books i read in march!! | ONE star reads, fairy smut, & gay werewolves

hello everyone how's it going my name is elias and today's video i'll be talking about all the books i've recently read in the month of march i know i did a recent reads video a couple weeks ago um detailing all the books i've read i know in the span of like two to three months but i just decided to film a video where i talk about all the books i read last month just because it's a handful already i feel like i wouldn't remember sort of the integral information and just all the feels that i read for these books so so i read a total number of six books which i thought was a huge plus for me in the month of march in general there are some highlights and there are some definite lows because if you did not watch my previous recent reads i read a couple of books that it was just extremely bad but guess what i actually went ahead and read the sequel for one of the books i rated one star so that was the time anyways before we get further into the video i would like to thank today's video sponsor pbs in honor of the release of hemingway a three-part six-hour documentary on the exploration of hemingway his life his work and his art and his influence in literature and culture today this six hour documentary series is directed by award-winning filmmakers ken burns and lynn novick and this series will air on pbs on april 5th to the 7th the documentary series will not only go over his famous literary works but also who he was as a writer and author his limitations and bias as an author during his time it'll highlight the highs and also the lows the rise and the fall of a tragic author who during his final years suffered from chronic alcoholism and serious mental illness the documentary will also focus on his famous literary works such as for whom the bell tolls the sun also rises farewell to arms and the old man in the sea which i've read as well as his non-fiction work death in the afternoon and a moveable feast which i've also read so just a little backstory in my personal connection to hemingway if you guys didn't know i was homeschooled throughout my entire life well in high school during my high school years i had an english tutor and she not only treated me and my brother but we were assigned to read a movable feast and i remember this being sort of a short story collection about hemingway and his life in paris from what i remember this takes place during his early years as a writer in 1920s however we were only assigned to read certain selected chapters from this book i believe it has 20 chapters and we were only assigned to read 10. i would like to reread this book from beginning to end as a whole because it's really interesting to me how he was living during the time of all these prolific great literary writers who are still well known and extremely influential to literature today one of the chapters in this book that really stood out to me was a chapter all about um f scott fitzgerald because i was also reading the great gatsby at the same time it was interesting to see how these two writers connect not only scott fitzgerald but also through other notable writers during his time such as sylvia beach james joyce john passos and gertrude stein the other book that i read and probably remember most from ernest hemingway is the old man and the sea i remember reading this book and thinking to myself how it almost read like a fairy tale this is about an old man who lives by the sea and his struggles as a fisherman so after a long period of time this character goes out to the sea and eventually stumbles across the biggest fish he has ever seen a marlin and the book basically just goes over the details and the struggles of this fisherman trying to capture this large marlin fish and trying to bring this large creature this fish back both of these books are extremely short and i'm also very interested in reading hemingway's other novels i also might want to collect his other books in these editions as well so overall i'm really looking forward to finishing and watching the rest of the documentary if you guys are interested in watching the documentary and learning all about hemingway his work and his life this will be available to watch and stream for free on the pbs video app this will be available on ios android roku streaming devices android tv apple tv amazon fire tv samsung smart tv and chromecast so you have plenty of options again this documentary series will be airing from april 5th to the 7th at 8pm eastern standard time and a huge thank you to pbs for sponsoring today's video with that being said let's go ahead and get straight into the books all right first up a court of silver flames by sarah j maas chronologically this is the fourth book in the court of thorns series all about fairies sex and sass this one follows the bitchiest sister of the three nesta let me tell you nesta i loved her she was a literal stone cold and that was essentially for the most part her entire personality and i was here for it i was living every single time she would snap back especially at any of the male characters in this book i was clapping for her i was rooting for her the entire time you know prior before reading this book in the previous trilogy nessa just seemed flat out mean and cruel as if she didn't really care about any of her sisters or her family aside from herself and it did seem that way for the first book but in the second book and in the third book we sort of get to see the complexity in the layers of her character and out of the three sisters that this whole series revolves around she's my favorite i just loved who she was as a person her character she was just hands down the best character in the whole series in general so mild spoilers as i'll be talking about the events that happened after the trilogy if you haven't read the series like at all you can just move on to the next time stamp where i talk about the next book but essentially we are following nesta as she is now faye after coming on the cauldron and dealing with ptsd after the traumatic events of the third book and the death of her father if i had to give props to this book i really liked the way that sarah comes up with these new inventive ideas in this world in general i think the world itself is so interesting especially everything that has to do with the myths the lore of this world i think it's just really interesting how these creatures and how these stories these dark ancient ones and gods and monsters all evolve so we have a new subplot regarding a new dangerous enemy and the mortal queens who were a huge nuisance in the previous trilogy basically nessa throughout this whole book goes on this journey of self-acceptance and forgiveness which for me was actually a really great read it just wasn't really all about the fantasy the magic the fighting and everything it