This Book Had a 16-Year-Old FALLING for a 10-Year-Old?! | DNF DIARIES

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I'd rather break my e-reader into smithereens before finishing this book.
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That's so upsetting.
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Not amazing.
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Gay werewolves, sign me up.
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That does sound good.
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However, only a few chapters in, I got hit by a crazy age gap where the MC is 16 and his love interest is 10.
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No! Oh, okay.
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Take back my comments.
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This is where I DNF'd.
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This is the moment.
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This blade of grass to the left of him was shorter than the one to the to the right of Samson.
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Can we not?
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Jim Bob and Samson.
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Just paraphrasing.
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Those were not the names.
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Him constantly talking about this groin injury.
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Like, I don't want to hear about how it's hard for you to have a heart on.
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I don't want to know that.
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Valid points though, Susie.
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No man.
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Okay, again his prime banging era to tell me what the crikey hell was going on and why the schnitzels should I keep going.
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I don't even think I made it three chapters before I was like, I can't do it.
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We don't care.
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Welcome back to Plot Twist Please, where we sip, flip, and spill the tea on books and booze.
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I'm Beth.
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I'm Cass.
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And I'm Susanna.
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And today we have another episode of the DNF Diaries Listener Takeover.
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So we asked our listeners to send in books they've DNF'd reasons why, and some of them can get really unhinged.
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So we're excited to read those today for you guys.
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We're also talking about the ones we DNF too, right?
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Yeah.
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And I have one.
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Today's drink of the episode is caffeine.
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Starbucks.
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Yes, what is your Starbucks order?
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Today I got the iced banana bread matcha.
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So yummy.
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And I did the iced hazelnut oat shaken espresso.
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And I did the iced cherry chai, lactose-free milk, light ice with this delicious foam stuff on top.
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Confession.
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I forgot to ask for light ice.
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Oh, that's okay.
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If you were gonna say you forgot to ask for lactose-free, I would be pooping like multiple times.
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I remember the light ice.
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Totally forgotten until you just said it already.
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Honestly, when you when you said confession, it was like, ooh, Susie's gonna shit herself today.
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I'm gonna have to get my heating bag.
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I feel like there's just sweats, like the cold sweats, just like through the episode.
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Oh sorry about that.
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Okay, before we jump into it, what are we reading?
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I'm reading Hideaway, Penelope Douglas.
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It's book two in the Devil's Night series, which maybe not have been the best choice while I'm waiting for you.
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I should have maybe I should have done the The Devil's Vow, whatever that one is.
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So I should have.
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We were waiting for me for because we were reading that um Crown Yeah.
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Crown Me Dead.
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No, what is it?
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I can't remember.
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Oh, we suck so bad.
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Hi, let's do a book pop podcast, not know what the hell we're talking about half the time.
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We have so many things that we talk about, though.
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No, it's true.
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Yeah, Crown Me Dead.
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Oh, I was right.
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Yeah, all that.
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And you're right.
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Yeah, Crown Me Dead by Liv Xander.
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It's a duology, but I think they're like you keep booping your mic.
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I do.
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Yeah.
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I do.
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Do you need to adjust yourself?
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I don't know what my issue is currently.
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There's a lot of people.
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You're just very animated with your hands.
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I am facial awareness.
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Italyon.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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Yeah, so I'm waiting for you to start that one.
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And then we also do have that other thriller that we wanted to do as well.
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I've been a little distracted by a certain Garrett Graham.
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Yeah.
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You haven't even read the books yet.
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You have to read the books first and then watch the series.
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Did you read all of the books?
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Yeah, okay.
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I said because she's like rivalry.
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I went backwards.
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She was surprised that you were watching, and I was like, Well, we read the books.
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Yeah, we're talking about it.
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And I was like, I know Susie did at least the first couple.
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I was like, I think she did the series.
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I don't know if I finished the whole series, but I at least read like the first three, I think.
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And then I was like, okay, I don't care about these other characters.
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I will say I did start to read like one of the related series.
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Because there's the this is the off-campus series.
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Then there's also, I think, just the Briar U series.
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I didn't, I couldn't get into that one as well.
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Like these ones, I like how many books have off-campus?
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The one thing I don't like about that series though, from the first couple episodes was just like the unnecessary nudity.
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Like there's just it's a lot.
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I do think I do think there's I think the reason is heated rivalry.
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You think so?
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Yeah.
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But it's the shower, the shower scene is very reminiscent of heated rivalry.
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If you knew, you knew.
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Yeah.
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But like it's rated 16 plus, which I find wild.
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I think, I think they're trying to spice it up a little bit for the people to kind of get the same.
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Well, aren't the books a little spicy?
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They are.
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They are, but like, I don't like her roommate Ali walking in with her boobs out, just like flashing me.
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I was like, I was not expecting this.
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I think her character is great, and she's just so pretty.
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She's stunning.
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Stunning.
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That dress she wore at the jelly.
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Oh my gosh.
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I was like, okay, I want to be you now.
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But also her hair.
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I love her hair.
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Yeah, so nice.
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Anyway, what are you reading, Cass?
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Oh, I'm still reading Fury Bound.
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I'm like 50% in.
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Oh my lord.
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Okay.
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I said I got distracted by off campus.
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I had to watch.
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I don't have time for you to be distracted.
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I needed to know.
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This is why you're the loser for books read.
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Listen, I also work like 10 hour days with clients with no breaks.
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And then I got a clean.
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Exactly.
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Yesterday you're done at 2 30.
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Yesterday I was done at 2 30.
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Correct.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Then I worked out.
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Then I showered.
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Then I got ready to go.
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You can read and work out at the same time, you know.
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I was.
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That's what I did.
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I read.
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And I left, I left her there waiting.
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Yeah, I was had my shoes on at the door.
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I have a picture of me, literally shoes on at the door, waiting for Beth, because I thought she was on her way.
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Well you could have read then.
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Shopping.
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You could also bring your book with you to the restaurant while you're waiting for food.
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I'm not a psychopath like you.
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That's sure.
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There's there was time in the car that you could have been reading.
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I can't read in the car, I would throw up, but yeah, same.
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Yeah.
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I'm better up in higher cars.
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Like did you know that on the iPhone they have like a setting to help you with current car sick?
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Yeah.
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Nope.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah.
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Oh, that's cool.
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You have to show me that after.
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It's super weird.
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So I kinda I want to try it.
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Yeah.
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But there's like the dots that will be on the screen that apparently like helps.
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So I will show you.
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I'm reading 11 Letter Charms, which is from the Charmed Leaf Legacy by Rachel Morgan.
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It was the non-spice cozy fantasy Bridger Tane Meets Pride and Prejudice series, book three.
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Nice.
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What's the back of your Kindle?
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Buy me books and tell me I'm pretty.
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I got a new Kindle Charm because mine was rust like disintegrated.
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This is your third Kindle Charm.
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That's crazy.
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Do you like play with it a lot?
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She holds it.
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Oh yeah, I fiddle with it.
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It's uh yeah.
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I always have mine draped over like.
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Yes is silver.
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Yeah.
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So that's probably why.
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Mine, my old one is like the gold, and that wears off so yeah.
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The first one I got was gold and it like turned like this rusty color.
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And then this one was like not that much off Amazon.
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Plus, it's got pearls, it's got everything I like.
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It's got flowers for cute books, a smiley face, a bow, this checkered thing.
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Show the class.
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Zoom in.
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All of the things.
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And it's got a sword as well.
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Nice.
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And what else has it got?
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It's got a mishmash of just all my things.
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And the pearls are my birth month stone.
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So it's like this is perfect.
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And then yeah, I went for something different for the I like it.
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Yeah, thank you.
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As always, full spoiler warning ahead.
