i read the entire Crave series so you don't have to | booktok's fav ya vampire romance books

[@caricanread]

spoilers for crave! . . . . . . . how did lia know about grace enough to kill her parents ahead of time??? did i miss that?

[@HaileyAndTheArt]

She found out about it from the vampire king. I can't remember WTF his name is right now. Her parents gave her the tea to keep her gargoyle powers dormant. If I'm even remembering it properly.

[@mayrarara]

What bothered me is…Grace was all “it’s my fault Macy’s mom is trapped bc she went to get more tea!” & I was like “…how are you making this about you & damn how much tea was she getting at once?”

[@caricanread]

@@HaileyAndTheArt But how did Cyrus know? Cause he only knew ~what she was~ after he bit her in the 2/3rd book so waaaay after Lia did her thing. I'm so confused hahaha

[@HaileyAndTheArt]

@@caricanread I remember thinking that was a plot hole and I'm going to try and find which book (I wanna say Court.) it is but I am fairly certain he mentions that he had previously suspected she was a gargoyle but knew for sure when he bit her. I had similar questions.

[@Abby-mj8yj]

what are u eating in 7 : 19??

[@ellierafn8880]

Burying her alive was his version of putting his phone in rice

[@caricanread]

OMFG I CACKLED

[@sailinglin584]

😂😂😂

[@cryptid6279]

CRYING

[@pixelsbykris5494]

YOU’RE NOT EVEN WRONG THO

[@mentallyunw3ll]

This fucking SENT me. Bitch

[@Catlady49]

This reminds me of crack fan fictions. Where it’s insane and meant to be. Like the tags are “I don’t know either”, “we’re here for a fun time”, and “no beta.” I swear.

[@caricanread]

Exactly 😂😂😂

[@kat-bc9id]

"no beta we die like men" is a major green flag tag

[@lalaithan]

The author & editor are probably sitting back cackling.

[@bibiinoliv]

@@kat-bc9id no but when it's "no beta we die like *insert any character that died in the fandom*">>>

[@AC8X]

NO BETA WE DIE LIKE MEN

[@Aelanin]

There is nothing better than a 1.5 hour long reading vlog about a “bad” book series

[@caricanread]

:''''')

[@mariatobon1572]

Agree😂

[@gracebonifabulous]

the best part is, i had no idea what this series was and i said "yes, perfect use of my time"

[@OPnerdthey]

For real I love them so much

[@officialmkamzeemwatela]

@@gracebonifabulous 🤣🤣🤣same.

[@rubymochicarlile7535]

“He is the gargoyle king” Damn is this another love interest?? “He’s also her great great great great great great grandfather” NEVERMIND

[@soccerlover12horses]

didn't stop Vampire Knight

[@verytrusfrated]

@@soccerlover12horsesyiiiiikes 💀

[@entr3_nou5]

Damn, now this makes me want a gargoyle romance 😭 not a gross incesty one but like… a gargoyle that turns into a sexy dude at night to survey the city but then he meets a girl who actually takes him around the city to interact with its people and they fall in love? PLEASE

[@TheNumnutRandomness]

I'm cackling at the gargoyle reveal because I just realized that she's supposed to be the hot kind like that one animated series. But this entire time I was just picturing the little gremlin ones from Hunchback of Notre Dame and was like, "WOW, bold choice from the author" 😭😭😭

[@valentiapauwels]

HAHAHA THIS COMMENT 🏆

[@mxmissy]

I had to look up "hot gargoyle" because I still keep thinking its the gargoyles on statues. And I sort of...get it? But I'm just going to elect the idea that she turns to stone each time.

[@Personwhosings]

there are hot ones??????????

[@Bryan-gy2zu]

@@Personwhosings mainly just Goliath from Disney’s Gargoyles

[@PercyK1ng]

Exactly

[@halliebug]

Miss girl really just rewrote her fav wattpad fan fiction and took it to the bank

[@agencymenace1090]

To be fair twilight and 50 shades were fanfics

[@halliebug]

@@agencymenace1090 a format that never fails I guess🙃 I forgot about the After series too

[@bells176]

@@halliebug i constantly try to forget about the after series

[@ALunarLight]

To be fair Dante's inferno is self insert religious fan fic lol.

[@A_Little_Bit_Of_Everything06]

@@halliebug not the after series 💀💀

[@ccervidae]

After hearing that one of these books being over NINE HUNDRED pages long and having a 100 page battle scene, I've decided I'm no longer going to feel bad about being long winded or verbose with my own writing. At least I'm not THAT excessive.

[@julianlaresch6266]

On par with les mis and the whole section about the sewers and that battle

[@jaginaiaelectrizs6341]

I honestly think that people need to stop freaking out so much over the number of words that are used or not, and start concerning themselves _far _*_more_* just with WHAT words are and aren't being used[ & for what]. 😊🙂 But that's just me! ^--^

[@kiramohrreader]

they actually arent that long. every book on kindle i swear is longer than the physical books. i just looked at my books....4th book...which she said was over 900 pages. In fact is only 689 pages and the 5th book isnt 700....it is 552.

