explaining FOURTH WING to my husband

[@ReadswithRachel]

Tell me which book to explain to him next 😂

[@Macy-ft5ge]

The goom between stars pleeeeeeaaaasssseee

[@mavrifantasia]

The entire Red Queen series?😜

[@Thenoobestgirl]

Ohhhh I've got a few terrible ones for you! 'All The Pretty Monsters' by Kristy Cunning (weirdest supernatural books I've ever read) 'Heart Hassle' by Raven Kennedy (this is the funniest shit I've ever read and I'm not kidding when I say I was cry-laughing) 'A Discovery of Witches' by I don't remember who because I literally fell asleep to the audiobook 'Crave' by idr who again 'House of Night' by you know the jist (worst Mary Sue MC everrrrr) 'The Four Horsemen' by Laura Thalassa (this is a masterpiece in how not to write enemies to lovers 🤮 though I must admit that I liked book 3 and 4, but the first 2 made me want both MCs to die a painful death just so that the books would end lol) 'The Bargainer' also by Laura Thalassa 'The Iron Fae' by idr who and 'From Blood and Ash' by Jennifer L. Armentrout (which is a fucking rideeee lol)

[@johnathancurry6993]

Twilight Saga and its fan fic; Fifty Shades of [What the fuck] Grey

[@lignjahal]

I know this may poke a bear, but explain the book of the guy who Carlos tweeted at: “I wouldn’t know.” (Fibro fog is eating my ability to remember who this guy was.) It’s the hero husband moment of the year and it would be funny to see Carlos call the books out too lol.

[@rainydayjules]

"does he have a lot of descriptors but you dont know what he looks like?" and just like that carlos has taken out like 80% of male YA love interests!

[@johnynoway9127]

YA? Also...all you gota know is: 1. Six pacl 2. A very big shlong. Rest is as generic as possible to fit in any man ever. BUT Must never have any mental issues or disfigurements because we cant have umperfections. (even though he is abusive and manipulative. BUT THATS OKEY CUZ HES HOT!)

[@AidenFeltkamp]

"a bunch of kids get roasted" = > I immediately imagined a dragon hosting a comedy roast for the students at the school

[@ReadswithRachel]

I would’ve had more fun with that if that was the plot hHahaha

[@ab_3963]

reading is fundamental, after all

[@justokayemilay6029]

Girl, I cannot with this EDS rep! I dislocated my pelvis once having good sex.

[@ReadswithRachel]

I WAS WAITING FOR SOMEONE WITH EDS TO SAY WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS A THING! I did not wanna ask because thats invasive but THANK YOU for answering my burning question

[@nicholewarren4229]

From personal experience: yes, it sucks, and you can sometimes feel it about to happen which (if youve warned yr partner beforehand) means you can avoid it. Mostly its just me going STOP STOP MOVE n my poor husband dropping me like a hot potato

[@andchimeras]

@@BooksRebound can't speak for OP, but my bff has EDS and has had this happen; it's more like the ligaments and stuff that are supposed to hold everything in place let the pelvis slip "out of joint" (ie, where it's supposed to sit). They've also had floating ribs "dislocate"; it's more like a literal meaning of dislocate--not in the right place.

[@nicholewarren4229]

@BooksRebound its a sublocation of the femur within the hip socket (at least for me--not speaking for all EDS ppl)

[@Ventuswill]

@@BooksRebound For me (I have EDS) my pubic symphysis separates sometimes, also my coccyx can rotate a little and sort of separate from my pelvis. My right hip joint also tends to slide just enough to cause problems but not quite full on dislocate.

[@MiaVilleneuve]

Dragon names are just warrior cats names but they all have to end with tail 😂😂😂

[@ReadswithRachel]

Hahahaha

[@warriorcatskid003]

Fr like Feathertail is actually a warrior cat

[@BanjoJill]

The secondhand embarrassment I felt when Carlos pointed out the lightning and shadow dynamic that I never noticed. I didn't think the book could get more on-the-nose. 😂

[@sofiastj]

This school: I can excuse murder, but I draw the line at stealing.

[@SevenReads007]

Rachel: You can excuse murder??

