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Powerless by Lauren Roberts - AKA Supernatural Hunger Games from Temu · Lose the Plot with Carla and Emily

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  Hi friends, you're listening to Lose the Plot with Carla and
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  Emily. In this episode we're reading
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  Powerless by Lauren Roberts. We are talking about the entire
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  book, so warning, there will be spoilers.
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  I'm Carla, and a thin layer of sweat has slicked my body,
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  likely giving me the appearance of a glazed, sticky bun.
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  I'm Emily Paden isn't like other girls.
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  She's leaner than most of the slummers.
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  Not the fat shaming the people who are in poverty.
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  Like, I mean, you eat what you could eat.
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  Not the misogyny. She's not like she's not like
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  other girls. Wow, the.
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  Pygmy energy is just coming out straight from the gate.
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  The misogyny through this book is horrifying.
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  I had such blinkers on. Oh, I don't know.
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  I don't. Know.
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  Beautiful. OK trigger warnings.
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  I couldn't find any on the Internet so I thought we could
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  DIY them. I have two.
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  And I just don't think that's enough.
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  Shows how much a pension a pension.
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  I paid. A pension everywhere.
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  A pension? Nobody, please pay a pension.
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  Our generation is so fucked when we're old.
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  By the way, pension who? That doesn't exist.
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  I don't even have a super fuck. Fuck.
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  Wow. I'm just gonna die, sorry.
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  This is why we need books to take.
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  Us out of the real world. So OK, MY2 trigger warnings that
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  I made-up is violence, question mark and death of a parent not.
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  Depicted. Question.
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  Mark we Gore. It's not that gory, no.
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  And there's no sex scenes. There's no exciting sex scenes.
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  I seen a little snippy of an interview and it's going to stay
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  YA. So for anyone reading the
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  series, there's going to be no sex scenes.
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  Yeah, so if you're only here for the spice, just listen to our
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  podcast, but don't read the book.
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  I OK, you know what? I understand the YA necessarily,
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  but if you're going to have this much tension you can't have it
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  YA right? It needs to be new way.
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  They just broken the ceiling of horniness.
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  Yeah, is what you're saying. Yeah.
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  Like you can't. It doesn't make any sense.
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  No, it doesn't. The characters are stupid.
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  So general stupidity, general stupid me energy pick me
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  misogyny, slow burn unnecessary love triangle.
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  Unnecessary as shit. It was so unnecessary that it
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  didn't even really lift off. You know what?
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  There is more fucking chemistry between the brothers and the
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  brothers and Peyton. So emotional incest.
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  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, emotional incest.
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  I mean, this isn't dark romance. You'll be fine, no?
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  No, so you can read it. It's fine.
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  If you're literally over 15, you can read this.
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  It's typical YA fantasy. There's yeah.
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  Speaking of typical YA fantasy, is this not the equivalent of
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  your mum saying that we have Hunger Games at home?
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  You're like Mum, Mum, please, I want to, I want to go see Hunger
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  Games. It's it's someone said online so
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  I'm quoting some random Goodreads thing that I read this
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  morning, but it was a fanfic for Hunger Games.
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  Was it? Actually, yeah, pretty no, no,
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  wasn't actually it's it is, it is, right.
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  It's Kevin. It's Red Queen, Hunger Games, a
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  teen teen, little bit of Mortal Instruments.
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  Okay, yeah. Well, 4th Wing is kind of like
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  an evolved version of those previous books anyway.
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  Yeah, so. The difference is there's no
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  originality in this one. It's a scrapbook.
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  I mean, it is. It's.
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  Like a quilt where it's just got bits and bobs from all these
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  other books. I will give her the banter in
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  the book know how matter how cringy it is, it is definitely
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  original. I mean, is it bantering though?
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  The dialogue is original enough. You know what though?
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  It was fucking 80% dialogue. I don't want a whole book of
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  conversations. It's almost like that time you
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  were so pissed at the Taylor Jenkins read 7 Husbands of
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  Evelyn because it was all in interview format.
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  So this is like the equivalent of that to me, where it irked
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  me, where it was just them having conversations.
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  You know what though? My brain needed the break.
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  So the really cringy dialogue, I was fine for you eating it up.
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  I was eating it up, you know, I was like, you know what?
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  Nothing serious. It's fine.
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  Okay, so when we were looking for our quotes at the start, I
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  found this other gem. This is not a goodbye, only a
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  good way to say bye until I see you next bitch.
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  What? You just said a whole lot of
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  words about nothing. They're uneducated.
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  There's. So much.
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  Word salad. I think it was just like a we
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  hope this gets tattered on your body, make you think.
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  We're just going to throw a million things at the wall and
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  hope not edit a single thing. No, no edit surely.
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  This lady did not get him added up because there's no way there
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  was so much fat that this could have been trimmed off of this
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  book. My one problem with this book is
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  the continuity was shit. Oh, it was.
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  So shit, did this whole series occur?
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  I don't. Like there's no time frame.
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  No, there's no time frame thankfully.
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  She only did it like once or twice where she jumped ahead and
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  then jumped back and then jumped ahead Point of views.
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  She was like impedance and then she jumped back before doing
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  Kai's point of view in the same thing.
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  Just do it in the same chapter. Ferrell.
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  I'm the number one person who'll complain about too much back
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  story. Yes.
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  I'm like, don't tell me the fucking war from 3000 years ago.
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  So if you just want to jump in and know enough.
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  This is the book. To be fair with back story I
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  always skip it. Yeah, it's boring.
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  It's boring as FARC. I don't.
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  Need to know everything. So in that way, if that's what
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  you want, like a cruisy, you understand everything straight
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  away. This is probably OK for you, and
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  it's the very stereotypical Hayden is the ordinary.
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  And of course there's a reason for these trials.
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  They don't explain what the trials are technically for.
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  I think they're from the purging.
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  So they purged all the ordinaries and then to remind
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  everyone. So essentially The Hunger Games,
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  Yeah. I feel like there was less
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  stakes. Hunger Games had so much stakes.
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  Yeah. It was just like, boom, you have
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  to be in it. Whereas this one was kind of
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  like. They get $20,000 and I'm like,
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  is $20,000 really that necessary?
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  Do you just go in back to the dead and dying poverty area or
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  do you get like promoted into the?
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  No, you. Just get the area. $20,000 and I
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  feel like that's not enough. You just get.
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  Sent back home. But you can't even spend that
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  money, and everyone's gonna rob you.
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  Yeah. So it's just.
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  And you're practically a local celeb, so everyone knows you've
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  got the money they're just shaking down.
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  Also, they choose who they want in the.
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  Dark trials dumb. Stupid.
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  They're like, oh, she saved him in an alleyway.
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  So. She die.
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  Also she's the most thin and frail so like why?
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  She's not the most thin and she's Lena frail.
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  She's Lena on other girls. She's Lena.
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  She's Lena he even, I shit you not, he says.
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  She's small but strong, Lena than most of the scrawny girls
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  from the slums. I can feel it in the curve of
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  her waist. Not the slum girls.
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  Not the slum. I can feel it in the.
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  Curve of my way. I'm just imagining him doing
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  this. You know that really awkward
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  touch that people touch your waist as they're moving behind
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  you unnecessarily when they'd never do that to a grown man?
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  No. Like oh just behind lol bitch
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  I'm 10 meters away from you. Like, bitch, there's no need to
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  touch my hoist. Anyway, let's talk about Hayden.
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  What a name it's giving Mckaylin.
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  It's giving that list of names. It's given Hayden Panettiere.
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  Hayden McClellan. Mckayla, Lynn.
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  Mckayla. Lynn Gins Pierce.
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  Emily, but like EMMALEIGA, there's.
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  Gonna be AY two AY McKay there somewhere, yeah.
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  Emily. Oh my God.
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  She's not like other girl. She's not another girl.
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  She's not. No.
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  She's essentially the equivalent of that TikTok content creator
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  that's doing the tarot cards that's showing you your.
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  Future. Because she has no powers and
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  she's a psycho. Marketable skills and she's.
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  She's a psychic. That's a little Sarah J Madison
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  there, is it? Yeah, well, a lot she hides from
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  people pretending to be a psychic to go through a circus.
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  Oh, what else do we really know about her except for her coarse?
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  Her hair's Gray. Because not like other girls.
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  Hello. You know what, as soon as her
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  hair was mentioned Gray, all I could think of was Dena Vipers.
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  Same. Roxy, is that you?
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  Roxy the queen of pigmies? They.
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  Need to go head to head Celebrity Deathmatch Roxanne.
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  And. Payton and Payton.
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  She had tan skin, blue eyes. Is it tan or no?
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  Eyes Finance. Is it tan or is she that
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  sunburned from? Is she just tan because her hair
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  is so fucking Gray? The contrast.
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  Is she? Is it silver or is she that
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  stressed? Her hair is very mature.
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  Is she Gray? And she been.
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  Buttoning this so she's not got a power because she's got a
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  fucking disorder. Where she's reversing aging.
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  And she's anemic as shit. She's.
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  How are you going to successfully?
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  Prove to. People that you're psychic, I'd
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  be like, sorry, I'll. Cheat, psychic, or I'll just
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  take. Me away people are.
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  Just stupid. She's like, wow, you're not
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  wearing your wedding ring splitting up.
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  You're crying, cheat off cheat. I'm cheating, cheating.
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  He didn't like. That did he?
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  No. Although I liked that I could
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  already tell she was going to be a picnic.
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  I was like, get her. Get her Kyle.
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  Is a misogyny in the book or out of the book at this point?
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  It's. Coursing through my veins, we.
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  Start off with learning. I love how we just I just ignore
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  you every time. I'm like whatever it's.
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  Obviously the best way to go. We.
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  Just loot sometimes. The first little snippy about
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  Peyton we here is that she lives in the trash in some place.
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  She's literally a raccoon. She's a raccoon baby and the
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  first like the first chapter is her talking about she doesn't
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  have a roof over her head and she's like whining about having
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  to look about the stars each night.
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  OK, Boo Hoo bitch people. Pay for that.
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  OK. To not be around light
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  pollution. You're living your.
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  Free life, Yeah, people are paying to go off grid at this
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  point. People don't want the rise and
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  grind. Just to be real for a minute, if
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  this was a real person it'd be really sad for them.
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  But she is not so OK. Fuck her and her whining about
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  no roof. Well, what is she doing to
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  accomplish a roof, really? So is she contributing to the
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  problem or the solution? She could just get a job.
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  Sorry I'm. Just like.
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  And Next up on Emily, Carla, privileged white bitches.