[@caricanread]

@@kiramohrreader its because of the many bonus chapters the ebooks have. But also doesnt change the fact that the battle scene was 100+ pages of NOTHING 😂🥲😂

[@kiramohrreader]

@@caricanread the battle scene was the worst. See when I downloaded the bought the books from kindle. I didn’t have the bonus chapters. Except the ones at the end of the book from a different POV. I just notice kindle books are always longer. It like when u go to goodreads and it shows you how many pages it is compared to ebook, paperback, and hardback. I want to stop reading this series. But I just got book five. AND I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WHAT IN THOSE FOUR MONTHS OF HER BEING STONE.

[@Reverse_Cat_Cowgirl]

Descriptions like skyscraper cheekbones has me imagining Megatron and I can't stop.

[@caricanread]

it sounds TERRIFYING

[@Reverse_Cat_Cowgirl]

Hope I didn't yuck someone's yum just now lol

[@onarosebeam]

No literally. I cringed at the first description of Jaxon!! He does not sound cute😭😭

[@ortezac.5339]

Time to mess with the Elden Ring character creator for dem YA cheekbones I guess

[@Reverse_Cat_Cowgirl]

@@ortezac.5339 So the Gigachad of cheekbones? I'm here for it.

[@katevenhorst1723]

“Turns out he’s racist and wanted to commit genocide” had me dying 😂 Like, wtf. That’s so intense out of nowhere.

[@thecheerfulnecromancer2257]

Fun fact: halfway through watching the explanation of the first book I got called for dinner. Over dinner I vaguely explained, without mentioning the book's title, how bonkers-fast the budding romance is, specifically mentioning that she goes from 0 to "cheek touching" in the space of three pages. My mum asks, "oh, does that book have vampires in it?" "...." "I read that one." "..." "It was **bad**". Nice one, mum, very cool

[@jarsofpaperstars]

Please send your mother my condolences

[@ushionee]

sss e

[@xjk8977]

Halfway through the video I forgot the characters, I genuinely dont know who Macy is.

[@ificouldfly9446]

This book feels like playing make-believe with your friends as a kid, and the powers just get more and more convoluted. "I turn into a dragon!" "I tie you all to a machine that drains your powers" "HA! I'm mother nature now, I beat you!" "Nuh-uh, I'm a god now, I win!" "No!! You're a false god"

[@schnabby208]

yeah me and my friends called each other false gods all the time in third grade

[@erinw.9256]

I miss being a kid sometimes. Playing make-believe like that was the best lol

[@Nick-rs5if]

Are these actual in-book quotes? 😂

[@Jellibles05]

This series, honestly.. hahaha! 😂 it's like trying to do everything at once so much that it's just so over the place! 😂 thank you for taking one for the team, girl! ❤️

[@isabelladuarte799]

@@schnabby208 †*★@cu

[@flippanties]

The idea of the series Edward-insert not being the end-game love interest and instead getting with the Jacob-insert is honestly hilarious and borderline genius and I love the author for it. What an icon.

[@kay-jay1581]

I love Carey On! Well I just adored Rain Rowell’s books but I would say Carry On it’s more like Harry Potter Harry/Draco than Twilight of Bella/Jacob.

[@darkmatter9651]

they fixed twilight, imo jacob was a better shot than edward ngl🙄

[@079-lalitha7]

i am 999 like lol

[@Naomeme]

That alone justifies the series existence

[@roux5021]

Feels more like a TVD-inspired choice

[@annabelle69]

I first saw this book at a Target when I was with my grandma, and I picked it up and was like, “did she write another one???” because it looked like a Twilight book and then it wasn’t a Twilight book(???) and I looked at my grandma and I said, word-for-word, “Can you imagine having the balls to publish a book that looks like this in the year of our lord 2022?” and she said “no”

[@adela122]

😂

[@erinw.9256]

DUDE, I straight up was convinced that Crave was another Twilight book and then I picked it up to make sure, and honestly more power to this author lol the audacity to copy the cover of a popular book series and then PLACE IT next to the Twilight books at Walmart lol

[@Rhialia]

Lmao I literally saw this at Walmart earlier and thought it was a twilight parody, then I looked at the blurb and went "ah, a twilight knockoff"

[@lizzie4471]

Lmao😂

[@yoongitrash2699]

so im not crazy for thinking the cover looks like a carbon copy of twilight lol

[@neilorridge9912]

I don't know how to really explain this... but these books are written almost exactly like a Danny Gonzalez skit.

[@ghostguy312]

wait that's so accurate. like all the random plot twists that keep escalating the plot in a really weird way

[@oboebuddy15]

hi greg

[@nymph4579]

vampire dad!!

