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we start this episode with three things. First

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is a generic trigger warning. You can find specific

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triggers for this book in our show notes, so

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please check those out. We also use foul language

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spoiled, don't listen to this episode. And finally,

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we acknowledge that a good book can hit you at

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the wrong time. Our views discussed in our episodes

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are our opinion, and we don't want to diminish

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the work or the talents of the authors in our

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community. That said, we have some notes. So

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girl, what are we talking about today today?

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I forgot it was my turn Well, it's hard at coming

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off of like a three four -parter because like

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now we had so many times of me It's been me.

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Yeah, you've been leading me in for a month now

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exactly and now it's your turn Anyway anyway

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today We're talking, I don't know why I said

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it like that. I like shake it out. I'm leaving

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all of this in, by the way. Yes, please do. I

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think this is gold. Today we're talking about

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Tragically Yours by Jamie Applegate -Hunter.

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This was published in 2025. And it is a standalone,

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but it's in the same universe as Viciously Yours,

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which we covered last year. Technically, this

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is the third one. We skipped the second one.

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They don't need to be read in order. And we were

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just more interested in these characters than

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whoever the fuck was in the second one. I don't

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know who those people are. According to Goodreads,

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this book is 292 pages long. My Kindle said like

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270. Either way, those are technically middies,

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but we're couching them as shorties because we're

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couching this one as a shorty because it definitely

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is like I started this book on Tuesday and I

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finished it this morning and I wasn't committing

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a lot of time to reading it. It just flies by

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yeah, and I think we were doing that from like

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experience from the last book like They're fun.

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I mean, I do have 11 pages of notes So it might

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be a little bit longer than usual, but like not

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a lot happens in it girl No, we got a last month

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and that's that's about it. Yeah the cover is

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Fine it's kind of like blue smoky, there's like

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yellow smoke and blue and then you have what

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is definitely a snake, which we'll get into because

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Cassandra is my favorite character in this book.

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And there's really not that much else to the

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cover. I do appreciate it because it's for what's

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in this book, you could have this cover in public

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and people probably wouldn't know what it was.

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I mean, it looks like kind of a dark romance,

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which I guess sort of is, but it's not the Bodice

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Ripper threesome on the cover that we've seen

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with other romances. Yeah, it's just kind of

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generic. It does feel like maybe there's More

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of a villainous arc to it. Like it gives me like

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Like maybe this is a Jafar fanfic. Yeah, it looks

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the cover looks like Desperate Measures Yes,

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is very far fanfic. Yes. Um, the snake is not

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the villain. I guess it depends who you ask but

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She's a delight. I should have also said that

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this series is the Fae Kings of Eden. But again,

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they're standalones. You can read them in any

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order. You don't like there's literally zero

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crossover besides just mentioning of other names

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that you don't need to know. Yeah. Basically,

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if you start with the first one, you're fine

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to read the rest of them in whatever order. Exactly.

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So let's get into it. Katie, kick it off. All

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right, so first of all, this is on Kindle Unlimited,

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which is great for all of us who are on that.

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And then we kick it off with a great dedication,

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which says, quote, to everyone who hates the

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word folds, at least it's not flaps. That got

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me immediately. I was like, OK, yeah, I don't

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really like folds. Flaps is way worse. Yeah,

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actually, this made me warm up to folds. Me too.

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I was like, Oh, okay. Yeah, I can do folds because

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if you give me the counter of flaps, make me

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understand truly how much worse it could be.

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And I'll appreciate it more. Yeah. And then,

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you know, we get a lot of folds in this book.

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Not a single one bothered me. Nope not after

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that dedication. So moving on we then get a number

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of different things before we jump in. First

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is a glossary of terms which covers like the

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different types of fey and mates and things like

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that. But because we read the other like first

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book in the series I didn't really need it because

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this world is just like super not that complicated.

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but you know it's a nice refresher if that's

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you know what you're what you're into we then

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get a map that shows kind of where everything

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is and it's a fine map it's as good as it was

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before and just as a reminder also not very complicated

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there's the garden mountain desert and tropical

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kingdoms that's where the fae live and they're

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all kind of on the outside of the human kingdom

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in the middle fine then we get a spotify playlist

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which has a link that does work thank you very

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much and that's great There are definitely some

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bangers on this one. I was pretty pleased. A

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lot of times when we get them, I have either

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never heard of any of the music or I just don't

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like it. This one, I was like, OK, girl. Yeah,

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I like it. We then get a piece of fan art, which

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is interesting because fan art typically tries

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to romanticize the characters and make them the

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desirable thing that they are in our head. And

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these two characters just look so regular. They're

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just like people off the street. I forgot about

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the fan art immediately. That's how unremarkable

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they are. The art is good. I'm not knocking the

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art. But to your point, they're just people.

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Yeah, and I'm not even sitting here trying to

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tell you that that's a bad thing. I think it's

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realistic. But it was just a little bit shocking

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because I'm used to our female main character

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being scantily clad on the lab of our male main

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character and they're sitting on a throne and

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he's looking like a shadow daddy and there's

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gold everywhere and these two are just two people

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walking in a forest. And they're not dressed

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in any like particular way. Like this could be

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from any genre. I mean, he's got pointy ears,

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but that's about it. That's about it. So then

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we get a content warning, which is in our show

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notes. So please take a peek at those. It's the

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regular stuff. There's nothing like super Adela

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Field in this book. But do just take a peek at

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that just in case. Finally, we get a disclaimer

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that's pretty funny, so I think it makes sense

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if you just want to read it for us maybe? Yes,

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let me pull it up. Okay. If you're looking for

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an amazing fantasy with an intricate plot, this

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might not be the book for you. This is an unhinged

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fantasy romance. There's no intricate world building

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or big fantasy plot. The plot focuses solely

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on the romance between the two main characters.

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The books in the series were written to be quick,

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fun reads, and are great for a palate cleanser

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or a book slump, unless you hate them. The hero

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makes a few morally black choices in the name

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of love and thinks it's completely normal behavior

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Do not expect him to have a moral compass. You

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might have a good time. You might not good luck

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Yeah, I'm in I got the shirt I loved that He's

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not gonna have like a come to Jesus moment. Like

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this is who it is. You might like it. You might

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hate it I don't give a fuck right. I want to

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hear about it And I really respect that from

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an author. I feel like I can't think of the book

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now, but I feel like there was one disclaimer

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for a book we read at some point in our Spice

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Traders career that felt like they were almost

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kind of like defending themselves against haters

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before they got hate. And it was too much. I'd

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much rather have this like you like it or you

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won't. Like it or don't doesn't matter to me.

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Like moving on. Like I like it. And some people

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will too. Right. Yeah, I remember like the vibe

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of that book that you're talking about, but I

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don't remember which one it was in particular.

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But yeah, it's like it's just kind of refreshing

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to have an author who's just like. So above it,

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you know. And I really appreciate. An author

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who's self aware of what they created like, yeah.

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She's not pretending that she created some high

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fantasy, intricate mystery. She's like, no, no,

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no. I created this cozy little story about Faye

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and romance. There's a lot of smut and not much

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else. Yeah, like she's not winning like any high

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literary awards for this. And honestly, good.

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Like she's not trying to. Yeah, we need that.

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And we need more of that. More of that, unless

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800 pages of world building that don't matter.

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That's not a knock against. what we're reading

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recently, but against some other books that isn't.

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It was not a dig against Guild so far. So far.

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So then we get into the book. And for those of

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you who listen to Viciously Yours or read that

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book, this book really generally follows the

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same plot, almost down to like a beat. But look,

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still a good time. I'm not judging it for that.

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It's the same story. It's the same story. It's

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fine. We start with our young female main character

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Fawn. She's 13 and she is half fey half human

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and she's being made fun of for her teeth by

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some other kids at school. As a reaction she

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imagines what it would be like if her taunter

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didn't have any front teeth and ends up glamouring

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him to make it seem like that happened. And so

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the long and the short of it is like she has

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a little bit of magic and so her parents decide

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to move her back into the fae lands to try to

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develop that as much as possible. You'll remember,

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or maybe you don't, I'll just say in this book,

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fae magic is tied to the land very much and to

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the monarch. So if fae live outside of the fae

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kingdoms, then their magic is not going to develop

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as well as if they lived there. On the way, so

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they move in with Fawn's grandparents who own

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a horse farm. And on the way, we get an adorable

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interaction with Fawn and her parents. And it

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truly seems like they have a wonderful family

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dynamic, which immediately made me think that

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her parents needed to die. Yeah. Right away,

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I was like, this is too comfy. It's the start

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of a Disney movie. It's like the start of Bambi.

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You know Bambi's mom is going to die. It's too

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happy. Totally. Yeah, or the start of Frozen,

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or the start of The Lion King, or the start of,

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wait a minute. Every other movie. All of them.

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Yeah. Also, the name of the book is tragically

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yours. I'm like, this isn't going to be a happy

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family. No, yeah. So we switched to Dean, who

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is the prince of the Garden Kingdom. He is experiencing

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some emotions of fun through he and Fawn's mating

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bond. But similar to Viciously Yours, even though

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Dean got the name of his mate when he was 13,

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Fawn, there's no record of her in any of the

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Fey kingdoms. And his parents have not been able

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to locate her in the human kingdom as well. OK,

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this book doesn't does not ask for a lot of questions,

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but there's five things that I wish we had answers

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to. One of the questions that I wish we had answers

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to is, why is it only the dude that gets the

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name? Yeah. Or does the other side get it, and

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because they're not royal, they don't know that

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they're going to get it, and so they just dream

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it, or they think somebody said it in passing?

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Oh, that would be interesting. Which like, again,

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I don't need that much world building in here.

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But that and then like for this, why is there

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no record of her being born? Granted, that's

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from her parents, his parents, which we know

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that's a problem. But like with the same problem

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in the first book where how does the human kingdom

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just not keep records? I think that's what's

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happening. Possibly. I mean, it could also be

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the thing that like, I mean, I don't know. So

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many things could have happened, but it's just

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like. What a convenient thing for this person

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to not exist. Yeah. So Dean's best friend Braddock

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tells Dean that if he can't find Fawn, then he'll

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have to marry somebody else. And he's like, you

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could marry my cousin Callie. She's nice. Cool.

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Boy, 13 -year -old boys. This conversation, this

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riveting conversation is interrupted by Dean's

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daddy, the king, who's upset that Dean was laughing.

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Can you believe it? Laughing. Disgraceful. When

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you should be training. Disgraceful. Oh my god.

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Gonna tank the whole kingdom. Right? Immediately.

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So he takes Dean to be trained slash punished

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by General Craven and these sessions are brutal

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and abusive and it's his father's way of trying

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to mold Dean into a monarch that, you know, Dean's

00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:05.559
dad sees fit to rule. We'll get more about General

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Craven and I will say for such a simple book,

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he's a fascinating character. Like if this were

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a more complex book I would be really interested

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to learn more about General Craven. Me too. Me

00:14:16.220 --> 00:14:19.879
too. Back to Fawn who lives with her parents

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on her grandparents horse farm in the Mountain

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Kingdom and they live literally right next to

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the castle and they provide the castle with horses.

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Fawn tells us that though she enjoys being around

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horses and working with them she does not like

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riding because she's afraid of heights and these

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horses are described as being fucking massive.

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Like two or three times as tall as regular human

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horses right and i can't really blame her for

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not wanting to ride them but it is weird to me

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that she's comfortable around horses but just

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not on them i know because horses in and of themselves

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are kind of intimidating anyway even like regular

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non -fe horses but she's cool with like training

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them and brushing them and grooming them yeah

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and to me it feels like it would be almost be

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more intimidating if you were underfoot of those

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things than on top of them but yeah to each what

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do i know Or what I know. So that night, Phan's

00:15:11.070 --> 00:15:12.889
father suggests they go into the village for

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dinner. Phan is ecstatic about this, but as they

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head inside, she sees the shadows of people in

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their fields sneaking toward the palace. She

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realizes pretty quickly that it's rebels trying

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to sneak into the palace to harm the royal family.

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And so her father, mother, and grandfather intervene

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while she and her grandmother hide inside. But

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as Phan runs into the house, she bumps her head

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and blacks out. Unfortunately, when she wakes

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up, her grandmother tells her that her parents

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were killed in the attack. Fawn feels an overwhelming

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sense of grief. She tells us, quote, three people

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died yesterday, but only two stopped breathing.

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She sees their death as partially her fault because

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she couldn't contain her emotions as a 13 year

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old child. And so rather than deal with that,

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she shoves her emotions down into a box that

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she doesn't allow herself to open. That's going

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to work out so well. So well. So on the other

00:16:10.490 --> 00:16:12.889
side of things, Dean goes from feeling something

00:16:12.889 --> 00:16:15.250
very intense to feeling nothing at all. And he

00:16:15.250 --> 00:16:21.230
fears that Fawn has died. Really quick. So mates

00:16:21.230 --> 00:16:24.049
can feel each other's emotions. Fawn has been

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feeling Dean's emotions and tried to talk to

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her mom. And her mom was like, that's just puberty.

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Don't worry about it. I'm like, Fawn's mom, what

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the fuck? I know. That's why I had to bring it

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up, because I was like, make fucking excuse me.

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She's just like, oh, it's just hormones. You'll

00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:42.580
grow out of it. I'm like, it's just your women's

00:16:42.580 --> 00:16:46.080
time. What is your puberty like? Like, what the

00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:50.659
fuck? I don't like. OK, my emotions. It got out

00:16:50.659 --> 00:16:54.299
of whack, but I knew they were mine. Right. They.

00:16:55.779 --> 00:16:58.299
I wasn't feeling something that was completely

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foreign and I didn't know it was where it was

00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:05.000
coming from. Like, yeah. OK. Just ask a follow

00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:07.880
-up question, Fawn's mom. So Dean's suspicion

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that Fawn is dead is seemingly confirmed because

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two weeks later, he's called into his father's

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office, and the King tells him that they found

00:17:14.099 --> 00:17:16.440
Fawn, but that she died in a carriage accident

00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:21.980
along with her parents. Cool. Awesome. Great.

00:17:22.019 --> 00:17:23.779
We know she's not dead, nor was there a carriage

00:17:23.779 --> 00:17:29.869
accident. Right. So we fast forward to 15 and

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Dean is being punished by General Craven This

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is when his familiar a giant black and blue snake

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named Cassandra shows up She offers to kill general

00:17:39.690 --> 00:17:41.230
Craven for Dean, but he knows that that would

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be more trouble than it's worth And so he calls

00:17:43.029 --> 00:17:46.230
her off But Dean does use this as an opportunity

00:17:46.230 --> 00:17:48.589
to tell his father and General Craven that he

00:17:48.589 --> 00:17:50.910
won't be doing those trainings anymore. And though

00:17:50.910 --> 00:17:53.230
initially his father tries to strong arm him,

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Cassandra intervenes and the King knows that

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his son is no longer fully under his control.

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Good. I fucking love Cassandra. Me too. She's

00:18:01.990 --> 00:18:04.650
the best. Even though she's kind of useless,

00:18:04.710 --> 00:18:07.670
she's also the best. We'll get to her uselessness

00:18:07.670 --> 00:18:09.789
in just a second. But it's useless in a very

00:18:09.789 --> 00:18:12.509
hilarious way. It's amazing. I think it makes

00:18:12.509 --> 00:18:14.390
up for the fact that she's so deadly. Because

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in this brief scene, we learn that Dean's dad

00:18:19.390 --> 00:18:22.509
has a familiar that's a fucking stag. And I'm

00:18:22.509 --> 00:18:24.450
like, you can't just have a stag walking around

00:18:24.450 --> 00:18:27.380
in the palace. That's so useless. I was trying

00:18:27.380 --> 00:18:28.900
to picture that, too, because we don't really

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see. I guess only royals get familiar. We don't

00:18:30.740 --> 00:18:33.599
see anyone else as familiar like ever in either

00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:36.299
of the books we've read. It's like, where is

00:18:36.299 --> 00:18:38.720
your stag just like with the horses? Like, where

00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:42.240
does he stay? You probably can't fit through

00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:44.640
doors very well. You're definitely not using

00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:47.839
him to spy on your enemies like. No, that Fox

00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:49.539
one from the first book, I think, is the most

00:18:49.539 --> 00:18:51.839
effective, not deadly, but effective for like

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spying and shit. Definitely. So this conversation

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is interrupted by Lilith who is a fallen fate

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from the heavens and has revealed herself to

00:19:01.609 --> 00:19:04.829
Dean for the first time just now. But it's clear

00:19:04.829 --> 00:19:07.549
that Dean's dad has known Lilith for a long time.

