Books listed: 0:56 The Midnight Lie - Marie Rutkoski 1:49 The Spanish Love Deception - Elena Armas 3:12 Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss 4:36 Mrs Death Misses Death - Salana Godden 5:19 The Dispossessed - Ursula K Le Guin 6:21 A Certain Hunger - Chelsea G Summers 7:51 Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao 8:52 Beach Read - Emily Henry 10:28 The Deal - Elle Kennedy 13:12 Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney 14:15 The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K Le Guin 15:13 The Cruel Prince - Holly Black 16:20 These Violent Delights - Micah Nemerever 17:40 Bunny - Mona Awad
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever is seriously one of the most underrated dark academia books out there. I don't see a lot of hype for it. But, also, I'm kinda glad it's not too popular because people ruin things for me too easily.
Yes, finally someone who doesn't like spanish love deception. I trust only your opinions and base my entire tbr of it. I feel we got the exact same book preference 🤧
I agree. I hated hated hated TSLD, never understood the hype, can’t judge the people who like it but can’t honestly tell why they do. I love this channel and have very similar taste in books, always enjoy her videos.
These Violent Delights is one of my favorite books. I read it right when it was published and I was certain it was about to blow up on youtube/ig/tiktok, but it's been 2 years and I'm still waiting 😩😅. Glad to see you talk about it, I hope more people will discover it through you. It is just so good and it has all the things people on booktube tend to love!
It blew up on Instagram, so I’m suprised to hear it didn’t blow up on here or Tik Tok (I don’t have Tik Tok, I just know most repost there videos on Instagram and vice versa)
I just read bunny thanks to this video and I gave it a 5/5 I'm obsessed. When the book ended, I was mesmerized and confused but I thought I understood what was happening, but then I looked up the interpretations that were confirmed by the author and turns out I was completely WRONG. But it made me love the book even more!! It's truly a masterpiece imo
the Spanish love deception is literally the worst book i've ever read in my entire LIFE. your description is so accurate. aaron is massive and blue eyed. that's all we really know about him. genuinely....... feel so passionate about how much i didnt like this book LOL
as far as personifications of death go, my favourites would definitely be those found in The Sandman graphic novels, Discworld, and The Book Thief. any more recommendations would definitely be welcome
Las intermitencias de la muerte (death with interruptions) by José Saramago is about a country where Death has suddenly stop coming. So people don't die, they're just in a state of endless pain basically 🙃 It's about people and the government figuring what to do. It's really really good, recommend it
my favorite book i read so far this year is "an ember in the ashes". it's definitely an "old" book community read, but it was so good! and the second one is also amazing, I'm very exciting to keep reading the series!
I read The Cruel Prince after watching your ya fantasy video and I just LOVED IT and I was so surprised bc I’ve never wanted to read these kind of books and fantasy stuff and it was such a delight! thank you for talking so well about it bc it was what made me want to read it
My favourite read so far is Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. I also enjoyed Bunny, Mrs Death Misses Death (the audio is beautifully narrated by the author, who is primarily a performance poet) and Beautiful World, Where Are You. A surprise five star read of mine was At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop. You certainly read a wide range of genres!
@@renadomar6172 It's not a book for everyone! If you already don't like it in the beginning you probably shouldn't continue. I like that the characters are morally grey/complex, but it's fine if thats not your thing.
I always appreciate how you always call out the Spanish love deception and other books because I honestly don't understand how people swoon so much over the most basic guys and call them the standard for men... Like the bar actually is in hell
omg my favorite book so far this year is these violent delights by micah nemerever, it is just sooo amazing. i can't recommend it enough. i read it in april and it stills haunt me everyday, I NEED MORE PEOPLE TO READ IT. also, i haven't read bunny yet and didn't know it was dark academia, but it is on my tbr so i may read it soon :)
OMG for me Bunny was really the kind of book where I didn't know if I should rate it 2 or 5 stars. X) And I think it takes a great writer to elicit such a reaction!!
HATED "Spanish Love Deception". Excerpt from my Goodreads review: "Readers are starry-eyed over Aaron and what a great guy he is and I'm over here with my stalker flash cards. Aaron is always up in Lina's business, always there. The frigging book opens with him offering to be her wedding date IN SPAIN and they barely know each other as only work enemies..... Do a gender reversal on Aaron. What if a woman did all the things he does in this book for Lina? You'd think she was obsessed and was one inner monologue shy of putting the rabbit in a pot."
