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As someone whose special interests include the dissection of media literacy with regards to colonizer apologetics, *_WHERE CAN I SEE THE PANEL. PLEASE._* if it is money that is alright 🥲 I must see It will help me yell at my enemies through the power of the written word Edit it deleted like 7 notes I’m gonna SCREAM. Ugh I’ll get them later i will be watching this again. 38:37 “I will stand by that you are meant to feel bad for royal colonizer, that he genuinely cares for colonized love interest, that he feels pain and hurt for the way that he betrayed her, that we don’t have the full story of royal colonizer, that the victim of systemic genocide is “cold” or “cruel” more so than the invader torturing their people and squatting on their homelands, because they cried over the possibility of losing their captured romance object”

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i just discovered you with this and i have fallen in love with your personality! your laugh at the ridiculous parts is hilarious

Agree so hard with you!!

I regret spending my money and time on these books. At one point, listening to the audiobook, I found myself disassociating in the middle of a ONE-HOUR dialogue between Poppy and some other guy. I DNFed it right then and there because... one hour! of pure dialogue!!!

That’s exactly how I felt! I did a quick read of it a few days before a book club meeting and you hit the nail on the head about the “non rules” of her magic. I tend to be a rule person. The book made me uneasy in that way. It was fast paced and dark with her war angst, but it was well written and closed well.

I'm late to the Babel commentary, but I just read the book for the first time, and I agree with and share the love for the first half. I like how it's laying the foundation for Robin's conflicted feelings and actions. My personal issue with the story was, as is for many others, the telling instead of showing and how that affected, as you well said, the impact of the story. I think that Hermes as a secret society could've been handled way better and the ending was an overload of things but at the same time very dragged. RF Kuang could've given us pov moments of Griffin on missions and when all the characters go to Canton the stay could've been longer and more enriched with Chinese culture. Would've been cool if they had discovered a Hermes ally or secrete hideout in Canton to give it more weight. Overall a good story but the execution wasn't very polished.

Gosh this review is satisfying 😂

I’ve been chewing on Minor Detail for months. For such a short book, there’s so much to dissect.

That's how I felt reading Olga Dies Dreaming... and it was written by a Latina😅

I liked the TOG books 😊

I love watching your reviews!

So every time I get done finishing a chapter. I will come here for a recap. So since I’m done with chapter one today, I will be watching this until the 7 minute and 22 second mark. I’ve never read phantasy like that so I’m excited to even type this . I really wanted a recap on what I read, because some people have the mind to phantasize and I don’t lol.

I've never see those tiktoks before, but why are half the skits just her se ually harrassing her boss? And the baby voice🤨 I've heard people describe the plot and its holes, so it's def not for me. I like unconvential superhero stories, like deconstructions and satires or sentai and magic girl variants, but I think I'll stick to the webcomics that fit my tastes.

FULLY agree with your rant about forced nicknames. I don't understand how people see the intentional disrespect and its consequential setting up of a pattern of ignoring consent as somehow cute or romantic.

This is exactly how I felt about Kuang’s Poppy Wars. That book was really bad, not the worst thing in the world but everyone was saying that it was the best thing in the world. And it was…not good? Like I was so baffled and confused about why everyone loved this book. After that I honestly never take recommendations from booktubers or tiktokers because it baffles me how they didn’t see the obvious problems with this book from a narrative standpoint

Am I unable to count or are there 9 books here, not 10? I didn't see anyone address this. Which makes me think I'm crazy!

I really like watching you reviewing overhyped books. 😂

"I dont even really understand at this point why like the big villain was villaining" this made me laugh so hard 😂 I dont have the intension to read this book now.

This review completely resonates with my thoughts so far. It's so frustrating because we know, thanks to Poppy War, that R.F Kuang CAN do great character work. But in Babel they all fell flat for me

I’m already half through the novel and I have to say that I don't understand why the book even won any awards. I mean the concept itself is very interesting and innovative and I also enjoyed the thorough research the author had done for the translation study necessary for the plot, but in terms of novel writing itself, the characterisation is horrible and it literally makes the most basic mistakes of "telling" rather than "showing". Moreover, as you also mentioned here, there are far too many footnotes to the novel and they are not just defamililiratity notes but plot complementary notes telling the backgroud stories of these characters. I'm really shocked that the bar of publishing nowadays is this low. The subplot of the story should be woven into the character budiling and showed to us not told by the author. Moreover, there are a lot of abrupt jump of narrative, simply because the author probably doesnt want to wast her time write in details. The depiction of the bond of the 4 students are also super cringy at the beginning of the story. Like when they were disucssing some kind of smelll of pear they smelt in the room of Victorie, and the author just wrote suddenly Robin felt he loves his friends so much. I'm like ????? Why and how?? The discussion of pear smell is so lame....

