around $7 St between $7 and $12 which is a lot lower than the going rate for audiobooks but only when you're like on that checkout screen why I don't know so sometimes if I like don't think I want the audio book I'll check out the book and then I'll be like I have to return this book to kind unlimited to like get the audio book anyway you can get an Audi book at a discounted rate if you do that you're probably all going to be at the comments like Channel we already knew that and also like there's a way to get the audio book after you've checked it out or whatever and you're probably right but um I like that that's like how I save money on audio books on occasion granted I don't often buy them I normally get them from Libby but every once in a while when I'm feeling lazy I treat myself to audio book for a Kindle unlimited I'm going to go home and read it's a 6- hour book like 6 hours at three times speed as in this is like a 20-hour audio book so pray for me that math doesn't add up don't we don't need to talk about it okay um but I'm I'm excited I think this is one that I know people enjoy but I also know absolutely nothing about and when I looked on the Goodreads page today I saw the word dragons which has my hackles fully up just cuzz I don't want this to be like fourth wi part two you know what I mean or like honestly it actually would be better if it was like fourth wi light I don't Earth wi wasn't for me this might be this book sucks I'm just going to be honest with you I was so excited for this one I was like surely this is going to be so good so many people have talked about it I feel like I keep hearing rave reviews even though I didn't know what the book was about I think the reason I didn't know what the book was about is because it's confusing as painfully confusing and I posted a plea to my Instagram community and I was like hey please if you've read this DM me I need to ask you questions about this cuz there's just things I have questions on and I'm confused had a couple of people help me but even they said I still didn't know what the was going on and so I am being led to believe that I'm not that stupid this book is just hard to understand and the World building is non-existent so from what I've gathered our main character I don't know if her name is Rave or reev he is trying to kill people at the beginning of the book she is a part of a resistance group and she is pretending that she has no Elemental Magic that she is a null and yeah she's just she's killing people people who are like abusers and shitty she gets arrested and tortured and is going to be put to death I guess is kind of where I'm at now there's also dragons that are moons what I'm feeling to understand my friends I am genuinely perplexed at the magic system here it has not been explained to us except once upon a time they were gods they had Elemental Magic and there were also dragons Okay once the gods went away the dragons became moons there are moons in the sky and I guess the dragons are like dropping to earth now at this point they're coming back you know from in the sky people on earth have Elemental Magic don't understand the politics of the world though why is our heroine a part of a resistance what's the resistance for I don't understand I don't know if I'm ever going to understand so I'm just like being led with this plot I think we've been introduced to the hero at this point he is the king maybe and I think maybe his brother wants her dead he doesn't want her dead he's grumpy and he's going through some what he's going through I don't know we're getting lots of little vignettes from people who I don't know kind of little like interspersed chapters if you've ever read the way of Kings you know what I'm talking about like chapters from people that aren't really in the story so confused y'all confused and I'm I'm pretty ugly right now and I upset because this is a long book and I was fully expecting to be totally into this the writing at the beginning got me excited I was like wow this prologue like this is some rich World building and you know dragons and gods and okay cool it's not cool though is the thing it's like the rest of the story is not so cool and I'm wondering like if there's withholding for a reason but it's giving fourth wi Vibes in the sense that like you don't really get World building and I think it's kind of essential and maybe at the end of the book we're going to get some I'm going to be upset that I listened to 6 hours 7 hours of an audio book and didn't know anything until the very end that's just not fun for a reader I'm just going to say it I just don't think it's fun for a reader and now I'm upset okay um I'm going to keep reading I'll get to 50% I'll let you know how I how I'm feeling me me um super glue my fingernail back together and just like pray that the rest of this book is less shitty all right now this is going on side quests and I don't mean me I mean the in the book this is still not good and it's still confusing I'm a little perplexed because I was trying to figure out more about this book by Googling came across this website and I thought it was going to give me answers it did not give me answers but it did tell me that this book didn't have smut and that my friends is false that is in fact false our heroine I guess like escapes from being tortured her King I guess is he a king I feel like not says this book's about a king I can't remember his name is Hearts the K they run away together and there's dragons and and they're in some sort of like Hut they can't fight their attraction for each other and we hear the word said a lot and you know it's not my least favorite word I'm going to be honest I know some people are sensitive to it I don't hate it it was just a lot of talk if if you will she goes away from him she runs away I think and gets caught up with these people who seem kind of like primitive almost and this guy like I'm going to marry you and put a baby in you or some I