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When Turning Your Brain Off is Necessary | A Review of Nightbane
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- What if Lightlark, but worse?
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Light? Larked
Night? Baned
It's Isla time
I loved when Isla said:
"It's nightbanning time"
And nightbanned all over those guys
Hotel? Trivago
@@iceyflowergamer4474Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters
@raul13339 I shouldn't have spent a full minute laughing at that, and yet I did.
Isla? And!
Imagine being royalty and having the surname crown. Hi, I’m a construction worker. You can call me Mr. OSHA-approved head protection.
lmfao
Lol!
Oh, dear. You've created an intersection between this channel's comments and the reviews for 'The Acolyte'. The poor algorithm is going to start glitching. 😹
Interestingly enough, surnames were originally based on a person's occupation i.e. Baker, Carpenter
the acolyte lol
I don’t know how to explain it, but Aster’s writing style has the same energy as spending hours making pretty Sims and building their house then playing for 20 minutes before you get bored.
Perfectly put 👏
yeah that's a perfect summary actually
Same feeling with animal crossing
That feels ridiculously accurate
You explained it perfectly!
The age gap between Oro and Isla is akin to someone alive during the reign of Henry VIII dating a college student in 2024.
Not to mention so many people thinking he was old man until book art came out 😭
@@mirimariana WAS HE ACTUALLY NEVER DESCRIBED?! I thought Krim just left the descriptions out of his videos, but was Aster actually _that_ lazy??
@@ComedyPlastic OH MY GOD???? THAT'S SO FOUL HELLO??????
@@Acidfrog475 yes, Aster is that lazy
That would make a funnier book tbh. An immortal who accidently took a centuries long nap woke up under a college and is like "What year is this?" and everyone just thinks this immortal had a killer brain altering trip lol.
*DEAR LORD MAN, THIS IS AS LONG AS A WORK SHIFT!*
Then you know when to watch it!
Mine are 12. I can watch this video and still have time to work. 😅
it's perfect. now i can get thru my shift 🎉
Spy voice: “Perfect”
I work 12s so....
"I'm excited for people to meet Grim because everyone loves him, and also the other one" so we know who the author prefers from that alone LMAO
Yuuup. There is quite simply no way for a paranormal romance or a romantasy book to introduce a love triangle between The Dark One and The Light One and not immediately and obviously choose the dark.
Girlie genuinely forgot to give Oro a single dimension in book 1. 💀
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Book Two and he’s still got about as much dimension as a blank piece of paper
@@goodnight-moon564that’s an insult to paper, at least with a blank paper you can write a personality on it
@@Beepers559
You’re right! I’m so sorry to paper! Is it too late for a notes app apology?
Tbh it reminded me about one Chinese author who doesn't remember her own MCs name. But this Chinese author just had too much fun with her world building and stuff. She also has a shitton of novels already, so I think it's easy for her to just forget how one of her male leads is named ( esp because she writes BL)
I like how in a story where the Gold king is named Oro (Gold in Italian/Spanish) Rey (King in Spanish), the blue man Azul (Blue in Spanish), The girl named Isla (Island in Spanish) Crown (Leader) who would be the leader of these dumb fantasy islands, and the star woman named Celestia(l), you are shocked that the author would just name a cat another cat
Honestly, it would've been kinda funny if Isla had only thought that "Lynx" was the cat's name (and maybe consider it a little redundant or stupid at the moment) until she's corrected by Wren saying its name is actually "Link" because her mother liked wordplay wanted to lean into the idea of them being "bonded." Also, while it would still be very shallow, it would be fit given this cat is Isla's only real _link_ back to her mother.
Don't forget the 'spooky darkness and death' guy named Grim!
The names in these books annoy me to no end because each one of them is so on the nose and just so basic if you understand basic Spanish (and English). Especially Oro sounds really bad. Testament to how incompetent Aster is as a writer.
@@chansesturm7103 Link is also an actual name as opposed to naming a big wild cat a smaller wild cat species
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What boggles me is you can easily google "baby names that mean" and get tons of good options for names! You can look in fairytales and folk tales, like i don't understand why she made them SO basic when even basic recourses can produce better names that are on the nose but take more googling to figure out
I love that in response to someone calling his 7h video unreasonable, he makes an 8h video about the sequel.
Calling it now: Book 3 will be no less than 9 hours.
@kylematthews5438 Then if she writes more we'll get 10 and 11 hour videos, I think we'll have to deify Krimson at that point.
@@thealexellucas You don't already? I stopped believing this man was human around the Empress Theresa days xD
Aster: Out here living my best author life!
Booktube: Why are your characters so flat?
Aster: This isn't about them
The fact Aster in that interview called Oro "the other one" instead of by his actual name is telling enough about how little she cares about writing a good story
I feel bad for my man Oro
Fr, i remember almost every character i make even the small time characters have basic backstories i can't imagine forgetting a MAIN CHARACTER
@artsyscrub3226 yeah same, I'm a sort of writer who starts with characters and goes from there so I can't even comprehend forgetting the main leads' own names. Alex Aster just sucks
To any genuine writer, characters are like your babies, you'd love it if the world could see and admire them.
@@Hello-hello-hello456That's exactly how I feel (not published).
i love cari can read!! and i found it funny when she said it didn’t warrant a 7 hour review , cause I was like: hmmm maybe, BUT I WANT IT???? PLEASE DON’T DISCOURAGE HIM 😭
like if YOU DONT GIVE US A 7 HOUR REVIEW OF TRASHY BOOKS WHO WILL? PLEASEEEE
Cari forgot that podcasts exist, apparently. Like sometimes people listen to them to fall asleep or while at work or doing chores? Crazy. Who would have thought. And there's content throughout the whole 7 hour video, it's not nothing or mindless rambling. I don't see an issue with it so I don't know why she does.
I really thought it was a good natured jab. 7 hours is a long time! It's silly, but we can love something that's silly.
Does anyone really believe that Cari is rude enough to want to tear someone down with legitimate scorn?
Right! I love these long tear down videos from Krimson and others like Alizee and withcindy. It’s not necessarily that the books are “bad enough” to deserve that level of scrutiny, but just like… I want to listen to really detailed book content? I also like the positive content. Very few people in my life are interested, able, or have the time to sit and talk about a book, especially a bad book, for that long or that minutely. I appreciate the word-by-word attention. In my case the negative ones don’t even hurt the book-I was never going to read it anyway.
And yeah, honestly, I appreciate the critical content. It’s not gatekeeping to be critical and hold books to a standard of either quality or entertainment value. It’s helpful in shaping the culture of recommendations, educating and putting forth a culture of amateur critique and media literacy, and also helpful as a writer.
@@VeronicaWarlock Yeah exactly. It's not about deserving it or not, it's more detailed analysis of the actual content.
