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00:00 jeff bezos x exploited employee fanfiction
26:33 rowan reaches peak creep
39:48 my analysis
45:07 the bizarre ending
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AITA pressuring my employee into a relationship after she explicitly states that she wants me to stop sexually harassing her at work?
noo you're hot and very rich so it's ok ahaha❤
Honestly she should be grateful
Nta. She’s just ungrateful. Just keep going and she’ll eventually say yes
Nta divorce
Nta and btw if she tries to fire herself don’t let her. She’s just making it better for the chase
Evil man who didn't get to pursue art is very Hitler-coded
..Oh no 💀
I caaan't 😭😭
CRYING
Kinda acts like Hitler too... if you think hard enough...
I gasped!
The way the author completely misses the fact that Mr. Darcy's character growth is what makes him so attractive
Notably also when Lizzie refused him, he Backed Off???? Rowan could take some serious notes
I think Darcy was already a decent man internally, just had abrasive manners. But I don't think he had to necessarily learn that it would be good to help the Bennet family. This only enabled Lizzy to see that his abrasive manners were not the only thing to him but that there was an honorable person underneath.
also, at no point was he described with rippling muscles in cringe-inducing ways lmao
istg they should make it illegal for authors of books like this to mention p&p. it's my favorite book and i can't take it anymore (it's like the 3d time ive seen this happen). please make them stop comparing abusive aholes to my mr darcy😭
When I realised this was supposed to be a pride and prejudice retelling, it made me want to burn things 😊
I will tolerate fantasy villains who want to expand their kingdoms but I draw the line at horrible corporate bosses who swap health insurance policies to trim the company's bottom line.
fr we're supposed to romantacize evil hyper-capitalist bosses of huge monopoly corporations now? that's our modern age villain we should find attractive? 💀
That's basically indirect murder. I'm sure people would die if they didn't get the correct care. If he was a good business man he could make money without doing crazy crap like that. He could of just laid off 30% of his workforce and used that to cover and increase wages. He's clearly okay with not being liked might as well just fire them instead of this.
So mundane! It's going inside my stupid post apocalyptic original series with sentient deer mice!
Fr, I read books to escape my reality
P❤❤😅
90❤❤❤❤❤❤
One hour about a book I won't read? SEATED
SAME that's how I spend most of my time!
REAL
me
😂
Better one hour than how ever many needed to finish this thicc book. I want in on the tea without reading it. 😂
pretty sure Hozier would yeet himself into the sun knowing his music is in a BILLIONAIRE romance novel
He would pull an Icarus and drag Jane Austen's ghost down with him when the wings start melting
Omg,what?? I think I might have trauma-yeeted that out of my memory from when I read it
@@great.sounding.maracas lmao
I think he'd just need to stand on the tip of his toes no need to yeet himself. He's so tall 😭
According to an interview hozier wrote From Eden about how the idealisation of a young, innocent and moral person as a missing part of yourself is an extremely unhealthy and toxic foundation for a relationship. Asher is either very self aware or very oblivious
"My balls have become a prisoner of war" WHAT
prisoner of rowan’s bad fitted suits
like is that even grammatically correct? prisoner of war? 😶
There's a lot of discourse about men writing women, but like... The way some of these romance authors write men is f-ing hilarious. Or what do I know, maybe men do think like this on the regular?
@@cinnammongirlie uh, yes? POW or prisoner of war are military combatants that have surrended and are taken into custody for security measures
@@yuukibr5959I think they were talking about the fact that “prisoner of war” is singular and so the sentence doesn’t make sense
I'd love the "ceo who exploits his employees and head of the union have a forbidden romance" trope if the twist was that she entered into the relationship to manipulate him into giving the employees better working conditions
Now that would be a fun read. Unlike this
Yes!!!! That's what I thought initiatially when I heard the premise
@@roselover411Even in reverse it would be an interesting read.
I'm probably aromatic, so I couldn't care less for the romance _thing._
@@qwertykeyboard5901 I'm aro/ace too lol but I love romance so I would be interested in the reading
@@qwertykeyboard5901 i know its a typo, but the implication that someone's smell correlates to whether they like the romance genre is sending me
“I know many of us suffer from this cruel fate. And I blame Zuko”
That’s rough buddy.
adfggh
I just started rewatching avatar and zuko has once again become my roman empire😂
At least we knew Zuko had empathy. Remember how he saved his sailors? No one had to teach him empathy.
