Speaker 1: This is Suckers.
Speaker 2: I'm Kailan Bell, I'm Dean Bell, and I'm Jared.
Speaker 1: Habn An iHeartRadio podcast. Hello everyone, Welcome to an all
Speaker 1: new episode of Suckers Kaylan's Corner. This week, we're doing
Speaker 1: things a little bit differently, and by we, I mean
Speaker 1: me because Dean is not joined by my side today.
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about books this week, and I
Speaker 1: hope you don't tune away because I talked about this
Speaker 1: last week how I kind of struggle talking about pop culture.
Speaker 2: I love pop culture.
Speaker 1: I could definitely chat about it, but sometimes it just
Speaker 1: feels like I'm talking crap and I don't love that.
Speaker 2: My soul doesn't love that.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned that I would love to talk about
Speaker 1: books and I could talk about them for hours and
Speaker 1: hours and hours, And as many of you know, I
Speaker 1: am trying to read fifty books this year. I'm currently
Speaker 1: on book ten. I just finished my ninth this morning,
Speaker 1: and in my DMS this week after this podcast. After
Speaker 1: that podcast came out, a few of you said you
Speaker 1: would be super interested in that, So let's try it out.
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy this. Let me know, give me
Speaker 2: some feedback.
Speaker 1: I was thinking it would be hard to talk about
Speaker 1: books weekly, but if we did, like a monthly book club.
Speaker 2: I do think that could be pretty fun.
Speaker 1: Like we all read the same book, come together at
Speaker 1: the end of the month and chat about it.
Speaker 2: So let me know your thoughts.
Speaker 1: I am currently in a lengthy series, but I could
Speaker 1: definitely pivot because I don't think any of you want
Speaker 1: to start Thrown of Glass book four, but maybe The Nightingale.
Speaker 1: I'm open to any suggestions. If you hate the idea,
Speaker 1: we don't have to do it, but let me know
Speaker 1: your thoughts, because I do think it could be fun.
Speaker 1: And I have loved chatting with you all in my
Speaker 1: DMS about books, like just getting your thoughts and bantering
Speaker 1: back and forth.
Speaker 2: It's so fun. So I think that could.
Speaker 1: Be a better way and a bigger outlet to do
Speaker 1: that and chat more deeply.
Speaker 2: So let me know.
Speaker 1: But we're going to try it out this week, and
Speaker 1: I'm just going to kind of go through the books
Speaker 1: I've read so far this year and my favorite books
Speaker 1: in general. Last year, I think I read like three books,
Speaker 1: which is crazy because right now I'm on book ten.
Speaker 1: My favorite book I read last year was The Seven
Speaker 1: Husbands of Evely and Hugo.
Speaker 2: It's such an easy read. It's such a good read.
Speaker 1: It's about old Hollywood glamour, and it's really a really
Speaker 1: great story. If you haven't read that, I would suggest
Speaker 1: reading that. I think that's a good way to get
Speaker 1: back into reading. I think the best way to get
Speaker 1: back into reading. If you're like in a rut, you
Speaker 1: haven't read in a while, you gotta read Fourth Wing.
Speaker 1: It is the best book ever. Maybe not ever. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's hard to say that, but it is
Speaker 1: so good. I am so obsessed with this book. I
Speaker 1: have never been so in love with the book. And
Speaker 1: the hangover that comes after it's brutal, but this book
Speaker 1: it's kind of like I heard someone describe it once
Speaker 1: and it was the perfect description, and I'll probably butcher it.
Speaker 1: It's like Game of Thrones. It's Harry Potter meets How
Speaker 1: to Train Your Dragon essentially, And if you love all
Speaker 1: those things, you are going to love this book.
Speaker 2: If you love a strong.
Speaker 1: Female lead, you're going to love this book mentally, even
Speaker 1: physically eventually.
Speaker 2: It's so good.
