 Hey guys it's Leigh Ann and I'm here today to talk about the Airwakened series. When I say talk about I mean rant about so there will be spoilers for the series but I am largely going to talk about like structural or theme or writing kind of issues less about like plot stuff. Plot will come into it incidentally because things about how the plot is there is not constructed will be a problem but like yeah so like there will be spoilers but like it won't be like super focused on that so I don't know watch it if you want why did I pick up the series and why am I ranting about it now and why did I read the whole fucking series if I hated it because I did so I picked up the first book thinking it would I never really expected it to be amazing but I thought it'd be like a fun light read some escapism you know just just a fun read um and the first one it was that it was like slightly less good than I had hoped but it was still that and so I would I thought probably the rest of the books would get better I was very very wrong but so um I ended up getting unaudible you can get the whole series as one massive audiobook that doesn't even have breaks in it to see like where you are like it doesn't tell you which book you're in it like the narrator will tell you when you've moved on to a new book it's like a 52 hour audiobook or something with like five books in it and it was like 20 bucks um so I was like yeah let's just get them all and book two was terrible definitely substantially worse than the first book and then I felt like maybe it'll still get better and then I kept listening and I was like at this point now it's just I'm on a mission I just want to finish this because this is making me really angry and it's doing so many things that I hate in books and so I sort of decided one to finish it so that I can sort of like get achievement out of this because I put so much time into it already um and I can't really talk about it until I've read the whole series because I didn't want to have to qualify everything I say by being like maybe it gets better in the later books or maybe this gets resolved or maybe it improves I have read them all and I can now say everything conclusively whether it does or does not get better and the answer is it does not get better so I wanted to just be done and I didn't want any reason to like have to again qualify what I was saying and I just wanted to like say I did it plus I had the audiobook so just fucking finish it this series did piss me off a lot and I that's why I kind I kind of want to talk about it but more to the point it did did so many things that piss me off in general when I find it in a book at all and it did so many of them in one series that it just seemed to me an excellent opportunity to go through all the things that a book could possibly do to piss me off as a reader so this is about Air Awakens this video however I'm using Air Awakens as the vehicle through which to examine how a book can be bad in my opinion there are other ways I suppose that a book could be bad that Air Awakens doesn't do but it does hell of a lot of things that I hate so I feel like by watching this by going through all of these you will by the end have a very solid idea of what is like to piss me off in a book just generally um and what books in future I will probably dislike if they aren't anyway like this so I feel like it's helpful to you to know what it is about a book that may piss me off because then in the future I mean if you for example love the Air Awakens series and none of the things I'm talking about would piss you off then in the future when I dislike a book that I mean you can assume that it probably does those things and if you know that doesn't bother you then you don't need to trust my opinion because clearly the things that bother me don't bother you so we're going to examine the Air Awakens series but in so doing we're going to examine my tastes as a reader so some background about what Air Awakens is about and what's not about a hell of a lot which like that's sort of the first issue is that I prefer books to have a very interesting plot and world and set up I can like a book if it has a very thin plot and a very thin world if it's doing a really deep dive into the characters so I can't think of a whole lot of examples of that but I mean the in Radiance by Grace Draven um the world building and the plot well to me the world building a plot is more substantial and that 200 page book than all of the Air Awakens series but it's not really so much about the world and about like a super intricate plot as it is just about the characters so I prefer to have a strong plot and strong world building but I can forgive that so Air Awakens it's a fantasy series um it's mainly romance like that's basically the driving force of the plot is this romance that was nauseating and the thing is I should be like I need to start for this better but the thing about this is that if the book sort of the tone of it it purported to be about that if it sort of came off as knowing that that's what it's about that I am a romance book this is what I am about this is what is most important in my plot well I probably wouldn't have picked it up but I would it would be honest to me and I would look at it and think okay this is a romance book it knows it's a romance book that's what it's trying to be this book both in terms of the marketing and the cover as well as the way the story is told you get this feeling the book thinks it's like an epic fantasy but it's definitely not it's just a romance where the fantasy elements are present exclusively for the purpose of generating and orchestrating situations that will create drama that will create stakes for the romance that's so it's not romance being incidental to or being somewhat significant to a fantasy plot the fantasy plot serves the romance plot in a very direct way the fantasy moments the stakes in the fantasy story the when magic goes wrong or goes right it's all in service to the romance plot and again if the book purported to be a romance pretty much exclusively I wouldn't enjoy it but I would be okay with the fact of it if that makes sense I would feel like the the book is being honest with itself and with me as the reader but the book seems to think it's a fantasy and it's not it's a romance so okay fine I mean by the end of the first by the end of the first book I had my