Enchantra by Kaylie Smith

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So I have a story for you. Okay. This past

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weekend, I was with my grandpa,

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and this story is totally relevant to this book, which is why I'm specifically telling

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you this time. Okay. Because we'll talk about it later. But Donovie feels

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really like she doesn't fit in with her family. And we've talked about that.

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I super relate to that. But I've always gotten along really great with my mom's

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side. And my grandpa told us the story of how he met

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my grandma. Oh, for the first time in your whole adult life. Yeah. My mother

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had never heard this story. Neither had my aunt. It was me, my aunt,

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and my grandpa. And he's telling us the story.

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Fun. He was graduating from college already. He went back to

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a dance and saw my grandma. Okay.

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Asked her to dance, and she was like, yeah, sure, fine. They danced.

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And then he asked her to dance again, and she was like, no, I only

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dance with boys once. And she walked away. Oh,

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yeah. So two weeks go by, and he.

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Can'T stop thinking about her. Like, she has just made

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such an imprint on him. So he calls the dorms. There's a

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formal coming up. And he calls to ask her to go to this formal.

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So she picks up the phone, and he's like, hey, it's Joe. And she's like,

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joe? Joe who? Stop. He didn't even make

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a blip on her radar. This man had not stopped thinking about her. Yeah.

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For two weeks. Yes. And I was just like,

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that's my person. Yes. I am my grandma.

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Yes. And I know. I know. I love that for

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you. And my great grandma, my grandma's mom,

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her name was Florence. Oh, love that name. She went by Jerry.

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No, the fuck she did not. The only game that we played when we

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were kids with her, the only game she let us play at her house was

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called Jerry Wins. Stop. She was the most wonderful

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person. So now I just feel like,

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just so accepted. And I am just. I'm my grandma.

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Yeah, I know. Oh, my God. I love that. I know.

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What an affirming experience. It was great.

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That's wild. My grandmother was married to somebody

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who was not my biological grandfather. So I knew my biological grandfather,

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and then I knew her husband,

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and she died. And I going through all of his stuff and was like,

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finding things in this giant trunk. And I was like, oh, who's this? My mom

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was like, oh, that was her first husband. And I was like,

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oh, okay. Well, then I kept digging through, and then she was like, oh,

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I think that was her third husband. So we got

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to the bottom of it and found out that she'd been married like five times.

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In my mind I was like, I can't believe it's so

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wild to imagine them as like real people out there fucking it

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up. All right, well, I'm Amanda and Nicole. And we are plot

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tarts. We read, recap and review smutty books. Let us

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help you decide if this book should stay on your tbr. What are we reading

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today, Nicole? We are reading Enchantra by Kaylie Smith.

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I didn't realize this when we read

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Fantasma or when we read this book until I finished this book and went down

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a rabbit hole and started googling everything that I could about Kaylie Smith. And I

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discovered that this is actually the second book in a four book series.

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Four books that she's committed to. I could sleeping longer.

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Yes, I could do. But it feels very much like Harry Potter where

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the first book is almost kind of it's setting up the world but

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it hasn't set the story because this book at the end,

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it's very easy to see how it can be more books with

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Phantasma. It wasn't. The story was resolved. Yes.

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Yep. This now feels unresolved for sure.

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And I'm so excited for the next books. I can't wait. I have theories about

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what they're going to be about and I am literally just like dying.

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So do that really fast if you wouldn't mind. Kaylie Smith.

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Content warnings for this book. This book contains lots of blood, death,

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drugs, heavy alcohol use, light gore, mentions of self harm,

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and explicit sexual content that includes magically induced

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horniness. There's a brief scene of attempted assault which may be triggering

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for some readers. And I would say that's a pretty succinct

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content warning list. This book had a dedication that I liked.

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I didn't even read it. Shoot. I got choked up reading the

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dedication. I'm going to try to say it without getting emotional. The dedication is

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for the souls who burned the bridges between themselves and their demons.

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And for those still trying to light the match. We'll wait for you.

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I love that. I know. I was literally like, I am somebody

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who I've battled with demons my entire life and I,

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I never really burnt a bridge with them. I just kind of like wrestled them

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into submission and we have like picnics with them.

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We're best friends, we do everything together. And I just really liked that part about

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like, about waiting for those like that are still trying to light

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the match because it's a battle that we can't fight for you, but, like,

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we'll be here when you get there and you need us, you know, So I

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love that. I loved it so much. And you need to start reading the dedication.

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I know, and it's so good. So appropriate for

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Jenna. All right. Well, as we did with Fantasma,

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we open with a prologue. In the prologue, a woman is in

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a standoff with a man who, according to her, the last time

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his shadows were wrapped around her like this, there was much less clothing between them.

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She tells him, I loathe you. To which he replies,

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love, loathing. Same passion, different names.

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It's very much, though, like the beginning of Phantasma where you're

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not sure what's happening and it's not what it

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seems. Yeah, for sure. We open pretty much where we left

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off in Phantasma. Genevieve, Ophelia's sister, is on a trip in Europe that

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has not turned out to be the wild adventure that we were made to believe

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it was. Genevieve has been corresponding via mail with a

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man named Barrington Silver, who has invited her to his manor.

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Barrington is an old friend of her mother's, and Genevieve has been impersonating

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her mom in hopes of getting an invitation for an in person so

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that she can learn more about her family's history. She's forced to

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deviate from the carefully curated itinerary that Ophelia has set for her when

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a hex of crows begins harassing her. To accept the invitation,

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do we want to give a physical description? Genevieve? Genevieve is 21.

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She is days away from her 22nd birthday. She is five' five,

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has golden brown curls. She has a

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heart shaped face, very pretty, looks sweet.

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She has teal eyes, freckles, and she has very

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voluptuous curves. Where Ophelia was tall and

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thin, Genevieve is short and curvy. Yes.

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And her curves come up a lot in

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this book. And I love that we don't just get the

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description of her being curvy and then just like left

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to our imaginations for the rest of it. We are constantly reminded that Genevieve

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has got assets and I love fucking live for it.

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It's the best. Also, like I said, I went down a little bit of a

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rabbit hole. It is not surprising to me at all that you like Genevieve because

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Genevieve is an Aries. I made a note about it. Yes, yes,

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yes, she does. We have slightly different personalities, but I multiple

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times I'm like when Genevieve says something like, I would have said that

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exact same thing. Yes. And I'm sure you know some of them. 100%. Yes.

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I. And I love the beginning of this, too. The crows following her, and she's

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like, all right, I get it. I'm fucking going. Yes.

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Such a good intro and sets up kind of. This book was

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funny. Yes. I have multiple quotes. One of

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the quotes that I have here is it's during a moment of her travels

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where the train attendant says to her, it was a pleasure to meet you,

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Ms. Grimm. I shall miss your colorful company. And Genevieve says

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in response, I'm devastated for you. Try not to fall into too heavy a depression

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from my noticeable absence in your life. She's so funny. I just. I.

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Absolutely, adorably charming. And people mentioned multiple times how charming she

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is. Yes. And you really get that sense, which is very you. Yes.

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Very, very you. Yeah. 100%. It doesn't matter.

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Everybody loves Nicole. I'm being a super narcissist. And people find it

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endearing. Like, look at that confidence, girl. Good for you.

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Absolutely. I think that here's a good place to pause

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to talk about Genevieve as a person, because we're going to get to it later.

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It sounds like between the both of us, but to me,

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Ophelia almost described Genevieve as, like, like,

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kind of a princess. Like, was not a care in the world, and she was

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like, this raging socialite with, like, a long list of close friends,

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and Ophelia's never felt close to anybody, and Genevieve is surrounded by people

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all the time and blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah. And Genevieve was so sheltered

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from her mother's, like, constant. Whatever you call it.

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Yeah. Education and. Yeah. And I think, like, my favorite part about this

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book was unlearning everything that was planted in our minds

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by Ophelia, because Genevieve is so, so, so much

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more complex than Ophelia gives her credit for. And even as a

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guardian, Ophelia makes the mistake of, like, interpreting Genevieve as,

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like, super rash and impulsive, almost like a child.

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She, like, ran off and entered into Phantasma and she's in trouble

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again. And it literally never occurs to

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Ophelia, like, Ophelia is so, like, wrapped up in

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all of this work that she's done, she almost has this, like, inflated sense of,

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like, I have all this responsibility, and nobody understands what it's like to be me.

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And Genevieve is just, like. In the end, as we get through this, we really

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see that even when Genevieve enters into

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Phantasma and Ophelia and her meet up at

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the end, Ophelia significantly underestimates Genevieve's

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ability to win. Yeah. She sincerely Is

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like, she's gonna. She doesn't think she's back? No, she says,

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like, she's. Like she's gonna go into this room where she has to determine if

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it's a real person or not. We find out later that Genevieve notices

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every little detail and can very easily distinguish between what

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is a fake person and what is a real person. I think that Genevieve

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is, throughout the book, is perceived as, like, a troublemaker.

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Yeah, they call her trouble. They literally call her trouble. But she is

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just somebody who trusts her own instincts,

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and I think she cares about the human experience,

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and I think that she cares about other people,

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not just because she loves them. Like,

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Ophelia was relentless in Fantasma. She didn't

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care about anybody but herself. She didn't care about anybody but her own survival.

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And it's really easy for Genevieve very early on to see all of

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the people in this house as people, even though they're not. Even though they're all

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demons. She sees them all as people. She cares about all of them,

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and she is willing to sacrifice herself for other people,

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whereas Ophelia was only willing to sacrifice herself for Genevieve.

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And even then, it was selfishly driven. Yes, it was a little

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bit driven by the fact that she was in love with the voice.

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Did you go into this book, like, expecting Genevieve to be who she was?

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I knew she was a more complex character because when we

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talked about it, you pointed out how Ophelia claimed her and Genevieve

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weren't even that close. All of that. She didn't know anything about Genevieve,

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which we knew was not true. Genevieve felt that they were very

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close. Genevieve knows everything about her sister. Genevieve is

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now close with both her and Salem, so I

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knew she'd be more complex. She is just as impulsive as I thought.

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That's where I see it a little bit differently, because I think that

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if we're comparing impulsivity,

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Ophelia was so, so unrelentingly

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impulsive. She ran into every single one of those challenges head

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first, like she knew exactly what to do. That's impulsive. I would actually

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say Genevieve is more determined. Exactly. Thank you. She's not very

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important distinction. Yes, she. It can come across as being impulsive,

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but it's actually just. She made a decision. She's been thinking

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about this decision and going to meet Barrington Silver for a

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long time. She's been writing letters for months, and when she gets there,

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he's not going to turn back. She's going into these things. She's making these

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decisions based on her instincts. And she has good instincts.

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I'm a big fan of Genevieve. I'm going to back her same

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I love her in the first book. I love her in this book even more.

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Just off of our only the books that we've read

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in our podcast right now, my list would be Genevieve,

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Mini Darling Violet. Those are my top three and Genevieve would be my

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number one. I love her so much. She's just Chef's kiss. I love everything about

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her. I do too. She travels across Europe on a train to the manor,

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which she discovers is glamoured against mortals. After eating

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her fill of some berries growing along the perimeter fence, she uses her specter

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powers to pass through the locked gates and promptly gets lost in a hedge maze

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that separates the gate from the house beyond and then succumbs to

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the berries which were in fact poisoned. After waking up on the other side

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of the fence, she makes her way back through the maze to the front door

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where she is very aggressively and very

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rudely turned away by my boyfriend.

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I as soon as I read Tattoos and Lip

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Ring. Oh he's for Amanda. Amanda will be obsessed with him. Also his attitude,

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everything. Rowan is for

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you. Rowan is for me. I am in love

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with Rowan. I actually also found fan art of him on Kaylee Smith's

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page. Oh I think he is exactly what

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I would have imagined. And he is so beautiful and angsty looking and I'm

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just in love. So do we want to do a physical description of Rowington

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silver? Rowan is 6 5. He has

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black hair that is described as being carefully disheveled,

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golden eyes, a square jaw,

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a gold hoop lip ring, very attractive.

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He has rings on every finger. He's well

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dressed and refined. Not to be deterred,

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Genevieve lets herself into the house because I think for Genevieve she's thinking

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like I'm not here to talk to this asshole that grieved me at the

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door. I'm here to talk to Barrington. So she decides that she's going to let

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herself in and she meets two of the silver

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siblings, which are Ellington, AKA Ellen and Sevington,

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AKA Seven. She flees and runs into Rowan

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who alerts Barron and they inform Genevieve of her bad timing.

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It turns out that Genevieve arrived on the eve of the

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King kickoff event of an annual contest that occurs in the Enchantra

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Manor. Barrington Silver and his six adult children are demons.

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His wife, their mother, has contracted a rare fatal illness

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called crimson Rot, for which there is no cure.

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Baron, in his desperation, has made a deal with a devil named Nox,

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wherein his offsprings compete in an annual Hunt. The winner is rewarded

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with a year of freedom, while the remaining siblings are forced into servitude to noxious

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for a year. The winner is the one sibling to stay alive by the end

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of the contest. The contest is televised to the residents of Hell via

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mirrors, which are abundant and placed throughout the home. In order for Genevieve

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to not be killed on site by Knox, she must marry Rowan and enter the

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contest as his wife. The loophole allows for two winners,

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and if both parties of the wedded pair survive, then the silver spouse

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is given not just annual freedom, but eternal freedom.