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These are books our listeners have read, but hate it so much they couldn't finish.
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If any of these books are currently on your TBR and you're still curious and want to give them a try, maybe skip this episode or check out the description.
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All the books discussed will be listed there.
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So before we get into your DNFs, we're gonna talk about our DNFs.
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I'll go first.
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Perfect.
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She did is this the first no, this is your second DNF.
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No.
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This is your first one this is my first DNF.
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Right.
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Wow.
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Ever last time I could only bring books I should have DNFs to the table.
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This is a big one then.
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This is a big little moment in life.
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Yeah, so if uh you're along here on this journey, this is a big moment for us.
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So my DNF was King of Depravity by Tammy Anderson.
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I read a different one in the series.
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They're like it's a mafia series.
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Which normally is pretty good.
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Which normally is pretty good.
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Yeah.
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So the synopsis of it is stalked by a psychotic billionaire.
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Waitressing isn't a calling, it's a way to pay for my art degree.
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Until Killian Smith walks into the bar and turns my world upside down.
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It isn't that he's dropped dead gorgeous, rich, and powerful.
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It's that he's unhinged.
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I know the dead look in his eyes, I've seen it before, and he sees me too.
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Every night is some twisted game of cat and mouse, and he's drawing closer to catching me.
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Until one night when I step into a back alley and I witness to a bratfa murder, there's only one man I can turn to for help.
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The one man who petrifies me is the only one who can protect me.
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Killian Smith, a beautiful monster.
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He'll keep me safe, but what will he want in return?
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Welcome to the dark side of Vegas, where the stakes are high and the men lethal.
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That sounds good.
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It does sound good.
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Sounds like something you'd enjoy, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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And like I said, I read one other book in the series, which was okay.
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So that's why I picked this one up.
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I don't even think I made it three chapters before I was like, I can't do it.
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So why?
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Like, what yeah, what was it that made you go, I cannot carry on.
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The first was no chemistry between them.
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It honestly gave me just straight up RAPE vibes.
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Ooh.
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Yeah.
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He pretty much saw her, and I wouldn't wouldn't even say like he fell in love, or it was like that like obsessive love.
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It was just like he wanted to conquer her type of thing.
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But like his thoughts and everything was just so cold.
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And then she was automatically like just like so repulsed by him and scared of him.
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Yeah.
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And talking with Brandy and like our book club, she was just like, it does not get any better.
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I don't even, I'm pretty sure she DNF'd it as well.
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Like, she was just like, it was not going to a good place.
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I can't remember, yeah.
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But I do remember you talking about that with her.
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I can't remember if she DNF'd or she carried on, but I'm pretty sure she had.
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Pretty sure she did.
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Oh, she did.
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Yeah, because she's just like, it's not good.
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I hate this.
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That's unfortunate.
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Yeah.
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So it was just it was like I can get behind a very, very dark romance, but there's usually chemistry.
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There's gotta be, yeah, the chemistry.
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There's some kind of chemistry, even if they're like, I don't want to want him, but I do.
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Or you mean like there, yeah, there's just something.
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There was nothing.
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Oh, that's the worst.
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Yeah, and I was just like, can't get behind that.
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I get to I just couldn't do it.
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I guess that's fair.
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If anyone has read it, does does it get better?
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Do they get chemistry eventually?
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I do have questions, but I'm just not willing to.
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It was literally to the point where it's like I'm not willing to read and find out because of the ick was so like the uncomfortableness of it.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's fair.
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Yeah.
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So I'll read some some messed up stuff, but I got boundaries.
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I've got boundaries.
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Okay.
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So I DNF'd three books last month, but I can only really talk about one on here because well, one the other one was just friends, which, if you want to hear me talk about that one, go watch our episode Hailey Fam Just Friends.
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My DNF was This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews.
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Which is surprising considering you picked this book.
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I just forgot.
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Well, I just found it and it was like trending, and people were ranting and raving, and I was like, Yeah, it's gotta be good.
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That's how they get you.
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Beth liked it.
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I finished.
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I liked it.
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I will be reading the next book.
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You can tell us how it goes.
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I will tell you.
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The synopsis.
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When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in the gutter, it doesn't take her long to recognize Kerr Torin, a city she knows intimately from the pages of the famously unfinished Dark Fantasy series she's been obsessively reading and rereading while waiting for the for wouldn't be me if I didn't mess it up somehow.
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While waiting years for the final novel.
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Her only tools for navigating this gritty world of rival warlords, magic, and mayhem, her encyclopedic knowledge of the plot, the setting, and the character's ambitions and fates.
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But while she quickly discovers she cannot be killed, though many will try.
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The same cannot be said for the living, breathing character she's coming to love, a motley band that includes a former lady's maid, a deadly assassin, various outrageous magical creatures, and a dangerously appealing soldier.
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Soon, instead of trying to get home, she finds herself enmeshed in the schemes and attentions of dueling princes, dukes, and villains, all while trying to save them and the Kingdom of Relis from the way she knows their stories will end in a cataclysmic war.
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Sounds really good.
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Reminiscent of Outlander.
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Which is what I was like, yes, I want to read it.
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I know, and like it wasn't that it was not that.
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So for me, I enjoyed it.
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We're like, I loved it.
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Um for me, we picked it up because I found it on the talks.
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And we all love Outlander, so we were all loved out, yeah, and Game of Thrones.
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Yeah.
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So I was like, this could be great.
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When we were looking into it, it gave romanticy vibes, but it ended up being more high fantasy.
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High fantasy, yeah.
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Romance was like an afterthought.
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There's I did not find the romance in it at all.
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No, one minute they were just like together, and then the next they're like in love.
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And it just kind of told us that they were in love.
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But there was like no yearning really.
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I I didn't find any yearning in it, especially not to my standards.
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I don't even remember how far I read it.
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Do you guys remember how far I read into it?
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You were pretty far.
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I I got 50 56% in.
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So I was on chapter 26 when I started.
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It's a long book, so that's like a lot of time invested.
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It's a very dense book.
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I would say it is high fantasy, it's very dense, tons of world building.
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There is romance, but yeah, it's like it's a sub-subplot.
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And I did romance is very schmidth.
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Like I didn't find there was any steel.
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It is more about the world and there was no yearn.
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Yeah, so it was beyond over descriptive.
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Oh, yeah.
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Like I found I found it, yeah.
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I found that fine.
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Like, actually, I was good with the denseness of it.
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If you hate over-description, because to me it kills books, it makes my brain hurt.
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It's like and maybe that's more like saying more about me than anything.
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No, but there was one part where I this is this is where I DNF'd.
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This is the moment I was reading, and she was like describing things she was seeing, and she's like, Oh, and so and so was wearing like a red tie with blue stripes, and then beside them was Jim Bob, and he was wearing like he had on a purple cardigan with blue buttons, and like I was just like, We don't care! Yeah, this blade of grass to the left of him was shorter than the one to the to the right of Samson.
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Like, I'm like, can we not?
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Jim Bob and Samson.
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She's paraphrasing, those were not the names.
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I don't even remember the names of these characters.
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Same.
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There's just so many.
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And I think you said this in my comments that some of the S names got a little confusing for me.
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Yeah.
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So I'm like, is that the king, the bad guy, or their cousin?
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They were so similar.
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And it's like, can we have some more authenticity here, please?
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And then and then they threw characters in at you, and you're like, wait, who's this person?
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But this they were talking about, but I think it's like they were talked about a while back, and then all of a sudden you're bringing them in.
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And yeah, there's like the I found that a little bit confusing, and then there were always the ass names.
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Yeah.
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And then the we want to be together, but we I shouldn't be with him.
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But I want to be with him, but I shouldn't be with him.
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And I was like, It's exhausting, yeah.
