The House Of Night LOSES The Plot? | 'Untamed' Breakdown

[@AlizeeYeezy]

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[@KristenReviews]

Nyx: “Yes I love all my children equally, especially Zoey Redbird and…” *stares at ink smudged on hand* “…Aphrodisiac.”

[@SanjaSleipnir]

I’m IN TEARS

[@pooppoop3595]

😂😂😂

[@pooppoop3595]

So brilliant i love it 😭🤌🏽 the layers

[@leahmanning2098]

😂😂😂ITS SOO ACCURATE 😂😂

[@babyblue_22]

I love this comment, it's just perfect💖

[@LifeOfTheAngels]

the twins are UNBEARABLE, the way they’re so unnecessarily hostile to Aphrodite is absurd, and then when Aphrodite meets them at their level she’s the one with the attitude, if it was up to me Aphrodite would have them BANISHED and annihilated

[@nickywal]

The last book, her birthday they're there grinding and pouting at Eric like oh kiss me too. Aphrodite exists within 50ft, she's a dirty dirty slut

[@mikeyjamieson4715]

The fact that she hasn't kicked their arses yet is admirable at this point.

[@NotoriousLightning]

That just makes them hilarious though. Maybe I would feel differently if I actually had to read the books myself.

[@thehermit8618]

So far the twins have been bullies for longer than Aphrodite herself. Why dont they lose their powers and vampyrism?

[@nickywal]

@@thehermit8618 If you're the pet of the Mary Sue of Mary Sues you get to bully whoever you want apparently

[@d.tsukuyomi1869]

Nyx in these books be like "Zoey? Oh Zoey is the best, most special little fledgling I've ever created! I'm so proud of her and how amazing she is! I gift her constantly to show how I love her!" "What about Aphrodite?" "The fuck's an Afro Diet?"

[@jacquelinelugo5518]

😂😂, FR, You get the sense that Nyx had to give powers to Zoey. Cause without them she is so bland. She adds nothing but everybody wants to treat her so special

[@dariakey5318]

Afro die tea 😮

[@sophiaako7663]

I want the writers to describe every character's skin color the way they describe the dark-skinned women. Like, "his skin was the color of rich, frothed milk, blended to a perfect lump of foam atop a latte of blood" or "her insanely soft skin was the amber color of a roll of triple-ply toilet paper that had been dropped in a clogged urinal at a music festival"

[@EllieBelle1993]

That was beautiful

[@nightmarefanatic1819]

Writers used to describe pale skin as being like milk or cream all the time (look through Romance novels of the 80s/90s) and I'm pretty sure it lessened because it became a sign of back writing. Hopefully the Coffee/Mocha/Caramel shit falls out of favor the same way. And honestly I hear a lot of defense of purple prose but is the writing really better when the same three metaphors are used to describe people over something "blander" like "She had dark brown skin, even darker brown eyes and tightly curled black hair,"?

[@sophiaako7663]

@@nightmarefanatic1819 yeah I know, but that was also sort of when writers were light-skinned/Anglo and writing for such an audience. Like how Victorian novels sometimes describe dark-haired white women as dark etc. sorry can’t come up with explicit examples cuz I’m kinda drunk atm but I think jane eyre has one such description.

[@sophiaako7663]

@@nightmarefanatic1819 sorry didn’t even finish reading ur comment cuz I’m drunk but yes I agree! My friend, who is a black woman, is a published author so I look to her for some guidance here. She actually does describe her characters as “brown skinned”, and if they also have brown eyes and dark hair, she writes things like “russet eyes” and “black puffy hair” or whatever. Just cuz most ppl have darkish eyes and hair but skin has so many connotations.

[@sophiaako7663]

To clarify, I mean famous western authors of the past were mostly light skinned, not every author!

[@mariametaterran3008]

So, I'm an Indigenous (Otipemisiwak) woman from Canada, but the problems with this book still register with me. What really gets me is how the authors write fake Cherokee history. EXTREMELY fake. Cherokee DID NOT LIVE IN OKLAHOMA before the trail of tears. Before colonization, Cherokee were a semi-urban people (and possibly some were EXTREMELY urban before that) EAST of the Mississippi, until they were forcibly removed and marched across the plains into Oklahoma - with an intentionally staggering death toll, at that. It absolutely boggles my mind that a teacher in Oklahoma would write a book depicting fake Cherokee history - that takes place THOUSANDS OF YEARS ago, in a region they DID NOT LIVE IN.

[@mariametaterran3008]

Also, I did once pirate the latter half of the books and skim through them all a few years ago. Your flea market theory is ACCURATE.

[@mariametaterran3008]

Also the intro to the next book always annoyed me. Zoey's dream self dances around in a stereotypical buckskin dress, and the scene depicts it as a reflection of her Cherokee identity. And like, I'm not saying Cherokee don't or never have worn buckskin dresses, but it is definitely not something I would associate with Cherokee as an individual people. It's really more of a plains native, or more commonly, white stereotype of generic native thing. Cherokee made TEXTILES. Even pre-colonization, they still made textiles from cotton and goat wool. They were and still are well known for their intricate TEXTILES.

[@blablah6958]

And (correct me if i am wrong) every ritual Grandma Redbird does seems to be more Wiccan/pagan in nature. I don’t know anything/substanial about the indigenious people of the Americas (bc i am german) but this whole Mother Earth and Goddess stuff seems more New Age/esoteric.

[@mariametaterran3008]

@@blablah6958 Oh yes she definitely gives more white boomer new age grandma that claims to have distant "native american blood." But there is very little she does that comes across as "Native American."