Leonie selling me on Sally Rooney one video at a time 😆. I always get Bunny and Cursed Bunny confused. My favorite read this year has probably been a short story, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by AS Byatt. Good luck on your thesis!
I agree with you about The Deal! There were so many things about it that I know is bad but I actually liked their relationship. Can’t say the same about The Score though (which I only read since people kept saying it was the best book in the series. I disagree) I also agree about The Cruel Prince. I really enjoyed the enemy bit of their relationship (although I’ve found that I only accept that kind of behavior in Fantasy. Contemporary bully romances I hate with a passion)
Oooo my fave books of the year so far are: 1. Cursed bunny - Bora Chung, Anton Hur (Korean short story collection which uses horror, sci-fi, speculative fiction to speak on real horrors in the world like capitalism and the patriarchy but from a Korean lens) 2. Earthlings - Sayaka Murata (Japanese novel that goes to very weird and dark places, speaking on how homogeneous society is and basically a big 🖕🏾to societal expectations and norms aha) 3. Know my name - Chanel Miller (memoir by Chanel, formerly known as Emily Doe in the 2015 Stanford Uni sexual assault case)
I personally loved Iron Widow and gave it 4.5 stars. There's a lot of great Fae Series: 1. Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr 2. The Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa 3. The Modern Faerie Tales by Holly Black 4. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Mass
I'm already very excited for that Emily Henry video! I've recently read "book lovers" and I really enjoyed it. Sometimes romance books can feel a little bit forced but in her books the characters' feelings come off very genuine. My favorite book I've read so far this year has been "Veronica decides to die" by Paulo Coelho. I've read quite a few books by Coelho but this one and "11 minutes" are definitely my favorites
My favorite so far is Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo for sure! Next would be House in the Cerulean Sea 🥰 I devoured these two my worst would be Arsenic and Adobo, bad writing and not interesting enough for me to continue
YES! I liked Evelyn Hugo (The parts with Monique low key annoyed me until the end and then I understood the importance of it), but House In The Cerulean Sea was incredible.
Picking one book as my favorite of the year… that would be a tad difficult. I have kinda stopped reading for a couple of years and I just picked it up again and I read some amazing gems. The Song of Achilles was great, lots of tears. The Way of Kings, surprisingly, lots of tears as well. The whole Mistborn trilogy, surprisingly, I cried while reading some parts of those books as well… also Piranesi, that was a great read, didn’t cry reading it though. These are the books that are standing out to me at the moment.
I read The Dispossessed this year as well! I enjoyed it thoroughly, in all its philosophical musings. The narrative isn't really a narrative, it's more of a vehicle for many philosophies to explain themselves, and so I see your point about it being a leveled-up essay, but I quite liked it in this packaging.
i truly admire your ability to explain books in such a deeper way but also not too seriously 😂 your videos bring me so much comfort. also, finally someone who loved the deal while being aware of its flaws 😅🤍
Before you mentioned The Deal, when you were just introducing it, I was like "omg that's how I feel about The Deal series" and then you were ACTUALLY talking about The Deal 🤣 I know it's not good... but it's SO GOOD!
Omg same. I was expecting her to say The Cruel Prince and I started thinking about what my guilty pleasure book would be and I said The Deal. Objectively, it has a lot of issues, but still.
I feel the same way about the deal and the rest of the off campus series!!! There's just something about it that's just sucks you in despite how bad it is. Also the the score and the goal are the bestttt😂😂
I totally relate to having guilty pleasures when it comes to my reading preferences!! i didn’t really enjoy the deal that much so i was surprised when i like the next book a lot more ❤
I adore These Violent Delights. Such an incredible yet underrated dark academia book. The quote “They wanted each other in the way of flesh wanting to knit itself together over a wound.” lives in my head rent free🖤
My favorite book so far this year is either The Wicked King, by Holly Black (I, too, have not read the third book yet) or A Darker Shade of Magic, by V.E. Schwab.
my favourites this year! - six of crows by Leigh bardugo, a certain hunger by Chelsea g summers, Kim Jiyoung, born 1982 by Cho nam-joo and Eileen by ottessa moshfegh!
If you love characters having great communication and just seeing healthy relationships, idk if you’ve read it yet, but I recommend Colleen Hoover’s Maybe series. Love the maturity in the characters!
