The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - TASTEFUL AMOUNT OF CRINGE Ft. Brooke Averick

00:00:00.000 so much of romance can be cringe and i found that too like reading things out loud is really helpful

00:00:07.200 and like some of it some cringe is okay yes of course but sometimes a tasteful amount of

00:00:11.920 cringe is always okay but when it makes you go like and takes you out yeah it's really hard

00:00:18.860 it's there's such a delicate balance yeah i agree

00:00:21.820 hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of the comment section show starring me your fave

00:00:33.700 everybody knows me who cares about me on to the guest today we have the iconic the hilarious

00:00:38.280 the published author herself brooke abrick thank you so much for having me drew oh my god thank

00:00:45.960 you so much for coming i feel like it's been a long time it has it's been a long time coming

00:00:49.540 you and i to be here yeah and you know what no better time no better time like the present

00:00:53.660 phoebe verman's gonna lose it yeah you guys can see in the wide i don't when does this come out

00:00:59.460 is she out yet or she she's about to be out oh she she popped yesterday okay yeah okay so that's

00:01:06.960 incredible yeah so yes i'm officially a published author oh my gosh yesterday how exciting yeah

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00:01:48.780 verman's gonna lose it i really want to talk all things to published author um yeah so phoebe is

00:01:54.880 a rom-com yeah she is basically it's about a hopeless romantic phoebe she's 29 years old

00:02:03.300 and even though she's a hopeless romantic she has this very crippling intimacy anxiety

00:02:09.040 that she's had since she was a teenager and so she has not lost her virginity yet and she becomes

00:02:15.700 super obsessed with losing it in the 30 days before her 30th birthday which is when this book

00:02:21.200 takes place she makes a list and that is her goal is to lose it and she goes from kind of a

00:02:28.160 non-existent love life to having three prospects so it's kind of like is she gonna lose it if she

00:02:36.440 loses it who she's who is she gonna lose it to so kind of like mystery thriller element there as

00:02:41.140 well murder mystery mystery too um no but it's just like I tried to really channel those like

00:02:46.480 early 2000s rom-coms and this one is like Bridget Jones kind of like Bridget Jones um yeah if she

00:02:54.240 was like on a lot of anti-anxiety medication okay so tell me about the process of coming to write a

00:03:00.820 book like I know you're a huge bookworm yeah and I know you love to read especially fiction so I do

00:03:06.220 like what what inspired you to want to write your own like did it kind of come naturally were you

00:03:10.400 kind of like I've always wanted to do this now I have the opportunity I have always wanted to

00:03:16.060 write a book and I have always wanted to write about this like super uh romantically anxious

00:03:23.380 person yeah um but I don't I just like thought I wasn't qualified like I was always under the

00:03:30.020 impression like I had to go back to school and like get a master's in creative writing or like

00:03:35.220 I had to take a class like I was always looking up like creative writing like USC and then I don't

00:03:41.520 know I was just like waiting for something to like give me the permission that I was looking for

00:03:47.540 totally and then one day I kind of just realized like I think I don't need that I think I can kind

00:03:53.960 of just write a book if I want to right and I think giving myself that permission kind of just

00:03:59.440 like the floodgates open yeah and then once I kind of wrote the first sentence it just all like

00:04:05.280 kind of spilled just kind of spilled out yeah at that point were you pulling from any inspo for

00:04:10.340 for Phoebe the world itself I was definitely the anxiety piece I was kind of pulling

00:04:16.060 from my real life I am also super anxious yeah when it comes to romance and so I had kind of

00:04:24.420 used like my lack of dating experience and and threw that in there yeah um so this one's definitely

00:04:32.320 yeah for for the late bloomers for sure beautiful I think that's a wonderful thing thank you do you

00:04:39.320 have any like any books that you were reading like have you read adult fiction for a while

00:04:44.060 like as an adult because I got back into adult fiction like I want to say like two three years

00:04:48.080 ago like I for some reason thought like at past a certain age I'm like oh I guess I have to read

00:04:52.520 self-help books from the rest of my life but then I realized I was like wait I don't have to do that

00:04:56.280 I can read fiction still and I kind of got back into it yeah was that the same for you or are you

00:05:00.360 always I've always been a fiction reader love but for whatever reason like I wasn't reading

00:05:06.160 I was always like desperate for the romance right within like literary fiction because I kind of

00:05:12.840 thought like the only thing I could be reading in my 20s was literary fiction for I don't know I

00:05:18.300 guess you kind of like put yourself in a box once you turn a certain age exactly for your reading

00:05:22.200 and then i was like wait i can be reading like cheesy romance like as much as i want and then

00:05:27.580 i was like that's awesome it's actually so tea that's so fun and that's so awesome it's me and

00:05:34.780 my kindle against the world it really is and so i think for phoebe i took from like every genre

00:05:40.160 that i love like there's part cheesy romance there's part like just like general women's

00:05:45.280 fiction and like weird girl lit fic like yeah so i kind of yeah i drew from a lot of those that's

00:05:52.080 amazing do you have any favorite books that like were kind of inspiring to you as you were writing

00:05:57.560 did you read it all while you wrote like I know sometimes people actually did oh um there is this

00:06:03.320 author who I'm obsessed with Emily Austin okay and she writes about really unique mentally ill women

00:06:11.540 and I'm obsessed with her and I think everyone should read her books and those definitely

00:06:17.080 informed my writing about mental illness for sure and also just like a lot of i just like love a

00:06:23.340 good rom-com like emily henry yeah um christina lauren um emily henry wrote people we meet on

00:06:31.780 vacation we meet on vacation she wrote book lovers is my favorite i feel like she has five and

00:06:37.380 everyone feels really really strongly about like which one is the best that's true um yeah i know

00:06:43.620 the book talk girls do not play around they do not play no on goodreads that was like one of the

00:06:48.980 first things i talked about with my team when i came out with my first book because i was like

00:06:53.960 goodreads is scary goodreads is scary i take the recs very seriously but goodreads man do they

00:07:00.280 write a novel in there if they don't like an addiction to goodreads like it's really bad it's

00:07:05.580 my most used app which sucks because no one else uses it but i check goodreads probably

00:07:11.100 50 times a day I love good reads it the the recs are so real on there but like I was so afraid of

00:07:18.100 my own book being put on there because I was so afraid of what people would write terrifying yeah

00:07:22.040 and I'm letting myself look at Phoebe reviews before it comes out and I'm gonna really really

00:07:29.520 try not to do that after it comes out I think it's gonna do really well and I think everyone's

00:07:36.140 gonna love from what I've seen everybody's already really loving it so I think that's

00:07:39.700 a beautiful thing that it is did you guys get to send out arcs and stuff yes that's so great yeah

00:07:44.600 that kind of stressed me out because I didn't know much about like that whole process right

00:07:50.120 but arcs like there are some things that I've changed since the arc and I have like pretty

00:07:57.020 severe OCD so like going to sleep at night knowing that like there are people reading an unfinished

00:08:01.600 copy of my book that's crazy you change things after arcs that's crazy yeah uh definitely like

00:08:07.840 not a lot like no like the plot is the same no I love that but like there are some sentences in

00:08:12.980 the arc that I'm like I hate this sentence it is killing me that people have read this sentence

00:08:19.860 I feel you that's how I felt when I started writing the proposal for my fiction book because

00:08:25.360 it went through so many versions that like I changed some stuff but just structurally like 0.97

00:08:30.620 sentence wise so the some of the versions they got I was kind of like fuck did you have arcs

00:08:35.780 with your book with my first book yes yeah I did change anything no because at that point I feel

00:08:41.360 like with that book was very different though for me because I feel like because it was like self

00:08:46.020 help slash memoir it it was almost like I wanted to set it and forget it because it's really hard

00:08:51.080 for me to be vulnerable like that yeah to that extent totally about myself yeah like I feel like

00:08:55.180 I could write that way about other people or made up people but like about myself it was making it

00:08:58.820 hard so I almost like didn't want to look at it again because I felt like I might change too many

00:09:03.060 things but it was mostly because it was about me that's really i think i'll feel differently though

00:09:07.440 about the fiction yeah it feels different to me well at some point like because i was still

00:09:11.800 editing a little bit after the arc um and my agents were like you you're making it worse and

00:09:17.820 you have to stop like it gets to a point where it's like you you just can't look at it anymore

00:09:22.700 which is so scary because yeah like it's done yeah i could have worked on that forever honestly

00:09:27.480 trust that you've done a wonderful job you've done a wonderful wonderful job do you see phoebe

00:09:32.280 having any future books it's a really good question i definitely so i got a it was a two

00:09:39.480 book deal and i didn't know what i was going to do with the second book but i think i've decided

00:09:45.080 it's going to be like in the phoebe universe so like a character from phoebe will make an

00:09:50.200 appearance but like it won't be a direct sequel and you can totally read it as a standalone i

