RANT REVIEW | i read that "cancelled" indie authors book and it was really bad

[@ReadswithRachel]

HI! ARE YOU HERE TO DEFEND JENNIFER? Here to argue with me? Instead of wasting my time, why not read some factual information? Here, I’ve compiled it for you! Cultural Marxism is not Marxism, it’s an antisemetic conspiracy theory: www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2003/cultural-marxism-catching What Critical Race Theory ACTUALLY is with info from the person who coined the term: www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/civil-rights-reimagining-policing/a-lesson-on-critical-race-theory/ STOP USING MLKS “CONTENT OF CHARACTER” QUOTE OUT OF CONTEXT (his daughter is literally constantly asking y’all to stop doing this shit): kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4fPp52Ke51kq6c Critical Race Theory isn’t what you think it is and you look stupid every time you open your mouth about it, try reading a fucking book. A video, by me: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3bXqneMra6bp7s The Impact of Media Stereotypes on Opinions and Attitudes Towards Latinos: www.chicano.ucla.edu/files/news/NHMCLatinoDecisionsReport.pdf Tokenizing Black People Is A Form Of Covert Racism -www.thenation.com/article/politics/rnc-black-republicans/tnamp/ -aninjusticemag.com/tokenizing-black-people-is-a-form-of-covert-racism-4780b0648b8e Fatphobia and body shaming: www.gonzagabulletin.com/opinion/body-shaming-and-fatphobia-the-invisible-pandemic/article_977726ca-7a2f-11eb-90de-0b6038f152b7.html Explaining system racism: www.raceforward.org/videos/systemic-racism You can’t be racist to white people. It’s not a thing. Reverse racism is a myth. -www.aclrc.com/myth-of-reverse-racism AND FOR THE MISOGYNISTS! Why you shouldn’t call grown women “girls”: www.treasafitzgibbon.com/stop-calling-grown-women-girls/

[@pauline_f328]

Not here to defend her, just commenting to say thanks for the resources

[@Aalisrocklist]

💙

[@kimberlystewart8980]

this list is awesome

[@Joybuzzard]

Reciting the ideology does not make the ideology true. The SPLC calling it a 'conspiracy theory' is just the SPLC showing that they support cultural Marxism as a tactic, there is nothing 'anti-semetic' about pointing out that Marxists manufacture conflict in order to break down a society to pave the way for Marxist take-overs.

[@MagnumCreed]

Even though I don’t agree with the view points. I appreciate an honest and open explanation of them.

[@KristenReviews]

I’m rewatching this (because it’s one of my favorite reviews) and when you mentioned ebony hair all I could think was: “Hi my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears...”

[@ReadswithRachel]

lmao YES

[@foodfornot]

I literally just came here to comment "Icy blue eyes like limpid tears"

[@alisaurus4224]

SAAAAME

[@ShotgunsAndSalt]

I scrolled down to comment this

[@PriyaPans]

Okay so I was late to the booktube game, but I hear references to this fanfic a lot (appaz it's the OG my immortal). But the important question from this newbie is... Can the original fanfic be found online?!

[@katyak5664]

Did...did Cyrus not come with a note? "This is our daughter. She was loved. And this is our son. We're still not sure how we feel about him."

[@ReadswithRachel]

Oh my god I didn’t even think about that 😬 not him being the spare

[@annajensen7360]

"...and this is the exact date of their birth"

[@amberdiorable]

1. NOT SIS STARRING IN HER OWN BOOK TRAILER. Serving musty, bootleg Bella Swan 2. Her lips did WHATTTTT?!?!? 3. Pretends to be shocked that she's villainizing POC

[@ReadswithRachel]

Who’s surprised? NOT US

[@spiceshewrites]

Uhm...is this supposed to be YA? 😬😬😬😬 cringe

[@user-vy2hz6fl6x]

“Serving musty, bootleg, Bella Swan” I love this🤣

[@yinkam7902]

Okay it's nice to know that my writing can't possibly be this bad

[@ReadswithRachel]

It takes effort to be this bad

[@silkyhank]

These videos certainly make me feel better about my own writing.

[@cameronkimball1535]

no more incest plotlines! 🙅‍♀️🚫 society has moved past the point of incest plotlines 😭

[@ReadswithRachel]

Amen amen amen

[@ladyredl3210]

100% agree. It ruined one of my favorite books because they threw it in a the end.

[@theflyingspaget]

Can they at least have the bravery to follow through on it? At least then we can just slap a collective "yikes" on it and leave it to rot.

[@ebnovels]

Are…are we supposed to believe the trailer has high school aged actors?

[@ReadswithRachel]

Yes! Wild right?! It’s like how those CW shows cast 28 year olds as high school students

[@NancyCavillones]

I was gonna say, 90210 did it... lol.

[@raptorkvn]

Riverdale vibes

[@eneyavorodecky]

@@raptorkvn meh, they were a lot closer...

[@moustik31]

Yes from the Smallville era!