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  She's. Not a real person.
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  Yeah, no, she's so funny. Well, she's looking for a man in
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  finance. She fucking needs money because
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  she's fucking eyes. So rude.
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  No eyes? Why are the guards?
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  Dressed in white every day. That's got to take a lot of
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  nappy sand. A lot.
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  Of nappy sand. That's a lot.
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  They got to be looking like they're shitters themselves.
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  The poop stains Joking Wear. Wear white or beige underwear.
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  Any other colours? Oh, they have to G string it up.
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  They'd have to seamless nude that up.
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  Wait, were you the one who told me you can wear red under white
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  and it doesn't go see through? Yeah, that's amazing.
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  So that maybe they're wearing like red G bangers.
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  I'm just imagining them getting dressed for work in their
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  fucking castle tower or some shit.
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  And they're like. To put on my uniform.
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  It's. Just sexy under string, G string
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  and you. Know what they've got to put on
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  underwear like they do in 50 Shades of Grey where she does
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  the underwear and the boots 1st and then?
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  I'm done and then the balls are like coming out of the G string.
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  They're custom made I'm. Done a.
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  Little diamante on the back with their name a little bow on the
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  front. White that's the most obvious
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  car because she. Copied and pasted the shit out
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  of The Hunger Games because don't the guards and that wear
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  white? I can't remember, I thought they
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  were wearing like some kind of armor, but I'm probably wrong.
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  Isn't that white armor? It's been a long time even since
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  I've seen the movie so let alone read the book.
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  I'm telling you, I love how it's spiralling already.
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  Yeah, they wear white, you know. That's one of them.
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  Shitting their pants. Oh, it's giving Star Wars.
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  It's giving Star Wars. Yeah, now I got job.
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  I remember Hunger Games just being kind of like very grey,
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  'cause you know when they're at the district at the start.
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  It's because they're depressed, yeah.
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  So they made the whole movie look grey.
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  So that's why I couldn't remember if it's.
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  The same as Twilight being blue. Which is iconic, by the way, I.
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  Fucking love it. Yeah, where the fuck were we
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  were doing that red G string? So clearly that was part of our
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  notes. The first part is essentially
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  her stealing some fabric for Adina to sew gowns.
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  Because you know, who do I want to buy a gown off?
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  I'm a dirty girl lives in the trash.
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  She's covered and filled daily and she's moths.
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  She's like, here, buy this gown that you might have to steam
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  clean before you wear. If that's even going to work,
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  you steam it, it's probably going to disintegrate because
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  it's made out of trash. She's a working girl.
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  What else is even going on in that little district?
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  Area I don't know but it's called LOOT and I feel like
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  that's shit. She's like a picky pocketer.
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  Luton, eBay. So she so she's a what?
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  Let's just make a pirate noise. Oh.
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  No. She's already morally bankrupt,
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  so let's stop it. Let's start.
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  There. Where are we?
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  Starting We don't even know where we've.
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  Got nothing like I mean as a character that's as much as we
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  know. Her only motivation is her dad
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  was killed, yes. So that's her only personality
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  trait. I'm mad because dad was killed
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  and I'm going to get the killer and it's the king.
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  Also, you know what's stupid about this bitch?
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  Again, I'm sorry. Her dad owns a house.
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  She runs away from the house. Jumping ahead, the resistance
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  her father works for takes the house.
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  Shoot, her and her friend didn't have to be homeless.
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  Yeah, they could have just lived in our house.
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  Exactly. Who wrote the will?
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  Who wrote? The will it's.
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  Actually her dad's own fault that she's homeless because he
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  didn't put his paperwork. In order she could have had a
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  bed, a shower and. Vigorously.
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  Not you're telling me that her dad taught her we're.
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  Already at you're telling me? I have so many left, more to go.
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  You're telling me that he taught her how to fight, how to fucking
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  shoot arrows, throw some swords, but didn't set up her having a
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  home? Trust button.
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  Finals. Well, literally, though.
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  He didn't teach her how to do her taxes.
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  He didn't teach her how to get a superannuation account.
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  No. Does she know how to cook at
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  this point? Not even sure.
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  Doesn't even seem like he's a character because we heard
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  nothing about him. No, of course we don't know what
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  her mums up to doing alive, dead.
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  You don't even write a piano. Fuck her mom, Fuck her mom.
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  You don't even exist if you're female.
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  You do not exist on a fantasy book unless you have a dead mum.
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  No, you only exist in a fantasy book if you're the 17 year old
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  main female character who's not like a main.
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  White girl character? Yeah, let's be.
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  Honest, that's it. Kai's mum only talked about
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  balls and dresses. That was it.
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  Chit's mum was dead, which I feel like is just gonna allude
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  to her and kitten paid and being related somehow.
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  OK, well, OK, hear me out. Theory.
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  Theory. Interesting.
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  Hear me out. The God forgot his name, the
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  ringer one. He keeps calling her Princess.
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  And usually in fantasy books they'll have a nickname and then
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  you're like, oh, it's been in there all along, right?
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  So I feel like she's going to be like a long lost Princess and
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  it's going to be her and Kit related.
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  We learned about the trials, but not enough, not really enough to
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  know what's going on. We.
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  Just know violence, that's it. There was more build up about
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  the stupid ball and fuck me look OK, so I didn't have a complete
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  aneurysm because I knew so early on it was coming, but did I
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  fucking think that there'd be dancing in a ball environment
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  the second time round? This book like just restarted at
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  some point and then did it again.
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  OK, so if you're new here, a thing to know about Carla is she
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  hates skulls and she hates balls.
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  I hate it. And there was three in this.
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  Three. I thought one was just a huge
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  continuation and then there was like a reset of the same shit.
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  I was like, why are we back here?
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  No, it's just they had a ball before the trials, which makes
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  sense, but then they had one before every single.
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  Challenge. Do we even call it a challenge?
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  They weren't even. It didn't even explain what they
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  were fucking doing. It was Loki just them doing it
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  was them camping and then being forced to fight.
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  But I didn't understand. Like, I understand they were
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  knocked out to get into the camping ground or whatever.
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  Yeah. Why did they all wake up
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  starvacious? At least last a day.
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  They woke up needing a Zingerberger combo.
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  You've got nothing. I think it might have been the
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  drugs. They were all like I really
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  could use a full 3 course meal right now.
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  Every time I read a fantasy book and they're like, I really need
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  to eat, they're locked in a thing and it's like 5 minutes
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  into whatever they're doing. I'm like God, I drank a coffee
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  this morning and it could last another 12 hours.
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  Literally. So you know how they chose her
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  to be part of. Wait, do you want to talk about
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  the bit where she rescues him or not really?
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  The only thing I have about her rescuing him is 1.
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  The banter was cringe. It's fine, but can you tell me
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  why their powers are called Brawler, Crawler, and Blazer?
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  You have the whole fucking Internet to look up different
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  names. You have your whole world that
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  you're building and you think they come up with Blazer for a
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  guy that shoots fire, Crawler for one that can crawl on the
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  walls, and Brawler for one that can is strong.
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  This is your world, build it better.
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  It's giving Pokémon. Honestly.
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  Like, I mean, he's 65 finance blue eyes and he needs a little
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  girl to rescue him without powers.
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  And it was like. A silencer.
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  No. Were you silent or were you
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  silenced? He was.
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  Silenced about time. That boy speaks too much.
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  How does? He not realize that he can't
• 20:34
  suck up her powers because she ain't got none.
• 20:36
  Wouldn't he be the first to know?
• 20:37
  Yeah, honestly, he's like, oh, I just, I'm having a bit of an off
• 20:40
  day. He did from one second.
• 20:45
  In all day and it takes one pretty girl.
• 20:48
  She's just pretending he's not smelling that ordinary.
• 20:51
  Like, you know, she smells like a fucking raccoon's.
• 20:54
  Eyes that basic bitch energy in the.
• 20:56
  End smell it from 10 kilometers away and he gets up to her and
• 20:59
  he's like he knows she's an ordinary, but he's like I could.
• 21:03
  Tap that and he's like, yeah. I could stick it in.
• 21:05
  He's like fucking stunning curvy bitch.
• 21:10
  So straight away, even from the initial interaction together
• 21:15
  every five seconds, was his lip curled up and that smirk and the
• 21:20
  dimples and I'm like, why am all I hearing about are little micro
• 21:23
  expressions on both of their faces over and over and over and
• 21:26
  over. And over who do you think?
• 21:28
  Smirking, guess what was? Worse.
• 21:32
  Smirking or smirk, both dimple. Nah, I didn't even love some
• 21:36
  dimple eyes. Eyes were mentioned 763.
• 21:42
  Times and Smirk was 55. Yeah, was there even dimples in
• 21:47
  this book? Yeah.
• 21:49
  Look up dimples. I'm doing it making my way down
• 21:54
  32 times. Dimples, yeah.
• 21:57
  Double Jim, OH. My God, what about Darling?
• 21:59
  Because that spiralled me back to Hooked. 41.
• 22:05
  It was a lot of Darling and it wasn't.
• 22:06
  He wasn't pulling it off. No.
• 22:09
  Even in the audio book, actually.
• 22:11
  Pulling it off actually, I'll give whoever excited to listen
• 22:14
  to some bits in the audio book. I'll give whoever did his voice
• 22:18
  a 10 out of 10 because it is the hottest voice I've ever heard in
• 22:22
  my life. Hmm.
• 22:24
  He just nailed it. He even was like there was a bit
• 22:26
  where he was grovelling at the end and I was like, who knew I.
• 22:31
  OK. I'm a deprived woman, you know,
• 22:36
  I have some voices really throw you out.
• 22:37
  Yeah. This one really suited the
• 22:39
  character. It was like, on the nose.
• 22:42
  Yeah. You know how sometimes it sounds
• 22:43
  like an ancient person? Like, no offense, voice actors?
• 22:45
  Well, they've got some weird Texas accent and you're like,
• 22:48
  where the fuck did this come from?
• 22:49
  Yeah. Wouldn't you, though?
• 22:52
  OK, so she got picked. So she's the ultimate pick Me.
• 22:54
  She got picked. Yeah, she whinges from the get
• 22:57
  go, but wouldn't you be so happy you were in a fucking room?
• 23:01
  You said you were sleeping on the cobblestone streets for five
• 23:04
  whole years. You have a library, you have a
• 23:06
  bed, you have plumbing, you have a bathroom.
• 23:09
  Yeah, you're shitting in pipes like where are.
• 23:13
  They shitting? Elsewhere in the dirt.