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Lilith tells Dean's father that he essentially

00:19:11.109 --> 00:19:15.089
has to cool it and let Dean be his own man. Otherwise

00:19:15.089 --> 00:19:19.150
Dean will kill himself. Yeah, that was a really

00:19:19.150 --> 00:19:24.900
dark turn. Yeah. So essentially like Lilith is

00:19:24.900 --> 00:19:27.680
like a soothsayer and she tells us later that

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she has some idea of what's going on or what

00:19:29.859 --> 00:19:31.960
will happen but it's never precise and it's never

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like a hundred percent clear and it's not for

00:19:34.259 --> 00:19:36.980
everything. Like there are apparently rules that

00:19:36.980 --> 00:19:39.839
she has to follow but those are very opaque to

00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:42.420
us. Yeah I think they're opaque to her too in

00:19:42.420 --> 00:19:47.029
a lot of ways. Yeah that's a fair point. So back

00:19:47.029 --> 00:19:49.289
to Fawn who's completely emotionally stunted

00:19:49.289 --> 00:19:51.430
for the past couple of years and she overhears

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her grandmother and grandfather talking about

00:19:53.250 --> 00:19:55.589
it They're worried because she's been completely

00:19:55.589 --> 00:19:57.609
emotionally stunted for the past couple of years.

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So she decides to fake it for them and I'm like

00:20:00.630 --> 00:20:07.690
Okay, also Grandparents I love that you're thinking

00:20:07.690 --> 00:20:09.869
about this. You've let her be despondent for

00:20:09.869 --> 00:20:12.390
two years and you're still just like casually

00:20:12.390 --> 00:20:15.539
talking about how you're worried They're like,

00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:17.259
maybe we should bring her to the village more

00:20:17.259 --> 00:20:20.900
often. I'm like, it's been two years. OK, so

00:20:20.900 --> 00:20:22.720
is she emotionally stunted and you don't let

00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:25.079
her get out of the house? Yeah, like, what is

00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:27.019
happening here? And does she not go to school?

00:20:27.539 --> 00:20:30.400
This is bizarre. Yeah, no wonder she's emotionally

00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:35.519
stunted. Yeah. And so when Fawn, like, starts

00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:38.259
to fake it, she starts to feel genuine emotions.

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Sometimes it's even joy. And these end up filtering

00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:44.880
up to Dean. And it's confusing for him because

00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:47.500
he's been told that Fawn is dead. And so essentially

00:20:47.500 --> 00:20:49.259
his therapist or someone is like, you should

00:20:49.259 --> 00:20:51.079
write a letter about it. And so we see some of

00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:53.640
those letters and they're signed, quote, tragically

00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:56.400
yours. Which is a nice homage to Viciously Yours,

00:20:56.500 --> 00:20:58.940
which also had a lot of letters. Right. But I

00:20:58.940 --> 00:21:02.089
love that. I forget who we told and they're like,

00:21:02.089 --> 00:21:04.450
weird, you should write letters about it. It

00:21:04.450 --> 00:21:06.670
is like a therapist basically. He calls him like

00:21:06.670 --> 00:21:09.150
a healer that specializes in emotions or something

00:21:09.150 --> 00:21:11.369
like that. I'm like, okay, so a therapist. Right,

00:21:11.470 --> 00:21:16.089
a therapist. Okay, cool. So on the other end

00:21:16.089 --> 00:21:18.769
of the bond, Fawn is feeling Dean's emotions

00:21:18.769 --> 00:21:22.130
as well, sorrow, longing, but she has no idea

00:21:22.130 --> 00:21:24.369
where there's a coming from or like what to think.

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And like you said, doesn't help that their mom

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is like, or her grandmother at this point is

00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:30.339
like well it's just puberty honey you'll get

00:21:30.339 --> 00:21:33.759
over it don't worry about it in fawn's early

00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:35.940
20s we learned that she's taken a job at the

00:21:35.940 --> 00:21:37.720
palace and indeed this is where we meet her in

00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:39.480
the first book because she's appointed as like

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a lady's maid to um the human main character

00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:46.539
in that book i think that person's name was amelia

00:21:46.539 --> 00:21:50.279
yeah i think it was yeah okay so one day she

00:21:50.279 --> 00:21:52.000
gets off work from the palace and she goes into

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town and stumbles into a pleasure house She's

00:21:55.740 --> 00:21:58.019
invited inside and she's intrigued and she tells

00:21:58.019 --> 00:22:00.200
us that she's had sex, but it hasn't been anything

00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:03.039
to write home about. But the way that these people

00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:06.119
look and act, she's like, there's got to be something

00:22:06.119 --> 00:22:09.119
to it. I'm just missing a key point. When she's

00:22:09.119 --> 00:22:12.099
inside, she sees the dancers and she's entirely

00:22:12.099 --> 00:22:14.779
enthralled. And from that day forward, she becomes

00:22:14.779 --> 00:22:17.920
a dancer herself. Which I was like, go girl,

00:22:18.019 --> 00:22:20.819
I didn't expect that. Get it, girl. OK. Yeah.

00:22:22.690 --> 00:22:25.849
So then we see Dean who is now 24 and his father

00:22:25.849 --> 00:22:27.910
is telling him that it's time to learn about

00:22:27.910 --> 00:22:30.349
Lilith and to take a wife. So he gives Dean a

00:22:30.349 --> 00:22:32.170
list of names for who would be suitable for him

00:22:32.170 --> 00:22:36.750
to consider and tells Dean that he must be wed

00:22:36.750 --> 00:22:38.970
in a year so that he can take the throne. Dean

00:22:38.970 --> 00:22:41.250
notices that Braddock's cousin Callie's name

00:22:41.250 --> 00:22:45.329
is on the list. Then his father takes him down

00:22:45.329 --> 00:22:47.410
to like the dungeons and there's like a grotto

00:22:47.410 --> 00:22:50.829
where Lilith lives down there and he leaves them

00:22:50.829 --> 00:22:52.849
alone to speak. I didn't understand where she

00:22:52.849 --> 00:22:54.470
lived because it sounded like a grotto to me.

00:22:54.509 --> 00:22:56.789
But then it's just like a regular living room.

00:22:57.369 --> 00:23:00.609
Well, it's definitely underground. And I was

00:23:00.609 --> 00:23:03.349
like, if I was basically an immortal, I wouldn't

00:23:03.349 --> 00:23:08.069
live underground. No, I wouldn't either. So in

00:23:08.069 --> 00:23:10.690
essentially Lilith's living room, Dean notices

00:23:10.690 --> 00:23:12.990
that there are pictures of monarchs on the wall.

00:23:13.529 --> 00:23:16.710
But noticeably, his parents are absent. And Lilith

00:23:16.710 --> 00:23:19.779
is like, yes, they are. End of conversation.

00:23:20.920 --> 00:23:27.279
Because they suck. She then shares with Dean

00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:30.380
that the fae came into existence because Cain,

00:23:30.740 --> 00:23:33.359
a god, had an affair with a human and that child

00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:36.619
started the Garden Kingdom. Thus, the fae line

00:23:36.619 --> 00:23:38.539
from the Garden Kingdom is the most powerful

00:23:38.539 --> 00:23:41.339
because it's the first and most ancient. They're

00:23:41.339 --> 00:23:43.960
special. Lilith then tells Dean that he must

00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:46.460
be betrothed before he takes the throne. And

00:23:46.460 --> 00:23:49.299
the consequence of him not doing that is that

00:23:49.299 --> 00:23:51.720
Eden will fall. And so they refer to the Garden

00:23:51.720 --> 00:23:55.960
Kingdom as Eden sometimes. And I think this is

00:23:55.960 --> 00:23:57.839
kind of the thing that gets a little bit old

00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:00.180
about Lilith as a character because everything

00:24:00.180 --> 00:24:03.799
she says has to be followed with like, you know,

00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:05.420
if you don't do this, a catastrophe is going

00:24:05.420 --> 00:24:08.099
to happen. Like there's no gray area with this

00:24:08.099 --> 00:24:11.289
bitch. No. And like when we first introduced

00:24:11.289 --> 00:24:12.930
her, it seems like there should be some gray

00:24:12.930 --> 00:24:16.549
area, but there's not. No, it's like, I mean,

00:24:17.069 --> 00:24:19.289
like we first saw her and she was like, yo, you

00:24:19.289 --> 00:24:20.769
got to lighten up. Otherwise, Dean's going to

00:24:20.769 --> 00:24:22.690
kill himself. This time, it's like, well, if

00:24:22.690 --> 00:24:24.549
you don't get betrothed by the time you take

00:24:24.549 --> 00:24:26.369
the throne, then like your entire kingdom is

00:24:26.369 --> 00:24:30.309
going to combust. And it's like, OK, no pressure.

00:24:30.869 --> 00:24:31.869
And later, there's other things I have to do.

00:24:31.950 --> 00:24:34.069
We're like, she has to stay or else everything

00:24:34.069 --> 00:24:38.900
will end. He's like, everything? She's like,

00:24:39.019 --> 00:24:43.759
everything. Everything, Dean. It's all because

00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:46.440
of you and your decisions. You're the problem

00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:52.559
here. God. So Dean's like, how do I know that

00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:54.700
you're not lying? And she just smiles at him

00:24:54.700 --> 00:25:00.339
and says, you don't. Again, I kind of like Lilith.

00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:04.119
Because like, what are you supposed to do with

00:25:04.119 --> 00:25:08.059
that? Like, I guess you listen to her. Just in

00:25:08.059 --> 00:25:11.900
case. But like, how do you know she's not evil?

00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:14.200
She's not. It's very straightforward. But like,

00:25:14.500 --> 00:25:19.319
your dad's evil. Yeah. I mean, like, I just love

00:25:19.319 --> 00:25:22.759
the idea that maybe she, like, fudges the line

00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:26.480
sometimes. Yeah. I like that a lot. Those are

00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:28.220
funsies. Like, maybe some of it's just a little

00:25:28.220 --> 00:25:30.079
self -serving because she just wants the drama.

00:25:30.299 --> 00:25:32.660
She wants to watch the tea. She wants the tea

00:25:32.660 --> 00:25:36.960
to happen. And so she says, If you don't do this,

00:25:37.660 --> 00:25:42.119
you'll die. Yes. Is that sufficient? Yes, it's

00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:44.079
sufficient. Does that work for you? Good. You

00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:51.500
fell for it. Yes. Get to my popcorn. We next

00:25:51.500 --> 00:25:55.220
see Fawn with her fiance, Warren. Yes, fiance.

00:25:56.299 --> 00:26:00.039
Enfianced? a fiancée. Warren tries to kiss Fawn's

00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:02.440
neck and she tells us that she doesn't like that

00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:04.759
and how she's told Warren this before and so

00:26:04.759 --> 00:26:07.599
it makes her feel unseen and unheard and I'm

00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:09.700
like fine cool whatever but she brings up this

00:26:09.700 --> 00:26:11.859
thing the neck thing and it comes up again a

00:26:11.859 --> 00:26:14.059
little bit later it comes off as her being like

00:26:14.059 --> 00:26:16.259
a little bit OCD or for her being like a little

00:26:16.259 --> 00:26:18.700
bit differently abled but like it just was never

00:26:18.700 --> 00:26:22.259
that big of a deal like the She brings it up.

00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:23.700
It seems like a big deal. It's not actually a

00:26:23.700 --> 00:26:25.000
big deal. And so I'm not really sure what to

00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:27.180
make of that. No. And it was a little confusing

00:26:27.180 --> 00:26:30.339
for me, too. Like, I kind of was hoping we were

00:26:30.339 --> 00:26:32.099
going to get some backstory on the neck thing.

00:26:32.140 --> 00:26:34.160
Like, is there a reason with your neck? Because

00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:36.680
it comes up again multiple times. But then the

00:26:36.680 --> 00:26:39.819
only other OCD -ish thing is sometimes she doesn't

00:26:39.819 --> 00:26:42.200
like certain fabrics on her. Like, she feels

00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:44.400
constrained. She'll start to freak out. I thought

00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:46.859
that was just a product of her repressing her

00:26:46.859 --> 00:26:50.680
emotions for 13 years. So she has, like, an anxiety.

00:26:51.259 --> 00:26:53.720
disorder, but I don't think that's what it is.

00:26:53.720 --> 00:26:56.900
I think it's like a texture thing, but it was

00:26:56.900 --> 00:26:58.920
a weird character trait, and I don't think it

00:26:58.920 --> 00:27:01.779
was necessary. Yeah, I think that's what it is.

00:27:01.900 --> 00:27:04.400
It just didn't feel very well integrated into

00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:07.660
the story. And I'm not saying that you have to

00:27:07.660 --> 00:27:09.160
be differently abled as a plot point. That's

00:27:09.160 --> 00:27:10.680
not what I'm saying at all. It just was like,

00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:14.740
I wanted a little bit more about that. Yeah,

00:27:14.740 --> 00:27:16.660
because even in her internal monologue, like

00:27:16.660 --> 00:27:20.579
she doesn't even explain it to herself. Right.

00:27:20.670 --> 00:27:25.210
Yeah. It read to me as if we were missing information,

00:27:25.430 --> 00:27:27.130
like a chapter got cut out or something. And

00:27:27.130 --> 00:27:29.109
that's where it gets distracting. That's a really

00:27:29.109 --> 00:27:33.019
good way to put it. So anyway. They're waking

00:27:33.019 --> 00:27:35.240
up together, she and Warren, and Warren tells

00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:37.359
Fawn that he has to run an errand and that he'll

00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:39.380
see her later so that they can go on a trip together.

00:27:39.519 --> 00:27:41.599
Kind of an impromptu thing to the human kingdom.

00:27:42.259 --> 00:27:44.299
She hasn't been back since she was little. And

00:27:44.299 --> 00:27:46.799
so Warren was like, you know, this can be a surprise

00:27:46.799 --> 00:27:48.680
pre honeymoon thing, because like after we get

00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:50.200
married, like I've got work to do and we don't

00:27:50.200 --> 00:27:54.019
really have time. I'm busy. Busy. So Fawn's getting

00:27:54.019 --> 00:27:55.859
ready a little bit later. She finds something

00:27:55.859 --> 00:27:57.920
of Warren's that he left behind and decides to

00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:01.089
go to his house early to drop it off. When she

00:28:01.089 --> 00:28:03.470
gets there she overhears Warren arguing with

00:28:03.470 --> 00:28:05.769
another woman and it quickly becomes clear that

00:28:05.769 --> 00:28:10.269
these two are married And that she Fawn is the

00:28:10.269 --> 00:28:14.190
other woman in their relationship So she barges

00:28:14.190 --> 00:28:16.930
in just as Warren tells this woman Naomi that

00:28:16.930 --> 00:28:19.309
he's taking Fawn to the human kingdom to kill

00:28:19.309 --> 00:28:25.210
her Whoops, which escalated in credit like that

00:28:25.210 --> 00:28:28.470
light speed for me. It was like zero to a hundred

00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:33.640
Real fucking quick But so what I love though

00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:36.119
is that both Fawn and Naomi are like equally

00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:39.240
horrified and then things go from that a hundred

00:28:39.240 --> 00:28:42.000
plays to like 200 really fucking fast because

00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:48.119
Naomi just fucking kills Warren Stabs him in

00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:54.180
the back. Yep. Yep. And so he dies And this is

00:28:54.180 --> 00:28:56.579
an immediate bonding experience for Fawn and

00:28:56.579 --> 00:29:00.460
Naomi. And to make it better, they go to Fawn's

00:29:00.460 --> 00:29:03.019
grandparents to ask them to help them try to

00:29:03.019 --> 00:29:07.720
hide the body, which they do. That's just so

00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:12.140
fucking out of left field. How did you two meet?

00:29:12.539 --> 00:29:16.339
We kill... Well, you see, we were sleeping with

00:29:16.339 --> 00:29:18.779
the same man and he was going to kill me. And

00:29:18.779 --> 00:29:24.339
so... In self -defense. In self -defense. But

00:29:24.339 --> 00:29:28.880
not in a court of law. No. No. He left of his

00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:31.519
own volition. And no one has heard from him again.

00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:35.079
Right. And the fact that they go to their grandparents

00:29:35.079 --> 00:29:39.099
and grandpa's just like, I'm on it. Right. No

00:29:39.099 --> 00:29:41.240
follow -up questions. No follow -up questions.

00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:43.079
And then her grandparents are like, well, so

00:29:43.079 --> 00:29:47.380
Naomi should probably live with us now. Because

00:29:47.380 --> 00:29:51.759
we all share a secret. And it's easier that way.

00:29:52.660 --> 00:29:55.160
Well, then it doesn't matter. But later we see

00:29:55.160 --> 00:29:57.160
them all together and Naomi calls them like grandma

00:29:57.160 --> 00:29:59.819
and grandpa. Like she just is the family now.

