I read JM Butternut squash's other book

[@ReadswithRachel]

Are you mad about this video? Then this comment is for you. - . . . . . . . . . . . . . I don’t care. It’s a fair review. Don’t bring nonsense into my comments section or you’re going to get blocked. If you have a comment about something SPECIFIC I said then you can discuss it with me. But I never called her a racist or a bad mom so get lost with that bs.

[@GrayYeonWannabe]

i'm not mad about this video but i did wanna comment that despite most of my religious upbringing being extremely mild & forgiving (was raised episcopalian) anger was something people were shamed for because it was seen as a failing to not be endlessly forgiving (i vaguely remember smth about forgiving 7 times 7 times 7 and more or smth). it was interesting to find out that you werent taught that anger was a negative emotion, esp after watching your vid abt growing up fundie. that's all

[@ReadswithRachel]

lol what a wild response

[@motherbipsy960]

Every time a whyte person uses the word "woke", a gif of Inigo from Princess Bride going " You keep using that word; I don't think you know what it means" plays in my head.

[@sandequation2653]

I think it was the giant guy who said that

[@rachaelshort1704]

​@@sandequation2653it wasn't lol

[@brinagotsued]

Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

[@rosannawood7373]

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[@quirkyblackenby]

I don’t understand how white people don’t get that MLK wasn’t talking about white people when he was talking about judging people by their character. White people are already judged by their character. He was explicitly talking about black people. We are rarely judged as individual people. We are always judged as a group. Sorry but the author saying that really annoyed me.

[@ReadswithRachel]

Don’t apologize, you’re right and she’s stupid as hell

[@Twat_Dirt]

Because you guys don't treat yourselves as individuals

[@durarada]

@@Twat_Dirt stop that, twat_dirt

[@cooldog1994]

​@@Twat_Dirtim sorry you dont have a sense of community or solidarity beyond hating everyone who isnt like you and feel the need to take it out on those who do

[@fawn2911]

​@@Twat_Dirt?

[@katyak5664]

I think I cracked the code. For everyone but seekers, "visit" means "have sex". The poor merchant in book 1 was like, "You were doing WHAT with your sister????"

[@ReadswithRachel]

Hahahahahahaha

[@gabbyabbott4965]

14:43 I’m picturing JM Butterfinger just mowing the lawn outside of your house just out of pure spite because you’re reviewing her second book.

[@ReadswithRachel]

I believe in this conspiracy

[@roadkillfairy4789]

I thought it was the vibrating...

[@getgaymin]

Her lawn is vibrating@@roadkillfairy4789

[@TheEvilDamsel]

JM Buttercup: I don't have enough time to respond to negative reviewers. Also JM Butternut: *writes two lengthy comments and has a whole-ass lives stream about one negative review* She may be a terrible romance writer but she may want to try her hand at comedy after this. 😆😆😆

[@Bibliofilth]

Definitely the worst thing about this is disrespecting Spider-Man smh. the man works hard to keep nyc safe and he can't even get his name written correctly

[@ReadswithRachel]

People these days just have no consideration for the hardworking people in tights who keep us safe

[@danielbroome5690]

This is actually par for the course in his life lol, Peter Parker's life is a constant spiral of misery, betrayal and loss.

[@boogerman908]

Spiders-man

[@ps1hagridoufofcharacter]

@@danielbroome5690 and forgotten hyphens

[@NoOneImportant-]

I hate the use of the word homosexual in this context. Like she makes it sound dirty and disgusting. I am honestly at a loss for words with that whole section. Though the author may claim to be fine with gay people but her portrayal of them tells a different story.

[@ReadswithRachel]

Fully in agreement with you

[@aw7145]

As a queer person, I haven't even *heard* the word "homosexual" in any context other than a joke in *forever*. Obviously I'm not saying that it's an inherently negative word or anything, but if someone is saying that someone is a "homosexual," I'm definitely more suspicious of them than someone who just says "gay." It read to me more like how a homophobic evangelical preacher says "homosexual" in this context lmao

[@rominesque2921]

@@aw7145 I sometimes hear it when a specific person's bigotries are being comprehensively listed off but that's about the only other case lol

[@charlieh1427]

When she said in her reel she “wasn’t comfortable” writing a trans or pansexual character that was sooo telling

[@banquo4223]

@@charlieh1427 that isn’t that surprising to me

[@willowingwhispers2612]

I kept giggling at the use of "vibrating" in these books. Like, could she not remember words such as "shaking" or "trembling"? Or did she genuinely think "vibrating" sounded better?

