did i just read the worst book of 2023 (+ its by a favorite author) 💫 book rant review (ya fantasy)

"watered down aspirin mixed with water" lol idk what i was saying
ANYWAY, i am just very saddened and confused by this book and need to know if any of you have felt the same. thank you :')
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did i just read the worst book of 2023 (+ its by a favorite author) 💫 book rant review (ya fantasy)

[@caricanread]

I'm about to hop on a flight to Japan so I will not be posting next week but I have my monthly wrap up coming for you on may 11 or may 12!!! love always!

[@yumibells]

Hi Cari, i'm currently living in japan near kyoto and i saw you have informal gathering on May 4 at arashiyama and i was just wondering if it possible to join the gathering even if i'm not a part of your tour group? 😂😭😅✨

[@caricanread]

I will try to update on instagram (caricakez) about that! we’re still not positive which day we will do it because of the weather so it might be really last minute but if i can arrange any kind of meet up i will def be posting on insta 😭🙏 i wish this trip was longer so i could arrange a proper get together!!

[@astroshiv4050]

It was kinda sci-fi so a Recommendation: "The Wayward Pines Trilogy ". Give it a shot it is a psychological thriller + sci-fi fantasy + good philosophical thinking......I fell in love with Blake Crouch after that!

[@andrabook8758]

i cannot read a book this sloppy but I did enjoy the review. Everyone knows this is not how black holes work. It's way too 2D and lazy for me.

[@kitten6481]

i need to know where you got ur shirt :ooo

[@bro.that.is.adorable.2633]

I’m growing tired of the trope of naive girls who grew up isolation falling in love with boys who actually have world experience. Like of course you love him, you don’t know any other cute boys!

[@kindred-spirits]

Reminds me of Mike and Eleven from Stranger Things.

[@bro.that.is.adorable.2633]

@@kindred-spirits a great example

[@disaidra]

I'm gonna need a book where naive girl falls for the boy, until she has some worldy experience herself, then they break up because she realises he's not actually that great and was even kinda creepy because he liked her partly because of the power imbalance, and then he becomes a minor villain for the rest of the series

[@bro.that.is.adorable.2633]

@@disaidra I haaaate to say this but could that be ACOTAR? 😅

[@disaidra]

@@bro.that.is.adorable.2633 it's on my to read list and honestly the more I learn the more I feel like I need to read it for the experience at least XD

[@emilialind5574]

Every time Cari says "consumption" I'm reminded of how it's another name for tuberculosis. So a black hole created tuberculosis. Sounds about right.

[@CoreenMontagna]

Maybe John Green can weigh in on that one? Lol

[@nataliedarr-rehmert7551]

that’s what i’ve been thinking i find it so funny. like “yeah we built a spaceship to fly to another planet but tuberculosis is the biggest problem we’ve ever faced”

[@lilylime77]

It just feels like the author knows little about history and science and didn't bother to research further (though I'm on minute 8:14 maybe it starts making more sense later on) Edit: it gets worse

[@lilylime77]

Like are you fr telling me that the first astronomer ALREADY had a telescope?? What??

[@Flame-rp6yq]

a black hole created "The White Death" seems VERY logical, now let me die in my luxurious cabin in a valley

[@pendragon2012]

There is no greater betrayal than an awful book written by a favorite author. Thoughts and prayers with Cari at this trying time!

[@caricanread]

truly such an upset!!

[@coffee8599]

Im still upset about Book of Night, lol.

[@ThePrinceofTwilight]

​@@caricanread😂😂😂

[@randomspider725]

[SPOILERS] To be fair, a fantasy story about a black hole sounds sick as hell. I would have killed for a fully-drafted version.

[@caricanread]

Right?!! Hence why im so sad hahahha

[@susan4912]

​@@zsujaz where did you find it to read online?

[@leoniepipe6910]

There is a book called "The Black Cloud" by the famous astronomer Fred Hoyle, in which astronomers first noticed a large black object approaching the Earth because it was blotting out the stars. They tried to keep their knowledge a secret from governments to avoid terrorising the world's population. The book not only has engaging characters and a superb plot, but is based on real physics. The approaching black object is not a black hole but an alien life form.

[@zsujaz]

@@susan4912 mangadex !