don't know I'm confused I'm perplexed Mr long tan and handsome name s Decay is like there and going to save her what with the side quests what like what in the Barbie and The Magic of Pegasus is going on here I'm not happy with it I never thought it would come to this you know I never thought that I mean I didn't expect it for this book I always expect to be slightly displeased with things but I've been sold a lie all right so I woke up this morning and asked God if you're up there if you can hear me please give me a sign and my airpods were dead and I took that as a sign that I should dnf the out of this book this sucks like this is not a good book and I'm absolutely astounded at the hype that this is getting are dragons just some sort of like balm to the soul are these some sort of like post-pandemic thing that just makes the girls go crazy I don't know and I would love to know like someone please let me know in the comments why you enjoyed this book because so many people reped to my story that they didn't enjoy this book and I feel like I've been cheated in light too um it's like everybody publicly says I like it and then behind closed doors they're all laughing at me because this this is not a good book I tried really tried I really tried to enjoy this I really tried to get into it I don't I don't feel like any like wax on about what didn't work about this for me because I've already told you that in the last couple of Clips the lack of world buing is crazy the Amnesia storyline that comes in don't give a if that's a spoiler is also not my thing just felt lost pretty much the entire time that I was listening and I joke often about being stupid but I am not a stupid person said through this and feel stupid it's just not an enjoyable experience like editors need to ask their authors hey do you want your reader to feel stupid and or just like raise that question like hey your your reader is not meant to feel stupid while reading so like mayhaps you should do a little bit more World building I don't know this was not it I think someone who can articulate that much better than me is Monty I will leave a link to his Goodreads review in the description I don't always agree with Monty but whenever we don't like the same book he always Nails his explanations we actually tend to have fairly similar opinions on most books but um I'll just leave his Link in the description because he nailed it it's just not not good it was not a good book and you know what a wild ride because the books that I thought were going to be my favorite weren't and the book that I didn't give a about reading I think is probably the best of the whole video If you haven't read heartless Hunter you have to go and pick it up it's such a fun time I also liked Lady Of Darkness and I am interested to continue on with that Series so let me know if you like want my thoughts and feelings on the rest of the books you'll read those over on patreon I'm not entirely sure but let me know in the comments down below if you've read these what your thoughts and feelings are obviously also let me know what Romany books you think I need to check out because I'm obviously not very well versed in the genre I just picked up the most Buzzy things that I had heard about but I am obviously very open to reading and learning about stuff that like kind of flies under the radar but it's like really really solid so thanks for watching this I had a fun time with it despite it being kind of a chaotic ride thanks for watching this video I love you all so much and I'll see you in the next onehello welcome back to my channel I'm going to skip the Preamble I'm going to skip the long intro this time I have noticed an inverse relationship the amount of time someone's been on YouTube and the amount of time that their intros take actually that wouldn't be inverse that would be the opposite of that longer you've been on YouTube the longer your intros get and I don't want that I don't want you to have to sit through this I want to read Romany books I want to do it with all of you let's get into it y'all the heat is getting to me I really should me I have started Lady Of Darkness that's the first book I decided to start with um I also just filmed my June wrapup in my hot ass car and I'm quickly losing Steam and brain power so hopefully I can get out my thoughts and feelings on this 10% Mark quickly uh normally I would give you a 20% update but this book calls for a 10% update it sure does I decided to start with this one because I know that Aaron from book and busy enjoyed it at least I'm pretty sure I could be misremembering but I'm pretty sure she likes this book I feel like I trust Aaron okay trusting her less now that I'm 10% in anyway I digress let's talk about this book let's talk about this book this book's about a man character scarlet and she at the beginning of the book is living at this manor house she's vibing having a good time trying to avoid being married to people she doesn't want to be married to we find out that she is a trained assassin is not really doing Assassin things right at the moment she's been assigned some tasks in the past by her boss the Lord of Assassins and she's just no I'm not really feeling it my guy and so he's like okay go live in the manor house like with some people um go Vibe like go have a good time she's like okay sounds good until he sends word that he has figured out who ordered the hit on her mom right she killed her mom's like actual murderer like the actual assassin but she doesn't know why her mom was killed or who actually did it like who assigned the the hit and so she's going to listen to her boss and go find this person and kill them okay what an interesting premise like what a good setup for a book is it kind of giving thrown of glass yes sure sure it is what's not giving thrown of glass though is the what the is happening okay beginning of this book right we get introduction into this girl we we see her at the Manor House