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I finished it, but I didn't want to finish it.
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I try.
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I just I thought I had to because it was a book club book.
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So I was like, I'm obligated to finish this book.
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And then of course, Cass DNFs.
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I'm like, I could have DNF' this whole time.
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You could you could have.
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I think I told Nate, like he was standing in the kitchen doing something I was reading, and I was like, Cass freaking DNF'd it.
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I could have DNF's this whole time.
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I didn't know that was allowed.
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I couldn't do it.
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It was just so bad.
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If you could both DNF Nora, I think you could have DNF'd this one, Susie.
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Yeah.
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I could have.
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But again, I thought it was an obligatory read.
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Nora was obligatory.
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True.
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Yeah, she was also a book club book, technically.
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That one was uh yeah.
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Okay.
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So touche.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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I have two hard DNFs.
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Okay.
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My first one, this one's gonna ruffle some feathers.
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Yes, because I've heard very good things about this series.
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Well, yeah, it is very highly rated.
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Yeah, but if you look at the low list reviews, I am not alone, in my opinion.
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So justified.
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My first hard DNF, and mind you, I DNF'd three books in a row.
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So this was like a hard time for me.
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I didn't know if I'd recover.
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Binding 13 by Chloe Walsh.
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This was highly recommended in our book club as well by some of our book club members.
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And what?
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We're just vibing.
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We're just quit crisscross applesaucing over here.
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And we're I looked at her and she looked at me and we're just like, oh my gosh.
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It was blowing up on TikTok as well.
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Like people are always talking about the Tom and boys or whatever.
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And there's a show coming out.
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Of course there is.
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And it's probably gonna be spicy as heck.
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Oh, I saw the casting too.
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Yeah, they just had the casting.
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There's discourse about that too.
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Yeah.
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Um, so the synopsis, an epic and unforgettable love story, begins in binding 13, the first in the international best-selling and TikTok phenomenon.
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That should tell you enough.
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The Boys of Thomas series from Kloy Walsh.
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He wants the saver, she wants the hide.
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She's damaged, he's determined.
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Fate brought them together, love binds them.
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Johnny Kavanaugh is the definition of popular.
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He's an all-star rugby player with loads of friends, which means he should be enjoying the many perks of his life.
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But what people don't know is that he's been dealing with a painful injury in his groin that could halt the magnificent trajectory of his career.
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This means he has no time for distractions or mistakes, especially not a girlfriend.
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Shannon Lynch has been bullied all her life.
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She is shy and would rather hide herself away to make it through school.
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But when she arrives at Tom and College for a fresh start, she meets the notorious Johnny Kavanaugh on her first day in a not so romantic way.
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What follows is a complicated friendship that turns into undeniable chemistry.
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It seems that Shannon won't be able to hold on to the anonymous status she once hoped for, but maybe that's all right.
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Johnny won't give up on Shannon no matter what it might cost them both.
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Okay, now I see why you don't like it.
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It's just not her type typical story.
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You don't like the bully romances?
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Yeah, I do.
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I don't mind them.
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I read Zodiac and I liked Zodiac at first.
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And then uh the college setting off campus I read and the sports romances.
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But this seems a little darker.
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It does seem darker.
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Um it's got darker undertones, I think.
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Definitely.
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So that's so I picked it up because, first of all, the book's pretty.
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It is very pretty.
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It's pretty.
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Ranting and raving about it, and people in our book club recommended it.
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Why I realized this book was heading toward a DNF, the main character, Shannon, kept being described as like childlike, very small, very frail.
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This was something that the male main character, Johnny, kept saying about her, and he kept being drawn to her, and he kept talking about how small she was and how she was like malnourished, but he was like sexualizing that.
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And then the other thing was him constantly talking about this groin injury.
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Like, I don't want to hear about how it's hard for you to have a heart on.
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It's not, I don't want to know that.
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The bull man.
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Okay, I get in his prime banging era.
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Yeah, but I get mentioning like once or twice, but it's like multiple times in every single chapter.
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I'm like, it's a really bothering.
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It's obsessive.
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It's upsetting.
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I'm kidding.
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It really bothers him.
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But poor.
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That said, like it was a hard day enough, but I keep feeling like intrigued to go back to find out like what happens because Brandy said she really liked it, or was it McKenzie?
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Yeah, it's yeah, Brandy said it got better, and there was like other things in the plot that I just didn't get to yet that make it worth reading.
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But it's just it was the sexuation of like a minor sort of figure.
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Malnourished that is Vera.
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That's true, too.
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That's very true.
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She's a malnourished minor.
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Yeah, very, yeah.
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Touche again.
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Called you out.
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Called me out.
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I honestly really want to read it.
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Now that there's a TV adaptation coming out and it's casted, I do want to read it.
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I think I might try again.
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Stay tuned for the next DNF episode to see if I repeat DNF.
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Soft DNF, not a hard DNF.
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When I DNF'd it, I was like pissed off.
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I was like a hard DNF.
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My review for it was scathing.
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Okay, it was not a fun review.
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I might have to go back and edit it if I could if I end up enjoying it.
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I marinated in this little bit and I was just angry guys.
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So I've talked it out.
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I decided to give it another chance.
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You know, I definitely want to read it.
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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They're long though, right?
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They're really long.
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Like 500.
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500.
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The second book is like keeping 13 is like this, like this much.
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Binding 13 was like that much in Kohl's, from what I saw.
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Cass sent us a book, by the way, yesterday that was what 866 pages.
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It sounds so good.
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What was it called?
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Because I killed him.
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The Nine Gentlemen series by Edith Bird.
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Birdie?
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Tough.
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That's a tough one.
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Bird slash Birdie.
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Burday.
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Burday.
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They forgot the accent they vous.
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Like the description of it is so good, but it's 829 pages.
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Oh yeah.
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Oh, that's a lot.
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That is a lot.
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It's too much.
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It's too much.
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I need to quit my job.
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I'm gonna talk about my second DNF.
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Second DNF.
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Right.
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People saw I was reading this and they're like, yeah, I didn't think you'd like that.
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I don't know why you're reading it.
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Sometimes you pick books and I'm like, it's because I want to be a certain person, and then I start reading it, and I'm like, I am not.
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I am not.
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So it was Love Me Stalk Me by Laura Bishop.
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The synopsis for fans of Lights Out and You comes a dark rom-com debut about a woman who confides her fantasies to an AI boyfriend app.
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Unaware, she's really talking to her hot, tattooed coworker who hacked her phone.
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When overworked department store manager Izzy Russo downloads an AI boyfriend app to fill the emotional void left by her inattentive real one, she thinks she's just venting to a harmless chap bot named Caleb.
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In reality, she's been pouring her deepest, dirtiest fantasies into the ears of Callahan Knight, her store's brooding new head of security.
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Because Cal, he's been listening.
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The moment he saw Izzy, he knew she was his.
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Did he hack her phone?
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Absolutely, but who could blame him?
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A woman like Izzy deserves to be cherished by someone who truly knows her worth, and he'll do anything to be that man.
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So when Izzy finally sees her boyfriend for who he really is and the danger, she's unknowingly been caught.
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Up in Cal is ready to protect her no matter the cost, even if it means revealing the truth.
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She might not have meant to build the perfect man, but he's here now and he's never letting her go.
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Love that.
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So it started off really good.
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Like I really enjoyed.
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Go on.
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You're adding it, aren't you?
00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:19.839
Yes, she is.
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I am.
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Okay.
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So it started off really strong.
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I won't, because you're adding it, I won't give a lot of spoilers.
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The dialogue and how her boyfriend at the time treats her is disgusting.
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I cannot stand it.
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I felt really bad for her.
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And I really that's the point.
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I know.