[@sillyd0g]

not to be that guy but the cherokee were definitely not weaving with goat wool pre-colonization. domesticated goats were introduced to the americas via colonization. we have wild mountain goats in the US, and the coastal salish people of the pacific northwest definitely used mountain goat wool to make textiles, but cherokee weavers wouldn't have had access to mountain goat fibers because ancestral cherokee territory and mountain goat territory are on practically opposite ends of the country. most of the search results i got for cherokee goats wool textiles were either websites showcasing the work of contemporary fiber artists of cherokee heritage and depop listings for cherokee brand clothing, and the rest of the results were talking about uses of goat's wool by other indigenous groups.

[@gabriellag9814]

The fact that EVERYTHING Nyx said during her speech to Zoe and Aphrodite got disproved during this book or previous ones (“free will”, never taking back gifts, etc) is actually wild. Nyx’s lack of actions cannot be justified strongly even by herself. You aren’t wrong in the slightest when you compare the writing to My Immortal

[@zombievampire95]

*Atheist beliefs grow*

[@gothamtruecrime]

I have a mini aneurysm every time the Twins address each other as Twin out loud, especially multiple times back-to-back.

[@Ingemaja]

Duo: tihi, we're just SO cute, twin Being: yeah, tihi, and SO smart, twin Bad: We're also like, SUPER righteous, twin Writers: YES! Along with like, EVERY Starbucks-coffee-delicious, twin (I'm terribly sorry for burdening you with this)

[@creaturetransylvania8943]

Their are real life people that act like this. Also if you actually keep having mini aneurysm's you should a doctor,I don't think it's book characters causing that.

[@alisaurus4224]

It makes me think of the albino ghost twins in The Matrix: Reloaded

[@jammies721]

I think they were trying to catch the popularity of the Weasley twins

[@sillyd0g]

as an identical twin the way the twins are written drives me up a fucking wall.

[@sirduchessofpuns8846]

I want it to be known that Kalona being entombed in Oklahoma is literally impossible because the Cherokee are not indigenous to that region. They were forcibly relocated there in the 1830s as part of the Trail of Tears. Either Kalona was entombed by a different tribe, or the Casts are erasing an historical atrocity. (Also, the Cherokee, as such, didn't exist 1000 years ago, 'cause tribes/nations shift a lot over that many centuries. Their territory would have been within the Mississipian Empire.) I also wanna note that much of Grandma's supposed Cherokee traditions are actually the author inserting her own Pagan/Wiccan beliefs into the text (like the Full Moon Prayer candles) and pretending they're Cherokee practices, because Grandma is supposed to represent the face of the Crone in the Triple Goddess. Which is... a lot to unpack lmao

[@meaghancampbell8109]

Tge whole structure of the vampire society in these books are based on Gardeniran wicca which has nothing really to do with vampire Magick at all.

[@creaturetransylvania8943]

Like many modern people,I don't think they studied any of that history. So you can't really claim they trying to erase something.

[@smol-one]

I mean...this implies they cared enough about this story to do any research. And I don't think anyone can believably make that argument.

[@tiryaclearsong421]

​@@smol-oneThey based the characters after people in the mother's classes and all of their "researchers" are family members. I doubt they so much as opened a dictionary to learn the definition of a single word, let alone checked anything they were writing for accuracy. Also, while this is some of the most blatant Garderian Wicca in a random fiction series, I actually found LJ Smith more accurate in terms of philosophy and beliefs in a similar teen series. So even in that they're shallow. The religion they supposedly follow is just window dressing in the series with no impact on any of the characters beyond plot armor and Deus ex machina.

[@TheCowgirlBookworm]

@@tiryaclearsong421I can’t wait for Alizee to pick this series back up because I followed this when I was younger, fortunately my critics thinking improved, but I remember all the drama in her outside life that she wrote into the books. Of course she conquered her haters and looked cool doing it and everyone clapped

[@bridgetmadden5716]

Say what you want about Zoey, it was still kinda shitty of Erik to use his position as a teacher to air out their dirty laundry in front of the whole class. If he can't be professional, he shouldn't be teaching his ex.

[@AlizeeYeezy]

erik is trash

[@michanone]

He won't get better, I'm afraid. At the end I only thought "Eh. You're on your way to behaving normal, but that's it." And he's supposed to be one of the oldest in the group. 🤨

[@katharineeavan9705]

Honestly convinced the only reason he took the job was that he thought noncy teachers must be Zoe's type, so he'd give it a go

[@smol-one]

They're all trash. Every single one of these kids and many of the adults are useless, trash, or useless trash. The one exception is Aphrodite. At least, she has a character arc. At least, she's trying. She's the only one that I want to survive. Switch genres to post apocalyptic and make her the main character.

[@nightmarefanatic1819]

@@AlizeeYeezy Who isn't in this series?

[@EmmmaHhhhh]

Every single time you release one of these House of Night breakdowns I’m recovering from some sort of illness so I’ve been watching this entire series through a slightly delirious haze…

[@Ventuswill]

That's probably the best way to get through this book series, tbh Hopefully you're feeling better when the next breakdown comes out.

[@EmmmaHhhhh]

@@Ventuswill Alizee is trying to kill me with this series I’m convinced of it lol. Thanks though :))

[@EllieBelle1993]

@@EmmmaHhhhhI was going to say, the videos on this horrible series is making you sick. You should sue the cast duo

[@EllieBelle1993]

@@EmmmaHhhhhhope you get well soon though, ❤️‍🩹

[@jackrichardson9863]

The twist is that you're completely fine and it only feels like you're ill because you're listening to My Immortal except professionally published for the 4th time because there is no God, only Nyx.

