A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, The Huntress Stabs Tamlin, Dies, and Comes Back Fae, Pt 4

1
00:00:01,635 --> 00:00:05,418
Welcome back to Paperback Confessions for the final chapter of

2
00:00:05,498 --> 00:00:09,057
our Court of Thorns and Roses deep dive. Feyre has

3
00:00:09,169 --> 00:00:13,000
survived 2 brutal challenges, but now she's staring down the

4
00:00:13,016 --> 00:00:16,863
3rd, and this one could cost her everything. One final

5
00:00:16,863 --> 00:00:20,358
test, one impossible choice, and with everything

6
00:00:20,454 --> 00:00:24,045
hanging in the balance, will Feyre survive Under the Mountain?

7
00:00:52,385 --> 00:00:56,062
If, if she can free Tamlin, out of

8
00:00:56,158 --> 00:00:59,710
rage Tamlin will kill Amaretto. And if Amaretto

9
00:00:59,855 --> 00:01:03,561
dies, they're all free. So Rhysand is kind of like, he's

10
00:01:03,561 --> 00:01:07,153
got this chain of events that he's hoping if he reveals to her

11
00:01:07,347 --> 00:01:10,855
will happen. And so when the 3rd mask is revealed to be

12
00:01:10,855 --> 00:01:14,273
Tamlin in the background, Rhysand sees it like, fuck,

13
00:01:15,856 --> 00:01:19,572
fuck, Feyre will never kill Tamlin, right? Like, that's the thought. Like,

14
00:01:19,588 --> 00:01:23,263
she's not going to kill this guy. But what was really

15
00:01:23,279 --> 00:01:27,083
interesting is that she remembered the references to the his

16
00:01:27,164 --> 00:01:30,262
heart— he has a heart of stone. And so

17
00:01:31,424 --> 00:01:34,958
even all the shame and the guilt of,

18
00:01:35,716 --> 00:01:38,461
of having to do this, she, she stabs him.

19
00:01:40,301 --> 00:01:43,982
And, um, she believed that by

20
00:01:44,030 --> 00:01:47,699
stabbing him, he wouldn't die. And it

21
00:01:47,747 --> 00:01:51,449
worked. Right, because she remembers, I'm gonna hit him in the heart,

22
00:01:51,466 --> 00:01:54,053
but it's going to be made of stone, and he'll be able to recover with

23
00:01:54,053 --> 00:01:57,413
his fairy magic. But to Amaretto's

24
00:01:57,765 --> 00:02:01,450
disappointment, fuck, Feyre actually did it because

25
00:02:01,450 --> 00:02:05,215
Amaretto didn't think she was going to do it either. And that lights her

26
00:02:05,215 --> 00:02:08,372
on fire because now that means by the deal,

27
00:02:09,782 --> 00:02:13,451
every— like, he's free, the people of the Spring Court are free. And

28
00:02:13,451 --> 00:02:16,992
Amaretto was like, oh no, I never said when though. I never

29
00:02:17,136 --> 00:02:20,645
said when. And then this dumb fucking

30
00:02:20,677 --> 00:02:23,929
psychopathic crazy Amaretto bitch

31
00:02:24,859 --> 00:02:28,069
Fucking breaks, breaks Feyre. Like,

32
00:02:28,165 --> 00:02:31,840
fucking does shit to her. Like, this girl got an

33
00:02:32,209 --> 00:02:35,852
ass beating like nobody's business. Yep.

34
00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,571
Yeah. But I— what I loved is like

35
00:02:40,635 --> 00:02:44,117
how Tamlin, after that happened,

36
00:02:44,246 --> 00:02:48,001
he like fucked Amaretto up. But it took him some time.

37
00:02:48,498 --> 00:02:50,569
Yeah, it did, because he was healing slowly.

38
00:02:52,411 --> 00:02:56,258
So while he was healing and unable to— Allegedly. Uh-huh.

39
00:02:56,966 --> 00:03:00,737
While he was healing and unable to, to defend and protect

40
00:03:00,769 --> 00:03:03,816
Feyre, who is the only

41
00:03:04,481 --> 00:03:07,900
person who tried to protect her and defend her?

