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Now imagine you work at a bookstore. 5 of you coworkers have read credence and all 'love' the book. I'm in hell.

Yeah. Somebody threw 50 Shades and Harry Potter in a blender along with the original Twilight and then said "hey, you know what? INCEST!"

as someone who uses taboo to reclaim trauma. there's a fine line between taboo and straight up horror. credence crossed it in the first few pages. i have no issues with ***fiction*** about things that are taboo, but there's also a line i personally draw and oh fucking god. no thank you SDFHJKFHDSJK

This actually would’ve made a great horror story about a young woman who has to escape a dangerous cult like situation after getting trapped by these grown ass men who groomed her into a false sense of security while also dealing with themes of childhood trauma and abuse. Like.. the horror themes were RIGHT THERE

"Kaleb the criminal" will never not be funny bc it's so real

I saw the notification and literally said out loud. "Oh, oh Vangelina no. Not Credence."

I'm just using this video as background ambience, but when you said "four beers isn't enough to get drunk" with your accent I genuinely fell off my chair with laughter. Thank you. Made my day.

A couple years ago, I had the misfortune of reading the book Bully…another Penelope Douglas gem. I bitched throughout the entire debacle. I’m pretty sure my husband was concerned for my wellbeing. Anywho, it’s good to know P. Douglas is still enraging a nation.

Love your narration because you read a parragraph all professional and then go "wtf I want to kms" valid

“Maybe this is how straight people feel reading this book” made me lose it 😂

Im 30 minutes in and HOW DID ANYONE RATE THIS FIVE STARS??? This is aweful

Also, I've just finished the entire video and just wanna give you a Super Thanks on how the hell you got through that whole horror show of a "romance book." I hope you continue to do stuff like book reviews on your channel My thoughts are that Kaleb needs to rot under the jail, Jake also needs to be in jail for being inappropriate with a minor, and Noah is just a weirdo. I was hoping that Tiernan run as far away from these sick bastards but i guess we can't have that according to Penelope. Smh. And i thought Colleen Hoover's books were terrible. Overall, that book was cringe but I'm glad you said what needed to be said about that book. This book is not romance, it's disgusting

Well, I haven't been this traumatised since The Time Traveller's Wife. But a plus is you have an amazing reading voice and I'd listen to every audio book you'd voice.

my friends and I play a game with things like this called "witness" where you shout "witness" then present whatever you find shocking or surprising or fundamentally weird without any context and observe the results while trying not to cackle till your friend has come to the same conclusion

I had no idea I needed one of my fun drama youtubers picking apart a bad smut book and criticising the math of shopping in remote locations on a budget But this literally is making my whole day thankyou for sharing your pain and wisdom with us all 😂❤😅

I am WAY too gay for this is such a mood.

Off topic but the dark hair and red lip combo looks absolutely S T U N N I N G on you 👏🏻✨

Thank god someone is calling this book out. TikTok is acting like this is a perfectly reasonable spicy book to read...I cant

Loved having you explain the book with the same horror that I feel in a lot of stories that are written about step family "romance"

An almost 2 hour VangelinaSkov video? SIGN ME UP!

It's so bad I forgot it wasn't Colleen Hoover

Amazon wanted me to buy this book and I thought from the cover it was probably a horror story of a Victorian boy in his aunts haunted house. Then I read the reviews…

I love the touch of you getting a glass of wine at 19:10 because honestly, same. Chef‘s kiss detail

40:15 They went quiet because they realized what an easy prey she is, easier than they believed she could be. Normally they would probably only try to break her, confuse her until they get what they want, then make it seem as if it is her problem, but because she does not have a feeling of "right", they can freely mess with her head. They realised, they just got a new servant, so they should be more careful as they have more to gain. Also, he is being rude and spoiled, but he is projecting onto her. This is not a normal parent-child relationship (at least not in a modern family, before modern family you were a property of parents (or slave-owner), which was bad). Even if she wouldn't be traumatized, he is still trying to pressure weaker and less experienced kid into S, his words have no meaning, he is just testing which button to push till he can start making her doubt her own judgement, so she is less able to resist his "judgement". It is also a bad tactic in general, one girl was telling me how her schoolmate was knowingly shaming her so she would have bad enough self-image to sleep with him. He is probably also trying to do that, lovebomb, tear her down, then present yourself as her saviour, but if he is good to you, you have to be good to him, feel grateful, it is probably what he would do, if she wouldn't straight out tell him she is already broken, no tearing down is needed.