[@SquiddyHiggenbottom]

What I would've assumed the book was about based on the trailer: couple has a contentious relationship that includes DV, but they reconcile and bond over learning self-defense together while both fall in love with their buff blond trainer, and they finally must "leave everything behind" by choosing to live their best life as a loving, committed throuple.

[@ReadswithRachel]

God I WISH

[@readingroomcafeproject]

Now THAT would be a good book

[@empressofkingfishers8656]

when I saw the stupid trailer and of them holding hands I went "are they in a polycule"

[@daisyant]

that was my exact interpretation of the trailer as well 😭

[@RobinReads]

I love that the trailer told me absolutely nothing. I can only assume the book is about an adult woman who needs saving from walking into traffic and shallow ponds. How did the kids know to line up against the wall if it’s the first day of class and they’re freshmen? Does this happen in all freshmen classes? Why am I stuck on this one specific thing when the rest of the book sounds like it also doesn’t make sense 🤣🤣

[@ReadswithRachel]

Robin when I tell you all that stuff actually happened in the book yet THERE WAS STILL NO PLOT! I’m still stuck on how the students all knew to line up to. Make this book makes sense 😫

[@antisocialreader7822]

The only thing I could even think of would be if there was a syllabus requirement where the teacher asked you to know classroom etiquette in her class or if the school had an open house and the teacher was there and went over it. The only problem with that (that I can think of) is that in both instances the blame would fall on the character for not reading the syllabus/going to the open house (Misspelled a word)

[@bettyunicorn6132]

@@antisocialreader7822 still who would willingly go to an open house?

[@Heather_Duke]

Same here. I felt so stupid. I was just sitting there like, "what is the plot of this book? That was so weird. The first day of freshman year, I feel like all of the students just...sat in a desk of whatever class it was. Not stand against the wall

[@Cruizinelli12]

Oh my god! I can’t believe jm butter beer filmed a dramatic book trailer of her self insert almost getting hit by a car! Like- girl- do you really not look where you’re going? She’s definitely serving generic brand bella swan being rescued by Walmart Rhysand.

[@laindarko3591]

It's such a funny coincidence that JM looks almost exactly like the description she wrote of her main character... I bet that was a total accident and it's not a self insert at all...

[@ReadswithRachel]

kWHITE suspicious indeed!

[@9gagHasMySoul]

Well, that trailer certainly... exists 😭😭😭

[@ReadswithRachel]

It certainly does doesn’t it LOL

[@spiceshewrites]

Lordy, it grew progressively worse.

[@johannachan9685]

The second-hand embarrassment 🤦‍♀️

[@eneyavorodecky]

Is it me or it looks like somebody loved Twilight and wanted to copy it?

[@user-vy2hz6fl6x]

It is absolutely horrendous omg

[@bluedragonfly8139]

After watching a few different KZbinrs who do book reviews of terrible books, I've noticed that there seems to be a trend of them having Mary Sue/Marty Stu main characters who can't have healthy friendships (especially with women) and weird, creepy incest or dubious consent vibes.

[@ReadswithRachel]

All signs of underdeveloped writing

[@whitneymouse]

The pop culture references 😭 I felt full body shivers. I hate that in books. It’s so unnecessary and makes the book age poorly. Not that this was good to begin with, but ughhhh that trope

[@wonderfulkitty]

I disagree. References can help establish a time period in a subtle way (emphasis on subtle, which some authors don't understand lol). Why say that your story takes place in the 60s when you can have the characters see a trailer for a "new" Kubrick film?

[@kaijuhunting]

@@wonderfulkitty when it's a subtle thing like that, it's fine, but when it's as bad as this (or some other books i've read that don't shut the fuck up about harry potter), it's cringeworthy. this book seemed to rely a lot on references to make it "relatable" or as a cheap way to tell a story and it's so bad

[@erebusmint]

The whole “lips vibrating” thing reminded me that the book I just finished reading used the expression “she felt her knees go watery”/“her knees turned to water” WAY TOO MANY TIMES. ?????? What even???? I’ve heard “knees became unsteady” and obviously “knees turned to jelly” as a way to express being scared or exhausted or whatever, but watery?? WATERY??

[@leolesley7973]

She felt her knees go watery, and everyone around her grew more and more confused as she slowly evaporated from the knees up, feet and shins turning to dust and blowing away.

[@Kales761]

As someone who attended hs in Texas and was surrounded by plenty of kids who could speak spanish, the kids who were fluent were normally put in advanced spanish classes with teachers who's first language was spanish...so why would her freshman, normal spanish class be full of fluent spanish speakers? And the few kids that were in the regular classes but could speak spanish were the ones who weren't really interested in participating, so I can't imagine anyone being that eager to answer questions in her class like that

[@claiternaiter446]

Also grew up in Texas, but it was a small town and you couldn’t pick what level of Spanish you took until after Spanish 1. After that you could do regular or preAP Spanish 2. I think it was a required class at that time, so everyone had to take it regardless of if they already spoke it or not.

