As an avid fantasy reader, I can, in fact, confirm that this is a bad fantasy ahahaha

Loved ❤

Welsome to the 20s. Therapy holds us accountable

Most romantacy is trashy smut garbage these days. Even ACOTAR: enemies to lovers? You mean SA deviant/victim to lovers? Not my cup of tea.

My biggest gripe is moreso the fact that people are saying the book is "fun." But idk, it's not fun for me when there's nothing pulling the plot along and it always just feels like events happen at random. The chapters don't pull me from one to the next, making want to keep reading so I can find out more. It's also just sooooo predictable. Maybe that was why I didn't find it fun. I liked that it had lots of action in the first and final act, but that middle saaaaaaaaaaaagged.

I'll never tire of people ragging on this waate of trees

I just started the video, but I love how you use The Actual Historical Cult of Dionysus as a metaphor for tiktok, lol

Just saw this. I understand it's hard to write fantasy and good romances so I was curious how it was combined. Even more so because the author is from a military family and litteraly could have asked anyone if her military makes sense but nope. This isn't either a good romance nor good fantasy nor makes the military stuff sense. Fragile bookish girly gets into military death akademie with built in enemies out for her blood. And not because girly always wanted to fly, or because her disability won't matter if she sits on a dragon but because General Mommy makes her go. The book has more plot holes than a Swiss cheese. I could forgive if it was a childrens book, but it isn't. How would I save it? First of all little Violence always dreamt of flying. If she just could bond with a dragon her weakness wouldn't matter. Sitting on a Dagon (In a saddle! There is a reason knights used a saddle and war elephants had platforms. And concept drawings of dragon saddles exist since the eighty... ) using her bond powers she too could be a warrior. But her talents were scouted for the libraries and General Mom and her sister are absolutely against it. Why? Because the king decided to get rid of the older rebell children this year and this year is reserved for them and will be especially deadly and the classes are set to not teach them how to survive. Of course it's not supposed to be that obvious so a few children of important persons are drafted by lottery and a hand full of commoners are thrown in. It's disgusted as their big chance. V is furious when she learns her name wasn't even in the pot. Adding heartache to injured teenage ego her crush Dan gets to go. So V sneaks in. As soon as she passes the parathing she is part of the wing. Mommy is horrified. But it's to late and V needs to form alliances and turn enemies into friends. Now it's ride or die! 😂 That should patch up a lot.

ahhhh this was so fun to watch lol. I genuinely enjoyed this book for basically the reason you stated - it brought a sense of nostalgia & intense romanticism that books like divergent & twilight gave me as a tween. I don't think these books will hold up over time. it's honestly impressive how Yarros has maintained excitement for this series with the material she's working with lol. have to give her / her team credit where its due. im obsessed with vids dragging fourth wing ofmg

God these reviews fuckin suck

This book is pure 💩💩💩.

don't you dare disrespect Rhysand like that 🔪. Rhysand might not be the best role model and a bit sus at times but at least he has a personality😤

I spent 60 dollars on this and the sequel without seeing any reviews, and this book is so garbage. How do you fuck up a fantasy academia with dragons, what surprises me the most is how loved this book is. Smh 🤦‍♂️

I'll admit, I almost fell for the hype with Fourth Wing. It kept popping up almost everywhere I went, whether it was online or at the store, to the point where I went "Okay, fine! You've tempted me enough, I'm picking you up!" And I admit, I enjoyed the book for a while, probably because I wasn't looking too deep into it. Even the questionable dialogue (for example, the "Holy F**king Hot!" line) got some big laughs out of me. Sometimes you can enjoy something dumb by just going along and finding humor in it. Eventually though, the book started to drag, the details blurring together, and the stupidity reaching an all-time high. I started wondering "If the country is so desperate for more soldiers for the war, then why keep killing off potential recruits who can be used for different regiments besides dragon riding?", and from there the problems kept mounting up, which eventually led to me DNFing Fourth Wing and giving it away (I stopped at around the deadly obstacle course was completed, shortly after someone died attempting it). Going by everything I looked up about book, and its sequel Iron Flame, I think I made the right choice. Its sad cause I think the premise had some real potential, yet it was all either cast aside in favor of that godforsaken love triangle (why does nearly every fantasy book need to have a love triangle???), or just not executed well at all.