I just had to read this for a book club. I agree with most of your points, but am beholden to point out that the "good" character, Tatianna, is also POC. Not that it's easy to find out, because the author doesn't do a great job of describing her characters. You have to piece it together as you read.

I appreciate this review. I read this book after watching the TV series based on it. I liked this TV series. Hated the book. It's been so long since I read it that I don't remember specifics of why I didn't like but that I really didn't like it definitely stayed with me!

Kate is the best ! Did you read their knew "novella" series about Kate ? It's reallyyy good !

I thought it was a me issue. I also had trouble absorbing any info on this. I was trying to think back on what happened and couldn't remember a lot of it. Also, Perseus and Odysseus are not gods in Greek mythology... But they were gods in this story. She probably should have done more research

This book made me - a zutara hater - feel bad for zutara to be compared to this 😂

THANK YOUUUUUU!!! You were able to word all my frustrations with this book, and I appreciate it cause you are so much more polite than I ever could be. I was so excited to read a book about (de)colonialism and language, and was SO disappointed by where the story lead me. I must admit that I hold books that are everything I love "on paper" to much higher standards than others, and that's also not fair. Great video! Glad to have found your channel :)

I agree with absolutely everything you just said. Like you, I started reading the book series because I loved the games. And I loved the first 2 short story books, but as soon as I started reading the large story, I started loosing interest because way too much politics and not nearly enough monster hunting. In the end though, I couldn't even finish the book series because the author's portrayal of women was so poor and at times awful that I couldn't read it anymore.

Is she actually part indigenous or is it how "mestizo" and yt latinx claim to be indigenous (which is not accurate and erases indigenous people living in LatinoAmerica

The Unmapping sound so interesting!!!!

Tbh The Phantom Tollbooth was my childhood, but I looked up Stardust and it's a romance, which is one of my least favorite genres but if the reason behind the plot happening wasn't because of love I'd probably read it

Okay, this makes me irrationally mad, but this book is just adult, gender-swapped to how to train your dragon but with magic. Similarities include: - both Hiccup and Violet are physically disabled (sure, Hiccup only looses his leg at the end of the first movie, but there are a ton of sequels) - both toothless and the baby dragon have a physical disability that stops them from flying (although toothless can fly with his prosthetic). - they both have a harsh, militaristic parent in a leadership position, and they both clash with this parent. - they both have a missing/deceased parent that is kind and gentle like them (yes, Hiccup's mother reappears, but she did not raise him and he thought she was dead for most of his life.) - they're both supposed to be booksmart. - they both have gruffer love interests. - they both have a rare dragon/dragons. - the dragon naming conventions of fourth wing are a shoddy copy of httyd's dragon names. (i.e. nightfury, rumblehorn, hiddeous zippleback, vs morningstar tail, sword tail, daggertail. - the violent societal conventions are challenged by the main character. - there are dragons and dragon riders. - there's a romance (no smut is still romance, Hiccup and Astrid are absolutely dating) - the dragons have a hierarchy separate from humans. - the dragons are hostile to the humans (Edit: I thought of some more)

1. your laugh is so cute!!! 2. UGH such a good point comparing collins world building to Yarros to explain lack of emotional connection to the people and the situations in fourth wing!!

Guess who doesn't care what your opinion is?

It's kind of funny to me that the publisher shares a name with a scathingly anti-capitalist short story.

You have articulated the struggles I am having so well 😭 I wanted to like it (my copy was gifted by a friend who loved it) but I can't get through that first 30%

It feels like this book and Chang were funneled through from protodraft to published novel without anyone on her publisher's team actually reading the full book. The prose issues, the repetition, the messy copyediting-all these things speak to this being a rush job, compounded by the fact that this was a debut author.

I read a lot of fanfiction. Like A LOT. And above almost any single other trope or theme that I hate to the bottom of my heart, is the "I'm only gay for this ONE person." Sexuality is fluid, as a queer person myself I know this, but that trope makes me DNF immediately.

I watched because I am interested in Annie Bot and wanted to hear your experience.

lol Red Rising is great, don't listen to this person

Holy crap someone on UA-cam finally outlined what I hate about Red Rising! Thank you!

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I read the summary of the first book on Kindle and noped out. It had all the workings of a Livejournal post from 2009

IF THE CHARACTERS ARE INTOLERABLE THEN IM INTOLERABLE TOO <3 u would also hate me irl T_T

jaw dROPPED.=- im sorry but u said dont be mean in the comments but u just called one of my fav books 1 STAR T_T HELL NAWW

I plan to check out One Dark Window sometime soon and I've heard things that make me think I'll really enjoy it... and then other things that make me pretty certain I will not have a good time. lol. We shall see!!!! 😆