It's not reaaaaally a review. It's an analysis. And that's what it is
Aster just doesn’t think past aesthetics and cute ideas and that explains 80% of the worldbuilding plot holes.
she’s really just in it for the glittery tropes she can use to advertise on social media for fame and money.
she doesn’t want to be a writer, she wants to be internet famous
Nailed it. She’s like the aesthetic of the craft but doesn’t respect it at all. Hard pass.
This is the kind of writing I distaste.
It's not made for the art but for the views
Just soulless,vapid slop.
She should try reality TV like the Kardashians, then your job is literally to be famous for the sake of being famous
To be fair, some writers are better at character and story than worldbuilding.
But that's not the case here. Here she's just a bad writer.
As a reminder, isla stole rulership from celeste/aurora, so not only would the wildlings die if she does, so would all the starlings. Every life-threatening thing she does is risking DOUBLE the usual amount of lives
Wait, I thought that wasn't a thing anymore after the curse was broken? I'm confused DX
@@viking-astronaut that was not the curse that got broken. They broke the realm specific ones (starlings die at 25, sunlings can't go in the sun, etc). The people dying if their ruler dies was a separate curse unrelated to the curse breaking events of the previous book
@@Fischohnerad17 */slaps the cover of Lightlark/* This bad boy can fit so many different curses into it.
@@Fischohnerad17 that's not even a curse it's just how the world works
@@sornyeilevente973 yet it is so poorly defined that I have thought of what if someone declares themself as the new ruler and stages a Coup de grâce?
would the powers that be just see them as the new ruler as simple as passing the torch, or does whoever die have to have the crown on their head or something?
what if it turns out that the rulers for the past few years are actually from an illegitimate heir?
like- this is what happens when you poorly define things!
I’ve spent the last year or so thinking that Grim’s full name was Grimdark and I only just learned that I was wrong, it’s actually Grimshaw. Like her worldbuilding and naming conventions are so lazy I genuinely didn’t even think twice about her naming her violent edgy guy Grimdark
Lol! Same!
Naming him Grimdark would’ve been pretty funny at least.
Me too! And yeah, I didn’t really question it but I found it funny, like I love using weird names but that’s just too on the nose
It should be Grimdark; that would show a tiny bit of humor at least.
It would have shown at least a tiny bit of self awareness.
When Aster said she was excited for everyone to "meet the characters" I actually yelled. Girl, we are in the second book, what do you mean "meet" them? We were supposed to do that in the first book. You know, when the characters were introduced and we spent 500 pages following them around? If even she considers the second book to be the first time really meeting them at all, then that just indicates she failed to characterize them at all in the first book, even by her own standards.
the way aster writes and world-builds is like the grown-up version of those stories you'd write in elementary school that had zero continuity or coherence because you made it up as you went along based on what sounded cool at the time. just total stream of consciousness, interjecting new ideas literally as you come up with them.
Absolutely! All enthusiasm and whatever you were obsessed with at the time without understanding why those stories worked. You were just eager to stick your favorite parts into your story, have your friends go nuts for getting the reference and keep playing with the troupes.
3:35:16 Saying"You're dying, Cleo injured you" to someone who was injured by Cleo and is dying... Top notch writing right there 👌👌
Well, She wouldn't have known she was dying and injured if someone hadn't told her.
Top notch writing if you ask me 👌🏾☺️
@@mirimarianadefinitely the most natural dialogue to have ever dialogued 👏👏
“Don’t worry, she left me alive long enough to give you, main character, the plot details you needed from me. I was born to exposit to you MC” is the most line of all time
Due to the lack of description of Oro from the LightLark video I imagined him as an older man in his 50s or 60s. So him being the love interest at the end caught me off guard
There is official artwork for the books and Oro looks like Peeta from the Hunger Games with a crown. There's definitely a huge dissonance there lol
Yeah I thought the same in the Lightlark video.
@@Flareontoast I've always imagined Oro as a bald black man in his mid-30s draped entirely in gold (Mansa Musa style [for the record, Grim was in my head black-haired Sephiroth]), what do you mean he looks like PEETA!?
Edit: I googled the official pictures of the characters and turns out my image of Oro is literally what Azul looks like. The only dark-skinned Ruler is the one with the least screentime, the dead husband, and (in theory) least amount of direct power because he's the monarch of a democracy. Azul's Personality section on the fandom wiki literally only says TBA. Fucking WOW.
@@Flareontoast so he's NOT a older distinguished gentleman with silvered blue hair and respectable crows feet around his eyes and taut laugh lines around his lips? That's uh, all right.
Literally my same thought; like I pictured an older man with life experience and an air of authority, the hell you mean he's a fresh faced love interest?
Okay, here's my interpretation of the whole fish block metaphor.
The Moonlings brought the ice, undoubtibly from thier homeland, with fish still alive and stuck insode. He then claims that the people are stuck on the island.
In short, it's about pegging.
💯
perfect I completely understand
Honestly, I’m willing to accept that for now on all metaphors in Masochistic Tango are just about pegging. It makes everything better.
Every time you mention Isla's bodyguards I have to remember who they are. Truly the most characters of all time
Alex Aster: Same, dude. Same.
"Oh no, their names are so generic!"
-Orihime Inoue (abridged)
"oh, were they here the whole time??"
The fact that it being recounted almost sounds climactic until an excerpt from the actual text is read out loud
The sad thing about Lightlark is that you can almost imagine it being decent, if tropey. Then you read literally any of it in execution and it's beffudlingly incompetent
krimsonrogue talkin like a proud father in the first few minutes.
He gives major dad energy in general tho or is that just me?
@@theshinypeliper8813 He's not mad at this book, just disappointed 😂
Turns out when you make 7 hour videos about writing theory, your fans pick up a few things on how to defend a thesis professionally 😂 🎉
I can’t wait to fall asleep to this, wake up and have to rewatch what I missed over & over again until I finally finish it 💀
I’ve never had an original experience
Same
Glad I'm not the only one
but have you tried falling asleep to it... and when you wake up the video is still going because it's just that long?
@@someguydoesstuff3337 that happened to me this night, it's even better that way. Like a mini spoiler that I'll get to in a week and a half
So many thoughts, including that the Wildings shouldn't be farming but should be a hunter gatherer community. However, the one that won't leave my mind is an image of Krimson years from now, old and grey, still muttering about how the blood didn't do the thing.
I find the small detail of the starlings using passages to store bodies to be a massive oversight on aster’s part, since it would have been an absolutely perfect solution for the wildling’s heart-eating-curse. celeste and isla were friends-they could have mutually benefitted each other’s realms, since they were both worst off by far. they could’ve worked together. wildlings could’ve been given the hearts of the starlings who passed, and could’ve helped work the essential jobs to keep starling society afloat. they could have combined into one society to survive; especially after 500 years.
the fact that aster never put any ACTUAL thought into how the people of the realms would adapt to survive after the curses is extremely telling. everything about her entire universe is so surface level it’s honestly insulting. there may as well only be about twenty people in her entire world.
Tbh, the idea of two peoples - one who can only survive on cannibalism, and one who's very short-lived - uniting for their mutual benefit sounds like a cool idea on paper. You could do something with that. Would the cannibals hold up their respect for the short-lived ones over their generations? Or would they eventually abuse them, and turn them into nothing more than food?
