Well hello! Welcome back to my channel
I'm here to talk about some friggin
books! I have five books again to talk
about today and it'll probably be pretty
quick because most of them are reread
things so-- [laugh track during freeze frame] Here we go! The first one is
Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris.. book..
six? Yes
book six of the Sookie Stackhouse series.
It's--again this is adult, paranormal,
romance, fantasy... what-have-you. In this
one Sookie starts dating Quinn the
weretiger that we met in the previous
book. The main thing in this one is that
she has to go to New Orleans to take
care of, basically the estate, of her now
dead vampire cousin Hadley, who was
turned into a vampire by Sophie-Anne, the
Queen. And in this one there's a big huge
party happening because Queen
Sophie-Anne married the vampire king of...
Arkansas? Yes. And they aren't very
friendly, they're not on great terms, it
was just an alliance that they made. And
as per usual there's like four different
plots happening all at the same time. As
my reread is continuing I'm remembering
how I really had a fun time with the
first few books--I'd say the first like
four books particularly, I just was like
"yeah this is fun!"
And then it started kind of feeling like
the books were filler books... like all the
books in the series... and also on this
reread... something new is that I'm--do I
like Sookie? I don't know. So Sookie
starts--I start noticing it, at least, in
this book... this... she's very fucking
judgmental, and I don't know if she was
just less judgmental in the previous
books or if I just didn't notice it as
much and maybe now it's one of those
things where like, I noticed it once and
now I'm just like noticing it over and
over again...
she's very fucking judgmental. Let me see
if I can find, because I notated some of
them... and then I was annoyed with her,
there's this whole subplot
where a kid goes missing at the school...
Sookie runs down there to try to help
using her telepathy and Andy Bellefleur,
the cop, he's like "oh go sit over here
and listen in to people in this area of
the school" and she does it and they, you
know things, happen and whatever they
find the child and then Sookie's yelling
at Andy and she's like "don't ever ask me
to do this again," I told him".... and I was
like bitch you came down there of your
own accord! No one told you to go down to
the school! You fucking did--he told you
where to sit
but like your whole intention of going
down there was to use your telepathy to
listen in and find the child--he just
directed you where to go sit! I was--I was
so fucking annoyed and then this, this
one is the first one I noticed where
she's describing another woman's outfit:
"she was wearing fishnet stockings and
high-heeled boots, a red leather bustier--
well a bustier that wished it was made
of red leather-- it was probably more like
naugahyde, and a black band of cloth that
I supposed she called a skirt. It was
like she pulled the tube top on and then
worked it down. It was so tight I thought
it might roll up all at once like a
window shade." And everything about that I
fucking hate. First of all, Sookie
constantly talks about how she's poor
and she's just a po' lil country girl, she's
all proud of being her working-class
self ,which is great, fine, grand, wonderful...
but then why are you getting all fucking
"oh it wished it was made of red leather"--
like basically like I don't know poor
shaming someone or not even poor but you
know what I'm saying-- like you're trying
to shame someone or like mock someone
for not having actual leather and maybe
they're vegan and they don't want to
wear actual leather-- ever fucking think
of that? Also maybe they just don't have
the fucking money for a real fucking
leather bustier and why are you judging
them for that?? And then just the whole
description of like, that, "I supposed she
called it a skirt"-- it's shit like that.
Like constantly
we have Sookie getting dressed up to go
somewhere, and she dresses all cute and
she talks about
how she feels real good, she feels real
confident, she feels a little sexy... and
her outfits are always described like a
very classy, you know, it'll be a tight
dress--that goes down to her knees-- but
then has a little bit of cleavage,
showing a little bit of "decolletage" but
like, it's "classy" [heavy sarcasm] you know? And then other
women who basically cross the border
into dressing "like a whore",
according to Sookie and the author
apparently, they're shamed and like
they're TOO sexy, you know? Now they're
"whores." And I just--I don't like it--I
don't--I don't like it. um I did like this
book better than the previous book... it
just--I like to plot, the mystery a little
bit better. And we meet Amelia and I
really like Amelia, she's just fun. She's
just a fun character, she's the witch
that she befriends... and then I liked
Quinn in this also... he's no Eric, you know,
but if she can't be with Eric in this
book
I'll take Quinn I guess. So there's that
and I don't--I'm trying to like think of
why I'm not rating these books like a two,
you know? And I just think they're fun.