we've actually seen her kill her mom's assassin at the beginning of the book as well which is nice fun delightful with her two bestie girls what's interesting to me is that she's chilling at the manner house she knows she's going to go kill this person shouldn't know who the person is really like she's given a name and she's like I don't know who the this is I what I'll find him though I'll find him and I'll kill him great Dandy while she's there like while she's like chilling in the Stables talking to her like guy friend some random like member of the King's Guard or like commander of an army I'm not really sure he's fancy he knows his right she starts like having like verbal sparring with him she's like who the are you why are you here his name is rker by the way yes like the prison and what's confusing to me is that we don't know why this man is initially here at the Manor House it kind of seems like he's there on official business or something but instead he gets caught up fighting Scarlet she's like hey let's Spar I don't know who the you are why are you here and he's like you don't really want to you don't want to do this and she's like I certainly do and so she tries to like fight this guy who she doesn't know after a couple of spars with him after a couple of fights he's like you know what I will train you cuz she like asks him at the beginning of of their fighting like oh you should train me you're good at this and then eventually he agrees and now they're training I'm like what are you training for why was he there in the first place none of this makes any sense and that's what I want to say in this 10% Mark of this book nothing makes any sense I don't understand understand character motivations I mean I guess yeah I would want to find who killed my mom too other than that I don't really understand this girl's motivations I don't really understand this world she is trained as an assassin but also women aren't supposed to be fighters in this world she has to hide her skills why did this guy agree to train her why was he there in the first place I just want to know why he was there I want to know why he was there am I missing something am I a bad reader I don't think that's true though because I was reading some sentences over again as I was reading this book a lot of the sentences are just not strung together very well I think is what I would like to say about this book so far I mean I'm intrigued I'm intrigued I want to keep going I want to know who these other little assassin are because Scarlet didn't work alone to heal her mom's uh hired killer so who are these other chicks right I want to know who the Lord of Assassins is is he sexy hopefully she doesn't end up with this rer character he's boring as not sexy not a good name either I think his last name is like renf fall or something I like the alliteration get picking I'm going to go read more I'll I'll be back in a little bit sorry for the ambient smacking if you're new here pepper is always with me while he eats because he won't eat if I'm not here wait I'm 20% into Lady Of Darkness I think I'm enjoying it I am kind of understanding what's going on a little bit more and I think what's challenging about this is like I don't know what constitutes a spoiler because it's the first book in a series I feel like all of the stuff that's being revealed could be in the synopsis of the book I'm kind of too lazy to go and see what the synopsis of the book is so I'm going to try to keep it like condensed brief not tell you too much essentially we figured out that Riker has been living a double life and or has like a different identity it's kind of giving like aen Selena Vibes we find out his other identity kind of what's going on with him and a little bit more about his Secrets I still again don't really know why he was at the banner house the day that he was that still has not been revealed maybe he was just trying to seek out Scarlet we have figured out a little bit more about scarlet and her like past in history we know that her mom was murdered we don't really know anything about her mom besides the fact that she was a Healer and we kind of think we know potentially who would want it out for her mom these are being revealed to us we also have like more questions I think than answers but we're heading in a direction that I think that I enjoy like Magical elements of the story are coming together a lot quicker than something like Throne of Glass which I personally really enjoy we know that there are Fay like pretty early on in the story we are getting into contact with some Fay already even though Fay are like not supposed to be in this particular land like they've been banned from this land and or like there is a full shield or something put up to where like the can't enter these lands but apparently they're here which I think makes for an interesting story it's kind of giving like any other fantasy romance have ever read but it is fairly well told like the sentence structure is confusing me at times but the way that things are executed and the direction we're heading I think is interesting what's also interesting is that um I asked Olivia today K queen of fantasy if she had read this book or the series because I did confirm that Aaron has read these books and did enjoy them and I was curious if Olivia had read them and what her thoughts were and she said she had not read this series and that Aaron says the series is dark I was not expecting that so I mean we're not there yet but apparently the ending of this book is is potentially dark I didn't read any of the content or trigger warnings so like we'll see what that entails I'm a little nervy I'm a little nervy I will also say there's a lot of cussing in this book which doesn't bother me as someone who says a lot I mean I'm going to say in this Vlog I'm sure if I haven't already I wasn't I wasn't really expecting that considering some of the language usage paired with it it's not that they didn't say