10 Worst Books of 2020 📚 👎🏻👎🏻

[@sofiepolfliet8697]

Your voice and vibe are just so fun to watch and listen!! Your video's are just FENOMENAL!

[@KatieColson]

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[@graceandcats2873]

I think “A Little Life” was written for water moons.

[@margoatfinch]

I'm still intrigued to read A Little Life because I'm drawn to 'sad books' even though I know I'll be miserable reading it 😂

[@leoniesliberi]

I personally loved A Little Life, but you definitely have to be in the right headspace to read it. I‘d never recommend it to anyone because of all the triggers it includes, but I truly did enjoy it a lot even though it left me feeling like a heartbroken shell of the person I used to be hahaha

[@ariel704704]

You are such a joy to watch!!!! So glad this video came up in my recommended! I'm running straight to your best books of the year video after this one 🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️

[@TheBookishMom]

I know everyone loves it but I just have no desire to read a Little Life. I don't tend to read literary fiction anyways and I don't want something that sad

[@bridgetuphoff2129]

I didn't like Wilder Girl's either. I was expecting WAY more to happen. But you're right, it didn't go ANYWHERE!

[@misspopcoin2204]

*Me who is literally only 30 pages into "they both die at the end"* "Its awful & cringy" Me: 👁👄👁

[@kellywilson608]

I seriously just LOVE you and your content!!! You’re amazingly awesome and as always I can’t wait for your next video!!!

[@KileyYoung]

I'm so curious about what the "people who read Lolita vs. people who hated the Silent Patient" venn diagram looks like, because I got such strong Humbert Humbert vibes from a particular character that nothing was surprising. I can't stop talking about about how much I hated it, and I know I am very much in the minority. It also felt a little like You, which I watched but didn't read, and also hated. And ugh, Wilder Girls was just boring/annoying/gratuitously gross, and I feel like marketing it as a "queer, feminist Lord of the Flies" set it up for failure because I wanted it to both be much gayer and much more like Lord of the Flies.

[@lunchingonlit]

I didn't really care for The Silent Patient either. I actually thought it was kind of predictable and yes, the main character was aweful.

[@chloemiller2483]

I’ve seen it on multiple worst book lists 😬🥴

[@livforreading]

Your energy is my favorite thing ever😂 I just adore your videos

[@KatieColson]

THANK YOU SO MUCH OLIVIA

[@16SF]

I hated "A Little Life" so much that everytime someone says "hard-hitting contemporary" my fight or flight instinct gets triggered LOL

[@erintrolley805]

Ugh I purchased a little life a while ago but it’s just been sitting on my shelf. I might unhaul it tbh

[@wineandreads3106]

I loved The Last Time I Lied! But I still subscribed because your vibe is honestly the best. 🤣

[@angelastaudt4720]

You are the FIRST person that has said they hated Wilder Girls 🙌🙌 That book was the worst. Like I just hated it. H A T E D I T.

[@KileyYoung]

Right there with you

[@KaatReadsALot]

I love your videos so much!!! I haven’t read most of these and based on the way you talk about them, thank goodness I haven’t😂

[@mariapascoal2511]

Everyone seemed to like The Glass Hotel (Emily St John Mandel) and The Guest List (Lucy Foley) but I really did not like either of them. And I paid full price for The Glass Hotel hardcover bc I bought it from my local indie bookstore 😳 OMG, the heartbreak 💔😭

[@ashleyslittlelibrary]

We have very similar tastes lol I also HATED the silent patient & wilder girls and have felt like the oddball out for it. Ugh and I forgot about the honey don't list but felt the EXACT same. Plus Eight Perfect Murders - I can't vibe with Peter Swanson. Like I said, same tastes hahaha

[@sarawithoutanH]

YES the silent patient is the WORST king of crows made me upsettttt. i literally have a tattoo for the diviners series and the conclusion really hurt my feelings 😭😂 libba bray is still my queen but idk what sis was thinking with that ending

[@KatieColson]

Really? What the tattoo of??

[@sarawithoutanH]

i have an eye on my arm inspired by the original diviners cover

[@Viralsbookreviews]

I hve same problems with 8 perfect murder. I dnf it the minute i get on the spoiler other book part. Absolutely horrifying full of anxiety moment when it came without a warning. Its trigger for me.lol.

[@AishlingONeill]

Thanks so much for the great words about A Little Life. I read it in March and couldn’t read anything else for a month cos it was so shite!! I hated it! Complete torture porn and it made me so angry. The way disability is used as a tool to make your cry as well was extremely problematic. Just overall so bad. Your videos are great! And can’t wait to watch your most loved books for this year! I’m a new subscriber for sure 🙌

[@DalyNaughton]

the plot twist in the silent patient would've been better if the main character had been likeable or endearing AT ALL throughout the book. He was so vile and unlikeable that when the "big reveal" came it was just like oh, of course. because he's horrible. and he's been horrible throughout the entire book.

[@KatieColson]

EXACTLY!!

[@thocon2008]

you got the book spoiled for me tnks

[@irenecm9255]

Oh my god I thought It was my problem when I finished The woman in the window and I wasn't really amazed lol. Very well written like you said but the ending ¿??? No sense at all, only thing I enjoyed was her story because it really caught me off guard.

[@Makeitmonika]

Honestly I just watch your videos because we are complete opposites. I liked a lot of these books and hateddddddddddddd the ones you recommend. So this is amazing lol

[@tappkalina]

That's the perfect example of how subjective art is.