42
00:03:10,827 --> 00:03:14,481
Rhysand. Rhysand, yes. I was gonna say, I'm not answering this question.

43
00:03:14,901 --> 00:03:17,439
It's Rhysand. And it's so like, that's

44
00:03:18,618 --> 00:03:22,420
Just like, I can see it as a movie in my mind. He's

45
00:03:22,420 --> 00:03:26,142
the one screaming her name out as she's basically getting killed

46
00:03:26,174 --> 00:03:29,848
by Amaretto. He's the one— he knows he's not strong enough to defend her.

47
00:03:29,928 --> 00:03:33,265
He needs Tamlin to get the fuck up and do what he needs to do.

48
00:03:33,794 --> 00:03:37,596
But despite all of that, if she's gonna die, I'm gonna die

49
00:03:37,644 --> 00:03:41,221
defending her. And so he keeps going after Amaretto, and she is

50
00:03:41,318 --> 00:03:45,010
just like picking him up like a ragdoll and tossing him aside. And he gets

51
00:03:45,010 --> 00:03:47,250
up again and gets up again, and he's trying

52
00:03:48,087 --> 00:03:50,794
continuously to get

53
00:03:51,696 --> 00:03:54,563
Amaretto out of the way and like fight for Feyre.

54
00:03:56,648 --> 00:03:59,134
Yes. Feyre gets her neck snapped and is

55
00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:03,363
dead, essentially, right? She's dead. Essentially dead.

56
00:04:05,122 --> 00:04:08,748
As she is dying, what she sees is she's basically falling

57
00:04:08,814 --> 00:04:12,542
into this pit of nothingness. And she can kind of

58
00:04:12,542 --> 00:04:15,414
hear voices in the distance, but she's falling. She's dying.

59
00:04:16,794 --> 00:04:20,212
And in her dying, the only thing that kind of like

60
00:04:20,982 --> 00:04:24,047
keeps her from completely disappearing into black

61
00:04:25,218 --> 00:04:28,941
is she feels a tug on like a little rope, like a pull.

62
00:04:29,422 --> 00:04:33,080
Mm-hmm. And then that's when, by this point,

63
00:04:33,096 --> 00:04:36,129
Talon stood up. God bless his heart. He was tying his shoes or whatever the

64
00:04:36,129 --> 00:04:39,482
fuck he was doing. He's now up. And hell

65
00:04:39,754 --> 00:04:43,330
breaks loose. The rage is free. He fucking

66
00:04:43,506 --> 00:04:47,355
kills Amaretto finally. Yeah, he like rips her

67
00:04:47,355 --> 00:04:50,706
fucking neck off. Yeah. Like blood spurting

68
00:04:50,802 --> 00:04:54,345
everywhere. He is like pissed. But like, where the

69
00:04:54,345 --> 00:04:58,162
fuck was that dude like challenge 1, 1

70
00:04:58,194 --> 00:05:01,529
and 2? 7 seconds ago. Yeah, like fucking literally

71
00:05:02,282 --> 00:05:05,650
before she got her neck snapped. Where was he? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like what, what

72
00:05:05,650 --> 00:05:09,245
the fuck, bitch? Like, yeah, if you're gonna— if you say or

73
00:05:09,245 --> 00:05:12,199
claim to be in love with her, I don't know, find your balls.

74
00:05:12,954 --> 00:05:16,294
Yeah. And then he sees Feyre, he picks her up, he's crying, she's in his

75
00:05:16,406 --> 00:05:19,858
arms. Oh my God, Feyre, oh my God. And all of a

76
00:05:19,874 --> 00:05:23,455
sudden, all of the High

77
00:05:23,455 --> 00:05:27,244
Fae males come and they give a piece of

78
00:05:27,244 --> 00:05:30,937
themselves to her to bring her back to life, which is like a super rare

79
00:05:30,937 --> 00:05:34,582
occurrence, but So when you posted that in our group chat,

80
00:05:35,192 --> 00:05:38,628
and I remember Nacho saying this, I immediately hate this,

81
00:05:39,190 --> 00:05:42,450
that. And I, I was laughing when you read that. I was like, yeah, I

82
00:05:42,562 --> 00:05:46,079
can, I can get it. I, I can get behind that because it should have

83
00:05:46,111 --> 00:05:49,162
never gotten to that point, right? Like,

84
00:05:49,724 --> 00:05:52,742
Tamlin— Foreshadowing.

