Okay, calling the Polish-mafia run stripper club "The Pole" is kinda funny
@whocareswhatelithinks5 ай бұрын
I agree, classic Triple Endendre
@v_doll4 ай бұрын
As a Pole, I'll take the Pole over "Zajac" everyday lmao
@audreycordeau92173 ай бұрын
I wonder if in Montreal, they have a Stripper Club named The "Qlub" Heck yeah. U no what, it's a stupid joke.
@sahitya34172 ай бұрын
@@whocareswhatelithinks Wait, how is it triple? I get the Pole as in Polish and pole as in pole-dancing. I am genuinely so curious 😭
@whocareswhatelithinks2 ай бұрын
@@sahitya3417 THE Pole as in he’s the best Pole
@nevereverr5 ай бұрын
Also the TikTok advertising for this book was SO annoying- they were all some woman like “If you don’t like toxic, age-gap, spicy mafia romances, then GET OUT. This book isnt for you”
@arkkon27405 ай бұрын
I miss the days where skits were just lowkey advertising, at least its slightly less annoying and in your face
@chriscortez20365 ай бұрын
I can’t tell if these books are a fetish or just really bad Stockholm syndrome. Maybe both?
@stardoogalaxie93145 ай бұрын
I mean, how annoying can it be? Pretty straightforward to me. I would say "you're right! It isn't! I will peacefully scroll on by."
@xBINARYGODx5 ай бұрын
"waaaaa age gap waaaaa" i love my "daddy boy" and you can get fucked if it bothers you
@wilthomas5 ай бұрын
are people on the internet upset and a 30 and 21 age gap? it sounds like that was put there to be provocative
@justsomeguy62405 ай бұрын
This entire book is just the “crime, penetration, crime, penetration” joke from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia but played completely straight.
@AllisonMiller305 ай бұрын
1000% convinced that enemies to lovers just means I hate you until I see you with your shirt off.
@a_grape_in_space10165 ай бұрын
It's not supposed to be that way, it's supposed to be "I hate you, and my hate for you is justified. I wanted to beat you just to be able to spit in your face that I won, but then you showed me you're not just human, but fallible, and I should exploit that but now that I understand that I can't bring myself to harm you."
@a_grape_in_space10165 ай бұрын
If you want a REAL enemies to lovers (as in 'you killed my brother and thus the only person protecting me from a predator' type enemies) that's LGBT, has amounts of dubcon, has the victim of SA get justice in the form of their assaulter getting his head chopped off, I'd highly recommend Captive Price by C.S Pacat. It's smut with really good plot, and excellent enemies to lovers.
@sarah.n.s.c.5 ай бұрын
Either that or it’s “he’s a raging psychotic misogynist until he falls in love with her and she just accepts him for some reason”
@b1_1nnies5 ай бұрын
Enemies to lovers is a fantastic trope that's being wasted on mid YA and porn
@dylanrodrigues5 ай бұрын
@@b1_1nniesy’all need to watch Asian dramas fr
@palinurus5 ай бұрын
Be honest, Griffins and Gallo(w)s sound more like a pair of rejected Hogwarts House names than mafia families
@khoitrannhat60755 ай бұрын
Griffins is actually a reference to how Peter griffins became a godfather and started a crime organization
@dimagoloborodko6106_va5 ай бұрын
this book is a sequel to the family guy episode when peter becamea godfather, and in this book is about his desendants
@spacecowboy54865 ай бұрын
The fact that Gallo in italian means cock makes it even funnier
@xjk89774 ай бұрын
I thought it was a Harry Potter ff lol
@johannageisel53903 ай бұрын
"gallus" is the latin word for "chicken", btw. So we already know what animal is on their coat of arms.
@lady_tadpole5 ай бұрын
"He thinks he can wax my 🐈without my consent? He doesn't know what he f***ìng started!" is kind of a raw line IMO.
@tati44534 ай бұрын
Absolutely
@bensmith86823 ай бұрын
If only she actually did anything about it.
@GPantazisАй бұрын
It's really not tho
@erinsintra5 ай бұрын
new bit of lore: james used to live next to a strip club
@squibkib5 ай бұрын
my silly ass one day fr
@Katt2455 ай бұрын
I'm gonna be very honest, everytime the last name Gallo was mentioned I couldn't help but snicker. It means chicken in italian. You guys do whatever you will with this
@catalinaargyriou86035 ай бұрын
the real chicken is the author for not committing to anything but the smut
@its_gabs5 ай бұрын
Same for me but in Portuguese lol
@jfzzlc5 ай бұрын
In Spanish it means rooster too😭
@Hades-kid-4 ай бұрын
He’s a chicken
@tournesol59394 ай бұрын
omg i thought it meant that but bc i don't speak italian i was like "naaaah the author wouldn't call them THAT !". i wonder if it was planned bc the rival family is the "Griffin"... so another kind of birds... but a mythical one at last 😂
@valentinatyukosova96765 ай бұрын
I don't know about adult women, but my grandma definitely loves these kinds of books. Admittedly, her dark romance collection is centered more on the 'kidnapped by a prince from a strongly patriarchal monarchy that is definitely not the UAE' theme, but that's ultimately just window-dressing.