[@squidlikestodie1570]

Thesaurus moment

[@lizabethhampton4537]

Even "quaking" is RIGHT THERE, man alive...

[@robertfaith]

You can tell a lot about this author's worldview through these novels.

[@ReadswithRachel]

INDEED YOU CAN looooool

[@TheRPGNerd]

THE WHOLE "I CONTROL THE SITUATION BY CONTROLLING MY REACTIONS" THING IS LIKE. EXACTLY WHAT MY SHITTY THERAPIST TOLD ME WHEN I WAS LIVING WITH MY AUNT AND HER ABUSIVE HUSBAND. WHEN I TOLD HER I WAS HAVING ISSUES WITH THEM HAVING SCREAMING MATCHES. THE VICTIM BLAMING IS REAL

[@ReadswithRachel]

Another thing just occurred to me Jax could’ve had elara and Cyrus fucking pack a bunch of knives or guns BEFORE THEY LEFT EARTH and just fucking wrecked zenith and the collectors………. NO PLOTTING JUST VIBES

[@rachael02126]

No Plot, Just Cringe Vibes should have been the blurb tbh

[@writermichelletoro]

Dude this! Literally grab a bunch of guns before the jump and game over

[@Agentmg17]

When you said the other planet had no guns, this is the first thing that came to mind and hoped there was some reason behind it.

[@teslashark]

@@Agentmg17 Just an author tract about gun laws!

[@Agentmg17]

....I wish YT let me block people.

[@salorarainriver7278]

"no insects" is so fucking hilarious to me as a concept. as someone who obsesses over worldbuilding and animals and science, how the fuck do you even - no, first thing's first, *what* the fuck do you mean by that? because in the strictest scientific sense, 'no insects' would mean no 6-legged exoskeleton-bearing buzzy creatures, but yes to arachnids, annelids, terrestrial crustaceans and molluscs, etc. and quite frankly i am pretty fascinated by the alternate universe where ticks evolved to fill the pollinator role instead of being parasitic, HOWEVER, I feel like this author does not imagine her fantasy world having spiders, scorpions, ticks, milipedes, centipedes, earthworms, woodlice, slugs, snails, etc., so let's just assume by no insects she meant none of those either, which frankly, "how do they pollinate the crops" is the least of the ecological problems here. wind-based pollination, bat pollinators, there's multiple ecological solutions to this issue. but let's talk about all the other niches insects and related bugs fill. for starters, what do the frogs and lizards and bats and certain species of rodent eat? do small carnivores just not exist in this world because there's no animal tiny enough for them to eat? is every bat a fruit bat. do the frogs eat mushrooms. also, what exactly are the pest animals ravaging gardens, if there is no locust, aphid, slug, caterpillar, etc? are there just swarms of tiny herbivore geckos devouring your prized tomatoes? or do the trees get infected with mold like 20x more often than they do on earth? and what's eating the carcasses? just scavenging mammals, fungus, and bacteria? das it? is there a corpse tadpole. please tell me there's a corpse tadpole. I don't know why part of me is tempted to just have mushrooms and mold replace insects in nearly every ecological niche. maybe it's just the thought that this author so clearly wanted to make her world "cleaner" by removing the "dirty" animals (tho idk what the fuck she has against birds), but if we follow this massive hole in the ecosystem to its logical conclusion, we end up at Mushroom World. but also the other possibilities are just as funny like, imagine amphibians and reptiles replacing locusts, maggots, ticks, ants, beetles, dragonflies, etc. and before you wonder: the bird question is much easier bcs bats are right there. clearly every bird niche is now filled by bats. which is definitely 10x spookier than i think this author intended when she wrote in 'no birds'.

