My favorite book!! ❤❤❤❤

The next book is a fan favorite so I'm really curious to know your reaction 🤩🤩

The ending of this book is very devastating, Rick Riordan is a MONSTER!! Great video, I agree with everything you said there. If I have to give you one more tip, The Chalice of the Gods takes place before The Trials of Apollo so I would keep that in mind, maybe you can read The Kane Chronicles when you finish HoO, then you read this new book (The Chalice of the Gods) and then move on to Magnus Chase, The Trials of Apollo and The Sun and the Star.

I stopped reading this about 2/3-ish of the way through. I just didn't care and i was already very close to the library deadline anyway, so i DNFed it. From what you're saying, the ending sounds a kinda unhinged though. I appreciate what you said about romance books, and media in general, shaping us and the damage that the Twilight era has done. As someone who is still very young and hasn't had a single relationship in my life, that is something that i notice with myself and i try to be aware of, but that's not always easy. I didn't lik Verish (?? I only listened to the audiobook, so i don't know how to spell names. Your pronunciations were all like they were in the audiobook btw). As you said, the things he got away with makes no sense and neither do his motivations. The only thing that seemed to drive him was wanting to be evil. He was just such a cartoon villain to me. And the voice that the audiobook narrator chose for him didn't help. He sounded gross and not fullly human, which created a very weird mental image of him in my brain.

Subscribing because I’ve read the entire series and Robby has voiced alot of my issues with this book. I feel vindicated. PS: I LOVE how you guys can have opposite experiences with a book but understand each other’s feelings & opinions.

'sigh' if only Perrin had picked the Hawk.

I am 100% with you on the slog mate, it aint the end of the world.

Crown of swords is one of the best in the series

Omg another person who read Zodiac Academy! Whooooo. I think my taste in books is literallt both you guys put together so this is awesome!

If you're looking for a fantasy romance check out A Fate Inked In Blood. I started wearing my hair in braids after reading it, thats how much I loved this romance.

Maybe leave the picture up for a couple more seconds, sometimes I miss it! A ton of cool reccomendations. Ya'll are becoming one of my favorite channels. Divine Rivals was such a beautiful book! I wish I could see your books in the back to see what your style is and what books you guys have read! Maybe even a video on the books that have made you guys who you are ;) keep up the good work guys love seeing your passion and excitement. If you loved Percy I highly reccomend reading Circe.

Looking back, you managed to evolve in a short time. I hope they can evolve even more

June was fun, but I feel like July is going to be really interesting to watch

I'm planning to read ACOTAR this month. I read it when i was 15 and i liked it, but didn't care enough to continue, but now that i'm older (and a little more the actual target age) i want to give it a new try. I'm hopeful as i'm also currently working my way through the ToG series and i'm quite enjoying that. I really need to get back to The Dandelion Dynasty. I read The Grace of Kings in January and absolutely loved it, but with how dense the series is, i haven't been able to spare the brain power for it the past few months. I hope that i feel good enough to pick up the second book somewhere during the summer.

The book I'm going to recommend isn't necessarily a "summer romance" book, but I'm going to recommend it anyway because it's a pop culture reset: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. By the way, great video and I can't wait to see the video about The Mark of Athena.

I really enjoyed this one! The first 100 pages or so took me a month to read, but then i finished the book in a week. I'm really hooked and excited for the rest of the series. I didn't guess a lot of the twists, but maybe i'm just dumb 😅. I'm never shocked by them. I'm always like 'oh, yeah that makes total sense. I could have guessed that. It was kinda obvious', but before they are revealed, i don't really guess them (i hope i'm making sense). I agree on the prose being better. I just didn't notice the prose at all in this one vs. in the first book i did notice it being a little clunky sometimes. As for team Dorian or team Chaol, i'm on team neither. I actually wanted her to end up with Archer. I was a little devestated when he turned out to be a bad guy. It was obvious form the start that he was part of the rebellion, but i thought that Celaena would join the rebellion and then work with Archer and romance would bloom, but i guess not.

The slog is a myth imo

Yeah, the Tylin/Mat plot line is one that could have been balefired out of the series, as far as I’m concerned.

the book lasted 11 days in Randland start to finish - if you were not aware

we see elayne and Thom thru snippy Nyneaves POV - don't rely on what you read - just saying

Love your WOT videos!!

