and welcome to JSA TV, where we're covering the latest stories, trends, and innovations from leaders in global connectivity, real estate, and the networks within. Buffy Harakitas of JSA, and joining me today is Matt Reed. He is the VP of Business Development for 1623 Farnham, a regional leader in network neutral edge interconnection and data center services. Thanks for having me. Yeah, Matt. Welcome. We're here in sunny Honolulu, no better place to be for this JSA TV interview. And while we're on the topic of 2024 PTC, one of the things that's on everyone's minds here at the show and industry wide is capacity. Right. So from your perspective and 1623 Farnham's perspective, what is driving that demand specifically within your ecosystem? Yeah. So in our ecosystem, I see a steady drive of demand for what we're seeing is with CDNs, some AI and then a network as a service companies. There's a few different components to it. And then with the state and federal funding programs that are out there, we're seeing a lot of fiber being built out in these markets. It's just popping up everywhere. So that's a real heavy trend with all the fiber going in the ground. And then at 1623 Farnham, we're unique in a way where we're a Google on-ramp for a Google Cloud partner. So there's a lot of activity around that for the US Central One. So we do see a few different components to it, but it's a little bit of everything. Yeah. I mean, capacity is definitely a key topic. We're hearing about it in all the panels here at the show. And I know one of your milestones was adding significant capacity with some generators, new generators to meet this demand. Can you tell us a little bit more about that news? Yeah. So, you know, we added three new one and a half meg generators. You know, we weren't really at the need to have it for capacity. You know, with the leadership at 1623 Farnham that had the forward-thinking mindset, we didn't want to be in a position where we were under, you know, like with the supply chain demands. We wanted to have things ready in place for our customers when it was ready. So, you know, we have the space, we have the power, you know, so we can keep, you know, meeting the demands of those customers. Yeah. And in today's low latency environments, I mean, capacity is just half the battle. The other half is obviously connectivity. How is 1623, you know, grown so strategically to become actually the epicenter of connectivity within the ecosystem, specifically in Omaha? Yeah. So, for those that don't know, Omaha is a tech-building community. You know, we're seeing a ton of hyper-scaler activities. So, you know, with the power that's available there, the fiber connectivity, those types of things that are happening in that environment, location is key for us. You know, we're the border-to-border coast-to-coast. We're right in the middle of the U.S. for that. So, that's a big draw for a lot of community or a lot of providers and content providers that are in that space. And that's the big driver for, you know, how we're being successful. And, you know, the things that make up that ecosystem for us, it's, you know, I can't go without saying, too, that makes us more unique is, you know, the mindset that we have there at 1623 Farnham. The team that's there, we have the mindset of a customer-focused first and, you know, easy to do business with. That makes up our culture and, you know, location is key for everybody, too. Yeah, location is always key. So, any other recent news that you wanted to discuss today while we're here? Yeah. So, another part of 1623 Farnham, we own and operate the OMA-IX. So, kind of a milestone for us, which is pretty exciting for us is we hit a terabyte of traffic here just late last year. So, we're seeing, again, a ton of traffic that's been driven to the peering exchange. So, if anybody wants to talk about peering with us, happy to have us reach out to us and happy to have those conversations. Yeah. All right. Well, anything else you wanted to add? That's it. Yeah. Are you enjoying Honolulu here? I am.  And I just kept telling myself, I'm going to be in Hawaii this afternoon. So, I'm glad to be here. Yeah. Well, we're so glad to have you here from 1623. Thank you so much for joining us today. And thank you, viewers, for tuning in to another episode of JSA TV. Stay curious, stay connected, and happy networking.


Let's answer some questions, shall we, Mr. Braun? Sure. Got a new 16-inch MacBook Pro M1 the other day. Love the fingerprint reader, but my beloved eject button is gone. I used to use the keyboard shortcut of Control-Eject to bring up the shutdown dialog box. Can't find the keystroke combo or keys to duplicate this beloved shutdown procedure. Now I have to mouse around to shutdown. So here's the secret. System preferences, keyboard shortcuts, app shortcuts, shutdown dot dot dot is what I... So I added shutdown dot dot dot and then you can say what function key it maps to. There you go. Right. Yeah, and you're adding that in and you're typing in shutdown dot dot dot there, right?   That's awesome. Yes, you got to hit that little plus button at the bottom once you've highlighted shortcuts. Exactly. And then put it in there. I've actually still used one for years that Max Sparky came up with, which is to PDF, say something's a PDF. You just hit command P, hit the P twice and it automatically say don't have to go through all the print dialogues and all that. Oh. Just bang bang. You just blew my mind. Yeah. Pete, of course. Yeah.


This visible light Hubble picture reveals an intergalactic pipeline of material flowing between two battered galaxies that bumped into each other about 100 million years ago. The pipeline, the dark string of matter, begins in 1410, the galaxy on the left crosses over 20,000 light years of intergalactic space and wraps around 1409, the companion galaxy on the right.


How are you guys this weekend over the past year year and a half? I've really discovered the nutritional density of whey protein specifically high-quality 100% grass-fed whey protein. We've done in-depth videos explaining why it's so good for you I've showed it in several day of eatings, but I've never actually explained to you guys how to make it flavored because on Frankie's range foods We just have grass-fed whey protein literally nothing else in it one ingredient the whey From the cheese making process is just dried and that's what you have in a bag 100% animal product rich in B vitamins incredibly rich in protein Very concentrated source of minerals, which is very hard to get now especially with soil depletion overall One of the healthiest most approachable foods you can consume in any diet And I've added this to my sister's oatmeal You can really incorporate this into a picky eaters diet very well And one of the main reasons I'm talking about this today is because just two days ago We did a video talking about insure and I mentioned hey just have a protein shake So this is going to be something liquid you can give to someone that is drinking those crappy nutritional shakes We're gonna do vanilla Chocolate and also explain how to do a berry powder if you'd like to as with everything I do the focus here is quality Organic natural ingredients and this whey protein is so delicious just on its own But when you add flavorings a little bit of sweetener a little bit of salt really takes it up to the next level And one really overlooked factor is the water people using everything you definitely want a glass Bottle of mineral water and I don't like these guys. 