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Genevieve reluctantly agrees after an encounter with Max that terrifies

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her, and they are married in the center of the hedge maze. And as part

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of the contest, the players, which now consist of the siblings and Genevieve, are stripped

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of their powers. And when they finalize their I dos and she's stripped of her

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Spectre powers, she faints. She wakes up later to the dulcet

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tones of the silver family arguing about the situation.

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It is so hard because this book is so

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sexy. Everything Rowan does is sexy. When Genevieve

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first meets Nox, she had ran to the bathroom. She's trying to escape.

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She's like, I'm not marrying this guy. I'm not doing this.

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Runs in the bathroom. And then Knox is there. She says

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that she's gonna be married to Rowan, and then Rowan breaks

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the door down. Oh, my God. We talked about

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how I like a man undone. And maybe a little aggressive.

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Of all of the things that I thought you were gonna say, it wasn't that

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thing. There are so many, like, little comments that he makes that

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are so sexy. I love that you picked up all. Of the

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things, break a fucking door down to get to me.

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Oh, my God. And I don't know if you mentioned that we met.

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Rohan has a twin, Remy Remim.

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Yeah, I'll get there. They're twins. Yeah.

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Missed opportunity there. Holy buckets. I knew

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you were gonna say that. Well, this whole situation is rife

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with conflict. Rowan and Genevieve are fighting because Genevieve

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is indignant that she was forced into this, and Rowan is just generally

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annoyed with Genevieve. And the silver siblings are in disagreement on

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what this all means, because Rowan has been the winner for the last 14 consecutive

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years and has basically been MIA the entire time.

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Some of the siblings are skeptical that Knox will actually release them without

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punishment for the remaining siblings. And Rowan feels like he can save

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them all if he wins by finding a cure for his mom's sickness,

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which, according to his siblings, doesn't exist. Beyond rumors.

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Genevieve and Rowan are so Funny. It's a little

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bit like neon gods. Sure. He's just, like, perpetually exasperated

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with her and, like, just look a little bored. Just, like, I've been around a

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long time, and Genevieve is. Genevieve is constantly

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scandalized. Like, she does it to herself. Yes. So she'll

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be like. Like, on their wedding night, first of all, she meets him, and she's

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like, under no circumstances would I ever have sex with you. I will never share

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a bed with you. And then they, like, it's their wedding night, and they're in

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his room, and she's like, so about, like, the consummation of our marriage.

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Rowan is like, bitch, you said we were going to do it. And she was

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like, I didn't mean it like that. Yes.

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Oh, my God, yes. So fucking funny. But that's

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exactly what I would do. Like, I'd meet you. I'd be stubborn. I'd be pissed

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off. Don't fucking come near me. But then I'm like, in the situation,

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I'm like, I'm getting late, though.

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I get what I say. Said, but,

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yeah, I'm gonna need that dick especially. Yeah. When you look like that.

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God. As a wedding gift, Rowan gives Genevieve

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a ring that turns hot when someone who means her harm is nearby.

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She literally calls it hideous. He gives it

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to her. She's like, I'm not wearing that. Yeah. Have you looked at this?

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Yes. Yes. And he's like, ma' am,

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this isn't about fashion. Over fashion. Yeah. I'm literally trying to save

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your life. Like, what is wrong with you? The night before the games begin,

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there is a masquerade ball. We start to learn a little about each

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of the siblings here, and we meet a rogue demon who has

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his eyes set on Genevieve. The party is

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initially pretty uneventful, but when Knox arrives, he pulls Genevieve into

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the center of the crowd, where she is introduced to the partygoers as the new

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player in the hunt. And he toasts with a glass of

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air, quote, passion fruit juice, which Genevieve

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doesn't realize makes you act out your innermost desires with the

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person you want the most. Well. And Rowan tells her, don't eat or drink anything.

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And then she sees that, and she's. Like, I need it. Yeah.

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An overwhelming need to drink it. Yeah. She has, like, three or four glasses of

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champagne to the dome, like, just slams

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them. And she sees this, like, pretty tray, and she's of purple drink,

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and she's like, I want that. And Rowan is like, genevieve. And she's, like,

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not listening and goes right up to narrative and shoves it.

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Yes. And Rowan tries to steer her away from the party, which has

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basically now turned into a full blown orgy. Yes.

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And again, giving Neon Gods the sex party. Yes. The entire

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room is basically framed with, like, beds, and people are just going

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at it everywhere. And Rowan is like,

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all right, we, like, we have to get out of here. And they can't keep

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their hands off of each other. Oh, my God. And so they start to get

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kind of hot and heavy. Well, Rowan tells her you have to fight

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it. And she's like, I don't want to. Yeah. And he's like, fuck, neither do

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I. Yeah. And they just like crash into each other. Yes. And start making

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out. Yeah. Oh, my God. Rowan is a shadow demon.

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So he is literally my favorite kind of demon, which is a shadow

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daddy. I am a sucker for a shadow daddy. I know. It's so cliche.

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I don't care. He busts out his shadows.

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He uses them to restrain and pleasure her.

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And basically, just as abruptly as they're making out

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started, it's stopped by Rowan, who tells Genevieve to go back to the party while

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he storms off and he's like, don't follow me. So fucking

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annoying. Yeah. You're so mad about it. I was. So if I was like,

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if I were Genevieve, I'd go in there and fight some other guy. You would,

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but just like Ophelia did. Yeah. 100%. Genevieve's not that hot headed.

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No. The thing of it is, is that she is an Aries sun, but she's

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a Taurus moon and I'm a Taurus moon. So every single thing in this book,

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it either mirrors you or it mirrors me. She returns to the

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party, which is, like, heating up, and then she decides to go

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hunt down Rowan, and she finds him being restrained to a

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bed by a female demon. And this to me

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does not seem like you. This to me seems like me. She walks in and

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she's like, fun little party here. You weren't going to invite me?

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No, I would have. Guns a blazing. Killed them both.

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Yes. And he shoos the other

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demon away. He's like, I got this. And the woman is like, are you sure?

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And he's like, yeah, I got it. And then he discloses to her here that

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he. He wasn't getting tied up for pleasure. He was being tied up to keep

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himself away from her. Which Nicole loves. Yes, I do.

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Nicole is like, right now? Right now? No.

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So she starts to antagonize him. And this is where we

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get the inception of. Of his nickname for her, which is trouble. And she's like,

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don't call me trouble. And he says, stop causing it. And she replies with,

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or you could just join me in causing it. And Rowan

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loses his cool. He uses his shadows to push her up against the wall

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and tells her, if they do this, it will be just fucking,

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nothing more. And she agrees. As long as he makes her

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come, there will be no issue. He helps her undress and

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directs her to lean against the wall and spread her legs. And when she says,

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take off your pants, he tells her she needs to be patient while he indulges

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her only request to make her come and tells her he is

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going to show him how to do it. And she does. She fingers

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herself the orgasm. And when she goes to reach for him, he denies her,

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stating he's not going to touch her while this stuff is in their system.

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And when Genevieve says, like, you don't understand how I feel,

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my body is on fire. Rowan, like, growls, I assure you,

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I understand. And it's so. Oh, my God.

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Yeah, I would have been. I was pissed for her here because

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I was also wound up. I'm still wound up because, again, we're still

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not having sex with my husband. Are you kidding me? Yeah. You're making

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wait. Well, this scene is great because, like, in a previous scene,

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she had made a comment to like, seven and Rowan,

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I think about, like, you've never seen anybody like me before.

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And she takes off her clothes and he's like,

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fuck, you're right. I have never seen anything like you.

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You are absolutely exquisite. And he calls her exquisite multiple times. Oh, my God,

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it's so good. You can feel how much

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they want each other. And I. Because Kaylee Smith really only writes

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from the POV of the woman, even though it's written in third person. Yeah.

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We only got Ophelia's pov, and we are only getting Genevieve's the way I

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would kill for Rowan's pov. Oh, my God. So much.

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This man is so wound up. And yes, completely just comes undone

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around her. Yes. But also kind of controlled, which is. Annoying for me,

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which is why I like him. Yes. So I need.

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That's why I think I liked Blackwell. Blackwell was much more undone.

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Sure. I do want to say that in Fantasma,

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I was not a fan of the third person. It was not done well.

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This book, it is done well. It's almost like I barely noticed it. I barely

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noticed. But it was almost like she refined her writing somehow.

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I'm not sure this was more well written than Fantasma,

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I would say 100%. The characters were even more fledged out.

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Yes. There's less inconsistencies. I would say.

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Yes, absolutely. Genevieve returns to the party and

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is cornered in a bathroom by the demon

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from earlier that had taken a special interest in

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her. And she can tell that he means harm because the ring on her hand

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is burning. And while she's trying to get away from him, Rowan and

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seven rush into the bathroom and instruct Genevieve to leave and find the nearest

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silver and stay with them. And she does. And that is

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when the hunt begins. And I have to go back to. Again. I don't think

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that she's impulsive because she could have been a brat and been like, no,

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I'm gonna go do whatever I want. But she didn't. She understood in the moment

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the importance of her following directions, and she did it. And that's something

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I don't do. I don't have great instincts, and I would probably.

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If I was in any type of danger, I'd probably end up getting myself killed

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for being too stubborn because nobody's gonna fucking tell me what to do. I'm gonna

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do the opposite. But I've said this like, I'll die for revenge.

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Yeah. Genevieve wouldn't. No.

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No. Definitely not. But again, Taurus Moon.

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The players of the Hunt include Remington and Rowington.

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They're twins. Sevington, Covington, Ellington, and Wellington,

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who are also twins. And Grington.

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And now Genevieve. Each of the silver siblings

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shortens their name, so they're. For most of

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the book, they're going to go by Remy, Rowan, seven Coven,

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Ellen, Wells, and Grave.

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And each of the silver siblings have a familiar. Rowan's familiar

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is like little black fox named Umbra. The beginning of each round,

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the hunting knife is assigned to one of the siblings, who then picks the name

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of the game for the round. The knife is the only way to kill the

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players for elimination. And the only person who can wield the knife is

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the chosen sibling. We have to reinforce here that everybody that's

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playing this game, except for Genevieve, is a demon and can die. Like, they can

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have their neck broken. They can have stabbed by other things.

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They can be impaled, have their ear cut off, like pop

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their head off. Yep, all the things. And then they just would rejuvenate

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unless they're killed by the hunting knife. Genevieve is a human.

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A savage stab is going to kill her. So she has

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no powers. And she says multiple times that the only way she got through Phantasma,

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what was her powers? Also her instincts but she

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is just a mortal 21 year old girl here. Yeah.

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Grave is the most powerful demon of the siblings and also the most

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diabolical. Ellen and Seven, I think are sort of friends to

440
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Genevieve and the rest of them, I don't know. They kind

441
00:28:45,380 --> 00:28:49,000
of come and go and have unique personalities. And I will

442
00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:52,840
say that as somebody who has discovered recently that what she likes

443
00:28:53,340 --> 00:28:57,120
about book is the people and the characters and their relationships. I think one

444
00:28:57,620 --> 00:28:59,680
of the reasons that I like this book so much is because we get so

445
00:29:00,180 --> 00:29:04,120
much of the sympathy interaction. I have multiple quotes and it's very realistic.

446
00:29:04,620 --> 00:29:08,480
Yes. I love the siblings. I do too. I love each of them.

447
00:29:08,980 --> 00:29:11,160
If they each had their own book, I would be fine with that. Same.

448
00:29:11,660 --> 00:29:14,040
And I'm wondering if that's where we'll go. I know. I hope so.

449
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,560
Set up like we do. Learn little things about each of

450
00:29:19,060 --> 00:29:22,280
them that could make for more books. Yeah.

451
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:26,040
For example, one thing with Seven is that he has little

452
00:29:26,540 --> 00:29:30,550
tally mark tattoos all over his body. And they're not like tattoos

453
00:29:31,050 --> 00:29:34,430
like in a design. It's literally like a line, line,

454
00:29:34,930 --> 00:29:39,230
line, line, line through it. Line, line, line, line through it like. And we never

455
00:29:39,730 --> 00:29:43,830
get any explanation for them. Yeah. And we learn a bit about Covington's

456
00:29:44,330 --> 00:29:47,590
bedroom habit. But this would make her

457
00:29:47,830 --> 00:29:50,790
such a good book. Very praise esque.

458
00:29:51,830 --> 00:29:55,730
Yes. Like Fifty Shades. Oh my God, it would

459
00:29:56,230 --> 00:29:59,970
be so good. And he's the one who has his tongue split, right? Yeah.

460
00:30:00,470 --> 00:30:04,330
And his familiar. We haven't read anything about that.