I’m reading The Deal now and to get through the first 20-50 pages I had to imagine it as an intro to an early 2000s teen romcom with the voiceover and the music and everything
My favorite book this year so far has been These Violent Delights (the Chloe Gong one, I haven’t really been on the mood to pick the other one, sorry Leonie) so I’m patiently waiting for you to pick it up because it’s soooo good
So curious about Emily Henry! Beach Read is sitting on my shelf just waiting to be picked up, but I won't lie, I don't usually care for romance but I don't want to dislike this author that people really like.
I would give it a try! I think the book is very well written, the characters have a lot of depth. The book also discusses other topics such as death and grief. It’s more complex than it might seem, definitely not a fluffy romance.
I'm sad Ghost Wall didn't rank higher. Such an interesting concept but sometimes the execution just doesn't come off. I just finished Tolkien's Unfinished Tales today, I'm now at 40. My favorite so far has been "The Bear and the Nightingale" by Katherine Arden. Working on lots more! Great video as always, Leonie! Congrats on finishing your masters!
I read Ghost Wall after it was mentioned on a previous video. I loved it and have gone on to read several more Sarah Moss books. Bronze and Iron-age Celtic history is a special professional and personal interest of mine. I've done alot of the things mentioned in the book: slept in a round house, gathered food, made and worn historical garments , tried historic cooking methods etc. So it was extra fun for me.
My favorite book of the year so far is The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley. Really weird & interesting characterization. Would recommend if you're in the mood for some historical fictions. I also just read the Folk of the Air trilogy earlier this year and they're among my top favs too. If you haven't read its spin-off novel, The Darkest Part of the Forest, you definitely should!
Currently reading bunny, it reminds me of midsommar kinda? But oml.. I LOVE IT I’ve never had to like. Set a book down. And walk away. And process what happened
I have been secretly wanting to read The Deal. I read a string of dark thrillers, and now I just want some smut. I am also about to start Bunny and A Secret History, since I am definitely feeling in a Dark Academia mood. Thank you for this video!
I would love to see a short video or a tweet of how you annotated bunny!!! I loved it but was too confused to annotate so I gotta go back in and do that lolz
My worst book so far has been The Overstory, and my best book has been Everything I Never Told You. Also I have Bunny on hold at my library due to your glowing recommendations, and am hyped to hopefully read it in September to kick off cozy-autumnal-spooky season (Even though it is still very hot here in the southern USA during September lol) 😍
you talking about these violent delights got me to go read it and its been one of my top favourite books this year so thank u for that ! ill have to check out some of the other books u mention near the end of this video :o)
I think you'd really enjoy An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson :) I'm reading it right now, it's a fae story, kind of enemies-to-lovers (more like dislike to love), forced proximity, great protagonist & beautiful writing. Highly recommend her other popular book as well, but you requested fae books.
I agree 100% about your worst book ever! YES! I read it in the hope it'd get me out of a reading slump, a quick, romantic read...well, nope... it didn't. It was more of a reminder that some hyped books are just that, hyped, but not necessarily good.
For fae books: the Cainsville series by Kelley Armstrong might be up your alley! It's adult, not YA, and definitely not High Art or anything like that but they're so fun
The Spanish Love Deception was the first *ever* fully romance book I read...considering I may or may not be the youngest person here- I thought it was pretty good at first. But I found myself predicting everything that was going to happen. It was hella cliche. And after I read a few others, I come to your opinion. Seriously, I cringe back at my level of excitement towards it.
I just found your channel recently your videos are soo good its always nice to find someone with similar test in books and you've convinced me to read the cruel prince series i love it when the enemies to lovers is wayyyy more enemies than lovers Also if you liked Ursula k. Le Guin she has a compilation of short stories called The Wind's Twelve Quarters very pshyo sci-fi incredible 👏
I like 'The Dispossessed', but indeed the MC and his story is less interesting than his world. If you want to check out more Le Guin short stories, I highly recommend 'The Birthday of the World' which is a really good illustration of her ability to world-build and explore interesting ideas in a very concise way. There's even a few love stories in it (but always with a twist).
Here I was singing the Victorious theme song when you said "Here I am, once again" and excited when you looked it up, just to realize you meant another song...
