the worst books i read in 2023 😭 this year was such a disappointment
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the worst books i read in 2023 😭 this year was such a disappointment
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and dont forget my best books of the year!
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we love the content we get when you read a ridiculously horrible book😭
my specialty hahahha
@@caricanread more to come in the new year? 👀
The therapist in I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki also kinda sucked. They literally tell the mc that her anxiety is a burden on others and a lot of times their advice boiled down to “don’t feel that way.” Girl I’d have depression too if that was my therapist
right?! it felt like the therapist was either quoting a AP psych text book or just being lame?
Kinda sounds like the therapist shares the general public views of mental health issues
I literally gave this book 2 stars last year. Did not enjoy it at all!
Thank you! It was just a poor book and was generally not well written
I feel like almost that whole Christmas romcom video could be in here lmao
i had to hold myself back and only pick the very worst hahahhaa
The bit about the cotton gin KILLED me lol Eli Whitney inventing the cotton gin absolutely was drilled into all of our heads
of all the other things i forget lol
Real. I'm not even American and when Eli Whitney was mentioned my mind immediately went to "cotton gin". I learned that factoid from a flashcard set titled "The Greatest Inventors" or scientists or whatever from my childhood (whoever curated that list and included Eli Whitney in it... ☠☠☠).
straight up i didn't know that until this video. lol
@@rocioiribe5841 HOW lmao
@@rocioiribe5841same lol I don’t remember ever learning that in school
It's so validating that a bad book gets you into a reading slump too. I tracked my books last year and my worst slumps were after a bad book or a really bad DNF and it sucked. I wanted to read but pushing past the slump is so hard.
its the worst!!!
I somehow got the exact oppoosite.
after DNFing a book Im always immediately on the search for another book to sorta fill that craving of actually reading something good.
but when Ive just finished a good book it's like 'well, nothing will ever be as good as this. everything else seems unappealing now' so I just stop reading for a while
Half of my 2023 was school literature and then I graduated and the rest of the year I just read a bunch of manga. I don't regret it.
sounds perfect to me!
It’s simple, I see a Cari vid, I click… if I see a Cari ✨respectful✨ trash talk vid, I’m throwing myself at the phone
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I love this new camera setup/background, feels like we’re on FaceTime
yay!! im glad^_^
Im new to cari's channel and i just realized her subtitles are transcribed, not auto generated! Thanks for looking out for us ppl with audio/video processing troubles 😂
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glad i wasn't the only one who had a mediocre as fuck 2023 reading year
truly the most 'meh' year of reading!
For real! Out of the 47 books I read last year. I GENUINELY enjoyed 5-7 😩
Yes this makes me feel so much better. My 2023 was also very meh. So far 2024 is much better 👍🏽
@@EleanorBlythemy favorite book came to me literally in December 😂 I hope your 2024 reading year is better
i read 80 books and I was STRUGGLING for my life to pick a top 5. most of them were meh, nothing truly awesome. what a sad realization that was.
lets’s hope for a better 2024!
I think 2023 forced us to not to be completionists anymore... there were so many terrible books that if everytime I went through hell to finish a book just for said book to put me in a reading slump I would probably end up not reading anymore. Before 2023 I used to finish every series I started no matter how bad they were, now I struggle to finish a book? I already get like 3 or 4 "spares" books if I'm in a reading mood just in case the first try is dnf'ed and that's a first in all my life
i especially had so many books with a great first half and then the author clearly didnt know how to end it so the last half was horrible. what an odd year!
I definitely feel you on trying to DNF more books this year that I don’t have a good time with. I feel like I tried to make the excuse it was just the wrong time, but looking back it just wasn’t my cup of tea. What also baffles me is for some books, people say oh don’t worry it gets better after the 4th book…
yeah i can understand a first book in a series being a little rickety but FOUR?! the author needs to get their act together by the second book or its over hahahah
I agree. I read so many books and I just kept thinking? Where are the editors? Hun- that doesn’t make sense? Wait how are they here now? There were so many books that started of amazing and crashed and burned.
i partially blame the publishers for pushing authors to write so much in such a little time but yeah, it stinks for readers!
the first 2 zodiac academy were my first books of 2023 as well 😭 on the bright side, starting at rock bottom means that every subsequent book was an significant improvement in quality!
we love an optimist!