A skilled writer could make something interesting out of that.
@@Ellisephathis. This this this. The idea that fae would have western human praxis about cannibalism is just
Why even write about faeries then
@@Lucifersfursona Oh my god, now that you mention it, they do sound more like fae than humans.
Live for centuries, nature-based factions, overcomplicated magic system, curses, literal divine right of kings...
Would even make sense with the people who give up their powers to get uncursed to be the obvious humans. Fuck. Now I want to rewrite Lightlark with those concepts in mind. This could've been so cool!
Not now babe, my favourite booktubber dropped an 8,5 hour video of a book I don't even read
"Understandable, have a nice day"
1:48:10 "She thinks about pulling on the family jewels to make Grim come" - I'm sorry, what?? That scene took a quick turn, that's for sure...
LMAO
It's a reference to the first book. Grim gave her a family heirloom, some sort of jewelry (I forget the details), and she has to rub it or tug on it, and he'll appear next to her in order to help her. Crimson just phrased it the best/worst way possible. X)
I was about to comment this same thing 😭😂 I’m glad some one else noticed lmao
I wonder if the author secretly hoped that someone would describe it like this. In a world that's full of ill-explained magical tricks, she might have devised any way to summon him, and she went for jewels and tugging...
Glad we’re all on the same page lol I had a small giggle at this myself
I’ve always hated “love triangles” because literally every damn one I’ve seen is never actually a triangle. It’s just a corner with some poor woman having to pick between two men😭
Grim and Oro would be an interesting couple actually. Least they're going for someone who's actually around their age
And honestly, it's more like a single couple but there's some other dude trying to muscle in. Characters like Oro or Jacob Black are never real options in-universe or in the mind of the author
I legit squealed when this came up. Hearing people complain about terrible books
1. Is one of my favorite pasttimes, and
2. Boosts my confidence regarding my own writing abilities.
if you read one of them, your confidence will get an even bigger boost. it’s highkey why i sometimes pick up booktok recs 😂
@@tiddlesmajoris823 As someone who has been an avid reader since I could understand words, I do think (for reasons I won't get into now) people are being waaaayyyyyyyy too overdramatic when they wail that "booktok is destroying reading" (when an emo theater kid is telling you that you're being too overdramatic, *you're being too overdramatic*). I agree (mostly) with what KrimsonRouge said in another video: "Quite frankly, as long as you're reading, you're doing something right and I don't care".
But HOLY FUCK some of the stuff that gets popular there makes me even more scared for humanity than I already am.
It also helps my writing, ngl. There have been a few times Krimson called out something from one book and I vividly recalled doing exactly that in one of my own 😬
@@juliastrawn2113agreed! the increase in reading that booktok’s spawned is great. i do just wish they’d branch out after picking up the hobby 😓
You and me both, haha. I have an intense love for incredibly long deep dives into garbage books.
45:28 "Make me look like a sword, more blood than blade" I kind of just envisioned the tailor covering Isla in a gallon of movie prop blood and calling it a day
Carrie but make it high fantasy lol
Like that gag in a Garfield strip I remember; he's performing on the fence, calls for makeup and he gets clocked by a powder puff as big as he is.
@@noga9895 "They're all gonna laugh at you!"
unpopular opinion but i think it wouldn't be such a bad description if it was anything but directions she gave the tailor lmao
@@ok_nope I read this without any context whatsoever (browsed through the comments when I paused the video) and I really liked the sentence. A lot. It's just such a shame that it seems it wasn't used to its full potential.
Re: “Don’t ever give up.” As someone who’s worked in publishing, that IS good advice for aspiring authors, as long as you understand that it means never giving up on improving your writing and looking for the publishing route that will work best for you. Unfortunately, too many writers think it means taking their first draft and relentlessly hounding publishers who it wouldn’t be a good fit for even if it weren’t a mess. Most publishers have specific genres and audiences they cater to, and if you submit something completely out of their wheelhouse, of COURSE you’ll be rejected. And sometimes it’s just inopportune timing-they can only publish so many books a year, so if they already have a full schedule with established authors that fit current trends, that’s a factor too. Do your homework, be smart about which avenues you spend time pursuing, and hone your craft the same as any other professional skill, and that will make you much more likely to succeed.
It's wrong advice though too. Sometimes, you do need to give up on certain projects. Not every idea is a winner. It's important to be able to write an complete something, and be okay with setting it aside and never publishing it. Case in point, Lightlark.
@@Sarah27H Well, yeah, that's what he meant by never giving up on improving your writing. I think Lightlark could've been a quite decent book and has a good idea behind it, it's just that Aster isn't the best writer, and, instead of accepting that fact and revising and editing Lightlark, she just went to BookTok.
It's *wild* to me that someone sat down with the idea "have the dark, brooding love interest start a war instead of talk about his feelings" and not only stuck with it completely but never connected the dots of how that makes him a monster.
And the fact that Isla will probably still choose him at the end of the series… I’ll be polite and just say I find the idea disturbing.
Babe! Wake up! Krimson posted the Nightbane review!!
Edit: THE GASP I GASPED WHEN KRIMSON SAID THERE WAS MORE PASSION IN EMPRESS THERESA-
Like I put down my Apple Pencil and had to cover my mouth. I know I’m being dramatic but WHAT A WAY TO ABSOLUTELY DECIMATE A BOOK.
@@SpookyScarletShadow I mean...to be honest, I don't think there are many authors who are more passionate about their characters than Norman was about Theresa, because most authors don't covertly (or maybe, overtly) want to screw their fictional characters. Which, let us not forget that Theresa was barely 18 when he pulled a Stephanie Meyers and made her get married and pregnant...
That is 2 novels that are potentially worse than Empress Theresa.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValleyWell, remember he's clearly a Christian fundamentalist, so that's not really surprising.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley plus there was like hints or something that he might have aged her up to barely 18 from his first editions
@@farkasmactavish The brood of kids she eventually has is definitely proof of that and I think he even had her trying to replace the population of Earth with her own bloodline, like many of these people believe 😖.
And yet, remember kids, NONE of the book mentions religion! (even though Krimson points out on page one a religious reference, lol!)
It's awesome to hear about everyone being so polite in defending you, that's the kinda fanbase I can be proud to be part of.
Me too. I’ve done nothing, but I’m just so proud of the nothing I’ve done.
Really something I enjoy admitting
What I find super relatable to Asters writing is that I too don't remember or care about what happened in Lightlark
The fact she wrote "the door slammed closed" instead of "the door slammed shut", will haunt me. For a while.
Like. Closed is such a soft word compared to shut. It lacks that oomph you know?