This was supposed to be a werewolf book, wasn't it. And then the author backed out cause it was too popular or they didn't want to deal with the werewolf part...

The first minute of your video I was laughing so hard I cried, but then when you started reading from the book I thought you were tougher than I am. Even if this had been a book I would read (not even close), I would have tapped out at 1st person present tense. Just the little bit I’ve heard so far (she’s just arriving at the cabin) has me gritting my teeth in rage.

I have two cousins named Noah and Caleb… And they’re brothers😂😂

What's weird is how spot-on the men's names are... > Jake = Short for "Jacob". In Hebrew, this means "Supplanter", and he certainly supplanted Tiernan's parents. > Noah = Always drunk, right? In the Bible, Noah was a vinter whose drunkenness got him into trouble. > Caleb = The animal man. Oddly enough, Caleb means "Dog" in Hebrew.

Perks of Being a Wallflower has a playlist. Edit: Ok I’m in about 30 mins now, and this sounds like if white oleander was a smut book. Which is just kinda “whoa”

I’m not even 20 minutes in yet and I had to stop so I could comment this is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Your commentary is absolutely amazing 😂

I agree Kaleb is an abuser.

i recently had a splinter, a metal one from some steel wool, and frankly; what the fuck. i don't kinkshame, i'm generally quite open minded about what rocks other people's boats, if it's not my thing i just back out of a given web page or tag or what have you. but....sexily sucking a splinter out of someone's hand????? has the writer EVER had a splinter before????? even just once???????? someone go get that person a splinter right now so they can understand just how fucked up that was.

Two things that will make me abandon a story: A dog dies The r*word happens Yet I somehow made it through this whole video. I put it down to your presentation skills and the fact that you voiced my disgust. Well done.

Good ol P Dougs, reminding us that there’s an audience for EVERYTHING.

PH: What are you, doing, stepbro?

I hope this doesn't flop, I LOVE this kind of content (found you through alizee) and I had (thankfully it seems) never heard of this author or book but your take was very funny, engaging and my oh my am I glad I didn't have to read it myself. This is a PSA right here.

You read the book twice?! God help you. Thank you for your sacrifice.

This book reminds me of one fanfic I read where a rich family adopts an abandoned and traumatised boy and their biological son takes it upon himself to "study psychology" and "heal" his brother's issues, because getting him actual professional help would be too embarassing for their parents as it would get out through the grapevine and would make people talk. His solution? Demand they both move in together when they're barely of age and engaging in a weird and disgusting power-play BDSM dynamic, controlling him and treating him as his "pet". What is more, the "healer" brother describes his brothers nether region as "pink and completely hairless"... I will let you draw your own conclusions from that. The author herself with boast her "knowledge" of psychology, would block anyone who criticised her precious work, and would basically call her critics too weak to handle how she write a dom-sub dynamic. There was no indication in her writing that the scenes described there were extremely wrong and disgusting. You were supposed to root for them, because, well, shipping and hot steamy smut! If you can't handle that - blocked. She was also planning on publishing this thing and... let's just say, some people are delusional. To clarify, I didn't find it disgusting because they were two guys or because of the BDSM dynamics. I found it disgusting and problematic because sex was presented as a solution to trauma + the incestuous and frankly pdf file implications.

I don't think I can watch this because this book is just that creepy, but your narration is amazing

As someone who lives in Colorado, can guarantee... this wacky stuff doesn't happen even in the more mountainous regions. The only place I could see this happening would be the more conservative leaning area just south of Denver. It's in between Castle Rock and Colorado Springs and let's just say Colorado Springs is evangelical christian conservative heaven. Or maybe the east more towards Simon where there is nothing but grass and highway for miles and miles until you eventually run into St. Louis or Chicago. I'm not even kidding... that's how empty the Great Plains are. I mean, there's little towns here and there, but none as big as Denver, Chicago or St. Louis. SOOOOO... who knows. I really don't like this hearing this book tbh 🙃

I had to break it up in two parts... but holy heck what IS this book... I'm so glad I never got in touch with it cause using taboo in a book is fine, but you are right that this is a horror instead of romance. Thanks for sharing so I know to avoid it!