I think the main reason why These Violent Delights is not more talked about is because there's another YA book, fantasy (which means a more eye-catching cover), with the exact same name. Another reason is that it's literally so hard to get your hands on a physical copy - idk about anywhere else, but in my country the only place I can buy it is on Book Depository for like 14 USD, which is like twice the price of most books I fill my shelves with.
My favorite book so far this year is "The Blue Book of Nebo". It's a post-apocalyptic novel and the two main characters (a mother and a child) are just amazing. Really recommend it!
Yay, glad to hear that you've loved Bunny bc it was one of my personal favourites last year🐰now I need to check out These Violent Delights - thank you for the video!☺
As you like toxic obsession "friendships" you should read lost boy by Christina Henry. It made me suffer so much and I read it with a constant fear for the characters AND IT'S SOO GOOD!! I read it in April this year and it's one of my new favorite books. I highly recommend it :)
So..as it turns out, l was in the mood for some light read and l saw your video yesterday and went straight ahead and downloaded The Deal and finished it in one night ... and l totally get what you mean, like it's not a great book but it really entertained me, at least 3/4ths of it. And I haven't mentioned before, but I love your videos and book recs 💜
I didn't read The Deal but I really liked The Dare, which I think is in the same series :) It's also about a fake relationship but with a different premise. Also, I agree with your opinion of The Spanish Love Deception but my main grief with it is that it's supposed to be about bringing a fake date to a wedding and the wedding part only takes literally 3 chapters and the rest of it is the months before and after that. Why???
"If I wanna read about two people who can't communicate I'll just pick up a Sally Rooney"
I DIED.
I laughed.
😂😂😂
"The bar for men is so low it's a tavern in Hades."
lmaooo
genius
Dd
Love this 🤣🤣🤣
Books listed:
0:56 The Midnight Lie - Marie Rutkoski
1:49 The Spanish Love Deception - Elena Armas
3:12 Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss
4:36 Mrs Death Misses Death - Salana Godden
5:19 The Dispossessed - Ursula K Le Guin
6:21 A Certain Hunger - Chelsea G Summers
7:51 Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao
8:52 Beach Read - Emily Henry
10:28 The Deal - Elle Kennedy
13:12 Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney
14:15 The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K Le Guin
15:13 The Cruel Prince - Holly Black
16:20 These Violent Delights - Micah Nemerever
17:40 Bunny - Mona Awad
thank u
That title screen you made was immaculate
(you have no idea how long it took me to make that)
@@TheBookLeo it is so gorgeous!!
It really is
She’s so gorgeous! 😩❤️
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever is seriously one of the most underrated dark academia books out there. I don't see a lot of hype for it. But, also, I'm kinda glad it's not too popular because people ruin things for me too easily.
Yes, finally someone who doesn't like spanish love deception. I trust only your opinions and base my entire tbr of it. I feel we got the exact same book preference 🤧
I agree. I hated hated hated TSLD, never understood the hype, can’t judge the people who like it but can’t honestly tell why they do. I love this channel and have very similar taste in books, always enjoy her videos.
spanish love deception SERIOUSLY gave me wattpad vibes and not in a good way
@@juliaomelchenko1132 ikr it was unnecessarily long and cringey
These Violent Delights is one of my favorite books. I read it right when it was published and I was certain it was about to blow up on youtube/ig/tiktok, but it's been 2 years and I'm still waiting 😩😅. Glad to see you talk about it, I hope more people will discover it through you. It is just so good and it has all the things people on booktube tend to love!
I think these violent delights is super popular in all social medias
It blew up on Instagram, so I’m suprised to hear it didn’t blow up on here or Tik Tok (I don’t have Tik Tok, I just know most repost there videos on Instagram and vice versa)
@@Cecebookworm07 Nah its popular on TikTok too, i have seen countless of recs on it
I just read bunny thanks to this video and I gave it a 5/5 I'm obsessed. When the book ended, I was mesmerized and confused but I thought I understood what was happening, but then I looked up the interpretations that were confirmed by the author and turns out I was completely WRONG. But it made me love the book even more!! It's truly a masterpiece imo
could you share the link to the interpretations confirmed by the author?
@@dubblbnny Check out '[SPOILERS] Katie Colson explains the truth behind Bunny by Mona Awad' on youtube! They explain everything there :)
the Spanish love deception is literally the worst book i've ever read in my entire LIFE. your description is so accurate. aaron is massive and blue eyed. that's all we really know about him. genuinely....... feel so passionate about how much i didnt like this book LOL
I kind of love passionately hating a book. Gives me some zest for life.
