i read 3 mafia romances and now i wish i was illiterate...

[@annabananabones08]

That den of vipers author is definitely not going to heaven

[@sarawithoutanH]

😂😂😂😂

[@abhainn35]

God is listening to the audio book and going, "Satan, get the lava chamber."

[@lambss6349]

This made me laugh way too much-

[@froggycolouring]

@@abhainn35even satan is too scared of them

[@Queer_AuDHD_Dragon]

Satan: Hey, I just wanted to say that I’m a huge fan

[@RileyMarie_]

I still can’t get over the den of vipers audio. Those accents were a CHOICE

[@sarawithoutanH]

It gets worse every time I hear it 😭😂

[@KatieColson]

Omg I was absolutely cackling at that audio. I went back and watched it like five times, god that was good

[@KatieColson]

👴👴👴👴👴👴

[@user-pn1mo6jy2o]

Literally bit my arm two seconds in trying not to scream laugh

[@nycoleleon713]

They were very much a choice and it’s a bad one

[@avamay4224]

I wish mafia romance authors would give up on the whole “her father sold her to the mafia because she’s hot” thing. Can’t we have women who are getting kidnapped for ransom? For information? Because she’s a badass and they want to recruit her? Come on people, let’s get some variety up in here.

[@mushy9674]

PREACH

[@str3brry]

literally! the whole ‘sold to the mafia’ thing just sounds like wattpad ‘sold to one direction’ 💀

[@muskanverma9301]

Read this one fanfic where the main lead was a smart computer hacker and the main mafia guy kidnaps her for that...and she's actually well developed..your comment reminded me of that lmao

[@lvly_alia]

@@muskanverma9301whatss it calleddd

[@Godofcats727]

​@@muskanverma9301 which fanfiction was it by the way ? I mean was it on Wattpad or AO3

[@Scampwick69]

That Den of Vipers audio reading was literally terrifying

[@sarawithoutanH]

The man's accent will haunt me in my dreams forever

[@sewerrat8096]

nothing could have prepared me for that experience

[@Kryan-x5v]

FRFR 😰😰😰@@sarawithoutanH

[@Charlotte-k4p5g]

It gives me “Ello Spencah” flashbacks 😭

[@DarwinRoger893]

​@@Charlotte-k4p5gfrom that kurtis conner vid?

[@BanjoJill]

I need a queer mafia romance where the both warring and single mob fathers need to get married instead of setting up their kids.

[@sarawithoutanH]

I would read that

[@crazygamer_1082]

I would also read that

[@theproducers1967]

I, too, would read that

[@aphrodite9556]

i’d read the fuck out of that

[@GermaineSoumah]

Name?

[@Louves192]

Every time I hear a protagonist has just turned 18, I assume she was much younger in the original script but the editor/publisher changed it.

[@messiahofthefirst.3415]

YUP. As a 16yo girl honestly it's kind of atrocious the sheer (we're talking copious here, like, endless) amount of 15/16 yo romance books and fanfics are made, especially on like fanfiction sites. Why the hell are people attracted to children??! Like, I can barely drive myself and it eeks me so and knowing how it's such a normalized thing nowadays.. I guess the target audience is girls my age though, so like, less... predatory... But yikes. society has a problem it's gots to adress

[@kitkatboard]

@@messiahofthefirst.3415 I guess a fair number of people who write about underage OC/reader insert are underage themselves so they're not mature enough to realize how wrong and not romantic it sounds. If anyone over 18 does write this kind of things tho... ☎🚓

[@kiera6326]

⁠@@kitkatboardI turned 18 last week. You don’t magically gain perspective on your birthday. You’re still a teenager. You’re still going to see yourself in a 17yo protagonist

[@bobtheball5384]

@@messiahofthefirst.3415 It wasn't too long that I was 16 (im 19 almost 20) and while I'm not a girl I really don't blame your feelings on this. It feels dehumanizing.