00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:45.680
However, it was very, very similar to Lights Out, which you love Lights Out, but I think it's almost like copy and paste almost a little bit.
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I just got that vibe.
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I said it was I thought it was too similar.
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And also, it's just not my vibe.
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I want to love the stock.
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You know what I want, guys?
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I want a stalker romance that is purely stalker, like you.
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Like that kind of vibe.
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Like he is mentally unwell.
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So haunting Adeline.
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No, because that still has like knife play and she wants she wants the truly love-obsessed stalker.
00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:12.079
There's no knife playing.
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Yeah, like true crime without like the dark.
00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:16.960
I want you to ride my gun.
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Yeah.
00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:26.160
Without that, I want like obsessed, like to the point where like Joe Goldberg is gonna murder you if you like actually murder you, not have sex with you.
00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:37.119
If anyone knows of a stalker romance for Susie like that, without the unhinged sexual activity, maybe it's like a thriller, like more of a thriller vibe, but just like that kind of vibe, you know?
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Not like the cheesy rom-computer.
00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:40.960
Did you read Mind Fox series?
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No.
00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:43.680
That I heard is getting turned into a TV show.
00:23:43.839 --> 00:23:44.559
Yes, yeah.
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You should read it.
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You would really like it.
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Sorry, I did it again.
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That's okay.
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But anyway, that's it.
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That's a good one.
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It's a thriller, romance, revenge.
00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:54.720
Mind Mindf?
00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:55.839
The Mind Fox series.
00:23:56.079 --> 00:23:56.799
Yeah, by S.T.
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Abby.
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Okay.
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I'll look it up.
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Let's get into the listener DNFs.
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So our first one is from Eva.
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Hi girls, I watched your DNF video today, and although it's been two months since you posted it, I needed to send my DNF story.
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To preface this, uh preface.
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Preface.
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A bit.
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I read the Greenbone saga at the beginning of this year, which utterly destroyed me.
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Love the series.
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Greatly recommend it.
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So after I was done with it, I was ready to go back into my usual MM romance and read something lighter.
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Oh, MM.
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What's MM?
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Male male, like heated rivalry.
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Oh, okay.
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One of the book clubs I joined on Fable was reading Wolf Song by TJ Clune, and I thought, amazing, gay werewolves, sign me up.
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That does sound good.
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However, only a few chapters in, I got hit by a crazy age gap where the MC is 16 and his love interest is 10.
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No!
00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:51.039
Oh, okay.
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Take back my comment.
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I almost dropped it there.
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I should have, but I decided to keep going because I prayed.
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They just meet at that age and split up until they're both adults.
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But oh no.
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No.
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They basically grew up next door to each other.
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The L L was in love with the love interest.
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Oh, L I was in love with the MC since they met.
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And then seven years later, all of a sudden, MC looks at him and is like, oh, he's a man.
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I don't know why I still tortured myself by continuing, knowing that this kind of age gap is just not for me, but I did.
00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:25.920
I pushed through half of this book, so many ridiculous things happened, but it was still entertaining, I guess.
00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:30.960
At around 50% mark, it got so boring that I decided it's better I spend my time on something I'll actually enjoy.
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For some reason, this book is widely loved, and I cannot see why for the love of me.
00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:40.319
Because this book's biggest issue is not the weird age gap, believe it or not, it's the absurd repetitions throughout it.
00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:45.200
The MC said at least 50 times that his dad said he's gonna get shit in life.
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Like, okay, we get it the first time.
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Why do I need to see this at least twice in every chapter?
00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:49.920
Yes.
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Aside from that, the author has an obsession with repeating the same word three times randomly in a sentence.
00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:56.720
Oh, that's annoying.
00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:00.240
I guess for emphasis, but the only thing it did was annoy the hell out of me.
00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:12.960
All in all, I was so disappointed and sad because I was hoping for a light MM romance to heal my heartbreak, and all I got was, well, that thankfully, I read quite a few good books after that, but I still think about how ridiculous it was from time to time.
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Love your podcast, and I binge watched a few episodes today while on my walking pad.
00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:17.519
Thanks for keeping me company.
00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:19.839
Oh well, I totally get the repetition.
00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:25.200
You know, how many times does a groined penis need to be mentioned throughout the chapters?
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It's annoying.
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Can you tell she's watched our podcast?
00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:32.319
She like literally told us how to pronounce your name.
00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:34.960
The fact that our listeners have to do that means we need to do better.
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I appreciate it though.
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Seriously.
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Yes.
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Yeah, that age gap is something.
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In high school, 16-year-old dating a 14-year-old is controversial.
00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:44.960
Yeah.
00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:47.759
16-year-old being in love with a 10-year-old.
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That's that's that's weird.
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Jail time predator.
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That is straight to jail activities.
00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:54.799
Yeah.
00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:57.759
I remember when my brother was 10 and he was just like a little pipsqueak.
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Like, and then you're 16 and you're going through testosterone changes and whatever.
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That's weird.
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That's so creepy.
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That's so strange.
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Wow.
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Yeah, I don't like that.
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The next one.
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Hi everyone.
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Hope y'all are doing great.
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I'm L R.
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I need to talk or rant about my latest DNFs because this has been burning my soul for months.
00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:20.160
See, this is why we did the DNF diaries.
00:27:20.319 --> 00:27:22.079
People just need to just talk it out, you know?
00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:22.559
Yeah.
00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:26.160
The first book is Stolen by the Wolves by Winx.
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Link Winx.
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Lyx?
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Likes?
00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:29.839
Ly X.
00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:30.559
Oh god.
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Robinson.
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How do you have a first name like that and a very easy last name?
00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:42.079
I have to admit that I was a victim of the beautiful cover led to bad decisions attack, but the story truly sounded interesting.
00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:47.359
We're supposed to be following two main characters that live in completely different cultures during a Viking-ish era.
00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:50.319
It kind of explores how things like the Omega verse.
00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:52.400
It's a werewolf thing.
00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:52.799
Okay.
00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:55.359
And shifters would have worked in ancient times.
00:27:55.599 --> 00:28:00.960
The FMC lives in a very religious culture that sees anything related to their heart heats.
00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:04.319
Like as in like women being in heat.
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As in dogs going into heat.
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As women.
00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:07.119
Yeah.
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Female dogs.
00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:08.160
Okay.
00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:09.839
Because women don't go into heat.
00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:11.839
Well, we can I mean we talk about it.
00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:15.599
And werewolfers they do because usually they're they're omegas, which is the thing.
00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:16.160
Yeah.
00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:20.240
See, I don't I'm not I'm not I'm new to the the werewolf scene, obviously.
00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:27.519
They relate to their heats as wrong and prefers to drug alphas and test them with omegas to see if they are pure and strong.
00:28:27.759 --> 00:28:34.640
The MMC lives on the Viking side where they have given into a hedonistic way of viewing heat cycles and such.
00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:40.799
I don't tend to read a lot of Omega verse stories, but this sounded like a good mix of it with high fantasy and social exploration.
00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:41.519
But no.
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This was a slow, agonizing death.
00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:48.880
The book starts with a bang and then goes three years back in the timeline.
00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:51.119
I don't mind that if it's done right.
00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:53.599
But this seems that it was not.
00:28:53.759 --> 00:28:59.519
We're subjected to graphic descriptions of abuse and torture from both sides, and not a single respite in the middle of it.
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I was 45% in and the FMC and what?
00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:04.000
Respite respite.
00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:04.319
Yeah.
00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:05.119
That's how you say it.
00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:05.920
Respite.
00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:06.880
No, it's respite.
00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:07.519
No, it's not.
00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:08.319
Google it.
00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:09.119
It's respite.
00:29:09.359 --> 00:29:10.319
Beth, you're Google.
00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:11.039
I'm Googling.