suspicions and by the end of the second book I was sure that this was pretty much just going to be romance-centric I didn't actually talk about what it's about I'll circle back to that in a second so I it was clear to me that this would be a romance-centric book pretty early on and so I had kind of switched gears in my brain to stop criticizing in my mind the magic rules or the politics so much and accept that what is going to be the focus here is the romance and then the romance was also bad okay so back to what the plot is it's sort of elemental magic there is this sort of sense it's alluded to frequently and again this is only brought into it when it serves the romance plot but there's sort of stigma against people who can use magic people who are non-magical commons as they are referred to very clever they they hate and fear people who can use elemental magic but the the prince the heir to the throne is a very powerful like user of elemental magic his younger half-brother doesn't have magic and everyone in the kingdom loves his younger half-brother because he's like the cute light-hearted charming one and the older one is like brooding tm and the a user of dark magic and our main character vala she's a librarian and she it is discovered that she has this elemental power that hasn't been seen in the kingdoms in a really long time like really long time like they were there was like extinct kind of this form of magic so she's a a windwalker hence air awakens because she has the elemental power of air now what she's able to do with that power it really it depends on what the plot needs and there's a lot of things that she can do that don't really seem like air power to me but that's her power and the prince the brooding prince and you guessed it those are the two who are the romantically involved his power is fire that's pretty much the setup and then there's there's like the king wants to invade another area because basically it's just like a conquering kind of story where he just wants to expand his power sort of the roman style of just like conquer everywhere as much as you can just because you can so he wants to use vala's power to help him in that endeavor so that's pretty much the plot throughout all of the books like that's what's going on is war for the purpose of expansion and then the king wanting to use vala but not being okay with his son the prince being romantically involved with not a commons because those are non magic folk with a commoner because that's what she is oh and then the thing that also made almost zero sense is that there's crystal magic so there's sort of these evil crystals and it kind of it seems like they enhance these magical powers but are also sort of toxic and overwhelm their user it's not super well explained and it doesn't again it's really only brought into the story to create drama or not really to world build so that's sort of the setup of air awakens so already like i said the plot is thin the world building is bad and doesn't make a whole lot of sense there's a lot of things that could be interesting i mean anytime you have um allegorical story sort of where magic is serving the place of race or religion and people are being persecuted for something magical that we don't have in our world but it's clear that this is going to be used to tell a story that we would recognize because prejudice and and xenophobia and all this sort of thing those are common themes in our non magical world that we could recognize i apologize if you can hear there are woodchipping tree trimming things going on next door hopefully you can't hear too much of that i can hear it but i feel like with the mic you won't be able to hear it if you can't hear it i apologize okay so yeah the plot is non-existent and bad so the driving force of this story is vala coming into her own realizing that she has these powers because she thinking she's a non-magic person has also sort of harbored this prejudice and has been around people who harbor this prejudice so she's sort of like shocked to learn that she has these powers which is fine like i would be shocked too um and then immediately like the person who discovers she has these powers is the prince so she's already like immediately having the hots for a prince who she shouldn't be having the hots for because he's the prince and then he is very much the brooding silent type who like doesn't tell her what he's thinking or feeling and is acting like why would you matter to me on a personal level you're just you know one of my subjects and you have these magic powers so i as a fellow magic wielder am interested in your progress but it's totally platonic even though it's very obvious to the reader that neither of these characters feels platonically for the other but you know whatever so it's a lot of him sort of bringing trying to draw her out so she'll use her powers um and then introducing her to other people who also use magic his brother is actually the one character in the story that i kind of liked and his brother is around to sort of again create tension in drama because he's the attractive flirty prince so there's constantly jealousy which doesn't really make sense but the there's jealousy brought into the story where the older brother aldrick he's the brooding one he gets constantly jealous whenever his younger brother shows vala attention even though he kind of asks him to because she needs help and protection and he can't always be around so he does ask his younger brother to sort of extend the royal hand of protection to vala which he does but then his younger brother also does cause drama because he warns vala that she shouldn't like be in love with aldrick because aldrick is a mean and brooding and angsty dude so she shouldn't trust what he has to say and that he can be too faced or whatever so there's just a constantly misinformation in drama that is very painfully obvious and is again really just there to create more uncertainty and drama now what i hated the most the most about this series and this series does this constantly constantly which is why i hated it so much because the rest of what i've just described is not ideal but it's you know it's whatever it's twofold telling and not showing and completely unearned moments and i drove me nuts oh side note also it drove me nuts is the author's constant use of the word such um in a way that does not make sense like i don't