Could not agree more with your assessment of ACOSF! Cassian is my FAVORITE and to see his love story have no romance, build up, or tension was so disappointing!
Yup I DNF'd at like 70% as I just didn't care. Angry bonking with no connection isn't interesting. That was and will be the last SJM I ever read, and that's after reading everything else that had been published at the time. I also found it very cookie cutter with the plot.
the previous book sent me into a reading slump, and I know for sure I don't like thaaat much smut, so this one's not on my radar. A little smut is ok, but not drowning in it
I have divorced all SJM books and sold my collection. I used to love her but I feel like her writing has gone downhill and I just can’t do it anymore, it frustrates me to no end. For the size that they are, it’s honestly a waste of time considering all the other books I have to read!
Great video, as always! I also have a video request - I’m looking for books with good banter. I’m such a sucker for clever/funny banter. Not just romantically, but even just between friends. Would love to see a video with recommendations! Especially fantasy reads. I just finished Mistborn after putting it off forever, and I loved the banter between the characters. Thank you!
Hey, look up Gideon the Ninth maybe you’ll give it a chance and like it. I LOVED the banter in it but you know humour being subjective not everyone’s gonna vibe with it
I like your honesty and is refreshing for a big channels like yours to hear a personal opinion that doesn't follow all hyped talk out there. I stamble upon obscure book review that don't live up to the hype and sometimes for me feels like popular algorithmus only hype books [ and that makes me even less to believe the book is any good]. But that is my opinion ☺️ I still! want to read Master of Crows. Read Radiance [my fav] and also her inspired Beauty and the Beast book...🤔...no, I need to look the titel up...I did enjoy that one [ last action part was not needed🤷♀️] 🤗
Book Lovers and Part of Your World were both 5 star reads for me, so this hurts a bit :') I think my most disappointing reads so far this year are A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston and Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross. I read The Seven Year Slip earlier this year and LOVED it, but this one was just so bland and I didn't care about the romance at all. and then Divine Rivals was one of my favorite reads last year and the sequel was SUCH a let down :(
My disappointments of the year so far were An Education in Malice (it started strong but it quickly went downhill with lack of buildup and cringe plot points), Lucy by the Sea (it was horrible and there was no point to it), Stranger Things Happen (DNF), Salt & Broom (DNF; the writing was not it for me and there was a lot of telling instead of showing), I Have Some Questions for You (writing felt all over the place), and Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore (completely different from what I was expecting and was severely underwhelming). I always hate having DNFs and disappointing reads, and I’m sorry you’ve already had your fair share of disappointments too
Heartless Hunter was fine to me, too. It feels like so many books are pretty much the same now. I think my personal disappointments are ACOSF (HATED it. Way oversexual and boring/repetitive af), A Study In Drowning (dnf'ed 3 times) and Curious Tides (turned the 'villian' into a kid's cartoon character).
I totally agree with your opinion of Book Lovers. I had heard incredible things about it but came out feeling pretty cold. I was also very let down by the reveal of her sister's health.
It’s nice to find other people who don’t enjoy ACOWAR and ACOFAS. I think they’re the two books that really crystallized my disappointment with SJM, which was only further confirmed with KOA and HOEAB. I’m sad you didn’t love Golden Son, it’s my favorite in the trilogy.
Did you read anything by Tori Bovalino? I read Not good for Maidens and loved it. I am also interested in My Throat an Open Grave. What Emily Henry books did you like, which one was your favorite?
Red Rising is one of my favourite series of all time and I'm disappointed you didn't like it, however I appreciate your honesty and it just makes me more excited to explore your favourite reads 😊
Feel the same about the Red Rising etc.. however love The Sun Eater series by Christopher Rucchio. First book is alright but then it’s just so good. Love his writing and the audiobooks are v good too.