Like the plots are typically just fun
times and then when the romance is done
well, I really like it and honest to god
I think currently I'm just so
anticipating more Eric. I love Eric
Northman as a character SO much and
then Pam, I love Pam as a character and
like I said in this one we meet Amelia
and I really like Amelia... so there are
certain characters that I genuinely like...
these characters, and in the first few
books I genuinely like Sookie but I'm
starting to have some issues with her
fucking judgmental ass.
So my 1 to 10 for this one I gave it a
5.83 which is still
3 Pusheenicorns... but we're teetering
though. Then I read Changeless by Gail
Carriger--I listened to this on audio... I
read the first book in physical form and
the first time I read these books I read
them in
physical form but for the sake of time I
just decided to do these ones on audio
for the rest of the series and yeah this
one is book two -- did I say that already?
I don't remember. Adult paranormal romance...
fantasy... set in Victorian England where
vampires and werewolves are a known
thing-- and its steampunk
also. I don't remember if I said that the
first time when I talked about Soulless
but yeah it's very much like a steampunk
world. I actually like the mystery in
this book better than the mystery in the
first book, so that whole plot was just
more fun to me and we meet some new
characters that are really fun in
Scotland and then we get to see more of
Madame Lefoux which I really appreciated
because I really liked Madame Lefoux and
Ivy also and Ivy--Ivy is just like a
silly ass time and I love her. And as
always I love Alexia and I just love like [laughing quietly]
"Alexia had spent long hours wondering
over that mustache. Werewolves did not
grow hair, as they did not age. Where had
it come from? Had he always had it? For
how many centuries had his poor abused
upper lip labored under the burden of
such vegetation?" On my one to ten I gave
this an 8.5 which translates to 5
Pusheenicorns. These books aren't
like anything profound necessarily but
yeah I just have such a fucking good
time reading them. Next one was an e-book
that I'm a dumbass and I didn't actually
write any kind of bullet points for my
review so we'll see how this fucking
goes... but it's
book two of oh I don't know the name of
the series but it's Restless Slumber by
K.J. Sutton. Fortuna Sworn is the first
book and I've read that just a couple
weeks ago and--or, not even--like a week
and a half ago. And I read Fortuna Sworn
like real fucking fast like, in less than
a day I read that book. And I thoroughly
enjoyed it. And Restless Slumber I also
enjoyed. Fortuna is still, I just, I love
her as a character. I think she's really
great. And the different themes of just
grief and coping with really dark shit,
you know? This one I did find a couple of
times
where some more editing would have been
needed... not a lot, but there was a few
things where I was like, "wait a minute..."
The most notable one is--and I won't like
give any names or give too many details,
I'm not gonna spoil anything... but towards
the end of the book there's like this
thing is happening and basically some
characters are dying... there's like kind
of a battle happening, I guess you could
say. And this one character, who is a
human, dies and is like very much dead...
they're dead, we know they're dead, we see
them die... and then two pages later, maybe
not even that... Fortuna is using her magic
and someone else is using their magic
and then someone else is using their
magic to like glamor them and Fortuna
says this, and says like oh we're, you
know, in this illusion and this is-- and she
says--what so-and-so and so-and-so sees
is this, like saying these humans they
aren't seeing what's actually happening
they're seeing this illusion, okay? But
one of the characters she mentions is
the one who's dead! And I was just like
um they aren't seeing shit cuz they just
died... and it was just like clearly a
small editing mistake but it took me out
of the story cuz like like again this
character's name is right there saying
"they see this"-- I was like they... no...
they're, they're for sure dead... like we see
their body. So just a couple of little
things like that and there was a few
more to but I don't know where my ebook
is and I didn't fucking write the notes
down of course, but yeah just a few
things like that that I was kind of like
"okay..." but the ending was just like, a
fucking ride! It was a wild ass ride and
I'm just so fucking curious what is
gonna happen in the rest of the books...!
