Lights Out by Navessa Allen

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One thing that I did notice is last week you said that you had

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three more stories and you only shared, like, one or

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two, so you must have some residual stories left over.

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Okay. Yeah, I do. Tell me.

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Well, I feel so bad because all my stories are about Dave. All we

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do is talk about Dave. I don't think that

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that's a problem. And I don't think that we talk about him that much,

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to be honest. I think all my stories center around Dave or Carmen.

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They're both interesting characters. Yeah.

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So one funny Dave story.

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So he told me that he wants to get a gun.

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Okay. And he's kind of been saying that since we watched the last of us.

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Sure. Because he's a little concerned with, like, a zombie apocalypse. Yeah.

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And I was like, did you see. That interview with Aubrey Plaza

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where she's interviewing with Conan O'Brien? Which is.

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P.S. hear me out. Oh, no,

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hear me out on Conan O'Brien. Oh, my God.

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When he was younger, maybe. I think he just gets more handsome

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the older. I honestly just.

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He just has to talk at me, and I just, like, get melty.

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I. Oh, my God. But Aubrey Plaza. He's interviewing

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Aubrey Plaza, and he can't keep a straight face when he interviews her. Yeah.

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All of the interviews between the two of them is, like, him laughing because she's

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so funny. And he's like, so, are you dating someone?

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And she's like, yeah, I have this, like, new boyfriend. And she was

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like, I really like him. I got him some helicopter

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flying lessons. Oh, okay. And Conan was like,

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oh, like, because he likes. He's interested. And she said,

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no, because if the world comes to an end, I need

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to be with somebody who's going to know how to fly a helicopter.

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And Conan was like, why? Why wouldn't you just learn how to fly the helicopter?

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And she was like, well, because I'm in charge of weapons and ammo.

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So funny. I can picture her. I need to look this up now because I

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love her. So funny. I am in love with Aubrey. Aubrey Plaza.

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Call me. Anyways, I'm sorry. No. Dave is going to

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get a gun for. For the zombie apocalypse. Yes. Nami apocalypse. Oh, you're in charge

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of helicopter lessons? Apparently. Apparently. I'll have to let her know that.

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One of us has got to do it because. Come get apocalypse. I'm coming with

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you and Dave with Dave's gun. Yeah. Me and my kids are going to

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show up at your door carrying Yoshi. Yeah.

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And, yeah. So it's a great plan. Nothing could go

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wrong. No, But I was like, seriously? A gun?

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Really? And he's like, relax. It's not like I want to fuck you with it.

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Oh, my God. Because I have to tell him anytime we come

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across, like, a crazy scene. Like, I told him about this

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book. I. I am obsessed

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with it for Dave. He is clearly having the time of his life.

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Yeah. And I love that for him. I know. Yeah. I love that.

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Great story, wasn't it? Yeah. There was another funny thing,

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and I actually wanted to tell this story to you to

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see how you think it would go for you. Yeah.

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So I don't know if you've seen on social media or anything. There's those,

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like, street interviewers. And this

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was a while ago that this one was like, trending is like, they ask

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questions about your partner. Okay. And it was like,

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without looking, what color are your partner's eyes? And obviously,

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they're asking the men, because women all know. And so it's like,

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feeling cocky, like, I want to do this. Dave's already going to know.

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He knows everything about me. He's so obsessed with me. So I asked him,

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and he so confidently, like, they're hazel. I like,

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our guys have been together. For a long time. I know. I'm like,

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no. Like, they're blue. Sir, have you been listening to this podcast?

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Yeah. We literally talk about the fact that Nicole's got blue eyes.

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I know. And he's like, well, they look pretty gray to me. They do have

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a little bit of gray in them, Grace. Which I could see for a colorblind

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person. Yeah. Yeah. Gray's not hazel.

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Sure. He's like, well, what color is hazel? It's like, greenish brown.

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Yeah, it's like, basically brown. So then I was like, I wonder,

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would your husband know what color your eyes are? Would my

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husband know? Yeah. Yes, he would know. Yeah. Yeah. We talked about it, because I

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asked him once, so it was something around these books.

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Yeah. And I asked him. So you just, like, look at me every day with

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green eyes? And he was like, yeah, because you.

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Have such beautiful green eyes that everybody wants. Well, no,

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I just. It. I think it's one of those things where I generally.

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I have a little bit of a prejudice against blue eyes. And I

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typically will not make friends with people who have blue eyes. Most of

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the people that I surround myself with have brown eyes. Almost everybody

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in my family has brown eyes. Oh, really? Yeah. My husband

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has brown eyes. My son has deeply brown eyes. My daughter's eyes

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are actually, in fact, hazel.

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And, like, I just even thinking

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all my friendships Most of my friends have had brown eyes. Yeah,

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I just. I don't make it a point to befriend people who

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have blue eyes because I just don't trust them.

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One day you're going to wake up and you're like, nicole's got to go.

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I can't do it.

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There is that possibility. No, I.

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I just. I think it's odd. It's so weird to me to think

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that he would wake up every day and look at me and he'd be looking

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at green eyes. It's. I just can't

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make it make sense in my. But in my brain. So I ask him about

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it all the time, and he. Now he's like, yep. He's so annoyed

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by it. Your eyes are more like a. Like, more towards

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blue. They're not like your sweatshirt green.

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They're not like Everest green. I would say that my eyes are almost

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bordering. No, I wouldn't say that. I would say my eyes are green.

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Yeah, I agree. Yeah, they look very different than mine, but.

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Yeah. Yeah, definitely. You're like, thank God. Thank God.

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They're gonna fall out of my head. So. Yeah,

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my husband would know for sure. Love that. For you.

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I think you need to. Because I was so confident. I'm gonna text

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him. Stares at me. No, you have to ask him in person because

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you can't. He can't check. He can't check photos. Oh, sure.

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What if I call person? You could call him. Okay.

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Okay. Let me call him.

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I'm out of my seat.

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Watch him not answer. He's probably doing something.

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Taking care of your children.

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Hello? Hi. Hey, what's up, baby? Hey.

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So I'm recording right now, and you're on speakerphone. I have

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to ask you a really important question. What color are my eyes?

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They're, like, greenish. Like. Yeah, like,

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I think they're hazel, but you say they're not hazel.

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Oh, my God. We literally just got done having a conversation because

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Nicole asked Dave if he would

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know what color your eyes are, and he got it wrong. And she asked if

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I thought that you would. And I said, yeah, absolutely. And then she told

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me that my eyes are not green.

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That's why you keep telling me they're green. But I

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don't know. Whatever. I just go over the place.

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Better than Dave's guess. Yeah, no, it's perfect. I appreciate you. You for

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proving me right. No problem, babe. I love you. I love you.

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I'll talk to you later. Bye.

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Well, you win. He was like I was doing laundry

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for interrupting me. Yeah. But he just loves you so much.

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I know that he honestly, I've brainwashed him into telling me that my

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eyes are green. That's so funny. And I love that

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both of our husbands think we have hazel eyes. I know. That is interesting.

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We do not. No, I don't think that we do. No. I can

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see what you're saying, that my eyes are not. They're not like army green.

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Yeah, for sure. They're definitely more green than blue. Yeah.

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I always wanted purple eyes. You would be a fairy.

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Yeah. With purple eyes. I know there is.

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Okay. I do have something to tell you. Yeah. Okay. So you know

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I'm in my Twilight shit posting groups. Yes. Okay.

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And there is a theory, apparently, that I have never heard,

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but apparently is like a long standing theory that

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Edward and the Cullens are not in fact vampires,

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but they are in fact fairies. What, masquerading as vampires.

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Yeah. Because they can go out in the sun.

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They're super like. Oh, yeah. The glittery. Yeah,

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they're super like smart and fast. And all the.

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All the vampires then fairies or just the Cullens? I think just

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in like their universe. They're not vampires. They're fairs.

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They're not vampires. They're fairies. Interesting.

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I know. I thought that was an interesting theory. The only thing that kicked me

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off the theory was like, okay, so if they fight somebody and then that person

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turns into a vampire. Yeah. Theories, I'm not aware can do

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that. No, no, I don't think they can. But it was a very interesting theory.

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I always love a good theory. I wonder what it's like to be an author

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because I always see theories about like, Sarah J. Maas,

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that universe. Oh, my God, the theories are getting

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so unhinged recently.

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Yeah. Have you seen the one that Tamlin is not

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in fact Tamlin, That Tamlin switched loot.

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Because. Because Tamlin can shapeshift and he can make other people shape shift.

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What? Yes. Remember how he shapeshifted his guard into

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a wolf to set him up with Border? So the theory right now.

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Because the last time that anybody's checked on Tamlin,

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he has not left his beast form. So the theory right now is that he

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turned Lucian into the beast and turned himself into Lucian

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and has been on the other. Yes. That's crazy.

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That is an excellent theory. It really is. And then

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as an author, when people read this stuff into it. Or would you be like,

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okay, that's actually a really good idea. Or would

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you be like, you guys? No. Yeah.

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I would have to create some space, I think, from My fandom. I do really

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like that theory though, too. Yeah. Do you think that

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he deserves a story arc?

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I'm so conflicted because, like, kind of.

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No, he. I mean,

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spoiler. But he killed. He helped kill

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Lisa's family. Yeah. He. There's another theory

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on that, too, though. My God, we did have a whole.

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We could have a whole podcast. Yeah, we could, but under the Mountain.

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He was so not serious. Like, Lucian and Rhys were actively trying

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to help Feyre, and he was just, like, so fucking horny

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or ignoring her. It.

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Yeah, that's the. Can I tell you that that is the only.

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All of the other shit. The overprotectiveness.

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Yeah. All of the other shit I can get over. Yeah.

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The fact that he had a moment alone with her and

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chose to use it to make out her.

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Yes. Is something that I will never know,

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that I am not sympathetic to in that moment.

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Yeah. I'm so ready for her to come out with

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her next book because I really want to know if Azriel

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and Bryce are mates. Oh,

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yeah. That's a theory I haven't seen. Yeah. I got

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that vibe when I read the book. The first. When I read

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across the City. She. Their energy

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was very different than her and Hunt's energy.

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And I just think, like, interesting.

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I do like that because I don't know. I don't like that Hunt

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betrayed her. And I, like, love her for being a forgiving

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queen, but I am not. And I don't forgive him for betraying her.

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So he's fucking out as far as I'm concerned. And I.

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No, and I would love. And it wouldn't be the first time that she did

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that to us. And she did say. Yeah, because she says that there will be

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a big betrayal in this next book.

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I'm so excited. Me, too. All right, well, let's talk about this book.

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I. I was devastated when you

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text me that you get into it, because I.

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I love this book. Yeah. It wasn't my favorite read of the year.

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I love this book, though. And you. I thought it'd

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be one that you would like. I.

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I had a brief moment of enjoyment.

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We'll get to it. And then I immediately went back to being bored.

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Yeah. So I. I. Yeah,

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we're just gonna have to let. It wasn't what I was expecting.

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I was expecting haunting Adeline Dark, because I had heard that she.

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A knife. Yeah. And I love counting Adeline. Y. It wasn't

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that dark, but this one was entertaining there. It was funnier,

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sure. But yeah, you didn't think so.

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I read about 300 pages of this book and

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literally nothing happens except for he spies

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on her and she goes to work and he spies on her and she goes

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to work. And then the last 150 pages,

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everything that could happen happens.

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Yeah. Believe me when I say I love a little bit of delayed gratification.

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This just. I'm sorry to disappoint everybody

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that's listening because I know that there's going to be. I'm going to get eaten

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alive by people who are fans of this book.

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But. But yeah.

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So if you would have read A Court of Thorns and Roses

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before the other books were out, would you have kept going?

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What do you mean? Because I feel like he felt that same way about.

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I remember you telling me, like, it's. A really slow start. You just have to

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like, you have to power through the first one. Because I think that's kind

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of the similar vibes that you got I'm getting here from you. Sure.

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That it was super boring and then a bunch of shit happens

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and then the book ends. Like, is it worth it?

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Sure. I. This book

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for me did not have the payoff. Sure.

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For the weight. Yeah. Yeah, it is.

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I don't know. I'm Amanda. I'm Nicole.

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Let us help you decide if this book should stay on your TBR

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there for that. What book are we reading today? We are reading Lights out

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by Nevesa. Allen and there are

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substantial content warnings for this book that

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I almost did not feel were quite

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this necessary. But yeah, Lights out is a

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dark stalker rom com with heavy themes. Reader discretion is advised

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as this book contains sexually explicit discussion and

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scenes including anal play, alcohol consumption, mention of

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off page rape, child abuse, remembered medical

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content, blood and gore, and hospital setting. Discussion of mental health. Mention of

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serial killers and their crimes, limited. Description of a mass shooting, stalking,

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invasion of privacy, home invasion, hidden cameras, hacking,

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theft, unintentional cannibalism, remembered death, car accident,

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remembered Description of a violent death, remembered death of a parent,

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breath play, night play, gun play, fear play, primal play,

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mask play, consensual dubious consent.

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Definitely too much. I feel like they

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were just a little overkill. The description of this as being a rom com is

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very apt. Yeah, absolutely reads like

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a rom com and I really enjoyed.

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The only thing that I really liked about these two was the banter.

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But even that for me was like, how did we get here

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so quickly? Yeah. So it's fine.

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I am excited to talk about it. I'm super excited to talk about it.

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Yeah. We open with Alli as she winds

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at the end of her shift as a nurse in a trauma ward at

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the hospital. She is working to comfort a new after.

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After a particularly rough shift, she offers to drive

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the woman home and then heads home to her own home where she lives

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alone with her cat. She gets warm,

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she showers, and she hops on social media to participate in

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her favorite pastime, which is trolling thirst

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trap videos of men in masks.

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And love that for her. Yeah, I can relate.

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Do you want to give a physical description of Ali? Yeah.

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Ally is tall. She's muscular, toned.

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She has a pointed chin, long brown hair,

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full lips. She's Italian. She describes herself as not being

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thin or small. She's five, eight. She describes herself as being muscular

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and broad. I have a problem with her physical. Physical description.

