Twee, sweet language while having unintentional dark or messed up implications sounds like the ground work for a good satire about these types of works.

This was a fantastic chat ! I actually much preferred this over Iron Gold (potentially fav in the series) but man it was bleak haha Also Volga is a perfect person !

they could have copy the story of orcs from Warcraft

It's a fantastic book, and the audiobook is one of the best I've ever listened to. There's only three Michelin stars.

brb gonna go outside and wait for a bird to get so close it nudges me to pluck it from the air

Spoilers I loved zhe first two. But not the last one I missed the court intrigue that was there in the first two books It became nore like quest epic type. There was no balance I felt third one should have given importance to patience and burrich...one who wants her dead husbands kegacy to go on by rallying inlanders to fight the raiders ... the other burrich wanting to avenge his dead son figure qnd finally accepting to use his wit to find verity release the elder lings and finally kill regal

Love Goodkind!

Excellent review.

The first law: Bayaz is always right The Second law: If Bayas for some radicicolous, highly unlikely reason, is wrong? See The First Law

I love this, very funny ❤

To go boxes?!?!

Ah this was the discussion I needed about Rain Wild Chronichles! I feel similarly that many people weren’t fully appreciating the themes that Hobb focused on; particularly surrounding motherhood and consequence. One of my favorite aspects of the series was how much characters grew and changed; in both likable and unlikeable ways.

11:54 you're being so vague the video is borderline unwatchable, I can't even begin to think what your talking about. Idea, don't do a breakdown on 3 book about why they don't work for you if you aren't going to do spoilers. 15:08 oh this is a gotcha video trying to get use to pay for a patreon ... lame bad first impression

One thing that could have made the balrog going back to sleep make sense, is if he kept the ring on or put it on and when the Balrog swings it hits the ring and it explodes killing the king but knocking out the balrog. It was right there. It's established that the lesser rings can be destroyed.

Your thoughts, exactly how I feel about The Wheel of Time

9:15 Could you please share your favourite channels of that kind? I think that could be also a nice shout out :-) Not sure if my guess is correct, but during your description I saw Ryby Granger’s channel in my mind’s eye.

Lol love the comment section now!

I feel like you know her but I could be wrong.🙄

Varys supports Young Griff and house Blackfyre, which is why he wanted Daenerys to be killed at that point.

Huhhhhhhhbbbb long books huh 🤔

couldnt agree with you morem especially on the worldbuilding front! im very nitpicky about how a fantasy world is built (big fan of ryoko kui and frances hardinge here) and babel wrestles so hard to integrate silver into the lives of its characters but preserve it as an allegory that it fails once kuang explained it and it turned out to be so simplisitic - simply writing words on a silver bar. what about maybe using semiotics to restrict the access of languages to the layman even further? what are the properties of silver that allow this? could a commentary be made on the sourcing of silver itself, a direct link to silver mines in the british colonies? i went into this book with very high expectations of how the world would be shaped, which is my fault in the end i suppose i can't deny that some parts of the story really resonated with me as a hongkonger currently studying in the uk (i loved the opium war&diplomacy bit and i hope that made more people learn about that area of history) but it disappointed me so much in terms of its plot and its characters and its aggravating prose and footnotes that i can't bring myself to be more than a bit lukewarm about it

I made it through the Assassin's trilogy (barely) but I am really struggling with the Live Ship trilogy. There are a lot of characters in play but I can't find a single one to root for aside from the ship herself. I agree with the suffering and dumb decisions comments. It was cover to cover in Assassin's and so far, Live ship is the same. It's constant and there is never a break from it. I've heard the Live Ship series gets better in book 2. I hope so.

The only reason there even is a 2nd season of this disrespectful rubbish is because of people like you, feeding into the rage bait and giving it attention for views.

Finally. This book was so hamfisted it hurt. RF Kuang has the nuance of a brick to the face.

Thank you! Every book now has to put their 2 cents in on social issues and I have fatigue. Too on the nose and preaching and screeching. Makes me close the book and move on.

Aaaah your cat is so cute!!! 💖💖😭

Found your videos before watching season 2. Told myself I wouldn't watch them until I've watched the whole show but it's so. damn. terrible... Made it to 4 1/2 episode before I couldn't take anymore. Watching this instead! Much better content!

I think that Mistborn was good, second series is better when it comes to humour and Victorianesque vibe. I prefer the Stormlight Achive over Mistborn series 1 though. But you shouldn’t probably listen to me as my favourite Sanderson book is Elantris.

2:25 Just shows how ignorant and Christian-focused Tolkien was.

I’m a Polish woman and I didn’t like the Uprooted. The castle part was totally random and the love interest abusive. However, I’m glad I gave the author one more chance because I totally loved Spinning Silver. It was everything I hoped Uprooted will be when it comes to culture and vibes.

I did not expect such J.K. Rowling comment on this channel. Seemed rational and not that much into following what is politically correct now or whenever. Unless it was a tongue in cheek comment, then please clarify.

Got Lud in the Mist, you both piqued my interest by your discussion.

I have 2 romantasy recommendations u can read the synopsis for and determine if u want to give it a try. They don't have great pros but I liked the plot. The first one is A Drop of Venum. That's a Medusa retelling. And the other one is The Reader. I liked the world more than the story but I liked the ending. It's a Trilogy and the theme is about can you change your fate.

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Oof that would be a bad stack for me, I"ve DNF'd both The Wolf and Empire of Silence.

I didn't think anybody liked anything as much as you liked First Law

the show is legions better lollll I couldn’t fin the book either the chsrs in the tv show were so much more thoughtout n real

Okay I reallyyyy need to read some mieville asap!! And ugh I feel you on tthe familiar, that was honestly a true tragedy 🥲🥲

"People dressed up as Vikings banging" and that's how I realized I might really enjoy the Romantasy trope...😮

Deciding to make Nynaeve unlikable was definitely a...bold creative decision?

I love the series, despite the occasional intrusiveness of Goodkind's politics. Like, he spends a WHOLE BOOK (book 6) teaching us that capitalism is good and communism is bad. He spends a WHOLE BOOK (book 8, which came out shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003) teaching us that war is good and anti-war protesters don't deserve to live. Also I believe the lesson of book 5 was that democracy doesn't work?

Library at mount char was a dnf for me cuz it felt devoid of all emotion and weird for the sake of weird without purpose. I think calling it a shitty American Gods is a great definition LOL

Thank Baal, I was beginning to think I was alone in hating 'Mount Char.' I read it so I could do a good deed, support a local author. Stupid me.

Wow. That was a lot. Thank you for the reviews.

I think the Shatter Me series is done … There are novellas written from the POV of supporting characters that have no bearing on the main story, but the series is done. You’re good. 🙂

Sooo... You followed BotNS with Knight/Wizard; a fine work of literature... but also Wolfe in his twilight years. I'm happy to hear You're going for the Latro series. Those are basically THE Greek mythology fantasy stories (take that, Kratos!) as well as a brilliant reversal of Sev's condition: a protagonist wo keeps forgetting. Still, I hope that at some point You'll get to his other two masterpieces - The Fifth Head of Cerberus novella trilogy and above all Peace.

I have to thank you. I only listened to this video so I didn't see the covers. I almost bought one dark window cause of how great the cover was. Luckily the title seemed familiar and I remembered it was romantacy before I bought it

continue over to the greats of science fiction

Man, u ain’t kidding TheFamiliar was a train wreck And Perdido is awesome

I love your wrap ups a lot!❤