There is a thin line between villain and anti-hero
I’ve never related to anything more in my life. I fucking love Zuko
i will never understand how characters "accidentally" do something crazy like that when they're drunk... getting into a fight? maybe. kissing a random person? i guess. but writing and submitting an article???
Normal people drunk -text, but Zara is so pixie dream girl she drunk publishes
My now-husband registered to a website to troll people when he was drunk and i met him there. 😂
last time i was drunk i wrote a whole book. It's called The Fine Print
Homie, I'm a shit poster when Im sober, I'm not suddenly gunna stop because I'm obnoxiously drunk lol
don't you knowe alcohol is just a plot device to make characters act out of character lol
I feel like I have to duel the author to protect the honor of my boy Mr Darcy.
I know right😭😭the disrespect...
THANK YOU. I was looking for this comment. People missing the VERY obvious point of Pride and prejudice are my personal pet peeve.
@@janus6349 FOR REAL it is right there in the FUCKING TITLE
I'm so tired of authors who completely miss the point of EVERYTHING Jane Austen did in Pride and Prejudice and trying to make parallels with their poorly developed characters.
YES
“Be nice to billionaires :))))) they didn’t get to pursue art, the poor things 🥺🥺🥺 awww he mistreats his workers? Tee hee what a quirky little oopsies!“ -The Fine Print
Tag: Dead Dove Do Not Eat
@@qwertykeyboard5901lol
every time you mention rowan the billionaire I'm just imagining him like mark zuckerberg with that dead eye stare
Add some Walt Disney to the list!
STOP
I can't stop imagining him like Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury...
Or what about Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean
@@Arawn2020and they both wear suits that are way too small. he is Mr. Bean.
"my discomfort characters"
LMAOOO😭
brb writing my rowan x jail bars fanfiction
LMAOOOO
Omg finally someone is writing my favorite rarepair 🎉
underrated comment
Rowan is Bae and would never go to jail
The careless butchering of Darcy and Elizabeth by popular culture is absolutely infuriating. Darcy was raised to take care of his family, loved ones AND HIS EMPLOYEES. He was a man of good basic principles but only lived them out through PRIDE AND CONCEIT. He wasn't some evil capitalist despot. Both characters have valuable and likeable traits and take a year to grow and understand that about each other. How can you claim to be so obsessed with something when you don't even understand the first thing about it 💀
Darcy is at worst mildly classist (he won't mistreat people of lower class but he won't consider them his equals either) and somewhat condescending, and that is very much a result of his background as a scion of a wealthy landed family with maternal connections to mid-tier nobility. he was always a genuinely generous and honorable person, he just got a reality check and figured out how to better act like it XD especially to people he didn't have responsibilities to. the absolute clownage of invoking his character on these chucklefucks.
I 100% agree with you. It's like there were waves of people who read the spark notes and based their entire perceptions on it. Or maybe because Jane Austin's writing style is dated, they read the books but didn't pick up what was actually happening.
Not to mention how movies usually kickstart the butchering with flawed and dumbed down views of books.
Modern pop culture seems to think that Darcy's appeal is, "Hot guy is arrogant and rich" and not "Arrogant guy actually has a good heart and, when called out on his behavior by his love interest, determines to be a better person whether or not she ever finds out."
@@Caldella Total inversion of the truth.
Girl: "Oh, everybody thinks he's a douchebag. But he's actually a great guy"
While originally, the guy: "Oh everybody thinks ME to be an asshole and this girl helped me realize that, so maybe I should not be as such... Because I don't condone with this view of me"
Which, by the way, the twisted view of the girl enabled so many toxic and abusive relationships all around
I just want to say that the description of Rowan in a suit at 12:05 made me SO. MAD. Because **that's not how a formal suit is supposed to fit on the body!!** Suits are not supposed to hug a man's curves, they are meant to create clean, straight lines! I weep for men's fashion, because even Hollywood celebrities have fallen victim to this idea that they should look like they're constantly in danger of ripping their suit it's so tight but that's absurd!! And it doesn't look as good as you think!!