Personally I can't read this book. This and 8 are an auto skip for me on rereads because of Tylin. Idk how it can possibly be perceived as comedic when one person is literally forcing the other at knife point to sleep with them and using the power of their societal position to make escape impossible

Ecstatic to see you back on WoT so quickly! A Crown of Swords was definitely the book that really changed everything for those who were reading the Series as it was being written. Multiple delays. This being after it received an unprecedented promotional push… and that magnified fans’ frustration. Speaking more specifically, for me it was also the worst time to get really emotionally involved in rooting for a Wheel of Time Endgame to become apparent. A big part of that was the atypically robust blurb that accompanied this particular book. And after the publishing delays started, I resorted to investing too much hope and expectations for what the rousing blurb conclusion ‘promised’… … both because of how juicy those last lines were AND due to what a brilliant finish Lord of Chaos climaxed with. I really though ‘Rand facing the Dread Forsaken Sammael, in Shadar Logoth, where the blood hungry mist Mashadar waits for prey’ would be an Ending at least on par with Dumai’s Wells. And not least because to me, it also confirmed that Rand’s Grand Plan for Illian hatched with Mat and Bashere would also unfold majestically. Wrong. And wrong again. And what made it worse, was how mean spirited and deliberately obtuse the conclusion with Sammael was. I don’t have enough insults and epithets in my vocabulary to express just how much I loath the conclusion to this book. Another thing that has frustrated me as a fan and I suppose as my own kind of critic ( I don’t work as a book reviewer, but in situations like these I relish getting to exercise those critical muscles 😝) over the years, has been the heedless blinkered sanctimony with which many sites that have had a Wheel of Time presence, a predominance even, have chosen to establish their progressive bona fides by yelling Rape loudly and often, with respect to Mat’s relationship with Tylin. Such a lack of imaginative empathy reminds me more of book burning, jackboot wearing, goose stepping ideological thuggery, than the progressive ideals that were being tootled with vigour, when the subject of Mat and Tylin was raised and analysed. And while I don’t agree with your conclusions about small changes being needed for Jordan to hit the Comedic targets he was aiming at… I was nevertheless relieved and ecstatic again, to see you acknowledge it through the Prism in which it was clearly written, instead of flying off the didactic handle. For me, Mat and Tylin… Mat’s entire emotional progression (which true to form he was resolutely oblivious to) contained some of the best writing in the Series from Jordan. It still makes me laugh today how someone as sharp as Mat, can be so oblivious to how Olver for example, is basically aping his every mannerism and behaviour, yet become so affronted that Tylin steamrolls over his own discomfort and discombobulation at being the Prey instead of the Hunter, when it comes to initiating Relations. And the more emotionally frustrated Mat gets, the more sanguine everyone else around him is about it, when they understand the truth of what’s going on. I mean, that scene with Elayne was basically Jordan with a narrative hammer spelling it out to any but the most heedless, self involved and ideologically crippled readers - ‘How funny is it when the tables are turned?’ For me? Hilarious! Anyway, I apologise for such an exasperated stream of critical steam, but let me thank you again for reminding me that there are indeed some people here with their imaginative empathy still intact. Bear with me just a little more as I finish with one of my favourite things to ruminate on, with respect to this book, that despite all its flaws and associated reading inconveniences, still reminds me what a Capital W Writer Jordan could be at his best. The partial redemption of the Shaido through the eyes of the Moshaine Sept Chief, Maeric was barely 3/4 pages, but that last line from him ‘Moshaine! We Dance!’ STILL GIVES ME CHILLS! Thanks Again for your Work. I hope your Wheel of Time Journey continues to inspire you to stay the course, without falling on the many narrative crossroads that lie in wait ahead. If nothing else, Knife of Dreams awaits to remind you why you started, if by then you have become jaded at all. Keep tossing those Dice!

Watched all your wot reviews like a week ago, theyre so fun. Im so happy that I barely had to wait!

It's a shame that this series of books is already ending, but what matters is the experience of reading a book in the Wheel of Time saga. If you need suggestions for other book franchises or just a book to replace The Wheel of Time, you guys can create a poll in the community tab on your channel and we can vote on which one will be next.

Have you seen the Amazon series The Wheel of Time? It's good? Is it an adaptation ok?

