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What popular book series are you not planning on finishing?
Grisha for me. I tried Miss Bardugo, I tried.
Throne of Glass, finished book 2 and was meh.
Harry Potter, The Poppy War, The Broken Earth, Skyward and Strange the Dreamer.
Brandon Mull :-( first book was awesome but the second and third... just no.
The Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
you talking about cindy 🥰🥰 my two favorite booktubers
"I'm curious I always wanna know will i have the same opinion as everyone else will I just hate it" Same
Emily mentions Cindy
Me: 😵😵😵
Right? My two MOST favorite youtubers talking about bashing my most hated series. Doesn't get better than that.
The QUEEENS 😍😍
I swear to god, Sarah J. Maas is solely responsible for giving YA Fantasy such a bad reputation. 😤
While I do like her books, I totally agree. She should have never been called a YA author.
Her books have to marketed as erotica with fantasy
@@TheFran2555 The Throne of Glass series honestly has more substance to it than acotr. Book three of ToG is when things start to get really good. But I can understand why people wouldn't want to wait that long for a series to grab them. I liked books 1 and 2, so it wasn't an issue for me. (Honestly, the prequel novellas are very good, and I read those before I read the main series. Those were what convinced me to read it).
Her books were never meant to be YA. It was an accident marketing.
honestly just read the infernal devices and not the mortal instruments. it’s way better and i think you might enjoy that trilogy more.
i was wondering if i could do that 🥺
I agree with this. I didn’t care for the mortal instruments but loved the infernal devices!
I agree. I thought as far as YA goes, The Infernal Devices is really good. And I dnfd The Mortal Instrument after the first book which I gave 1 star to.
@@myreadingpersonality3089 you definitely can. you wont be missing out on much really, i think quite a few people read just the infernal devices and no other cassandra clare books lol
Same! I didn’t read the mortal instruments( didn’t care for the brother-sister love thing , thought it was kinda weird, even though people told me that jace and clary weren’t really siblings) but I did read the infernal devices and loved it! One of my favorites💙
The Hitchhikers Guide is one of my favourite universes, but I found it through the radio show (which it was originally). If you ever want to check it out again, give that a go. It's brilliant
Personally, I enjoyed The Mortal Instruments and it’s prequels and continuations, but there are some things that I do have issues with myself, but it is a good read in my own opinion.
I'd be really interested to see you rank (maybe a best/worst style?) post-apocalyptic books you've read. I feel like that's a category that really interests me in theory but is SO hit or miss.
I got you: BEST & WORST POST APOCALYPTIC BOOKS
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I think I'm going to be outvoted but honestly I wouldn't recommend the mortal instruments to you. I tried reading last year cause I also bought the whole series when I was young cause of the hype. I couldn't stand it. People always tell me that Clare's writing get better but I won't read six books to find a good one.
Unless you started reading them when they first came out I would never recommend someone new to pick up the series, I know they aren’t great but it’s nostalgic fun to read the new books in the series. It’s kind of like someone picking up Twilight for the first time now, it’s highly unlikely they are gonna love it
@@danielleoliver1734 I completely understand that. I've some books that are like that for me as well. If I had read as a teenager I probably think I'd enjoy, I used to dig this kind of stuff. But as an adult... I just didn't enjoy the ride.
Totally agree. The first 5 books are absolute garbage and then the last one is like a 3.75 stars to me and I regret reading them entirely. Her other series are good and you dont have to read the mortal instruments to understand the world (though everyone swears on their mothers grave that you have to, you really truly don't). But yeah i think theyre a waste of time and energy to read in 2020. lets leave the incest, incest rape, and hundreds of baby murders back there in the trash.
I tried to like city of bones and read it twice but it was still just meh, the infernal devices however i did really like
I agree with the mortal instruments. But the infernal devices books are really good....i really didn't expect it :)
I would be so here for a bashing of the Mortal Instruments Series 😁
I read them several years ago and liked them very much, but I am older and wiser now 😅
I enjoy seeing opinions on books that I enjoyed but other people has issues with.