[@milktea3825]

His next video is, “I wrote the crave series and fooled the internet into thinking it was someone else”

[@kaskaskas]

Did not expect to see Greg’s here lmaooo what a random crossover

[@cartoonkelly7924]

“What’s broken in him matches what’s broken in me.” And I’m laughing my ass off.

[@luvforhui]

its giving "im brocken ⛓🥀🖤" vibes fr

[@strawberry_silk3364]

Their necks probably after I'm done-

[@annabeatrizzimmermann7708]

the sheer delusion lol

[@auraezahra]

similar vibe: 'your demons dance with mine' (i'm so ashamed that i used this line in my book but i love it soryr)

[@platedlizard]

Oh damn how did she find 14 year old me’s notebook?

[@nikag7732]

"which YA fantasy plot are you writing about?" Author: Yes.

[@dzv1717]

S

[@myusernamegotstollen]

21:46 I love how Jaxon decided to use such a serious moment to quote Hagrid “Yer a gargoyle, Harry” lmao

[@FireyFox273]

Every time Cari starts a series by saying “I should check to see if this series is finished” is the best foreshadowing to the fact that the series is definitely not finished

[@justanormalfish]

After learning that kindle unlimited authors get paid per page read I understand why she did SO much

[@readsbyemma]

she just got elevated to girl boss. i respect that. anything to get that money 💰💰

[@lilynote2016]

That makes so much sense omg. Girlboss 😂 xD

[@DragonHeart29]

Isn't it counterproductive? Wouldn't it make more readers lose interest and DNF, hence quitting the entire series ? Only a handful of people would put up with that much rumbling.

[@readsbyemma]

@@DragonHeart29 i think you’d be surprised what people read…

[@DragonHeart29]

@@readsbyemma My bad 😂😂😂

[@tristonanan]

When finding out about Jaxon having a thing for Flint later on I just felt like I was in the Sonic Real Time Fandub just going "Wow he's bisexual, I didn't know that!"

[@iMx1r]

it was lowkey cool bc they had a unique twist

[@sophiad548]

oh by the way i'm bisexual -jaxon probably

[@tristonanan]

@@trinistar1930 dude I'm a dyke leave me alone

[@kiraharris2410]

@@trinistar1930 1. die mad 2. even if he had only dated women he would still be bisexual 3. die mad

[@IsaMa-dz5gu]

It was the same feeling I felt when I got that part of bloodmarked like... oh, so that's a thing now I guess

[@neonpinkqueen1403]

I gotta admit, the chapter titles give Percy Jackson and I am living for it

[@elise85391]

Probably the only redeeming quality

[@salem-01]

YES

[@piscis210]

Percy Jackson did it better tho

[@cheerio3442]

its like if percy was allowed to swear during pjo

[@maddiemainer]

@@cheerio3442imagine what a well-timed “FUCK” could have done for percy lol

[@onarosebeam]

As someone who grew up in Alaska the first book made me tear my hair out with how often the Grace and the author treated Alaska like a different planet. I get it. It’s cold. But normal people survive there everyday😭😭

[@Evan_L_Rodriguez]

Also, like, it depends where you’re moving to. Like, are you moving to Fairbanks or Ketchikan? lmao

[@onarosebeam]

@@Evan_L_Rodriguez true!! It’s a big place

[@ortezac.5339]

I KNOOOOWWWW LIKE bro...someone drop the author onto Svalbard, at least some weird things you can say about it are the surge glaciers and the influx of cartoony fluctus clouds-

[@briannahelmso5139]

Same!! It's insane 😂😂

[@Si-br4fk]

I lived in Alaska for five years growing up, and when we went back to visit family, people were shocked to hear we had a Walgreens 😂

[@lovemexicanfood]

As soon as I saw the cover I was "this twilight inspired for sure"

[@caricanread]

oh 1000%

[@fairyxdust74]

same I saw the covers and I immediately thought “twilight-?”

[@cheerio3442]

the font reminds me of twilight but im not gonna lie i saw that and the first thing i thought was "is that the cover of red queen" like its definitely not the same but the color and the images remind me so much of the red queen series

[@corduroy799]

Grace is giving Raven Darkness Dementia Way energy with all the powers she got lmao

[@Robotic_Bird]

When you said gargoyle I thought you ment goblin and I ascended. The image of Grace being stabbed and turning small and green made me laugh so hard.

[@peachtea7269]

Turning into a little ankle biter

[@black-nails]

@@peachtea7269 im dying, i wish this was her actual form

[@haleyc.3530]

Instead she turned small and grey lmaoo

[@shamblingabby]

But honestly, taking the first love interest and making him not only bi, but get together with another male character at the end is kind of one of the best things I've seen in one of these books. Like these heavily het books usually either have no lgbt romance or one that's barely mentioned and is there just for fodder. Putting the first love interest into an lgbt romance by the end kind of rocks.

[@crazysmall.artist]

Is there something wrong with said bi character ending up with a partner of the opposite sex? I'm bi as well.