[@zsujaz]

@@susan4912 don't forget to read the text bubbles from right to left btw, it's really important if you're gonna read it lol (and if it still doesn't makes sense, im pretty sure there are tutorials on google. i think about after 1 chapter you can already get used to it)

[@fangirl-and-stuff6485]

As an astronomy student the physics actually hurt me. THAT IS NOT HOW A BLACK HOLE WORKS!! 😭

[@aegisScale]

Bruh they'd be gone the moment the ocean got ate💀💀💀

[@Nassifeh]

I feel like she has to know this, like the whole thing with the sickness suggests she knows it's really a Magical Encroaching Void Thing, but man that's a tough line to walk if you're trying to *also* have the big twist be that They're From Earth Actually.

[@sabrinachang6287]

ikr??

[@tiredcerulean]

EXACTLY

[@dr.sleaseball441]

I'm surprised how they didn't just say "They looked at the stars and saw a black hole." It would be even funnier.

[@deadpansaphic3631]

When she said "do you want to know what's been causing the consumption?" And supermassive black hole started playing my first thought was "omg it's vampires" 😭

[@Rizzalert69]

STOP I LITERALLY THOUGHT THE EXACT SAME THING LIKE I WAS SO EXCITED 😭😭😭

[@chloesantos8637]

Honestly from what you've described, the story should've been darker, with her knowing in the back of her mind that no matter what connections she makes, it won't matter because only she will survive (and maybe the goal to "save the world" is talking about warning the other planet because this one is too late to be saved) but the audience doesn't know that etc. OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT RIGHT??

[@caricanread]

Exactly😭😭😭

[@iyaehsan3840]

That makes much more sense

[@kathyvest]

If that’s the case, why don’t they find the spaceship and move their colony before it’s too late? Like before the stars or whatever say the world is going to end? Lol none of this logic makes any sense

[@chloesantos8637]

@@kathyvest maybe they only know the way to the other colony when the stars are aligned since astronomy is so dead that they only have specific old books to navigate and like she doesn't want to get stuck in space (idk man this book is stupid)

[@Acuriouscase77]

Yeah like she isn't supposed to fall in love and make connections but ends up falling for the guy that would've been cool along with actual clear scientific knowledge I feel like this book couldn't keep up with itself like it couldn't embrace it's own plot if that makes sense it's a shame

[@hiralpatwa7308]

Honestly, the whole "black hole sucking the oceans and the rain but not anything else meanwhile we have enough time to have conversations, arguments, swim etc before it gobbles us" hurts my head, my engineering degree and my love for Physics/Astronomy :/

[@5h4d0w5l1f3]

Swimming seems especially dangerous if the water is being sucked up xD

[@suzannewdowik]

The 100-year thing is exactly what bothered me about the Divergent series! That's very much not a long time in terms of public and social consciousness

[@kseni_vely]

It didn't but also, at 17 I kinda justified it being an experiment, they were supposed to be in "perfect" conditions😂

[@bluebow5014]

It’s a long time to Americans

[@wasserman7273]

'every woman before me' for 100 years means 3 generations at most

[@liaistotallyfine]

Cari: "do you want to know what caused the consumption?" Me: "please don't say aliens" Cari: "a black hole" Me: "oh god that's worse"

[@Giga-lemesh]

Exactly

[@bunny_koo]

When you finally got to the plot twist I actually laughed out loud like “wtf?” I totally get you, the potential was there but literally nothing happens.

[@caricanread]

So sad ahhhhh!!!

[@englishybutter]

Aside from the ... _extremely questionable_ black hole science going on, I think the best thing this book could have done just from your description is to put the twist at the front of the book. That way you can get the drama out of the reader being confided in the real goal of "there is only one seat on this spaceship" and then watching Vega trying to keep this a secret from the others and struggle in her self-justification as to how she can abandon these people. I think this is a big weakness these kinds of plot twists run into over and over again - you value the shock of the twist over telling a good story. Keeping this kind of information from the audience just hurts the stakes. The only explanation too I can think of regarding the time travel at the end is using the black hole's massive amounts of gravity to travel through spacetime warping. But I've only ever heard of this kind of time travel about being able to go forward rather than backward (essentially the closer you get to a black hole, then the slower time seems to you). Not sure how that's going to help our girl except by going so far forward in time everyone's forgotten your big fuck up :)

[@sadielew2585]

The fact that you used the Santa Monica houses as representations of the colonies made me laugh out loud.