curse words back in the olden days some of the language usage other than it just feels a little like incongruous and I use that word a lot but it just it fits often when I talk about books like when things just don't quite match up I think I like it um I am curious I did I think I think we just found out the identity of the third wraith because Scarlet has like two sisters in arms sisters who like murder people cuz she was obviously trained up as an assassin we learned the identity of the third one and I'm wondering if there was like a falling out cuz we have not like spoken her name very often but we do like learn her identity in this like flashback that I just saw we also know that our heroine has these like fevers that she takes a tonic for at night I say fevers I mean she just takes a tonic and I it's very much giving Shrek has anyone ever like made that connection taking her potion so she like doesn't turn into an ogre at night I really wish that that would be the case for this one it would be so much more fun I'm having a good time still I'll update you probably the 50% Mark I can't really see anything like super crazy happening between now and then and frankly I want to take a little bath um I had my bar class earlier today and I'm sweaty and I want to sweat out more in the bath you know what I mean just really cleanse my sins and my dirt wish me luck I'm going to bring my um not my maxi pad Kindle that I read on into the bathroom just going to bring my phone look at this boring ass phone case I have a cute one coming soon and if it comes in this Vlog I'll show you anyway I'll be back did I mention that I'm currently undergoing a house renovation a bathroom renovation specifically not totally relevant to this video but it does explain why pretty much all the clips for this video are being filmed right here hope you don't mind let's talk about my final thoughts and feelings on Lady Of Darkness so we can move on to heartless Hunter I love that title I think it's really fun I like the cover of the book didn't realize it was going to be ya but that's fine I've heard good things so I'm excited about it lady of darkness is one that I have complicated feelings about I can't tell if this one took me 3 days to get through cuz it was boring and I was bored at parts or if it's just because I'm having a hard time reading in general right now I wouldn't have any way to prove that cuz I wasn't reading anything else during that time period except for this book but let's start with my 50% and onward thoughts and then we can kind of talk about overall thoughts okay the last 50% of this book was both good and bad I would say from like the 50 to 70% Mark I felt like the book had a lot of luls I think that a lot of the conversations and the lack of conversations had especially between rker and Scarlet were kind of frustrating it felt like we were repeating a lot of the same things over and over again I feel like some of the flashbacks that we got were kind of unnecessary I think the point was to like flesh out character relationships especially between scarlet and some of the people she's been like romantically involved with or had some like trauma with really understanding someone's background but I don't think a lot of the flashbacks were honestly needed I don't think they really helped the story that much especially is it Cassian or whatever like especially his backstory like I didn't I didn't care that much that that being said from the 70% markk on things did start picking up and the plot definitely went in a direction that I was expecting but still had a lot of like pleasing twists and turns I was a little uncertain of like where this book would leave off I could tell what direction we were heading in I didn't know what point in that Journey we would hit and it definitely leaves off on a cliffhanger we're definitely moving to new locations we're probably going to meet new people and be introduced to new ideas but yeah I was I was pleasantly surprised I would say by some of the reveals that happened there were two reveal s that I wasn't expecting one that was like being led up to that I think all of us kind of could see coming but two that I just honestly didn't really expect and I appreciated that there were still surprises there I don't think either of them were outside of the realm of possibility uh for things that you could guess I think a lot of people will probably guess some of these things especially if you read a lot of like romancy that didn't make them any less pleasing as a reader uh and I definitely think it makes the relationship between scarlet and rer a little bit more interest in going into book two which I may or may not be reading I'm not entirely sure at this point but I'm intrigued I guess enough with the series I guess when I think about my overall thoughts about this book I think I'm kind of really stuck on the fact that the middle part of this book lagged so much and I just don't ultimately know if I like the way this book was written the beginning sentence structure like you know with the first few chapters was kind of challenging for me I feel like there was a lot of confusion there I feel like there are still loose threads again like why was he there in the first place was it just to look for her I I don't know I feel like there were just like a couple of pieces missing for me and or a lot of time spent on a lot of boring things I kind kind of wish the book had been condensed just a little bit and or we could have gotten to a farther place in the story cuz we left off on a great Cliffhanger but I don't know that we needed to like wait that long to get to that point if that makes sense so this is a really tough one I appreciated some things I didn't love other things I will say I think this book in particular is the most similar to Throne of Glass that I have ever read and I know a lot of people hate when people make comparisons to sergy mass she's not the only Romany writer out there