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Yeah. So for context, we get

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the physical description from our main male character's

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point of view. He is the initial person to describe it.

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Italian nose. What the fuck does that

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mean? What does that mean? I literally had to go. I had

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to stop reading my book. Yeah, Google it.

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Google had no idea. No. Google gave me a million different options for

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what an Italian nose was. Then I got a text message. I think

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it was a TikTok from somebody got stuck on TikTok. Three hours

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later, I'm organizing my hall closet. I have not gone back to reading my book.

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All because I had to Google when an Italian nose is. And I feel very

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confident that there is an entire population of people in

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New York and maybe New Jersey that are very aware

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of what an Italian nose is. But it's such a niche

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way to describe a nose, and it

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is so tedious that it came from him.

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Because I have never in my life

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met a man who was like, you know what really did it for me was

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her schnoz. Yeah. Like, it just. It's such an

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obscure. And I like, I get it. I. I looked up the

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author because I was like, the author must have an Italian nose. Like, she's got

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to be describing herself. And I get a general idea of,

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like, what it looks like. But next time maybe just do

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strong, straight. Yeah. Well defined.

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But I had that same. I feel like I had that same exact reaction.

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Maybe not, because I did know what it meant. But in haunting Adeline,

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when he describes her hair as cinnamon, that is Exactly. In my mind

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when I read that, I was like, this is like the time that he described

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her as having cinnamon hair. Men don't. Men don't do that.

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It was not for me. I really appreciated that she opted for,

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like a different appearance than what? Not the best heat.

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Yes. I really, really appreciated and enjoyed that.

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But the Italian nose thing was just such a. You're so

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far taken out. I really was. Yeah. Was like. I. Yeah, it just wasn't

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for me. So I. We're gonna get a text message from Pagel about

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how hilariously long this conversation is. Oh, my God. Yeah, we are.

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Yeah. Allie mentions here that she has no family

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and hasn't really gotten down to relationships outside of

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hookups. Her parents have passed and

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she is very much

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a strong, independent woman. She owns guns,

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she is trained in how to handle them, she takes self defense classes,

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and she is, I would say

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she has a very strong personality.

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Yes. Allie realizes

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that it's been a couple of days seeing her current hookup, and she texts

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a screenshot of her favorite masked man to

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said hookup, asking if he would be interested. And he replies

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like, you're alive. Yeah, it's been two months and

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I'm seeing somebody now, so I'm really not interested in any games.

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Which for Ally is only alarming because she didn't realize

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how long it had been. She was not at all bothered by the fact that

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he was like, no. I can't relate to this.

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If I haven't had sex in two months, I know it.

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Especially when I was single. Fussy. Yeah. And I get.

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I'm not. I'm not a nurse working 20 hour shifts.

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But yeah, I definitely remember.

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Now we meet Josh, who is Allie's old

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hookup, Tyler's roommate. So he and

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Tyler live together, Tyler being the old hookup,

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Josh being our main male character. And they're playing video games when

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Tyler gets her text message and shows it to Josh, who starts

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to panic because the screenshot that she sent Tyler of the masked man is

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actually him. Him. So, yeah, Josh is a hacker and

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he is paid an exorbitant amount of money in cyber security

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protecting Fortune 500 companies from being hacked. His father

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is a notoriously well known killer, and we learn

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here that his family has been the subject of documentaries and podcasts.

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And Josh has been keeping himself hidden, even going so far as

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to drop out of college and move to get away from the public scrutiny

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that he has experienced. And his mass social media channel

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is really the only safe way that he feels to interact with the world.

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Even when dating, he automatically blocks women he matches with if they

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are into true crime. Do you want to give a physical description of Josh?

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Yes. Josh is sexy.

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Josh is very tall. He's 6 4. He has short,

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dark hair, tattoos. He's super,

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super ripped. Very like, big, bulky guy.

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He has olive skin, dimples. And he's described as being very good

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looking. Yeah, he sounds good looking. Yeah.

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I almost feel like that would be too good looking for me. I know.

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Like, Ali comments on how, like,

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women just look at him because he's so attractive and that

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I think be too much for me. I like to have to work for a

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little bit. One of the biggest issues that I have with this book is the

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fact that he looks like that and also has a personality that he does.

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Because I just don't think that that's realistic. Yeah, I just. I've known a lot

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of men who look like that man. And I can tell you right now,

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the personality that this man has does not match.

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But his dad is a serial killer. I get it. And he's

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been on antipsychotic medications. I get it.

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So. So Tyler described him as really weird. I know.

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Oh, yeah. You don't see that? No. Oh my God,

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no. The men that look like that take themselves so

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seriously. Well. And he has to. If he's this buff,

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he's working out, he has to. But he doesn't. We don't

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ever get that vibe. Not ever. He is an absolute. Just naturally an

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adult. Yes. 100. Yeah.

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All right. Anyways, he describes meeting

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Allie one night after she and Tyler hooked up and basically being instantly obsessed

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with her. And this kind of

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text message propels him into a full blown spiral.

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He finds her on his account and goes through all of her likes

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and her comments. And Allie

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is. Ali is assertive. And I have a note here

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that says I had to sit back a moment to find the best word here.

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Yes, I have screenshots of some of her comments.

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Oh, yeah, just. I'm gonna read them. And these comments

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are all comments we've seen before. But this book came

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out. I mean, this book came out a while ago.

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Yeah. So she comments on his videos. Things like, I'm on

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season six of this video. This has me feeling feral

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far too early in the morning. The way I would crawl to him.

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And then the. My favorite of them all is this man

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is always coming onto my for you page and never on me. And that is

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a tragedy. Yeah, Ellie, I know.

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And the thing is, is, like, we're all thinking Those things.

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But to be so assertive as to comment them publicly.

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Yeah. Is Especially because her, like, username is.

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It's recognizable. Like, he's easily able to find her.

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Yeah. Yeah. Which is also. I kind.

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I have a note too. He was obsessed with her instantly and

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didn't look into her and didn't find out that she's obsessed with the masks.

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Yeah. I think it's unlikely you'd think he'd give a

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little walk. I think that he is written as a very respectful

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person. Yeah. So I feel like the initial obsession

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with her, he tried to kind of rein it in until he realized

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that she. I do make a note later. I'll try not to repeat myself.

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But he, like, makes a comment at one point where he's like,

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honestly, Allie is way more of

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a creep than I am. She's watched over 200 hours of my videos. Yeah.

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And I've only watched her for 40 hours. Yes.

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So I think that that really just kind of egged him on.

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And he saw a window and. Sure. And took it.

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But when you say that he's respectful, I think that's kind

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of what I didn't love about him. He was big on consent,

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and. Yeah, we'll get into that. And I was just kind of

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like. I was expecting darker. Yeah. A little disappointed.

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Shoot. Not gonna lie. Rom com, I guess.

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Rom com. It is. Giving rom com. Yeah. Which is.

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I guess rom coms are, like, for the masses, so I guess it makes sense

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that this is a very beloved book. Sure. Yeah.

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The combination of comments and his imagining

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chasing her has him hard. And he starts to masturbate

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through an imaginated scenario where he breaks

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into Allie's house shirtless and masked, and directs her

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to get on her knees, which in his fantasy,

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she does right before sucking his dick. And he comes from the fantasy,

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but it emboldens him as well.

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And we. And we spend the next several pages coming along with

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Josh as he meticulously breaks into Allie's house and

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makes friends with her cat. I did, like, his, like,

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thought process of, like, just the fantasizing

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about Allie and breaking her house. To him being like, all right,

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I need to figure out how to break into her house without getting arrested.

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I was so fucking bored. Yeah. Oh, my God.

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He's planning to break and stalk her. For context,

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at this point where we're at right now, we're probably 50 pages

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in. That's true. We're 50 pages in.

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And I. It's. I am. Oh, God. I'm, like,

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painfully fucking bored. They Meticulously.

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You're so disappointed. I can see it all over your face. I'm so sorry.

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He meticulously talks about every single,

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single thing that he does to prepare.

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I bought a new pair of boots in a larger size. I put

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a cover over the boots. There would be no identifiable tread

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marks. I bought a special magnet. I have. I have experience.

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It's like, oh my, we fucking get it. Like,

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that was like. The one thing that I will give to haunting Adeline is that

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we did not have to learn every single thing that Zay knows how

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to do. Just did the fucking thing. And it made

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way more time for sex because these people don't have physical vaginal

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penetration V in the P sex until

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page 300. I know. It's insane.

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I know. I.

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What was I. There was a book that I got really worked up about and

459
00:28:02,682 --> 00:28:05,858
I feel like that's going to be you for this book. Yeah, you're pretty worked

460
00:28:05,874 --> 00:28:09,344
up. The thing of it is, is like, I'm going to tell

461
00:28:09,352 --> 00:28:11,952
you what it is, is that because I've been so busy and this is the

462
00:28:11,976 --> 00:28:15,392
only material that I've gotten to read, I'm extra crappy about

463
00:28:15,416 --> 00:28:19,180
it. I get that for sure. It's like, come on.

464
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,340
This book was so highly recommended and I understand.

465
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,152
I'm sitting across from somebody who enjoyed it a lot.

466
00:28:27,336 --> 00:28:29,900
I just was there.

467
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,680
We're gonna get there soon. I can't wait. And we're gonna spend the most time

468
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:37,000
talking about the scene that I got the most excited about. We're back with

469
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,472
Allie, who is having a hell of a night at the

470
00:28:40,496 --> 00:28:44,056
hospital. And she gets a brief break

471
00:28:44,128 --> 00:28:48,300
and realizes that it's Thursday, which is when the faceless man, AKA Josh,

472
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,880
posts his new video. And she watches the video

473
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,120
and is already turned on, like just thinking about him. She describes

474
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,620
it being Padlov's dog.

475
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,904
And she notices in her video that the room decor

476
00:29:02,952 --> 00:29:06,368
looks similar. Similar hers. But blows

477
00:29:06,384 --> 00:29:09,472
it off and goes back to work. So she just had this brief break to

478
00:29:09,496 --> 00:29:13,008
look at the video. And that night she gets home

479
00:29:13,144 --> 00:29:16,720
to find his very distinct mask

480
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,480
on her bed. And this is not a I went

481
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:24,224
to the Halloween shop and bought a scream mask. This is

482
00:29:24,312 --> 00:29:28,160
he3d printed his own design mask. And so

483
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,102
she starts to freak out. And Josh has set up a camera

484
00:29:32,166 --> 00:29:35,622
in her room. And Allie, as we discussed, she's trained in

485
00:29:35,646 --> 00:29:39,302
self defense. She takes security very seriously. She owns a gun

486
00:29:39,446 --> 00:29:43,094
that she keeps next to her bed. She does a sweep of her house

487
00:29:43,182 --> 00:29:46,742
and then takes a risk to message the

488
00:29:46,766 --> 00:29:50,454
Faceless man to confirm if he was in her house.

489
00:29:50,622 --> 00:29:54,570
And he's freaking out because he thinks that maybe he misjudged

490
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,584
her. And so he starts buying flowers

491
00:29:58,632 --> 00:30:02,760
to have delivered to her house and. But I

492
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,152
also feel like I'm a little bit of a bleeding heart for

493
00:30:06,176 --> 00:30:09,816
this guy because he really,

494
00:30:09,888 --> 00:30:13,176
really thinks that this sexual desire makes him a monster.

495
00:30:13,288 --> 00:30:16,600
And he is constantly comparing himself to his

496
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,992
dad, who was an actual monster. And again,

497
00:30:20,096 --> 00:30:23,314
with everyone involved, is a consenting adult.

498
00:30:23,472 --> 00:30:26,782
Play your second games. And he really has a lot of

499
00:30:26,806 --> 00:30:30,718
conflicting emotions about this. Yeah. But he

500
00:30:30,774 --> 00:30:34,782
responds to her message and then he sends her

501
00:30:34,886 --> 00:30:38,670
the second half of the video that he didn't post, which is

502
00:30:38,710 --> 00:30:42,926
him stroking himself in her room. And she busts

503
00:30:42,958 --> 00:30:46,062
out her vibrator. Yeah. She is so wound up at

504
00:30:46,086 --> 00:30:49,850
that point, which makes me think again,

505
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,624
she's gotta be using her vibrator all the time. How do you not realize.

506
00:30:53,752 --> 00:30:57,448
Yeah. That it's been this long. Yeah. Because she had comments that the vibrator

507
00:30:57,544 --> 00:31:01,288
does not do it. Yeah. There are some more inconsistencies I can't wait

508
00:31:01,304 --> 00:31:05,144
to talk about. He closes

509
00:31:05,192 --> 00:31:09,260
the laptop before seeing her orgasm. So she describes,

510
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,368
just for context, when you're reading this book, we're not reading

511
00:31:13,544 --> 00:31:17,566
about her masturbating. No. She literally puts

512
00:31:17,598 --> 00:31:21,086
the vibrator inside her and he closes the laptop because he doesn't

513
00:31:21,118 --> 00:31:24,830
want to cross the boundaries. But again, we're like

514
00:31:24,870 --> 00:31:28,190
100 pages in. Like, this is all

515
00:31:28,230 --> 00:31:31,358
that's happened and we are at minimum 100 pages in right now.

516
00:31:31,414 --> 00:31:35,118
Yeah. So I was really just kind of like, what are we doing here?

517
00:31:35,174 --> 00:31:38,750
Like, is this a smutty book or not? The storyline itself is not interesting enough

518
00:31:38,790 --> 00:31:41,982
for it to not be smuttier. Yeah. Either be an

519
00:31:42,006 --> 00:31:46,332
interesting story storyline with no smut or a minimal smut,

520
00:31:46,476 --> 00:31:50,172
or be sweaty. Just embrace the sweatiness

521
00:31:50,236 --> 00:31:53,532
and be tangled in tinsel. I don't know. Do you think this would

522
00:31:53,556 --> 00:31:57,100
have. You would have enjoyed this more if it was more like Tangled and Tinsel?