• 23:16
  Wow, I didn't even think about that till now.
• 23:19
  And she was so wingy at the start already, like my freedom.
• 23:23
  How dare, because they always have to act trapped.
• 23:26
  Because if there's anything we know about any fantasy book is
• 23:28
  the female character at some point gets captured and trapped.
• 23:31
  Oh yeah. So they had to play out that.
• 23:33
  Trope We love a good kidnapping. It was so unnecessary.
• 23:37
  Why did they? Even put that in there, the word
• 23:39
  count was out of control for what we got for the content.
• 23:44
  It was what, 25% content, 75% repeat or filler?
• 23:49
  In the first couple of chapters you really got to snag me in,
• 23:53
  otherwise I don't want to be there.
• 23:54
  I just feel like generally not enough was happening.
• 23:57
  No. Because it was everything that
• 23:59
  you could see happening. Yes.
• 24:01
  And it was so slow. And like you said, there was no
• 24:03
  good consistency. And then at the ball, they're
• 24:06
  acting so casual and then they casually bring up that the
• 24:09
  trials are tomorrow. They never mentioned her being
• 24:12
  nervous. They never mentioned her being
• 24:14
  like, holy shit, it's tomorrow. They're just like someone
• 24:16
  casually brought it up in conversation.
• 24:18
  At the ball. She was more worried about what
• 24:20
  fucking dress she was going to wear.
• 24:22
  And I was trying to be a sassy bitch and predict what dress she
• 24:25
  was going to wear. So all the women wear green and
• 24:27
  all the men wear black suits. And I'm like, of course she's
• 24:30
  going to waltz in with a red dress.
• 24:33
  I thought it was great. I was like, that would wash her
• 24:35
  out so bad. I was just picturing full
• 24:38
  sequence Camila Cabello at the Met Gala.
• 24:43
  But of course she has to be different, of course.
• 24:45
  Why doesn't she just? Tattoo.
• 24:47
  I'm an ordinary on her forehead. Be easier.
• 24:50
  I just also there's a lot of things that didn't make sense in
• 24:53
  this book. So the 1st dinner after they're
• 24:57
  locked in this room for hours, they go have dinner in the
• 25:02
  throne room. You're telling me this big ass
• 25:05
  castle for the king doesn't have a dining hall?
• 25:11
  It only has the throne room, which is probably nowhere near
• 25:14
  the kitchen. And what is a throne room like?
• 25:17
  Isn't that where people come up and talk to the king?
• 25:19
  Yeah, with the big. Throne.
• 25:21
  So where's the tables at? Like?
• 25:23
  So you're thinking Game of Thrones?
• 25:25
  Big US throne in the background. It's a multi.
• 25:27
  Purpose room, OK. I just wasn't like you telling
• 25:30
  me they're setting up a dining room every night.
• 25:33
  Apparently. At this point, while we're at
• 25:36
  the first tonight, you're telling me I'm supposed to fall
• 25:39
  in love with the main male character, but he's a piece of.
• 25:42
  Shit. Dead ass a piece of shit.
• 25:44
  I was supposed to fall in love with him because he let a little
• 25:47
  girl go and walk off into the desert with her family to die,
• 25:52
  obviously. And then I'm supposed to bare
• 25:55
  minimum, the bare minimum. I'm like he, he didn't kill her,
• 25:59
  but he let. Stab her in the eyeball.
• 26:00
  But he let her go off her way to starve to death.
• 26:03
  Yeah, and then he bullies her about being homeless.
• 26:07
  Like us, but. She's not fucking real though.
• 26:11
  It's the nagging for me. It's it's horrible.
• 26:14
  It's all the smirking and dimples that's supposed to make
• 26:17
  up. For it I'm like what a
• 26:18
  privileged piece of shit. And then he's like, you don't
• 26:22
  know how to dance, you poor cunt.
• 26:24
  Pretty much. And he's just like, I have to
• 26:27
  teach you. He is the Queen from the
• 26:30
  Princess Diaries, teaching the girl how to be Princess.
• 26:33
  No. He's like sipping tea like your.
• 26:39
  Footwork made. Overtime.
• 26:42
  You crusty bitch. I just don't understand.
• 26:46
  I was like, you've not really given me.
• 26:48
  He's not giving. He's not giving.
• 26:50
  What is he giving? Because his personality is just
• 26:53
  accepting that he's supposed to be this security guard for the
• 26:57
  king, because he's not really going to be the next king, so
• 27:00
  he's going to be like the bridesmaid of security guards.
• 27:04
  Basically, essentially and. He doesn't ever question it, no.
• 27:08
  So he's just a Trump supporter at this point.
• 27:15
  So. He has just.
• 27:16
  No reflective qualities like he just he what?
• 27:20
  He's just going to accept that, never question it.
• 27:23
  It's probably not even his dad. At this point just kill your dad
• 27:27
  also. Why?
• 27:30
  Talking about a daddy king who doesn't have a name, I don't
• 27:33
  think anyway. Not that I remember he's.
• 27:36
  Just the king. The King.
• 27:39
  How? How is he okay?
• 27:43
  Show spoiler alert for the end and we'll actually talk about it
• 27:46
  when we get to the end. But how do you even give fuck
• 27:49
  that she killed your dad when he abused the shit out of you?
• 27:54
  Yeah. I'd be, I'd be like, kill him
• 27:56
  again. It's like your daddy's Osama bin
• 27:58
  Laden and you're. Just.
• 28:00
  Sitting there like I have to like him like.
• 28:03
  Why? Nobody's making you.
• 28:05
  It's like you killed my daddy and it's like, okay, yeah, but
• 28:09
  that's what a. Weird life.
• 28:11
  What a weird. That's her whole life though.
• 28:13
  That's the only thing that connects them.
• 28:15
  They're both like you kill my. Daddy.
• 28:18
  I'm like what a win for you mate, he's a piece of shit.
• 28:22
  The fact that he, like, he literally chapped before, like
• 28:26
  he broke my hand so I'd have to fix my own bones and you're sad
• 28:31
  that he's dead. It makes bond to someone else.
• 28:35
  He doesn't have any thinking process.
• 28:38
  He's like, this is just my life, my brother's going to take the
• 28:42
  throne. I'm just the fucking full guy.
• 28:45
  Man behaviour, it is such one tab open in their brain
• 28:49
  behaviour. If he had to, he'd realize how
• 28:53
  much of an opportunity. This is but think about it, they
• 28:55
  all recite the stupid creed thing.
• 28:58
  They're all brainwashed. So it all comes back to cults.
• 29:02
  Oh my God, go to therapy. It doesn't matter to them 'cause
• 29:05
  they're at least privileged in the society.
• 29:07
  Oh my God, the amount of beans these people eat.
• 29:09
  Everyone be fun. They should be.
• 29:13
  Shitting all the time. Run through.
• 29:17
  I don't think that's what that means The.
• 29:19
  Whole. Throne room is just.
• 29:24
  That's why they don't care that she's so stinky, because
• 29:27
  everyone's parting all the time. She is 'cause there's no way
• 29:30
  you're coming out of the loot with shaved arms.
• 29:33
  Hair was from the but she. Did say she scrubbed herself
• 29:36
  down to the tee like four times when she got her the filth.
• 29:41
  But he met her when she was just out on the streets.
• 29:44
  He was like the stinky girl. 'S the one for me.
• 29:46
  She's got like matted up hair. She's like.
• 29:51
  She's a crusty white dog matted up.
• 29:54
  Can I just say that as you said before, fucking Kit and Kai had
• 29:58
  more chemistry, like essentially with each other?
• 30:01
  And then I found out they were brothers and I was like, this is
• 30:03
  Creedence all over again. Sorry, did.
• 30:05
  I I. Literally was like next thing I
• 30:07
  was going to. Say I was like, this is the
• 30:08
  wanking in the lounge room together all over.
• 30:11
  Again, it's giving circle jerk. It's giving circle jerk.
• 30:14
  Especially when she was around. Oh, it's like it ramped up 100
• 30:18
  times. Also what the fuck is with kit?
• 30:21
  He's so. Boring.
• 30:23
  He makes Kai look interesting. Kai obviously is very openly in
• 30:28
  love with Hayden very easily. Easily.
• 30:31
  Anything he says to that girl is pure obsession.
• 30:35
  Kai tells Kit about how much he likes the girl from the slums
• 30:39
  and how much it's like blown his mind and that he wishes to meet
• 30:43
  her again. Then Kit finds her coming into
• 30:46
  the competition and he's like, you know what?
• 30:49
  I'm a go after her. OK, so Kit put the most boring
• 30:52
  moves on to her and then she just agrees, Yeah.
• 30:54
  But I don't think she was interested in Kit.
• 30:57
  I think she was just like, well, I got nowhere else to be.
• 31:00
  No, but she got a bit horny about the idea of getting close
• 31:03
  to the king in that way of looking like the future King's
• 31:06
  date. So I think that was a bit of her
• 31:08
  own circle drug. Honestly.
• 31:14
  Props to Payton, because if you're gonna.
• 31:16
  You might as well. I think she, Loki, wanted to
• 31:19
  make Kai jealous. I think that's the only reason
• 31:22
  because she actually had no chemistry with Kit.
• 31:24
  She didn't boring love triangle she.
• 31:26
  Didn't give a fuck about him, I don't think.
• 31:28
  No, no, she was. And honestly, she just started
• 31:31
  egging him on a bit to get information.
• 31:33
  Yeah. And that was it.
• 31:35
  Which is hilarious because OK, Fast forward to the end.
• 31:38
  The king. So the dad guy is being super
• 31:40
  critical at Kai. What about Kit?
• 31:42
  He's the one who told her more. If he was.
• 31:45
  Waiting this whole long con game to reveal that he knew that she
• 31:50
  was an ordinary all along. Why wasn't he ever wanting Kit?
• 31:53
  Why wasn't he ever babysitting Kit?
• 31:56
  But the second Kai and Peyton were sitting somewhere alone, a
• 31:58
  guard awkwardly come up to them and like pokes his shoulder when
• 32:01
  they're about to make. Out I.
• 32:03
  Feel like. He.
• 32:05
  Was trying to just crush Kai's spirit, like set him up to fall
• 32:08
  in love and then power trip and take it away.
• 32:11
  Right, so it's all part of the dad's torture.
• 32:13
  I reckon be all part of it. I just think he's dumb.
• 32:16
  They're. Awkward.
• 32:17
  They're none of these I've ever. Met none of these character
• 32:20
  motivations make sense. None.