00:09:55.120 think that's awesome though but i think like because a lot of phoebe is like about turning

00:10:00.740 30 and something that I was grappling with and like I kind of used her yeah to like come to terms

00:10:05.640 with something in my real life I think if I have something like that again where I'm like this is

00:10:09.980 something that I need to come to terms with I could bring back Phoebe okay it's like kind of

00:10:14.260 like my therapy she was really like the best therapy I've ever had oh that's so beautiful

00:10:18.720 so I think I could maybe bring her back in the future but as for now her story is I think that's

00:10:24.800 great though I love when we know like you know for sure because like even I've read some really

00:10:29.020 really good fiction books that were just either standalones or they were duologies like no more

00:10:34.200 than two right I think that's great right I think that's beautiful yeah how was the editing process

00:10:39.980 I like I think I like editing more than the writing that's too yeah I think because it's

00:10:45.840 like at least everything the story and like where I want it to go is out yeah and now it's just about

00:10:50.860 like making everything flow and like perfect and perfect which I think is a lot easier for me than

00:10:57.080 just like getting the story out yeah did you have any okay so for the suitors of phoebe yes did you

00:11:04.320 have any people in mind i always have people in mind i there's one so there's three suitors yeah

00:11:11.700 there's jonathan her roommate and best friend okay love there's finn who is a new teacher at

00:11:18.140 her school okay and then there's matthew who she went to high school with and resurfaces in her

00:11:24.480 life um through hinge and also words with friends and so jonathan is described as like being like

00:11:32.640 so hot it's like kind of like overwhelming and for him i have i was kind of always picturing

00:11:38.000 david corn sweater jonathan bailey um good choices yeah because it's just like who what can you do

00:11:44.340 there they need that though i love the book talk girls love a good description so that yeah yeah

00:11:49.780 so and then for finn i always pictured evan peters okay and i was writing but it changed

00:11:58.020 to hudson williams pretty immediately upon heated rivalries had to swap really quick yeah

00:12:03.500 and then matthew i've been picturing joe keery so he's like a little bit alt i love that yeah

00:12:10.600 nice diversity nice different kinds of hotness yes different kinds of hotness and phoebe i can't

00:12:15.860 picture no yeah he is whoever she is just kind of like a mop of curly hair to me yeah I love that

00:12:23.720 I think that's wonderful because I I love watching the book talk girls do like um sketches like of

00:12:30.960 what they believe that my explore page is shocking when you see it and it's all romantic stuff like

00:12:38.920 because I feel like especially now I've been watching a lot of different kinds of like

00:12:42.900 I would say like yeah like romantic like fantasy kind of romance stuff but also I've been watching

00:12:49.820 lots of other things to try and inspire the writing yeah of like the fiction world and

00:12:54.500 because the world building is I would say the hardest part for me yeah I can't even imagine

00:12:59.860 I'm not smart enough to do that especially in the like romantic world that's actually why I'm

00:13:03.420 co-writing because like I have someone helping me yeah because I feel really confident I can write

00:13:08.200 like characters I can write banter I can write romance that kind of thing but like the world

00:13:13.680 building I was so like nervous about because it's so expansive when it's like in a fantasy world

00:13:19.620 it really is like I think about how like the Game of Thrones universe was written all by one person

00:13:23.800 and that like stresses me out yeah because I'm like oh my god how am I supposed to do that like

00:13:27.840 I see people like Game of Thrones historians do family trees and I'm like he wrote all the way

00:13:32.820 that that's crazy how do you I don't how do you do that I mean whenever I'm reading fantasy it's

00:13:37.560 almost like distracting like how intense and I'm just like how did someone how did someone do this

00:13:44.760 yeah how did they how did one person one brain no for real I think the same thing I think what's

00:13:50.320 your favorite kinds of tropes like in not just like romanticity but also just fiction in general

00:13:56.360 if you're looking at the romance fiction i'm looking at the romance i'm a i i love enemies

00:14:02.420 to lovers me too like it doesn't get better than that which like now looking at my book it's like

00:14:07.240 i did three friends to potential lovers options and it's like what why like but it worked out but

00:14:14.820 it's like next book like maybe enemies to lovers yeah um i love enemies to lovers like because i

00:14:20.760 need i can't do insta love like to me like first kiss needs to happen last page chapter 50 i need

00:14:29.820 like the whole book to be like tension build up to me that's better than like when they actually

00:14:34.720 get together i agree and that doesn't really happen with like insta lover less so friends

00:14:40.520 lovers yeah i'm all about that and then within enemies to lovers yeah one bed at the end

00:14:47.600 like when i get those only one room left yes when there's like memes of like i'm reading under my

00:14:53.960 covers 3 a.m and there's one bed left at the end like i am sprinting around my house like it is

00:14:59.800 truly well now i'm gonna be up for hours it is my favorite like the second an author mentions like

00:15:05.900 we need to stop at a hotel i'm like let's go i'm like yes yes yes i know i feel like

00:15:13.200 that's why i've been averse to ya only because i don't mind ya i feel like there's ways to do ya

00:15:20.200 in a way that's like you're not edging me the whole time yeah like they give you a little

00:15:24.440 something yeah obviously doesn't need to be graphic like i i felt like reading that's how

00:15:29.600 i felt reading thrown a glass because i know thrown a glass is really good i really want to

00:15:33.440 get into it i really loved the first one i started the second one and then they panned to the

00:15:38.460 fireplace one too many times and i was like they better kiss me drew you will like it is gonna

00:15:45.160 take you about 900 900 plus pages uh no 900 times like three right but you will it does like i think

00:15:54.160 as her audience grew she got more comfortable with like that's true more like sexual that's

00:15:59.120 yeah and so you will get there yeah it will be in like the seventh book but it was it's man and i

00:16:05.980 But it's worth the wait, too.

00:16:07.100 I love Throne of Glass.

00:16:08.140 Yeah, I know.

00:16:08.720 I've heard many a good thing about that series.

00:16:11.220 Yeah.

00:16:11.640 And I also read ACOTAR, read the whole ACOTAR series, too.

00:16:15.220 I thought ACOTAR was awesome.

00:16:16.720 I mean. 0.98

00:16:17.600 I had a fucking blast. 0.98

00:16:18.300 I will say with my full chest, I am in love with ACOTAR. 0.99

00:16:22.560 Like, I love it.

00:16:25.580 Like, to me, nothing compares to Reese.

00:16:27.920 It's really just, like, so.

00:16:30.400 Honestly, too, the fifth one, the sisterhood part of it brought me to tears.

00:16:35.340 Yeah.

00:16:35.520 oh it's crying there's it's beautiful and there's so much um like especially in like the second book

00:16:42.820 like Feyre like coming to terms like with herself like there's so much more to it than just like 0.99

00:16:50.220 romance I agree yeah the world building of that world building and there's like powerful females 0.99

00:16:56.360 just like being badasses I love banter I love banter that is um how I learned I love one bed

00:17:03.820 at the end like i learned i i really learned talk about a slow burn talk about slow burn had to wait

00:17:09.520 a while for that one oh yeah i know i was even telling my my friend because i got my other

00:17:14.680 friends my girlfriends to read it we were all kind of reading at the same time um and then one of my

00:17:19.300 friends she was like are they gonna fucking kiss or what and i was like go just steady the course 0.92

00:17:24.540 because when it happens it's gonna be awesome it's well worth the wait 0.92

00:17:28.240 chapter 55 the one the only actually i feel like you're either a chapter 54 girl which is like

00:17:35.720 kind of the like lead up to chapter 55 or the chapter 55 yeah that's girl and i actually would

00:17:42.600 say i'm a chapter 54 me too because i even in writing well like first of all writing smut in

00:17:48.640 any regard because i haven't even really touched it yet i've only like like barely scratched the

00:17:54.060 surface on writing that but i even so it's humiliating writing i was gonna ask how you feel

00:18:00.280 i avoided it completely in phoebe because i just kept i couldn't my i just kept thinking about my

00:18:07.020 pop-up reading it and i was like i'm i'm gonna skip it for this book yeah yeah you know you're

00:18:12.440 i gotta babysit my way in there i really it freaks me out like i i want to do it yeah but i just can't

00:18:18.640 and i love to read it i love to read it writing it it's another animal and like people know you

00:18:24.040 yes and so it's really hard I think when people know you and you're writing like really intimate

00:18:30.260 sex scenes and like are they going to be thinking of you like how does this work like what are the

00:18:34.960 politics here right what are the boundaries yeah what are the boundaries I agree because it is

00:18:39.600 even what I've written so far has not even crested really it's not even actual smut it's just like

00:18:44.820 sexual tension yeah which I enjoy writing like that that part's easy yeah but even there was

00:18:50.160 like there's like a little bit of physicality not really anything at all it's more so a pants