[@Aalisrocklist]

It could be something the author took from college level, maybe from a college experience. Many Spanish speakers take basic Spanish intentionally to boost their GPA, and people who are bad at learning Spanish get frustrated (jealous). I saw that first hand, I'm just commenting on something I saw myself attending college in Texas. Just a thought regards were this author must be salty from.

[@edwardblangsted4540]

That trailer certainly did a great job... Of convincing me NOT to buy this book

[@lua_ferraz]

When I thought the book trailer was the worst, THERE'S A SCENE I'M-- 😭😭😭

[@ReadswithRachel]

THE SCENE! It’s hilarious

[@AmbassadorKat]

The way you can clearly hear the knife bounce off the tree and hit the ground, instead of sticking in the wood 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@xRaiofSunshine]

@@AmbassadorKat And the dude’s deadpan delivery 😭 ZERO effort whatsoever

[@loureadingthings]

I STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN OVER THAT TRAILER AND IT IS THE BEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN ON GOD'S BOOKSTERNET. THANK YOU FOR SHARING. YOU ARE THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME

[@ReadswithRachel]

MAAM I LOVE YOU

[@Virgo117]

That book trailer low-key reminded me of that key and Peele fantasy music video sketch where they kept loosing their budget but went on anyway xD

[@ReadswithRachel]

Hahahahaha

[@ericacuatlacuatl793]

I followed her for a couple of months before her racist tantrum. She stated multiple times that she had completely rewritten this book and her second one. I can only imagine how bad it was to begin with if this is the "edited, better" version. 🤣

[@ReadswithRachel]

HOW IS THIS BETTER OMG

[@eneyavorodecky]

This reminds me of this other author I followed here who would make fun of the stupid stereotypes and then write a book. Which had all of the same stereotypes she had spent months making fun of and criticising.

[@user-vy2hz6fl6x]

Edited and better? Omg😭

[@ps1hagridoufofcharacter]

@@eneyavorodecky nooo, she must have done it on purpouse! breakind the rules, she's so different /s

[@aubreyaskew6701]

Another plot hole: HOW are the aliens coming to Earth to steal our "super advanced" technology if *their* technology is medieval?!?

[@ReadswithRachel]

So the seekers are able to essentially teleport and that’s how they get to earth BUT you just reminded me that there is a plot hole here because Jax makes it clear this planet is different from ours and has different materials. So how are they duplicating shit if the planet is so different biologically? They don’t even have coffee but I’m supposed to believe they have raw materials to create and manufacture tech?

[@AmbassadorKat]

So Im checkinh out the comments after having started watching this five minutes ago, and aliens are absolutely not something I was anticipating

[@r4.v3n]

@@AmbassadorKat SAME 😭

[@liwashere8653]

I have one thing to say in the author's defense: Adoption agencies, when they have nothing better, will at times use the date when a baby was surrendered as their legal birthdate. If both of them were surrendered on the same day, which they presumably were, then they would have the same birthday. Also, some adoptive parents celebrate the date they adopted the child as the child's birthday, or even the date they were surrendered to the system. Also, a lot of states have something called 'safe-haven laws', wherein babies can be left at places like forestations, hospitals, churches, ect. without an investigation being launched about the parents or the surrounding circumstances. They do this so that people who have children under bad circumstances wont be deterred from giving them up to the system by the threat of legal consequences. The babies could have been left at any safe-haven and would have been taken in with no investigation into the parents.

[@aromaladyellie]

The thing is having white skin abs black hair can be described unflatteringly if you wanna paint your MC as conventionally unattractive. “My chalky skin and flat black hair always sounded nice in books, but on me, it made my skin look the greyish colour of three day old oatmeal on a black square plate.” From that we get both a look at how MC views themselves and get a (bad) attempt at self-deprecating humour.

[@aashitiwari2044]

lmao i wrote this whole manuscript last year (i was 15) and it SUCKS and no one hates it more than i do but even THAT piece of garbage sounds better than this 😭😭

[@arp711]

THAT TRAILER OMG I AM DYING sorry I had to comment immediately after watching that ridiculous pile of shit, how on Earth could anyone put that out into the world and be like "Yes, this is good, I hope people watch it"

[@ReadswithRachel]

It’s like she took something already bad (twilight) and then watered it down and made it worse. Like... watered down mustard.

[@arp711]

@@ReadswithRachel Watered down mustard that was left in a glove compartment in a car parked on the roof of a parking garage in Phoenix for two weeks in July.