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I'd like to present you DH Distiller, quite recent depth helper plug-in, which adds support to another build system. So but first a few questions. I guess everyone in here knows depth helper. Who packages Perl module rules in here? Oh I see two people coming in who do, at least, they were just in time. So who packages Perl tools, well, okay, some more. Who packages his own Perl tools as a depth, well, okay. So who knows Distiller, okay always the same group I think here, and who uses Distiller for his own Perl modules, okay. So we'll need a little bit introduction into Distiller. Distiller is basically a helper for Perl module authors, which don't want to repeat themselves. CPAN needs quite some files which contain metadata like the dependencies, some exact commands to build the distribution, et cetera, and those usually are dependent from your actual Perl code. What Distiller does is with many plugins, look at your Perl code and it generates this file, these files, upon build. So you only need usually one single configuration file which has all the non-deterministic metadata like maybe sometimes the version, which isn't hard-coded in a module, sometimes you can say oh take the version from that module there it is in, et cetera, it has a quite, Distiller's command is diesel and it works similar to Git in the sense that it has subcommands. So there are commands to build the distribution, to uncover it, to install it, to run the test suite, to actually make a release and upload it to CPAN. So that's all very nice and helpful, so you don't have to commit any generated files into your Git repository, they are just put into the final table, but it makes Debian packaging a little bit difficult if you have such a Git repository. The typical workflow, if you have such Git repositories, you build the table for CPAN, re-import it into the upload branch for Debian with all the generated stuff included and then you match that branch again into the Debian branch, there may be a Prist and TAR branch be involved too, so you have already four branches, then you update the packaging, build the depth and upload it too. That's quite a lot of things you need to do, usually mainly, a few of them you can shortcut with using Git build package, Git import, ORIG, etc., but still what I want is building the depth directly from my checked out Git branch, from the master branch which only has Distini and my Perl code. I want to skip the TAR ball generation and especially the re-import of importing generated stuff into Git repository, it's not my thing. So that's where DH distiller comes in. DH distiller is a plug-in to depth helper which knows about Distini and does all the right steps to build a Debian package from such Git repository for all, doesn't need to be Git but can be any other VCS. So there are two obstacles when using the helper with such a repository, there's no build PL or make file PL, so it won't recognize it as Perl module and well for bootstrapping DH make Perl won't find a meter or other. The first step currently is a manual one, you want a diesel build, go into the build directory, there DH make Perl finds everything it needs and you copy back to the Debian directory. But the other step is what DH distiller currently is about, it will generate build PL, make file PL in a sub-directory and then we'll tell DH auto-configure, DH auto-build to do the actual build inside that sub-directory with the generated metadata. And same for clean, instead of DH, well it also wants DH auto-clean but the main clean target is doing the diesel clean one, which cleans up the build directory, nothing more is actually needed in the most cases. So it's quite small, the Perl plug-in but does what is needed. So how does it look like if I use DH distiller in my Debian package? It's as simple as adding dash dash with distiller. So then Debian knows, okay, I have to load that module which fills around a little bit with my sequences and it will find the dis-ini and just does the right thing. So from the workflow, it may be a little bit unusual then. Actually you check out the BCS called diesel build, yeah, CPAN tarpaul and then you build the source package out of that and then the binary package. With DH distiller, you can see the CPAN tarpaul and the Debian binary package as two different targets. So you have the same source code, exactly same source code and you once build the CPAN tarpaul which is some kind of binary package, source package at the same time and you build the Debian binary package just out of the BCS which equals the Debian source package. We have already one example Perl module packaged in Debian. As of, well not yesterday, likely more today in the morning at three o'clock, Lib one parts Perl and Debian unstable uses DH distiller. For the past year, there was always a Lib one parts Perl copy of the normal package built with DH distiller in experimental. So we have now that in Debian unstable and at that time I could also merge the master branch of the, which I use for the CPAN upload and the former DH distiller branch I used for the experimental packaging. There's just only one branch now and you can build CPAN module, the CPAN distribution as well as the Debian package out of it. So there's still some ideas how to improve it. We have one thing I can show you that in the, not sure if you can read that, we'll use the extra, well, we'll use new extra. I can enlarge the, well, large, does that work out? I can, yes. Thanks for the notice. I think it's in here somewhere. No. There. That's better. Can you read it back there? So I'm now lying. It's not maintained under package Perl team because of the, well, unusual workflow. So you see even the remains of the last build I did. This is what I uploaded to CPAN last night. There's the list, any file can have a look. So basically that's the stuff which it doesn't know about or puts into even my PM files automatically. There are some rules what I want to have generated, what I want, which tests I wanted to have, one, it should not commit any coverage stuff. So that's already a quite big dist, any, but still interesting thing is the Debian rules file, which I wanted to show you. Because there's a little bit more things in than just this line. That one is, well, specific to the actual module. I really have in their files which end in a tilde because they are part of test suite. The thing I'm not yet happy with is this year. I need to generate a Debian or a target set out of my Git repository, which is quite easy because Git provides a sub command for that. But this command is quite long. I think it's more than half of the whole Debian rules file. And it even uses this shell script which provides me the right package name, base, including the version number. So if I run that script, it just outputs lib one parts underscore zero dot zero nine. So because that's what I want to have in the tar ball as a directory name. That's something I want to put in DHG Silla and tell it, well, the developer now knows about Git ORIG source, for example. Although I prefer the ORIG target, named after Christopher Berg's famous ORIG target command, which just does the right thing. Back to the slides. And another nice thing would be to have a diesel sub command which just calls DH make pearl in the right directory, copy spec Debian, the Debian directory just does the right thing without having too much, well, very deterministic work manually, yeah. And actually that's already it, what I wanted to present. You can have the slides on no one org slash talks slash package pearl. Well, again, it's not the team, but it's about packaging pearl stuff. DHG Silla was written by Elmar Hape who was sitting over here. And it was also his idea and myself, yeah. It's hosted on GitHub and you can also find it in Debian Jesse already. So it's all things I showed you, you can use in Debian stable as of now. Well, yeah, the platform is maintained inside Debian. The Silla has its web page on diesel org as the sub command and well, DH make pearl is even on CPAN too. So you can read the documentation for example over there if you want some details, yeah. So actually thanks for listening. I'm happy that so many came for this, well, very specific topic and maybe someone starts using DHG Silla too. I'm quite happy with it. That's why I'm presenting it here. Thanks. If there are questions, feel free, you look like thinking. Okay, the table, is it committed somewhere, is that pristine top range, is it just lying around? Not yet, but I think that's a very good idea to do. So I think I'll put that into the same sub command because it's the obvious thing to do too. Yeah, to make sure you have the same table the next time. Maybe have you can look at .gbp.conf if the maintainer prefers to have pristine top enabled or so reusing infrastructure from other tools there or putting that in distini maybe as an option. So yeah, well, there's still, as mentioned here, a few ideas to do that. I'm also currently using the .xz compression and file format for now, because that's the current default in Debian 2, so I still would name the target or target gz because I'm so used to it, but well. Okay, thanks for the presentation. And I think everything that eases the workflow for the Debian packaging stuff, it all helps all of us. So thank you.