There's gonna be four more and I have
some theories but I just don't know... I
just don't know...! On my one to ten I gave
this one a 6.83 which
translates to 3 Pusheenicorns. And then
I read book seven of the Sookie books:
All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris.
And again
Sookie's being a fucking bitch. And this
one Sookie has to go to this vampire
summit that we heard about in the
previous book because the Queen
Sophie-Anne was like "hey I want you to
come as my employee and use your
telepathy to like listen in on the other
humans" basically... and the summit is
basically a big get-together that the
vampires do to carry out like different
ceremonies.... there's some weddings between
royalty and then there's like some
trials that happen and and it's the
party also.... and we have Quinn again... she's
dating Quinn and I started to not like
him in this one. I don't know what--I
can't even say what it is necessarily
about him specifically but them as a
couple I just feel like they look good
on paper you know what I mean? But yeah in--in
action I just feel like there's not a
lot of like... there's passion, like they
just want to fuck each other all the
time... but it's not like a true intimacy
and passion.
It just feels flat kind of and also he's
like super busy and barely sees Sookie
anyways so he's hardly ever around. He
just felt kind of like a basic bitch in
this book. And again Sookie just being a
judgmental ass fucking bitch... like I
can't--where... let's, let's find 'em... oh this
this was just dumb to me where I was
like what the fuck? Says "since I so
seldom got to see Quinn, who was kind of
my boyfriend if at my age--26--I could use
that term." What is this like weird ageism?
26 you can't say boyfriend?! Since fucking
when?! Like, you're not 75-- I don't--it's just
weird to me. And then this too... the... the
morality fucking gymnastics that she
does. She's dating this man, okay? But she
keeps saying how she wants to take it
slow cuz she was--"went too fast with
those vampires and then she got screwed"--
basically she's putting her her vagina
on this pedestal and I just, I'm, I have--I
don't know--I don't have an issue with
that because that's like what a lot of
women do, because we're taught to... like
you're taught that like don't give a guy
your sex unless you know he really
cares about you because if you sleep
with a dude and then he ghosts you if
you sleep with a dude and then he's a
jerk to you like you've given him this
precious thing... and I just don't
subscribe to that... which, think what you
want, whatever, just this purity thing and
this like...I don't know to me I'm like, if
you want to have sex... have sex! If the
reason you want to have sex is just you
feel like it you're attracted to this
person and you want to bang them right
now...
who cares if they don't ever talk to you
again?! Maybe you don't want to ever talk
to them again?! Why is it always this fear
that the dude is gonna be the one--in
like a heterosexual thing--why is it
always this fear that the dude is gonna
be the one to be like tossing you to the
side, you worthless woman? [heavy sarcasm] and I don't
know it's just like this sexual freedom
thing... I just have an issue with that
thought process... of like "be careful
because a dude might never talk to you
again and then you've like 'wasted' your
vagina on him"... I don't know. Now if you
just don't want to have sex, don't have
sex right? Like and don't have sex
because you think it will make a dude
like you, because that has NEVER worked...
and I don't know, it's a complicated
thing but basically I just feel like if
you wanna and you're feeling the lust
and you feel like you trust this person
like enough to like have sex with them...
you know what I mean... like you don't
think they're gonna fucking kill you or
something...then how does that--just have a fucking
one night stand! Fuck the dude you've been
dating for a week and a half who fucking
cares?! So anyways that's how I feel about
that. So she's dating this man for a few
weeks at least... but I think at this point
it's been like a month and a half to two
months... and this dialogue, first of all, I
hate but anyways... yeah three months! Three
months...
she's like... if we-- she's talking to
him, but: "'If we never get to see any more
of each other than we have the past
three months I'm not really sure I want
to make that next step.' I hated to say it
but I had to. I didn't need to cause
myself pain." And then she says, "I have big
lust. Big big lust, but I'm not a
one-night stand kind of woman." First of
all-- I have big lust big big lust??
