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Mate | November Book Club · Moms That Read

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, come to the moms that read podcasts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Kaylee, and I'm McKenzie, and today we are going through our book club pick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh-huh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have a lot to say about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we had to just take a moment of silence for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but we'll get to that in a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a vibe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is what it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's my favorite part.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is what it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because it was what it was and it was something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The recent read first.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The recent read.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just read he sees you in your sleeping, which my Kenji told me to read.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The cover gave lights out with candy cane.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It literally was lights out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And part of me's like, is not a copy right, but we gave lights out with candy canes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you didn't pay for it, did you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it was on the internet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was on the internet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was on the internet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But then it went downhill from there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it just downhill after she turned the cover.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the first little bit was fine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: like it gave Josh vibes for a minute, like for just a quick second, like, but then it got weird and like he was stalking her outside of her bedroom, like he would look into her window.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what the, it's the title, P.C.C.s you when you're sleeping, but then he got smart and installed and then he came in her, in her room, but in the firearm, in her room, because he's a firefighter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Interesting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And basically, he's this firefighter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This says it's on the back of it, because that saved her from a wreck where her family died.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he just has like this attachment to her to where he has to protect her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so he watches over her for years, years, two years from her window.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then he runs into her one day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure on purpose because he stalks her favorite coffee shop.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And basically, it just goes downhill from there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They end up like, she, what she thinks, organically getting to know each other, but he's like, I literally know everything about you, like, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I can't divulge too much information, and then they go on a date and kiss, and then he just becomes even more obsessed and he gets really weird.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he finds out she's a cam girl at night, because somehow he's been stalking her for two years, but has never seen her be this cam girl.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, anyways, it's weird.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is not my vibe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like trying to be lights out so hard, that is cringe and Josh wouldn't ever do anything that that man did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it was Christmas though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was Christmas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was based, they both hated Christmas and because I think that's like around the time her family died.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it just wasn't a bad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was literally reading it like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, like, fast reading through the hot and pink skip through this scene, they do some stuff that I would never, and I will, again, I was just giving through it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sips tea, tips to no vomit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, on a lighter note, I read a curse of shadows and eyes by Katarina Marra.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, very beauty in the piece, um, like it was kind of fun reading that part to give my best, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's my beauty.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is so nice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anything funny right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so a curse of shadow the nice was like this girl who was not the favorite daughter ends up being married off to the shadow emperor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And like, they don't know, but he is taken over by a curse that his mother put on the land.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She died.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's like a whole backstory with that, but there's an enchanted palace with you walking and I can just imagine the bureaucracy where like the dishes are moving and the food's moving.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then there was like a sear in a mirror.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So like you have the mirror and a point of breaks and they're walking around with the mirror.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can see the future.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the goal is like she has these powers that are she's able to help get rid of the curse in the land.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's very interesting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How they came to be was interesting like the romance between the two unfolded in a very strange way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I don't know, it was kind of like
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[SPEAKER_00]: You are my wife and you have to stay with me, but like not in a cute way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but it went bad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I'm really excited because at the end, there's kind of like this cliffhanger with two characters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and so it was nice to that story wrapped up, but then the next one is actually just to come out sometime next year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's interesting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a decent read.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I see all of her like targets so far now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it showed me a picture from Target.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like three and a half, that's what I gave it, that's what I did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I liked it for the most part, until I caught to those later chapters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, let's just go ahead and say it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She was in heat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She was in heat for three full chapters, and that was strange.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is that what the Omega versus?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, because listen, I was looking on TikTok last night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: was like a bunch of Omegaverse people saying, they knew that she just needed to get cracked by the alpha based off like the symptoms that she was showing in the beginning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So apparently it's only oblivious to people like us who have only read broad as our only intro to Omegaverse, okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That common thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, which makes me think that the Omegaverse is not for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really didn't put it all or they're like it all has to be the alpha, like I don't know if it has to be the alpha, I just think it has to be like the person you're made it to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that's why she was needing to get cracked by the alpha.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm wondering if like the plot of those books.