I enjoy these videos, even if some of my favorite books end up on them! It's interesting to see how people have such different experiences with the same book. I really enjoyed Red Rising, for example. Really, really need to continue with Golden Son (especially since it is supposed to be even better than the first book). Sorry that some of these did not work for you (or were as enjoyable as you had hoped), but I still hope to try most of them: A Fate Inked in Blood, Heartless Hunter. I will likely try the ACOTAR series someday. This is going to sound so shallow, but that cover of A Court of Silver Flames is so ugly. Side note: I need to try out Grace Draven, too. Oh, and the Licanius trilogy! Book Lovers is on my TBR. I read Happy Place. Enjoyed it, but it wasn't amazing for me. Thanks for sharing!
The Crimson Moth/ Heartless Hunter sounds like a retelling of the Scarlet Pimpernel? I have not heard it mentioned anywhere but the plot description is basically the same (swap French aristocracy for witches and add enemies-to-lovers and voila).
Your feelings on book lovers are my exact feelings on funny story. I liked it but compared to other EH books that I love it just didn’t capture me the same.
ACOSF felt like a grab at mental health and pure hookup smut in attempts to relate to the general population of booktok girls. sorry not sorry. I hated the book and I really wanted to see more of feyre's powers but we didn't get to see any of that.
I felt that way about Amina al-Sirafi. I was expecting to find a new favorite and have been deeply disappointed. I think it is mostly that the writing feels very clinical, like I’m reading a history textbook instead of a fiction novel. I haven’t quite finished it because my library hold ran out before I could. And I think that shows you how bored I was that I couldn’t even get myself to read half an hour a day. With the audio book… the thing put me in a freaking reading slump. I didn’t read anything else for 3 weeks and didn’t even finish the stupid thing in that time 😭 at this point, no matter how amazing the end is, I can’t see it getting more than 3.5. Big disappointment.
I was one of the people that told you to insist on Golden Son if you hadn't enjoyed Red Rising, but I think that if you didn't like this one too, it's not worth it to read the last one just so you can get to the next series lol, so many good books out there.
I read Book Lovers on a vacation 2 weeks ago after getting it at a book swap in like April. Holy crap. Never knew about EmHen but I got Happy Place for my 20 hour flights home, finished it, and bought Funny Story this weekend. Finished it in a day!!! (Literally didn't leave my bed all Saturday!!!!) Funny Story is my favorite so far (5 starred it) but Book Lovers was great enough to spur my love for her writing! The only other book I've also read is A Fate Inked in Blood and yeah... That one was just boring and bland. 3 stars at a perfect 'meh, it's okay'.
A Fate Inked in Blood felt like all lust no plot. Not my cup of tea. And funny enough, one of my most disappointing reads was Just For the Summer by Abby Jimenez, I didn't feel the chemistry between the two mains, it felt contrived and insta-lovey, and in his POV he was SUCH a simp. Not my kind of guy, haha.
I just could not pick up The Heartless Hunter because Night of the Witch by Sara Raasch and Beth Revis blew me away and it felt like the exact same plot, without the interesting brewing and history and the amazing magic system.
Hard agree with everything on A Fate Inked in Blood. For the Part of Your World series I was actually MOST disappointed by the second book, though I also liked it a bit more than the first. It started off GREAT and then the miscommunication for two people who supposedly “spoke each other’s language” was just getting to be TOO much for me and kind of brought me out of it.
Oh noooo Golden Son? I loved that. But valid observations as well. Thanks for this video. Very respectful but very clear, which helps in making choices whether to read one of these books.
I swear Danielle Jensen does that EVERY time. Solid start, poor finish. It always has so much promise too 🙄 and as you can see, I fall for it EVERY time 😂
my friends were talking about Sanderson today, and I told them I gave Mistborn a 3. It was my second 3 star of the year. Which made me sad. I warned you about Book Lovers. I soft dnfed this one. Only because my 4.5 star (to 5.5 star book came out at the time.
I have this theory that book A rating effects book B so I'm curious if you only gave the James Islington book a 3.5 because you loved his other so much. If you read this before Will of the Many would you rate it lower. I had a book A awful book B amazing situation and then years later re-read book B and thought "wow, that was terrrrrrrible".
