The Bonds That Tie Series

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I could kill them all right now without breaking a sweat, but I'm not a fucking monster. No matter how badly they all treat me, I'm above the shit. I repeat my mantra in my head again Better to be hated and alive, better to be in pain than a murderer, better to be alone and safe. And today, Jenn and I are going to be talking about the Bonds that Tie series by J Bree, and I'll go ahead and get it started because I fucking love this series so much. It's one of my favorite series. I can't even remember who was it that recommended this to us. Was it you or was it Kayla? I think it was Kayla.

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Yeah, I was going to say I think it was Kayla.

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It was on my TBR for a long time, yeah mine too, because I had read the other Reverse Bully series by J Bree. So I've read quite a lot of other stuff, but I hadn't gotten to this yet, and then Kayla started reading it. She's like, oh my gosh, you guys have to read this so we can talk about it.

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Yes.

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And it has literally become one of my top five favorite series.

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So I didn't realize it ranked that high for you.

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Yeah, it does. It literally has all of the elements that I love. It has the paranormal fantasy, it has the Reverse.

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Bully.

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It doesn't have like well, I mean, obviously we'll talk about the darkness, but it has enough darkness in there that it literally hits every single one of my. There's no miscommunication, I mean. I mean there's a misunderstanding, which I know. It's a tight line but, like, the main female character is strong, she's independent, and I love all of the main male characters too, like they each bring something different, and sometimes when you have a Reverse Harem or a series that has a lot of main characters, sometimes it's hard, or I would say hard.

I've never had to write it, but I assume that it's quite difficult to make each of the characters stand on their own, and I feel like J Bree does an amazing job of navigating all of these characters on the page in a six book series, like it's phenomenal. So it's going to be really hard for me to find things that I don't like about it. Now, there are some things that I. Okay, we'll just start with that. So I feel like there was a few things that were left unexplained and that bothers me, because if it's not being explained, then why put it in the book to begin with? So one of them. And if it got explained, I must have missed it every single time that I've read the series, because I've read the series quite a bit.

In book one I'm assuming it's book one, if I remember correctly she catches Gabriel passing something to another student and she mentions oh, it could be a note, it could be money, it could be drugs, but then we never know what the hell is being passed between the two football players, and that just bothers me. Why did you put that in the story if you're not going to clear up that little part Again? I could be mistaken, but I read it multiple times and I've never gotten a clear, definite response. She speculates in her head and then she's like, well, it's none of my business, and then she walks away and I'm like, well, I need to know, because you put that there for a reason, right?

So again, this is just being very nitpicky. That really bothered me and I think it happens a couple of other times. There's one character or bad guy or villain that just completely disappears and we never hear nothing from him. So I don't know if you remember the invisible dude, the dude that kidnaps her from the hospital after her parents crash, that gets her out and takes her to the resistance. They have a conversation about him like once or twice throughout the book, but we don't ever know what happens to him. If he's alive, if he's dead, he just disappears, and I just felt like that he's the one that can go invisible.

He's the one that can go invisible. Yeah, we never get any. Now, obviously, the series I don't know if you remember the series ends of if more resistance or more God Von show up, then obviously we'll do with them later. But I feel like the invisible dude was a key component of the resistance. Getting all of their information, yeah, and when you have a key player that's still alive on the chessboard or playing field or whatever analogy you want to use, I just feel that it was left open-ended because we got rid of all the other villains that had been on the page Right and we didn't get that one.

So again, I'm just being nit-picky on things that I feel like were left. I don't know. Dangling with the carrot If she wants to learn more in the series.

Oh my gosh, please do and get these questions answered. And then I'm trying to think I think there's an issue with the timeline and I have been able to really capture it because I love this series so much every time I read it I don't retain all of the things that are probably bad, because I'm just like, well, I love this series, I'm going to be in denial or ignore it or whatever. There's an issue, I think, with the timeline. When she goes to the camps to save Griffin's sister, there's a part where she's talking about she's been there for weeks, but like when she comes back or when, like You're, when we get the perspective from her bonds it's only been like three or four days.