Priory of the Orange Tree was great! Not a masterpiece as there was *a lot* to take in, and there's one character in there that everybody loves, but I couldn't stop thinking "Why is he everyone's favorite? He's an a--hole." Still, the book was structured well, and the world and dragons were fascinating. I didn't finished Fireborne as I sadly lost interest a third of the way in. It focuses more on politics and character drama and trauma than the dragons, and that can throw people off. Still, I think its a good read when in the right mood, and I plan on giving it another chance one day. A Game of Thrones, oooh boy. I liked the first book (enough to get a House Stark "Winter Is Coming" shirt almost on the spot), but I don't know if I'll go on to the rest of the series. A Clash of Kings nearly bored me to tears as literally nothing good or hopeful was happening, and the sex scenes were getting gratuitous (I still think George R.R. Martin is compensating for something given how much sex happens in these books). I get why others love this series, but I don't know if its for me. I've heard of the other books on this list, but I either haven't read them or I'm not that interested. As long as they're better than Fourth Wing, though, that's fine with me! If I could throw a few recommendations of my own in there, I'd choose Eragon (yeah, everyone makes fun of it by calling it Star Wars but with dragons, but the series becomes its own thing as it goes on, and the magic system and dragon rider lore is honestly really cool), His Majesty's Dragon (that one goes without saying), and a fairly new addition, the Songs of Chaos series by Michael Miller. The series isn't finished yet, but the first two books were absolutely amazing. The magic and dragon rider concept especially is unique (example: the main character's dragon is blind. That alone opens up all sorts of questions and possibilities).

Thanks!

So proud of u mi Gorda, te amo

Not you calling Katniss who is a severely traumatized child who had to fight to the death and kill other children and watch other children get killed a bad person for “leading gale on” she said she knew he loved her because she saw him as her BEST FRIEND, and Gale is basically the reason her sister died also, y’all Gale lovers are weird

this showed on my recommended but i really wish the best for you!! good luck on everything c:

First of all, thanks for making this video! The topic is super important and as someone who has gone through a pretty rough mental health crisis over the last years and is still very much on the way out I recognized a lot of my own struggles in this, especially the part about going through cycles and avoiding meds. So yeah, glad you're feeling better and glad you're back!

Glad you're feeling better ❤ looking forward to new videos 😊

Glad you're okay💚

Glad to see you're back! ❤

Wasted 40 dollars on the shitty fanfic 😂😂😂 loved the review.

I can’t believe she had the audacity to call it misogyny as an excuse for her to write and romanticize misogyny and violence against women! BFFR! 🙄

I was scrolling through Twitter in half a trance and this bit snapped me out real quick holy shit I forgot hes was literally 15 💀14:43

miscommunication will quite literally be the death of me if I continue to see it cuz it’s such an overused plot device in romance!! love your energy ❤

I thought i was just missing smth from The Cruel Prince because i listened to the audiobooks but it turns out I'm not insane thank you

This video makes no sense 😭 of course the child abuse Severin faced is problematic its child abuse thats framed as terrible by the narration, and is a huge part of why Severin is tye way he is, its not like its there for no reason 😭 same with the Jude and Carden romance like yeah its literally enemies to lovers, if you didnt want them to actually hate each other why did you think youd like the book

Katniss only voted to restart the hunger games because in exchange Coin would allow her to kill Snow, and Katniss knows that when she kills Coin the whole "restart the hunger games" idea will go down the gutter, its made very obvious in the text lol. Plus katniss spends the trilogy very very confused and distressed about the love triangle because she does love gale but not in the way that he wants. Her "leading him on" is literally her dealing with constant trauma and wanting comfort from one of the few people who she trusts Also Nina wasnt ever a sex worker, her clients hired her to use her magic on them. Also Matthias spends most of SOC trying to kill Nina, i definitely dont think her behaviour is half as bad as his

The reasons people hate Jurdan's relationship is the same reason I love it🤩

I'm so glad im not the only one that thinks Jude and Cardan's relationship was just off-putting. Like the whole romance between them during the whole series was the thing I hated the most about the books, like I just can't with Cardan he's simply horrendous. It made me realize I in fact don't like enemies to lovers trope, I like rivals (that just dislike eachother and bicker around NOT TRY TO KILL AND ASSAULT EACHOTHER) to lovers.