Late to the game but here goes: the second book in the The Shepard King series "Two Twisted Crowns". It was fine but not as good as the first book. Along the same vein, the second book in Lisa Kleypas Wallflower series also underwhelmed me. I liked the first book but the second? Eh. A bit silly. Sadly, I dnf-ed "Will of the Many" and "The Spear Cuts Through Water".
We’re on the same boat 🥲 I’ve managed to achieve my goodreads goal already but haven’t read anything that I’ve truly loved or become obsessed with. I’m looking for a new hyperfixation, an all-time favorite but no luck so far.
I think one book that didn't end up being what I expected and made me actually dislike the book was Fifteen Postcards by Kirsten McKenzie. It started off as this really fun concept of this lady who worked in an antique store traveling back and forth through time, yknow, one of those post Outlander romances but with different time periods. Thing is, the female character started strong and gradually devolved into so much of the plot leaning on mysogeny and SA rather than the main character's own journey or what she's doing and finding. It just felt so lazy and uncomfortable even if it could have been kind of historically correct. Outlander did it too, but at least that had character development, strong growth and a fully fleshed out world. Didn't complete the ebook, don't intend to.
This is definitely a weird publishing year. I feel like a lot of stuff was pushed out in the covid years and now things are normalizing. I wonder if we shouldn’t expect to LOVE more than 5-10 books a year.
Evocation by S.T. Gibson. A lot of people praise this author, but this book was just...meh. Not great, not that different from everything else, and the writing wasn't any better than some of my favorite authors either. It had potential, it just didn't get there. Also Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin. I couldn't even finish the book because by the time I was halfway through it felt like literally nothing happened, and there were some big plot issues.
I just recently read An Education in Malice by that same author. It started strong and I did like the way she wrote, but the storyline completely derailed and some plot points felt cringe. It just felt over-sexualized without any proper buildup
I ended up taking S T Gibson off my auto buy. I was disappointed in An Education and and went into Evocation with no expectations at all. I’m starting to think A Dowry of Blood was a fluke.
I really did not like heartless hunter. I read it months ago and I was felt I was waiting for it to get good and it just didn’t. Everyone was praising it and I thought I was crazy.
I've been pretty lucky so far this year, and have really enjoyed almost all of my reads. The 2 that come to mind as disappointing: A Venom Dark and Sweet--it was fine, 3.5 stars, but I really loved the first book, so a tad disappointing. And Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood, which really surprised me. I just didn't feel the romance at all. I rated it 3 stars, it wasn't bad, but usually I love Ali Hazelwood's books. Bummer, and I've heard others really liked it, so I guess it may have been me.
Here's my worst and disappointing books so far Taming 7 by chloe Walsh Some desperate glory by Emily tesh Same time next summer by annabel Monaghan It happened one summer by tessa bailey
i felt similarly about book lovers, i had read happy place like a year before and i loved it but book lovers was honestly kind of cringey for me i was surprised
Thank god I’m not the only one who didn’t like The Shadow of what was Lost. I agree it did get better, but I still never cared enough to continue on with the series
I wish The Husbands had started differently. You're just dropped in and are expected to care about this woman you know nothing about. And there was no character growth, imo. Such an interesting premise, but such a disappointment.
My biggest disappointments so far this year have been Babel and Convenience Store Woman. Babel because so much more could have been done with it and so little of it was actually fantasy. It just felt like false marketing. Convenience Store Woman because nothing really happens in it, there's no character growth (imo).
I loved Heartless Hunter one of my favorites I am sorry you didn’t like it 📖📖📚📚📖📚📚📖📚📚📖📚📚📙📙📙📙📚📖📖📚📙📙📙📖📖📚📚📖📖📚📚📚📖🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
My biggest disappointment of the year is The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells. I read the first two books and just realised it wasn’t for me 😭 Murderbot is a relatable character, but I do need an engaging plot and more world building, which isn’t present 🥲 It’s just so overhyped and my expectations were not met 🥲
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I started a fate inked in blood but my boyfriend’s dog ate it the day I bought it … guess I was saved lol
Could not agree more with your assessment of ACOSF! Cassian is my FAVORITE and to see his love story have no romance, build up, or tension was so disappointing!