So I I can't yeah, I can't really tell if it's really been weeks or if it's only been like three to five days, like one week, and that happens quite a few times throughout the series to where, like one part, it's been days and then another part's been weeks, and I don't know if there's been a time jump from one scene to the next, to the next. Right, it's not clear and it doesn't really take away from the story, because you're still progressing forward. It's not like you're losing anything, but that happens a few times throughout the series and I'm it'll be like wait what? And then I'm like I don't care enough, I'm just gonna keep.

Like I'm like it really. It really doesn't take away, but like just being nitpicky on the things that I didn't, that I didn't like yeah you have anything you want to add? I feel like I know I'm Dominating the conversation, sorry well, I mean it's.

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It's been a while since I've read the series, so it's way more fresh in your mind than mine. The only thing that I remember not liking is is I felt like the angst, tension, friction, whatever between Ollie and Nox Was drug out a little too long, especially like once she had bonded with the other, like like officially bonded with the other Men in the group, and like they had moved past things. Like the whole group was doing well and Nox was still being the way. Nox is that? I remember that bothering me. I was just like could you get? And granted, he has a ton of trauma that he had to like get over, and then like abandonment issues and all of that, but like, dude, could you just move on like your creatures love her? That should have been a Big clue, in my opinion, that he needed to get over himself. Basically.

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I don't disagree. I it did drag out and I feel like it should have concluded earlier in the series, because I think it's like book three or four that they do this soul bonding, but I I Understand the tension. I Might not like it, but I understand it. I mean, can you imagine being bonded to your mom as she molests you like that's? He doesn't like that word and he I think that. Well, first off, let's talk about like I don't really I'm wasn't happy with his trauma. Like I Understand and you learn as you go on as to why they did it right, because it was the resistance they wanted. They wanted him to be broken so that they could turn him. That's why they separated from his brother. Like you get that as you progress through the story, but at the beginning You're just like WTF, like why is he being this way? Okay, yeah, she left. She won't tell you why she left.

You think that she's not powerful, but she's actually the most powerful there is. Like I Agree, like you should. He should have been able to be. Like this is my bonded. It's not the same thing. My creatures you know my nightmare creatures love her. I have this tether towards her, the bond inside me that he's never acknowledged to anybody else on. Even his brother is like, hey, this is who we're supposed to be like. There are all these positive. So yeah, no, I totally get it. But I do, I Do think that, or I do appreciate her doing this soul bonding, doing something different with Nox, because you know when you have that many mates it gets kind of repetitive, but she threw something new. That's another thing that I loved about Right.

She kept it fresh and by doing that, he experienced her trauma and she experienced his, and then it just put them on a whole new level, which was just like super, I love Knox.

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Like Nox, I think. If I remember, if I remember correctly, Nox ended up being my Favorite out of all the bonds.

Like he becomes so and, like you said, it's part of that trauma bonding but like he becomes just so For I for lack of a better word it's very trite, but like he, he plays her hero, even though he gives her space to like, take care of her own shit. But he's like you are never going to stand alone again and I'm just like, oh god, I love you. Wait, he's like why? And I? I couldn't stand him. I think I think in this series this is probably the best Written character development I think I've ever read, where you have somebody who, as the reader, you really really like, for me, I couldn't stand him. And then once you learn more about him and as the series progresses, he, he developed so much and he becomes I mean, it's the. It was a 180 for my feelings on him and I don't think I've ever had that experience with another character in any other book or series.

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I second that absolutely.

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I agree the only one that comes close and I can't remember his name but is the dragon shifter from Emerald Lakes. He's he kind of had that same like bad guy.

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Oh Sloan.

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Yeah, I think you're right. You know, didn't want to be a part of it type of vibe, are you?

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No, no, no, no. I just wanted to Like a disclaimer of apparently I know the names of all the characters, the books, if I really love them, but any books that I don't know, you don't know, it's just yeah, I named all of the characters in this series with no problem whatsoever. When we did the recap, yeah, recording, and then you know discovery, you know emerald lakes, like best series ever like.

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I know who that is. True, true, that's so funny. Well, now I'm gonna know when you're lying, when you like something and you're like, but who? I Like it.

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I mean, maybe I like the book, I didn't like the characters. Is that even a thing? I think that's a thing. But yeah, that's true. So alone really did do.