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[SPEAKER_00]: because that's very predictable like this has to happen for her to feel better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wonder if that's surely there's more plot to other mega verse books.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Surely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that just may be what the scenes are like.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you can read it and find out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I won't even know where to start.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They gave us that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She gave us that one to start with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I like to ride better personally.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I loved bride compared to mate and I hate that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I hate when the sequel is not as good as the but or it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also, I think bride for more nostalgia to me because of like twilight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It felt very
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know what I mean like I don't know I just was thinking about it and I'm like no for real like it was literally giving me a Bella chose Jacob instead like oh true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: which was fine, because I personally was Team Jacob, but I'm not Team Jacob for Bella.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, true, other than that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I just, I personally did not enjoy the whole heat thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was kind of weird.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then that nobody could figure out what was wrong with her, because you're telling me that you're a doctor who sees multiple people in the heat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you want to know what she's doing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: What was concerned that she was going to die?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I was, too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, wow, this is awful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's going to happen?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, she was not.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Apparently, all the amigabers readers were laughing, because they were like, there are two groups of people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is one group of people who genuinely was concerned for her health and thought that she was not going to make it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's another group of people who knew she just needed to get cracked by the alpha because she was in heat and I'm like wasn't me would not have ever crossed my mind wasn't me I don't know I did actually make a note in the book when I was reading it that I think and I put this in that in people I was like I think I said she was acting this way because of the rejection of the main bond because like nothing was actually happening but I would have never thought
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just thought it was a main bond looking back now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It makes sense because it's just it makes sense and it makes sense for the book Right, and if that's your vibe then that's your vibe I thoroughly enjoyed the book up until that moment though like it was a little bit slow in the middle
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I liked it, you know, as I was very bored.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And part of me also thought that the plot progression was very similar to bride, like in the whole, she's going to be kidnapped and saved.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And like it took a turn after that, like with the whole faking out thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but that part seemed very similar to bride.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and also I thought it was weird that he was supposed to be sell a bit, but then everybody locked him up in the cabin with her whenever they realized and was like, hey, I want to tell anybody that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like, he was like, I can, like, I cannot do this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's a weekend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's a whole three chapters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The aunt thing was interesting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I did like the cult to cult.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to hear more about the cult.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, they like literally that was like a side plot bomb thrown in there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't feel like it was dive into it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't get enough history of like why the cult leader was fighting with the Northwest Territory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like that was very.
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[SPEAKER_00]: minimal in detail, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And also, like I just put two and two together right now for some reason, just clocked into my brain.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But in the beginning of the story, the prologue, where her parents are dying, yeah, comes him, comes the one who killed her parents.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's the one who picked her up and saved her and took her to the, I thought that he just found them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, he didn't actually.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, he killed them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so Colin is the one who picked Serena up and took her to Chop Projective Services.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a weird.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so sorry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's weird.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I remembered that and I was like, oh, that was him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it didn't dawn on me that age difference at the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's weird.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, she was in Renette's name.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mate is Jacob and Renette's name.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: because she's technically like, well, I don't just half and a half.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She is, but she's half vampire half human instead of, but still it's giving.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's my gosh and I did not.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they did imprint on each other, so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you all use the word in print in a mega verse?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Cause if you're not, I feel like you're missing out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I feel like that's a very twilight disc.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like imprinting is more fun than mating, so if you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Come on in a mega verse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because mating makes it sound like it's more like biological, like physical, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And imprinting is more like emotional.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I would do anything for her, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, how did you feel about Cohen's personality?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hated him to be honest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to lie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I tried to like make excuses for him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that should have been a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was literally texting her like, I cannot stand this man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And she's like, he gets better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, he did not hit last page.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Really like, last in Cohen, fantastic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Last eplog.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Cohen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The eplog was great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just even after
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything now I will he's giving freaking the dude from direbound is what he's giving Mark.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The do she won who I hate Killian.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, he's giving killian from direbound.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Which I just don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like a do she MMC like I hate bully romances.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do too, but like
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was like, hey, I'm your mate, but we're not going to do anything about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have to be mean to her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Morning, she doesn't know anything about no anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like she could have just like gone on with her wife.