@218fps25 ай бұрын
That is an oddly specific genre I didn't know it even existed and I'm chronically online. Your grandma is into some deep stuff😭
@stellaoliviasarah5 ай бұрын
Quick question, how old is your grandpa in comparison and how did they meet? lol
@valentinatyukosova96765 ай бұрын
@@stellaoliviasarah For my own sanity, I do not question grandma's sexual fantasies.
@saladcaesar77165 ай бұрын
It’s from an old novel called « the shiek ». Where middle eastern and North African romance was a thing.
@423adriana5 ай бұрын
implying your grandma is under the age of 18
@johncosco23485 ай бұрын
“Polish is an insult to the concept of spoken language.” That’s a spicy take.
@fmsyntheses5 ай бұрын
Very mid twentieth-century German Art Deco, you might say
@granienasniadanie83225 ай бұрын
14 versions of one verb is way too much.
@KajtekBeary5 ай бұрын
@@granienasniadanie8322 that has nothing to do with speach :P and 14 is a very small number for poles
@papkinn5 ай бұрын
RIP certain painter turn politician from Austria, you would've loved youtube
@AdditiveOutlier5 ай бұрын
I mean it's a bit of a stupid take tbh. Polish is like 10-20 times more logical when spoken than English lmao. It doesn't have 15 ways to pronounce "a," 27 to say "e," 12 to say "th," and there aren't any words (at least none I can think of) that would be spelled the same, but pronounced differently. The sounds it requires you to make aren't that unique or difficult in the first place ("sz" and "cz" are similar to English "sh" and "ch," "ś" is similar-ish to Japanese "shi" and so on), it's just that it tends to bunch up these difficult sounds really densely in most words, which isn't that difficult to overcome once you actually know how to spell things individually. It does get ridiculously hard when it comes to grammar, though, but at this point it's basically the same as Russian.
@jacqueshardin46015 ай бұрын
This book feels like a weird mashup of Romeo and Juliet and Taming of the Shrew with gangsters.
@susannahlewis84645 ай бұрын
It ain't that smart, lol.
@corvuscorax17405 ай бұрын
“Mafia: Taming of Juliet”
@stellarkat46575 ай бұрын
@@corvuscorax1740 lol, nice 😂
@xoPotatoTreexo5 ай бұрын
That was my first thought too. Why did the Gallos gate-crash the party of their enemies? Because Romeo did it and that's how he met Juliet. It's bog standard copy-paste for every other "star-crossed lovers" story that completely misses the point of the tragedy
@thejezlo5 ай бұрын
Can confirm, daddy issues goes away the minute you talk to your father for the first time in 30 years... To bad I have to break up with my mafia boyfriend now
@PassTheMarmalade19575 ай бұрын
Not that it would improve the big problem that Cal is just not a sexy character, but there were at least a couple of missed opportunities to give Aida some agency. Like, when Cal takes all her clothes to force her to wear the dress, Aida wears one of Cal's suits, or rips down a curtain and makes her own dress. Or instead of eating the strawberries as a petty prank to make him look bad in the wedding photos, she does it so he can't force himself on her (Fuck, maybe she even IS trying to kill him? A story where the two love-interests repeatedly try to murder each other and then realise they're actually two psychopaths flirting would at least be interesting!)
@spacebear14835 ай бұрын
I honestly think a lot of “dark” romance would be improved if both sides were psychotic I’m so sick of romance being her “the waifish victim” and him “the sexy abuser” . Give me two absolutely unhinged humans flirting with each other by attempted murder because they have a terrible sense of how to act normal and because neither of them is sane , completely into the whole thing, that would actually be interesting, potentially darkly comical, and might even get me to pick up one of these “dark romances”
@PassTheMarmalade19575 ай бұрын
@@spacebear1483 It would also actually be far more romantic, because they would not only understand each other perfectly, but be perfect equals. Though to be honest, I might just be thinking of NBC's Hannibal...
@spacebear14835 ай бұрын
@@PassTheMarmalade1957 nooo! I think you’re right! They would be the perfect match made in hell, insane and in love, wayyy more romantic than idolised abuse.