00:30:01.240 --> 00:30:05.460
Which I love because we we complain so often

00:30:05.460 --> 00:30:07.980
about our female main characters having zero,

00:30:08.059 --> 00:30:12.059
zero friends. And I feel like Naomi is a true

00:30:12.059 --> 00:30:16.279
friend because literally ride or die. You got

00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:17.960
a problem with somebody call me. I got a shovel

00:30:17.960 --> 00:30:20.500
and a manure pit. Like, let's go. I'm going to

00:30:20.500 --> 00:30:22.200
kill my literal husband because he threatened

00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:25.519
you. Let's go. I don't know you. I've never met

00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:28.319
you before. You're my sister. Yeah. No, you're

00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:31.000
my sister. I love it. It was so nice that that

00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:35.079
she has a real friend with such a fun backstory,

00:30:35.319 --> 00:30:38.420
a fun origin tale. Well, and Naomi continues

00:30:38.420 --> 00:30:40.960
to be that unhinged friend, which I love. Oh,

00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:43.339
yeah. Give me more about Naomi. Yeah. Does she

00:30:43.339 --> 00:30:45.180
have a book? I'll read her book. I'll read her

00:30:45.180 --> 00:30:48.519
book, too. So we get another letter from Dean

00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:51.099
to Fawn and he tells her that he's engaged to

00:30:51.099 --> 00:30:55.059
Callie. He says, like, I can't give up on trying

00:30:55.059 --> 00:30:57.460
to find you and I'm going to look for you before

00:30:57.460 --> 00:31:00.599
I marry Callie. I would regret it if I didn't.

00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.200
And he also says that he's made no bones about

00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:06.680
like how he actually feels to Callie. Specifically,

00:31:06.819 --> 00:31:09.039
he said, like, I don't have any affection for

00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:12.339
you. I'm doing this because I have to. Which

00:31:12.339 --> 00:31:15.059
he sees as a level of respect. I also see it

00:31:15.059 --> 00:31:17.220
as a level of respect, but I don't know how Callie

00:31:17.220 --> 00:31:21.519
is like, she's clearly deluded still. Callie

00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:24.259
is deluded until the very last chapter, I think.

00:31:24.940 --> 00:31:30.920
Yeah. Yeah. Because we even see right after we

00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:32.720
read this letter, we see a brief interaction

00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:36.000
with them. And it's clear that Dean is not lying

00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:38.220
to Fawn in his letter. He does treat Callie like

00:31:38.220 --> 00:31:40.599
they are in a business arrangement. And it's

00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:43.599
so obvious she's deeply in love with him. Yeah.

00:31:43.819 --> 00:31:46.140
But he's not leading her on in any way. He's

00:31:46.140 --> 00:31:48.460
respectful to her, but he's not flirtatious.

00:31:48.500 --> 00:31:51.099
He's not affectionate. They've never kissed.

00:31:51.700 --> 00:31:56.039
Right. Yeah. So fast forward to the crowning

00:31:56.039 --> 00:31:58.519
of Amelia which happened in the first book in

00:31:58.519 --> 00:32:01.079
the series that we read last year and Fawn is

00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:04.019
invited again because Amelia has a fun spot for

00:32:04.019 --> 00:32:06.480
her and like is she's her lady -in -waiting or

00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:09.140
whatever. It's very strange Amelia has no real

00:32:09.140 --> 00:32:12.180
friends. She has service. She has servants. That's

00:32:12.180 --> 00:32:16.450
true So we saw this party at the end of the first

00:32:16.450 --> 00:32:18.950
book and that we saw Dean recognizing Fawn and

00:32:18.950 --> 00:32:20.890
declaring that she's his maid. And so we essentially

00:32:20.890 --> 00:32:22.589
see that scene again, but from the perspective

00:32:22.589 --> 00:32:24.990
of Dean and Fawn, which is really fun. It was

00:32:24.990 --> 00:32:27.029
really fun. I actually jumped back to Viciously

00:32:27.029 --> 00:32:29.609
Yours because I wanted to like see how that looks

00:32:29.609 --> 00:32:31.730
from Amelia's perspective. So I read that and

00:32:31.730 --> 00:32:36.670
it was it's a really fun tie in. Yeah. So after

00:32:36.670 --> 00:32:39.250
this, Dean and Fawn are given privacy in a different

00:32:39.250 --> 00:32:41.579
room where they can essentially introduce each

00:32:41.579 --> 00:32:45.880
other to each other? Awkward. Great. Dean tells

00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:47.519
her that he's the king of the Garden Kingdom,

00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:50.740
and Fawn is confused because she's only half

00:32:50.740 --> 00:32:52.940
-Fae, right? She's half -human too, so she shouldn't

00:32:52.940 --> 00:32:56.900
be able to be a mate because it's just for the

00:32:56.900 --> 00:33:01.579
purest of the pure Fae to do that. Which I did,

00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:03.039
because I kind of forgot what happened in the

00:33:03.039 --> 00:33:05.460
first book. I was like, girl, you were just at...

00:33:05.470 --> 00:33:08.089
Like the wedding of a human queen. But then I

00:33:08.089 --> 00:33:09.890
forgot that she's like a long lost daughter of

00:33:09.890 --> 00:33:13.230
some bullshit. And had her ears clipped. Gross.

00:33:15.470 --> 00:33:19.609
But the rules in this game in this world are

00:33:19.609 --> 00:33:22.710
not consistent. And not in a bad way, like for

00:33:22.710 --> 00:33:25.089
the characters themselves are like, what? And

00:33:25.089 --> 00:33:28.849
I want. Yeah. And I feel like weird. I feel like

00:33:28.849 --> 00:33:31.789
that's. An interesting loophole, because like

00:33:31.789 --> 00:33:34.529
I'm sure other books in the series will. exploit

00:33:34.529 --> 00:33:36.089
it a little bit, and I'm interested to see how

00:33:36.089 --> 00:33:40.049
far they can go. And me too. Anyway, Fawn asks

00:33:40.049 --> 00:33:41.990
why Dean didn't come for her sooner, right? Because

00:33:41.990 --> 00:33:45.470
they are given the name of their mate, at least

00:33:45.470 --> 00:33:49.410
the dudes are, when they're 13. Like, what's

00:33:49.410 --> 00:33:52.809
up? And he tells her, look, we looked, we couldn't

00:33:52.809 --> 00:33:55.029
find you, and then when we did find you, you

00:33:55.029 --> 00:33:57.390
were dead. So during this exchange, Fawn can

00:33:57.390 --> 00:34:00.509
feel Dean's emotions more acutely and clearly,

00:34:00.509 --> 00:34:02.589
and it doesn't take very much to convince her

00:34:02.589 --> 00:34:05.230
that what he says is true. She admits aloud,

00:34:05.269 --> 00:34:07.950
quote, you are my mate, and he tells her, quote,

00:34:08.090 --> 00:34:13.230
you are my queen. And she's like, queen? I can't

00:34:13.230 --> 00:34:15.730
be a queen? That's really when the reality of

00:34:15.730 --> 00:34:20.150
her situation sinks in, and she was not prepared

00:34:20.150 --> 00:34:22.130
for that, right? Like, mate is one thing, queen

00:34:22.130 --> 00:34:25.659
is another. Fair. Dean tries to tell her it doesn't

00:34:25.659 --> 00:34:27.440
matter who she is or where she grew up that she'll

00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:31.519
be perfect for him and his kingdom. He goes on

00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:33.800
to ask about her family and so she immediately

00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:36.079
takes him to their ranch and I was like there's

00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:39.420
no okay you can whatever fine. It's like night

00:34:39.420 --> 00:34:42.699
time. Yeah and so they go inside and Dean just

00:34:42.699 --> 00:34:44.840
fully introduces himself as the king of the garden

00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:49.000
kingdom with his full chest and like says that

00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:52.099
he and Fawn are mated and Fawn's grandpa is literally

00:34:52.099 --> 00:34:55.630
like quote I think we better sit down and talk.

00:34:56.289 --> 00:35:01.590
Yeah, calm down. There was no time. Yeah. This

00:35:01.590 --> 00:35:04.130
is just such a wild thing to think about actually

00:35:04.130 --> 00:35:08.510
happening in real life. Yeah. Yeah, it is. Don't

00:35:08.510 --> 00:35:11.050
worry about it. It's going to be fine. Yeah.

00:35:11.070 --> 00:35:13.050
So the grandparents ask essentially some of the

00:35:13.050 --> 00:35:14.750
same questions that Fawn had. And this is when

00:35:14.750 --> 00:35:16.929
Dean reveals his certainty that somebody lied

00:35:16.929 --> 00:35:19.809
about her death. But he's not certain who or

00:35:19.809 --> 00:35:22.900
to what end, but he promises to find out. Fawn's

00:35:22.900 --> 00:35:25.440
grandfather then asks if Dean will protect Fawn

00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:29.280
with his life and Dean swears to it. Then it

00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:31.460
comes out about Warren and how somebody sent

00:35:31.460 --> 00:35:35.119
him to kill Fawn and that they slash Naomi killed

00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:38.019
him in return and that ever since he's been at

00:35:38.019 --> 00:35:40.019
the bottom of their manure pile and Naomi's been

00:35:40.019 --> 00:35:45.300
living with them. Hi. Hey, brother -in -law.

00:35:45.670 --> 00:35:50.369
We learned that Warren was in the military essentially

00:35:50.369 --> 00:35:52.710
of the Garden Kingdom, and so Dean vows to follow

00:35:52.710 --> 00:35:55.869
that lead. He's like, that's strange. But just

00:35:55.869 --> 00:35:57.489
more indication that somebody within the Garden

00:35:57.489 --> 00:36:02.590
Kingdom is plotting against him. So they go on

00:36:02.590 --> 00:36:05.199
to talk about marriage and Fawn's like... What

00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:07.840
we just met and everybody like slow the fuck

00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:10.219
down but her grandmother's like honey You don't

00:36:10.219 --> 00:36:13.239
have a choice and Dean says quote. She'll always

00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:15.659
have a choice. My job is to convince her to choose

00:36:15.659 --> 00:36:19.340
me. Oh Which is the right answer. It was the

00:36:19.340 --> 00:36:25.219
right answer. Yay How'd you know I wanted one?

00:36:26.320 --> 00:36:30.739
It's the link thank you. Hi, did he bring you

00:36:30.739 --> 00:36:34.019
a soda treat? He did bring me a soda treat. Yay.

00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:37.539
He loves me. He really loves me. He loves me.

00:36:38.079 --> 00:36:39.960
So then we cut to a conversation between General

00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:42.820
Craven and a nobleman named Samuel in the Garden

00:36:42.820 --> 00:36:46.199
Kingdom. Samuel is upset that Fawn still lives

00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:47.820
and it becomes clear that he's the one that sent

00:36:47.820 --> 00:36:50.320
Warren after her. He's now commanding General

00:36:50.320 --> 00:36:59.170
Craven to get Fawn out of the way himself. We

00:36:59.170 --> 00:37:01.409
go back to Fawn and Dean who are traveling back

00:37:01.409 --> 00:37:04.030
to the Garden Kingdom along with Naomi Obviously

00:37:04.030 --> 00:37:06.349
Naomi's gonna come because she's Fawn's only

00:37:06.349 --> 00:37:08.110
friend and what is she gonna do to stay with

00:37:08.110 --> 00:37:09.429
grandparents that aren't hers? That's weird.

00:37:09.730 --> 00:37:12.849
That's weird They talk about Dean's parents and

00:37:12.849 --> 00:37:14.590
how he doesn't get along with them Especially

00:37:14.590 --> 00:37:17.030
his father because his father's an abusive asshole

00:37:17.030 --> 00:37:18.670
and his mother just never protected him from

00:37:18.670 --> 00:37:21.369
it Therefore still an abusive asshole. Yeah,

00:37:21.449 --> 00:37:24.639
I think agreed He goes on to say that during

00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:26.619
those dark formative years, Fawn was one of the

00:37:26.619 --> 00:37:28.659
only things that gave him something to hold on

00:37:28.659 --> 00:37:31.860
to, some happiness. Dean gets in touch with Cassandra,

00:37:31.940 --> 00:37:33.860
his familiar who's still back at the ranch at

00:37:33.860 --> 00:37:35.800
the garden palace, and asks her to look at some

00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:37.880
of these leads for him about, you know, who's

00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:39.599
trying to murder Fawn, and this is when it becomes

00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:42.539
obvious that Cassandra doesn't have ears, so

00:37:42.539 --> 00:37:45.659
she can't drop her eaves, and she also doesn't

00:37:45.659 --> 00:37:48.519
read, so she can't go rifling through papers.

00:37:49.059 --> 00:37:51.780
And Dean is essentially like, God, what a useless

00:37:51.780 --> 00:37:55.579
familiar. It's such a funny conversation because

00:37:55.579 --> 00:37:58.739
he's like, no, no, no, but you'll respond to

00:37:58.739 --> 00:38:01.179
things that people say. And she's like, yeah,

00:38:01.300 --> 00:38:03.800
I'm like to you. You have ears when I'm alone.

00:38:04.500 --> 00:38:07.420
Yeah. And she's even like, like he can like cue

00:38:07.420 --> 00:38:09.599
into her side. She's like, do you hear anything?

00:38:10.619 --> 00:38:12.880
Have you never noticed that you don't hear anything

00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:16.539
from me? And he's like, we can read, right? And

00:38:16.539 --> 00:38:19.019
she's like, I'm a snake. Why would I be able

00:38:19.019 --> 00:38:23.559
to read? You idiot! Okay, but we hand your in

00:38:23.559 --> 00:38:26.539
our debrief to your point. I thought it was so

00:38:26.539 --> 00:38:28.500
funny because she's like a magical being, right?

00:38:29.460 --> 00:38:32.019
Yeah, she should be able to hear, I think, because

00:38:32.019 --> 00:38:34.940
she's magical. Well, and it's like if you can

00:38:34.940 --> 00:38:39.619
share consciousnesses, can't you just share tacit

00:38:39.619 --> 00:38:43.059
like knowledge like that? Like if she's connected

00:38:43.059 --> 00:38:46.420
mentally to Dean, can't he just port over like

00:38:46.420 --> 00:38:49.960
how to read to her? That I wanted to know that

00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:52.699
too. And I mean she does have some magical ability

00:38:52.699 --> 00:38:54.739
She can like change her venom to do different

00:38:54.739 --> 00:39:02.619
things, but you can't grow an ear So that was

00:39:02.619 --> 00:39:06.960
just a wild thing to happen So anyway, she can't

00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:09.940
do any research essentially. She's useless. She's

00:39:09.940 --> 00:39:18.710
just a snake. Yeah They stop in an inn overnight,

00:39:18.750 --> 00:39:21.309
but not for very long because Dean is very keen

00:39:21.309 --> 00:39:23.170
to get Fawn into the Garden Kingdom where he

00:39:23.170 --> 00:39:25.670
feels more in control of her safety. As they

00:39:25.670 --> 00:39:28.070
get ready for bed, he helps Fawn find something

00:39:28.070 --> 00:39:30.530
to sleep in and pulls out a silk nightgown like

00:39:30.530 --> 00:39:36.289
a sexy one from her little side hobby day job.

00:39:37.050 --> 00:39:42.079
Her dancing days. Yeah. Anyway, so we mentioned

00:39:42.079 --> 00:39:44.519
that Fawn has this job, right? But she's like

00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:46.340
really into it. So she's got like all of this

00:39:46.340 --> 00:39:49.079
sexy underwear that like doesn't make sense for

00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:51.599
her to have and Dean just keeps finding it and

00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:57.380
is just like, when, what, why you have this?

00:39:57.659 --> 00:40:02.880
Who grew up on a horse ranch? I can't handle

00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:06.980
it. I can't handle it. And it's also really funny

00:40:06.980 --> 00:40:08.760
because at some point Dean asks her if she has

00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:10.699
any hobbies and she thinks about dancing, but

00:40:10.699 --> 00:40:13.679
then she's like, no, no, I don't have any hobbies.

00:40:13.699 --> 00:40:18.800
I'm pretty boring. Which is fucking wild. Like,

00:40:18.800 --> 00:40:20.860
that's a red flag to me if you don't have any

00:40:20.860 --> 00:40:23.260
hobbies. I don't know what it is. You need to

00:40:23.260 --> 00:40:26.019
do something. But I think it's I think it's funny

00:40:26.019 --> 00:40:27.420
for two reasons. I think it would have been funny,

00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:29.019
one, if she was just trying to like hide the

00:40:29.019 --> 00:40:30.460
fact that she dances from him. But that's not

00:40:30.460 --> 00:40:31.960
the case because she's not embarrassed about

00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:34.519
it. No, I don't think it even crosses her mind.