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[UNKNOWN]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Other than anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But well, she went to God and he really, if she was on the, I think she was around him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty sure that was said.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what I don't understand is why you couldn't explain anything to this girl.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You left her in the dark for 80% of the book, and then acted like she was stupid when she didn't know, but you didn't teach her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean you don't understand?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't understand.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean you're not telling me?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I am not a vibe with this bully romance thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He just had an attitude like an attitude and it was just like a, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I like all the side characters though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they were fine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just I'm still baffled like it literally just still baffles me right now that they did not figure out but she was in heat she went to the doctor and they're sitting her tongue and she has this life-ending disease but now she's just in heat but you're telling me that you've been around all these werewolves and you don't know what heat looks like right they blame it on like the
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, she was in heat, you know, it was not part.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just like, I had a, I did like the part where she went into the doctor and they could after that was fun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was interesting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was a good plot twist.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was a good plot twist.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was an expecting like I want to know who that dude was that first came up to her like in the opening and was telling her like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whenever, yeah, she walked away from Cohen and all of them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then what his, yeah, I wonder if he was like related to her in any form or like, because it was never talked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was never really talked about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He just kind of off to himself, by jumping off the cliff, you know, which also gives Newman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: it does.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It does.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So jumping to fill the adrenaline.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I did like the battle that I had at the end though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like where she Serena saved Cohen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And she finally was able to show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I did like that too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I did too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I liked that part.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are aspects of this book that I liked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just overall am not sure that
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[SPEAKER_00]: Cohen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I needed more from him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I needed more character development from Cohen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I felt like it was very surface level.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like both characters are pretty bland.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, agree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like, oh my gosh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like Serena was like Bella and new moon when she was depressed when Edward left.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, I'm comparing this book is giving a literally I wrote down like gave me new moon vibes and now the war I'm talking about it I'm just like wow No, you're not wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We got twilight new moon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are we gonna get a clip snacks?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I liked the rest of the books.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like new moon is the most hated book or movie You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Which I don't know why I don't I think it's my least favorite too
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[SPEAKER_00]: out of the four probably.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So are we going to do the other ones?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The other two?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are there going to be more in the surgery?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's just a duality personally because where else can she go with this?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it wasn't like side characters out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but the ending wrapped up in a pretty little bow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it wasn't like there was nothing else to be said.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They put in like...
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[SPEAKER_00]: weird like things like I knew the moment that Serena and Cohen met that I was like there's gonna be a bookie too for sure my mate like it literally left up a loft off on that so I knew that that was gonna be a thing oh my gosh I put Sam from the Twilight movies I think he's giving Sam from the Twilight movies
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Galey, you need to go watch Twilight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is out of my question.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I need to go watch new and specifically to get this out of me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, do I like girlies?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, are you all the Omega girlies?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or is that a completely different group of people, you know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, team Jacob, girlies?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you Omega, where's girlies?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: was that your tell.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, tell that you needed to read.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I personally like Jacob more, but I don't think that I could, I don't think I'm a, I don't think I'm a, a mega verse girly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I looking back, like you know how people think that they can live in these fantasy books and walk the parapet and stuff like that, even though they really kind of like I could live in the omega first.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that is not inside me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't sign me up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, are all the megaverses about wolves?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, it's not other animals.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the megaverses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So many questions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, we agreed by this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Our megaverses dumb.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I need a, yeah, like a megiverse for dummy, it's like breakdown, because I feel like honestly that mate is a megiverse for dummy, so we just do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We just do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We just do it.
19:08
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if we've earned our way into.
19:10
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it might take me a minute to, you know, get in.
19:14
[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't have dark romances.
19:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm kind of scared.
19:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, after I've read, he sees you in your sleeping.
19:21
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like if the writing is good, yeah, it makes it like bearable.
19:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the main writing was good.
19:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I like him, I like Ali Hazelwood style of writing except.
19:32
[SPEAKER_00]: That's another thing I've seen everywhere was in Made.
19:35
[SPEAKER_00]: The P.O.Vs.
19:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, yes, someone put that as a review on Fable.
19:41
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
19:41
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, you took the words right out of my mouth, because I was having such a hard time, especially listening to it, reading it might be completely different.