00:18:53.740 the fireplace thing but like i even in baby stepping and i'm like i'm really gonna have to

00:19:00.860 get in there get my hands dirty that sucks yeah i'm not looking forward to that it's god bless you

00:19:06.940 and like please let me know how it goes because i i want to i want to get there for book two my hope 0.81

00:19:11.800 my hope is that i can offload most of it onto my co-writer yeah i'm like you need to get in there

00:19:17.080 girl and maybe i'll edit a little because i'm getting i'm getting nervous yeah thinking about

00:19:21.260 it yeah just getting anxious just thinking about it I think for me it's just like I'm thinking about

00:19:26.240 like my family reading it I don't I guess I don't really care about just like anyone else besides

00:19:30.900 my family I don't know it's just like really freaks me out I guess I think I'll say I had a

00:19:35.700 co-writer and just like she wrote those scenes so from page like 300 to 302 like I didn't write

00:19:42.860 that don't worry about that like read it if you want skip it if you want so I might just say like

00:19:47.720 yep someone else wrote that don't you don't have to worry about it i don't know what's right i agree

00:19:51.720 i i was writing it in like i obviously want smut in mine even my co-writer was like i'm so excited

00:19:57.940 i really want to write smut because in all of her books they've all been like the ones she's

00:20:01.500 written before they've all been ya so she was like i've actually never even really gotten to

00:20:05.580 go there so i'm excited i'm like and i'm excited for you yeah to get in there yeah uh but i do feel

00:20:11.260 like i also have ocd so i i do feel like i'm gonna be so analytical that i'm gonna have to get in

00:20:16.960 there but you're right because it is one of those things where you're like if someone's reading this

00:20:19.760 are they going to think that this is what i'm rocking with yeah and then it feels almost too

00:20:23.920 intimate right way right so i get it and i have like when in my like my smart preference

00:20:30.460 i'm still learning what that is because i think it's really hard a lot of i'm reading crescent

00:20:36.980 city right now have you read crescent city i've only skimmed a couple of it yeah a little bit of

00:20:41.440 it i haven't actually definitely daunting i have it on my kindle too i'm in the second they're huge

00:20:46.020 they're 800 pages each and like set in modern day which is really kind of hard to wrap your

00:20:52.920 head around that was kind of the part that was throwing me when i tried i was kind of like i

00:20:56.620 don't like that they have iphone that i'm about that yep it's it's definitely hard yeah but i

00:21:01.240 just got to the book i mean kind of a spoiler of when they first have sex but they don't have sex

00:21:07.180 until like the middle of book two yeah we're talking about like 900 plus pages oh yeah and

00:21:14.140 the words that she's using to describe certain body parts I don't feel like I'm aligning with

00:21:20.500 and I feel this a lot when I'm reading smut like what what words you do you're right that's tea

00:21:27.960 that's hard you're right because right now she's describing like the female anatomy she's just 0.98

00:21:35.160 using the word sex yeah describe like oh her sex and I'm just like I don't think I I like that 0.80

00:21:42.740 right now I'm not loving that but what else do you use yeah it's hitting my you're right there's 0.98

00:21:46.860 nothing that you can do yeah that's true it is kind of a dealer's choice it's a dealer's choice

00:21:51.920 and it's nothing I haven't found anything yet that I'm like yep that's it yeah that doesn't

00:21:57.520 make you go that's the word yeah doesn't make you recoil just a little so I think that's something

00:22:02.220 that as authors like we will have to figure out it's not easy it's not easy no that's true like

00:22:08.720 I that was something else I because I had sent and I'll send it to you too actually if you'd like

00:22:13.780 my proposal with my intro stuff I love to I'll text it to you after but I sent it to my friend

00:22:18.860 Taylor Tomlinson and she was like this is fucking awesome because she loves reading fiction and she

00:22:23.700 was like this is so good and she was like I love the banter and that's kind of how I picture writing 0.96

00:22:29.100 smut because sometimes the banter especially during smut can be a little it can throw me just

00:22:35.960 a little like where I'm kind of like well why would you say that like I think that like in my

00:22:39.880 head like some of the things the men say to the women is kind of like ah that would take me out

00:22:46.100 of it yeah that would take me out of it if that was me yeah it makes you go oh I hate that a little bit

00:22:50.780 yes uh and I think that is like I was talking about banter with her and I was like with banter

00:22:56.540 even with flirting I like I say it out loud it to myself and if it makes me like then I don't

00:23:04.020 then i change it so key yeah i i have to hear it and if it hits my ear wrong i have to rewrite it

00:23:08.920 that's so smart yeah because it's like if it's if it makes me feel cringed like

00:23:13.260 then i have to change that's so smart yes so much of romance can be cringe and i found that too like

00:23:21.020 reading things out loud is really helpful and like some of it some cringe is okay yes of course

00:23:26.440 but sometimes a tasteful amount of cringe is always okay but when it makes you go like

00:23:30.760 and takes you out yeah it's really hard it's there's such a delicate balance yeah i agree

00:23:38.040 i even um one of i think like my favorite fantasy romance books like that i've read is called um

00:23:46.320 a curse carved in bone it's like a viking one yes that's the c that's a sequel to yes it's like

00:23:52.240 there's two of them so it's like a duology it's done after the second one which is kind of tea

00:23:56.160 i actually really love that author i love her her romanticity books i've read a couple of them

00:24:00.580 um and they're all so good but did you see she has a new one yeah she has a new one called well

00:24:06.140 I read Bridge Kingdom which was also really good that's like I only read the first one though and

00:24:10.440 I I was starting to read the second one but she moved on to another couple and I was like don't

00:24:15.360 care about this couple like the first couple took so long to get together that I was like all right

00:24:20.500 then we're gonna go into them and then the next one's her brother and his girl and I was like

00:24:23.680 I don't care about them those are hit or miss when we when we switch to a different couple

00:24:28.160 yeah it depends yeah like if there's more like i feel like akatar was different because there was

00:24:32.360 like so much building right that eventually when you pivoted you're like okay cool like what are

00:24:36.740 these two up to it was also like a very natural segue in akatar because she gave us that little

00:24:41.780 one yes that kind of christmas special yeah the christmas special that planted the seeds and kind

00:24:46.620 of transitioned us yes you're right so i hated that one but yes yeah i read it in like five hours

00:24:52.060 i felt like it was over i know like i didn't like this one couldn't put it down read it in a few

00:24:56.640 i know i was like oh she's just shopping this whole goddamn book like i kind of like just like

00:25:01.520 seeing like slice of life no you're right though that's t because i was like i am enjoying them 0.91

00:25:06.140 living life though yeah i guess that's kind of nice yeah because it was kind of like i don't

00:25:09.720 think we needed it but like i would read anything that she wrote so i guess i guess i needed it yeah

00:25:16.100 exactly it was for me specifically but i read the viking one and it was i thought she did such a

00:25:21.040 wonderful job of like building like tension it was like an enemies to lovers thing it was like

00:25:26.720 a betrayal thing or re-earning trust that kind of thing love it what about tropes that make you dnf

00:25:33.340 do you have any i'm not uh i don't really like an accidental pregnancy i hate those ones there's

00:25:40.580 one that does it really well called out on a limb okay yeah which which i really liked but i think

00:25:47.600 that's a really that's an exception i think i and that's because i love the author and i was like

00:25:54.580 i'll read this because i love her and it paid off but i don't think i would pick up uh an accidental

00:26:00.100 pregnancy yeah same yeah that's i read one that's like a stress that's stressful like i don't want

00:26:05.740 i don't want to be thinking about that yeah i don't want to immerse myself in that not in this

00:26:10.780 world yeah not right now not right now i i even like for the accident the pregnancy trope one i

00:26:16.460 also hate that i read one called from blood and ash yes have you read that no but i've heard of

00:26:22.380 it don't read it it's pointless like i i enjoyed myself i guess to an extent um but i was kind of

00:26:29.900 losing me because there was so many things going on that it was like it felt like one of those

00:26:35.100 where it feels like i'm being attacked on all sides yeah like i i feel like i have to take

00:26:38.560 notes because i can't remember any of the different magical elements and then like

00:26:43.460 So me with Carson City right now.

00:26:44.900 Yeah, and there was a point where there were wolves, too.

00:26:47.360 And then the wolf, like, was talking about having, like, a threesome with her and her guy.

00:26:52.420 And he was like, yeah, that sounds good.

00:26:53.640 And I was like, what the hell is going on in this book?

00:26:56.860 Do you ever, like, when you're reading fantasy, just, like, read a page that you're like, if I read this out loud to someone, they would commit me.

00:27:05.780 Like, what am I reading?

00:27:07.420 Like, if anyone caught me reading this, they would think I'm a freak weirdo.