461
00:30:04,830 --> 00:30:08,090
Could be fun. That could be so fun. Wow. Take some notes,

462
00:30:08,590 --> 00:30:12,090
Kaylee Smith. Listen to us. We're so smart. At the beginning

463
00:30:12,590 --> 00:30:16,850
of the round, Grave is assigned the knife

464
00:30:17,250 --> 00:30:20,410
and he selects the game Roaming Rooms,

465
00:30:20,910 --> 00:30:23,850
which gives the players a 10 minute head start to find a room to hide

466
00:30:24,350 --> 00:30:27,790
in. The rounds last 12 hours and during Roaming Rooms,

467
00:30:28,290 --> 00:30:32,070
the players are forced to change rooms every four hours. The trouble

468
00:30:32,230 --> 00:30:35,710
is that Rowan directs Genevieve to wait for him in the foyer

469
00:30:36,210 --> 00:30:39,750
for 10 minutes. And at eight minutes when he hasn't shown, she chooses to hide

470
00:30:40,250 --> 00:30:43,110
herself. And she does so in the center of the maze.

471
00:30:43,830 --> 00:30:46,870
It's spring. There's snow all over the ground. Yeah.

472
00:30:47,370 --> 00:30:50,560
And this girl in her masquerade dress, no coat,

473
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,920
runs into the snow. Not super well thought out, I get.

474
00:30:54,420 --> 00:30:58,280
She realizes her mistake an hour later. But she doesn't because

475
00:30:58,780 --> 00:31:01,320
she goes back out into the maze several times throughout the course of the book

476
00:31:01,820 --> 00:31:05,360
wearing next to nothing but. And in the snow, like footprints.

477
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,560
I think it's. Again, I think she has good instincts and

478
00:31:10,060 --> 00:31:13,520
she's Right. They rarely go outside. Yes. So for her to make that decision,

479
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,360
it, again, seems impulsive, but it really isn't.

480
00:31:17,860 --> 00:31:20,440
I mean, she really is thinking about, like, where's the last place they're going to

481
00:31:20,940 --> 00:31:22,880
look for me, in the center of the maze in the middle of the cold

482
00:31:23,380 --> 00:31:26,800
with no jacket is where. Right. So I give her a lot

483
00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:30,360
of credit. She manages to evade Grave initially,

484
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:34,120
but he has set his eyes on Genevieve. That is the only person.

485
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,480
They all do. The number of times that multiple people could have killed

486
00:31:38,980 --> 00:31:42,760
off even Rowan, but because they're just so. She's immortal,

487
00:31:43,260 --> 00:31:46,360
so they have to kill her. It's so annoying,

488
00:31:46,860 --> 00:31:50,080
but it is so realistic. Yes. Yeah. These men would

489
00:31:50,580 --> 00:31:53,800
have to. Yeah. Yes. Ellen doesn't specifically go after her.

490
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,840
She's the only one. All of the men seek her out at the expense

491
00:31:58,340 --> 00:32:01,840
of losing other people. Yeah. A hundred percent fucking annoying,

492
00:32:02,340 --> 00:32:06,120
but so realistic. And I think as she, like, gets through each

493
00:32:06,620 --> 00:32:10,000
round, it escalates where they're getting more and more desperate to get her to be

494
00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:13,310
the one to get her kind of a thing. And I can't help but wonder,

495
00:32:13,810 --> 00:32:16,230
like, we don't see it or hear it, but I can't help but wonder if

496
00:32:16,730 --> 00:32:20,230
Knox had a part in that, where he was incentivizing them to, like,

497
00:32:20,730 --> 00:32:23,710
go get her. He is really all about putting on a good show, and I

498
00:32:24,210 --> 00:32:28,029
don't really talk about that in the notes, but Knox's primary objective

499
00:32:28,529 --> 00:32:32,510
is to get as many people to wager on the games as possible

500
00:32:32,590 --> 00:32:35,870
because it makes him wealthy. Well, and we didn't talk about.

501
00:32:36,030 --> 00:32:39,340
At the end of the game, they choose somebody for favored,

502
00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:43,420
and the favored gets any prize from

503
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,540
his treasure trove. And basically, knowing her, they know

504
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,700
just meeting her, knowing how charming she is, they have a sense, they say it

505
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,100
multiple times, that she could win favor. So killing her off is

506
00:32:55,180 --> 00:32:58,140
an incentive for them to be favored,

507
00:32:58,540 --> 00:33:01,780
or at least eliminate a big player for that.

508
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,460
Because if they're not going to win, Rowan's won 12 years in a row.

509
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:09,580
They're probably not going to win, but they could win favored and get something valuable.

510
00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:13,540
Can I just say that the fact that Rowan has won so

511
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,580
many years consecutively is one of my favorite things about it? Yeah.

512
00:33:17,900 --> 00:33:19,980
Just like, love a winner, you know,

513
00:33:22,140 --> 00:33:25,540
Gray finds her. She manages to outrun him. She hides

514
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,740
under the front porch of the manor and then heads back inside, where Rowan

515
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,340
finds her and takes her to their next hiding space, which is through a secret

516
00:33:33,420 --> 00:33:36,470
door to connecting his bedroom to Graves.

517
00:33:37,110 --> 00:33:40,310
The idea being there's no way that he would look in his own room.

518
00:33:40,630 --> 00:33:44,030
And it's booby trapped from the outside, so you actually can't get

519
00:33:44,530 --> 00:33:47,990
in. And he doesn't know about the secret passage. They wait here.

520
00:33:48,070 --> 00:33:51,990
And while waiting, Genevieve, who cannot,

521
00:33:52,790 --> 00:33:55,910
cannot absolutely under any circumstance sit in

522
00:33:56,410 --> 00:34:00,050
silence with somebody. She is not Dakota's downset. Yes.

523
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:06,120
She has not mastered that. No. And she insists

524
00:34:06,620 --> 00:34:10,600
on, like, chatting. She's infinitely curious. She has a million

525
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,160
questions. At one point in time, Rowan is like, what's your next question? And she's

526
00:34:14,660 --> 00:34:16,960
like, I don't have any more. And he's like, that's a lie, because there's no

527
00:34:17,460 --> 00:34:21,000
way you don't have another question. Like. But she teaches him

528
00:34:21,500 --> 00:34:25,160
how to play two troops and a lie. And this becomes a recurring theme

529
00:34:25,660 --> 00:34:29,530
for them. It's so cute. It is. It's so cute. And it's how they

530
00:34:29,610 --> 00:34:33,090
get to know each other. And we kind of get the sense that,

531
00:34:33,590 --> 00:34:37,090
like, they're really not even using lies. Yeah. They're just using truths,

532
00:34:37,590 --> 00:34:40,890
and they're just using it as opportunity to, like, really deepen their

533
00:34:41,390 --> 00:34:45,170
relationship. Here we learn that Rowan hasn't traveled at all during

534
00:34:45,670 --> 00:34:49,410
his times of freedom because to him, it doesn't seem fair to enjoy it while

535
00:34:49,910 --> 00:34:53,490
his siblings suffer. And he's had one thing on his mind, which is finding

536
00:34:53,990 --> 00:34:57,020
the cure to save his mom and free his siblings from the hunt. So.

537
00:34:57,170 --> 00:35:01,090
So Genevieve is like, okay, this guy isn't completely selfish.

538
00:35:01,170 --> 00:35:04,650
He actually has a selfless side to him. I have a little

539
00:35:05,150 --> 00:35:08,370
note here that Genevieve is so funny because she's so nosy. At one

540
00:35:08,870 --> 00:35:11,610
point, she goes through all of Rowan's things, and, like, when I was, like,

541
00:35:12,110 --> 00:35:15,010
waiting, I, like, went through all of your things, and it's first by color and

542
00:35:15,510 --> 00:35:18,850
then fabric and then object and, like, whatever. She knows his,

543
00:35:19,350 --> 00:35:22,730
like, organization system. And then while they're waiting, she organizes

544
00:35:23,230 --> 00:35:26,870
graves clothing, bicolor. And she's like, there. So now

545
00:35:27,370 --> 00:35:31,350
we have pitch black, jet black, and ebony. And she's like, I just. I don't

546
00:35:31,850 --> 00:35:35,350
know. She's so great. Grave eventually returns to his room, where Rowan

547
00:35:35,850 --> 00:35:39,270
attempts to distract him so that Genevieve can flee, but she's not

548
00:35:39,770 --> 00:35:42,990
quite quiet enough. And they engage in a chase.

549
00:35:43,230 --> 00:35:46,950
Rowan intervenes and chokes Grave out. I think snaps

550
00:35:47,450 --> 00:35:51,790
his neck. And my favorite thing here is that the bells toll

551
00:35:52,290 --> 00:35:55,630
to, like, switch rooms just as this happens. And Genevieve is,

552
00:35:56,130 --> 00:35:59,710
like, standing over a grave, and she goes, well, well, well. Look who

553
00:36:00,210 --> 00:36:06,110
survived the first four hours after all. And routing

554
00:36:06,610 --> 00:36:09,950
herself on the back. Rowan. Rowan is like, rule Number one, don't poke

555
00:36:10,450 --> 00:36:13,990
the bear until we're the ones with the knife. What are you doing? It's so

556
00:36:14,490 --> 00:36:18,340
funny. They end up in a secret room behind the library

557
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,740
shelves, drinking whiskey and playing Two Truths and a Lie.

558
00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:26,500
We're really starting to get a sense here of how interested Rowan

559
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,140
is in Genevieve. The next switch. They make their way down to the

560
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,260
kitchen, where Wells bursts into the kitchen, bloodied and dying.

561
00:36:33,579 --> 00:36:37,020
And Rowan instructs Genevieve to get into the dumbwaiter, where they hide

562
00:36:37,660 --> 00:36:40,940
for a long time before being found by Grave.

563
00:36:41,180 --> 00:36:44,660
Genevieve intentionally lets him stab her with the intention of

564
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,660
dodging at the last minute. And her plan works. His knife

565
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,340
stabbing straight through her gets lodged in the shelf behind

566
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,780
her, preventing him from pulling it out. And when he finally does,

567
00:36:56,020 --> 00:36:59,060
just as he's about to make his killing blow. The round ends,

568
00:36:59,140 --> 00:37:02,580
and then she turns herself invisible. She's so smart.

569
00:37:02,820 --> 00:37:06,500
That was such a good idea. Yeah. I would have no idea even what fucking

570
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,300
time it is. I know. She is so much smarter than anybody

571
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,340
gives her credit for. Yes. Yeah. Genevieve passes out from the blood loss

572
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,220
and wakes up later after being healed by Ellen. And when Rowan asks her if

573
00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:22,100
she wants to go down for dinner or have it brought up, Genevieve responds with,

574
00:37:22,260 --> 00:37:25,540
no, I'll come. I want everyone who bent against me to see my face

575
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,180
until they're sick of it. And I was like,

576
00:37:29,140 --> 00:37:32,340
queen. Oh, God, what a goddess. I'm obsessed.

577
00:37:32,900 --> 00:37:36,980
At dinner, Seven says something interesting when they're discussing the Genevieve

578
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,860
Grave showdown because he was hiding in the library when

579
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,710
it happened. And when they start to talk about how

580
00:37:45,210 --> 00:37:47,870
Ellen, like, almost didn't get to her in time to heal her, he says,

581
00:37:48,370 --> 00:37:51,630
I've never seen my brother so volatile. And she responds with, oh,

582
00:37:52,130 --> 00:37:55,630
like, that's surprising. Like, I thought Grave's middle name was volatile.

583
00:37:56,130 --> 00:38:00,030
And he says, I wasn't talking about Grave. Oh, my God.

584
00:38:00,430 --> 00:38:03,750
Yes. The amount of times they describe him as being just

585
00:38:04,250 --> 00:38:07,070
completely unhinged around her. Yeah, about her.

586
00:38:07,550 --> 00:38:10,360
Worried about her. Oh, my God.

587
00:38:10,860 --> 00:38:14,200
So good. The next game, Remy is the chosen hunter,

588
00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:17,840
and his choice of games is random starts, which magically teleports all

589
00:38:18,340 --> 00:38:21,800
the players to a random location and separates Genevieve from Rowan.

590
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,240
She decides the best place to look for him is in their room,

591
00:38:25,319 --> 00:38:28,840
and she finds him, but realizes quickly that this is, in fact

592
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,920
Remy, who has gone to such great lengths to trick her as

593
00:38:33,420 --> 00:38:37,360
to pierce his lip. Like Rowan. She realizes

594
00:38:37,860 --> 00:38:41,560
it almost immediately. At first, she's like, oh, I found you.

595
00:38:42,060 --> 00:38:45,560
And then within two breaths is like, nope, not him.

596
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,480
Yeah, she mentioned Something about two truths and a lie. And his reaction.

597
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:54,120
The first thing that she does is she notices that he is not

598
00:38:54,620 --> 00:38:57,680
quite as well kept as Rowan is. And then she starts to

599
00:38:58,180 --> 00:39:00,800
feel him out by asking him things that only her and Rowan would know.

600
00:39:01,300 --> 00:39:04,950
And when he can't answer them correctly, she's like, okay. And he

601
00:39:05,450 --> 00:39:09,190
realizes, like, oh, she knows I know. And he's like, looking at me

602
00:39:09,690 --> 00:39:12,670
away. Yeah. And they're just kind of playing this, like, cat and mouse thing.

603
00:39:12,750 --> 00:39:16,030
And he goes to stab her, and he stabs her in the side,

604
00:39:16,270 --> 00:39:19,749
and she rips out his lip ring to get away from

605
00:39:20,249 --> 00:39:23,270
him. And then hides in the room in the library

606
00:39:23,770 --> 00:39:27,230
where Rowan later finds her. Yeah, she drank some whiskey and passed out.