85
00:05:53,577 --> 00:05:57,190
Tamlin should have been, been taking care of her even prior to

86
00:05:57,190 --> 00:06:00,097
that. Like, Tamlin should have grown a set of fucking balls

87
00:06:01,125 --> 00:06:04,851
and taken Amaretto out before challenge 1 even

88
00:06:05,124 --> 00:06:08,818
happened. Let me ask you a question, G. Yes. And Nacho, keep it to

89
00:06:08,818 --> 00:06:12,448
yourself. Heard. G, in that

90
00:06:12,448 --> 00:06:16,094
moment where these, these high male,

91
00:06:16,383 --> 00:06:19,756
high fae are going to turn this human into a fae,

92
00:06:20,142 --> 00:06:23,483
they're giving a part of themselves, their essence, to this human.

93
00:06:24,092 --> 00:06:27,763
Do you think they do it because Tamlin is so hurt and

94
00:06:27,779 --> 00:06:31,483
destroyed and crying? And Tamlin, this High Fae of the Spring

95
00:06:31,531 --> 00:06:35,314
Court, like, they see him in that moment just broken, and so

96
00:06:35,378 --> 00:06:38,536
they're like, all right, let me do this. I don't think it was because of

97
00:06:38,584 --> 00:06:42,240
him. I think it was because they saw her as a

98
00:06:42,352 --> 00:06:44,821
very strong and capable woman

99
00:06:46,039 --> 00:06:49,261
that could help, help the courts out.

100
00:06:50,048 --> 00:06:53,599
The spring court, the night court, you know, because she already did that.

101
00:06:54,065 --> 00:06:57,102
Yeah, she already did that. She already

102
00:06:57,681 --> 00:07:01,360
handled all the shit and was a facilitator of killing

103
00:07:01,457 --> 00:07:05,249
Amarantha. And so now they're paying, paying bitches back.

104
00:07:05,474 --> 00:07:08,398
They're paying it forward. You said to shut up and I couldn't handle it. You

105
00:07:08,527 --> 00:07:11,917
know, that's not what I thought you were gonna say, so you're fine to say.

106
00:07:12,624 --> 00:07:16,303
Yeah, I honestly think that they did it. Because

107
00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,237
she helped save them. She was

108
00:07:20,333 --> 00:07:24,171
the one who showed up with being brave and,

109
00:07:24,684 --> 00:07:27,783
you know, courageous. And as scrawny and weak— They all

110
00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,428
benefited. Yeah, they all benefited from her. They were paying it

111
00:07:31,428 --> 00:07:35,121
forward. She did this for us, we're gonna do this for her. She doesn't

112
00:07:35,121 --> 00:07:38,943
deserve to die because— yeah. Well, it happens

113
00:07:39,039 --> 00:07:42,491
very rarely, so I'll let that sit.

114
00:07:43,070 --> 00:07:46,731
We'll talk about that next book. But, um, after that

115
00:07:46,747 --> 00:07:50,521
happens, Feyre comes back to life as a fae,

116
00:07:50,601 --> 00:07:54,439
as a fairy. Yeah. And looks like a High Fae to boot because

117
00:07:54,632 --> 00:07:58,181
7 High Fae gave her a part of them. So she's more than just a

118
00:07:58,229 --> 00:08:01,955
regular fairy, she's like a High Fairy, also a

119
00:08:01,955 --> 00:08:05,600
human that got brought back to life. So she's tough shit. Go ahead.

120
00:08:05,696 --> 00:08:09,148
And is that when all their masks came off too? Yes, they could

121
00:08:09,164 --> 00:08:12,486
finally take off their masks. Was it then, or did they

122
00:08:12,935 --> 00:08:15,856
take off their— their masks fell when she stabbed him?