[@_vexilee]

Just at the scenes now and PLEASE Rachel please they're causing me emotional distress 😭 Honestly making me nostalgic for the My Immortal webisodes people would do back in the day, at least those people were having fun. Edit: wait did Elara ever get proof that Jax was telling the truth? Because her powers weren't anything objectively proveable as inhuman... please god imagine the twist being that Jax is just fucking with her, convincing this random girl that she's in a clark kent luke and leia situation because he's bored

[@Angelica_Rodriguez39]

also can we talk about how the book talks incessantly about Jax's "piercing blue eyes" and yet the ~actor playing him in the book trailer literally has the darkest brown eyes ever lmaoooooo

[@puterjess]

I was squinting at the screen because I was confused lol

[@chloesantos8637]

IKR LMAO

[@26349]

Characters' thoughts are actually put in quotes in belarusian and russian languages(probably in many more, these are just both my mother-tongues), because in these languages speech , as in dialogues, is marked with dashes "-" -Bla, bla, bla. -He said. -Bla, bla, bla. - She repeated. "Gosh, he's so weird." She thought. But I have no idea why would an author who writes in english do it, or why wouldn't an editor edit that(if the author had one) because, really, the dialogue lines are in quotes but then personal thoughts are also in quotes?? I would ditch the book, it's not my job to figure out how to read and understand that mess😂😂😂 well, at least it's free, but still. Why would you confuse your readers like that. You rely on them to like ur writing and buy your future books. Why make their reading experience harder?

[@ReadswithRachel]

I didn’t know this about Belarusian and Russian books!

[@26349]

@@ReadswithRachel ahah happens😄(I myself have no idea about other anguages' grammar and punctuation) I guess it's because when these books are translated(like russian classiscs and such) they are also properly adapted to avoid confusion.

[@christopherhuang9501]

I was taught to put unspoken thoughts in quote marks when I was in school because ... I am old and when I was in school, nobody had personal computers to do their creative writing on. Everything was written in cursive, so we couldn't separate italics from ordinary text.

[@missilluminati3389]

It's the same in Hungarian

[@ps1hagridoufofcharacter]

@@missilluminati3389 and Polish too! must be a slavic thing

[@RaetheSaint]

It honestly makes me feel better knowing that her book sucks 😌

[@ReadswithRachel]

Good haha. An honest to goodness DUMPSTER FIRE of a book LOL

[@user-vy2hz6fl6x]

Ikr?

[@outlawed8611]

I have been seeing people talk about her all over Twitter and I finally remembered her. I read that book, but couldn't remember the author. I thought it was just some copy from something off of Wattpad, like those authors that delete them and then edit them and make copies for actual books. 💀

[@ReadswithRachel]

Like After. Yup.

[@cakt1991]

“The senior who was in a freshman class?” I’m not sure how it is elsewhere in the US, but you could take most intro language courses at any time in high school. So, you could have anyone from freshman up to senior in Spanish 1, although the students would likely skew more toward freshmen and sophomores, and maybe some juniors, due to it being common for the language requirement to be at least 2 years of the same language. Although considering the rest of the weirdness in this book, why am I surprised? 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@ReadswithRachel]

Omg you’re RIGHT I just remembered I didn’t take Spanish 2 until senior year

[@LilButtTheGem]

Dude, I don’t even remember kids actively wanting to answer questions in Spanish class (That could just be my schools). I even had a teacher (one of the few that could actually control the class) that would refuse to let the Hispanic kids answer any questions cause she expected us to know (🙄me not knowing a lick) and it was like cheating. We were only allowed to correct pronunciations.

[@crimsonchoucho5258]

We had juniors and seniors in my intro to Japanese class. I thought it was more interesting they bused over people from a rival high school to take the courses with us. To be fair, we bused over people for German, but I always thought it was odd. The kids were all really cool though, no real school rivalry stuff to get in the way. Sorry for the minor tangent. But our teacher never treated the seniors differently, so that confused me as well.

[@jujube150]

Not me crying in the corner because that's not how economics works :( Thank you for your service, ma'am, in protecting the rest of us from this book

[@ReadswithRachel]

Glad to be of service haha

[@buchdrache1409]

That trailer is so cringe I almost couldn't watch it! Fremdscham all the way. How could she have had the guts to put herself (as a teen? or something) in the trailer and not feel a bit hesitant. Man, the confidence. Shitty person, shitty ideas, shitty writing. At least she is consistent.

[@ReadswithRachel]

I really cannot stop laughing about the self insert. It would’ve been a really good opportunity to hire drama/theatre kids from a local high school and they could’ve used that on their acting resume if they pursued the arts! But instead... a self insert?! Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[@buchdrache1409]

@@ReadswithRachel Oh yes, that would've been a great idea! But I think for that one needs self-awareness, something she has very little of. Also she claims to have won awards for writing! I can not imagine that at all going by the bits you quoted. She is so cringe.

[@ReadswithRachel]

LOL yeah I heard about that. I mean, the awards are given by people. People in charge of awards can have shitty taste. Awards mean nothing to me. It’s what’s in the book that matters. I read the book, and it was shit. It didn’t even have a plot like wtf am I supposed to rate a book with no plot?!

[@xRaiofSunshine]

Literally why do I have anxiety over the simplest of things when the author has the AUDACITY to make a trailer like that? It’s admirable and extremely concerning 😂

[@silkyhank]

Just remind yourself that there are worst writers than you who make tons of money whenever you start doubting your own writing.