19:49
[SPEAKER_00]: But listening to it, it was
19:52
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm confused by the chapter openings like was that Cohen probably but like at what point is that Cohen's like brain and like yes Thinking that I also listened to it and if you listen to it the beginning Like chapter opening they say like either what they're feeling in that moment or What they're going to feel in that chapter and that just kind of threw me off a little bit because I thought that they were talking But then I was like now they're just saying something and then going on to reading
20:22
[SPEAKER_00]: And that, I don't know, I was not.
20:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly though, apparently he talked in what third person is what somebody said and yeah, like they just kept switching yeah and I honestly did not notice that.
20:38
[SPEAKER_00]: Just like I will probably not notice any of the problems that they keep saying isn't.
20:45
[SPEAKER_00]: Brimstone okay, well, we have two reviews.
20:48
[SPEAKER_00]: This one says a great book with excellent performances and do it by Teddy Hamilton and Ellie Gossage, which I really love Teddy Hamilton.
20:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that the one we were just one of?
20:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I love Teddy Hamilton.
20:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, voice.
21:00
[SPEAKER_00]: They do an excellent job with the banter.
21:02
[SPEAKER_00]: And I highly recommend the audiobook.
21:05
[SPEAKER_00]: Initially, I hesitated to read this so soon after I read Bride because I didn't love Bride.
21:12
[SPEAKER_00]: This, my one critique is the use of the third person for Collins POV chapters, but he doesn't have many chapters so I didn't find it too distracting, right?
21:21
[SPEAKER_00]: Which I also didn't notice it because I'm a viburger.
21:25
[SPEAKER_00]: Did not notice.
21:28
[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't tell you.
21:29
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know until I read that.
21:32
[SPEAKER_00]: I know she had the same style of writing and bribe.
21:35
[SPEAKER_00]: The MMCP of each chapter is one third person.
21:37
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a bit jarring to me.
21:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, that's where I was like, get girl, because I'm real confused.
21:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
21:43
[SPEAKER_00]: And you were like, not a fan of the chapter is bouncing back and forth.
21:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Which I do hate when authors do that and like leave it confusing yeah, I don't mind it, but I like giving being given a heads up like I want to know what the inside looks like the book because like I feel like sometimes especially like when I listen to one dark window
22:08
[SPEAKER_00]: I had a hard time being like, okay, and it would read that like rhyme and then it would get into the chapter, but you don't get any sort of like, hey, this is happening.
22:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
22:19
[SPEAKER_00]: So that part is a little confusing, but I feel like if you're reading the physical copy, it probably made more sense.
22:26
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just heads up.
22:27
[SPEAKER_00]: If you listen to how my neighbor's so Christmas, there is a narrator.
22:32
[SPEAKER_00]: Who does like silly little grinchy rhymes, but he has like a very strong accent, so you can clearly tell the narrative.
22:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, okay, you can it's a different voice actor, which if you're going to do that get somebody where you can tell.
22:50
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like a narrowing difference and like the dialogue.
22:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Correct.
22:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's fair.
22:55
[SPEAKER_00]: So he only has something at the beginning.
22:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
22:58
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not every chapter.
23:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.
23:02
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's funny because they like banter back and forth and he's like, can you stop?
23:05
[SPEAKER_00]: It's funny.
23:06
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.
23:07
[SPEAKER_00]: He felt fun.
23:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
23:08
[SPEAKER_00]: So now we're going to read one star views that we've picked out for mate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you ready?
23:15
[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I picked too because this one just made me giggle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: God has blessed me with eyes and ears and I abuse them.
23:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
23:25
[SPEAKER_00]: Serena is a human hybrid.
23:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm apparently an idiot hybrid for giving this a chance.
23:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh no.
23:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, this one says they weren't wear-wolving enough for it because they ended up looking more like non-union string.
23:45
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, what?
23:46
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't end up this one said, you know what, my bad for being able to read.
23:50
[SPEAKER_00]: I deserved it.
23:53
[SPEAKER_00]: My bad for being able to use a rena as a bait to fish and then I'd use the caught fish to feed the bigger fish.