• 32:22
  She agreed to go into the trials because who cares?
• 32:25
  She's got nothing to lose, and she could help her friend get a
• 32:28
  promotion to get paid to. Make her They don't have a
• 32:30
  choice. Yeah, but she kind of just
• 32:33
  accepted it. She wasn't really nervous about
• 32:35
  it. She's just like, well, I have a
• 32:38
  silver dagger. So sorry, bitch, you have no
• 32:41
  powers. You've got people gone around
• 32:44
  fucking able to do essentially anything.
• 32:47
  There's X-Men in this hoe and you're sitting there like my
• 32:52
  little daggers Fine, because it's accessorized and it matches
• 32:55
  my. Honestly, it worked.
• 32:57
  So the confidence though the. Confidence was high.
• 33:01
  Fake it till you make it go. So they have like, their first
• 33:04
  training before all of the shit because you know where I'm
• 33:07
  going. One, the misogyny immediately
• 33:11
  with Blair, I hated it. I hated it.
• 33:14
  Yeah, I feel like you can hate another female character, right?
• 33:20
  But every two seconds it was like she's just trying to touch
• 33:23
  the king and the Princess. But she's so are you?
• 33:26
  Exactly every now and then. Sandwich between them.
• 33:29
  Every single time Blair came up, it was like, oh, she's just got
• 33:33
  pretty much her tits out for the Princess and I'm like, she
• 33:36
  doesn't though. But you know what's funny?
• 33:39
  Why are you criticizing someone for doing something on a lesser
• 33:42
  scale than what you're already doing?
• 33:43
  Oh. My God.
• 33:45
  You're practically bed hopping at this point, but you're.
• 33:47
  Pissed at Blair. For just rocking up somewhere.
• 33:49
  And I'm like, she's probably known them her whole life, so it
• 33:52
  makes sense. But I was like at that point,
• 33:55
  that's when Peyton, I was like, she's not my favorite person.
• 33:59
  I hate the misogyny. She gets hit by a dagger, I'm
• 34:03
  pretty sure by Blair and Kai's like trying to be really sweet
• 34:06
  and like get the blood out of her hair.
• 34:08
  And I'm like, fuck up, don't fuck up.
• 34:12
  Like fuck off. Fuck up and fuck.
• 34:14
  Off he's like braiding her hair and.
• 34:17
  Fuck off, he's. Braiding her hair, the.
• 34:19
  Hair braiding sent me. Icky.
• 34:22
  Sent me. Last night you were telling her
• 34:25
  how privileged you were and how horrified that you found out she
• 34:29
  lives on the street, but now you're braiding her hair.
• 34:32
  Fuck. Off You know what was really
• 34:34
  funny when there was straight up going into that first child, I
• 34:38
  had a like a little giggle to myself and I'm like, wouldn't it
• 34:40
  just be amazing if Kai died straight?
• 34:42
  Away. He's like.
• 34:42
  Fucking hate him that much. He's just the.
• 34:45
  Cardboard cut out insert of what the male character has to be.
• 34:49
  Yes, but he didn't bring anything new to that role.
• 34:52
  No. You know how sometimes you get a
• 34:53
  male character that for whatever reason, it brings something to
• 34:57
  it enough that people go like, yes, he's a bad boy or like,
• 35:01
  yes, he's a book boyfriend? What is Kai even giving?
• 35:04
  I don't even really know what he looks like.
• 35:06
  I think he's dark haired a smoky eyes.
• 35:10
  Of course, he's probably called Grey.
• 35:12
  Grey eyes. That's five.
• 35:15
  Dark hair. Dark hair.
• 35:17
  It would. Just be a copy and paste of
• 35:19
  every male dark haired character.
• 35:22
  It's essentially probably Rhys Zaden.
• 35:25
  It's all the same. The other guy with the every
• 35:29
  other guy. The gun to the pussy.
• 35:33
  Yeah, Isn't that Satan? No.
• 35:35
  Zaddy, zaddy. God, there's got.
• 35:38
  To be something else out there there isn't.
• 35:40
  Please somebody save us drowning in a sea of dark head main male
• 35:45
  characters. Me in a room with all these
• 35:46
  characters, I can tell the difference.
• 35:48
  I'd be like her. They're all the same.
• 35:55
  Of course, when she's wearing the silver dress in this ball,
• 35:57
  everyone's pissy. Kit asked her to dance and then
• 36:01
  Kai got pissy, so he danced with millions of other women and I'm
• 36:04
  like, yeah, because that fucking fixes everything.
• 36:07
  I would do the same thing because I'm a petty queen, but
• 36:09
  can we talk about how much dance training they did beforehand?
• 36:13
  And she's like, we feel like a puzzle piece.
• 36:16
  Our body parts so close the guitar I just.
• 36:19
  Can't get over. Proximity.
• 36:21
  The fact that she probably looked like a fucking awkward
• 36:23
  bitch. Jack and cheese a mouth.
• 36:25
  Breather she gives mouth, 'cause it's giving, it's giving mouth.
• 36:31
  Mangly, approximately too much. It's just fully mong and no ones
• 36:39
  telling her and they're like OK Peyton.
• 36:42
  You can go into the trials. Just accept her dowry of a
• 36:50
  donkey to go into the trials. Oh God.
• 36:53
  There's. So many times I got the eek with
• 36:56
  her character right before the ball.
• 36:58
  They're sparring for the first time as well and she kicks.
• 37:03
  I don't know if you know what I'm going to talk about.
• 37:04
  She kicks her leg out and he swiftly jumps over it.
• 37:08
  And all I pictured him was doing was galloping like a.
• 37:11
  Little. Horse girl over her leg and
• 37:15
  after that I was like, this man is not the one for me.
• 37:18
  I just, I just want to see her twerk it just.
• 37:22
  Because you know, she's doing. The the Tina Belcher like.
• 37:26
  You know that she's just. Wait wait, I feel like her
• 37:29
  joints are achy. Like I feel like this.
• 37:31
  Squeaky. She's a mouth breather.
• 37:34
  We can't really blame her for the lack of nutrition.
• 37:38
  Holy shit dude. Right before that first ball
• 37:42
  where she goes ham and they blow it up for the resistance.
• 37:45
  See where your life ended. Yeah, they do class box
• 37:49
  interviews. Tell me why They went up to the
• 37:54
  glass box, went down into a room that they had to jump into, and
• 37:58
  then when they they had to wait down there and then they did the
• 38:01
  interviews and had to jump back up into that hole.
• 38:04
  Why can they afford to build a glass box arena and no fucking
• 38:09
  stairs? But also who's watching this?
• 38:12
  Because when I imagine let's say loot, no one has ATV set.
• 38:16
  Well, it's just, you know, Hunger Games style where it's
• 38:19
  all the rich. People, but they don't explain
• 38:21
  that I don't understand what world really is.
• 38:24
  It's all the. Powerless people because they're
• 38:26
  constantly audiences but also glass box not that color will
• 38:31
  understand this, but Red Queen, they have this it's been a wild
• 38:35
  powerful show and Mare lands on a glass arena and she breaks the
• 38:40
  glass arena so. What an entrance.
• 38:43
  What an entrance I. I'm fuzzy on that though, but.
• 38:46
  You think that may or may not have?
• 38:48
  Happened May. I'm pretty sure she does.
• 38:50
  And that's how she finds her powers.
• 38:51
  But why is the host of this fucking interview just Cesar
• 38:56
  Flickerman? Yeah, Lauren.
• 38:57
  Her name is Teal. I mean, her hair is teal and her
• 39:00
  name is like Teal and. Tila and because I was like this
• 39:04
  is just sees a Flickerman. I was just picturing the Stanley
• 39:07
  Tucci. Well, isn't.
• 39:08
  His head teal as well. That's.
• 39:11
  Why? I'm like, you could have changed
• 39:14
  it a bit. Come on.
• 39:14
  But explain why we're recording it.
• 39:17
  Explain who's being entertained by it.
• 39:19
  Explain how it's being broadcast.
• 39:21
  I don't know if we have WI. Fi it was just a big audience.
• 39:24
  Like it's a big arena with powerful people in it.
• 39:27
  If you're gonna copy and paste the hungry, don't copy and paste
• 39:31
  the host. It was like, welcome to the 6th
• 39:34
  ever purging trials. And I'm like, OK, so you just
• 39:37
  watch The Hunger Games and just wrote it down, literally,
• 39:40
  literally. You know what though?
• 39:41
  I feel like when you have a series like The Hunger Games, it
• 39:44
  has so many fans. If you even get a small group of
• 39:48
  those fans, you have a big fan base.
• 39:50
  So if someone says Oh my God, go be powerless, it's just like
• 39:54
  Hunger Games accepts more angsty or whatever.
• 39:56
  You're still capturing 2% of the whole Hunger Games audience.
• 40:00
  You're still going to make a fucking income.
• 40:02
  Yeah, to be fair though. But people are pissy, as they
• 40:06
  should be because it's so copy and paste.
• 40:08
  As they should be. You want the feels of The Hunger
• 40:11
  Games. The Hunger Games had so many
• 40:12
  more feels, so many more plot points, back stories.
• 40:16
  This had no back story. The back story it did have,
• 40:19
  which was about the dad dying was not fleshed out at all.
• 40:23
  No. Yet this word count was insane.
• 40:27
  So why have you got so much word count and no actual back story?
• 40:32
  Like what's the B story? Because the A story was the love
• 40:35
  story. If anything the trials was the B
• 40:38
  story because this was. And.
• 40:40
  Like you can't say this is character focus because the
• 40:43
  characters don't develop. You can't give me someone who's
• 40:46
  the same at the start and the end and call it a character
• 40:50
  focused story. I feel like it's just maybe the
• 40:53
  experience of the author they get locked it while Kai chops
• 40:57
  are over the shoulder into this little panic room thing.
• 41:00
  But how stupid is it to put all these people into a stone room
• 41:06
  with a guy with fire powers that is stressed out because she's
• 41:10
  even sitting in there. She's like oh it's really hot
• 41:12
  I'm uncomfortable. Meanwhile fucking kids pacing
• 41:15
  back and forth. Cooking.
• 41:16
  Everyone he's cooking. Everyone kick him out.
• 41:19
  They're. Just going to turn into their
• 41:21
  own little cremation station. Oh.
• 41:22
  Just you're worried about the people outside, worry about
• 41:25
  everyone inside. I just want to know if this is a
• 41:29
  trial for the most powerful people.
• 41:32
  Why? Why?
• 41:34
  Blair and Sadie makes sense. Kai makes sense.