123
00:08:17,252 --> 00:08:20,269
Um, I— because that's when she breaks—

124
00:08:20,959 --> 00:08:23,670
well, she— do you remember there's like a scene where she's like, wait, why aren't

125
00:08:23,670 --> 00:08:27,377
their masks off? And that was when Amarantha was like, why? I never

126
00:08:27,377 --> 00:08:31,052
said when. Oh, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And

127
00:08:31,132 --> 00:08:34,807
I— but I think it's when he like ripped her fucking neck out, then

128
00:08:34,919 --> 00:08:38,739
Lucian's mask Tamlin was able to take off his mask, 'cause when

129
00:08:38,916 --> 00:08:41,759
she opens her eyes, she sees Tamlin, like, oh,

130
00:08:42,890 --> 00:08:46,507
look at him. Yeah, yeah. Okay, you right. What I got here, Fabio? You right,

131
00:08:46,523 --> 00:08:50,154
you right. Um, so all that goes down.

132
00:08:50,219 --> 00:08:53,722
She's now high fae, and what does that mean for her? She's— everything

133
00:08:53,979 --> 00:08:57,740
she immediately notices is brighter and louder, and her senses are

134
00:08:58,193 --> 00:09:01,967
basically on crack, and she is like, holy

135
00:09:01,999 --> 00:09:05,761
shit. So immediately she knows she's different. Yeah.

136
00:09:05,842 --> 00:09:08,311
Um, looks different, feels different, all that.

137
00:09:10,137 --> 00:09:12,622
Then there is a scene—

138
00:09:14,574 --> 00:09:18,059
this all happens under the mountain. They're ready to go home, which home for her

139
00:09:18,059 --> 00:09:21,822
is now Spring Court. She's gonna go home with Tamlin. She's got her man finally.

140
00:09:22,178 --> 00:09:24,732
Let's get home. But before she leaves,

141
00:09:26,445 --> 00:09:29,290
she feels a tug again. Something is pulling her somewhere.

142
00:09:36,308 --> 00:09:36,485
Oh,

143
00:09:42,885 --> 00:09:46,488
this just, this just pours into my soul,

144
00:09:47,183 --> 00:09:50,707
that part of me that like requires the main

145
00:09:51,143 --> 00:09:54,931
character, the, the person, male or

146
00:09:54,931 --> 00:09:58,670
female, that is the one that goes through the struggle. This

147
00:09:58,783 --> 00:10:01,268
just— You don't even

148
00:10:01,380 --> 00:10:04,284
understand, G, how—

149
00:10:05,311 --> 00:10:09,017
go ahead. I'm

150
00:10:09,113 --> 00:10:10,605
so sorry, Skittles. Like

151
00:10:11,824 --> 00:10:15,145
foreshadowing. She feels this pull,

152
00:10:15,755 --> 00:10:18,611
this tug, and she knows

153
00:10:19,766 --> 00:10:22,862
to follow it, but she has a pretty good idea of where it leads.

154
00:10:23,536 --> 00:10:27,306
So she follows the pull, she follows the tug. And it leads

155
00:10:27,306 --> 00:10:30,898
her to like this balcony, um, on the side of the

156
00:10:30,898 --> 00:10:33,929
mountain, and there waiting for her is Rhysand.

157
00:10:34,827 --> 00:10:37,922
And he's free, just like all of the other High Fae, to go back home.

158
00:10:39,398 --> 00:10:42,749
Now mind you, this shit— he had been under this mountain

159
00:10:42,846 --> 00:10:46,149
for years and decades and decades. So he

160
00:10:46,149 --> 00:10:49,774
finally gets to go home. Mmm. But before he

161
00:10:49,822 --> 00:10:53,373
leaves, he basically I think he's, he's trying to thank her,

162
00:10:54,022 --> 00:10:57,448
you know? Yeah. And kind of feeling her out, like,

163
00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,449
you know, are you gonna be okay? Um, because it's a goodbye.