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He was another one that had a like, a lot of character development throughout the series, but I still like I was never at a point where I'm like he shouldn't be in this bond or like at that for them it's mates like he should not be in this group you know he's a douche canoe. Where this one, I was like what the hell is his like? In my opinion and I and I we've kind of talked about this in Other discussions about this series in my opinion he sexually assaults Ollie and book one and like to go from a character Like that to where you end up with him at the end of the series. There I don't, it was so well done.

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Mm-hmm and the way that she wrote overcoming that obstacle, right Like that was a struggle with an Ollie herself. You know, she's like I didn't say no but like I didn't know how to control my bond Like she. I'm just J Bree, oh fucking amazing. Like everything I've read by her and I've read almost all of her I think I've read about 75% of her stuff. There's a couple of like duets and some stand-alones that I haven't done, but everything I've read by her I've loved, absolutely, 100% loved.

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I think this is the only thing I've read by her so far.

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I don't know if we've spoke about this, but you don't really like the bully trope. But essentially, no it was a bully. Were you okay with that in this?

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I hated him in the first book, so no.

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Wait, what you hated him. When did you say this? But I mean, okay, let me rephrase, but it wasn't enough to deter you from continuing the story, right, obviously? Oh no, I know.

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Yeah, I mean, at no point did it, did I want to DNF over it, but I feel like that's because it wasn't okay. So one of the biggest bully romances and I know you hate the like you, it's not a good book, but like for the audience, for you to kind of get a picture of why I hate bully romance is I know is corrupt by Penelope Douglas and I hated that book.

The entire book is bullying whereas with J Bree, with Bonds that tie, you have one character that bullies her through the majority of the series and the other characters give her a hard time at first, warranted, until they know the full story. So it kind of in my opinion it balances out Like it's not a bully romance. You have a bully within a romance. Does that make sense?

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Yeah, that does. That's a good way of putting it, and I just want to put a disclaimer on there. We'd love Penelope Douglas. Okay, I have a whole shelf behind me of everything. I just want to throw that out there. I've read several.

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I've read several of her books and the only one I could not stand was corrupt.

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Everything else I enjoyed, so which, for the audience, I've been telling her she has to get through so she can get to kill switch, because that's the only one that matters, because we love Damon. Anyways, that's my little soapbox, I know, I know, I know One day maybe maybe not I told you you got my voxer about the what bully romance you want me to read.

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Yeah, you changed your mind. I can't remember what it was, but yes.

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Okay, yeah, I've changed my mind. I want you to read two other series by two different authors, not the Penelope Douglas one.

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Okay.

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And then I'll read whatever you want me to read. I mean, granted, I'll read almost anything, but you name it and I won't say no. Another thing that I loved about this was that fantasy element of the God bonds and the reincarnation.

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Yeah.

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She created this world in a very urban fantasy, but modernized. We got this backstory and history as they were learning it, and I feel like that's very important because sometimes if you set it up at the beginning, it can deter Detert, detert, thank you From the world Welcome or not make you really interested in it. But the way that she wove it through the plot was just phenomenal and I don't think I have read that's not true. I think the Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh does really good with doing the history of the Ark Angels and the Ancients and the Ancients.

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Yeah, and like weaving it through the whole.

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All of the stories.

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Yeah, I completely agree, completely agree, yeah.

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And it's not easy, but she and the covers. I normally don't like people on my covers, but I like her covers. Just throw that out there, J Bree or yeah, J Bree.

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Yeah, I really like these covers too. Yeah, I agree.

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And I also loved so as the OG Dark reverse harem chick of this podcast. I like when my reverse harems have a lot of reverse harems, have multiple group scenes and not just the one-on-ones.

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Yes.

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She did phenomenal with the group scenes. But I also wanna say she did it really well to where Ollie bonded with each of her bonds individually too.

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Right, yeah.

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And that's. I feel like that can also be hard for a reverse harem or a wide-chooser romance, whichever terminology you wanna use, and I also feel like some authors won't pick one or the other, maybe have one group scene, maybe two, but then they just focus on the individuality of it, which is fine. But I feel like with her, the way that she set up the world it was important because she was a central and the way that she explained everything about this world like okay, hold on, I'm getting my. I'm going off on tangents. Having them be central means that they had to work cohesively as a group. Now my tangent that I stopped myself on the powers. So apparently you can have up to three powers. You have your primary, a secondary and sometimes, if you're powerful enough with your primary, you have a third. So I was that was one aspect that I was kind of a little bit confused on. So if I, North and Nox both have their nightmare creatures, that's their first power, their primary power, but it talks about them also having.