523
00:31:57,180 --> 00:32:00,412
Yes. Where there's just. No. Yeah. Because there really isn't any

524
00:32:00,436 --> 00:32:03,596
plot line. There really. I mean, there really isn't. Is there a plot line?

525
00:32:03,668 --> 00:32:06,684
I feel like there is. What is the plot line? That he stalks her.

526
00:32:06,772 --> 00:32:10,260
That's literally the whole pointer. And then Brad. Well,

527
00:32:10,300 --> 00:32:13,940
yeah. That doesn't happen until 300 pages into a 450

528
00:32:13,980 --> 00:32:16,868
page book, I guess. Yeah. There's really no plot at the beginning. And they do.

529
00:32:16,924 --> 00:32:20,084
I have a note too, earlier that they talk a lot

530
00:32:20,092 --> 00:32:23,796
about Allie at the hospital. I Don't care.

531
00:32:23,948 --> 00:32:26,932
Same. I don't care about her night. I don't care about the new world that

532
00:32:26,956 --> 00:32:30,404
she drove home. Yeah. I don't care about any of it. Same.

533
00:32:30,492 --> 00:32:33,924
And you're right, because in. I pointed that out in Tangle and

534
00:32:33,932 --> 00:32:36,866
Tinsel, how it was just plot for the sake of plot.

535
00:32:36,988 --> 00:32:40,966
Yeah. I understand what the author was trying to do in terms of establishing

536
00:32:40,998 --> 00:32:43,862
who Ali is as a person. It becomes important later.

537
00:32:44,046 --> 00:32:47,250
But it just. I feel like we just spent so much,

538
00:32:47,710 --> 00:32:51,190
so much unnecessary time on it. We get the

539
00:32:51,230 --> 00:32:54,934
running monologue in Allie's head while she's masturbating.

540
00:32:55,062 --> 00:32:58,950
So she is masturbating. I didn't even realize that she was still masturbating.

541
00:32:59,030 --> 00:33:02,698
Yeah, it's just a running monologue of all of the thoughts of her,

542
00:33:02,814 --> 00:33:06,450
which I have to say, never have I ever

543
00:33:06,490 --> 00:33:09,362
orgasmed while I'm thinking about my day. Never.

544
00:33:09,466 --> 00:33:12,722
She's fully processing not just her job, but also the

545
00:33:12,746 --> 00:33:15,858
impact that her job has on her need for

546
00:33:15,914 --> 00:33:19,522
more intense sex. And how many of the men that she dated have

547
00:33:19,546 --> 00:33:23,710
been vanilla. And then she orgasms. Yes. I could never.

548
00:33:24,010 --> 00:33:27,266
What? I'm actively picturing someone's face down there.

549
00:33:27,338 --> 00:33:31,366
Yes. Yes. Like, what is happening?

550
00:33:31,558 --> 00:33:35,094
Anyways, she's torn between wanting the faceless man to

551
00:33:35,102 --> 00:33:38,662
break in again and calling and calling the police. So in the end,

552
00:33:38,686 --> 00:33:42,198
she barricades herself in her room and she sleeps 10. Straight hours,

553
00:33:42,334 --> 00:33:45,382
which is outrageous. I watch a

554
00:33:45,406 --> 00:33:49,046
scary movie and I'm light sleeping, hearing every

555
00:33:49,118 --> 00:33:52,582
little thing. A man broke into your home. You don't know how he

556
00:33:52,606 --> 00:33:56,000
got in. Yeah, she's a fucking idiot. I know,

557
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,632
I know. And I. The thing is, is that she is not written like an

558
00:33:59,656 --> 00:34:02,752
idiot. I mean, in my mind. To your point, I think I was comparing it

559
00:34:02,776 --> 00:34:06,256
a little bit to hunting Adeline. And Adeline is like, I locked

560
00:34:06,288 --> 00:34:09,584
my door. I know. Like, Adeline is a bit of an idiot.

561
00:34:09,632 --> 00:34:13,216
Yeah. You know, and it's an ally. Definitely is not.

562
00:34:13,288 --> 00:34:16,800
Like I said, she takes, you know, security very seriously.

563
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,135
And it seemed a little out of off brand.

564
00:34:20,327 --> 00:34:23,959
So the next day, Allie is on a

565
00:34:23,999 --> 00:34:27,687
mission and Josh continues his stalking of Allie, watching her

566
00:34:27,743 --> 00:34:31,319
through her laptop camera until she covers it with tape and

567
00:34:31,359 --> 00:34:35,303
then calls Tyler and asks if his roommate, who is

568
00:34:35,391 --> 00:34:38,823
also Josh, will help her track down

569
00:34:38,911 --> 00:34:42,519
whoever is doing this to her. And he agrees. And Josh,

570
00:34:42,599 --> 00:34:46,273
overhearing this, jumps into overdrive, who digitally

571
00:34:46,351 --> 00:34:50,158
cover his trail. And now that I know how this book

572
00:34:50,214 --> 00:34:53,850
ends, now that I know how he is exposed to her,

573
00:34:54,150 --> 00:34:57,614
I really have to Go back to this wasted plot.

574
00:34:57,742 --> 00:35:01,358
Yes, very much. Absolutely. We spend so,

575
00:35:01,414 --> 00:35:04,782
so, so much time on Ally Googling whether or

576
00:35:04,806 --> 00:35:08,174
not a camera can be turned off and whether or not somebody can watch you

577
00:35:08,262 --> 00:35:11,828
digitally or remotely through your camera. Just as like I.

578
00:35:12,014 --> 00:35:14,952
So, so much time was spent on this. And the way that he's exposed to

579
00:35:14,976 --> 00:35:18,936
her is ridiculous. So shortly after Allie calls Tyler, she starts

580
00:35:18,968 --> 00:35:22,808
receiving gifts from Josh. First flowers, which she redirects

581
00:35:22,824 --> 00:35:25,380
to a hospital and then a home security system.

582
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:29,320
And she realizes here that the Faceless man is listening to her

583
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,936
through her laptop. And he starts responding to her angry

584
00:35:32,968 --> 00:35:36,776
lamenting via DMs, including a video of him

585
00:35:36,928 --> 00:35:40,712
interacting positively with her. Her cat Fred,

586
00:35:40,856 --> 00:35:44,820
who generally doesn't like men. When she tells him

587
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,888
not to feel special because cats are sociopaths and Fred likely just

588
00:35:48,944 --> 00:35:53,096
found his kindred spirit, he says, if he's a cat,

589
00:35:53,288 --> 00:35:56,392
does that make her a mouse? And she replies with,

590
00:35:56,496 --> 00:36:00,712
I'm a motherfucking wolf, before she closes

591
00:36:00,856 --> 00:36:04,104
her laptop and shuts off her microphone, which is,

592
00:36:04,272 --> 00:36:07,722
I really like that. I did, too. She uses

593
00:36:07,786 --> 00:36:11,434
the camera finding system that he purposely

594
00:36:11,482 --> 00:36:14,410
sent to her so that she would find the camera that he had hidden into

595
00:36:14,450 --> 00:36:17,786
her room. And she uses it to find the camera

596
00:36:17,818 --> 00:36:20,730
that he planted. And he promises that he didn't use it to watch her change

597
00:36:20,770 --> 00:36:24,202
or masturbate. And she disconnects the camera and logs out

598
00:36:24,226 --> 00:36:27,674
of the social media app. And an important note

599
00:36:27,722 --> 00:36:30,698
here, and we kind of alluded to it already, is that Josh is not upset

600
00:36:30,714 --> 00:36:34,292
about this. He expected it. Yeah. He even says, I'm gonna give her some time

601
00:36:34,316 --> 00:36:37,428
and space to be mad at me. Yeah. But he has a plan.

602
00:36:37,564 --> 00:36:41,236
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That Saturday,

603
00:36:41,308 --> 00:36:44,612
while at work, Allie can't resist checking for

604
00:36:44,636 --> 00:36:48,436
the Faceless Man's newest video. She realizes while watching it it's

605
00:36:48,468 --> 00:36:52,132
for her. It's his usual locations, but the song choice is

606
00:36:52,156 --> 00:36:56,420
a man singing about forgiveness. And he has the one

607
00:36:56,460 --> 00:37:00,248
and only caption that he has ever had on a video, which is when

608
00:37:00,304 --> 00:37:03,940
she's mad at you. I did love that he does this.

609
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,760
He. It's so serious,

610
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,900
like, sir, you're stalking her.

611
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,784
And then he does this. Yeah. Which I think was really funny.

612
00:37:17,912 --> 00:37:21,400
Yeah. And it made me like him a lot. Yeah,

613
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,696
I like Josh a lot. Yeah, Yeah, I do. I like him a lot.

614
00:37:24,768 --> 00:37:28,350
I like both of them. I do, too. She decides to comment

615
00:37:29,130 --> 00:37:33,458
like, you mean when she has good reason to be mad at you. And he

616
00:37:33,594 --> 00:37:36,850
has never interacted with any of the women in

617
00:37:36,890 --> 00:37:40,434
his comments before. And his videos are very Popular. There are a lot of comments.

618
00:37:40,602 --> 00:37:44,910
And he likes her comment and then follows her,

619
00:37:45,290 --> 00:37:48,898
making her the only person that he does. He doesn't follow anybody

620
00:37:48,914 --> 00:37:52,626
else, just her. I do think if I'm Allie, I'm not commenting

621
00:37:52,658 --> 00:37:55,794
on that video, I'd maybe send him a dm. But the fact that she commented,

622
00:37:55,842 --> 00:37:58,882
I'm like, you are asking. Yeah. For these women to

623
00:37:58,906 --> 00:38:02,354
threaten you. Oh, God, yes, they do. Yes. They're pissed.

624
00:38:02,402 --> 00:38:06,146
Yes, absolutely. It turns into full blown chaos and. Like you're currently

625
00:38:06,218 --> 00:38:09,682
being stalked. So now you're going to put yourself out there for

626
00:38:09,706 --> 00:38:13,030
these angry women. How are you not afraid?

627
00:38:14,410 --> 00:38:17,506
Yeah, absolutely. Well,

628
00:38:17,578 --> 00:38:20,962
she messages him about the chaos that he

629
00:38:20,986 --> 00:38:24,882
created and he tells her he won't apologize for publicly

630
00:38:24,946 --> 00:38:28,710
clear claiming her, which she likes a lot. And Nicole.

631
00:38:30,570 --> 00:38:33,986
So do I. Please and thank you.

632
00:38:34,138 --> 00:38:37,762
Yes. She realizes that he's also watching her

633
00:38:37,786 --> 00:38:41,282
on the hospital cameras while she's at work. And she tells him that she does

634
00:38:41,306 --> 00:38:44,850
not forgive him. And he says, tell me to stop, Allie.

635
00:38:44,930 --> 00:38:48,786
And she doesn't when they are interrupted by several incoming

636
00:38:48,818 --> 00:38:52,370
victims of a mass shooting. Twenty hours later,

637
00:38:52,490 --> 00:38:55,586
dead on her feet. Thinking it would be smart to take an Uber home,

638
00:38:55,658 --> 00:38:58,738
she discovers that her car is running,

639
00:38:58,914 --> 00:39:02,674
Nicole's face, and the faceless man is sitting

640
00:39:02,722 --> 00:39:05,810
in the driver's seat wearing his mask.

641
00:39:05,970 --> 00:39:09,890
So Josh has shown up to warm her car and drive her home

642
00:39:10,010 --> 00:39:13,506
with a gun and a knife for her to wield against

643
00:39:13,578 --> 00:39:17,242
him and snacks for her to eat after not eating all day. What did you

644
00:39:17,266 --> 00:39:19,590
think of this scene? I.

645
00:39:20,130 --> 00:39:23,450
This scene did not. No, I also

646
00:39:23,490 --> 00:39:26,906
didn't because he doesn't have his voice thing, so he's

647
00:39:26,938 --> 00:39:30,634
not talking there. He's like writing it on his phone

648
00:39:30,762 --> 00:39:34,106
and showing her. I just think we could have done without it.

649
00:39:34,178 --> 00:39:37,786
I agree. I don't hate that he picked her up that sign

650
00:39:37,858 --> 00:39:39,710
because we get a fun scene,

651
00:39:40,770 --> 00:39:44,020
but yeah, 100%. No,

652
00:39:44,060 --> 00:39:47,604
I hear you. I'm not arguing with you. I'm just surprised that you have so

653
00:39:47,612 --> 00:39:51,220
many negative things to say about a book that you like so much. Just some

654
00:39:51,260 --> 00:39:55,060
little silly things. I am really grateful for this happening because

655
00:39:55,100 --> 00:39:58,116
this is where my favorite scene happens. Yeah. Yeah.

656
00:39:58,308 --> 00:40:01,588
So Allie accepts

657
00:40:01,684 --> 00:40:05,220
his invitation. She holds him at knife point

658
00:40:05,260 --> 00:40:08,580
and gunpoint while he drives her home. And he

659
00:40:08,620 --> 00:40:12,748
has very intentionally put on a GPS

660
00:40:12,924 --> 00:40:16,540
to her home so that she can see that he is not deviating from

661
00:40:16,580 --> 00:40:20,380
course and that he is in fact driving her home. And he

662
00:40:20,420 --> 00:40:23,772
also incredibly turned on because Allie is like

663
00:40:23,796 --> 00:40:27,708
staring at him and he's hard. Allie notices

664
00:40:27,804 --> 00:40:31,160
his erection and then he asks him if she can see it.

665
00:40:31,460 --> 00:40:34,720
Yep. Yes. Which you loved. I knew

666
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:39,072
reading this scene. I knew you would love this scene. No, you didn't. Are you

667
00:40:39,096 --> 00:40:42,512
kidding me? When I text you from the Denny's. Today, I didn't know

668
00:40:42,536 --> 00:40:46,384
it was that scene. I did wonder. So for context,

669
00:40:46,432 --> 00:40:49,824
I text Nicole and was like, does this book get any better? I'm so

670
00:40:49,912 --> 00:40:54,048
bored. And Nicole was like, shoot. Probably not. Probably not.