00:27:11.380 last night like and i was reading a chapter of my book where like a fire sprite dragon hybrid 0.88

00:27:17.460 was lounging on a wooden coffee table and it was singeing the coffee table but her body was so 1.00

00:27:23.960 curvy that like the guy didn't notice that his coffee table was burning because she was so hot

00:27:29.220 what the hell are you talking like physically like her body and i was just like what what the hell

00:27:35.200 where where how did we get how did we get here i'm glad but like how i'm not judging i'm just

00:27:42.660 kind of confused i guess yeah i'm a little uncomfy that is how i felt reading from blood

00:27:47.860 and ash like and i read the the prequel to it because like the the from blood and ash one i

00:27:52.400 think there's like five books i read three of them because i was at first when i started reading

00:27:56.240 fiction i was like i was trying to be a completionist so i was like let me at least finish yeah

00:27:59.840 but then it got to a point where i was like these books are so goddamn long i can't take it anymore

00:28:03.840 so I switched to the prequel almost identical in every way except it was ancestors like the

00:28:10.380 her ancestors but it was still good so I was like enjoying myself but then it was like that one's

00:28:16.840 like four books I think I got to book three they're building up to this enormous war they're 0.87

00:28:23.500 like this this huge fucking thing she spent so much time like earning respect from other gods 0.96

00:28:30.080 and whatever the fuck was going on and then literally i saw like the start of one chapter 0.99

00:28:35.400 it starts saying that she starts feeling sick i go no they're not gonna do that to my fucking 0.99

00:28:40.640 girl i literally was like they're not gonna do that to my fucking girl there's no way i've spent 0.99

00:28:44.140 six books getting here there's no fucking way and then it was like another one she randomly threw 0.99

00:28:49.060 up again i said no fucking way dude no way no way then she finds out she like goes to her friend who 0.97

00:28:54.220 like is like a doula in essence in this world and she like tests her essentially and she's like oh 0.99

00:29:00.640 my god pregnant not just pregnant pregnant with twins no pregnant with twins in fact so much so 1.00

00:29:05.220 that they're both magical and they're siphoning all her power so she actually can't no fight in

00:29:10.080 the war no i said dnf i'm not finishing this book i was like i was so angry i put it down i was like

00:29:16.240 i'm not you guys have wasted my time and now you're gonna take my girl out right before the

00:29:21.140 big game that's crazy there's never a normal pregnancy it's either like they're siphoning

00:29:27.240 their power one has wings that won't fit through your pelvis it's like always something like 0.77

00:29:32.800 extremely and awful dramatic and awful and you would think in the magical world they would have

00:29:37.420 figured that out just figure it out yeah you they would have figured that out you have all the

00:29:41.160 control that's like a crazy thing about romanticy that like sometimes bothers me is that like

00:29:46.740 a character could be in a situation where it's like you have no way out like yeah you will die

00:29:52.340 yeah and then it's like wait a minute i've had this amulet in my pocket the entire time as it

00:29:59.720 turns out randomly realize just put these pants on this morning amulet happens to be in it and

00:30:05.040 it's gonna get me out of this exact situation that had no loophole and that and that we have

00:30:10.020 been like agonizing over for the last eight chapters and it's like i'd almost rather the

00:30:15.040 person die because it's like exactly it feels i don't know it kind of almost feels like a cop

00:30:21.200 out sometimes i agree when you just throw in this like magical thing artifact that well especially

00:30:26.500 because the whole time magic has not been helpful and then all of a sudden it's just helpful when

00:30:30.720 when it is when you don't want yeah exactly and that's why when they when they benched her before 0.97

00:30:36.340 the big fight i was like i'm not reading this shit i'm not reading this shit not to mention 1.00

00:30:40.920 those entire books they were fucking and sucking all over those books why now you got pregnant all 1.00

00:30:46.300 of a sudden why now all of a sudden before the war yeah right before the war huh decided not to 0.98

00:30:50.720 pull out right before the war all of a sudden do you feel like good about dnfing yeah if it's

00:30:56.640 justified in that way yes sometimes i feel like i should go back and finish it because i was just

00:31:01.840 getting annoyed and so that's why i like i don't always dnf unless something like that happens and

00:31:07.980 i'm like i'm never gonna i don't need to see how this ends because i'm over it i wish i could dna

00:31:11.920 and if i needed to if i really needed to i would just look up the end i was like i'm not wasting

00:31:16.980 my time reading this i'm just gonna look it up because i'm angry now yeah which is what i did

00:31:20.360 with that book yeah because i was like i'm not sitting through another book when you're gonna

00:31:24.940 bench my girl and i was like really rooting for her at that point i was like yes yes yes like i'm

00:31:29.700 so down my mind like won't let me dnf a book because that's what i was too this isn't like

00:31:36.120 if i already read 200 pages of this it's gonna count towards my goodreads goal it's gonna have

00:31:41.420 to and if i can't mark it i have to mark it as red on goodreads for it to count that's true

00:31:45.660 that's a good that's a good goal marker though and i can't mark it as red if i didn't read it

00:31:50.660 to completion my sister says on her kindle that the little like the little percentage at the

00:31:56.000 bottom she's like racing that thing yeah she's like every time i see it i'm like oh my god i'm

00:31:59.600 almost done i'm like 50 of the way through oh my god sometimes it makes me sad when i look at that

00:32:04.560 things it is i'm almost done i know that's a bummer i read the throne of glass kindle version

00:32:09.560 that was all of the books in one pdf i guess or one ebook and i was done i would say i read like

00:32:17.120 probably the first three books so like over a thousand pages two percent done 0.71

00:32:22.800 that was really really hard that's fucking insane what about fourth wing you've read fourth wing 0.80

00:32:30.300 i've read fourth wing how do you feel about it i am much more of an akatar yeah girl i feel that 0.82

00:32:36.620 i read the first one and i think i read fourth wing right after i finished all of akatar and

00:32:41.540 akatar was my first ever romanticy oh yeah yeah and so then to read fourth wing right after it

00:32:47.180 i was like this just kind of feels like a fan fiction yeah of akatar it was like zayden was

00:32:52.480 like doing shadows and and mine reading it was just like all too similar right and not as good

00:32:59.320 to me and so i was i didn't mind it like i was totally entertained the world itself is cool the

00:33:05.380 world itself is cool i like the school like yeah it kind of gave like hogwarts vibes which i really

00:33:10.440 like yeah and i actually like the second one better oh which most people like hate the second

00:33:15.280 one i like the second one better and then the third one i was like i'm done oh i'm finished

00:33:21.880 now i have actually completely finished thank you though thank you yeah the gen z banter

00:33:27.760 jenzy banjo yeah i can't you know not my fave i'll be honest not my fave and i really struggled

00:33:34.300 with violet just because i i really like what the author was trying to do with like chronic illness

00:33:41.820 rep but it was really hard to like believe like on one hand she's like this really really fragile

00:33:48.420 girl and then on the other hand she is saving the entire kingdom like with physically with her

00:33:55.040 power in her body yeah so that i was like trying having a hard time wrapping my head around but

00:34:00.560 yeah i'm like one second she can't cannot walk yeah in the other second she has completely saved

00:34:06.480 the entire world yeah and then she's like that was nothing but a scratch yeah exactly i'm good

00:34:11.140 so that was hard this episode is brought to you by pandora i'm such a sentimental gift giver like

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00:34:47.560 shop Pandora today in store or online at Pandora.net. I read Quicksilver. Did you read

00:34:53.340 quicksilver i fucked with quicksilver me too i fucked heavy with that one did you read the 0.96

00:34:59.060 second one no did you no i started it haven't finished it yet though but i'm not dnfing yet 0.97

00:35:03.380 i just haven't finished is it what's it what's it like it's really it's good still but it is

00:35:08.680 getting insane there is a lot of things that happened well that's another thing too like

00:35:13.300 once they brought in the vampires at the end i was kind of like like i would say up until like

00:35:18.400 85 90 percent of the book i was like yeah yeah yeah once they brought in the vampires i was kind

00:35:23.360 of like all right we're going somewhere completely different no worries but i just felt like there

00:35:28.880 was already so much happening i was like okay a third a fourth a fifth a sixth magical element

00:35:33.980 okay all right so i i liked how it ended i loved it i had such a blast reading it i thought it was

00:35:39.760 so t second one i was reading and i was kind of like okay all right like there's just a lot going

00:35:46.360 on with the vampire element of it which is it's kind of throwing me a little bit which is a bummer

00:35:51.720 because I really loved the first one you'll have to let me know because yeah it's really hard for

00:35:56.300 me to read a sequel when I don't remember anything from the first one girl let's just leave it as it

00:36:02.920 was yeah what it was it was beautiful but some girls who recap on TikTok like are doing God's

00:36:08.360 work like if I like looked up I forget what just came out I think for fourth wing I was like fourth 0.55

