I believe A Certain Hunger has not been released in many countries yet, that probably explains the rating (and how difficult to find / expensive it can be). To the UK for example it is coming in a month
Yep, no sign of it coming to Brazil, and importing it gets quite expensive. I'll probably read the e-book though, cause this channel really made me want to read it.
There are also a bunch of genuinely great books that have few ratings because they are not written in English and goodreads it's a platform prevalently used by English-speaking people (at least on my shelves half of the least popular books are by french and italian authors). My least popular shelved book on goodreads has 6 ratings 😂
My least popular has 2 ratings, understandably so cause its the vol 17 of a manga lol i didnt even rate it tho so maybe more ppl read it and just didnt rate it?
Oh, for sure! I often want to recommend one of my favourite books ever to native English speakers but unfortunately it's in my native language (Finnish) and has not been translated into English, not yet at least. It currently only has 29 Goodreads reviews :') tbh as a beginner translator I kind of dream of translating the book myself, but whether I'll be able/allowed to remains to be seen haha
5:53 The exact same thing happened with Lorde's latest album, which was super fun and up beat. Everyone was just complaining that it wasn't heart-wrenchingly depressing :/ It's like people have a harder time giving praise to stories and art that is unabashedly joyful and without misery.
The most "no plot just vibes" book I've ever read was Untold Night and Day. It takes place in the space of 24 hours during a heatwave in Seoul and absolutely nothing makes sense. You can't even tell which character is which sometimes. There are a lot of theories about Korean shamanism and such, but if you just read it expecting it to feel like a dream, you're in for a good time!
This is why I gave up on Goodreads and now just have a good variety of Booktubers who I know love the same books I do and see what you all recommend! I trust you guys way more than Goodreads!!😆😆😆
Oh my I actually love Twilight so, so much. I've reread the books multiple times, and honestly, I do not think they are well-written AT ALL, but there is something just so hilariously ridiculous about them that I can't help but love the whole thing. The movies though...totally another issue XD
I know that a lot of youtubers are going off Goodreads, changing to Storygraph for various reasons. I'm curious if it may skew some of the results, especially for the newest books, since people who read them first are the very influencers, not present on the platform anymore. Btw, the lowest rated within my read books is a book, which is a required reading in high school. I also couldn't stand how boring it was, when I was 17, reread it recently and it is brilliant. So there is one more variable - if the book is required reading, it is likely to get a lot of one stars!
I was thinking the same thing and i checked and it has 1307 reviews on Storygraph. I also think many people don’t always review the books the read so that might also be a factor. Because I have involuntarily heard so many influencers talk about this book so I find it hard to believe that so few people have read it 😅
what you said about recommended reading is so real - i find that classics tend to fall among the mid-three star range because of the sheer amount of polarising 1 star and 5 star reviews lol. i think thomas more's utopia was only something like 2.7 on storygraph then i read it
@@bibliophilecb "The boundary" bo Zofia Nałkowska, Polish classic from 1920 or 1930. Discussing social issues (class, gender) as well as ethical ones. Suprisingly leftist and feminist, since most of what we are reading in schools is about dying for you motherland, not about abortions and responsibilities of young man towards maids they bang.
Another highly underrated book that's dark academia (with a low-ish score that I think is way too low for what it deserves) and many people will adore if they loved these violent delights is "summer sons" by lee mandelo! I cannot recommend it enough 🥰
as a woman who never wears makeup, it makes me so happy to see my fav youtubers be comfortable filming w no makeup on!!! ppl dont realise how important it is to be comfortable with their own bare face and what an impact it makes on others :D
I’ve read a book that’s only been rated 53 times yet Good reads still recommended it to me. I gave it 4 star along with the majority of the 52 other people
I also picked up A Certain Hunger because of TikTok and I was under the impression that it was super popular and I was shocked at how few people had actually rated it. I was sold on this book by the cannibalism plot but in the end I had to give it 2 stars, I didn’t think it was very good :/
As usual, your energy is just such..... a specific thing haha I think the difference between Goodreads review and personal opinion can be especially big when it comes to non-fiction, especially once personal subjective opinions on politics/history etc enter a review. Plenty of chuckles to be had from reviews like that!