[@kyragreif]

Can't explain the anger that reared in me when Zoe asks Aphrodite if her cat is de-clawed 🤬

[@TayTayMakesBeats]

Completely valid and understandable, Zoe brings the worst out of all of us.

[@mer_acle8101]

yeah, zoey better be de-fingernailed before opening her mouth again -_-

[@cynister7384]

I'm genuinely starting to think we're supposed to hate her instead of like her. How does anyone read these books and actually be on Zoey's side?

[@margaretcronin9834]

It's a million times worse when Zoey says she wants to be a vet... :/

[@dariakey5318]

​@@cynister7384she sounds cool when you're 13. That was the age when I first read first 3 books and was astonished!

[@SoRePeSi]

Relistening to this after marathoning the other three yesterday is very funny bc Zoey is making fun of a dude for finding Neferet attractive after spending the first two or three books like "um I'm not like gay but like Neferet is soooo pretty like look at her legs" The sheer double standard It's also very odd how they managed to completely miss the bad girl trope and wrote someone as sympathetic as Aphrodite while trying so hard not to.

[@xiumiaomei]

Revisiting this series as an adult is absolutely bonkers to me. I read it in French when I was a teen and I even then thought it was kind of just garbage with an unsufferable main character and I dropped it after the second book. Seeing the actual English versions filled with literal slurs feels like I am having an aneurysm, how did this ever get published?

[@jacquelinelugo5518]

I live in the US and I got to book 6 before I dropped it. I was getting so annoyed with it. And the stereotypes was just so bad, the reason I stopped in book 6 was because at the time the Broaders book site listed that it was going to be 13 books. I knew this book should have ended at 5 but extending it to 12/13 was just ridiculous. I dropped it after that

[@nyssalynn5216]

I remember reading this series a good ten years ago I regret to inform you that I read I think like 7 or 8 of the books before stopping

[@jacquelinelugo5518]

@@nyssalynn5216 They went on until 12 books and a spin off series with another 3 books. So you got off of the weird ride just in time

[@nightmarefactory101]

I think Aphrodite's so reliable that she could replace all four male leads. But I don't want her to end up with Zoe so I'll hold off on that thought....

[@Ellisepha]

The feeling I'm getting is that Zoes whole clique could really be just one person. How are these people in any meaningful way distinct? They all worship the ground Zoe's walking, they all hate Aphrodite, they all agree on the same topics... they're just a useless echochamber.

[@BooksandBuns]

Well, no, you see, because one of the people in her clique is a gay man, & one of them is black, & those are very important distinctions! /s

[@Ellisepha]

@@BooksandBuns Of course, how could I try to erase the stereotypical token minority characters that are so important and not well written at all, and add a lot to the plot!!!

[@katharineeavan9705]

No, no, you see two of them don't have the vocabulary of most ten year olds, and the third has the vocabulary of a very uppity ten year old who doesn't realise his vocabulary is actually exremely average for a ten year old and thinks using long words unnecessarily is the epitome of intelligence. Those are character traits, apparently

[@nickywal]

Look one is gay, one is Jamaican and the other acts like a stereotypical black woman from the US because the Cast duo even managed to fuck that up and think black people act the same the world over.

[@nightmarefanatic1819]

I honestly think that after trying to come up with one or two superficially distinctive traits for Zoey, Stevie Rae and Damien, they realized they needed two more characters to complete the circle, ran out of any personality traits to set them apart from each other, and decided giving them the exact same personality was going to be their thing. But tee hee, wouldn't it be funny if these two people who acted exactly the same looked totally different from each other? And everyone calls them twins because they have the exact same personality despite them obviously not being twins? That's SO FUNNY, everyone is gonna be too focused on how funny we are to notice that we were too lazy to come up with even one not physical thing to differentiate these two characters!

[@ScarletGlitch]

I can't wait to watch this! I wonder if this is the book where we'll finally learn what the cherokee word for daughter is.

[@FlowerLeki]

IM CACKLING

[@darylesells19]

Pretty sure we learn that sometime in the next few books if I'm not mistaken. This might be the book where we learn that Zoey is gifted by the goddess Nyx and there's never been a fledgling like her before. Wait, no, that's also in the next book! Sorry for the spoilers.

[@FlowerLeki]

@Daryle Sells you just ruined the whole series I can't believe you gave away such a huge spoiler

[@scaredandconfused]

Warning: Spoilers!!! Zoey is not like the other fledglings

[@alisaurus4224]

I think it’s acceptable to mention that the first time it’s used per book, but not EVERY FRICKING TIME

[@lankyfishy]

I am so close to buying secondhand copies of these on eBay and rewriting the whole series from Aphrodite's perspective

[@ejedwards988]

I'd pay you a fiver and a packet of crisps to read that

[@lankyfishy]

@@ejedwards988 deal 🤝

[@mst3kharris]

I’d read it!

[@themarkgrayson]

lmao im literally making my own version with her as the main character where she gives up on Zoe and goes off on her own to fix everything

[@callyb.8322]

I literally went through the minuscule house of night section on ao3 trying to find something like this lol so I hope you'll do it or I might have to

[@momothehomo]

Ali saying Persephone wrong hurts me 💀 Aside from that I find it rather odd that Nyx claims to never take away gifts but.... she took Aphrodite's vampirism which makes her a liar or foolish enough to contradict herself.