[@MetastaticMaladies]

I mean, that’s pretty much every conservative person, at least most of the ones I’ve met. So that kind of tracks lol

[@AlishaHerbiederbie]

This is a delight and a half to watch. I humbly ask that Rachel summarizes all horrendously bad books to Carlos from now on.

[@stormeyedselkie]

I second this request!

[@corvi_dae]

I third this request

[@sakurablossoms94]

I fourth this request

[@stormeyedselkie]

​​​@@sakurablossoms94 fourth (wing)?

[@strangeaelurus]

I fifth this request

[@tylers3681]

After watching this video and hearing about her poisonings ... why didn't she get like poison powers and have like an acid damage dragon?

[@ReadswithRachel]

WOW THIS WIULDVE BEEN SO COOL

[@ratatosk3371]

acid reflux tail

[@katiesnudden829]

​@ratatosk3371 I don't know why but this took me out and I actually somehow popped my neck from laughing so hard

[@kenzashenna]

It was just something she learnt from when she studied for years to become a sage/scribe aka being smart and reading a lot... Nothing to do with dragon powers

[@AP-uc7oz]

@@kenzashennathey weren’t sayin that, they were having it so the dragon fits the personality

[@thisisabookchannel]

“you gotta find the one that wants to kill you and obsess over it for years. i mean, look at us.” 😂

[@SevenReads007]

“It’s xaiden not zaiiiiden” *feather starts floating”

[@warriorcatskid003]

It is absolutely not on purpose but it’s funny to me that the small, catlike dragon has the same name as a warrior cat. Also the “small dragon everyone sees as useless but is actually just a baby” thing is literally DIRECTLY from the How to Train Your Dragon books

[@allypatterson2625]

I’m just envisioning Violet on the parapet in Hermione Grangers voice going, “Riders have a 30% chance of dying up here. I read about it in Basgiath, a history.”

[@my_girl_seraphine5294]

Now I can’t stop laughing

[@oddeyes9413]

I have EDS and the representation sucks here. I dislocate my knee walking down stairs and I've dislocated my ribs doing exercises. Like this shit is for the birds.

[@dijornmoss782]

“Wait a minute, she lives there and she still got drafted?!” This took me out. 😂😂😂

[@5autumndream]

23:46 “guarantee you he never held the flashlight properly for his father” made me laugh so much

[@snicketylemony]

such a brutal insult, I love it

[@SamanthaRoberts42]

I read this wrong at first and was horrified 🫠

[@snicketylemony]

@@SamanthaRoberts42 the icons next to comments are so small on mobile app that I thought you were using Rachel’s face as your profile pic at first 😅

[@sailorpaulino]

Not the SHADOW DADDY!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ReadswithRachel]

I couldn’t BELIEVE

[@opalsandwhiteroses]

"I would've pushed her." I LOST IT 😂😂😂

[@ReadswithRachel]

SAME

[@randomspider725]

Oh, I think I get it! The author wanted the protagonist to start out as a member of the “bad guys” but not know it, hence the twist at the end. That’s why the college is so needlessly cruel. I’m going to guess that in the next book, we’re going to see the griffin people act humanely to contrast against it and the rest of the series will be about dismantling the empire or whatever. I bet there’s even a second twist where we learn that the dragons are even under some sort of mind control or weakened somehow, hence the strange powerset.

[@ReadswithRachel]

This tracks!

[@captain5733]

Literally just Temeraire but without the meaningful real-world context 😂

[@fynnsternis6432]

"this is a world called 'The continent'" I almost spit out the carrot i was chewing on. Okay i knew this is about dragons and yet when you said "riders" i thought you meant "writers" and was confused what the difference is to the scribes then.

[@cupcakesoup]

As someone who has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome I got so excited for half a second before I remembered that this book is bad

[@ebony7177]

If Carlos is down for it, I'd love to see you explain all the absurd, bad books you read to him. Because his level of huh? was some of the stuff I was thinking when you were telling us this plot. Plus he's funny and you two feed off of each other's humor so well.

[@ohhmangos]

Lowkey need him to do ACOTAR

[@thealexellucas]

I figured the brother was still alive, it’s like the author just went to tv tropes and made a list of random pages and threw them together with no thought of cohesion.