[@Eloraurora]

I love this ecological sidebar and kind of want all sorts of ridiculous daybats now. Bat-of-paradise! Hawkbat! Secretary Bat!

[@salorarainriver7278]

@@Eloraurora please dont forget the tomato-eating geckos, corpse tadpoles, or Mushrooms Everywhere.

[@Eloraurora]

@@salorarainriver7278 Have you ever had the little translucent/orangish baby lizards get into your house? IDK if they're geckos, but I'm picturing something like that, with color variation depending on what crops they've been chomping on.

[@salorarainriver7278]

@@Eloraurora beautiful. best pests.

[@edythehart]

your explanation makes me what to explore this idea and write it out and obsess over it... though its giving me Morrowind vibes.

[@RebaMedia]

Wait....why did the Solan "roar with laughter" when they were making Twilight and Spider-Man "jokes"? Aren't they on a different planet? They wouldn't know any of the pop-culture references that their entire "comedy routine" is based on, right? They should be extremely confused by these two strange teenagers with their incomprehensible in-jokes.

[@SergeiMosin]

Honestly, the whole book sounds like L. Ron Hubbard got half his brain surgically replaced with a tomato and then tried to write Twilight fanfic while tripping absolute BALLS on every hallucinogen known to the CIA.

[@camillechip]

This is incredible.

[@getgaymin]

Yeah, at least Mission: Earth is funny

[@RachelBenedetti]

Funny how her Literary Awards are from a website that has an ad for their own book "12 Ways to use a Book Award to Sell More Books" on the same page as their submissions for their award. And from the length of the page and the font used to list their award winners, it looks like they give an award to everyone who submits. Real impressive, that.

[@user-ft3pj1nr6c]

Oh no 😮‍💨

[@sethwr]

so i paused on the “21 things you should know about this author” section of her awards page, and when asked “what three things do you do to be a successful writer?” she listed four 😭

[@sethwr]

drive and determination being two of them…which aren’t things you do?

[@ReadswithRachel]

i am deceased lmaooooo classic jm

[@emackenzie]

@@sethwr listed four and two were nonsense 😭

[@Alyse_bell]

So she can’t write or count, brilliant 😂

[@GrainneSheridan]

@@sethwr maybe she meant all authors should be driving all the time. writing and driving is the key, it’s like texting and driving but worse!

[@TalaPedro]

"The human body is an article of clothing?" ... it puts the lotion on its skin?

[@meatofmink]

She managed to get an award thats even less of an accomplishment than a participation trophy, thats an achievent in itself.

[@cameronkimball1535]

that moment when I can’t remember which dude is her brother and which one is her love interest 😬 also, it’s a dark day when Cyrus turns out to be the voice of reason by the end of this book 😂😂😂

[@ReadswithRachel]

CYRUS PUT HIS ONE BRAIN CELL TO USE LOL

[@rachael02126]

As someone who also cringe read the entire series, it doesn't get better. Good luck and may the ad revenue you get be worth the braincells that you will end up losing.

[@ReadswithRachel]

*STARES IN TERROR*

[@shannonquinn]

It may be a minor thing for you, but I'm LIVING for the myriad of creative names you come up with for the author. 👏🤣 I know that reading these is torture for you......but these videos are comic relief (for the most part) for us, so thank you for your sacrifice!

[@ReadswithRachel]

Shannon you’re the best 💕

[@eloramooncp]

At the part where you're talking about Jackson attacking Elara being familiar, when you pondered where it was from, an ad kicked in and it was Gordon Ramsey saying "watch this!" And I laughed for a solid minute. Even Gordon was excited for that similarity reveal. 🤣

[@ReadswithRachel]

Gordon hyping me up I LOVE IT

[@cocobooksgalore3945]

Damn. I can't she tried to play it that the reason she wasn't getting published was because of diversity when in reality she is probably one of the worst writers out there. I think I've seen children who can write better than this.

[@queerlibtardhippie9357]

I don't understand people who brag about not having diversity... why would you be proud of all your characters being the same person with a different name?

[@stoppickingurnose7852]

Right?!