think she knows like english you were constantly using the word such in in a in sentences where it didn't make sense to have it and i'm trying to think of an example i wish i'd highlighted one um well i was listening to it on audiobook i should have written it down but i don't know how to explain it but they use the word such way more than you'd ever would even if you're using it correctly so like they would say phrase is like you know why would we believe such and it's not wrong but it's strange and there were instances where it was definitely straight up wrong so i can't even craft descendants in my mind right now because it's wrong so i can't do it there are moments when i was like no that one literally is wrong but other times when it was just awkward and it almost came across as the author attempting to sound kind of old-timey even though the whole town of the all the books and the dialogue is very modern and very casual but then they would throw in phrases like and such so that it would sound old-timey i think was the thinking there it doesn't work and it's wrong it's like literally wrong for like the english language okay so back to telling and not showing um it's so these characters are in love and we get a little bit of the sort of initial their relationship getting to know each other but once it's established that they're in love with each other which is pretty early on after that it's just they're just in love and all they ever talk about is the being in love and all they ever talk about to each other is being in love and that's that's it like there's no reason to love the other if that makes sense so if i see a relationship that i really root for and i believe in there's more to it like they get along really well they have a good rapport they trust each other they have a good sense of humor they have been there for each other whereas this is just constantly i love you so much i can't live without you you're my one and only i could never love another but why all they ever talk about to each other and to other people who are patient enough to listen to this bullshit is how much they love each other and it's just i can't like after a while it's it's just it doesn't mean anything when you're constantly saying it and the fact that the main character the main male character aldrick is painted as being this brooding and silent type but he's literally constantly verbalizing his affection which is unbelievable to me he cannot be this swoon worthy brooding silent type and constantly be vocalizing his affection i mean the whole reason that a brooding character is so swoon worthy in a lot of stories is because they rarely ever ever speak about emotion and so when they do in that rare instance when they do it means so much more because you know that they normally wouldn't do this so that they must feel that strongly that they're willing to put words to it so constantly telling me the narrative is constantly telling me that this character is a brooding and silent type but what you're showing me is him constantly vocalizing his affection constantly and so it loses that impact the whole reason that's ever swoon worthy is because of how limitedly that's not a word maybe it is i don't know but you have to use it sparingly so if you have you know mr. darcy who's been like a prick for the entire book and then finally kind of lets his guard down and confesses like the depth of his affection that's why that moment still to this day women are swooning over it wasn't my favorite because i don't actually go for this the brooding type that much but i i get the appeal i get why that feels so significant and even when i watch it like it's not my favorite but i get why that moment is so significant because it's a big deal that this person who's comes across is very unemotional most of the time is suddenly allowing you to see their emotions that's a big deal so just you can't have your cake and eat it too you cannot tell me that this character is brooding all the time but then constantly have them be showing their emotions it's it says though the author wanted to have that mr. Darcy moment of confession but on every page and because it's on every page it loses its potency and it's no longer swoonworthy because the whole reason that it is swoonworthy is because you sort of have to earn it and there's just no willingness on the author's part here to earn it to make us wait to make us wonder and and and doubt for long enough to where when that we feel that relief of the confession of emotion that it is so significant i mean like the only thing i can compare it to is sort of a hunger versus constantly eating like if you snack throughout the day at no point are you just like oh my god i'm so hungry and then you take a bite of something and you're like yes because that's what the mr. Darcy moment is it's a constant hunger for affection and then when you get that moment even if it's a small bite of a salty and cracker just that little bit of like slight hint of emotion you're starving for it and you're like yes but if you're constantly telling me how much he loves her and he's constantly saying how much he loves her to hurt anyone that will listen i'm not hungry for it in fact i'm i'm feeling a little stuffed and i mean this got to the point where in addition to just talking about not being able to live without her he his like pet name for her if you can call it that is my lady my love and i i can't tell if it's on every page because i was listening to an audiobook but it's certainly in the frequency of its mention it seemed to me that it was every page that he called her my lady my love sometimes multiple times within like the same sentence and it was rules nauseating because it was constant and just wasn't cute anymore again the referring i didn't realize i would be using mr. Darcy as my comparison here but let's go back to mr. Darcy in the film with kira nightly at the end when he has like a moment where he's asking her like what he should call her as a pet name and he calls her mrs. Darcy and it's like a cute moment it's a cute moment because it's a moment it's just that moment if mr. Darcy had been had spent the entire movie calling her my pearl and my lovely and mrs. Darcy you'd be like so that's what happens here like this brooding character who's not like they bring in the brooding when he needs to be angsty and piss her off or when he's like i can't