pucking around made me want to never read again

[@marianamauricio]

30:12 omg it pisses me off soooo much when people use "reverse" in their tags like???? "reverse age gap" is just age gap!! 😭 or "reverse grumpy x sunshine",,,,,, B!TCH ????? what?? 🤨 they say that bc in their head the man is always older than the woman and the man is always rude and mean while the girl is cute and bubbly ugh ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!! we need to ban the word "reverse" from these people's dictionaries fr 😭

[@spcbnd1087]

Yeah, totally agree. Men are always the “default” 😒

[@honestlysophie]

i didn’t even know reverse was a thing until this but you are so right

[@thatrantinggirl7376]

I blame reverse harems for this curse

[@wooogie672]

honestly i’m so sick of the fanficafication of regular published books. fanfic doesn’t need to have absolutely stellar writing because we are reading it for the CHARACTERS from a PRE-ESTABLISHED WORLD AND NARRATIVE; the plot is just backdrop for the whole thing. you need to make readers care about the fucking characters in some way if you wanna do this tropey bullshit in your novel. even then i would say putting tropes out there explicitly doesn’t work in regular publishing because the tropes should be within the worldbuilding, storytelling, and characterization and not the main focus. if you want to write or read erotica i have absolutely no problem with that as someone who reads a lot of fanfic smut. but can we PLEASE stop propping up this shit as the peak of literature and call it what the fuck it is because I’M SICK of seeing all these popular tik tok books be of no substance and just straight garbage when there’s so much great new literature out there; not everyone wants to read erotica. honestly i would rather just stick to fanfic romance rather than published romance for this reason. published novels and fanfic should not be mixed together because i think they’re just two entirely different art forms that have different standards for what constitutes as good. i will say it time and time again: booktok books are for people who never had an ao3, tumblr, or even wattpad phase

[@jasminv8653]

For fucking reaaaaaal

[@CursedCatTruffa]

The spilled tea was so hot that it burnt the sun. You're so right, as someone who writes fanfic and wants to write original works, those are very two different beasts to tame and I hate how booktok is just pushing fanfic as original fiction and tropeficing to hell and back

[@marianamauricio]

all of the popular tiktok romances having a sexist antagonist lowkey seems like a way to show that the love interest is a #feminist king 🥴

[@wooogie672]

**cough** **cough** ACOTAR series….

[@shreyaraman.]

*cough* *cough* THE FOURTH WING

[@sarahouillette1357]

I have actually been listening to writing advice videos for a little while now, and there was one on writing romances that especially stuck with me (I can't remember it at the moment, but I'll edit it when I find it, I'm just gonna spew my thoughts out right now lol). You CAN write with tropes (example: grumpy x sunshine and I'll be using this for the rest of the comment), but it CAN NOT be all there is to the characters. They have to be ACTUAL PEOPLE. You can start with the trope as the basis before fleshing out the story, such as why the characters are attracted to each other and how they change each other. Maybe Grumpy starts out as a bit of a pessimistic loner, and Sunshine helps Grumpy see the bright side of things and learn how to take risks. And maybe something tragic happens to Sunshine and Grumpy is one of the few people who knows how to comfort them. TLDR; tropes are fine, but that can not be all there is. Edit: damn, I just realized how long my comment is lol, sorry for the word vomit!

[@QueenSiv]

That 30 second opening is truly the vibe, describing how you felt reading that book could be a tiktok audio

[@BeeN0987]

This book reads like fanfic, especially the tags and tropes (also congrats on your exams)

[@jasminv8653]

Honestly that's the only clue you need that she IS first and foremost a fanfic author. Tags? On paper? Tagging WHAT? WHAT INFORMATION DO THEY ORGANISE?

[@grandmazambie]

Congrats on the channel growing big enough for channel memberships! That's a great accomplishment

[@honestlysophie]

thank you so much🥺🫶🏻

[@marianamauricio]

i was literally rewatching your old videos omg manifested!!!!!!!

[@marianamauricio]

i love how you always drop a quick "f+ck colleen hoover" in all of your videos 🤭🥰✨

[@anopinionatedlaymanappears9052]

Hey there's some good romance out there probably. I suspect not in the trashy best seller "romance" section though, but in a book with an actual narrative and character development.

[@honestlysophie]

impossible to find on booktok

[@anopinionatedlaymanappears9052]

@@honestlysophie True!

[@kathaliabloodyrose5694]

Americans are so baffled by a concept of country that doesn't have 28834 timezones and isn't size of continate ig

[@QueenSiv]

57:27 the Batman reference is a format for classic Adam west Batman where Robin would make up phrases to swear with

[@honestlysophie]

that is SO niche or is this something im just super uneducated on

[@QueenSiv]

@@honestlysophie it’s a specific American experience I would think, when I was growing up my dad used to make up Robin phrases like that to me, and there was a meme format a few years ago that people would use of classic Batman comics and Robin saying some weird thing like that. Same vein as the ‘Batman slapping Robin’ meme

[@thesailorsaid]

It's another one of those things where the author and I's age are showing, and being from the US. I'm the same age as the author and I watched Adam West Batman as a kid with my parents. Holy jumping jujubes Batman!