[@TaurusWitch29]

I think the point was she took it as a sacrifice from aphrodite because aphrodite wanted to give stevie ray her humanity and being touched by Nyx, probably knew thats what needed to happen to restore Stevie ray. And then later she's still connected to Stevie ray by the imprint. But nyx gives aphrodite visions so she's still touched by the goddess and therefore still important and loved. Even though it should make sense, it's supposed to be a choice and a sacrifice so that it's not "nyx's fault" but that goddess is all up in their business pulling strings out of their asses all night long so she's definitely a contradiction. But maybe she's not supposed to be fair. She's only one God out of many in this lore haha.

[@momothehomo]

@@TaurusWitch29 so.... she's still a bitch since as far as i can recall it wasn't established that Aphrodite wanted that 💀 You'd think given how supposedly oppressed these vamps are she wouldn't inflict more pain onto the girl who seems to have suffered the most in this series. Like iirc didn't she end up giving her an existential crisis then went "lmao bye". You'tr absolutely right though it really is like she's pulling shit out her ass lol

[@sophiaako7663]

The authors must be doing a social experiment to see how terrible a book can be and still get published...that's what I tell myself so I can hold onto the last of my sanity

[@amberblackwell5614]

What gets me about House of Night is that they're vampires in that they drink blood but they're also witches in that they do nature magic through rituals devoted to a goddess but also fae in that they're described as having an unearthly grace and beauty. It's like they wanted to do the Dresden Files thing where lots of different mythologies commingle but couldn't be bothered to write something that complicated and so just rolled them all into one thing.

[@nikoblack1272]

i love them for being all that😂 i just hate Nyx and how their society works ( because it doesn't actually make sense )😅

[@yasminemixon9340]

They should have just called them something else and said that the stories of vamps, witches, and fae are just corrupted stories based on us.

[@mysideacc2770]

also the scene where zoey walks in while aphrodite is with darius makes me think of that one "you ARE having sex!" "oh you should have told me we're having sex, i would've put my book down" meme

[@Godzilla-Barbie]

Like honesty if it wasn’t actually a punishment, I’d ship Aphrodite and Zoe……… but Aphrodite does not deserve that

[@nightmarefanatic1819]

Why doesn't Nyx just take away Neferet's powers? So many people wouldn't have died if she had just done to her what she saw fit to do to Aphrodite. What a colossal douchette. Also I just thought of something. Why does Nyx choose fledgelings only to allow some of them to die a bloody, horrifying death? If she doesn't want them she can just turn them back into humans and let them live the rest of their lives normally. She turned Aphrodite into a human again, so it's something she can and will do if she wants to. Wow, what a wonderful loving goddess, forcing kids to become vampire fledglings only to kill some of them and to make the others live in fear that the same thing will happen to them if they don't isolate themselves away from their families with her adult followers.

[@desirient]

good to see alizee still can’t pronounce persephone… some things never change 💞

[@caseycronan9217]

Who told them is was a good idea to include all those reminders of basic elements of the plot? Surely no one who is on Book 4 needs to be reminded that the main character is a nocturnal vampire, right?

[@mysideacc2770]

finally figured out what these books remind me of. they read like a cn webnovel i tried to read a while back. it was one of those "mistreated and unfortunate female mc gets a 2nd chance at life when she's reborn back into her past self and uses her experience and knowledge of the future to get revenge on everyone and get her happy ending" stories, but the revenge was stuff like "this girl once made fun of me to look cool in front of her crush, so i'm going to frame her father in a scandal so her entire family becomes poor and everyone makes fun of her for not having nice clothes anymore". just the kind of stuff where you can tell it was written by a preteen or teenager because the story seems to have no idea how the world works and they're clearly just venting about something that annoyed them in school that day.

[@katharineeavan9705]

So what I'm getting from this is that we need another 12 books but have them be a Scum Villain's Self-Saving System style rewrite where some transmigrated weirdo changes the world for the better by accidentally turning Zoe gay and making her a simp?

[@EspiritoDeDafne]

Or mc could transmigrate AS Zoey and fall in love with Aphrodite, the one insteresting character But, to be more similar to SVSSS, mc should transmigrate as Nefereti and marry Zoey. Imagine that book

[@Schylove12]

The cat doesn’t sneeze and meow weird because it’s allergic to Zoey, she’s just allergic to bullshit (which is kinda the same thing)

[@stefanypesenti7473]

this used to be my favorite book series when I was a teenager, specially with all the crazy plot, I just didn't remember how crazy it was; it's nice to see someone giving this book the utter disrespect it deserves

[@SlapdashCatAttack]

If the Casts duo had any sense for continuity. Nyx speaking in the voice of “every mother” and kissing Zoey’s forehead juxtaposed with Grandma Redbird doing the same for Aphrodite but saying she didn’t know a mothers warmth could have been SOMETHING. Like an indicator Nyx isn’t on the ups. Ah well. (Also very excited for The docu!)

[@Rooteliea2]

Oooh I've been waiting for this! these videos of you suffering through house of night disasters are my absolute favorite!

[@Jadeeee2323]

Saaame

[@LaLadybug]

Yes this video just made my night so much better!

[@madcatter5293]

Fr

[@Ingemaja]

That scene where Zoey were whining about people staring at Neferets physical beauty… didn’t Zoey herself spend two pages fussing about Neferets looks in the first book? Did I just imagine that? (I might update this as I get further into the video) Edit: I didn’t add anything, but I did fix a typo

[@user-mh7db7ei1s]

It still just blows my mind that Zoey and her friends have the nerve to slut-shame Aphrodite when Zoey had three boyfriends in the previous book, soon to be four. Or five, but technically the fifth will be one of the Guys reincarnated.