Edit: Oh thank god, you acknowledged the ill-fitting suits later. JUSTICE FOR ROWAN'S SUITS
Hey sister, on ME, that look is fabulous...
It pisses me off so badly 😭😭 Like sir, please get a new wardrobe with your millions of dollars
"I hate polyester!" * Proceeds to wear a suit that's clearly made out of polyester*
the "every single muscle" line makes me cringe so hard. A suit can nicely shape the body, especially when it comes to creating the illusion of a broader shoulders/narrower waist. If they wanna make Rowan still look muscular, they should just have him take off the suit jacket and focusing the description on how the muscles look when he's wearing his button-up 💀
The only visual reference I can think of for the 'muscles bulging out of his suit' trope is like, when the Rock or a comparably bulky pro wrestler wears a suit. Is that what this type of romance writer is going for??
rowan is like a very weird version of ebenezer scrooge with less ghosts and a little more tonight will be the night that i will fall for you
I was legit just thinking he sounded like Scrooge
Rowan: "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"
@@kathrynmarie9592He’s solitary as an oyster 😔😔
THIS
i wish i could like this comment more than one time
i would love if this book ended with:
a) rowan on a gu*llotine
b) rowan giving up all his wealth, turning dreamland into a coop, and funding a public library and homes for the homeless with his Bajillions of dollars
OK, hear me out, what if we get both
@@TheDeadPoet226 excellent idea
He can start off like this (apathetic and nastily inappropriate) but then because of an uprising towards Dreamland he must spend time on charity to gain back the public’s favor through the press. At first it’s just for reputation, but as he spend time with the people who needs help, Rowan actually develops sincere empathy and because we know Zahra also do charity and help like this, can become a major plot device that establish valuable romantic moments without the sexual parts. Despite the public slowly returning to like dreamland again, a major scandal about the industry wipes away Rowan and the company’s efforts , the uprising is getting bigger and Zahra convinces Rowan to run away with her before they enter the building because she saw him changing. At the middle of the escape, Rowan stops and tell Zahra to go on since she will be affected because she was in a high position in dreamland. Cues emotional, angsty goodbye, Rowan stays and the uprising found him, they put him on the thing . End of story.
We can actually see Rowan going from smashing his lips on an employee to him through understanding her, is willing to stay behind the boundaries of boss and employee. We can see the longing in both parties (like in persuasion) which makes the climax(the goodbye) even more critical and not situational.
What a horrible ending that would have been
@@TheDeadPoet226french rev
LOL the little annotations going into dutch when leoni gets REALLY annoyed 💀💀💀
"I'm as tall as an NBA player ..."
So ... somewhere between 160 cm and 230 cm? Or is it a specific player and we have to guess the one?
That description sounded so wattpad like, so childish. The description is so so bad
Air Bud! 🦮
He’s just shaq
My brain went to Muggsy Bogues.
He just wants to get the point across that he's tall and hot, because boys in books can't be short because thats "unattractive"☝️🤓
The concept of jeff bezos x exploited employee fanfiction melts my brain
Hey some people are into BDSM. "I took away your healthcare, now I am going to take something else"
😭wattpad
It's unwrinkling my brain. Smoothing it out.
His past being denied a career as an artist is supposed to make his character sympathetic and forgive how he treats people, but I immediately thought of an irl awful person that also was denied a carreer in arts...and well, trying to defend him on any level is rightfully a crime that warrants jail time in some countries.
LMAOAOAOA NOT MR ADOLF
What? The Namibian civil rights activist? He seems like a pretty cool guy to me, frankly.
@@Zack-xv2ycit’s the German one, silly. The Zimbabwean one is a good man
"I can excuse a hot villain that kills people, but I draw the line at employee exploitation!" 😂😂😂
Amen!
I used to kinda like this trope because I mean who doesn’t wanna be rich with a hot husband, but now I’m like who tf would get with a billionaire when 99% of them are evil. Also billionaires are real life villains so it’s too real 😭
Sameeee literally yesterday i was reflecting how I'm such a huge sucker for this trope but then i realised how often I've hated how actual billionaires have done stuff which put the normal working class in jeopardy and now I can't look at this trope in the same lens ever again.
