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The Dubious Book Club Podcast Ep 1 - Her Soul To Take by Harley LaRoux Part 1 (Preview) · Dubious Creatures Presents

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  Hello everybody, and welcome to the Dubious Book Club podcast, a
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  part of Dubious Creatures. If you're hearing this, you're
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  behind our paywall. I'm Aubrey and I play Raleigh in
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  the show. I also edit most everything.
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  So you've probably heard a lot of my work and I'm going to toss
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  it over to the two people joining me today as we are going
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  to discuss her soul to take by Harley La Roux.
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  Other people at the table introduce yourself.
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  Sup. Misfit.
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  Bepley asked her. If you've ever interacted with
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  our social medias. That's me.
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  Sorry, I get weird. Hi, I'm Sawyer.
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  I am the storyteller for The Vampire with No Name, as well as
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  the main creative lead for Dubious Creatures Press.
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  I play a bunch of characters who you don't care about and
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  Sebastian who you weirdos care about way too much.
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  So yeah, and I'm here against my will.
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  No you're not. You totally agreed to this.
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  You needed somebody who wasn't just going to fawn over sexy
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  demon Blorbo, so here I am. And we appreciate you for it.
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  But yes, before we really get into everything to do with the
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  first half of this book, just a quick warning for all of you
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  listeners. Rehearsal to Take is a dark
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  romance novel and in such it contains a lot of content
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  warnings. The big ones to be aware of are
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  depictions of death, the sexual content, graphic violence,
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  substance abuse, death by suicide, and in particular
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  there's a lot of kink and fetish content, horror elements, non
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  consensual drugging, and depictions of hard play of hard
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  kink and edge play and consensual non consent.
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  How are we going to rate this book?
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  Out of blood bags. Out of blood bags, yes.
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  Yes, out of however many blood bags.
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  It's, it's fine. It's it's decent if like you
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  have got some alone time in the tub on a Saturday afternoon.
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  Yeah, we all know why people are here.
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  It ain't for the pros. Sometimes the pros is good, but
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  yes no it's mostly because it's the kinky fuckery.
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  Yeah, which I do have some questions about, by the way.
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  Get to those. I have some technical fucking
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  concerns. Well, we will be discussing the
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  first half of the book here today.
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  And her Soul to take sort of takes.
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  It takes place in the Pacific Northwest, specifically the town
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  of Bellamy, Washington. When Raylan Lawson returns to
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  finish up her last year of college, she meets a demon named
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  Leon. And there's a cult and all of
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  these deep connections to a old God beneath A bellum.
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  A lot of that is in the second-half of the like a lot of
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  the God stuff comes into play in the second-half of the book.
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  So it would be definitely be discussing discussing more next
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  time. But Long story short, Ray is the
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  descendant of mine. Like these people who went down
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  to the mines in 1899 and only three of them came out.
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  And because they made a deal with the entity in there and now
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  the entity is decided, it is time for sacrifices.
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  So one person from each of the families that survived must be
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  sacrificed. And unfortunately, Raylan has
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  just decided to return to town at the absolute worst time.
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  I think we'll get into probably more specifics as we discuss the
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  events of the first half of the book.
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  So yeah, what did what did the other two of you have a good
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  time with the first half of the book?
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  I would like to speak on behalf of everyone when I say your
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  demon boyfriend ain't shit. I'm sorry, just your demon
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  boyfriend ain't shit. So like as someone who listened
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  to it and not actively read it because I do multiple things at
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  once and being able to listen to a good audio book while like
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  painting skateboards is wicked helpful.
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  The scenes, the the, the way it's broken up between like Ray
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  and Leon is great. It's especially because of the
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  person who narrated the book for him does a really good job of
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  being like oh, oh he actually means what he says.
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  Oh he actually like gives a shit.
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  Oh he cares. Oh look at his big demon heart
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  giving a crap. Yeah, the as somebody who has
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  listened to the audio book, the narration on both of their ends,
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  he's fantastic, Very good. I have a problem with the way
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  she pronunciates things, but that's a me thing.
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  And not like fire, that's just a yeah, that's a me thing.
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  Yeah, no, there's I If I'm, if I'm thinking correctly, I'm
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  like, there are a few times where I was like, that's a weird
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  way to pronounce that word, but OK.
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  Look, I'll I'll I'll concede that it's well written.
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  Don't get me wrong. I OK, despite me being me about
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  this whole process, I don't think I want to make it clear.