I guess it does however warn you of what lies ahead in quality of writing?
lightlark feels like what happens if you get your initial ideas while listening to music and then just... never expand on them. no thoughts, no worldbuilding, no character development, just vibes. (said as someone who tends to get ideas from music lol the whole concept for the series is very much like something i'd come up with *before* i ran it by a friend and thought about it for longer than 5 minutes)
It’s lovely that you cultivated such a kind community. I’m proud of everyone here for being so polite!! 😊
Now it’s time to CONSUME THIS BEAST OF A VIDEO 👀
Well, of course the fan base is patient, you have to be to sit through ***8 HOURS OF A BAD BOOK REVIEW***
@@cassandrapearsall4328 8 hours of entertainment is not a test of my patience. Watching 500 short videos would be.
You might even say that we’re excited to sit through it.
@@cassandrapearsall4328 i mean the review itself is entertaining and helpful
Oh I remember lightlark's primary problem now! It wants to have edgy vibe without actually committing to it. Isla constantly being catcalled as heart eater and other badass insults by one of the love interest despite being the only person in her tribe that doesn't eat heart is the most memorable for me.
Glad to see nightbane still holds true to the tradition--giving the vibe of "the misunderstood one" by npcs acting like no one believes her while everyone doing anything plot important easily believes her.
Aster wants to make a dark world without having to actually make anything dark. Either that or she has a very immature, surface level understanding of what's "dark"
Yeah Idk why she made the curse so gory but the main character never eats hearts and I feel like Aster could've played with that and made it why people were distrusting of Isla. Why does Isla get to be ruler yet she never went through the curses? what does she know right. But Aster never really did this, which is kind of what I was hoping for so it could matter and show how Isla could get closer to her people and maybe be more dedicated to ruling. But since nothing came of it, It's so out of place in my opinion.
@@angelambrosia6397
- Im 90% sure the only reason Wildlings have the hearteating curse is so Aster could shoehorn Grim and Oro call Isla "heart-eater" then "heart", it never once doesn't ring super stilted (which is funny given the context of the second book because they're apparently ashamed of eating hearts so wouldn't heart-eater be more like a demeaning slur?)
- I also feel Aster wanted her cake and eat it too, she wanted a strong badass "assassin" character but also wanted Isla to be a princess so she just... meshed the two ideas together with little concern with how those two very contrasting portrayals interacted with eachother and the universe she created.
This all reeks of Aster making a cool badass self insert mary sue and just writing as she went along caring more for making Isla look cool or deep or complex without understanding what even makes a character cool or deep or complex so she defaults to these childishly simplistic portrayals
@@thehermit8618 i definitely agree with you. If Isla had any sort of personality I feel like she'd take offense to the nickname because it's quite literally something that her people were forced to do. The wildlings are ashamed of it so why does she let Grim and Oro call her that. Aster's writing of Isla feels like she wanted this dark and gory setting for everyone but Isla. I noticed this so much in these books. The male leads are these very romantic, sarcastic and seductive characters. Even the female side characters get to be seductive and evil. But the female lead is not. I didn't want to call Isla a damsel in distress but it feels like Aster wants her written like that.
@@thehermit8618 her understanding of dark to me is murder, neck snapping, gore but that's not exactly dark. I wish she showed us more of the starlings and how their curse made them expendable. The wildlings and their shame, how it must be terrible for the wildlings to interact with others now. How they're viewed.
She has ways to make this a dark story. I wish she didn't think murder = dark
For example (bad one but stay with me) Harry Potter has murder and yet the darkest thing to me is how Harry was being prepped like a lamb to the slaughter. She could work this.
I will refuse to believe that I'm the only one who thought of this idea: The group of Wildlings that "did things they weren't proud of" have them be Starling traffickers. It would tie in to the Starling strife that was mentioned 10 pages ago, would have been underground enough that word wouldn't have gotten to higher-ups on the Wilding side - and even if it did, it would have been kept from Isla. The traffickers could have food supply motivations, and now that the curses are lifted their actions are brought to light and are now facing consequences. This creates an interesting political landscape for Isla to navigate as she attempts to learn how to govern, not just her people, but the people that her native peoples abused. It also gives opportunities for sprinked action scenes as she goes and hunts down those who were responsible and are fleeing retribution.
Come on, this is 5 seconds worth of though on a singular line. Im only an hour in and I am so looking forward to where this plot doesn't go.
Oh my god that’s so smart. In my head, the only way Wildlings were surviving was through trade with the other realms, for either criminals, corpses, etc. But having people be trafficking in Starlings would make perfect sense. And would reinforce Aster’s new statement about the treatment of Starlings.
I went with "ate their own family members/children" also how often do they need to eat, how much, do they start by drinking milk as babies? Do mothers need more hearts while pregnant/breastfeeding? If not I could see that being a "food source " that would be considered taboo.
I like your human trafficking idea, so many ways to flesh this out and the writer did none of them.
I think the biggest argument against "the book is bad but not a 7 hour long review bad" is the fact that the video was made. If the book wasn't bad enough to warrant a 7 hour video, the video would have been shorter
Cari can read is also someone who harasses and stalks other youtubers like she did to Rachel Kwon, she has many issues and not really a foundation to stand on.
@@givebackmybreadstickswait you give further context? I was not aware of anything like that???
@@givebackmybreadstickswe need details dammit
@@aishaaofthedays looked it up myself, turns out both Rachel and Cari have vids about it
@@Necroxion was this recent?
I´m just a manhwa/webcomic author, but listening to you rant and point out what could be done better, helps so much. I love how strict you are. It feels like advice from a professor you´re deadly afraid of but learn the most from
It's almost learn by doing, but with someone else's work. He's a fantastic teacher, I agree.
Agreed. These videos are a huge help with my own writing
i just checked out your channel and DA page...but where did you post your webcomic??? im interested to see and also your art is just....
Don't say "just"!
@@maymay5600 thank you so much!!! It’s “Hatefully, always yours“ on Webtoon by MikeruMyMy
Aster, the bar was set so low it was a tripping hazard in hell. But somehow, here you are: limbo dancing with the devil....
No bc I pictured the staff as the one in Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus AS A JOKE, but then she wrote "a jewel on top" I just got confirmation that I was, in fact, correct 🦄✨
I think it says a lot about who Isla will end up with when, in the interview portion at 19:35, she refers to Grim by his name, but Oro is only called "the other character".
Gee, I wonder if the "tall dark shadow immortal boy" is gonna be the endgame love interest. That has certainly never ever happened before in a YA book
@@FlareontoastIt's an unpredictable plotline, too!
Ouch, yeah no it’s REALLY obvious our main character is gonna end up with Grim. 🥶
I'm 100% certain that more than 10% of your audience would buy your book.
I'm 10% certain less than 100% of your audience will buy your book.
It hasn't been 2 days and about 45% viewer to sub ratio this video so yeah seems likely at least a decent number would.
Yep I so would XD
I love how this is basically ACOTAR with the serial numbers filed off. And now Fourth Wing, too, what with the 'choose your own dragon' side quest.
I liked the first three ACOTAR books. There were definitely issues, but the magic system was pretty clear and the relationships made sense to me. And I liked the main character. I read the 4th book and HATED it and then the 5th book I had to stop reading because I got so angry.