00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:13.599
Respite pronunciation.
00:29:13.839 --> 00:29:14.880
I'm pretty sure it's respite.
00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:16.400
It's definitely not respite.
00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:17.440
You always come at Beth.
00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:18.319
We're coming at you now.
00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:19.680
I'm pretty sure it's respite.
00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:21.200
It's uh respite.
00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:23.519
Although it does say that both are correct.
00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:24.079
Yeah.
00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:27.359
But depends on depends on your accent or your pronunciation.
00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:30.400
Okay, well Google Canadian American.
00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:33.680
It's definitely I've heard it said respite so many times.
00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:34.880
I have never heard it said that way.
00:29:35.440 --> 00:29:36.000
Neither have I.
00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:38.640
I've always said American is respite.
00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:39.279
Respite.
00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:40.000
See?
00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:40.480
American.
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North American.
00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:43.200
We're we're North American.
00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:43.920
We're Canadian.
00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:44.799
We are Canadian.
00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:48.240
It's literally a lot of people say respite.
00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:49.279
That's American.
00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:50.960
I I'm convinced it's not right.
00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:52.079
In Canadian.
00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:53.599
I'll say in Canadian.
00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:54.720
It's gonna say respite.
00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:55.440
Respite.
00:29:56.319 --> 00:30:00.559
Correct, but different pronunciations for this word.
00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:06.160
In British English, it is either said as respite.
00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:08.559
Yeah, I'm not friggin' British.
00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:11.519
Bro, we follow the British way of saying that.
00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:16.720
You will occasionally hear respite, but respite is generally whatever.
00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:17.599
Respite.
00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:25.920
Gener respite is generally what you'll hear across Canada in normal conversation conversation, especially in healthcare, caregiving, or phrases like respite care.
00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:26.799
Oh my goodness.
00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:30.079
Our listeners are gonna be like, what the heck is going on?
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.440
Uh no, it's we follow the British way of saying things.
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:36.240
It says here in Canadian, listen.
00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:37.279
I listened.
00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:38.480
Susie, you're wrong.
00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:42.160
I said in Canadian English, what is the way to say it?
00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:42.799
Respite.
00:30:43.119 --> 00:30:44.880
R-E-S-S-P-I-T.
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Technically, Canadians don't have their own English.
00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:51.599
Ours is a bastardized version of the British.
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:54.079
We have the same measurements.
00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:56.640
We have the same, like we follow their English.
00:30:56.799 --> 00:30:58.720
The Americans are just doing their own thing.
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And I refuse to follow them.
00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:01.920
Canada's doing our own thing too.
00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:03.440
And not great works.
00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:04.400
It's 12.
00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:06.720
Okay, continue.
00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:07.759
It's respite.
00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:09.039
Eat me.
00:31:09.920 --> 00:31:10.559
It's respite.
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:11.519
It's respite.
00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:14.319
No, I've never heard anyone say respite.
00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:15.920
What the hell does that even mean?
00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:17.519
You're saying it weird.
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:19.440
Because it's respite.
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:20.559
That sounds weird.
00:31:20.720 --> 00:31:20.880
No.
00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:23.200
Sounds like you're trying, you're like you're coming.
00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:24.480
You say preface.
00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:25.599
Get out of here.
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:29.920
I was 45% in, and the FMC and MMC had barely looked at each other.
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:30.640
I couldn't go on.
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.200
It's depressing, unnecessarily long, and confusing.
00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:34.079
That's upsetting.
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:37.599
My second DNF was The Lawyer by Marnie Mann.
00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:41.519
This was a part of a challenge I gave myself to read 10 lawyer romances.
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:42.240
That's a thing.
00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:45.359
After finishing law school.
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:47.200
A girl needs a break.
00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:49.359
Law school, good for you.
00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:50.319
Oh, yeah, I was gonna say.
00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:57.920
To put it mildly, I'd rather break my e-reader into smithereens before finishing this book.
00:31:58.160 --> 00:31:59.200
That's so upsetting.
00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:01.920
I'm a person that tends to skim sex scenes in books.
00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:03.759
So please keep that in mind when I say this.
00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:07.519
The only good parts in this book were the sex scenes.
00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:09.039
Dang.
00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:15.839
Every person in this book is annoying being in the MMC's head, probably counts as torture under the Geneva Convention.
00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:23.359
He's constantly objectifying the FMC and not in a cutesy, I know this is toxic, but I kinda like it way.
00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:25.519
But in an incredibly misogynistic way.
00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:32.319
If one of his paragraphs didn't mention the girly's ass at least twice, I'm pretty sure he would suddenly combust on the spot.
00:32:33.119 --> 00:32:36.400
I hated every character so much that I physically wanted to check my e-reader.
00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:39.119
Bonus points for being completely inaccurate about legal stuff as well.
00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:40.480
Ooh, that would also bother me.
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:42.160
That would, knowing what you know.
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:47.920
And then my latest DNF was for a whole series, The Sixth Demon by R.
00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:48.160
A.
00:32:48.319 --> 00:32:48.960
Stefan.
00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:53.039
I got a box set with all four audiobooks in the series and was extremely excited for them.
00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:54.000
That does sound pretty good.
00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:58.240
I usually listen to audiobooks while I work, so a long series is perfect.
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:05.119
I started the first book, two books, but could not punish myself by listening to the rest, even if I already had them in the bundle.
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:13.759
The narrator makes the worst decision ever and gave the FMC a voice that can only be described as a mix between Vanelope from Wreck It Ralph.
00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:16.079
Ooh, the high-pitched and the wicked witch.
00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:16.720
Gross.
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:18.160
I want to almost want to hear that.
00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:22.160
Because like she vanelope is like very high-pitched, but then the wicked witch is like evil.
00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:26.240
I can do the perfect wicked witch laugh, by the way.
00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:28.000
I've never seen Wreck It Ralph.
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:37.119
How does she have the most serious face when she did that?
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:40.240
It's one of my things that I do around the house sometimes.
00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:43.359
I'm just walking away and do the wicked witch laugh to mate.
00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:45.680
It took me a minute to process my witness.
00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:49.440
Was it good enough?
00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:50.960
There was something.
00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:52.319
That was horrifying.
00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:57.200
I think it was the sound with your face at the same time.
00:33:57.440 --> 00:33:58.079
That's what it was.
00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:01.680
I was like, I can't wait to walk.
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:07.839
When you want to jump back and see my face and see your face, and you do it even better.
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:08.719
Okay.
00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:12.079
It was the most grating sound I have ever heard.
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:12.960
Just like that.
00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:13.440
Yeah.
00:34:13.679 --> 00:34:18.480
Every other character had a normal, unique voice in her narration.
00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:22.400
But the second the FMC entered the scene, I wanted to rip my headphones off.
00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:22.800
I bet.
00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:24.639
If it sounded anything like Susie.
00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:25.039
Yeah.
00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:28.639
It's so bad that I even tried to read the ebook of the third book.
00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:32.159
And the only thing I heard in my brain was the narrator's grating tone.
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:34.880
Anyways, thanks for giving me the opportunity to rant.
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:37.679
I swear I like books, but these three were trying my nerves.
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:38.559
LOL.
00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:41.199
Oh, you poor girl.
00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:46.239
Yeah, I think the worst thing, not only the misogynistic thing, but also the inaccurate about legal stuff as well.
00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:52.239
If you're writing a book that's about what's like the lawyer stuff, you have to make sure you do your research and make sure you get accurate.
00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:54.559
If you're gonna do it, do it right.
00:34:55.519 --> 00:34:56.639
Third DNF.
00:34:56.800 --> 00:34:57.840
Next we have Anna.
00:34:58.000 --> 00:34:58.880
Hey guys, I'm Anna.