[@ReadswithRachel]

Fair point lmaooooo

[@qwinlyn]

I have EDS. Without getting into TMI territory, she should totally be worried about pulling muscles and dislocating stuff having sex. I pop my hip, have literally thrown out my back and there's been multiple instances of having to wear braces for days to recover.

[@ReadswithRachel]

Thank you for answering this!!! Seriously I sat there reading the sex scenes waiting for it to come up and when it didn’t I was legitimately so confused

[@TheTrueKarin]

Especially by that man (what was his name xaden?) When I read the book and came to the sex scene all I could think about his by that height and body differnce and her history of injuries - that will not end good :/

[@justalostkat]

Nothing a mender can't fix, eh? 💀

[@bats550]

Through hearing you talk about this again, I realized that the reason the dragons aren't overthrowing their human overlords is because even though they are shown to be intelligent and stronger, the author probs believes in human superiority as it applies to evolution etc so they can't even imagine the idea that humans could be lesser than other species. This is just a theory though

[@stephanieraylove]

This makes so much sense and also pisses me off 😂😂😂

[@ReadswithRachel]

Damn I think you’re right

[@Pandachu123]

Reminds me of the Drakengard series. 😅

[@boxersandbooks]

"Sabaa Tahir does not miss." We stan a man who knows quality literature lol

[@ReadswithRachel]

Right?!

[@spoopyhaunt9783]

You know its a happy couple when they cant stop laughing

[@ReadswithRachel]

Been together since 2008 and still going strong!

[@alisaurus4224]

5:12 “Does he have a lot of descriptors, but you don’t know what he looks like?” 🎯 Dang, Carlos with the bullseye right out the gate 17:47 i used to climb trees all the time and it’s true-nobody ever looks up. That part checks out

[@vamp_bat_chomp]

Yeah we used to play flashlight hide and seek in my house at night as kids and id hide on top of the fridge, never got found, granted poor lighting also helped, but the scene was supposed to be dark.

[@SloanePaoPow]

Rachel's exuberance + Carlos' dry humor = Perfection

[@ReadswithRachel]

we are like mermaid man and barnacle boy, a dynamic duo

[@sherrismith8874]

The horny dragons making their riders also horny is reminding me of Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern series.

[@celestegosling6054]

Totally

[@ninninin656]

She's copied multiple things from that series, but because booktokers only read new books and only smutty, badly written ones, no one on TikTok knows she stole her main plot. they think dragon riders imprinting on dragons is like the most amazingly original plot point ever!

[@bmlgordon]

And kids dying during the choosing, but it made more sense when it was newborn scared dragons doing it.

[@Midsummer333]

It reminded me of that Rick and Morty episode with the horny connection

[@Pandachu123]

Yeah, this is just a mishmash of copied stuff from other books and games. 😅

[@justokayemilay6029]

Im 4'10" which was too small for the air force.

[@lol-lb5pm]

i love carlos hitting his vape after the word “mating” came up. me too carlos. me too

[@ReadswithRachel]

Hahahahaha valid

[@cadburyyork5052]

So if you are allowed to end your classmates, why isn't she allowed to poison them? ...are they mad she only gave them the runs and didn't end them?

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

38:39 The "dragon rider" and "griffith flyer" distinction for some reason reminds me of those 80s cartoons based on toylines, where there's a good team and an evil team, both have toys with the same gimmicks but with different names. Like the good team will habe a guy who "bonded with a tiger" and the evil team will have a guy who "enslaved a panther" and both are just an action figure sat over a toy cat but painted different... is very silly

[@ditzydoodle8381]

Now I'm reminded of dino riders lol. You're so right.

[@marysnyder9405]

I like how much he makes you laugh. I think all of us escaped fundies knew so many married couples where the husband ignored and belittled all of his wife's interests and passions while she was like "you must submit to your husband even though he never listens to you and seems to disdain your existence! That's what marriage is!" I'm glad to see y'all escaped that life.