607
00:39:27,730 --> 00:39:31,310
Yeah. He says something super sexy here. On her way to the cubby,

608
00:39:31,810 --> 00:39:35,340
her channel choker necklace get caught. She ends up getting, like,

609
00:39:35,420 --> 00:39:38,860
strangled a little bit by it, and it leaves a bruise around her neck.

610
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,100
And when he finds her, he's like, if you wanted to be choked, all you

611
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,860
had to do is ask. I wouldn't have left a mark. And you love that

612
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,580
part. I love when she tells him that she met. She already found

613
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,420
Remy. And he's like, what happened? Did he touch you?

614
00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:57,900
And he's unhinged. And then she says to

615
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,480
him, she's like, if I didn't know any better, I think you were maybe a

616
00:40:00,980 --> 00:40:04,920
little jealous. Which he does not respond to. No, because he is. And then

617
00:40:05,420 --> 00:40:08,200
she says that she pulled out his lip ring, which is something that she wanted

618
00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:12,320
to do to him. It's so good. Which he likes. Oh, yeah?

619
00:40:12,820 --> 00:40:16,360
Yeah. He mentions multiple times how much he likes that

620
00:40:16,860 --> 00:40:20,840
he can't control her and. How, like, feisty she is. Yeah. He decides

621
00:40:21,340 --> 00:40:24,480
that he needs to move her, and as they leave, the cubby are intercepted by

622
00:40:24,980 --> 00:40:27,440
Remy. While he and Rowan duel it out,

623
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,920
Genevieve gets into her head that she's gonna help, and she

624
00:40:32,420 --> 00:40:36,440
tips over one of the bookcases on top of Remy. These are, like library

625
00:40:36,940 --> 00:40:40,320
sized bookcases that she pushes over. So Rowan takes

626
00:40:40,820 --> 00:40:43,960
Genevieve to one of the enchanted rooms. In Enchantra, the enchanted rooms are a game

627
00:40:44,460 --> 00:40:48,360
within a game. There is a dangerous challenge that can be completed, and if

628
00:40:48,860 --> 00:40:52,190
the player is successful, they receive a token that frees them from the

629
00:40:52,690 --> 00:40:56,350
next round. In this room, they play more Two Truths

630
00:40:56,850 --> 00:41:00,310
and a Lie, where Genevieve discloses a cruel breakup that she had with

631
00:41:00,810 --> 00:41:04,950
her last love interest, who, when faced with marriage, chose his wealthy

632
00:41:05,450 --> 00:41:09,390
family's image over Genevieve. And as Nicole

633
00:41:09,890 --> 00:41:13,390
would do to get revenge, she arranges for him to find her

634
00:41:13,890 --> 00:41:17,030
in a compromising position with his best friend. Yeah,

635
00:41:17,190 --> 00:41:21,080
definitely. I would do that. And then he lights her on fire. It doesn't

636
00:41:21,580 --> 00:41:24,400
say necessarily when this happened. She met him when she was 15.

637
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:28,720
This happened before Phantasma, we assume, because Phantasma

638
00:41:29,220 --> 00:41:32,720
was just a year ago. So Ophelia doesn't know any of this.

639
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:36,400
Yeah. And it's heartbreaking that Genevieve kept this to herself.

640
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:40,560
And even her own sister had this image of her that was just like

641
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,160
spoiled princess. Yes. Sheltered and

642
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:47,980
not a care in the world. Yeah. And she has gone through,

643
00:41:48,220 --> 00:41:50,620
we find she has so much more depth than that.

644
00:41:50,940 --> 00:41:54,260
Was literally almost burned alive. And she has nightmares about

645
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,060
it because. She, the guy she was with, who she set up with her,

646
00:41:58,620 --> 00:42:03,180
has full burns on his body. Horrific. After sharing,

647
00:42:03,660 --> 00:42:07,580
Genevieve makes everyone a flower crown, including Rowan.

648
00:42:08,220 --> 00:42:11,940
And then Rowan tries to figure out the riddle.

649
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:16,080
And again, we just have to give so much credit because Rowan

650
00:42:16,580 --> 00:42:20,160
is like a million year old demon who has been in this game for

651
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:25,080
years now and has probably done a million of these riddles and he can't

652
00:42:25,580 --> 00:42:29,120
figure out the riddles. And Genevieve is like, oh, well, like, what about this?

653
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:33,040
And basically figures out the solution. The token

654
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,400
is a fish that presents itself in a stream.

655
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,860
Rowan sends Umbra in to get it, but when

656
00:42:41,020 --> 00:42:43,580
she latches onto the fish,

657
00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:47,260
all of the fish in the stream turn to piranhas and start to attack her.

658
00:42:47,740 --> 00:42:51,500
As Rowan jumps in to try to save her, he's restrained by a magical cage.

659
00:42:51,580 --> 00:42:55,100
So Genevieve jumps in, pulls Umbra out, and is

660
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:59,180
gravely wounded. On her way out, he bargains their token to Ellen to

661
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,860
save her again. And when she wakes up, he shows her how grateful she is

662
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,080
for his help. Yeah. Nicole's.

663
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,920
Well, I just. This is reminding me of the

664
00:43:12,420 --> 00:43:15,880
Never King, the second one where. I think it's the second one where the

665
00:43:16,380 --> 00:43:19,760
twins use the vines because he restrains her to the bed

666
00:43:20,260 --> 00:43:23,120
with his shadows. Yes. And they help him.

667
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,960
Yeah. Yeah, they do. So he

668
00:43:27,460 --> 00:43:30,600
pins her on her back with his shadows while he plays with her

669
00:43:31,100 --> 00:43:34,660
breasts. And this has to be talked about or mentioned.

670
00:43:35,300 --> 00:43:38,420
Rowan is a breast man. Yeah.

671
00:43:38,500 --> 00:43:42,260
He spends a lot of time on the breasts.

672
00:43:42,580 --> 00:43:46,460
And I am a breast woman, so I am perfectly

673
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,260
paired with Rowan because he literally,

674
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:54,180
on multiple occasions, he just, like, sets up camp there. Yeah.

675
00:43:56,660 --> 00:44:00,250
Like, I fucking live for it. And I think that it also

676
00:44:00,410 --> 00:44:04,250
is a really great reminder of, like, the lovely assets.

677
00:44:04,650 --> 00:44:08,010
And he talks about. Yes, how. Yes,

678
00:44:08,170 --> 00:44:11,450
exquisite. Yes, they are so fucking good.

679
00:44:12,090 --> 00:44:15,530
He establishes the safety rule that if she cannot talk

680
00:44:16,030 --> 00:44:20,050
and wants to stop, that she should snap. And he continues to restrain her with

681
00:44:20,550 --> 00:44:24,210
his shadows while he fingers her and goes down on her until right before

682
00:44:24,710 --> 00:44:27,990
she orgasms, which Nicole is. Nicole's literally.

683
00:44:28,490 --> 00:44:32,030
Do not edge me. Yeah. This wasn't like that. That bad.

684
00:44:32,350 --> 00:44:35,790
Well, yeah, because he only does one time. Yeah. Do not do that to me.

685
00:44:36,290 --> 00:44:39,790
But I could imagine them going for a long time. Hard pass.

686
00:44:40,030 --> 00:44:43,870
Yeah. So he stops abruptly by

687
00:44:44,370 --> 00:44:47,150
using just like, a little bit of pain, which I really like also.

688
00:44:47,630 --> 00:44:51,190
Then to reward her, he uses his shadows

689
00:44:51,690 --> 00:44:54,350
to holy fuck her. Full insert.

690
00:44:54,670 --> 00:44:58,110
And has another orgasm. This scene,

691
00:44:58,350 --> 00:45:01,750
I have a problem. It's on,

692
00:45:02,250 --> 00:45:05,310
like, social media all the time. If you're on somebody book talk, what gives

693
00:45:05,810 --> 00:45:09,350
you the ick? That's right. There is literally nothing

694
00:45:09,850 --> 00:45:12,790
that gives me the ick. I don't care about a bundle of nerves. I don't

695
00:45:13,290 --> 00:45:16,270
care about going to the hilt. None of those things give me the ick.

696
00:45:16,590 --> 00:45:20,510
It gives me the ick. When they use the term mule or muled

697
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,480
or mewling. I. It is I.

698
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,840
Kailey Smith uses it in both books. Yes. And I.

699
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,800
I hate that. That's so fun. It does not. I didn't even notice

700
00:45:32,300 --> 00:45:35,440
it. It does not. I hate it. It's like, I'm not an animal.

701
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:39,520
I'm a person. That's my ick. Now I know.

702
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,200
I don't. A lot of those don't bother me. I don't think really any,

703
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,920
like, folds. A lot of it doesn't super bother

704
00:45:47,420 --> 00:45:50,990
me. Not really. Nothing takes me out of it to the

705
00:45:51,490 --> 00:45:54,510
point where I can't enjoy it. I wonder if we'll ever come across one.

706
00:45:54,590 --> 00:45:57,750
We might. I mean, I just feel like there's, like, only so many ways that

707
00:45:58,250 --> 00:46:02,110
you can describe something. Yes. So I, like. I kind of think

708
00:46:02,610 --> 00:46:06,110
I have to give authors some credit. I just feel

709
00:46:06,610 --> 00:46:09,070
like there is no reason to use the term mule.

710
00:46:09,390 --> 00:46:13,070
Yeah. Just not necessary. Knox has informed Genevieve that

711
00:46:13,570 --> 00:46:17,710
she and Rowan will need to put on a show for his audience that

712
00:46:18,210 --> 00:46:21,590
night. After finding out that it's her birthday, Rowan throws a birthday party for her.

713
00:46:22,090 --> 00:46:25,870
But before they go in for dinner, they find a quiet spot to get frisky.

714
00:46:26,370 --> 00:46:29,630
For the viewers, Rowan is a respectful gentleman. So all of

715
00:46:30,130 --> 00:46:33,470
the previous encounters that they've had, he has covered the mirrors so that

716
00:46:33,970 --> 00:46:37,390
people can't see. So this one is for the views, this one is

717
00:46:37,890 --> 00:46:41,670
for the gram. Rowan restrains Genevieve by her neck using his

718
00:46:42,170 --> 00:46:45,830
shadows, and then proceeds to. To tease her. But Genevieve

719
00:46:46,550 --> 00:46:50,470
gets the upper hand here with some strategic body language

720
00:46:50,970 --> 00:46:53,590
and a little tug on his Lip ring that sends him.

721
00:46:54,230 --> 00:46:57,350
Oh, my God. And he tells him,

722
00:46:57,990 --> 00:47:01,270
I think it's time to get on your knees. And just as

723
00:47:01,770 --> 00:47:05,110
he does, they are interrupted by his family coming to join

724
00:47:05,610 --> 00:47:09,990
the party. It's so funny. That is also so realistic, because Ellen

725
00:47:10,590 --> 00:47:13,710
is like, oh, God. Like, I. I don't want to see this.

726
00:47:14,030 --> 00:47:16,670
Yes. And I think, who else was it that walked in?

727
00:47:17,230 --> 00:47:20,390
Seven. Yeah. And he's like, you guys, get a room. But,

728
00:47:20,890 --> 00:47:24,270
yeah, men are not as bothered as women, but they're also all kind. Of joking

729
00:47:24,770 --> 00:47:27,390
about it. Like, Seven is like, happy birthday indeed. And,

730
00:47:27,470 --> 00:47:31,470
like, Helen is starting to put things together. She's really starting

731
00:47:31,970 --> 00:47:34,790
to get a sense. Of, like, she knows this is not just her show.

732
00:47:35,290 --> 00:47:38,730
Yeah. She knows before. Yeah, for sure. So big dumb

733
00:47:39,230 --> 00:47:42,730
idiot men. Yes. A hundred percent. And I have to give credit again to Kaylee

734
00:47:43,230 --> 00:47:46,570
Smith, because during the wedding scene, while they were getting prepared for the wedding,

735
00:47:46,810 --> 00:47:50,130
I was, like, really certain that Ellen, like, we were

736
00:47:50,630 --> 00:47:53,890
getting set up for, like, a Best Friends Forever because we're the only two girls

737
00:47:54,390 --> 00:47:56,810
together. And that is not what happened.

738
00:47:56,890 --> 00:47:59,770
Ellen is like, you're a good time. But, like,

739
00:47:59,850 --> 00:48:03,360
family first. Family first. Yeah. And I really, like,

740
00:48:03,860 --> 00:48:07,240
appreciate that we didn't, I don't know, get lost down that general

741
00:48:07,740 --> 00:48:11,440
trope. So because Genevieve actually becomes closer with some of the

742
00:48:11,940 --> 00:48:15,680
boys, she really does like Ellen, but she forms bonds with

743
00:48:16,180 --> 00:48:18,440
some of the guys. Yeah. I think her and Seven end up being very close.

744
00:48:19,240 --> 00:48:22,960
The party consists of a weird tradition where the

745
00:48:23,460 --> 00:48:27,400
siblings each get to stab Barrington in the back. Like, he literally shows up

746
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:31,310
just to be stabbed in the back. But part of the competition is that

747
00:48:31,810 --> 00:48:36,110
they have to share, like, their juiciest secrets. Yeah. And it's

748
00:48:36,610 --> 00:48:40,790
so fun. And it's here that it's revealed that the demon that had cornered

749
00:48:41,290 --> 00:48:45,150
Genevieve at the masquerade ball was part of an important family.