Girl same. I used to stan them so hard when I was in like middle school and disagree with anyone who said they were problematic, but after reading them as an adult...🤡 I have seen the light!
I love your videos! I am a sci-fi/fantasy lover like you but always seem to love the books you hate (Ninth House, Dune, Hitchhiker's Guide, Strange the Dreamer, The Passage, Nevermoor series, etc) 😂 doesn't matter to me, I still love hearing your thoughts and recommendations! Some of your favorites have turned into mine too. Thanks :)
Cindy's rants about Sarah J. Maas are an absolute comedy goldmine. Her videos make me want to hate-read the series just for the lulz but I don't think I'm motivated enough.
Hadn‘t heard about ready player 2. Really excited for it now 😅😂
The Dark Artifices is the best of Cassandra Clair’s books but I think reading the previous series can be informative? or interesting
I agree!
Ready Player One is one of my all time favourite books. I loved all the 80s references (born in 86) and all the classic video games. I preordered RP2 as soon as I knew it was coming out. I'm a big fan of any fiction to do with popular culture so I'm probably biased.
If u have the time defiantly read The Mortal Instruments and do a vlog/video on your opinion/problems of it. I feel like it would be interesting!
When authors add on to completed series or to stand-alone books I like to wait awhile to see what people think.
I hated the mortal instruments but I think it’d be fun to see you binge read them and point out what you hate/what’s problematic
I loved The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because of the humor. I hadn't laughed so much in a long while
The Infernal Devices is pretty good. I have been struggling with book 3 from The Mortal Instruments, but I want to finish, I really like the world.
I laughed a little when you said the series to vote on was The Mortal Instruments 😅 My mind instantly went to Clary and Jace - reading about them would be like snorting kryptonite for you, lol
Even with that aside, I just don't think you would enjoy yourself, and honestly life is too short for that when there are so many great books out there waiting for us. I'd rather you spent the time with something you enjoy 🙂
please dont keep reading any series or books that you arent going to enjoy, even for a video! i want you to enjoy reading :D
The Passage Trilogy is my all time favorite! To each his own!
I love it as well, it is my most re-read book haha the tv series was horrible tho
🤦♀️ to everyone here recommending the books you literally just said you hated and will not continue reading lol
Skip Mortal Instruments if you wanna give something a go, try The dark artifices (Not the clockwork books). With that said, if would be interesting to hear the many many issues discussed....
The mention of Ready Player One sort of broke my heart T.T
But we are all entitled to our opinions so it's fair enough :)
With the hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy I read the first book and I (personal opinion) loved it, so I read the restaurant at the end of the universe and it was even better, the writing actually felt like this was meant to be a book and the humor was better and much darker at some points.
I'm reading the shadowhunters chronicles because it's my best friend's favorite book series. honestly, I don't recommend, but I'm curious about what you'll think of it.
With you on The Passage and Lunar Chronicles (yawn) but totally against with Nevermoor 😆
The Maze Runner series. I won't finish it. There was something about the author's style that made me think of overcooked dry chicken that the cook didn't even bother to season.
I almost never say this but the movies were better than the books
@@sandramusic4574 I would have to agree. I've watched the movies with my kids and they kept my attention, but the books did not.
The Lunar Chronicles is the best YA I've read. It has its problems but, overall, it's worth it. I have to reread it soon^^.
Hidden bodies was so pointless, I've never been so irritated by a book.
Ooooh, I would love that you binge read the shadowhunter chronicles and then tell us all about it !
Thank you for your videos, they are very soothing 🥰
Read the infernal devices it’s very good and you can read it by its own
I got Harry Potter vibes from Nevermoor. That wondrous magical feeling I got the first time I read HP. Book 2 does have a school-like setting. I think you could like it. As far as I know, it's a trilogy.
From what I have seen, 6 books have been confirmed, but the author is hoping for a 9 book series. I absolutely agree that the Harry Potter vibes are from the magical feeling of first reading that series. 😃
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You definitely should do a video series reading shadowhunter books!