[@bobtheball5384]

@@kiera6326 Also true- I think it'd be moreso concerning if it was like anyone in their late 20s and up. It's still fiction at the end of the day, but the sexualization of teenagers can be damaging ngl

[@silverdrag0n_]

the premise of "den of vipers" is literally just a reshuffle of those "my mom sold me to one direction"-fanfics tell me i'm wrong, i dare you

[@vielente]

Nono you're onto something

[@fake-plant]

As much as I hate to pass up a dare, I can’t tell you you’re wrong because you aren’t.

[@slutfortttt]

They just changed who was kidnapping the main character so they could sell the book

[@CookiehsAndDreams]

As someone who's family has been affected and has witnessed the horror of gang violence, I will never understand why people insist on writing stories where they turn heinous criminals into sexy studs.

[@theproducers1967]

Yeah. Like actual gangs and mafias are terrible, and terrifying to their victims, and the violence they incite are still issues that affect COUNTLESS people today. What is so romantic about a murderer???

[@CookiehsAndDreams]

@@arieandfarrah9039 Of course! I definitely don't mean to say you can't write stories with the mafia in it; every story needs some kind of conflict. I've just always had a problem with authors trying to make these terrible people seem cool and hot.

[@paradoxtatorstudios9681]

@@CookiehsAndDreams FR i will never understand people who think killers are hot, and i don't want to

[@pexaltmixvobo2045]

It's because mafia = edgy and edgy = "different" and different = cool + not like other girls.

[@cyanrose499]

It's so terrifying. Even where I come from, girls are glamorising the idea of dating men who are affiliated with gangs and there are plenty of stories where these girls end up brutally "un-alived". A lot of them are university students too so they end up getting "got" in their dorm rooms by these guys who just barge in and traumatize everyone. Worst part is that even when people know exactly who did it, there are long lines of women still begging to date these men just because of the luxury shopping trips that they post on their socials with their next "vic**ms". And no one gets arrested.

[@sunnyandthechlo]

Why are romance books never… romantic? I SO wish that in the second book you read they let her go and she just peaced out and never saw them again and lived a good life. That would’ve been hilarious.

[@Maggie_mccann]

Yeah adult romance books are just smut, WHERE'S THE ROMANCE

[@str3brry]

@@Maggie_mccannOMG YEAH like literally everything be turning sexual like they be having no chemistry other than being single, good looking, and horny

[@paradoxtatorstudios9681]

@@str3brry the fact every character in these kinds of books have mutual lust and nothing more, i-

[@billiep1603]

It’s literally just sex and abuse like every time

[@TarisLuna]

I think those books should be categorized as erotica, rather than romance.

[@elektrakomplexet]

Den of vipers should not even be called a mafia story, there's nothing mafia about a criminal organisation consisting of 4 people doing illegal stuff. That's just a gang. A lot of these writers do not even know what a mafia is and it shows with how general they describe it.

[@Dragonshade64]

They'd be a pretty minor gang too. Which makes it worse as it just seems like barely disguised porn at that point, like just write the 5 way gangbang and don't add the crime stuff. you'll probably have the exact same target audience.

[@readwritecollage]

“Scribble down some smut on the back of a CVS receipt…” IM DYING 😂😂😂

[@sarawithoutanH]

😂😂😂

[@TheGoofy1932]

To be fair, CVS receipts are long enough to contain a 📙. 😂

[@thobsss]

I am horrified. I miss the person I was before hearing about these books.

[@sarawithoutanH]

Reading them was a harrowing experience 💀😂

[@Wurmss]

​@@sarawithoutanHAt least it wasn't Haunting Adeline ☹️

[@The_Book_Bimbo]

I used to love mafia romance in high school. Now that I’ve gotten over that phase, I’ll NEVER read another one of these again. I’m so sorry you had to go through this.

[@sarawithoutanH]

I think I might be done with the genre 😅

[@bluebyyoufu]

Why did you love mafia romance? What was it that made you love it? I am genuinely interested as well as curious if it mirrors my experience with bodice-rippers.

[@chisengakim6827]

The voice is giving drunk sailor in a typical cartoon 😂😂

[@sarawithoutanH]

Omg so true 😂

[@saraholive6655]

I read part of the Den of Vipers orgy scene because the woman sitting down in front of me on the bus was reading in on a Kindle with the screen at full brightness. I accidentally read a sentence and then couldn't look away because I was desperately trying to figure out what the fuck the mechanics of the scene were supposed to be

[@auronirahman2837]

on the bus at full brightness is crazy... balls of steel on that woman!