00:36:13.580 wing recap before the third one came out and these girls are doing whiteboards like full like

00:36:19.400 notebook of notes and it's really really helpful yeah it helps to brush up yeah yeah i've done that 0.83

00:36:25.300 before with um like youtube videos like sometimes people do like little animations of it just to 0.71

00:36:30.520 kind of walk you through it again yeah which i appreciate yeah but i really fucked heavy with 0.58

00:36:34.700 quicksilver i really liked quicksilver it was one of those that i closed the book and i was like 0.56

00:36:38.380 wow five stars and then i opened goodreads and everyone's like worst thing i've ever read

00:36:42.620 and i'm like oh wait shoot it was like oh i had a blast and then do you ever like read the reviews

00:36:51.180 and you're and you're like okay yeah that is true yeah yeah i'll give you that sure i will give you

00:36:56.180 that yeah that happens to me a lot when i'm like and sometimes it with lit fic too when they're 0.55

00:37:02.340 like this was really hard like bad problematic harmful and i'm like shit i completely missed

00:37:09.980 that yeah you're like oh yeah yeah i i read um have you ever read phantasma yes what'd you think 0.52

00:37:18.540 about that one let me pull up my goodreads review yes bring up your i remember i had a problem with

00:37:23.780 it yeah oh i think it was the end didn't make any sense to me yeah the end was really confused yeah

00:37:29.140 i think i just really had a like i didn't understand it in chantra yeah i gave it three

00:37:34.520 stars yeah see the i would give it three too yeah the second my review was another book that begs

00:37:39.100 the age-old question am i dumb or was that ending bad like i just think i didn't nothing me oh yeah

00:37:45.420 because he was like a sorry spoiler alert yeah he was like a double agent but also yeah he also

00:37:52.060 didn't remember her at all i i didn't yeah he was like he was saying like the first time he met him

00:37:57.100 met her as a spirit on the outside of the house like he doesn't remember that because his dad

00:38:02.140 wiped his memory wiped his memory which i was like so in the whole time because i was like wow

00:38:06.520 victorian like ghosts kind of like spiritual kind of thing i've never read one like that like wow

00:38:12.060 okay and it was like so horror like there was so much i know it had so much potential yeah like so

00:38:17.480 i was like all right like and then at the end i i too was like what like i was so confused like

00:38:23.080 and then the second one was so freaked out i was like i can't even dna no i finished the whole

00:38:30.060 thing i just couldn't even i was like i feel like this was mostly for the sex the second one

00:38:35.320 sometimes it's like and that's okay too that's okay i just thought the first one had so much 0.89

00:38:39.840 like lore too and it took forever for them to fuck like it took forever it did but also that

00:38:45.460 one like the what i really liked about it like i was i felt like i was there like the ambiance 0.92

00:38:50.380 was really really good same i agree the world building was so awesome it was but just like

00:38:55.300 the plot just really fell through at the end and the second one i was like okay so it's like the

00:39:00.600 movie ready or not like have you ever seen that movie i don't think so it's basically like she

00:39:04.380 marries into a family and then uh they basically all try to kill her until the very next day she

00:39:09.280 has to like run from them the whole time that's like their thing and I've told people like that's

00:39:12.900 essentially the plot of the second one like in Chantra she's like they're playing this game and

00:39:17.840 like they're trying to kill each other but they're all spirits she's not so if she dies she'll die

00:39:21.220 for real but like her guy and like the there was so much sex in that one way more than the first

00:39:27.260 one which I'm like that's cool but it kind of feels like we're moving from one room to the next 0.95

00:39:31.740 just to fuck in a different way uh-huh like that's it felt like we're just this is all fluff until 0.98

00:39:36.220 the next time we fuck yeah which i that's when you start losing me because i i am a huge fan of 0.98

00:39:40.660 of smut in the books don't get me wrong but it has to be like enhance the plot yeah there has 0.99

00:39:45.420 to be a payoff to some extent when you're just wanting to watch them fuck in different areas 0.98

00:39:50.300 of the house so i'm kind of like and it was a spirit yeah well he was a demon that time oh i 0.86

00:39:55.220 love that i think the first one was a spirit this one's a demon blackwell i actually remember him

00:39:59.520 well i remember and i know him well i know him well and the second they introduced him as having

00:40:04.760 like white blonde hair i was like no why did you tell why did you say that oh don't tell me that

00:40:12.660 because then it's like okay this is malfoy yeah that's what i was thinking too and then i'm all

00:40:17.000 then i'm kind of creeped out i know i'm thinking lucious malfoy yeah i know because the second guy

00:40:23.080 had brown hair yeah okay that's so maybe i'll read maybe i'll read maybe i'll read but the

00:40:28.200 second one there's a point where they sorry spoiler there's a like i don't know the third 1.00

00:40:32.400 or fourth time they fuck but they like fuck for real i guess and he when he pulls his dick out 0.99

00:40:37.040 she talks about there being a piercing no and i said so now they have prince alberts in the 1.00

00:40:42.280 spiritual realm like since no when did that demon go to get a person i guess that like fits with

00:40:48.960 my vision of a demon yeah i guess but like who pierced the demon like did he go to a shop like

00:40:54.440 that's where i was kind of like you lost me that's when it's like i need more world building yeah

00:40:57.200 that's why i was like i need more context the piercing i'm leaving with more questions than

00:41:01.280 answers yeah so that's why i was like when i read that part i went i was on a plane i remember

00:41:06.420 reading it and i was going now why would they write that part in there it's like does the 0.74

00:41:10.920 person next to me know that i'm reading about a dick piercing yeah i'm a demon yeah and then 0.89

00:41:16.140 she's like oh yeah like it's that that whole paragraph is just for her to be like whoa right 0.98

00:41:22.800 no so it really serves that would take me out a pretty good bit yeah that's hard i just didn't 0.89

00:41:27.940 think demons were doing that shit but you know what do i know what do i know i know nothing i

00:41:32.140 will say the ending of that one though is really beautiful and sweet and i think it's because 0.98

00:41:36.960 there's a part at the end of that one which not to spoil it but like there's a part at the end

00:41:41.080 where she forgets everything that author loves that yeah she loves to wipe people's memories 0.99

00:41:47.440 complete amnesia yeah so she forgets everything and then the demon guy keeps with the dick 1.00

00:41:53.120 piercing he keeps coming back um to the same spot to like essentially wait for her memory to like 0.86

00:41:58.640 kick in okay takes her maybe a couple weeks after they get out of the house and then she's like 0.98

00:42:03.060 i remember everything and then he's like thank god by the way don't forget i have a dick piercing 0.97

00:42:07.420 don't forget one thing you can't forget the one thing you can't forget okay what's what are some 0.63

00:42:13.960 fiction books that you like always recommend to people like you're like if you're if you're going

00:42:18.660 into your foray of adult fiction like what are some that you're always recommending there is

00:42:23.520 this book that really has not gotten its flowers it's called Idlewild oh okay um I've heard of it

00:42:31.660 you have yeah I've heard of it okay it's by I believe the author's name is James Frankie Thomas

00:42:37.200 and the book is about just these two like kind of like weird girls in high school and the high

00:42:45.140 school is this like really like tiny like quaker liberal arts school it's super gay and it's just

00:42:52.000 like about these two girls like finding themselves through like fan fiction and like sexuality and

00:42:58.560 just like it really like captures the way i just remember how i felt in high school and it felt

00:43:04.420 like everything was so intense in the end of the world and just like if my crush doesn't like me

00:43:10.280 back like there's no reason for me to keep on living and like I just felt like I was back there

00:43:16.280 when I read this book and the characters were just so well developed and I thought that was

00:43:21.040 brilliant and that is a book when I read it that I was like I want to write oh that's because it

00:43:25.560 just it just really yeah it's one of those books that makes you think about how important writing

00:43:30.180 is and like yeah what you can do with it how powerful how powerful it can be totally so that

00:43:35.100 book I really love there's also I was telling you um Emily Austin I just love her books like

00:43:42.300 that's like the best world weird girl lit like in one of her books is there's this like the main

00:43:49.020 character just like has a phobia of bald men and like the book is about her and I both navigating

00:43:54.320 navigating that deep fear um and what else i mean akatar i'm always like you guys if you need

00:44:02.940 romance if you need dip the toe must get i also really this is not a lot of people this is i don't

00:44:11.400 know how people will feel about this i love ali hazelwood okay and i think she is she writes really

00:44:17.960 cheesy books in a way that i love yeah the love hypothesis some people are like this is too cheesy

00:44:23.360 for me is that the one that lily ryan was making yeah and i do get that but something about it

00:44:31.200 like worked for me it's hitting every way there's a scene where i want one of my friends read it was

00:44:38.860 like i can't read this she said she basically is fake dating her professor and there's right 0.68

00:44:44.920 there's a scene where there's no seats left in the lecture hall and her and her professor 0.78