[@greenstarlover1]

Dear god

[@vainpiers]

Otello is about otello being convinced his wife (desdimoda) is cheating on him by his advisors when she isn't and he gets so jealous and enraged he kills her then realises his mistake and kills himself.

[@katharineeavan9705]

Except literally the whole story is predicated on Othello being unhinged after years of racism and a campaign of poisonous gossip about how his wife, who is the only person in the story who ever treated him as a human being, could never really love a darker skinned man. And also, not that it would have justified her murder, but Desdemona never actually cheated. So like, not really the parallel to 3-boyfriend-Zoe and her two-month-aversary super popular (and as far as I can tell, not dark skinned despite his obsession with playing that character in particular) ex that they're trying to make it into

[@vainpiers]

@katharineeavan9705 I think you misread my comment. I know she never really cheated and was attempting to point out how it's not a good parallel. Although I did miss the racism angle since I worked on the opera and only knew the barest of bare bones about the plot (also it not being in English) and never stayed till the end.

[@Ibeabutterfly]

Aphrodite gives off such Cordelia Chase energy, they even both get really painful visions “tact is just not saying true stuff”

[@gemstonerose4648]

EXACTLY!

[@lilithhedwig5408]

And just as Cordy she's treated like shit by the writers 🙃 (although at least Cordy had a good run before that)

[@scaredandconfused]

So they'll just let any wattpad writer write a book nowadays, huh? Edit: ALSO, was their goal to make us absolutely hate the main character and instead root for the supposed bully? Because I'm only wishing the best for Aphrodite and hoping everyone else dies in the end

[@katr374]

I tell you I screamed when I saw the notification for this video! I've been waiting for this content 😮‍💨 I read the entire series in my early 20s, and even then, I could not get over the increasingly unhinged plot of these! Thank you for blessing my weekend with this 😂

[@TaurusWitch29]

Absolutely same lol. When it got to stark I was hollering. Lol

[@TaurusWitch29]

I need the whole series now in this video format lol

[@RackEmUpButtercup9376]

I think we've only ever been with Zoe in like 10 classes up until like the third book, and 90% of them were within the first couple days in the first book..... mind you, the setting is about Vampyre finishing SCHOOL. We barely got the SCHOOL part before ancient evil sexy himbo and Evil sexy mind-reader lady (but not really a mind reader.... sorta..... maybe) tear that part of the story apart. That's what you get when the pace is down-bad levels of fast. Love your commentaries btw, don't have time to read as much so it's nice to slap on some earphones n have you suffer for me.

[@m.g.4446]

As a girl who has actually had a guy kiss her hand, I cannot overemphasize how unromantic that actually is. Even if he was hot I think any attraction I once had for him would disappear. It might have helped if it was consensual but no woman is going to offer her hand to a guy she barely knows.

[@billuraral1870]

In my country, kissing someones' hand is the furtherst thing to romance. We mostly kiss our elders' hand as a sign of respect and/or love. We actually have a national holiday where small kids kiss their family members hands (grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc.) in exchance of money😂

[@ziah5640]

I’m so glad your ripping into this bc it’s my favorite bad book series, and your humor keeps me excited for future reviews ✨

[@missliss2581able]

A chaise lounge is a settee with one arm. I think we used to call them fainting couches here in the US during the victorian era. I used to have one, that damn thing was so comfortable lol I love these reviews, they are absolutely hilarious. One day I’m going to count how many times you tell them to shut up lmao

[@colorsaremyfrends]

QUEEN! these are some of my favorite videos that you do. They have turned into my comfort videos. I have a massive headache I cant wait to sit in a dark room and have this play quietly. also cant wait for the mockumentary it sounds like it soging to be such a good time

[@alaskaiscold_9296]

A crossover episode with Rachel Oates, criticizing the prophecy-poems in this series would be so awesome

[@rookideetrainer1635]

I saw a video by the channel EssenceOfThought from about a year ago on Rachel Oates I encourage anybody who sees this comment to check the video out for yourself, as it has some concerning evidence of Rachel not being as kind to everyone as she seems I do not come at this from any sort of hate for Oates; I only want people to see the evidence so they can make up their own minds

[@shy2infinity]

I know that these books just take pot shots at EVERY group, but goddamn there's way more ableism than I remember 😭

[@the_last_ballad]

Honestly it's less "pot shots" and more grape shot...

[@idavyregoodbarrel717]

I just wanted to say I'm so sorry you're reading this. My boyfriend and I are reading "Hopeless" by coho and it's so fucking draining, we actively feel our life force being sapped. So the fact you have powered through this shit is incredible

[@zguy2011]

Why am I so excited to hear someone talk about a book neither they nor I want to read

[@jo_helaci]

Also... If Zoe was decapitated, her head would live for up to 30 seconds on its own, without the body. It's absolutely absurd, but back when people got decapitated as punishment, some "research" was conducted, and it showed that human heads lived on, probably also knowing that their body was gone. So a gruesome and weird scene now got even weirder.

[@creaturetransylvania8943]

You are misunderstanding,you get your head chopped,you are dead instantly,no thoughts or thinking, what's alive for a little extra is the neurons doing some final communicating before also dieing.