Speaker 1: If you love smut, You've got plenty of smut in
Speaker 1: this book. First and second book. It's so good. And
Speaker 1: the thing I love about this book. Typically you're like
Speaker 1: getting all the background in a book, it takes you
Speaker 1: a couple chapters to finally get into it. I think
Speaker 1: it was like three sentences in I was hooked. And
Speaker 1: what sucks is I'm still counting this on my twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four books because I started it December, let's say
Speaker 1: twenty seventh, and I finished it in January, so I'm
Speaker 1: going to count it. But I started it right before
Speaker 1: we moved, and so I'm supposed to be packing. I've
Speaker 1: got so much to do, and all I could do
Speaker 1: was think about this book. And I took so many
Speaker 1: book breaks reading breaks. I just could not put it down,
Speaker 1: could not stop thinking about it. It was in my dreams.
Speaker 1: I was dreaming about dragons. It's phenomenal. And I've been
Speaker 1: telling everyone I know, you have to read this book
Speaker 1: and you will fly through it. I told my best friend.
Speaker 1: She read it in three days, then she read the
Speaker 1: second book in like two days, and then she reread them,
Speaker 1: so now she's read them twice. I have read them
Speaker 1: twice as well, because I love them so much. I
Speaker 1: haven't counted them towards my fifty books because I did
Speaker 1: the audible version. So I read them the first time,
Speaker 1: and then when I was driving out to Colorado during
Speaker 1: the move, I listened to them. And I don't really
Speaker 1: consider audible reading. I think a lot of people do.
Speaker 1: I don't, so I haven't counted it. So technically I
Speaker 1: am on my If I did, i'd be on my
Speaker 1: eleventh book, twelfth book. But I mean that just goes
Speaker 1: to show how much I love it twice. I've never
Speaker 1: read a book twice. I don't think, yeah never. So
Speaker 1: they are so so good, and they are being made
Speaker 1: into the series is being made into a TV show.
Speaker 1: It's going to be five books total. I believe, yeah,
Speaker 1: it should be five books total. And then Michael B.
Speaker 1: Jordan and Amazon purchased the rights to the show, so
Speaker 1: they are casting right now for the show, and I
Speaker 1: think this is going to be hopefully, if they do
Speaker 1: it right, this could be like on Game of Thrones level.
Speaker 1: It is just so good and I can't wait to
Speaker 1: see who they cast. The thing that's challenging too, is
Speaker 1: these people, the way they're described. They are the most beautiful,
Speaker 1: the hottest, most ripped people you've ever seen in your life.
Speaker 1: And I don't know who the heck, they're going to
Speaker 1: cast because in my mind, I'm like, nobody looks like that, truly.
Speaker 1: They are just this couple in this like everyone from
Speaker 1: the college really is just perfect. But it is if
Speaker 1: you're in a rut, if you want to get back
Speaker 1: into reading, I do think this is the best way,
Speaker 1: because here's what this book does to you. You read
Speaker 1: Fourth Wing, you read Iron Flame. Rebecca Yaros has not
Speaker 1: said when the third book is coming out, which I'm
Speaker 1: so frustrated by. But this one did just come out
Speaker 1: like three months ago, so it's going to be a while.
Speaker 1: You read those two books, and you are going to
Speaker 1: be in such a book hangover. You're going to want
Speaker 1: to get this book out of your mind, but you
Speaker 1: won't be able to. No book can compare. I give
Speaker 1: Fourth Wing five stars. I think it's that good. And
Speaker 1: so what I've been doing and why I have been
Speaker 1: reading so much is because all I want is to
Speaker 1: forget about Fourth Wing, and nothing is making me forget
Speaker 1: about Fourth Wing. But I am reading good books in
Speaker 1: the process too, So that's I mean, I really do
Speaker 1: think that's the best way, because then you're like deep
Speaker 1: in a book hangover, desperate to get out and all
Speaker 1: you can do is keep reading. It's a great cycle
Speaker 1: that I'm in currently. So after that, I was suggested
Speaker 1: to read A Court of Thorns and Roses that is
Speaker 1: a five book series. Flew through that one. My issue
Speaker 1: with it, and people love this series. They speak so
Speaker 1: highly of it, and I think it gets too much
Speaker 1: preyse Honestly, I compare it to when people say they
Speaker 1: love a TV show and they're like, just get through
Speaker 1: the first season, just get through the first two seasons
Speaker 1: whatever it is, and then it gets good, Like, well,
Speaker 1: is it really that good of a show if this
Speaker 1: show is only like three or four seasons and you're
Speaker 1: telling me to get through a few seats, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know if it's a good show.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel about this book. The first book
Speaker 1: was so hard to get into. It took me so
Speaker 1: long to read, and finally towards the end I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know. I still have some issues with it.
