Read Half a Soul based on your rec and I loved it! I was smiling and kicking my feet at this book in the best way :)

10 minutes in and we already got the "born sexy yesterday" clique of an mc. Fun... edit: It's always the French when you least expect them.

me at 0:31: epic reference0... there's no way........ me at the end of the video: HELL YEAAAAAAAHHHHH also bg3 (an astarion girlie, no less) AND epic? i see you're a woman of taste what are your favorite saga(s)? mine are circe and wisdom saga

you need to read god of malice. I read all of these books and still found that one to be worse its like if diesel from den of vipers started taking LSD

Just want you to know what you said between 5:35 and 5:57 single-handedly made me subscribe to your channel

"also, this book is marketed as 'slow burn' and i guess definitionally it is because nothing fucking happens" I laughed SO HARD amazing

sometimes i feel bad about my writing but then i remember things like this exist and suddenly im not so bad of an author

thank you for validating me! I sooo agree with ur powerless takes; I never thought it was plagiarized it just is bad😭😭😭😭😭😭

HEREEEEE for the powerless slander, for sure the most painful book i read last year

I read Half a Soul at about the same time as you and I was so delighted by it. It was lovely to hear you enjoyed it too!

Hi Lexie, i don’t know if youare going to read this, but i’m brazilian and there’s i really enjoy your videos, i also think that you would LOVE the book “hour of the star By Clarice Lispector” She is just a genious, its an incredible book It has that twisted kind of character that you like :)

Hi. I need you to read blood of Hercules and please tell the world what you think 😂

Thank you for putting “Powerless” on this list, I didn’t know others were hating on it and I’ve only seen good things aside which completely blew my mind because I listened to this as an audiobook on my work commutes and uhh I promise listening to actual human voices say those things is 20x more painful 😂 First video of yours I’ve seen, new sub 🤍

I’m so glad to have not read Powerless. I have been de-influenced! Thank you!

should not have watched this before going to sleep 💀

Mobsters, chime in: do y'all really act like fantasy medieval weirdos when a don's son gets married? Jokes aside, I didn't know people were claiming plagiarism regarding Powerless for that reason? I'm with you!! They'd really lose their minds if they ever read any regency webtoon then. 😭

I read Y/N because of you and thoroughly enjoyed it. Will of the Many of course--impatiently waiting for the sequel to drop.

Bringing up Beautiful Disaster made me wanna rewatch your video on it

@3:07 lmfao Not from blood and ash I hated it

love this "if you're going to make it unrealistic don't make it unrealistically bad". Yes, this sums up all the books I DNF.

I feel like i'm going nuts, how can Travis be super overprotective and then every other man calls her names like "baby"... what? also isn't the top score on an SAT 1600? has something changed between when this book was published and now? I'm sorry we're at thanksgiving break? She's been at school for like three months??? WHat?

Please read “Curvy Girl Summer” by Danielle Allen!!!!!

please read an enchantment of ravens if you're interested in some good romantasy! i don't even like the genre that much and i was SQUEALING over this book

Being a Lexi fan means knowing what books are coming but still watching because it’s Lexi and I need her takes to be reiterated in this format.

“My time? My kingdom? For this shit?”

You need to read “chain gang all stars” it’s a dystopian justice system gladiator book. And it’s sapphic!

the way the light gradually leaves your eyes 😭

Sl*t! (Kaleb's Version) (From the Vault) is really sending me (and yes I'm here 1 year later)

I am also 23 and completely agree with everything you said about heartstopper!

Wow okay, so I haven't read Powerless, but the point you made about the writing is EXACTLY how I felt about a book I read recently and something about the writing felt so off for me and this is it... thank you for giving words to my feelings heheii :)

I used to believe in feminism, then I started to read books written by, and marketed to, women. Now I'm not so sure

lmfao den of vipers was so tragic, i didnt dnf but i did do some serious professional level skimming. i was hoping the smut would at least be some redeeming factor but even that was unimpressive 😂

I am halfway thru powerless and for me what sucks is not just the writing which downright ruins the endings to decent/mid chapters but also the leads and their chemistry. I feel more empathy for Kitt and his dynamic with Paedyn. Idk it's much more organic than whatever's going on with Kai who just simps around Paedyn until he gets a dry ass response from her. Also her abilities are such a major plot hole. She's a psychic and she still can't predict the action of her enemies? And her observational skills for people are so surface level 'he's got sand on his shoe he went to a desert' or 'she has a mark on her ring finger she was recently divorced' like what the actual fuck is that? Also I like how Paedyn can hold her own but more than a number of times Kai has been her savior and if it weren't for him she'd be as good as dead. Half the shit is so pointless and dry that you wonder if the characters even care. There's literal deaths happening and then Kai will go around simping to make Paedyn 'forget' and don't even get me started on the infuriating nicknames/ surnames they have for each other uhhhh it's so irritating. Anything but Azer and Gray would be better. It ruins the whole back and forth they build up with their dialogue.

I love how i read several of these books and at the time really enjoyed them. And then you read them and recap and im all "yeah... That was bad". 😂 I have no taste and I think I'm happier for it. But I will continue to watch and agree with your roasts of them after the fact and be mildly embarrassed at my original unabashed enjoyment

"I prefer a dash of events in my plot" im DYING HAHAHAH

love your vids lexi! you're so wellspoken and funny :)

Andrew Joseph White has been one of my favourite authors ever since Hell Followed With Us was published. As an autistic trans man i love seeing how he shows very different trans and autistic experiences depending on the setting and especially in Compound Fracture i found myself heavily relating to Miles

there are some kinda mystic / magical realism / fantasy (a major stretch) vibes to the raven cycle - would 1000% rec if you haven't already read that series !!!! i found them so easy to fully escape into

I'm recovering from surgery and I saved up a chunk of your videos to watch while being in bed. Best idea ever. Love this.

Hi, I hope you can tell me your opinion on "Birthday Girl" by Penelope Douglas (I am watching your critique on Credance (haven't read it, won't do it, am actually surprised by the fact that "Birthday Girl" is from the same author) and wondered what you think of that book). I hope you'll be able to write some comment on it?

You need to make this a series

I love you. And I also truly, fully, deeply hated Shark Heart😂

I am shocked that this is written by Penelope Douglas, as I loved her book "Birthday Girl" 😢

I need a video of recommendations for fantasy for those who can’t cope with booktok fantasy

please read some shall break by ellie marneyy <3

Just starting a book club with some friends and I think I'm stealing this ranking chart so we can compare icks and eats (someone tell me that sounded cool pleeaaseee 😂)

Powerless is good in the same way the Twilight movies are good; nobody’s actually enjoying it, they just wanna see how close it is to the source material

I’m so happy I don’t have to read all that 😭 I feel sorry for your lost sanity 🥹

1:05 - Despite your claims, I am beginning to doubt your assertions that you are not god. Just take my worship dang it.

Rhys is the only twisted series man I somewhat tolerate