[@Fimbulvetrstar]

these are honestly some of my favorite bad books ever, as someone who started reading them in middle school and then went on to read the whole series as an adult. it's amazing how horrible they are, like a train wreck you just can't look away from. can't wait to see you cover the next few books bc OH MAN the craziness of the plot is just something to behold and i love that these videos allow so many to see it all. additionally, as i actually own some of the books digitally, something has become apparent to me upon reopening some of the earlier books recently. it seems that the authors have been retroactively going back to take out some of the more egregious and offensive lines? i don't know for sure, but i think they've been completely writing out their constant use of the r slur entirely, the comparisons of POC skin tones to coffee colors, and a lot of the stereotypical writing surrounding damien's whole existence in the series (along w/ some other awkward/offensive things like zoey's constant judgement of people's physical appearances, etc.). i have NO idea when they started making these edits to the digital copies, and it doesn't change the fact that the actual plot to the series itself is just......... bad, but seeing the comparisons between the original text and the changes they've made now is really fascinating lmao.

[@elinabaranowski6737]

Can someone tell Zoey that the majority of her problems would be solved if the just STOPPED getting a new boyfriend every chapter and also only had ONE boyfriend at a time

[@brynnhambley7964]

I gasped and immediately clicked, I LOVE your videos on the YA books I read as a kid that I'm now realizing harmed me lmaoooo

[@pennyraehawkins9788]

Zoey having an affinity for all five elements could have worked if they went in more of an ATLA direction, like she had to do hard work and practice to master them all. I’ve always had an affinity for drawing, but I still had to practice to improve and my work has gotten worse the longer I’ve gone without practicing. Having your protagonist be effortlessly good at Literally Everything™️ isn’t just uninteresting, it’s lazy.

[@persephonenovak932]

I don't think it ever occurred to me just how deeply seeped these books are in biblical doctrine. As someone who attended Bible College, I genuinely know people who live like Zoe. Without the vampirism and supernatural elements. The unwavering devotion, the authority figures abusing their power, the self righteous and vindictive attitudes. Just watching this is bringing up a lot of memories and I can't believe I never realized it when reading these in middle school.

[@callmetaehyunggf]

this book series should be rewritten in aphrodite’s perspective, but by a different author

[@plutoh9958]

Just popping in to tell you I adore you actually finishing these terrible books. I love your asides. But also, reminding you about your tetanus shot and your porn parody and reptilian book. I'm reminding you because you told us to remind you. Adore you Alizee

[@fowlmarlee]

The more you remind me of what happens in this book the more I'm convinced that it damaged me as a kid because I wanted to be like Zoey. And no one should want to be like Zoey.

[@frankensteinlives]

Nyx has a lot of nerve to say "Once I give a gift, I never take it away," to Aphrodite of all people.

[@jackiebee183]

Idk if anyone has already explained "bowing up" but if not, allow me. It's pronounced "bo" like a bow and arrow and it's referencing the arched "bow" shape a rattlesnake's body makes when they are being threatening (and other types of snakes probably idk??). To "bow up" is to get aggressive toward someone. Just another southern American turn of phrase that confuses everyone else on the planet. 😅 Also, love that you are continuing with this series! Your reviews are a treasure.

[@littlekishmish]

i’m depressed and your videos help with keeping me distracted from the sadder thoughts. i truly enjoy them and your humor a lot and i can’t wait for the mockumentary! :)

[@shaelynmartin1996]

You know, I kinda wonder how the Cast duo wrote these books. Because the longer it goes on, the more it seems like the mother Cast wrote the initial books herself and then passed them over to her daughter in the editing phase to "teen it up." Like, make it sound like actual teenagers and stuff. And if that is the case, I wonder how much better it would've worked if *just* the mother had written the books. Because in the sections were it's low-key clear that only the mother wrote it, things seem relatively interesting. Dark, ominous, adult character, no weird judgments.

[@DeathMelodies]

That "And I used to stress about Geometry!" gave me visceral flash backs to Onision's book where he's like "Well I guess that means I can't run for school president!" And I wish to perish in minecraft

[@macklyon7476]

22:33 “Y’all were like Romeo and Juliet.” And just like Romeo and Juliet, they were not a romance. Just a tragedy. Different types of tragedies though. R&J is the genre tragedy. This series is just tragic.

[@LunarLyss]

I would totally watch a HoN series with you in it Alizee! Also def gonna watch the doc/mockumentary

[@taylorkorn6842]

What mockumentary? 😮

[@melbajd6849]

“Bowing” instantly put me in high school crica 2005. (southern US) ‘Bowing/throwing ‘bows is like a fight using elbows. For some reason this phrase was popular back then.

[@ИевлеваКатя]

Commenting for the engagement bc i need this series to continue to know how this ungodly story ends but i'd rather die than read the books myself

[@EllieBelle1993]

I need all of the books read to me by Alizee 😂 yes 👏

[@9gagHasMySoul]

Read this as a young teen (like 13?) and I remember me and a friend takung inspiration from the series and lowkey "worshipping" nyx for, like, a couple months but hearing you review it is making me realise how terrible it was, on all levels

[@youchuube4534]

oh my god yes yes yes I needed this thank you my u we tis a ge ya (Cherokee word for daughter, it warms your heart)

[@yennefer440]

Lmao

[@AlizeeYeezy]

hahaha

[@captainjuliab]

these have become my biggest comfort videos. if you finish this whole series I will weep from joy

[@KewlImp]