[@solarbell9990]

@@crazysmall.artist no, it's just rare to have a male love interest get with another boy so it's cool to see

[@JDM-is-my-name]

@@solarbell9990 honestly, yes. The cool thing is that the character is VISIBLY BI, so fucking cool!!! No one can be turn it into a "this character was never bi!!! We only saw him flirt with girls!!!" To anyone who is confused, there are actual characters, confirmed gay, who will randomly be straight in fanfic. It's not the same as taking a character who has a romantic interest of oppisite sex and say, "this character could be bi :)" it's like saying, "I know this character is happily married to someone of the same sex, but actually I don't want them to be gay because them I can't be attracted to them!!!!" in fangirl speak

[@rainbowhamham27]

@@seenah08a I don't know what separate dimension you're living in, but it's definitely not reality hahahahah (speaking as an enby oriented aro/ace who has not seen any of those identities represented in much of any popular media, trust me this has been my whole life up to now)

[@salem-01]

@@seenah08a shows with LGBTQ representation are only made if the diverse characters are side and comedic relief characters, die at the end, or the show gets cancelled.

[@missragsdale]

this series sounds like what you'd get if you fed all the popular YA fantasy from the last 10-15 years into a generator. Twilight, Vampire Diaries, there was a series about gargoyles in Paris, Cassie Clare, even HP with the whole boarding school thing...

[@jaginaiaelectrizs6341]

Don't forget Percy Jackson. 🤣

[@johannageisel5390]

Yup, exactly that. Somebody wanted to have it all.

[@yvieoluoch66]

Vampire Academy?

[@missragsdale]

@@yvieoluoch66 Oh definitely that one, too. I wanted to ask Cari if she's ever read them but by the end of the video I'd forgotten 😂

[@meraki4054]

The gargoyles is probably from White Hot Kiss by Jennifer Armentrout

[@Catlady49]

Flint’s dragon is the equivalent of “my inner goddess” from fifty shades and you can’t tell me otherwise. Same with Grace 😂

[@caricanread]

💀😂💀

[@_Kuma_]

The whole “inner alpha” and “inner omega” thing in a/b/o too… 💀💀💀

[@mossyrocks1096]

@@_Kuma_”my wolf”

[@futuresoup_]

26:46 THE FACT YKU DIDNT POINT OUT "JAXY-WAXY" IS MAKING ME CRY

[@valentiapauwels]

EXACTLY 😭

[@peachesreads]

He floats like a blimp lol😂😂😂

[@erinb253]

idc what anyone says “is that a wooden stake in ur pocket or are u happy to see me” is the funniest thing ever

[@RaymondwLin]

I can watch a movie or watch Cari talk passionately about books for 90mins. The movie can wait.

[@caricanread]

hhahahhhaaa

[@lasketball215]

Honestly I was half way through a movie and was like I'll watch this instead.

[@jaginaiaelectrizs6341]

At 2X speed, it's only 45mins 😁🤭🤭 Loll (Buut, _STILL_ I would've done the same, even before I started watching at faster video speed. 💜🤣🤣😊)

[@ToscaTee]

Same this provide good background noise

[@jcon2060]

Krimsonrogue deserves everything. He also has great taste and doesn't read YA...

[@aaaacarolina]

the "mate" showing up on screen and the wobbly effect every time "disintegrate" is said made me laugh more than i should

[@gabriellelue]

I knew what was going down in the first book of the series once I read the line “But somehow the scar only emphasizes the danger, turning him from just another pretty boy with angelic looks into someone a million times more compelling.” 😭

[@caricanread]

LMFAO RIGHT?!

[@gabriellelue]

@@caricanread plus the fact that the main character is from San Diego but also uses southern phrases like “as all get out” 🥴

[@caricanread]

@@gabriellelue and the fact that the author clearly thinks san diego is 70 degrees and sunny all the time? like it gets down to freezing temps in the morning and night because its a coastal desert. we could handle 15 minutes in the cold without getting hypothermia TRACY hahahhaa

[@jaginaiaelectrizs6341]

@@gabriellelue I'm not from the south, but I use that phrase too-I had zero idea it was a southern phrase!

[@ortezac.5339]

I've dealt with so many goddamn YA "pretty boys" at this point it's lost its luster and the only chance of me ever calling someone a pretty boy if he's actually androgynous enough to be one (yo Stav Stratko, Valentin von Porcelain and Andreja Pejic anyone?), not some fluffy-haired pasty barbeque stick with a jawline, Doc Martens, and daddy issues. Then again, an example is that one casanova catman from The Nine Lives Of Chloe King who annoyed me to the ends of the Earth that I resisted the urge to stick my arm through the book and throttle the author so...yeah.