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  I don't think it's a bad book. I, I definitely don't think it's
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  a waste of anybody's time, but I don't know, I, I get so Leon is
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  the deuteragonist of the book. The chapters are split between
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  his POV and Ray's POV as we go forward and it is the two of the
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  meet because, well, because Leon wants to fuck her.
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  Of course. Yeah.
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  And that's fine. I mean, like, I know what?
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  We all know why we're here. Everybody except the author
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  doesn't seem to know why we're here, because the author can't
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  decide whether or not this is some straight up monster fucker
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  fantasy or some straight up urban fantasy.
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  Why can't it be both? It can be it can.
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  I'm not saying it can't it it it definitely.
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  That is definitely a thing. The problem is 1 moment we're in
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  Leon's inner monologue where he's a, you know, thinking of
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  all the ways he wants to do the horizontal gymnastics with this
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  lady. And then next we're talking
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  about the ancient prophecy of a bellum and the God that sleeps
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  underneath the earth. And it's like one of these
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  things is not like the other. This book does a lot of world
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  building for the later two in the series so they don't have to
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  go over all of the God stuff. And well, the problem with that
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  is that Now the problem with that is that as the book.
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  Granted, this is particularly egregious in later chapters, but
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  like, even in the beginning, Leon and Ray are both secondary
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  characters in their own story. And the reason I say your demon
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  boyfriend ain't shit is because Leon is a walking Wharf effect.
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  He's super strong and dangerous and never wins fights.
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  Not never. Oh, I'm, I'm sorry, he does win
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  fights off screen, no. He he kills he kills an Elden
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  right before the graveyard scene like right in.
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  Front of he gets he gets one. Win, he gets one.
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  That's the book. That win was super hot.
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  Oh my God. Yeah.
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  Yeah, and another thing is that this is, this is the monster you
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  want to fuck. He's he's barely a he's he's a
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  fucking scene kid with fangs and claws and a Gene Simmons tongue.
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  That's it. That's about as monstrous as he
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  gets. Pink.
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  Creepy. Monster.
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  Dick. This is true monster Dick.
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  Oh yeah. A very good description of
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  Monster Dick. Yeah, of course we can't forget
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  his freaky monster penis. Exactly.
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  Like come on, come on, this is that's not monster fucking.
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  He could certainly have been more demonic, I will agree that.
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  I just attract that up to like I equated that to to him having
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  been on Earth for so long. I'd also like this version of
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  like. Demons.
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  Definitely seems to be a little different than your classic
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  demons in like. Yeah, the whole concept of they
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  just want to own souls makes a lot of sense, especially in like
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  modern time. But like, no, they definitely
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  don't match up to like I would say biblical DNS for sure.
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  Because because they're not. They're meant to be a The world
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  building makes it explicitly clear that they're meant to be a
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  race of supernatural fuck. Boys.
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  Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, like it's not subtle about
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  that. Hell is described as a pretty
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  chill place. So yeah, I take a.
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  Residency, like yeah. Hell sounds hell sounds hell in
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  this universe sounds nice. I'd I wouldn't mind a vacation
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  home in hell. Yeah, the same.
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  Kind of it's well, it's beauteous landscapes and
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  abundance of precious metals and lack of capital.
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  I I'm sorry, what is going on here?
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  Well. They just like fucking public
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  all the. Time, yeah.
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  Yeah, except here's the thing. It's not, I don't think it's in
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  these chapters and later chapters, but we meet like, we
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  meet like a proper demon, like a Reaper, like something,
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  something very biblically accurate.
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  And I'm like, I I'm sorry. I was promised.
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  I was promised I I was promise monster fucking.
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  Why isn't Ray having sex with that?
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  I'm just saying, if that's what we're here for and we got this
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  10 foot tall winged ribs sticking out, skull face
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  motherfucker, why isn't she? Maybe the Reaper had shown up
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  earlier in the book. Yeah, I'm just I'm just saying
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  like it it the the remainder of the demons in the book are a
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  bunch of Tumblr sexy like, yeah, it's A and Leon gets one gets
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  one victory. And for the rest of the book he
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  he is eating shit with a spoon. No, I mean his his off screen
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  and stuff because usually we're seeing through Rays.
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  But like other characters that are important in the book, you
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  also have the Hadleys, who are the leaders of the cult that are
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  sacrificing people to the gods. You have Ray's best friend,
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  Ayana. Yeah, OK, here's my gripe with
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  Ray. And maybe this is just a Mia
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  thing again, when someone comes on that strong in regards to the
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  Hadley siblings. Like I have an immediate
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  distrust. Like no fam, no, why do you want
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  to be this close to me? Back off.
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  Yeah. So like Ray, where is yourself
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  preservation skills? Come on.