[@ollie2596]

Ha! Jokes on you! I LOVED watching HGTV as a kid! *skeletor laugh* But fr tho i could tell the MOMENT you showed the book trailer that the main character was going to be a 'not like other girls' girl.😂

[@ReadswithRachel]

The book trailer to end all (faith in) book trailers. Listen I can’t even lie. I used to watch HGTV as a kid. Did I like it? No. Did I pretend to like it so I could get approval from my parents? Yes

[@LienesLibrary]

I didn’t know I needed this but just when I was about to shut down the electronics for the day this video pops up in my feed - this is a lay on the couch and soak in the tea kinda day

[@LienesLibrary]

OMG that book trailer what IS that I can’t 🤣🤣🤣

[@LienesLibrary]

“Who edited this” 👈 a question I ask myself way too often

[@ReadswithRachel]

Whoever edited this owes me a fee for having to read their bad work

[@ditzydoodle8381]

I'm dying. "I wasn't pretty with my straight black hair, pale skin, and my oh so unique blue eyes." In what world isn't that attractive? XD I'd kill for that lmao

[@JessCsBooks]

I had to skip past the trailer after 5 seconds, I was cringing so hard. I've seen and even been in college student-produced short films that are 100x better quality than that. The book sounds just as bad.

[@ReadswithRachel]

It reminded me of those super ridiculous church plays I used to be in growing up. Ultimate cringe.

[@someokiedude9549]

You know there's a part of me that wants to say 'No Rachel, read books that you like, this is just masochism!' But then there's another part of me that goes 'Yes Rachel...expose all the cringe...EXPOSE IT ALLLLLL!' Great video!

[@LisatheWeirdo]

There are great indie books out there, this is not one of them... Also, as someone who minored in Film, that trailer hurt to watch.

[@ReadswithRachel]

Definitely some great indie books out there. I’ve gotten some good recs from Margaret Adele’s channel

[@LisatheWeirdo]

@@ReadswithRachel I'm in awe that you actually finished it... I got a free copy a few years back, and couldn't even make it past the first chapter.

[@ReadswithRachel]

Honestly I’m just glad you didn’t waste your time lol I can at least make a bit of ad revenue off rant reviews like this but this book almost wasn’t worth it

[@bobcatred]

As someone who grew up in Texas, an interesting note on native speakers taking Spanish: it’s been some years since I was in school, but when I was in school they taught Castilian Spanish (basically the formal version of Spanish spoken in Spain). The dialects of Spanish spoken around Texas and Mexico are pretty significantly different, and most of the native Spanish speakers had little or no education in Spanish grammar so often they struggled in Spanish classes when they thought it’d be super easy.

[@rachaelshort1704]

omg i just started watching but already the way she's a cringy self insert in her own book...giving me Ebony D'arkness Dementia Raven Way vibes

[@ReadswithRachel]

Omg I’m crying 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@C.DWoods]

I as a teenager care about decor and wood paneling. I guess I'm even weirder than I thought lol.

[@ReadswithRachel]

You are a rarity and I love it

[@m.f.hopkins8728]

Oh my... that trailer was BAD. And the hubris of the author to be in it herself? Wow.

[@ReadswithRachel]

It’s the biggest case of a self insert I’ve ever seen, that’s for sure

[@Paralelsky11]

In a time when I used to read everything I could get my hands on, I remember a sci-fi book called something like Timekeeper (I can't find it right now on Google, but I have a vivid memory of the cover). In the book, there was a society of people travelling in time and space to different dimensions and stealing the ideas and technologies found there under the guise of safekeeping them, because they could become too "dangerous" for those societies to have them (In fact they were a society of parasites who had cool powers but didn't want to do the work themselves). I was reminded of this idea when you mentioned that part of the book, and maybe it's too much of a coincidence? I mean, the "inspiration" from more recent media is blatantly obvious.

[@ReadswithRachel]

It’s possible! I haven’t read Timekeeper yet so I can’t say for sure

[@Paralelsky11]

@@ReadswithRachel I eventually found the book I was talking about. it's The Timegod by L.E. Modesitt Jr. I remember really liking it when I was younger.

[@aubreyaskew6701]

What in the twilight fan fiction hell?? 😨

[@ReadswithRachel]

EXACTLY like even the “she’s about to get maimed by a vehicle and he saves her” part happening

[@jamiesandvoss38]

Don’t see the twilight comparison l, but maybe that’s just me.

[@ReadswithRachel]

@@jamiesandvoss38 girl moves to new city where weird dude keeps popping up and saves her from being maimed by a vehicle.

[@silkyhank]

Twilight has spawned so many demon children.

[@silkyhank]

​@@ReadswithRachelShe moved from other state with her dude and two dudes fight over her.

[@BandysBooks]

I happened across this video when searching for new bookish content…and I am so glad I did. This video is hilarious. I had not heard of this book or controversy, but I enjoyed this none-the-less. Thank you for this gem.