00:44:48.980 everyone knows they're dating yeah quote unquote and she needs a seat and so she has to like sit

00:44:55.560 on his lap and most people are like absolutely not like can't do the scene i was literally like

00:45:02.020 chewing the pages you said it was working for me i was like i loved that book there's also this scene

00:45:09.760 they have to like they're still trying to prove to everyone they're dating and where she has to

00:45:13.700 put sunscreen on him to me this is like smile like i like i just i loved that book and they're

00:45:20.480 like really nerdy which i really enjoyed yeah she writes a lot of like stem romance i think that's

00:45:25.480 really cute though i think when you can enjoy it's like like we said earlier cringy but a tasteful

00:45:30.860 amount it was some people are like too much right not tasteful for me it was too much for me i was

00:45:36.240 like this it was just the right awesome um and her she kind of copy and pastes her books in a way

00:45:44.560 that i love because i i'm just reading the same thing over yeah same tropes different different

00:45:48.520 setting and it's always just like this massive hulking nerdy guy that is so hot and smart and

00:45:56.420 yet has never had a girlfriend and for some reason and it's awesome because literally no one's ever

00:46:02.620 taking off his glasses and seeing how beautiful he is exactly yeah so i really i love her i really

00:46:09.000 do i think that's great that's how i felt about the samurai term pretty books i get that yeah i

00:46:13.160 thought i read all those books in like two days because they're pretty pretty quick reads but i

00:46:16.980 was like i was eating it up i will say though i am one of those people that if it starts going

00:46:21.360 the way i do not like sometimes i will stop reading because i have the ending it's up here

00:46:25.360 that's amazing i wrote it you can do that up here yeah i haven't read ya in a really long time and

00:46:30.320 i'd like to yeah i read the those ones i would say like even if you watch the show i would say

00:46:36.340 that both brothers are infinitely worse in the books yeah they both are even more terrible team

00:46:42.660 germ like i was jeremiah i was jeremiah when i watched the show initially um and then obviously

00:46:48.700 in the last season they made him the op of the century i literally episode one i was like they

00:46:54.460 are running a smear campaign on my guy and it's working yeah because i hate him now too like he 0.97

00:46:59.820 fucking sucks like they made him unbearable they did and he was like not like that the other 0.99

00:47:05.500 fucking two so in the books both brothers are infinitely worse like they're like the cheating's 1.00

00:47:11.440 far worse conrad's way meaner like like they're actually way fucking meaner to her in the books 0.99

00:47:17.840 like in the show they really soften the edges so like i that book series is a perfect example of

00:47:27.200 like cheesy but I was eating it up yeah I get that with that like I feel like I just watched

00:47:32.640 the show I didn't read the books but like that should have been like my bread and butter but

00:47:36.780 for whatever reason I was like I don't like Jeremiah I don't really like Conrad and then

00:47:41.280 everyone's like well you're team belly and I'm like I don't think I like her either yeah yeah

00:47:45.340 they made her unlikable as well can't do Laurel no no yeah no I was like yeah moms yeah unfortunately

00:47:51.500 I kind of was just watching for like the vibes yeah I agree and I love when we're all doing a

00:47:56.160 collective watch of something like i'll always watch i don't appreciate getting trying people

00:48:00.320 trying to jump me for it but i did i wouldn't appreciate that either you know what's funny

00:48:03.360 though is when i was going to bat for like the jeremiah girls because i was like i'm i'm standing

00:48:08.420 on the platform of the last two seasons like he was awesome in the first two yes the last one

00:48:13.460 yeah he sucked but that made lola tongue follow me so so you tell me you tell me that's so cool

00:48:19.900 yeah i wonder i know she's always like no i'm team belly like i would love to know her on her 0.98

00:48:24.860 filter her actual fucking team yeah and this isn't also kind of random but like conrad the 0.83

00:48:30.000 guy who plays conrad his real life girlfriend also follows me okay so i'm like you know oh 0.99

00:48:35.880 and mini to mini mills like she played uh steven's girlfriend yeah she also follows wow that whole 0.98

00:48:40.980 cast wow the girls are fucking with me over there you've got them wrapped around your finger so now 1.00

00:48:45.100 i have to go ask them what team they are for real oh and report back and then i violate their hip 1.00

00:48:49.760 rights and i'm gonna tell everyone that's fine they won't mind they won't mind what about um

00:48:55.000 like any sort of book series when you were a kid like did you love any book series as a kid yes

00:49:00.060 when i was like little little i loved junie b jones oh i loved those books i feel like she was

00:49:05.940 like the first like weird girl lit totally um the precursor and i loved gregor the overlander

00:49:14.700 did you read those it was suzanne collins's series before hunger games yeah and it was more middle

00:49:22.040 grade yeah and it was about this boy i think he like fell through his laundry machine and then

00:49:27.360 stumbled along like the underworld with like these massive bats i don't really remember what it was

00:49:33.600 about but it was amazing and i would reread those in a second love i loved the clickbooks oh i loved

00:49:41.580 the click i want to reread those that i know i'm curious if they've held up i would say they

00:49:46.100 probably haven't probably not i want to see how i read the clickbooks and pretty little liars too

00:49:50.640 i read as a book book series too i feel like i stopped at some point with pretty little liars

00:49:54.740 but i definitely was loving those yeah and then did you ever read the ttyl ttfn yes the white

00:50:00.400 they were like green pink and they all talked later gator like solely and i am that was genius

00:50:07.100 genius at the time i was like this is revolutionary this this is like my da vinci code like this is

00:50:12.920 awesome right oh i loved those were you a twilight girl i was such a twilight girl

00:50:19.220 love twilight too were you team jacob i feel like i see that for you yeah i was team jacob

00:50:23.920 initially i think i think just across the board standard i'll normally pick the brown one yeah

00:50:28.940 if it's between a brown and a white guy i'm like obviously i'm gonna pick the brown one

00:50:32.260 um i think that's just kind of my vibes but like as an adult i think edward made more sense but

00:50:38.680 that's only because i'm thinking about the money like he has endless amounts of money and you could

00:50:42.420 live forever and you guys are in love so i guess it kind of works out but i think she would have

00:50:47.000 been cool either way honestly i think she would have been happy no matter what except for when

00:50:51.520 she had a kid yeah well actually i wonder like what would happen if she had a kid with jacob

00:50:57.580 i guess that wouldn't i guess he wouldn't imprint on his own kid no i doubted it honestly well that

00:51:03.320 part did throw me i remember being like i read those when i was in middle school so i remember

00:51:07.740 when i read that part i was like what like i remember being like and i remember i read the

00:51:13.260 first three and then my friend was telling me oh this is like the final one like breaking dawn

00:51:18.900 and i was like oh and then she told me yeah like i think she has a baby in this one and like 0.93

00:51:24.340 jacob i remember her kind of telling me and i was like you're fucking lying to me and she was like 0.99

00:51:29.320 no i swear to god that's what happens in this book and that made me read it and i was like damn she 0.95

00:51:33.200 wasn't fucking kidding they do do that in this book i remember it like making complete sense 0.94

00:51:38.280 it's like everybody wins yeah in that regard like him falling to his knees over the baby and was 0.94

00:51:45.360 like yeah well well he's imprinting and then when he's like well haven't you didn't it seem weird

00:51:50.720 that we wanted to be around each other so much lately while she's like getting full term with

00:51:55.140 her baby yeah i'm like yeah it makes sense to me that checks out i i think that the hunger games i

00:52:02.580 love that book series and i've i even said this like in my publisher meetings like when i was

00:52:08.960 selling my fantasy book um but i think the hunger games to this day has one of the strongest love

00:52:15.400 triangles like ever written because it persists until the end that's so true and also like the

00:52:21.600 love triangle exists as like it's not necessarily like which one's better it's like who she is when

00:52:27.720 she's with them so it's like who who does she want to be who does she feel more aligned with

00:52:32.600 so like obviously gail is like more of her fire it's more of her resentment it's more of her

00:52:37.500 bitterness like it's revenge it's all that kind of stuff which she's already had and then pete is

00:52:41.860 different it's like a an acceptance a peace a love like that kind of calm body chills

00:52:47.060 and I was like I really did feel like that was one of the strongest love triangles because like

00:52:53.240 obviously it's YA so there's no like sex happening which that that book series does not need sex

00:52:58.940 they have a lot of things going on already a lot going on yeah they have way too much going on but

00:53:03.340 like I think that it's beautiful the way that at the end first of all it ends the right way I was

00:53:08.800 always a team pita girl but also i felt like she chose on her own and she chose because she's it's

00:53:15.020 not necessarily what happened with gail it's more so that like she doesn't want to be angry anymore

00:53:19.100 and she doesn't want to feel bitterness anymore and she's like he makes me feel like i could be