• 41:38
  Jasper does not make sense. You're putting a 15 year old boy
• 41:44
  that can barely fight stand on his two feet alone.
• 41:47
  Essentially he can just blink from one section to the other
• 41:50
  and that's all he can do? Yeah, and you're putting him,
• 41:54
  are you? What?
• 41:55
  What are you trialling at this point?
• 41:56
  I feel like the king was just trying to assassinate him and
• 42:00
  then the people that were from the other places, there was one
• 42:04
  that just waned. Invisible.
• 42:05
  She had no skills. Why are they acting like it's
• 42:07
  this big trial where they find the most skilled and powerful
• 42:10
  wizard or something? Like this it's just The Hunger
• 42:13
  Games where they Chuck them in the forest and to live and they
• 42:15
  have to find their own food and then kill off.
• 42:18
  That's so boring. It is so boring.
• 42:20
  And it's kind of like the whole point of The Hunger Games and
• 42:22
  what made it so. So good is that there's.
• 42:24
  Only one winner, Yes, and that's the whole fucking point.
• 42:28
  Whereas with the trials it's just.
• 42:31
  Only nearly no one cares. We don't know the rules.
• 42:33
  You don't necessarily have to die to win, it's just whoever
• 42:36
  wins. But you could die on the
• 42:38
  process. But it's so low stakes.
• 42:41
  It's like, bro, I wish I could just go out in the wilderness
• 42:44
  for a little bit. Yeah, be vacation for me.
• 42:47
  Oh, just absolutely. I would do so badly.
• 42:51
  Oh, I hate, I hate the sun. What do you mean?
• 42:53
  But if we could chat invisible, right, we could just survive by
• 42:57
  like, oh, it's like someone's coming.
• 42:59
  We hear someone, we just go. We were just kicking by the
• 43:03
  fire, like having s'mores. Way OK here's my theory with us
• 43:08
  two in the forest I feel like. We're dumb.
• 43:10
  Enough that we'd be laughing the whole time, but we're smart
• 43:14
  enough we could outsmart people. But also I don't want to be in a
• 43:18
  forest with a man. So.
• 43:21
  I'm like, it's just a circle. Because men are stupid as well.
• 43:25
  The men in these books are. Yeah, I feel like we're pretty
• 43:27
  dumb though. Like elements we'd be like, I
• 43:30
  feel like, what temperature does fire burn?
• 43:34
  I'm like, Oh no, I don't. Have the air fryer instructions.
• 43:37
  I've stood in the fire once. It was not a fun time.
• 43:39
  Yeah, we'll see. Well.
• 43:41
  Accident prone as well Accident prone.
• 43:44
  Look, I've got no balance, struggling just standing up.
• 43:48
  Honestly I got no will to live half the time.
• 43:51
  Are we like counselling you to not fucking kill?
• 43:55
  Yourself. I won't kill myself, but I'll
• 43:57
  joke about it. But then what if we get so
• 44:01
  brainwashed by each other we just end up fucking bananas?
• 44:06
  I feel like that would happen. I think you would just get over
• 44:10
  me the amount of times in a day. I'm like, I'm just so suicidal
• 44:14
  about it that you would have enough.
• 44:16
  You'd be like fine. Yeah, fucking dies.
• 44:19
  I don't deal with you anymore. Oh.
• 44:23
  God, I know I'm the problem, but it's fine.
• 44:26
  No, I'm equally the problem, I'm just a different kind of
• 44:28
  problem. Like I just talk in memes and
• 44:30
  I'll be talking into talks the whole time and if there's no new
• 44:33
  TikTok torch, you'll just be hearing 65 blue eyes for like
• 44:37
  months on end. I do it to me first.
• 44:40
  It's going to be a murder suicide.
• 44:42
  I honestly think I just get delirious and laugh so it's
• 44:45
  fine. It's fine.
• 44:46
  Our problem is both of us have fucking anxiety and we've.
• 44:49
  Got a shit in the forest bro. I'm not shitting until I'm home.
• 44:53
  Are you kidding? You can die from Constipation,
• 44:56
  eat rocks, and then it'll. Plug up my bowels.
• 44:59
  I don't. Have.
• 45:00
  The shit until we're out of here.
• 45:02
  That's impacted bowls and that would kill you so you'd have to
• 45:05
  shit. Yeah, so we're all dying anyway.
• 45:08
  Exactly. It's a way to go.
• 45:09
  So we're not even dying by competition or lack of
• 45:13
  nutrition. We're dying by impacted bells.
• 45:15
  Don't. Worry about it, we'll be
• 45:16
  sleeping on cobblestone but we'll have like a gold rimmed
• 45:19
  toilet at the end of it. With a whole cubicle and like a
• 45:23
  roof. We're running to the end of the
• 45:25
  forest where they make us all meet and they're like, you have
• 45:27
  to fight and we're like, no, we have to shit guys.
• 45:30
  By. Guys, so you don't understand, I
• 45:33
  need to be taken back to the castle, a set of rooms on the
• 45:38
  opposite spelled I need, AI need.
• 45:44
  A fork in me, I'm done. Or preferably a vacuum tube.
• 45:49
  I'm like up the I. Want to be in one part of castle
• 45:53
  where there's no one there to expel my vows peacefully.
• 45:57
  Five to the medieval times, whether you come into the
• 46:00
  communal bathroom and it's just a through that goes all the way
• 46:02
  around, like in a semi circle and you just pull, you just drop
• 46:05
  your ducks and do a shit. Next to the next.
• 46:08
  Person and then you use the communal brush like a full like
• 46:14
  a full. Bristle brush on your Boo hole.
• 46:16
  How is that getting? The boot now I would not last in
• 46:20
  another time. We just wouldn't go to the
• 46:23
  toilet together. I'd have to go there with
• 46:25
  strangers, but I freak out when I go to a public toilet and I
• 46:28
  feel like the door isn't going all the way up to the top
• 46:31
  millimeter of the fucking ceiling.
• 46:33
  Why is with cubicles and toilets, it's not a room?
• 46:37
  It's like having a piece of paper next to.
• 46:38
  Like we're literally all just sitting next to each other.
• 46:42
  It's horrible. My worst nightmare that's on
• 46:45
  repeat is me going to a toilet where the toilet door is like a
• 46:49
  piece of A4 paper big. So you're essentially nothings
• 46:52
  covered. You see all the people coming.
• 46:54
  It's like how it was when you go to like daycare.
• 46:56
  Did you see? That like unrelated but related
• 46:59
  to what we're talking about in Cotton On and places like that,
• 47:01
  they have like a glass things like a.
• 47:04
  Viewing window. Yeah, it's.
• 47:06
  Room I'm like no. But then.
• 47:10
  But then what if another customer is just casually
• 47:12
  looking in and not the staff? There's one thing I learnt by
• 47:16
  going on holiday it's I've never had my tits out more in my life.
• 47:19
  Australia is so conservative. I've got a massage tits out.
• 47:23
  I hired a dress tits out. Two other women in the same
• 47:27
  cubicle helping me get dressed. Tits out, like just tits out,
• 47:30
  tits out, tits out. Never had my boobs out, never
• 47:33
  think about my boobs in my life. Honestly.
• 47:37
  Honestly when you have BBS you just naked in front of people
• 47:41
  all the time. That's what I mean.
• 47:42
  I don't have that experience. When I, the midwife was just
• 47:45
  walking in while I was in the shower naked, in and out, in and
• 47:48
  out. And I was just sitting there on
• 47:50
  the ground and she's like, oh, you can.
• 47:52
  I'm like, you're fine. They just walk in and out.
• 47:54
  They don't fuck. Nothing humbles you like having
• 47:56
  children. The way she just grabbed my boob
• 47:59
  and put it in my kids mouth. The way that I can't even go
• 48:01
  grocery shopping without putting a layer of makeup on, let alone
• 48:05
  what's going on downstairs. Like I just, are you kidding?
• 48:08
  I have to have a fresh Brazilian just to give birth?
• 48:10
  Just like you can't even I can't give birth.
• 48:14
  I just. I can't.
• 48:15
  I've got a my way and. Also.
• 48:18
  The way I could have shit myself on the show and I didn't.
• 48:22
  I don't know. Gold Star.
• 48:23
  Gold Star for me. Any who back to the forest.
• 48:28
  Back to us being in the forest. You know what though?
• 48:31
  Explain to me why Payton essentially she was fake dating
• 48:35
  Kit, Yes, which fuck off in the 1st place.
• 48:38
  Yeah. Why was she so fine with that?
• 48:41
  But she was so conflicted about Kai.
• 48:44
  Also a kit and Kai again with the fake dating, if you know
• 48:49
  your fucking brother is already obsessed with this random woman
• 48:53
  that robbed him, why are you asking her as a date to the
• 48:56
  ball? And two, Kai, why aren't you
• 48:59
  asking her as a date to the ball?
• 49:01
  Why did you let your brother go ask?
• 49:02
  Her because he's an idiot. Because they're both fucking
• 49:04
  idiots. Because he asked her first.
• 49:06
  It's just dumb because he didn't want to actually go after her
• 49:10
  and admit. Because remember, even at the
• 49:11
  very end, which is always the case for the main male
• 49:14
  character, it's them versus their feelings, and they're
• 49:17
  always grappling with, why do I like her?
• 49:20
  How dare I have feelings? I thought I was gay like why are
• 49:24
  they so grappling with. I trust she was in love with my.
• 49:26
  Brother, I thought. It.
• 49:28
  Was me and kiss we'd be fucking what's what is so.
• 49:34
  Wrong. I don't know about having human
• 49:37
  feelings. About being attracted to a
• 49:38
  female. If femininity is a curse, my
• 49:41
  friend. They literally jizz.
• 49:44
  When they say each other's names, because one time he said
• 49:49
  Peyton instead of darling and stuff or whatever and she's just
• 49:52
  like he was like, say my name and she's like your full name,
• 49:57
  Malachi and all. The way I was trying to work out
• 50:01
  what Kit's full name would be Kit Kat Malachit.
• 50:07
  Melatonin Katrina. Go to sleep.
• 50:10
  It's Katrina, not Hurricane Katrina.
• 50:14
  Stop. No, Do something.
• 50:16
  Kit, right? Wanking Kit.
• 50:19
  Cortana. Wanking kit Kitty.
• 50:22
  Katniss Evidi. The best one this cotton cut
• 50:32
  kitten paste. Kitten is 70.
• 50:34
  Kitten. Paste.
• 50:36
  Which is essentially. What she did to this whole book?