Chapter 7 - Aphrodite could have used that moment to point out how little they must be friends if they are willing to abandon Zoey quickly after a teacher seduces her. Chapter 13 - Melodramatic. There is so much wrong with the idea of 'I've met you and fall in love' three times. This isn't explained. It isn't even treated like its a part of Zoey just being more passionate than her peers. Did Heath cheat or something? No. Heath is a douche, but she screwed him over time after time. Heath is too good for her. Chapter 18 - This is the first time after the first book that Aphrodite is doing something bad. She is going to lead a guy on. Chapter 19 - Never betrayed you in my heart... only my genitals. Chapter 23 - Well... we have the make the gay character even gayer. He's a poetry buff Chapter 25 - 'But my gut' means, they didn't have a good reason because vampyre queen wasn't given real character. Chapter 32 - Why is Stark so awesome in her life? Why is it worth breaking the circle? Beta readers would have helped with this. They need beta readers. There are way too many whys here. If at any point a character's action doesn't make sense, you must have a solution or reason.

[@allendavis3663]

Yeeeesssssss! I've been waiting for you to continue the House of Night (Seriously, your retelling of it is golden and super entertaining) Thank you Aizee! You are a God amongst us mortals for going through this torture for us ^_^

[@Jadeeee2323]

Saaaaame omg

[@quagsirelover7935]

real

[@HarmlessHagoftheWoods]

After the forth or fifth set of 'Damian said' 'Aphrodity said' 'another character said' I started to get highly annoyed with this book. Absolutely love your videos and the way you read these books; they are perfect for listening to when at work.

[@quicksilveryt4000]

I agree SO hard on this! Haven't seen anyone else talk about this but the 'said' spam is unbearable

[@sadiesullenger3334]

words can’t express how long i’ve been waiting for this! if i remember correctly, i read the first three books of this series before subsequently vomiting, giving up, and moving on to something better. so the catharsis from this is fantastic. keep up the great work!

[@NobodyMan0]

The dynamic I wrote between a deposed Drow Matriarch and her Warlock consort is healthier than this group of “best friends”.

[@spacecase-cadet]

I have been anxiously waiting for this one! So so glad you are back! You are the best to have on in the background to make me feel motivated! There is something so cathartic about listening to someone make fun of a series that you didn't like as a teen! I love it!

[@jemmae8909]

Thanks for doing this series! I rewatch the other videos all the time so I'm happy to see another one.

[@SanjaSleipnir]

Same here!!

[@anamaccy]

So happy to see another upload and another HOUSE OF NIGHT TAKEDOWN no less!! Honestly you say you’re just being cranky on main so much but for real, I read Twilight and House of Night religiously as a tween when I was experiencing some pretty bad s**ual ab*se and I received a diagnosis (finally) of complex ptsd a few months ago - and it’s actually so healing to hear you break down all the toxicity in these books and the rubbish they perpetuate because honestly I think they played a big part in my own worldview and cycles of ab*se I allowed myself to remain in (not in a victim self blaming way more that I thought it was ‘normal’ ) growing up - so thank you for that queen!

[@lacey_lace_edc1152]

I forgot that Persephone is the name of the horse. I saw the clip about Grooming Persephone makes her feel better and just thought..well that escalated quickly.

[@wormsonstring]

By the end of this series zoey redbird is gonna hold the world record for the world's most tattoos

[@the_last_ballad]

By the end she's just going to be Mistique from the X-men

[@anaiswinter9893]

Thank you. Had a terrible night having to socialize and it exhausted the hell out of me. When I came home to the notification of your video, my nerves calmed and I had so many laughs. Thank you for doing more for my mental health than six fucking different medications do. Definetly interested in the mockumentary. Always take your time. I gladly wait for quality.

[@Picking.a.name.is.hard1]

Im so mad because I think the core idea of these books is pretty cool! New ish take on Vampires, Vampire schools, cool warriors that for some reason talk like medieval knights, fancy tattoos. Aphrodite as a character is actually very cool, and feels very real. Its just the Mary Sue protagonist and the awful pacing that ruin it. Id actually be interested in seeing this Vampire world and exploring it with the characters. E.g. Darius being a warrior, why do they talk like that? Why arent there female warriors too? Do they have to talk like tht and then in their barracks they just be like "hey bro, so how was training?"? I like the Vampyre hogwarts type thing, the affinities and powers etc. The exexution is just SO BAD.

[@liv-_E]

Yay I your videos about this series! I unfortunately read all these books in my early teens but I only remember thinking Aphrodite and Stevie Rae should date and absolutely nothing else about the story or characters ☠

[@Maedaisy8]

Heath is just treated like trash this whole series and spoiler ******* His death is just glossed over like the only downside to him dying was it made Zoe sad not that someone’s son DIED under the assumption he was on a safe school trip.

[@Goreki]

these books were donated to the used bookshop I work in a couple of months ago. I haven't read them because the Alizee Yeezy dramatic readings are the only way I want to consume trash novels ever again.

[@swimmyswim417]

2:50 ok this is literally My Immortal shit “lol get it cus im goffick XD” Not that we needed more Zoey Dark’ness Dementia Ravenway, but I was not expecting the edge lord prose to be that bad for literally the first lines 😂

[@greenstarlover1]

Ebony x Zoey?...... No, that's too far.