[@olivia_fdf]

i'm really not picky when it comes to audiobook narrators but those accents in den of vipers would have sent me over the edge

[@sarawithoutanH]

Literally my thirteenth reason

[@lpfun1494]

@@sarawithoutanH I was not sure what I was expecting before you hit play but I was not expecting THAT

[@mirnatius]

God I hated Mafia Mistress. The author has another pen name for historical romance and BOYYYY does the misogyny run deep. Lots of men who have mistresses, sleep around to hurt the main character (who instantly forgive them bcs she just can’t resist him!), and cheat. 🙄

[@lpfun1494]

I really though Den of Vipers would be the one that would ick me out the most from the three books, but it was actually this one.

[@mirnatius]

@@lpfun1494 I’m always side eyeing her books. 😶

[@sarawithoutanH]

Yeah Den of Vipers is showy in how it's lame and bad but Mafia Mistress is more insidious

[@sanskritiverma8010]

MIRNATIUS!!! ITS ME!!! PEACE OF GOD FROM GOODREADS!!!! OMG YOU HEREEEEE!!!?????

[@mirnatius]

@@sanskritiverma8010 OMG SMALL WORLD!!! 🤗👋🏽🫶🏽💞

[@ChemicalPenguinn]

When I saw Den of Vipers my first thought was "oh lord, here we go..."

[@sarawithoutanH]

It's a doozy 😂

[@rida-18]

I love how Sara does not take ages to give an intro and just dives straight into how traumatised she is because of the horrible books. P.S Thank you Sara. You are doing a huge service to humanity by sacrificing your braincells so we don't lose ours.

[@SirIsaac1313]

Fr! This is my first video I've watched from Sara but I'm definitely going to watch more because I'm SO sick of long intros, I was pleasantly surprised when she dove straight into the first book!

[@prox6833]

I don’t know what makes the second book worse. The fact that he had sex with her while the knife was in her and was repeatedly stabbing himself, or the fact I thought he had put the blade in her blade first like he was putting it in a sheath 😂😂😂

[@jennysomething3666]

This is the kind of smut you read on wattpadd under the covers and then delete the entire app so your mom won't find out

[@yourlocalgeek600]

Idk what you guys thought during Den of vipers but all I could think of was that it was WAY TOO MUCH like one of those fanfics from 2010 of a girl getting sold to one direction

[@sarawithoutanH]

omg hahaha

[@tempehanna777]

That's EXACTLY what I thought! It reads like it was originally on wattpad

[@Ari-ok8je]

I'm disappointed that Den Of Vipers didn't have an ACTUAL den of Vipers that eat the main characters-

[@RikkiLove0317]

The good ending

[@IamCec]

What you said regarding wanting someone submissive vs wanting to break someone into being submissive really hit with me. Damn. Put men in rice.

[@Sterrendei]

I CANNOT believe that you suffered through 600+ pages of that viper book?! What a sacrifice!!

[@katenakawai1864]

The people's princess

[@Jenny-vm3yu]

As a British person actually from London….what on Earth did I just hear? That is probably the furthest thing from sexy on this planet.

[@sarawithoutanH]

Lmao they really sounded like a man from a construction site going to the pub after work

[@paulphillips-xn8dw]

I can't do motorcycle club or mafia smut because they take the alpha male trope to the next level where it is just abusive and toxic. I'm a guy and I read a lot of category romance (Harlequin/Mills & Boon) and the genre as a whole just seems really obsessed with virginal heroines no matter what their age. The Harlequin Presents line, in particular, goes hard (hehe) on this trope.

[@sarawithoutanH]

You'd think a genre written mostly by women would be more progressive but I think the internalized misogyny is rampant

[@lpfun1494]

@@sarawithoutanH Another one I've been seeing that is baffling to me in a genre written by women is the main male hero cheating on the female heroine and them still getting together.

[@mittag983]

​@@lpfun1494Fr I mean I'm a lesbian so maybe that's why my perspective ist different but I would rather forgive murder than cheating if my gf would cheat she will wake up without her genitals 😂

[@Maialeen]

@mittag983 No, it's not because you're a lesbian, jfc. This isn't normal, these women need therapy.