[@theresisty7122]

I teach middle school English. There are definitely kids who can write WAY better than this.

[@taylormayes62]

I am so floored by her responses?? Especially the cultural Marxism thing. Isn’t that literally an antisemitic dog whistle?

[@ReadswithRachel]

Yes it is

[@wintorsoldier]

Absolutely love this video, I was hoping to find someone actually reviewing her stuff. I was 100% never going to read it before, and I'm 500% never going to read it now. (Also, love the eye makeup later in the video, super pretty.)

[@ReadswithRachel]

Thank you so much!

[@gabbyabbott4965]

6:15 when someone says “I don’t care” twice it means they obviously care.

[@ReadswithRachel]

She talked for two hours lol I have seeeeeeeerious doubts that she doesn’t care

[@bluedragonfly8139]

Right? 'I care so little about this that I'm going to write a novella/film a short movie about just how little I care. Surely that will prove that I don't care!'

[@REDACTEDbox]

It’s like PEMDAS, it cancels out

[@randyzochoa6358]

That clip of her saying "it won literary awards" has me distracted because all the books on her shelf are the same size and color and it really feels like she just has "filler" on her bookshelves because she needs to complete the aesthetic.

[@ReadswithRachel]

I think book collecting is fine but i will say, from the pettiest place in my heart, all that paper is wasted on JM Buckler because shes a crappy person lol and those trees deserved better

[@karamiddleton2920]

JM Bottle brush. 😅😅😅 Edit: I paused the video to read her comments. At the end she says that "lying about an author's character" could make someone stop writing. I wish it would make JM Bucktooth stop writing!

[@ReadswithRachel]

I don’t even personally want her to stop writing I just want her to either stay out of my comments/stop making stuff up about me or take my feedback and learn to write better

[@karamiddleton2920]

@@ReadswithRachel Yes! The number of people she and her minions have harassed, threatened, and even doxxed on social media is shameful. She's supposed to be an adult, but she behaves like a mean girl. I'm so sorry you've become one of her targets.

[@ReadswithRachel]

Lol she’d probably say it’s the other way around and I targeted her by… reviewing her books

[@Megwyn_Rose]

I wanna also point out, the end where she talks about how Orion is "what she needs" or whatever, that is very similar to how the hunger games series also ends, when Katniss is talking about her love triangle between Gale and Peeta she compares the two and says almost that exact line about how Peeta is the one she needs. Not saying anything was copied or stolen, I just thought that was also interesting after the hunger games clip you showed in the video. 👀

[@ladyheavdev]

Man that scene from Catching fire was so brutal in the best way. Peet's being brainwashed and just attacking Katniss like that was so random and it's just so good! The Hunger Games movies ARE as good as the book imo. Better than whatever this is lol. Great review!

[@ReadswithRachel]

Thank you so much!

[@ladyheavdev]

@@ReadswithRachel no prob. Can't wait for more!

[@KristenReviews]

These books make me feel hopeful for my own writing. This makes my third draft (which was a trainwreck but my beta readers were kind enough to tell me) look like a masterpiece.

[@sarahroussel400]

So she...basically paid for an award ? 😂

[@ReadswithRachel]

Correct lol

[@jencendiary]

You're talking about vibrating and the lawn mower hits, and at that moment my soul left my body. A+

[@cidevant002]

The second that I saw the cultural marxism on that tiktok... It's the dogwhistles that doomed me.

[@Travelling_with_my_dog]

that and reference to "the woke mob" always tell me not to take anything that person says seriously

[@Beedler]

every time I try to host a DnD game over Discord, my sister starts making a ruckus. She started power washing the windows once. My friends still ask me every time we play if I expect any window washers 😂

[@lostinmylibrary5691]

Haven't read this series but I would love to see a 3rd video from you over the 3rd book

[@ReadswithRachel]

That seems to be the consensus here in the comments haha

[@writermichelletoro]

Yes please read the third! Chapter 33 is a gem 🙃. The climax is hella convenient. And the Rico jokes keep coming and coming and coming. Oh and Elara becomes Gollum at one point?!? Also George RR Martin gets a shoutout in the acknowledgments so you know it’s worth the read 😉

[@ReadswithRachel]

GOLLUM?!? My interest is piqued

[@caseymckenna7111]

“True oppression.” “It’s also won some literary awards.”