[@ReadswithRachel]

I often think how lucky I am that this is what I have when I could’ve ended up with someone like one of these fundie influencer couples. I would shrivel under a marriage like Paul and Morgan have.

[@thomascromwell6840]

I could only read a couple of pages of this book but the reason her mother wanted her to be in the Ryder's quadrant is because of the socio-economic status and privilege it grants. Scribes are the lowest tier in their society's caste hierarchy.

[@ReadswithRachel]

I’m not sure that was so much reflected in the worldbuilding though

[@mzgreenjeansapproves]

I'm still stuck on the fact that they have rubber. What's it made of? Rubber trees grow in a South Asian area, I think that Violet would complain about the heat with her pale, delicate but tuff self. HOW DO THEY MAKE RUBBER BOOTS? IS THIS WAR A RUSE TO GET THAT SWEET SWEET RUBBER TREES? WHO HARVESTS THESE TREES? I NEED TO KNOW 🤯

[@leightoningstrike6971]

You guys are like 1999 the Mummy's O'Connells of booktube - like yes very good looking and funny but also maybe I want them to be my parents 🤔🤔 This is my new favourite series from this channel ❤ I can't be mad at Fourth Wing's hype because it has gifted such amazing content

[@ReadswithRachel]

THIS IS THE BIGGEST COMPLIMENT

[@rainydayjules]

Man I really hate this trend of like, establishing our main girl as cool and tough by making her kill a lot of people with no consequence, it just makes characters feel so inhuman I guess? Like no matter how tough you are, a teenage girl suddenly having to kill is gonna be traumatizing for her, it’s gonna affect her emotionally. It also just establishes no value for human life except for our Main Characters

[@eric.s.taylor]

wait... if the black dragon that's dragon married to the zayden's dragon had another rider before, did the other rider and the zayden guy also fuck due to dragon lust?

[@ReadswithRachel]

I AM DEMANDING THE ANSWER BE YES

[@Sptl8qq]

no because xaden has only had his dragon for

[@dee6215]

i hate this book with a burning passion and im so glad im not the only one that didnt like it. i felt like everyone on tt was lying to me when they said it was amazing. anyways my fav thing is how this world has rubber but not paper. they have modern surgery, watches, stopwatches and gyms but no paper, they have to write on parchment. and i love it even more how the book never explains any of it, you're just expected to accept it

[@GaiusGear]

I thought the exact same thing!! It would have been actually unique if it was an alternate universe with more modern technology, but also dragons. I canNOT for the life of me get over ink pens being a superpower granted by dragons. How. Why.

[@farnregen]

My head be like: Maybe they got the knowledge from dragons with the technology side... But they ain't needing paper, so humans just doesn't discover it. Because dependency. Lol I never read that book, only watched reviews, soo idk. But sad that the book didn't give a explanation

[@townfool4682]

i also love that they needed dragon magic to have the equivalent of a ball-point pen lol

[@ninninin656]

I DO NOT understand why she didn't make this an urban fantasy. There is nothing medieval or "old timey" about this world, they all speak like Gen Z teens with access to social media and use stopwatches and other modern tech. IT IS ALL SO STUPID

[@qwinlyn]

So, funny thing about rubber. Mesoamerica has had rubber since 1600 BC. Not trying to defend this book in any way, but having rubber/latex is not quite as anachronistic as one may think to a past/fantasy setting. As for the paper, Mesoamericans used something called amate paper which is essentially bark and not the cellulose fiber stuff we commonly think of as paper. Side note, do we know if the parchment they used in the book was made from hide or cellulose? Cause the term is applied to both kinds (if I remember correctly) and the cellulose one is at least *similar* enough to maybe be a reference to amate. Do I think either of these things influenced this writer? Gods no. But I did think both of these things were interesting tidbits, and the more you know!

[@Macy-ft5ge]

Rachel: 🧐🤔😤 *passionately explaining the plot and dynamics* Carlos: 😏👉🏻👌🏻⚡ *creative interpretation through the magic of theatre*

[@jhart1127]

I'm from a different country and for the longest time I thought you were saying "writers" quadrant 😂 I was like damnnn a whole quadrant to write books?? Count me in!