@@alenanela1743 i'm so glad someone understands
Honestly the book sounds just like the love Hypothesis and I disliked that book too
@@alenanela1743 NO YEAH FR. i love spending time just ranting about how awful some books are lol
as far as personifications of death go, my favourites would definitely be those found in The Sandman graphic novels, Discworld, and The Book Thief. any more recommendations would definitely be welcome
Las intermitencias de la muerte (death with interruptions) by José Saramago is about a country where Death has suddenly stop coming. So people don't die, they're just in a state of endless pain basically 🙃 It's about people and the government figuring what to do. It's really really good, recommend it
@@lovemexicanfood sounds interesting, I'll check it out :)
Ooh I love The Book Thief !
AHH yes the book thief. my fsvorite book for multiple reasons but the personification of death is definitely a big one 🫶
I love that you included the little playlist along with the books, thank you!
People who don't believe in women's rage clearly haven't visited their moms in a long time😭😭
Lol i felt that
my favorite book i read so far this year is "an ember in the ashes". it's definitely an "old" book community read, but it was so good! and the second one is also amazing, I'm very exciting to keep reading the series!
Please do a second part of judging you by your Goodreads lists
Please !!!🥺💌🥲
YES ok I'm no longer ashamed to say I enjoyed "The Deal". Weird pacing? For sure. Other flaws? You bet. But I still liked it!!
ok good all the books are on my tbr but i’ve been too embarrassed to ask my mom for them bc of what they’re about 😅
I read The Cruel Prince after watching your ya fantasy video and I just LOVED IT and I was so surprised bc I’ve never wanted to read these kind of books and fantasy stuff and it was such a delight! thank you for talking so well about it bc it was what made me want to read it
My favourite read so far is Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. I also enjoyed Bunny, Mrs Death Misses Death (the audio is beautifully narrated by the author, who is primarily a performance poet) and Beautiful World, Where Are You. A surprise five star read of mine was At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop. You certainly read a wide range of genres!
I love how I’m not the only one that picked up The Deal to roast and ended up actually loving it 🙃
I recently read These violent delights because of your video and WOW I was not disappointed, that's a new favourite.
Really? I couldn’t get through it. The protagonist sort of disturbed me. Should i finish it
@@renadomar6172 It's not a book for everyone! If you already don't like it in the beginning you probably shouldn't continue. I like that the characters are morally grey/complex, but it's fine if thats not your thing.
I always appreciate how you always call out the Spanish love deception and other books because I honestly don't understand how people swoon so much over the most basic guys and call them the standard for men... Like the bar actually is in hell
omg my favorite book so far this year is these violent delights by micah nemerever, it is just sooo amazing. i can't recommend it enough. i read it in april and it stills haunt me everyday, I NEED MORE PEOPLE TO READ IT. also, i haven't read bunny yet and didn't know it was dark academia, but it is on my tbr so i may read it soon :)
OMG for me Bunny was really the kind of book where I didn't know if I should rate it 2 or 5 stars. X) And I think it takes a great writer to elicit such a reaction!!
I really appreciate the song alongside every book 🥺
HATED "Spanish Love Deception". Excerpt from my Goodreads review: "Readers are starry-eyed over Aaron and what a great guy he is and I'm over here with my stalker flash cards. Aaron is always up in Lina's business, always there. The frigging book opens with him offering to be her wedding date IN SPAIN and they barely know each other as only work enemies..... Do a gender reversal on Aaron. What if a woman did all the things he does in this book for Lina? You'd think she was obsessed and was one inner monologue shy of putting the rabbit in a pot."
Love the rabbit reference🤭
I love The Deal and The Score. These are both my comfort reads
I gotta read “The deal” 😅. The “picture ” when you’re showing a book iss SOOO AMAZING
Leonie selling me on Sally Rooney one video at a time 😆. I always get Bunny and Cursed Bunny confused. My favorite read this year has probably been a short story, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by AS Byatt.
Good luck on your thesis!