00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:38.039
That it's a hobby. Yeah. Which is doing more

00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:43.699
fun. Exactly. Oh, for fun, I'm a stripper. I'm

00:40:43.699 --> 00:40:46.300
a stripper. No, pretty boring. That doesn't count

00:40:46.300 --> 00:40:48.699
as a hobby. No, that's just something I like

00:40:48.699 --> 00:40:57.320
to do. Define hobby. Anyway, so they take turns

00:40:57.320 --> 00:40:59.739
taking baths. And of course, Dean is ever the

00:40:59.739 --> 00:41:01.900
gentleman and turns around while Fawn is naked,

00:41:02.019 --> 00:41:05.019
et cetera. But it's the one room trope, if not

00:41:05.019 --> 00:41:09.519
the one bed trope. So like when Dean takes his

00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:12.579
clothes off to bathe, that's when Fawn sees like

00:41:12.579 --> 00:41:15.380
his body. And what she sees actually is like

00:41:15.380 --> 00:41:17.159
all of the little scars on his skin inflicted

00:41:17.159 --> 00:41:22.010
by General Craven. Dick. Dick. So they talk about

00:41:22.010 --> 00:41:23.710
what to expect when they get to the Garden Kingdom

00:41:23.710 --> 00:41:25.969
and Dean tells her that there's a lot of stuck

00:41:25.969 --> 00:41:27.590
-up motherfuckers in the Garden Kingdom because

00:41:27.590 --> 00:41:30.130
they're the oldest fae, but that his best friend

00:41:30.130 --> 00:41:32.889
Braddock, his biffle, his ride -or -die isn't

00:41:32.889 --> 00:41:36.449
like that. He's different. He's different. They

00:41:36.449 --> 00:41:38.949
then talk about having kids and I think it's

00:41:38.949 --> 00:41:40.550
pretty clear that they both know that Royals

00:41:40.550 --> 00:41:43.469
only have one biological kid, but Fawn suggests

00:41:43.469 --> 00:41:45.769
that they could adopt more and Dean really likes

00:41:45.769 --> 00:41:48.829
that idea. Dean is all in the camp of like, I

00:41:48.829 --> 00:41:50.929
had a shitty childhood and I want to give as

00:41:50.929 --> 00:41:53.809
many kids the best childhood as possible. I love

00:41:53.809 --> 00:41:56.769
that. And I had that thought with Amelia and

00:41:56.769 --> 00:41:59.489
whatever the fuck his name was. Because they're

00:41:59.489 --> 00:42:01.929
like, oh, only one kid. There's nothing we can

00:42:01.929 --> 00:42:03.250
do about that. I'm like, I'm sure there's a lot

00:42:03.250 --> 00:42:05.610
of homeless kids in your kingdom. Which is wild

00:42:05.610 --> 00:42:07.789
because didn't Amelia grow up in an orphanage?

00:42:08.230 --> 00:42:13.679
Yes, she did. Oh no, there's no option if we

00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:16.300
can only have one. There's nothing we can do

00:42:16.300 --> 00:42:19.659
about that. Sorry. Okay. So when they get to

00:42:19.659 --> 00:42:23.099
the Garden Kingdom, Callie is there and treats

00:42:23.099 --> 00:42:26.400
Dean like a fiance would, greets him with a kiss.

00:42:26.619 --> 00:42:28.719
Despite the fact that Dean tried to send a letter

00:42:28.719 --> 00:42:30.619
to Braddock to get Callie out of the palace for

00:42:30.619 --> 00:42:33.460
this, which obviously didn't happen and so this

00:42:33.460 --> 00:42:38.000
is not ideal. Naomi immediately goes like attack

00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:40.840
mode on Dean and has to be physically restrained

00:42:40.840 --> 00:42:43.699
by Cassandra and Fawn is devastated and angry.

00:42:43.719 --> 00:42:46.380
She's like, God damn it, not again. Why do I

00:42:46.380 --> 00:42:49.460
keep doing this? Keep falling for taken men,

00:42:49.800 --> 00:42:52.780
right? So they all go inside while Braddock takes

00:42:52.780 --> 00:42:55.500
Callie aside. And this is when Dean tells her

00:42:55.500 --> 00:42:57.619
who Callie is and that they were betrothed. But

00:42:57.619 --> 00:42:59.500
now that he's found Fawn, obviously that's not

00:42:59.500 --> 00:43:01.719
the case. And he's never had feelings for Callie

00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:04.420
and never told her anything different. et cetera,

00:43:04.500 --> 00:43:08.139
et cetera. Fawn rightfully asks, why didn't you

00:43:08.139 --> 00:43:10.480
bring this up earlier? And he stupidly says that

00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:12.079
he thought that she would take it better if he

00:43:12.079 --> 00:43:14.199
could say that he used to be engaged rather than

00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:19.860
he is currently engaged. What an idiot. Yeah.

00:43:20.619 --> 00:43:23.119
And he's such an idiot that Fawn and Naomi ultimately

00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:27.320
believe his earnestness. Because he does. OK,

00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:29.099
I did have the thought within here, since they

00:43:29.099 --> 00:43:30.699
can feel each other's feelings. It would make

00:43:30.699 --> 00:43:34.309
arguments a lot easier to, like, Feel like I

00:43:34.309 --> 00:43:37.090
genuinely feel bad about this in this moment

00:43:37.090 --> 00:43:39.230
and you feel that with more than my words That'd

00:43:39.230 --> 00:43:41.389
be kind of convenient. It would be super convenient.

00:43:41.570 --> 00:43:43.929
Yeah, it's like Okay, you're just an idiot. But

00:43:43.929 --> 00:43:46.409
like I forgive you but you're not lying, right?

00:43:46.690 --> 00:43:48.429
Yeah, you're not actually hiding anything from

00:43:48.429 --> 00:43:53.570
me. You're just stupid So Dean and Fawn go back

00:43:53.570 --> 00:43:56.550
to their chambers to unpack and this is when

00:43:56.550 --> 00:43:59.960
we get like a very a Christmas story -esque scene

00:43:59.960 --> 00:44:03.139
where Fawn literally tries to wash Dean's mouth

00:44:03.139 --> 00:44:06.119
out with soap because he called Callie an endearing

00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:11.739
term. Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Yeah. Dean tries

00:44:11.739 --> 00:44:13.599
to explain like, look, I call everybody sweetheart.

00:44:13.719 --> 00:44:17.639
Like, it's not an endearing thing, but it is

00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:19.619
my thing. And Fawn's like, well, it's no longer

00:44:19.619 --> 00:44:23.130
your thing, sweetheart. And it's really cute

00:44:23.130 --> 00:44:25.369
because Dean has actually never called Fawn Sweetheart.

00:44:25.369 --> 00:44:28.210
He's only called her, like, darling. Yeah. We've

00:44:28.210 --> 00:44:29.829
seen him call other people Sweetheart beyond

00:44:29.829 --> 00:44:32.489
Callie, but then Sweetheart becomes like Fawn's

00:44:32.489 --> 00:44:35.110
name for him for the rest of the book. I know.

00:44:35.130 --> 00:44:37.050
She's just like, well, I'm going to use this

00:44:37.050 --> 00:44:38.969
and rub your nose in it. It's going to be fun.

00:44:39.489 --> 00:44:44.190
Forever. Yeah. So they're soon joined by Braddock

00:44:44.190 --> 00:44:47.309
and his husband Monroe. And Monroe is probably

00:44:47.309 --> 00:44:49.949
my favorite character in this entire book. OK,

00:44:50.030 --> 00:44:54.159
so like. Braddock, up to this point, he's huge.

00:44:54.260 --> 00:44:56.940
He's a strong fighter. He's super cocky. I did

00:44:56.940 --> 00:45:01.360
not expect him to have to be gay and for his

00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:05.980
husband to wear gowns. Yeah. I mean, so Monroe

00:45:05.980 --> 00:45:08.199
was essentially Nathan Lane from The Birdcage.

00:45:08.519 --> 00:45:12.360
That's what I pictured, too. It's just perfect.

00:45:12.900 --> 00:45:15.940
He's perfect. And he's so, like, cheerful and

00:45:15.940 --> 00:45:21.179
happy to Braddock's, like, Surly it's it's definitely

00:45:21.179 --> 00:45:24.159
the grumpy sunshine black cat golden retriever

00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:29.679
combo. I loved Monroe. Uh -huh. Yeah So they

00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:31.780
show up to reprimand Dean for the way he treated

00:45:31.780 --> 00:45:34.260
Cali and Dean says look I wasn't expecting here

00:45:34.260 --> 00:45:36.159
to be here because I wrote you a fucking letter

00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:38.199
to get her the fuck out of the palace But they

00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:40.099
never got that letter and we never go back to

00:45:40.099 --> 00:45:42.079
this and at the end of the book I'm still like

00:45:42.079 --> 00:45:44.059
why didn't they get the letter is this political

00:45:44.059 --> 00:45:46.929
intrigue or is the postal system just shit? I

00:45:46.929 --> 00:45:49.590
know that was like I said, I have like four questions

00:45:49.590 --> 00:45:52.789
within here. That was my second question. I can

00:45:52.789 --> 00:45:57.670
only assume it was intercepted, but I've never

00:45:57.670 --> 00:46:00.949
referenced again. Yeah. Yeah, there's a couple

00:46:00.949 --> 00:46:03.170
of things in here that of the political intrigue

00:46:03.170 --> 00:46:08.090
side quote unquote, that feel like There maybe

00:46:08.090 --> 00:46:10.070
was a string that was connecting them but for

00:46:10.070 --> 00:46:12.530
brevity like they got cut out and like look I'm

00:46:12.530 --> 00:46:14.670
not here for the political and intrigue in this

00:46:14.670 --> 00:46:17.670
book necessarily it just felt like the boat like

00:46:17.670 --> 00:46:20.349
the The puzzle pieces were there. They just weren't

00:46:20.349 --> 00:46:22.670
connected exactly because you could give me the

00:46:22.670 --> 00:46:24.869
bare bones, which is what we get But there's

00:46:24.869 --> 00:46:28.960
a few that are missing. Yeah So anyway, this

00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:30.699
is when we learned that there are rumors circulating

00:46:30.699 --> 00:46:33.559
that Dean is just punishing Kali and pushing

00:46:33.559 --> 00:46:35.880
her aside for a human whore rather than Fawn

00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:39.719
being his actual true mate. Oof. Fawn's like,

00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:42.099
okay, I'm gonna leave because I don't need that

00:46:42.099 --> 00:46:46.519
in my life. And Dean's like, no, no, stay, stay.

00:46:46.699 --> 00:46:48.559
And the entire back and forth that they're having,

00:46:48.860 --> 00:46:51.820
Dean is like counting for a reason that was immediately

00:46:51.820 --> 00:46:54.639
clear to me, but Fawn was totally in the dark.

00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:59.239
I knew where this was going. Yeah. And Fawn doesn't

00:46:59.239 --> 00:47:01.659
know until literally somebody smacks her ass.

00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:07.599
And says, one. Yes. So this entire interaction

00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:10.460
is interrupted by Lilith, who has the worst timing

00:47:10.460 --> 00:47:12.440
and tells Dean that she needs to meet with him

00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:15.199
alone. So while he does that, he leaves her with

00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:19.030
his familiar Cassandra and Braddock. Dean meets

00:47:19.030 --> 00:47:21.369
with Lilith and Lilith says that he needs to

00:47:21.369 --> 00:47:24.070
keep Callie close at the palace for reasons she

00:47:24.070 --> 00:47:26.409
can't tell him. But if he doesn't, it will result

00:47:26.409 --> 00:47:28.929
in the death of Fawn. Also, he can't tell Fawn

00:47:28.929 --> 00:47:32.010
about this at all. Cool. And this is where Lilith

00:47:32.010 --> 00:47:36.730
is just a problem because everything is a catastrophe,

00:47:36.730 --> 00:47:39.130
but I can't tell you why. You just gotta trust

00:47:39.130 --> 00:47:43.320
me or don't and your wife will die. Right. And

00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:45.840
also, you can't tell your wife. You can't tell

00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:48.199
your wife while your ex -fiance has to live in

00:47:48.199 --> 00:47:51.099
her house. And this is one of those moments where

00:47:51.099 --> 00:47:53.719
I'm like, does that actually have to happen?

00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:56.059
Or do you just have your popcorn? I think she

00:47:56.059 --> 00:47:58.059
just has her popcorn. Because even Dina's like,

00:47:58.119 --> 00:47:59.920
what am I supposed to tell Fawn? And she's like,

00:48:00.019 --> 00:48:01.940
I don't know. Think of something. I'm sure you'll

00:48:01.940 --> 00:48:04.719
think of something. You're a smart boy. Is he?

00:48:06.300 --> 00:48:11.119
Debatable. So while Dean meets with Lilith, Fawn

00:48:11.119 --> 00:48:13.699
convinced her guards to go look for Naomi. And

00:48:13.699 --> 00:48:15.860
so when Dean actually gets back to their room,

00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:18.360
Fawn is gone. He immediately starts to panic.

00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:21.539
They quickly reunite, but Fawn basically tells

00:48:21.539 --> 00:48:23.000
him, like, look, you got to get a grip because

00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:24.900
I'm not going to be a prisoner in my own goddamn

00:48:24.900 --> 00:48:28.260
room. Like, you got to chill. You got to chill.

00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:31.019
He is too much. But I kind of get where he's

00:48:31.019 --> 00:48:32.780
coming from because he's got Lilith in his ear

00:48:32.780 --> 00:48:35.179
constantly telling him that, like, Fawn is at

00:48:35.179 --> 00:48:37.969
risk of death. Yeah, and she did have someone

00:48:37.969 --> 00:48:40.730
literally try to murder her like last year. Yeah,

00:48:40.769 --> 00:48:44.110
that's true. So they go to the dining hall with

00:48:44.110 --> 00:48:45.789
the intention of introducing Fawn to some of

00:48:45.789 --> 00:48:49.750
the household. This includes a traveling princess

00:48:49.750 --> 00:48:52.750
named Violet and her two escorts. And so I couldn't

00:48:52.750 --> 00:48:55.889
tell if Violet and her escorts were having like

00:48:55.889 --> 00:48:59.170
a threeple situation or like later it's alluded

00:48:59.170 --> 00:49:02.659
that Violet is a twin and her sister is like

00:49:02.659 --> 00:49:04.940
the mate of a prince and that prince might actually

00:49:04.940 --> 00:49:07.659
be in love with Violet. There's something interesting

00:49:07.659 --> 00:49:09.719
there. There's something interesting there. And

00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:11.860
I will say, even though these books are so like,

00:49:11.920 --> 00:49:14.139
it's the same plot we've read before, I kind

00:49:14.139 --> 00:49:17.579
of want to read more. Yeah, no, it's super fun.

00:49:18.340 --> 00:49:22.280
Violet has a book. I think Violet's book might

00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:26.449
be the second book. Oh. interesting. That kind

00:49:26.449 --> 00:49:28.489
of makes sense because I think we read the name

00:49:28.489 --> 00:49:30.769
Violet and we initially thought that they were

00:49:30.769 --> 00:49:36.570
like Amelia's kids. Yes, yes. It was something

00:49:36.570 --> 00:49:38.829
like that. I was also a little confused here

00:49:38.829 --> 00:49:40.789
a little bit later because she has like these

00:49:40.789 --> 00:49:43.989
two escorts and then later were introduced to

00:49:43.989 --> 00:49:46.789
these like tiger things and I was like are her

00:49:46.789 --> 00:49:50.449
escorts tigers? I thought they were people. But

00:49:50.449 --> 00:49:52.489
that's just a product of me reading too fast.

00:49:54.150 --> 00:49:56.050
Yeah, she's got like a tiger thing traveling

00:49:56.050 --> 00:49:58.449
with her, and that's the king's familiar, or

00:49:58.449 --> 00:50:01.309
like the prince that's mated to her sister, her

00:50:01.309 --> 00:50:03.590
twin sister's familiar. Which is weird, because

00:50:03.590 --> 00:50:09.949
like, why would your mates... There's something

00:50:09.949 --> 00:50:12.250
suspicious going on. There's something there.

00:50:12.809 --> 00:50:14.670
There's something there, we're gonna get to it.

00:50:15.530 --> 00:50:19.079
Yeah. Anyway. Fawn is anxious because she doesn't

00:50:19.079 --> 00:50:20.820
know if Dean's parents are going to be at this

00:50:20.820 --> 00:50:23.179
dinner. And this is when we learned they're traveling

00:50:23.179 --> 00:50:25.320
to the desert kingdom for that king's funeral.

00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:27.179
You'll remember that we learned at the end of

00:50:27.179 --> 00:50:29.099
the first book, and the beginning of this one,

00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:31.559
that the desert prince committed patricide because

00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:34.039
his daddy was a dick bag, which seems to be kind

00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:38.159
of a trend. Yeah, all these, um, I would say

00:50:38.159 --> 00:50:40.400
first generation. The previous generation kings

00:50:40.400 --> 00:50:42.320
all seem to be assholes, and the new generation

00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:46.530
seem to be better, thankfully. So unfortunately

00:50:46.530 --> 00:50:48.989
Callie and her younger sister are at this dinner

00:50:48.989 --> 00:50:51.690
as well and Callie takes every opportunity to

00:50:51.690 --> 00:50:56.050
try to like poke fun at Fawn But the evening

00:50:56.050 --> 00:50:57.809
is pleasant enough and after speaking with the

00:50:57.809 --> 00:51:01.369
others at the table Fawn realizes quote how half

00:51:01.369 --> 00:51:06.929
-lived her life has been Yeah, girl people are

00:51:06.929 --> 00:51:09.289
fun sometimes the right people are fun the right

00:51:09.289 --> 00:51:14.260
people are fun The next day she and Naomi and

00:51:14.260 --> 00:51:16.280
Dean go to the stables and there they meet a

00:51:16.280 --> 00:51:18.679
gentleman named Jeremiah and it's clear right

00:51:18.679 --> 00:51:20.780
away that Naomi has a thing for Jeremiah which

00:51:20.780 --> 00:51:24.699
I also am into. I'm super into that. And this

00:51:24.699 --> 00:51:26.920
is where we learn that Dean is very fond of writing

00:51:26.920 --> 00:51:29.179
and Fawn immediately realizes that she's got

00:51:29.179 --> 00:51:30.840
to get over her fear of writing so that she can

00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:35.940
go with Dean. That's cute. Yeah. That evening

00:51:35.940 --> 00:51:38.059
we finally get the first scene between them where

00:51:38.059 --> 00:51:40.039
Dean admits that he doesn't want to pressure

00:51:40.219 --> 00:51:43.239
Fawn into sex, and Fawn admits that she wants

00:51:43.239 --> 00:51:45.380
him sexually, but also feels the connection of

00:51:45.380 --> 00:51:49.639
the mating bond. So even earlier, when she threatened

00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:51.739
to leave because of the whole rumors swirling

00:51:51.739 --> 00:51:53.719
around the palace, she wasn't actually serious.