I started watching this, accidentally fell asleep, woke up HORRIFIED, rewatched the whole thing and ended up traumatized. Even if I could forgive the whole uncle and step niece thing (which I can’t!) the brothers!? His sons!? And out of all the guys (eww) she could’ve chosen, she chose CALEB!? I f*cking CAN’T. The way the author tries to redeem the r*pist is genuinely disgusting.

i'm gonna start putting the stages of grief here with timestamps as I go through this bc boy is it a rollercoaster 43 minutes in - This is a ok book it's just straight up a horror book not a romance. That's all I can tell so far.

yeah appearently in english 18 and 19 year olds are also called teenagers because it's the ages the numbers end with "teen" (eighTEEN, nineTEEN). this was also a cultural shock to me as in my native portuguese we stop calling people teenagers when they stop being minors, so when they turn 18

Bless you and Alizee for saving me from reading these books

Among many sins this piece of writing commits giving alcohol to a bleeding person isn't the one I thought I would see. Guys, alcohol makes blood thinner. This makes someone bleed out faster. To be fair I don't know what amount of alcohol is trurly dangerous, but like, just don't give tequila to someone bleeding a lot

This book sounds like a fever dream nightmare horror story, how was this even published?

What did I just listen to? Why couldn’t I stop listening to it? Also why did Caleb survive?

Vangelinaskov x Booktube is a mashup I was not expecting but it is DELIGHTFUL

Okay, I need to go read like a bookshelf’s worth of kid’s books or like… astronomy textbooks or something equally non-spicy to get the ick out of my brain.

This was a whole lotta ick

I love your content, and I thoroughly enjoyed your review of this book. (Your outrage and disgust were amusing and relatable!) I would definitely be down for more book reviews and other long form content from you. No matter what you are doing, I stay coming back to your channel because I am genuinely so fond of your personality!

tysm for the music background choice! really appreciate it a lot

Too long for me, but I dropped a like for the amount of work you put in, and I just want to say: you look great! I don't know if it's a new skincare routine or what, but wow!

I think my brain broke somewhere during this video because all I can think to say is I'm glad I was using headphones because I'd have been embarrassed for my cat to hear what I was listening to. I'd be embarrassed for anyone to know, but she was just innocently lying there cuddling me and I'm listening to smut.

only 40 minutes in and it's an absolute horror story

I dare you to read the legitimate award winning canadian novel about a woman and her relations with a bear. I’m serious. It won awards

I would loveeee more long book reviews, so good to listen to while im working!

I have read and enjoyed a lot of dark and sometimes even taboo books. It's not the taboo nature of the book that makes me hate it, it's the fact that the author is a terrible writer, the plot is half-assed and the character development is nonexistent.

This is my favorite video you have ever made! Thank you for putting in so much work to make this.

I hope this author will celebrate her success by getting therapy

I'm working while watching this, as I work from home, and I think this story has traumatized me from the name Kaleb as I go to look at my email and see the name Caleb (different spelling but same pronunciation) and I immediately cringed

Loved this format! I’m definitely behind more bonkers spicy romance reviews

12 minutes into this video and this already sounds painfully close to Diabolik Lovers, one of the most reprehensible anime I've ever had the displeasure to watch.

So, I’ve been an ardent reader and occasional writer of fanfiction since middle school, so believe me when I say that I know taboo romance. I’m not a huge “dead dove do not eat” reader, but I’ve scrolled past a whole lot and read enough to know what good and bad treatment of taboo topics looks like. I’ve only recently been getting back to published romance recently after being scared away from the genre a couple years ago, so I’m less familiar with published taboo romance, but let’s be real, wattpad and published novels are overlapping more and more every year. This book is giving off a particular kind of energy that makes me want to run far, far away

This is a great video. I would love to see you break down more book content!!! ❤

PLEASE do more of these!!

They're werewolves, right? This seems like a cheesy werewolf romance...

I love this type of content! Keep on!