I agree with you about The Deal! There were so many things about it that I know is bad but I actually liked their relationship. Can’t say the same about The Score though (which I only read since people kept saying it was the best book in the series. I disagree)
I also agree about The Cruel Prince. I really enjoyed the enemy bit of their relationship (although I’ve found that I only accept that kind of behavior in Fantasy. Contemporary bully romances I hate with a passion)
Oooo my fave books of the year so far are:
1. Cursed bunny - Bora Chung, Anton Hur (Korean short story collection which uses horror, sci-fi, speculative fiction to speak on real horrors in the world like capitalism and the patriarchy but from a Korean lens)
2. Earthlings - Sayaka Murata (Japanese novel that goes to very weird and dark places, speaking on how homogeneous society is and basically a big 🖕🏾to societal expectations and norms aha)
3. Know my name - Chanel Miller (memoir by Chanel, formerly known as Emily Doe in the 2015 Stanford Uni sexual assault case)
earthlings???
Okay you may have officially convinced me to pick up Bunny. I’ve heard so many conflicting opinions about it but it’s been on my list forever!!
I personally loved Iron Widow and gave it 4.5 stars. There's a lot of great Fae Series:
1. Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
2. The Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa
3. The Modern Faerie Tales by Holly Black
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Mass
The Deal is totally my guilty pleasure too, you're not alone in this girl hahaha i promised myself I wouldn't read this but yeah, it happenned
sameee...
I'm already very excited for that Emily Henry video! I've recently read "book lovers" and I really enjoyed it. Sometimes romance books can feel a little bit forced but in her books the characters' feelings come off very genuine.
My favorite book I've read so far this year has been "Veronica decides to die" by Paulo Coelho. I've read quite a few books by Coelho but this one and "11 minutes" are definitely my favorites
My favorite so far is Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo for sure! Next would be House in the Cerulean Sea 🥰 I devoured these two my worst would be Arsenic and Adobo, bad writing and not interesting enough for me to continue
YES! I liked Evelyn Hugo (The parts with Monique low key annoyed me until the end and then I understood the importance of it), but House In The Cerulean Sea was incredible.
omg if you love communication then you should read the wedding crasher by Mia Sosa. the chemistry and understanding between the characters>>>>>
Picking one book as my favorite of the year… that would be a tad difficult. I have kinda stopped reading for a couple of years and I just picked it up again and I read some amazing gems. The Song of Achilles was great, lots of tears. The Way of Kings, surprisingly, lots of tears as well. The whole Mistborn trilogy, surprisingly, I cried while reading some parts of those books as well… also Piranesi, that was a great read, didn’t cry reading it though. These are the books that are standing out to me at the moment.
the deal is one of my favorite books it definitely had its questionable moments but idk there's just something about it.
when I say I trust your tastes so much I really do mean it 😭 I just finished Bunny and enjoyed it so much, one of my faves this year!!
I read The Dispossessed this year as well! I enjoyed it thoroughly, in all its philosophical musings. The narrative isn't really a narrative, it's more of a vehicle for many philosophies to explain themselves, and so I see your point about it being a leveled-up essay, but I quite liked it in this packaging.
i truly admire your ability to explain books in such a deeper way but also not too seriously 😂 your videos bring me so much comfort. also, finally someone who loved the deal while being aware of its flaws 😅🤍
I absolutely loved A Certain Hunger and was so excited to see it on this list and that you enjoyed it
Before you mentioned The Deal, when you were just introducing it, I was like "omg that's how I feel about The Deal series" and then you were ACTUALLY talking about The Deal 🤣 I know it's not good... but it's SO GOOD!
Omg same. I was expecting her to say The Cruel Prince and I started thinking about what my guilty pleasure book would be and I said The Deal. Objectively, it has a lot of issues, but still.
Omgg the songs you added with the books!
I've got to read This Violent Delights and Bunny ASAP 🙃
I love that i can watch your new upload video before i go to sleep.
I feel the same way about the deal and the rest of the off campus series!!!
There's just something about it that's just sucks you in despite how bad it is. Also the the score and the goal are the bestttt😂😂
The way I absolutely gasped when you said a book was like Hannibal and Killing Eve! I need it right now 😫
I’ve been waiting for your video all day!! I’m so happy now!
Love the fact that you added music recs!
I totally relate to having guilty pleasures when it comes to my reading preferences!! i didn’t really enjoy the deal that much so i was surprised when i like the next book a lot more ❤
Omg, I loved the transitions!!