The answer is predominantly people who just wanna revel in the shallow fantasy of opulence and getting to 'fix' a villain without really thinking about the implications too much (which whatever, it's media junk food, nothing inherently wrong with liking it) or, alternatively, other morally bankrupt people who are attracted to those kind of qualities.
This genre's succes hinges on one simple principle: "it's not sexual harassment when you're hot and rich."
Same. I hate rich people. Christian Grey was always such a turn off
@@alpha1solace If you could be a billionaire,you would be worse
"He ruins peoples lifes by taking away their health care, but it's just because his dad took away his crayons🥺" CACKLING
"This man would love Andrew Tate" this was the moment i died LOL
40:55 "She says no but the plot says yes" that is actually pretty deep
Now you need to read the third book in this series! The MMC (who is Rowan’s brother) describes him as having the emotional intelligence of a toddler and the personality of a beige wall!!
don't tempt me because the third brother actually sounded interesting to me
@@TheBookLeo the other two books are 1000x better and the other brothers more likable. I really didn't like the first book but the second was one of my top reads last year and the third was solid too!!
I wouldn’t recommend the third, it was so weirdly paced and so long that I couldn’t get through it.
@@TheBookLeo The third book is best of the bunch. Book 2 was fine too. But the first book is nightmare to get through.
I read book 2 and it was...fine? It was very mediocre craft-wise
15:13 so Pride and Prejudice is very famously about a guy who improves himself after the girl very soundly rejects him.
Why do I have the feeling that’s not the angle this author is gonna use at all
and like. explicitly NOT so that the girl will take him back or something. the only reason he ever presents his suit again is because he heard that she loudly reserved the right to marry him if she wanted to and he was like, that was definitely not what you said to me last time, can I have a status update on the situation?
@@redgoldcrown3990 Exactly! And he even couches his second proposal in the idea of “I respect your right to reject me and if you say no I will not ask again or hound you”
Like. Darcy is a king. We Stan.
Why should he change for her at all when he's perfect just the way he is.
Hot Take but I think the ‘misunderstood villain romance’ trope only works when said villain is in a disadvantaged position that the protagonist or the reader comes to realise they can relate to. It’s the reason zuko is so appealing - he’s not a rich and powerful firebending prince threatening the heros, he’s a disgraced prince sent on a wild goose chase by his abusive father whose repeated failures to achieve his goals expose his good qualities. That’s a lot more likeable than an asshole billionaire who abuses his position of power to sexually harass his employee and accidentally stumbled across some semblance of a moral compass in the process
See, Rowan could function as a great and compelling character with one small change- make him the villain, not the love interest! He could be a perfect love-to-hate-him antagonist for Zhara in her crusade to fight for her company's workers. Hell, keep the weird romantic aggression Rowan has. It would make him an even better villain- I'm imagining a Judge Frollo type character
Wow now i want a new whole story with your idea
I would sign up for that if it comes out. You should probably go for it. 😂
I agree. This should have been a literary fiction or social justice novel, not a romance novel.
This is basically what gothic romances in the nineteenth century used to be - a brooding, mustache-twirling villain in a big house who is either the guardian of the heroine or otherwise in control of her life and is romantically obsessed with her. But the hero was always the honest, guy-next-door type who swooped in to save her from Lord DeVil or whoever - I don't know when women started to fall for guys who treat them like trash, but it brought us to Reylo in the end, which is just... ugh!
The fade in of Zuko when its talking about the dad🤣
You mean the father-lord? 😂
@@dopex89 🤣
"He pursued Zahra under a false identity because he was afraid she'd use him for his money", was that supposed to make me, as a reader, feel bad...? My brother in Christ, your money is already stolen!!!! from your workers!!!, it's not something you have rightfully earned. therefore, GOOD, Zarah SHOULD use you for your money!!!!!
No he didn’t he talked to her under another persons impression bc he was guilty having a more than work relationship with an employee
"they're not my comfort characters, they're my discomfort characters" got me rolling
we thank you for your sacrifice leonie, you’re a brave soldier for reading these for us 💀
How are people with zero reading comprehension becoming authors? The point of Mr. Darcy is that despite being rough and blunt, he is fair and kind to his employees, and he does right by the people in his life, including the ones who work for him. That is literally why Lizzie starts to like him.