I get that but I think it's a good Benchmark for a lot of us and I think that if you are looking for comparable books like it's nice to have a comparison in this case I would say this book is similar in not only the vibe and overall feeling of the book but also similar character relationships and character Dynamics it's not the exact same you're not going to be bored if you read this one and so in that case I do think it's a pretty good one to pick up if you like Throne of Glass and maybe like acatar didn't totally work for you I think that this might be kind of up your alley the only other thing I would say is that I kind of wish that reker wasn't being set up to be like the hero in the story I think I've already mentioned that I was kind of unsure like oh is he going to be like endgame I'm pretty sure from what we know that it is going to be endgame with them but I'm wondering like how many books are actually in the series like how long am I going to have to read about these two characters in particular not that I don't like Scarlet cuz we haven't really gotten to know much of Scarlet's power shall we say um and I'm curious about that yeah it looks like it's a five book series and I'm pretty sure the series is finished yeah which is nice I just feel like that's a long that's a long time for us to read about characters getting together I don't know like am I going to really care about their journey I do prefer a little bit more attension I think in my romance like I don't think this is the best romance out there but I think romances in Throne of Glass aren't that great either so like your mileage may vary I do hope we get more from the side characters too I feel like in the first Throne of Glass Boke it was very like Selena centered that we started getting more povs from other characters Andor started to understand them more I hope that happens as the series Carries On because there are characters I'm interested in is it Casas I think he's kind of cool so I don't know I think I would read this one between three and four stars I think if I hadn't been so bored in the middle I could probably give this four stars it just like it's not perfect for me I don't think the writing connected with me like I wanted it to but it's honestly still a really solid Romany book and I'm really glad that I picked this one up uh so ain's taste stands up it sure does so I'm I'm glad that I I'm glad that I picked this one up not that it's like an Aon taste test or anything but I it's weird I trust aon's judgment even if we don't know what have the same taste in books right she's got strong opinions and I can appreciate that so moving on to heartless Hunter I have the audio book of this which is exciting I am wondering if like switching formats is going to be more exciting for me and get me more engaged uh this is one that I would say that I'm the least interested in of all of the books too which again I think the audiobook will help with I am saving which one am I reading oh when the moon hatched for tomorrow that one I've heard so many good things about and I know absolutely nothing about it granted I didn't really know anything about any of these books so I think that's giving me um really nice reading experience I kind of love going into books not knowing what the going on what book was I reading recently I I remember being like Oh my God what oh novel love story or a novel Love Story by Ashley Poston I didn't read the synopsis for that one and when the like plot on the back of the book came up in the book I was like oh my God what a crazy idea had I read that back of it like it wouldn't have been that crazy but I think it makes for a better reading experience is all I'm saying okay I'm going to go read and I'm going to try to get this done tonight so buckle up baby we're going downstairs and we're going to hang out and hopefully have a good time with one the backdrop in here is kind of giving Patrick baitman but we will persist and chat about heartless Hunter shall we um I'm digging this y'all this is a very different book than the last one I don't know if it's for sure ya it's labeled as ya on goodread and this author has only ever written ya so I'm assuming that's what it is but it's available on KU and Audi book is fantastic story is fast moving there's not a lot of like World building but I'm not upset about it essentially the plot the vibe of the story is that our heroine is a witch who is trying to help other witches not get taken I suppose by witch Hunters she has to give up her grandmother at the beginning of the story like there's been rumors swirling that her grandma is a witch and to prevent both of them from being murdered her Grandma's like hey you need to like turn me in um so no one suspects that you are a witch actually I'm not even sure like knew she was witch ahead of time but anyway um she has to give up her grandma this has lit fire under her ass to help other witches but in her like day-to-day life her like cover is that that she is a rich socialite who's inherited a bunch of wealth from her grandma which she was able to keep because she ratted her out and she is kind of vapid kind of into cloth like kind of just vibing little do they know she is is it the red moth or whatever she is like the resistance and I'm digging that the hero is obviously working for the other side he is the most notorious witch killer stoic and a little grumpy and it's giving what I needed Divine Rivals to give honestly the enemies to lovers realness is real I don't want to say beautiful writing but yeah it's beautiful writing it's like perfect for what it needs to be I feel like I am I know where I'm at if that makes sense like I can picture the world it's being described pretty beautifully from the beginning I was like oh this is different what I was just reading in Lady Of Darkness but it's not like too flowery as Divine Rivals was no it's kind of perfect I don't want to get too ahead of myself but I'm kind of interested