I forgot I already watched this video.

The book was that bad? How come is this video 8 freaking hours long

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Norman doesn’t understand women, sports, or humanity in general. I believe this novel might have an unreliable narrator. 😂😂

2:10:58 this is EXACTLY VERBATIM how Stephanie learns to use elemental magic in Skullduggery pleasant. She literally describes it as things locking into space, pushing, and the air moves...

1:50:17 I love how when reading that line I envisioned the Lion turtle scene from Avatar the last airbender and Krimson also thought of a slightly DIFFERENT Avatar scene. Gotta love Aster's 'creativity' lmao EDIT: And the thing about Aang getting taught by the Lion turtle the way he did was that it completely tied into the key themes of spirituality in the worldbuilding. He has connections to his past lives, he can access the spirit world, etc. The Lion turtle teaching him a specifically spiritual move in a spiritual way makes complete sense. It gives a deeper context to the spirituality of this world and its ancient creatures. Isla getting taught in this manner doesn't enrich her powers, it doesn't add a layer of symbolism to her powers, it doesn't enrich the world building, it does nothing. There is no spiritual aspect to build off of it. It's so stupid, it would've been better to put a "5 months later" line in the middle of the book

This reads like the author has the mind of a child but the life experiences of an adult. On top of that, not even a shred of entertainment, artistic vision, wordplay, or any sort of flavor is put into a single sentence of this book - as if the author has no sense of creativity at all. An instruction manual would probably be more fun to read than this book.

Rewatching this to distract myself from Hurricane Helene coming right for my state

Every time I re-watch one of these reviews, I get the powerful urge to write fanfiction of these awful books just to prove it can be done better, then have to talk myself out of wasting that much time on fanwork of something that doesn't deserve it.

I would give up as a writer if someone did this about my book. 😭😭😭

I have to thank you. I'm editing my soon to be sixth novel, and I started trimming the fat on previously established info, plus it's a comedy spy thriller and needs to know is in it, but I have my agent point out how irregular this is.

50:53 I know that the “Gemini/Partyman/Batdance Prince,” is a reference to the fact that Prince provided the songs, “Partyman” and “Trust” for Tim Burton’s Batman movie.

Other people: "That looks like a terrible book." Me: "468 pieces of toilet paper! What a bargain!"

I would generally describe the difference as a story that asks you to turn your brain off vs one where you have to turn it off in spite of the intention

6:21- FRUITS BASKET!!!! HES TALKING ABOUT FRUITS BASKET!!!!! THATS ONE OF MY COMFORT WATCHES!!! YAY!!! ☺️❤️☺️

It’s her throne now.

I love that in the beginning of the 6 hour mark, the discussion of "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" is discussed, but not even in the philosophical sense, but the moronic one. Aster, you've truly outdone yourself

1:17:10 Did she change the tense mid-sentence? ON THE LAST LINE IN THE BOOK?

2:37:15 I hope you’ll review the book with Leah’s point of view someday.

Reminder that there are several plot holes or conveniences caused by the wildling-exclusive nature of the vault, and all could be solved by making it the core of Lightlark, which would make more sense given its contents. 1. Why could she only access it at this point? She gained all the magic powers of the various races by using the Bondmaker on Aurora. 2. Why did it reject her? It requires a balance and mastery of all magic types involved in order to open qnd sustain access to the vault. 3. Why did she unlock her memories by being in there? She used Nightshade magic as part of the opening process. Said use caused a severe reaction with her nightshade magic which is what triggered her memories returning.

Someone please send this video to Stephenie Meyer.

ok but what exactly is nihilistic about this...?