[@amaZINGsabrina29]

It shouldn't be so hard to find an age gap romance where it doesn't feel illegal or one character isn't a parent

[@sarawithoutanH]

it really is!!!

[@merellxmmers]

Sinners anonymous is rlly good!

[@kokomilky]

Heartless is also good.

[@staytopia6406]

twisted games is good!

[@Maialeen]

As soon as I hear "age gap", I'm disgusted. And the man is always the older one. I need these crusty old men to leave.

[@sydneystevens3323]

The mafia romance genre makes me sad; it feels like a void of missed opportunities. You could get really interesting dynamics and themes about morality. But instead, it's filled with abuse disguised as kink.

[@Tollkirschenkind]

So at this point it's probably safe to say that if a book gets recommended on TikTok, you absolutely do not wanna read this. Got it!

[@Pandachu123]

Yup, agreed. Stay away from Booktok!🤣

[@DucaDiPicche]

Well, booktook recommended Neon gods which isn't bad, in fact it surprised me.

[@screamingbean7509]

My thing is, mafia romance isn’t always necessarily bad, it’s just that many of these authors writing are SO STEREOTYPICAL. And romanizing gross toxic romance because of course the authors are ok with that. Especially with the weird age gaps, like what’s so hard with making characters near the same age or hell have older characters?

[@madie8769]

okay this might be a bad rec bc i’ve been on a No Brain Books binge recently but the sins series by emma slate are mafia romances that have some refreshingly strong female leads and a good chunk of actual mafia intrigue, plus the spicy scenes aren’t like unrealistic or even particularly filthy imo. they’re definitely not Perfect, there are some references to “alpha males” that i don’t personally love and the plots are pretty predictable (especially later on in the series), but for easy reads they’re definitely Better than some other books i’ve suffered through recently

[@SenjataTuan]

I feel like the "Romance YA female MC is so young" is because: 1. So that the targeted audience (most likely teens) feel like they could relate/project themselves and became more delusional than we already are lmao 2. So the MC making dumb decisions can be tolerated with "that's because they're so young!"

[@sayaalicious9146]

My mom named me Kenzo because that’s the perfume she wore when she was pregnant with me but now I don’t know how to feel about that

[@BooksofAmber]

OMG the accents on that audio 😂😂 Im dying. Is he meant to be a 60 year old man who spends all day at the pub???

[@sarawithoutanH]

Lmao right!

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I’m sorry but the cover of brutal prince does NOT look like a mafia romance 😂😂

[@notwithoutpizza4702]

It looks like some random Fae book

[@anaphchan6783]

I recently finished that book and OMG! I would consider it a 7/10. It’s just some of the commentary was so cringey and some of the stuff in the book was so predictable 😂😂😂

[@moominworld]

At the brutal prince section of the video and I legitimately gasped at how good you look. The outfit, the hair, the makeup EVERYTHING IS 10/10!! and a round of applause for the butterfly clips 👏

[@sarawithoutanH]

thank youuuu 😌💗🦋

[@janelist978]

I write in my spare time and I like writing romances like these but in a more realistic way. The women in my stories are all older, experienced, and the abusive relationships are shown as what they are, abusive! As someone who has been in therapy for many years, I would recommend therapy for many of these people 😂

[@sarawithoutanH]

I love an older FMC!!

[@karenwantsmanager]

​@@sarawithoutanHsorry for me being dumb but what is FMC?

[@sarawithoutanH]

@@karenwantsmanager female main character!

[@karenwantsmanager]

@@sarawithoutanH ohhhh ty for explaining!

[@hockeygrrlmuse]

Clearly romance novels & porn serve some important human purpose in allowing us to live out forbidden scenarios but there has GOT to be a healthier way for us to do so 😭😭😭

[@jonnel3065]

There’s this italian korean mafia show called Vincenzo the the main character, who’s a mafia lawyer and he’s breaks that typical toxic man stereotype. Like he’s such a gentleman and falls in love with another lawyer and they develop the healthiest relationship

[@sarawithoutanH]

I've seen it! It's cute. Better than these books!