750
00:48:45,710 --> 00:48:49,390
And Rowan and Seven had him killed and dumped his body

751
00:48:49,890 --> 00:48:53,230
with the vampires to make it look like an accident. Yeah. Because Rowan

752
00:48:53,730 --> 00:48:56,990
was, like, so enraged. Yeah. He's like, you don't touch what's mine. Yeah.

753
00:48:57,330 --> 00:49:01,090
And I. Kind of like, that's why he

754
00:49:01,590 --> 00:49:05,090
was late the first round, because he had to real quick go kill this demon.

755
00:49:05,590 --> 00:49:10,290
Yeah. Which again, removing obstacles.

756
00:49:10,790 --> 00:49:14,050
Yes. God, so good.

757
00:49:14,550 --> 00:49:17,650
It is the next round. Seven is chosen as

758
00:49:18,150 --> 00:49:21,610
the hunter. His game, solitary confinement. The players must

759
00:49:22,110 --> 00:49:25,830
choose a room to stay in for the entire round. They choose another

760
00:49:26,330 --> 00:49:29,830
enchanted room that consists of a forest covered

761
00:49:30,330 --> 00:49:34,230
in mirrors. It was revealed after the birthday dinner that

762
00:49:34,730 --> 00:49:38,030
Rowan had, in fact, been corresponding with Genevieve,

763
00:49:38,110 --> 00:49:41,550
not Barrington. So Genevieve was impersonating her mom,

764
00:49:41,790 --> 00:49:45,990
and Rowan was impersonating his dad in hopes

765
00:49:46,490 --> 00:49:49,630
of getting Ophelia to come

766
00:49:50,130 --> 00:49:55,030
out and help him find a cure. And I don't think that Genevieve

767
00:49:55,530 --> 00:49:59,110
is as upset about the fact that it was him impersonating

768
00:49:59,610 --> 00:50:03,110
his dad as she was about the fact that it was another person looking for

769
00:50:03,610 --> 00:50:06,470
Ophelia. That's what would have gotten me, too. That is what would have gotten me.

770
00:50:06,970 --> 00:50:10,430
I would have unraveled finding that out.

771
00:50:10,670 --> 00:50:13,830
And Genevieve gets over it pretty quick. I'm not sure

772
00:50:14,330 --> 00:50:16,750
I could have, because he's like, I'm so happy it was you.

773
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:20,840
I'm not sure I could have gotten past that. Yeah. I have a funny

774
00:50:21,340 --> 00:50:24,200
story. My old roommate set me up with his boss.

775
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,680
I'm 21. We were out drinking, and he,

776
00:50:28,180 --> 00:50:31,240
like, gave me his boss's number. And so I text him.

777
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:35,000
He comes to pick me up, and I have another

778
00:50:35,500 --> 00:50:38,560
roommate. At the time, it was me and Tim and Fish, And Tim and Fish

779
00:50:39,060 --> 00:50:43,040
had been out. And actually, the guy I'm going out with, Tim's boss had

780
00:50:43,540 --> 00:50:46,550
met Fish, and he thought he was playing out with Stephanie Fett.

781
00:50:47,670 --> 00:50:51,190
No, he did not tell me right away, but he

782
00:50:51,690 --> 00:50:54,790
did tell me later that night that he.

783
00:50:55,590 --> 00:50:58,070
Again, same thing. Like, I'm so glad it's you.

784
00:50:58,790 --> 00:51:02,270
But I thought that. I didn't

785
00:51:02,770 --> 00:51:05,590
know that he had another roommate. I still slept with him. It was great.

786
00:51:05,830 --> 00:51:09,430
But the way I would have unraveled at somebody thinking

787
00:51:09,930 --> 00:51:13,610
I was somebody else or wanting me to be somebody else. Yeah, yeah. You got

788
00:51:14,110 --> 00:51:16,010
over it far too quickly. I would have held on to that for a minute

789
00:51:16,510 --> 00:51:20,050
and made him prove to me. Gravel. Yeah. Oh, shoot.

790
00:51:20,130 --> 00:51:23,570
Like, back underneath. Yeah, I would have gotten

791
00:51:24,070 --> 00:51:26,929
over it real quick. I don't know when you would have. Honestly, you're not a

792
00:51:27,429 --> 00:51:30,530
jealous person. I wouldn't have cared even a little bit. No. I would have

793
00:51:31,030 --> 00:51:34,570
just been like, oh, shoot. Well, I was impersonating somebody else, too, so I guess

794
00:51:35,070 --> 00:51:38,920
we're even. Steven, like. And then gone off my life. No. Even if I did

795
00:51:39,420 --> 00:51:42,760
it, too, I would not have gotten over it. Well, they get

796
00:51:43,260 --> 00:51:46,080
over it. They hash it out. While in this room,

797
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:50,800
they decide to play a game called Fox says.

798
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,520
This is like Simon says, where you have to do what the Fox says,

799
00:51:55,020 --> 00:51:57,920
but you can only do it if he prefaces what the Fox says.

800
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,920
If he says to do something and he doesn't say, Fox says, then you get

801
00:52:01,420 --> 00:52:04,780
punished. Rowan is the Fox. And Fox

802
00:52:05,100 --> 00:52:08,300
has Genevieve remove her dress and her undergarments.

803
00:52:08,620 --> 00:52:11,740
And then Fox says to Put a finger in her pussy,

804
00:52:12,240 --> 00:52:15,540
which she does. When she goes grab her foot. He tells

805
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:19,540
her to follow the rules or she'll be punished. To which she says, that only

806
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:23,980
makes me want it more. That's you. So she takes

807
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,140
her tongue out at him, and then he bites it. And then he tells her

808
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:30,810
to taste herself, and she does, only to realize that

809
00:52:31,310 --> 00:52:34,730
he hadn't said. Fox says, and his punishment

810
00:52:35,370 --> 00:52:39,290
to her is to kneel down before her and eat

811
00:52:39,790 --> 00:52:44,090
her out. And then just before she's about to come, he pulls away again.

812
00:52:44,570 --> 00:52:48,170
Ugh. Being punished. She was naughty. I don't

813
00:52:48,570 --> 00:52:52,370
like it. Oh, my God. I don't like it at all. Was literally on

814
00:52:52,870 --> 00:52:56,720
his knees. She had to, like, hold on to his head. Oh, my God.

815
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,480
Please get on your knees in front of me. Oh, my God.

816
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,600
Fox comes up behind her, grabs her by the neck and

817
00:53:05,100 --> 00:53:08,560
tells her to get on her knees, which she eventually does.

818
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:12,040
And then he fucks her from behind while

819
00:53:12,540 --> 00:53:16,160
they watch each other in the mirrors because his room is covered in

820
00:53:16,660 --> 00:53:19,120
mirrors. And then Rowan comes,

821
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:23,020
and it's such a good scene, see? Well,

822
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,940
and Rowan has a pierced dick. He's got a piercing. Yeah.

823
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:31,180
Yes. And I'm curious, because this they're doing in the mirrors, which is

824
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:35,500
how the demons watch. Would you have had sex knowing that all these demons

825
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,660
are watching you at 21?

826
00:53:39,460 --> 00:53:42,700
Probably. I did have a threesome once in

827
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,780
a van in a parking lot of a dive bar.

828
00:53:46,580 --> 00:53:50,460
And while we were in the

829
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:54,180
midst of it, I, like, looked up at one point and

830
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:57,740
realized that the animal had been surrounded by a bunch of,

831
00:53:58,240 --> 00:54:01,820
like, the old man regulars, and they all

832
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,380
had their, like, faces rested up against the window and, like, were watching us.

833
00:54:06,340 --> 00:54:10,020
That was a very, very lucky threesome

834
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,700
for me because the woman was lesbian and the man was a straight man.

835
00:54:13,780 --> 00:54:16,340
And they were best friends. Friends, sure. The dream.

836
00:54:16,980 --> 00:54:20,260
Absolute dream. Yeah. So did you meet them at the bar?

837
00:54:20,660 --> 00:54:22,820
No. And they were very, like.

838
00:54:23,860 --> 00:54:27,140
They were very generous. I was

839
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:30,739
very, very lucky, and I think probably just set me up to crave that for

840
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:34,900
the rest of my life. Yes. That's why you like the white shoes 100.

841
00:54:35,460 --> 00:54:38,660
Yes. Yeah. So. But, yeah, I'll never forget it

842
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:42,750
because I. We were sort of, like, kind of early,

843
00:54:43,230 --> 00:54:46,390
and I was, like, kind of riding him, and she was just, like,

844
00:54:46,890 --> 00:54:49,670
playing with my nipples and, like, telling me how pretty I was, and I just,

845
00:54:50,170 --> 00:54:53,110
like, opened my eyes and cracked. Was like. Oh,

846
00:54:53,610 --> 00:54:57,190
no. The thing of it is, it's, like, I wasn't, like, gonna stop. Oh,

847
00:54:57,690 --> 00:55:00,510
no, never. So, I mean, in it, I'M not stopping. Yeah.

848
00:55:00,910 --> 00:55:04,390
So I would like to say that. No, I wouldn't. I don't think

849
00:55:04,890 --> 00:55:08,200
I would maybe now, but at that age,

850
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:11,480
definitely, probably would have. I think right now,

851
00:55:11,720 --> 00:55:15,080
what I would prefer is if everybody is.

852
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:18,840
Everybody is having sex. Yes. If everybody is having sex,

853
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:22,199
then, yes, I would have sex right there in front of everybody.

854
00:55:22,699 --> 00:55:25,960
We're all having sex. And I like the idea of people

855
00:55:26,460 --> 00:55:29,880
watching me and, like, being turned on, but I like the idea of, like,

856
00:55:30,380 --> 00:55:33,980
me being able to see them turned on. Like, I like the idea of

857
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:38,020
somebody sitting in a chair watching while they play with themselves.

858
00:55:38,100 --> 00:55:41,620
Like, you know what I mean? And with the mirrors, it kind of

859
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:44,940
takes that because I can't see my audience. And I don't know if that's as

860
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:48,620
fun. You know, it is easier to pretend like you're not being watched or kind

861
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:52,620
of get in the moment. Sure. They didn't really have a choice,

862
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:56,740
though. Yeah. Knocked, basically, was like, you do this. Or you need to

863
00:55:57,240 --> 00:56:01,720
give the people what they want. Yeah, exactly. I like

864
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:05,000
the fear of being caught. Not necessarily public sex.

865
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:09,480
Sure. But that does. I'm also, like, a pretty risky person.

866
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:13,400
So that led to me being watched or locked in on all

867
00:56:13,900 --> 00:56:17,800
times. But I think I'm the same as you. If everybody's

868
00:56:18,300 --> 00:56:22,040
having sex, I don't care who's watching me. I'll do that. But just being

869
00:56:22,540 --> 00:56:25,360
watched, I. I know. At 21.

870
00:56:25,860 --> 00:56:28,580
Again, at 21, probably. Yeah, for sure.

871
00:56:28,820 --> 00:56:32,420
He gets fully naked, and he's still fully dressed. And that

872
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:36,900
is very, very vulnerable. I loved the scene. I didn't

873
00:56:36,980 --> 00:56:40,420
love that this was their first time

874
00:56:40,500 --> 00:56:43,940
like this together. I would have preferred it to be.

875
00:56:44,020 --> 00:56:47,180
There's a scene that we're gonna get, like, later on that I

876
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:50,980
would have liked better for their first time together. Because I think

877
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:55,020
sometimes, like, I'm the first person to say that I love

878
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:58,820
it. I love it when I'm getting hit from behind. I think that it

879
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:02,300
can be very impersonal. And I don't think that these two.

880
00:57:03,180 --> 00:57:06,460
I think that these two are still kind of confused about how they feel about

881
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:10,180
each other. And maybe, like, it just maybe should

882
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:13,300
have been a little bit different while we kind of established that and, like,

883
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:16,700
rooted that out, if that makes sense. It kind of makes sense that this was

884
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:19,820
their first time because, like you said, they are still struggling with their feelings.

885
00:57:20,290 --> 00:57:24,370
They have to put on a show. Yeah. So having it be more impersonal,

886
00:57:24,770 --> 00:57:28,050
I think does kind of like. I mean, she is turned and they are,

887
00:57:28,130 --> 00:57:31,370
like, making out. Yeah, but. And he's like,

888
00:57:31,870 --> 00:57:35,250
rubbing her. It's a good scene. It's such a good scene. Yeah.

889
00:57:35,330 --> 00:57:38,210
So, so good. The bliss is interrupted, though,

890
00:57:38,530 --> 00:57:42,450
because Seven finds them. Genevieve puts together

891
00:57:42,950 --> 00:57:45,850
the room challenge when she climbs a tree, and she finds a mirror that is

892
00:57:46,350 --> 00:57:49,440
different from the rest of the mirrors and basically goes through a portal.