[@smeebythesea]

*CRAVE SPOILERS* When the "emerald-green string" was mentioned my first thought was that she was going to be half leprechaun, and when it turned out that gargoyles were from Ireland I was even more convinced. That isn't what happened but it would have been incredible if it had

[@thomme8539]

Is the spoiler you're protecting people from that she isn't a leprechaun? 😂😂

[@Anniegallarroyo]

@@thomme8539they’re hiding the truth

[@Julianimation]

"Is she getting paid by the word?" Oh my god, that killed me. Also, this video made me laugh so much, thank you Cari 😂

[@estefizamora]

I thought these books were written in 2005, same time the twilight series were, but ... these are from 2020?!?!? 💀just ... how? why? 😀 the pandemic did something to all of us, i see, huh?

[@DarwinRoger893]

the pandemic took something very important to us....and gave us this.

[@aurora-jw2rj]

“The little gargoyle man like living inside of her being like: “I hate jaxon” and like flaring up” girl you were so close 😭👌🏼

[@andreabootsma8478]

I'm sorry - I'm a few minutes in and already tripped up by the fact that this guy is apparently at least 100 years old and his name is JACKSON VEGA

[@caricanread]

:'''')

[@andreabootsma8478]

oh even better - it's spelled Jaxon

[@Jaanu11371]

What I can’t get behind is the fact that the ENTIRE SCHOOL was keeping a secret from a single girl like how is that even possible 😭 was there no other school in their area she could’ve possibly went to 🤨

[@ghstgvts]

Do you think they had an assembly for it?

[@Ilovegothchicks]

I read the first book, and she goes to that school because her only living relative takes custody of her and he’s like the principal and he had multiple assemblies? Meetings? I don’t think it specifies telling all the other students to keep quiet around her

[@nannersnoodles9305]

This whole thing is so wild but I will never get over the shady vampire love interest sending her a book rec and it's twilight

[@dizzyella8204]

HOW does a human person have THAT many pages in them (and have so much of it just be nothing)?? Gonna have to imagine the author wrote these all in a single night, no editing, in some unhinged trance and literally never looked back. Gonna have to assume shes a gargoyle herself. 939 PAGES...AND THATS JUST A SINGLE BOOK

[@isabellarussell4407]

I need the word count. If we know the word count, then we can compare it to fanfic. Then we can truly tell how ao3 Wattpad this series truly is.

[@ZoomieZoomie324]

Estimated word count from google is 177,008, and about 452,135 words per series

[@beedoesthings8037]

That’s longer than Priory! And that book is a behemoth! It took 3 years for Samantha Shanon to write.

[@PaulaGPDX]

Ikr??? I need to run this book through AI and figure out HOW???? How do you retell Twilight, beat for beat, and then convince people this is an entirely different story worthy of sequels and a movie deal?! Like how????!

[@dizzyella8204]

@@PaulaGPDX my guess is black magic

[@pixllglitch6923]

Im crying because Flints mom was like omg i feel bad because both of my sons love interests are dead and so instead of saving his *literal* boyfriend, she saves the straight guy who doesnt even like him LOL

[@schwaben4120]

That took me OUT

[@witchflowers6942]

i love how little chill this author has. Zero shame. no holding back.

[@AldenHoffman]

I’m watching this for two reasons: 1: Your narration of the story is amusing and I genuinely feel bad you put yourself through this. 2: I want to find out what to avoid in my own WIP.

[@sugarysubs7821]

Here's your reminder that the first draft can be as batshit crazy as you want. That's what editing is for ;)

[@elise85391]

Also maybe don’t make 4K-5K pages

[@Viteaification]

​@Sugarysubs ! still trying to accept this im such a perfectionist that its paralyzing

[@phyycxis1159]

Please no specific brands like netflix, drpepper etc. those are pretty common but when i read “clothes from Goodwill” idk what that means.

[@db_rowan3701]

@@phyycxis1159btw Goodwill is a thrift shop

[@rionshe-they7063]

i am being SO deadass, i think i read this exact book on chapters when i was in high school update: no yea guys i’m being so fr. i just found it on the chapters app. same title and author and everything. i’m literally sobbing 😭😭😭😭

[@Slean548]

BROO i’ve read that book like 5 times on chapters they rlly need to make the second one🙄

[@Total303]

I found the book on chapters and read everything else because I was just curious

[@Aylin_Mammad]

THATS WHERE I RECOGNIZE THIS FROM OMG IT WAS KILLING ME

[@HaileyAndTheArt]

This series was such a terrible good time. It's just fun. If you want a time killer that will make you smile, this might be it. Got me out of a serious reading slump. I haven't gotten into Charm yet. The fluff is real.

[@caricanread]

truly a wild ride hahahhaa

[@HaileyAndTheArt]

I also love the references to vampire series including Twilight. It literally was the best.

[@HaileyAndTheArt]

@@caricanread This is not the best series I read this year by far but it was hilarious. I got oddly addicted and I couldn't even figure out why because it's silly.

[@BlackCatBritt]

this series is like if you were to feed an AI thousands of pages of generic YA supernatural fantasy books and then forced it to write a neverending series for you.