The Lies of Locke Lamora,( Gentelman Bastards) An Ember in the Ashes, Crazy Rich Asians, Divergent, Me Before You. Seriously considering not continuing with The Red Rising, The Winternight Trilogy and the Kingkiller Chronicles for different reasons.
Omg. I love Ready Player One. I was lost with most of the references because I was born in 2000. But I loved it anyway. I get where you're coming from, though. :/
I know! The references were quite confusing for me as well, but apart from that, I found the book pretty entertaining..
I’m in a reading slump right now because of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.. I didn’t hate it but it was boring and I really didn’t care for it.. all the other books you mentioned I haven’t read and will not read lol but apart from The Cruel Prince!! I can see why you didn’t like it but it really does get better!
You should try reading the infernal devices and the dark artifices.I LOVED them both so much
I think it would be fun to see you binge the shadowhunter books! I personally loove them, but always love hearing different opinions on them, especially from people who don't have nostalgia linked to them
The passage has a tv show which is quite good.
You should read the whole shadow hunters universe and discuss it
I’m tempted lol
That's a lot of books. Although it would be a fun video
For me, any of the Cassandra Clare's that I started. Everyone kept saying Infernal Devices was better, it was insufferable as well. Any Sarah J. Maas series as well. The Poppy War, Legend, Steelheart, The Raven Boys, Vicious, Heartstopper, Wayward Children, A Wrinkle in Time, The Passage... I have soo many honestly
I couldn't even finish The Poppy War lolol
@@AKookieForYou I wish I had done the same and just dropped it lol. I hated that book and wanted to slap the main character into oblivion
@@SZ-bb7ji She was so unbearable! If it wasn't for her I might have actually cared about what was happening, instead I just felt extremely bored, and irritated to the point that I had to give up, and I rarely dnf books
I bought the first Mortal Instruments book assuming I would love it, took ages to finish it, and couldn't continue with the series. Partly because I genuinely just didn't enjoy it and found the writing really uneven and characters one dimensional and Mary Sue-ish, and partly because a writer friend filled me in on Cassandra Clare's history of being a bully, scammer, and plagiarist in fandom.
She used to go by Cassandra Claire and was a mega-popular and infamous Harry Potter fanfic author in the 2000s and got her first book deal through that and other connections (which is cool imo!) She allegedly changed her writing name so that when people googled her, they wouldn't find all her previous controversies. Interestingly, she plagiarised herself when writing the first MI book. There's a passage at some point that's almost word for word from her most famous fanfic. (I don't personally take issue with this, it's just funny)
There's a decent writeup on the /r/HobbyDrama subreddit, but you can also find a ton of info by googling "Cassandra Claire" or "Cassandra Clare controversy."
I don't personally suuuper care about the fandom stuff, because it's very very old, but I 1) get why people would and 2) know authors in the writing circles she ran in a few years ago and they've all told me she's really rude unless someone's famous or well-connected. :( That's 100% anecdotal obviously, but it's where I'm coming from.
I REALLY didn't like Cruel Prince. I think I gave it 1.5 or 2 stars. I didn't continue the series for a long time, but Kat (paperbackreads) said that she hated the first book but loved the second one, and I decided to give it a try. I gave the second book 5 stars ..... so yea it definitely changes a LOT
Yeah...I don't know what to tell you about Shadowhunters books. I love The Dark Artifices with all my heart, but first series was just ok, and I hated and couldn't even finish the Clockwork one. In theory you could read TDA by itself, but you would miss a lot of nuances and easter eggs. The reason why I even continued to read TMI (even though I hated Jace and Clary) is because I really loved the world. So if you're meh about it, maybe just let it be😅
I didn't like hitchhiker's guide until I listened to the actual radio show that came out BEFORE the book. It brought the whole thing together.
Some series I'm not gonna finish: Acotar (read the first three), Lunar Chronicles (read the first two) Strange the Dreamer, Nevernight, You, Inkheart, Outlander (read the first three) omg there are so many 🤣
I enjoyed the folk of the air series 🧚♀️
I suggested watching Ready Player One with my daughter and thought about how much of the book was based on nostalgia and wondered if she would enjoy it. I get the sentiment.