Someone please rescue Pride and Prejudice from the clutches of these tiktok romance authors, please.
This book is amazing
ifkr😭😭
These new romance authors just saw how popular pride and prejudice was and read a sparks note. Because they never get mr.darcy right
"But it is a truth universally acknowledged that a creepy man with a sad backstory cannot be a creep."
100%
Sometimes I wonder if certain romance readers have no idea how romance actually works.
Maybe the real romance was the employees who got screwed along the way 😂
😭🤣
Not even 10 minutes in and I’m wondering if this man understands basic business sense like “don’t make all your current employees want to quit en masse”
Eh he’s not any better or worse than most CEO alpha billionaire boyfriends 😂
I love the fact that he's literally harassing her into this relationship and then he's all "i got swayed by a girl like my father, i shouldn't have let myself be charmed" blabla. Like my guy, you're the one who brought this on you!
I feel bad for all the artists who had their songs put on this book's playlist.
I don't think they deserve that whatsoever
"Treating people like garbage is bad Rowan" I AM DEAD
the idea that if someone was just to have "a calm and collected" conversation with a billionair to explain how employees deserve to have a living wage because they're humans is just so vomit worthy
Zahra is really out there being a class traitor for a toddler she needs to explain basic human decency to just because he has abs...
I love how one of the examples of horrible employee exploitation the author gives is forcing employees to work on christmas eve as if bosses dont have workers working christmas
Ebenezer Scrooge-core 😭😭
I imagine the thought process was: "if he makes them work on Christmas then he'd be unlikeable" like girl did you read what you wrote or what
will i ever read this book? absolutely NOT, did i ignored all my responsibilities the moment this video popped up on my screen? YES
First time I'm happy at the mention of a sponsor. I have those earplugs for my Autism and they really work a lot! Got me through really loud classes at school.
Me too!
same 😊it helps w my misophonia and i can actually focus
Not me thinking this book was a dark academia book about rivaling architects... you know, because of the sketch of a castle on the cover... and the "fine print" being the blue print... you know what, never mind lmaooo
edit: wait so she is indeed somewhat of an architect?!
Sameee
That would have been truly interesting and incredible.
A book about dark academia architects rivals to lovers would have been SO MUCH BETTER than this mess and now I want to read the rival architects book 😭
Oh if only! Please someone write a dark academia rival architects 🙏🏻
I also though it was architecture related. I heard so many good things about it i'm really shocked it's this bad
“Treating people like garbage is bad Rowan” like a kinder garden teacher is really funny
'Please give me another chance' bro she never gave you a chance 💀
Don't you just love it when people in positions of power have the upper hand in the dynamic of a relationship, then act responsibly and ethically?
Yeah. This isn't that.
Rowan talking about how Zahra “isn’t like the other employees” or whatever (because female main characters are always not like other girls) is giving big “I’m weird, I’m a weirdo” energy
She doesn't "fit in" and she doesn't want to "fit in"
Do you ever see her without her stupid pins? That's wEIrd.
😂
ikr. the first time he saw her she came in the room with "hot pink penny skateboard" in her arm 💀
kind of crazy how the male love interest describes being nice to the girl he's interested in as becoming a monster lol
How dare zahra insult mister darcy like that😭mans was trying to change in the end unlike some jerk (hint: main mc of fine print)
I misheard "alpha male man" as "alpha mailman" and that's gotta exist right? Omegaverse postal worker romance?
nahh cause I can literally imaging how this story would go 😭
Okay but can we talk about how unlikely it is that the owner of Disney would teach his son that drawing is stupid and girlish when it’s literally an empire built on top of a male illustrators cartoon animations and off huge teams of artists??