[@demitwice]

sophie this has nothing to do with your video but my whole life i thought i had german ancestry cause i have a german last name and my dad just told me he found out were actually austrian and now i'm having an existencial crisis

[@Flareontoast]

To be fair, you can still say you have a German name, if you mean German as in the language. We speak German in Austria, so the name is probably German regardless :P

[@demitwice]

​@@Flareontoastit is german!!! i was just shocked to find out my ancestors didn't come from germany as we thought. which is fine cause i wouldn't consider myself german anyways, i don't have that much contact with the part of my family where i got my last name from so i wasn't really raised in the culture. it's just funny. and i should've maybe guessed it cause the only famous person ive seen with my last name was an austrian soccer player lol

[@spaceorc1397]

The Batman line is from old Batman on tv in the 90s, Robin would say something like, "holy cow, Batman!" Yes, Im old. Im 30.

[@spaceorc1397]

Also, no I would not date a 20 year old...

[@jasminv8653]

We just call rodeo rodeo in finnish because rodeo is not a finnish thing so we just loan the word like why would it be called cow ride we dont do that here alsjfhsjkfs

[@dallasisgood]

Your ad for memberships was so chaotic and bizarrely confused that I listened to the whole thing.

[@milchreis9554]

These are definetely still my favorite videos of yours

[@buffalowings4247]

I don't get the hockey obsession on booktok tbh

[@honestlysophie]

sweaty man make women go crazy (apparently)

[@DarwinRoger893]

No actually because women were really into sports romance but then people rightfully called them out to only read about white men in sports, so they went to read hockey romances. Because hockey is very predominantly white. That's why you'll see less basketball romances because they don't want to read about black men.

[@LilyEvans1996]

Omg the red lip looks gorgeous on you!!!!!!

[@honestlysophie]

🥺🥺🫶🏻🫶🏻

[@marianamauricio]

the camera quality ooooh it's c r i s p

[@MyOfficialBurnerAccount]

Most unbelievable thing about this book. That the NHL would give Florida another team.

[@thejezlo]

Sooo, about THAT piercing (if anyone still curious) I used to see a guy who is pierced there and it changed almost to nothing, and it is a HUGE ring. Seriously, those piercings, at least some of them, are reeeally big. You'll think it would change anything, but no... How she described it sounds like the character has four little barbels, good luck feeling those. (sorry bout my english) love your vids ♥

[@maybe_brit]

just so happen to live in jacksonville…there is like one rink here. nobody I know likes hockey, but yk. very accurate, ig

[@LilyEvans1996]

PEACE AND LOVE❤❤❤❤❤

[@aromaladyellie]

The Batman line is a reference to the Adam West Batman tv show.

[@Karaetify]

1:12:12 this part is so creepy the „love intrest” was literally ready to rope her and it’s supposed to turn the reader on? Wtf?

[@rafigladboy]

Heavenly chapter and awesome video.

[@crorinu]

First of all, congrats on passing your exams, past Sophie! Second, every time you speak in German it renews my desire to learn it. I started learning it forever ago, because one of my favorite bands is German (no, it's not the one people will think of first. They're pretty obscure). I'm just so bad at learning languages, and have no one to talk to for practice.

[@Buckstaburp]

Congrats on your exams!

[@Liriodelagua]

Congrats on passing your exams!

[@zhyarjasim]

I was drawing batman fanarts while listening to this and now i'm traumatized 😭 why would the author drag his name into this trash !

[@sanderella1642]

Sophie! I don’t see where to subscribe to the paid membership. Where do I click?? My melinial is showing 😂

[@honestlysophie]

lmao😭😭 its under the video or on my front page, but i put a link in the description too🫶🏻🫶🏻✌🏻

[@carlyw]

this book was literally a soap opera and i couldn’t stop reading it 😭 but yes it was so bad

[@wooogie672]

38:36 RAAAAAAAHHHH FLORIDA REPRESENT!!!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!🔥🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🦅🦅🦅 /hj

[@Gigrunt887]

Also i thought icebreakers was a kids book

[@furkankayan612]

Hey @honestlysophie did you read Red Rising? One of my favorite modern Sci-Fi novels. Reminds me interestingly Dune

[@cody3335]

The fire bender sent me here

[@The_Whatever_Girlie]

I’m sorry I can’t finish one of the guys has the same name as my niece 😭

[@kattodoggo3868]

do they play hockey there 😅 . I am halfway through video and no mention of that :D

[@NoBodyCaresShauuun]

I got this book to try to get into hockey for my husband and halfway through I realized I cannot handle the logic of harems. She wasn't wrong at all. or if she was, it just got pushed away? Like it's all "the men have a say" and no they don't. They have emotional issues and competition issues and dick piercings. It's just... Not it. Harems need to be more believable.

[@sadiea.2707]

TRY FOUL LADY FORTUNE !!! 👁️👄👁️

[@nwm9267]

I need to know the color of the lipstkick you were

[@Maedaisy8]

I like smut books and skipped through all of these smut scenes because they were cringey. She kept describing them as boneless 😂😂 It was a dnf for me tho

[@jasminv8653]

Show me the finnish phrases im crying 😭

[@sanderella1642]

❤❤❤

[@AbdullahAl-mamun-kt8ou]

🌼🌼🌼😍😍😍🌼🌼🌼

[@jebtown]

why is the intro with no book review like 10 minutes. a girl can’t just play a video in the background for a shower anymore without long promotions and advertisements smh

[@honestlysophie]

there’s literally time stamps in the description but alas complaining is more fun (i would know)