in this our heroin does need to marry soon people are kind of on her case about like being unmarried and to like kind of maintain her position in society she needs to marry also I can see myself in the mirror and my posture is abysmal but we're just going to ignore that she needs to Mary and I think she's probably going to end up married to this witch hunter guy and I think that could be kind of a sexy little p ring and I'm kind of very excited actually to see what that ends up looking like they've set the characters up so well like it's not the most inventive story ever it's not like this is a crazy Dynamic we've never read before but a tried and true one executed very well and I'm into that like I don't need anything wildly unique when it comes to my Romany I just want it to hit and I think y'all feel the same way maybe I don't know I know a lot of people really originality and yeah we don't want all the books that we read to be like Sarah J Master R offs I get that but I think a lot of us when we go into reading romantic it's like we want a specific Vibe I also think that's why um there's been so much like Draco Hermione sort of fanfiction being read by people it's like we're looking for specific dynamics that can't really be pulled off in a setting other than fantasy right enemy lovers like you can't really have enemies in real life I mean you can I guess if you're in like the mob but otherwise it's just someone who's kind of a dick fantasy you can actually pull that off so anyway vibing loving it having a great time I'm gonna get 50% in tonight well I'm G to finish the whole thing tonight frankly but I'll update you one more time tonight and then um I'll tell you my final thoughts tomorrow all right so I hit the 50% Mark in this book and I'm still enjoying it I wouldn't say that my thoughts have really changed since I last talked to y'all just a little disappointing because every time I do an update I want to be able to give you like new and fresh information only thing I can really say is that things are unfolding differently than I expected but it's not unenjoyable I'm kind of enjoying Run's like SK and just how she is um trying to like live out her dreams and I also am well dreams how she's trying to like stay alive basically I'm also enjoying our hero and his backstory is definitely interesting and I wasn't expecting him to have as much complexity as he does considering there's not a lot of like set up for this world I wasn't expecting there to be a ton of care taken with why he is the way he is and kind of what he's been through but he like grew up in poverty for most of his life or at least around poverty his parents par s got like I guess I don't want to say like rose through the ranks but they became like the Royal Tailor or like dress makers for the crown uh many years ago before they both passed away his life changed from there he is like making dresses for the heroin that's like how he's trying to wo her he's suspicious of her and thinks that she is the Crimson moth or whatever um which she is obviously but his way of trying to like infiltrate and like understand her and like what's going on I think is interesting and just like his backstory I think is interesting too it's like he doesn't seem to have a lot of trepidation with trying to come after her coming after Rune that is but also has a complicated past which I think makes his actions interesting um I also kind of to mention that there is sort of like a Brothers situation going on I don't know why I'm blanking on the hero's name right now but his brother Alex is Run's best friend and he seems to be pretty enamored with her I don't know if it's romantic but I know that our hero is like hesitant to after Rune at the beginning because he's like I don't really want to like go after my brother's girl even if they're not like together together yeah I also am liking there there's actual conversations being had too between run and evil man which I like and you might ask yourself wait how how is that happening well it's because he is trying to like woo her almost and she is trying to woo him to like take him off her scent or like get him off her you understand what I'm saying I don't know it's it's a fun time I'm going to keep reading and I'll update you on my final thoughts tomorrow all right guys we have two bars of battery I'm in my car I just went to Target did a little shopping and actually have a haul over on the Vlog channel it's not up yet it'll be up on Tuesday you're saying this on a Sunday I finished heartless Hunter and it was pretty great I loved this it is ya question mark there's some intimacy there's some intimacy I was not expecting I will say I liked this though I thought that the pacing never let up which was so fun it was reminiscent of quite a few things kind of like Divine Rivals that one series by Shelby mahuran Serpent and Dove it kind of reminds me of that a little bit it reminds me of like row fanfiction it's just a good time it's fun it's a dynamic that I think a lot of people will enjoy and I would recommend this I genuinely would again it's not going to be the most groundbreaking plot so if that's like what you're looking for in a romancy sorry this isn't that but it is really fun The Twist at the end I didn't necessarily see coming especially like this really big reveal that happens I loved it I thought it was fun and I think this is only a duology so I would definitely pick up the second book I think it comes out in like February of next year this is a lot of fun and I probably would not have picked this up on my own had it not been for this video because I don't know what it is about Romany y'all there are some amazing creators on YouTube specifically who read so much Romany Rachel from ravenhair reader comes to mind don't seem to pick these up which is crazy cuz I love romance and I do like fantasy fantasy for some reason and Romany I just like I don't always gravitate towards it cuz it's so much of a Time