Bro only do that me oh my god almost fell asleep. Oh my god. Oh my god almost bro I'm glad I just like I'm still died a little bit. Oh my god It's got to be deep knockoff gotta be knocked out. I mean bro. Is that not deep?  Oh my god, W. I mean, bro Like what's the yellow zone there for bro? Like really what's the yellow zone there for dude? I feel like I could I feel like I could have picked that Maybe I should chill but I Suck, bro.   It kills man, but I swear to God you play zone, bro This is just This is That's tight. This is what I do I'm playing life dogs, man Just stop clicking on anybody, bro. There's two plays should have been easy knockouts. We just don't click.  Come on there, bro. That's that's hittable. We can hit that We just guess got happy part, bro. This is a third. Ah Man, maybe free-form that We got a place I mean dude, I just can't stop wall is just front like they're right there. They're literally right there, man We need to make a better play on the ball, dude Thank you, man. Hey, hey case anywhere. You could have jumped over that Wait so much wait so much from me.  Oh my god. I almost fell asleep. Oh my god.   I'm glad I just like I'm still died a little bit Oh my god, I honestly That's I don't think you understand how bad that like scared this out of me not scared me But surprised me. Oh, come on man. Don't let this one dude just bully us like that.  It just can't happen. Oh, baby. Come on.  I mean just the same Bro, I cannot I cannot sniff this like bro. Oh my god, like how are we not close enough to not like? What's the point of these abilities right now boys? Like they close enough, but they just not they're not there Like this right I mean bro. I mean Montez sweat. Can we fight through a double team one time in our lives? It's just got to be knocked out like bro. Just getting drug. He's just wide I can't stop man coverage is just getting killed. I'm not right here. He's getting me.  They don't want to knock it out I swear if I just just such a good quick snap play for what he's doing I'll take it. I'll take that nine times. I'll take that. I'll take it He really I didn't think he would do that I didn't think you do that if I would have thought I would have had another route to the road But I really surprised me with that and I went with the first read. I'm cool with that Perfectly, I would have bulleted it and just went down, but he surprised me and I had a streak So we'll get a stop boys. Trust me. I'm definitely gonna play some zone right now. I don't know how but I'm gonna try I Don't think I'm playing zone. I really don't I think we're still blitzing like we're still blitzing We just need to get we need to be more physical we go out We go out problem is I've been trying to put with yellow zones and purple zones and like he has all day exactly see Why would y'all switch man? Like what are we doing, bro? I just like I Is absolute slaughter on that slant. It's absolute slaughter. Thank you a knockout finally Finally we get a knockout good work, bro. Oh, I got the right man.   It's too good. I try to make it work I'm not guarding any of these dudes. None of these dudes are getting guarded right now. It's sad Oh, it's so embarrassing. How bad my defense was this game was so bad. He made one like blind throw This is slant in a post and it's just the easiest. I mean dude Art Monk Are you kidding me? Like are you like by Jeremy Chin that's bad? I thought he would win I really thought he'd win. I really relied on him to win that matchup. I knew it was the matchup I knew that was the matchup and absolutely Bagged bro, and this route has just I lost that route has just killed me the whole game the same play dude I just I can't bro. It's no way he got bagged that bad. Oh my god It's just no way I just knew the exact route and I knew everything I wanted to throw I just thought he would win eventually like that's nasty that that art Monk got bagged by Jeremy Chin For the game dude. Oh my god. I just I just didn't expect him to get bagged right there Oh, he's got it. He's got it. He's got it. Where these it's not over Good game. That's just I mean bro. Just absolutely like I cannot believe he got bagged He got bagged like that by a linebacker. I just I went to it. I knew it. I knew the play I knew what I wanted to call. I knew exactly what was gonna be open It was gonna be a one-on-one with a safety at linebacker and my best receiver right here He just I guess when he bumped him right here. We were we were horrid. We were just like And sometimes when you get a bump like that, then you'll just turbo like he just got bagged. That's my fault That's my oh, yeah be I mean I'm not looking for be I know what I'm looking I know the exact play art. I see it. It's Omaha. I know I just expect him to win. I Really did I really expect him to win and he just got bumped and I can't do nothing after I get bumped just dog


What's up everyone it's your girl Kenzie here from Layton Sports Cards and I am ripping and 2022 Panini Legacy football hobby six box break number 11 random teams again here's a look at the random results you can always find these at LaytonSportsCards.com underneath the results tab links also in chat for you. 40 of them took me about an hour. Garrett Wilson, Rookie Thornton and Driver Carson Strong, Stingley, Silver Rookie, Romeo Dubs, Kenneth Walker III, Daxon Hill and Orange, Donald Driver to 125 time machine, Ruckerts, Chrome Rookie, Jordan Davis, Robinson Jones Jr. We've got out of 100, Bronze, Rookie Otto, Skymore, Sheeps, Minnie, I don't know where these things are sneaky. Got Robert Quinn for the Bears on the Silver Mini, got Kenny Pickett Rookie, Steelers, Tolbert Walker, Yellow to 150 Tralance, Joan Naiman. Not too good. No. He's third, ranked third in statistically in camp right now. McBride, Sam Howell Rookie, we've got Chrome, Kyle Hamilton, you know who's statistically leading in the stat right now. Booth. Mesa-Hungle. No way. Yeah. Booth and Drake London Rookie. Yeah. That's how this feels on campus going. Duffy, Bailey Zappi Rookie, we've got Red to 299, Joey Bosa, Frisker, John Dobson, Stevie Young, Christian Watkins, Breece Hall and Cracked Eyes. Gold to 25, Aiden Hutchinson. Boom. Lions, Brayden Kay. There you go. Out of 25. Big hit there. Second overall draft pick. We'll mag that for you. Beautiful. Here's Dubs, Palomalu, Jackson, we've got George Pickens Rookie, Orange Mini Rookie, Christian Watson, out of 125, Derek Henry, Timeless Talent, Haskins, Shakira, Legends, Blu to 50, Anquan Bolden, Cunningham, Last Packed, Box One, Phil Stick, seeming pure strong. We've got Justin Ross out of 249 on the Silver, Dual Patch Auto, Justin Ross, Generations. Solid first box there about Hutchinson. Sam Howe Rookie, Rookie Chrome of Kyron Williams, Rookie Drake London, Trey McBride, Pickens Rookie. We've got Broncos, Otto to 25, Givante Williams on the second year. Nice one there, Denver. Everyone's expecting him to have a huge year. Shakira, Jackson, Red to 299, Jordan Davis, Rookie, Mike Didco, Rookie, Kyle Hamilton, James Cook, Silver and Malik Willis under the lights, Titans. I see him starting by the end of the year. Yeah. Likely, Desmond Ritter, Warren Moon. That's probably the, I don't know how much he has left on his contract, Tannenhill, but maybe one of his last, last go rounds. Gardner, Williams, we've got Bronz, Minnie, Jones Jr. out of 75, Cunningham. Dolphins are winning the Super Bowl, bold prediction there. Purple to 10, Drake London. Boom. Falkens, Braden Kay. Nice. Six up 10. Big hit there. We'll mag that one. Heck yeah. Here, Wilson, Orange to 199, Antonio Gibson. I bet Walker the third, Ahmad Gardner, Robinson, David Bell, Generations of the Cowboys, Kenny Pickett, Rookie, Jones, John Elway, Bailey Zappi, Rookie. Here I left this to 100, Vikings, Timeless Moments, Delvin Cook, Rookie, Strong Jr., Haskins, Silver, Garrett Wilson, Rookie. Nice one there. Stingley Jr., we've got Falkens, Legends Auto to 50, Andre, Reason, Ryzen, all right. Cool in there, Falkens, Legends star back, Ryzen. Last pack box too. Horton, Carson Strong, Silver, Minnie, Justin Herbert, Kirby there, Jerome Bettis. Everyone, Force will be live to do the random for the LSE Nationals promotion tomorrow morning at 9.30. 