164
00:11:03,251 --> 00:11:06,821
And she's, I think, goes, well, you know, I'll see you again. Like,

165
00:11:07,111 --> 00:11:10,379
we still got this deal, one week every month. And he's just like, yeah, you

166
00:11:10,379 --> 00:11:13,774
know, I'll see you again. And before he disappears into

167
00:11:13,839 --> 00:11:16,812
darkness, she sees on his face that something

168
00:11:17,859 --> 00:11:21,228
Has shocked him. Like something is has happened, and

169
00:11:21,808 --> 00:11:24,951
he's like, "Oh shit!" Like there's an oh shit moment look on his face, and

170
00:11:24,951 --> 00:11:27,619
he's staring at her, and she's like, "What the fuck is going on?" And he

171
00:11:27,619 --> 00:11:27,815
disappears.

172
00:11:31,622 --> 00:11:35,108
And it's a pretty pivotal scene because we don't know

173
00:11:35,269 --> 00:11:38,916
what he felt, saw, thought, heard nothing. I know. You

174
00:11:38,916 --> 00:11:42,719
just know he's gone. And

175
00:11:43,152 --> 00:11:46,900
she goes back to the spring court with Hamlin. But do you

176
00:11:46,900 --> 00:11:50,328
think it's because, like, she— that was

177
00:11:50,441 --> 00:11:52,625
beautiful. Did that taste like chocolate?

178
00:11:53,909 --> 00:11:57,620
Good. Um, because what,

179
00:11:57,766 --> 00:12:01,445
what I— I'm just sorry, it tasted like shit.

180
00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,621
Chocolatey shit. Uh, but what I think what, what he

181
00:12:05,766 --> 00:12:07,976
saw is that she

182
00:12:09,315 --> 00:12:13,131
maybe developed some feelings for Rosanne. And

183
00:12:13,195 --> 00:12:16,854
that she maybe still wanted to do that one

184
00:12:17,031 --> 00:12:20,498
week with him as promised because he saved her fucking life,

185
00:12:20,722 --> 00:12:24,462
literally. Yeah. Like, if he hadn't come around, she would

186
00:12:24,510 --> 00:12:28,041
have— Multiple times he saved her life and she

187
00:12:28,041 --> 00:12:31,636
knows it. Yeah. I don't know how many times at this point,

188
00:12:31,652 --> 00:12:35,295
but we know that many times. Next book you find

189
00:12:35,343 --> 00:12:38,361
out a little bit more, but Um,

190
00:12:39,742 --> 00:12:43,451
yeah, I think there's like that connection now, you know. They're trauma bonded. They've gone

191
00:12:43,451 --> 00:12:47,176
through this really horrible thing. And I do, I, I do think she is like,

192
00:12:47,224 --> 00:12:49,841
hey, don't worry, like, we'll see each other again, like, it's gonna be okay. Yeah,

193
00:12:49,874 --> 00:12:53,711
I think she's also developed another— what she sees at

194
00:12:53,711 --> 00:12:57,500
this point as a friendship, like she has with Lucien. Like,

195
00:12:57,661 --> 00:13:01,209
this has grown a bond with these 2 people, these 2

196
00:13:02,301 --> 00:13:05,967
other beings. I was gonna say, I think she realizes too, like,

197
00:13:06,016 --> 00:13:09,861
this bond is a little bit different because she can feel him pulling and tugging

198
00:13:09,958 --> 00:13:13,710
her. So I think she knows there's something else here, like,

199
00:13:13,759 --> 00:13:17,343
this is different. She writes it off that it's her, it's the tattoo. Yeah,

200
00:13:17,911 --> 00:13:20,503
the, the bargain, the deal, it's part of it. Yeah,

201
00:13:22,415 --> 00:13:26,013
but I also, like, think that she's, like, thinking in her head

202
00:13:26,045 --> 00:13:29,821
because, you know, like we said, Rhysand can, like, read minds and stuff like

203
00:13:29,821 --> 00:13:33,528
that. That even she felt the

204
00:13:33,802 --> 00:13:37,347
push me, pull me from Jesus Christ.

205
00:13:37,766 --> 00:13:41,283
She felt she felt.