talk about emotions anymore because i'm emotions are hard for me don't you know and i'm like are they because you seem to want to talk about them all the time but right that's right you don't like talking about emotion that's why in specific instance you're suddenly having issues with it because the plot needs you to create drama yeah he was just constantly saying my lady my love my lady my love my lady my love my ballah my lady my love my lady my love and like i was out loud at that point because it happened so much when he would say it i would out loud be like oh we wouldn't want to miss an opportunity to call her your lady is she your love is she yes she is i was doubting it for a second because i hadn't heard it for a minute okay so the non brooding brooding dude whose sole purpose in life is to express his love and affection for vala is it's not spoon worthy and it's not interesting it's it's very two-dimensional and again even if it was just a pulpy romance you need to play it right i can get sucked into that with the best of them i mean but i called myself trash for shatter me and shatter me does it better shatter me is an angsty romance but it knows how to pace it in a way to get you swooning over it how to withhold that affection how to withhold those emotions until you're begging for them and then when they're given to you you're like yes you there's a formula here and you didn't do it right okay so then vala is insufferable and in addition so for her storyline it's a lot of the romance where she's constantly saying that she can't live without that guy and then when he does things to piss her off she gets irrationally angry about it but then it's also understanding about it it's very inconsistent what pisses me off most about her is how insufferably selfish she is so there's constantly she obviously she's going through things figuring out these these magical powers her feelings over a prince that she shouldn't have feelings for and then feelings for him because the king is mad about it i mean there's there's a lot going on but every character around her is constantly worried about her it's constantly checking up on her making sure she's emotionally okay and giving her you know therapy basically and the characters around her they're also going through a lot because there's like war going on so they're also suffering and their loved ones are dying and she forgets about them constantly and sometimes the narrative even tells us that she's forgotten about them and that she kind of feels guilty about the fact that wow they always check up on her and she's been a terrible friend and oh my god to those parts i was like hey you fucking are you're a terrible friend i don't know why they give a shit about you i wouldn't you're selfish so selfish and so everyone around her suddenly just constantly is willing to put aside whatever their own issues are and do everything in the world to help her they're always so worried about her and that they're always swearing to be there for her no matter what she needs and i'm like good god why why are all these people suddenly laying down their lives for her suddenly willing to sacrifice their own emotional well-being for her she has not earned this and that's when i was talking about earlier about things being unearned she has not done anything to earn this kind of loyalty or this kind of affection from these people if it was like a brother that is like you know family ties or a childhood friend maybe but these are people that she's just met because they work with the prince and now he's like you know help her out and now they're almost more loyal to her than they are to him and there's no reason for it and they're constantly saying again vocalizing things like he will always be there for you and because she'll she'll somewhat you know allude to the fact that she feels guilty about how much attention she's requiring from them and that oh they shouldn't worry so much about her and they take every opportunity to tell her that they'll always worry about her because she's so fucking amazing and i'm like is she though and then part two of unearned moments is that people who do not like her or people who do not know her purse apologies they had to pause because the woodchipping was getting insane i think they're powering down now it's now we can talk again i don't know where i was um the unearned moments that i think i was talking about yeah so the emotionally unearned moments of people being affectionate towards her for no reason piss me off a lot but again people who are not emotionally tied to her this is not emotionally unearned moments this is coming now to her to her intelligence her wit her military strategy her powers there's so many instances of characters for no reason unprompted finding every excuse to praise her and again it's unearned and frustrating for that reason so in the same way that in a romance plot if you starve the reader and the characters of the affection that when you finally deliver it it is so much more satisfying so she's constantly being told how brilliant she is how intelligent she is and the way this is achieved is two fold one it's just told all the time it's just constantly then the narrative finds excuses to say this about her that she's intelligent witty brilliant blah blah which okay unearned and then the moments where it is burned this is achieved only through painting other characters as absolute morons so i don't know if this is just simply that the author is herself not able to construct because it's usually in in situations of like military strategy so i don't know if this because the author herself has such a limited grasp of military strategy that in order for the main character to have a brilliant idea everyone else has to like literally not know what a good military strategy would be but at that point if that's what you're going to do i think something where you actually know something or make it entirely magical where you have the rules yourself because when they're just talking about tactics for a battle it literally moments where all these people who are military leaders who are now trying to figure out how best to achieve this invasion or whatever it is and they're pouring over maps and discussing it and she shows up and everyone's just like oh what does this little girl know and then she's gonna show them who's boss which everyone loves those moments