[@MariaLuizaGalhardo0309]

I absolutely love your videos and honestly, thank you so much for putting the links to help Brazil in your description! Things are starting to look better but we still need every help we can get. Your rant reviews are the best💞💞

[@ReadswithRachel]

Thank you so much Maria 💕

[@aashitiwari2044]

you're doing god's work bestie 😭

[@ReadswithRachel]

Thanks for watching!

[@angryotter9129]

I’m pretty sure I vibrate…but that might just be the second pot of coffee sending me to another dimension.

[@ReadswithRachel]

me after my second monster energy of the day

[@randomlibrarian]

I completely didn't realize the rest of the series got published 😳

[@ReadswithRachel]

Indie published but yeah. I’d be surprised if she ever got traditionally published. After all the antics I doubt a publisher would work with her…. outside of maybe Wander.

[@randomlibrarian]

Wondering if they'll make some kind of invisibility... jacket out of the rocks or just completely ignore them in book 3. Feels 50/50

[@ReadswithRachel]

HAHAHAHAHA

[@_vexilee]

*Reads with Rachel video good time stat counter* JM Beetlegeuse name variations: |||| || Upsetti spaghetti counter: || Author's amateur cartography rating: C- Fave pull quote: "she has trouble with plot, dialogue, and character development" - you know, all the elements of storytelling Final thoughts: WAIT A SECOND, human body? As clothing? Lightlark skin gloves foreshadowing 😤

[@AlextheSuperfly]

The names she uses for her characters, I swear to gods. Pollox, Callisto, Orion - did she just open up a My First Book of Space and go "Yep, that'll do"?

[@PiousPallasAthene]

*Sweats looking at my d&d character names* I can explain. I'm silly and like names no one would give a human.

[@bloodieghostie]

​@PiousPallasAthene there's a line between fictional character names and irl human names. Like I have a character named "Coral" but I'd struggle to not side-eye the parents of someone who _actually_ names there kids after _coral_ of all things. Might as well name them 'kelp' or 'sandflea' lmao.

[@fr4nkensk4nk]

@@bloodieghostie Kelp is such s funny name lmao im gonna steal that idea

[@mollyencrypted2488]

Jax is the guy who brought the twins to Earth? And he's Elara's love interest? And she's in high school? EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

[@ReadswithRachel]

Yeah I guess time moves differently on aroonyx but idk it’s still weird as hell

[@rominesque2921]

As far as I'm concerned, once you put a map in your book weird worldbuilding nerds are allowed to nitpick it as much as they want free of judgement. You have entered that arena as you clearly have some aspirations in that regard. And in that context it must be said that the world she imagines here is incredibly juvenile, for lack of a better word. There's something about "the four villages of north, south, east, and west" combined with the surrounding context that she clearly wants people to fall in love with this setting that is just tiring.

[@calofantiquity]

A Compendium of the “J.M *insert three syllable word starting with B here*”. Thank me later: J.M Butternut Squash J.M Bottle Brush J.M Beetroot J.M Bottleneck J.M Betelgeuse J.M Bucklebeak J.M Buckwheat

[@missyroberts8197]

50 minutes in, and you're like "this is where it gets fcking awful" and I was laughing so hard because it's so awful from the get go and it gets worse

[@AidenFeltkamp]

Wow wow wow that gay story line is so messed up! Thank you for pointing it out and explaining why it's an issue. This book is the epitome of "but I'm an ALLY" 🙄

[@getgaymin]

the other party usually needs to consent to an alliance, otherwise it's just a hostage situation

[@Just-Being-Amy]

Okay… I low key thought that you were going to say the scene when Jax looks at baby Elara and decides not to kill her was inspired by The Emperors New Groove and not Twilight 🤦‍♀️ I guess this just goes to show where my interests lie….