00:53:23.240 more than that which i was like tea like i think that's one of the strongest love said and so true

00:53:29.500 that's where i thought it it fell a little short for me with twilight because i loved that love

00:53:34.340 triangle too but it was it wasn't really her choice in the end like it kind of was like she

00:53:39.660 did choose edward yeah but then she still held on to jacob until the very last second and then

00:53:44.980 he imprinted imprinted and then she's like okay well he's good now right now i can write right

00:53:49.220 which i didn't really love i was like you didn't close that one the right way yeah like it felt

00:53:54.200 very like i want her to be with edward so he's gonna be with the edward i wonder how you'll

00:53:58.980 feel about phoebe's love square i know i'm so excited to read it because i i love a love triangle

00:54:03.560 yeah i think love triangles are fun i think it's fun when the women's autonomous in that i also

00:54:08.360 want to say i do love that phoebe is 29 yeah my girl's also 29 i love that look at us really

00:54:13.860 really key age yeah i was gonna say yeah a lot happens yeah and even in one of the publisher

00:54:19.120 meetings i had one question the woman asked me was would you be interested in making her 23

00:54:24.180 and i was like no like and also she's a fairy so like technically speaking she's 700 i think 0.91

00:54:31.500 she's fine everybody's in their hundreds so I think it's I think she's good I kind of hate

00:54:36.160 reading books now when people are younger than me yeah which obviously is happening a lot as I age

00:54:41.080 yeah well they're also like 18 yeah 19 and that's so young yeah that's why they're like now I'm

00:54:48.520 ready to have a baby yeah yeah save the world first now I'm ready to have a baby and I'm 21

00:54:53.420 works out perfectly like I feel like it I don't know when Feyre's age was mentioned for the first

00:54:59.360 time in acotar but like when they dropped that like 23 bomb i was like oh oh man like don't and

00:55:06.920 she's the youngest too so yeah or the middle i forget middle i don't know youngest or middle

00:55:13.000 yeah but she's not the oldest which was another thing i didn't like either that's they made i

00:55:17.520 felt like nesta was so hard to love for so long which i was like i get it but i was like wrap this

00:55:25.340 up a little bit sooner it's making it hard for me to root for her i know i truthfully i haven't

00:55:28.980 given in to nesta yet she was too awful like i'm all for like an unlikable female character who has 1.00

00:55:36.240 her demons that has like an arc she went a few steps too far always like she she was bad to the 0.99

00:55:42.240 bone and like so many people are like i'm so nesta and i'm like to to an extent but like she

00:55:49.960 was so she was so bad like especially in the fifth book even like my friend carrie weird read it like 0.82

00:55:56.920 after me like as i was finishing it and she was like i might quit i really can't stand her yeah 0.94

00:56:01.560 and i was like i promise it gets better like it's not to the last fucking two chapters but i promise 0.94

00:56:06.860 it gets better like she gets less awful it was and it went on for so long she waited to for that 0.95

00:56:13.840 character redemption arc until the last page the last second right when you're like okay so i'm

00:56:18.240 just gonna hate her forever i guess i guess that's kind of my thing with her yeah but i'm with you on

00:56:22.900 the age i love that i think that we need more adult fiction with older women completely because

00:56:27.880 you don't turn into dust when you turn 30 don't turn into dust yeah it's a beautiful thing you

00:56:31.980 can still look yeah exactly thank you for saying that okay i'm gonna transition now into some fun

00:56:37.900 facts about you miss author yeah we're gonna read some fun facts about you and you can tell

00:56:43.140 amanda if they're incorrect interesting okay okay this one says there has been a new york

00:56:49.920 post article written about you with the headline quote woman mortified to match with brother on

00:56:55.600 dating app i would assume that's true i do remember that story i did match with my brother on a dating

00:57:02.420 app or no i we didn't match we you just saw he was my suggested most compatible i did not match

00:57:09.500 with my brother i just want to clear that up really quick we did not we did not mutually

00:57:14.340 swipe right he was a suggested most compatible which i and i left swiped him

00:57:20.440 what'd your brother say he was kind of like well that's i hope he left swiped me we were both home

00:57:27.420 for thanksgiving which is why we got each other because we were in the same house they're like

00:57:31.320 they're geolocating i just opened it and saw him and i was like this is

00:57:35.840 that being the first one you see too painful painful especially dating apps yeah they're

00:57:42.240 they're a prison prison okay this one says your very first post on instagram is from 2012 it's a

00:57:50.260 picture of harry styles with the caption quote harry eating a pie that's that yeah that sounds

00:57:56.520 true that sounds true as well just like an update on him i yeah it was a picture of him eating a pie

00:58:01.480 with a heavily filtered heavily filtered heavily filtered any particular reason or just letting

00:58:06.860 everybody know i think yeah i was just letting everyone know i just posted like pictures of like

00:58:10.900 harry and niall for for quite some time those are the the your faves yeah and it was like that

00:58:16.480 humor i thought like being funny was there was this really weird era in like 2013 where like

00:58:24.460 humor was just like observations right it was just like that's so random like yeah exactly

00:58:32.940 so i feel that i'm sure i was trying to be funny some of my old like like my oldest tweets like

00:58:39.680 my twitter's been gone for years now but like i would say twitter was probably the first like

00:58:44.440 social media presence i had outside of like facebook but um the thoughts i had and shared

00:58:50.080 like nobody needs to know they weren't even bad they're just like pointless like they they really

00:58:55.440 serve no purpose at all the way i spoke back then was so specific and weird and like not like it's

00:59:01.800 a different language of its time yeah i.e harry eating a pie okay okay perfect did you uh uh read

00:59:11.080 any fanfic about like harry and all them i did more imagines and one tumblr oh yeah one shots

00:59:17.000 were my deal too yeah i i lived for those yeah my sister and i would send them to each other my

00:59:22.080 sister being a lesbian by the way so that's extra funny that we would like send them to each other

00:59:26.220 in college before she knew she was like a lesbian because i'm like now that i look back i'm like 0.85

00:59:30.900 what were you getting out of that right hey everyone could get something from a one shot

00:59:35.600 it's really just it's perspective they were that good yeah they were just that good i recently read

00:59:42.280 i am a big avatar the last airbender fan so i love that show they're coming out with a movie

00:59:48.900 the movie got leaked and there's like a ton of like edits being made of the movie like

00:59:54.740 and all of the characters are now like 250 pounds of pure muscle and everybody's in their

00:59:59.880 30s oh wow so all the girls are like now what is this and i i'm seeing so many edits that i got one

01:00:07.020 a random tiktok that was like oh the two the girls who love shipping certain characters together

01:00:13.480 of this animated series they're going crazy with the fan fiction right now you know what that made

01:00:17.780 me do open up ao3 yeah i had to open it up again and i went and looked and now i'm reading one

01:00:22.780 i'll keep you guys updated on if i like it please do i love fan fiction i love fan fiction honestly

01:00:28.400 i think it really it's one of the ancient texts it really is especially for like a fiction that

01:00:33.880 we love reading yeah and smut are you kidding me yeah i was really into the glee fan fiction space

01:00:38.880 oh yeah you're a big glee yeah i was a huge gleek too i did a lot of clean fanfic yeah

01:00:45.660 big clean big clean girl over here i was on um the podcast with um jenna ushkowitz yes and um

01:00:55.740 i forget artie's real name kevin mikhail yeah yeah i was on their podcast it was really fun and

01:01:00.380 there was a part where they were like we were talking about covers and i was like there are

01:01:03.460 i listen to glee covers to this day because they're so good some of them dare i say better

01:01:08.140 than the originals most most if not all and one of them i really love is i'm not going to teach

01:01:14.420 your boyfriend how to dance with you by blaine of course the blaine like no one stood a chance

01:01:18.680 when blaine was covering i'm telling you and that one especially i loved and they were both like

01:01:23.840 that's so funny you say that like uh if people bring up Blaine covers that's like always one of

01:01:27.840 them that they bring up is I'm not going to teach your boyfriend how to dance with you and I said

01:01:31.280 I think that's because like obviously you know Blaine is a gay man in the show and you know he's

01:01:36.100 with Kurt and you're like okay yeah I know that yeah but then when you watched him sing that song

01:01:40.860 that was like one of the first times I watched him and I was kind of like

01:01:43.160 why he kind of he's kind of sexy what is that well it's kind of strange oh Blaine Anderson is

01:01:50.860 the hottest man alive truly in that one song i felt moved i felt moved i'm i have been moved by

01:01:59.000 him since i was a very young girl i know you're a huge jonathan groff yes too so him being on that

01:02:04.580 show oh i mean all your favorite things i will never be as alive as i was on tuesday nights

01:02:09.880 at 8 p.m in 2010 i re-watched glee a few years ago too like front to back and it's still great

01:02:17.380 it's still incredible those first three seasons yeah and then i can't speak for the rest yeah

01:02:22.560 yeah they were really phoning it in at the end but like at the very end but right in the middle

01:02:27.360 like three i would say like two and three i was like incredible like best show it was so good

01:02:33.660 and honestly really progressive for the time completely when i look back now i'm like that

01:02:37.880 show was honestly way ahead of its time it really was like way before any other shows were like 0.97

01:02:43.500 daring to foray into shit like no i remember like when kurt and blaine had sex for the first time 0.96

01:02:48.620 it was like a crazy thing that they aired that episode yeah like no one could like no one could 0.99

01:02:53.620 believe it and like now it's like heated rivalry like like and but they kurt and blaine walked so

01:03:01.340 ilia and shane could run that's true yeah we must pay respect we must to the ancient texts okay uh

01:03:09.640 This next fun fact says you used to have a choker with the planet Saturn on it.