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  She doesn't have any. All right?
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  Ray's entire personality is don't bully me, I'll come.
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  I resemble that but I still have self preservation skills.
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  If if she had self preservation, then the whole then her meeting
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  Leah it. So there's a scene very early on
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  in the book where she meets Leon for the first time.
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  Leon is a just truly ferocious douche.
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  Like the sort of person you warn the flight attendant about when
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  you sit near them on the airline, but instead of, you
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  know, no survival skills just like her.
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  Because we we see her internal monologue and her internal
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  monologue outside she's like, oh boy.
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  Inside she's like, oh boy, such. An effect on me, girl, I guess.
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  What? Yeah, it's like girl.
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  Come on, come on. But the romance doesn't work
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  like the their whole shtick doesn't work if she doesn't have
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  the emotional fortitude of wet toilet paper.
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  It's pretty much it's it's, it's one of those things where it has
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  to be like that for the other parts to happen.
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  Like if she actually truly had self preservation she would have
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  packed her fucking car and left back to Spain as soon as weird
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  shit started. Why didn't she not go to Spain?
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  First off, this could have been a very different bug if she had
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  just gone to fucking Spain. Like one of the things I'm like,
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  her dad's kind of know weird shit is going on.
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  There there are definitely plenty of emotionally
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  unavailable fuck boys named Leon in Spain.
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  I'm I'm damn certain. Yeah, yeah, Ray is.
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  I like her cat. That's about the most the nicest
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  thing I have to say about Ray. Cheesecake, Cheesecake.
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  I love cheesecake. Yeah, yeah.
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  No, I, I'm, I'm glad that cheesecake survives that.
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  Yes. If you're dear listener, if
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  you're worried about the cat, he's fine.
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  People always get fine through the entire book.
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  The cat's fine. Cat's fine.
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  Yeah, only only the Hadleys have more plot armor than the cat.
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  They don't. Really, they're old.
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  No no no no no no no fuck the haggis have so much fucking plot
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  armor it is insane. I've never seen antagonists just
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  Leon again because the demon boyfriend ain't shit.
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  There is no reason when Leon breaks free the first time that
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  he shouldn't RIP and tear until it is done.
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  He has made it quite clear from the very beginning.
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  The opening chapter describes how much he despises these
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  people he get. He gets a vague notion of
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  something vaguely mysterious radiating off of Everly.
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  And besides, hmm, this internal vendetta against this family
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  that has tormented me for God knows how long they can wait
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  because oh shit she's giving me the protagonist eyes.
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  Ah fuck I I got to. I got to bounce, man.
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  Yeah, because let's face it, Everly is the actual
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  protagonist. Like her and Juniper?
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  Like Ray's? Also here.
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  Yeah, but I mean also Everly. And all of that leads into one
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  of the big Like Mac guffins of the first half of the book, the
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  Grimoire. Oh yeah, the grimoire being OK.
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  I. I I understand we get an
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  explanation for it in the second-half of the book, but
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  like. Really.
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  You're just going to leave it in a fucking rando ass bookstore?
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  And what is up with this bookstore owner?
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  The best friend who doesn't can't just recognize and like an
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  ancient grimoire. It's probably worth a fuck ton
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  of money like. Because she's not a character.
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  She's the minority quota sidekick.
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  I'm. Sorry, it's I'm sorry, there is
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  there is a problem with the one of the problems the book is I
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  don't know, is really not a character.
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  Yeah, she should. Have been more of a character.
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  She checks all the boxes. Jeez.
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  She's gay person of color, she is supportive no matter what,
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  but she doesn't actually do anything and that's a problem.
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  Yeah, like why don't you even check on your friend at the big
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  fancy? Oh wait, that's in the later
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  half of the book. Never mind.
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  Yeah, the problem with the problem with discussing the 1st
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  25 chapters of this book is that not a lot of fucking shit
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  happens. It's a lot of setup for sure.
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  He's a lot of. Setup.
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  There's one. There's one.
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  Yeah, there's one sex scene. I think I might be
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  misremembering. No, I think there's two.
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  There's two. No, yeah, you're right.
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  There is 2, the 1st. One is yeah, there's like 2
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  actual sex scenes. I I, I labeled all of the smut
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  in my physical copy and there were five smut scenes that two
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  of them were actually like sex, one of them was the finger
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  ranging and then two of them were like which.
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  By the way, by the way, by the way, no back the fuck up.
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  We're going to talk about this. So for for those of you
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  listening at home, this is where the content warnings definitely
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  come up. So if this ain't your thing, you
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  should probably pause now. So early on in the book, Ray
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  kind of just fucking randomly runs into Leon and fuck boy
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  numero dos Zayn, who's also a demon by the way.