• 50:39
  Malachi. Out of nowhere.
• 50:42
  You can't hit us with the Malachi no out.
• 50:44
  Of nowhere Tell me you've watched Sharpro, Kai and Just.
• 50:47
  Yes. Swooned over Malachi.
• 50:52
  OK, so they're in. They're in the forest somehow
• 50:57
  Payton or pay which nearly killed me every time I heard
• 51:01
  seen it pay is not the name tell me why she found a bow and arrow
• 51:07
  immediately in the mix of that how convenient that she found a
• 51:15
  bow and arrow and she just. Is great at.
• 51:18
  And she's great at archery, like she's been using it to survive
• 51:22
  her whole life. Why set up her character weapon
• 51:25
  being the dagger and she's just going to pull a Katniss Everdeen
• 51:29
  anyway? Yeah, multi talented queen.
• 51:32
  She is a multi but she gets illusioned by I actually can't
• 51:37
  remember. It's Ace.
• 51:39
  She's getting illusioned and somehow Kit is drowning and she
• 51:42
  just runs. Breaks her legs practically
• 51:45
  trying to jump into the water because what idiot doesn't
• 51:47
  slowly walk into? Order, yeah.
• 51:51
  But also, why would the two be king?
• 51:53
  Yeah, that's not allowed to leave the castle, be out in the
• 51:57
  forest. That's why I was confused about
• 51:59
  him being involved. I thought it was.
• 52:00
  Like no and. I was like, wait, I swear to
• 52:02
  God, he was in there. It's.
• 52:03
  Just an illusion, but fucking use of brain.
• 52:06
  The best part is I thought he died and I was like oh thank
• 52:09
  fuck that love triangle it was really bad.
• 52:12
  And then she's dragging herself to the water.
• 52:14
  And of course Kai is at the exact same place because you
• 52:17
  know, this Riviera is huge, but you're going to.
• 52:19
  You were just there. She drops to the ground
• 52:23
  hysterically dying, and he's like screaming for her on his
• 52:28
  knees. Bit traumatic.
• 52:30
  Bit traumatic screaming at her name and he's like hey hey don't
• 52:34
  you dead die on me? If you die, I'm going to kill
• 52:37
  you. Shut up, shut up.
• 52:40
  He's going up for two fucking. Days.
• 52:42
  Okay, the timeline confused the fuck out of me because this all
• 52:45
  feels like it happened in four days time.
• 52:48
  Yeah, but they were making it so deep and meaningful because they
• 52:51
  did all this dance training. They did all this combat
• 52:54
  training and then they're supposed to just fight each
• 52:56
  other in the arena, and then the second they're in the arena
• 52:59
  thing, he's like, well duh, we're going to team up, bitch.
• 53:02
  Well, what idea is it you? Can't.
• 53:05
  Say that later. Yeah.
• 53:06
  Why did you just strategize not having feelings for her?
• 53:09
  Because you're going to beat her up in the arena and then the
• 53:11
  second you're in there you're like, we make a great team.
• 53:14
  Wouldn't you have fucking strategize that?
• 53:16
  He's fucking deluded. But like, Sadie tried to kill
• 53:20
  Peyton and she was like, I just have to do it.
• 53:21
  You could have just knocked her out and still a band.
• 53:24
  You just knock her in the head. They're trying to hunt other
• 53:28
  people. They never find anyone.
• 53:30
  And then they get told to meet in this area.
• 53:33
  And then they get they fight to the death.
• 53:35
  And this is where Kai accidentally stabs Jasper.
• 53:39
  And then he's again, Jasper doesn't die because there's a
• 53:41
  healer in the audience and he runs to the healer and I'm like,
• 53:44
  he's very low stakes. He should have just died.
• 53:47
  But that's when they go to the next thing where they're having
• 53:50
  interviews, and essentially the footage was just the love
• 53:55
  between her and Kai. I'm like, this is when we go
• 53:58
  back to The Hunger Games, where they're using, Yeah, like Peter
• 54:01
  and Katniss. The love for each other, fake
• 54:05
  relationship. Yeah, and of course he's
• 54:07
  smoking. They watched a whole footage
• 54:09
  back of them slow dancing together, them cuddling to
• 54:13
  sleep. And he's like, you know what?
• 54:16
  That's the girl for me. Not for my brother.
• 54:18
  That's the girl for me. Just double s down.
• 54:21
  You can have a love triangle but like you just watch footage of
• 54:25
  them fucking slow dancing in a forest and then cuddling after.
• 54:28
  Be fucking for real. I don't get what kids even
• 54:31
  thinking. I don't actually think he likes
• 54:33
  her. I think he likes that.
• 54:35
  Kind of likes her, yeah. The second boy essentially tells
• 54:38
  her he loves her. He spills wine all over himself
• 54:41
  and he's just obsessing over her.
• 54:43
  He cuts her out of her dress, tells her to go to bed.
• 54:46
  I'm like, one, you're the drunk one, go to bed.
• 54:49
  And then they send the the everyone back to fight in the
• 54:52
  arena, but they tell no one but the girls.
• 54:56
  The only reason she kind of won this fight was because she threw
• 55:00
  a rock at Blair and then just tackled her.
• 55:03
  She got scrappy. With it.
• 55:04
  She got scrappy. That's the real loot skills.
• 55:07
  Oh yeah. Just it's a slumber.
• 55:09
  Coming out two. And three.
• 55:10
  Yeah, it's just a street fight for me.
• 55:12
  And then Blair just runs away. Blair doesn't make any sense
• 55:15
  because she does not care about anything else and she's going to
• 55:19
  run away because she got a bruised face.
• 55:21
  Literally. Then we have the mountain climb.
• 55:23
  I'm so confused. So I'm still convinced that the
• 55:27
  younger brother is supposed to be killed.
• 55:29
  So they put Peyton Jackson ace in a team together and then four
• 55:34
  others in the other team that are.
• 55:35
  Friends. Yeah, yeah, the.
• 55:37
  Friends that are together and I'm like, if they I think the
• 55:40
  king just put them in there so they would all get murdered.
• 55:43
  The guy does an illusion for snakes and she trips down the
• 55:47
  mountain, but the other team actually gets snakes.
• 55:50
  And I was confused. I was like, did you actually get
• 55:52
  snakes or was there like snake illusions?
• 55:56
  But essentially they had to run up the mountain and then they
• 55:59
  were fighting to the death for the fucking flag.
• 56:02
  And this is where Kai falls in love with Payton Moore because
• 56:05
  she lets him kill Ace for revenge.
• 56:09
  And then the king is pissy because she won the flag.
• 56:12
  The whole build up was this scene where they're finally
• 56:15
  about to kiss Yeah, and they're awkwardly interrupted by a
• 56:18
  King's guard who's just standing there and.
• 56:20
  Honestly it could have been a really cute kiss too, but I
• 56:23
  guess the tension is more important in the rain give.
• 56:26
  Us nothing I guess. Just let us live in poverty.
• 56:28
  You know Walter, boys in the rain.
• 56:31
  Tell me why the scene was giving the guards just awkwardly
• 56:33
  standing there staring at them like.
• 56:35
  Because mouth breathing away and.
• 56:37
  The guy was like I'm going to cut your tongue out if you
• 56:40
  interrupt. Also, you just kiss.
• 56:42
  Her fuck the king. And he even said if I start
• 56:45
  kissing her, I'm not going to be able to like, stop myself.
• 56:48
  So you're going to start dry humping this girl in front of
• 56:50
  the guard that's literally tapping you on the shoulder
• 56:52
  because that's what it was giving.
• 56:54
  And. I just do it anyway.
• 56:55
  It's like he was going to whip his just.
• 56:57
  Now like fuck off for 5 minutes. And he's like, no, it's urgent.
• 57:00
  The king needs you. And then king, king, king I'm.
• 57:03
  Going to go suck the king. That's what the guard was
• 57:06
  saying. But then he, like, goes up there
• 57:09
  and the King's like, you can't make out with that girl.
• 57:12
  Sorry. OK, OK.
• 57:14
  But why hold until this moment? Did he tell the God, hey I'll
• 57:18
  give you 50 bucks if you just follow them around until the
• 57:21
  right amount of sexual tension? He's like.
• 57:25
  I feel like what happened is so in the rain, having a moment and
• 57:27
  the God was like fuck, and then he had to run to the king and he
• 57:30
  was like Oh my God, they're about to fuck in the rain and
• 57:33
  then he had to run back. How old?
• 57:35
  Were you guys just running back back and forth?
• 57:37
  And he's like, he's like, it's fine, they're just in the rain.
• 57:40
  And then he runs back to the king and he's like shit, they're
• 57:42
  almost kissing and then he has to run back.
• 57:45
  He's just running back and forth.
• 57:46
  And he's like, fuck, and the King's like you better not let
• 57:48
  them kiss. And he's like.
• 57:49
  Shit. There's like no texting back
• 57:51
  then. No.
• 57:53
  So bad. He's just, yeah, like he's like
• 57:56
  shit, they're about to kiss and someone's running back is.
• 57:58
  Totally ruining the vibe it's giving.
• 58:01
  Royal cock block. That was your name, your role.
• 58:07
  Royal Caucus of the Blockers, you.
• 58:12
  Quit your job and on your resume it's just like royal cock block
• 58:16
  five years experience discreet discreet follows around Princess
• 58:23
  cock blocks make sure they don't kiss.
• 58:26
  OK. Tell me why he comes up to the
• 58:31
  King's Tower or whatever. You know that there was a lot of
• 58:34
  stairs involved. So he's huffing and puffing.
• 58:36
  Daddy's got you. Daddy's like electing you.
• 58:40
  He's like, no, I don't want you with that girl.
• 58:45
  And it's like, you could have told me this months ago, but I
• 58:49
  don't know the timeline. You could have told me this a
• 58:51
  week ago. I mean, the king apparently
• 58:53
  knows all in the end and he's like I.
• 58:56
  Knew everything. I think he hates his son.
• 58:59
  He just hates his son. He.
• 59:01
  Does he taught? He tortured him and taught him
• 59:03
  how to. Torture.
• 59:04
  You know what it is? Emotional torture.
• 59:07
  Yeah, the reasoning was so dumb. He practically just said just
• 59:12
  cause, and then he just sent him on his way.
• 59:15
  He's like, And then Kai's sitting there, he's still not
• 59:18
  even conflicted about his role. He just walks out of that
• 59:21
  meeting and it's just like. You know, what a weirdo being
• 59:24
  still really cute. I know we keep it.