It talks about them having three and Nox is second power. I don't know what it is, but his third power or unless I'm getting the order wrong he can shadow jump. He can use his nightmare creatures to shadow shift.

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I forgot about that.

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But I can't. I don't remember any other thing being listed on what he can do, and so, North, he has his nightmare creatures, and then he could. He has the dread, which I don't understand. Oh yeah, where it's like mind.

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It's like he creates nightmares in their mind, right?

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He like, makes their nightmares come alive. And then his third power is that he can touch a corpse and figure out how it died.

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Oh yeah, I forgot about that.

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Yeah, and then Ollie's, hers. She's supposed to have three, but I was unclear. So the first one is is that she can block people in their brains right and have them live nightmares, or whatever. She can do that, and I think her primary is the soul rendering, is the stripping of the souls. So maybe her third and I just didn't understand was her consuming the souls for power. I don't remember it ever being clear.

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Oh yeah, I forgot about that part too.

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And then Gryphon, he is a neuro, so he can, but I think, him being a neuro, that all of his powers, whatever level they are, as part of that, because like he can read minds, he can control people with their minds, and I can't remember if he, I mean he can do a lot with the head, with the mind. So I feel like all of his, even though it's multiple levels, it falls under the neuro. Now, Gabe, he, his primary was being a shifter, but or maybe his secondary is that he's a shifter and his primary is that he can shift into anything, he's not limited like some of the other shifters. I don't really know how that that power works, but his God bond is the dragon and prefers the dragon, right, but then that's all that he has. So I don't know if there is actually a third one, or if the dragon is the third, because it's, you know, technically, a mythological creature in modern times, right. And then, finally, Atlas, he has the. He's the, what's the word?

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Like he has the shield right.

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Like he's bulletproof destruction proof, I don't know what you would call it, he's all those things. And I think his secondary is that he can expand his shield to his bondmate and I think to other people, yeah, and to other people too, if I remember correctly. So he can shift that to where it covers multiple people in his vicinity and then I guess him, his God bond being the cleaver, is his third power. You know, he can cut people and destroy people at a distance without actually having to touch them. But again, I'm not. The ranking is kind of hard on some of these, right, because I mean, we know that it's possible, but she did that really, really great. I loved that. I had I don't think I've ever that I can remember read something to where you had levels of power like hierarchy, right?

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Yeah, I don't think I've read.

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Cause most of them, you just have one and that's it, unless you're a witch that's not talking in the craft.

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Right, there's only one other series that I can think that they have like levels of powers, but it's all. But it's limited to two and typically you only get your second based on, like, how something works in the world. What series is that? Fourth wing? Oh yeah, yeah.

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So like they can get a second signal, that's right. I totally forgot about that.

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If they're bonded to a dragon, that like was also bonded to someone in their family line. I totally forgot about that, but that's the only, and I mean the only reason I probably even remember that is because you just finished Iron Flame like last week. Yeah, I just finished Iron Flame. The other one I'm trying to think how it's not. Well, it's not really different powers, but it's different types of magic, not necessarily different powers. So I don't know that that would count.

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Are you talking about the High Mountain Court?

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No, I don't know cause that was like witch magic, wasn't it?

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Witch and Fae, yeah.

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Yeah, no, I was thinking about the Fey Isles, so I've been reading the Fae Isles books, and that magic system gets more developed as you go.

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Okay, after book one, Mm-hmm.

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I cannot wait for you to read the rest of the books you are going to love them.

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I need to finish that. That's the one about pulling the color right, yes, which is crazy in and of itself. I've only ever read one other book that had used color as magic, and that was Brain and Sanderson.

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What about High Mountain Court? Oh well, it's Well, high Mountain Court. They don't use the color.