Me watching Cari rant about "The Plight Before Xmas": Oh, so the name isn't about the story but about the book itself.
I think I’ve just realized this year that I’m not as big of a fan of romance as I thought I was because all the books that I thought were really mediocre and bad were just romance books, especially the really tropey ones that don’t have a lot of substance to them I just can’t do it 😂😂
So validating to hear you talk about Modern Divination!! I felt insane reading it because it had such glowing reviews and I found it incomprehensible
yeah the only other person i've heard have a similar experience is a clockwork reader and when she said that she was confused and dnfed it i was like, thank GOD
I usually play your videos in the background as I do household tasks, but the Eli Whitney thing was so baffling I had to stop and comment. Like.. *whaaaat..?!*
I can't help but feel a bit starved for well written literature and film lately. Does anyone else relate? 🤷🤭
I've found myself going back to older fantasy series like robin hobb or the lies of locke lamora. it's cliché but they're definitely a breath of fresh air
@@audrey7673 I absolutely agree 💖
Any recommendations on fantasy that's not so heavy on war and battle? I'm like where's the Magic? ✨
@@Amber-Jasmin_LeFay A few old faves of mine : Daughter Of the Forest by Juliet Marillier, The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale, Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, Truthwitch by Susan Dennard, The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty, The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree... Just a few oldies but goodies! A mix of YA and adult, high fantasy and cozy, hope you find something you like! I also find a lot of new stuff very mediocre :(
@@rosaliemusicals wow! Thankyou soooo much! There's quite a few for my list. I really appreciate it! 😁🌈🧚🦄🍓💖
@@Amber-Jasmin_LeFayNo problem ! I understand the struggle, I go back to old releases and watch fantasy youtubers so that helps for good recommandations !
Cari, I need you to finish the Crave series! Please give us more horrible book content!! Not the worst book, but It’s a Date Again by Jeneva Rose. By the end of the prologue or the first chapter, I immediately knew the ending. I actually liked The Perfect Marriage also by, but It’s a Date was so predictable.
omg i didnt realize cherish came out ahahhaha
You made your book reviews of the bad books very engaging. I liked Hello Stranger though because the face blindness is relatable for me so I didn't find it that unrealistic how she didn't connect two separate concepts of people at different locations as one (and she recovered from brain damage too). Plus it was interesting to find out how people apparently are supposed to recognise others. There are many changeable things about people, conversation clues and names are the best hints.
Btw. good tip for DNFing books.
i just couldnt get over how her best friend knew that she had facial blindness and constantly kept forgetting or not announcing herself or helping her in any way? like if my friend had an accident and had brain damage from it i would be more aware and concerned. that was so unrealistic to me!
Yeah, I get what you mean. It's not a perfect book so I get it when people dislike it. Though it's the first book I've seen that deals with face blindness with relatable moments without it being magical or more depressing.
Im using my data to see this video, that's how much I love you talking about books you didn't like 😅 (it's five days without WiFi and the Internet people won't fix it 😢)
omg nooo sending love and hope that the internet people get their act together!!
@caricanread thanks! I decided to change companies so many tomorrow I can watch your main channel video 😆
i honestly kind of wonder how much of i want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki's tone came from the (imo not great) translation choices. i've read quite a few pieces from this translator, and i've always found he makes the english copy seem super abstracted and distant. even if the advice presented isn't that great, maybe at least the characters' voices are a little better when in their original korean?? haven't gotten around to getting a korean copy yet so can't say for sure though.