was more about character development this probably has the most character growth development and build-up in any of her other characters in this series i think that's pretty much all the positive things i want to say about this book let's talk about the negative stuff because there are a ton of negatives that i had let's see let's start off with every single male character in this book no specifically let's talk about resand i hate resand reesann was such a little in this book i kid you not okay there are two type of there's nesta and then there's resand i'll let you figure out which one's the better one rhysand just made terrible decisions terrible and they want him to be king in this book like no he took the term alpha male to a whole new level oh you're gonna say that rhysan is a feminist yeah white feminist yeah he doesn't really care about anything or anybody else except for his mates and the things that he said how he acted just towards also nesta in general he was such a shitty character in this book i just hated it he was the worst his character and growth from the original trilogy to this book man he's basically on the same list as tamil for me he was just honestly so fake woke everything everything that he said everything that he does is just like you're so annoying just stop talking be gone go away also cassian as nessa's love interest i wasn't feeling it i feel like he was just how did i say this without being mean hooky's a i feel like he was just too dumb to be on the same level on par as nested nesta is just on this whole other vibe this whole other level than every character in this book and she's just she just in the end ends up with cassian which is not a spoiler of course it's very obvious but i was like between the two if you had to choose between cassian and azrael would have liked if nestor ended up with azrael in the first place because you know i sort of get why cassian ends up with nesta you know he balances her out and he's sort of like the opposite of her character in general he's just too jock too playboy for her character and i just didn't see it i just didn't really see the spark the romance speaking of the romance in this book this book had the most sex scenes i've ever read in sarah j maas books it was just sort of juice money for me especially reading about two straight people going at it it was just not a time i honestly skipped a lot of the sex scenes because it just wasn't for me and about the representation let's talk about that for a moment that's it anyways uh back to the sex scenes if you really like dick popping mouth robbing breast swelling sexy hot naked scenes you might really enjoy this book i did not for one um vibe too much with the sex scenes but that's just me in general because i just don't really care to read about heterosexual romance but if you're the type of person who really likes you know fantasy romance and really sexy scenes then it is your lucky day because this book has a ton of them in the end i'm giving this book a 3.5 out of 5 because there are some parts that were really good parts that were good they were very very good i really liked last 200 pages of the book in the beginning 100 to 200 pages of the book everything in the middle was a lot slower like i said it's a character based book with heavy hot sex scenes between two fairies so but i know for a fact that i think we're getting asriel's perspective for the next book also i would not mind if for the next book sarah j maas decided to make azrael gay or even single like he's not even remotely interested in any female character at all for the next book and i'm okay with that all right the next book we're going to talk about is spinning silver by naomi novik so after reading a quarter silver flames i was still in the mood for a good fantasy i was feeling that vibe so i went along on my bookshelf and this book caught my eye and i was like well you have been sitting on there for quite a while so why not let me tell you this book did not disappoint it essentially satiated my appetite for fantasy in general and this book generally surprised me in the best way possible if you're the type of person who really likes fairy tale-esque elements in their books then look no further because this book will be perfect for you this one takes the core elements the core aspects of several different fairy tales the main prominent one i can think of is the snow queen and also rumpelstiltskin and just blends them all together in this book just overall so slow moving beautifully written and just amazing in every sense i really love the way that naomi developed these three characters we're essentially following these three women and how they're navigating their world in different classes one of them is the daughter of a duke one of them is jewish and she's a money lender taking after her father and one of them comes from an abusive household the story is more about the tribulations and the perseverance of these three characters these three girls overcoming their struggles and living through these trials and errors i really liked how the story weaved between fantasy and fairy tale like elements so this story follows these three main girls trying to save their kingdom and their village their home their families their livelihood from a greater evil a demon i had a few main critiques about the story i would say that the last 10 pages of this book was a little rushed for me i wish that the romance would have been better developed between sort of the main love interests because i feel like we get to see all this backstory and then we just immediately skip to the end without exploring the details the fine lines of it also one of the things that i loved about this was that it's a standalone so it has a beginning and an end this also does take place in the same world as her other book uprooted which i also loved overall i really loved it it was really nostalgic and just very reminiscent of the fairy tales that i read and loved as a child also if you're the type of person who really loves the trope enemies to lovers this one will give you the bang for your buck because this one was just oh it was done really well i really enjoyed it overall giving us a strong four out of five so after i completed spinning silver i went straight ahead into urban paranormal fantasy i read wild signs by patricia briggs so this book is i believe the sixth book in the spinel series in the mercy thompson universe and this one mainly follows two werewolves anna and charles as they navigate all these mythologies and curses revolving around a greater evil so each book in the story can sort of be read as a standalone however you pretty much won't get the big picture of their relationships and their families and their inner lives without reading each book chronologically this one had a really interesting premise and the setting itself was just