00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:56.539
So they give into their feelings for each other.

00:51:56.840 --> 00:52:01.460
And it's nice. Yeah. Look, Applegate Hunter writes

00:52:01.460 --> 00:52:04.519
Great Smut. So she does write Great Smut. I do

00:52:04.519 --> 00:52:08.750
want to say, and this is probably rude. to this

00:52:08.750 --> 00:52:11.550
fictional character of Dean. But they have a

00:52:11.550 --> 00:52:14.329
really great foreplay in their scenes. But then

00:52:14.329 --> 00:52:17.289
whenever they have penetrative sex, he comes

00:52:17.289 --> 00:52:21.170
immediately. Yeah. He does have that magical

00:52:21.170 --> 00:52:23.610
ability to get hard again immediately. But it's

00:52:23.610 --> 00:52:26.230
like they'll have three pages of foreplay and

00:52:26.230 --> 00:52:27.789
then he'll enter her and then he'll immediately

00:52:27.789 --> 00:52:33.239
come. And I'm like, oh. OK. Which I appreciated,

00:52:33.539 --> 00:52:36.860
because I feel like he's self -aware. He is self

00:52:36.860 --> 00:52:37.639
-aware. It's like, okay, I gotta make you feel

00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:40.699
good before we're done. Which is great, and she's

00:52:40.699 --> 00:52:42.460
not having a bad time with it at all, and neither

00:52:42.460 --> 00:52:45.980
did I. I just thought it was funny. Yeah. So

00:52:45.980 --> 00:52:47.300
in the morning, before they go to breakfast,

00:52:47.739 --> 00:52:50.900
Dean surprises Vaughn with a present that he

00:52:50.900 --> 00:52:53.579
finds charming and she finds revolting. It's

00:52:53.579 --> 00:52:57.239
a set of handcuffs, and they both wear a side

00:52:57.239 --> 00:53:00.500
of them, essentially, so that Dean can... keep

00:53:00.500 --> 00:53:04.420
track of Fawn and her safety. And Fawn is enraged.

00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:07.880
So Dean ends up physically carrying her into

00:53:07.880 --> 00:53:09.280
the breakfast room, because she essentially is

00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:11.420
like, I'm not fucking moving until you take this

00:53:11.420 --> 00:53:13.880
thing off. Which I don't blame her, because that

00:53:13.880 --> 00:53:16.320
would be mortifying. And then we also get that

00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:19.519
weird OCD where she starts to freak out. But

00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:22.179
he doesn't seem to feel those emotions. Yeah,

00:53:22.300 --> 00:53:28.219
exactly. So pertinent to that, at breakfast,

00:53:28.340 --> 00:53:31.380
Fawn tries to saw off Her handcuff with a butter

00:53:31.380 --> 00:53:34.639
knife, but it slips and she stabs Dean in the

00:53:34.639 --> 00:53:40.119
side. I was so surprised this happened. I was

00:53:40.119 --> 00:53:43.340
like, I'm sorry, what? Excuse me. Okay, but it

00:53:43.340 --> 00:53:46.300
gets worse because Callie is the palace mender

00:53:46.300 --> 00:53:50.019
also. She rushes over and has to tend to Dean's

00:53:50.019 --> 00:53:52.079
wounds even though he's not mortally wounded.

00:53:52.179 --> 00:53:53.880
She makes a bigger deal out of it than it should

00:53:53.880 --> 00:53:56.079
be. It's a butter knife. I'm sure it didn't feel

00:53:56.079 --> 00:54:00.340
great, but he's fine. Yes, but - It does have

00:54:00.340 --> 00:54:03.000
the effect that Dean's like, OK, we won't do

00:54:03.000 --> 00:54:06.860
the handcuff thing. But I really like how he

00:54:06.860 --> 00:54:10.820
handles it, because she stabs him enough that

00:54:10.820 --> 00:54:13.179
he is bleeding and needs help. And he's like,

00:54:13.239 --> 00:54:15.239
oh, honey, I didn't know you were into blood

00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:23.539
play. As he's like, you're ridiculous. And Cali's

00:54:23.539 --> 00:54:24.860
like, what the fuck happened? He's like, just

00:54:24.860 --> 00:54:27.199
foreplay. Don't worry about it. Don't worry,

00:54:27.340 --> 00:54:32.539
darling. So later that day, Fawn goes into town

00:54:32.539 --> 00:54:35.480
with Violet, Naomi, Monroe, and Braddock, ostensibly

00:54:35.480 --> 00:54:37.659
to look for clothes, because she was from the

00:54:37.659 --> 00:54:38.900
Mountain Kingdom, which is hot, and they're in

00:54:38.900 --> 00:54:41.260
the Garden Kingdom, which is, no, sorry, Mountain

00:54:41.260 --> 00:54:42.880
Kingdom, which is cold, and the Garden Kingdom,

00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:46.219
which is hot. There we go. And they ostensibly

00:54:46.219 --> 00:54:48.519
leave Dean at the castle to do kingly stuff.

00:54:48.659 --> 00:54:51.500
But of course, Dean glimmers himself invisible

00:54:51.500 --> 00:54:55.420
and follows them anyway. He witnesses Fawn get

00:54:55.420 --> 00:54:57.639
into a verbal altercation with Callie at the

00:54:57.639 --> 00:54:59.739
dress store and that's when he chooses to reveal

00:54:59.739 --> 00:55:02.179
himself But it's clear to both Dean and Fawn

00:55:02.179 --> 00:55:04.300
that Callie is just genuinely hurt and heartbroken

00:55:04.300 --> 00:55:06.880
over you losing Dean and isn't like actually

00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:09.940
a threat Yeah, it was it's really obvious to

00:55:09.940 --> 00:55:11.860
us as the reader as well. And like I feel kind

00:55:11.860 --> 00:55:13.920
of bad for Callie I would be mad too and I would

00:55:13.920 --> 00:55:15.880
also probably be trying to pick at Fawn just

00:55:15.880 --> 00:55:20.019
because That's what humans do when they're hurt

00:55:20.349 --> 00:55:22.969
Yeah, and she has a valid reason to be hurt,

00:55:23.190 --> 00:55:26.349
right? Just because she's not as made doesn't

00:55:26.349 --> 00:55:27.949
mean that she can't have genuine feelings for

00:55:27.949 --> 00:55:30.989
him. Exactly. And you showed up with a new woman

00:55:30.989 --> 00:55:35.090
and I had no warning. That's painful. Yeah, that's

00:55:35.090 --> 00:55:40.000
kind of a dick move, dude. Ouch. Yeah. So they

00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:41.659
leave the dressmakers and Dean can tell that

00:55:41.659 --> 00:55:43.800
something is bothering fun So he asks her to

00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:45.500
hang back from the others so they can talk about

00:55:45.500 --> 00:55:49.800
it She asks why Callie is still at the palace

00:55:49.800 --> 00:55:52.500
and he eventually tells her that it's politically

00:55:52.500 --> 00:55:55.219
motivated to keep Callie around Which is not

00:55:55.219 --> 00:55:56.940
technically a lie, but it's not the full truth

00:55:56.940 --> 00:55:59.099
either because he's not allowed to say that if

00:55:59.099 --> 00:56:02.760
I kick her out You will die somehow. Yeah. Yeah,

00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:06.190
don't worry about it um so then they end up fucking

00:56:06.190 --> 00:56:10.690
against the wall in an alley they have sex in

00:56:10.690 --> 00:56:14.809
the weirdest places they super do um and look

00:56:14.809 --> 00:56:17.110
it's it's one thing to have sex in the alley

00:56:17.110 --> 00:56:19.170
and like it's dark and nobody can see you or

00:56:19.170 --> 00:56:21.429
you're like glamored and visible no they do so

00:56:21.429 --> 00:56:24.369
fully visible just glamored as a regular people

00:56:24.369 --> 00:56:27.590
yeah so everyone can see them they just don't

00:56:27.590 --> 00:56:30.610
look like them Right. And they do get a couple

00:56:30.610 --> 00:56:33.769
of onlookers. And it's clear during the scene

00:56:33.769 --> 00:56:36.230
that they're both kind of into the voyeurism

00:56:36.230 --> 00:56:39.090
thing. Yeah, cue the Public Sex Act. Yeah, cue

00:56:39.090 --> 00:56:42.190
the Public Sex Act for real. But yeah, this scene

00:56:42.190 --> 00:56:45.590
is hot. It's really hot. All of their scenes

00:56:45.590 --> 00:56:48.070
are really hot. Yeah, they're really good. Even

00:56:48.070 --> 00:56:50.190
the one that's weird with the saddle coming up.

00:56:50.389 --> 00:56:52.489
Yeah. And the one in the bar, that one weirdly

00:56:52.489 --> 00:56:54.570
did it for me, even though it's so fucking weird.

00:56:55.010 --> 00:56:57.929
That one didn't do it for me. I was just, we'll

00:56:57.929 --> 00:56:59.690
get there when we get there. But that was the

00:56:59.690 --> 00:57:03.210
only scene I was like, maybe not one. I had to

00:57:03.210 --> 00:57:06.730
suspend the fact that there were also other people

00:57:06.730 --> 00:57:08.809
there. In my head, it was just the three of them,

00:57:08.809 --> 00:57:12.050
and that was fucked up enough. Yeah. Yeah. But

00:57:12.050 --> 00:57:15.619
yeah, I get that. Yeah. So the next day all of

00:57:15.619 --> 00:57:17.880
the dresses that Fawn ordered arrive and Dean

00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:19.559
tells her that there's a ball to celebrate the

00:57:19.559 --> 00:57:21.420
new kings in the mountain and desert kingdoms.

00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:24.000
Something that his mother had planned but again

00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:28.039
she won't be there. So don't worry. Don't worry.

00:57:28.219 --> 00:57:30.440
But then Dean tells her it's time for her to

00:57:30.440 --> 00:57:32.280
pay up for all those times he was counting when

00:57:32.280 --> 00:57:34.739
they were fighting and this is when the spanking

00:57:34.739 --> 00:57:37.769
happens. Which we all knew was coming except

00:57:37.769 --> 00:57:40.630
for Fawn. Except for Fawn. But she loves it.

00:57:41.110 --> 00:57:43.150
It's so intense and she loves it so much that

00:57:43.150 --> 00:57:46.250
she says, I love you. And so does he. It's an

00:57:46.250 --> 00:57:48.889
intense banking. Yeah, it's an intense banking.

00:57:51.369 --> 00:57:53.469
That evening at the ball Fawn is nervous, but

00:57:53.469 --> 00:57:55.250
Dean tells her that everything will be fine.

00:57:55.429 --> 00:57:57.949
And with a crowd of nobles gathered, he announces

00:57:57.949 --> 00:58:00.489
that he is so happy to have found his mate, not

00:58:00.489 --> 00:58:02.650
dead, but hidden away in the mountain kingdom,

00:58:02.869 --> 00:58:07.409
that he makes everybody kneel to her. And she's

00:58:07.409 --> 00:58:10.650
like, awesome. This is one of those things where

00:58:10.650 --> 00:58:12.489
he's trying to be sweet, but he's just putting

00:58:12.489 --> 00:58:15.250
a target on her back. Yeah, I was like, dude,

00:58:15.389 --> 00:58:18.530
read the room. Read the room, dude. And I also

00:58:18.530 --> 00:58:22.699
love that he's just so... secure in his ability

00:58:22.699 --> 00:58:24.539
to handle shit, he's like, don't worry about

00:58:24.539 --> 00:58:26.380
it. They can come for you and they'll have to

00:58:26.380 --> 00:58:31.059
deal with me. Me and my Braddock man. My Braddock

00:58:31.059 --> 00:58:34.820
man. So then they receive guests and one of the

00:58:34.820 --> 00:58:36.739
first people to come up after this display are

00:58:36.739 --> 00:58:39.300
Kelly's parents. And Fawn's kind of taken aback

00:58:39.300 --> 00:58:42.159
because they both seem really nice. Like she

00:58:42.159 --> 00:58:45.039
was kind of expecting them to be dicks. Yeah,

00:58:45.039 --> 00:58:49.630
I would too. Later, as Fawn mingles, somebody

00:58:49.630 --> 00:58:52.369
comes up to her who's seen her dance at the Pleasure

00:58:52.369 --> 00:58:54.650
House in the Mountain Kingdom and says as much

00:58:54.650 --> 00:58:58.230
to her. And this is how Dean finds out that she

00:58:58.230 --> 00:59:02.969
used to be a dancer in Pleasure Houses. In retaliation,

00:59:03.110 --> 00:59:05.210
Fawn tells Dean that this man shouldn't be allowed

00:59:05.210 --> 00:59:07.510
into any Pleasure Houses in their kingdom or

00:59:07.510 --> 00:59:10.130
be allowed into the palace at all. And Dean's

00:59:10.130 --> 00:59:13.170
like, bet. But instead of doing that, he just

00:59:13.170 --> 00:59:16.659
immediately kills the man. And she's like, what?

00:59:16.800 --> 00:59:18.239
He's like, you said that he shouldn't be allowed

00:59:18.239 --> 00:59:20.239
in these places and now he'll never go into them.

00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:27.800
What's the problem? And then I love the description

00:59:27.800 --> 00:59:31.949
of like. people being horrified and like the

00:59:31.949 --> 00:59:34.070
staff just cleaning up his body and the party

00:59:34.070 --> 00:59:37.210
continuing. There's like people sobbing and other

00:59:37.210 --> 00:59:39.030
people are just like kind of ignoring it and

00:59:39.030 --> 00:59:41.570
going about their business. Right. But this is

00:59:41.570 --> 00:59:43.150
one of those things where like this person ceases

00:59:43.150 --> 00:59:46.329
to exist and like no one cares. Not really. Nope.

00:59:46.630 --> 00:59:51.210
No one cares at all. So then to cap off the evening,

00:59:51.409 --> 00:59:54.349
Dean asks Fawn to dance for everyone in the room.

00:59:54.909 --> 00:59:57.329
like the stripper dances that she did at the

00:59:57.329 --> 00:59:59.989
pleasure houses. And she does. I thought that

00:59:59.989 --> 01:00:04.570
was also so weird. Like, I appreciate a supportive

01:00:04.570 --> 01:00:08.170
man. But and like you're hot. Do whatever you

01:00:08.170 --> 01:00:09.429
want. I'm not judging you for being a dancer.

01:00:09.610 --> 01:00:13.389
It just seemed like the strange time and place

01:00:13.389 --> 01:00:17.469
to support her hobby. Here's your future queen.

01:00:17.829 --> 01:00:20.489
Allow her to dance for you. Right. Do you guys

01:00:20.489 --> 01:00:24.429
want to see your tits like? Yeah. It's kind of

01:00:24.429 --> 01:00:26.750
the opposite reaction that we tend to have where

01:00:26.750 --> 01:00:29.090
like people are like, the mailman character is

01:00:29.090 --> 01:00:30.989
usually like, no one can see her. I want to put

01:00:30.989 --> 01:00:32.949
her in a fucking percuss so nobody can see her.

01:00:33.030 --> 01:00:36.769
Right. Yeah. And now he's just like, no, look.

01:00:37.150 --> 01:00:38.650
But I think it's because they're both kind of

01:00:38.650 --> 01:00:42.590
that voyeurism like kink. Yeah, I think they

01:00:42.590 --> 01:00:44.010
they found each other in that because I kind

01:00:44.010 --> 01:00:45.610
of thought the dancing was going to be a plot

01:00:45.610 --> 01:00:48.110
point that he was going to be like weird and

01:00:48.110 --> 01:00:51.269
jealous. And he's like, let's go. Yeah, let's

01:00:51.269 --> 01:00:55.670
do it. I love it. All right. So anyway, a few

01:00:55.670 --> 01:00:57.570
days later Fawn and Naomi are walking in the

01:00:57.570 --> 01:01:00.030
garden and they come upon a tarantula that Fawn

01:01:00.030 --> 01:01:03.469
immediately takes over as her pet and calls it

01:01:03.469 --> 01:01:09.809
Tickles. Tickles. It's really funny because Dean

01:01:09.809 --> 01:01:14.670
is like super afraid of spiders. He can't handle

01:01:14.670 --> 01:01:17.289
it. He's like, he only refers to it as a monster.