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  I'm going to be using the terms demon and fuck boy
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  interchangeably, I feel. And you know, the one thing
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  leads to another. You know you awkwardly run into
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  this guy you don't like in this bar you've never been to before.
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  Next thing you know, you're letting them finger bang you up
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  against the wall in this alleyway while his friend
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  watches. You've cleared what?
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  I made. Questionable decisions.
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  Oh, I have. I know exactly what that
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  situation is like, which is why I, I posit to you this, how is
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  he doing it? Ray?
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  Is it? It's made very clear from the
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  beginning that Leon is very is a lot taller than Ray, right.
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  And in that scene, Ray has got her arms around his neck and
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  he's got his fingers in her unmentionables.
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  But Speaking of somebody who is very tall, that height
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  difference, the math ain't mathen.
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  Because what's happening is that either he is full, it's always
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  Sunny lifting him off the ground through her vagina, or he's bent
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  over at a 90° angle while she's awkwardly clinging on to his
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  shoulders. And Zane's just watching the
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  entire time as they tried to make this mechanically work.
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  Like the entire time I couldn't stop thinking about the height
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  difference because it's a factor, especially if whoever
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  you're with is shorter than you so.
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  This is being a giant. Yes, the canonically the six
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  foot 4. I'm also happily married.
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  You just want to say happily married.
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  My wife is also shorter than me anyway, but we're not talking
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  about me. We're.
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  Talking about listeners brains just went oh really?
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  Yeah, we're not talking about me.
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  We're we're talking about Leon and his extendo arms apparently,
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  because that's the only way I can figure this working.
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  Was she wearing like heels? Because that that would make it
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  work. If she was wearing I.
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  Think it was like combat boots or something.
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  Then they might have had they might have put a heel on them.
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  Heel on them, yeah. OK, OK.
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  But I mean, it doesn't say explicitly though that they go.
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  Into non explicitly. I know, but like, mostly it's
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  just about his fingers worming their way into her panties.
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  So see that's where my my issue comes in.
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  Like bro, you would have had to drop them trous.
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  Yeah, yeah. So like her.
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  The problem with the descriptive, I swear this isn't
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  just me being a patent. The problem with the descriptive
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  scene, especially with the descriptive sex scene, is that
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  the more detail you include, the more the reader is going to be
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  like, wait a minute. I didn't have, I didn't stop to
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  think about the physics of it. I'm going to be so thrilled with
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  you and. I look, I stopped to think about
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  the physics, but yeah, well, that's because, and I, I, I mean
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  no offense by this, you 2 don't have problems getting through
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  some door frames. No, no, I'm 5 four.
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  I'm very short. Yeah, I have to.
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  I have to think about these things all the time.
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  But I do have a friend who is 5/4 and yeah OK, watching them
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  go through door frames is kind of hilarious.
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  Sometimes, yeah. Yeah.
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  So like speaking for all tall people who have finger banged
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  and allies, I just don't get the I don't get the I, Yeah,
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  unfortunately, just thinking about and this could very well
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  just be a me thing because if you can't tell listeners I am a
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  pedant, it's what they pay me for.
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  The entire time that sex scene was happening, I was just like,
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  OK, bro, either you're playing with her or you're playing with
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  the brick wall behind her. One of these things is is not
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  adding up. It is a scene that is very hot,
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  but also mechanically confusing. Mechanically confusing.
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  And then there's a bit afterwards where, again, Zane
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  watching this the entire time, Leon goes up to Zayn and Zayn
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  fucking licks the you know what off of his fingers.
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  You know, like you do. You know, friends share with
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  friends. Yeah, it's just, it's just.
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  Sharing is caring. It's a, it's a very.
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  It's it's a very. It's a sub clause of the bro
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  code. Don't know if you guys know.
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  It's good to know. What the fuck I?
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  Didn't know that. OK.
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  What the fuck? That wasn't so much Yeah, for
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  me, that wasn't so much sexy. It was just like, dude,
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  unsanitary. You don't know where his fingers
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  have been. Actually.
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  Well, no, but I mean before that.
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  I don't think they cared because they did like establish that
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  they are regular like play partners and stuff so.
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  Yeah, I, I know, Leon. Canonically bisexual.
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  Surprising. Absolutely no.
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  One. Yeah, I'm sorry.
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  If I. Yeah, I do too.
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  Yeah, I mean, credit to the author.
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  She just kind of comes out and says a lot of what the audience
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  is presumably thinking. Yeah.