suck it's like an investment these 500 plus page books these series cuz it's like if I get into one book I've got to continue the rest of the series I need to start doing this more often because I'm having a whole lot of fun that like was not evident in this video like I'm genuinely having so much fun and this is like the palette cleanser I feel like I needed so yeah this is a good book I think I would read this like four stars it was not perfect I wanted maybe a little bit more longing here's the thing it's hard to strike the balance between characters getting to know each other like good character development relationship development and then also that yearning that longing it's hard to J to POS those sometimes you know if you get if we get the characters to know each other too well sometimes the earning doesn't necessarily take place in the way that I want it to I wish that the like physical stuff had maybe been drawn out a little bit longer but I've got a lot of good setup for the second book and I think things are going to get really interesting really interesting it does the like classic fantasy thing it's like I don't know if this is a spoiler to say this I'm going to put a spoiler alert just in case this is a spoiler to some people but it does that classic fantasy book thing where you start leading up to a romance like you start leading up to this idea of these two people being together there's a reveal that happens or like something bad happens at the end of the first book oh okay so this is the love interest is probably going to be the person that this person ends up with but they're going to have to overcome some in the second book for that to happen right that happens in this book it happened in the first book that I read too um as well I don't think that's a spoiler to say but maybe it is to some people fun times to be had by all all being me okay uh let's move on to when the moon hatch I have the audiobook version of this again Pro tip if you don't already know this I feel like a lot of people probably do but whenever you use Kindle unlimited if you check out a book you're using desktop CU I think that's kind of the only no I know you could do it on desktop I'm not sure if this applies to Kindle it probably does like if you do it within the app but Kindle unlimited you select a book put it in your library it offers you the audio book at a very discounted rate normally around $7 St between $7 and $12 which is a lot lower than the going rate for audiobooks but only when you're like on that checkout screen why I don't know so sometimes if I like don't think I want the audio book I'll check out the book and then I'll be like I have to return this book to kind unlimited to like get the audio book anyway you can get an Audi book at a discounted rate if you do that you're probably all going to be at the comments like Channel we already knew that and also like there's a way to get the audio book after you've checked it out or whatever and you're probably right but um I like that that's like how I save money on audio books on occasion granted I don't often buy them I normally get them from Libby but every once in a while when I'm feeling lazy I treat myself to audio book for a Kindle unlimited I'm going to go home and read it's a 6- hour book like 6 hours at three times speed as in this is like a 20-hour audio book so pray for me that math doesn't add up don't we don't need to talk about it okay um but I'm I'm excited I think this is one that I know people enjoy but I also know absolutely nothing about and when I looked on the Goodreads page today I saw the word dragons which has my hackles fully up just cuzz I don't want this to be like fourth wi part two you know what I mean or like honestly it actually would be better if it was like fourth wi light I don't Earth wi wasn't for me this might be this book sucks I'm just going to be honest with you I was so excited for this one I was like surely this is going to be so good so many people have talked about it I feel like I keep hearing rave reviews even though I didn't know what the book was about I think the reason I didn't know what the book was about is because it's confusing as painfully confusing and I posted a plea to my Instagram community and I was like hey please if you've read this DM me I need to ask you questions about this cuz there's just things I have questions on and I'm confused had a couple of people help me but even they said I still didn't know what the was going on and so I am being led to believe that I'm not that stupid this book is just hard to understand and the World building is non-existent so from what I've gathered our main character I don't know if her name is Rave or reev he is trying to kill people at the beginning of the book she is a part of a resistance group and she is pretending that she has no Elemental Magic that she is a null and yeah she's just she's killing people people who are like abusers and shitty she gets arrested and tortured and is going to be put to death I guess is kind of where I'm at now there's also dragons that are moons what I'm feeling to understand my friends I am genuinely perplexed at the magic system here it has not been explained to us except once upon a time they were gods they had Elemental Magic and there were also dragons Okay once the gods went away the dragons became moons there are moons in the sky and I guess the dragons are like dropping to earth now at this point they're coming back you know from in the sky people on earth have Elemental Magic don't understand the politics of the world though why is our heroine a part of a resistance what's the resistance for I don't understand I don't know if I'm ever going to understand so I'm just like being led with this plot I think we've been introduced to the hero at this point he is the king maybe and I think maybe his brother wants her dead he doesn't want her dead he's grumpy and he's going through some what he's going through I don't