Stop! Fucking stop. Secondly, it's not a
fucking one-night stand if it's the dude
you're dating! That's not--that's not what
a one-night stand is! A one-night stand
is literally, I don't really fucking know
you, probably just met you, we're gonna go
back to my place and bang, and then I'm
never going to talk to you again!
THAT'S a fucking one-night stand! Banging
the dude you're dating is NOT a fucking one--I don't care how serious or
not you are... you're seeing him on a
semi-regular basis, you guys are like
sort of committed to each other, you're
not dating other people...
sleeping with him is not a fucking one-night stand! That's -- that's not what that is! And then here is
just a perfect example of what I was
talking about with the previous book...
she's describing this woman that she's
sharing a room with... "Carla was getting
dressed in what I thought of as classy
whore." Like excuse you? Oh my god. And
there were just some things too that
happened like... this is like, a plot device
that I fucking hate and I don't even
know what to call it other than like
fabricated foreshadowing. Right here
they're trying to figure out, towards the
end, this you know, big mystery plot... who's
doing this... there's a bomb that they
think it like, "who did it oh my god", all
these different things people are
showing up dead and someone's talking
and then she said, it says, "Though he'd
played at frightening her she clung
closer." And then Sookie: "'Wait', I thought,
'wait just a minute...'
but the idea wouldn't form." And then they
continue on their conversation and then
later: "'I held up a hand. 'Hold it for a sec,'
I murmured. The waiter's quick-turn had
reminded me of
something. Something else that had seemed
odd. 'Please pay attention, miss Stackhouse,'
the lawyer said, and I had to stow the
thread of thought away." This constant
like, "oh, oh man there's something right
at the tip of my brain... but now I'm
distracted and I forgot it, or I can't
quite think of it." I fucking-- I hate it!
This one--it's just creeping down, the
score is slowly slowly creeping down...
this one I gave a 5.3 on my one to ten
which is 3 Pusheenicorns. And once
again really what is keeping me going is
that there are some characters that I
really love and just the like
anticipation and hopefulness of the the
romance and seeing where it goes and
just waiting for Eric.
Yeah this is just one of those books
series that I think once I'm done
rereading it I'll realize like I just
don't love it as much as I thought I did.
But it's like still fun, it's just dumb
fun kind of at this point. But I
definitely know I don't like Sookie as
much as I thought I did.
And then finally real quick--Wow I've
talked for fucking ever at this point
I'm so sorry... how long have I been
talking? Forty--forty seven minutes! And my
battery's gonna die so real quick: I also
read the Royal Diaries: Anastasia, the
Last Grand Duchess. And this is just one
of these like Dear America books and it
was cute, it's fun... I don't give middle
grade books ratings anymore because it's
so very much not for me, I'm not the
fucking target audience. Never had read
this one before, though. It was fine, it
was kind of boring
honestly. It like it starts off in 1914
and like the whole fall of the Romanovs
doesn't happen until like 1917 so the
first like half to three-quarters of it
is just kind of their little cute shit
and it just wasn't that detailed and I
just remember a lot of the Dear America
books being way more detailed and just
like what they do all day and like how
they feel about their friends and this and that
and this one was just, yeah I don't know
it just wasn't as interesting. But I just
love the story of like the Romanovs. Very
intrigued by it. I still want to read
like some nonfiction about it. So anyways
I enjoyed it it's cute it's fine and
there we go, I'm done talking before my
fucking phone dies and I get cut off!
I can't believe I talked for so
fucking long... probably gonna have to cut these...
Oh God...
as always thank you so much for your
time, hope you guys have a wonderful day
and I will talk to you later! Bye bye!
Oh Lillie says bye - oh my god shoot
you're you're so much bigger than Gigi...
she's like why the fuck did you wake me
up for this?! Ohhh but you're just so cute beebee I
love you. Okay I'm sorry.
Okay bye!
you