A Certain Hunger was initially released on audiobook and got an updated physical release in the US in 2021, and I believe a UK publisher just picked it up a few months ago, so it’s still a pretty new book but under half a thousand review? That’s pretty crazy
I read These Violent Delights on your recommendation last month and it’s now my favorite book I’ve read this year so far! (tysm for that lol) I never realized it had so few ratings though that’s insane to me
Today I sat down at my lunch break to read the first couple of chapters of The House by the Cerulean Sea, which I recently did a book swap with my friend for. So a few hours later I looked up at my whining dog's face who was pawing for my attention, realised that I was halfway through the book and needed to finish my work hours for the day. Welp. Good job I'm on flexi!
I adore The Bedlam Stacks and found the Watchmaker of Filigree Street to be slightly boring, which is pretty funny since the later has so much more action than the first. The Bedlam Stacks is a great atmospheric book I find, kind of something quiet to read when its raining outside and you have something warm to drink. I understand its not for everyone, but it sits very solidly in my personal five star list :) Loved the idea of this video btw! I think sometimes we all get caught up in the bandwagon of books that are best for large audiences, but some of my favourite books are stuff I can't necessarily recommend to people because they were just so perfect to me at the time I read them, but I know they can be a hard match for others.
Oh my god me too. I love Catherine house. I randomly read it one day and I didn't have expectations, just the blurb on the back. I can understand why people might not like it. They said it's too artsy and vague. But i think i love it for that. It's a diff kind of dark academia vibe
beautiful world where are you is my favorite sally rooney book! I listened to it and I remember staying up all night listening. it was like listening to your friend tell you all their deepest thoughts. haters just be hatin lol
I watch many booktubers but Leonie's calm and cozy energy just hit different. 😍 Thank you for making these beautiful videos. I always respect your opinions about books. ❤️
Hi Leo! You're so funny and insightful💕 I tend to get frustrated by reviews and rates I try to not read at all sometimes and just go with my mood and instinct, then I read the sample and go for it or not.🙂 💕🌻☕🇦🇷
i want to read a certain hunger so bad!!! I have visited multiple different bookstores multiple times and it's never been there!! tried to buy online but it cost like 35 Australian dollars (over 20 euros) like bruh, this is misogyny at play!!
I work at a Bookshop in Colombia that specializes in books in English, and we were able to get 2 copies of A Certain Hunger. The other bookseller and me bought them because it was a really lucky find. Hahaha
I find it hard to rate books that I've read on Goodreads, because the 5 star rating system is a bit restrictive without half stars. But I consider 3 stars to be a good rating. 4 stars can seem a bit too near to a perfect score, and then 5 stars is reserved for perfect books (which, to be fair, I think I am a bit over-generous with). I think it would help if you could rate books by the half star. 😋📚
i feel like the 3 star range for books is a lot like thrifting. most of the stuff probably won’t be for you, there might be stuff you don’t like at all, but you still wanna look for the chance that you find a gem that absolutely consumes your life
The Dog Walker sounds like an American rom-com version of The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain which took three attempts for me to finish because it was so boring but also ridiculous because a man falls in love with a woman by going through her handbag and living in her flat (looking after her cat while she is in a coma) and she is totally fine with it all and falls in love with him at the end too
As someone who DIDN’T read Twilight as a 15 years old and read it later to see if Twihards were right about the book being amazing… I can totally see why it’s not super highly rated, because that book is just… not great 😅 It’s way too long for the little content it actually had, it’s boring, it put me into a reading slump, the characters have no personality, it’s full of that good old « early 2000s romance sexism » that we love… Yep. I feel like it’s the type of book that’ll disappoint just about anyone who isn’t a teenager at the time of reading 😅
I looved a certain hunger, and I discovered it thanks to you. It's not like my favourite book ever but for sure it's in a top 25 maybe 30. I'm also very tempted to try and read bunny, it's so interesting!
I often read unknown thrift shop non-fiction, so some of my books have less than 10 ratings. I also added some of the books myself (yes, you can add books to goodreads if they're not on their yet. But I think you can only do this on a desktop, not on your phone app).