know we're getting lots of little vignettes from people who I don't know kind of little like interspersed chapters if you've ever read the way of Kings you know what I'm talking about like chapters from people that aren't really in the story so confused y'all confused and I'm I'm pretty ugly right now and I upset because this is a long book and I was fully expecting to be totally into this the writing at the beginning got me excited I was like wow this prologue like this is some rich World building and you know dragons and gods and okay cool it's not cool though is the thing it's like the rest of the story is not so cool and I'm wondering like if there's withholding for a reason but it's giving fourth wi Vibes in the sense that like you don't really get World building and I think it's kind of essential and maybe at the end of the book we're going to get some I'm going to be upset that I listened to 6 hours 7 hours of an audio book and didn't know anything until the very end that's just not fun for a reader I'm just going to say it I just don't think it's fun for a reader and now I'm upset okay um I'm going to keep reading I'll get to 50% I'll let you know how I how I'm feeling me me um super glue my fingernail back together and just like pray that the rest of this book is less shitty all right now this is going on side quests and I don't mean me I mean the in the book this is still not good and it's still confusing I'm a little perplexed because I was trying to figure out more about this book by Googling came across this website and I thought it was going to give me answers it did not give me answers but it did tell me that this book didn't have smut and that my friends is false that is in fact false our heroine I guess like escapes from being tortured her King I guess is he a king I feel like not says this book's about a king I can't remember his name is Hearts the K they run away together and there's dragons and and they're in some sort of like Hut they can't fight their attraction for each other and we hear the word said a lot and you know it's not my least favorite word I'm going to be honest I know some people are sensitive to it I don't hate it it was just a lot of talk if if you will she goes away from him she runs away I think and gets caught up with these people who seem kind of like primitive almost and this guy like I'm going to marry you and put a baby in you or some I don't know I'm confused I'm perplexed Mr long tan and handsome name s Decay is like there and going to save her what with the side quests what like what in the Barbie and The Magic of Pegasus is going on here I'm not happy with it I never thought it would come to this you know I never thought that I mean I didn't expect it for this book I always expect to be slightly displeased with things but I've been sold a lie all right so I woke up this morning and asked God if you're up there if you can hear me please give me a sign and my airpods were dead and I took that as a sign that I should dnf the out of this book this sucks like this is not a good book and I'm absolutely astounded at the hype that this is getting are dragons just some sort of like balm to the soul are these some sort of like post-pandemic thing that just makes the girls go crazy I don't know and I would love to know like someone please let me know in the comments why you enjoyed this book because so many people reped to my story that they didn't enjoy this book and I feel like I've been cheated in light too um it's like everybody publicly says I like it and then behind closed doors they're all laughing at me because this this is not a good book I tried really tried I really tried to enjoy this I really tried to get into it I don't I don't feel like any like wax on about what didn't work about this for me because I've already told you that in the last couple of Clips the lack of world buing is crazy the Amnesia storyline that comes in don't give a if that's a spoiler is also not my thing just felt lost pretty much the entire time that I was listening and I joke often about being stupid but I am not a stupid person said through this and feel stupid it's just not an enjoyable experience like editors need to ask their authors hey do you want your reader to feel stupid and or just like raise that question like hey your your reader is not meant to feel stupid while reading so like mayhaps you should do a little bit more World building I don't know this was not it I think someone who can articulate that much better than me is Monty I will leave a link to his Goodreads review in the description I don't always agree with Monty but whenever we don't like the same book he always Nails his explanations we actually tend to have fairly similar opinions on most books but um I'll just leave his Link in the description because he nailed it it's just not not good it was not a good book and you know what a wild ride because the books that I thought were going to be my favorite weren't and the book that I didn't give a about reading I think is probably the best of the whole video If you haven't read heartless Hunter you have to go and pick it up it's such a fun time I also liked Lady Of Darkness and I am interested to continue on with that Series so let me know if you like want my thoughts and feelings on the rest of the books you'll read those over on patreon I'm not entirely sure but let me know in the comments down below if you've read these what your thoughts and feelings are obviously also let me know what Romany books you think I need to check out because I'm obviously not very well versed in the genre I just picked up the most Buzzy things that I had heard about but I am obviously very open to reading and learning about stuff that like kind of flies under the radar but it's like really really solid so thanks for watching this I had a fun time with it despite it being kind of a chaotic ride thanks for watching this video I love you all so much and I'll see you in the next one\n"