@@Melissamms 4th and 5th book? What do you mean? There is no 4th and 5th book. The series ended on the 3rd book!
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 no there are five books rn. There will be eight total
You know, I genuinely guessed that nothing would be in the vault. I thought it was going to be a botched Kung Fu Panda "There is no secret ingrediant" message though, so again, I expected nothing and was let down.
Literally in this case
this is re a comment left by @Matthe on crow caller's video but i feel it bears repeating:
"The fact that the book ends with Isla somehow still having feelings for Grim and even contemplating a relationship with him, is where my suspension of disbelief breaks. I can get into dark romance. I can get into love interests who are bad people. But this ain't it, 'cause the book's narrative is constantly bending over backwards to justify Grim's horrible actions, which just makes them seem even worse, because it makes it seem like Isla doesn't fully grasp the implications, and therefore doesn't understand what she's getting into with Grim.
Like, let's go through a list of Grim's horrible actions, that I can remember, in no particular order:
- Constantly used what I can only describe as a racial slur as a term of endearment to Isla
- Erased her memories without her consent
- Never divulges informations that she would need to make an informed decision, and unless when telling said information directly benefits him, makes him appear superior or in the right
- Negged her into wearing an outfit she was uncomfortable in, as well as seducing a man, but decided to violently torture a guy, she was kissing consensually, right in front of her, telling her he would torture him even more, and only then revealed the guy was a rapist
- Groomed her after removing her memories, which he claims he did so she could seduce Oro without her feelings for Grim getting in the way, but considering the "seduce Oro" plan was part of Aurora's plan and Grim only agreed to it because Aurora would "give him Isla" and Isla was already willing to marry him? I seriously doubt that was his intentions for doing so.
- Kidnapped an entire people away from their homeland to his domain and wiped their memories. The story insists he had their consent, but I doubt that an entire population would agree to that, especially from a guy who is considered untrustworthy by the general world population.
- Had no qualms about using memory erasure after the woman he claims to love expressed such strong feelings of violation from it, that she refused to be with him
- Tricked her into secretly marrying him by lying about the marriage necklace's true meaning, presenting it instead as a helpline, and never telling her that once she wears it, she can never take it off
- Started an actual war in her name, when she never asked for it, and when doing so put her directly in danger. Claiming that the war is to save her because their lives are linked, but because of this life link, he put her life in double-danger, as she's not only in danger of his people killing her, but if the other side kills him, he dies too!
It seems more like the war is for selfish reasons, and he used the "my life is connected to Isla's" thing as insurance, since he only shared this information when he was about to lose! If getting to the other world was all about saving Isla, why the hell didn't he try the diplomatic route first by talking to Oro about it? The only reason I can think of, aside from Grim having ulterior motives, is that he doesn't love Isla as much as he loves his ego"
not to mention, that he also actively plans to kill/use/endanger her for his own benefit CONSISTENTLY throughout the books and then it’s forgiven almost immediately…
Oh wow, this was a pleasant surprise:D I can't tell you how flattered I am that you liked my rant so much you wanted to share it
@@Mathee omg the legend themselves! i remember reading your comment like 6 months ago and thinking you summarized my feelings so well!
It's like that webcomic Lore Olympus, except at least that webcomic has the excuse that it was pretty much written as the author went along lol.
@@ellakoenig I'm currently blushing and making happy noises (⁄ ⁄>⁄ ▽ ⁄
not only to also add that grim as a love interest kinda sucks from a meta level. i think readers are supposed to find him attractive, but hes so possessive, violent, and insufferable that it just pisses me off. how can anyone in their right mind find him attractive? he seems so greasy (derogatory). additionally, its the fact that its so obvious that grim is endgame that makes this so much worse than it is, adding on the comment from crow caller's video.
On the topic of 'this wasn't planned well' I'm reminded of how cool the magic blood thing would've been if actually established and utilized. Hell, I would've been so engaged if that was the only magic in these books!
Imagine a world where people's blood had special properties, and thus giving blood was a common practice for alchemy, household items, basic comforts, and trade. Nightshade could have special tomes written in their ink-like blood that were enchanted, the words moving around the page or disappearing unless the right conditions are met. Vials of Sunling blood could be sold as easy firestarters or as emergency weaponry similar to a Molotov cocktail. Wildling blood could be used as fertilizer for gardens or cultivated in such a way people can grow jewels like on Wild Isle.
Imagine fighting someone with blood that burns, so you need to somehow defeat them without breaking skin else you risk severe burns or damage to your weapon/armor. Or someone intentionally cutting themselves to gain some kind of advantage in a fight. You could even experiment with combinations instead of 'only one power per person except for like 2 people just cause'. Maybe Wildling blood on its own also has poisonous properties, so mixing it with or getting blood from someone with, say, a Moonling, can delay it's effects until the blood thaws so you can use shards of blood as weapons or to poison people (also imagine ingesting Wildling blood and you start growing flowers in your mouth/throat/stomach, that sounds very unpleasant).
I dunno, it's a super cool part of the world that could be explored so deeply by someone with more time and creativity in magic systems than me!
Such a missed opportunity, 'cause I feel like magic blood isn't really utilized as much as it should be in fantasy. Then again 'missed opportunity' might be Aster's books in a nutshell XD
I think you might like Guardbro's take on magic in his Veil Riders series.
Jeff Somers' "We Are Not Good People" has the exact premise of blood magic being the only kind of magic. The magic system is refreshingly simple: to do a spell, you just say magic words over a quantity of blood. The more blood you use, the more powerful the effect. As a result, the most powerful ustari (magic users) are, by necessity, the most ruthlessly self-centred, who are willing to sacrifice others by the dozens, if not hundreds, for their own benefit. These more powerful ustari often have lesser ustari as servants called "bleeders", who willingly give up their blood in exchange for magic lessons. The main character is an ustari who has vowed to only use his own blood, but is confronted with a challenge to his morality when an especially powerful ustari tries to kill the majority of the world's population to attain immortality.
It's not a perfect book by any stretch, but it is a striking example of a fantasy book with a simple premise that is actually thought through.
The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia is a short book (only 176 pages) but its blood magic is fleshed out way better than whatever Aster tried to do in her 400-ish page book and its sequel. Jamnia's story is hundreds of pages shorter, but it's able to illustrate its world, story, and characters better than the Lightlark series. Goes to show that you don't always need a deep, convoluted plot spanning 400 or more pages to tell a good story.
if you want to take something like that weaponized blood idea to a TTRPG, DnD has the Blood Hunter class from the Critical Role setting books, which is a class that sacrifices their hp, cutting themselves with their blades to spill their cursed blood on them to invoke various magical effects.