893
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,800
Is she still nude? I was confused because it says she

894
00:57:53,300 --> 00:57:57,000
orgasms, and then her ring gets hot. Is she running and climbing

895
00:57:57,500 --> 00:58:01,160
a tree nude? I would assume. Yeah. No, she's not, because she mentions

896
00:58:01,660 --> 00:58:05,200
that she gets more blood on her dress. Yeah. So she must have gotten dressed.

897
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:08,400
Yeah. So she's, like, running, and this is. Again, I have to go back to,

898
00:58:08,900 --> 00:58:13,120
like, impulsive or instincts. Yeah. Because Rowan

899
00:58:13,620 --> 00:58:17,540
is down on the ground. She's climbed this tree, saved umbra again.

900
00:58:18,100 --> 00:58:21,140
She's, like, walking a tightrope of branches to

901
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:24,860
get over this mirror, and Rowan is like, come down. Come down here. And she's

902
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:28,500
like, nope, going through the portal. So she goes through the portal in the mirror.

903
00:58:28,660 --> 00:58:32,500
He's confronted by a demon or a monster on the other side.

904
00:58:32,820 --> 00:58:36,260
She literally sticks her hand in the demon's

905
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:40,500
chest to pull out the token and then gets

906
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:44,640
a nasty scar on her face, hightails it back through the mirror,

907
00:58:45,140 --> 00:58:48,440
and ends up at the exit. And once she's on the other side of the

908
00:58:48,940 --> 00:58:52,760
mirror, she realizes that Rowan has been waiting for her for hours because she

909
00:58:53,260 --> 00:58:56,280
felt like it had only been a few minutes, but it had actually been several

910
00:58:56,780 --> 00:58:59,800
hours, and he had been worried about her the whole time, and.

911
00:59:00,300 --> 00:59:03,640
Yeah. I love that you're such a monster.

912
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:07,120
Oh, my God. Don't ever make me worry about you. Oh,

913
00:59:07,620 --> 00:59:11,230
I know. You know I'm gonna find your location. Really only met you.

914
00:59:11,390 --> 00:59:15,070
Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Because then they're just, like, so happy to

915
00:59:15,570 --> 00:59:17,950
see me and so grateful, and they're gonna show me how grateful they are.

916
00:59:20,030 --> 00:59:23,630
Oh, my God. You're so unhinged. I love it.

917
00:59:24,830 --> 00:59:28,070
So they won the token, which means that they have a free round, and they

918
00:59:28,570 --> 00:59:32,030
use their free round to visit hell, where Genevieve realizes that they have

919
00:59:32,530 --> 00:59:35,550
fans, and Genevieve meets Rowan's mom.

920
00:59:36,450 --> 00:59:40,250
Rowan gives Genevieve a birthday gift, a bracelet that is specifically

921
00:59:40,750 --> 00:59:44,290
engraved for her. This is where Nicole kind of alluded

922
00:59:44,790 --> 00:59:48,090
to it earlier. But one of the game's perks is this favored

923
00:59:48,590 --> 00:59:52,290
category. Knott attempts to tempt

924
00:59:52,790 --> 00:59:56,210
Genevieve by giving her a sneak peek of his

925
00:59:56,710 --> 01:00:00,250
treasure to choose her gift, as it is most likely that

926
01:00:00,750 --> 01:00:04,330
she will be the favored winner. While she's in his treasure trove,

927
01:00:04,830 --> 01:00:08,330
he offers her the cure for Rowan's mom. In exchange

928
01:00:08,830 --> 01:00:11,930
for her help in convincing Salem to return to Hell,

929
01:00:12,490 --> 01:00:15,930
Genevieve has kind of held over his head on multiple occasions.

930
01:00:16,730 --> 01:00:20,210
My brother in law is the prince of the

931
01:00:20,710 --> 01:00:24,290
devils, and if you hurt me, you're gonna regret

932
01:00:24,790 --> 01:00:28,850
it. And he initially doesn't believe her, but then after doing

933
01:00:29,350 --> 01:00:32,830
some research, realizes that it's true and that he has

934
01:00:33,330 --> 01:00:36,990
a little bit of leverage now, because if he can can somehow

935
01:00:37,550 --> 01:00:40,910
leverage her to get Salem

936
01:00:41,410 --> 01:00:44,430
to visit Hell and visit the king of the devils,

937
01:00:44,990 --> 01:00:49,150
that he would be, like, favored with the king of the devils. So he's

938
01:00:49,650 --> 01:00:52,750
on a quest to get this done again.

939
01:00:53,070 --> 01:00:55,990
I have to go. I just gotta go back. I'm sorry.

940
01:00:56,490 --> 01:01:00,000
Gotta go back to Genevieve's instincts here. But Genevieve is like, no. Well, and we

941
01:01:00,500 --> 01:01:03,800
find out here, too, that Nox is the one who created Crimsoncraft.

942
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:07,160
Yes. Because if he loses, everyone loses.

943
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:11,560
But this is because giving her the cure

944
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:14,440
would essentially release them kind of from the game,

945
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:18,120
because they're only playing the game so that they keep their mother alive,

946
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:21,480
because Nox can give her, like, an antidote for a year. That keeps

947
01:01:21,980 --> 01:01:25,480
her alive. So she really makes this decision quickly,

948
01:01:25,980 --> 01:01:29,530
which I would never do. I would never turn on my sisters. Yeah, but that

949
01:01:30,030 --> 01:01:33,850
was a big decision for her to make, and they just

950
01:01:34,350 --> 01:01:37,770
kind of gloss over it. I mean, I think I have to go back to,

951
01:01:38,270 --> 01:01:41,250
like. I just think that Genevieve has good instincts, and I think that she knows

952
01:01:41,750 --> 01:01:45,289
herself, and I think that she trusted fully. Like, and why, like we learned in

953
01:01:45,789 --> 01:01:48,890
Phantasma, you don't make a deal with the devil 100%. So, yeah,

954
01:01:49,390 --> 01:01:52,330
thankfully, she had already learned. That while she's in the trove,

955
01:01:52,830 --> 01:01:56,290
she notices a soul locket just like the one that Ophelia has. And when she

956
01:01:56,790 --> 01:02:00,220
exits the trove, her memory of the encounter with Nox

957
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:04,420
is erased, with the exception of whatever her chosen prize was.

958
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:07,540
So there were a bunch of different things in the trove that she saw.

959
01:02:08,340 --> 01:02:11,940
The next round, Ellen is Hunter. Her game,

960
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:16,260
birds and Stones, where if a player encounters another player, they are required to

961
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:20,620
remain together for the remainder of the round. Rowan begins acting

962
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:24,750
strangely here. I was so annoyed. Fruity men are not my

963
01:02:25,250 --> 01:02:28,430
thing. I was so annoyed. Don't give her attitude.

964
01:02:28,930 --> 01:02:31,750
We all know Knox offered you some type of deal. You're in this game.

965
01:02:32,250 --> 01:02:35,750
Her life might end. Don't be. Don't be mean to her. Yeah, don't be weird

966
01:02:36,250 --> 01:02:39,790
with her. She likes you. This is a scenario where I would have been like,

967
01:02:40,270 --> 01:02:42,990
baby, let me help you. Oh, and I would have been.

968
01:02:43,150 --> 01:02:45,950
Yeah, you. You don't Want to tell me what's bothering you?

969
01:02:46,670 --> 01:02:48,990
I'm gonna go get me bigger.

970
01:02:50,670 --> 01:02:54,110
I'm gonna kill myself. I'm gonna make you come and save me.

971
01:02:55,470 --> 01:02:58,830
Yes. Well, Genevieve does confront him about it,

972
01:02:59,330 --> 01:03:02,030
and he. When he refuses to tell her what's going on, she decides that she's

973
01:03:02,530 --> 01:03:05,710
gonna hide on her own this round. Good for you, Genevieve. The funny

974
01:03:06,210 --> 01:03:09,470
part is, is she found him in this hiding spot, and then she

975
01:03:09,970 --> 01:03:13,590
kicks him out of bed. So, like, go find your

976
01:03:14,090 --> 01:03:17,080
own spot. Yes, that's right. Well,

977
01:03:17,580 --> 01:03:21,200
Ellen finds her, and sweet Ellen is like, I was hoping

978
01:03:21,700 --> 01:03:25,080
it wasn't you. Ellen does not want to kill her. She, multiple times, though,

979
01:03:25,580 --> 01:03:29,640
has said, like, you guys, Rowan, really are gonna choose this girl over your brothers.

980
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:32,760
Yeah. But Ellen does not want to be the one to kill her. And I

981
01:03:33,260 --> 01:03:37,040
like that. She's the only one not actively seeking out to hurt Jennifer.

982
01:03:37,540 --> 01:03:41,320
Yeah. Because, again, like, it does hurt when these demons

983
01:03:41,820 --> 01:03:45,420
get their neck broken or their ear cut off or whatever. They would permanently kill

984
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:49,340
Genevieve. Yeah. These men are just vying for the chance

985
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:53,020
to do it. Sadistic. I get that. We saw it, like,

986
01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:57,020
with true blood and stuff, where mortal lives are just. They mean nothing.

987
01:03:57,260 --> 01:04:00,380
Yeah. Oh, I was just mad.

988
01:04:00,700 --> 01:04:03,540
Stupid. Stupid voice. Yeah. See, and I was, like,

989
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:07,420
laughing because Ellen is like, do you have any last words? And Genevieve is like,

990
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:10,490
did you know there's ostriches in hell? Ellen is like,

991
01:04:10,810 --> 01:04:14,450
is that what you want your last words to be? Like? And then

992
01:04:14,950 --> 01:04:17,890
I don't know if you said something else completely obscure. And Ellen was like,

993
01:04:18,390 --> 01:04:22,250
I think it's best if we just do this now. It's so funny.

994
01:04:22,750 --> 01:04:26,170
Like, oh, my God. Well, she's forced to

995
01:04:26,670 --> 01:04:29,930
call for Rowan's help. He comes up behind Ellen, breaks her neck,

996
01:04:30,250 --> 01:04:33,570
and they find themselves back in the little cubby

997
01:04:34,070 --> 01:04:37,660
in the library. And here Rowan discloses that

998
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:42,020
Knox offered him a deal in exchange for turning on

999
01:04:42,100 --> 01:04:45,540
Genevieve. He offered Rowan the cure, and he turned it down.

1000
01:04:45,940 --> 01:04:48,660
Rowan says, I didn't even hesitate a second.

1001
01:04:48,900 --> 01:04:52,340
Yeah. To turn it down. What does he say? He tells

1002
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:55,940
her that she was made for him, and she said, no, I'm the main character

1003
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:58,900
of my own story. And he says, fine. That I was made for you.

1004
01:04:59,780 --> 01:05:03,320
Epic love. Yeah. Fate is

1005
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:07,640
for me, and it is not for you. Yeah. So how

1006
01:05:08,140 --> 01:05:11,840
did you feel about this? Yeah, no, I, like, really loved all

1007
01:05:12,340 --> 01:05:16,160
of this. First of all, I didn't get mates out

1008
01:05:16,660 --> 01:05:20,280
of this scenario. I got more of, like, trauma bond,

1009
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:23,880
to be honest. The first time she sees him, she even says

1010
01:05:24,380 --> 01:05:27,640
there's something familiar yeah. But I think that, like,

1011
01:05:28,610 --> 01:05:33,650
one of my biggest things with mates is where they

1012
01:05:34,050 --> 01:05:38,010
hate each other, but then they're like, oh, we're destined to be together. And in

1013
01:05:38,510 --> 01:05:41,330
this case, Rowan and Genevieve are friends.

1014
01:05:41,730 --> 01:05:44,850
They are true friends. Like, we're about to talk about it in

1015
01:05:44,930 --> 01:05:48,490
this next scene as it comes up here. But it's like these

1016
01:05:48,990 --> 01:05:51,730
two have been developing slowly but surely a relationship.

1017
01:05:51,970 --> 01:05:55,890
They have little things that are just there, little inside

1018
01:05:56,390 --> 01:06:00,400
jokes, little inside ways of communicating. And they're not like,

1019
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:04,200
completely, like, I don't know who you are and I

1020
01:06:04,700 --> 01:06:08,640
love you. No. They see each other. Like, he mentions that she's the

1021
01:06:09,140 --> 01:06:12,760
light, and he. Shadows. And he says shadows

1022
01:06:13,260 --> 01:06:16,560
can only be seen in the presence of light. He's worried that when she's gone,

1023
01:06:17,060 --> 01:06:19,120
no one will see him. Yeah. You took that for me.

1024
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:23,360
Sorry. I loved that quote. Do you want to say it again?

1025
01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:27,200
No, I don't. No. I love that you also loved it.

1026
01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:31,560
I did. Because that it shows how truly they

1027
01:06:32,060 --> 01:06:35,480
see each other. Yes, absolutely. And we. Because this is from her pov,

1028
01:06:35,980 --> 01:06:39,440
we don't necessarily know what's going on in his head. And the way he's been

1029
01:06:39,940 --> 01:06:43,320
probably just fighting with his own self.

1030
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:47,480
Yeah. About his feelings for her. Well, yeah. He's been spending

1031
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:51,480
years and years upon years upon years looking for a

1032
01:06:51,980 --> 01:06:55,540
cure. So. To have it so close. Yeah. Within your grasp and

1033
01:06:56,040 --> 01:06:58,220
to turn it down over a woman that you've known for, like, three days.