Dnf'ed. It was such a disappointment to me as well.
Yup I DNF'd at like 70% as I just didn't care. Angry bonking with no connection isn't interesting. That was and will be the last SJM I ever read, and that's after reading everything else that had been published at the time. I also found it very cookie cutter with the plot.
@@sfhenne yes! The “using each other for sex” trope was so cringey!
the previous book sent me into a reading slump, and I know for sure I don't like thaaat much smut, so this one's not on my radar. A little smut is ok, but not drowning in it
I have divorced all SJM books and sold my collection. I used to love her but I feel like her writing has gone downhill and I just can’t do it anymore, it frustrates me to no end. For the size that they are, it’s honestly a waste of time considering all the other books I have to read!
Great video, as always! I also have a video request - I’m looking for books with good banter. I’m such a sucker for clever/funny banter. Not just romantically, but even just between friends. Would love to see a video with recommendations! Especially fantasy reads. I just finished Mistborn after putting it off forever, and I loved the banter between the characters. Thank you!
Hey, look up Gideon the Ninth maybe you’ll give it a chance and like it. I LOVED the banter in it but you know humour being subjective not everyone’s gonna vibe with it
Check out Six of Crows! I loved the banter between the characters
Loved the banter in Red, White and Royal Blue!
I like your honesty and is refreshing for a big channels like yours to hear a personal opinion that doesn't follow all hyped talk out there.
I stamble upon obscure book review that don't live up to the hype and sometimes for me feels like popular algorithmus only hype books [ and that makes me even less to believe the book is any good]. But that is my opinion ☺️
I still! want to read Master of Crows. Read Radiance [my fav] and also her inspired Beauty and the Beast book...🤔...no, I need to look the titel up...I did enjoy that one [ last action part was not needed🤷♀️]
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I’m sat!!!! Always here for Reagan’s opinions
Made me doubt the year for a few seconds😂
you have such wholesome energy and i absolutely love your hair color
I just finished A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and I do NOT get the hype. 2 stars from me.
This is why I don’t read popular booktok recs lol. I’d rather read books I know I’ll love.
Book Lovers and Part of Your World were both 5 star reads for me, so this hurts a bit :') I think my most disappointing reads so far this year are A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston and Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross. I read The Seven Year Slip earlier this year and LOVED it, but this one was just so bland and I didn't care about the romance at all. and then Divine Rivals was one of my favorite reads last year and the sequel was SUCH a let down :(
For a second I thought you are going to mention Assassin's Fate because it is missing on your shelf, by the end I was relieved you didn't 😅
My disappointments of the year so far were An Education in Malice (it started strong but it quickly went downhill with lack of buildup and cringe plot points), Lucy by the Sea (it was horrible and there was no point to it), Stranger Things Happen (DNF), Salt & Broom (DNF; the writing was not it for me and there was a lot of telling instead of showing), I Have Some Questions for You (writing felt all over the place), and Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore (completely different from what I was expecting and was severely underwhelming). I always hate having DNFs and disappointing reads, and I’m sorry you’ve already had your fair share of disappointments too
Heartless Hunter was fine to me, too. It feels like so many books are pretty much the same now. I think my personal disappointments are ACOSF (HATED it. Way oversexual and boring/repetitive af), A Study In Drowning (dnf'ed 3 times) and Curious Tides (turned the 'villian' into a kid's cartoon character).
I totally agree with your opinion of Book Lovers. I had heard incredible things about it but came out feeling pretty cold. I was also very let down by the reveal of her sister's health.
It’s nice to find other people who don’t enjoy ACOWAR and ACOFAS. I think they’re the two books that really crystallized my disappointment with SJM, which was only further confirmed with KOA and HOEAB.
I’m sad you didn’t love Golden Son, it’s my favorite in the trilogy.
Did you read anything by Tori Bovalino? I read Not good for Maidens and loved it. I am also interested in My Throat an Open Grave.