01:01:17.449 --> 01:01:19.170
He's like, she needs to put that monster down.

01:01:20.429 --> 01:01:23.070
Look, I get it. I'm not a fan of spiders either,

01:01:23.369 --> 01:01:25.730
but I'm the spider slayer in our house. So there

01:01:25.730 --> 01:01:27.889
are things that intimidate me more, but certainly

01:01:27.889 --> 01:01:31.269
a tarantula I would be not OK with. No, and it's

01:01:31.269 --> 01:01:34.170
just chilling on her shoulder. Yeah, her and

01:01:34.170 --> 01:01:36.130
Naomi both are super chill about it. I'm like,

01:01:36.150 --> 01:01:39.650
y 'all are different humans than me. No. So we

01:01:39.650 --> 01:01:41.269
don't actually ever get this confirmed. But I

01:01:41.269 --> 01:01:44.690
suspect that Tickles is her familiar. And I find

01:01:44.690 --> 01:01:46.969
it really funny that Dean is so terrified of

01:01:46.969 --> 01:01:49.789
her familiar. It's so funny. And I don't know

01:01:49.789 --> 01:01:50.750
if you're going to mention it, because it's just

01:01:50.750 --> 01:01:53.849
a subtle thing. Because he is terrified of Tickles.

01:01:54.230 --> 01:01:57.550
But he also creates a royal decree that no tarantulas

01:01:57.550 --> 01:02:01.610
are to be harmed in his kingdom. Yeah. It's like

01:02:01.610 --> 01:02:04.269
the filth of the house. I feel like he's doing

01:02:04.269 --> 01:02:07.489
everything in his power to make sure that Fawn

01:02:07.489 --> 01:02:12.650
is happy. has Tickles in a safe place, but so

01:02:12.650 --> 01:02:15.050
that he, Dean, doesn't ever have to interact

01:02:15.050 --> 01:02:17.610
with Tickles ever. Yes, Tickles gets its own

01:02:17.610 --> 01:02:22.869
house somewhere else. Far, far away from me.

01:02:23.289 --> 01:02:31.019
Do not ever let me see this thing. Yes. Later,

01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:33.179
Dean and Fawn go riding together, and Dean is

01:02:33.179 --> 01:02:35.440
definitely taking his time making sure that Fawn

01:02:35.440 --> 01:02:38.219
is comfortable. They don't ride for long, but

01:02:38.219 --> 01:02:40.440
this first outing gives Dean an idea of how to

01:02:40.440 --> 01:02:43.119
make Fawn more comfortable with riding more quickly.

01:02:43.480 --> 01:02:45.900
And so before we get to that, we have another

01:02:45.900 --> 01:02:47.840
scene. But it's an interesting idea, and I think

01:02:47.840 --> 01:02:51.820
it's kind of genius. I think it's kind of genius,

01:02:52.139 --> 01:02:55.739
too. Yeah. So the scene that we have to get over

01:02:55.739 --> 01:02:58.659
before we see that is meeting the parents. Dean's

01:02:58.659 --> 01:03:01.510
parents have come back and they join Dean and

01:03:01.510 --> 01:03:04.110
Fawn for a meal and it's clear that Dean's mom

01:03:04.110 --> 01:03:06.670
and Callie are like great friends, the best of

01:03:06.670 --> 01:03:11.949
friends actually. Eww. Yeah. Dean's dad swears

01:03:11.949 --> 01:03:14.329
at this meal that he saw the death certificate

01:03:14.329 --> 01:03:16.730
for Fawn and genuinely thought that she was dead

01:03:16.730 --> 01:03:20.269
and apologizes for like essentially believing

01:03:20.269 --> 01:03:25.969
that. Yeah and Fawn seems to sense his... and

01:03:25.969 --> 01:03:28.710
also believes that he is truly surprised that

01:03:28.710 --> 01:03:32.690
she's alive, which surprised me. Yeah, surprised

01:03:32.690 --> 01:03:36.289
to me too. But then it also, two things were

01:03:36.289 --> 01:03:38.530
happening. I was like, well, if it's not you,

01:03:38.590 --> 01:03:40.210
then it's someone close to you. And I've suspected

01:03:40.210 --> 01:03:43.630
like General Craven or - That random Samuel?

01:03:44.170 --> 01:03:49.039
Yeah, the random Sam guy, but yeah. Anyway. After

01:03:49.039 --> 01:03:51.340
this meal, Dean is called into Lilith's grotto,

01:03:51.579 --> 01:03:53.179
which leaves Fawn alone to wander the gardens

01:03:53.179 --> 01:03:56.019
with Cassandra in tickles. While she's out there,

01:03:56.219 --> 01:03:58.019
General Craven introduces himself, and he is

01:03:58.019 --> 01:04:00.739
very kind to her, actually. It's clear that she

01:04:00.739 --> 01:04:04.619
doesn't know immediately who he is, though. But

01:04:04.619 --> 01:04:06.940
he's super kind, and he does say, like, you shouldn't

01:04:06.940 --> 01:04:10.940
be alone. Yeah. It's not a threat, but kind of

01:04:10.940 --> 01:04:15.159
it is. Kind of it is. After this seemingly innocuous

01:04:15.159 --> 01:04:17.320
interaction, we get a perspective from General

01:04:17.320 --> 01:04:20.059
Craven himself, and he tells us, quote, he thought

01:04:20.059 --> 01:04:23.139
he'd choose power over loyalty to the crown.

01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:25.760
But one look at her protecting a little creature

01:04:25.760 --> 01:04:27.840
from a great serpent, and he knew the kingdom

01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:31.460
needed her. And so he decides to flee the kingdom

01:04:31.460 --> 01:04:38.199
with his family. OK, listen. What the fuck, Craven?

01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:43.460
We just never hear about him again and what bothered

01:04:43.460 --> 01:04:46.340
me is like you're choosing loyalty, but why wouldn't

01:04:46.340 --> 01:04:50.920
you go tell? Dean or even Dean's dad like who

01:04:50.920 --> 01:04:53.639
is hunting his wife if you care about loyalty

01:04:53.639 --> 01:04:55.199
and think the kingdom needs her Why wouldn't

01:04:55.199 --> 01:04:57.579
you tell somebody what you know? Right, like

01:04:57.579 --> 01:05:00.079
do you not have faith in Dean's ability to like

01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:03.139
root out the Samuel guy? Or is he just so much

01:05:03.139 --> 01:05:05.199
of a coward that he doesn't want to get in trouble

01:05:05.199 --> 01:05:09.110
for like association? Yeah It's fucking weird

01:05:09.110 --> 01:05:11.230
though. He's like, we're just gonna go, okay?

01:05:11.670 --> 01:05:14.070
You won't see me again. Well, and this is one

01:05:14.070 --> 01:05:16.429
of those another instance of somebody just ceasing

01:05:16.429 --> 01:05:20.789
to exist ostensibly and like Nary a follow -up

01:05:20.789 --> 01:05:23.070
question like there's one person who seems irked

01:05:23.070 --> 01:05:25.670
by it, but like Dean doesn't bring up Hey, I

01:05:25.670 --> 01:05:27.989
haven't seen that dude around his father doesn't

01:05:27.989 --> 01:05:30.869
bring it up. Like no one no one misses this guy

01:05:31.159 --> 01:05:34.199
No, and I can only imagine his name is General

01:05:34.199 --> 01:05:35.900
Craven because he has something to do with the

01:05:35.900 --> 01:05:37.760
military. And I feel like if your general goes

01:05:37.760 --> 01:05:43.820
missing, you would notice. Maybe, yeah. But OK,

01:05:43.940 --> 01:05:49.880
I guess not. What do I know? So Dean finds Fawn

01:05:49.880 --> 01:05:52.719
quickly after this interaction, after Lilith

01:05:52.719 --> 01:05:55.360
told him the whole reason she pulled him away

01:05:55.360 --> 01:05:58.320
from Fawn was so that Fawn could run into General

01:05:58.320 --> 01:06:04.340
Craven. So Dean's like, I hate this so much.

01:06:05.559 --> 01:06:09.139
But he tells Fawn who General Craven is and Fawn

01:06:09.139 --> 01:06:11.019
is immediately upset that she didn't use the

01:06:11.019 --> 01:06:14.460
opportunity to kill General Craven. But then

01:06:14.460 --> 01:06:16.320
Dean changes the subject to the gift that he

01:06:16.320 --> 01:06:18.360
has for her, which is literally a saddle with

01:06:18.360 --> 01:06:21.920
a dildo on it. Like a rocker. To help her learn

01:06:21.920 --> 01:06:24.639
how to ride. Good. Obviously. She knows how to

01:06:24.639 --> 01:06:25.760
ride a dick, but she doesn't know how to ride

01:06:25.760 --> 01:06:29.139
a horse. And they're essentially the same thing.

01:06:29.159 --> 01:06:33.920
That's what he's implying. It's a great idea.

01:06:34.440 --> 01:06:36.920
It's a great idea. And honestly, I think this

01:06:36.920 --> 01:06:38.860
scene did it more for me than I thought it was

01:06:38.860 --> 01:06:41.079
going to because the description of the contraption

01:06:41.079 --> 01:06:47.000
is comical. It is comical. And when the scene

01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:49.480
first gets introduced, I was like, no, I don't

01:06:49.480 --> 01:06:51.920
think this is the one. And then you get into

01:06:51.920 --> 01:06:54.659
the scene and I was like, all right, I don't

01:06:54.659 --> 01:06:58.969
think this is the one. And then it was like one

01:06:58.969 --> 01:07:03.269
handed reading club. So what do I know? I mean,

01:07:03.690 --> 01:07:05.429
I learned something new about my own tastes every

01:07:05.429 --> 01:07:08.289
day. I was so surprised. I think this was my

01:07:08.289 --> 01:07:12.550
favorite scene. Yeah, honestly. Yeah, I think

01:07:12.550 --> 01:07:16.570
so. So anyway, it's here that they talk about

01:07:16.570 --> 01:07:18.489
having a small wedding and about having kids.

01:07:18.909 --> 01:07:21.789
Dean tells Fawn to stop taking family planning

01:07:21.789 --> 01:07:24.630
immediately so they can get pregnant like tomorrow.

01:07:24.840 --> 01:07:26.179
He's like, I've been trying to put a baby in

01:07:26.179 --> 01:07:28.760
you for weeks. Right. And then he does that thing

01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:30.340
where he's like, every drop counts. And I'm like,

01:07:30.340 --> 01:07:36.139
she's still on the. She literally is like, I'm

01:07:36.139 --> 01:07:37.739
on the pill and he's like, every drop counts.

01:07:37.739 --> 01:07:40.360
I'm like, no, do that next time. Do that next

01:07:40.360 --> 01:07:41.860
time. I mean, do it now if you're getting your

01:07:41.860 --> 01:07:44.980
rocks off, I guess. But like she's got you literally

01:07:44.980 --> 01:07:46.539
just said the words get off the thing and she

01:07:46.539 --> 01:07:50.280
hasn't done that yet. Right. It immediately has

01:07:50.280 --> 01:07:54.869
happened. Yeah. So we next see Fawn looking through

01:07:54.869 --> 01:07:57.289
Monroe's wedding book and Monroe is distraught

01:07:57.289 --> 01:07:59.650
at having to do a whole wedding in less than

01:07:59.650 --> 01:08:03.730
a month. Callie comes in and is upset that Fawn

01:08:03.730 --> 01:08:05.969
is using Monroe's books because Callie used them

01:08:05.969 --> 01:08:07.610
to plan a wedding that she's no longer having

01:08:07.610 --> 01:08:11.369
with Dean as well. And so Monroe's like, okay,

01:08:11.510 --> 01:08:14.110
I got to go do something about that. Because

01:08:14.110 --> 01:08:17.810
remember, it's his cousin -in -law. They're like

01:08:17.810 --> 01:08:21.710
related. Yeah. And like they, it does seem like

01:08:21.689 --> 01:08:25.630
Callie and Monroe and Braddock all had a good

01:08:25.630 --> 01:08:30.189
relationship and were friends. Yeah. So later

01:08:30.189 --> 01:08:33.189
on we see a fun night out in a local pub with

01:08:33.189 --> 01:08:37.550
Braddock, Monroe, Naomi, and Phan. This is ostensibly

01:08:37.550 --> 01:08:40.250
her bachelorette party and so Dean is supposed

01:08:40.250 --> 01:08:43.510
to stay home. At the bachelorette party Phan's

01:08:43.510 --> 01:08:45.329
friends tell her that she has to let some dude

01:08:45.329 --> 01:08:48.369
buy her at least one drink and so a man sidles

01:08:48.369 --> 01:08:51.569
up to her and she lets him do that. But... This

01:08:51.569 --> 01:08:54.229
is when Dean whispers in Fawn's ear from his

01:08:54.229 --> 01:08:56.069
invisible place behind her that she should go

01:08:56.069 --> 01:08:58.789
sit with this dude. And so she does. And Dean

01:08:58.789 --> 01:09:01.710
pulls her down into his lap and begins a scene

01:09:01.710 --> 01:09:03.590
with her while she's trying to have a conversation

01:09:03.590 --> 01:09:06.630
with this poor guy about maps because he's a

01:09:06.630 --> 01:09:08.970
cartographer. He just wants to talk about maps.

01:09:09.909 --> 01:09:12.489
I thought it was interesting. And both Fawn and

01:09:12.489 --> 01:09:15.550
Dean are so mean about it inwardly. They're really

01:09:15.550 --> 01:09:18.319
mean about it. So I mentioned earlier, so this

01:09:18.319 --> 01:09:20.800
scene, the first like portion of this scene almost

01:09:20.800 --> 01:09:22.640
did it for me, like when he's just like teasing

01:09:22.640 --> 01:09:25.260
her and he's like, you better hold a conversation.

01:09:25.439 --> 01:09:27.560
But then they straight up have sex. And I'm like.

01:09:28.779 --> 01:09:33.500
What? Yeah. It was not a weird one. And like,

01:09:33.920 --> 01:09:36.460
it's so fucking weird because he says, like,

01:09:36.539 --> 01:09:38.800
no one can see me, no one can see you moving.

01:09:39.239 --> 01:09:40.819
They can just see your face. But then he decides

01:09:40.819 --> 01:09:45.119
to show everybody. Both of them. So again, they're

01:09:45.119 --> 01:09:50.920
just like having sex in a bar Publicly Yeah,

01:09:51.060 --> 01:09:53.359
like I'm typically not into the voyeurism side

01:09:53.359 --> 01:09:55.920
anyway And so this one was just super weird and

01:09:55.920 --> 01:09:57.939
I just felt so bad for a guy across from her

01:09:57.939 --> 01:10:00.239
because he just seemed so earnest I know and

01:10:00.239 --> 01:10:02.579
he didn't seem like a lech like he just seemed

01:10:02.579 --> 01:10:04.600
like like he was he was hitting on her But then

01:10:04.600 --> 01:10:06.060
he was like, hey you want to hear about my hobby?

01:10:06.699 --> 01:10:10.939
And she's like, Yeah, it's fucking weird. Well,

01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:13.180
and something that we don't talk about very much

01:10:13.180 --> 01:10:14.920
in the voyeurism side is like, usually when we

01:10:14.920 --> 01:10:18.039
get the voyeurism, it's in like the context of

01:10:18.039 --> 01:10:20.220
like sex clubs, right? The public sex acts usually

01:10:20.220 --> 01:10:22.680
happen in sex clubs. Yeah. And we talk about

01:10:22.680 --> 01:10:25.760
consent a lot. But usually that's isolated to

01:10:25.760 --> 01:10:27.380
the characters having sex. We don't talk about

01:10:27.380 --> 01:10:29.840
consent of the people like being exposed to you

01:10:29.840 --> 01:10:31.680
having sex. And I think that's something that

01:10:31.680 --> 01:10:35.260
matters. Like, yeah, this whole. Bar didn't consent

01:10:35.260 --> 01:10:38.140
to watching you have sex right now. Totally.

01:10:38.239 --> 01:10:40.800
But I also think that falls into like the morally

01:10:40.800 --> 01:10:44.180
gray slash black thing because like Dean's essentially

01:10:44.180 --> 01:10:46.399
like, I'm a king. I do what I want. You all like

01:10:46.399 --> 01:10:51.479
I literally own you. Yeah. And it's weird. It's

01:10:51.479 --> 01:10:53.819
not my favorite thing. Also, it seems kind of

01:10:53.819 --> 01:10:56.380
humiliating. Like if I were Fawn, I'd be like,

01:10:56.500 --> 01:10:59.619
get the fuck away from me. Or you can just leave.

01:11:00.819 --> 01:11:04.560
Even if Fawn's into it, I just think it's humiliating

01:11:04.560 --> 01:11:08.079
for the poor dude. I know. And look, you know

01:11:08.079 --> 01:11:10.699
I'm not defending men at all. But this poor guy.