1034
01:06:58,460 --> 01:07:02,060
Literally. Yeah. It's crazy. And. Yeah. And I

1035
01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:05,940
get why he was, like, kind of salty with her, because he didn't even hesitate.

1036
01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:09,540
He picked her. But still. Shut up. I know.

1037
01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:13,420
I think he just needed time to, like, reconcile it. I. It made me

1038
01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:17,540
love him, though. I know that. That part really. Him being

1039
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:21,030
able to dictate his feelings. Yeah. So well.

1040
01:07:21,590 --> 01:07:25,030
Oh, my God. Fuck. I was so into it.

1041
01:07:25,510 --> 01:07:28,750
He fully confesses his love for her, and then

1042
01:07:29,250 --> 01:07:33,030
they collide. He goes down on her until she

1043
01:07:33,270 --> 01:07:36,950
comes and is literally begging him to fuck her. And then

1044
01:07:37,270 --> 01:07:40,870
he pulls her down onto him on the couch and then has her ride him

1045
01:07:41,370 --> 01:07:44,910
until she comes. But then before he gets to calm,

1046
01:07:45,410 --> 01:07:48,990
they're interrupted by who has also come to the room to

1047
01:07:49,490 --> 01:07:52,710
hide. And now they're all stuck together because of the type of game that it

1048
01:07:53,210 --> 01:07:56,070
is. And, like, originally, I think when we were talking about it earlier, I was

1049
01:07:56,570 --> 01:07:58,470
like, I wish this would have been their first scene together. But now it makes

1050
01:07:58,970 --> 01:08:02,510
sense why this was. Yeah. The scene. And the other one wasn't. So this

1051
01:08:03,010 --> 01:08:06,910
scene, though, has something that I Didn't know I liked. Oh, because before

1052
01:08:07,150 --> 01:08:11,070
he goes down on her, he fingers her. Yeah. And she says,

1053
01:08:11,230 --> 01:08:15,220
rings and all that did something for me. Oh, my goodness.

1054
01:08:15,380 --> 01:08:18,500
Really? Like the message. Oh, my God.

1055
01:08:18,980 --> 01:08:22,020
Yeah. Yeah. Like, leaving everything.

1056
01:08:22,820 --> 01:08:26,500
Oh, my God. That's. Oh, yeah. I don't.

1057
01:08:27,300 --> 01:08:30,420
I love this. I didn't. I didn't

1058
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:32,980
think we were going to come up against anything new that you would have liked.

1059
01:08:33,380 --> 01:08:36,340
I had no idea. Because Ryan's. Now I don't wear jewelry.

1060
01:08:37,140 --> 01:08:40,270
Yeah. For me. Oh, my God. God,

1061
01:08:41,470 --> 01:08:44,910
again? You guys, I have been still not having sex with

1062
01:08:45,410 --> 01:08:48,590
my husband. So wound up. I know. That's so hard.

1063
01:08:49,150 --> 01:08:52,270
I hate that for you, such a sexual person. This is torture.

1064
01:08:52,590 --> 01:08:55,630
Truly, these last two books have been so sexy.

1065
01:08:55,950 --> 01:08:59,790
That's very true. Well, shoot. Dave, get the facectomy.

1066
01:09:00,030 --> 01:09:02,910
I know. Should we just try. Should we just try to find ways to sprinkle

1067
01:09:03,410 --> 01:09:07,140
that into each of our next. Well, I literally called him today on my way

1068
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:10,860
here, and I was, like, so annoyed. All I want to do is have

1069
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:14,660
sex, but I'm boycotting having sex with you, so. Yeah. And he's

1070
01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:16,660
like, well, I had a bad day and now it's worse.

1071
01:09:19,860 --> 01:09:23,060
I also have to say about this scene, because it's me

1072
01:09:23,620 --> 01:09:26,940
as they're fucking. He calls her exquisite

1073
01:09:27,440 --> 01:09:31,180
again. And she replies, obviously, that was so

1074
01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:35,130
you. That was so you coded. Yes, I would have. I have

1075
01:09:35,630 --> 01:09:38,930
said that. I'm sure. Yeah, it's great.

1076
01:09:39,650 --> 01:09:43,250
I did immediately read that scene and go, oh, yeah, that's Nicole. Yeah.

1077
01:09:43,570 --> 01:09:47,010
And then we get another combo here between Genevieve

1078
01:09:47,510 --> 01:09:51,410
and Rowan that I'm also obsessed with. She's asking Kevin about his

1079
01:09:51,650 --> 01:09:55,690
split tongue, and he's like, oh, like a high pain

1080
01:09:56,190 --> 01:09:59,570
tolerance or whatever. And she starts, like, whispering to

1081
01:10:00,070 --> 01:10:03,450
Rowan, and he's like, what about your. Like, what about your piercing on your

1082
01:10:03,950 --> 01:10:06,370
dick? And he's like, oh, yeah, that hurt like a bitch. And she's like,

1083
01:10:06,450 --> 01:10:09,970
how long have you had it? And am I the first? And he's

1084
01:10:10,470 --> 01:10:13,330
like, what, to see it? To lick it? Yes. And Conan is like, I can

1085
01:10:13,830 --> 01:10:17,249
hear you whispering, right? He's like, I swear, if you say talk about his cock

1086
01:10:17,749 --> 01:10:20,690
again, I'm gonna lose it. Yes. And it's so.

1087
01:10:21,570 --> 01:10:25,610
I don't know which of these men is my favorite. I think we all probably

1088
01:10:26,110 --> 01:10:30,090
would guess that it'd be grave. But there's something about

1089
01:10:30,590 --> 01:10:34,490
Kevin that does it for me, too. I don't know what it is that

1090
01:10:34,990 --> 01:10:38,450
is so interesting. He is not your normal type at all. No. I don't

1091
01:10:38,950 --> 01:10:41,970
remember what he looks like. Kevin is not a one woman man. I know.

1092
01:10:42,050 --> 01:10:45,050
He's not a one person man. I know. I think it's. I think it's the

1093
01:10:45,550 --> 01:10:48,690
adorable bond that he has with Genevieve. Maybe I just want to be his friend.

1094
01:10:49,330 --> 01:10:52,730
It's so interesting because I literally was

1095
01:10:53,230 --> 01:10:56,500
like, this guy's gotta go. I hate it.

1096
01:10:57,220 --> 01:11:01,140
What is that? I don't know. Oh, my God.

1097
01:11:01,540 --> 01:11:04,820
I think I like the ones who are, like, struggling with their demons.

1098
01:11:05,380 --> 01:11:08,980
Sure. Not brooding, just internal struggle.

1099
01:11:09,059 --> 01:11:12,900
And maybe, like, I love an outward but,

1100
01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:17,300
like, obsessed with me and sweet to me addict.

1101
01:11:17,380 --> 01:11:21,150
Everybody else. Everybody thinks Dave is a dick. Yeah.

1102
01:11:21,230 --> 01:11:24,510
He is kind of a dick. Yeah. But to me, all he is is obsessed

1103
01:11:25,010 --> 01:11:28,230
with me. That's very true. Ellen finds them all

1104
01:11:28,730 --> 01:11:31,710
and battles it out with Coven and is victorious.

1105
01:11:32,210 --> 01:11:35,390
And again, the sibling relationship, it's so.

1106
01:11:35,550 --> 01:11:39,070
It's totally. I think she had

1107
01:11:39,570 --> 01:11:43,030
me going. She did. He's like, I. That's it.

1108
01:11:43,530 --> 01:11:47,030
I can't. Like, Kevin has, like, the upper hand done. Like, I. I can't do

1109
01:11:47,530 --> 01:11:50,470
anymore. I'm done with this. And Genevieve is in the corner, and she's like,

1110
01:11:50,970 --> 01:11:54,270
oh, no. Ellen. And Rowan is like, just sit back and watch. And then Coven

1111
01:11:54,770 --> 01:11:58,190
is kind of like, oh, Ellen. And then Ellen, like, reaches up and stabs

1112
01:11:58,690 --> 01:12:02,749
him and is like, surprise, motherfucker. Like, always gets

1113
01:12:03,249 --> 01:12:06,630
him. It's so great. It really is.

1114
01:12:07,350 --> 01:12:10,950
That night, Genevieve whispers an idea to Rowan, and he disappears to

1115
01:12:11,450 --> 01:12:15,430
talk to Ellen. And while he is gone, Grave makes another attempt on Genevieve's

1116
01:12:15,930 --> 01:12:19,850
life. The thing of it is, is, like, Grave is his mom's favorite,

1117
01:12:20,410 --> 01:12:23,650
and he and his mom are very close. And I think he is

1118
01:12:24,150 --> 01:12:27,730
a person that's trying to unravel because he stopped visiting his mom. Yeah. And now

1119
01:12:28,230 --> 01:12:31,849
Knox has informed him that the loophole that gets

1120
01:12:32,349 --> 01:12:36,330
Rowan and Genevieve out of the game would basically

1121
01:12:36,490 --> 01:12:40,050
trap them indefinitely into servitude so there would be no

1122
01:12:40,550 --> 01:12:43,500
more winners after that. They all just continuously play the game,

1123
01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:46,900
only to all end up in hell every year. And so he's, like,

1124
01:12:47,400 --> 01:12:51,140
pretty determined to get Genevieve out of the game.

1125
01:12:51,540 --> 01:12:55,140
And Rowan and Ellen intercept, and they save her before the next

1126
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:59,580
round. The next round, Rowan is in Hunter. He chooses

1127
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:03,700
a game called Ready or not, a game which doesn't allow a head start like

1128
01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:07,740
the others. Ellen approaches him to sacrifice herself, as they

1129
01:13:08,240 --> 01:13:11,330
had apparently agreed the previous evening.

1130
01:13:11,730 --> 01:13:14,850
And Grave holds a pin of the bargain,

1131
01:13:15,010 --> 01:13:18,610
which was a truce that until the final round,

1132
01:13:19,490 --> 01:13:23,410
he would allow Rowan go free so that they can have their final,

1133
01:13:23,490 --> 01:13:27,050
like, royal rumble. Like, toe to toe, the Next

1134
01:13:27,550 --> 01:13:31,490
round, there is no hunting knife, just a fight to the death. And before

1135
01:13:31,990 --> 01:13:36,020
the round begins, Knox informs them that Genevieve was in fact checking

1136
01:13:36,170 --> 01:13:39,610
chosen as favored, and has her think of her prize, which is

1137
01:13:40,110 --> 01:13:43,130
awarded to her by materializing in her pocket.

1138
01:13:43,530 --> 01:13:47,410
He then makes an announcement. He tells the men that if Genevieve dies within the

1139
01:13:47,910 --> 01:13:51,130
hour, he'll release the siblings from their contract forever,

1140
01:13:51,630 --> 01:13:55,450
more effective immediately, and that the men will have their powers

1141
01:13:55,950 --> 01:13:59,130
restored for the round. It's here that we see Rowan

1142
01:13:59,630 --> 01:14:03,650
turn on Wannabe, who runs back to the maze, is cornered

1143
01:14:04,150 --> 01:14:08,010
by Rowan, Grave, and Nox. And just as Rowan approaches Genevieve

1144
01:14:08,510 --> 01:14:12,290
to stab her, Nox begins to realize this is not what he thought

1145
01:14:12,790 --> 01:14:16,130
it was. And Genevieve reveals that the item that she has chosen for

1146
01:14:16,630 --> 01:14:20,170
her prize was the soul locket, tying herself to Rowan,

1147
01:14:20,250 --> 01:14:23,530
who stabs her and promises to take good care of her

1148
01:14:24,030 --> 01:14:27,570
soul. So the couple of nights before when Genevieve

1149
01:14:28,070 --> 01:14:31,800
was, like, whispering to Rowan, this was her plan. These people

1150
01:14:32,300 --> 01:14:36,040
have been playing these games for years and years and years and

1151
01:14:36,540 --> 01:14:42,120
have so much experience with Nox and so much experience with making deals. And Nox

1152
01:14:42,620 --> 01:14:46,360
literally lives in the level of hell that is dedicated

1153
01:14:46,860 --> 01:14:50,320
to greed. Yes. There's nothing that he wants more than to line his

1154
01:14:50,820 --> 01:14:54,080
pockets. He would do anything. And this gets him one up on

1155
01:14:54,580 --> 01:14:58,650
the prince of demons. Yes. And it like, she figured

1156
01:14:59,150 --> 01:15:02,010
all of that out. She came up with the plan, and it worked.

1157
01:15:02,570 --> 01:15:06,290
Genevieve wakes in her bed at Grim Manor, only to discover that in

1158
01:15:06,790 --> 01:15:09,810
order for Salem to restore her soul to her body, he had to take the

1159
01:15:10,310 --> 01:15:14,250
memory of the person she loved the most in the world. So she has absolutely

1160
01:15:14,410 --> 01:15:16,410
no recollection of Rowan.

1161
01:15:17,610 --> 01:15:21,210
She doesn't remember anything. She thinks she got poisoned by the berries.

1162
01:15:21,940 --> 01:15:26,220
Also, can I just say, when Salem comes in here, Blackwell Salem was

1163
01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:30,060
for me. He is so obsessed with Ophelia, I can't

1164
01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:33,780
handle it. That's why I liked Fantasma so much, is because of him.