What Emily Henry books did you like, which one was your favorite?
Red Rising is one of my favourite series of all time and I'm disappointed you didn't like it, however I appreciate your honesty and it just makes me more excited to explore your favourite reads 😊
Feel the same about the Red Rising etc.. however love The Sun Eater series by Christopher Rucchio. First book is alright but then it’s just so good. Love his writing and the audiobooks are v good too.
I really can't get into SJM. I have tried! But come to realize that just because it's popular it doesn't mean it's for you. ❤
acosf was truly a wtf experience. like I still can’t believe sjm thought we needed more acotar books.
Have you read Radiance by Grace Draven? Highly recommend! Also the sequel, Eidolon!
Totally agree with your thoughts on Red Rising and Golden Son. They are just meh for me.
I enjoy these videos, even if some of my favorite books end up on them! It's interesting to see how people have such different experiences with the same book.
I really enjoyed Red Rising, for example. Really, really need to continue with Golden Son (especially since it is supposed to be even better than the first book).
Sorry that some of these did not work for you (or were as enjoyable as you had hoped), but I still hope to try most of them: A Fate Inked in Blood, Heartless Hunter.
I will likely try the ACOTAR series someday. This is going to sound so shallow, but that cover of A Court of Silver Flames is so ugly.
Side note: I need to try out Grace Draven, too. Oh, and the Licanius trilogy!
Book Lovers is on my TBR. I read Happy Place. Enjoyed it, but it wasn't amazing for me.
Thanks for sharing!
The Crimson Moth/ Heartless Hunter sounds like a retelling of the Scarlet Pimpernel? I have not heard it mentioned anywhere but the plot description is basically the same (swap French aristocracy for witches and add enemies-to-lovers and voila).
Omg yessss, book lovers was seriously boring. I love Emily Henry but that book was just ugh. A nothing.
Your feelings on book lovers are my exact feelings on funny story. I liked it but compared to other EH books that I love it just didn’t capture me the same.
I have not read one 5 🌟 so far this year.30 plus 4 🌟 20 plus 3 🌟 and 2, 2 🌟 4 dnfs.
ACOSF felt like a grab at mental health and pure hookup smut in attempts to relate to the general population of booktok girls. sorry not sorry. I hated the book and I really wanted to see more of feyre's powers but we didn't get to see any of that.
I only read Book Lovers and Beach Read by Emily Henry so I don’t know about the rest but me I loved Book Lovers while I barely got through Beach Read
I felt that way about Amina al-Sirafi. I was expecting to find a new favorite and have been deeply disappointed. I think it is mostly that the writing feels very clinical, like I’m reading a history textbook instead of a fiction novel. I haven’t quite finished it because my library hold ran out before I could. And I think that shows you how bored I was that I couldn’t even get myself to read half an hour a day. With the audio book… the thing put me in a freaking reading slump. I didn’t read anything else for 3 weeks and didn’t even finish the stupid thing in that time 😭 at this point, no matter how amazing the end is, I can’t see it getting more than 3.5. Big disappointment.
Reagan where is your top from? Or is it a dress? I love it so much!!
I was one of the people that told you to insist on Golden Son if you hadn't enjoyed Red Rising, but I think that if you didn't like this one too, it's not worth it to read the last one just so you can get to the next series lol, so many good books out there.
I read Book Lovers on a vacation 2 weeks ago after getting it at a book swap in like April. Holy crap. Never knew about EmHen but I got Happy Place for my 20 hour flights home, finished it, and bought Funny Story this weekend. Finished it in a day!!! (Literally didn't leave my bed all Saturday!!!!)
Funny Story is my favorite so far (5 starred it) but Book Lovers was great enough to spur my love for her writing!
The only other book I've also read is A Fate Inked in Blood and yeah... That one was just boring and bland. 3 stars at a perfect 'meh, it's okay'.
I have learned that about a 3.8 on goodreads is my sweet spot. Anything higher than that usually isn't great at all
I swear, every book I like is a 3.8 or 3.9 on Goodreads. I feel like there's no good explanation for this.