Speaker 1: Second book it took me until halfway through where I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, now I'm into it. Third book I liked.
Speaker 1: Fourth book, which I call a novella, was terrible and
Speaker 1: it's funny because reading those books and there's so much
Speaker 1: action and so much going on, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I just want them to be happy. I just want
Speaker 1: to read about them being happy and living peacefully. And
Speaker 1: that's what Sarah Moss, if I'm pronouncing that correctly, gave
Speaker 1: us with the fourth book, the novella, and I hated it.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, I need action. So then the
Speaker 1: fifth book came around, could not get into it. It
Speaker 1: wasn't until like page three hundred and fifty that I
Speaker 1: was finally like, Okay, now I like this.
Speaker 2: So is it really a good series?
Speaker 1: If I technically only liked two books, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like two halves of a book and one full book,
Speaker 1: don't I don't know. But it gave me a lot
Speaker 1: of background for a book that I'm loving now, which
Speaker 1: is Throne of Glass. And people as much as they
Speaker 1: rave about Aqatar, now people are coming and dming me
Speaker 1: and saying no, Throne of Glass is the best series,
Speaker 1: which I'm so excited about because this is an eight
Speaker 1: book series and I have been flying through these books.
Speaker 1: I read the first one in three days, read the
Speaker 1: second one in three days, just finished it this morning.
Speaker 1: Now I'm on the third book, and there's so I
Speaker 1: think why people don't love it as much some people
Speaker 1: is because there's not a lot of smut. Fourth Wing
Speaker 1: Iron Flame lots of smut, a Gatar whole thing, lots
Speaker 1: of smut.
Speaker 2: This one.
Speaker 1: I'm on book three and no smut so far, and
Speaker 1: I'm not missing it. For me, I like action, and
Speaker 1: that's the hard thing. I didn't go to bed until
Speaker 1: like one am last night because I was like in
Speaker 1: the thick of the book, thick of the action, and
Speaker 1: I just couldn't put it down. And that's also the
Speaker 1: problem with Fourth Wing is that it just doesn't let up.
Speaker 1: It's constant action, and you're like, how am I supposed
Speaker 1: to stop reading? Because it's constantly action, Like there's no break,
Speaker 1: there's no pause, there's no little lull.
Speaker 2: But I love it also for that reason.
Speaker 1: So Throne of Glass is phenomenal. And so I've gone
Speaker 1: down this deep rabbit hole with Sarah Mas's series and
Speaker 1: I can't stop. So I'm in this eight book series
Speaker 1: and then she has one more three series book. This
Speaker 1: is all in the same world, if you will. So
Speaker 1: after that, after my eight books that I have left
Speaker 1: in this world, I'm going to pivot back to the
Speaker 1: real world because it's been a lot of dragons and
Speaker 1: magic and I need a break. I think after this,
Speaker 1: especially after eating more books of it, I'm definitely going
Speaker 1: to need a break. And I think Nightingale I was
Speaker 1: told I need to add that to like top top
Speaker 1: top of my list. So you know, if you're interested
Speaker 1: in doing a book club, let me know you want
Speaker 1: to read Nightingale if you already have. I feel like
Speaker 1: that's a book a lot of people have read. So
Speaker 1: if you have any suggestions you want to do a
Speaker 1: Suckers book club, I think it would be really fun.
Speaker 1: But in terms of talking about books, I don't want
Speaker 1: to give anything away, So if you haven't read the books,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do my best not to spoil it
Speaker 1: for you, especially Fourth Wing, but I do also want
Speaker 1: to discuss it with you, so I'm a little conflicted.
Speaker 1: But I do think most of you have read Fourth
Speaker 1: Wing from what we've chatted about in my.
Speaker 2: DMS, and.