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It's just Right. The color's just an assigned, If you're agreeing to the F-R-A magic or Fey. I feel like there was another one that had other sets of magic, but I can't remember. Okay, so I know we talked about while we touched on and I should say I touched on the group scenes and how they were hot. But let me tell you something North and Nox using their shadows in the bedroom.

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Yes, now that I remember, because I feel like if there can be a shadow kink, I have that kink. Like I know it's not real. Don't come at me for having an unrealistic kink, because I'm well aware. But like, yes, yes, and any other book that doesn't. I could name like three offhand, right the second, but I won't.

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Really, I mean, you should totally name them, unless we were gonna discuss them later. Now you should name them. I think you should, if you want to. Fourth Wing.

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Xaden uses his shadows when.

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I don't remember that.

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In Fourth Wing, mm-hmm.

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I'm gonna have to reread that. I'm gonna have to reread that before I read Iron Flame.

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anyways, and I should have Hold on. Let me think I think I could be wrong. Fuck. Now I'm wondering if I'm wrong. I think Atten, what's his name? Ash, yeah, Ash in the Flesh and Fire series by JLA. Pretty sure he does.

Okay, I haven't read that it's so much better than From Blood and Ash. I know, but it's so much better, I promise, I promise, Like it's almost like a different author wrote it. Okay, and this actually might be head canon. I don't know if I think I've just seen way too much fan art of Azrael.

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Well, because we haven't got his book yet. Right, but we can assume that that's gonna happen because he is of the shadow.

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So I'll read that one and, like I've seen and like I'm sorry, he cannot not be kinky.

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Oh yeah, it's always the quiet ones. Look at Nox.

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Yes, yeah, so like, and I feel like there's one more, but I can't, I can't do it off the screen right now.

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I think there is one more, because I think I asked you. I was like what the heck is this, this trigger warning? Like it was on a trigger warning. I think that I had read, and you had mentioned that that was a thing, and you mentioned Acotar. I was like, oh, okay, but I can't remember the book. I'll have to like see if I can go through. But yeah, no, that was super, that was like way hot. But I do have to say that one of my favorite scenes, though, is when Nox started like nerding out when they go to the archives.

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Yes.

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ewas like this has got to be an order. Like what are you doing? You're an idiot Like follow the boxes. Like him totally nerdy now on that scene. Like I bookmarked it because I'm like, oh my gosh, this is why Nox is my soulmate.

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Yeah, I mean any glimpse that we ever got of Nox, where his shield are down, like we get to see this other side of him. I was all about and I mean and I like that with any of your like big bad characters.

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Do we want to rank the males or no?

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I don't remember them. I mean, nux is one period, other than that don't remember. Okay, like I remember liking Gabriel because he's like the fun and flirty, like kind of happy-go-lucky guy right, Best friend, guy next door yeah. Typically, that's my least favorite character because I feel like they have such little character development Like they're like, I think, like the guy in Emerald Lakes, Kit Kat, Kai, Koi Kai. I was all over it.

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We really split today with the name we did.

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We really did, but like him, like he was that same way, like happy-go-lucky everything's great Happy done, you know, yes, and I just I mean, they're cute and they're very great for like that relief that you need in these heavier series, but they typically end up being my least favorite character just because, like, they don't have a ton of development.

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Yeah, I agree. So Nox would be my number one, and then Gryphon and North would be tied at two, and then Gabe and Atlas would be tied at three.

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Okay, I would. I feel like I would agree, because Atlas is the rich kid, right. I mean they were all like okay, and then Gryphon was like big buffy Nox's best friend. Yeah, I liked him a lot.

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Oh yeah, and then the bedroom was pretty hot too.

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Yes, okay, yep, I totally agree with that ranking then.

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Okay, yep, so are we ready to start rating? Sure, okay. So for the darkness, I would say a three or a four. Really, I mean because we have the murder here we go, you would go up to four.

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Yeah, yeah, on the page.

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Everything is on the page. Yeah, you know the whole trauma thing with Nox and of itself. I think just her relationship with him is like a four by itself. But like all the fighting while some of it is graphic, some of it's not I mean the death of Atlas' parents being hung, him becoming a cleaver, the dragon like eating everybody, like that. She did it so phenomenally well you know, yeah, she did. And then their relationships. So they didn't start out really good, you know, because they thought she ran away.