I loved your review so much, keep it up ❤

I also finished reading the first book a few days ago and this popped up in my recommended! My experience was that I started it as an audiobook since it was free on audible, and I didn’t really like it very much so I would just listen to it on drives whenever I had nothing else to listen to. But as soon as it got to the point where Feyre caught the Suriel, I was hooked!! I’ve already started the second book so I won’t give my thoughts on Rhysand yet 🤫 but I’m definitely subscribing, you are such a cute couple!!! I need to find myself a book boyfriend 🥲

I think for the aiel, it's not necessarily that they are a warrior culture and used to be pacifists. But the aiel live and die by their honor. Their whole society is built around it. What they cant live with is the fact that they are all oathbreakers. They see their entire way of life as a lie. Aiel are all very proud and when they are told that they are basically oathbreakers, I cant imagine what that does to ones self-image.

I love that the tension between Faile and Perrin really comes from a difference in culture. We learn more about why Faile is the way she is and how that informs how she navigates her relationship with Perrin.

in regards to egwene using the one power against the white cloaks-- I think this was a trauma response from egwene. You guys talked about how her trauma with the seanchean was kind of glossed over. But we see a lot of it come to the surface here.

I didnt start caring about rand until the fourth book tbh. He was so whiny and woe is me. But he definitely grows on you as the books go on. The women are always my fav characters. they are just so badass, all of them.

Oh my God, I never thought this day would come but it has! I hope Robby enjoys ACOTAR's story the way we fans do Oh and Happy pride!

Commenting here to engage your content, this is another book that is not my vibe and I don't see myself reading it now (but unlike The Fourth Wing, this book and its universe seem to be better constructed and perhaps I will be caught off guard if I read it one day.)

The series has its problems, but it's not the worst thing ever done in the media (because it can't be worse than HBO MAX'S Velma) If everything goes well, they will listen to the criticism and they will do better in the second season

Yea, for the title, Rand isn't in the book much...

Okay, one more reason not to read the books! Thank you for avoiding a literary disappointment for me!

I see a lot of people praising and talking bad about this book at the same time, it's such a mess that I even get confused by everything. But even if it was 100% loved by everyone, I wouldn't read it because it's not my vibe and that's okay

Heads Up: The fourth book of Heroes of Olympus is everyone's favorite book in the fandom, like The Titan's Curse, and you'll know why when you read it

Honorable mention: Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano could step on me and I would thank her, and what was the plot twist that Reyna was at Circe's SPA in the SECOND BOOK of Percy Jackson??????

these videos are awesome

Dorian rules

Now the burning question: Which of you would be from Camp Jupiter and who would be from Camp Half-Blood?

This routine of waiting for a new video from you about any of Rick Riordan's books is a lot of fun, I keep trying to guess what you thought of the books I'm not going to lie, I would prefer to watch (and re-watch) just the videos about Riordanverse but your other videos are good too and I like watching them, even if I get spoilers from other books 😂😂😂😂

They should read Tailchaser's Song first. (Tad Williams's first book a story about a cat going on a journey to find his missing love mate) i think both of you would like it and I think it's a good starter to see Tad Williams writing before hopping into the big boy that is the Osten Ard Saga.

ACOTAR NEXT ❤❤ WE WON

I think I've already exhausted all my recommendations 😂😂 I haven't checked out any new ones yet. In fact, May was long and short at the same time, strange.

I read Romancing Mr. Bridgerton in May and it's so goooooooooood!! It's my favorite Bridgerton so far. It has more plot outside of the romance than the previous books and i loved it. I really wanna continue The Dandelion Dynasty, but i needed a break from fantasy during May. Now i'm back in the fantasy mood and i can't wait

One thing you got very wrong in the Mat busting in to save them in Tear - they weren't free at the time. Nor could they free themselves at that point even though they'd disabled the guard. They actually needed Mat to open the door and they treated him like shit for it. It absolutely was not one of the girls best moments.

I'm new here, so I don't know your husband's reading history...but did he come from reading Brandon Sanderson or Stephen King type authors? His arguments are so akin to my brother's. I understand it's hard to go from high fantasy and that quality/level of writing, to SJM who is a fantastic writer, but more so in the realm of romance. Kind of like going from watching HBO shows to watching shows on the CW. The plot holes and writing issues my brother pointed out are so similar. lol He enjoyed the books like your husband, but had his gripes. We allow the romance/relationships to overshadow loose plot lines or under developed story lines...but they don't and hyper focus on it. Totally understandable, but interesting to witness.