@arissa17625 ай бұрын
literally them being equals is ALL it takes. i have a incomplete story written with a 'psycho' girl who is more 'violent' than the (basically golden retriever for her) guy. they both have their issues, but despite going up against each other, they also consistently treat one another as precious. they do some unconvincing life-threatening and the like, but are more of a romeo-juliet sort of thing. it's childhood best friends -> long lost (first) love -> enemies -> lovers, with their parents turning against one another. i definitely made the fem a bit meaner towards him than vice-versa. but he DOES get angry over VERY VALID things, like her/her group killing or hurting someone he cares about. he gets angry and hurt, and wonders wtf happened to her in their time apart to make her so awful. he does get aggressive, but never once (intentionally) physically hurts her. one scene, he doesn't see her face and goes in to catch her by surprise; he realises it's her and immediately relents (though she puts a knife to his throat and he's just like 'd@mn! i'm sorry!' lmao). but for me, a guy mistreating a woman usually just really unsettles me. it has different connotations and almost always a power imbalance, which is physically emphasized. whereas, though my male mc is fairly tall (lanky) and the fem mc is fairly petite, he basically lets her get the upper hand and willingly allows her to, like, grab him by the wrist and drag him alongside her. as opposed to that thing where the girl thrashes about and is tugged and overpowered. though her father figure does do that to her at one point, albeit not in an abusive way and purely taking her away from a situation out of concern. which is kinda my whole point- a FATHER, and she still pulls away and gets genuinely pissed off, lashes out about the controlling-ness with a 'yOuR nOt My DaD!' and he relents lmao. the ownership over a woman and the entitlement to do as a man pleases aggravates me, particularly when portrayed as romantic or appealing, because it is never treated with the gravity it deserves and feels so gross, because it happens SO OFTEN. irl, it makes me immediately turn off from a guy, bcus it doesn't ever suggest care or consideration, let alone love. ASSAULT is NOT appealing, and it is NEVER CNC portrayed. it is always a literal r*p*st. i understand it is fantasy, but i hate when they portray violently obsessive men as 'oh so in love' and it's telling that the author has likely never actually suffered at the hands of such a man. it's like they think being r*ped is about being wanted so bad, being irresistible. shocker: it isn't. irl, they're objectifying, demeaning, and subject the targeted woman to devaluation! it's not sweet like 'awe i'm just so important to him!', it's the opposite. like stalkers rarely ever give a crap about their victims or who they truly are; they just project their (often disturbing) fantasies onto them. like there was a case where this stalking man chased a younger woman around and he told the cops about how she was totally into it, and how she was actually just like the girls in all the noncon corn he watched, while she was obviously terrified and running. in the books, it's just like that, the men are all like 'you like it, huh? nasty $l#t, ik you do' and it's literally nauseating, but the narration treats it like it's attractive. sorry, i am legit ranting atp, but it makes me so unbelievably angry.
@Aurelian369_4 ай бұрын
@@spacebear1483This is why I like the romcom How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. I’m not a fan of the genre but I like how the FMC is a girlboss and how both love interests fuck with each other.
@chickenapplepie31415 ай бұрын
BRAZILIAN WAX WHILE UNCONSCIOUS ACTUALLY MADE MY JAW DROP. dropped my phone on my FACE.
@_-astl-_0073 ай бұрын
dropped your phone onto your dropped jaw like how the forgettable fmc’s brother drops and combusts women’s panties
@liateraria5 ай бұрын
It’s so funny when smut authors name their books something similar to some popular book or movie even when the two pieces have nothing in common. This author didn’t even tried to hide they wanted people to mix their book with The Cruel Prince 😭
@ratswag34994 ай бұрын
No seriously, I was trying to find this video again cause I didn’t finish it and I kept on searching up cruel prince
@strexcorp5 ай бұрын
honestly as someone who partakes in "problematic" romance fiction but is also able to maintain normal relationships irl, the appeal is mostly in the absurdity of it all. its why stories like this bother me, ones that can't like entirely commit to the male lead being evil fr. im so tired of these stories where he's just the same as any misogynist i can find on the street corner but in a different outfit. the best stories are ones where the men are unhinged to a degree i can't see a real person actually doing these things and the story doesnt make excuses about him not being that bad actually. imo that's the whole point of it being "fantasy", its meant to be something that can only live as a fantasy.
@eleanorcatherino38395 ай бұрын
I think part of it is also imagining just how differently you would act in a situation like that, or like anyone would
@strexcorp5 ай бұрын
@eleanorcatherino3839 ikr !! it's fun to think about how you'd react to situations you would never actually be in
@PassTheMarmalade19575 ай бұрын
This is why I can understand the appeal of werewolf erotica and those time-travelling stories far more than stuff like this.
@nikolle80295 ай бұрын
That's what I've been saying for years 😔 I want them unhinged, delirious, psychotic. Not some alpha male wannabe in three piece suit and a podcast.