23:59
[SPEAKER_00]: What?
23:59
[SPEAKER_00]: It's wise.
24:00
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
24:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I did by myself like skipping through some chapters so I probably missed some big plots.
24:07
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know though.
24:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it was, for me, it was really slow 75% of the time.
24:15
[SPEAKER_00]: I liked the idea of it.
24:17
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think I only continued to listen to it because it was the second part of broad.
24:23
[SPEAKER_00]: And I really liked broad.
24:25
[SPEAKER_00]: I did too.
24:26
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why I was really sad.
24:27
[SPEAKER_00]: That was sad.
24:29
[SPEAKER_00]: on to better things.
24:30
[SPEAKER_00]: You've done one of my favorite parts of the club.
24:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so I'm going to be never told them what our next month's book club is going to be.
24:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh, it is.
24:44
[SPEAKER_00]: rim, stone, so excited.
24:47
[SPEAKER_00]: You want to make sure that you're in our fable, so that you can be all in the conversation of Princeton.
24:53
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like there's going to be a lot to be said from what I've seen all over TikTok, like I've been spoiler-free.
24:59
[SPEAKER_00]: I have two, I have to show you this later.
25:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Like someone was like, when you're finished, you need to go back and read this chapter in this paragraph.
25:06
[SPEAKER_00]: Chapter seven, paragraph seven.
25:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I've seen that.
25:10
[SPEAKER_00]: And I've read where you have to read
25:13
[SPEAKER_00]: So so way when like after there's a one chapter in the target edition from from Silver.
25:20
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I have the, I have the, I have the brimstone.
25:25
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you have to read the carrying chapter.
25:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you're okay.
25:28
[SPEAKER_00]: You also were supposed to read the extra chapters that she put online, which I was going to do probably today, because we started a new book, so you need me.
25:38
[SPEAKER_00]: That's so excited to dive into brimstone.
25:39
[SPEAKER_00]: It's also on people.
25:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't it?
25:41
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I want to listen to it.
25:43
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I want to read it on my Kindle, so I can take notes.
25:45
[SPEAKER_00]: On the extra chapters like on all of it.
25:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Well the extra chapters the in Kingfisher's POV.
25:50
[SPEAKER_00]: It's on a blog Like it's literally an hour.
25:53
[SPEAKER_00]: I do have to clean my house today.
25:54
[SPEAKER_00]: I Tried reading it, but super.
25:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm a little excited
26:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'm going to say, and I need to watch somebody's podcast on Quicksilver.
26:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
26:05
[SPEAKER_00]: Or listen to somebody's podcast reading Quicksilver and I don't know, I might just send me the dates, please.
26:10
[SPEAKER_00]: And well, um, one podcast, I forgot the name of it on Instagram.
26:16
[SPEAKER_00]: That up all day, I have like a 30 minute recap podcast of like all the important things you need in there.
26:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
26:22
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to have to you need to.
26:23
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll send it to you because I need to go back.
26:25
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's from pages and friends.
26:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
26:29
[SPEAKER_00]: I think yes, anyways, I'm going to do that.
26:30
[SPEAKER_00]: But my TV article from last month was a Kingdom of Briars and Roses and I'm going to be self freaking honest with you.
26:39
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember nothing from that book.
26:43
[SPEAKER_00]: I loved that book.
26:44
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
26:45
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
26:45
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
26:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Sleeping Beauty.
26:48
[SPEAKER_00]: I texted you about the MMC and I'm like,
26:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I love him.
26:52
[SPEAKER_00]: And we only got a little bit of that.
26:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Like he wasn't like full blown MMC.
26:56
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no other than like when she saw him at the party that part of loved but like the kingdom is under his sleeping spell and it's up to her to figure out.
27:06
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I break it.
27:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, which we got like literally the tiniest cone block.
27:11
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and so maybe that's why I don't remember it.
27:15
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like I remember the.
27:18
[SPEAKER_00]: bad girl who tells her like this is your, you were born for this and then her mom and dad hid that from her and I'm lying.
27:28
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a little sus.
27:30
[SPEAKER_00]: But her father is like, IDK that I would agree about Jesus, like from the underworld.