This is very true for a lot of media. I live in Brazil, and we had some cases of poorly translated works becoming worse versions of the original. It's a shame, I truly believe translating and adapting is an awesome feat, but I wish more work was put into understanding what is being translated.
you should do a video showing all the books you own! its interesting to see what books you thought you would like so much you bought them as well as ones you did like so much you bought copies of them :)
Hey Cari! I love both of your channels!!I’m starting to learn to listen to myself more when it comes to DNFing books too. I hope one day you’ll read the duology, Daughter of the Moon Goddess. The epilogue comes out next month! I read them last year and LOVED them. I feel like they could be something you might like as well! Happy belated birthday and 2024!
I got in such a bad reading slump after finishing the Summer I turned pretty trilogy because of how truly mad I was with everything about them 🤣🤣
it was a MESS!
Hi, I love your videos! I love your break-throughs and your reading vlogs are so fun. Your conntent is my comfort place
thank you so much :'''')
Cari is the queen of reviews. I love the fact that, thanks to you, I can save myself time from ending up tangled in reading some really bad books. 😂😅
You did NOT tell us about the Eli Whitney tidbit the first time around during the Christmas book marathon video and THAT would have truly added to the chaos of that video 😂
i pinned it in a comment because i think it exhausted me so much i forgot to mention it haha
omg, I had some issues with the plight before Christmas but I had no idea about the American history tidbit, I feel like theres so much I didn't pick up on 💀 (but I'm also not American) I'm glad you mentioned it!
I knew that the first book you talked about would be in this video! omg I'm so sorry that you had to read that
Yayyy!!! Can’t wait to watch this! You’ve really helped me get back into reading, thank you :)
The power of DNF-ing a book is so important. There are so many books out there to explore - so if you're not feeling it, just put it down. Maybe it's not for you and not worth your time, or maybe it's just not the right time to read it, so maybe sometime later.
I have been loving watching your content this last year! One of my favorite books of 2023 was "The Guilded Ones" by Namina Forna, it's a trilogy, and the third book comes out in February. I know you get tons of recommendations every day, but after a year of misses, I think its worthy of your TBR
I thought I would love “I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki” because I am both in grad school to become a therapist and also very interested in Korean culture. I expected it to be full of insight on life and humanity and such, but no. By the end I was wondering what exactly was the point of the book and also why does this therapist kinda suck at their job? Lol I don’t understand why so many people have raved about that book, but I feel validated that Cari didn’t like it either 😂
yeah what were we missing hahaha
I love me some negative reviews, so thanks for tapping into that energy 😂
lol of course!!
For real though, I think I could listen to you for DAYS in a row and not realize time is passing.
Go Cari🙌
In Hello Stranger the main character goes to great lengths to not tell anyone about her face blindness, she doesn’t tell any of her friends except her best friend who is out of town for the majority of the book.
yeah agree i remember this detail too. hence the plot both of them not realizing until later when it dawn to her that the vet and her neighbor might be the same person... with regards with the voice (which is same opinions with cari the whole time lol) until the end, when FL and ML were having conversation about him using a professional voice while at work as Vet (i guess the cadence and the tone?) due to not being taken seriously on his experience..
Omg the plight before Christmas sounds so bad 😭😭😭😭 I’m salty just hearing about it 🫣
It's sad that I found your channel during this bad reading year, but still glad that I found your channel at all, it got me out of a years long reading slump, and overall your channelS bring me a lot of joy ! To a happy new year ☺
omg thank you! happy new year to you too!