@yuvalgabay10235 ай бұрын
Time to get syphilce@@PassTheMarmalade1957
@willowingwhispers26125 ай бұрын
There was a lifetime movie about a woman marrying into a Mafia family I saw years ago. It basically started like a normal romance, great woman meets wonderful guy. Cute moments and dates. It wasn't until after they got married that she (and the viewer) started noticing strange things about the man and his family. She eventually confronts him, learns that she married into a Mafia family and is absolutely horrified. She's terrified, so she doesn't divorce him but she does begin to pull away from him -- especially after he physically assaulted her. He ends up cheating on her, she finds out, she's been confiding in a close friend about everything. Near the end, she finally makes the choice to run (I think she was planning on getting into the witness protection program or something). His family found out and had her killed. The movie ends with her funeral and him with the woman he cheated on her with, who is revealed to be the friend she confided in. He has some internal monologue about how her fate could have been different if she had accepted him and his family and the "friend" smirks while looking at her casket. I felt it was a very realistic version of a Mafia "romance/marriage", especially for one not realizing what they were getting into. Great movie, wish I could remember the name of it, but it forever will turn you off of Mafia romances because of the realistic picture it paints.
@ahmadalimi97845 ай бұрын
This sounds great
@francescad66265 ай бұрын
As someone from Southern Italy, I really don’t get the mafia romances. There’s nothing sexy and about criminals who made regions miserable for generations.
@tuluppampam3 ай бұрын
Mafia kinda sprouted up after the invasion by Sardinia-Piedmont, so really it's those pesky French-Italians fault. The south could not understand what Savoy wanted and required, and the Savoy did not try to acknowledge any of the differences.
@jack_stone28 күн бұрын
Because firstly mafia was already romanticized for generations far removed from the worst of it and secondly it suits the taming the ultimate bad boy that some girls have.
@Mario_Angel_Medina5 ай бұрын
26:06 they inmediately have sex after she *shot him in the arm?!* Forget the anger that would be logical to feel in that situation, does the guy at least puts a bandaid over the wound before he starts the plowing?! WTF?!
@lucyandecember28435 ай бұрын
Dw, instead of pouring out of his arm all the blood went to his dick so its all good lol
@MooneyBabbler4 ай бұрын
All the blood goes to his d so he stops bleeding. /j
@GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm5 ай бұрын
Why does it feel like I need to mentally add 3 years to an adult character?
@iadbbaf5 ай бұрын
btw the polsih name isnt really your fault because its polish and also it's a mispelling i think it's supposed to be zając (pronounced kinda like zah-yonce) meaning hare although its aslo only used as a surname fun other thing theres a polish gang in philideplhia called the kielbasa posse
@eldara35 ай бұрын
wait is it unironically called the sausage posse because that's hilarious or is my russian playing tricks on me
@imaginacjakordiana9185 ай бұрын
@@eldara3yeah it is
@teslashark5 ай бұрын
Are they behind sausage sellers, or do they make manmeat sausages
@elianaslivia44055 ай бұрын
Idea; mafia tragedy marketed as a romance. Like it’s got all the romance tropes, but it ends with another boss coming in and killing the couple and taking over
@shortinsomniac764 ай бұрын
Oh like in Hamlet
@Zealous_Delusional5 ай бұрын
Saying "the Italians" or "the Columbians" is like when westerners talk about "Arabs" as if they're all on the same side. Like, there were five major families just in NYC and there were dozens of other smaller factions within those families and they all constantly changed alliances. The Godfather was about a war between just Italians, specifically sicilians, Peaky Blinders touched on a lot of different cultures because it was often safer to work with foreign organizations, the closer the proximity the more likely they'd benefit from getting rid of the other.
@KatAdVictoriam5 ай бұрын
The irritating thing is - when they say "Italians" they really mean "Sicilians". You only need to Google for longer than ten minutes. Read a book like "The Five Families" by Selwyn Raab. Anything. But that would get in the way of writing the smut I guess. Research? These authors have no time for that.
@idk_a_plant5 ай бұрын
true, also Colombia actually went through a huge gang war after Escobar died, there's no way killing one gang caused all Colombians to fear some Polish dude
@DaFireElf5 ай бұрын
@@KatAdVictoriamwhat other books/resources would u recommend to learn more abt mafias around the world?
@KatAdVictoriam5 ай бұрын
@@DaFireElf There are so many. Definitely Non-Fiction or even Biographies on well known Mafia figures, or Cartel leaders or even topics like KGB history, the fall of the Eastern Bloc in order to get an idea for how mafia-like organizations developed. There is so much out there, really.
@darkojan145 ай бұрын
the lee harvey oswald line is W I L D
@Hchris1015 ай бұрын
Tiktok just can’t stop making BANGER After BANGER
@l0rf5 ай бұрын
Yeah, banging my hand in the door so the physical pain overwrites the mental pain from this book🤪
@gracepineapple5015 ай бұрын
Dear God the bar is in HELL when it comes to books like this.
@marinaserina26585 ай бұрын
Never reading this, not even for the"fun" or smut. Thanks for bearing the cross yet again james
@lorieslori80515 ай бұрын
Polish gal here, I took psychic damage from the „Pole” strip club
@KatAdVictoriam5 ай бұрын
Booktok loves spice level, do they? They need Cornbread Mafia romance. Full of whiskey, racism and lots of dubcon cousins. Suuuuper edgy.