1165
01:15:33,940 --> 01:15:37,060
Genevieve is, like, trying to figure out what's going on, and Salem is, like,

1166
01:15:37,380 --> 01:15:40,500
cringing while he eats candy out of a bag. And she's like,

1167
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:44,260
what are you doing? And he's like, well, I really like these, like, little licorice,

1168
01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:48,220
but they only sell them in pink and black. And Opie only likes the

1169
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:51,500
pink ones, so I have to eat the black ones. And she's like, well,

1170
01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:54,500
you could just not eat them. And he was like, no, no,

1171
01:15:55,220 --> 01:15:58,780
this. Is what she wants, and no one is

1172
01:15:59,280 --> 01:16:03,140
going to tell her. Yeah, he is absolutely obsessed.

1173
01:16:03,780 --> 01:16:07,220
Over the course of the next several weeks, Genevieve receives a letter A week,

1174
01:16:07,300 --> 01:16:11,100
slowly disclosing details of her time in Enchantra and about

1175
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:14,980
her relationship with her husband, Rowan, who she cannot remember.

1176
01:16:15,380 --> 01:16:18,820
When the letters are finished, she is approached by a man in the French

1177
01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:23,020
Quarter who says she must have dropped her ring, to which she replies

1178
01:16:23,100 --> 01:16:26,220
that it's. And he finishes her sentence. Yes.

1179
01:16:26,700 --> 01:16:30,220
Two weeks go by, and during a sleepless night, her memories begin to

1180
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:34,020
come back to her, including a new memory of Rowan before the

1181
01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:39,020
King of Devils, who is willing to exchange returning her memories for

1182
01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:43,890
Rowan's assistance in getting his son Salem, to return to hell. When Rowan

1183
01:16:44,390 --> 01:16:48,490
refuses, he offers instead his immortality, and the devil accepts.

1184
01:16:48,990 --> 01:16:52,970
Genevieve rushes out into the night. She finds Rowan, and they are

1185
01:16:53,210 --> 01:16:56,970
reunited. It's funny because as

1186
01:16:57,470 --> 01:17:00,530
Genevieve is getting the letters, she kind of is like,

1187
01:17:01,030 --> 01:17:04,410
I don't feel anything for this person. Which is so funny, because I fell

1188
01:17:04,910 --> 01:17:07,970
in love with him through the letters, through this whole book. This is

1189
01:17:08,470 --> 01:17:11,400
where Genevieve and I are not the same. If I'm getting letters from this man,

1190
01:17:11,900 --> 01:17:15,160
I'm falling in love with him all over again. I know. But the thing of

1191
01:17:15,660 --> 01:17:19,120
it is, is, like, I feel like she's kind of described

1192
01:17:19,620 --> 01:17:23,120
throughout this entire part of the book as sort of like,

1193
01:17:23,620 --> 01:17:27,000
listless, bouncing through the world. She doesn't really

1194
01:17:27,500 --> 01:17:30,760
seem to have a place. Yeah, she doesn't. Doesn't feel like she fits in.

1195
01:17:30,840 --> 01:17:33,960
Yeah, she is very much, I think, feeling very lost.

1196
01:17:34,440 --> 01:17:37,890
And I think, like, even when she sees him,

1197
01:17:38,370 --> 01:17:42,050
there's this very familiar, like, pull and, like, hug.

1198
01:17:42,130 --> 01:17:46,130
And I get the sense that she sort of has a moment

1199
01:17:46,630 --> 01:17:50,690
of, like, wholeness. And then he waits for

1200
01:17:51,190 --> 01:17:54,650
her. He remembers where she used to wait for

1201
01:17:55,150 --> 01:17:58,690
this other guy, and he basically waits there every night

1202
01:17:59,190 --> 01:18:01,610
for two weeks waiting for her to come and find him. And he had waited.

1203
01:18:02,110 --> 01:18:04,530
He would have waited for the rest of his life. Yes. He says in his

1204
01:18:05,030 --> 01:18:08,390
final letter to her, like, something. Because I think at their wedding vows,

1205
01:18:08,890 --> 01:18:11,710
they have to say something like, my blood, your blood, your soul, my soul.

1206
01:18:12,210 --> 01:18:14,830
Something like that. And then something for eternity. And he was like,

1207
01:18:15,230 --> 01:18:18,950
don't worry about the eternity. Like, nothing is forever. And in the

1208
01:18:19,450 --> 01:18:22,870
end of his letter, he says, like, nothing is forever except

1209
01:18:23,370 --> 01:18:24,670
my undying love for you or something.

1210
01:18:27,790 --> 01:18:31,470
It's so good. It's. Again, he gives

1211
01:18:31,970 --> 01:18:35,220
up his immortality in an instant. He doesn't then

1212
01:18:35,380 --> 01:18:38,620
think about it. He just does. He does it. He says that

1213
01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:41,740
he is going to spend the rest of his life scouring the earth to find

1214
01:18:42,240 --> 01:18:45,980
a way to return her memories to her. And he, like, basically can't

1215
01:18:46,480 --> 01:18:49,460
even wait like, he's like. He finishes the letters and he's like, she still doesn't

1216
01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:53,780
have the memories. I gotta go get some help for this. Because he is,

1217
01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:57,220
like, desperate to get back to her and desperate for them to be reunited.

1218
01:18:57,720 --> 01:19:01,180
So it's. The whole thing is very romantic. I absolutely

1219
01:19:01,680 --> 01:19:05,700
love it. I love romance. Yes. So, well, and the whole, like a

1220
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:09,340
lifetime with you is better than a hundred lifetimes alone.

1221
01:19:09,820 --> 01:19:12,860
Oh, my God. Again, for me,

1222
01:19:13,020 --> 01:19:17,260
100%. Yes. We do get an epilogue where

1223
01:19:17,900 --> 01:19:21,500
one of the memories that is returned to Genevieve is one

1224
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:25,820
that Knox had erased, which had revealed that there was,

1225
01:19:26,320 --> 01:19:29,860
in fact, a cure. So prior to this, Rowan has been searching

1226
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:33,760
for a cure, sort of thinking, like, it could just be rumors. There isn't

1227
01:19:34,260 --> 01:19:37,800
really anything, like, definitive to prove that there is a cure.

1228
01:19:37,960 --> 01:19:41,840
And now she's able to confirm for sure that there is. And he and

1229
01:19:42,340 --> 01:19:46,360
his siblings are on a mission. They basically only have a year to.

1230
01:19:46,860 --> 01:19:49,480
Find less than now. It's been a couple months.

1231
01:19:50,120 --> 01:19:53,720
Yeah. So they have to find the cure. This is where we sort

1232
01:19:54,220 --> 01:19:58,040
of get the set up for the next books. Grave and Seven are

1233
01:19:58,540 --> 01:20:01,720
visiting Grim Manor, basically to discuss the details of,

1234
01:20:02,220 --> 01:20:05,600
like, what their next moves, their next plans are going

1235
01:20:06,100 --> 01:20:09,600
to be. And Brave here meets Lucy,

1236
01:20:10,080 --> 01:20:12,160
who is Genevieve's best friend.

1237
01:20:12,720 --> 01:20:15,960
And there isn't anything that happens between them,

1238
01:20:16,460 --> 01:20:19,160
but I'm getting a sense that something is going to happen between them. Well,

1239
01:20:19,660 --> 01:20:22,800
because instantly she sees him and she's like, yeah, yeah.

1240
01:20:24,720 --> 01:20:28,050
Yes. Saying Lucy. Same. So. And we also

1241
01:20:28,550 --> 01:20:32,090
find that Seven has been accepted into this

1242
01:20:32,590 --> 01:20:36,330
very exclusive club or

1243
01:20:36,830 --> 01:20:40,170
something that gives them access to a bunch of

1244
01:20:40,670 --> 01:20:44,130
information about the cure. So it's definitely. I would assume that at least

1245
01:20:44,630 --> 01:20:46,770
two of the other books will be about one of the book will be about

1246
01:20:47,270 --> 01:20:49,930
Grave and one will be about Seven. But hopefully we get more.

1247
01:20:50,170 --> 01:20:53,130
Yes. I'm super enjoying Kaylie Smith's writing,

1248
01:20:53,420 --> 01:20:57,060
especially after this book. So highly recommend. And that's.

1249
01:20:57,560 --> 01:20:59,940
I'm so glad we did this book. We weren't going to. I didn't suggest it.

1250
01:21:00,440 --> 01:21:03,580
You said we should do it. I know. Well, because we did the first one

1251
01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:07,300
and I feel like you have to. Do all of them. I need them

1252
01:21:07,800 --> 01:21:10,820
to be complete. I need to be able to check them off my list.

1253
01:21:11,320 --> 01:21:13,900
Yeah. You know, you and I are so different. I know.

1254
01:21:16,620 --> 01:21:20,940
Well, we talked a little bit about Kaylie Smith on our Phantasma

1255
01:21:21,440 --> 01:21:24,800
episode. I would just visit her website. She's such

1256
01:21:25,300 --> 01:21:30,440
a great website. We, of course, always want to thank. Paige has

1257
01:21:30,940 --> 01:21:34,480
helped us get all our website and Social media established.

1258
01:21:34,980 --> 01:21:37,679
And we're super grateful for her for that. Do you want to do the ratings?

1259
01:21:38,179 --> 01:21:42,320
Yeah. Spice level. Spice level. This is a

1260
01:21:42,820 --> 01:21:45,960
spicy book. Yeah. But spice level. We do graphic.

1261
01:21:46,460 --> 01:21:50,200
We do graphic. And I have to say, don't think that this book is

1262
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:54,160
super graphic. I think I would realistically

1263
01:21:54,660 --> 01:21:57,160
probably give it like a two and a half. Yeah. I gave it a three.

1264
01:21:57,320 --> 01:22:01,080
It's nice frequency. I would give this probably also

1265
01:22:01,480 --> 01:22:05,040
a two. Give it a two as well. Yeah. There's not a

1266
01:22:05,540 --> 01:22:08,920
ton. I wish there had been more. So pros.

1267
01:22:09,240 --> 01:22:12,920
Pros. I would give this a 5. I think it was really well written.

1268
01:22:13,420 --> 01:22:16,640
I think third person is really, really hard to write. And I think she definitely

1269
01:22:17,140 --> 01:22:20,960
improved over last time. It's very well developed, for sure. Storyline.

1270
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:24,720
Storyline. I'm gonna give it a five. Same overall.

1271
01:22:25,280 --> 01:22:28,240
Overall, I would give this book a four and a half.

1272
01:22:28,740 --> 01:22:31,680
Oh, I love that. Because you weren't so kind with Fantasma.

1273
01:22:32,079 --> 01:22:35,960
I wasn't. I would give this a five. Yes. I really,

1274
01:22:36,460 --> 01:22:40,080
really loved the book. I didn't love it quite as much as I loved,

1275
01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:44,440
like, leather and Lark. I could do an entire

1276
01:22:44,940 --> 01:22:48,080
another podcast episode on. I still think about Lark,

1277
01:22:48,580 --> 01:22:52,160
like, literally to this day. So I love Lark so much that

1278
01:22:52,660 --> 01:22:56,080
I wouldn't even rank her. Yeah. People. Because she just is me.

1279
01:22:56,580 --> 01:23:00,120
And I just love her and, like, everything. I love it. Yeah.

1280
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:03,680
That was so good. And I've

1281
01:23:04,180 --> 01:23:07,720
been dying for the last day to talk to you about it, because before

1282
01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:11,180
I read this back in April when it came out, and I know. But the

1283
01:23:11,680 --> 01:23:14,340
thing is, I think I asked you about it and you were. Like, yeah,

1284
01:23:14,840 --> 01:23:17,900
I was shoot reading it a second time. But the funny thing is, though,

1285
01:23:18,400 --> 01:23:21,460
on storygraph, I still did give it five stars, even though I was like,

1286
01:23:22,180 --> 01:23:24,580
maybe. You gave it up because you didn't think I was gonna like it.

1287
01:23:25,060 --> 01:23:27,740
That could be where you were kind of like, I don't think you're gonna like

1288
01:23:28,240 --> 01:23:31,580
it kind of a thing. Yeah. And. But I do. Like you said, this is

1289
01:23:32,080 --> 01:23:35,860
a book where you do have to. I skip. I skip pages. I skip

1290
01:23:36,710 --> 01:23:40,590
a lot of inner monologue that you can't with this one you

1291
01:23:41,090 --> 01:23:44,350
miss so much. And I'm so glad that I did read this

1292
01:23:44,850 --> 01:23:47,350
again. And it's not a super long book. I still read it in a day

1293
01:23:47,850 --> 01:23:50,590
or so. If this book is on your tbr, it should stay there and you

1294
01:23:51,090 --> 01:23:54,870
should read it. Yes. And we skipped over a lot. Yeah.

1295
01:23:55,370 --> 01:23:58,950
There's a lot that we didn't talk about that is worth just getting into,

1296
01:23:59,270 --> 01:24:03,110
so. Agreed. All right, well, join us next week for caught up.

1297
01:24:03,380 --> 01:24:07,100
Thanks for listening. I'm Amanda and we're Pot Tart. See you next time.