[@grandmazambie]

As a film student, the book trailer hurt my soul

[@reading_faerie]

A gasp escapes my mouth as I fall to my knees is LITERALLY i released a breath I didn’t know I was holding .... but worse

[@ReadswithRachel]

THIS THIS THIS

[@ohkittyohcat]

Holy incest, Batman! Also, why do the two characters who are meant to be twins have no shared visual characteristics? From the cover and trailer alone, if you had asked me which two were related, I would have said the two with dark hair. I know that irl fraternal twins don't necessarily look alike, (and it may have been described in the book; i won't read it to find out) but there should be some familial trait to connect the two. Why do she and Piercing Blue Eyes White Man look so similar?? They both have black hair and blue eyes!

[@linottesparkles1294]

I remember this scandal. It was HILARIOUS. I’m mainlining your videos while working. You’re getting me through this Monday.

[@andreaduarte2575]

“I’m so tired, I can barely hold my eyes open! Good thing I got these eyelid holders.” And by eyelid holders I mean this video.

[@ReadswithRachel]

Hahaha

[@gabbyabbott4965]

I was thinking about the eyelid holders from a Clockwork Orange.

[@AliCatWrites]

Will never ever ever get over the vibrating lips. When you texted me that I laughed for forever. I wanna know where she learned creative writing because...bad. It bad. So bad. Thank you for doing this so the rest of us don’t have to because lawd.

[@ReadswithRachel]

Truly a labor of love was done lol

[@WalkerWrites7]

Saw your Tweet about this, had to come here and watch what the heck this is all about lol Love it!

[@ReadswithRachel]

Thanks for coming to hang out! Welcome to the shit show LOL

[@satansenpai383]

the fact that at 4:38 you can hear the actor whiff the knife throw so bad off screen is so funny to me

[@aashitiwari2044]

HOW IS SHE NOT EMBARRASSED AFTER THIS???

[@ReadswithRachel]

I regret to inform you that it wasn’t isolated to book one. Book two: just as bad.

[@carlajenkins1990]

She doesn't have friends. Only competitors after the same prey.

[@ReadswithRachel]

Yup you nailed it

[@andyenglish4303]

Books like this are why I made my protagonist (the fantasy equivalent of) a Middle Eastern girl with short messy hair and brown eyes.

[@ignaciorlimon1]

I cared about wood paneling and all that jazz as a teenager. 😂😂😂 But in my family we flip houses or work in construction.

[@ReadswithRachel]

You’re built different!

[@caffeinatedangel]

I was (and am) a short, thin blonde with wild curly hair - can confim - most guys really love straight hair. I can't count the amount of times I've been told by men that my hair looks messy/frizzy or that it would looks "so much better if (I) starightened it."

[@TheWinglessHawk]

I like your personality! :) You judge the person, after seeing what their creation - in this case a book - has to offer. Love that! No blind rage, but reasoning and logic. I love that! Edit: Sounds like the FL is a horse, lips vibrating, nostrils flaring... xD Who also thought the same like me? Edit edit: Isn't that picture of the villain.. just the blond dude in a black face... btw not wanting to sound racist, but I swear it is! The face shape and so on... omg... that is seriously bad!

[@ReadswithRachel]

Lol the horse visual 🤣

[@dubitataugustinus]

Thank you, THANK YOU for showing us that trailer!! x'D it's one of the most hilarious things I've seen in a while, it reads like a parody... Chef's kiss.

[@rachael02126]

I haven't seen the book trailer before and oh boy oh boy do I have thoughts these are supposed to be high schoolers? 2:10 Why does she run like a roblox character? Where two seperate scenes showing what's his name kidnap-choke-holding her really necessary? Why do they all sound like AI's? 2:39 WHY DOES HE STAND LIKE THAT SWEAT SUIT COMBO ROBERT PATTINSON MEME? 2:57 NOT THE DRAMATIC SLIP INTO A GODDAMN PUDDLE! 3:25 i'm sorry sir, are your hands stabbed too or do you not know how to wrap a simple piece of clothe around your neck? Also isn't Cyrus her literal brother? Why does she keep showing him shirtless? Someone get Cassandra Clare on the line. 3:33 That car was too close for her to have not seen it coming, girl, what are you doing? 3:35 THAT FLYING HIGH KICK THO YOU TRIED HONEY. 3:43 V I B R A T I N G F I S T S. 3:30 The single fucking WW tear you know she practiced so she could utilize in the future. Did you also take a shot any time a twilight-esque scene happened? Because this should absolutely be turned into a drinking game. If y'all need me i'll be writing gay fanfic about Jax and Cyrus in the vein of My Immortal. I'll call it My Immortal Time and then I'll bitch about it not getting published traditionally because I'm white and obviously white authors are being turned away and not published anymore for DiVeRsItY.