[@caricanread]

💖🖤

[@cori24]

This sounds like such a cool idea and it makes me sad that it was published like this. I wonder if, like you said, she might’ve been pressured in some way and then went through with it without really fixing it up. Cause the potential of the book sounds sick

[@caricanread]

😭🙏

[@giantcupofcoffee]

I’m pretty sure it was her covid book. I’ve read a lot of books written during lockdown and it seems like editing wasn’t really happening in 2020-2021.

[@eitaklleyd7932]

[SPOILERS] I haven’t read the book, but after watching this video I feel like it would have been better if the readers knew the entire time that Vega was looking for a spaceship and it only had one seat. There still could have been a twist with the black hole and them not being on Earth but have it make more sense. Then it could have been a mental battle the entire book where she feels herself falling for Noah but she knows there’s only one seat in the ship and that could’ve established their relationship more because she would be trying not to fall for him but wouldn’t be able to help herself

[@lindslovely]

This plot feels like a fever dream lol

[@caricanread]

🥲🥲🥲

[@peskycritter79]

Or like someone else's that they're trying to explain to you but nothing makes sense lol

[@fionaglass]

when Supermassive Blackhole played I literally said “Vampires??” because the snap second connection my brain made was to think of the twilight baseball scene

[@hannahohno]

When super massive black hole played I was like “what?! Vampires?!?”, but then she said “A BLACKHOLE” and I felt so dumb. Lol ps: also, huh… mam that’s not how black holes work…tf?hahahah

[@caricanread]

If it had been vampires i would have given the poor writing a pass because that would have been wild

[@madison3218]

i did the exact same thing lmao

[@Amber-Jasmin_LeFay]

Hahah I thought Vampires too 😂

[@calling.moon.twelve]

Me too lmaooo

[@eveclass1716]

What’s funny is that consumption is the old word for tuberculosis, which was historically associated with vampires because of how it made people wither away (like they were being consumed by something). So vampires would have made a lot more sense, actually. (I am losing it at this book’s black hole logic. I am going to pass away. I am crossing the event horizon, let it consume me. My brain hurts too much.)

[@beyondunnatural208]

Oh my god, it wasn't just me?! This book just felt so scrambled and unfocused; but I liked Winter Wood then felt totally underwhelmed with this one.

[@caricanread]

i was SO confused!!!!

[@eli-cl4wo]

BRUH I JUST PASSED MY LEARNER'S PERMIT TEST AND I GET TO CELEBRATE WITH A CARI BOOK RANT🥳🥳

[@caricanread]

omg yesss congrats!!!

[@strangeaelurus]

Congratulations!

[@sofia2222]

omg I just passed my permit test today too!

[@Zealous_Delusional]

Does she mean actual consumption, like TB, or is this one of those noun to proper noun things that a lot of YA does? Cuz if it is tuberculosis and the mom isn't quarantined, there's absolutely no way the MC wouldn't be infected

[@caricanread]

No they didnt have a name for the actual disease so they just called it consumption because it consumed people (like a black hole maybe?)

[@Ch33tahf33t1996]

i hate that the author called the disease consumption because that's what was people called tuberculosis before, and it really just doesn't make any sense that a black hole would give someone a respiratory illness.

[@caricanread]

I think she just use it because 1. Theyre being consumed by a black hole and 2. People called TB consumption because it was before we knew what was causing the illness and in the book no one knew the cause either. But i agree it’s confusing 🥲

[@vinnm4516]

When the music played my brain auto filled in "Danica in a space ship" and I was so sad that we didn't get a Danica jumpscare lmao Not the same author or series but that woman is inescapable

[@caricanread]

Omg what a missed opportunity 😂😂😂😂😂

[@StrangeAngel03]

[SPOILERS] It sounds like it could have been so good if her misadventure had been maybe the first half of the book and the next half (instead of being a potential sequel plot) had been her trying to save the planet(s).

[@Louves192]

Ouch, that's not how black holes work. That was very painful to listen to. She could have at least ditched the black hole idea and instead make it some lovecraftian alien creature that devours stars and planets. That would have been a cool plot twist.

[@nats_narrative]

Me sitting here with the last name Vega thinking that if I ever (when I) get published I need to choose a name that hasn't been in every single YA fantasy series.