I try so hard to not judge people for their reading choices... but the books they choose make that so difficult
Famous last words: 'How bad can it be?' 😂
I don’t mean to hate on people who enjoy their TikTok books, but from what I’ve seen, any romance that’s big on TikTok is a book I want to run in the opposite direction from
This. Perfectly said. I’ve read several books that I later see are booktok recommended books, but for the most part if I see something hyped on booktok it’s like an alarm goes off in my head and I know to steer clear
Same, if I want to read a book and they recommend it I automatically don't want to read anymore
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, I'VE BEEN *WAITING* FOR ANOTHER VIDEO LIKE THIS SINCE GOTHIKANA
SAME LMAO
OMG SAMMEEE
I picked up gothikana at Barnes and nobles cause it looked pretty and then I remembered her video vividly. When I tell you,the speed that I put that book down
My brain is melted and I’m also trying to imagine someone in a suit so tight you can see all their muscles? Like is it just painted on? My brain hurts. Thanks for taking one for the team
I always love it when you do rant reviews of terrible romance books
It just scratches that itch in my brain like nothing else does
Thank you for including photos of your notes on the excerpts 😆 "cringe" is the best annotation I've ever seen😂
Love the comments on the pages, especially where it only says "nooooooooo" 😂
15:00 okay, but why does the heroine in this book mention Mr Darcy right after questioning if "jerks are her kink"? Mr Darce was not a jerk, he acted like one a couple times, and yes, he's proud, and rather arrogant, and not as friendly and likeable as Mr Bingley, but, like, he doesn't treat people around him like shit, I mean... could've gone for Heathcliff from "Wuthering Heights" if the girlie likes jerks so much, I dunno...
also, so far I'm loving the video, and the annotations are a pure delight to read ❤
Okay, I wasn't sure I was going to stay for this whole video but...."I see you busting that union over there. I have something else you can bust?" I AM NOT LEAVING.
I’m so glad someone is finally talking about this book/series bc I genuinely couldn’t understand why EVERYONE loved it and thought it was so sexy and fantastic writing when I was having a terrible time and wanted to vomit just from the plot alone
You know, I really want a book that they fell for a villain and the villain stay the villain and not just misunderstood or “made a tiny mistake for the greater good”. And i dont want a second love interest that is a good person, i want them to be madly in love and can’t move on.
I want it to breakkkkk my heartttt
Assistant to the villain by is just this it’s a slow burn with a second book in works
Same as with fifty shades, if he wasn't rich he'd be called a psychopath and jailed
Ngl, this book series made me actively terrified of men with too much money 😭
"I can fall for a hot villain who kills people, but I draw the line at employee exploitation" you know what same.
This book feels like it manifested directly out of the Grimes “this isn’t your heart…” tweet to Elon Musk
OH MY, THAT'S TRUE.
It's exactly that 😭😭
"I hate pronouns" "please this isn't your heart"
i LIVE for "i will burn the world down for you" trope but this wasn't it. i mean he's a fuCKING BILLONAIRE??? HELLO WHATEVER WORLD MR.TODDLER SUIT MAN BURNS, HE PROBABLY OWNS THAT TOO?? (the trope's genuinely attractive only when meaningful)
i feel really relieved that i never picked this one up just by the title
Rowan when he sees a hot and unqualified young woman: Congrats! You have been promoted, you're now one of my elite employees
can't believe the author decided to make the villain love interest an evil capitalist when they really had the chance to make him an ACTUAL villain cosplayer like imagine the MC falling for a grumpy little guy who cosplays jafar all day or something
ah yes, false sa charges - the most luxurious cash crab for women today 🤦🏽♀️
also having him say love turns men into tyrants and that’s why he can’t fall in love. ma’am he already is a tyrant, wdym?!
and can we please stop writing books where the fmc’s sole purpose (and the entire plot tbh) is basically to teach a horrible man basic human decency (extra points for calling it romance 🙃), thank you.
also rowan having a past of “being rejected over and over again until he stopped caring” and now he just harasses women he finds f**kable- it’s giving ✨incelcore✨
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He'd definitely be one of those sigma males
Blaming Zuko for chronic falling-in-love-with-the-villain syndrome?
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This is going to sound crazy, but this sounds like Ronan Lynch/Blue Sargent fanfic. Stay with me here. We've got:
-park named "dreamland"
-angry rich guy with daddy issues whose secretly creative
-3 brother who are almost certainly of irish descent.
-One of which is named Declan!!! And who is described as very boring!!!