So happy to vent, the frustration was real this past year!! My down votes go to Wilderness of Stars, Vespertine, Iron Flame (ugh!), and.... don't hate me, Cari, The Raven Boys (it was just ok). I am tempted to put Tress of the Emerald Sea in here but I think it was just bad timing so I may try it again. 2024 has started well with Serpent & Dove, currently reading House of Roots & Ruin 👍
i DNF'd 4 books in '23, one of which was the WORST thing (The Witch & The City by Jake Burnett) the MC was so insufferable i hated her so much. DNF byyye. Of the ones i finished? Rebecca Yarros was my only 1star, had a few 2star, but it was a decent enough year. Biggest disappointment is a toss up between The Lost Witch by Paige Crutcher, Together We Rot by Skyla Arndt, Shadow Coven by S. Isabelle, or Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare (i was promised Adult and was given toddler puts on mommy's makeup and high heels and stomps around the house havin' a tanty!).
omg your review of modern divination is just what I've been needing to hear i've been reading it for 2 months it is time to DNF
Yayyy, new Cari upload. Excited to watch it
thank you^^
Hi Cari, I’m wondering if you read Trudi Canavan’s The Black Magician Triology? The first book was published in 2001 and it’s been so long but I remember absolutely eating it up and loving it. I don’t own the books but I plan to get them from the library to reread 😊
Also, if you read Manga I have a recommendation for a series. It’s quite long but so good imo. Akatsuki No Yona/Yona of the Dawn (adventure, historical fantasy, romance, action). The first few volumes were turned into a pretty faithful anime adaptation, so if you’re interested you can check it out in that format too 😊 (the main character is very sheltered and in various ways immature in the beginning, but she undergoes a lot of great character development and growth ❤)
WHY does no one talk about the fact that the best part of the summer I turned pretty show is a storyline that absolutely does not exist in the books??? I feel like no one addresses this difference and to me it almost makes the show a totally different story from the books.
Watch my video on the books! haha
@@caricanread oh wonderful! I stopped watching the show summer 2022 because I was liking it, so I wanted to read the books first (I do not understand this logic now) so imagine my surprise when essentially all they shared were the characters
LMAO I read hello stranger and I hated it. I was dumbfounded when she renamed the guy… just straight up renamed him.
I finally finished the Throne of Glass series- 7 books! 😵💫I was soo done by the last book so I flew through it even though it should've been an intense battle book. 🤭Now my list of books I want to read is so huge that it's hard to know where to begin. Started Lightlark- pretty basic for now (18% in) but it will help me get back on my list.
The idea itself is splendid how to be aware , and the best part you’re doing it
Enjoy this beautiful video on a freezing day 😭😘💕thanks
😭👍you always nail it
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hey cari, could you do a video where you recommend books to read on an airplane. I'm flying for the first time later this year and will need something to calm my anxious mind. love your content btw
I do!! Check my vids 😍
The period thing is weird😂😅 but also I actually read something recently that talked about how girls nowadays go into puberty into puberty between 8 and 13?! And that the age has been dropping about 3 months every decade.. that seems crazy to me because like with 8-9 you’re like literally a kid!
we always had sex ed starting in 4th grade so even when i was young ages 8-9 were pretty normal. usually 9-13!
I love that you’re not afraid to say exactly what’s on your mind. I feel with some of the other booktubers that they’re pulling their punches because they don’t want to upset anyone so you can never be sure what they really think. Thank you Cari 💛. Some of the worst books I read in 2023 were all but two of the Never After series by Emily McIntire. I quite liked Hook and I really liked Scarred but they went downhill from there. There wasn’t one likeable character in Wretched and it’s the only book that made me feel as though I wanted to wash my hands after reading it. I dnf’d it about halfway through, and Crossed was about a serial killer priest and his almost equally deranged girlfriend who get it on while covered in the blood of one of her victims at the end! I didn’t bother to try Twisted.
Kk defs going to take off the zodiac academy from my tbr I clearly didn’t look into what it was about 🙃
I sometimes wonder if I should get into book editing cause you think so similarly to me about what you look at in books! When you talked about The Summer I Turned Pretty, it reminded me of a lot of sentences in Maame that were written short and curt and 😢… loved the book’s premise, and was taken out of immersion when the writing would sound like how you described. I so badly wanna give books a little razzle dazzle!
I have had so many books that I just couldn’t push through tbh
24:52 I need your thoughts on the novella announcement!? After fumbling ACFTL, I think there was a pivot in her publishing order. 😅
I really appreciate having the book's info on the screen for the whole review!