[@ReadswithRachel]

Listen you have TASTE the emperors new groove is THE BEST

[@decaying_dante]

i hate how people have abused the phrase "cancel culture". because everyone i know is against cancel culture for what it originally meant. yeah man, if someone said something bad a decade ago, and has since SHOWN through their actions that they've improved, that is fine. trying to dig shit up on someone who is otherwise a good person from like 10 years ago is bad. we can all agree there. but simply uttering the phrase "cancel culture" has become a huge red flag because people use it to mean "someone called me out on something i said yesterday and also still believe which is wrong, i am clearly being persecuted." also why does no one who's against CRT know what CRT is...

[@alicethemad1613]

The rest of this review is chill but I kind of bristled when you said “sex work” in regards to what is obviously akin to bargaining for protection with sex ie; clear coercion and essentially sex trafficking. It’s an equivocation that sex workers have fought very hard to dismantle exactly because it is so common. And honestly the book doesn’t do that, they’re explicitly stated not to be sex workers, and that it is coercion. I know it’s sort of treated weird but the women are clearly not being judged for their actions and are distinguished from actual sex workers in the text. The book is obviously dogshit and I’m not defending it, but the equivocation of sex work and rape that you implied felt a bit tone deaf. Just something to consider in future reviews. Hopefully that didn’t come off as rude, I love your videos, but I think it’s always important to reflect and consider one’s own language usage so in the future one can get better.

[@ReadswithRachel]

You're right, and thanks for pointing this out!

[@NeithHecateAddams]

The way I gagged when I realized we were having a Renesmee throwback 😂

[@storyranger]

Imagine bragging about a "literary award" that you PAID TO WIN how embarrassing.

[@jumpinjoint]

you’re so influential she deleted her instagram and did a whole little talk with some other author talking about how she got canceled on instagram 😂

[@palindont9238]

Okay so I just keep hearing that line from A Christmas Story in my head. "It is a lamp, you nincompoop, but it's a Major Award."

[@ReadswithRachel]

Hahahahahahahaha

[@emory5533]

I can't believe she collapsed to her knees in the first and second books 🤣

[@booksandbluestockings8664]

When Rachel mentioned that the skies were green and the water is gray, did anyone else get “California dreaming” stuck in their heads? “All the water’s grey (all the water’s grey) and the sky is green (and the sky is greeeEEEEN!)”

[@annajensen7360]

Genius

[@eleanorefinch526]

I just found your channel and I have to say that you are a GEM

[@ReadswithRachel]

Thank you!

[@timothyshore7646]

For the last week I have been bingeing your content and videos. These conversations/videos make me want to create more and seeing authors like these......maybe it is possible to become an author

[@By.Blackwood]

Ohhhhhhh my god this was the BEST thing I’ve watched all year. It’s like Book Review Stand Up 😂 Losing my shit every time you misname her lawd ha murcy 😭😭😭

[@ReadswithRachel]

🤣 this is a huge compliment, thank you

[@haemocyte2224]

The bit about human bodies being articles of clothing makes me want to write yet another story where some manner of obligate parasites regard bodies as something you wear. Also, the lawn guy's timing was spot on during the talk about vibrating.

[@staydead1229]

I thought ‘oh no’ many times in both this and your previous review. When 35:27 rolled around I audibly said ‘oh no’ out loud. Not finished yet but I have a feeling Imma say it again. 😩😭 10/10 review tho def keep making these videos! Get that ad revenue.

[@ReadswithRachel]

Thank you friend 💕

[@maryinsanfrancisco]

Losing followers is oppression and persecution? Good Lord, has the oppressive regime of Zenith taught us nothing?

[@NC-dw1ir]

you can only teleport if you have good intentions? i guess the villains have to walk everywhere, then? so much for the 'teleportation is always used to be a dick' cliche'.

[@randomspider725]

Every time I re-watch this video, I cringe at the part with “TRUE discrimination”. How far does a person’s head have to be up their own ass, that they cannot see what discrimination looks like? Oh no, being called out for your own behavior… clearly the worst thing to happen to a person. Honestly, it’s like a toddler being told that they can’t have dessert because they punched their sibling and then that toddler having a fit and screaming “I hate you” at their parents. We know you hate us, JM Buttersworth. Now shut up and take your timeout.