@chaoticautistic71135 ай бұрын
Don't give them ideas, Satan's already tripping over the bar to work.
@KatAdVictoriam5 ай бұрын
@@chaoticautistic7113 Ha! Yes, this is true!
@rubyy.73742 ай бұрын
As an adult woman who has recently gotten into watching mafia films, I can’t imagine a mafia romance that wouldn’t be problematic 😭
@susannahlewis84645 ай бұрын
"I would have to read the book with both hands." 😂😂😂
@fruity48205 ай бұрын
I wonder how many people there are who got recomaned "the cruel prince" and accidentally got this book instead. There's got to be at least one person, right?
@pastabird20785 ай бұрын
Straight woman here! Dear god no, I'm not into this. I enjoy a good dark romance, but not when it's just 'misogyny but the guy's hot so it's ok!'
@alejandrochalco68935 ай бұрын
It’s very clear that the generation of teens who only read fanfiction and/or derivative “Original” stories in wattpad Grew up and are now young adults Who buy and write books like this and I hate it.
@efad32155 ай бұрын
Hey! There is so- oh Wattpad. Yeah, fair.
@cicooooooo5 ай бұрын
I got my fix of mafia stories on wattpad but actually paying for it? Fuck no.
@sereno24685 ай бұрын
I don't have words to express how much I despise these new "genres" that are becoming popular (romantasy, toxic romance, romance with elves and fairies, bullying romance, and other crap like that) so I won't even start.
@darko12955 ай бұрын
truly, the Wattpad-ification of literature
@mattd52405 ай бұрын
I'm beginning to think people love to be abused or something. 🤔
@eleanorcatherino38395 ай бұрын
They were always popular
@sereno24685 ай бұрын
@@eleanorcatherino3839 Not in my bubble, but now it seems like I can't escape them anymore, they're everywhere.
@ranchustars30505 ай бұрын
i understand for the ones like bullying and toxic romance, but romantasy and the type with elves and fairies isn't nearly as bad, definitely overdone and annoying though.
@SheilaCid-gz2zq5 ай бұрын
13:50 “[…] groomed head to toe.” So he wants her to be bald?!
@saucefreakystyle4 ай бұрын
No, obviously not.
@SheilaCid-gz2zq4 ай бұрын
@@saucefreakystyle The joke flew right over your head…
@saucefreakystyle4 ай бұрын
@@SheilaCid-gz2zq I got the joke, it was just dumb
@SheilaCid-gz2zq4 ай бұрын
@@saucefreakystyle 49 people didn’t. Just leave it be.
@lenapawlek72955 ай бұрын
Your squiting at the screen after you said edgier cracked me up - cant wait to see the rest!! Lol
@Blasho9505 ай бұрын
A few chapters into this book and you'll be sleepin with da fishes
@Strannik015 ай бұрын
23:51 I know I shouldn't expect accuracy in fetish material, but I don't know what's more absurd - the idea that Polish mafia controls Lawndale and Garfield Park or the fact that the two neighborhoods are in the same sentence as Ukrainian Village. (For non-Chicagoans - Lawndale and Garfield Park are mostly Black and mostly poor (though East Garfield Park is gentrifying little by little). Ukrainian Village is.... neither of those things)
@fukyomammason5 ай бұрын
"But does it have spice?" The Booktok gooners chant in unison.
@SpiderLingual5 ай бұрын
Adult woman who can tell reality from fantasy, and i think the thought of teenagers reading this kind of thing is what really does concern me about the genre. Otherwise, its just someones idea of fun fantasy trash with or without the sex scenes, not that much different from like ... nobody kill me for this, but John Wick and the Fast and Furious series (both of which i quite enjoyed).
@TabbyWithMittens5 ай бұрын
Tbh even as a teen I could tell fantasy from reality. I know not all do, but I never really fantasized about any relationship like these- I even watched Twilight and people were concerned about that too. I don’t think it should be promoted towards teens like you said, but eh. Sneaky teens gonna find it either way lol. Though at my time at school my classmates were talking about Pretty Little Liars and that’s… uh… was a teen drama. That was definitely something that shouldn’t been promoted toward teens either 😭
@SpiderLingual5 ай бұрын
@@TabbyWithMittens 4 sure! Not all teens are susceptible to the bad ideas in the stuff they consume, and they are gonna get their hands on things not marketed to them. I read Twilight when I was a teen and could not figure out what the fuss was about, though I also couldn't tell what was problematic about the whole imprinting thing at the time either. I guess my concern has to end up being not just about the media itself, but the way society treats the ideas in it. Action flicks are tempered slightly by the fact that violence is taught explicitly at a young age as a bad thing. Whereas I don't really know that we teach esp young girls to expect to be treated well by the guys that are supposed to love them, and these kind of stories, whether explicitly marketed towards teens or not, definitely reinforce the ideas that equate violence and lack of consent with love. Maybe that'll change with time! Or already is. (Definitely agree with you on Pretty Little Liars, too.... That being explicitly meant to be a teen show terrifies me considering what ive heard and seen of it.)