[@leoniesliberi]

The Silent Patient is one of my worst of the year too! literally 80% of it is our narrator being told things he and we need to know, the characters all annoyed the heck out of me and I absolutely haaaaateeeed the plottwist (imagine me singing the last three words cause that‘s what I did in my head LMAO)

[@kelliereviews5341]

I agree with you Katie, The Silent Patient. It went on and on for me. Took me 5 months to read. Was thinking about re-reading it, see if I got a better opinion of it. First book from BTOM.

[@KatieColson]

5 months? Kellie. Girl. Your patience and will power are stronger than I could EVER. BotM is always going to be hit or miss because they are new releases so there isn't a bunch of opinions floating around that you can reference on whether or not you will like them. I love BotM for when a favorite author of mine puts a book out through them. Cause then I can get it early sometimes.

[@cararogers2366]

Totally agree with you about A Little Life. Beautiful prose but... its just one sad thing after another. There is no point. The characters don't develop, its unbelievable and it carries a terrible mental health message. Its a shame cos she is a talented writer but there is no good reason to read this book.

[@millia091]

I also disliked They Both Die At The End and I totally don't understand the hype and love for this book! Read it few years ago and was so disappointed and like ????? There's no chemistry and it makes no sense

[@KatieColson]

Ha! I am glad to know I wasn’t alone in that thought

[@tinadoesntreadthatmuch]

OMG I feel so validated by the silent patient haha. A one star for me!

[@Europa1749]

I didn't finish A Little Life. It was so unrealistic and manipulative, I couldn't be bothered.

[@mrboyd720]

Finally a fellow A Little Life hater.

[@marrabowens5208]

A Little Life, is written for my masochistic side. I absolutely hate it, nothing about it should be something you endure.

[@bluetheon]

I don't even know who Tiffany Haddish is but I already can't stand her bases on what you described in her book. Ableism is absolutely disgusting.

[@soniarodriguez2072]

I HATED Onyx and Ivory...hated it so much. Almost Dnf, but I did. The name and character Kate was so annoying.

[@kailebrogan447]

I own the woman in the window because I've heard it's awful. I'd like to experience how awful it is

[@bareenajamal7589]

It's actually not that awful.

[@serenityd2432]

141??? thats so many books! good job

[@jenniferrux7722]

I didn't mind the body horror but I wasn't a big fan of Wilder Girls either.

[@VaneLovee]

I’m picking up wilder girls on audiobook this month, maybe am going to regret it lol

[@monicapressley6086]

I'm not coming for you about A Little Life. I have worked with people who have had lives like this but I sure as hell don't want to read about it on my own time.

[@ClariinhaVitral]

I'm currently reading The King of Crows, and I'm hating it as well lol

[@cowgrll]

miss ma’am...you are truly a ✨comedienne✨ it’s 12am and I’m trying not to cackle out loud and wake up the entire house 😭

[@KatieColson]

😂😂😂 thank you!! That makes me laugh and makes me happy

[@jamesdunning8650]

Katie's got that type of beauty that you could listen to her talk about hanging wall paper, and enjoy it.

[@MsSusyque]

Despite the fact that I really liked "Wilder Girls", I am subscribing to your channel because I appreciate your enthusiasm and energy. Can’t wait to see your Best of video. (Hope we have a couple in common!)

[@artisticash5045]

I hate to hear that you didn't like The Last Time I Lied. I love Riley Sager and will always read anything he puts out. I just bought The Last Time I Lied and I hope I have a better experience reading it.

[@imsathyasekar]

I enjoyed your rants immensely 😀 more so because they included books I disliked as well. I loathed "king of crows", though the series did start going downhill for me from book 3. So I wasn't as disappointed by it as you appear to have been!

[@vasilisa1132]

my biggest flex of 2020 is being so emotionally numb i didn't cry while reading a little life 😌✌️ I Am Okay

[@GreenGranny]

Thank you for the rants!❤ I have been burned so many times by booktube hype that now I just....well I'm still here😂...BUT I love your honesty and no bull approach, so refreshing!!!!

[@neatodude3339]

feel like i'm in a different dimension and you're whitney

[@tsunaida]

The only part of Wilder Girls that I really enjoyed was the body horror lololol. To each their own!

[@bry4212]

I hated the king of crows but hated that I hated it 😭 I had such higher hopes

[@Eridi4na]

OMG I am so happy I decided to look up some "worst 2020 books" videos and found you! You are an absolute joy to watch! To me The King of Crows wasn't one of the worst but definitely a super disappointing read! I think the only reason I still enjoyed it, was the amazing audio narration by January LaVoy.

[@KatieColson]

Thank you so much Alena! I appreciate that so much and I loved hearing it. You made my day. You’re right. It isn’t that the book is horrible on its own. It’s that it is so disappointing compared to the amazing books before it. And YES the audios are phenomenal!!

[@chloemiller2483]

This video made me sub! I love your personality!

[@abookjockey]

Ugh agreed King of Crows was ROUGH

[@breemlew]

I live for rants like this.

[@RivetingReads]

Lolll I live in Waco and Fixer Upper is so overrated in my opinion.

[@chadhughes8512]

Just what I was looking for, someone’s honest review.

[@romae.22]

I’m sorry but half of these are actually objectively awesome

[@sandyp3422]

😂 I love you!!

[@ejwrites1]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA did you hear of Onionboi's books reviewed by CrimsonRogue?