[@Galaxia7]

32:25 lmao hope doesn't start revolutions, anger and famine do

[@thepanicswitch]

honestly the only reason I'm here (aside from this entire beautiful nonsense) is to tell you I love the hairstyle here and I hope it makes a comeback in your future reviews

[@Stolyfornia]

56:11 when she looks directly at the camera

[@lukajackson2339]

So a summary of almost every wording or plot problem within this author's books is essentially if the entirety of Wattpad was distilled into one book series. All it's missing is a couple uses of the words orb and ravenette.

[@oneinamalonereads]

Rachel! A question for you about how you got to making this particular content etc (which I love btw) Books like this make me wonder how they got published but other creatives like myself can't seem to breach the difficult glass ceiling that is the book publishing industry. I'm thinking about starting a Booktube channel to review books like this and Piper CJ's to do mock beta reading /editing to kinda go over how the books COULD have been better using my academic background and personal writing experience with my own beta readers - would you watch something like that?

[@auldren]

ok i had to pause when it's revealed the dude at 13 saw her right after she was born cuz uhhhhh just went back to the part one just to double check math and piercing blue eyes guy is 30?! and he's the love interest for the 17 year old? that's..............questionable bruhhh what is this book

[@Agentmg17]

Talking about Twi knockoffs... did he.... did he imprint on her as a baby...kinda?

[@ReadswithRachel]

It’s not outside the realm of possibility that it could be read that way lol

[@SarahAbramova]

The "vibrating lips" is what we call "blowing a raspberry."

[@ReadswithRachel]

But in that case why would she not just say blowing a raspberry

[@SarahAbramova]

@@ReadswithRachel fuck if I know, girl. There's another comment that said it could be "trembling lips", but vibrating lips makes me think of when someone blows a raspberry. Maybe she didn't know the phrase? Or maybe she didn't want to exclude anyone by mentioning a phrase someone wouldn't know? The first would be more forgivable, but the second would just be stupid. Books can have words and phrases that readers have never heard of, but that just makes them look for context clues or look it up. I also wished she read her book out loud and see how saying "vibrating lips" sounds awful. Especially when you repeat it.

[@ReadswithRachel]

I just don’t understand the need to say it’s so many times in one book you know? Like why did it happened so often I will just never understand how somebody can write it that many times did not think hey maybe a synonym is needed here

[@SarahAbramova]

@@ReadswithRachel my best guess is that she didn't actually read it over. I think her idea of "editing a story" is taking it to Grammarly and click all the suggested fixes and not rereading your story to make sure it makes sense and cutting out things that are unnecessary and adding things to make it better.

[@vaguely_lavender]

It's also landscaping day in my apartment complex, and I genuinely thought they were at it again till you said something and I paused the video 💀💀I'm so sorry they did that to you

[@summerb5153]

I'm speechless 💀 all I can say is that thank you for your sacrifice for reading this nonsense 💀

[@SarahAbramova]

The part about the guy waking up to hurt the girl actually reminded me of something from the Contortionist series. That series is awful, mind you, but that is exactly what happened to the main character.

[@bubblegum1366]

The Harrow's Fair series? Oh no, I'm a couple of books in and really enjoying it lol. Does it go off the rails at some point, or is it just more to my taste than yours?

[@SarahAbramova]

@@bubblegum1366 well, to give you some context, there is a youtuber, Rachel Oates I think she was called? She says she was a victim of abuse and she made a series critiquing the entire series. She says that the main love interest is incredibly abusive towards Cora, and the book romantizes it.

[@bubblegum1366]

@@SarahAbramova Thanks for the rec 🙂 I'm starting the compiled review now, but based on the titles and thumbnails it seems her main issues with the series are the violence/abuse and lack of consent, but I was under the impression those were intentional parts of the story. A lot of NA fiction has similar themes, and I thought themes like those were popular because the audience enjoys them in fiction. Those are why I've read a lot of the books I have at least, so it does seem to be a difference of taste. Like I said though, I am listening to the review in case there is something I'm missing 🙂

[@Seiaeka]

Ironically, that except you wanted to send to your therapist is something my first therapist told me when I first showed signs of depression--along with "if your fault for letting the bullying get to you." It made my depression worse. I hesitate to say it, but man, that triggers me. :V This "author's" view of mental well-being is trash.