I love the way you talk about books, even the ones that are terrible (maybe even more so those?).
2023 was my year of reading books I heard a lot of good things about and thought were just ok. The main ones were What Moves the Dead, Heartless, Gilded and Cursed. I thought What Moves the Dead would be super creepy and atmospheric but I found it underwhelming. I did love Nettle and Bone so I'm looking forward to more T.Kingfisher, especially the Paladin series you rec. The other 3 I liked the idea and the writing was fine but I found them all just very flat. The big scene in Heartless didn't elicit any emotions from me. It's turned me off Marisa Meyer.
One I flat out disliked was House of Marionne which made the rounds in the fall. I almost DNF'ed it but it was a very breezy read. Cool magic system and 1 unexpected twist but that was it. Juvenile writing, no chemistry between the love interests, it seems like everything happens within a month and what was supposed to be the big twist was visible from another continent.
Happy 2024 reading!
Oh no! I just picked up Hello Stranger form the library! Haha I was looking forward to it but now I don’t know if want to even read it, sounds silly
I hope you get some great reads this year. Best wishes.
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Oh man I had completely forgotten about the wilderness of stars and the plot twist. what a crazy time
everything about that book was crazy hahaha
This year we will be Nicer to Ourselves, Meaner to Bad Books ❤
I actually started watching the series after I saw your video where you read The Summer I Turned Pretty books and get angry, and I really enjoyed it 😂 So even though I know the book ending, it was entertaining
My favorite show is based on a very bad book series so perhaps season three won't be terrible
I’m sorry..when you were explaining the plight before Christmas I was expecting it to have terrible ratings on Goodreads but NOPE. How do people like that book? HOW
bahahahaha its so funny to hear facial blindness being in a book. I have been told I may have it. Im sure it comes out differently in everyone who experiences it but for me its more like not being able to register a familiar face to a stranger's unless there was some impression. for example, i can recognize someone i met with only when he wears a hat because thats how i was introduced to him. its a struggle because people have taken it offensively and i understand why.
also...
Go off sis
This year was my lowest average rating of any year, it was a struggle. I think of books that made me mad, Iron Flame was the worst. If I hadn't loved Fourth Wing as much as I did, I would've DNF'd it. I'm going to be much better about that this year.
This year for me wasn't full with bad books, probably because I didn't read much at all and I DNF most of them. This year so far I have yet to read ANY book so I don't think it's gonna get better
I was also very disappointed in I Want To Die But I Also Want To Eat Tteokbokki because the advice from the therapist was so run of the mill, general life advice than I could give....like, it was advertised as this deep dive into depression and such but mostly they adjusted her dosis and never got actually deep into anything....and I understand not wanting to share everything because as I understand the author shares her own story in the book but with that title I had different expectations.
I started mine when I was thirteen. It's nothing to be ashamed of to be on that time of the month but you don't have to go on and on about it! :/
A Cari video on my birthday?! Day made 💚
omg happy birthday, hope its wonderful! ❤❤
Happy birthday!!!
@@caricanreadThank you!
@@orange_teaThank you!
So glad I’m not the only one who had an underwhelming reading year. Super intrigued by which fanfiction you may read though 👀
don't get me started on a curse for true love... i will never recover from that upset
Also--vindication with TSITP! One of my few cases where I MUCH prefer the show to the books. DNF'ed the series. Such a shock to me because To All the Boys is such a comfort series for me.
Why in the hell do we all know that? I literally think about that fact at least once a month. And we all remember it without the context of the damage it did! It’s so weird that we are all so aware of this!
For me the worst book I read this year was The Guest List by Lucy Foley. A murder mystery which from the blurb had great promise , but boy was it bad! Such a terrible disappointment.