27:38
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's a different world.
27:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's really good.
27:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that I'll read the rest of them.
27:42
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean it was fine.
27:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't give me wrong.
27:44
[SPEAKER_00]: That's where we diverge in to different pathways.
27:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we write a lot of the same books, but she diverges into more fantasy-esque and I diverge into more stalker romance.
27:55
[SPEAKER_00]: So you're not wrong, you're not wrong.
27:59
[SPEAKER_00]: On to stalker romance, my TV article was wiped out.
28:03
[SPEAKER_00]: I did not thoroughly enjoy it in the same way they came into it.
28:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Like we literally just swapped it.
28:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, for this TV article.
28:12
[SPEAKER_00]: I was more concerned about the girl like Josh was fantastic.
28:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I actually loved Josh.
28:18
[SPEAKER_00]: I literally told you it's like you and she's like she bothered me.
28:22
[SPEAKER_00]: She's what's the girl like in like the second season of you who ends up being just as crazy as him.
28:28
[SPEAKER_00]: That's who she is.
28:29
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, girl, you're a med flag.
28:33
[SPEAKER_00]: Why are all the girls in these stalker bramases red flags?
28:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Which honestly, I mean, I guess to fall for a stalker, you kind of have to think of her as an apartment.
28:41
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, Josh is five.
28:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
28:43
[SPEAKER_00]: No, he literally is just...
28:44
[SPEAKER_00]: He was fine.
28:45
[SPEAKER_00]: He is fine.
28:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
28:47
[SPEAKER_00]: I know I really liked him, but I thought that the like dad serial killer background was really good.
28:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I loved that part.
28:54
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, okay.
28:56
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and then her whole family's in the mafia love that.
29:00
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, wow, there's a lot of depth to this plot.
29:02
[SPEAKER_00]: There it is.
29:03
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was done really well.
29:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I will say the writing was really good.
29:07
[SPEAKER_00]: I had me laughing.
29:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, then I've seen that was a little much.
29:10
[SPEAKER_00]: That was a little much because I was like, oh girl.
29:13
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, girl.
29:13
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like you see this tech talks of those girls who are like outdoing the most of like scene things and they're like grow You're trusting that to top like a little bit.
29:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's what I felt like I was like you're trusting that my placement a little too much Other than that, I think I gave it like three point I gave it four maybe
29:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think I gave years of four, I just, for the life, I read it at the very beginning of the month and since then I have read some, it's been a long, interesting book, long time, I have this month has been a month of something.
29:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Me, after I read the last, or listened to the last four hours of me and my thought, I was like, oh, give me all the clothes to a roommate.
29:56
[SPEAKER_00]: I've literally read a Megan Quinn, what do you want, and which is a lot.
30:05
[SPEAKER_00]: What was it the um he sees you in your sleeping and then I read an ice plane at Barbarians.
30:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you?
30:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah They're only like 190 pages that book I have is huge.
30:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that one's the biggest one because it sets the scene for the whole entire like a world It's like 350 pages though.
30:26
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really not that bad.
30:27
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah
30:28
[SPEAKER_00]: that's bigger than what I thought.
30:29
[SPEAKER_00]: And the rest of them are like 190 pages.
30:34
[SPEAKER_00]: They're like little individual novella's free to the girls in my red one lesson in three hours.
30:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
30:41
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
30:41
[SPEAKER_00]: So my brain is mush.
30:43
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to a very clean Courtney Walsh book next,
30:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Perfect timing.
30:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Perfect timing.
30:53
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to do our TTR pool.
30:57
[SPEAKER_00]: I always get so nervous for the same.
31:00
[SPEAKER_00]: I ain't makes fun of that.
31:00
[SPEAKER_00]: We just added some in there.
31:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
31:02
[SPEAKER_00]: If I go in first.
31:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
31:04
[SPEAKER_00]: You already have your hand in there.
31:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Push it.
31:12
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no way.
31:13
[SPEAKER_00]: You picked those back to back.
31:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
31:17
[SPEAKER_00]: In black food.
31:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Kaylee, I just put that in their last night.
31:21
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't serious.