01:03:15.000 Probably.

01:03:17.380 Every fact you're like, oh, yeah, I'm sure I think.

01:03:20.680 Did I Instagram just a picture of the choker?

01:03:22.620 Yeah.

01:03:22.900 Yeah.

01:03:23.480 Like lower lip choker shot.

01:03:25.680 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:03:27.620 You big fan of Saturn on Tumblr? 0.83

01:03:29.560 I fucking love Saturn. 0.98

01:03:30.660 You love Saturn. 0.99

01:03:31.280 That's your favorite.

01:03:31.900 Is that your favorite planet?

01:03:33.000 Sure.

01:03:34.760 I mean, yeah, sure.

01:03:36.280 I mean, yeah, if I had to pick one.

01:03:37.740 I guess.

01:03:38.860 OK.

01:03:39.140 next one says before you got big on tiktok you worked as a preschool teacher that's true and

01:03:44.280 how were you with the kids i feel like kids i think good like i i yeah i loved the kids so much

01:03:51.120 but that really was the only part of the job i liked like i couldn't do the lifestyle i yeah

01:03:57.180 it was really a big preschool teacher i was like so drained oh my god i can only imagine yeah i

01:04:03.380 really i didn't really have a life molding mine yes that's what you were doing yeah oh completely

01:04:08.240 okay last one it says in a quote from your high school newspaper you really dug deep yeah you

01:04:15.860 said your brother noah would quote eat all the applesauce packets and leave none for you 0.99

01:04:20.760 that's a quote in my high school's newspaper you and your brother man damn 0.98

01:04:25.200 i i mean if i said it i i don't i feel like i wouldn't lie about that 0.98

01:04:30.980 there was no context of that it was just a picture of us uh damn can i 0.97

01:04:38.180 get a quote about your brother and you're like yeah he fucking eats all the applesauce so there 0.96

01:04:41.660 you go oh you know what this was no it was in the era of go-go squeeze oh okay and i was obsessed 0.97

01:04:48.920 with those yeah and i guess he ate them all yeah that's that rings true and you had to hold him

01:04:54.320 accountable that rings true yeah he completely blasted him in school paper put out a hit piece

01:05:00.080 on your brother in the school newspaper when i was in high school i got voted most likely to want

01:05:05.880 to be stranded on an island with which felt racially charged really for me well I just 0.98

01:05:11.520 thought I was like you guys think I'm going to turn into fucking Tom Hanks when I go there 0.95

01:05:14.640 I get that I'm just going to automatically assimilate like that wrong um but I felt like 0.96

01:05:19.760 I should have gotten something else like like funniest yeah I don't know I felt shortchanged

01:05:24.400 we had to write our own which is like for yourself our most our own most likely to's

01:05:29.120 which is so dumb um but I saw mine circulating on TikTok the other day because some girl I

01:05:35.720 guess from my high school found a an old yearbook there so like i'm like mortified it was like 0.96

01:05:40.900 most likely to be betrothed to all of the members of one direction at the same time

01:05:46.180 like don't let 18 year olds write their most likelihoods don't do that why would you do that

01:05:54.540 to me don't do that to me now if you see it don't post it again do not post that i did

01:05:59.520 i got into one direction i felt like a tiny bit late but when i was in there i was in there

01:06:05.700 oh i was a big jonas brother girl though so that's yeah i think that's why i was like so

01:06:10.520 balls deep in jonas brother shit that like when one direction came around i remember like actively

01:06:15.540 thinking to myself i can't get into that i don't have i was like bandwidth i can't even open the 0.98

01:06:20.880 door because if i do yeah that's all that's gonna be up here and i need to focus oh i was so sick 0.99

01:06:26.340 but then eventually i had to give in eventually they got me they got my fucking ass i watched 0.97

01:06:31.980 that acoustic cover they did on youtube of one thing you guys can look it up still it has like 0.99

01:06:37.220 fucking 50 million fucking views but that was the first video i watched them and i said well now i 0.77

01:06:41.240 gotta get into this i'd like to get involved with that do you remember the acoustic cover of them 0.99

01:06:45.440 doing more than this in the baseball jersey yes of course i do that i think that was my most that

01:06:50.540 is my most watched youtube video of all time yeah that is burned into my when harry got long hair i

01:06:56.380 said now you're gonna have to stop or i'm gonna be i'm gonna do something crazy

01:07:00.080 he he that nothing has existed like that or will exist again i'm telling you yeah like the way that

01:07:08.280 he made me feel yeah the yeah the feeling i got inside my body i almost felt sick all the time

01:07:15.260 yeah i'm just thinking yeah yeah okay those are all your fun facts awesome but to circle back

01:07:22.340 you're you're so fun you have so many fun facts thank you I sure do I want to circle back to

01:07:29.140 Phoebe um what do you hope everybody takes away from your from your very first book how exciting

01:07:34.180 but also uh just your first fiction book your first world building kind of book I hope that

01:07:40.200 everyone takes away that everyone has their own metaphorical virginity something that they're

01:07:49.800 really focused on a milestone that they feel like they should have hit and they haven't so you're

01:07:54.620 not alone in that and you're gonna you're not a freak everyone has their thing everyone has their 0.55

01:08:00.640 shit yeah and yeah I think that's beautiful and would you want to see Phoebe get made into a movie

01:08:07.680 or a tv show I would yeah that would be that would be I think she'd make a good movie do you think

01:08:11.980 you would be in it I would like to be there's like a very there's like a side character at one point

01:08:18.260 who has like five lines who i could see myself oh making one of those author cameos if you were

01:08:23.880 gonna cast it who would you cast in your main in your principal cast well i would i think joe curie

01:08:30.180 yeah um david corn sweat david corn sweat evan peters evan peters right for the men actually

01:08:36.600 i'm switching him out oh to hudson that's right um and i would want phoebe to be on an unknown

01:08:42.140 actress oh that's such a great idea that's beautiful yeah i love that yeah look at you

01:08:47.100 you have all the plans thank you I'm so excited do you have anything you want to tease about your

01:08:50.880 next book or just to expect it other book I hope you can expect it it's definitely like a

01:08:57.380 psychological process that I'm going through to write a second book after this one but hopefully

01:09:03.640 you can expect it yes I think you can yeah and I want to say too I'm so excited for you I'm so

01:09:08.940 proud of you I cannot wait to read your romance oh my gosh I can't wait to read Phoebe oh my god

01:09:14.180 I can't wait it's gonna be amazing and beautiful I'm so happy for you thank you so and I really do

01:09:18.460 think this is like this makes the most sense for you like to write a fiction to write a rom-com

01:09:24.040 like anything like that I think you're like such a genius for doing it but I also think you have

01:09:29.000 the brain for it and I'm so excited that means the world thank you so much oh my god of course

01:09:33.720 it's gonna be amazing and beautiful thank you all so much to you for tuning into this episode

01:09:38.400 of the comment section thank you so much to my amazing guest Brooke Averick for maybe the one

01:09:42.080 or two people that don't know you oh please where can everybody find you um i also have a podcast

01:09:47.420 called brook and connor make a podcast you can find that anywhere and yeah a few on goodreads um

01:09:54.400 brook avrick and then i think that on instagram as well yes and make sure y'all go get your copy

01:09:59.800 of phoebe verman's gonna lose it out yesterday yes out yesterday make sure i'm sure all of you 1.00

01:10:04.760 bitches already have it but if you don't make sure you go get it i actually also bought a copy 0.98

01:10:08.100 true that's so sweet you didn't have to do that I know I didn't that's very sweet I know that 0.75

01:10:13.680 I'm very and trust me I do not buy every book I see thank you so I'm very excited for you all to

01:10:19.640 read it I think it's gonna be amazing thank you so much to the amazing Brooke for coming on the

01:10:23.460 show don't forget new episodes of the comment section drop every Wednesday you can stream the

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01:10:31.440 thank you so much to my amazing guests thank you so much to all of you and I'll see you next time

01:10:34.740 Bye.

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