671
00:40:54,184 --> 00:40:57,952
And then I continued my notes. I got to the scene and I sent

672
00:40:57,976 --> 00:41:01,140
her a text message. It was like, oh, my God, it's happening.

673
00:41:03,730 --> 00:41:07,710
I fucking loved this scene.

674
00:41:08,050 --> 00:41:11,306
So Allie asks him if he can see it.

675
00:41:11,378 --> 00:41:15,050
He is so thrilled, he thinks that he makes

676
00:41:15,090 --> 00:41:18,490
it up. Yeah. He gives her access and she

677
00:41:18,530 --> 00:41:21,722
uses the knife to lift his shirt up,

678
00:41:21,826 --> 00:41:25,066
saying, all this time you've been reassuring me I'm safe

679
00:41:25,098 --> 00:41:28,000
with you. Did you ever consider if you're safe with me?

680
00:41:28,170 --> 00:41:30,440
I loved that. Oh, my God.

681
00:41:33,660 --> 00:41:37,524
She asked if he will behave himself while she puts the knife

682
00:41:37,572 --> 00:41:40,756
down to open his pants. And she says,

683
00:41:40,828 --> 00:41:44,804
I won't do it if you don't promise to be a good boy.

684
00:41:44,932 --> 00:41:49,188
And in his mind he says, praise King unlocked.

685
00:41:49,284 --> 00:41:53,012
Yeah. Yeah. The way that I loved the scene.

686
00:41:53,076 --> 00:41:56,950
Yeah. Oh, my God. She proceeds to take his dick out,

687
00:41:56,990 --> 00:41:59,490
telling him, this isn't for you.

688
00:42:00,990 --> 00:42:03,410
That's where I was. Like, amanda's gonna love this.

689
00:42:05,390 --> 00:42:09,430
Ally proceeds to give him toe curling head and he

690
00:42:09,470 --> 00:42:13,078
loses focus and makes a wrong turn. And Nicole

691
00:42:13,094 --> 00:42:16,278
is just grinning from ear to ear at me because she knows that I just

692
00:42:16,334 --> 00:42:20,006
am eating this shit up. When he does, the GPS

693
00:42:20,118 --> 00:42:23,562
tells him to correct his. His cores. And Allie

694
00:42:23,626 --> 00:42:28,190
stops giving him heads, saying, bad boys don't get rewarded.

695
00:42:28,530 --> 00:42:32,250
Yeah. Once he corrects his

696
00:42:32,290 --> 00:42:36,250
course, she continues until he comes in her mouth and she

697
00:42:36,290 --> 00:42:39,050
swallows his cum and sucks his dick clean.

698
00:42:39,210 --> 00:42:42,522
And during all of this, she accidentally stabs him with the

699
00:42:42,546 --> 00:42:45,786
knife. Yep. And then she blames him.

700
00:42:45,858 --> 00:42:49,172
Yeah. It's like, what did you do? I do have

701
00:42:49,196 --> 00:42:52,324
a note about the way that she describes his dick as being

702
00:42:52,412 --> 00:42:55,600
so big that you can barely get two hands around it.

703
00:42:55,980 --> 00:42:59,360
And I said, allie, babes, you're five, eight.

704
00:42:59,660 --> 00:43:02,600
You have big hands. Yeah, that's the size.

705
00:43:03,260 --> 00:43:07,108
That's the size of a bowl. Yes. Like a cereal bowl,

706
00:43:07,204 --> 00:43:11,060
ma'am. You would have to dislocate your jaw to

707
00:43:11,100 --> 00:43:14,832
suck that monster cock. Like, I'm sorry, but that was

708
00:43:14,856 --> 00:43:17,440
one of the inconsistencies that I did not like that. Like,

709
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,800
I am fine with them being big. Yeah.

710
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,832
Two hands. Yes. Even. Yes. That's the

711
00:43:24,856 --> 00:43:28,432
size of a head. Yes. Nicole's little tiny

712
00:43:28,496 --> 00:43:31,824
five foot hands. Yeah. Are. It's still bigger than a

713
00:43:31,832 --> 00:43:34,688
Coke can? Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah.

714
00:43:34,784 --> 00:43:38,288
Jesus. And the biggest that I've ever seen looked.

715
00:43:38,464 --> 00:43:41,916
I thought it was an arm. And that's still bigger

716
00:43:41,948 --> 00:43:45,436
than my arm. Yes. And I. It was. That was the biggest

717
00:43:45,468 --> 00:43:49,356
that I've ever seen. It was not the size of a suitable. I can't

718
00:43:49,388 --> 00:43:52,588
get over that description. I don't know how else to describe it. Yeah.

719
00:43:52,684 --> 00:43:56,108
Look at my hands. If I'm barely able to put my hands together.

720
00:43:56,164 --> 00:43:59,772
Look how big that is. Yeah. That's the size of your whole head.

721
00:43:59,876 --> 00:44:03,420
I know. I just was like, I don't know who

722
00:44:03,460 --> 00:44:06,744
she thinks that she's full in here. Yeah. It didn't need to be

723
00:44:06,752 --> 00:44:10,296
that big. One hand, not around it. Sure. Yes. That's pretty

724
00:44:10,328 --> 00:44:14,056
small. Absolutely. Yeah, I agree. But she almost like deep

725
00:44:14,088 --> 00:44:17,432
throats him and I'm like, okay, there's no. Ma'am, there is

726
00:44:17,456 --> 00:44:21,272
no way. I just, I can't. No, doesn't. Something doesn't add up

727
00:44:21,296 --> 00:44:25,256
here physically. They get home, she brings him inside

728
00:44:25,368 --> 00:44:29,000
where she gets him all stitched up

729
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:32,384
as the nurse that she is. And she asks him to stay.

730
00:44:32,432 --> 00:44:35,728
Stay. But he doesn't. And instead breaks into

731
00:44:35,784 --> 00:44:39,616
her house later that morning to drop off breakfast and shovel her

732
00:44:39,688 --> 00:44:43,072
driveway. Yeah. And all of that could have been avoided if

733
00:44:43,096 --> 00:44:46,192
we just had the voice box to start with. Sure. We could have moved the

734
00:44:46,216 --> 00:44:49,072
plot along a little further. Well, yeah. And then we also get a story here

735
00:44:49,096 --> 00:44:53,168
about how she goes out and talks to her. She specifically says

736
00:44:53,224 --> 00:44:56,688
her black neighbors. I'm just like, I don't.

737
00:44:56,784 --> 00:45:00,988
They never come up. Her neighbors never come up. Again, there is absolutely no

738
00:45:01,044 --> 00:45:04,684
reason. I. And she does it multiple times in this book where she's like,

739
00:45:04,772 --> 00:45:08,204
he's a nice Middle Eastern man nurse

740
00:45:08,252 --> 00:45:11,580
and she's a nice Latina woman in. And it's just like

741
00:45:11,620 --> 00:45:14,844
I didn't even notice. But I skipped. Oh my God, I fucking

742
00:45:14,892 --> 00:45:18,076
hate it. Like, what was the point of you throwing it in there?

743
00:45:18,228 --> 00:45:22,236
There is no point of you throwing it in there. I mean it's. Those people

744
00:45:22,308 --> 00:45:25,692
are such minor characters in the story. I know that you didn't do it for

745
00:45:25,716 --> 00:45:28,572
inclusivity. Yeah. If you wanted to do it for inclusivity, you would have made her

746
00:45:28,596 --> 00:45:31,538
Latina, you wouldn't make her Indian. You would have made her like.

747
00:45:31,594 --> 00:45:35,218
But you didn't. You just wanted to throw in all of the little fun

748
00:45:35,274 --> 00:45:37,698
characters that happen to be bipoc people.

749
00:45:37,754 --> 00:45:41,390
I, I just,

750
00:45:41,690 --> 00:45:45,282
I Wish we had cameras. You're so

751
00:45:45,466 --> 00:45:49,150
funny. I am. I'm over it. Over it.

752
00:45:49,450 --> 00:45:53,042
She gets a text from Tyler that. That Josh is free in about half

753
00:45:53,066 --> 00:45:56,824
an hour. And she heads over there. And Ali immediately

754
00:45:56,872 --> 00:46:00,456
identifies him. Yeah, immediately. She doesn't say anything

755
00:46:00,488 --> 00:46:04,264
to him. She tries to, like, surreptitiously get him,

756
00:46:04,432 --> 00:46:07,256
like, corner him or catch him. At one point,

757
00:46:07,328 --> 00:46:11,176
she grabs his hands, knowing that just stitched

758
00:46:11,208 --> 00:46:15,352
up his hand the night before because he had literally been stabbed and

759
00:46:15,376 --> 00:46:19,368
he does not lynch. And then she sends him a text message

760
00:46:19,544 --> 00:46:23,168
thinking, like, oh, his phone's gonna go off and I'm gonna catch him.

761
00:46:23,224 --> 00:46:26,688
But obviously he's smarter than that. He uses a burner phone and

762
00:46:26,744 --> 00:46:30,208
he's got some sort of AI system set up to respond to her.

763
00:46:30,264 --> 00:46:34,112
So she texts him while she's sitting in front of him. And the AI responds.

764
00:46:34,176 --> 00:46:37,552
So she knows it, but she's trying to figure out how to prove it and

765
00:46:37,576 --> 00:46:40,540
she really can't. And I really.

766
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,432
That part I liked. Sure. She. They could have left out

767
00:46:44,456 --> 00:46:48,080
all of the other shit about Googling and all that shit and just done

768
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:51,826
that, and I would have gotten a sense for how determined

769
00:46:51,858 --> 00:46:55,682
she was to identify him. So this

770
00:46:55,706 --> 00:46:59,474
is where we get their kind of cute dynamic.

771
00:46:59,602 --> 00:47:03,282
They play a game called would you rather. Which my children play with me all

772
00:47:03,306 --> 00:47:07,554
the time. I'm well versed in this game. Yeah. And it's

773
00:47:07,682 --> 00:47:10,786
fun. I mean, I enjoyed that part of the book. Yeah. I mean, I enjoyed

774
00:47:10,818 --> 00:47:14,130
some of their banter. But again, I think it is odd how

775
00:47:14,170 --> 00:47:17,682
quickly they got there. Yeah. It doesn't track. Like, the last time

776
00:47:17,706 --> 00:47:21,502
that she talked to him. They describe their first interaction, their personal

777
00:47:21,606 --> 00:47:24,750
interaction, where he doesn't even say a word to her.

778
00:47:24,790 --> 00:47:28,174
He basically, like, grunts at her and hides his face from her.

779
00:47:28,342 --> 00:47:32,382
And now they immediately go to playing would

780
00:47:32,406 --> 00:47:35,662
you rather pee stones or sweat pickle juice? And it's like,

781
00:47:35,686 --> 00:47:38,846
I don't. How do we get here? I don't know. And it. Because she knows,

782
00:47:38,878 --> 00:47:41,582
like. I mean, he thinks he, like, threw her off and she knows immediately.

783
00:47:41,646 --> 00:47:45,006
And his personality, like, they've had this little banter going back and forth

784
00:47:45,038 --> 00:47:48,362
in the DMs. So it only kind of reinforces. Yes. Because she

785
00:47:48,386 --> 00:47:51,562
says after that, she's like, it is him. I know it's him. Yeah.

786
00:47:51,626 --> 00:47:55,082
And she wants it to be him. Yeah. I mean, she really likes. I mean,

787
00:47:55,106 --> 00:47:58,666
the idea of it being him. And I like that because he is worried because

788
00:47:58,738 --> 00:48:01,962
he, like, noted as Josh. He's like, she's checking me out.

789
00:48:02,146 --> 00:48:04,990
Am I. A little jealous of myself.

790
00:48:05,810 --> 00:48:09,338
And she, she wants it to be him. And I

791
00:48:09,474 --> 00:48:13,182
would too. Oh, God, yeah, absolutely. If he had

792
00:48:13,206 --> 00:48:16,414
all of these characteristics and he looked like that. Yeah, I would want it

793
00:48:16,422 --> 00:48:19,630
to be him too. Yeah. Josh explains that it's going to take

794
00:48:19,670 --> 00:48:23,326
some time to track down the faceless man. And she leaves that day empty handed.

795
00:48:23,438 --> 00:48:26,670
Allie gets home from work that night and decides to take matters into

796
00:48:26,710 --> 00:48:30,462
her own hands. She turns the camera on on

797
00:48:30,486 --> 00:48:34,078
her computer. Nicole. Love Nicole. I love this. I would

798
00:48:34,134 --> 00:48:37,134
do this. The second I read the scene, I was like,

799
00:48:37,142 --> 00:48:41,252
this is Nicole to a T. So once.

800
00:48:41,356 --> 00:48:44,516
So she turns the camera on on her computer and once she knows that he's

801
00:48:44,548 --> 00:48:47,280
watching because he messages her and is like, what are you doing?

802
00:48:47,660 --> 00:48:52,340
And she gets. She strips down and she like crawls

803
00:48:52,420 --> 00:48:55,988
across the bed and then makes herself comfortable and she grabs her

804
00:48:56,044 --> 00:48:59,524
largest vibrator and just like makes it a

805
00:48:59,532 --> 00:49:03,172
whole show of just getting a position and then teething

806
00:49:03,236 --> 00:49:07,302
herself. And then she starts to ride the vibrator.

807
00:49:07,366 --> 00:49:10,262
And just as she does that, the faceless man breaks in.

808
00:49:10,446 --> 00:49:14,422
Yeah, like, takes the door down, breaks in.

809
00:49:14,606 --> 00:49:17,718
This scene was so hot. Yeah, it was

810
00:49:17,774 --> 00:49:20,850
not. It's not something that I would read for.

811
00:49:21,630 --> 00:49:24,970
No. Dave didn't get laid after the scene. No, it wasn't.