• 59:26
  If she'd had wanted to keep on the tension.
• 59:28
  But he should have left the king and just stormed down to her
• 59:32
  room, banged on that door and just kissed her anyway.
• 59:35
  That would have been the. Best.
• 59:36
  It would have been like tension. And like, considering they hate
• 59:39
  each other in the end of the book anyway, it would have made
• 59:42
  the heartbreak so much more actually matter.
• 59:45
  Yeah, it would have been more insane if he did that and then
• 59:48
  she did the breast still. Exactly.
• 59:50
  It's giving Romeo and Juliet we're not supposed to be
• 59:53
  together. Yeah.
• 59:54
  So of course there's this big. Build up about her finally
• 59:57
  completing her mission on her dad's behalf of like trying to
• 1:00:00
  kill the king. I mean, which come on, the way
• 1:00:03
  that that was set up was just. She can, she has a horse it out
• 1:00:07
  for kit so that she can get the tunnels.
• 1:00:10
  Honestly, the resistance shit, they just needed to look a
• 1:00:14
  fucking around. But you know what it was giving?
• 1:00:16
  They just met in a Walmart car park.
• 1:00:18
  Yeah. It was just giving.
• 1:00:19
  They were just magically at the same place at the same time and.
• 1:00:22
  You like why is it so secretive but you're going to tell some
• 1:00:25
  random chick from loot how to get into the castle?
• 1:00:29
  So the last trial after this whole thing was them in this
• 1:00:34
  massive fucking maze, which I feel like we've seen a lot of
• 1:00:37
  things before. Yeah.
• 1:00:38
  I feel like we've read about a lot of mazes.
• 1:00:40
  She gets attacked by Blair. She's already lost her shoes.
• 1:00:43
  She had to wrap her foot because she.
• 1:00:44
  It's got fucking torn up by thorns.
• 1:00:47
  Steal Blair's fucking shoes, Right.
• 1:00:49
  Steal her shoes, Yeah. Maybe she's got big hoofers.
• 1:00:52
  I don't. Fuck, you're going to run
• 1:00:54
  through a maze with thorns and rocks and shit?
• 1:00:57
  Maybe, she thought, I'll just raw dog it.
• 1:00:59
  At the end of this whole fucking maze, they're supposed to kill a
• 1:01:02
  criminal. Yeah, but it's Peyton's friend.
• 1:01:07
  How convenient that all the ordinary, like all the slum
• 1:01:10
  peoples, keep getting set up. Just keep getting set up but
• 1:01:13
  like Hayden was never going to kill her friend so she was never
• 1:01:16
  going to win but then if Kai killed her.
• 1:01:19
  Then she's going to be mad as well.
• 1:01:21
  As she's going to be mad at Kai, but then if Kai doesn't kill
• 1:01:24
  her, the King's going to be pissed.
• 1:01:26
  And you know he's going to do whatever his daddy wants.
• 1:01:28
  No, but I feel like Kai wouldn't have killed her.
• 1:01:31
  Yeah, probably not, I feel. Like he would have had, that's
• 1:01:33
  the only time he would have had a moral problem and that could
• 1:01:37
  have been some really amazing character growth.
• 1:01:39
  For, yeah, but why? Why have something build up to
• 1:01:42
  anything, Yeah, when we could just have everything build up to
• 1:01:44
  nothing, yeah. Exactly.
• 1:01:46
  I'm like, this was the perfect opportunity.
• 1:01:48
  To have a little moral, you've already made two small tweaks
• 1:01:52
  that wouldn't take that long to ride in that would have improved
• 1:01:55
  the quality like tenfold I. Know I'm like.
• 1:01:59
  But then Blair kills Adina before anyone.
• 1:02:01
  Oh, duh, because she's got. Titties.
• 1:02:05
  And that now we have a real reason to be mad at Blair
• 1:02:08
  instead of she touched my man's forearm.
• 1:02:10
  Oh. My God, she, she breathed in
• 1:02:13
  his. Direction.
• 1:02:14
  Exactly. And she's not a gull's gull.
• 1:02:18
  No, but then immediately the resistant attacks.
• 1:02:22
  If you're going to storm a fucking castle arena, have
• 1:02:25
  enough people. If you're going to take the
• 1:02:28
  king, take the fucking king. Don't.
• 1:02:29
  Fuck around. But it didn't even sound like he
• 1:02:31
  had that many gods, realistically.
• 1:02:33
  Because he doesn't really because he's a brawny or brawler
• 1:02:36
  or whatever he's but how he got out of the gods arena and Peyton
• 1:02:40
  still took him down doesn't make any fucking sense.
• 1:02:43
  She's a small girl that has been starved her entire life and
• 1:02:47
  she's only had probably like two weeks of working out.
• 1:02:50
  But she's been motivated by the revenge of her father.
• 1:02:54
  I know that's where I get all my energy.
• 1:02:58
  Like. Fighting, Hitting the gym?
• 1:02:59
  Absolutely not. A little bit of Do I have
• 1:03:02
  feminine rage? Yes, I have.
• 1:03:04
  You know what, with the amount of rage in my small body, I
• 1:03:07
  probably could take it. Could lift.
• 1:03:08
  A car. I could lift a car.
• 1:03:11
  In my dreams. You know what's good though?
• 1:03:13
  Like, OK, so she's facing up with the king.
• 1:03:15
  Yeah, right. So everything's like this is all
• 1:03:18
  built up to this moment, right? He's trying to spill the tea.
• 1:03:21
  And he's just like, girl, you don't even know what happened
• 1:03:24
  back then, bitch, How do you mistake what she thought she
• 1:03:28
  saw, which is the king killing her dad with essentially a child
• 1:03:33
  killing her dad? Bitch, go to.
• 1:03:35
  Specsavers. Oh my God, a 14 year old boy
• 1:03:39
  kills her father and she's like, you know what?
• 1:03:42
  It's a grown man. It's a grown.
• 1:03:43
  He's a brawler. Who looks exactly like the king?
• 1:03:45
  And he's wearing. Like king clothes.
• 1:03:47
  I'm not even sure Kai is the King's child at this point.
• 1:03:49
  No. And then the king has the
• 1:03:51
  audacity to be like ha ha ha. I knew all along that you're an
• 1:03:56
  ordinary and I was just setting you up and it's like, bitch.
• 1:04:00
  Why though? Because.
• 1:04:01
  She got close to your eldest and then you're 2nd and was getting
• 1:04:05
  inside her info. So why did you actually need her
• 1:04:08
  alive? Because you technically didn't.
• 1:04:10
  Feel like this man was dumb and had no fucking clue.
• 1:04:12
  You could have bug zapped her day one because he goes I needed
• 1:04:16
  you alive for what? To cock tease your sons.
• 1:04:20
  Just tell me you're incest with your son.
• 1:04:23
  Like what was the plot? Like what was the point of
• 1:04:25
  keeping her alive? Quote UN quote.
• 1:04:27
  There was no. Point.
• 1:04:28
  That's what I mean, but that's what he brought up.
• 1:04:30
  And then he gives her a head start.
• 1:04:32
  He's like, off you go, I'll just chase after you.
• 1:04:35
  That was the best part, imagining her fucking sprinting
• 1:04:38
  off. Literally because like the king
• 1:04:41
  even carves an owener and then tries to kill her after.
• 1:04:45
  I'm like, just fucking start the just.
• 1:04:47
  Do. Her.
• 1:04:48
  Yeah, she runs away after killing the king.
• 1:04:50
  So she finds out this and she's like, Oh my God, Kai, the guy I
• 1:04:54
  barely. Know.
• 1:04:55
  He's. The murderer.
• 1:04:57
  The trained assassin who was taught to.
• 1:04:59
  Kill this man that everyone is scared of because all he does is
• 1:05:03
  kill people. And Column, he's shocked.
• 1:05:05
  She's like, oh, the king made him do his dirty.
• 1:05:08
  Work. Oh, the king has been training
• 1:05:09
  him since a small child to kill people, and then he killed my
• 1:05:12
  father as a child. Literally, they reunite.
• 1:05:16
  Yes. And of course she's going to be
• 1:05:19
  pissy. He acts like the victim.
• 1:05:23
  Kai doesn't even acknowledge it. He doesn't even admit it either.
• 1:05:26
  Pepper through this fucking book, I shit you not, is bits of
• 1:05:29
  him being horrified by the people he's had to kill when he
• 1:05:33
  was traumatized and the first person he had to kill is
• 1:05:37
  Peyton's dad and he remembers all the people he had to kill.
• 1:05:40
  Unless I am fucking de Lulu about that and somehow forgets
• 1:05:45
  that he killed Peyton's dad. They had the same fucking last
• 1:05:48
  name. You didn't want to put two and
• 1:05:50
  two together. Like the?
• 1:05:51
  Most typical and she's. Fantasy.
• 1:05:54
  And not only that, she's constantly talking about how her
• 1:05:56
  dad was the loot healer. So you're going to set, you're
• 1:06:00
  going to kill the loot healer and then forget who he is even
• 1:06:04
  though you remember everything. There's so many plot holes it's
• 1:06:08
  fucking ridiculous. You know that he looked exactly
• 1:06:10
  like Peyton. Why does Kai even like his dad?
• 1:06:14
  I know too much about him. He's not nice to him.
• 1:06:17
  I do not understand my kid like he's dad.
• 1:06:19
  His mums a bimbo who only cares about the ball and dresses so
• 1:06:22
  there's no hope there. She's a dumb bitch.
• 1:06:24
  Hey it would make more sense if Kai hated his dad but then was
• 1:06:30
  conflicted about if he was sad about his dad dying or if he was
• 1:06:34
  conflicted feeling guilty about not being sad.
• 1:06:37
  Rather than him being like I'm going to kill Peyton, wouldn't
• 1:06:39
  you praise the bitch? Like thank you for taking this
• 1:06:42
  horrible person out of my life. Well, now he's just obligated.
• 1:06:45
  That's what it always comes back down to because he's like, well,
• 1:06:48
  now that she's killed my dad, I'm obligated to kill her.
• 1:06:51
  But I'll give you a head start. Golly yeah, I'm giving you a
• 1:06:53
  head start. Go for a run.
• 1:06:54
  But not only that, the epilogue was kids perspective and it was
• 1:06:59
  so fucking stupid. And I don't want to hear
• 1:07:02
  anything from this man the. Kid is fucking the most foul
• 1:07:05
  character in this book. But he's that boring.
• 1:07:08
  He's. So fucking boring.