@@katherineeaster5799right!?
Ooh, I'll have to look for that 🤗
Powerless is garbage
My list of “just ok” books this year includes
1. Book Lovers
2. Radiance
3. Serpent and the Wings of
Night
And I DNF Between Wrath and Mercy at 50%.
A Fate Inked in Blood felt like all lust no plot. Not my cup of tea. And funny enough, one of my most disappointing reads was Just For the Summer by Abby Jimenez, I didn't feel the chemistry between the two mains, it felt contrived and insta-lovey, and in his POV he was SUCH a simp. Not my kind of guy, haha.
I just could not pick up The Heartless Hunter because Night of the Witch by Sara Raasch and Beth Revis blew me away and it felt like the exact same plot, without the interesting brewing and history and the amazing magic system.
Hard agree with everything on A Fate Inked in Blood. For the Part of Your World series I was actually MOST disappointed by the second book, though I also liked it a bit more than the first. It started off GREAT and then the miscommunication for two people who supposedly “spoke each other’s language” was just getting to be TOO much for me and kind of brought me out of it.
A Fate Inked In Blood sounds like Walmart version of The Shadow of The Gods by John Gwynne...
Such a shame you didn’t like a court of silver flames because the cover matches perfectly with your hair lol
Oh noooo Golden Son? I loved that. But valid observations as well. Thanks for this video. Very respectful but very clear, which helps in making choices whether to read one of these books.
I tried to read heartless hunter and just couldn't get past 30 pages
I swear Danielle Jensen does that EVERY time. Solid start, poor finish. It always has so much promise too 🙄 and as you can see, I fall for it EVERY time 😂
YES! Finally someone that disliked book lovers , I was starting to think I am the crazy one as every were I look everybody loved this book
my friends were talking about Sanderson today, and I told them I gave Mistborn a 3. It was my second 3 star of the year. Which made me sad. I warned you about Book Lovers. I soft dnfed this one. Only because my 4.5 star (to 5.5 star book came out at the time.
I have this theory that book A rating effects book B so I'm curious if you only gave the James Islington book a 3.5 because you loved his other so much. If you read this before Will of the Many would you rate it lower. I had a book A awful book B amazing situation and then years later re-read book B and thought "wow, that was terrrrrrrible".
Late to the game but here goes: the second book in the The Shepard King series "Two Twisted Crowns". It was fine but not as good as the first book. Along the same vein, the second book in Lisa Kleypas Wallflower series also underwhelmed me. I liked the first book but the second? Eh. A bit silly. Sadly, I dnf-ed "Will of the Many" and "The Spear Cuts Through Water".
We’re on the same boat 🥲 I’ve managed to achieve my goodreads goal already but haven’t read anything that I’ve truly loved or become obsessed with. I’m looking for a new hyperfixation, an all-time favorite but no luck so far.
I'm shocked the games gods play didn't make this list after your reading vlog
I think one book that didn't end up being what I expected and made me actually dislike the book was Fifteen Postcards by Kirsten McKenzie. It started off as this really fun concept of this lady who worked in an antique store traveling back and forth through time, yknow, one of those post Outlander romances but with different time periods. Thing is, the female character started strong and gradually devolved into so much of the plot leaning on mysogeny and SA rather than the main character's own journey or what she's doing and finding. It just felt so lazy and uncomfortable even if it could have been kind of historically correct. Outlander did it too, but at least that had character development, strong growth and a fully fleshed out world. Didn't complete the ebook, don't intend to.
I absolutely agree about A Fate Inked in Blood! I was so looking forward to it too! 😢
An Echo of Things to Come - had to give up
The Girl the Sea Gave Back
I didn't like Book Lovers either!! I also hated Bel Canto
This is definitely a weird publishing year. I feel like a lot of stuff was pushed out in the covid years and now things are normalizing. I wonder if we shouldn’t expect to LOVE more than 5-10 books a year.