I’ve been slowly binging your stuff ever since i watched the fourth wing review, this book legitimately had me tweaking with its bad writing 47:32 like what the fuck is this book man

3:59:46 I like to call that trope assholes to lovers

Tbh, considering thar theresa publicly exploded the career of the guy who interrupted her during an interview, im surprised she didn't outright murder the sailors who groped her. Like, a guy talking over you deserves to get blackballed out of society, but the dudes who touched a married woman without her consent (in view of everyone else on the field, possibly including *her husband*) just get dismissed for the day? Did the book even kick them off the team, or were they allowed to come back after timeout?

I propose this solution to the whole "easy magic to learn" problem: low-level magic is easy to learn, but as you go further into advanced magic, it becomes exponentially harder to master. Think of an exponential function, where the x-axis is difficulty and the y-axis is magical "level", so to speak. For funsies, my version of the staff intro: "His staff was polished to perfection, a spotless white, scrubbed clean of any impurity. At its top was a jewel cut with sterile, inhuman precision, catching the warm light of the candles and reflecting it into sharp, cold rays." * *SPOILERS* * I honestly think it would have been better if the author had actually just made Isla powerless and stuck to everybody except her having magic. Also, if it is indeed possible for a person to consciously renounce their magic (and their curse with it), then why didn't the Starling do that ages ago? Also... Krimson: The author nerfed Isla a little bit. Me: * looks at the plot twist regard Isla's flair * You sure about that?

Heres my theory about her powers having never read the books or finished the video: 1- she ate her twin in the womb and something something now shes both OR she had a twin that died and gave her her power 2 - ignore that she cant eat hearts, the love magic thing means she has the night magic bc of the guy from the first book that wiped her memory I imagine these are as if not more plausible than the eventual real explanation.

5:58:01 just the little stab at their intelligence got me ☠️

I love how what is effectively a "golden ticket" is described as increasing your odds by 91%, which is less effective than buying another lottery ticket, which would increase your odds by 100%

I could watch this for the whole entirety of my school hours and still not be finished lowk

Theresa is pro Israel. Cancel. 🍉🍉🍉🍉

ancient creature guess: unicorn

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Nichijou

"Let go of my _wife."_ BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

I might be insane but I feel like this series has some inspirations from Avatar: The Last Airbender. The color coded Realms are one thing and the Moonlings having water healing powers, but also there's this one scene where Isla uses pressure point takedowns (main skill of Ty Lee) and a some of the sword talk is remiscent of the "Think of it as an extension of yourself" talk from Master Piandao.

I just looked it up: while it's considered an invasive species, in Europe there ARE chipmunks that exist. They're called the Siberian Chipmunks, and one of the countries they live in...is France. Maybe they all instinctively ran away from Theresa whenever she was near. I wouldn't blame them.

I actually enjoyed the movie, even read the book, it may not be 1-to-1 but aye i enjoyed it for what it's worth

I still dont get how know one gets it. Fantasy stories, especially romance fantasy, always contain hints of the writers fetish and the most common sexual fantasy amongst women is the funny R word. This is why its such a common theme amongst female writers. R*pe is the foot fetish of women.

She's not doing a lot to get away from the offbrand Grishaverse accusations by adding lizard Volcra to the mix.

I'm confused why she didn't just write that people get into "training accidents" frequently instead of the legal murder. It would still raise the stakes without making murder the point of the school

What’s the book series called?

(even if im late of 6 years) Honestly i think that the books were superior to the movies every time. I genuinely prefer the original story to the adaptation but man death cure was a good film, a really good one (besides some scenes that were completely nosense) but i appreciate the end of the history and the sacrifice/death of Teresa to ensure Thomas was saved and btw she is my favourite character in the movie and is head to head with Brenda in the books even if Brenda wins by a little (a really little). Hope the reboot would be decent

17:58 So yeah conspiracy sites in general are more secure because they are paranoid of the government finding them. There are of course levels to it. You need a actually tech head to explain it better than i could in detail. All I'm really saying its very believable that a conspiracy site would have better security than most.

I like spy kids

Loved the light lark breakdown, can’t believe I missed this upload

I finished this in a week. It was great. Onto the next video