[@mentallyunw3ll]

I love how he’s like “what’s her rank?” so naturally.😂

[@misssydneymarie3034]

My question is, why doesn’t she get an invisibility power or some stealthy power to become a spy/thief to steal information from the enemy? Its a natural way to use her scribe abilities due to handling information and her large memory. With a black dragon that’s the smartest and is probably hard to see at night and a dragon that can stop time, that would’ve been so cool

[@christine_and_bean]

Rachel - "Good for her actually using the word 'clit'" Carlos - "The hell's that?" I need a season of Carlos commentary please 🤣🤣🤣

[@colleentoporek3512]

“He has a teacup collection he’s embarrassed about…” 🤣

[@legendaryfrog4880]

Carlos nailing her powers as light is just too damn funny.

[@DukesGrace]

I think it would be interesting if the main characters find out that the war is actually between the dragons and the griffins and both sides are just using humans as pawns/cannon fodder. I doubt the author will be going in that direction.

[@Wanderness]

Can we please make this a staple of this channel, I need a whole playlist of this for every book you've ever read

[@dxmxrxsbxxckthxwxxdxlf3931]

This is the new standard on how to find a badly written book: if you can't get your best friend/husband to like the book you just read, it's usually bad

[@needcoffe]

Carlos is hilarious. Can this type of video be a regular thing. Rachel summarizes terrible books to her husband. 😆😆

[@AlenaCantFly]

I am LIVING for the chaotic energy and omg your husband immediately guessing that she gets lightning powers had me losing it 😂😂

[@ReadswithRachel]

i could not BELIEVE how he just KNEW

[@Paper_Smith]

You two are couple goals! You just seem like each other’s best friends and I love that for you guys 💕 please make “explaining shitty books to my husband” a recurring segment lol

[@ReadswithRachel]

I’ll talk him into it 😂

[@AdventuRyn_]

The more I hear of this book the more it really sounds like a mashup of Anne McCaffery's Pern series and How To Train Your Dragon. The whole "dragons are horny so their riders are horny and are into the rider that corresponds to their dragon's mate" thing is almost verbatim from the intro to Skies of Pern. Wow

[@ReadswithRachel]

That’s what everyone keeps saying! I’m going to need to read it

[@sciencefantastic]

OMG Carlos calling all the stupid plot turns at the opening is 😂 U both got the sass haha

[@ReadswithRachel]

And then we wonder why our kids are so sassy

[@SoTallSoLame]

I stg whenever I see a fantasy nerd's spouse they are complete sassafrasses who can spot a plot hole from across 2 counties

[@ReadswithRachel]

Bahahahaha facts

[@hope2dust]

Damn, gal. Your hubby can get it. 🤣 Bring him on the channel more often 😏

[@ReadswithRachel]

I’m not lying when I say I saw him in high school and was like OH OKAY ITS ON and I snatched him up so fast

[@lonzipoo]

I second this notion

[@nostalgicsapphic8450]

this video made me realize that the nonsense of this book could actually be entertaining when explained to someone else lmaoooo

[@Pharm2be]

You really snatched up a keeper. Dang. Also he’s straight up braver than any US marine for volunteering for this.

[@ReadswithRachel]

Volunteer is a funny word for me begging him to do this for weeks until he finally got worn down lol

[@rono3457]

​@@ReadswithRachelhe got drafted for this video

[@ava_marie_v]

​@rono3457 He's the best of the best and he got drafted.

[@asiangsus]

this book is stressing carlos, he started hitting his vape!

[@ava_marie_v]

You know what would have been such a great way to have us learn about the other characters? Having Violet have to come up with clever and different ways to defeat them. Like, lets just take away the brother book and give her more agency and knowledge of the place she literally lives in, and have her utilize secret passage ways, unknown cracks and crevices, etc to sneak around and spy on her opponents. That way she can learn what makes them tick and how to psych them out, take them out before the fight, distract them, etc, while we, the audience, also learn about them and gain any type of emotional connection to them. That way we actually see Violet's intelligence and her resourcefulness instead of just being told by the author that she's soooo smart.