9.30 is when that will be, Bailey Zappi, Rookie. Here I left this under the lights, Kenneth Walker the third, and he'll start group breaks at 10. Again, we've got a new release of UEFA Soccer tomorrow. So definitely grab those spots up. He'll be ripping some of that, and then I'll be ripping some more tomorrow nights. Datsun, McDuffie, Terry Bradshaw. Personals are over full tonight. Gonna try my best to get through as much as I can, and then I will finish them out tomorrow, or get as much as I can done tomorrow too. Breast haul, brisker, we've got Orange Mini of Leonard Furnett for the Bucks, two ones, 25, Timeless Tones Kittle, out of 150 Hassan Haskins, Tom Brady Time Machine, Pierce, Isaiah Spiller on the Rookie Crow, Rookies, Ajaibo, we've got Matt Corral Rookie, Jamar Chase, Skymore, we've got Aiden Hutchinson Rookie, for the Bears, Holo fame, three of three, Dick Buckeyes, Brayden Kay, three of three, we'll mag that one for you, John Elway, Jordan Davis, we've got Crystal Lave Rookie, I haven't seen him yet, out of 50, Tyquan Thornton Rookie, Stefan Diggs, Neil Spiller, Silver Rookie of Trelin Burks, Rookies, Gordon, we've got a Silver Rookie Otto of Pierre Strong Jr. Patriots, Big Bend Time Machines, Malik Willis Rookie, Batty, we've got Under the Light Silver Mini, Isaiah Spiller, Generations Green Bay, Sibydoe Rookie, Lloyd, out of 299 Legends Ken Houston, Born Moon, that'll go to the Titans to be the Oilers, Rookie, Trelin Burks, Kobe Bryant, Under the Lights, Matt Corral on the Chrome, Tyron Williams, Johnson II, Randall Cunningham, Robinson Jr. for JJ Watts, last box three, Kyle Hamilton, James Cook, we've got Orange Michael Pittman Jr. to 199, we've got Thornton and Carson Strong, Under the Lights, Derek Henry Crone, Hill, Garrett Wilson, Phil Sims, Ruckert, Kenneth Walker III, we've got Under the Lights Bronze, Lamar Jackson, out of 75, Robinson Bell, Yellow to 150, Jamar Chase for the Ages, William Perry, Kenny Pickett Rookie, Rome Rookie of Wanda Robinson, Bailey Zappi Rookie, Carol Aftis, Marcus Allen, Dotson, McDuffie, we've got Rookie Silver Auto, Trent McDuffie, Chiefs, Shannon Sharpe, Reese Hall, Brisker, we've got Devin Lloyd to 299, Red, Marcus Allen, Dooms Watson, we've got Silver Rookie, Kyler Gordon, Bears, Gray, we've got Texan, Silver Rookie Auto, Damien Pierce, Damien Pierce, Texans, and Tom Brady and Sir, thanks Christine, appreciate it, I hope you're having a great night, we've got many of Jerome Ford, Browns, Jable, Matt Corral Rookie, Tiki Barber, Skymore, Aiden Hutchinson Rookie, Orange out of 199 Chase Claypool, yeah that's what I was saying, it is nice, especially for our sorters and shippers too, I'm sure they're happy, Jordan Davis, Chris O'Lave Rookie, Under the Lights, Chrome John Nietzsche III, I remember whipping this in the past and having to google every single player in their college week, Evan Neal, Isaiah Spiller, and Generations of Bangles, I remember those days, Kyler Gordon, Pierce, Time Machine, Jerry Rice, Last Backbox Ford, Rookie, Malik Willis, Batty, we've got Blue to 25, DJ Moore, perfect color match there, Panthers, and Terrell Davis, Paul Spiller, Silver Rookie, Trey McBride, Cardinals, Price, we have Gold, Cracked Ice Rookie, Damon Pierce for the Texans, Damon Pierce, nice gold paint manning, Malik Willis Rookie, Batty, we've got Silver, many of Drake London, nice one there, Falcons, Sharon Lawrence Taylor, Nibbadoe Rookie, Lloyd, Orange to 199, Ed Reed, I collect Steelers, Steelers, my football team, Ferts, Bryant, and Chrome Rookie John Nietzsche III, as far as basketball, I'm a magic fan, I collect Cole Anthony, and my other favorite players are Lonzo Ball and Derek Rose, Johnston, Big Candice Parker fan on the WNBA side, I'm trying to pick up some Sabrina and Askews, her prices are going crazy, Robinson, Ford, Brett Farr, corn huskers, nice, I went to school out in Nebraska, college, how about yourself, Kyle Hamilton, James Cook, we've got Orange, Marshall Fault to 125 ramps, Joe Neyman, Bailey Zappi Rookie, Collaptes, under the lights, Orange, Derek Henry, my goodness, the 149, Dotson, McDuffie, Hinesworth, Brees Hall, Briscoe, we've got many Joe Mixon on the Orange to 50, Bengals for the ages, OBJ, Tubes, Watson, Green to 100, Leonard for Nets, Krohm Rookie, Drake Jackson, Morton, Unjiebel, Matt Corral Rookie, Curtis Martin, Sky Moore, Aiden Hutchinson Rookie, got Rams, Silver Rookie Otto of Kyren Williams, Williams, Marshall Fulk, Last Pack, Fox Five, Jordan Davis, Chris Olave Rookie, Red to 299, Dan Fouts Chargers, Generations of the Rams, all right, last box here, then we'll do a recap, we got one more of these up next, Watson, we've got Rookie of Kyren Williams, Red to 50, Rams, man, Shane, feel your pain on that, Bill Sims, he's got a Bernie Griner on it, that's pretty cool, Jabbo, we got Matt Corral Rookie, Minnie, Blue, Shray Lance for the Niners, it's out of 20, there you go Niners on the low numbered, Sky Moore, Aiden Hutchinson Rookie, Yellow to 150, Legends, Steve Atwater, Jordan Davis, Chris Olave Rookie, Desmond Ritter Rookie, Chrome, Evan Neal, Speller, Marcus Allen, Gordon, we've got Texans, a Silver, Derek Stingley Jr, nice one there Texans, Shannon Sharp, Malik Willis Rookie, baddie, Anquan Bolden, Green to 100 for the ages Marcus Allen, Thibodeaux Rookie, Lloyd Silver Rookie of Drake Jackson, I don't know Christine, I think he'll have a better year than he did his Rookie year but I don't think it's going to be anything crazy, Berks, Bryant's, we've got Niners Rookie, Otto of Davis Price for the Niners, I think he's going to show up, I think so, he's got it in him then, you know, rough the whole situation, you know, Devon Lloyd Silver Rookie many, Jags, Karen Williams Johnson, Tiki Barber, Robinson Jr, we've got, it's red the 299 Rookie Andrew Booth Jr, Bolden, they really are super slippery, they're able to catch most of them, Kyle Hamilton, James Cook, Davis Price on the Chrome, likely Desmond Ritter Rookie, Generations for the Bangles, couple pack slots, Garner Williams, Jerry Rice, last pack here and then we'll do a quick recap, yeah exactly, that's why I'm saying Walker, Michi the third, Orange to 199, Leonard Fornette Bucks and Terrell Davis, I think Christine, I don't know about that one either, right here we go, we've got Davis Price, Derek Stingley Jr, Kyren Williams, Golda 25 on the Cracked Ice, Damien Price, Pierce, Damien Pierce, Trent McDuffie, Pierce Strong Jr, we had the Andre Ryzen to 50, Falcons to 25, Jemonte Williams, Justin Ross, RPA, Sky Moore, our Mags Cards, we had the Dick Buckets 3 of 3 for the Bears, to 10, Drake London Rookie and to 25, Aiden Hutchinson on the Gold Cracked Ice to 25, congrats on that everyone, we've got another six-boxer coming right up.