01:11:11.140 --> 01:11:13.159
But this guy didn't do anything wrong, and he

01:11:13.159 --> 01:11:17.579
didn't deserve that. No. Anyway, just went down

01:11:17.579 --> 01:11:19.260
a rabbit hole about a character that does not

01:11:19.260 --> 01:11:22.720
matter. We never see him again. Yeah. He's probably

01:11:22.720 --> 01:11:27.250
in therapy. But they're probably telling him

01:11:27.250 --> 01:11:29.989
to write a letter about it. That's a terrible

01:11:29.989 --> 01:11:34.229
therapist. So the next day, Fawn is on her own

01:11:34.229 --> 01:11:35.850
trying to find her way back to the kitchens,

01:11:35.930 --> 01:11:38.510
and she runs into Emmy, Callie's younger sister.

01:11:39.130 --> 01:11:41.109
Emmy presents as this very meek girl just looking

01:11:41.109 --> 01:11:42.850
for her older sister to give her a message from

01:11:42.850 --> 01:11:45.890
their father. And so they part ways, and Fawn

01:11:45.890 --> 01:11:49.050
doesn't think much more about it. But when Fawn

01:11:49.050 --> 01:11:51.850
is back to her search for whatever the fuck she's

01:11:51.850 --> 01:11:55.149
looking for, She overhears Callie talking with

01:11:55.149 --> 01:11:56.930
somebody that you can't quite see, but when she

01:11:56.930 --> 01:11:58.789
rounds the corner, it's clear that that person

01:11:58.789 --> 01:12:01.390
is Dean, and Callie and Dean are in each other's

01:12:01.390 --> 01:12:05.430
embrace and they kiss. Fawn is obviously distraught

01:12:05.430 --> 01:12:08.529
and runs away. She runs immediately into Emmy,

01:12:08.770 --> 01:12:12.090
who comforts her and offers her solace and solitude

01:12:12.090 --> 01:12:14.189
in her family's house in order to regroup and

01:12:14.189 --> 01:12:17.659
think about what to do. At Emmy and Kelly's family

01:12:17.659 --> 01:12:19.779
home. So their last name is Gallo. I'm just going

01:12:19.779 --> 01:12:21.479
to refer to it as the Gallo home, which I thought

01:12:21.479 --> 01:12:24.039
was interesting, because isn't that your family

01:12:24.039 --> 01:12:28.279
name or a family name for you? Gallin. Gallin.

01:12:28.739 --> 01:12:31.300
Yeah. But that book you read about the mob, those

01:12:31.300 --> 01:12:33.979
were the Gallos. Thank you. OK, I knew it was

01:12:33.979 --> 01:12:37.079
similar for some reason. Yeah. OK, so Gallos

01:12:37.079 --> 01:12:39.439
are back, but not in a mob way. Well, kind of

01:12:39.439 --> 01:12:40.800
a mob way, but that's fine. Kind of a mob way.

01:12:41.340 --> 01:12:43.869
Yeah. So they're at the gallow home and it becomes

01:12:43.869 --> 01:12:46.710
obvious pretty quickly that Emmy is unhinged

01:12:46.710 --> 01:12:50.689
and she's lured Fawn there in order to kill her

01:12:50.689 --> 01:12:58.600
for her father. Her father is Samuel So Emmy

01:12:58.600 --> 01:13:01.079
incapacitates Fawn by stabbing her between the

01:13:01.079 --> 01:13:03.220
ribs and that's when Callie comes home. She's

01:13:03.220 --> 01:13:08.000
like Lucy. I'm what the fuck And she's appalled

01:13:08.000 --> 01:13:09.979
by what Emmy is doing even though Emmy says that

01:13:09.979 --> 01:13:11.920
she's doing it for Callie so that Callie can

01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:15.340
marry Dean and become Queen Cool and Callie's

01:13:15.340 --> 01:13:18.859
like not like this girl Mm -hmm. This is a different

01:13:18.859 --> 01:13:20.760
way to do it. I don't like her. I don't want

01:13:20.760 --> 01:13:25.220
her dead, especially in my foyer truly So, Emmy

01:13:25.220 --> 01:13:27.300
is essentially like, you should leave so you

01:13:27.300 --> 01:13:29.500
miss all of the gory details and Callie does

01:13:29.500 --> 01:13:34.140
leave and Fawn thinks that she is left for dead

01:13:34.140 --> 01:13:37.399
essentially. But Callie is just going back up

01:13:37.399 --> 01:13:39.539
to her room to get her medical bag and she comes

01:13:39.539 --> 01:13:43.079
back downstairs to help. When she does, Cassandra

01:13:43.079 --> 01:13:45.359
has arrived at this point and Callie communicates

01:13:45.359 --> 01:13:47.359
to Cassandra that Emmy is the real threat and

01:13:47.359 --> 01:13:50.880
so Cassandra kills Emmy immediately so that Callie

01:13:50.880 --> 01:13:55.529
can work to stabilize Fawn. Which is crazy, like.

01:13:56.810 --> 01:14:00.529
OK, Callie, and it's it's. Not subtle, but it

01:14:00.529 --> 01:14:03.050
is kind of between the lines that Emmy is a psychopath

01:14:03.050 --> 01:14:06.149
and has always been a psychopath. Yeah, like

01:14:06.149 --> 01:14:09.829
Callie, Callie knows things about her sister

01:14:09.829 --> 01:14:14.489
that are concerning. Yeah. And I only bring that

01:14:14.489 --> 01:14:16.130
up because it seems really ruthless that she

01:14:16.130 --> 01:14:17.829
would be like, all right, Cassandra, kill my

01:14:17.829 --> 01:14:21.430
sister. But she has something in her internal

01:14:21.430 --> 01:14:24.449
monologue of like. Emmy's not okay and she's

01:14:24.449 --> 01:14:28.550
not fixable. We're just going to call an audible

01:14:28.550 --> 01:14:31.069
on that one and start over. Yeah, I mean, sorry.

01:14:32.989 --> 01:14:35.670
Yeah, which is kind of rough because I feel like,

01:14:35.670 --> 01:14:38.890
I mean, Callie's entire family is going to get

01:14:38.890 --> 01:14:43.340
fucked up, right? Yeah. not coming out unscathed,

01:14:43.359 --> 01:14:45.380
which is interesting because at the end of this

01:14:45.380 --> 01:14:47.819
book, I really come around on Callie in a way

01:14:47.819 --> 01:14:50.199
that I hadn't come around on the one that they

01:14:50.199 --> 01:14:51.939
killed in the first book. I forget her name.

01:14:52.319 --> 01:14:54.300
Oh, yeah. The one that they just like leave in

01:14:54.300 --> 01:14:56.859
the forest for dead. And then they write a letter

01:14:56.859 --> 01:14:59.420
from her to her dad saying, bye, daddy. Yeah,

01:14:59.420 --> 01:15:01.460
I never came around on her. But Callie, I feel

01:15:01.460 --> 01:15:05.619
for. I feel for and it's not giving away anything.

01:15:05.659 --> 01:15:08.300
But like at the end of this book, Fawn says to

01:15:08.300 --> 01:15:10.579
us internally, like, oh, I wonder if there's

01:15:10.579 --> 01:15:13.250
like a future or a version of events where we

01:15:13.250 --> 01:15:14.909
could have been friends. And I think that's a

01:15:14.909 --> 01:15:18.989
much more interesting and relatable character.

01:15:19.729 --> 01:15:22.149
Yeah, than just killing them and leaving them

01:15:22.149 --> 01:15:24.250
for dead and then no one ever questions it again.

01:15:24.810 --> 01:15:27.689
Yeah. It's far more interesting. Kelly's not

01:15:27.689 --> 01:15:30.289
a bad person. She's not a bad person. She's just

01:15:30.289 --> 01:15:33.250
very human. Yeah. And we have enough people in

01:15:33.250 --> 01:15:35.250
this book who are either left for dead or disappeared

01:15:35.250 --> 01:15:37.170
enough without a follow -up question. Exactly.

01:15:37.170 --> 01:15:38.810
I'm glad this was a little bit more nuanced.

01:15:39.000 --> 01:15:41.739
Exactly. And even at Callie's, like, worst, like,

01:15:41.800 --> 01:15:44.720
insulting, she's not even that mean. She's really

01:15:44.720 --> 01:15:48.840
not. She's not a mean girl. No. She's just hurt.

01:15:49.439 --> 01:15:53.640
Yeah. So meanwhile, while all of this chaos is

01:15:53.640 --> 01:15:56.180
happening, Dean meets with his father, who confides

01:15:56.180 --> 01:15:59.239
in Dean about his suspicions about Dean's mother.

01:15:59.739 --> 01:16:02.199
I didn't see this coming. Me either. I thought

01:16:02.199 --> 01:16:05.199
it was all either Samuel, like, or it was all

01:16:05.199 --> 01:16:06.979
Dean's dad, and he's just also a psychopath.

01:16:07.930 --> 01:16:10.609
Right. Yeah. So Dean's dad essentially says,

01:16:11.149 --> 01:16:16.409
I keep thinking about who gave me the death certificate,

01:16:16.430 --> 01:16:18.630
and it was from your mom. And Dean's like, are

01:16:18.630 --> 01:16:22.489
you saying that the human monarch tried to forge

01:16:22.489 --> 01:16:26.810
her death? And Dean's dad's like, no, I'm saying

01:16:26.810 --> 01:16:28.529
it's your mom. It's kind of weird that he has

01:16:28.529 --> 01:16:31.310
to spell it out. And Dean's like, oh. Dean's

01:16:31.310 --> 01:16:33.569
not the smartest. But I think it's because his

01:16:33.569 --> 01:16:35.390
mom is such a nothing burger that he's like,

01:16:35.390 --> 01:16:38.130
she wouldn't. Not even that he respects his mom.

01:16:38.149 --> 01:16:39.789
I just don't think he thinks she's conniving

01:16:39.789 --> 01:16:43.470
enough to do anything Yeah, exactly. She's like

01:16:43.470 --> 01:16:45.510
totally under the radar, but I like the Dean's

01:16:45.510 --> 01:16:48.050
that is like no, that's not what I'm saying I

01:16:48.050 --> 01:16:52.670
think it's your mom, right? So Dean is grateful

01:16:52.670 --> 01:16:54.710
for the information, but it doesn't make up for

01:16:54.710 --> 01:16:56.890
all of the years of abuse from his father So

01:16:56.890 --> 01:17:00.510
he tells his dad that he has until Fawn and Dean

01:17:00.510 --> 01:17:03.640
conceive To find somewhere else to live, which

01:17:03.640 --> 01:17:06.439
is kind of a weird place to draw the line. Why

01:17:06.439 --> 01:17:10.319
not the wedding? Like, why not next week? Like,

01:17:10.439 --> 01:17:13.579
why are you I mean, conceive is such an interesting

01:17:13.579 --> 01:17:18.859
because like. I had so many questions. One, why

01:17:18.859 --> 01:17:21.260
is it when you get pregnant? What if it takes

01:17:21.260 --> 01:17:23.039
you years to get pregnant? Do you really want

01:17:23.039 --> 01:17:26.119
him to be around for that long? Two, a conception

01:17:26.119 --> 01:17:28.960
point is already in the past because you don't,

01:17:28.960 --> 01:17:30.920
I mean, unless Faye are different, which maybe

01:17:30.920 --> 01:17:33.380
they fucking are, I don't know, but you don't

01:17:33.380 --> 01:17:35.260
find out until you miss a period. So you're at

01:17:35.260 --> 01:17:37.920
least a month behind. And so you're like, oh,

01:17:38.300 --> 01:17:42.140
this is your retroactive 30 days notice to get

01:17:42.140 --> 01:17:45.279
the fuck out. It was such a weird point. And

01:17:45.279 --> 01:17:48.500
I had the same, like, stumble over that. I was

01:17:48.500 --> 01:17:54.140
like, why? Yeah. Like, OK, cool. Go now. OK.

01:17:55.680 --> 01:17:59.180
Anyway, his father balks. And Dean essentially

01:17:59.180 --> 01:18:00.920
tells him, quote, I would never let a monster

01:18:00.920 --> 01:18:03.220
like you around my children. You're lucky I've

01:18:03.220 --> 01:18:05.460
decided to let you live. I cannot say the same

01:18:05.460 --> 01:18:10.039
about your wife. Whoa. Yeah. I also just really

01:18:10.039 --> 01:18:13.760
love like every time a child refers to one of

01:18:13.760 --> 01:18:16.220
their parents like that like your wife instead

01:18:16.220 --> 01:18:19.000
of my mother just it hits everything. It does

01:18:19.000 --> 01:18:22.300
hit it's uh yeah and we don't get enough of that

01:18:22.300 --> 01:18:28.020
I think. I agree yeah. So Dean leaves the meeting

01:18:28.020 --> 01:18:29.800
resolute but unsure what his mother's motives

01:18:29.800 --> 01:18:32.140
could be and then Cassandra gets in touch and

01:18:32.140 --> 01:18:34.100
she's like, yo, shit's going down at the gallow

01:18:34.100 --> 01:18:36.520
house. Like, meet me there. And when he does,

01:18:36.560 --> 01:18:38.979
he finds Callie tending to Fawn with Emmy dead.

01:18:39.020 --> 01:18:43.479
And he's like, what the fuck happened? I leave

01:18:43.479 --> 01:18:46.720
you alone for five seconds. This is why you can't

01:18:46.720 --> 01:18:49.300
be left alone with a deaf snake. This is why

01:18:49.300 --> 01:18:53.359
I wanted to wear the handcuffs. Well, Cassandra

01:18:53.359 --> 01:18:56.960
is like, she got upset, but I don't have ears.

01:18:57.039 --> 01:19:01.600
So I don't know why any of this happened. Well,

01:19:01.720 --> 01:19:04.579
and it's interesting because Cassandra... Okay,

01:19:04.619 --> 01:19:06.420
so this was interesting because Cassandra can

01:19:06.420 --> 01:19:09.939
see through glamour, royal glamour, which is...

01:19:09.939 --> 01:19:12.399
I didn't realize that that was the case. So what

01:19:12.399 --> 01:19:19.779
she sees is essentially... Okay, I'm trying to

01:19:19.779 --> 01:19:22.220
remember names in this moment. So Dean's mom

01:19:22.220 --> 01:19:25.489
and Callie... colluded together to make it seem

01:19:25.489 --> 01:19:28.149
like Callie and Dean were still together or to

01:19:28.149 --> 01:19:30.369
make Fawn believe that and so they glamored this

01:19:30.369 --> 01:19:32.729
rant well specifically Dean's mom glamored this

01:19:32.729 --> 01:19:34.289
other guy because she's a royal fae and they

01:19:34.289 --> 01:19:36.489
have strong glimmers so they've glamored this

01:19:36.489 --> 01:19:39.029
guy to make him look like Dean but when Cassandra

01:19:39.029 --> 01:19:42.050
sees that scene she sees the other guy and she's

01:19:42.050 --> 01:19:43.989
like I don't know why she got upset he's like

01:19:43.989 --> 01:19:45.949
I don't understand the problem and then she ran

01:19:45.949 --> 01:19:50.710
away right but if If but she's not royal, so

01:19:50.710 --> 01:19:52.050
she shouldn't have been a bit. She shouldn't

01:19:52.050 --> 01:19:54.329
have been able to see through that, right? I

01:19:54.329 --> 01:19:56.130
don't know if that's just like a familiar thing

01:19:56.130 --> 01:19:57.789
that maybe like they just have the power because

01:19:57.789 --> 01:20:00.930
like we get kind of a one liner later that when

01:20:00.930 --> 01:20:04.810
they're married, Fawn's power will be like elevated

01:20:04.810 --> 01:20:07.609
to that of a royal. So maybe if you're like since

01:20:07.609 --> 01:20:10.189
Cassandra so closely tied to Dean's power, she

01:20:10.189 --> 01:20:13.869
essentially has like those same powers. But it

01:20:13.869 --> 01:20:15.489
would be super nice if you could see through

01:20:15.489 --> 01:20:18.899
glamour, but also see what the glamour is. Like

01:20:18.899 --> 01:20:21.479
you know that there is a glamour in place right

01:20:21.479 --> 01:20:25.060
exactly like to be able to see Like some kind

01:20:25.060 --> 01:20:27.899
of aura or whatever. Yeah, cuz that seems like

01:20:27.899 --> 01:20:30.100
it could cause a lot of confusion like it did

01:20:30.100 --> 01:20:32.279
here She's like, I don't know what the fuck happened

01:20:32.279 --> 01:20:34.300
And you're gonna tell me that Cassandra gets

01:20:34.300 --> 01:20:36.020
the powers to be able to like see through that

01:20:36.020 --> 01:20:37.760
without knowing that it's there But she can't

01:20:37.760 --> 01:20:40.319
get the ability to fucking read. It's fine. Exactly.