[@deadlynightshade9999]

How the mc doesn't care her Pa was probably sphagettified by a black hole lmao

[@eepyoopy]

As a person about to get their bachelors in planetary science, this plot made me lose my mind 💀💀💀

[@clolo3969]

I remember writing a story for a class once and people had the exact critiques that you did of this novel. My story was five pages long and I spent a total of four hours working on it. I feel like there is a parallel here

[@RoseRamblesYT]

I think one of the wildest aspects is, as you mentioned in the beginning, this entire story takes place in 2-4 weeks. So Vega falls just soooo deeply in love with Noah in maybe a couple weeks. As well, the un-killable dad is at one point stabbed multiple times? But is able to walk if off in, what, a couple days or something?

[@vicfern]

Aaaa cari i've been in a 20 min loop searching for something to watch while drawing and now YOU POST IM SO HAPPY

[@caricanread]

bahahha im hereee!

[@dani.5087]

As soon as you started describing the twist I put my head in my hands and screamed "THAT'S NOT HOW BLACK HOLES W O R K"

[@dani.5087]

WHY DOES EVERY COLONY HAVE THEIR OWN PERSONAL BLACK HOLE. WHAT

[@a.p907]

So mad that this twist isn't in a better book

[@caricanread]

💔💔💔

[@itsginamarie3262]

I literally just finished this book last week and as soon as I saw the title of this video, I knew I had to watch it. I TOTALLY agree with everything you said. This book could have been great but just wasn’t. We were kept in the dark for way too long and there were so many plot elements that made zero sense. I was so bummed because I actually loved A History of Wild Places. But this? Big miss.

[@caricanread]

Such a miss 😭 i was so disappointed 🥲🥲🥲

[@valentinasofiacampana4310]

Cari, I LOVE hearing you talking about the plot of a book I will never read and (most of the time) have never heard of

[@kyoyameganebereznoff]

That was genuinely a cool twist; it’s such a shame that it was executed poorly.

[@D4ll13]

The way you explained the plot got me thinking that this would honestly been a great dystopian series. If it took time to work on the characters and the mystery it would make a perfect series I’d 100% watch.

[@_laurenolo_]

Can't wait to watch this tonight! no better reward for getting through a day full of meetings and classes than enjoying a cari video 🥺💖🥰

[@caricanread]

have a good daaaaay!

[@crazymh5]

I would offer The Other Side of the Sky by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner as an alternative. I can’t remember if you’ve read it already. It’s a duology. I remember really enjoying it. It has a lot of similar elements

[@caricanread]

Noted thank you 😭🙏🙏🙏

[@tay_cc]

omg i love this series!

[@darcyreads]

The thing is it could’ve been a great twist like I would LOVE to have this sci-fi book in my collection. Listening now, I wish the execution was better. If someone like Andy Weir or Joan He wrote this, I bet the twists (and the plot overall) would be exceptional.

[@caricanread]

💯😭😭😭

[@larisaschreiber3146]

Thank you Cari! I feel justified!! When I read this several months ago, I was so let down! It just never explained anything, and I felt like I was going around in circles 😵‍💫. So sad cause I LOVED her other books 😢

[@caricanread]

I just don’t know what happened! I thought maybe becoming i started skimming a little that that is what caused the confusion but no, she just wrote everything so shallowly 😭😭😭 you def not alone

[@larisaschreiber3146]

I honestly thought I was reading it wrong, there were so many missed opportunities! AND...I loved the cover 😭

[@iyaehsan3840]

Cariiii dont apologize. This video was so entertaining for me, i just love the way you explain book plots no matter how bad they are. I literally laughed out loud at the spaceship and earth twist parts😂 I thank you for helping me relax, you're videos are like regular therapy for me🤗

[@colorlessdecember2308]

This are the kind of videos that encourage me to keep writing. 107700 words in my manuscript and this gives me strength. Thank you.

[@tonikhn]

I love your book rants 😅 I’m currently writing my own novel, and I always stop when introducing a new, kinda crazy idea to the story and wonder: what would Cari think about this? Is it genius? Or just stupid? 😅

[@gracelament]

the structure problems should have been caught so much earlier. like I don't know if this author plans her books, but even if you have the idea for the twist and then conceptualise how it would actually go in the novel you might notice 90% of the book becomes filler. it has a simple fix too! just move the twist up in the timeline, make part of the reveal be a first or second act twist or something. that way theres actual stakes and less of an info dump.