[@sanskritiverma8010]

Few things-- 1- you're very pretty. 2-Your delivery is SO FUNNY. 3- I like that you read these horrendous books so that I dont have to read them. MAKE MORE MAKE MORE VIDEOS!!!!!

[@sarawithoutanH]

Thank you 💗 glad you enjoyed!!

[@rachelecirillo4458]

As an italian who lives in a town that's been completely ruined and will be forever scarred by mafia, this whole genre repels me, and the fact that some people don't find anything wrong with romanticizing mafia disgust me.

[@Nico-qh2mi]

All these books are labeled mafia but don't actually do much with the mafia stuff, like there should be significantly more murder and government bribery

[@sarawithoutanH]

I agree!!!! I was looking for some serious organized crime

[@ceciliamarinello7129]

As an Italian I'm shocked that authors thinks mafia is a "good idea" for the setting of a romance.

[@ninar9664]

@@ceciliamarinello7129I don’t understand it either but I think it’s like man in power who would fight for their significant other? Still not something that should be romanticized

[@ESE33]

Den of Vipers needs new narrators. It's supposed to be a sexy read, and the male narrator, in particular, made me want to crawl inside myself and hide. And I haven't even read or listened to this book, this is purely from the small clip she played. No way I'd make it through a whole audiobook of that.

[@MissMarzipan44]

im genuinely so sorry you had to listen to that weird knife s*x scene with those audiobook narrators 💀

[@sarawithoutanH]

It was an experience for sure 😭😂

[@spacebuns34]

oh it was the knife HANDLE 😅

[@sarawithoutanH]

Lmao yes I might not have been clear about that at first

[@spacebuns34]

@@sarawithoutanH it was a bewildering minute but i'm ok 🥲👍

[@Saraht4]

I have had Den Of Vipers on Audible for months now, but ive been scared for months cause i saw that the length was 19 HOURS!!! But now im even more scared cause of the clips Sara just played

[@sarawithoutanH]

Good luck 🫡😂

[@billiep1603]

I don’t understand these books. What is so hot about abuse? 💀 and Diesel’s voice made me SCREAM there’s no way 💀

[@caithenry8429]

Cannot believe you read smutty mafia romance and didn't read the 365 Days series lol but Den of Vipers sounded like it more than made up for it

[@sarawithoutanH]

Omg I didn't even realize there were books for those movies 😂

[@ieatgremlins]

Girl, I will continue watching this video because you are hilarious but THE BUTTERFLIES ON THE HAIR? You ate.

[@sarawithoutanH]

ty ty 🦋🦋🦋💗💗💗

[@69SalterStreet]

21:27 if I had to guess I’d say the women reading are supposed to project themselves into the story. So they are supposed to be the beautiful, irresistible young siren and the older man is supposed to be who 30-40 year old women find attractive.

[@myeyesrotten]

A random idea for any writers out there based on my inner kid’s brain: When I was younger, and first saw 50 shades of grey trailer in my TV (and since it was in another language, I didn’t understood shit and my imagination immediately went wild) I thought it was a story about; A guy and a woman from 2 mafias (one being super strong and the other slowly growing, but is a threat somehow to the first mafia) and they both are constantly fighting and etc. The girl’s dad recently passed away and now she was the head of the mafia, but, before that nobody knew her father had any daughter, that resulting the fact the other Mafia thought he still alive. So, the girl decides to flirt with the guy from the other mafia to take them down, so she hacks his phone number (since his security system is shit), she fakes a story of “oh I thought it was somebody else” and starts flirting with him, he gets a bit doubtful and doesn’t agree on meeting her in public, but he agrees to meet her in a masquerade (that was a way to hide his face), and now the rest is up to your imagination, if they fall in love, if he feels first and she feels harder, if she actually doesn’t care but her narrative makes her look like she do- (In my head, when I first saw the trailer, it super made sense).