I was curious and check my own worst rated readings and I rated 5 stars on the 10 worst XD I can not understand people, unless some of these books wore some kind of poetry that people don’t get into it because they are so serious xD
i was so baffled to hear that 9000 ratings isn't much, bc i have a book with 23 ratings on my shelf (its orange is for anguish blue is for insanity by david morrell)
I 100% aggre that the 100 derves only one strar but omgggg I read it recently and I have never had so much fun reading s book ever I was lafing out loud it’s trach at it’s finest I strongly recomend this book!!!!!!!! Thanks for my rant
The 100 the show is a fun drinking type show. My Mom and I binged it in like two-ish months and had so much fun with it. I will say don't try to rationalize it too much, just go with it.
i find these videos really interesting because i read a lot of literary fiction so most of the books i read are rated pretty low! i think the problem for a lot of people is what you described with bunny; lots of literary fiction seems to get low ratings because people are uncomfortable with ambiguity? often i'll love a book then read the bad reviews and realise that the complexity and open-endedness that i really enjoyed made other people hate it
beautiful world where are you was the first sally rooneys i read & i personally enjoy them more than her previous books 👁👄👁 the title alone is just 💥💳💥💳💥💳
There's some excellent books out there with very low numbers because they are new(-ish), but it's still amazing that I have read something that only has 13 other ratings on Goodreads or anything under 1000 really.
I actually liked the first book in the Twilight series. But I read it like 5 years back so I have no idea how I'll feel now. I'll probably like the first one but I'm sure I won't like the rest😂😂
Finally someone talking about These Violent Delights by Micah!!! It's such a perfect book and it's such an absolute shame that not many people know about it.
I personally didn't enjoy Beautiful World Where Are You because I thought it was just super boring 😬😬 I'm a big Sally Rooney fan but this book just was not it for me
Most of the time on GR you have mid books within a genre rated 4.5 stars and masterpieces rated 3.8 because if you read a trashy romance you have certain expectations and you don't really put in a lot of effort to understand the story.
I am not into dark academy. I have decided that solely by not enjoying "Ninth House". Nonethless I will give "These Violent Delights" a chance. I put it on my wishlist on Audible. (I do own Chloe Gong's book but have never finished it :D)
Hi Leonie! Going to leave a recomendation which i haven´t read, but is on my "cannibalism" radar called Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica.... after this video it came back to mind and it might be within the whole vibe... weird i know! Loved the video as always.
This looks suits you, you kinda look like a pride and prejudice character (Keira knightley version) with the half up half down hairstyle and no makeup. A cottage core dress would complete the look ahah
I have novels from the victorian era that doesnt even exist on goodreads that i picked up from thriftstores. One is a about scientist exploring nothern canada, and the other about a princess and a talking cat.
I know you said you don't want to reread this but I would watch the shit out of a video series of you re-reading Twilight series. It would be grand (and maybe you would realise why it has such low ratings lol)
There's a Czech book that has 4 ratings and a 2.5 average. It's literally the worst book I've ever read. There's this 17 year old horse girl who stands up for a girl that her "best friend" bullies, the two turn against her and make her life a living hell. Her parents decide to make her feel better by sending her to a prestige horse school and she becomes very good at horse rather quickly so she gets sent to a great race. She gets training with another guy (who has the hots for her) at a ranch, but they're not alone. There is a primary school there at the same time and the girl (called Amelia) meets the teacher and is immediately interested. The teacher (whose point of view we also get) is named Rosemary and she's 40. The two fall in love and there is a really bad s€x scene involving math problem directed at Amelia and a scene where Amelia's mum gets really angry because Rosemary is 1 year older than her. And the worst part is that this is perfectly legal over here. Ew.
Wilder Girls was something i hoped to be more weird and less directed. Like... there is not much room for interpretation, except for the ending maybe. It was just very badly written and half of the plot did not make any sense at all. And none of the characters had any deep personality or character development whatsoever. I was so disappointed by that book because i really WANTED the weird horror and instead got some "ohhhh look at me i am so quirky because i take the age old infection trope and mix it with some kids" Loved the video btw!
I honestly think TVD is not as popular as it should be cause of its cover.... i almost didnt pick it up when i first saw it cause i thought it was so ugly lol but then 3 ppl i trust recommended it (you included) and i was convinced (im reading it rn and loving it, thanks
I found Wilder Girls very disappointing because not much happened, the romance weirdly came out of nowhere, and it sounded to me like it was prepping to be the first of a series - hence the abrupt ending.
I believe A Certain Hunger has not been released in many countries yet, that probably explains the rating (and how difficult to find / expensive it can be). To the UK for example it is coming in a month
Yep, no sign of it coming to Brazil, and importing it gets quite expensive. I'll probably read the e-book though, cause this channel really made me want to read it.