Alright so today we are going to be talking about the hush hush quadrilogy quartet whatever you want to call that This is the first of that pile of angel young adult romance books I bought a couple of months ago that I got through and um, I Don't hate it. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long Like I'll come right out and say now these books are Mediocre for the most part, but then they get kind of good. I think the last book is actually fairly decent and I'm hardly gonna sing its praises. Yes, but I I really can't get that angry at them. They're they're perfectly all right for some of the time other times They're really stupid and annoying, but you know, that's what we're here to talk about So this video is going to be in a different format than what I've done before so If you're watching this you've probably seen at least one of my really long in-depth book reviews Which are like 90 minutes long and you've probably seen some of my regular book reviews Which are spoiler-free and they're like 10 to 15 minutes. This one. I'm gonna try something More medium length so I'm still gonna read these and go into detail on them But I'm not going to go in as much detail like you can see I didn't really use tabs for these like I have a Couple that are in there that those are just for like really stupid things But there's not that many because I didn't want to take that many notes and focus on every little thing the way I normally do these I'm gonna try most mostly focusing on the big problems and the stuff that just really annoyed me and Hopefully this will only be 30 to 40 minutes long. You guys are in the future.  Okay, it's just twilight Excuse me, but it's with Angels instead of vampires and if you've seen my video on the fallen series, which if you haven't I'll put it up Here I forget which side that I think goes on but if you haven't seen it you can watch that one and that one was Yeah, basically just twilight with angels and it was pretty bad This one actually came out around the same time as fallen and it was I think about as popular They're both best-sellers But I I will give credit this one is at least a bit different than other stuff. I've read in the genre Now I'll start off by just saying I think the covers are really cool like they're black and white but with like little spots of red and other colors and It just so the red really pops out, you know, and they're all drawn really interestingly or actually I think these might be photographs. I'm not sure but either way They're done in a really interesting way, so it's just dripping with atmosphere and character and Emotion that's just coming right off of it and it looks a lot different from most other covers I've seen so it instantly stands out in my mind and it also does showcase an escalation across the course of the series because it starts off with just okay Here's an angel falling from heaven and then it shows like people in the rain and they're alone and it kind of sucks and then They're together, but they're in danger and the final book is patching Nora together again, and they're Not in any danger. It's like they can finally Be just be a couple which kind of fits with what happens in the story If you'll give me some time We'll read through that and the titles are kind of the same like there's hush hush Crescendo silence and finale like they have that escalation and they do all have kind of a theme there Only question is um Why are they called that? Really, there's no Music in this series like I was thinking there'd be some sort of theme about how music is Love or something or maybe one of the characters would just be really into music like they play violin or something like I Don't get it. Why? Anyways from this point forward there's going to be major spoilers ahead So if that bothers you then leave now if not, let's get started so first up is hush hush and this one the prologue starts off with some French Duke in the 16th century named Chauncey who is apparently a Nephilim He is a combination of angel and human and then a fallen angel who remains nameless But it turns out pretty quickly that it's patch not really a spoiler there. It's pretty obvious from the beginning and Patch forces him into an oath of some sort. We don't know exactly how it works And this is not a good start like it tries to be mysterious without actually really introducing much of a mystery and Because we already know there's angels in this series like just based on the title the premise the covers like we know it's about angels there's no need to play koi with it and Well, I just I've said it before I'll say it again The prologue is in third person and then it switches to first which most of the series is in it's from Nora's perspective And I hate switching from third to first person. Okay, I just do it. You're not supposed to think that hard about the narrator or how they would actually write all this down, but When you switch like that it forces you to think about it and it annoys me so then we cut to the present day in a small fictional town called cold water in Maine where our friend Nora Gray is With her friends named V in their biology class and they have a really cringy conversation about sex At my side V sky said this is exactly why the school outlaws camera phones Pictures of this in the easing would be all the evidence I'd need to get the board of education to axe biology and then we'd have this hour to do something productive Like receive one-on-one tutoring from the cute upper-class guys Why V I said I could have swarmed you've been looking forward to this unit all semester V lowered her eyelashes and smiled wickily this clash isn't going to teach me anything I don't already know V as in virgin I'm not gonna go into the bad lines in this series because there's really not that many of them overall but Pretty much all of them come from V Like all of her Nora and these conversations or most of them anyhow are just trying too hard They're trying way too hard like here look personality. They're quirky and weirdly. No, it's just it's trying too hard Let's move on so in her biology class Nora is forced to sit next to a mysterious bad boy Whose name is patch and they're forced to work on a project together Which she's upset about because patch is playing super coy and mysterious and he's difficult to get a hold of and she keeps trying to talk to him and He eventually winds up saying hey if you want to work with this if you want to work with me on this project Then just come to this arcade with me Which is really obnoxious of him then let's do the interview over the phone I've got a list of questions right he hung up on me.  This is a bad start.  It's still not cool like everything patch does for a pretty huge chunk of this book just makes him come across as more of a dick than a brooding bad boy or a loner or Anything really so we are later introduced to a cheerleader named Marcy Miller and Marcy Miller is just kind of a Mean rich girl who Nora dislikes and they're both just kind of mean to each other like I'll give it this much that like Marcy seems to have started it.  She also is Really mean and rude back like they they're kind of vicious when they talk to each other So neither of them comes out of it looking great But at least that does give Nora a little bit of character and that's something I want to Really praise the series for is that the main protagonist Nora Has actual personality and actual character like she has hopes and dreams and fears and flaws and stuff which the Pretty much every other entry in this genre doesn't have like the protagonist are total blank slates for the most part so it's nice to have that change at least a little bit and Marcy really doesn't do much for the entire rest of the of the book But she becomes important later. So I guess it's a good thing.  I just killed somebody but even though he got hit really bad and was laying on the ground He winds up jumping right back up and he actually Shatters the window by punching it and Nora has to keep running and the guy chases after her a little bit and almost catches Up with the car. So it's like okay He's clearly not a regular human and then later when she's telling people about it She goes to show them and the window is fine. So Nora thinks oh Okay, maybe I'm going crazy and she also thinks that maybe patch has something to do with it because Yeah, I don't know. He's mysterious and stuff and so she winds up going to the school's Record office and stealing files to get information on patch and the files wind up being empty Which is a bizarrely common trope now that I'm thinking about it like Fallen did the exact same thing like almost word-for-word The main girl protagonist was interested in a bad boy and tried looking for information on him by Stealing files from the school. It's it's weird how often I see that I Like I guess it makes sense It's not a trope that was thrown there for no reason, but it is still odd how often it pops up So then later she runs into patch and they start talking again And this is the first time that he calls her by his nickname for her angel That is the laziest nickname of all time He may as well just call her beautiful or woman or sweetheart or something like that like It's for starters. It's just a generic name, which is used a lot and for another thing It's really dumb considering the subject matter of this series Like this is a series that's actually about angels and stuff and so there will be times where he's Talking to her and calls her angel in the text and for a moment. I was a little Confused about whether he was talking about actual angels or if he was just talking to her and for that matter It's used a lot. Okay. I I didn't count all of them It's used