[@b30574]

omg i would totally read that?? someone needs to write this asap

[@amandapanda5087]

I'd read the hell out of this

[@cori4727]

You were right. I was NOT prepared for that audio from Den Of Vipers 😂👴

[@chrisbonweenie9136]

Not the audio clips 🤧🤧🤧 bruh those are painful. How did you make it thru without laughing 24/7?! Lol

[@sarawithoutanH]

I was sending Riley updates every other minute about how bad the book was 😂

[@mehlol5675]

Den of vipers was nightmare fuel wtf…. How do you put up with this!??? 💀😭😭

[@dbarrett1539]

Den of Vipers -- Mom sold me to 1D but make it mafia

[@AnaCarolinaVanzetta]

The only good thing about den of vipers is the somewhat decent age of the MC. At least she's mid to late 20s. So... yay? 😬

[@sarawithoutanH]

Agreed! Everything is consensual and age appropriate.. so bare minimum 😂

[@Bookish_Vampire]

Den of Vipers was my first and only mafia romance. Diesel putting weapons in orifices is exactly what I thought happens in a mafia romance. 😅

[@sarawithoutanH]

😂😂😂

[@jasminrios6820]

I stopped taking TikTok recommendations after Haunting Adeline and I am SO glad I didn’t pick up Den of Vipers. The knife scene?! Oh god 😭 🤚🏼 Thank you for saving me time yet again.

[@GunmetalRaven]

X-Ray tech here... Regarding the Den of Vipers scene with the knife. I really hope that knife had a flared base... Please don't ever put things up there that do not have a means of retrieval or a flared base. The anus is notorious for pulling things up deeper into your colon, especially if you pass a certain point. Anally inserting the handle of a knife is a really easy way to have a sharp blade cutting your rectum and sigmoid colon open. I get the need for fantasy and recording the frantic, passionate decisions that in hindsight are stupid --- but in the moment are just "hot". But like, please don't put things up your butt without a flared base. Abdominal surgery isn't fun. And yes - everyone in the ER, imaging suite, and OR will know who you are and what you did.

[@cato3149]

I thought *reading* some of the sex scenes from Den of Vipers was rough but I would NOT be able to listen to them, and especially in those accents omg 😩

[@yana33612]

the den of vipers audio had me in pieces. i wasn’t going to read it but for my own sake i HAVE to listen to the audiobook

[@Saraht4]

the way i 3xpected WAY more from Brutal Prince... and had the SAME experience... i literally snoozed the whole time.

[@sarawithoutanH]

Yeah it was super boring!

[@lexa4160]

this vid reinforces my decission to never read mf mafia books 💀

[@sarawithoutanH]

Yeah I think I'm done with them 😂

[@lexa4160]

@@sarawithoutanH youre the strongest soldier for going through all of these for our entertainment tbh thank you 😭

[@Pipkiablo]

I will say that I actually do kinda like age gaps because the idea of two different people who are from different generations but still find a common ground together somehow is sweet to me (even from a platonic standpoint), but...18 is way too freaking young for an age gap romance. I'm okay if the youngest partner is mid-late twenties, but 18 in my mind is still a child. Any relationship with someone that young that isn't someone else around the same age as them comes across as incredibly creepy to me.

[@neivilde.1242]

the only mafia romance i ever read was in high school. it was called "blood stained tea" , it was book one of a series called the yakuza path. i only every read the first one i think because the ending had me fucked up lmao. i don't remember much that i liked it, but the premise was the best part honestly. it was a retired yakuza (well in his late 20s) trying to live his peaceful life running his little tea shop and not getting involved with the yakuza anymore, but one day he stumbles upon an injured korean guy with a knife. he takes him back to his house to help him, and turns out he's part of the korean mafia and is actively in a war with the yakuza rn. and so they develop this relationship except the korean guy doesn't know about the former yakuza, and meanwhile the yakuza keeps getting dragged back in by his family, and it's the tension of their relationship, and the secrets they keep from each other, and the underground war happening at the same time, i was like this is the best thing. but im trying to think about it right now and honestly, i think the relationship was not that well developed, like it was really more a mafia story, cuz i mean clearly there are 6 books, with gay romance sprinkled in here and there. i should re-read it lmao

[@larissaoliveira6526]