00:34:58.960 --> 00:34:59.760
I love the podcast.
00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:01.119
I have a DNF story.
00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:03.199
I will DNF anything for any reason.
00:35:03.360 --> 00:35:04.079
I read that?
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:04.880
It's you.
00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:05.360
Yep.
00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:09.360
I actually listened to audiobooks at work during my 10-hour shifts, in addition to reading at home.
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:11.119
So if I get bored, I will just ditch a book.
00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:14.639
Quitting on that many books means they need to be especially bad to stand out in my mind.
00:35:14.719 --> 00:35:15.920
I have a controversial.
00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:20.320
This book is has a small cult following, and I really wanted to like it.
00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:24.079
She sent us the synopsis of Fairy Dale by Veronica Lancet.
00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:28.239
It's a viral USA Today best-selling dark gothic fantasy romance.
00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:34.639
I've never heard of it, but about an orphaned English teacher, Darcy, Darcy O'Sullivan, who travels to Darcy?
00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:36.159
Darcy Darcy.
00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:37.599
Good old Darcy.
00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:38.320
Is it Darcy?
00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:38.960
Darcy?
00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:39.440
Darcy.
00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:40.559
Darcy.
00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:42.960
That's the way you said it sounded like Darcy.
00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:47.920
Darcy O'Sullivan, who travels to a mysterious coastal town to claim her inheritance.
00:35:48.079 --> 00:35:57.440
Uncovering secrets, supernatural intrigue, and a love triangle involving a brooding man from the present, Caleb, and a nobleman from the past, Amon De Arton.
00:35:57.760 --> 00:35:57.920
Oh.
00:35:58.159 --> 00:35:59.199
This was some names.
00:35:59.519 --> 00:35:59.840
Yeah.
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:09.039
The book features reincarnation, a slowburn romance, and intense spice, blending historical fiction with paranormal elements and exploring themes of obsession and forbidden desire.
00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:09.679
Sounds really good.
00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:12.320
It sounds like a decent straight up my alley.
00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:14.960
Apart from the intense spice, I'd be down.
00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:20.159
It sounds like a really fun read, but the FMC was so plastic that it just couldn't relate to her.
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:24.159
She took every off-the-wall thing that happened to her on board like nothing mattered.
00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:30.079
She saw someone rise from the dead while attending their funeral, and beyond hiding from the corpse, she never gave it another thought.
00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:32.400
I had to keep going back to make sure I hadn't missed anything.
00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:32.880
What?
00:36:33.039 --> 00:36:35.039
She'd see ghosts and just never react to it.
00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:41.760
Fairydale is just a supernatural town in our regular world, so watching the dead come back to life or seeing ghosts isn't the norm.
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:43.599
Oh, I have heard of this book actually.
00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:44.159
Yeah?
00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:46.239
Yes, I can see the cover in my brain right now.
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:47.440
I think it's on my TBR.
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:47.840
Oh.
00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:48.800
But I'm not surprised.
00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:54.400
Then her love interest would just ditch her or randomly appear from nowhere, and she'd just continue on with her day.
00:36:54.559 --> 00:36:57.599
It's been a while since I've read it, but I remember just being baffled.
00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:04.079
I think the author got so caught up with her concept that she neglected the smaller details of writing a believable character.
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:06.719
They have to react to reflect and think things over.
00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:12.239
If I saw a man coming back to life to attack others at his own funeral, I'd have some thoughts.
00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:13.599
Anyway, thanks for reading.
00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:15.679
I've been dying to rant about this one.
00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:16.400
Nice.
00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:19.440
I'm actually intrigued to read it, but yeah.
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:20.800
It's long, I think.
00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:21.360
Is it?
00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:22.000
I think so.
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:23.440
But like she doesn't reflect on anything.
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:26.639
So, like, what is the author writing in between scenes?
00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:30.079
I remember I had it on my TBR, but I was like, oh, that's a long one.
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:31.840
Like, I don't know if I'll have time to read that.
00:37:32.079 --> 00:37:33.440
772 pages.
00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:35.920
Woo! Dang, I can't imagine what she's writing.
00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:36.400
Yeah.
00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:42.400
Usually characters like take some time to reflect on things like in in chapters, and if the care wonder she DNF'd it.
00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:42.639
Yeah.
00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:43.920
So long.
00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:46.320
That big of a book with those things happening.
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:46.880
East.
00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:47.360
Yeah.
00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:48.159
Oof.
00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:51.599
Emmy says, Hi girls.
00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:52.719
With a Zed.
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:53.519
I appreciate that.
00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:56.079
And a special hi to Susanna.
00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:58.559
Love your overconsumption videos on the main channel.
00:37:58.800 --> 00:37:59.440
Thank you.
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:00.880
So DNF bit.
00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:03.840
Hills of Shivers and Shadows by Pam Godwin.
00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:04.559
That's a good name.
00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:04.960
First off.
00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:06.320
That don't even sound familiar.
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:06.800
Does it?
00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:11.840
Not for me, but first off, the first few lines, first few paragraphs, oh my god, I was in love.
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:14.000
I loved her prose, like holy shit.
00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:17.199
And then I totally fell for the antagonist at first, Denver.
00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:19.119
He was sassy and in charge.
00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:22.559
And became a real proper detestable egomaniac.
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:23.440
We love that.
00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:25.440
And then it got stupid.
00:38:26.639 --> 00:38:32.079
I mean, meandering and going around the bush, like, oh my god, get to the freaking blasted point, my dude.
00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:32.960
Plot alert.
00:38:33.119 --> 00:38:38.159
Dude kidnaps a woman and takes her to his remote house or domain in northern Canada or Alaska.
00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:38.960
Question mark.
00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:39.679
Don't remember.
00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:42.559
And he's not forcing her into his bed, so that was nice.
00:38:42.800 --> 00:38:45.039
He also has three adult sons.
00:38:47.599 --> 00:38:49.039
So this is going.
00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:49.519
Sounds good.
00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:51.039
Y choose situation.
00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:56.239
So three horny dudes and this one girl whose husband cheats on her five times after she's gone.
00:38:56.559 --> 00:38:57.119
Five minutes.
00:38:57.280 --> 00:38:58.400
Oh, sorry, five minutes.
00:38:58.559 --> 00:38:59.840
And it was slow.
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:03.440
I didn't get the damn motives on my own, so I literally had to ask Grok.
00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:05.840
Oh, it's an AI thing.
00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:12.960
To tell me what the crikey hell was going on and why the schnitzels should I keep going because I was bored.
00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:23.119
The last straw was that the main female character and the two main ish guys had a lot more chapters than the third son, who was just so freaking funny and the best of the lot.
00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:25.199
More Wolfson, please, must be his name.
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:25.519
Yeah.
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:28.400
So I DNF'd and just nope, no, thank you.
00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:29.920
I want clear freaking motives.
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:30.480
Not now.
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:31.920
I want them yesterday.
00:39:32.159 --> 00:39:35.440
And then everything else irked me like one sentence paragraphs.
00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:36.960
Come the crikey hell on.
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:38.320
Are you from Australia?
00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:38.800
Maybe.
00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:41.280
I was gonna say there's some that's an accent coming through.
00:39:41.519 --> 00:39:42.639
Yeah, I'm loving it.
00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:44.559
Mannerisms, best of the lot.
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:46.079
Yeah, loving it.
00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:47.599
Why the schnitzels?
00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:48.719
Yeah, that was good.
00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:50.880
Somewhere in the UK, maybe.
00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:53.920
Uh didn't translate urgency.
00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:57.920
It came off as I don't know how to properly write a damn paragraph to save my ass.
00:39:58.239 --> 00:40:00.000
Smiley face ran over.
00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:02.320
Still makes me want to burn the book, though.