at least 39 times throughout the series and I only started counting like Three-quarters of the way through the third book so if you were to add it all up, it would be a lot higher trust me, but Anyways her and patch wind up just running into each other a few more times and he's still mysterious and Nora keeps feeling like someone is stalking her or someone is watching her, but that's it doesn't lead to much for a while and Her and V wind up going on a double blind date with these guys named Elliot and Jules Now Nora is going with Elliot and Jewel or jewels or jewels or something like that. I don't know. I don't speak French. He goes with the beat and They run Jesus Christ They run into patch while they're there and he makes Nora play billiards with him And if she loses then she has to abandon her date and go with him and of course she loses because he's really good at billiards and Jesus Christ that patches like weirdly controlling and Has no idea when to keep his nose out of other people's business like just everything he does For most of this book makes him look bad just everything but anyway She winds up having to go with him which I guess is fine because Elliot kind of creeped her out anyways, but and they go to this theme park nearby and They're on a ride which is called the Ark Angel Get it because Angels the whole theme park has a bunch of angel themed stuff Okay, and then patch takes her home and while they're there she's like, okay Well, thank you. I'm gonna go inside now and he essentially just shoves past her and is like hey Let's make tacos and then they like he forces his way into her house and starts. Oh God patch.  I am Just no, okay, but anyways most of the rest of the book Nora gets followed Patches being mysterious Nothing is all that noteworthy. The only thing I want to bring up is that Nora does not tell her mom about the trouble that she's in because you see Nora and her mom live in a farmhouse kind of on the outskirts of town and About a year before the series begins Nora's father was murdered And so her mom had to get a new job which takes her out of town a lot In order to afford living in this house because nothing nearby that she qualified for would allow her to afford it And so Nora knows that if she tells her mom about this trouble She's gonna quit her job get something local so that she can be with her and They're gonna have to move out of their house And this is Nora's last real connection to her father So she doesn't want to to leave even if it means putting herself in danger and that is again, that is an actual bit of character that Nora has and I Don't want to make it sound like she's the Most three-dimensional well-rounded character ever but she is a hell of a lot better than I've learned to expect And then while this happening she learns Elliot may be murdered someone and he also is seems to be stalking her So she goes off to another city to investigate and while she's doing that she winds up getting trapped she Long story short she has to call patch for help and he drives over picks her up and then while they're driving his car breaks down because of course and then he kind of Basically they have no choice but to stay in a motel for the night and then try and get help in the morning and Patch kind of coerces her into doing that and also they have to stay in a room with only one bed because reasons Jesus Christ pat pat reading this makes me feel like I'm reading the script for a real crime TV show like Jesus Christ But what whatever basically while they're in bed She notices that patch has these v-shaped scars on his back Obviously, that's where his wing wings were ripped off and she touches them and gets some hallucinations like she sees some of his memories and stuff and so she learns the truth patch is a fallen angel You know he sided with Lucifer however long ago But instead of being banished to hell most of the fallen angels were banished to earth instead All right, and they part of their punishment is that they can't feel anything they Like just nothing at all. They can't feel heat cold pain anything like basically every fallen angel is Baldur from God of War, you know, they just they want to feel things and So the only way they can do that is that during the Hebrew month of Cheshvon Which is about two weeks every year. They can possess Nephilim who are you know half human half angel people and while they're possessing them they can feel things Okay, that is kind of an interesting setup for things and also it turns out that patch if he Kills Nora and or rather if he manages to get Nora to sacrifice herself Which is kind of killing her but he can't do it himself basically if he gets her to sacrifice herself He can become human. So, you know, he'll no longer be immortal, but he'll be able to feel and stuff before he dies and he wound up deciding not to Because he was following her for a while and he's like, you know, she's an alright person Nora is upset by this Obviously like why wouldn't she be and Well, no, that's that's the big thing here Nora is upset by this and I also just have one question if Okay, so the way Nephilim are created is if a fallen angel possesses a person and then they have sex Then the baby will be a Nephilim and sometimes many generations down the line their descendants will turn into a Nephilim like it lays dormant for however long and It also appears that Nora is a descendant of Chauncey the French Duke from the prologue who patch Was possessing on her father's side. They think it comes from but the thing is if if fallen angels can only possess Nephilim and Nephilim can only be created by a fallen angel possessing somebody How did the first Nephilim get created at all? Anyone anyone at all? No, okay? It's only the cornerstone through which most of the series comes from, you know, it's not that important to think about Also Nephilim are immortal, I guess which is a thing definitely Okay, let's kick this into overdrive.  I don't understand Whatever in at the end of the book Nora and patch make the kissy with each other like they're a couple now And they're like yeah, what's let's be together rock on bro, and that's the end now Like I said pretty mediocre book a Lot of time is kind of wasted in there Well, not a lot of time but a lot of time is spent just building up the mystery without a lot else happening But it's really not awful. There's some character. There are some decent story beats and it is self-contained actually like there is room for sequels obviously, but it is You can just read this one and come away with it like yeah, I don't I don't feel like I got half a story there I can I can read just that and be satisfied. It gets worse after that, but you know That that one really isn't as bad as it could have been so book to crescendo starts off a couple of weeks later when Nora and patch have been dating for a little while and They're having a problem. You see the problem is that patch won't say he loves her Which is kind of an issue, but I mean they haven't meant to get it that long and Also, he starts hanging out with Marcy the mean girl that Nora hates. So I Guess that's a I guess that's a problem and Nora's upset by this So she starts chilling with her old friend Scott who they knew each other's kids And then he moved away and now he's moving back and it also turns out he's a nephilim so he knows about all this stuff and Okay, cool and She also Compounding all this stuff that's upsetting her.  I don't understand and then anyways patch and Nora break up and patch starts dating Marcy because Look I hate this plot point for two reasons.  Oh, maybe Nora and Scott really like each other It's very half-assed even by the standards of this genre like think about it What while reading Twilight? Did you ever really think that Bella and Jacob were gonna end up together? Like no you didn't so we know it's just Gonna end up that way so it's a waste of time and two Her and patch didn't quite have love at first sight But it's close enough because they didn't know each other that well or for that long before they decided. Oh, we're in love now and That love at first sight cliche can kind of work if you just After that you just show the couple being together like, you know, you show them being in love you show them going over the trials and tribulations of Being in a relationship you show them Working together trusting each other all that it can work if you do that and for the bulk of this book You don't get to see patch and Nora be a couple actually for the bulk of the third book as well We'll get to that when the time comes but it I just hate this plot point for those two reasons So someone tells Nora that patch is the black hand and she's like no it couldn't be him But maybe it is patch killed my dad and then she's sad and also Marcy tells Nora that Nora's mother Had an affair with Marcy's dad and Hank and so she's saying like hey Nora, you're actually You're the guy you thought was your dad is actually not your dad Your dad is also my dad and we're sisters and I Kind of liked that at first because It like one it is upsetting Marcy more or not Marcy. It's upsetting Nora more and so she has to You know learn to deal with more of this stuff Which is showing some character growth and I liked that but it also felt like What when we learned that she was a nephilim it was saying like she's special She's not the chosen one, but it's kind of like being the chosen one and You know just because of the way she was born and this felt almost like a an inverse of that where it's saying oh You thought you were special, but it turns out you're just a normal person like yeah, your dad was just a human and That that was kind of the opposite of what usually is so I thought that