let's not lie there's they're just as satisfying as the dark sea moments for different reasons there's a reason this works in movies there's a reason people keep doing it the underdog situation so having all these dudes be like oh what does this little girl know the idea of her showing them up would be very satisfying except they're it it's so painfully basic to where you wonder why these people would be at all in charge of armies where they're looking at this and going well if we put all our forces and march them towards this gate they'll see us coming and we'll all die and they're like what will we do and she's like ha ha what if we split our forces and they're like sounds like we should listen to girls like her more often there's more than a pretty face here looks like she's got a brilliant mind there as well and does she or is everyone else there a moron i if these are the only earned moments we're gonna get um i think we're better off with just being told and not shown because it made all of the telling that much more painful to listen to because the the few moments of proof that you have to go off of actually make her look stupider so if i never got to see any instance of her supposedly showing off her brilliance i'd have nothing to go on except people saying it so i'd have to believe it but now i've seen the thing that they're basing this off of and i can confirm that she is not brilliant so all of the telling is that much worse because the little bit of showing i got it was proof to the contrary so throughout the series it's just constantly literally constantly brooding will they or won't they and even when they are together worried about being parted and they cannot live without each other and they've mentioned this now many many many many many times they constantly make choices putting their own love story before the good of the nation the good of other people and yet constantly people are laying down their lives saying they would die for them that they are going to be the best leaders they could ever hope for because these are the people that really should be in power and so all these people rallying to them for no reason because these the two most selfish self-indulgent self-obsessed individuals i've ever read about but they somehow gain all of this adoration which is again unearned if there are moments there again this is another thing that works very well in many books and many movies and that's why it works because people like seeing it when your main character is finally scraped their way through you know the mire of whatever situation the plot has put them in they've fought their way to the top they've helped people along the way and finally people are noticing and finally people are rallying to them and saying you know what i'll i will support you and i will die for you and those moments feel epic but only because they are earned so when you have two entirely self-obsessed individuals moaning on about how much they love each other and out of nowhere there's people showing up being like we will die for you why why on earth would you lay down your lives for these people they clearly don't even know what they're doing when it comes to military strategy so it's not even like if they were not great people but they know their shit i'd be like well they'll make good leaders at least because they may be super selfish but they know what they're doing they do not know what they're doing there's an instance in i think it's in the last book where um they're sort of on the outs now there's been a kind of a coup type situation and a lot of people think that she is dead i think they think aldrick is dead too um and so there's these people sort of losing faith and and are sort of gonna accept now that this new rule which is oppressive that they're gonna fight against and so to rally these townspeople vala gets up in front of them all and announces herself as who she is uh basically declaring that she's not dead which is already like well there goes the element of surprise like you could have probably worked against your enemy longer if no one knows you're alive but okay fine maybe getting people's support is arguably worth the sacrifice of your anonymity fine and then she not only tells them that she's alive and she exists in here she is she tells these townspeople exactly what their next move is what they've been planning on doing like where they're going next and where they plan to sort of build their support or whatever it is and um after she makes this little speech aldrick's like maybe not a great idea to tell people that but you know you're still learning this whole leadership thing and she's like oh yeah you're right i probably shouldn't have said that i was like no you fucking shouldn't you're such an idiot if this was just some like 12 year old chosen one who has very recently been chosen and did something that stupid i would already think it was stupid but i'd be like okay this is book five she's already been called brilliant multiple times she's already displayed her just natural instincts for military strategy which again we have seen is great and then she does this and aldrick is like it's not a subtle moment of like like not grasping the subtleties of political machinations and subtext where i could imagine a situation like that where because you know you haven't been in court before so you don't get all the subtext so you possibly say something that you shouldn't have and he's like okay well so you shouldn't have said this because of these reasons i'm like oh shit i didn't know this is very basic stuff like if you can't grasp this on your own i don't know why anyone thinks you're brilliant and then again in her in him training her how to be a future leader about how to be a queen and all these sort of thing again the author clearly doesn't have any examples of how this would go so there's lots and lots of long sort of paragraphs just telling us a montage of aldrick would come to her every day and pose to her scenarios about political situations and have her tell him what she would do and then he would nudge and prod and question her until she got to a different answer so it's just like very general broad strokes describing how he's helping her to hone her skills but there's no examples of it because clearly the author doesn't have any ideas for like she wants aldrick to come off as the brilliant guide and and vala to