I adore These Violent Delights. Such an incredible yet underrated dark academia book. The quote “They wanted each other in the way of flesh wanting to knit itself together over a wound.” lives in my head rent free🖤
that quote
My favorite book so far this year is either The Wicked King, by Holly Black (I, too, have not read the third book yet) or A Darker Shade of Magic, by V.E. Schwab.
both great stories!
the third one is sooo good! I finished it in 5 days. (which is fast for me, cause I read multiple books at the same time) 🤓
@@blue_hour_appeared The third really ties everything together.
The Folk of Air series is sooo good I love it
my favourites this year! - six of crows by Leigh bardugo, a certain hunger by Chelsea g summers, Kim Jiyoung, born 1982 by Cho nam-joo and Eileen by ottessa moshfegh!
six of crows is so good!
having only one dnf this far into the year is so powerful of you how do you do it 😭😭
If you love characters having great communication and just seeing healthy relationships, idk if you’ve read it yet, but I recommend Colleen Hoover’s Maybe series. Love the maturity in the characters!
I’m reading The Deal now and to get through the first 20-50 pages I had to imagine it as an intro to an early 2000s teen romcom with the voiceover and the music and everything
My favorite book this year so far has been These Violent Delights (the Chloe Gong one, I haven’t really been on the mood to pick the other one, sorry Leonie) so I’m patiently waiting for you to pick it up because it’s soooo good
I need a video about your favorite hate->friends->lovers books!! This is also my all time favorite trope
So curious about Emily Henry! Beach Read is sitting on my shelf just waiting to be picked up, but I won't lie, I don't usually care for romance but I don't want to dislike this author that people really like.
I would give it a try! I think the book is very well written, the characters have a lot of depth. The book also discusses other topics such as death and grief. It’s more complex than it might seem, definitely not a fluffy romance.
I had the time of my life reading The Wicked King!!!!! Bunny sounds exactly like something I would love
you're in for a ride!
Wicked king was my fav of the series and I just read Bunny and it was weird but in the best way possible
@@mena4397 oh sounds inviting🤭
BUNNY IS SO GOOD! I don't know if I'll ever stop thinking about it
I'm sad Ghost Wall didn't rank higher. Such an interesting concept but sometimes the execution just doesn't come off. I just finished Tolkien's Unfinished Tales today, I'm now at 40. My favorite so far has been "The Bear and the Nightingale" by Katherine Arden. Working on lots more! Great video as always, Leonie! Congrats on finishing your masters!
I read Ghost Wall after it was mentioned on a previous video. I loved it and have gone on to read several more Sarah Moss books. Bronze and Iron-age Celtic history is a special professional and personal interest of mine. I've done alot of the things mentioned in the book: slept in a round house, gathered food, made and worn historical garments , tried historic cooking methods etc. So it was extra fun for me.
This video has really validated me in the fact that I haven’t read that many books this year
As a Hannibal fan These violent delights is one of my fav books for sure
girl u have to read the final book of cruel prince.... ITS SO GOOD. the trilogy literally got better with each book
Okay but the music reccs with the books is perfection
My favorite book of the year so far is The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley. Really weird & interesting characterization. Would recommend if you're in the mood for some historical fictions. I also just read the Folk of the Air trilogy earlier this year and they're among my top favs too. If you haven't read its spin-off novel, The Darkest Part of the Forest, you definitely should!
Natasha Pulley is a Historical Fiction Queen!!!
miss leo i am begging you on my knees to read legendborn the book has literally changed the trajectory of my life
Currently reading bunny, it reminds me of midsommar kinda? But oml.. I LOVE IT
I’ve never had to like. Set a book down. And walk away. And process what happened
I have been secretly wanting to read The Deal. I read a string of dark thrillers, and now I just want some smut.
I am also about to start Bunny and A Secret History, since I am definitely feeling in a Dark Academia mood.
Thank you for this video!
You had me at ‘Bunny’ being your #1. I immediately subscribed after that (it was my first video on your channel).
I would love to see a short video or a tweet of how you annotated bunny!!! I loved it but was too confused to annotate so I gotta go back in and do that lolz
Ahhhh I’m so glad you reviewed These Violent Delights!!! It’s my favorite book yet and it’s so underrated 😅
My worst book so far has been The Overstory, and my best book has been Everything I Never Told You. Also I have Bunny on hold at my library due to your glowing recommendations, and am hyped to hopefully read it in September to kick off cozy-autumnal-spooky season (Even though it is still very hot here in the southern USA during September lol) 😍
I haven't read Bunny yet, but I recently read her other book All's Well and I absolutely loved it.