Vangelinaskov, THANK YOU for that in depth exploration into this novel. I look on this book much the same way I see the "Twilight" books (particularly the "wolf clan") and the Twenty Shades of grey--which seems to be (barely cloaked porn/Abuse). Like you, I am not a "prude" but I don't find this style of writing edifying to my soul. Thank you for falling on your sword for us (me) so I don't have to take the journey myself.

Wow…. This was horrifying! I’ve been subbed to your channel for a while and watching you grow as a creator is amazing! I can’t wait to see what you create next!

loved the video and watched all the way to the end!!

Thanks for taking one for the team.

This is intellectual torture… I normally praise watching someone suffer when they do a “I read this so you don’t have” with caveat that it causes suffering which I find entertaining, but… this stuff.. oooffph…

This was amazing- horrific- but omg I loved listening to you react to it.

Thank you for making an enjoyable piece of content using an utter dredge of a book.

I'm so glad I was crocheting while listening to your video because otherwise, I would have lost my mind entirely. I'm glad I watched it because I'm on a reading binge and now I know which author to avoid. Either way, I really enjoyed this video. It would be cool to see more videos like this, even if it's just once in a while.

Just putting it out there this is my favorite video you’ve done so far I know you said it’s not gonna get a lot of views but for what it’s worth as an audience member I eat this shit UPPPP 😭😭😭

I stopped reading WattsApp and the like because the level of trauma every FMC goes through is absurd. I think abuse and neglect are the #1 criteria to get published on those apps. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Love love love this style of video/content for you, you also look so pretty!!! This story is…alarming to say the least, thanks for copping all that for us 🫠🫡

This was a great listen while driving to work. I swear the faces of disgust I made must have worried fellow commuters

I’m worrying about the new kid😂 this was wild lol super fun well done🎉

Your commentary is hilarious.

I don't want to risk your sanity but please do more of these.

I love the book coverage even though that book was insane. Thanks!

I feel like I belong on some kinda list now omg haha but uh... you did great ? This was wild

Why is it the `Step family member hitting on the orphaned family member' trope is nasty in western books and tv, but is kinda interesting in manga and anime?

I will say, as unhinged and deranged as this book is, I’m very glad it’s marketed as a dark book. It’s not pretending to be romance unlike some very popular romance books that are actually horror. This book proves you can still be successful while marketing your dark books as /dark books/. Hopefully, CoHo/her agent & publishers are taking note.

1:25 akchually, the author of the Metro series did that in his blog where he published chapters, so he may very well be the first one to do it

I absolutely loved this video! You did great and it was so interesting hearing about this book that is just atrocious.

Can we just get more videos of you reading with commentary, doesn't have to be horror like this book any would do🧡

I love this video!

They can't see them, probably from the camo.... in the snow 😅

I just realized my face hurts from cringing so much with this story

I read trashy romance as a youth because my stepsister collected the paperbacks. It was corny but whatever. Since 50 Shades people have somehow decided garbage writing with twisted characters mixed with shock value equals money and literature has died in its wake. Sure shock value has been in classic books but it’s there to make you uncomfortable or to further a character not just sell books to desensitized degens and hate readers. I put this in the same class as these demented far right “moral values” books that all give off weirdo vibes. I mourn for the trees that gave their lives for these things.

When it comes to straight up erot... you know, I'm gonna censor that word before we make KZfaq even madder, but I expect most people can add an -ica. ANYWAY Amazon has what's commonly known as the 'adult dungeon' policy for erot... that's *too* taboo. Once your book's in the dungeon, Amazon basically stops promoting it. Actual -ncest is a 'straight to the dungeon, we might possibly delete your whole account' foul. So the whole emphasis on step-relationships comes from a former erot... author who's decided to cross over without changing their approach too much.

The beggining of this book sounds like Amy's parents from Gone Girl a bit.

Thank you for suffering and sharing the misery! This is an absolutely horrific book, and never have I been more grateful that my stepparents don’t have kids of their own 🤢

Listen sometimes i do like a little cheesey romance... But this is like over the top fanfiction. First off, how the eff did you fall in love with them? Sure they talked here and there but was there any real bonding? Did i miss something here? Especially since all they've done is hit her, berate her, and treat her like a piece of ass. Now they are all in love like a little incest love nest... As you do. The psych in me makes me think maybe it's because she's effed up but then it's like... No just no none of these people. You should've gone off and got therapy and just wow