I had to force myself to keep reading The Cruel Prince after the scene where Cardan is like “I’m mean to you because I like you so much!” (definitely not the exact quote but you get the point) It just disgusted me so much I didn’t even want to finish it 😭

Locke and Taryn made Cardan look nice that says it all 😂. It's very funny to me because Cardan is very bad at killing anyone or scheming. But Jude can't stop doing all those things which evens their relationship out in my opinion. It's fun to read about the drama

Thank you for excellent recommendations! The book series that got me into fantasy when I was a teen was the Inheritance Cycle, also about dragon riders. It's quite good especially given the fact that the author was really young when he wrote it

So I tried reading Fourth Wing, made it through two chapters then DNF'ed it, and what I picked up in those two chapters was that people who enjoy toxic romances like Twilight, anything Colleen Hoover, SJM (not coming for you), 50 Shades, or 365 Days, etc. would enjoy Fourth Wing because it reads like a modern day romance, it just happens to have a couple dragons in it. The book does seem to be an entry point for a lot into fantasy, which is unfortunate because it's so poorly executed. Thank you for discussing Together We Burn, I'm adding it to my TBR. I just learned about Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier which sounds fun. And I recommend To Shape A Dragon's Breath, the Lady Trent Memoire series, the Temeraire series, Andre Norton's Halfblood Chronicles, and Dealing With Dragons if you haven't already read that.

If I got a dollar for every time Violet called Dain her best friend without them exhibiting any remote signs of friendship chemistry at any point, I'd be rich.

I'll be honest, Priory of the Orange Tree wasn't great... The first 150 pages were just my brain repeatedly committing suicide. It was honestly just so deeply OK, which isn't great for an 800 page book. If you really want to read it though, A Day of Fallen Night takes place before The Priory of the Orange Tree, so don't make the mistake I made, read the "second" book first.

I loved Six Crimson Cranes. I need to read The Night Ends with Fire, it sounds right up my street.

I adore how honest this review and this account seems 😂❤

I liked Fourth Wing but I will say there definitely are books that I liked a lot better, (and arguably are better written) like Priory and His Majesty's Dragon or To Shape A Dragon's Breath. (You definitely should read Priory it's SO good. I would recommend reading it's prequel first though, A Day of Fallen Night but you definitely don't have to)

Based on the reviews ive read about Fourth Wing, all those people who love it have said they have never read a fantasy book or a book in general for that matter. They have nothing to compare it to. So they dont know its trash. Lol.

wait; no insta-love? no love-triangles? no lusting over the "bad boy" every other page? come on Lulu, I'm trying to live out my secret fantasies here, not read a great story!

Off topic you are so prettyyyyyy <<333

My ick is people saying I can’t like dark romance because it doesn’t match reality or has trigger warnings. Like, so. There’s so many classics that talk about the same thing. Like _flowers in the attic_ or even _a hand maids tale_ .

I hate omegaverse in general. It's too animalistic and a lot of it looks like sexism repackaged 😭

Have you read N.K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms or anything by Laini Taylor? They both write SO amazingly. (I also love Atwood's and Bram Stoker's styles, although I read Dracula in Czech when I was studying the language, so I can't really judge his :-D .)

I thought no one knew the elephant princess lol I watched it a long time ago

It's kind of crazy to think that authors rather re-traumatize or put people into dangerous mental situations instead of just putting trigger warnings because ruining their story is apparently more important than their readers mental health 🤷🏿‍♀️

Insta love is such a rhing that doesnt make sense, and avoidable. Just make it insta attraction or insta interest