[@Nezuko-bi1gj]

Bruh you are single handedly reviving this series for real

[@lexa_daisy]

You posted this right as I was trying to find the motivation to clean the house… this is perfect. Bad because now I have no excuses not to clean the house, but still perfect

[@RuinedSilver]

The unbelievable irony that Zoe's drama with Eric replaced the lesson in drama class

[@Pseudoknickname]

1:06:40 from what i remember of the book this scene pisses me off so much because after reading it, i am 100% convinced neither of the Cast duo have actually read Othello. The scene from Othello they pick is the one where Othello is telling Desdemona to confess her sin to God before he kills her for cheating on him. But if you actually read the full story you know that Othello is in the wrong, being manipulated by his friend Iago into killing her. Desdemona was entirely faithful. Now if they wanted to draw parallels between the characters in the play and Erik and Zoey, then they should have had Zoey reading as Othello, and Erik Desdemona. But they went with literally the most surface level take they possibly could have! I've barely read either of these stories and i was able to actually draw proper parallels between these characters! Cast duo, i am begging you, please, actually learn how to use symbolism and properly draw parallels between characters!!! Dont just read the surface level text of a story and assume it makes narrative sense!!!!

[@shoelaceunited]

I was like, "I'd really like to listen to a book review." Opened KZbin, and this was posted 3 minutes ago! ❤️

[@DraggingBallZ]

"And once I give a gift, I never take it away." But... you gave and took away Aphrodite's earth power?

[@LifeJustSlappedMeWithNunchucks]

And vampirism 😂😂😂

[@chelscara]

31:53 *sirens blaring* this is not a drill, first use of _~the Cherokee word for daughter~_ this video

[@abigailmcarthur-self8013]

re: general cultural appropriation in this books, Shekinah (or Shekhinah) is a Jewish concept. It's a word for the presence of G-d, and is feminine in Hebrew so is sometimes used to refer to the feminine aspects of divinity as well. It feels super fucking weird to me that they named they're high vampire priestess to the goddess Nyx after one of our names for G-d. Did they just google like, divine feminity/goddesses when they were coming up with their vampire names and steal from everyone, even if it makes no sense?? I myself did a quick google just to see if any other cultures/religions use 'shekinah' as a term, and it didn't seem like it. I could be wrong -- it might not be exclusively Jewish -- but I'd wager my student loans that if there are other Abrahamic/Levantine cultures that talk about the Shekinah, the Cast duo did jackshit as far as research on them either. Not nearly as aggregious as the Cherokee appropriation going on, of course, but it still felt worth pointing out. Stop dragging closed, marginalized cultures into your weird YA vampire book!

[@elliephantom]

I like to forget that at one point I liked these books. The two things that always set me off about them, though, were Zoey's extreme childishness, and how they took the personification of Night from Greek mythology (which, mind you, Nyx was originally a badass Goddess that even Zeus was terrified of), and turned her into.... whatever they hell this shite claims. Granted, Vampirism has a history all over the world, with many different myths and stories depicting it, but this? It made me think Richelle Meade's books turning into that Netflix-worthy, vomit-inducing, fish-eye-lens-heavy piece of garbage was the best thing to happen since flare jeans made a comeback in the 90s. At least it kept this train wreck from being made into a movie. (Edited because I'm dyslexic and rely too much on autocorrect to fix spelling mistakes that it doesn't always pick up on)

[@seraphina1724]

Imagine introducing your friends to the audience but you're part of a gay friend group so it's just "this is my gay friend grace and my gay friend Rick and my gay friend Lelani and my gay friend daquan and my gay friend-" for an entire page

[@seraphina1724]

I'll come back and edit this comment when I think of something better to write. I just wanted to comment for engagement

[@billcipher_w]

At the beginning of chapter 9 34:50 it's the first description of a poc's skin color (in the entire series) that compared it to something other than food/coffee.

[@NomNom3D]

AHH THANK YOU! It's spring break and all of my friends went home so I'm being a hermit with no human contact for the next week.. Thank you for this 2 hours of entertainment 😭

[@megangrayson4064]

I've been waiting for this video to drop!! I'm watching these for nostalgia instead of suffering through the reread myself! Thank you for your service 😂😂

[@auramint]

Nyx, decked out in Zoey Redbird Merch: I love all my children equally! Aphrodite: Um… Nyx? I need to ask you about my vampirism… Nyx: Ah, my favorite child- Uh… Aphrodite: Aphrodite. Nyx: Oh yes, Asparagus! What do you need?

[@Sarah-zm4ko]

I own all of these books. They were my favorite as an Oklahoman teenager 😭 I've read them so many times but they are sooo cringey now reading them as an adult. To be fair, they're still my guilty pleasure.

[@darylesells19]

Fellow Oklahoman here that as a teen collected all of the HON book series myself (I still have a couple of the spin off books). I gave the OG series away a few months back after not being able to stomach reading through them again, talk about bad writing / pacing. By the end of it all Neferet was a borderline Saturday morning cartoon villain. The Stevie Rae and Rephaim romance was admittedly my favorite part of the series next only to the real main character herself Aphrodite and her incredibly healthy, devoted, and boundary respecting warrior Darius. I always liked reading chapters from Aphrodite's POV and wish more than anything this series had been in the hands of competent writers so she could've been in her rightful place as the protagonist of the House of Night.

[@sam.onella]

54:39 as a gay, this screams "hey all you gays that have a natural, EARNED prejudice towards, bias against, and fear of religious people-- check it out! youre so totally wrong! not everyone that believes in God judges you like you think! just like me! so stop thinking we all suck!"

[@_laurenolo_]

praise be to Alizee for another House of Night video, I was beginning to have withdrawals! 🙌

[@justjasmine2635]

Listening to you talk about these books while I'm working is by and far one of my fave things, so thank you for torturing yourself for us like this.