• 1:07:09
  I feel like they're supposed to swoon because he's the better
• 1:07:12
  brother but he's just boring. Is he the better brother?
• 1:07:16
  He's not like. He's not.
• 1:07:17
  I feel like in the back of my mind, you cannot be the better
• 1:07:21
  brother if you've watched your brother fall in love with this
• 1:07:25
  woman because essentially that's what it is.
• 1:07:27
  And then you're just like, you know what?
• 1:07:30
  It's my time to shine. Fuck off.
• 1:07:32
  If you are so respectful of your brother, you're not going to go
• 1:07:36
  after the girl he's obsessed with.
• 1:07:39
  But for her, just fucking opt out.
• 1:07:41
  You're allowed to say no. Oh absolutely.
• 1:07:44
  Just get out of the family at this point.
• 1:07:46
  Well, she dealings with the dad, the brother, the brother.
• 1:07:48
  Like, well, she kind of has the feels for Kai.
• 1:07:51
  There's there's little. People who definitely don't need
• 1:07:53
  to get involved with kid. No, fuck kid, he's stupid as
• 1:07:56
  fuck. And boring.
• 1:07:58
  He's so. Boring in a way.
• 1:07:59
  He's giving asexual. He thinks women are breeders, is
• 1:08:02
  what I'm thinking. No, but I also feel like he only
• 1:08:05
  cares because she's the only one that's not fawning over him at
• 1:08:09
  the same time. Yeah, and it's like she's so
• 1:08:11
  disinterested in you that you are obsessed.
• 1:08:14
  It's more ownership, but not in a hot, sexy way.
• 1:08:17
  You're going to get locked up in bread somewhere, Yeah.
• 1:08:21
  Never see the light of day ever again.
• 1:08:23
  You know what? It would just breed out the
• 1:08:24
  fucking powerful. Yeah, I know.
• 1:08:26
  The irony. But it's like, why wouldn't you
• 1:08:29
  just tell your fucking son that she's powerless?
• 1:08:32
  The end. Let's squash her like a bug.
• 1:08:34
  Who? Cares.
• 1:08:35
  Why wouldn't you pay someone in the trials to kill her?
• 1:08:38
  I know it's that simple, but they don't even need to escalate
• 1:08:41
  her to that point. They could have killed her ages
• 1:08:43
  ago if he knew about it forever. Ago.
• 1:08:45
  Yeah, yeah. She's a non event just.
• 1:08:47
  Slaughter in her room at that point, who's?
• 1:08:50
  Going to know. Cover it up.
• 1:08:51
  You're the king. But yeah, kids perspective.
• 1:08:53
  And then he's like, you better go get our girl.
• 1:08:55
  I'm not sure if he's at our girl, but it was implied.
• 1:08:58
  And I'm like. Stop.
• 1:09:01
  I just love how I gave my head start.
• 1:09:03
  It was great. That's the funniest thing you
• 1:09:04
  did? I will not fault off.
• 1:09:06
  He's like, no, because I will get you girl.
• 1:09:09
  He literally said something. You better run because I will
• 1:09:13
  not fault at this time. Fucking I'm out of here.
• 1:09:18
  Is there anywhere else to live like this whole area?
• 1:09:21
  Just go into the fucking dessette dessette.
• 1:09:24
  Dessette. Yummy.
• 1:09:26
  Just go. Fucking off grid and never speak
• 1:09:28
  to these fucking. People again, I'm like, you're
• 1:09:30
  fucking. Homeless with no friends?
• 1:09:32
  Like at this point you could be anywhere.
• 1:09:34
  You know, back in the day when they were living in loot, if her
• 1:09:37
  and her friend got together, find a way to live on the on the
• 1:09:41
  earth or something, I don't know.
• 1:09:43
  Well, they could have had so much more opportunity living in
• 1:09:46
  that fucking house. Her friend could have had a.
• 1:09:49
  Little soul, I can't. Her friend could have a little
• 1:09:52
  sewing room and then a little come into the.
• 1:09:55
  Business. They could have had a business
• 1:09:56
  together. Yeah, women supporting women.
• 1:09:59
  But then here we are. Trash and these characters like
• 1:10:02
  no tomorrow I. Want to know people must have
• 1:10:05
  enjoyed this just for the conversations because it's the
• 1:10:07
  only thing that. I think it is besides the back
• 1:10:11
  and forth and the start. I was enjoying it because it was
• 1:10:14
  a little carefree, like carefree stupid.
• 1:10:17
  But that's because I love the really shitty like books.
• 1:10:21
  Romanticy. Yeah.
• 1:10:22
  It is not fantasy, no, it's romance first fantasy setting
• 1:10:27
  It's. Very.
• 1:10:28
  It's kind of like 4th Wing where it was more romance and a smidge
• 1:10:33
  of fantasy. But give us a proper motivation,
• 1:10:35
  give us a proper love triangle if you're going to do romanticy.
• 1:10:39
  Give me a proper moral dilemma. Just give me anything.
• 1:10:42
  I'm going to go hard. If.
• 1:10:43
  You. Here's the thing.
• 1:10:45
  If you're going to go hard into overused tropes, you do it well.
• 1:10:49
  Put some more ordinary. But you don't need to have sex
• 1:10:52
  for it to be. Zesty.
• 1:10:54
  So is that kind of? The plot?
• 1:10:56
  That's the. Plot.
• 1:10:56
  Honestly, you're. Saying how we got to the end of
• 1:10:58
  the plot there isn't it? I was really struggling.
• 1:11:01
  I was very much treading water through the whole thing because
• 1:11:05
  I was like, wait, when we just did a ball?
• 1:11:07
  Like how many events are there at the trials?
• 1:11:08
  None of this was explained or structured well.
• 1:11:11
  If you're going to give me a reason to care, kill them off.
• 1:11:14
  Kill off your characters. Fuck your characters.
• 1:11:17
  Make me like someone first though.
• 1:11:18
  Make me like them and then make me feel.
• 1:11:21
  Fucking make me feel. Anything though, because I
• 1:11:23
  didn't feel anything. Yeah, see, the best books always
• 1:11:26
  make me feel some type of way of their characters.
• 1:11:28
  And I literally Jax or Jasper or whatever his fucking name is, he
• 1:11:33
  should have just died. They should have built him up a
• 1:11:35
  bit more and then killed him. And then we would have had maybe
• 1:11:39
  a moral dilemma of Kai hating his dad for putting the younger
• 1:11:43
  brother in the games. Give me a reason to hate Blair,
• 1:11:47
  but then also give me a reason to like her and not want to die.
• 1:11:50
  So like, I'm struggling. Exactly.
• 1:11:52
  I don't know, like just. Killing the all powerful king
• 1:11:55
  like as you said, when you're the powerless 1.
• 1:11:57
  Doesn't mean. Thrilling.
• 1:12:00
  He should be more of a problem. It must just be setting up for
• 1:12:03
  Kit to be the king in the very next book.
• 1:12:06
  That's why they would have killed off the king.
• 1:12:07
  Yeah, but is she going to kill off Kit because they're not
• 1:12:10
  going to get rid of Kit because he's a love triangle?
• 1:12:13
  But he's not a good one. I think they're going to have a
• 1:12:15
  second love triangle interest because she hates Kai at the
• 1:12:18
  moment and it's not going to be Kit.
• 1:12:20
  Because that flop, I feel like this is the enemy to love his
• 1:12:22
  bit, but it's going to be like. But there's going to be another
• 1:12:24
  guy in the mix. There's going to be.
• 1:12:26
  It's too boring otherwise. I'm parched.
• 1:12:29
  I'm thirsty. I'm not always thirsty because
• 1:12:32
  sometimes things will entertain you.
• 1:12:34
  I actually, you know what I really did like about this book?
• 1:12:37
  That there was no sex scenes and I because I prefer the tension.
• 1:12:40
  So for that I'm fulfilled. So what should we rate this out
• 1:12:43
  of how many? Dimply smirks out of five.
• 1:12:47
  How many dimply smirks yeah I want to do?
• 1:12:51
  I'm so conflicted because I feel like it's not so low that it's a
• 1:12:56
  2.5 but it's not so high that it's a 3.
• 1:12:59
  Yeah, OK. So it's like a mid ground, yeah.
• 1:13:01
  Maybe just go 3 then 33 means you liked it.
• 1:13:05
  I didn't. I did like it.
• 1:13:06
  I just feel like you had really good potential for more.
• 1:13:10
  If I'm just going to go with the straight up one out of five, I'm
• 1:13:13
  going to just hit it with A1 because I mean more plot girl
• 1:13:16
  like let's achieve lift off on this home.
• 1:13:18
  Actually, to be fair, if I'm talking about entertained, yeah,
• 1:13:21
  men, I was entertained by the cringy dialogue, which is a
• 1:13:24
  three to me, but plot wise it's a one.
• 1:13:27
  Because there was no plot. If it's such a sensation to
• 1:13:30
  TikTok, yeah, then you girls be lacking, shots fired.
• 1:13:35
  You people be lacking. I think it's a comfort read
• 1:13:38
  thing where someone wants to read something 2° different to
• 1:13:42
  something that they've read a million times over so they can
• 1:13:44
  go, I'm going to add that into the rotation and read it
• 1:13:47
  whenever I'm having a sad day. Yeah, true.
• 1:13:49
  I think that's what it is. They're too scared to go a
• 1:13:51
  little bit further left all. I'm saying is that Lauren could
• 1:13:55
  have had the ideas to make it. Yeah.
• 1:13:58
  She had the word count. She had the time.
• 1:14:01
  She had the time, she had the ideas.
• 1:14:03
  I think she just needed to have a conversation with someone
• 1:14:07
  about her ideas. Cut it in half, cut the word
• 1:14:11
  count in half, trim all the fat off and what you trimmed off,
• 1:14:14
  add back as settings and plot. Like reason for them doing this
• 1:14:18
  trials Like give us a bit more reason, give us a bit higher
• 1:14:20
  stakes. Like you said, kill a couple of
• 1:14:22
  people off, give us people to care about.
• 1:14:25
  You can't just kill off non existent characters.
• 1:14:27
  I know it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
• 1:14:30
  So my my rating is all over the place because I'm conflicted and
• 1:14:34
  confused. That's OK, All right, so we're
• 1:14:37
  probably going to read Scarred next because I want to
• 1:14:40
  emotionally scar myself. And then I'm going to
• 1:14:43
  emotionally scar you some more with the book after that.
• 1:14:45
  Oh, I'm. So excited.
• 1:14:46
  Don't tell me what it is. Yeah.
• 1:14:47
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