31:21
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think you'd pull it to her stay.
31:24
[SPEAKER_00]: But, chain her, that was like, what?
31:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think you'd pull it today.
31:28
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no way you pulled those bad about it.
31:30
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh.
31:32
[SPEAKER_00]: Our kid you know are up here.
31:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
31:34
[SPEAKER_00]: To the last time I read something that was not dark romance.
31:37
[SPEAKER_00]: What'd you get?
31:38
[SPEAKER_00]: bring me back B.A.
31:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Paris.
31:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I really just thought that.
31:41
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no.
31:42
[SPEAKER_00]: So I got you behind stores.
31:44
[SPEAKER_00]: That's one of my more favorite ones.
31:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
31:47
[SPEAKER_00]: I put two B.A.
31:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Paris that were not that because that one is good.
31:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are better.
31:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
31:53
[SPEAKER_00]: I really do really do think you'll like Butron Black word much more than I thought.
31:58
[SPEAKER_00]: It's more tame and more.
31:59
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even
32:05
[SPEAKER_00]: sexual aspects.
32:07
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's more like dexter vibes.
32:11
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
32:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Dexter.
32:12
[SPEAKER_00]: I like dexter.
32:15
[SPEAKER_00]: Watch some of it in college.
32:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
32:17
[SPEAKER_00]: It's more dexter vibes, but not that bad.
32:19
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
32:20
[SPEAKER_00]: It's definitely got a more fun plot that I think you'd enjoy.
32:24
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
32:25
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they're the two killers.
32:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're the serial killer by me.
32:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
32:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's like I know from the start that they're both crazy.
32:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, at least I know that.
32:32
[SPEAKER_00]: But they only kill bad people.
32:34
[SPEAKER_00]: They only rid the world of bad people.
32:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Robinhood.
32:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Basically a good.
32:38
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
32:38
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we're going in life.
32:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you'll like it a lot more than I'd tell.
32:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it's less on the stalker romance and more like...
32:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Just crazy romance, you know what I mean?
32:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he's Irish.
32:50
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.
32:51
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm gonna go.
32:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he's Irish.
32:53
[SPEAKER_00]: I can hate it.
32:55
[SPEAKER_00]: I literally put so many good books in yours and you pulled the only other, well, I did not put any more like that in your team.
33:04
[SPEAKER_00]: You're just really?
33:05
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the only one you said you were in love now.
33:08
[SPEAKER_00]: It's fine.
33:09
[SPEAKER_00]: That's fine.
33:10
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so funny.
33:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, well, join us next month as we read Remstown, which is a whole vibe.
33:19
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so excited to read it.
33:20
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm very excited, nervous, all the things like I hate going into a book that I know has so much hype right now and like,
33:31
[SPEAKER_00]: being in this mindset of like, oh my gosh, I'm my gosh, and then I don't want to be let down like right because I I genuinely like Quick Silver the last 40% of it loved it.
33:42
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm nervous about it.
33:44
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know like I needed to be more fast-paced than Quick Silver
33:48
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
33:49
[SPEAKER_00]: I needed to be more fast-paced than Quicksilver, and I need to somehow like King Fisher or to switch over to Team Karian, which I'm already Team Karian, but I need more of him in this book, so, and did not.
34:06
[SPEAKER_00]: So, I'm hoping that my mind is changed in this book, because I'm redemption.
34:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I need
34:17
[SPEAKER_00]: That's very.
34:18
[SPEAKER_00]: That's very.
34:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but join us on Fable so we can talk chapter by chapter in there.
34:24
[SPEAKER_00]: It's always a fun time when we get like a whole bunch of engagement in the chapters and Fable just here I've got to write this.
34:32
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because something I'll pick up on stuff I would never.
34:34
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
34:35
[SPEAKER_00]: We need y'all like giving us the load-out.
34:38
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm right.
34:39
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like picking this book apart.
34:40
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, for real not like in that way, but just like trying to and theories and I will not get metal slingered in this book.
34:51
[SPEAKER_00]: I refuse, but I'm right.
34:54
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going and looking with my eyeballs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We will see you guys in the next video.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bye guys.