[@ReadswithRachel]

YOUR LAST PARAGRAPH 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 my immortal time I AM DEAD

[@zacblake9249]

Why did I get Twlilght vibes vibrating from my lips the second I saw the cringey trailer? [Sorry, just discovered this through accident, but fun video!

[@ThanhTriet600]

What is it with shitty white women writers and being obsessed with people's eyes? Like that's the only thing they can come up with for why someone's cool and unique. Imagine if a character showed up with a unique sense of style, a unique backstory, a unique fetish, or something that wasn't cliched to hell and back.

[@hermionemode]

NOT HER ACTING IN HER OWN BOOK TRAILER PLS

[@ReadswithRachel]

The self insert is the ultimate cringe factor

[@writermichelletoro]

Girl I read this too and oof it was bad. Regardless of who the author is, just hella bad. So glad you reviewed this for what it is!!

[@ReadswithRachel]

The author is not a good person but since that was already talked about I figured someone should review her book so I took the bullet lol

[@SilverDragonJay]

"I never imagined how much my life would change." Bella? Is that you? Boy did that give me flashbacks to the first Twilight book and movie. In the words of Folding Ideas: "Cringe. There's no other word for it. It makes me cringe. Its embarrassing."

[@MadMusic26]

Oh my good thank you for torturing yourself for our entertainment 😂 Her writing reminds me of the stories I wrote in high school before I understood how the world worked and had a better grasp on how plot works. How can she possibly be this bad?

[@ninahuang]

my 14 yr old sister writes better than this💀

[@ReadswithRachel]

It reminds me quite a bit of the same issues I had with another indie series I read via kindle unlimited years ago. I think indie authors could do a lot better if they read reviews of other indie published books to see what issues are common among them. But honestly, JMB seems so self absorbed I doubt she cares about actually writing a good book and just cares about selling them whether they’re quality or not.

[@netgeekdoggirl]

Im doing an editing internship right now and your book reviews on bad books are so helpful for learning for real

[@halfpintrr]

This feels like a Twilight ripoff? At least from the trailer. Forest scenes, almost ‘getting hit by cars.’ Blend in Bella Swan? Also the author doesn’t look like a high school girl.

[@LochanReads]

OMGGGGGG that trailer, like....I thought I hated book trailers before...but then I saw that. WTF...

[@ReadswithRachel]

Have you ever watched the US version of the office? There’s this one episode called Scott’s tots that is notoriously cringeworthy. That trailer is worse than that episode lol

[@LochanReads]

@@ReadswithRachel I haven't but I've seen some cringe-ass things and nothing beats that! 🤣

[@summerb5153]

The trailer made my soul leave my body with second hand embarrassment 💀

[@gabbyabbott4965]

Is it really this easy to get published? Like should I just go ahead and publish my bungou stray dogs fanfic and reap the rewards?

[@ReadswithRachel]

This is indie published but I’ve also read some really garbage traditionally published books lol

[@eneyavorodecky]

And that (the author) is the same person who complains on TikTok (this is how I learned of her and checked about her on booktube) that everything publishers care about is diversity and not about good writing. 😂

[@bluehydrangea5506]

@@eneyavorodecky ....its not good writing lol. Crappy message aside the writing is not good. A LOT of amateur mistakes (telling vs showing, awkward sentences, so. Much. Useless. Description. Her thoughts are written with " which makes zero sense but also its first person and omggggg). Thats the thing with self publishing...anyone can do it.

[@araneljones]

The whole angsty Spanish class thing is hilarious. I'm in Southeast Texas. Half our school spoke Spanish at home, yet they still failed Spanish, just like we all struggled in English class. They griped about how no one talks like that, just like no one speaking English spoke perfect English. The stereotype is strong with this one.

[@itsyaboyj0j0]

OMG THE TRAILER 💀💀💀💀💀The intense romantic fight in a suburban neighbourhood somewhere in Ohio. The gay energy of two white boys wrestling in the woods. The awkwardness the actors exude because they can see someone just coming down the road while they're filming the most horrible thing anyone has ever seen. This is peak entertainment, I am spoiled, nothing I watch from now on will ever compete.

[@rileym7934]

what i understood from "lips vibrating" is like when you're about to cry and like your jaw trembles lol i dont think that was the context tho

[@reading_faerie]

“Rachel never read a book again” LMAO already dead

[@randiroyer9893]

As a Spanish teacher... in a southwestern state... 1. The first day of school is syllabus day and rarely is Spanish actually happening 2. If you already know Spanish in a Spanish 1 class, teachers move you. We don't want you in a beginning class. 3. Hire a translator? So you'll cheat? 4. Already fluent? Because the freshmen pay better attention than you do and can actually answer the teachers questions? 5. Sometimes we get seniors in Spanish 1. We also don't check/know more often than not because we know all 4 grade levels can take our class. 6. I rewatch this video regularly and every time the Spanish teacher stuff gets me so here I am commenting

[@kathrynolsen1256]

I went into my Spanish class not realizing that I had Spanish skills. This isn’t made up. I grew up with white patents who both knew Spanish and a family friend who spoke Spanish. I took Latin and Greek. Turns out, over all those years, I had passively picked up on some things. So I came into the 9-week Spanish immersion program and our teachers introduced themselves, talked about class expectations, and spoke briefly about their backgrounds. Then they asked if anyone had understood what they said. I raised my hand and translated as much as I could remember upon prompting. There was another class that would shave 3 weeks off the program, but they kept me where I was and had me help with interpreting and tutoring while I learned to speak correctly and VASTLY improved my vocabulary. That’s the closest to an exception I can think of. I’ve now been fluent since mid-2002 thanks to that program and then speaking nothing but Spanish at most times for several months after the program ended.