[@daisyalicia4038]

When I first read it I literally thought it was written by ai

[@dashingangel20]

Its like a Twilight, Vampire Dia, and Acotar crossover with sprinkles of dragon and other folks. I could totally feel your rollercoaster of emotions through the screen

[@니코다-b2v]

No literally when I read the 1st chapter before the book was ruined in the wash machine, it mentioned Legacies so I kept thinking it was a Legacies rip off or fanfic with different names and locations 💀💀

[@wooloosus6866]

I'm at the point where flint reveals he's in love with Jaxon, and I have to say if those two get together I may just have to give her 5 stars on Goodreads for that.... It's too iconic....

[@haydnmalyon7690]

29:22 "Why are you playing Flo Rida?" is great, but I'm also taken by the following paragraph where she crashes into his chest "squawking like an angry pterodactyl the whole way" I bet the author was having so much fun writing this. I can't even be mad.

[@lupuscairo3654]

Spoilers for the video (and the books) ahead Did I get that right that the stand in for Edward and the stand in for Jacob end up together? The books might be ridiculous and bad but that is absolutely iconic and I love it.

[@specialtwice4975]

I could see this being made into a good tv series or movies, BUT a lot would need to be taken out/changed. A good screenwriter would have to come in and fix it all.

[@casflynn739]

Did I love these books for what they are, kinda silly but very fluffy? Yes. Did I read each in like 2 days? Also Yes. Am I ready to watch this review talking about how silly they are? 1000%

[@caricanread]

omg two days?! and here i thought my one-a-day was enought to bring me to my knees hahhaa

[@casflynn739]

@cari can read I was reading them during work 😭 they weren't perfect but they did their job I couldn't put them down

[@glendybergdorf112]

This is where I am exactly

[@IFarore]

“It’s one of those books where you don’t actually have to read it.” 😂 love this review

[@ColbertTurkey]

Man, this makes Zodiac Academy’s plot sound simplistic and straightforward

[@spidey_things]

I dont understand why Flint's answer to stopping Hudson from coming back was to kill Grace, and not Lia. Like she's the one wanting to bring him back, not Grace.

[@noodlepoodle3582]

Not even 2 minutes in and Jaxon Vega is one of the best drag names I've ever heard. Why didn't I think of that?!!

[@ReiyukaE]

I am LIVING for these chapter titles, omg. 😆🤣

[@caricanread]

they just get weirder and weirder and at the end dont even relate to the content of the chapter at ALL hahaha

[@ReiyukaE]

@@caricanread Mwahahaha, that makes it even better, thank you for sharing that info.

[@sleepy.timaeus.arts.]

the titles are amazing, i agree. we need more books with funny and whacky titles. for a while, they seemed to have disappeared. i think theyre making a comeback :)

[@ToscaTee]

Gave me fanfic flashbacks 😭😭😭

[@ReiyukaE]

@@ToscaTee omg yes exactly this

[@ashlyn2025]

I KNEW THIS WAS THE SERIES. IT'S SO RIDICULOUS. I screamed when I finished the series from laughter 😂

[@caricanread]

my poor neighbors had to put up with a lot of cackling tihs week hahhaa

[@srspanksalot4501]

The first book was really bad, and then suddenly I cared about the conflict for some reason. Then the second book I cared more. Honestly I'm caught up and plan to continue keeping up. I watched all of PLL. I plan to read all of this. And nobody can stop me 😈 Side note but I wish they did more of this kind of thing aimed at men like me. I don't mind the tropes that much but I'd like a first person story of a man who falls for a moody vampire woman without the "I'm a manly man" dynamic. I just want a soft boy and his vampire mommy is that too much to ask? I'm basically at a point where I'd like to learn writing just to do it myself.

[@lieeeleeee]

I respect your plight! To be honest a lot of the basis of even like fanfic writing is “I wish this was a thing so I’m going to write it myself” and that honestly is a lot of fun so I encourage you to write that soft boy x vampire mommy, even if nothing comes of it the journey of thinking about it in and of itself can be really fun! But also I hope your can find a book that caters to your fantasies.

[@lorenzomeulli750]

If I had the willpower to stick with this kind of stuff, I would 100% write the dommy vampy mommy. But no soft boy. No manly man. Just a dude that gets thrown into for some reason in the Magic School© and, while he is excited and amazed by the fantasy element, is absolutely weirded out by how everyone else act. Just imagine trying to have a conversation with these people, just for the topic of girls to come up and have them start measuring each other testosterone levels and going at it while yelling about bonds and mates. Have everyone else talk and act like these weirdos while the MC acts as a rational human being trying to have a fucking normal time at school

[@squidwardtentacles7144]

When you write it, I hope you update this comment section because I'd definitely read that. I honestly desire a change in tropes like this too. All the guys are the same.