812
00:49:25,870 --> 00:49:29,494
Oh, which one? The shower one? Yeah. Oh,

813
00:49:29,622 --> 00:49:33,520
lucky Dave. So he storms into

814
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:35,712
her room, which is also something Nicole loves.

815
00:49:35,856 --> 00:49:39,152
Yeah. Oh, my God. He takes her by the

816
00:49:39,176 --> 00:49:42,784
neck and he forces her

817
00:49:42,952 --> 00:49:46,672
to keep the vibrator inside of her while he holds her by

818
00:49:46,696 --> 00:49:50,080
her neck and her clit. But right before she comes,

819
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:53,792
he takes the vibrator out of her, puts her on her back,

820
00:49:53,896 --> 00:49:57,572
directing her to hold her breasts together while he fucks them

821
00:49:57,596 --> 00:50:01,668
until he comes on her chest and neck. And he then proceeds

822
00:50:01,764 --> 00:50:05,588
to edge her with the vibrator for what feels

823
00:50:05,684 --> 00:50:08,820
like an eternity, according to her, because we don't get

824
00:50:08,860 --> 00:50:12,692
any of the edging. It literally goes from he

825
00:50:12,716 --> 00:50:16,548
gives her a white pearl necklace to he's

826
00:50:16,564 --> 00:50:20,116
been edging now for what feels like an. Hour and it's only about 10 minutes.

827
00:50:20,188 --> 00:50:23,840
Which Cook all the fuck out of it. I love a bit.

828
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,808
So she finally come and then she passes out,

829
00:50:27,864 --> 00:50:30,720
which I don't blame her. This is a very exhaustive scene.

830
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:34,800
He makes her breakfast and notices that she puts a tracker in

831
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:38,048
his bag while he's making breakfast, which she

832
00:50:38,104 --> 00:50:41,328
could. Not be more obvious. Oh my God. And if my door's open, he can't

833
00:50:41,344 --> 00:50:44,992
see me. You turned the camera on. You forgot to

834
00:50:45,096 --> 00:50:47,500
turn it off. What is wrong with You.

835
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:52,270
Anyway, he leaked, and after leaving, he drives

836
00:50:52,350 --> 00:50:55,230
a path that spells out lol,

837
00:50:55,390 --> 00:50:59,118
which pisses Allie off. Yeah. Who yells at him

838
00:50:59,254 --> 00:51:02,702
that the joke is on him because she took hair from his sweater at

839
00:51:02,726 --> 00:51:06,014
Josh's house and is going to do a DNA test using

840
00:51:06,102 --> 00:51:09,790
the blood from when she stitched him up. But he

841
00:51:09,830 --> 00:51:13,422
was prepared for that and had intentionally worn Tyler's

842
00:51:13,486 --> 00:51:15,822
sweater that day, knowing that she would be.

843
00:51:15,846 --> 00:51:19,242
Trixie, I have another continuity issue here. Yeah.

844
00:51:19,306 --> 00:51:21,850
Do you know what I'm gonna say? You're smiling at me like you do.

845
00:51:21,970 --> 00:51:26,346
No. He says in that scene that he wears a

846
00:51:26,498 --> 00:51:30,538
grossly oversized sweatshirt. Yeah. To hide his

847
00:51:30,594 --> 00:51:34,026
dick because he is basically constantly

848
00:51:34,058 --> 00:51:38,010
hard whenever Hallie is around. What are you telling me is that Tyler is,

849
00:51:38,050 --> 00:51:41,434
like, 6 foot 8, and. He is not described as being bulkier

850
00:51:41,482 --> 00:51:45,108
than. No, I know. Josh is described as being bigger than him.

851
00:51:45,244 --> 00:51:48,452
So I don't know why you thought that you

852
00:51:48,476 --> 00:51:50,980
could just slip that in there. Like, oh, look at how smart I am.

853
00:51:51,020 --> 00:51:54,948
Like, you sound dumb. So Allie

854
00:51:54,964 --> 00:51:58,964
has another eventful day at the hospital, first treating and getting into an argument

855
00:51:59,012 --> 00:52:02,116
with a rapist who had gone free and been beaten

856
00:52:02,148 --> 00:52:05,796
up by his victim's brother, and then walked out of helping

857
00:52:05,828 --> 00:52:09,902
a woman who looked like her deceased mother who had a similar injury to

858
00:52:09,926 --> 00:52:13,422
the one that killed her mother. Josh meets her at her house, and we

859
00:52:13,446 --> 00:52:16,814
learned that Allie feels responsible for her mom's death because she was the one driving

860
00:52:16,862 --> 00:52:20,254
in the accident that killed her. Josh is excellent at comforting

861
00:52:20,302 --> 00:52:23,534
her, and she tells him she wants to be bad.

862
00:52:23,702 --> 00:52:26,942
He man her. Yeah. Which Nicole also likes.

863
00:52:27,086 --> 00:52:30,382
Throwing her on her bed. And then uses his knife

864
00:52:30,446 --> 00:52:33,950
to stab the corner of the bed, telling Allie he

865
00:52:33,990 --> 00:52:37,646
wants her to ride it. He blindfolds her

866
00:52:37,798 --> 00:52:41,470
and handcuffs her hands behind her back before going down on her while

867
00:52:41,510 --> 00:52:45,246
she's standing. And then he has her basically step

868
00:52:45,318 --> 00:52:49,262
back until she is perched above the handle of the knife and

869
00:52:49,286 --> 00:52:52,846
has her sit down on it, using his hands at the base

870
00:52:52,878 --> 00:52:56,478
as a protective method, while also simultaneously stimulating

871
00:52:56,574 --> 00:53:00,686
her clit. And then he has her rise in the handle

872
00:53:00,798 --> 00:53:03,470
while he has a. Or in her ass until she comes.

873
00:53:03,930 --> 00:53:06,190
First of all. So hot.

874
00:53:06,650 --> 00:53:09,986
Really? Yeah. Interesting. Second,

875
00:53:10,058 --> 00:53:13,378
though, how big is this knife? Because he talks

876
00:53:13,394 --> 00:53:16,690
about having to, like, finger her a little bit to warm her up.

877
00:53:16,810 --> 00:53:19,874
She's already so wet and ready for this knife. Right.

878
00:53:20,042 --> 00:53:23,602
I don't have no knife that I have.

879
00:53:23,706 --> 00:53:27,138
Has a bigger base than I'm used to or bigger handle

880
00:53:27,154 --> 00:53:28,800
than I'm used to. Sure.

881
00:53:30,300 --> 00:53:33,780
I don't get past it. Yeah. I did think about that too. Because in

882
00:53:33,820 --> 00:53:37,412
my head I was imagining, like a stage. No.

883
00:53:37,596 --> 00:53:41,092
I was like, even my big, like, shop knife.

884
00:53:41,156 --> 00:53:44,964
Yeah. Still doesn't have an outrageous handle. Yeah. And this is a

885
00:53:44,972 --> 00:53:48,100
woman. Yes. And this is a woman who has a vibrator

886
00:53:48,180 --> 00:53:51,140
that is a replica of a famous porn star's,

887
00:53:51,300 --> 00:53:54,216
which I would assume is probably Girth Masters. Yeah.

888
00:53:54,328 --> 00:53:58,104
So, ma'am, like, you're used to giant. You're used to giant

889
00:53:58,152 --> 00:54:02,552
dildos and this knife is going to get you off. No, also probably

890
00:54:02,616 --> 00:54:05,576
would not. I could maybe just because I was like,

891
00:54:05,648 --> 00:54:09,672
could I get there. She's so turned on and

892
00:54:09,696 --> 00:54:13,128
he is rubbing her clit, so maybe I could. Because sometimes when I am

893
00:54:13,184 --> 00:54:16,792
so turned on, it takes nothing. No, I hear you. Yeah, absolutely.

894
00:54:16,856 --> 00:54:20,288
I don't think I, I understand, but I,

895
00:54:20,344 --> 00:54:24,224
it was a very not sexy scene to me because I was imagining

896
00:54:24,272 --> 00:54:28,016
like a bread thing. So I just,

897
00:54:28,088 --> 00:54:31,136
it really, I, it wasn't the gun from Haunting.

898
00:54:31,168 --> 00:54:33,984
Adeline. It was not the gun from Haunting. So hot.

899
00:54:34,152 --> 00:54:37,680
Absolutely. But I still, I, I, I really

900
00:54:37,720 --> 00:54:40,940
liked it. Yeah. Yeah. I would love that for you. I know.

901
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:44,660
She comes and then she starts crying,

902
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:49,264
which he is again, great about. He comforts

903
00:54:49,312 --> 00:54:52,460
her and he,

904
00:54:53,240 --> 00:54:56,672
and he confesses that he was so turned on by watching this all

905
00:54:56,696 --> 00:55:00,220
happen that he came in his pants. I don't. Which,

906
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:04,032
the idea of a man being so turned on by me that he

907
00:55:04,056 --> 00:55:07,184
doesn't even have to touch himself that he comes in his pants is very sexy.

908
00:55:07,232 --> 00:55:10,944
But I just, I haven't run into that since I was like,

909
00:55:11,112 --> 00:55:15,236
very young. This sent me down a rabbit hole too. I literally

910
00:55:15,268 --> 00:55:19,060
was like, okay, that, that didn't happen. Yeah. My husband

911
00:55:19,140 --> 00:55:23,780
and I met at a restaurant and I

912
00:55:23,900 --> 00:55:27,268
don't know that he ever came in his pants, but he

913
00:55:27,324 --> 00:55:30,660
did used to have to walk around. He told me

914
00:55:30,700 --> 00:55:34,052
that he would be walking behind me and that he would

915
00:55:34,076 --> 00:55:37,860
have to move his, like, server book in front of

916
00:55:37,900 --> 00:55:41,124
his apron because he would just constantly, as soon as

917
00:55:41,132 --> 00:55:44,720
he would see me, just would get a hard on. That's so hot. I know.

918
00:55:47,900 --> 00:55:51,700
Yeah. Yeah. It was an ego boost

919
00:55:51,780 --> 00:55:55,444
to say the least. So Allie

920
00:55:55,492 --> 00:55:59,492
has decided to take two weeks off at work. And Josh, of course, in her

921
00:55:59,516 --> 00:56:03,332
email and knows that she's done this. So he's also taken two weeks off and

922
00:56:03,436 --> 00:56:06,770
he plans to spend that time with her. Masked.

923
00:56:06,940 --> 00:56:10,822
Yeah. Yes. That night, the couple is woken when the

924
00:56:10,846 --> 00:56:14,502
security system alarm starts going off. And it turns out

925
00:56:14,606 --> 00:56:18,390
that the rapist that Ally got into it with at the hospital has set his

926
00:56:18,430 --> 00:56:22,726
sights on Ally and has Broken into her home with the supplies

927
00:56:22,838 --> 00:56:25,170
to rape and unalive her.

928
00:56:25,470 --> 00:56:28,966
Yeah. Yeah. And with how hard Ally

929
00:56:28,998 --> 00:56:33,062
can apparently sleep. Bitch was done for if

930
00:56:33,086 --> 00:56:36,648
Josh wouldn't have stayed. Yeah. A different book. Yeah.

931
00:56:36,824 --> 00:56:40,424
Well, I think honestly if he hadn't

932
00:56:40,472 --> 00:56:43,700
stayed, she probably would have shot him and been able to call the police.

933
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:47,940
That's true. Given the circumstances, which we find out a little bit later.

934
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:52,168
They couldn't call the police. Right. So they

935
00:56:52,224 --> 00:56:56,220
both subdue this man. His name is Brad.

936
00:56:56,560 --> 00:57:00,650
They subdue him and then they hog tie him

937
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:04,902
and they decide that they. Again, we can't call the

938
00:57:04,926 --> 00:57:08,518
police. Josh doesn't explain to Allie at this point why not?

939
00:57:08,654 --> 00:57:13,718
They have a fun little flirty moment because they're both turned on from playing

940
00:57:13,774 --> 00:57:17,270
superhero and defending against this man. And then they

941
00:57:17,310 --> 00:57:21,446
decide that they are going to take him to

942
00:57:21,598 --> 00:57:25,142
drop him off at his last victim,

943
00:57:25,206 --> 00:57:28,444
his last known victims family's house.

944
00:57:28,612 --> 00:57:32,476
So basically dropping him off with the brother and the.

945
00:57:32,548 --> 00:57:35,852
Yeah. Who's like an ex marine and all this. I'm like, they sound hot.

946
00:57:35,956 --> 00:57:39,676
Their. Their whole theory here is that these

947
00:57:39,748 --> 00:57:43,080
badass men will take care of him for them.

948
00:57:43,380 --> 00:57:47,292
And when they arrive, they realize that he died in transport

949
00:57:47,356 --> 00:57:50,956
because Josh duct taped his. His nose and his mouth.

950
00:57:51,068 --> 00:57:54,962
Which I also got real thinking about this. How.

951
00:57:55,146 --> 00:57:58,610
I don't know how. Especially somebody who we

952
00:57:58,650 --> 00:58:02,162
just spent three full chapters listening to him detail how

953
00:58:02,186 --> 00:58:05,250
he was going to break into her house. Yeah. I would have liked it better

954
00:58:05,290 --> 00:58:08,722
if. Because they like zip him up in like a bag. I would

955
00:58:08,746 --> 00:58:11,634
have liked it better if he just suffocated in the bag rather than he.

956
00:58:11,722 --> 00:58:13,270
Oh, you accidentally.

957
00:58:14,650 --> 00:58:18,190
Yeah, it's something. Something.

958
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:22,472
Nicole liked this book a lot. I really did. I liked her too.

959
00:58:22,496 --> 00:58:25,544
That Ally is like, that death was too easy for him. She's like, can I

960
00:58:25,552 --> 00:58:29,384
stab him? Yeah. Honestly, she's joking this entire

961
00:58:29,432 --> 00:58:32,376
time. They are so unserious.

962
00:58:32,488 --> 00:58:36,376
Yeah. In these very serious situations. You have just killed

963
00:58:36,408 --> 00:58:40,056
a man. Yeah. She's joking. Josh says something like we're.