[@PagesAndInk]

That trailer is something, isn’t it? 😂

[@ReadswithRachel]

It is truly A THING that EXISTS LOL

[@seraphonica]

that book trailer though... it says exactly one thing. "GOD DAMMIT WE ARE GOING TO GET TWILIGHT INTO OUR COMPS LIST"

[@emmanarotzky6565]

Other girls: it’s hard to describe Her: ~it’s challenging to articulate the experience~

[@Ella-queen97]

I legit bought the first one a week before she got cancelled and all that shit went down and it made me not wanna read it at all

[@ReadswithRachel]

Lol “cancelled” I’m still laughing at the way she called herself that when literally nothing was taken from her she just threw a tantrum. OOF! I mean I didn’t like it at all, but maybe try it out and see if it works for you! And if it doesn’t you can always donate it

[@flegmon618]

I seriously thought we were talking about the setup of the story, the line „and then the book ends“ caught me seriously off guard :D

[@jonicollison7947]

This…this was amazing 😂😂😂😂 the trailer! I will forever watch it on bad days hahaha

[@ReadswithRachel]

Same same same

[@Erdnussbuttertoast]

never heard of this book or author before randomly clicking on the video. and lemme tell ya i was SHOCKED when you revealed that it was YA after seeing that cover and the trailer of visibly 30 year olds

[@emackenzie]

I would bet money the pea coat thing is like a haha inside joke about that character being based off of a pinterest model in a pea coat

[@reikun86]

The trailer got me: "The way his piercing blue eyes stared into the depths of my soul..." The guy in the trailer has brown eyes. Womp womp. 😅

[@opo3628]

JM herself starred in the live action promotional material for her own novel...wow. The MC may as well have worn a shirt with "SHAMELESS SELF-INSERT" printed on it.

"Ma'am, I am speaking! Please don't interrupt." Excuse me, she had important things to say! 😅

[@caidencejae5668]

Ok… kinda offended here for a moment. I am a teen who loves HGTV. I ONLY care about appliances and granite counter tops. This is a joke btw

[@ReadswithRachel]

💜😜

[@kyliekarolkowsk1905]

well that trailer is certainly....something im gonna go read it and laugh at it oml alternate title: jm buckfuck trying to be the main character

[@ReadswithRachel]

The self insert is hilarious

[@goblin-alley]

as soon as the book trailer started playing, i needed to pause and think about the choices that led me to this place. and also make some coffee.

[@heatherduke5410]

When you were reading it, I thought for sure that the main character joined the Spanish class at least a few days after the beginning of the year. Maybe a week? It would at least explain how all the other kids knew to go and stand next to the wall. The explanation for them doing that, despite supposedly having assigned seats could've been that the teacher assigned them a different seat each day or maybe each week.

[@MrRorosuri]

this book doesn't make sense. Doesn't JM have a friends or a critique partner

[@ReadswithRachel]

Judging by the lack of friendships in her book... I have doubts

[@Neeks]

I was laughing the whole time. THE. WHOLE. TIME!

[@tinal8447]

Honestly, same.

[@ReadswithRachel]

This makes having read it WORTH IT ❤️❤️❤️

[@Divinely_Damned]

Kids do in fact not like watching hgtv UNLESS it is to judge the houses and the people’s choices on decorations with their siblings. Me and my little sister love judging those houses

[@sarahbishop422]

JFC that trailer was the most American thing I’ve seen in my life 😭😂

[@ReadswithRachel]

YUP

[@amylemcoauthor]

I could have only missed a beat, and then thought I had clicked into a whole different book review 😅 Rachel's voice now in my head, "Whaaat?"

[@spiceshewrites]

Former bookstagrammer - it didn't last long, did it? 🤭🤭🤭 And she returned with a similar temper-tantrum.

[@ReadswithRachel]

She says in the comments here that she couldn’t stay away from the attention. It was true when she said that three months ago and it’s true now. She feeds off the negative attention. I highly encourage everyone to block her and not engage directly with her. It’s what she wants! But she’s blocked from commenting here anymore so this is a free zone for the rest of us

[@florl9194]

@@ReadswithRachel she commented here?!

[@ReadswithRachel]

She did indeed lol. I’m not sure if it’s still visible anymore but she really tried to act unbothered but then got her favorite simp to jump in here too