00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:05.519
Needless to say, ain't not touching that series in this lifetime.
00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:07.280
DNF'd at 47%.
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:10.000
So I did give it a fair shot.
00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:11.280
Wow.
00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:12.239
You know what?
00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:14.000
10 out of 10 for that writing.
00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:15.679
That was that was fun.
00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:16.639
Wow.
00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:17.599
That was good.
00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:20.079
Oh, the schnitzels once sent me.
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:24.639
Yeah, I like some of her words.
00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:24.880
Yeah.
00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:25.119
Yeah.
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:26.480
Well, we won't be reading that book.
00:40:26.559 --> 00:40:27.199
Thank you for that.
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:27.920
Yeah.
00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:31.119
All right, now we've got Chan's DNF.
00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:32.639
Hi, love your podcast.
00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:34.000
So here's my DNF story.
00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:36.960
A DNF Gods by Jay Pratt, G-O-D-S.
00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:38.079
That sounds familiar to you.
00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:38.960
Yeah, it does.
00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:43.360
Usually the short novellas from this author are an instant buy for me because I love masked men and the plot.
00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:48.800
Yep, this sounds like something you'd have on your plot is generally good, but surface level, which is to be expected from shorter books.
00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:49.280
Agreed.
00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:53.360
But as this was what this one was a longer book, I had my expectations set high.
00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:58.719
I think it was barely 25% in when one of the MMC and the FMC were in his room.
00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:06.239
He went feeding his pet snake live mice or rats, and the FMC stole one because she felt for sorry for the animal.
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:09.920
It was so random and out of pocket that I couldn't read anymore.
00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:12.239
That is weird though.
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:14.719
Also, what do you do with the stolen mouse or rat?
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:16.079
She wasn't prepared for a pet.
00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:19.280
I don't think it's a good idea to set the animal loose in the wild.
00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:21.920
It wasn't the only reason for DM DNFing.
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:27.679
The FMC kind of hated the other MMCs, but then barely a few hours later flirted with them no problem.
00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:29.679
But this is what made me really DNF the book.
00:41:29.760 --> 00:41:31.760
With love, Chim from the Netherlands.
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:32.960
Oh fun.
00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:34.079
Oh wow.
00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:35.119
I mean the mouse.
00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:38.800
I mean I've picked up a lot of random pets over the years, so I would do the same thing.
00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:39.199
Yeah.
00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:41.360
I would still keep it in my pocket.
00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:41.760
Yeah.
00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:43.039
My little pocket mouse.
00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:43.280
Yeah.
00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:46.000
If Disney princesses can do it, I can do it too.
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:49.840
You worry about what they eat and stuff after.
00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:52.800
Next we have Kai's DNF.
00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:56.400
Hey girls, I've just finished your DNF Diaries pod and loved it.
00:41:56.639 --> 00:42:00.559
Only recently found the account and I'm obsessed with you all, but let's get into it, shall we?
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:03.679
For my book club, we read De Cage of Wild Bird by Brooke Fast.
00:42:03.840 --> 00:42:06.000
I actually got into the I have this book on my TBR.
00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:07.039
De Cage Wild Bird.
00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:07.519
So do I.
00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:07.679
Yeah.
00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:08.800
Sounds familiar.
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:11.840
And though I did finish it, I wanted to DNF it terribly.
00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:16.000
It had the potential to be the next Hunger Games, but it fell flat on his face for me.
00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:20.880
It's marketed as an enemies to lovers, but there's no enemies in all caps.
00:42:21.119 --> 00:42:21.360
None.
00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:22.000
Nada.
00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:28.480
She's imprisoned, and her guard is meant to be this big bad guy who hates her, which the FMC reminds us of, but he doesn't.
00:42:28.639 --> 00:42:30.000
At no point does he hate her.
00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:32.239
And that was enough for me to dislike this book terribly.
00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:33.119
I couldn't stand it.
00:42:33.199 --> 00:42:36.559
And I honestly didn't care for either main character, only the side characters.
00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:39.440
Thanks for listening to my rant and keeping me company while I work.
00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:40.639
And you're welcome.
00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:47.360
I feel like we've talked about it in another episode where it needs to make sense when the guy just is soft for her for no reason.
00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:49.920
Like there needs to be, there's gotta be something.
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:53.679
You almost need a dual POV for that type of yeah.
00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:56.480
But remember, I remember we maybe it was our last university.
00:42:56.559 --> 00:42:57.280
There was another one.
00:42:57.360 --> 00:43:07.039
Yeah, that was like usually there'd be some kind of like, oh, she reminds me of my sister or my, you know, I mean, like there's someone that they're like a reason why they're soft on just her.
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:07.360
Yeah.
00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:10.400
That's why you need to get into his head for why.
00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:15.679
Yeah, but I mean, even as an author, right, yeah, write it in a way where you can make that come across.
00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:16.159
Yeah.
00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:19.039
Like someone knows him and tells her the story.
00:43:19.119 --> 00:43:22.880
Yeah, and then she's like, Oh, this all makes sense to me now, which in turn makes sense to you.
00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:23.199
Yeah.
00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:29.039
If you're marketing it as an enemy to lovers, it has to be like he can't stand her, he loves her.
00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:33.679
Yeah, it can't just be like, you know, they're supposed to be enemies, but he's in love with her.
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:35.599
Um busting after her immediately.
00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:37.599
Yeah, you can't classify that as enemies to love.
00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:39.360
That's my biggest pet peeve with that.
00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:40.079
Agreed.
00:43:41.440 --> 00:43:44.320
All right, our next listener is Sierra.
00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:45.199
Hello, ladies.
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:47.679
Just want to quickly add that I absolutely love your podcast.
00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:49.920
It's always a nice comfort to watch before or after work.
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:56.480
I have only DNF'd two books in my years of reading Twisted Love by Anna Huang Hong?
00:43:56.719 --> 00:43:57.119
Huang.
00:43:57.360 --> 00:43:58.000
That's Hong.
00:43:58.400 --> 00:43:59.199
I think it's Hong.
00:43:59.440 --> 00:43:59.679
Is he?
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:00.960
Silent, yeah.
00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:01.440
Okay.
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:04.000
I just don't know why my mouth was just like hong.
00:44:04.559 --> 00:44:08.159
I mean H U A N G, so I would I'd do the same thing.
00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:14.079
And the book I want to submit, Fearless, the third book in the powerless try trilogy by Lauren Roberts.
00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:15.199
Have you read Powerless?
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:15.599
No.
00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:16.400
I haven't either.
00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:19.679
Oh, I've got because I get so many mixed reviews on that book.
00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:20.239
Yeah.
00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:21.840
They either love it or they hate it.
00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:27.360
I think a lot of people hate it because it was like they say it's plagiarism of another book.
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:28.400
Okay.
00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:35.519
Once I finished Reckless, the cliffhanger was so good that I was really excited to start Fearless, which unfortunately ended up being a huge disappointment.
00:44:35.679 --> 00:44:42.880
Overall, the writing was lackluster, the events repetitive, basically the same plot as the first book, and the politics and world building were confusing and dumb.
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:43.599
That sucks.
00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:45.760
A quick summary of the book, in case you haven't read it.
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We follow a girl named Payden who lives in the slums.
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She accidentally gets entered in a Hunger Games-esque competition alongside a charming, witty, and handsome prince who's supposed to be her enemy, while she also fights in a rebellion against the king.
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But this is my biggest problem and reason for having eventually DNF'd it.
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It felt as if the author completely rewrote this character, Kit.
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I've heard about Kit.
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I have a deep hate for the book because of how disappointed I am about this character's story and how it ended.
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It felt like the character did a complete 180.
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He changed from a loving, sweet golden retriever to an incestuous dictator.
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No joke.
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Oh.