So you know the way that everybody treated her. Yeah, so I mean that, and of it's yeah, I'm thinking of four, four, what's our scale again? I gotta pull this up.

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Yeah, I think I would agree with that. I think really the only thing that's missing is, I mean, I guess technically they're all murderers, but like it's not, like they're out.

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They're not doing it, they're out. Yeah, so the reason why I'm not giving it a five is because they don't want to be killing. They don't want to be doing it, but they have to because right environment. So that's why. I feel like four is a good point. Yeah, a good scale. Yeah, with everything that's happening, because once the war is over, they're not going to be doing that no more. Right, it's necessity right so but it's still happening right. So we have to acknowledge that, and that's why I say a four.

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Yeah, I would agree with that. I'm good with that.

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Okay, and how do we feel about the spicy?

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You, you're gonna remember better than me. I mean I know there were a couple of scenes with like Nox and or North where she got tied like quote-unquote, tied down, held down by the shadows, but I think that's as kinky as it got. Yeah other than group scenes, obviously, but I don't consider group scenes, kinky, personally, especially if you're talking about like a reverse harem. Why choose romance?

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Okay, hold on, I gotta think on that for a second and see if I agree with you. I don't know if I know. I think it depends on the book and how it's written.

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I mean, okay, if you're talking about, like the group, scenes out of the four horsemen series for by I think it's Sarah Bailey, those were kinky AF.

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Yeah, they were kinky, I will give you that like.

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So that's what I think about. Like, if we're talking about kinky group scenes, that's kinky. We're like this, I know I mean it's just, it's just a bunch of people having sex. I.

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Mean I don't, know, Gryphon prepping Oli for Nox to come out of sex with her for the first time was pretty kinky. Okay, I mean nothing like, but not like like. I don't remember that. So the bonds were like either you guys do this or we're gonna take over and we're gonna make you bond. And so when they come back from a fighting scene or whatever, she goes to take a shower and then Griffin comes and then Gryphon kind of like warms her up or whatever, and then Nox comes in and like Fucks her from behind. And that's how they bought. It was pretty hot, like nothing, like it was like no scene or like no toys, but like I thought it was pretty kinky.

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I mean, you know okay.

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I would a three or a four, I would think, for spicy.

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Yeah, I mean, I totally agree that, that you would, you would land between those two. Yeah, I mean, I need to pick which one.

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So hold on, I pulled it up. So three is Making a sweat and four is smutty.

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It wouldn't be five because it wasn't kinky Yeah, would you Consider the series smutty? I feel like there's no yeah, I think that's where I'm struck, like there was such a good plot in story Development like I, I don't, I don't, like I would not read this story or I wouldn't read the series for smut. I would read this series for the story 100%, absolutely.

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Yeah, I'm not reading the series for the sex, so I can go with a three because of that. I'm reading it because it's such a fucking phenomenal Story and I love the magic system and I love the bonds and like all the things I'm not. The sex is just a bonus in this race. Yeah, yeah, I like it, so okay and then overall rating five stars, agreed, five stars.

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Yeah, I love the series. I'm not a person that rereads series typically and I would. I'm sure I will reread that series at some point because I did really, really love it, and I want the physical books also, by the way, so I can sit down and read there on my list.

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But I do have the special editions from the arcane society listen. There's so beautiful. I cannot wait for books three and six to show up. They're supposed to be hopefully shipping soon, but I need the print copies from you know J Bree version, Because those are just beautiful in of themselves.

:: 33:48

Yeah.

:: 33:50

I absolutely love the series. Five stars overall. So we decided listeners to do something a little bit different, because it was six books and there was a lot of quotes Alive we're gonna end this episode with an additional quote, just because there were so many to choose from and these were our top two picks, so all right, should say we're done, right, we don't is anything else.

:: 34:12

No, I think we're good.

:: 34:13

Our closing quote is. Recovery isn't about wiping the board clean. Recovery is learning how to function around all the scars and open wounds inside of us.

:: 34:23

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel like that's such a good quote. I feel like that's where they all ended up.

:: 34:30

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:: 34:42

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:: 34:55

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Until then, embrace the darkness and let the stories continue to stir your deepest desires.

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This is Mistie and Jenn signing off from bones of the story.

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