Everyone does seem to be obsessed with heartless hunter. I haven’t read it yet 😵💫
Evocation by S.T. Gibson. A lot of people praise this author, but this book was just...meh. Not great, not that different from everything else, and the writing wasn't any better than some of my favorite authors either. It had potential, it just didn't get there. Also Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin. I couldn't even finish the book because by the time I was halfway through it felt like literally nothing happened, and there were some big plot issues.
I just recently read An Education in Malice by that same author. It started strong and I did like the way she wrote, but the storyline completely derailed and some plot points felt cringe. It just felt over-sexualized without any proper buildup
So disappointing! Wanted it to be great but alas . . .
I ended up taking S T Gibson off my auto buy. I was disappointed in An Education and and went into Evocation with no expectations at all. I’m starting to think A Dowry of Blood was a fluke.
I’m so sorry you didn’t love Bel Canto.
A Court of Silver Flames is the worst book I have ever read. Toxic romance, bad writing, and some infuriating plot points.
I really did not like heartless hunter. I read it months ago and I was felt I was waiting for it to get good and it just didn’t. Everyone was praising it and I thought I was crazy.
I've been pretty lucky so far this year, and have really enjoyed almost all of my reads. The 2 that come to mind as disappointing: A Venom Dark and Sweet--it was fine, 3.5 stars, but I really loved the first book, so a tad disappointing. And Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood, which really surprised me. I just didn't feel the romance at all. I rated it 3 stars, it wasn't bad, but usually I love Ali Hazelwood's books. Bummer, and I've heard others really liked it, so I guess it may have been me.
Here's my worst and disappointing books so far
Taming 7 by chloe Walsh
Some desperate glory by Emily tesh
Same time next summer by annabel Monaghan
It happened one summer by tessa bailey
I was so disappointed in Taming 7 ... I was so excited to read Claire and Gibsy story and it didn't meet my expectations at all 😢
Have you read Radiance?
i felt similarly about book lovers, i had read happy place like a year before and i loved it but book lovers was honestly kind of cringey for me i was surprised
Worst books:
Flawless by Elsie silver
Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams
The list by yomi adegoke
Thank god I’m not the only one who didn’t like The Shadow of what was Lost. I agree it did get better, but I still never cared enough to continue on with the series
Top disappointments so far for 2024:
The Wager
The Fox Wife
The Husbands
The Covenant of Water (first DnF in a very long time)
I wish The Husbands had started differently. You're just dropped in and are expected to care about this woman you know nothing about. And there was no character growth, imo. Such an interesting premise, but such a disappointment.
2023..? 🤔
I tried 3 times to read Red Rising and barely made it to 50% before I stopped reading it. Just don’t get the hype on this series.
I disliked Red Rising and gave up on the series so I'm honestly feeling kind of happy to be validated in that choice.
sadly i agree with your opinion on book lovers
Did you mean 2024 😂❤
true...😂
YES LOL
Most disappointing books of the year for me are easily House of Flame and Shadow and Beach Read
Yesss! *gets comfy*
Does she have a book club or reading list?
She has a goodreads, but I think she has a book club but it’s with some irl friends of hers
Yes I literally dnf’d Golden Son, I don’t get the hype at all
My biggest disappointments so far this year have been Babel and Convenience Store Woman.
Babel because so much more could have been done with it and so little of it was actually fantasy. It just felt like false marketing.
Convenience Store Woman because nothing really happens in it, there's no character growth (imo).
I loved Heartless Hunter one of my favorites I am sorry you didn’t like it 📖📖📚📚📖📚📚📖📚📚📖📚📚📙📙📙📙📚📖📖📚📙📙📙📖📖📚📚📖📖📚📚📚📖🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
am i the first???😊😊😊
i gave ACOSF FIVE STARS
The most unrelatable thing you said in this video is, "I like Nesta".
Me when I’m miserable
listen listen... Abby Jimenez >> Emily Henry 🫡
My biggest disappointment of the year is The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells. I read the first two books and just realised it wasn’t for me 😭
Murderbot is a relatable character, but I do need an engaging plot and more world building, which isn’t present 🥲
It’s just so overhyped and my expectations were not met 🥲