Yeah in poland it's also not translated and books in English are so expensive 😫 and I really really want to read that
"I'm a vegetarian." There's a movie called Raw about a vegetarian student who becomes a cannibal so... it's possible.
don't remind me of this movie it traumatized me
...I'm interested
I need to hear more about this movie
There are also a bunch of genuinely great books that have few ratings because they are not written in English and goodreads it's a platform prevalently used by English-speaking people (at least on my shelves half of the least popular books are by french and italian authors). My least popular shelved book on goodreads has 6 ratings 😂
My least popular has 2 ratings, understandably so cause its the vol 17 of a manga lol i didnt even rate it tho so maybe more ppl read it and just didnt rate it?
But yeah a lot of my least popular reads are from a non-english speaking country
Oh, for sure! I often want to recommend one of my favourite books ever to native English speakers but unfortunately it's in my native language (Finnish) and has not been translated into English, not yet at least. It currently only has 29 Goodreads reviews :') tbh as a beginner translator I kind of dream of translating the book myself, but whether I'll be able/allowed to remains to be seen haha
annie m.g shcmidt is the only children's author i like, but because she's dutch no one really knows about her (at least internationally).
5:53 The exact same thing happened with Lorde's latest album, which was super fun and up beat. Everyone was just complaining that it wasn't heart-wrenchingly depressing :/ It's like people have a harder time giving praise to stories and art that is unabashedly joyful and without misery.
The whole point of solar power was to be shedding the sadness and melodrama (lol) of her past but people just be stuck being sad!!!!!!!
The most "no plot just vibes" book I've ever read was Untold Night and Day. It takes place in the space of 24 hours during a heatwave in Seoul and absolutely nothing makes sense. You can't even tell which character is which sometimes. There are a lot of theories about Korean shamanism and such, but if you just read it expecting it to feel like a dream, you're in for a good time!
This is why I gave up on Goodreads and now just have a good variety of Booktubers who I know love the same books I do and see what you all recommend! I trust you guys way more than Goodreads!!😆😆😆
i learnt this the hard way. Now trusting these booktubers. like her
Oh my I actually love Twilight so, so much. I've reread the books multiple times, and honestly, I do not think they are well-written AT ALL, but there is something just so hilariously ridiculous about them that I can't help but love the whole thing. The movies though...totally another issue XD
They are so cozy to me!! All the hate makes me so sad, those books bring me so much nostalgia and calmness
@@Breeski1 They're honestly my comfort read.
Bunny was literally the craziest and coolest book ever, doesn't make sense how it has such a low rating
I know that a lot of youtubers are going off Goodreads, changing to Storygraph for various reasons. I'm curious if it may skew some of the results, especially for the newest books, since people who read them first are the very influencers, not present on the platform anymore.
Btw, the lowest rated within my read books is a book, which is a required reading in high school. I also couldn't stand how boring it was, when I was 17, reread it recently and it is brilliant. So there is one more variable - if the book is required reading, it is likely to get a lot of one stars!
I was thinking the same thing and i checked and it has 1307 reviews on Storygraph. I also think many people don’t always review the books the read so that might also be a factor.
Because I have involuntarily heard so many influencers talk about this book so I find it hard to believe that so few people have read it 😅
what you said about recommended reading is so real - i find that classics tend to fall among the mid-three star range because of the sheer amount of polarising 1 star and 5 star reviews lol. i think thomas more's utopia was only something like 2.7 on storygraph then i read it
Which book was it?
@@bibliophilecb "The boundary" bo Zofia Nałkowska, Polish classic from 1920 or 1930. Discussing social issues (class, gender) as well as ethical ones. Suprisingly leftist and feminist, since most of what we are reading in schools is about dying for you motherland, not about abortions and responsibilities of young man towards maids they bang.
The dog walker sounds like a good start to a thriller or horror book 😂
Another highly underrated book that's dark academia (with a low-ish score that I think is way too low for what it deserves) and many people will adore if they loved these violent delights is "summer sons" by lee mandelo! I cannot recommend it enough 🥰
hi leonie i’d love to see videos centered around an aestethic like cottagecore etc.
Bunny had 3,5 average rating in 2020 so 3,57 is improvement 😂 it’s also one of my fav books (I’ve read it three times) so it’s crushing my soul
Omg I'm reading bunny rn and I absolutely love it.