Speaker 1: I so now that I've read it twice, there are
Speaker 1: so many clues in ways that the things were given away,
Speaker 1: like okay, so I am going to spoil it if
Speaker 1: you haven't read it, Zayden turning into a venin. I
Speaker 1: don't know that that was necessarily alluded to. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys are on TikTok and reading
Speaker 1: all the theories, but I'm gonna give you a couple
Speaker 1: theories that I think have some merit to it. Someone
Speaker 1: said that she thinks, you know, this goddess is mentioned
Speaker 1: so many times, the goddess of war. Maybe they think
Speaker 1: that that could be Zaiden's mother, And people obviously are
Speaker 1: all about thinking that Violet and her mom are both venin.
Speaker 2: So there are so many clues.
Speaker 1: And I even went back because in the second book,
Speaker 1: I really hope if you have not read this, you
Speaker 1: tuned out a while ago, because now I'm like even
Speaker 1: panicking putting this in the podcast. So I went back
Speaker 1: to book one when I reread it and was thinking
Speaker 1: about Jack Barlow because she's like, I know when he
Speaker 1: turned ven and it's when he fought me, and I
Speaker 1: didn't even pay attention to that, so I don't quite
Speaker 1: remember those red rings around his eyes. But it also
Speaker 1: didn't totally align with me, but who knows. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited for book three. Part of me likes reading people's
Speaker 1: theories but another part of me is like, I just
Speaker 1: want to be so surprised. But obviously, Rebecca Arris is
Speaker 1: a phenomenal writer and she's gonna shock as left and right.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's so funny because people are so they're like,
Speaker 1: I predicted that. I knew that was gonna happen. My
Speaker 1: best friend she's like, I knew Zadan was a mind reader.
Speaker 2: I just knew it.
Speaker 1: And I was like, what, I think I read so fast,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, so in it. I'm not thinking ahead
Speaker 1: or trying to predict things. And I do that with
Speaker 1: shows and movies too, where I do not like to
Speaker 1: predict anything, and I hate when people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: saw that coming, saw that coming from a mile away.
Speaker 2: I'm like I am.
Speaker 1: I just want to be present. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be thinking anything else. So that's my thoughts on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: didn't predict Zaydan being a venin. Maybe everyone else did.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm doing my best not to predict,
Speaker 1: but I like the goddess theory and I think obviously
Speaker 1: Violet is part venin as well. This will be so
Speaker 1: much easier when it's a book club podcast.
Speaker 2: If we do that, maybe you guys say this.
Speaker 1: Maybe you guys never want to hear me talk about
Speaker 1: books again, but if we do that, it'll be so
Speaker 1: much easier because I know everyone has read the book.
Speaker 1: But I'm struggling because I don't want to give anything
Speaker 1: away and I don't want to spoil anything. I certainly
Speaker 1: cannot spoil Fourth Wing for you, because, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I can just rave on and on about it. But
Speaker 1: there are so many predictions on tiktoks and theories and
Speaker 1: places my mind never went, and it's been really fun
Speaker 1: to dive into that. Also, cast predictions has been really fun.
Speaker 1: I haven't found a single person for Violet that I've
Speaker 1: liked yet, Zayden, Matthew Dadario possibly also Reggie Bridgerton guy possibly,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: No one's really like hitting it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I haven't found him yet, but probably the
Speaker 1: casting directors who are really good at their job are
Speaker 1: going to find the perfect Saiden. So I do want
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about Akatar too and my
Speaker 1: thoughts without spoiling again. I'm gonna hit two points two
Speaker 1: loose ends that I'm super frustrated by, and maybe some
Speaker 1: other people are too and can explain. Maybe I miss
Speaker 1: something or maybe it's just not that important and I'm
Speaker 1: fixated on it.
Speaker 2: Again. This isn't spoiling anything.
Speaker 1: But I was shocked that the loose ends were never
Speaker 1: tied with Aris and More, especially in the fifth book.
Speaker 1: I mean, so much had been talked about about this
Speaker 1: for three books at that point, and there was a
Speaker 1: huge emphasis on it on the final book and Hearing
Speaker 1: the Truth, and Aris kept saying more knows the truth,
Speaker 1: more knows the truth, but she doesn't want to tell you.
Speaker 1: And they were alluding to some sort of goodness in
Speaker 1: Eires and we never got that. We never got the
Speaker 1: truth of what happened, why he did what he did.