@stellaoliviasarah5 ай бұрын
I think that part of the appeal of the dominant man is that they are capable- alot of the time women are required to do alot, cook, clean, work, raise kids, be attractive and make their significant others attractive to others so the idea of him coming in and taking some non important decisions would appeal. Think like the middle age woman who has to explain to her husband that cargo shorts can't be worn to weddings and then the dress scene makes more sense... still weird and violent but so is corn made for men. I think the issue with admitting you read corn is more related to social conditioning aswell. Love your content! Thank you for the video❤
@stellaoliviasarah19 күн бұрын
Doesn't apply to abuse BTW, just trying to explain the need to have a shopping scene in every romance lol.
@Wampirfan695 ай бұрын
I think the guy's name was supposed to be "Zając" ("Hare") but the author couldn't be bothered to use proper polish letters because Zajac isn't a polish word or name. Also forgainers try to respect Polish people challange.
@ITSMRFOXY3 ай бұрын
(99% of people f̶a̶i̶l̶ partition poland)
@-N0V4-5 ай бұрын
I've seen fanfiction like this book, and even on the sites the authors that write this stuff admit its just an excuse for porn. I don't understand why people are trying to make it seem like this book isn't just porn with plot as an afterthought
@thewookieemaestro5 ай бұрын
Racketeering, money laundering, and tossing snitches? Now THAT'S what I call romance!
@Typingoctopus5 ай бұрын
Crazy Joe Gallo was a famously insane mafia enforcer from back in the day. How crazy? He literally modeled himself after a movie gangster from the film Kiss of Death. seriously He was diagnosed as a schizophrenic but I actually asked a shrink and given that people usually ran around labeling people incorrectly. Usually one diagnosed with schizophrenia before 1970 were actually severely bipolar. Kinda like how Openhimer was diagnosed with "dementia precox" (another term for schizophrenia ) back in his university days.
@AndrewMovie135 ай бұрын
Is that why he left impractical Jokers?
@MooneyBabbler4 ай бұрын
Hell even to this day armchair psychologists or even some of the shittier actual psychologists will still confuse bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
@ahahangiee5 ай бұрын
How to date youtuber james tullos step one: never ever steal his great grandfathers prize heirloom watch step two:??? step three: profit
@hayswan145 ай бұрын
33:52 In this case the sequels are about all the siblings finding love, which is also pretty common but not necessarily less dumb
@kelseymaypole70485 ай бұрын
The "edgy" bits had me laughing. You've got the sexy squint down
@KellyLoom1s5 ай бұрын
Our James and Saviour, trapped again in a hell of His own making.
@pearguy20925 ай бұрын
Thanks for the trauma dumping. It’s helping me navigate literature by showing where the rocks are. Like a lighthouse, now that I think about it.
@InPostMobile5 ай бұрын
The funny thing is that the polish mafia boss is named Zajac which is probably the word „Zając” which means a bunny, but mostly when you say „Zając” people imagine an Easter bunny
@carrotow11754 ай бұрын
Zając means Hare, Królik means bunny...
@z1u5125 ай бұрын
I cooka da pizza
@PapaRoboto5 ай бұрын
Badda-bing Badda-boom
@arkkon27405 ай бұрын
Aye man, this aint funny. Quit ya jokin or we'll make yas sleep with the fishes!
@catalinaargyriou86035 ай бұрын
mama mia
@jivesnarker81055 ай бұрын
The fact that mafia romance lit is a thing has immediately unlocked a memory of the fact that there was a really weeby mangaesque webcomic from like the mid-2000s called 'Cosa Nostra' centering on the escapades of a girl (or guy?) who ends up joining the mafia. I don't remember any details about it besides a scene where the main protag bumps into a Japanese man on an early 20th century immigrant boat sailing across the atlantic from europe of all places.