I can so relate to feeling very angry at all the lousy books which somehow got published and took my money. I dfned so many books lastyear I honestly couldn't tell you their titles. I also agree that in most cases if its on the New York Times best seller list I will hate them. I really wonder if they actually read them. 😂. Anyways, I really enjoyed the Angry Cari. You go girl.👍📚💕
i feel like publishers must be paying nytimes to put their books on these lists because they are always so awful!!
@@caricanread Sounds about right.
Getting your period at 9 is not out of the ordinary, but the obsession with a 9 year old girl's period when it has nothing to do with the plot and that's basically her whole characterisation - that is just super creepy.
Thank you thays what i meant!! It would be weird if it was a 13 year old too but it felt EXTRA weird that the focus was on her being 9 and menstruating 🙃
ugly love and november 9. November 9 is actually maybe the worst book I’ve ever read and I can’t believe I wasted hours of my life reading it
I would love if you’d do a plot breakdown of the “…the Ninth” books. I tried so hard to like Gideon and I could.not.
Omg I dnf'd modern divination, it also had all the stuff that I love but it was so badly written!!
watching someone rant about a book they hate has to be one of my favorite genres of videos lol, thanks for the great content as always!
LOL happy to serve hahahha
perfect timing!! ❤ im sat
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I feel like the premise for hello stranger could’ve worked if written by another author cuz I could not STAND the fmc or anybody else in the book lol
7:38 The way I howled while you were describing this part of the book! Like it was already bad enough but then the American Slave trade appeared out of left field my gawd
I’m still in the first book and can’t believe I almost didn’t watch this??? This is gold
you should read divine rivals by rebecca ross, its such a cute lil fantasy historical (ish) romance!! I loved it
I have read it but am not talking about it or the sequel currently due to a boycott of the publisher (search #speakupsmp on ig!)
Dnfing is so freeing. I have done this already this year. It's so hard 😢
im really trying to get better!
@@caricanread You can do it! If it doesn't feel good while reading, or and you dread picking it up, then you put it down. Even if it's a temporary dnf, sometimes it's just not the right time.
I am with you 100%! This past year was just plain mid. Very much looking forward to reading along with you in 2024!!
OK, if you are gonna read a fanfiction, then I must recommend you read Alphabet Soup by CoffeeIncluded. It's basically a rewrite of a Pokemon game (Black and White) you don't really need to know much about Pokemon or the game, or read it for the video, just read to see how good fanfiction can be.
I totally agree with what you said about I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki. I had so much expectation for this book but finished it and felt numb, wondering what I just read. Really disappointing, even more as I bought the book too 🤦♀️
I’ve never heard of Kindred but I decided to read it right away after ur best books videos… the kind of book I long for, already reading and I feel it’ll be one of my 2024 faves 😅 there are some plots I just cant wait to dive into… I put them before the whole list 😂😂
i also do mostly portraits and i think i would have a full on mental breakdown if i ever developed facial blindness
I’m sending you love ❤️❤️❤️
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@@caricanread 💜💜💜
I liked The Plight Before Christmas cover T^T
The fan fiction better be manacled!!
You just explained why I don't read contemporary romance and why when I find a literary fiction author I'll read everything they write when they are good, like I did this year with Fredrik Backman, because damn those two genres are hard for me.
i have beartown out from the library right now!
@@caricanread That trilogy ripped my heart out stomped on it and threw it in the woods. Just so you know it's not about hockey.
@@tinagarcia3571so true! I for sure went into that book thinking it was about hockey….and then was sobbing on an airplane. I started the second book and honestly am so intimidated and not sure I’m emotionally ready for that heartbreak again
@@ldpickens it is so worth it.
omg I absolutely agree with Hello Stranger. I LOVED The Bodyguard and then I was like oh Center's new book would also be good, BUT I WAS SO WRONG I WAS SO DISAPPOINTED IT WAS SO BAD????? I really dont know what went wrong because I know she writes well enough.
the whole kitchen attic thing is so funny to me because half the books I read confuse me in that way but I overlook it. 😂 because what do you mean you guys teleported to a different place in the span of a sentence. 😂😂😂