Speaker 1: I think I know obviously why he did what he did,
Speaker 1: but we never got it. And I kind of needed
Speaker 1: it to be said outright, and I needed I just
Speaker 1: needed that to be finished. And it just I don't know,
Speaker 1: that was weird to fixate it on so much and
Speaker 1: then you're just like.
Speaker 2: Oh, right, bye.
Speaker 1: Also, there's one thing that could be a spoiler, so
Speaker 1: I guess I won't say it. Maybe just skip fifteen
Speaker 1: seconds if you haven't read it and you're going to
Speaker 1: read it. But I thought either Nesta was going to
Speaker 1: be queen. It just kind of like I thought it
Speaker 1: made sense. I thought she was going to be queen,
Speaker 1: and now I'm blinking because I'm on a different series.
Speaker 1: Her boyfriend, her mate. I thought they were going to
Speaker 1: roll together because there's this whole fixation on the bastard thing.
Speaker 1: But that never happened, and I was like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe I was wrong there. But then I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: then definitely Rice is going to be king, right, No,
Speaker 1: So I was shocked by those two things, not necessarily
Speaker 1: a loose end, just something that I predicted that I
Speaker 1: was wrong about. The other loose end that I'm frustrated,
Speaker 1: which is a much smaller thing and a much smaller
Speaker 1: plot in the story storyline. In the story uh Lucien
Speaker 1: and Hellian, we just never never going to address that
Speaker 1: to either one of them. That seems so dumb, like
Speaker 1: why would we never? There was a great instance for
Speaker 1: something to happen there, whether it be in a battle, nothing,
Speaker 1: So that I was pretty frustrated by. I don't have
Speaker 1: any loose sense for Fourth Wing, because you know, we
Speaker 1: were only on book two out of the five, and
Speaker 1: on Throne of Glass, there are so many loose ends
Speaker 1: but I'm on book three and I still have five
Speaker 1: more books to read.
Speaker 2: So those are my book thoughts.
Speaker 1: So just one last time, if you are interested in
Speaker 1: a book club. I know I'm pushing it hard, but
Speaker 1: I do think it would be so fun to chat
Speaker 1: with you guys, to read a book together, to have
Speaker 1: our own little suckers book club.
Speaker 2: I just love the idea of it. Share what books
Speaker 2: you think we should read.
Speaker 1: I don't want to jump into book five of Throne
Speaker 1: of Glass because that seems silly. We could do book
Speaker 1: one of Crescent City if you guys haven't read that,
Speaker 1: but it.
Speaker 2: Seems like most of you have Night and Gale open
Speaker 2: to anything.
Speaker 1: Honestly, let me know, Lemon know your thoughts, DM me,
Speaker 1: DM help. I suck at dating and we can discuss.
Speaker 1: But if Fourth Wing you want to get back into reading,
Speaker 1: Fourth Wing seems a little daunting to you.
Speaker 2: It is a thick book. Maybe you're not into the
Speaker 2: fantasy thing.
Speaker 1: I honestly thought didn't think I was into the fantasy thing,
Speaker 1: but now I'm on book ten, so if that's not
Speaker 1: really your thing, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is
Speaker 1: also such an incredible book, and another thing that kind
Speaker 1: of revamped my love for reading.
Speaker 2: I also really liked Normal People.
Speaker 1: It was different from other books that I've been reading,
Speaker 1: but it was good and I watched the show after
Speaker 1: I Actually I haven't finished the show, but I started
Speaker 1: watching the show.
Speaker 2: Thought that was cast pretty well.
Speaker 1: But The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is such a
Speaker 1: great book and I can't wait for that to be turned.
Speaker 2: Into a movie again.
Speaker 1: I don't know who they would cast as Evelyn, because
Speaker 1: she's another one who's just written as the most beautiful person.
Speaker 1: Everyone stops and stares as she enters into the room.
Speaker 1: And these writers are so good at writing. I'm like,
Speaker 1: who the heck looks like this? I have no idea,
Speaker 1: but I'm excited for all of these books to come
Speaker 1: to life. Excited to chat with you, chat more books
Speaker 1: with you, even if you hate the idea of doing
Speaker 1: it on a podcast. We'll just keep chatting to my dms.
Speaker 1: So let me know and be sure to tune in
Speaker 1: next week, where we'll talk about pop culture and maybe
Speaker 1: suck just a little bit less.