chef's kiss this takes place um in the california wilderness high in the mountains in the forest in the woods and i loved it it was just overall well done because i live in california and i've been hiking and camping in these woods in these mountains and patricia captured the essence perfectly so we follow our main characters as they try to solve and figure out the disappearance of this entire self-established settlement that has gone missing and they basically try to figure out these disappearances only to figure out there's something much more dangerous and evil lurking in these woods that has awoken from its giant slumber so prior before going to this i would actually give a huge trigger warning for rape and sexual violence so this evil entity in himself was just essentially using its powers to impregnate women which is uncomfortable in the overall abundance of just sexual violence in this book was just really off-putting so i'll heed that warning if you have read the books and decide to go into this one just knowing that but that's in there and that just really lowered my enjoyment and taste for this book in general i'm giving this book a three out of five because originally i was really enjoying it it was probably going to be like this really strong 4.5 rating and then upon finishing it i was just like oh boy i don't know how to feel about this you can tell a good story with character death and development and how evil a thing can be without relying on sexual violence and rape and so overall giving a three out of five for the characters and the world building and the premise but everything else ultimately fell flat for me so moving on into the next book and staying in the same genre i read the last book in the series brother song by tj clune so brother song is the last book in the series that is essentially all about gay werewolves what more can you want it is literally every furry's freaking dream essentially we follow our main characters and this whole world as everything comes to a close and fighting the last main giant evil of this entire series however of all the books that i've read so far from tj clune i think in this series brother song was probably the weakest i didn't really like how the majority of this book we were just traveling and walking of just going on through this long journey of the main character trying to find the love of his life i mean spoiler alert but you are already gonna know he is going to find the love of his life no matter what it's basically inevitable it's a choke that you know that the main character will succeed in because i just overall knew he would overcome these trials and obstacles to get to his mate his other half like everything to me in this book was just so predictable there wasn't any surprises there wasn't any anything new offered or brought up and i get that it's the last book everything is supposed to tie and close together but at times it felt so cheesy to me i was cringing at a lot of the dialogue in this book because everything is revolving around pack and family and love but so much of that was just heavily emphasized and just heavy-handed in a way where i was like all right i get it i've read this in the past four or five books it was just overall extremely repetitive and i was like all right you know i get it i think that this book was just overall too long and just too predictable in every sense i mean not to say that i didn't like this book there are some parts i really loved seeing all the characters again and how you know their relationships with each other it was just beautiful thing to read however i do want to say that the last 50 pages of this book really brought it home for me you know tying it saying goodbye to these characters it was just really bittersweet of all the books in the series the first book is probably my favorite um wolf song if you're into queer representation and just hot werewolves you know vibing with each other having sex then this series might be for you so overall i'm giving brother son a strong three like 3.75 out of five right the next book is the power by naomi alderman so this is the march book pick for the late night book club i'm not gonna say too much because there will be a live show for this book where my co-hosts and i will discuss our thoughts and feelings for this book all you need to know is that i think there are some really interesting ideas thrown around in this book a look at authority and power and oppression i liked it i'm glad that i read it and that's all i'm gonna say about this book so we have come to the end of this video where i'll be talking about the last book that i read so if you all remember my previous recent reads video i talked about this particular book that i read because of book twitter and how everyone was just recommending it and how they loved it and i gave it a go give it a try and i read it and it was the absolute worst thing i've ever read so far this year and guess what guess what i don't know why i did this to myself i gave the first book one star and i went ahead and got the sequel from the library thinking to myself cannot be as bad or worse than the first book i was dead that's wrong this book is bad if not worse than the first book i even went on goodreads and everyone was like oh my god it's immaculate i loved it it's 10 times better than the first book chill chill calm down there was no way that this book was better than the first book i would even say that the first book is miles leagues better than this book this book was essentially a filler episode nothing happens absolutely nothing i was scammed scammed i want a refund i want the last two weeks of my life back i'm probably being over dramatic again and exaggerating but you know what it the biggest sin that this book commits nothing happens in the first 80 of the book i kid you not nothing happens we're just reading the aftermath of the battle of the last book and just traveling to this new location that the main characters are going towards and that's essentially it so there will be spoilers if you haven't read the first book and you plan on reading the first book shoot go away i'll be talking about spoilers from the first book into the second book because there's no way i can go into talking about other things that happened in the second book without spoiling the events of the first book so goodbye castile he's still a dick he has no personality trait aside from being hot and having dimples he makes literally the worst decisions ever and he says like the cringiest things cringy dialogue is still there man why did i think that giving this book a second chance would just be redeeming in of itself i was dead wrong why don't you do this to myself who knows i make bad decisions just like castile i guess that's a thing that we have in common and we can relate to there's a huge factor in this book where at