I think you're my favorite youtuber, I love your accent and your way of speak 💖 loved the video
off topic: you are a NATURAL beauty. you do NOT need any make-up!! (of course, you do you!!)💕
as a woman who never wears makeup, it makes me so happy to see my fav youtubers be comfortable filming w no makeup on!!! ppl dont realise how important it is to be comfortable with their own bare face and what an impact it makes on others :D
I’ve read a book that’s only been rated 53 times yet Good reads still recommended it to me. I gave it 4 star along with the majority of the 52 other people
I also picked up A Certain Hunger because of TikTok and I was under the impression that it was super popular and I was shocked at how few people had actually rated it.
I was sold on this book by the cannibalism plot but in the end I had to give it 2 stars, I didn’t think it was very good :/
I mean with the amount of love the Hannibal series got some years ago, i think it is just because not a lot of people know about A Certain Hunger yet.
I just need to say, this is my fav YT channel, like, it's my comfort place on the internet
As usual, your energy is just such..... a specific thing haha
I think the difference between Goodreads review and personal opinion can be especially big when it comes to non-fiction, especially once personal subjective opinions on politics/history etc enter a review. Plenty of chuckles to be had from reviews like that!
I love Bunny so much. I can't believe people don't like it. Such a wild ride!
A Certain Hunger was initially released on audiobook and got an updated physical release in the US in 2021, and I believe a UK publisher just picked it up a few months ago, so it’s still a pretty new book but under half a thousand review? That’s pretty crazy
I personally wouldn't consider any rating over 3.2 as a bad rating, under 4 - it's just an average book. Very a fun video 🥰
I read These Violent Delights on your recommendation last month and it’s now my favorite book I’ve read this year so far! (tysm for that lol) I never realized it had so few ratings though that’s insane to me
Today I sat down at my lunch break to read the first couple of chapters of The House by the Cerulean Sea, which I recently did a book swap with my friend for. So a few hours later I looked up at my whining dog's face who was pawing for my attention, realised that I was halfway through the book and needed to finish my work hours for the day. Welp. Good job I'm on flexi!
I adore The Bedlam Stacks and found the Watchmaker of Filigree Street to be slightly boring, which is pretty funny since the later has so much more action than the first. The Bedlam Stacks is a great atmospheric book I find, kind of something quiet to read when its raining outside and you have something warm to drink. I understand its not for everyone, but it sits very solidly in my personal five star list :)
Loved the idea of this video btw! I think sometimes we all get caught up in the bandwagon of books that are best for large audiences, but some of my favourite books are stuff I can't necessarily recommend to people because they were just so perfect to me at the time I read them, but I know they can be a hard match for others.
I don't think I own a single coaster for the same reason, my mug gravitates to my books!
The lowest rated book I've read is 3.12. It's cathrine house and I actually really liked it lol
Oh my god me too. I love Catherine house. I randomly read it one day and I didn't have expectations, just the blurb on the back.
I can understand why people might not like it. They said it's too artsy and vague. But i think i love it for that. It's a diff kind of dark academia vibe
beautiful world where are you is my favorite sally rooney book! I listened to it and I remember staying up all night listening. it was like listening to your friend tell you all their deepest thoughts. haters just be hatin lol
I adore your videos! Love the colour of the sweater on you + need to know where you got that mug. It's so pretty!
I watch many booktubers but Leonie's calm and cozy energy just hit different. 😍 Thank you for making these beautiful videos. I always respect your opinions about books. ❤️
Earl Grey, goes well with honey and a slice of lemon
A Certain Hunger is easily one of my favorite reads of the year and I recommend it to everyone who comes into work
I haven’t read a certain hunger but it’s on my “get to very soon TBR”
i cannot believe how underrated these violent delights is it pains me i need micah nemerever to get more recognition !!!
Hi Leo! You're so funny and insightful💕 I tend to get frustrated by reviews and rates I try to not read at all sometimes and just go with my mood and instinct, then I read the sample and go for it or not.🙂 💕🌻☕🇦🇷
i want to read a certain hunger so bad!!! I have visited multiple different bookstores multiple times and it's never been there!! tried to buy online but it cost like 35 Australian dollars (over 20 euros) like bruh, this is misogyny at play!!