Aw, I’m very sad about the ranking of Mrs Death Misses Death, but I’m very happy for the ranking of Bunny ❤️🐇
you talking about these violent delights got me to go read it and its been one of my top favourite books this year so thank u for that ! ill have to check out some of the other books u mention near the end of this video :o)
yyesss more love that these violent delights deserves!
I think you'd really enjoy An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson :) I'm reading it right now, it's a fae story, kind of enemies-to-lovers (more like dislike to love), forced proximity, great protagonist & beautiful writing. Highly recommend her other popular book as well, but you requested fae books.
Finally, someone who shares the same opinion about Bunny with me 💗
I agree 100% about your worst book ever! YES! I read it in the hope it'd get me out of a reading slump, a quick, romantic read...well, nope... it didn't. It was more of a reminder that some hyped books are just that, hyped, but not necessarily good.
My favorite book this year is the Rain by Kim Chew NG and special mention to Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
I just finished reading Bunny a week ago and I loved it! One of my favorite books of the year!
yess! im glad you liked it!
For fae books: the Cainsville series by Kelley Armstrong might be up your alley! It's adult, not YA, and definitely not High Art or anything like that but they're so fun
The Roughest Draft was my favorite.
The Spanish Love Deception was the first *ever* fully romance book I read...considering I may or may not be the youngest person here- I thought it was pretty good at first. But I found myself predicting everything that was going to happen. It was hella cliche. And after I read a few others, I come to your opinion. Seriously, I cringe back at my level of excitement towards it.
My favorite book so far this year has been ''Defy the Night'' by Brigid Kemmerer...not fae but i really enjoyed it. You should read it too!
The iron fey series is amazing!
6:43 my mind instantly going for the Victorious' opening theme
I just found your channel recently your videos are soo good its always nice to find someone with similar test in books and you've convinced me to read the cruel prince series i love it when the enemies to lovers is wayyyy more enemies than lovers
Also if you liked Ursula k. Le Guin she has a compilation of short stories called The Wind's Twelve Quarters very pshyo sci-fi incredible 👏
I like 'The Dispossessed', but indeed the MC and his story is less interesting than his world. If you want to check out more Le Guin short stories, I highly recommend 'The Birthday of the World' which is a really good illustration of her ability to world-build and explore interesting ideas in a very concise way. There's even a few love stories in it (but always with a twist).
Here I was singing the Victorious theme song when you said "Here I am, once again" and excited when you looked it up, just to realize you meant another song...
Excited for that review on Emily Henry books! I have my opinions! (Beach Read was my least favorite Emily Henry book)
I think the main reason why These Violent Delights is not more talked about is because there's another YA book, fantasy (which means a more eye-catching cover), with the exact same name.
Another reason is that it's literally so hard to get your hands on a physical copy - idk about anywhere else, but in my country the only place I can buy it is on Book Depository for like 14 USD, which is like twice the price of most books I fill my shelves with.
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I just bought Bunny on audible. Excited!
My favorite book so far this year is "The Blue Book of Nebo". It's a post-apocalyptic novel and the two main characters (a mother and a child) are just amazing. Really recommend it!
Yay, glad to hear that you've loved Bunny bc it was one of my personal favourites last year🐰now I need to check out These Violent Delights - thank you for the video!☺
As you like toxic obsession "friendships" you should read lost boy by Christina Henry. It made me suffer so much and I read it with a constant fear for the characters AND IT'S SOO GOOD!! I read it in April this year and it's one of my new favorite books. I highly recommend it :)
So..as it turns out, l was in the mood for some light read and l saw your video yesterday and went straight ahead and downloaded The Deal and finished it in one night ... and l totally get what you mean, like it's not a great book but it really entertained me, at least 3/4ths of it.
And I haven't mentioned before, but I love your videos and book recs 💜
I didn't read The Deal but I really liked The Dare, which I think is in the same series :) It's also about a fake relationship but with a different premise.
Also, I agree with your opinion of The Spanish Love Deception but my main grief with it is that it's supposed to be about bringing a fake date to a wedding and the wedding part only takes literally 3 chapters and the rest of it is the months before and after that. Why???
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