964
00:58:40,168 --> 00:58:44,200
And she's like, weird time to proposition me, but maybe later or

965
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:48,094
something like that. Like she is very jokey

966
00:58:48,142 --> 00:58:51,358
about it. I also have some screenshots for other

967
00:58:51,414 --> 00:58:55,054
things that they say later. But yeah, it's. The whole

968
00:58:55,102 --> 00:58:58,270
scene is. And I think one of the biggest issues that I had with the

969
00:58:58,310 --> 00:59:01,550
scene was how they

970
00:59:01,590 --> 00:59:04,926
were so they were so.

971
00:59:04,998 --> 00:59:08,350
Just unbothered by this but are

972
00:59:08,470 --> 00:59:12,046
so, so concerned about the way that the world would perceive

973
00:59:12,078 --> 00:59:15,414
their kinks. Yeah. Like they would almost rather

974
00:59:15,462 --> 00:59:18,678
somebody find out that they murdered somebody than find out

975
00:59:18,734 --> 00:59:22,166
that they like to chase women through woods with a mask

976
00:59:22,198 --> 00:59:25,430
and a knife. Yep. And I just like that.

977
00:59:25,470 --> 00:59:28,950
For me, I think is. I thought that that was very

978
00:59:28,990 --> 00:59:32,694
poignant. Interesting. So. But they had to pivot.

979
00:59:32,822 --> 00:59:36,390
Yep. But I did. I. I liked this

980
00:59:36,430 --> 00:59:39,696
book. I really, really did. But it was just too neat

981
00:59:39,728 --> 00:59:43,632
of a bone because now Allie's uncle is in the mob and

982
00:59:43,656 --> 00:59:47,248
he's gonna fix this for them. Yeah. I think I would have rather

983
00:59:47,424 --> 00:59:50,096
them scrambling to, like, hide. What.

984
00:59:50,168 --> 00:59:53,536
What book did we read? The Arrangement where we're

985
00:59:53,568 --> 00:59:56,832
hiding a body and we're so scared that somebody's gonna find out and

986
00:59:56,856 --> 00:59:59,296
somebody's gonna see it and we have to go back and move it and it's

987
00:59:59,328 --> 01:00:03,152
more. There's stakes. Yeah. Her mess gets cleaned up.

988
01:00:03,336 --> 01:00:07,042
Yeah. They're basically. So he. So Ali starts to

989
01:00:07,066 --> 01:00:10,914
drive them, and while they're driving, he says,

990
01:00:11,002 --> 01:00:14,034
where are we going? And Allie said, well, funny story. Remember how he said,

991
01:00:14,042 --> 01:00:17,986
I didn't have any family? I actually do have family. And they are

992
01:00:18,058 --> 01:00:21,154
part of the mob. And they just so happened. Not only are they part of

993
01:00:21,162 --> 01:00:24,706
the mob, but they're also cleaners for the mob. So they clean

994
01:00:24,738 --> 01:00:28,354
up crime scenes. Just a nice little tidy bow, tiny little package.

995
01:00:28,402 --> 01:00:32,860
And she drives directly there. And Josh

996
01:00:32,940 --> 01:00:36,412
asked Ali if she wants to be his girlfriend. And Ali

997
01:00:36,556 --> 01:00:40,044
says yes. And the body is in the trunk of

998
01:00:40,052 --> 01:00:43,676
their car. I. I am just thinking of this now

999
01:00:43,748 --> 01:00:46,940
as we're talking about this book. I want a book where Allie becomes a

1000
01:00:46,980 --> 01:00:51,080
serial killer. I do too, because it.

1001
01:00:51,700 --> 01:00:54,892
Because she's so unbothered with death, she's fine with the fact

1002
01:00:54,916 --> 01:00:58,564
that he's dead. I want a book about Ally becoming a

1003
01:00:58,652 --> 01:01:01,572
serial killer. Having to hide it from Josh or something. Well,

1004
01:01:01,596 --> 01:01:05,812
I have quotes here from this scene. One of them is when

1005
01:01:05,836 --> 01:01:08,772
he asks her to be his girlfriend. He says, ally, do you want to be

1006
01:01:08,796 --> 01:01:12,388
my girlfriend? The position comes with snacks and orgasms and maybe a little light

1007
01:01:12,444 --> 01:01:15,668
stocking, which I thought was really

1008
01:01:15,724 --> 01:01:18,880
cute. And then the other one that I have is.

1009
01:01:19,420 --> 01:01:22,612
She says, are you saying that the couple who commits homicides

1010
01:01:22,676 --> 01:01:25,846
together should stay together? And he says, too wordy.

1011
01:01:25,878 --> 01:01:29,638
I prefer the couple who slays together stays together. There are

1012
01:01:29,694 --> 01:01:33,810
a lot of quotes in this book. Yeah, they are very.

1013
01:01:34,190 --> 01:01:37,350
He says at one point, we are both going to hell. And she says,

1014
01:01:37,390 --> 01:01:40,410
good, maybe we'll have another stab at him when we get there. Yeah,

1015
01:01:41,230 --> 01:01:44,690
they also. Which I made a note about. I.

1016
01:01:45,310 --> 01:01:49,206
Josh is so clearly a well written cat dad.

1017
01:01:49,398 --> 01:01:52,864
Oh, yes. And I had to write it down because it Reminds me

1018
01:01:52,872 --> 01:01:56,880
of Dave. Full name. Yeah. Yes. And he's. He's continually

1019
01:01:56,960 --> 01:02:00,768
calling Fred their child. He talks about visitation rights,

1020
01:02:00,904 --> 01:02:04,256
and it's very much. Dave is constantly talking about our cats. Yeah.

1021
01:02:04,368 --> 01:02:08,208
Constantly talking about the girls. Yeah. That is the most

1022
01:02:08,264 --> 01:02:11,696
realistic part of this book. Dave was a dog fan

1023
01:02:11,728 --> 01:02:15,072
when I met him, and now he has. He has

1024
01:02:15,096 --> 01:02:18,172
a picture of our cat Charlotte in his car.

1025
01:02:18,276 --> 01:02:21,520
Yeah. It's like, hanging from his mirror.

1026
01:02:23,060 --> 01:02:26,732
Oh, yeah. I love that. Yeah. And it

1027
01:02:26,756 --> 01:02:30,524
did really make me like Josh, because a cat dad can get it.

1028
01:02:30,692 --> 01:02:34,204
Really? Yeah. Noted. Yeah.

1029
01:02:34,332 --> 01:02:37,564
Well, anyways, there are boyfriend and girlfriend now.

1030
01:02:37,652 --> 01:02:41,404
She. When I was talking earlier about how he's revealed to her,

1031
01:02:41,572 --> 01:02:45,002
she's like, well, he's dead. And then Josh,

1032
01:02:45,066 --> 01:02:48,474
like, says something and she's like, well, aren't you glad

1033
01:02:48,522 --> 01:02:51,786
that you tried to hide your identity from me, Josh? Or something.

1034
01:02:51,938 --> 01:02:54,874
Literally just calls him out and he's like, well, we killed somebody. I might as

1035
01:02:54,882 --> 01:02:58,266
well just expose myself. And it just is so like. It is. Oh,

1036
01:02:58,298 --> 01:03:01,370
God, why didn't you waste all of our time on it? I don't know.

1037
01:03:01,410 --> 01:03:04,938
It's not for me. They get to Ali's uncle's

1038
01:03:04,954 --> 01:03:08,586
house. Allie's uncle welcomes them with open

1039
01:03:08,658 --> 01:03:12,512
arms until he realizes that she has a dead body in her trunk,

1040
01:03:12,576 --> 01:03:16,416
at which point he calls in all of her cousins and

1041
01:03:16,568 --> 01:03:20,720
they. Allie has to go with the cousins to take

1042
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:24,400
the body off of the property, and Josh is

1043
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:27,712
required to stay with the cousins. And the

1044
01:03:27,736 --> 01:03:30,880
cousins and Josh put together a plan that they are

1045
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:34,160
going to go over to Brad's house to wipe his

1046
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:37,536
computer because it likely will link him back to Allie.

1047
01:03:37,728 --> 01:03:41,632
However, when they go to drive by the home, they discover that

1048
01:03:41,656 --> 01:03:45,744
the home is crawling with police. So they drive

1049
01:03:45,792 --> 01:03:49,408
by, they see the police, they have to pivot.

1050
01:03:49,504 --> 01:03:53,392
He is messaging Allie. Allie is worried about

1051
01:03:53,576 --> 01:03:55,820
his. Well, being with her family,

1052
01:03:56,520 --> 01:03:59,856
and he makes arrangements for her to go and

1053
01:03:59,928 --> 01:04:03,194
stay at his apartment. So he talks to. Yep,

1054
01:04:03,272 --> 01:04:06,710
absolutely. And she goes over to Tyler's house,

1055
01:04:06,750 --> 01:04:10,086
and while she brings bread with. And while she's there,

1056
01:04:10,158 --> 01:04:13,510
she gets a phone call from the gal that she

1057
01:04:13,550 --> 01:04:16,690
had doing the DNA testing at the hospital.

1058
01:04:17,150 --> 01:04:20,902
And the gal is like, hey, it's not a match. She's like,

1059
01:04:20,926 --> 01:04:25,302
haha, big surprise. And then she drops the bomb that the DNA matches

1060
01:04:25,366 --> 01:04:28,830
that of the Pen Doll killer, who is

1061
01:04:28,990 --> 01:04:32,990
Josh's dad, who is a notorious serial killer

1062
01:04:33,070 --> 01:04:37,070
who went so far as to cook some

1063
01:04:37,110 --> 01:04:41,166
of his victims. So, yeah, Allie confronts

1064
01:04:41,198 --> 01:04:45,102
Tyler about it, and Tyler is basically like, josh had

1065
01:04:45,126 --> 01:04:48,622
this really terrible psychiatrist. Psychiatrist when

1066
01:04:48,646 --> 01:04:51,982
he was a kid, it gave him a complex. He's a really good guy.

1067
01:04:52,126 --> 01:04:55,822
Tyler really stands up for him. And Tyler is not bothered at all by the

1068
01:04:55,846 --> 01:04:59,730
fact that Josh and Allie are together. He's actually thrilled

1069
01:04:59,810 --> 01:05:03,634
because Josh is such a fucking weirdo. He really feels like he

1070
01:05:03,642 --> 01:05:07,666
needs a girlfriend. I. In this part, too, when Allie's

1071
01:05:07,698 --> 01:05:11,266
like, sorry, I had a reason to freak out because he

1072
01:05:11,338 --> 01:05:14,990
broke into my house and planted a camera before I even met him.

1073
01:05:15,290 --> 01:05:18,626
And Tyler laughs. He's like, I'm really glad that somebody else

1074
01:05:18,658 --> 01:05:22,402
gets this now. Well,

1075
01:05:22,426 --> 01:05:26,390
I mean, honestly, can you imagine? So that morning you killed somebody,

1076
01:05:26,740 --> 01:05:30,140
and then you find out that the man who broke into

1077
01:05:30,180 --> 01:05:33,980
your house and stalked you and killed that person is

1078
01:05:34,020 --> 01:05:37,212
also the child of a serial killer.

1079
01:05:37,356 --> 01:05:40,876
That is, like, mind altering.

1080
01:05:40,988 --> 01:05:44,636
Yeah. So. Yeah. And she's just. She's still pretty unbothered

1081
01:05:44,668 --> 01:05:48,172
by everything. Yeah. So then Josh gets home, and Tyler is

1082
01:05:48,196 --> 01:05:51,756
like, hey, Allie knows about your dad. And Josh tells

1083
01:05:51,788 --> 01:05:54,674
Allie that he has no regrets about stalking her. Yeah.

1084
01:05:54,722 --> 01:05:56,190
She's like, okay, yeah, same.

1085
01:06:00,970 --> 01:06:04,210
So they get in the shower, and this

1086
01:06:04,250 --> 01:06:08,434
is, as far as I can tell, like a pretty decent shower

1087
01:06:08,482 --> 01:06:11,970
sex scene. But he has her put her

1088
01:06:12,010 --> 01:06:15,826
hands on the wall of the shower. She tells him,

1089
01:06:15,978 --> 01:06:20,040
I don't want you to go easy on me. And he spreads her legs.

1090
01:06:20,170 --> 01:06:23,916
And then he initially starts off by fingering

1091
01:06:23,948 --> 01:06:28,060
her and kind of rubbing her clit. And then she

1092
01:06:28,180 --> 01:06:31,452
starts to get all riled up. It's been,

1093
01:06:31,556 --> 01:06:34,732
what, a full day? And they just murdered somebody, so she really needs to

1094
01:06:34,756 --> 01:06:38,476
get off. He grabs

1095
01:06:38,508 --> 01:06:42,076
her by her neck. And then he basically

1096
01:06:42,268 --> 01:06:46,102
just without preamble, he just kind of starts her

1097
01:06:46,126 --> 01:06:49,974
from behind. They do that. He asks

1098
01:06:50,022 --> 01:06:53,430
her if she's on the pill. She says yes.

1099
01:06:53,590 --> 01:06:57,110
And then he tells him not to pull out, which I

1100
01:06:57,230 --> 01:07:01,430
love. And then he praises her. He says things like,

1101
01:07:01,470 --> 01:07:04,310
you should see how good you take me, and I can't wait to feel you

1102
01:07:04,350 --> 01:07:07,974
come. It's very sexy. She's begging him

1103
01:07:08,142 --> 01:07:10,690
and she comes again.

1104
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:15,296
And then he flips her around and he fucks

1105
01:07:15,328 --> 01:07:18,496
her from. From the front now pushed

1106
01:07:18,528 --> 01:07:21,760
up against the wall of the shower. He asks her to give him

1107
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:25,776
another orgasm. And after she does, then he comes and

1108
01:07:25,848 --> 01:07:29,552
it's hot. It's a hot, hot scene, I think it

1109
01:07:29,576 --> 01:07:32,816
was. Okay, so it was originally written that this was my favorite scene.