[@Artbyhurricanyounot]

The “HER SISTER WAS A WITCH” reference was very much appreciated

[@ReadswithRachel]

I couldn't NOT do that

[@jaysaysnope]

i cackled aloud at work so thanks for that lmao

[@josh111888]

"Big Ass Black Dragon" sounds like a Yugioh card.

[@Pandachu123]

Well, there is Red Eyes Black Dragon. Author probably stole that, too. There's so much stolen stuff in here. 😅

[@tomdelongjohns]

i wanted to write my favorite quotes in a comment but i would've commented TOO MUCH this was SO FUNNY

[@xoda32]

27:38 killed me 😭 This video is hilarious, Carlos is an icon, 10/10

[@ilargia_]

the way you laugh at his jokes I WANT WHAT THEY HAVE

[@ReadswithRachel]

I LOVE HIM YOUR HONOR

[@genevarockeman9721]

"You've been letting me call you clubtail this whole time?!" I. DIED. 🤣

[@serafinassong]

I was having a crummy night and this made me legitimately laugh out loud. Thank you and Carlos for your sacrifice.

[@ReadswithRachel]

I’m so glad ❤

[@monster-enthusiast]

"He's massive. I look up and up..." Bro lemme tell u, either the author overestimated how tall 6'4 really is, or mc is tragically short. Two of my sisters ex-boyfriends were 6'5 and 6'6 respectively, and I'm 5'4. The only time I had to crane my neck up to look at them was when I was directly in front of them or beside them. For perspective, the top of my head is about chest level/shoulder level. Which is pretty much how any one foot difference is on a person. Your head ends where their shoulders begin. Standing a couple feet away is still only a minor incline for your neck. And ten feet away? They don't even look that tall. That's just how perspective works. Edit: so dude being apparently 6'4, and homegirl "not even reaching his collar bone" (which kinda sounds like she wasn't even close) would put her under 5'4 for sure. Girl's gotta be like 5 feet tall I swear.

[@bluester7177]

As someone who is 5'2, sometimes you do have to crane but in most situations is as you said, you're close to the person, I'm a tattoo artist so I have more problems, sometimes I need leverage.

[@toadoftoadhall9801]

All this talk about your husband on your channel and I am thrilled to finally have the opportunity to see that he does indeed live up to the hype. Commence yearning for this exact kind of relationship.

[@ReadswithRachel]

He is truly 1000/10 and everyone deserves a carlos

[@bunnybean77]

Carlos sees RIGHT THROUGH this book. 🤣

[@GhostHelwig]

That spot on guess for what her powers would be based on her love interest’s powers was hilarious. 😂 I loved this. I hope you go through more awful books together.

[@ghosttownpoltergeist]

Coming back over a year later to say this is what I watch when I'm having bad days so thanks y'all

[@williampounds5191]

Carlos is fucking funny dude lol

[@Pandachu123]

Oh, I just remembered another character named Dain that betrayed the main cast in DELTORA QUEST. Just another thing to add to the pile. God, there's just so much that's wrong with this book. 🤣 Also, you guys are so cute!! Please keep making more of these. ❤️

[@takeherthemoon]

someone else with EDS here ! i haven’t had issues with my pelvis (yet) but i have to be careful what i’m doing or my knee will pop out of place. and that goes for doing anything. a few weeks ago i was trying to fall asleep and felt one of them trying to slip out of place?? anyways this book is ridiculous and i’m not looking foreword to having to explain that no, i’m not just like that girl in a book you read 🙄

[@sarahbee6758]

Carlos’s monotone commentary fits so well with your snark. I love this!

[@symorla]

Did anyone alert you to the fact that the words are Gaelic, but apparently she did not accent them properly? Haha that seemed like something that would piss you off too 😂 like Básgiath means “death wing” but Basgiath means “palm wing” hahaha

[@ReadswithRachel]

Someone else mentioned this and I’m disappointed but not surprised

[@Clever_Catchphrase]

You two bounce off each other so well! Your both so in sync, and Mr. Reads is so funny! I thank him for his willingness to be in a video! Such a fun listen~

[@ReadswithRachel]

Thank you so much!

[@Sunday-ex7px]

This story would have made so much more sense if this was a warrior based society that was not actively at war.