I don't know what is worst: the Thomas Shelby from Wallmart from the audiobook, the fact that somehow it's a canon event that ALL theses protagonist NEEDS to get kidnapped by some RIVAL MAFIA at some point, or the fact that this video made me want to go to the church when I'm a atheist (I'll be praying to the void to consume me fast), but the video and comment were amazing

[@hannamcswain]

I had to stop den of vipers at the knife play scene because it literally had my stomach rolling 😂 I didn’t mind the other scenes but anything with blood and I’m gone. 💀

[@katenakawai1864]

Den of Vipers made me realise Hell existence is not only justified but a necessity I feel like I'll never be able to associate myself with mankind

[@sleepy.saturn]

The Den of Vipers audio is giving Murdoc realness and im here for it honestly.

[@elisa11041]

I've read den of vipers like two years ago and it still haunts me 💀

[@AlexandraUtschig]

Also, the worst scene I've read in a romance novel involved a Snickers bar in a place no candy bar should ever go.

[@sarawithoutanH]

Nooooooooooooo what book was this???

[@Pandachu123]

EXCUSE ME WHAT???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@AlexandraUtschig]

@@sarawithoutanH it's called Life's a Witch by Skylar Andra. Besides that horrifying scene, the book was meh.

[@SheaWebb_]

@@AlexandraUtschig ohhh I read that book. I haven't eaten a snickers bar since. Can't even look at one.

[@Lemonne-]

WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK?????????

[@lpfun1494]

The only book I recognized was den of vipers because of some of the scenes other reviewers have talked about 😱I thought it was a biker gang romance though 😂 The audio book is a masterpiece. I do like these videos because you read through books I'm a bit too squeamish to try myself. Watching you has made me realize I have really boring tastes. I also looked up what 650 pages would be and it's about 160,000 words! Thank you for that Mario reference. It was really needed for that last book. I don't blame you for not wanting to read further. 👴

[@sarawithoutanH]

I also have very boring tastes 😂 yet I scandalize myself again and again

[@justahuman1195]

The Den of Vipers stabbing sex scene gave me such whiplash like I was in SHOCK

[@mchjsosde]

The look today is *mwah*mwah* stunning

[@sarawithoutanH]

ty ty 😌💗

[@katherineeaster5799]

I don't know how long ago you made the thriller video I'm going to reference, but I just read Confessions by Kanae Minato and I loved it! One of the best thrillers I've ever read, so thank you for recommending it.

[@sarawithoutanH]

Yes! It's so good. Glad you loved it!

[@BlindStarLily]

I’m not sure if it’d count as age gap, but you might like Dark Olympus by Katie Robert. It’s a series of romantic/erotic retellings of classic Greek myths. Consent is a big deal throughout all the books, the sex scenes are very nicely written in my opinion, lots of diversity and body positivity, Robert’s version of Apollo is actually a decent human being who understands and respects women. I say it might be age gap-ish because in book one, Neon Gods, Hades is thirty-three and Persephone is a few months out from turning twenty-five. I really love these books, book five came out just this month and I’m waiting with bated breath for my library to get the audiobook so I can curl up on the sofa and happy stim while reading

[@bookcaseofdoom]

I laughed so much from the Den of Vipers accent, did he think he was in a Dickens novel?

[@MortMe0430]

I feel like as time goes on and the internet gets both more wild and more performative, and writers / content creators maybe feel pressured to get more extreme in what they put out in order to draw views / downloads, etc, a lot of people forget that unless a person is specifically into certain things, romance doesn't have to be gross, violent, etc to be sexy. It doesn't even necessarily have to be particularly crude to be erotic (how many straight / bi ladies would honestly turn their nose up at the arm thing Oscar Isaac did with Jessica Chastain on the red carpet?) It seems like a lot of writers just keep digging in one or two directions instead of thinking outside the box, if that makes sense. Sorry for the ramble, lol my sympathies for your mind after these!