[@caricanread]

Yeah i feel like of we had that info earlier it would have improved so many things - especially Noah and her detachment to every character hahhaha

[@misskaterinat]

Can I just say the editing with the character pictures made this so entertaining to watch 😂 i hope you do a recap rant like this in the future

[@maiianthe3280]

I always reach for a cari video when I’m emotional drained, hurting, or just physically tired. Thank you, Cari, for creating such a comforting vibe( the right balance of grounding and escapism) ❤️

[@10puppyluv]

This book suggesting that chemistry and physics developed before astronomy is wild. Every science related thing that Cari mentions about this book is wrong? Inaccurate? Just wrong enough to ping my brain and bother me? That last one for sure at the very least. I'm glad Cari touches on this at the end.

[@tohrurikku]

Somehow when you said black hole I knew that there was going to be time travel, especially with the way she had to leave. My favorite author went from amateur level writing, to some of the best books I have ever read, to you can tell that she was only writing because she was forced to by her publisher. It was really sad to see her writing go down hill. At one time there was a long waiting list for her books, and now no one really talks about her.

[@charleypatterson9956]

Hey, Cari! I just wanted to pop on here and wish you a great day. I've followed both of your channels for a couple years now and I just appreciate your classy personality. Thank you, thank you for being a beam of San Diego sunshine in the great city of Seoul. I really look up to you and I love your outlook on life. Thank you for being you!! ❤

[@caricanread]

thank you so much :''')

[@sophiemontecalvo7503]

I love your videos, so so much - I've never read anything by this author, and yet I was captivated by the way you explained this book's plot. You're so naturally funny. I gasped multiple times at the "twists!" Thank you for explaining everything to us, and your editing is fantastic!

[@janaandkai]

One thing I want to add: pls know that all of your videos are a blast to watch! I personally think that you dont have to be comedian funny all the time - i enjoy a critical rant as much as a rant like the rant of the zodiac academy. Your videos are never boring and i always enjoy watching them!

[@SomeNativeOfficial]

That planets at 33:27 moving in the background are so trippy!

[@deadlynightshade9999]

I will never get over the running Vengaboys reference 😂

[@caricanread]

tracy wolff knew what she was doing when she wrote vega boys hahha

[@rachaels742]

i just have WAY more questions than answers after watching this. why is there only one astronomer like every generation? why can’t they train more? what the fuck is the architect? what did she need to wait for 2 stars to actually do something?? does the author understand how black holes work????

[@c.e.higgins2609]

Why did she have to wait for the stars to appear? If the first astronomer saw what was happening, why didnt she go get help right away? Why wait 100 years? Why not spend the 100 years looking for the ocean or preparing? Why would earth and humans with the ability to traverse the stars send colonies to planets near black holes? 🥴

[@c.e.higgins2609]

Wah, I have more. Why tattoo the astronomer when they know they'll be hunted? Why did her mother and others die but not Vega and the rest? It can't be age because the old architect didn't die from it nor did Noah's father. What exactly is the black hole doing to cause consumption? Why was there only one ship under the sand? What happened to the others or did the entire colony grow from a few dozen people?!

[@caricanread]

When the first astronomer saw it no one believed her and thought she was crazy so thats why they had to keep it a secret but yes they DEFINITELY should have at least tried to prepare??? It made no sense.

[@ria3828]

​@@caricanread see but why did they think she was crazy? If it was the first astronomer then everyone on the planet would have been the people who arrived on the ship. Why would they think a black hole was out of the question when they just came from space? I don't actually expect you to answer this but I think the point is just from hearing about this book I can see the plot holes 😂.

[@jackgarrison8497]

@@caricanread I have only seen The Twilight Movies which are boring beyond belief I have never read any of The Books ao I don't know if They are aby better most People on KZbin say no that Her Books are very badly written

[@Drudenfusz]

That sounds like someone who has not even the slightest idea how black holes work, they do not appear as shadows and the gravitation would be the thing everybody would notice. And that is not the only problem with astrophysics there, like the 100 years until certain stars return is complete nonsense.

[@MMWedin]

Honestly this is one of my favourite videos of yours, as an author wanting to get into YA i love hearing what DIDN'T work as well as what did, and its super fun listening to you explain a story :)

[@chenlery]

that twist was certainly very cool!! still an entertaining video despite the messy book. great for listening to in the background

[@dzeren_7151]

Every time cari uploads a video I know I will have a good day

[@joy-dz7oe]

love the editing in this video!!!