-a strong independent girl that puts the MMC in his place
-shes also cares about social issues and dresses quirky
-HIs name is Ronan with a W!!!!!
This is my Pepe Sylvia.
Oh my god!! Noooo don’t say this.
Mo' money, mo' problems; I feel for the guy. His dad never put his stuff up on the fridge so he totally forgot his mom told him not to be an asshole. Fucked up his life and made him a billionaire...tragic, really.
I will never understand what is sexy in an abusive relationship. The man being rich and sexy doesn't make it acceptable, period.
What you said about indulging in this "billionaire romance" fantasy with a main character who says she doesn't want any of it, but still gets all the perks of being with a billionaire, is so so true. Contrapoints also talks about this in her recent video about Twilight.
Realistically based off other billionaires, Rowan would look like an English monarch (derogatory) with the fashion sense of a 16 year old on 10 energy drinks with an unlimited credit card
38:14 - I had to rewind because I literally thought you were joking. I can’t believe that that line made it unironically into a published book.
“Tongues battling for dominance” comes from Draco Malfoy / Harry Potter fanfic. Who let it escape containment?
what the fuck 🤣🤣
This feels like a Sucession fan fiction. There is a character on the show named Roman who is a billionaire and goes on training to manage the Park division of his Dads company (which sounds just like Disney as well because it has TV news, parks, movies and cruises).
Thats a much better fanfic that I was imaginging thanks to the evil artist plotline
Roman Roy would never be a Booktok boyfriend. That man is a wet soppy puppy.
You're telling me this is a flirting and not sexual harassment? Jail.
I just have one question... how on earth did she manage to write a whole article while drunk, and yet it makes sense and has no grammatical errors... like how?
If this was realistic, rowan wouldn't be able to understand a single thing from that article.
I am sober right now and I still make a bazillion mistakes and typo. I have no idea how homegirl published anything literate while drunk.
If I see one more pride and prejudice reference in a book that definitely doesn't understand what pride and prejudice is actually about I will cry
Ok, haven't read the book, and will not either, but from what I can gather here I see this had the potential to be a corporate version of Hallmark's "Prince falls in love with Regular Girl" movies, at least. Rowan's ice-cold, stone-hearted emotionless-ness and Zhara's sassy attitude towards his oppression and creepiness, are what dulls down the book the most. The only thing connecting them is lust, which in and of itself is not enough. There's no genuine interest on Zhara beyond her beauty and her superficial quirkiness in Rowan. There's no fear and acknowledgement of Rowan's power in Zhara. There is no sadness in Rowan upon realizing that he cannot have genuine relationships with the employees because they fear him, since their lives are in his hands, nor any attempts to show kindness and humanity to make him more sympathetic. And finally, THERE IS ONLY ONE LOVE INTEREST THROUGHOUT THE BOOK, and that makes Rowan look creepy and clingy and gross! I think the book would've been better from Rowan's perspective alone, and shown him dating multiple different women, always trying to have a deep connection with them and slowly finding out how to work with the power dynamics.
I love how instead of a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, the author accidentally wrote a modern version of the Christmas Carol featuring a crackship romance involving Mr. Scrooge
i refuse to believe this book was written not as a joke
*hearing her mention that she like Austen* aye yo keep my girl Jane out of this 😭
Are we SURE that the author actually read Pride&Prejudice ?? Cause she clearly has no idea what kind of character is Mr.Darcy.
I unfortunately gave this book a chance too. I actually quite enjoyed the first part of it, but it’s clear that Rowan has soooo much unresolved trauma and daddy issues that he needs to work through. This is a classic example of “FMC teaches MMC that people deserve basic human rights” but even then all he cares about is getting the FMC. Even with his grand gesture at the end it felt so calculated and manipulative. I was actually so pissed when I finished the book and was wondering why people hype it up so much LMAO
Funfact! : Dreamland is an actual amusment park in thailand!
Honestly I think the classic fictional man the main character should be obsessed with & comparing her love interest to is Ebenezer Scrooge
This girls ability to read the most horrifying things with a completely straight face is insane. Props.
I purchased a Bridgerton book believing that something so popular must be good, I was wrong.
The show is alright but those books... truly the worst things ever. And the book readers are always recommending them