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It didn't even feel like a normal progression.
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He started to act off in the second book, but then suddenly in the third book, he was a completely different character that didn't share the same basic morals or ideals like he did in the previous books.
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Oh.
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That sucks.
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If you fall in love with a character in like the first book, and then all of a sudden they're just like not even the same person in like a bad way.
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Characters can change, yes, but to have their core values changed in the middle of the darn book, mind you, it just rubbed me the wrong way.
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Because in this book, he was apparently hiding this side of him until it was revealed somewhere in the middle.
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Just felt incredibly odd.
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I do truly enjoy the romance and some of the characters a lot.
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It's why I stuck the third book out for so long.
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But I truly disliked the way the book went and which choices the author made for some characters.
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I have read it maybe 90% through.
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Ooh.
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But after certain characters' death, I just had to quit.
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I was completely over the book by now.
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I was honestly so sad and pissed off at the same time.
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I needed time to mentally recover.
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Oh no.
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Up to that point, characters had been cringe, unreasonable, or incredibly annoying while certain plots and scenes had been confusing or nonsensical.
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But I ignored it in favor of the romance, the main characters, and their individual plots.
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But that wasn't enough to save this book for me.
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90% is a lot.
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Is a lot.
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I would have just pushed through these.
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Yeah, exactly.
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But I would have pushed through.
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Yeah.
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Like I would have just been like raging, but I would have done it.
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You are strong for DNFing at that percentage.
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And the third book, too.
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Yeah.
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And so that was the last straw.
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I don't like DNFing books if I can help it.
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But I just can't finish this one without getting depressed over the events in the story.
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Anyways, all that to say, I hope you all enjoyed reading about my DNF.
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Have a great rest of your day.
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Kind regards, Sierra.
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That's so upsetting, though.
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That is really upsetting.
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I think if you have like a character, I think in um Dyer Bound and Fury Bound, the one of the characters what's his name?
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It starts with the K.
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Killian?
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Yeah, Killian.
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He was a like a good character in the first book, and he did like a flip as well.
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Yeah.
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But I think there's a dude.
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You also do find that he has technically someone living in his body.
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Exactly.
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So there's a right way to do it.
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He's also not the main love interest where I think Kit is in this series.
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I think he was in the first book.
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He was like her.
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He was, but you kind of she wrote it in a way where you kind of knew like Stark.
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Yeah.
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You knew Stark was coming in hot and heavy eventually.
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Fair.
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But yeah, there's a way to do it properly, and then there's a way that just makes absolutely no sense.
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Which pocket.
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I'm getting that from this.
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Like that sucks.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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A lot.
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That's so much.
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And 90%.
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I'm so sad for you.
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Must have been really bad.
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Yeah.
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At that point.
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Our last listener DNF.
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So this one's from Soph.
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Hey girls, I just want to start off by saying that I love your podcast so much and you guys are so funny.
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Oh, she's these two.
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These two are funny.
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She's obviously talking to me.
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That's why you're reading it.
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Anyways, the book that I added to my DNF list was Gone by Michael Grant.
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Now, this book is YA dystopian and has a really good plot idea.
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However, to me, the characters were very two-dimensional and had no feelings whatsoever.
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I did like the idea of the multi-POV, but I could never tell whose perspective I was in, and I was so confused.
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Also, this author made all the female characters so weak and they couldn't do anything for themselves.
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Thanks for reading.
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Oh, and the fact that it's a guy that wrote it too.
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Yeah, I was just looking it up.
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That's why I think we should talk about men as written by women or sorry, women as written by men.
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Yeah, some can do it well, others just botch it.
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Well, this so it starts off by saying the first book in the best-selling cult YA thriller series Gone, that Stephen King calls a driving torrential narrative.
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Stephen King's just supporting his fellow man.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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But the perspective, I think if you're gonna have a multi-POV, I really like when authors put like the name of the POV under the chapter un.
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That just I thought that was the given.
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Yeah, it should be the same.
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Yeah.
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It's being compared to 21st century Lord of the Flies.
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Never read that, so I didn't in high school.
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I think it still is.
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It's like a high school book.
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Yeah.
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I think it was like mandatory.
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Yeah.
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It was.
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I didn't read it.
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Weird.
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It was mandatory for you guys back in the day.
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Cheryl.
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I almost called you Cheryl.
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Susie! You know, us youngins don't.
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What?
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Yeah, we didn't read that.
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We read uh Holes, I think.
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Uh that that was a book, I think, as well.
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And then just like some other classics, but Lord of the Flies was not one of them.
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What?
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Yeah, sorry.
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I'm sorry, you guys are old.
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Did you hear what she said?
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I did, yeah.
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I'm choosing to ignore the 17-year-old over here.
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I'm gonna be 30 in less than a month, okay?
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I'm also old.
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My joints are old.
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So that is it for our our personal end listener DNFs.
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Yes.
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Yes, I am.
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Again, she's ignoring you again.
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So if you have a DNF that you'd like to submit, you can send us an email at it's hello at plot twistplease.com.
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Yes.
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I don't email us.
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That's it.
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Hello at plot twistplease.com.
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I'm like looking at Susie, like, is this Chris?
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Is right.
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I don't know if I should answer.
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Mary should ignore her.
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She ignored me.
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Listen, guys, I'm done being in the middle of things.
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I feel like you like stir things up.
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And then you're like, I'm not doing I didn't stir things.
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That's why her and Ty are married because Ty does the exact thing.
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Oh yeah.
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And then he just sits back and smiles.
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He's like, I didn't do anything today.
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What are you talking about?
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What are you talking about?
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I didn't do nothing.
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What did I do?
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Now it's time for Lines We Loved.
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I was waiting until you started.
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I was not gonna do it if you be part of the group, Cassandra.
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I know I like to be my own person.
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So my quote is from You Did Nothing Wrong by C.G.
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Drews, page 141.
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He is beautiful, he is insatiable, he wants her every night.
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His thrill at worshipping her body is never ending, and he is so reverent as he kisses her mouth, her belly, between her legs.
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His hunger for her is an endless void that can't be filled deep enough to devastate a galaxy, and she feels swallowed whole by him.
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This is the messed up thriller I was telling you guys about.
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I have it downloaded on my Kindle.
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Perfect.
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It is there for when I get to it.
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You should read it.
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It's it's actually messed up.
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I don't usually sit with books before I start another one.
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That one I had to sit with.
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I was like, what the F did I just read?
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So good.
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I love that mind messing up.
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Yeah.
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But also, there's just like that little bit of like depression after.
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Yeah.
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I was actually kind of happy to get out of it.
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I thought I was going insane.
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Like, I need a moment.
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I need to be a psychological thriller to that one.
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Mine is from Fury Bound, page 80, by Sable Sorensen.
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I don't know what I'm gonna do about Marin Sturm Frost, but since ripping her clothes off and bending her over the breakfast table isn't a viable option, I might throw her irritating ass out a window the next time she tries my patience.
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Love that stark.
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That's probably what our husbands are thinking most.
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Oh, 100%.
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Like I want to do stuff to her, but I'm actually gonna throw her off this balcony instead.
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Immediately.
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Uh so I was also gonna do Fury Bound.
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Oh, close Renton.
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This is page 357.
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It doesn't spoil anything.
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Okay.
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You've taken the vision I have of myself and destroyed it before my very eyes.
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If I'm a bad man, you make me want to do bad things for the right reasons.
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You are my right reason.
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Yeah.
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Ooh.
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Yeah, that doesn't spoil anything.
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Doesn't give away who says it.
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I know who it is and who he's talking to.
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Whatever.
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It's great.
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It's a good quote.
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I'm not stupid.
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All right, guys.
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Well, this concludes our DNF Diaries listener takeover episode.
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