206
00:13:47,268 --> 00:13:50,923
No, I love that you haven't read the second book, but

207
00:13:50,923 --> 00:13:54,711
like I wasn't as insightful as you on this first read. Like I

208
00:13:54,727 --> 00:13:58,490
just wasn't. So like you're so. Well, I, I think

209
00:13:58,490 --> 00:14:02,230
that the thing too is like, you know, with Tamlin, she felt like

210
00:14:02,359 --> 00:14:06,181
the total like push me, pull me, push me, pull me, right? Like

211
00:14:07,218 --> 00:14:10,895
he, he would— I don't, I

212
00:14:10,895 --> 00:14:13,633
don't quite know how to say it because maybe I've had a little too much

213
00:14:13,633 --> 00:14:17,450
to drink, but whatever. I, I feel

214
00:14:17,450 --> 00:14:20,021
like she has more of like—

215
00:14:21,299 --> 00:14:24,889
God, I, I kind of just want to like dive into this and and see

216
00:14:25,017 --> 00:14:27,552
what it, what it brings, right? I,

217
00:14:29,028 --> 00:14:31,610
I don't really want you to go. I don't want you to go back to

218
00:14:31,610 --> 00:14:35,460
the Night Court. Let you know, I'm— I got

219
00:14:35,460 --> 00:14:39,230
this motherfucker who's like so like push me, pull

220
00:14:39,230 --> 00:14:42,021
me, push me, pull me. I want you, I don't want you. I'm a fucking

221
00:14:42,021 --> 00:14:45,454
big pussy. I'm gonna sit next to Amaretto and not do a motherfucking thing

222
00:14:45,551 --> 00:14:49,192
while she's ripping you to shreds. In the meantime, Rosanne is

223
00:14:49,256 --> 00:14:52,413
like, oh wow, how can I help her, you know? I kind of like this

224
00:14:52,413 --> 00:14:56,037
girl. She's hot, she's scrawny, she's a little butch. Maybe she'd

225
00:14:56,053 --> 00:14:59,644
like top me in bed. But like, that's like what I

226
00:14:59,774 --> 00:15:03,414
got out of it is like, that's why he

227
00:15:03,479 --> 00:15:07,167
had that, that look on his face is because he read that.

228
00:15:07,297 --> 00:15:10,979
And no, I have not read the second book because I followed the instructions

229
00:15:10,995 --> 00:15:14,794
that my smut moms told me not to read the second book. Because

230
00:15:14,794 --> 00:15:17,918
you're gonna be hooked. You're not gonna fall asleep. You're gonna— it's gonna— She's already

231
00:15:17,934 --> 00:15:21,372
hooked. Would you say G? That

232
00:15:21,804 --> 00:15:25,330
they have more in common than what they originally thought.

233
00:15:26,211 --> 00:15:30,009
I think so. Yes, I think, I think they do. Like, they

234
00:15:30,442 --> 00:15:34,239
have— You are teasing, Skittles. You are teasing and

235
00:15:34,239 --> 00:15:37,957
you need to stop. We do not edge Gretchen.

236
00:15:38,694 --> 00:15:42,412
Oh my God, am I edging? I'm totally edging right now. You're

237
00:15:42,476 --> 00:15:45,969
edging Gretchen and we don't edge Gretchen.

238
00:15:46,627 --> 00:15:49,532
Wait until we get to Quicksilver and then you can edge me.

239
00:15:50,479 --> 00:15:54,155
We want to hear your emotions because your whole take on

240
00:15:54,171 --> 00:15:57,975
this book, uh, just even on Feyre, just

241
00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:02,100
your take on Feyre alone, well, like, it was so left

242
00:16:02,132 --> 00:16:05,728
field for me. It was beautiful. Well, you know, like I

243
00:16:05,728 --> 00:16:09,163
said, you know, I'm, I'm older than both of you. I'm a lesbian.

244
00:16:10,302 --> 00:16:14,026
And I also have like a little mental health advocacy

245
00:16:14,026 --> 00:16:17,509
kind of going into this. So I see, I see the whole person.

246
00:16:18,906 --> 00:16:22,584
But dude, Tamlin is still a fucking dick. I,

247
00:16:22,681 --> 00:16:26,230
I'm telling you, he had plenty of chances sitting next to

248
00:16:26,358 --> 00:16:30,101
Amaretto to quit being a fucking pussy. I don't care if your powers got taken

249
00:16:30,133 --> 00:16:33,923
away, you're still a fucking man. Be a man, protect your

250
00:16:33,923 --> 00:16:37,649
woman. That's how it's supposed to be. But don't be a dick.