01:20:40.319 --> 01:20:43.659
It doesn't make a no sense Make a no sense and

01:20:43.659 --> 01:20:45.500
don't make a no sense. It's not what I'm here

01:20:45.500 --> 01:20:48.810
for. It's fine. It's fine So they all go back

01:20:48.810 --> 01:20:51.930
to the ranch, the ranch being the palace, and

01:20:51.930 --> 01:20:54.789
Fawn is being tended to and out of danger. And

01:20:54.789 --> 01:20:57.149
so Dean confronts his mother with the information

01:20:57.149 --> 01:20:59.930
that he that she lied about Fawn's death certificate

01:20:59.930 --> 01:21:03.170
all of those years ago. And so she does reveal

01:21:03.170 --> 01:21:05.470
that it was her and tells Dean that she did it

01:21:05.470 --> 01:21:06.890
because she didn't think Fawn would be able to

01:21:06.890 --> 01:21:08.970
handle being queen, whereas someone like Kelly

01:21:08.970 --> 01:21:11.890
was born and raised for it, which is a fucking

01:21:11.890 --> 01:21:19.409
wild reason. It's a wild reason. And like Like,

01:21:19.609 --> 01:21:24.390
mates are, in the world of this book, mates are

01:21:24.390 --> 01:21:27.710
gifts from the gods meant to make the royal lines

01:21:27.710 --> 01:21:29.909
the strongest that they possibly can be for their

01:21:29.909 --> 01:21:33.100
kingdom, and if they don't... Happen for whatever

01:21:33.100 --> 01:21:35.500
reason then that kingdom is weakened, right?

01:21:35.600 --> 01:21:37.739
And so it's like she thought that she would be

01:21:37.739 --> 01:21:39.520
so bad that it would be better to have like a

01:21:39.520 --> 01:21:41.880
Materially weakened kingdom with Cali as a queen

01:21:41.880 --> 01:21:44.420
like that doesn't make any sense No, and essentially

01:21:44.420 --> 01:21:47.359
like Dean's parents are mated because they're

01:21:47.359 --> 01:21:49.819
royal, right? So she knows how strong that bond

01:21:49.819 --> 01:21:51.739
is and she still thinks that like Cali would

01:21:51.739 --> 01:21:55.539
be a better choice Yeah kind of a weird thing,

01:21:56.560 --> 01:21:59.720
but Whatever. It's really not point of the book

01:21:59.720 --> 01:22:02.600
anyway um so dean has her taken to the dungeons

01:22:02.600 --> 01:22:05.859
and we never mentioned her again nope we never

01:22:05.859 --> 01:22:09.159
see her again she might still be there i think

01:22:09.159 --> 01:22:14.720
our body count is up to four yep cool so when

01:22:14.720 --> 01:22:16.880
fawn wakes up we get the full story of what happened

01:22:16.880 --> 01:22:20.060
about dean's mother colluding with cali glamoring

01:22:20.060 --> 01:22:21.819
this dude to make it seem like it was dean and

01:22:21.819 --> 01:22:24.989
then you know All of that fun stuff. And so Callie

01:22:24.989 --> 01:22:27.090
immediately admits that she had a bad taste in

01:22:27.090 --> 01:22:29.270
her mouth when, like, as soon as it happened,

01:22:29.310 --> 01:22:31.170
like, she saw Fawn's face, saw her run away,

01:22:31.170 --> 01:22:34.829
and she was like, oh, that feels bad. And she

01:22:34.829 --> 01:22:37.609
apologizes for Fawn. And Fawn also apologizes

01:22:37.609 --> 01:22:40.770
for essentially stealing Callie's life. Oh. Sorry,

01:22:40.850 --> 01:22:43.770
girl. Yeah. Sorry, girl. Didn't mean to. Yeah.

01:22:44.590 --> 01:22:46.430
So Fawn tells Dean that even though she saw him

01:22:46.430 --> 01:22:47.909
and Callie together, she wasn't going to just

01:22:47.909 --> 01:22:49.590
leave him high and dry. She was going to fight

01:22:49.590 --> 01:22:52.510
for him. And it's in this interaction that...

01:22:52.189 --> 01:22:54.010
Fawn, like I mentioned before, thinks in another

01:22:54.010 --> 01:22:56.949
life that she and Callie could be friends, which

01:22:56.949 --> 01:22:59.149
I kind of hope that they grow into a friendship.

01:22:59.789 --> 01:23:01.890
Me too, because there's no reason for them not

01:23:01.890 --> 01:23:04.170
to be like once Callie's broken heart heals.

01:23:04.930 --> 01:23:08.949
Yeah, exactly. So then eight weeks later, Fawn

01:23:08.949 --> 01:23:11.430
and Dean marry and we get one last scene on their

01:23:11.430 --> 01:23:13.109
wedding night, which is great because I feel

01:23:13.109 --> 01:23:14.869
like we so often have a complaint that like we

01:23:14.869 --> 01:23:16.270
have this happy ending now and we don't even

01:23:16.270 --> 01:23:18.569
get to relish it a little bit. Yeah, and I really

01:23:18.569 --> 01:23:20.029
didn't want you to leave me on that weird bar

01:23:20.029 --> 01:23:23.159
scene. Yeah, that would have been, I mean, a

01:23:23.159 --> 01:23:25.119
choice. But yeah, I'm glad that we could just

01:23:25.119 --> 01:23:27.619
get this one more scene, because this is literally

01:23:27.619 --> 01:23:30.220
dropped at the end of the book for once. It's

01:23:30.220 --> 01:23:31.920
just like, here you go, we're married, now let's

01:23:31.920 --> 01:23:36.619
bang. Yep. Yeah. And then we get an epilogue,

01:23:36.779 --> 01:23:38.920
and it's 13 years in the future. And these guys

01:23:38.920 --> 01:23:41.439
have a whole mess of kids with their one biological

01:23:41.439 --> 01:23:43.560
daughter. And Tickles is still around, but we

01:23:43.560 --> 01:23:45.119
still don't get a confirmation of whether or

01:23:45.119 --> 01:23:47.689
not he's a familiar. Tickles is totally a familiar.

01:23:48.010 --> 01:23:49.750
And there is also a brief scene somewhere in

01:23:49.750 --> 01:23:52.909
here where it doesn't matter where at the timeline,

01:23:53.029 --> 01:23:54.329
but I'm bringing up this is very funny to me

01:23:54.329 --> 01:23:57.270
where tickles is like in a box. For some reason,

01:23:57.310 --> 01:24:00.510
they're like going somewhere and Fawn opens the

01:24:00.510 --> 01:24:02.670
box and something happens to tickles jumps on

01:24:02.670 --> 01:24:04.829
Dean and Dean passes the fuck out like a little

01:24:04.829 --> 01:24:09.529
girl. And I think it's delightful. Yeah. Yeah.

01:24:10.369 --> 01:24:14.039
He shrieks and faints literally like loses. All

01:24:14.039 --> 01:24:16.600
body consciousness. It's hilarious. It's hilarious.

01:24:18.039 --> 01:24:21.600
So yeah, and that's where the book ends. I love

01:24:21.600 --> 01:24:24.579
it. A lot of fluff. A lot of fun. So much fluff.

01:24:24.920 --> 01:24:35.100
So much fun. So let's get into our ratings. So

01:24:35.100 --> 01:24:38.640
how did we rate the spice? We gave it A4, which

01:24:38.640 --> 01:24:41.829
you probably saw. So far in our coverage, it's

01:24:41.829 --> 01:24:43.810
great. We get all the detail, all the communication,

01:24:43.949 --> 01:24:46.250
all the foreplay. It's pretty creative. Like

01:24:46.250 --> 01:24:49.529
it's not it's a heterosexual couple, but it's

01:24:49.529 --> 01:24:51.449
not straight vanilla. I mean, she literally fucks

01:24:51.449 --> 01:24:56.189
a saddle, which is delightful. There's like the

01:24:56.189 --> 01:24:57.850
spanking. There's also we didn't call it out,

01:24:57.909 --> 01:25:01.529
but there's some of that like derogatory language

01:25:01.529 --> 01:25:03.409
and also praise. There's like the good girl and

01:25:03.409 --> 01:25:07.399
like my little horror kind of play. Which is

01:25:07.399 --> 01:25:10.699
fun in the way it was used and we get a lot of

01:25:10.699 --> 01:25:14.579
scenes for a less than 300 page book. And yeah,

01:25:15.119 --> 01:25:17.260
the point of reading books like this is a lot

01:25:17.260 --> 01:25:19.899
of smut and we got a lot of smut. So I don't

01:25:19.899 --> 01:25:21.039
have a lot of complaints. Honestly, the only

01:25:21.039 --> 01:25:24.100
reason it's not a five. I think it would have

01:25:24.100 --> 01:25:25.800
been a five if not for the weird bar scene for

01:25:25.800 --> 01:25:28.960
me, honestly. Yeah. If that was just a foreplay

01:25:28.960 --> 01:25:32.020
scene, I would have been fine. But just got kind

01:25:32.020 --> 01:25:34.859
of strange. Yeah, it got a little strange. And

01:25:34.859 --> 01:25:38.050
I also think that like Look, it's it's good.

01:25:38.090 --> 01:25:40.649
It's specific. It's long. It's plentiful, but

01:25:40.649 --> 01:25:43.930
like It is just kind of a little bit vanilla,

01:25:44.109 --> 01:25:46.930
right? Like yeah at this point We're splitting

01:25:46.930 --> 01:25:49.630
hairs between like what is a lady approach grave

01:25:49.630 --> 01:25:52.770
manner? Alex and what is like just everything

01:25:52.770 --> 01:25:55.029
else? So I think this falls into like a solid

01:25:55.029 --> 01:25:56.710
everything else category and like I don't have

01:25:56.710 --> 01:26:01.590
any complaints But it's a solid four. Yeah So

01:26:01.590 --> 01:26:04.449
then we're into writing style and we have a bit

01:26:04.449 --> 01:26:07.229
of a difference here. So what? Explain your reading

01:26:07.229 --> 01:26:09.289
because you might bring me down. Okay. Okay.

01:26:09.289 --> 01:26:12.729
So and I actually have an example for this So

01:26:12.729 --> 01:26:15.710
I rated it a three there are there aren't any

01:26:15.710 --> 01:26:19.390
typos, but there are a couple Parts in this book

01:26:19.390 --> 01:26:21.770
where it just felt like it wasn't edited like

01:26:21.770 --> 01:26:24.630
the reading gets a little clunky So for example

01:26:24.630 --> 01:26:28.050
when they first get to the palace And they like

01:26:28.050 --> 01:26:30.510
split ways or whatever. There's this line that

01:26:30.510 --> 01:26:32.689
says to the crowd Dean waved and walked inside.

01:26:32.689 --> 01:26:36.699
Well, not everyone And I think what he's trying

01:26:36.699 --> 01:26:38.939
to say is like he didn't wave to everyone because

01:26:38.939 --> 01:26:40.920
the point here is that he's invisible. So he's

01:26:40.920 --> 01:26:43.659
like waving to people who can see him. But it

01:26:43.659 --> 01:26:47.140
doesn't make sense. Like to the crowd, Dean Wade

01:26:47.140 --> 01:26:50.899
to walk inside. Well, not everyone. What? Oh,

01:26:51.500 --> 01:26:53.920
and there were that's the only one I highlighted.

01:26:54.460 --> 01:26:56.680
But there were a couple instances like that where

01:26:56.680 --> 01:27:00.340
it was just. like a word was missing or it just

01:27:00.340 --> 01:27:01.920
wasn't like read closely enough where it just

01:27:01.920 --> 01:27:03.659
didn't kind of it didn't flow the way it should

01:27:03.659 --> 01:27:05.720
have been and that knocked it down for me because

01:27:05.720 --> 01:27:07.979
things like that made me read it a couple times

01:27:07.979 --> 01:27:10.819
to try and figure out what was happening yeah

01:27:10.819 --> 01:27:12.760
and i think if i'm honest i probably just didn't

01:27:12.760 --> 01:27:16.659
read it that closely but i agree with you like

01:27:16.659 --> 01:27:20.020
now that i'm thinking about it and i like i'm

01:27:20.020 --> 01:27:21.800
kind of not surprised like right like these these

01:27:21.800 --> 01:27:25.699
books are consumable, they're quick, you know,

01:27:25.739 --> 01:27:28.640
whatever, like I'm not looking for high lit here.

01:27:29.699 --> 01:27:31.720
So yeah, I think I'm gonna bring mine down and

01:27:31.720 --> 01:27:36.779
agree with you on three. But I will say, right,

01:27:36.920 --> 01:27:39.260
like the writing style is very accessible, right?

01:27:39.279 --> 01:27:41.939
Like there's not a lot of overly flowery language.

01:27:43.200 --> 01:27:45.680
The formatting is good. So even if there were

01:27:45.680 --> 01:27:49.039
like minor typos or like weird things like that,

01:27:49.039 --> 01:27:51.359
like it was always clear who was speaking or

01:27:51.359 --> 01:27:54.819
whose perspective we were looking at. And there

01:27:54.819 --> 01:27:58.140
wasn't like weird like blocks of text or something

01:27:58.140 --> 01:28:00.319
like missing or ill -formatted or anything like

01:28:00.319 --> 01:28:03.039
that. So solid three. Definitely. And I might

01:28:03.039 --> 01:28:04.859
be getting a little bit harsh on it, but we've

01:28:04.859 --> 01:28:06.180
done this for a while. So I'm going to rate it

01:28:06.180 --> 01:28:09.399
how I rate it. Yeah. Okay. Bringing us into quality

01:28:09.399 --> 01:28:12.489
of storytelling. How do we rate that? We also

01:28:12.489 --> 01:28:15.369
gave that a three. We know what we're here for

01:28:15.369 --> 01:28:17.289
in this book, but there are some questions that

01:28:17.289 --> 01:28:18.989
are kind of left unanswered, like the characters

01:28:18.989 --> 01:28:21.109
who disappear and we just never reference it

01:28:21.109 --> 01:28:24.550
again or like that letter that didn't make it

01:28:24.550 --> 01:28:26.930
to Braddock and it doesn't come back to you.

01:28:27.010 --> 01:28:30.529
I also feel like the motivations like for Dean's

01:28:30.529 --> 01:28:32.710
mom don't make a whole lot of sense in the context

01:28:32.710 --> 01:28:36.789
of the world we're led to be in. Yep. This book

01:28:36.789 --> 01:28:39.539
is great for what we're here for, but. if we're

01:28:39.539 --> 01:28:42.020
looking at like a well -formed plot. And I know

01:28:42.020 --> 01:28:43.600
she says, like, this is not an intricate plot.

01:28:43.619 --> 01:28:44.939
And I'm not looking for that. I'm not knocking

01:28:44.939 --> 01:28:46.979
that. There's just some things that just don't

01:28:46.979 --> 01:28:49.859
make a lot of sense. And she, yeah, Jamie Amplegate

01:28:49.859 --> 01:28:51.539
Hunter gives us that warning from the get -go.

01:28:51.819 --> 01:28:53.560
So I'm not trying to punish her for what she

01:28:53.560 --> 01:28:55.300
promised because she delivered what she promised.

01:28:56.220 --> 01:28:58.340
Just some of those dangling ends are a little

01:28:58.340 --> 01:29:02.000
annoying. Yeah. So like if you can't, if you

01:29:02.000 --> 01:29:03.520
can't like hang with that kind of stuff or if

01:29:03.520 --> 01:29:05.199
it's really going to annoy you, like it might

01:29:05.199 --> 01:29:07.420
be like something to consider. But I mean, for

01:29:07.420 --> 01:29:10.520
us, obviously didn't. perturb us. It was the

01:29:10.520 --> 01:29:12.359
same in the first book and obviously that thing

01:29:12.359 --> 01:29:14.300
is continued because we know what we're here

01:29:14.300 --> 01:29:16.159
for but it obviously doesn't bother us enough

01:29:16.159 --> 01:29:19.399
to not recommend this book because do we recommend

01:29:19.399 --> 01:29:21.659
it? We do and I would still like to read more

01:29:21.659 --> 01:29:24.159
in this series honestly. I would too. I mean

01:29:24.159 --> 01:29:27.819
look it's so hard to find like that perfect like

01:29:27.819 --> 01:29:31.340
intersection of like a world that is enough believable

01:29:31.340 --> 01:29:34.340
characters that are like not fucking annoying

01:29:34.340 --> 01:29:37.340
and enough smut to like make it like that nice

01:29:37.609 --> 01:29:40.510
Quick package that you want and it's quick and

01:29:40.510 --> 01:29:43.449
a one shot bill. Yeah, it's a one -shot girl

01:29:43.449 --> 01:29:47.909
Girl, I don't need an 800 page book and five

01:29:47.909 --> 01:29:50.810
of them No, like there's a time and place for

01:29:50.810 --> 01:29:54.130
that, but it's as said in the disclaimer. It's

01:29:54.130 --> 01:29:57.029
a perfect palate cleanser Yeah, perfect palate

01:29:57.029 --> 01:29:59.739
cleanser. That's a great way to put it So we

01:29:59.739 --> 01:30:01.279
did it guys, those are our thoughts on Tragically

01:30:01.279 --> 01:30:04.199
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