gild is atrocious

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honestlysophie

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@nour2550 Жыл бұрын

“what’s a book without plot? a court of silver flames.” you’re so real for saying that

@bluebirdeyes 2 жыл бұрын

The story of King Midas that I know is that he made a wish for everything he touched to turn to gold. So he goes around touching stuff and is delighted that it all becomes gold, but then when he tries to eat, he realizes that all his food also turns to gold in his hands so he can't eat anything. Then even his daughter becomes a solid gold statue when he touches her, and he becomes distraught and asks for the wish to be reversed. Something something lesson about greed

@willowingwhispers2612 2 жыл бұрын

I personally don't understand why people think it's okay for the first book of a series to suck just because the following books are presumably better. It should not take an entire book that's well over 300 pages before a story gets better. A few chapters or so? Sure. But not the entire thing.

@ChemicalPenguinn 2 жыл бұрын

precisely!

@Nebewela 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for reading this, Sophie. I’m so sorry about what you had to go through 😭 I think the author needed to study dramatics and, for lack of a better word, “poetics”. Her having Aryn (Arrin? Arin? Whatever.) describe her reaction after the royal fight as “shock, shock and fear” probably should’ve been executed as “shock. Shock and fear.” But even then, it doesn’t feel like it should’ve been worded that way. If she wanted to have Aryn’s feelings be emphasized she could’ve said “visceral shock and fear” (don’t quote me on that- I just read a lot. I’m no expert). It would’ve seemed less clunky and typo-like. And the metaphors… no. If it’s supposed to be poetic/dramatic she needs to work on that. Metaphors can be used sparingly, but too many makes it old quickly. For example; Shatter Me and Unravel Me. Don’t get me wrong, I liked the books, but Juliette being sad and suffering and doing stuff with Adam and describing it like a Shakespearean tragedy just had me rolling my eyes once I got to chapter 40 of the first book. THEN, I think Aryn could’ve been an interesting character. Having been trapped for years in a cage, entirely gold, and having the gold-related powers that the original Midas had- there was potential. But she needed to be fleshed out more. What are her ideals? What would she do if she was freed from her cage and given a peaceful life? If [blank] happened to her, how would she react? Also, does she have good control over her powers? All that was seen (that I know of) was her golden-ing that pirate. Was that spur of the moment, or could she do that to anyone and anything perfectly without turning non-targeted things nearby gold? Idk. It’s a lot. Maybe some of these points aren’t good/easily answerable, but this was basically a ramble. Thank you for another amazing video Sophie! I got so excited when the notification showed up ☺️

@goodnaturedgamer8181 2 жыл бұрын

Every time a notification comes on my wife and I have to put it on asap, always highly anticipated

@honestlysophie Жыл бұрын

this made my day 😭 sweetest comment ever, thank you so much!

@milchreis9554 2 жыл бұрын

Can confirm they always put this in the YA/teen section in the UK and I cringe every time I see it there.

@ChemicalPenguinn 2 жыл бұрын

gild sounds pretty atrocious to be fair, I can understand that is actually atrocious

@giveandtake8428 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you read it. It's one of my guilty pleasures. But she does get a backbone in the second book. But it's still trashy entertainment for me.

@fierybookworm Жыл бұрын

Im finna sue Barnes and Noble i saw this on the YA table where literal children could easily be enticed by the cover. Yikes.

@jo_helaci 2 жыл бұрын

Yeeeey! A new review by my favorite youtuber! 😁😁 Since you're reading Gild and I know it's awful I'm so looking forward to this!

@irinaivanova7416 2 жыл бұрын

Good job! I always enjoy your rant reviews. (My dark soul rejoices when I encounter a bad book... go figure) I have just one thing to add. The current book aside, you can base a great story on traveling from A to B. After all, Frodo did travel from the Shire to the fiery pits of Mordor. But what is true is true - you need talent and some interesting side-quests to pull that through.

@honestlysophie Жыл бұрын

true!! but with LOTR at least there was a purpose to the travel, in books like these it’s just getting from one place to the other because you have to. But then again it’s unfair of me to compare something like this to something like LOTR, so I don’t think I’ll even try 🤭

@goodnaturedgamer8181 2 жыл бұрын

For a rage read, the clockwork tinkerer, for a strange short book read Jam.

@m_6nus 2 ай бұрын

Im not even halfway through the video and I’m pissing myself from laughing so much, idk what happened that morning but Sophie woke up and chose violence 😂 im bingewatching all the videos since i discovered this channel (literally obsessed at this point lol) and this is by far the funniest Video

@bdoug 2 жыл бұрын

I think you secretly enjoy these books

@honestlysophie Жыл бұрын

maybe 🤭

@isabellaelise9598 2 жыл бұрын

You have to read House of hollow, it’s my favourite book

@creepykels 2 жыл бұрын

You should read "The Gargoyle" by Andrew Davidson, it's so intense and it blew my mind to smithereens in the best way possible. Also I think (?) Midas is pronounced My-Das but I have no idea if that's true or not, it's just how I hear other people pronounce it lolol

@goodnaturedgamer8181 2 жыл бұрын

You are right on how it's pronounced, and for once the original story DID have fey in it for once haha

@938oooo 2 жыл бұрын

In German it's pronounced Mi das

@nour2550 Жыл бұрын

Six of Crows is the only good booktok book im afraid

@sunnysodapop Жыл бұрын

I'm starting to binge your vids and I noticed you're not a fan of romance. A lot of the books you picked up, in your own words are trash! But please don't let some popular bad authors ruin a whole genre for you. Romance is great and I really recommend All The Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry. One of my favorite quotes that summarize the book: "Darrel once read to Mother the tale of a girl in France who heard angel voices telling her to save her people from the English. She dressed as a man and spoke with fire and eloquence. She raised an army and defeated the invaders, all for the love of her motherland. For her courage and her passion, she later burned to death, called a witch and heretic. Do I love you less than she loved soil? I have no words to save you."