Wildling blood being a good fertiliser would also work well with their curse of having to eat human meat/hearts
And sunling blood being used as a molotov cocktail is an absolutely hilarious concept, 10/10
Krimson: *mentions Enya*
My brain: "Sail away, sail away, sail away"
I'm also remember the "may it be" automatically,
@@vithebi May it beeeeeeee and evening staaaaaaaaaaarr
Onlyyyyyy Tiiiiiiiiime
Krimson: mentions “Soren”
My brain: I’m fly~ing, soar~ing
If pain makes you stronger, my disabilities would give me some god-tier magic here.
LOL same
TRUE, if that’s the case I’d be overpowered as hell.
Everyone say “thank you Krimson for reminding me to drink water!”
I immediately went and got a glass of water lol
Thank you Krimson ❤
I think Aster's and Onision's books call for a new term. Everyone here will know purple prose: prose that is excessively verbose and peculiarly worded in a stilted manner, containing inside its lexographic borders the unique property of the utter disdain for rhythm and brevity. However, these books don't count as purple prose. They have digressions that feel like they're attempting purple prose, but fail and just sound stupid rather than pretentious. Thus, I present to you for your consideration: "pink prose."
EDIT 7/11/24: I was in a hurry to type this comment, so I didn't put any thought into the color chosen. As such, it was evidently a very poor choice. I'd say "puce prose" as suggested by @aaronwashington might be the best possible name.
I actually really like this idea.
You could also do Magenta or Fuchsia. Getting closer to purple but still mostly pink.
this is an insult to the best colour in the world, pink
Aww, but I like pink! And if you say "pink prose" derogatorily you know it's unfortunately gonna end up getting used in a weird, gendered way :/ What about "periwinkle prose"? A pale, sometimes pretty, but mostly kind of twee version of purple lol.
Maybe even mauve prose? Like purple, but way too timid or way too diluted to even be entertaining.
I'm glad that no one was harrassing Cari Can Read, but I really hope you dont collab. She staked and harrassed Rachel Kwon and after she was called out she cried through an apology where she blamed her actions on her mental health
Oh snap. I’ll go remove my sub then 🥴
@@mittag983Based six of crow disliker XD
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
@@aetheriansunrise5433 Glad we are united, brother!
If six of crows has 100 dislikers, i’m one of them.
If six of crows has 1 disliker, it’s me
If six of crows has 0 dislikers I'm dead.
Mid fantasy peaky blinders isn't worth to insult people over for real.
@@mittag983 100%
I want to sue everyone who told me this was peak found family. Downright false advertising
@mittag983 i didnt hate six of crows but I did forget I read it entirely! Which is almost worse. My sister and I watched the TV show, and 20 minutes in i was like, "Did I read this?"
Timestamp 1:48:11
"She thinks about pulling on the family jewels to make Grim come,"
Is a sentence...
"Ohhhhh myyyyy"
The whole 'If a ruler dies their entire kingdom dies with them' is such a grim, high stakes thing that could potentially work if the author had the guts and skill to *actually* commit to the bit and explore the consequences of that. Like, hundreds of years of kingdoms being picked off one by one, until only a small handful remain, thus making the stakes REALLY high is interesting! It's a grim dark kind of world, abandoned, dead kingdoms the kind you'd see in a Fromsoft game! That could be neat! But Aster clearly didn't actually want a story that complex and grim, she wanted to copy Sarah J Maas' homework.
Edit: I realize why I think this pitch has potential, and it's because it's a very similar setup to the world of Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga lol. Love triangle and it being a sort of fake world/simulation included. ( not that I think Aster copied it. I doubt she's even heard of the game. I just think it's kind of funny and explains why I immediately thought 'this could work... in the right hands')
Fake world, simulation, what? Did I just get spoiled by reading the comments before watching the video?
...Eh, who cares, it's Lightlark 2
I'm just here to say, Krimson inspired me to take my writing seriously when I first discovered his channel years ago. Today, my first short story to be accepted is being published. Thank you Krimson. You sent me on my way.
Congratulations! That's a huge deal! Proud of you dude!❤😊
Congratulations! I hope it brings you happiness!
congratulations!
That's awesome! Congrats!
@@cuppajoewithjoe2148 Congratulations on publishing!
Empress Theresa walked so Isla Crown could run. 🤣🤣🤣
I'd have phrased it as "Empress Theresa tripped on a shoelace so Isla Crown could fall off a cliff"
@@phenjaws569 bwahahahahahahaa # de-ad
@@gabbodelaparrawrites Theresa fumbled on her ass so Isla could fall through the floor
I am SO stealing the phrase "trees huddled together like gossips", it clearly deserves to be in a better book.
If Oro and Grim don't fuck in the next book, I'm going to be severely disapointed.
Also "the shadows puddle at your feet when you are happy" makes him sound like a puppy who pisses on the floor when it gets too excited
"You look older the more kids or grandkids you have." Oh Aster, you sweet summer child.
Edit: "less passion than Empress Theresa" oh WOW that is a READ
More edit: "Ciel" I had a Modelland flashback and really wish that book got a sequel instead
Empress Theresa and Modelland are at least creative. Stupid enough, that you could cause yourself brain damage due to the force and abudance of facepalms, but still at least entertaining in a "this is so stupid I HAVE to read to the end to see just how stupid this can get".
I thought that comment was really unfair... to Empress Theresa. The book was shit, but the one thing Norman wasn't lacking was passion x'D
12:58 I was so expecting the name to be "eye-la" because I was half certaint the author just cut the end off isla/nd, lol
Isn’t that how it’s pronounced? That’s the only way I’ve heard it.
@@bethanyhitchen3989check a few seconds before the timestamp, apparently its Eaze-la, basically
@@bethanyhitchen3989From what I’ve heard across a few videos like this one, the name Isla (eye-luh) is actually not directly related to the Spanish word for island, Isla (ees-luh). It actually derives from the name Isabella. Given the author’s usual lazy nomenclature, it seems like she was going more for her name being a translation of island.
The name Isla is generally pronounced Eye-la, like Isla Fisher the Australian actress. Maybe not in America though, there are lots of alternative pronunciations there
@@beckyuniversityarchivein America it’s pronounced “eye-la” too
Ive always hated when writers use the "don't give up" as a shoddy attempt to give advice because they never realize how generic and unhelpful it is. It's like when your friend tells you to "just be yourself" when you ask them for dating advice.
Krimson, leave my hyrulian horse named Cow alone 😭
No, YOU leave MY Hyrulian horse named Cow alone!
I’m so confused. Why are there so many horses named “Cow” in the stable registry?
Because they didn't let my cow named Horse into the stable. Pricks.
I mean, i kinda ran out of unique name ideas after "Eponot" so yeah cow it is why not
Your kitten looks just like my cat when she was a little baby. And that keeps bringing me an immense amount of joy when she acts like a cute little goofball because it’s the same way my cat acts. Cats are cute adorable goofs
Edit- the “the nation dies if the ruler dies” could be a great plot point if it was a misconception by the entire world. As in, everyone is convinced that it’s so, but then a ruler gets killed and everyone realizes that people don’t die if the ruler dies. And then the plot could be about the prevention of a revolution or something. I would honestly read such a book
I am amazed at the torture that Krimson can put himself through for other people's entertainment. I bet that the ramblings of Book Jesus about Onision's 'books' becoming my bedtime stories never crossed the mind of that ignorant woman-hater when he decided to publish that rubbish.