@amandaredd30575 ай бұрын
These people who "fantasize" about fictional characters like these likely would not anymore if they actually experienced it in real life. I too get the difference between reality and fantasy, but this is too extreme to be removed from
@Kimi-ll7te5 ай бұрын
Okay this book is so bizarre and the way of thinking of both main characters is just disgusting to me and also about the Polish mafia guy, I'm Polish and I never in my life heard of anyone named Zajac
@happyjellycatsquid5 ай бұрын
14:44 Well I’ll have you know my father didn’t hug me as a child and Callum STILL sounds like a manchild nightmare to me soooo…
@andrea-0.05 ай бұрын
Ha! Toxic? You haven't seen/read real "toxic" until you read the most popular actual BL Korean comics
@morgank.61135 ай бұрын
Right? Trying to find not horrifically abusive gay light novels/anime is next to impossible. I've found like 3 ever
@andrea-0.05 ай бұрын
@@morgank.6113 there are quite a few "just" a little toxic, but definitely not the more popular ones xD
@morgank.61135 ай бұрын
@@andrea-0.0 tru tru. And I do occasionally enjoy some of those, as I am a drama lover, I just cant do the like rapey ones at all
@erissav20804 ай бұрын
No cuz they're scary😨
@LarsSabia5 ай бұрын
this reminds me of a romantic comedy anime I saw, nisekoi, in which the main character, the teenage son of a yakuza boss, is forced to fake date his classmate, the tsundere daughter of an american mafioso
@_Tuturutu3 ай бұрын
As a polish person Id say that naming the bad guy Zajac which was propably supposed to be zając is hilarious (it literally means rabbit)
@amandarescue5 ай бұрын
When you mentioned the pole (or is it pol?) strip club and i kept thinking about clinton saying “pokemon go to the poll”
@Samraaaa23 ай бұрын
I love the idea of mafia romance, but I've never once read a good one, but i will keep looking for something good
@tereziamarkova28225 ай бұрын
"Polish is an insult to the concept of spoken language." - Homie I don't know what to tell you, if that's the way you talk about an ordinary Slavic language, you're not strong enough to survive the entire rest of the Germanic family (that aren't English). Also say what you will about Polish, but it has a very consistent spelling system, like once you learn how each symbol is pronounced, you're pretty much good to go. As opposed to English, whose spelling is so inconsistent anglophone schoolchildren compete in figuring out how each word is actually written. (I am Slovak and think Polish is bullshit for entirely different reasons, namely that to average Slovak it just sounds hillarious.)
@imaginacjakordiana9185 ай бұрын
it's so good to see my language hated on CORRECTLY. you need to know sth to insult it right
@diewott13375 ай бұрын
My dude, ANY language in the world has more consistent spelling rules than English 😂😂😂
@Dominic-he7sg5 ай бұрын
@@diewott1337 What about French?
@Wired_User5 ай бұрын
@@diewott1337Wait til you get to Chinese languages and Japanese kanji…
@ErikaCartet5 ай бұрын
@@Wired_Userjapanese definitely has more consistent phonetic spelling rules than english lol
@jackie-fitz5 ай бұрын
this video got recommended to me and i'm so instantly hooked LMAO this was awesome, thanks for this video
@kaleramen5 ай бұрын
“I’d have to read that book with both hands” OMFFFFF dyinggg
@cardyak6755 ай бұрын
PLEASE never stop reviewing
@eduardomeurer32325 ай бұрын
There is one book that i really like about prehistoric life thats called "The Clan of the Cave Bear", but after the first book they turned it into a series that seems to be porn books, like the ones mentioned in this video... have anyone else here read those?
@samfann17685 ай бұрын
No yeah I read the first one and was like "ok, the graphic descriptions of child rape are kinda weird but it was a good book," and then got into the second one and it became porn.
@cicooooooo5 ай бұрын
OMG I read the first two. AND I GOT THEM FROM MY MOM
@lemonn_jellie3 ай бұрын
@@cicooooooo No way?! the same thing happened to me too- that's a crazy coincidence (idk what age you were but I was eleven... I'm 90% sure my ma forgot what really went down in those books) I'm also sure most of it went straight over my head lol
@cicooooooo3 ай бұрын
@@lemonn_jellie I was 15 but it was still really weird. Definitely too much sex in there for me, when all I wanted was a nice historical book :(
@mochirira5 ай бұрын
14:14 “does the average straight woman really fantasize about men who act and think like CG does?” NO‼️‼️🤨‼️ (at least i don’t LMAO)
@Mecharnie_Dobbs5 ай бұрын
Why make this a story where they get married? Why not just two enemies who have angry sex a few times? I ask because even if that stuff turns you on, why would you also think it would work as a marriage?
@mieszkoaders32705 ай бұрын
Polish person here, "Zając" means "Rabbit" in Polish. It's not a name, nobody ever would be named like this. Author propably just used google translate to make name that sounds cool and egdy
@blackraptor11543 ай бұрын
The stupidest part about this is the premise. To stop a war between two mafia groups, instead of secession of territory or money (while James says it’s common it’s really only common between Families (in the Italian mafia there are five families, with a dozen clans under them each) and that’s more a fact of where they grow up than any poltical planning.
@Speckmantelmade5 ай бұрын
If my Italian doesn’t fail me, gallo means rooster, so mafia being associated with Italian mobsters, this family is more or less called “the Roosters” (galli would be more accurate for the plural, but you know) and they’re against the Griffins. That’s kinda funny.