I work at a Bookshop in Colombia that specializes in books in English, and we were able to get 2 copies of A Certain Hunger. The other bookseller and me bought them because it was a really lucky find. Hahaha
A certain hunger really surprises me!! I loved that book and got it from my local library
omg i was thinking of reading Crimson Bound for the past few days and i’m now taking this as a sign i should read it
Based on your description I think I'd really like Bunny. I'll have to try that one eventually.
I love your videos omg your vibes is amazing 🤩
I find it hard to rate books that I've read on Goodreads, because the 5 star rating system is a bit restrictive without half stars. But I consider 3 stars to be a good rating. 4 stars can seem a bit too near to a perfect score, and then 5 stars is reserved for perfect books (which, to be fair, I think I am a bit over-generous with). I think it would help if you could rate books by the half star. 😋📚
when I can't decide what to read next from my owned books I will either look at the top rated ones or the lowest rated ones
i feel like the 3 star range for books is a lot like thrifting. most of the stuff probably won’t be for you, there might be stuff you don’t like at all, but you still wanna look for the chance that you find a gem that absolutely consumes your life
i just ordered these violent delight! the plot sounds so much better than the fantasy one.
I’m currently reading A Certain Hunger and I am loving it.
The Dog Walker sounds like an American rom-com version of The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain which took three attempts for me to finish because it was so boring but also ridiculous because a man falls in love with a woman by going through her handbag and living in her flat (looking after her cat while she is in a coma) and she is totally fine with it all and falls in love with him at the end too
girl i need u to get on storygraph
Look at you, pumping out content! Love it 😍
As someone who DIDN’T read Twilight as a 15 years old and read it later to see if Twihards were right about the book being amazing… I can totally see why it’s not super highly rated, because that book is just… not great 😅 It’s way too long for the little content it actually had, it’s boring, it put me into a reading slump, the characters have no personality, it’s full of that good old « early 2000s romance sexism » that we love… Yep. I feel like it’s the type of book that’ll disappoint just about anyone who isn’t a teenager at the time of reading 😅
I looved a certain hunger, and I discovered it thanks to you. It's not like my favourite book ever but for sure it's in a top 25 maybe 30. I'm also very tempted to try and read bunny, it's so interesting!
the dog walker book sounds like a fever dream
I often read unknown thrift shop non-fiction, so some of my books have less than 10 ratings.
I also added some of the books myself (yes, you can add books to goodreads if they're not on their yet. But I think you can only do this on a desktop, not on your phone app).
This was such a great video Leonie! Love your look today, you remind me of Sansa Stark from the Game of Thrones show :D
I was curious and check my own worst rated readings and I rated 5 stars on the 10 worst XD
I can not understand people, unless some of these books wore some kind of poetry that people don’t get into it because they are so serious xD
Yes bakers magic! I'm so glad to finally find someone who knows this book I LOVE YOU
i was so baffled to hear that 9000 ratings isn't much, bc i have a book with 23 ratings on my shelf (its orange is for anguish blue is for insanity by david morrell)
I 100% aggre that the 100 derves only one strar but omgggg I read it recently and I have never had so much fun reading s book ever I was lafing out loud it’s trach at it’s finest I strongly recomend this book!!!!!!!! Thanks for my rant
I always close the rating with my finger when I'm starting to read it, and then I check if I think the same 😅
The fact that you love Wilder Girls was so validating for me
I finished One True Loves ten minutes ago, and I almost collapsed at the "earl grey tea" mention
The 100 the show is a fun drinking type show.
My Mom and I binged it in like two-ish months and had so much fun with it.
I will say don't try to rationalize it too much, just go with it.
i find these videos really interesting because i read a lot of literary fiction so most of the books i read are rated pretty low! i think the problem for a lot of people is what you described with bunny; lots of literary fiction seems to get low ratings because people are uncomfortable with ambiguity? often i'll love a book then read the bad reviews and realise that the complexity and open-endedness that i really enjoyed made other people hate it
beautiful world where are you was the first sally rooneys i read & i personally enjoy them more than her previous books 👁👄👁 the title alone is just 💥💳💥💳💥💳
3:04 Rosamund Hodge*****
I was so confused, Rosamund Pike is an actress, don't think she writes xD
I also loved bunny! I did not understand why it was rated so low
There's some excellent books out there with very low numbers because they are new(-ish), but it's still amazing that I have read something that only has 13 other ratings on Goodreads or anything under 1000 really.
Haha I rated Mrs Death Misses Death and Bunny 5* each , oops!