the end of the first book he tells poppy you and i we're getting married you don't have a choice a big takeaway of having all our problems is we're getting married this is probably the most realistic thing that i can relate to because you know what a hot powerful wealthy chosen prince comes up to me and says oh yes i would have been like no well okay simp i tell you a sim so book one was essentially on poppy and how stupid she was book two just literally confirms how stupid castile is these two are match made in heaven or hell depending on how you look at it there's a point in the book where poppy always knows when castile is around and you know how she knows it's not through the love bond or whatever that they have for each other which i will also talk about later but it's through how he smells he always smells of rich lush dark spice pine and citrus and throughout the entirety of this book castile is nowhere near any vicinity of oranges or tangerines i double checked there's no way he can smell like citrus 24 7. i kid you not not even a get ready with me where you know he sprays cologne in the morning getting ready getting dressed it's more like they're outside in the wilderness when you're like sweating and stinking he still smells like spice i don't even know what kind of spice pine but the areas that they're in they're not pine trees they're just regular forest trees and also citrus where do you get the citrus from throughout this entire book i kid you not there's so many references like more than five or six where poppy is like i immediately smell dark spice and pine and citrus i immediately think of dark spice pine and citrus oh my god i'm suffocating dark spice pine and citrus dark spice pine and citrus the three main elements that make castile who he is he never eats an orange he's never in vicinity of any oranges maybe honeydew is the only fruit that he'll ever be tasting or smelling depending on how you look at it also this is just a generalization but what is it that every single like romance character the main love interest has a big dick i have never read where the main character a main love interest just has an average size dick why do they all need to have 12-inch long dicks don't know will i ever read a book where the main love interest the main character says he has an average sized stick he's definitely a shower not a grower like i get it every single book y'all are tops let's talk about poppy for a second because we can't go talking about this book without talking about our main love unexpected girl poppy poppy is such a contradiction to herself she keeps telling herself she's good at things when she literally says the exact opposite or acts a certain way her character tray is only acting cool if she has a weapon in her hands but without a weapon she just acts totally different like a whole new different person this is part of the book where she has like a bow and arrow and she's just essentially like ooh be so good with the bow and arrow ooh a sword me so good and dangerous and professional the store because i was taught by a professional ooh watch me kill monsters that is essentially the only character trait that poppy has literally there's one part of the book that just didn't really make sense to me poppy and castile after a heavy bloody battle go into a carriage with a dead body and bone each other they go at it real hard real steamy in the carriage with the dead body i mean i've read all kinds of sex scenes okay but this one just takes the cake because you're really going to go at it with a dead person while being all bloody sweaty smelly disgusting right there in a closed space in a carriage so there's this thing you know especially in fairies or when it comes to supernatural creatures mates okay people have soul mates and they call each other mates and everything but do you know what they call each other mates in this book with poppy and castile they call each other heartmates heart mates what is something super different just so different but staying in line of just the soulmates ah i got an idea heartmates that's what it is when i tell you when i first read about that i literally screamed i cringed so hard like i would have just been fine if you stuck along with soulmate or just mates in general but really heartmates i was like damn yes i really gotta give jennifer props because heartmates from now on from every supernatural book that i read every time they call each other mates i'm not going to accept that i'm only going to accept heartmates from now on even in my own life heartmates done deal all right what else what do you say about this book like the fact that the last 20 pages of this book the last 20 to 50 pages of this book had actual plot this book was literally more than 600 pages i kid you not 600 pages of just going to a different location traveling and nothing happened aside from a huge sniper marks some heated moments but that's it i'm obviously having fun here and going at the series harder than i usually do but it is what it is and i cannot believe how invested i am in the last 80 pages of this book it's insane i'm so invested to the point where i am actually making plans to read the last and final book of this series you heard that right i am essentially going to read the last book in this trilogy because it comes out actually at the end of the month of april i guess you can call it what it is a blessing in disguise i read the third book and i get an inkling of the same structure story format that i got in the second book i'm dnfing that there's no way in hell you can make me read through 600 pages of just traveling dialogue and just talking only to get through the actual substance and plot of the actual book so that in of itself is my overall thoughts of what is this book called kingdom of flesh and blood kingdom of flesh and fire so ultimately giving the sequel one out of five stars oh my god i'm so tired i'm just talking about all that anyways um let me know down the comments below any of the books you recently read that you loved or hated i would be interested to know thank you so much for watching and i will see you guys all soon with a new video and out of the three sisters of the three sisters that and out of the three sisters that this whole story and out of the three sisters which was actually a really which was actually which was actually a beaut which was actually a really nice no which was actually a really which which for me which for me was actually i really liked the i really liked the so at its core so uh so so um so basic summary about this book is so so basic summary about this book is that it's about however the journey however the journey however the journey however the journey however and also

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Length: 23min 24sec (1404 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 07 2021