I have tried to get my books published for years. I would be honoured if Krimson ever reviewed my works.
Off to a very long night with more inane screaming about terrible books that should have never seen the light of day.
By the way, a subtitle for this 'Masochistic Tango' would be 'And Nothing Became of It'.
Someone on ArchiveOfOurOwn wrote an epilogue for Empress Theresa, saying that Theresa was insane and imagined the whole thing due to severe schizophrenia. I'm glad that Krimson influences us.
Link? I'd love to read that lol
I wonder what's happenin with The Book was Better?
I hope you can get published one day! If you don't mind my asking, what are your books about?
@@lunabearsong2043 One is a children's book. Essentially Roald Dahl and Monty Python getting drunk at a Christmas party would be a good description of my mindset. In fact, I was tipsy for the first time when I wrote Chapter Eleven.
I also use these to sleep once I've watched them. He doesn't have loud music stings or sound effects. It's pretty ideal to put on to sleep since it's interesting but doesn't leave me on the edge of my seat, and he doesn't say annoying things that would irritate me while I'm unwinding. His lack of politics is a huge reason I can rely on that last part.
Isla Raven Dementia coming in book 3
Roses, tulips, and marigolds do not bloom at the same time.
The fact that your fanbase was polite is truly a miracle.
Edit: I’m so happy you’re going indie publishing, mostly because I really want to read Luminarious.
OH MY GOD
THE *EVEN LONGER* SEQUAL
HOW DID IT GET EVEN LONGERRRR
i watch that lightlark video when i need a random comfort, i can't wait to experience this when im ready 😄❤
More stupid?
@@sam.onella By the book being awful
Wow I definitely imagined like all of these characters completely wrong and I think that's a testament to their poor characterization. Grim and Oro are the love interests and I had completely incorrect ideas about what both of them looked like. I imagined Oro like a distinguished man with grey setting in his temples, very dark skin, looks like he's in his early 50's. Grim, I thought, was super stocky and built like a tank, with significant facial hair, appearing to be in his mid 30s, like Sabertooth from Marvel but if he took better care of himself.
Both are 19 year old, fresh faced, white twinks.
I know it’s such an insane amount of whiplash from being told they’re these ancient and wise/terrifying rulers, and then having them canonically look like they’re still in high school 😭
Like I could maybe accept it if it was an elves type deal in where their hot young twink appearance was described as otherworldly and sorta ageless (at least for Oro, Grimm has no business looking like a dollar store Timothée Chalamet), but no they’re just perpetually college freshmen because that’s Asters type apparently💀
@@walliam5506 truly a misstep if you ask me, because what little joy I found in the characters left me when I saw the official art. There are other types of hot and apparently YA novelists don't know that yet.
@@walliam5506 Elf hunks are a thing, i think, and oro, is way more sounding like a mature hunk. or have the atmosphere of one.
Dunno grimm makews sense, he ould be really edgy and, fine i can imagine an 19 year old looking edgelord, but he kinda needs to be taken less serious then? He is hella immature,
Also the way the battle scenes have apearently way more chemestry of them, ... hunk oro and grimm edgelord and oro tries to fix him. And they know each other so, insert tragic past misunderstandings.
Your designs are instantly more interesting for not being colourswaps of each other
I imagined Oro as a faceless wraith like entity in a golden cloak and I imagined Grim as a combination of Bruce Wayne and that Death Note demon lmao
Damn krimson really stretching to hit that 10 minute mark, huh?
The sheer joy I get from listening to this man for 8 hours tearing apart a book I've never read nor do i plan to is beyond my ability to explain.
Krimson Rogue you've created a wonderful comunity and I'm proud to be part of it!
Man that clip from The Swan Princess just unlocked a deeply buried childhood memory
There are two love interests, Grim and the other one.
Every time I hear Krimson mention or refer to Empress Theresa, I notice his opinion of the book is getting higher by comparison.
I mean, Krimson did say that it has a so bad it's good quality to it and that when he isn't doing a serious review of it the book's entertaining in just how stupid it is.
Let me say Krimson your long form reviews are awesome. As someone who wants to be an aspiring author and working on my story, you breaking down what does and doesn’t work helps folks like me tremendously. Because pride is one of the biggest things that can get in the way of a creative. We need a professional nitpicker/ editor to tell us what doesn’t work and lead us to a way to fix it. Heck while outling my story I discovered a plot hole thanks to your coverage of Lightlark and there being a similar issue and I am glad I fixed it. I won’t account for every problem. That’s not realistic. But critiques like this should be welcomed by writers seeking to improve and see what works. So thank you again.
Seconded!
Yesss, part of why I love krimsons videos is because ive been writing the rough draft of my first book and a lot of what he's said has helped me a lot to realize very specific things I could improve
Definitely agree! As someone who’s been studying creative writing and writing for a long time I’m pretty good at spotting mistakes myself, but it’s always good to hear someone else’s analysis and learn new things I can implement in my own writing. Even when I (very rarely) disagree with Krimson, it makes me think about why I disagree or whether there can be a middle ground.
Hot take, it's possible to learn more from an analysis of a bad work than a good one... since it's hard to nail down WHY something is good due to so many little pieces having to work in tandem, while it's much easier to point out individual things that doesn't work (regardless of there's a dozen or a thousand), and avoiding obvious trappings will at least guarantee you hit "above average" quality in your own art.
So from a pure learning experience, cost-benefit ratio perspective, I'd rather watch a multi-hour review of a bad book, a mediocre unknown game, or some solution-looking-for-a-problem device that failed spectacularly when introduced to the market than something covering a success that achieved what it set out to do. And that's on top of the fact that sufficiently bad things tend to be very (unintentionally) entertaining when examined.
Exactly! It's why people get captivated by bad media in the first place because it becomes a puzzle to figure out *why* it's bad. If you read a book but it's not working for you, you can learn so much trying to figure out if it's your personal taste or writing style, pacing, characterisation, etc. I adore death games, fantasy romance, and godly characters, so lightlark should have been perfect for me, but the lack of legitimate stakes, inconsistent emotional inertia, lack of characterisation, and *padding* takes away the stakes of the death game, while not giving enough time or depth to character interactions to sell me on a romance, while also not going into the world building enough to sell me on the fantasy world, or the power these characters should have. It's absolutely fascinating seeing a book built on popular tropes but doesn't seem to know what makes them work.
As a native of Jacksonville, FL I cannot hear this woman’s name without thinking of creepy twins talking in unison about car dealerships. The nightmares continue.
Her writing just makes it worse.
I feel like Starling culture really had the chance to be something incredibly hedonistic. Like just embody that YOLO energy. They died young and most younger people are already predisposed to risk taking so what does it matter that if a Starling is smashed 24/7? They don't have to worry about future liver cancer, they'd die before then. Trying to turn around that short-sightedness would likely be pretty difficult and probably interesting.