251
00:16:38,243 --> 00:16:42,017
Okay, okay, final to wrap us up, to wrap up. Okay, go ahead. All

252
00:16:42,017 --> 00:16:45,555
right, go ahead. Predictions on the

253
00:16:45,555 --> 00:16:48,225
second— the next book, do you think

254
00:16:48,756 --> 00:16:50,413
Feyre will

255
00:16:53,035 --> 00:16:56,885
continue to become the G.I. Jane badass character,

256
00:16:57,143 --> 00:17:00,835
or do you think now that she's fae will

257
00:17:00,851 --> 00:17:04,506
be completely different? No, I think that those— I think

258
00:17:04,554 --> 00:17:08,253
some of those traits will still come through because I don't think that

259
00:17:08,253 --> 00:17:11,881
just because you change bodily appearance changes

260
00:17:12,394 --> 00:17:15,941
what you're— what's true to you, right?

261
00:17:16,952 --> 00:17:20,466
Um, I'm true to myself because I can take care of

262
00:17:20,514 --> 00:17:23,419
myself. I can hunt for myself. I,

263
00:17:24,349 --> 00:17:27,270
I don't really need a man, but yes, I need sex because you know what,

264
00:17:27,478 --> 00:17:31,137
I'm a fae, but you know, I'm not dead. And

265
00:17:31,490 --> 00:17:34,828
I suppose— Not that zombie dick. She's not— there's no zombie dicks.

266
00:17:35,743 --> 00:17:39,065
But like, I— what I think is that I

267
00:17:39,690 --> 00:17:41,269
can't with the fucking tube radio.

268
00:17:45,766 --> 00:17:49,448
Also, God, it's like dust in my mind right now. But what I think is

269
00:17:49,561 --> 00:17:53,098
that she will go back to her

270
00:17:53,098 --> 00:17:56,582
roots. Okay. Oh my God, I broke Nacho. Do you think,

271
00:17:57,466 --> 00:18:00,905
do you think her and Tamlin's relationship will

272
00:18:00,922 --> 00:18:04,309
change for the better or for the worse? I think

273
00:18:04,550 --> 00:18:07,927
her and Tamlin's relationship change for the worse

274
00:18:08,071 --> 00:18:11,780
because he becomes even more pussified. All right, I

275
00:18:11,780 --> 00:18:15,056
think— I just think he's a big fucking pussy. And like,

276
00:18:15,682 --> 00:18:19,374
my red flag report on this is like, Tamlin— What are

277
00:18:19,374 --> 00:18:23,212
your red flags thus far? Give me 3 red flags.

278
00:18:23,388 --> 00:18:26,616
Can I give you 4? I'm gonna just give you my report. So

279
00:18:26,616 --> 00:18:30,405
Tamlin is 7 out of 10 red flags, and the reason

280
00:18:30,405 --> 00:18:33,466
I said that is Because he's protective, secretive,

281
00:18:34,197 --> 00:18:38,003
and he's controlling, and he has these

282
00:18:38,342 --> 00:18:41,789
tendencies that just kind of piss me off. And then Rhysand,

283
00:18:42,369 --> 00:18:46,139
he is 12 out of 10 flags because he's a

284
00:18:46,140 --> 00:18:49,216
walking HR violation and like suspiciously

285
00:18:49,491 --> 00:18:53,249
compelling. Lucien is

286
00:18:53,282 --> 00:18:56,821
like 4 out of 10. He's mostly sarcasm and trauma

287
00:18:56,821 --> 00:19:00,424
and Like questionable friendship choices. I swear to God, him and

288
00:19:00,473 --> 00:19:04,021
Tamlin behind closed doors. And then Feyre is—

289
00:19:04,021 --> 00:19:07,586
she's like 6 out of 10. I mean, would— would she— would

290
00:19:07,682 --> 00:19:11,391
absolutely run directly toward danger after being specifically

291
00:19:11,455 --> 00:19:15,132
told not to do. I mean, I, I kind of get

292
00:19:15,148 --> 00:19:18,536
her, right? Like, I, I know that my wife Lisa the