[@nutmegandpumpkin]

Literally smiling ear to ear this entire video

[@ReadswithRachel]

🥹❤️

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

Speaking of _How To Train Your Dragon,_ the feathertail dragon reminded me of the Toothless from the book, who's also small and useless when he bonds with the main character

[@BookmarkChronicles]

Yay! Mr. Reads with Rachel!

[@BookmarkChronicles]

Intrusive thoughts😂 his one liners are gold

[@BookmarkChronicles]

SHADOW DADDY😂😂😂 I’m crying

[@lornahurt170]

17:58 the “no one looks up at the person in the tree” thing is somehow so much less believable here than in any other book I’ve read that features it 😂😂 and one of my favorite series, the Ranger’s Apprentice, literally starts out with the main character depending on not being seen up a tree

[@jameselfers9539]

A fictional military written by someone for whom checkers is too complex to grasp logically. You don't have to be a soldier to write a convincing military tale but you MUST do your homework.

[@Juli6SS]

14:17 Rachael: why dragons aren't inslaving the humans???? Carlos looking at their adorable cat: yeah, unlike yoooou!!! 😂😂😂👍

[@debraberetta7596]

"My dad could beat up your dad" "I'd have pushed her" R: "They're an intelligent species" C: (to cat) "UNLIKE YOUUU" "Can't have group lunches?! Shiiiiiit. No wonder they're losing" You two are an absolute *blast* together, we need more "Carlos reacts despondently to bad YA fiction" because I swear to Lucifer Morningstar himself, you two have cured me of all of my ills after watching this 🤣 I'm going to throw in a wildcard and request a reaction reading of "Trans Wizard Harriet Porber And The Bad Boy Parasaurolophus: An Adult Romance Novel" by two times Hugo Award finalist, bisexual taekwondo grandmaster from Home of Truth, Utah and holistic massage PhD, Chuck Tingle. Make it a charity stream with some "adult libations" ;)

[@ReadswithRachel]

OMG I LOVE THIS IDEA

[@rosettastarlight6239]

Relationship goals, man. Also, in the brother's defense, if I could, I too would fake my death to get away from my parents 😅

[@leviscozyworld]

THIS WAS SO FUNNY LMFAO I would listen to y’all’s podcast

[@rhyleebruce4075]

Oh this is me trying to explain my books im reading to my bf 🤣🤣🤣 he humors the convo for about 10 minutes on a good day, so I'm happy he was here for so long

[@ReadswithRachel]

He asked me how long it would take and I was like probably an hour and he was SHOCKED

[@rhyleebruce4075]

@ReadswithRachel exactly! It takes me 15 minutes for 2 chapters lmao I just love yalls energy together, I hope yall do more of these if he's comfortable. Yall stay safe and healthy 💓

[@nicolegriggs538]

Rachel: *mentions the parapet* Carlos: *immediately* YEET 😂😂😂😂

[@kitty-vicious]

Carlos is a whole fucking mood omfg 😂😂😂

[@lc2830]

I’ve seen the blurb for book two and inexplicably Violet is back at dragon college for her second year

[@Olcia27]

Parapet means window sill in Polish and now I can only hear Evanescence playing in my ears...

[@ReadswithRachel]

tbh it is never a bad time to listen to evanescence

[@exocutionn]

Wings of Fire has better dragon breed names and all of them are just a noun then “wing”

[@TheRedShadow74]

I NEED this for lightlark

[@simpleton3781]

They do !!! It’s so funny too 😂😂

[@porcelainchips6061]

Fourth Wing makes me appreciate "The Dragonriders of Pern" (1967) by Anne McCaffrey much more.

[@Kat-ge7nn]

We love Carlos

[@sunowls]

OMFG I'm just 5 minutes in and i'm DYING!! ALL HIS COMMENTS ARE FUCKING FUNNY AND THE FACT AND YOU LAUGHING MAKES IT EVEN BETTER OMG THANK YOU CARLOS (and thank you Rachel as well)

[@ReadswithRachel]

Thanks for being here!

[@archivist-93]

“He looks like he’s four inches over six feet” was so funny for no reason 😭😭