1110
01:07:32,928 --> 01:07:36,176
And then after the next scene, I cross it out. I forgot the next scene

1111
01:07:36,208 --> 01:07:39,264
is my favorite. Okay. They're kind of. Because reading this again,

1112
01:07:39,432 --> 01:07:42,528
like, oh, when he tells her to put her hands on the wall.

1113
01:07:42,624 --> 01:07:45,472
Yeah, I know. That does it for you guys. Giving Cassian.

1114
01:07:45,536 --> 01:07:49,600
Yeah. Yeah. I really like when they use one another's names.

1115
01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:53,520
Yeah. So she does say after the scene that she's gonna need the morning

1116
01:07:53,560 --> 01:07:56,192
after pill. And he's like, I thought you said you were on the pill.

1117
01:07:56,256 --> 01:07:59,260
And she says, I don't trust my ovaries around you.

1118
01:07:59,960 --> 01:08:03,472
So. But then they kind of. Which I

1119
01:08:03,496 --> 01:08:06,970
don't. I do not like this. They both are like,

1120
01:08:07,010 --> 01:08:09,946
oh, no, but what if I did get pregnant? It wouldn't be the worst.

1121
01:08:10,058 --> 01:08:13,386
And then he's like, oh, my God, am I already picturing having a little mini

1122
01:08:13,418 --> 01:08:16,890
alley running around? Yeah, and that's not for me.

1123
01:08:17,010 --> 01:08:20,890
No. But they're ready for it. After having sex one

1124
01:08:20,930 --> 01:08:23,850
time, this is the first penetration they've had. Yeah.

1125
01:08:23,930 --> 01:08:27,642
And what page Is that on? 322, I think. Yeah.

1126
01:08:27,706 --> 01:08:30,946
Now everybody gets it. Yeah. Yeah, we're almost done.

1127
01:08:31,058 --> 01:08:34,450
You just thought it was getting going. Nope, Nope. This is almost

1128
01:08:34,490 --> 01:08:37,794
the end of the book. So they get back to Allie's place and her cousin

1129
01:08:37,842 --> 01:08:41,634
Junior is there. And Junior says that they need Josh to

1130
01:08:41,642 --> 01:08:45,810
come with them again because they're going to go hack Brad's computer. Now Allie

1131
01:08:45,890 --> 01:08:49,970
decides she's going with Josh, but we get more

1132
01:08:50,010 --> 01:08:53,570
of them being so not serious in a very serious situation.

1133
01:08:53,730 --> 01:08:57,506
They are breaking into somebody's house, possibly a rapist

1134
01:08:57,538 --> 01:09:00,860
murderer's house, and they are all like, wired up with

1135
01:09:00,900 --> 01:09:04,636
the ear pod air ear things, and they're

1136
01:09:04,668 --> 01:09:08,668
making jokes. Literally. They have a bet to see who can get somebody

1137
01:09:08,684 --> 01:09:12,300
from the family to. To laugh first. Yeah. So they're constantly making

1138
01:09:12,340 --> 01:09:16,380
jokes. I'm like, yeah. Zade would never.

1139
01:09:16,500 --> 01:09:20,252
Would never. There is a time and a place. I get that this is

1140
01:09:20,276 --> 01:09:23,676
like a comedy book. It's a rom com,

1141
01:09:23,828 --> 01:09:27,658
but. It was too

1142
01:09:27,714 --> 01:09:30,730
unserious for me at a very serious time. But again, if we get a book

1143
01:09:30,770 --> 01:09:33,882
about Allie being a serial killer, I'm over it.

1144
01:09:34,066 --> 01:09:37,162
Well, they get there and they realize that the house smells like

1145
01:09:37,186 --> 01:09:40,874
a dead body. And now a car

1146
01:09:40,882 --> 01:09:44,522
pulls in in the driveway. So the family's like, we're. We gotta go.

1147
01:09:44,626 --> 01:09:48,282
Josh is like, no, I have to buy Al from this computer. So they

1148
01:09:48,306 --> 01:09:51,538
leave him. And then

1149
01:09:51,674 --> 01:09:55,474
the car that pulled in is actually Brad's family. So they're trying to

1150
01:09:55,482 --> 01:09:58,834
get into the house. Josh is able to escape through the window. He wipes the

1151
01:09:58,842 --> 01:10:02,610
computer clean. And then they trigger

1152
01:10:02,770 --> 01:10:06,386
the alarm in the home in hopes of the police coming so that

1153
01:10:06,458 --> 01:10:10,786
they will be able to find the bodies because there is

1154
01:10:10,938 --> 01:10:14,162
some Concern that the family would find the bodies and

1155
01:10:14,186 --> 01:10:18,042
not report it since they've already bailed him out of trouble

1156
01:10:18,106 --> 01:10:21,706
multiple times. Yeah. So that's exactly

1157
01:10:21,738 --> 01:10:25,082
what happens. The police come, they find the bodies. Josh and Allie have to run

1158
01:10:25,106 --> 01:10:28,442
through the woods. They get to the meeting spot, it's fine. Everything works out

1159
01:10:28,466 --> 01:10:32,026
great. They get back to Allie's house, they shower, and now they're

1160
01:10:32,058 --> 01:10:35,150
sleeping. We have another sex scene. Yeah.

1161
01:10:35,570 --> 01:10:39,210
Allie wakes up. Yeah. So she was

1162
01:10:39,250 --> 01:10:43,406
supposed to follow Josh's instructions on this mission, and she

1163
01:10:43,538 --> 01:10:47,190
did not. So she wakes up and she is

1164
01:10:47,310 --> 01:10:50,486
handcuffed to the bed. And he

1165
01:10:50,558 --> 01:10:54,390
now has the mask with the modulated voice back on. So he is not being

1166
01:10:54,430 --> 01:10:58,406
Josh here. He is being the masked man.

1167
01:10:58,558 --> 01:11:02,102
And she says to herself, like. It's like she has

1168
01:11:02,126 --> 01:11:06,198
to tell herself it's just Josh because she is fearful.

1169
01:11:06,294 --> 01:11:09,558
Yeah. So. And the fear turns her on. It turns

1170
01:11:09,574 --> 01:11:13,744
him on. And really the long and the short of it is that

1171
01:11:13,832 --> 01:11:18,400
he fucks her at knife point. Yep. With the

1172
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:22,128
most wicked looking knife that she's ever seen before. And there's

1173
01:11:22,144 --> 01:11:25,984
a butt plug. And. Yeah. He uses a vibrating butt plug to

1174
01:11:25,992 --> 01:11:29,520
get her off. And they both come,

1175
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:33,040
and Nicole really likes this scene.

1176
01:11:33,120 --> 01:11:36,820
He spanked. I did really like this scene. I don't like to be spanked.

1177
01:11:38,110 --> 01:11:41,062
Oh, gentle. He's not being gentle with her.

1178
01:11:41,166 --> 01:11:45,558
What? Nicole. Oh, my God.

1179
01:11:45,654 --> 01:11:48,118
I. I thought everybody likes to be spanked.

1180
01:11:48,214 --> 01:11:51,990
No. What? No. Oh, my God. I.

1181
01:11:52,110 --> 01:11:55,206
Now I feel like a deviant. I am actually flabbergasted.

1182
01:11:55,238 --> 01:11:58,502
I can't believe you don't like to be spanked. No. Oh, wow.

1183
01:11:58,566 --> 01:12:01,810
No. Okay. I do like a little bit of pain, but not,

1184
01:12:02,110 --> 01:12:06,038
I guess, not that. I want you to spank my ass so

1185
01:12:06,094 --> 01:12:10,290
hard that there is a permanent handprint bruise on my ass.

1186
01:12:10,670 --> 01:12:14,646
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. This is

1187
01:12:14,718 --> 01:12:17,862
in this scene. Allie is being punished. Yes.

1188
01:12:17,926 --> 01:12:21,526
So this is not like a cutesy scene. This is an aggressive scene

1189
01:12:21,638 --> 01:12:25,222
for sure. And I don't. I think at

1190
01:12:25,246 --> 01:12:28,710
the end of it, she is, like, really thrilled when he finally comes.

1191
01:12:28,830 --> 01:12:32,784
Yeah. Yeah. She's ready. Ready. Yeah. So.

1192
01:12:32,952 --> 01:12:36,496
So Josh and Allie, now they have to go to dinner at Uncle Nico's

1193
01:12:36,688 --> 01:12:40,416
as, like, the reward for them, for Nico helping

1194
01:12:40,448 --> 01:12:44,016
them. So the terms that they agreed to with

1195
01:12:44,088 --> 01:12:47,776
Uncle Nico for his help on this is that Allie

1196
01:12:47,808 --> 01:12:50,944
and Josh will come and have dinner with him once a month. So those are

1197
01:12:50,952 --> 01:12:54,400
the terms that they had to abide by in order for them

1198
01:12:54,440 --> 01:12:57,832
to get the family's help. Yeah. So they

1199
01:12:57,856 --> 01:13:01,272
get there, Nico tells them everything's fine. And then

1200
01:13:01,296 --> 01:13:04,660
Nico pulls Josh aside and he's like, I don't trust you

1201
01:13:05,280 --> 01:13:09,000
and. I know who you're. I know who your dad is. Yeah. He threatens him.

1202
01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:12,552
And then Josh threatens Nico back and he's like, I've been recording this,

1203
01:13:12,656 --> 01:13:15,704
this whole conversation sent to my server. If anything happens to me, it's going

1204
01:13:15,712 --> 01:13:19,320
to go out. Yeah. So they have a truce

1205
01:13:19,400 --> 01:13:23,000
because apparently he's smart enough to have that all prepared, but not smart enough

1206
01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:27,240
not to tape both the nose and the mouth. So it's fine. Plot hole.

1207
01:13:27,900 --> 01:13:31,460
And then the book is done in the epilogue where Josh is

1208
01:13:31,500 --> 01:13:34,676
chasing Allie through the woods. He's wearing a mask. And if he catches

1209
01:13:34,708 --> 01:13:38,068
her, he fucks her. She breaks free a few times.

1210
01:13:38,124 --> 01:13:41,620
And then he finally catches her, fucks her. And then they both

1211
01:13:41,660 --> 01:13:45,300
say I love you when they come. And then Josh supposes and Allie says

1212
01:13:45,340 --> 01:13:48,580
yes. And for anybody wondering, that is the last hundred.

1213
01:13:48,620 --> 01:13:52,438
And that everything that we just recapped is the last 150 pages. Yeah. So it's

1214
01:13:52,454 --> 01:13:56,006
a 450 page book. All of the things that happen,

1215
01:13:56,158 --> 01:13:59,558
finding out that they have a dead person in their trunk, meeting the family,

1216
01:13:59,694 --> 01:14:03,990
having sex three times. All of those things happen in the final 150

1217
01:14:04,030 --> 01:14:07,318
pages. So if you're really reading this book just for getting

1218
01:14:07,374 --> 01:14:10,930
off on some of the craziness, you really could just Skip to

1219
01:14:11,230 --> 01:14:14,166
page 300 and start from there. Honestly.

1220
01:14:14,278 --> 01:14:17,210
Yeah. Okay. And I'm excited for ratings.

1221
01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:22,960
All right. Well, we want to thank Paigle for her

1222
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:27,472
continued support on our social media. It is a volunteer

1223
01:14:27,536 --> 01:14:31,104
job, so we are super

1224
01:14:31,192 --> 01:14:34,592
duper grateful for her for that. Would you say

1225
01:14:34,616 --> 01:14:37,824
this is a smutty book or a book with smut?

1226
01:14:37,952 --> 01:14:41,424
I would say this is a book with smut. I would say

1227
01:14:41,432 --> 01:14:44,844
that this is a smutty book disguised as a book with smuth. Yeah.

1228
01:14:44,892 --> 01:14:48,604
Because they really are constantly thinking and talking

1229
01:14:48,652 --> 01:14:51,320
about sex. The whole book is about sex.

1230
01:14:51,780 --> 01:14:55,180
But there's a lot of plot. Yeah.

1231
01:14:55,260 --> 01:14:58,880
But not necessary plot. Yeah.

1232
01:15:00,580 --> 01:15:04,012
So I think that we'll get into it.

1233
01:15:04,036 --> 01:15:07,340
We get into the ratings. But I, I really, again, I think that there really

1234
01:15:07,380 --> 01:15:10,520
is no plot. There really is no story here.

1235
01:15:10,870 --> 01:15:14,654
It, I think would have been a very different story if they had opened

1236
01:15:14,702 --> 01:15:18,430
early on with killing this person.

1237
01:15:18,550 --> 01:15:22,110
Yeah. So much more could have happened. Even when they're breaking into

1238
01:15:22,150 --> 01:15:25,678
Brad's house, Like so much goes wrong, but it's unnecessary.

1239
01:15:25,774 --> 01:15:29,518
Like the light stay on because the generator. And then they

1240
01:15:29,574 --> 01:15:33,566
fix that, but then lights come on, but nobody sees it.

1241
01:15:33,718 --> 01:15:37,102
Nothing happens. The rest of this Block is out of power, but nobody notices

1242
01:15:37,166 --> 01:15:41,102
that the floodlights are on. Yeah, nobody. There could have been more.

1243
01:15:41,206 --> 01:15:43,850
There could have been an accomplice. There could have.

1244
01:15:44,230 --> 01:15:47,198
I wanted. I did want more space. Yeah.

1245
01:15:47,294 --> 01:15:50,382
Nicole liked this book, though. I really did.

1246
01:15:50,486 --> 01:15:54,014
Yeah. So the. About Me for this author,

1247
01:15:54,182 --> 01:15:58,094
Nevesa Allen. She apparently

1248
01:15:58,222 --> 01:16:02,232
was a aeronautical engineer. I. I have to

1249
01:16:02,256 --> 01:16:06,088
kind of recap her biography because

1250
01:16:06,144 --> 01:16:09,544
it's really long and involved. She went from

1251
01:16:09,632 --> 01:16:12,820
aeronautical engineer to romance author.