I like long, detailed reviews because they're like a class on writing. I'm literally never going to consume a lot of these books/movies/shows/comics, so I couldn't care less about a regular 'should you read/watch this' review. But hearing what does or doesn't work, along with examples and explanations, is my jam.
Then again, I'm probably the only nerd that loved/paid attention to teachers' lectures.
Either way, I appreciate what you do, Mr. Book Throne Guy.
I was gonna say, wait until the creator at the beginning finds out about the Empress Theresa videos. I'm so glad everyone was polite to them.
I don’t see these videos as reviews so much as workshops for storycraft. They give me so much to think about with my own writing, and honestly it’s better for it. Thank you for another amazing video!
Babe wake up, it is time for eight hours of pain
(gasp) Daddy Krimson is back from buying milk!
Whoops, the milk went bad while I was walking back. Gotta head out again.
I like to call this type of cliff hanger and "resolution" a 'Classic Riverdale' :D
Character is somewhere doing something shocking, dangerous, whatever and it leads to absolutely nothing in the next episode :D
"airplanes are just cancelled" got me 😂
I just got hit with "great big booty bi***es" and I can't stop laughing.
To the very end of the video and those who survived: welcome to the end if the video!
This video proves me right- Nightbane is pure, uncut corporate sludge that didnt need to be made.
My favorite book King dropped a new video! My weekend went from a 4/10 to a 10/10.
Edit: my cat is 10 years old and still gets himself stuck in my dresser drawers. So that doesn’t go away with age.
So sad to hear that the weekend was only a 4/10 so far! Much love to you and your cat, hope it continues getting better 💕
That reminds me of that really old CZcams video of the dude with ferrets who climbed into drawers, behind them, and out the other drawer.
I've had like, 45-minute conversations with people about individual pieces of dialog in the media I enjoy; by that metric alone, an 8 hour video about a full novel is downright precedented.
My sister and I have had conversations about Lightlark over the months that must total days, not even mentioning other media we care more about. There's plenty of word thoughts to go around
krimson if you ever decide to make merch, please know that i would 100% buy a shirt that says "this evil plan could have been an email"
What continues to astound me the most about Krim’s book reviews, is how many published and often popular books have no care for the craft of the written word or for story telling in itself. It’s disconcerting, really, and creates a strange tonality as the background noise for when I beta-read a fanfiction for my friend, a fanfic you can be quite sure every word and sentence has been carefully considered and crafted to be its best possible version. We’re discussing everything from grammar to historical facts to flow within and between the scenes, and that’s actually fun in and of itself. It’s sad that some people will never have that fun, simply because they don’t care to have it.
I think different readers having different styles / preferences for reviews is very meaningful and important. Not every creator should make seven hour reviews because not every reader is going to mesh with that style. That being said I find it disheartening to hear that other folks in the book community can’t see that a variety of styles is important. Different people get different things out of books, different people enjoy different depths of analysis, and every video is for Somebody- because that Somebody is the person making the video! I enjoy Cari’s content because it is condensed and enjoyable to consume, I love her plot overviews as well and admire the work in her videos. I ALSO enjoy Krimson’s content because it is extensive and in depth and scratches an itch in my brain. These 7-8 hour analysis videos are very educational from a craft standpoint as well, especially for someone like me who isn’t a writer. It’s alright to have a preference for style, but it’s disheartening to hear someone being discouraged on the basis of their niche. I think the community here is really great, and I am so glad that I get to listen to this video while I knit today. Keep up the good work!💕🫶
I love these videos because I’m the kind of person who goes “:(“ every time a video creator says “i could do/talk about x but that would make this video too long”. But Krimson really does get into all the details!!! I love it
Cari is a bad person. She’s known for stalking and harassing another creator off the platform because she was jealous of her. She cannot stand others doing things better than them and that’s that. She only dislikes the 7 hour review because she does not have enough literary skills to make one herself.
Hello, Krimson.
I just wanted to say I sincerely thank you for all the hard work you do! I found your channel thanks to randomly stumbling across your Empress Theresa review back in March 2020. As a student working on his writing intensive bachelor’s degree, that review - along with all your others - have helped me tremendously in my writing skills, and inspired me to try and write my own mg/ya novel (which is currently in pre-production hell, lol).
I’ll never be perfect, and I understand and accept this. I just want to write good and/or fun stories. And, even though it’ll probably never happen, I kinda hope that, one day, you’ll review my work.
I don’t know if you’ll ever see this, but, once more, thank you for all that you do. Your dedication and love for reading and writing is always appreciated. Have a good one!
Jacob S.
When your book is published, reach out to me, either by email or on twitter. I'll gladly buy a copy.
@@KrimsonRogue Ooookay, I did not expect a response so quickly. Thank you so much! It’ll probably have to be through email, though. Twitter/X is a cess pool.
@JacobSzukalski I would also like a copy when it's finished, if you don't mind.
@@lunabearsong2043Sure thing, and thank you!
further confirmation that the book review corner of youtube is the most wholesome and polite place to be, even when you're ripping apart terrible books
@4:15:50 I think the book’s commentary around Cinder is very telling about Aster’s view of talent. She thinks someone can simply be born good at something and excel without any training. Anyone who’s studied any art form for more than a little while knows that this doesn’t exist. You can only get so far with raw talent. At some point, you need to study & work to improve your craft. This book is a manifestation of Aster’s lack of discipline around the craft of writing
Every paragraph of the book that was read out loud in this video sounded like it was still written by a twelve year old, so I think you're very right with your assumptions about her.
I loved the Crow Caller shoutout, Crow's first video on Lightlark is actually what made me start regularly watching youtube videos as I started searching for more longform book content like that! I would LOVE to see you two have a chat about the Lightlark books at some point lol; maybe y'all could form an emotional support group after book 3? :''')
The Illidan Stormrage dialogue over Gordon Ramsay sent me into the stratosphere
Was it because you were not prepared?
Timestamp pls?
@@lilgreenslimecat 49:00
I really don't like the phrase of "turn your brain off" because there's a BIG difference between: "stupid media you don't have to think about to enjoy" and "bad media you can't enjoy unless you don't think about it."
3:15:43 considering that Oro is protective and not fiery, it would have been so much better to say that he tasted like sun and heat, but that something about his kisses were reserved. Or like the first, gentler kiss was like being in the shade in the summer, but the second, steamier one was like standing in the sun's rays. I just feel like there are so many better ways to write that scene. It almost just feels like she read some kiss scenes and was just going through the motions of what it should look like, without adding anything unique to the characters that would make it different from the books she's read.
“His kiss was like hot coals, the burn not immediately felt but warmth growing as she pressed in closer.”
There that’s right off the dome
@@LifesNeverHumDrum and that's an improvement! It's like she doesn't rhink about the deeper meaning of the things she's picked out for the characters, so all you get is this super surface level writing that sometimes doesn't even make sense.