come off as the the brilliant but ignorant anjan who's figuring it out but picking it up very quickly because she's so brilliant no examples of it and the very few examples we have paint them both as morons so this book series the i don't even really have anything to say about the magic plot because again it's only people suddenly have abilities or don't have abilities or find limits to their abilities just to create tension the whole thing with the crystals doesn't make sense it never made sense and i have read all the books and i still don't really get it it was really just there to create tension villain is extremely slightly whiplash like very obviously a villain there's there could have been something interesting with this whole prejudice against magic people but it doesn't actually make sense in the way this world is constructed and the way that people react because this prince has magic so it's not i'm not saying it's not believable that people would have issues with their own air to the throne but to this degree like they paint the prejudice against magic to be so stark like they are basically pariahs but your prince is one and they don't paint him as being such a pariah that people sort of have begrudgingly accepted this about him and that does not work for me they wouldn't be that okay with it either they are somewhat okay with magic people or they are evil pariahs that should really just be killed so this halfway between the two it really doesn't work because if it's going to be that way there needs to be so much more will building to explain this layered situation of sort of competing ideas and cognitive dissonance among the people that could be interesting but that is not gone into and really all these things only exist so that there's moments of tension where people are suddenly attacking her for having magic so that there can be a a brooding angsty moment which again is unearned and unexplained and it it waters down the tension of the situation the main characters are two dimensional like idiots like straight up idiots and whatever we were told about them we're told that she's brilliant and she proves herself to be stupid we're told that he's brooding and silent but he's constantly vocalizing his emotions so neither character is living up to what we're being told about them and these these epic epic moments of war and battle and death they mean nothing because they're not earned so insomation those are all the things that will piss me off in a book you can have an angsty romance but you have to do it right you have to know how this works how to play it out how to pace it out so that people will go for it and I know there's people like these books but I don't get it and I think they would those same people I think would like them even more if it pays things better and then people like me wouldn't hate them and all I can say is if you cannot show the moments that you that would demonstrate the abilities that your characters have you need to be so much more subtle and clever about telling them because I totally appreciate that if you're writing about a character that's meant to be more brilliant than you are personally that might be difficult but as an author that's your job now to work out that puzzle I mean Pierce Brown talked about how difficulty finds it reading writing the character of Mustang because as far as he's concerned Mustang is much more brilliant than he is so how do you write about a character that's smarter than you well go read Pierce Brown's books he doesn't find job of it you create scenarios and situations that paint that character in that way and are as detailed as you can be but if you do not have that brilliance you have to work around it and the way to work around it isn't to just have other characters be stupid or other characters out of the blue completely out of character just suddenly talking about how brilliant this character is because it's unearned and unbelievable for these military strategists who have just again going back to vala in a military strategy meeting who have just declared that she would never know anything it's clearly a matter of pride for them so if she really did rattle off something that was brilliant which she didn't but let's say that she did let's say that she really showed them up and pointed out something that was pure brilliance in terms of military strategy these people the way that humans operate they would still naysay her because this is a matter of pride for them it wouldn't suddenly be like well she's just so brilliant and we're just so stupid like we should listen to her they would not their whole careers and lives are built on their reputations here that's why they have these positions they would not stand by and let her make them look stupid and they wouldn't praise her for it that is not how humans work so that everything about that moment in the book piss me off because it doesn't make sense for the minor characters it doesn't make sense for her everyone looks like an idiot and no one's acting like people would and it's all this entire scene the entire purpose of this scene has been to convey to us and to prove to us how brilliant she is and it has done the exact opposite and yet so much of the story rests upon our belief in that foundation of the love and the brilliance and the whatever and it all crumbles because the foundation does not exist none of this is earned so yeah that's my take on the air awaken series and every way that a book can go wrong yeah i don't recommend the series that said a lot of people like the series and if the things that i just described do not bother you if you don't care if a moment is earned because you just like the epicness of it or or if you like constantly hearing a man say my lady my love then this is the book for you i found it a bit much let me know in the comments down below how you feel about the way books are structured i guess because that's kind of more what this was about than about air awaken specifically you have the kind of stuff i described does bother you if it doesn't bother you if you read the air awaken series and you felt the same way or you felt the complete opposite if you thought it did deliver on its promises if you thought it didn't deliver on those promises but you enjoyed it anyway and why you know all the things i post videos on saturdays so like and subscribe and i'll see you next saturday bye