I actually liked the first book in the Twilight series. But I read it like 5 years back so I have no idea how I'll feel now. I'll probably like the first one but I'm sure I won't like the rest😂😂
Finally someone talking about These Violent Delights by Micah!!! It's such a perfect book and it's such an absolute shame that not many people know about it.
I found "A Certain Hunger" on GoodReads with over 17000 ratings, maybe it's because of the edition? Different editions have different ratings
the moment you said "poetry" and "whimsy" i added mrs death misses death to my tbr
A lot of Chuck Palahniuk books have low low ratings in book sites. But they are absolutely my fave books.
I personally didn't enjoy Beautiful World Where Are You because I thought it was just super boring 😬😬 I'm a big Sally Rooney fan but this book just was not it for me
So nice to finally see the real you. Did not disappoint
Most of the time on GR you have mid books within a genre rated 4.5 stars and masterpieces rated 3.8 because if you read a trashy romance you have certain expectations and you don't really put in a lot of effort to understand the story.
Not only lava lamp, but also record player. Very retro!
I am not into dark academy. I have decided that solely by not enjoying "Ninth House".
Nonethless I will give "These Violent Delights" a chance. I put it on my wishlist on Audible. (I do own Chloe Gong's book but have never finished it :D)
Hi Leonie!
Going to leave a recomendation which i haven´t read, but is on my "cannibalism" radar called Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica.... after this video it came back to mind and it might be within the whole vibe... weird i know!
Loved the video as always.
This looks suits you, you kinda look like a pride and prejudice character (Keira knightley version) with the half up half down hairstyle and no makeup. A cottage core dress would complete the look ahah
love ya leonie! thx for the vid
Thank you for this video!
Beautiful world where are you is such a beautiful book! And I liked crimson bound.
I'm one of those 400 people! (And I DNF'd it because I thought the writing was so bad. 😳)
Okay but… I want those twilight covers…
Beach Music by Pat Conroy is a big no plot just vibes book. Things happen but it dosnt follow an overall story arc
As an author of romance novels with disabled heroes I have to try that book with the person without hands
I have novels from the victorian era that doesnt even exist on goodreads that i picked up from thriftstores. One is a about scientist exploring nothern canada, and the other about a princess and a talking cat.
I know you said you don't want to reread this but I would watch the shit out of a video series of you re-reading Twilight series. It would be grand (and maybe you would realise why it has such low ratings lol)
I have read AND loved A Certain Hunger!!! 🤓
And I was just as shocked as you!
The 100 show was so epic! I read the book after, and I’m like “what is this?!” 🤦🏻♀️
Great video!
There's a Czech book that has 4 ratings and a 2.5 average.
It's literally the worst book I've ever read.
There's this 17 year old horse girl who stands up for a girl that her "best friend" bullies, the two turn against her and make her life a living hell. Her parents decide to make her feel better by sending her to a prestige horse school and she becomes very good at horse rather quickly so she gets sent to a great race. She gets training with another guy (who has the hots for her) at a ranch, but they're not alone. There is a primary school there at the same time and the girl (called Amelia) meets the teacher and is immediately interested. The teacher (whose point of view we also get) is named Rosemary and she's 40.
The two fall in love and there is a really bad s€x scene involving math problem directed at Amelia and a scene where Amelia's mum gets really angry because Rosemary is 1 year older than her.
And the worst part is that this is perfectly legal over here. Ew.
23:05 yeahh, same.. but it is interesting. (Especially the laws surrounding cannibalism)
Wilder Girls was something i hoped to be more weird and less directed. Like... there is not much room for interpretation, except for the ending maybe. It was just very badly written and half of the plot did not make any sense at all. And none of the characters had any deep personality or character development whatsoever. I was so disappointed by that book because i really WANTED the weird horror and instead got some "ohhhh look at me i am so quirky because i take the age old infection trope and mix it with some kids"
Loved the video btw!
I love how you still have your lava lamp 😅
I honestly think TVD is not as popular as it should be cause of its cover.... i almost didnt pick it up when i first saw it cause i thought it was so ugly lol but then 3 ppl i trust recommended it (you included) and i was convinced (im reading it rn and loving it, thanks
I found Wilder Girls very disappointing because not much happened, the romance weirdly came out of nowhere, and it sounded to me like it was prepping to be the first of a series - hence the abrupt ending.
i love this video thank you