293
00:19:18,536 --> 00:19:22,358
Lesbian is like, you know, always telling me like not to do these

294
00:19:22,390 --> 00:19:25,966
things. And I'd be like, yeah, but I fucking kind of want to. So,

295
00:19:26,743 --> 00:19:29,335
but those, those are my red flags of just,

296
00:19:31,898 --> 00:19:33,839
just the book. But the book as a whole,

297
00:19:36,465 --> 00:19:39,957
it's not super spicy, but it gets us ready for like the

298
00:19:39,957 --> 00:19:43,773
next 5 books. Um, I

299
00:19:43,773 --> 00:19:47,602
forgot something. Would I recommend

300
00:19:47,602 --> 00:19:51,152
this to people? Yes, if you want it, but you like—

301
00:19:51,168 --> 00:19:54,360
this is like the backstory to everything else that

302
00:19:54,393 --> 00:19:57,955
happens. And once I realized that, then I was able to power

303
00:19:57,955 --> 00:20:01,798
through because, you know, my smut moms here were like,

304
00:20:01,878 --> 00:20:05,511
just keep going. I would tell you guys where I was and you're like, yeah,

305
00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:07,936
you've got a lot to go. But yeah, um,

306
00:20:09,664 --> 00:20:12,858
as far as like what my rating is for the book

307
00:20:18,288 --> 00:20:21,839
It— there's a tiny bit of spice. Oh yeah. But you have to fuck—

308
00:20:22,226 --> 00:20:25,374
you have to read way the fuck into it. Full-on Halo

309
00:20:25,761 --> 00:20:29,182
spice. There's just— it's just sweet vanilla

310
00:20:30,223 --> 00:20:32,630
lovemaking with a narcissistic liar.

311
00:20:35,693 --> 00:20:39,202
Fuck Tamlin. I'm not even putting a rating on this one

312
00:20:39,315 --> 00:20:42,677
because as far as I'm concerned, there's no rating to be put on this. I—

313
00:20:42,693 --> 00:20:45,745
there's— is there negative when it comes to the

314
00:20:46,708 --> 00:20:50,467
rating system? That's it. Yeah, it's not a smut. I don't

315
00:20:50,563 --> 00:20:53,824
think this is a smut book because for me, I need, I need

316
00:20:54,081 --> 00:20:57,856
reciprocal things, and I think

317
00:20:57,856 --> 00:21:01,132
this is one of the most tepid reciprocating—

318
00:21:01,405 --> 00:21:04,939
tepid, tepid is the right— yeah. So like,

319
00:21:05,340 --> 00:21:08,937
this is how I kind of like looked at the book, right? I'm gonna give

320
00:21:08,937 --> 00:21:12,447
it 4 out of 5 stars because it took me a while to get fully

321
00:21:12,463 --> 00:21:16,230
invested in this book. But once Feyre got under the

322
00:21:16,230 --> 00:21:20,029
mountain, I, I locked in, and I loved watching her intelligence

323
00:21:20,029 --> 00:21:23,780
and survival instinct— instincts take over. Yeah. And I

324
00:21:23,844 --> 00:21:27,515
connected with that butch-leaning provider energy

325
00:21:27,708 --> 00:21:31,298
she carries. But as the older lesbian and like mental health

326
00:21:31,298 --> 00:21:35,129
advocate, I also spent half the book watching a traumatized 19-year-old

327
00:21:36,429 --> 00:21:39,703
sacrifice herself while a collection of powerfully

328
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:43,522
emotionally constipated fae men make questionable decisions around her.

329
00:21:43,907 --> 00:21:47,727
Okay. Goddamn. And

330
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,546
I took a star away because the book dragged for a little bit.

331
00:21:52,252 --> 00:21:55,927
Tamlin frustrated the hell out of me, and everybody needed to

332
00:21:55,927 --> 00:21:59,715
communicate instead of speaking in magical riddles. But the

333
00:21:59,779 --> 00:22:03,470
trials and the trauma, Rhysand's red flag entrance,

334
00:22:03,887 --> 00:22:07,530
and Feyre's transformation Absolutely made me want to continue reading the

335
00:22:07,530 --> 00:22:09,729
series. Uh,