I mean there's no school but...
On a child's 11th birthday a weird guy that was not invited kidnaps them and takes them to a magic building where they run around pretty unsupervised getting into trouble.
I literally could use this same list for myself, LOL. I MIGHT give the Ninth House series another shot, but that's about it. I'm so over YA at this point that I won't even consider looking into YA books anymore.
I love Cassandra Claire's Shadowhunter universe because they are so bad but they are my exact brand of garbage that I just can't get enough. And I feel like if people go into them knowing that they will be tropey and cheesy then they'll be pleasantly surprised but most people don't so I'm not all that surprised. And each series gets better as she writes them so most people just read a few of her first books and stop which is disappointing
I agree with you on Sarah J maas books, Cruel Prince series and Ninth House
A book that’s kind of video game related (virtual reality) that I loved as a kid is “Heir Apparent” by Vivian Vande Velde. It’s kind of old (from 2002), but when I was younger I loved it and read it multiple times.
I'm not going to finish the Cruel Prince series either I just didn't enjoy it, at all. I loved Crescent City so I'm reading A Court of Thorn and Rose's for the first time. I read Throne of Glass which I enjoyed and bought Crown of Night. I wanted to like An Ember in The Ashes, it was okay but I haven't picked up the rest of the series yet. I loved The Mortal Instruments, and The Internal Devices. They are very different so if you didn't enjoy The Mortal Instruments I think you may actually enjoy the Internal Devices. I'm going to start Lady Midnight soon. I'm reading Midnight Sun and Home Before Dark right now. Just finished The Toll by Cherie Priest, that horror book was really good. I'm not sure about The Passage yet...
Strange the Dreamer tho!! It's really beautiful, and completely worth reading! You should give this duology a second chance ^^
Cress and Winter are the best YA books I've ever read
I would like to hear your opinion on the mortal instruments, I used to love them and now only read them when I’m in a slump because they’re easy to read. I think my favorite things about these books is the family trees and how some characters reappear in different shadow hunter books.
"The Godfather" series, couldn't even finished the first book, just didn't click with it. And maaaaaaybe "Lorde of the Rings" - I read the first book this year and it took me so long that I don't know if I have the motivation to continue (it wasn't bad tho, just exhausting)
I had the same experience with LotR, but the parts that are good are sooo good, so I'd recommend finishing the series, Return of the King really is wonderful. But absolutely be prepared to invest some time in it haha
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Info Dumpy is soooo right!
I loathe The Mortal Instruments (I refuse to read anything by Cassandra Clare because of them) and would love to hear all the issues you have with it
You should try the infernal devices by her.Those are incredible and one of my fav series!!
Mariam Imran I read the first half of the first book, but I can’t get over the incest fetish from the mortal instrument series (don’t want to give spoilers but if you read it you know what I mean) yes it wasn’t “real” but it still makes my skin crawl
@@kitkatkc9 yeah the mortal instruments are meh for me but her other clockwork series (the infernal devices) can be read seperately and is wayyy better
I agree with you on most of these, but I do love the Nevermoor series. I don't usually love middle grade, but these remind me of the feeling I got reading Harry Potter (not the story though of course, which is unique). There is a bit more of a magical school element in the second one, but I think it is totally its own story. Not everyone has the same tastes though! I need to become better about giving up on a series when I'm not enjoying it. I usually force myself to read until the end. I think I'm giving up on Throne of Glass. I really don't have any desire to finish it.
I am so happy the Dark Tower series is not here, although I was expecting it and ready to complain lol
I am very excited to read Ninth House but it has so many mixed reviews I am also scared I'll hate it
I loved it so much, so i think you should go for it!
@@froncifresh I'm definitely going to read it soon, I'm just nervous about it, but now I have another positive review so thank you!