1252
01:16:13,280 --> 01:16:16,824
She says, I'm a woman who loves all things romance,

1253
01:16:16,872 --> 01:16:20,648
paranormal, historical, contemporary, or fantasy. I've got a book for you.

1254
01:16:20,784 --> 01:16:24,456
And then on the bottom of the page, she says she has these

1255
01:16:24,528 --> 01:16:27,304
four things. Hot coffee, first thing every day,

1256
01:16:27,392 --> 01:16:31,208
Maui, Hawaii, Bucket list, trip, my family, Most important, and Schitt's

1257
01:16:31,224 --> 01:16:34,884
Creek, my favorite show. And then on her homepage,

1258
01:16:34,932 --> 01:16:38,920
she also notes that she is going to be starting a podcast

1259
01:16:40,780 --> 01:16:44,372
for her Patreon subscribers where she will be offering

1260
01:16:44,436 --> 01:16:47,876
audio versions of every chapter that's published. That's cool.

1261
01:16:47,988 --> 01:16:51,588
That's cool. It doesn't look like it started yet. Other books by

1262
01:16:51,644 --> 01:16:55,620
her include the

1263
01:16:55,660 --> 01:16:57,240
Kings of Kearney,

1264
01:16:58,110 --> 01:17:02,090
Scandal, the Lunatics and Snowden.

1265
01:17:02,670 --> 01:17:05,942
So it doesn't look like she has any other series. It looks like it's just

1266
01:17:06,126 --> 01:17:09,490
some standalone books. And then there is a book two. Coming out for this one,

1267
01:17:09,870 --> 01:17:13,446
I think. I think it's going to be kind of similar. Similar to Brutal Obsession

1268
01:17:13,558 --> 01:17:16,342
where you don't have to read them. They're not about the same thing. That's the

1269
01:17:16,366 --> 01:17:19,490
gist I got. Sure. I think it's called Caught Up.

1270
01:17:20,270 --> 01:17:23,814
Interesting. I know. Yeah. Do you

1271
01:17:23,822 --> 01:17:27,052
want to get into ratings? Spice level. All right, Spice level.

1272
01:17:27,076 --> 01:17:30,572
I'm gonna go with graphic level. That's kind of what I've been

1273
01:17:30,596 --> 01:17:33,372
doing. We are gonna talk about it. We haven't gotten to it yet. Yeah.

1274
01:17:33,436 --> 01:17:36,972
If I'm going strictly off of graphic for this book, I would probably

1275
01:17:37,036 --> 01:17:40,956
give this book four. Yeah. It's not overly

1276
01:17:40,988 --> 01:17:44,572
graphic. There are multiple sex scenes that we have where we

1277
01:17:44,596 --> 01:17:47,788
don't even. We don't even get any of the sex scene. It's just like they're

1278
01:17:47,804 --> 01:17:50,796
having sex while there's like an internal monologue happening. Right.

1279
01:17:50,868 --> 01:17:55,200
Like, even in, like, some of these scenes where they're having actual sex.

1280
01:17:55,500 --> 01:17:59,908
A lot of what I was reading was like her describing

1281
01:18:00,084 --> 01:18:03,764
how, like, mind blowing it was, but not directly describing

1282
01:18:03,812 --> 01:18:07,012
the actual activity itself. Yeah. So it

1283
01:18:07,036 --> 01:18:10,452
just. I think it gets a little bit of a higher reading because some

1284
01:18:10,476 --> 01:18:13,428
of the activities are pretty advanced.

1285
01:18:13,524 --> 01:18:16,952
Yeah. So it too. I also rated it.

1286
01:18:17,036 --> 01:18:20,960
Rated it a 5. Because like I said, the whole book is

1287
01:18:21,080 --> 01:18:23,100
thinking. Talking about sex.

1288
01:18:23,960 --> 01:18:27,312
Spice frequency. Spice frequency. I'm going to give it

1289
01:18:27,336 --> 01:18:29,552
a three. I also gave it a three.

1290
01:18:29,736 --> 01:18:32,980
In 350 pages. 400 pages.

1291
01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:37,120
There are five scenes. Yeah. And most of

1292
01:18:37,160 --> 01:18:40,640
the book is just either self masturbation or

1293
01:18:40,680 --> 01:18:43,894
like basically masturbation of one another. So.

1294
01:18:44,062 --> 01:18:47,782
Pros. Pros. I would give this book probably a five.

1295
01:18:47,886 --> 01:18:51,090
Yeah. Okay. I think it's really, really well written. I think that she

1296
01:18:51,470 --> 01:18:54,806
is a great writer. I didn't see a lot of inconsistencies

1297
01:18:54,838 --> 01:18:58,166
in the way that she wrote. I liked the way that she described things.

1298
01:18:58,238 --> 01:19:02,166
I just wish that she had been describing different things. Yeah. So it's

1299
01:19:02,198 --> 01:19:05,478
definitely a well written book and I can appreciate that and respect

1300
01:19:05,534 --> 01:19:09,024
that. So I would give it a five. Storyline. I'm going to give

1301
01:19:09,032 --> 01:19:12,576
it a one. Really? Yeah. It's a fucking

1302
01:19:12,608 --> 01:19:15,856
terrible story. I. And I disagree. I think it is

1303
01:19:16,008 --> 01:19:19,280
just be. It's a different type of story that we've. Than we've seen.

1304
01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:23,584
Sure. Because it's based off of what is big on TikTok. These masked

1305
01:19:23,632 --> 01:19:26,944
men, the biker men and these. I don't know

1306
01:19:26,952 --> 01:19:30,480
if you've read any of those comments but these women are aggressive. I know.

1307
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:34,192
But I think that the story itself is basically just like riding the

1308
01:19:34,216 --> 01:19:37,602
coattails of the pre existing fan base for

1309
01:19:37,626 --> 01:19:41,122
that. I don't think that there's any. Again, if we had started this book with

1310
01:19:41,146 --> 01:19:45,010
them murdering somebody. Yeah. Then we would be having a very different conversation.

1311
01:19:45,170 --> 01:19:48,786
Her family, that whole thing. Very, very interesting. I would have loved

1312
01:19:48,818 --> 01:19:52,630
to delve deeper into that. But instead we spent the first 300 pages

1313
01:19:53,050 --> 01:19:57,282
experiencing her as a nurse which like I didn't go into nursing for a reason.

1314
01:19:57,386 --> 01:20:01,458
Yeah. I'm just. It was not well. And like her cousin Greg also

1315
01:20:01,594 --> 01:20:05,094
works at the hospital which could have been a super interesting.

1316
01:20:05,222 --> 01:20:08,610
Yeah. Plot. Yeah, absolutely. And just for like.

1317
01:20:09,070 --> 01:20:12,806
Just so that anybody listening to this who is a nurse doesn't get hurt

1318
01:20:12,838 --> 01:20:16,022
about it. I have such a massive amount of respect for nurses.

1319
01:20:16,086 --> 01:20:19,142
Yeah. Incredible. There's a reason that I did not go into nursing.

1320
01:20:19,206 --> 01:20:22,118
I do not have fortitude for it. So. But again,

1321
01:20:22,174 --> 01:20:25,526
I just don't want to read about. Because we weren't even reading

1322
01:20:25,558 --> 01:20:28,950
about the cases. We were reading about her on her break at work or

1323
01:20:28,990 --> 01:20:32,904
her talking to her co workers at work. Which again, it just felt

1324
01:20:32,952 --> 01:20:35,576
like page filler. Yeah.

1325
01:20:35,768 --> 01:20:38,648
Overall. Overall, I'm gonna give this book a two.

1326
01:20:38,784 --> 01:20:42,152
Really? I did not think you'd go that low. Really. I gave it

1327
01:20:42,176 --> 01:20:45,752
a Four. Oh, ma'am. Okay. I did really

1328
01:20:45,776 --> 01:20:49,320
like it. I did. Talking to you did make me see things that I

1329
01:20:49,360 --> 01:20:52,536
haven't. Oh, no. But I'm sticking with my original

1330
01:20:52,648 --> 01:20:56,008
readings. Yeah. This is still a book I recommend to people.

1331
01:20:56,144 --> 01:20:59,850
I like it. I read it twice now. Yeah.

1332
01:21:00,010 --> 01:21:03,322
Do you think you would have. It would have hit differently if you read

1333
01:21:03,346 --> 01:21:06,510
it first and then read it again and took your notes?

1334
01:21:07,730 --> 01:21:10,506
No, I. When I tell you,

1335
01:21:10,578 --> 01:21:14,442
I. I mean, I was bored. Yeah. I was

1336
01:21:14,546 --> 01:21:18,698
so, so fucking bored. I just feel like there is a

1337
01:21:18,754 --> 01:21:22,986
million other books out there that we've read that jump. Right. The Never King.

1338
01:21:23,098 --> 01:21:26,444
She is kidnapped within the first 20 pages of that one.

1339
01:21:26,532 --> 01:21:30,348
She has sex in the first. First page and then gets kidnapped

1340
01:21:30,364 --> 01:21:34,044
within the first 20 pages. Yeah. Praise. Almost immediately

1341
01:21:34,092 --> 01:21:37,180
we open up with them meeting each other and starting to feel each other out

1342
01:21:37,220 --> 01:21:40,524
and her, the main character, like diving into the

1343
01:21:40,532 --> 01:21:43,948
world of kink and like this there

1344
01:21:44,004 --> 01:21:47,452
is it. I. Oh, God, I was so bored. Yeah.

1345
01:21:47,516 --> 01:21:51,200
I just was bored. And I like, again, I. Like I said it earlier,

1346
01:21:51,500 --> 01:21:54,692
I would have preferred if you were going to

1347
01:21:54,716 --> 01:21:57,972
take this route for the storyline. Haunting Adeline.

1348
01:21:58,036 --> 01:22:02,292
Who's sexier than this? Yeah. Haunting Adeline jumped almost immediately

1349
01:22:02,356 --> 01:22:05,652
into their first scene together. And this book,

1350
01:22:05,756 --> 01:22:09,540
it really didn't get into it until probably 200 pages in when

1351
01:22:09,580 --> 01:22:13,108
he finally like takes her home.

1352
01:22:13,164 --> 01:22:17,122
And. Yeah. I don't know, I just feel like. Or get off

1353
01:22:17,146 --> 01:22:20,850
the pot. You can either be a smutty book with no plot or you can

1354
01:22:20,890 --> 01:22:24,354
be a plot filled, well written

1355
01:22:24,402 --> 01:22:28,562
book with smut. Yeah. But you. I'm so

1356
01:22:28,586 --> 01:22:31,986
you're not recommending this book to anybody? No. There. If somebody

1357
01:22:32,018 --> 01:22:34,514
was like, I'm looking for a dark book I would rent. I would recommend Haunting

1358
01:22:34,562 --> 01:22:38,322
Adeline. Yeah. I don't. I really. Even Brutal Obsession, for that

1359
01:22:38,346 --> 01:22:41,634
matter, because Brutal Obsession, he does some mild stalking there as well.

1360
01:22:41,722 --> 01:22:45,438
And I, Yeah, I just. Again, I think the whole

1361
01:22:45,454 --> 01:22:49,054
thing was very convenient. Of course he's. That he calls himself

1362
01:22:49,102 --> 01:22:52,206
that. There's only. He says at one point that there's only three

1363
01:22:52,278 --> 01:22:55,630
other hackers in the world who could. Who could possibly find

1364
01:22:55,670 --> 01:22:59,838
him because he's like the fourth best hacker in the whole world and it's.

1365
01:23:00,014 --> 01:23:03,086
But he didn't know about her mob family. Yeah. He didn't

1366
01:23:03,118 --> 01:23:06,862
know that she was on birth control. He didn't. He didn't know quite a bit

1367
01:23:06,886 --> 01:23:10,130
about her. Yeah. I just think the whole thing was just.

1368
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I don't know, we just feel like it wasn't. Well, the story Itself

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was just not well thought out. Sure. It was really just riding

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the coattails of the fandom that already exists for this particular kink. And I think

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somebody else. I truly think

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that somebody else could do this book better. Sure. Could you imagine if H.D.

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carlton had wrote this book? It would have been more what I was expecting.

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Yeah. Like, I like, I love the idea of it

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being. I love the idea of a

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fan of this fandom meeting one of these people

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in real life. Yeah, I love that. But I just don't think that.

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I'm so, so sorry, Nevesta Allen.

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Please don't. Please don't be mad at me.

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Well, if you want to make up your own mind about this book, it is

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super accessible. You can get it Target, Amazon is

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on. You can buy it for Kindle. It's not on Kindle Unlimited,

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though. It is on audiobook. And this is one of the number one recommended

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books that people say you should listen to on an audiobook.

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Oh. Versus reading it.

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Interesting. I wonder if I had listened to it, if I would

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have liked it. I really doubt it.

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I want to know, on a scale of 1 to 10, how sad

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are you that I didn't like it? Probably an

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eight. Oh, my God.

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I thought you were going to. I did, too. Really?

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But I had read it and I still thought you were gonna like it.

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So it really makes me question how well I know you,

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which is devastating. Oh, my God.

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Oh, yeah. Look at me being an enigma, right?

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Wow, how the tables have turned.

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All right, all right. Well, find us on social media. We are on TikTok and

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Instagram at booksletspod and we are online@booksletspodcast.com.

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there's also a link tree there to our other socials, including YouTube

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and Facebook. And we would. Again, I'm not

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above begging. We would so appreciate a follow. And we

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would also love if you would comment on our posts with things that

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you would like for us to do, because we. Nicole is

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in charge of finding the material. And poor, poor Nicole, she is completely overwhelmed

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with narrowing it down. Such a chaotic community. It is.

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There's so many different it. Like, I mean, it's. The whole premise of our theme

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is we're like kids in a candy shop. And it's like, where do we start?

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So we'd love recommendations, so feel free to reach out. I'm Amanda.

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I'm Nicole. And we are book sluts. We'll see you next week.

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Sa.