[@l0uisinana]

DO IT DO IT DO IT, like, even if you’re not good at first, practice makes improvement, you’ll learn how to write as you go

[@punishedwhispers1218]

I'm writing that right now in fact...well not really a vampire thing but, I'm sure it's exactly the kind of thing you wanted. Because I thirst for this too. I do have something along those lines I know I'm not going to finish if you would like, but it's a little...well... fanfiction

[@clairehirano5889]

This feels like a friend is telling me their other friend groups drama ❤

[@snowange.l]

The way this series has stolen plot points from every popular YA paranormal romance series in the past 10 years from ACOTAR to Twilight, to Mortal instruments is mind boggling

[@Simi_Tutu]

As I was reading the first book I couldn't help but laugh with how similar the writing is to Twilight. I just kept thinking the author isn't even trying to hide the similarities then when Grace actually receives a copy of Twilight I lost it I started crying from laughter 🤣🤣🤣

[@ThyNguyen-gw4xl]

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate how clear and glowy cari's skin is throughout the entire chaos of this teen vampire angst reading vlog?

[@squidwardtentacles7144]

Right! I was thinking the same thing!

[@punishedwhispers1218]

Even while sick

[@archaeologydad3761]

This author has serious potential writing comedic fantasy. Genuinely a lot of these lines are really funny

[@jadedavis1190]

It's a good time. It doesn't take itself too seriously and the plot points hit levels of crazy, and I need that drama in my life. Not happening to me, but as a witness through text on a page.

[@isadorasoares5962]

"it's so bad" 2 seconds later "I'm having the best time" lol. Reading a bad book it's everything

[@marisol9606]

as someone who bought + read the first book like two years ago (it was a hardcover and it was sooo expensive im still crying abt it) bc my friend said it was so good and I didn't want to disappoint her.....this is my moment of healing. this video right here. finally someone spoke for the people. thank you

[@kamilawojdyla]

WHEN THE LEWIS CAPALDI CLIP CAME ON I STARTED HYSTERICALLY LAUGHING OMG

[@thatgirlnextfloor]

A Gargoyle!?!?! this is so hilarious I think the author is just pranking us lmaaaooooo. thanks cari for powering through these books i don't know how you survived but ohmygosh

[@audie93]

You are such a queen for struggling through these! also the editing is just *chefs kiss*

[@katmc6456]

The difference in pages between the online copy and the physical copies is crazy 😭 the largest physical copy is like 700 something pages and the fifth book which is the smallest is like 500 something

[@laistoews]

you can see cari's pain in her eyes each time she reads the word *mate*

[@Thenoobestgirl]

If Lia killed Grace's parents to get Lia to move into her school so that she could kill her, then why couldn't have she just killed Grace along with them while she was at it? 😂

[@Ilovegothchicks]

It wasn’t necessarily to kill her she was bringing Hudson back and needed Graces living body to do the ritual but Grace would die in the end of the ritual

[@kerilynne128]

"Her final form in crave" caught me so off guard I absolutely lost it

[@ivabanovic6203]

These books are what happens when Twilight meets Vampire Diaries meets Legacies meets Originals, but like in a very cheap way

[@joellezima3506]

The laughter that came out of me when you said “turns out, he’s racist”

[@chelseas.horizon2222]

I am sorry but that worried "I am still not sure how old Jackson is" after talking about them clearly being mates CRACKED ME 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sounded so much like a worried mom.

[@em-nq9gk]

OMG a 1,5 hour video?!?!!? literally saved my boring night thank you 😭🥰

[@caricanread]

[@sheila1155]

Can I just say, that I really love your series reviews. I’ve seen Crave so much everywhere in book related content, same with ACOTAR, and did not want to read such a long series but wanted to know about it, and you make it so fun. Your summaries make me want to read the books because you make them sound so much better than what they are! I’m excited to watch this :)

[@caricanread]

bahahah if you read these, BEWARE

[@zoev7341]

By the time I got halfway through Crush I was 100% convinced that the crave series is a Paranormal High School ACOTAR AU fanfic and I haven't stopped believing it. I don't know who her cousin would be but the Hudson and Jaxon dynamic feels so much like someone who thought "Hmm but what if Tamlin and Rhys were brothers?" Because Hudson feels very much like a Rhys variation.

[@iRandom2x]

'Charm' is legit the series' version of acomaf :')

[@cheerio3442]

@@iRandom2xoh god. i actually dont mind the acotar series (and throne of glass), its just one of my guilty pleasures especially since i love all kinds of court intrigue and the world is just interesting to me. but with a book series this bad,,,,, combined with the really complicated smutfest of acomaf,,,, im scared

[@mightymiello9277]

The plot in these books are INSANE and confusing! Plus Hudson charmed Lia but Grace brushes it off? 😭 I would be furious! Why are her reactions not the way they should be? Crazy. Insane. What? Goodness...