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  But yeah, the other big thing is like what drives the a lot of
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  the plot in the first half of the is, is the grimoire is like
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  Ray getting it from the bookstore and kind of just sort
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  of Ray is a amateur paranormal investigator.
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  So it's like this is up her alley.
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  She also wears glasses by the way, folks, so.
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  The number of people who I recommended this book to, I'd
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  have turned around after reading like the first few chapters and
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  go, are you is Ray you? And I was just going, OK, Yeah,
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  no, that's yeah. Jinkies, Velma.
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  But yeah, now she's a paranormal investigate, like the amateur
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  paranormal investigator. So it's all like up her alley.
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  So she starts like reading about it and she has a YouTube channel
• 25:53
  that's not doing great. So she's like, fuck it, let's
• 25:56
  make some. Do you know, let's summon.
• 25:59
  A test. Fuck it.
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  All the while peeing like this is a horrible idea and I
• 26:05
  shouldn't do this. My integrity as an investigator.
• 26:10
  Do the things people will do for Internet clout these days.
• 26:16
  I like, I love how her initial motivation is just like, oh, I
• 26:19
  got to get engagement up on my channel.
• 26:22
  This is too fucking real. I'm going to be honest that that
• 26:27
  might be the best part of this book.
• 26:31
  Just how real it is? I got it, I got to get fucked
• 26:35
  over a church Pew because the channel will suffer otherwise.
• 26:41
  It's for the content. It's it, you know I.
• 26:45
  Need. That content you just know
• 26:47
  YouTube is immediately going to shadow man that shit.
• 26:52
  Yeah, no, it's like the first part is like her kind of
• 26:58
  flirting, arguing with Leon, the finger banging scene and
• 27:04
  eventually leading her up to Saint Thaddeus and old abandoned
• 27:08
  church near the mine shaft where she performs the ritual and
• 27:12
  summons Leon. This is after he was recently
• 27:14
  dismissed by the Hadleys because they lost the grimoire and could
• 27:18
  no longer control him. For plot reasons.
• 27:22
  For plot reasons. Yeah, because you know when you
• 27:27
  have a demon who from chapter from chapter one has made it
• 27:31
  quite clear that he would like to go full Dante's Inferno on
• 27:35
  these fuckers sometimes, you know, Hadley seen you as a dad.
• 27:41
  You know, you misplace your glasses.
• 27:43
  You don't know you. You look in the fridge.
• 27:44
  Ancient. Cream Wire.
• 27:46
  Yeah, you know, you look in the fridge.
• 27:47
  Yeah, you, you like, where's the mustard?
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  Like the mustard's right in front of you.
• 27:50
  You know, you displace your family's ancient tome of
• 27:53
  magical. So it happens, you know, you get
• 27:56
  to a certain age. What the fuck?
• 27:59
  Yeah, yeah. Like seriously And.
• 28:05
  Reading like the rest of the book and the others like I know
• 28:08
  that I know why, why the grim bar went missing and what
• 28:12
  happened with it and how it ended up being raised.
• 28:14
  It's just like, I do wish it was a little bit more in book 1.
• 28:18
  I do too. Yeah, which is another mortal
• 28:21
  sin. This book commits so much stuff
• 28:26
  either happens to the protagonist because of stuff
• 28:31
  happening off screen, or it just straight up happens off screen.
• 28:36
  Yeah, for anyone, anyone just listening that's curious, is all
• 28:39
  three books kind of happen at the same time?
• 28:43
  Like there were timelines pretty much overlap, like some of them
• 28:49
  take place to start a little earlier than this book or end a
• 28:51
  little earlier than this book. But yeah, it's all all three of
• 28:57
  them happen the same, different same time, and they're all about
• 28:59
  3 different couples. That's even more infuriating is
• 29:02
  that later we gets to meet the actual protagonist of the series
• 29:06
  and all these conversations basically boil down to like, OK,
• 29:11
  no more from you sweet cheeks, I've got a plot.
• 29:15
  You, on the other hand, have a sex scene to get back to.
• 29:19
  Yeah, so there's there's a lot of, after Ray accidentally
• 29:23
  summons Leon, there's a lot of back and forth, Then a lot of
• 29:28
  the supernatural things just start happening really quick.
• 29:31
  We learned a little bit more about the the God underneath.
• 29:34
  We learned that there are these sort of weird creatures called
• 29:39
  the Eld who you know. I I do like the ELD.
• 29:45
  Yeah, they're great, sort of. I thought they're very creepy
• 29:48
  like I did. I did enjoy that.
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