@@laiaal.3324 i was so sure i was going to hate it too considering all the bad reviews you also mentioned but it took me by surprise! If you like character driven stories i'm pretty sure you'll like it 💓
I would love to see your reaction to the infernal devices series! That one has only 3 books and is much better than the mortal instruments. I can honestly tell you that the problems you had with the first two books only get worse and in my opinion reading them without a nostalgia aspect makes them literal garbage to the point where its just flat out awful and painful to read. I pushed through them and I wish I hadnt because they are so not worth it (which sounds terrible i know but true). The infernal devices on the other hand doesnt have those icky problematic elements and is brooding so its a fun series to read - at the same time though, i dont think you would love it or anything but it has all those ya tropes that you could make fun of and it would be a fun video without having to go through the absolute torture of the mortal instruments.
instead of reading the mortal instruments you could squirt jalapeños into your eyes for the same exhilarating feeling
because they’re terrible
I just stumbled on your channel and.... You have a really soothing voice.... Like.. I don't mind listening to you.
I mean if you didn't like the Mortal Instruments by now then you probably won't like the rest of the books lol I do enjoy them but mostly because I know they're trash, but they're trash that really suits me
HHGG is a supposedly a 5 part trilogy. Love it!
City of Bones, well I have finished it and dropped the series right there and then. Do not waste your time if you did not enjoy them.
As for post apocalyptic, I have read The Road and gained an author. Cormac McCarthy turned out to be one of my favorite authors after that.
I didn't catch the name of the booktuber who makes fun of ACOTAR, so... Please someone help me
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yes finish reading the shadownhunter chronicles series
Video game inspired book I recommend: "Survival Quest" (The Way of the Shaman #1) by Vasily Mahanenko!
I agree with most of these but I still plan on trying Ninth House and the sequel of Ready Player One, which I think is more fun when you actually lived during the 80s and can remember many of the things mentioned in the book.
I felt a bit indifferent towards the first Nevermoor book, partly because, as you said, it has no school setting! But I loved the second book! It does have the life at the magical school and it actually does give me Harry Potter vibes, both in terms of setting and humour. The third book is coming out next month and it's my most anticipated book release of the year! Hopefully I love it just as much as book 2. The premise sounds fascinating though!
Oh, and I highly recommend the audiobook of the series. Gemma Whelan did a fantastic job narrating it.
Kingkiller.
Read the first book, absolutely HATED it. It's currently my most disliked book in my collection. Doesn't help that people who recommended it to me told me the second book multiplies every problem I had with it.
I MIGHT try the spinoff though, since it seems to avoid one of my main problems with the main series (the main character) and I don't really dislike Rothfuss' writing style.
Ninth House is great, COME ON!
Ah Sarah J Maas...I'm gonna finish the ToG books cause my friends swear they just keep getting better, but I never made past book2 of the court series so not gonna bother with that since those don't get better and I seriously hate Nessa.
I never read You but the show is so good! Definitely finish it.
Lifelike was such a disappointment. It was such a chore trying to get through it and the ending just pissed me off.
Idk if I'll finish Cruel Prince either. I also couldn't be bothered with Cinder.
Stranger The Dreamer though :( I really liked those! The writing is so lovely and the world/magic and character development is excellent. The romance is kinda cringy but wasn't as much of an issue for me.
Oh, since you love magical school you NEED to read Awakening of Ren Crown. It's magical University and just everything about it is amazing.
I never finished TMI but I really liked Infernal Devices. So as some else commented, just read Infernal Devices.
You probably won’t like the mortal instruments series, I feel like you’d enjoy the infernal devices. I enjoyed book 1, 2 was okay, 3 I enjoyed, 4 was pointless, in 60% done with book 5 and I really like it, and haven’t read 6. I’ve read the first 2 infernal devices and they are overall a lot better. The mortal instruments is FULL of the ya tropes LOL
Whatever you do, DON'T READ THE SECOND "YOU". It sucks soooo bad, it's physically painful.
You should try « The Book Of M » by Peng Shepherd, which is post-apocalyptic. Read it recently, really liked it !