[@amalmariam6300]

I just discovered your channel and it is the best thing that has happened to me this year

[@rj9124]

finally a book I've actually read!! and I JUST read it like two weeks ago too. it was insane and usually not in a great way LMAOO so I'm pumped to hear what you have to say

[@caricanread]

😭😭😭

[@_elle]

I usually listen to your videos while I'm working, so I often don't catch what's on screen. I happened to look over right at 18:37 and laughed for a solid five minutes - I had to pause. omg don't change, girl

[@LexVexation]

✨️SPOILERS✨️ omg its the "only one bed" trope but, like, an escape pod to yeet her into space to escape the Space-Tuberculosis

[@LexVexation]

If you want something similar but actually done well, Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson is this but actually good

[@missflecha6084]

the way you described the plot makes the good sound sooo good 😭

[@TisMeh]

That has got to be a let down, and what a cool premise too! Thank you for being so brave Cari ❤

[@MillieFabula]

I'm really greateful that I read crave before watching your video because I had to laugh so hard at your editing with the *vega* boys hahahah thank you for your rants; I'm living for them 🤭

[@amzzz6877]

the intros always get me🤷‍♀️ LIKE ITS SO GOOD

[@caricanread]

hahaha!

[@tezzgois]

Hi Cari, im now to your channel and loved the videos of you trying to explain the acotar series! Please make more of those, lots of love from Brazil💗

[@caricanread]

Thank you!!!

[@serinawhaycock]

It breaks my heart this wasn’t fully fleshed, because I would LOVE this.

[@corentinie]

It sounds like such a cool concept-! I'm sad it wasn't execution well ):

[@Flyleaf1122]

Thanks for another great video Cari. LOL listening to you explain the plot, and twist was wild. It sucks when there's such a potential for a book but is a letdown in the end.

[@Anaieseart]

This video was very interesting, just hoping the next book in this series is immensely better bc the story has potential

[@DianeC1975]

Thanks Cari for reading this and explaining it so I don't have to. 😅 Oh, who am I fooling I'd never had finished this one. I do enjoy your reactions very much. 👍📚🤗💕(Have a great trip, be safe).❤

[@caricanread]

Thank you!!!

[@mityakaramazow72330]

I love listening to your voice. I hope you don’t take this wrong, but even if you’re talking about something that doesn’t strictly interest me, I love listening to you. Your voice is so soothing, gentle and stable, I love it ❤

[@herrshort]

damn the graphic design is insane cari. the talent.

[@ichinisa2583]

I have some difficulty reading books, but I still love to know more stories, this kind of videos are so entertaining to me, even if they're not meant to be funny, it's just like someone telling me a story and I love it

[@karinanieblas3677]

Ahhh new video ❤🎉 thank you cari

[@caricanread]

thank YOU!

[@emilyb600]

Oooh we’re spilling the tea ☕️👀

[@caricanread]

sadly spilling

[@matthewthepirate44]

Between this and SJM's later books, I really don't understand publishing. Why are agents and editors/publishing houses so insanely picky when you're new, but don't even bother to EDIT the manuscripts of established authors? It doesn't take a genius to see that this shit wasn't ready for publication.

[@acrynellys]

I'm sorry this let you down so hard! The twisty space adventure romances I'm going to recommend are The Darkness Outside Us and Ocean's Echo 🚀🌌💕

[@rangeldaniella7]

this book sounds like it could be so good! so much potential! i am a writer for personal pleasure so i understand coming up with something super cool and wanting to share it but… the super cool part can only reach its potential if the rest of the story is fully fleshed out. (also i’ll recommend the Bone Witch series and the Last Namsara series. hope they meet expectations i remember loving them but i also haven’t read them in a good while)

[@caricanread]

Yes 💯😭💯😭

[@renee_3364]

Thank you for saving me a lot of time. I had my doubts about this book for so long, so I put it off. After watching this video, I went to my Goodreads and clicked "delete from shelves" so fast. Probably had more fun listening to your rant than I would've had reading this book

[@taylorwalker7417]

It's the fact that people who made it off of Earth and to an entirely different planet somehow only had one astronomer onboard for me😭 And that a ship with a single seat was made in the first place?? Stahp it, Vega wasn't the only one unprepared🙄

[@user-bb2my2hq6n]

gotta say...yours and emmie's rant and pain [shatter me series] was so alike!!!seems like you two suffered alot....take rest and hope you recover fast...

[@harrietsbookcorner]

Nooo this sounds like it could have been so good 😭 Great video!