[@rat-gang-]

i was just assuming it's the whole demi-god thing honestly, it's the only explanation my brain can come up with at this point 💀

[@_telling_tales_]

The break to take a walk and touch grass is a testament to how truly horrible this was thank you for your sacrifice🙏

[@IxiaRayne]

You have no idea how much I enjoy these super long breakdowns of equally long - and low key bad(?) - book series. ♥️ Thank you for seeing it through. I hope you feel better by now and are having a wonderful end of the year 🥰

[@nikolkuhar8127]

The fact that I devoured these books, and somehow every book is longer than the one before. But I loved every second of it. It was so bad that it was so good. Kind of a book that you would find on wattpad but because of that i loved it.

[@kirajlerner]

Re: book lengths, here's my theory: she plans to put the series in KU [Kindle Unlimited], where she will indeed be paid by the page. *EDIT:* Ha, I was slightly wrong... the books are already *in* KU, which really explains the verbosity and unnecessary scenes. Anyway this epic video was genius, thank you for steamrolling through the (still not complete wtf omg) series even when sick! Now that's devotion to duty. Well, and perhaps a soupcon of masochism. Hope you and your spouse are feeling better... And good for you for practicing self-care in the form of sparing yourself that fifth book. Gotta build up your stamina again!

[@annas4975]

The fact that you were reading that 900 page book while fighting a fever is actually amazing. Like just hearing about the book felt like a fever dream so props to you for going through both at the same time hahaha

[@liaistotallyfine]

Never in a thousand years did I expect to hear the words "she turned into a gargoyle"

[@Anastasia-ex6sv]

I love the chapter titles, probably the best part of the books. It all seems so silly and cliché, but it sounds like it was a fun read!

[@imogen.t_x.20]

It’s so ridiculous that I love it just because of how nostalgic it made me for when I first read twilight 💀🤚 the fact that they are on the same level kills me hahaha it’s just a fluffy yet hilarious yet also HUH kind of series lmao

[@caricanread]

i would have loved to see my teenage self's reaction ahahha

[@imogen.t_x.20]

@@caricanread it honestly would have been either my favourite series or the thing I enjoyed taking the piss out of the most 😂😂

[@alywade96]

Did I read this entire series this week for the first time I preparation of this video?? Absolutely.

[@caricanread]

omg IM SORRY ahahhahhaa

[@alywade96]

It was a train wreck I could not stop reading hahaha.

[@DustfeatherOfFire]

If this ever gets a film adaptation, we absolutely need 'And Then I Noticed That She Was a Gargoyle' by Nanowar of Steel as the theme music.

[@yamanakoyama8682]

everytime you say "Macey's mom" the tune of Stacey's Mom starts echoing in my head and I think that's the best way to get through this series

[@bunny_koo]

You have no idea how much i absolutely ADORE listening to you talk about books for hoursss- don’t be shy give us some more 😂 *huff* god i need to take a breath I’m literally hyperventilating right now

[@caricanread]

hahhaha omg be safe :'''')

[@rixanoz]

So my best theory is this started out as a piece by an individual who wanted more for Jackson than partyhosting and wingmaning, but had no idea what to leave out so they just plopped a little bit every trope and fandom in there, then added an X to his name so it wouldn’t be obvious.

[@caricanread]

i had to google but do you mean the vampire diaries? the closest i got to that was Jenny's wrap up hahahha

[@rixanoz]

@@caricanread it’s way worse, so I’m entirely okay with you not knowing 😅🥲

[@drewteora8169]

Jackson Wang and his role in EVERY KPOP FANFICTION 😂

[@fkae1227]

@@drewteora8169 LMFAOOO

[@mariiidee]

girlll im howling wtf 😂😂

[@MixedMediaReviewsPodcast]

Her being a gargoyle is more hilarious knowing that a real gargoyle is a rainspout and everything else is technically just a grotesque. So the entire time I'm just thinking she's not a gargoyle, she's a grotesque! And it kills me. Edit: Also, I feel I went down the same path as you. Loved the first one because it was Twilight at 11 and just so ridiculous. But the more I read, the more I just hated it. I've been doing the audiobooks so at least I can do other things while listening, but the last book I listened to (Court) took me sooooo long because I just didn't want to listen anymore. It just gets more ridiculous. At first, it felt very tongue in cheek. But it no longer does. And it's just so hard to get through.

[@em.g5629]

I saw a video where someone did a timeline for the first Crave book, the whole book is apparently less than a week!!

[@WhiteWolf-lm7gj]

A week? My god

[@sarasmith3643]

What's crazy is like the first two maybe even 2.5 books take place before they even graduate, and grace showed up like partway through their senior year. It's WILD.

[@muskan3697]

I watch such videos while coding and love to slightly keep track of the book's plot but then at the end even with the flow chat I was like wtf is this lmao. Also respect to you for reading like thousands of pages of madness.

[@cjn8719]

Man watching this review was like watching someone have a mental breakdown in slow motion over an atrociously long and increasingly contrived series of all things. Fascinating to watch, honestly.

[@Butterfly-ql4pg]

I died when you compared the chapter headings to Fall Out Boy lyrics 😂