was kind of cool But it turns out that's not the case like it turns out Marcy's father Hank is Is her father, but also he's a nephilim so Doesn't add much and anyways TLDR a different nephilim is the black hand and the heroes and by heroes I mean patch Nora and Scott Kill him and turns out patch was with Marcy because he wanted to spy on Hank for a while and then her Nora and patch are like oh, okay. I guess we're together again. All is forgiven Which it really shouldn't be because I feel like patch could have just told Nora about that like he could have just said Hey, look there might be something going on here We can still be together But we have to keep it on the DL and I'm just gonna pretend to be dating this other person is that cool Okay, cuz you know he doesn't seem to trust her and he wants to keep things from her which is not the basis for a healthy relationship, but Okay, we'll just again red flags lots of lots of red flags lots of red flags I know just lots of red flags and anyways it the book ends with Hank capturing them and He's talking to Nora and he's basically like so Nora I heard you killed my friend Chauncey and that's it which is a good cliffhanger. I'll give it that I immediately wanted to know what happens after that, but the It feels kind of like you only had half a story because there's huge parts of this which are just wasted by Nora angsting and It's not that interesting and then but you know It is a good cliffhanger. I'll give it that Then we get to book three silence and that cliffhanger is ruined and you might be wondering James How do you ruin such a good cliffhanger?  Use your common sense. Like it is just Nora Seeing some mysterious stuff around which is like magic and everything and she's like oh, what's going on here? I don't know and her trying to get caught up before eventually she she gets caught up All of the tension in addition to just being really annoying to have to retread all this old ground All of the tension is gone. But when you do that Normally amnesia works as a way of building tension and giving the characters a clear goal to work towards because the audience And the characters are both in the dark here But in this instant usually amnesia they will have it from the beginning for that very reason like they don't get it in the middle the only Other thing I can think of that did something kind of like this and even then they did it Well was the finale of the first season of mr. Robot now a minor spoilers for that show But I mean I've only seen the first season so I can't spoil it that much Basically the penultimate episode of that season the good guy I forget his name Rami Malik's character is forced to tell the bad guy about his plan to like hack people and save the world yada yada and The next episode starts off like two or three days later and Rami Malik doesn't remember anything like He doesn't know what happens the bad guy is missing and he knows that they did something bad But they don't know exactly what it was and he doesn't know how they did it or anything And so he is going around looking and trying to get his memory back or rather trying to Find out what happened when he blacked out or something like that and so that works pretty well to build tension, but This doesn't just this does not also while Nora was gone her mom was super worried and so she started dating Hank remember Marcy's dad and I Mean okay that that does make sense from her mom's perspective You know her daughter was missing her husband was murdered not that long ago It makes sense she want to find some sort of emotional connection to latch on to that's fine And even though Nora doesn't know anything about what's going on at this point She still is kind of suspicious about Hank and he's just kind of like hey I I just want to get to know you you know I want to spend some time with you and Marcy and all them I'm trying to have a relationship with my kids, and I can't do it and One interesting bit is that throughout this whole segment. It's made pretty clear that everyone thought that Even though she's not talking about it cuz again, she doesn't remember anything Everyone seems to think that Marcy was Chained up in a basement somewhere and getting raped a whole bunch for the past couple of months But no one is comfortable saying it in as many words, and it's just uh It's just a little uncomfortable to read about whole girls against a wheel chain them up in my basement So eventually Nora gets Scott to fill her in and he tells her about all the fallen angels and patch and everything And she's like okay, I guess that makes sense whatever she buys into it a little too quick if you're asking me but honestly, I just wanted this part to be done, so it's not that big a deal and It turns out that basically Hank is building a Nephilim army so that he can fight the fallen angels because they are essentially treated like slaves at least for two weeks out of the year and Scott takes her to a fallen angel hideout to see if they can find patch and The one tab I put in this book the one tab is That hideout because it turns out that the fallen angels As long as they've been on earth for all the thousands of years. That's been they have just been hanging out on the coast of Maine out in the middle of nowhere and They dug a bunch of tunnels and caves and stuff to hide out in Which doesn't make a lot of sense because they can just blend into human society But okay, and then in order to sustain themselves Which is weird because they don't need to pay rent or eat food or anything like that in order to sustain themselves They built that theme park with all the angel rides and everything in addition to just not making that much sense That's just really dumb. You know, I can't really harp on it that much for being like inconsistent or anything It's a little weird and doesn't make that much sense, but I can't harp on that too much It's just dumb. That's about all I have to say there. It's just dumb Anyways, they find patch and it turns out that the reason Hank kidnapped Nora and him Was that they wanted patched to be a spy and walk among the fallen angels So so that they can prepare for their you know rebellion where they like kill them all or something He wanted patched to just spy on them give him information And he was gonna hold Nora hostage for a while until he agreed to do that and he agrees to do that so Yay, and Then by that point we're like two-thirds through the book. So you know and the TLDR is that Hank wants to rebel like I said because slavery and While he's explaining what it's like to be possessed. He uses some He uses some interesting language. Do you have any idea what it's like to have someone come inside you and Completely take over and he's not the only one to do that They that repeatedly whenever they're talking about angels possessing somebody they refer to it as coming inside them That why? Seriously, there's this thing called a 13 year old boy filter And what you need to do is have a 13 year old boy read all your stuff and if he can find a way to make it sexual Maybe maybe just change up some of the wording at this point I'm not sure who I'm supposed to root for though because With both sides it kind of sucks like obviously it does suck to get possessed But it also sucks to not be able to feel anything ever so I can understand why the fallen angels would be desperate enough to do that even if they weren't awful people to begin with but also For the Nephilim, it's really only two weeks out of the year where you're possessed. So like as awful as that is It's not like it's for eternity or anything, but at the same time like I'm just not sure who I'm supposed to be rooting for here Like and maybe there could be a peaceful solution and just This could have the world could have been set up a little better to make this make more sense to make it seem like okay Fighting really is inevitable here Whereas in this it just seems like everyone involved is being kind of a dick, but also everyone involved is kind of a victim and I mean like maybe that's some sort of commentary on how war works, but I I don't think the author is really smart enough to do that and Anyways Hank Eventually is talking to Nora and he agrees to take an oath to leave her and her mother alone forever as long as she will take an oath to Lead his army and if he if he breaks his oath he'll die if Nora breaks her oath her and her mother will die and I'm not sure why he agrees to let her do it because She doesn't have any like combat experience or anything. I'm not sure why he thinks she would be a little leader rebellion but she agrees to do it and Everything seems great for a minute, but then Hank tries to burn Patches feather now basically the fallen angels in this world still have like one or two feathers They're scattered around and one of them's kept in heaven and then one of them is usually kept on earth And if the feather is ever burned then they're banished to hell for eternity So Hank was essentially trying to kill patch for all intents and purposes and so Nora shoots him I Thought Nephilim were immortal. Maybe he became human with his oath.  Okay, it's not that hard Anyways the war ends or the book ends with war coming now I'm gonna say right now books two and three needed to be combined Like this series should have been a trilogy because both of those books waste a lot of time and there's just not enough material To make two books out of it. They were both a huge slog to get through But luckily we get to finale which this one is actually kind of good.  