[@orange_tea]

this was a great study break! lol watching cari loosing her mind is gold, sorry your unhingedness (?) is entertaining lol

[@caricanread]

😭😂😭😂

[@liyan7314]

SIDE NOTE : you’re voice reading to us sounds so niceeeeeee

[@waynoknowsorigami]

I liked it. I got the book for Christmas. It was my first physical book for ages. Tried out a new idea for origami bookmarks on it. It has my favourite trope : outrunning a collapsing world. If I remember correctly the consumption was from a cloud of dark matter surrounding the black hole rather than the black hole itself.

[@rebeccamonteleone2233]

wait but....... if she knew the black hole was going to swallow the planet and she knew she had to get to the spaceship and she knew the whole plan the entire time........... why wait until the last possible second??? why does this have to be secret knowledge passed down through generations until the two special stars appear?? like why not just grab the architect head to the sea and get going immediately, before the black hole even becomes a problem?? are the two stars actually the other planet and it's only now that they've got a clear shot?? am i missing something

[@jasminv8653]

Yeah I don't understand this at ALL. Why didn't the FIRST astronomer already take the escape pod and get to colony number 2 for help? This is... so bizarre.

[@rebeccamonteleone2233]

​@@jasminv8653 LITERALLY???? the rules are so arbitrary! and i know this video is a summary of the book and we might be missing something but from what i can tell there isn't even like an overarching religion or belief system or even a central government of sorts that could be concealing this information for ~evil~ reasons. it's just the astronomers, keeping a LITERAL WORLD-ENDING SECRET and not doing diddly squat about it for years with pretty much no good explanation. if the theme is how Forgetting the Knowledge of the Past Will Doom Us it doesn't track because no one made any real effort to disseminate the truth to the rest of the population at any point. I AM BEFUDDLED

[@charliethesquishywitch340]

Thanks for this review, as enamored as I am with The Wicked Deep i would've bought this one as well ! Happy to save money waiting Earnshaw's next story

[@zenxiety6461]

Not sure if there will be a second book, but my guess for the twist of that book would be that Vega goes back in time and creates a causality loop to lead herself to Noah via the prophecy.

[@Kelcine]

I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS!! Who planned this expedition?! How did someone plan to set up TWO colonies near black holes? Why did Vega have to wait for some kind of star sign if she knew what the black hole was already? Why didn't they just go and get people safe before things even got close to dire? How do they not know about tech and modern science if they've only been on the planet for 100 years? If the first astronomer came with the first colonists, why didn't they believe her about the dangers? What does the architect do (other than remind me of The Matrix) to have such a special title? I AM SO CONFUSED!! 😭😭😭

[@eldsflamma8286]

Omg YES! I even pre-orderd this book and the second it downloaded to my kindle I starten it and I was so disappointed☹️I love her other books and she had hyped it up so much on her Instagram saying things like this is the book I have wanted to write for so long and I love Vega and you are going to LOVE IT! No, it was just weird and confusing.

[@heatherjohnston9735]

Hey, great video! I am actually an astrophysicist so the black hole physics sounds absolutely insane 😅 i have SO many questions: - why is the black hole making them sick? It is an immense amount of gravity, it doesnt spread disease - how do the oceans evaporate off? That implies the atmosphere would have to be gone but they clearly are still talking and have air?? - if they were that close to a black hole, surely the oceans would be Wild, like constant sweeping tsunami wild - How is Vega able to escape the swell of the black hole and get to the other colony so quickly? There should have been a whole lot of funky time anomalies that close toa. black hole In summary, it sounds like this author watched interstellar, did not pay attention, and just cherry picked random parts of the story 🤦🏻‍♀️ My other gripe is that if you wanted to have a sickness caused by some astrophysical phenomena, the author should have gone with the star going giant esrlier than thought. The star would probably be habing crazy emission spikes and making people sick andas the star would swell, there would be some nasty weather on t pplanet which surely would have resulted in the same teist of them not being on earth?? But I guess you dont habe the get out of jail free card that 'going back in time' to get the love interest 🙄

[@Grace-st2oy]

So basically the author tossed Interstellar into a blender and tried to stitch it back together with some YA star-crossed lovers trope

[@arianaicaza9542]

Omg I was waiting for this video 🎉

[@caricanread]

🥲🙏🙏🥲

[@reimohd1811]

Hi Cari! This is so random. I was listening to this video and I just wondered what your hair care routine is? I love how wavy your hair is and of course, the color! Thank you for you all you do :)