@Nopenonameok24 күн бұрын
Gallo is also Spanish for rooster
@genevievew.58374 ай бұрын
You're my favorite channel on KZbin lately. I love falling asleep to your snarky analyses of terrible books. Thank you James ❤
@nicole78845 ай бұрын
Imagine being 'friends' with this couple. You're a nice normal couple who goes to their parties and sees them for brunch. The hot girl volunteers at your family business and gets it trashed after being kidnapped again. The hot guy pays for the triple for the damages, and the hot girl is mad because 'she can clean up her own mess' and how dare he step in again she doesn’t need rescuing. Never mind, she can't afford to fix the windows. Someone always gets punched at their parties, and the girl yells a lot about things the guy has done and gets randomly kidnapped or attacked. And the normal couple always come early to help set up and leave last to help clean up because they actually care about them. Shes the one who gets the late night phone call about how stupid rich guy is. And the normal boyfriend gets paid a few million to achieve his dream simply for always being there for the hot girl. But the normal couole do live vicariously through the hot couple.
@spareaccount26215 ай бұрын
Im sick rn and this is a perfect watch while suffering in my bed, thank you
@colleen66445 ай бұрын
It's not hot. It's very worrying. 😢 Edit: love the review!
@mickleon69255 ай бұрын
you saying ''dont worry about it'' felt so nice and reassuring, that if you had a cameo i would pay for you to say it over and over, so i could listen to it while doing my research project
@MrTeniguafez5 ай бұрын
It's a little weird that her reaction to being SA'd in her sleep is just "It's on like Donkey Kong"
@Infovorousness4 ай бұрын
Classic Italian name “Callum Griffin”
@marocat47495 ай бұрын
James Tullos : "Hell is terrible romance books" Bananafish is a good mafia drama that also is a gay romance. Through yeah , many deaths and terribe things and its really good about basically mafia revenge action drama.
@audreycordeau92175 ай бұрын
Booktokus Romanus, Been edgyus won't protectus to the "Ridiculous" spellus...God damnus!!!
@Maria-7z1u65 ай бұрын
Gallos in Spanish translates to roosters and I think that’s hilarious
@nogazuroff73405 ай бұрын
Someone found out about Nisekoi, and tried to recreate it, but made it worse (not that Nisekoi is that good...)
@annida5765 ай бұрын
3:59 They snuck into the party because this book has delusions of being Romeo and Juliette
@PassTheMarmalade19575 ай бұрын
And not only is it not that, it's also not even enemies to lovers, because they bang pretty much straight away while still hating each other. Forget the sexy slow-burn and rivalry, just try to drown her in the pool and then get straight to fucking.
@epicazeroth5 ай бұрын
I feel like this video is one of your funniest, which is good because a serious retelling would cause me to lose it
@jim-bob30935 ай бұрын
Omg i remember this book! I was bloody gifted one of them! Where the irish youngest gets stockholm syndromed into falling in love with a polish gangster that kidnapped her.
@Johnaii_Steck4 ай бұрын
"Polish is an affront to the concept of a spoken language" is such a terminally Anglophone take lmao
@unclebillsofficial5 ай бұрын
thank you for reading another book so i don’t have to!
@-.-lili5 ай бұрын
I like how the background completely represents the book
@lrae95195 ай бұрын
Glad you went with the bush fire background
@amandaredd30575 ай бұрын
It's nice to see someone approach this with some sensibility. Digging your commentary and this is the first I've seen of your channel. I have no idea why anyone would find this titillating 😳
@lizabethhampton45375 ай бұрын
"what if Al Capone had been the president?" IIRC we got that answer.
@petrfedor18515 ай бұрын
I would describe this genre as "sexual thriller/horror premise throwed out of window"
@matrixiekitty21274 ай бұрын
I really don’t know what these people see in these book boyfriends/husbands. Like, are you guys just skipping to the s*x scenes?? And just skipping the highly alarming “plot?” Also 21 and 30 is soooo concerning what’s even more so concerning is that the scary age gap was a selling point😭 why is the age gap never 30 and 40 when it’s ok at that point? Why is it always someone barely legal with a full grown man?! That power dynamic is crazy!
@mistuh694204 ай бұрын
The griffins you say? Irish you say? Holy Crap, this is Fricking Epic
@Mario_Angel_Medina5 ай бұрын
39:46 Cal is basically that theater kid in tiktok that became viral for doing videos as a mafioso character. You all know the one, years ago Kurtis Conner (or Danny Gonzalez) made a video about him and his immitators
@jazalvarez3134 ай бұрын
Is it now pronounced G-EYE-oh. Is it not the Spanish word for Rooster? Lmfao
@ohboy-zi1yf5 ай бұрын
havent watched the video yet but i would like to say the thumbnail is phenomenal
@Yokar_mova12125 ай бұрын
The shelf and sofa will be missed.
@littlematchgirl41154 ай бұрын
I’m so horrified, I just buy books based on the cover and premise most of the time and I almost picked this up just because of the pretty strawberries- thank god the summary didn’t appeal to me