I don't want to kill people unnecessarily Which is just a neat thing to do. It seems like most of the time in Fiction characters are either total pussies who will never ever hurt anyone for any reason even if it's a good reason or They are just complete psychos. So having something be in the middle is kind of compelling and Plus we get to see her and patch actually be a couple throughout most of this books book, which is You know, that's nice and it starts with Cheshvon being near and so Nora has to train because See before she was descended from Nephilim, but she wasn't really a Nephilim. I think I don't know again That part of the series has never really explained that well like how do Nephilim come about But despite that She is now a full Nephilim after taking her oath and everything and so she has to train to learn her new powers like super strength and Mine powers and stuff turns out. She's actually really good at mine powers like invading people's minds You know coming inside them and taking over it. She's good at that and she's training with a Nephilim named Dante now Dante While he's training her he repeatedly breaks into her house watches her sleep and at one point gives her water Which is laced with the devil craft, which is basically black magic and in this case It's like steroids, which will make her stronger and everything so he's drugging her You know, maybe maybe maybe she's only attracted to patch because every man in her life is a psycho with boundary and control issues Like we don't know anything about her dad because he he died before the series began But I'm willing to bet that if if he um Yeah, I'm willing to bet he was also controlling and had boundary issues So patch and Nora so patch and Nora can't publicly date because you know They're on opposite sides and people on both sides will think that they're traitors for that so they have a fake breakup and then Nora tells patch about how Dante I Can't I can't even keep a straight face Nora tells patch about how Dante was Drugging her and about how the seed of evil had been planted inside her and about and then he's angry and he's like Oh, he forced devil craft into your body Again third just work on your phrasing Jesus Christ So throughout the book the Fallen angels attack Nora a couple of times trying to assassinate her and it never works At one point she gets stabbed with a knife that injects devil craft into her body, which makes her Kind of addicted to it, which is kind of neat.  Yeah, Dante is going to sell out all the Nephilim for his own benefit and Just let the fallen angels kill or take over them Because I guess we need a villain now. We killed our other one. We need an antagonist of some sort Now Dante could have killed Mara at this point, but he he doesn't because he actually wants to usurp her position as the leader of the Nephilim and He actually has like photographs of her and patched together and he's like, ah, I'm gonna show them that you're a traitor You can't escape me now and from here.  I'm just like oh Okay, I guess I guess they can do that because it's not set up at all And he's able to lead them because he made them all swear an oath to be loyal and yada yada yada And so a big epic battle happens Scott winds up dying because apparently Nephilim can die again Just like just stop saying they're immortal Like they're clearly not immortal.   He's there He's okay. Yay, and then an archangel pops up He was a detective who has shown up in all four books so far But I haven't mentioned him because he's an inconsequential character and him being an archangel changes nothing about the plot It's not a very interesting twist at all and you could literally just replace him with a character who pops up at this moment And it would not change anything. But anyways, he shows up. He's an archangel. He thanks Nora for her help he gives her this magic ring and Tells her to like bleed on patch basically and then she does that and then her and patch kiss and he's like wait a minute I can feel things now. I Don't know what that means like it's not explained if He becomes a human because of this or if he's still an angel, but now he can feel it's not explained at all Okay, I guess I'm still happy for him either way and then there's the epilogue It's just a couple of years later. V is getting married to some other guy who she met who was not in the books up to this point and it also turns out that Marcy is dead and V and Nora have no sympathy for her whatsoever. In fact, they're kind of vindictive about this which like On one hand. Yeah, I get it. She did try to kill patch, but also Like if when you look at it from her perspective, it kind of makes sense And so the these two being so vindictive and unsympathetic like I feel like that is just a Bit of protagonist-centered morality like anything that you do that hurts the protagonist is bad and anything you do that helps them is good and Like I feel like maybe Nora being vindictive could have been an interesting character trait But you would have had to explore it a lot more up until this point. So Yeah, then her and patch are still together and everything's happy and that's the end Overall it could have been a lot worse like both the ending is fine and the series as a whole It's really not that bad not not at all like there there is more stuff that I could have critiqued Okay, there are some leaps in logic There are a lot of dumb lines in there or not a lot but a decent number of dumb lines in there There is a serious lack of world-building like there's a lot of stuff that should straight up never explained Even if the bits that are explained don't make sense like it's better to have Somewhat deep setting, but we don't have that There's just a lot of wasted time especially in the second and third books But if you really look at this series on its own terms like if you just look at it and say look This is a twilight clone let's just Come at it from the perspective of a teenage girl who wants to read about romance if you just look at it that way it is Alright, you know and like I said the last book is kind of good It has a pretty good climax. I know I went through it really fast but it is a fun battle and the main characters do have to suffer and They do have to work pretty hard to get their happy ending So it's not like everything's handed to them like like fallen if you remember that too That the ending of that one was terrible for that exact reason the heroes just got everything handed to them or elixir Is another good example because elixir is the worst thing ever But yeah on its own terms It's fine now. Is it's the elusive good twilight clone that I've been looking for for years You know the thing that is very clearly just a teenage girl supernatural romance But has actual good story and characters and everything that I can genuinely enjoy with without any hint of irony or anything No, it's it's not that But if you are looking for something in this genre, I think you'll love it I do like I've had a lot of people over the past few months tell me that like Hush hush was their jam or something like that, but I get it. You know even as a Dude who was never super into this genre if I had read this when I was like 14 I think I would have liked it a lot more than I do now Like I still would have noticed some of its flaws and some of them would probably have bothered me even more than they do now but I Would have enjoyed it like there there is some real character There is some real heart to it like it feels like the author Becca Fitzpatrick was being genuine with this it felt like she was actually trying and I will give it credit that it is a lot different than other entries in the genre that I've read Like there's obviously plenty of similarities, but there's plenty of bits that are Unique as well and you know just overall I I don't want to ramble on too much but Overall, I thought it was okay, and if you Enjoyed this newer format where it's shorter, and I don't go into quite as much detail then Go go ahead and tell me about it, and I'll do some some more of those angel things In this format, and if you don't like it, then I will just do like regular reviews or something with them Either way, I'll see you guys later Special thanks to all my patrons You guys are the best and special thanks to my $10 and up patrons including Aposavalanen, Ava Tuma, Brother Shantotis, Christopher Quinten, Deanna Dehim, Ambus, Emily Miller, Joel, Carcat, Kitsune, Liza, Ruta Kova, Madison Lewis Bennett, microphone, Sad Martigan, Tobacco Crote, Tom Beanie, Vacuous Silas, and Vaivictus. 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Benway State Governor Reverend Father Hyde St. Ali has called on the Nigerian Army to turn its focus on Benway State to help secure the food baskets of the nation. The Governor made the call today, Tuesday, October 34, 2023, during a courtesy call of the Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Tareed Labwaja in his office at the Army Headquarters, Abuja. He said the one's very peaceful state is at the moment besieged by criminals ranging from murderous armed headers, bandits and local gangsters. He decried lack of manpower for other formations operating within the state, including Operation Wild Stroke and the 401 Special Forces Brigade adding that if properly equipped, the men of the formations may begin to enter the hinterlands to be able to tackle the men and not only be standing on the roads as it is the practice presently. He called for the establishment of forced operation bases in Anyi, Naka, Ukum, Agatu, Udei and Banjiba. In his response, the COAS stated that as one who has served in the state for nine years, he has a good understanding of the security situation of the state. He promised that the Nigerian Army would turn its attention to Benway, especially now that a dry season is about to set in which is the time that the states usually witness a lot of crisis.