Thanks to you, now I manage not to feel guilty not being interested in reading hyped books/books series :))
Totally understand if the Shadowhunter books aren’t for you. However, I read them all as an adult and thought they got better as she goes... the Mortal Instruments is rough and very much “of its time.” Wasn’t a fan but have enjoyed the more recent ones. Still, don’t know if they’re your cup of tea.
Good call, Hitchhiker's Guide only gets worse in my opinion, I stopped after the 3rd
I DNF'd book 3 of the ACOTR series. I will never finish it. However, with that being said I actually really enjoyed the Cruel Prince trilogy.
You’re not missing anything sadly
The second book of Nevermoor series set in magical school. You should try it!
I'm not enjoying V.E. Schwab. I forced myself to finish Darker Shade and I have Vicious right now, and I DNF. I did read all the ACOTAR books, just because of the hype, but the characters are forgettable, and the sex is embarrassing. I loved Scythe. I tore through that trilogy.
I don't think you'd like The Mortal Instruments hahaha book 4 is awful, book 5 has a lot of romance, and book 6 is the best (in my opinion), but you'd need to go through books 4 and 5 first haha
But yes, these books have all the YA tropes you could think of, so I think it'd be a very fun video!
Maaaybe you'd enjoy The Infernal Devices? The plot is meh and I hate the love-triangle but Will and Jem's friendship is * chef's kiss *.
Given how little you like romance in your books, I doubt you will find any of those Cassandra Clare series enjoyable. Disclaimer: I haven't actually read any of them, I am just going off Piera Forde's vlogs about them - from her videos and the comments, it sounds like the main draw of the books is the relationships. Some family but mostly romantic? Idk.
I wish there were some decent books based in videogames! I am, as a rule, extremely wary of anything marketing itself as such. However, I do recommend the Otherland series by Tad Williams, although it is based in a kind-of-videogame-but-not-really, closer to Snow Crash than Ready Player One.
Not finishing The Arc of Scythe Series, I loved the first book, the second one wasn't as good for me but it was still really good, and I started the final one and got bored so I didn't finish it. Oddly enough you don't get to see the main characters for a while.
Honestly the third book was horrible for me. I really enjoyed the first two, but we spent almost no time with the characters we knew and loved from the first two. I hate when new characters are introduced and beloved characters are forgotten about because of it.
I think you should consider reading Restaurant at the End of the Universe before giving up on Douglas Adams--our reading tastes seem so similar, I would be surprised if you didn't like it. I do agree, there is a certain amount of absurdist humor that was hard to follow in the first one. I felt that it continued, but made a lot more sense in the second book.
I would give The Mortal Instruments series a miss. Or finish the first trilogy but definitely don’t continue with the second trilogy in this series. I regretted it....
i was pretty shocked at how bad a court of wings and ruin was. i did love the second one but was disappointed in the third.
Even though I’m a fan of Adam Silvera, I won’t continue his Infinity series. The first book was terrible 🙈
😬😬😬 I'm gonna read Hidden Bodies and now I'm nervous.
Yah, I finished TrueLife (the final LifeLike book) this year very recently and I wish I didn’t push through. The characters were inconsistent and haaaaa, I wish I hadn’t pushed through. 😭 But oof, Ninth House hurt haha but you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do!
Muse of Nightmares went downhill for me personally, so good call on Strange the Dreamer...
I only read the first book in the Mortal Instruments series and oh my god I have sooo many issues. However I will continue with the next just because I want to see if it gets any better (and because of all these people loving it and recommending it, let's not lie). So I am very interested in a discussion about it, if you finally decide to pick it up💜💜
Not planning on finishing the Court of Thorns and Roses. So didn't care about any of those characters. Also not planning on finishing the Book of the Ancestor series. I didn't find either of these series were interesting enough to slog through the rest of them. I read the first of the Mortal Instruments and figured it out about halfway through, which is a pet peeve of mine, especially when it is an annoying twist. I also don't think I am going to finish the Divine Cities Series. While the first book was all right, it didn't really blow my socks off. It sort of began to feel like the City of Brass and An Ember in the Ashes.