[@tuyetsoi4672]

these kind of women always have that super smooth filter on

[@lua_ferraz]

NOT THE TRAILER SCENE FFS 😂😂😂 I don't understand anything that went on here, but at least it was funny, lol. And I love your experimental make-up, you look so pretty!

[@ReadswithRachel]

Thank you 😭😭😭

[@Pauline-lc3mu]

Hi Rachel, I super enjoy your videos and yes, read the third one, pleeeaaase! 🤩 Btw, why is the book called Stillness of Time? Is it made clear?

[@ReadswithRachel]

NOPE lol and to be honest I don’t know why the first one is called seeker “of time”. The seekers don’t “seek” time they go to earth and get technology plans? Whatever she was trying to do with the titles is beyond me

[@Pauline-lc3mu]

@@ReadswithRachel 😂

[@grrlwriter]

Wait…there’s a character named Jax and one name Pollocks (like Jackson Pollock?)

[@thevillainousqueenofhearts4976]

Who is Jackson Pollock?

[@charlieh1427]

@@thevillainousqueenofhearts4976 he was a famous artist!

[@thevillainousqueenofhearts4976]

@@charlieh1427 ooooh, thank you

[@rose_and_thorns]

OMG those reels LOLOLOLOLOLOL

[@ReadswithRachel]

They’re hilarious 😂

[@rose_and_thorns]

@@ReadswithRachel The best part is how much of a gotcha she thinks it all is. Like, honey no.

[@davincigift]

PP??? Like, there was no other thought into that one? It's just begging to be mocked. Love your videos!

[@AriDelgato]

WAIT Jax is THIRTEEN YEARS OLDER THAN ELARA???? Isn't she like 16?????? Did I hear that right?????

[@roselover411]

It's been a year since they met? I thought we were operating on Jupiter Ascending timelines, wow

[@PinoccThePiccolo]

This book really makes me appreciate my own worldbuilding.

[@xTheOneToSaveUsAllx]

I think my primary school teacher did something right, since I remember insects are not the only way for plants to get fertilized. Some plants just release pollen and have the wind do the honours (hence spring is hell for people with allergies). A quick search confirmed some of the crop plants are wind pollinated, so that would work. Of course a lot of stuff would still be fcked by the lack of insect, so the point of insect necessity still stands.

[@KittyScythe]

“Guy’s, I totally don’t care!” She says as she makes a whole video about it.

[@supernaturalwitch5265]

35:43 YOU IMPRINTED ON MY DAUGHTER?!!

[@alexeir3690]

The peak in my life will be to make a video reviewing a book and have the author make a video about not going after a reviewer and spending the whole video doing exactly that

[@blearyeyedchangeling]

how much older is Jax to her? He brought her to earth as a baby but now hes the love interest? uhhhhh i dont like that

[@floreya67]

Oh no this might be the most poorly written stuff I've ever heard, and I've been deep in the fanfiction trenches.

[@NC-dw1ir]

the titles don't have anything to do with the story. seeker of time? wtf? I thought it would be about time travel. stillness of time makes even less sense. what's the last book called? out of time. PFFT!

[@ReadswithRachel]

I read the entire trilogy and still could not even begin to guess why the titles are what they are

[@NC-dw1ir]

@@ReadswithRachel The author was trying to sound poetic but when you miss the mark that bad, it comes across as pretentious.

[@noodlepoodle3582]

This reads like a Wattpad 1st draft

[@spiceshewrites]

Rachel here doing the Goddess' works.

[@ReadswithRachel]

I do what I can, I am but a simple book nerd

[@kindledragon2687]

Gotta love it when the review of a book is more entertaining than the actual book.

[@queerlibtardhippie9357]

This is the most embarrassing cringe shit I've secondhandedly experienced omfg

[@H12-p2q]

I love your reviews

[@ReadswithRachel]

Thank you!