[@pixitchi]

totally agree with this - it actually ties quite deep & the same concept also goes for p*rn content. viewers get so desensitised to "vanilla" which turns into consuming more violent, obscene, or taboo content in order to get the same feeling :(

[@valinaluera565]

It’s so funny because den of vipers was my first step into dark romance or mafia and it got me back into reading and it was just a wild ride. It wasn’t being read for plot, I was there for the bad writing and smut LMAO

[@the_magic_celery]

The guy in that vipers book sounds like Murdoc Niccals. If I was listening to that he'd be all I could think, like no matter how much the characters were described I'd envision that green crusty British man

[@Sarahcakes613]

Oh my god when you played the accent clip from Den of Vipers literally all I could hear was the trolls from The Hobbit.

[@chloebrierley]

The hairstyles in this video slapped

[@cerysxox]

unrelated to the books but omg girl i adore your hair in this video it’s gorgeous - like it’s shining so much it’s insane! and the clips in the brutal prince review? so cute!!

[@AlexandraUtschig]

The name K.A. Knight seemed familiar. I looked on Goodreads and at some point I read her Fallen Gods series. I guess I liked it enough to read the whole series.

[@LilyEdwards-i5l]

I screamed when I saw the butterfly clips in your hair their so cute OMG!!!

[@insideyourheart143]

PLEASE KEEP MAKING THESE VIDEOS. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THEM.

[@jeonghans.jellyfish]

im so excited for this!!!

[@TheOtherSyd1994]

I remember reading this romance and being SO excited because the main girl was 30-32 with the main guy in his late 40s.. it was great.

[@pidgin__]

I collect free romance books on Amazon to have some trash to read, and none of these are that far off from what’s available on the kindle store lmao

[@yukikanegawa7470]

When i was in middle school i used to really like A/B/O. I got over it and in high school i changed upon a fic i liked in middle school and i could not go past the first few chapters. I don't understand how some people can casually get off of actual grape. Like dubious consent is one thing but when they're crying, yelling, screaming about how they don't want it and reading about how they feel like they need to escape, to run away or else they'll die or forever loose a part of themselves that makes them happy. It's so much.

[@hockeygrrlmuse]

I never got into that particular universe but when I was a few years into college I went back to read some of the things I read & wrote in high school and I was STUNNED at how awful and abusive so much of it was. I think it's important to experiment with reading that kind of stuff as you're growing up and learning about your own sexual identity but like. Why can't we have healthier options for exploring it 😭😭😭

[@qcumberSodazz]

Give me a mafia romance where the main character isn't kidnapped in any sort of way and instead inserts themself into the mafia life completely of their own choice for shits and giggles (also dear god let them be well above 18 I am BEGGING thee)

[@rodden3664]

So... those Den of Vipers guys are basically the Madagascar penguins

[@lipglossgirl50]

den of vipers read like a 1d fanfic to me 😭😭 i swear that’s what it was based off of

[@apancake6632]

I watched this during my lunch break and my coworkers saw my eyes pop out of my head when describing Den of Vipers

[@sheifaakra3018]

Oh my god Sara how did you get through Den of Vipers with those voice actors? Just two little clips and I was cringing beyond belief, you're stronger than I am.😂😂😂 I'm so glad I'm out of my Mafia era because girl these books sound tragic

[@Darkslide99]

I read Den of Vipers a while ago and i’m still trying to wash off the WRONG! 😂 It did give me hope that I too could publish a book! I mean if that was allowed out of its cage….anything and anyone can publish!

[@jackieneal5559]

I’m obsessed with your butterfly hair look sis!!

[@valentinabernal6698]

I can't concentrate on the video because i love your hair do and the butterfly clips and it looks so beautiful i want to look like that

[@sarawithoutanH]

Thank you! 🦋💗

[@alexandrajay2001]

i would NOT be able to take that den of vipers one seriously, the dude in the audiobook sounds exactly like Breekon and Hope from the magnus archives and they are specifically called out multiple times for obviously faking their accents.

[@darksoul2000mr]

As an Italian if you called paparino a man you were having sex with I'm pretty sure they would throw up in your mouth because it's no sexy at all here it's like actually calling someone dad. It's also usually ironic nobody uses it seriously

[@kireiynnight5961]

OMG the audiobook clips from den of vipers... it sounds like a stereotypical rendition of a pirate's voice in a children's animation edit The imitation of the one dude in the same book I can't stop laughing and I don't know why ERRRGHHHADooh MAH C**k IS StrAinIng iN mAH JeAns