my WORST BOOKS of 2024! 👎🏻 these books sucked

[@natatatt]

I know some people don't like 'negativity' when it comes to book reading, but it's all in good fun. I think we all like a good rant once in a while. : D

[@kate-ne]

Here to attest: Your housewives video was hilarious and also the pain you put yourself through for that, you deserve an award for 😂 everyone needs to watch it

[@Luna-po5ui]

And now, for your peace of mind and the state of your bookshelves, you should unhaul every single one of these! They sound putrid

[@N_Garamond]

Freida books: make you deeply worried for society Lisa Rinna book: makes you deeply worried for Lisa Rinna

[@ashleyslittlelibrary]

Freida's first book of the year is already coming out in January so I expect a solid 5+ from her in 2025 😅

[@samworley3960]

two videos back to back MEGAN YOU SPOIL US 😭

[@madiwood2404]

Cannot believe the door book didn’t make this 😭

[@mattthepageturner9128]

Frauda writes the literary equivalent of tubi original movies

[@user-px1mf7uz5m]

you did it, you broke her writing down to the bare essentials

[@gabbyreads]

I knew the Freida books would make your list 🤭😅

[@avsambart]

The Cat Who Caught A Killer is TORY?! Woof that's bad.

[@kimdaniel4539]

Why are Freida's book so popular???

[@sharonlovesbooks]

The worst book I read this year was The Room Upstairs by Kate Murray Browne. Now, I am not normally negative about a book because reading is subjective, but I HATE THIS BOOK. The blurb told me it was a suspenseful haunted house book, so I was excited to read it. They lied, but I pushed through, thinking it would get better. Alas, it didn't, and I ended up in a book slump for nearly two months!!!!! AVOID THIS BOOK LIKE THE PLAGUE!! The only one on your list that I half-read and did not like was A Spoonful of Murder...I should have listened to you 😆

[@anthropomorphicpeanut6160]

Lately I'm only reading mediocre books or DNFing, so I'm glad to hear you rant about some books too😂

[@queenofparkinglot]

Hearing you talk about Butter actually made me want to read it 😅 sounds up my alley hahah 😂

[@erilyda]

I feel like you should give yourself a Frieda pass since you know you despise them so much. Be nice to yourself next year 😂

[@Leta-c5j]

I agree with you about Freida's books. I don't understand their popularity. I read The Co-Worker and didn't like the characters, thought the plot had problems and didn't think it was well-written. I haven't tried another one since.

[@EleanorKim-y4j]

The Teacher was such a miss for me this year too 😅

[@javelin60]

As a teacher, I detested The Teacher.

[@JulieTheReader]

I’m curious about what you’d think of Spinning Silver, especially since you loved The Bear and the Nightingale. It seems like people who didn’t care for Uprooted love Spinning Silver and vice versa.

[@BookReviewsWithBecky]

I need to make a video of some of my most hated! 😂 Unfortunately that is a long list!

[@periwinklestitches]

I honestly feel that as long as we aren't getting nasty it is okay to give an honest/bad review, how else can we form valuable recommendations? I have read a few Freida McFadden books now, but the more I read from her the less likely I become to recommend them. I haven't read The Teacher or The Boyfriend yet, but I have recently finished The Inmate which I had strong opinions about. I will still read her books though because I am a glutton for punishment and because they are so binge worthy and they do help me out of a reading slump. Look forward to your videos Megan and thanks for the list of books to avoid or read with caution :D

[@EmmyAngua]

Interestingly I really liked Uprooted but DNFd Bear and the Nightingale. So we are opposites! My worst books are Everyone Here is Lying (the beigest thing I've ever read) and a Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon. Also I watched the Real Housewives video soooo 😇

[@heatherparisi8250]

same for me I remember really liking uprooted but hating bear and the nightingale

[@a.p907]

I read Uprooted this year too and felt the same way.

[@bookswithamymarie]

The Teacher was one of my worst reads this year too 😅

[@miyayume_eclectic_dream]

The Wasp Factory...great that someone reads that book nowdays. It is a great book because it is so unsetling. But you do have a valid reason about animals. I still had a parrot and a dog when I read it. My parrot lived for 9 years. Died a year after I went to universety 🥺 I still believe he missed me. But maybe he was sick and I didn't know it.

[@AceCarmichael]

I think the book disliked most this year was Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee. I wanted to like it, too! Its about a Black woman getting out of prison from drug charges and seeking to get herself back together so she can regain custody of her kids. It deftly covers a wide range of themes both delicate and brutal. But it just... never seemed to go anywhere? It felt like being stuck on a plane next to someone who has decided to tell you their entire life story, and while you sympathize, you would also like them to pick up the pace.

[@stuartgriffin1001]

My worst book this year was Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

[@alicerooney7696]

Omg I read the wasp factory in Jan after hearing it was a banned book and was so shocking when it came out. I didn't find the violence troubling but I have a pretty high tolerance, I just found the violence unnecessary. Its obviously a thriller and the animal/human murder is important but the visceral descriptions added nothing that less detailed descriptions wouldn't. I also found the 'twist' VERY troublesome and promoting of certain -phobias and -isms

[@miyayume_eclectic_dream]

🤔 Maybe, just maybe , there is some invisible rule to things. 🤣We are liking each others "bad book" Like you love Bear and Nightingale and I love Uprooted. Yeah coinvidence.

[@wolfme4030]

Hey Meg, I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this series to you before, but you may enjoy the Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunit cosy mysteries by Lilian Jackson Braun. There are 29 books spanning 1966-2007 and 3 short story books. All of them are around the 200-ish page mark and worth a read. Just thought I’d put them on your radar 😊

[@fannitordai8799]

Thank God you posted this video and the goodreads one in time because I was about to buy The Teacher for my dad and THIS JUST SAVED ME🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@aaronhanlon772]

I have never like Ian Banks books but i did like the Wasp Factory. It was a difficult read though.

[@Bookbonkers8439]

I agree with you about Frieda. I’ve read several of her books, and they were all terrible. I won’t be picking anymore up!

[@MsNovier]

I think Butter is not a thriller or at least not a conventional one. I read it after your vlog, so I expected it to be slow and it WAS. I just read it as a litfic and I really enjoyed it. So thank you megan for setting my expectation right 😄

[@eilidhreads1774]

I cannot believe that I am here this quickly!

[@komaedacoffee4298]

I was a Freida girly but I dnfed the teacher after a few pages, because I was disgusted. Why does this exist??

[@CassiaDee]

Your Housewives video is how I found you!

[@Horrorbabe4]

oh yeah i eat these videos up. spite fuels me.

[@carolinabayuelo8528]

Currently being forced to read the boyfriend for my office book club and 🥴 Freida hates nuance I fear.

[@hannahrosey93]

My least favourite book of the year was Mind Your Own Murder by Patti Larsen - massively poor excuse of a cosy mystery book

[@Jessica-rr2eh]

I tried to read uprooted this year and dnf'd it - very glad I bought it second hand as I could at least justify the £1 I spent on it as going to charity.

[@GwendolynKensinger]

I ate The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden up. I was so entertained.

[@LolaReadIt]

Same!!!

[@eleanorhynd5078]

Have you read 'The Cat Who ....' books by Lillian Jackson Braun - there's loads of them - I'd call them cosy crime - you might like them.

[@ffiontill5924]

I enjoyed butter I thought Kano was an intriguing character, her harsh views on women kind of baffled me but as we learnt more about her I understood how she came to feel that way buuuut I didn’t know it was supposed to be a thriller🫣 I thought it was just a character study🤣

[@haleylquinton]

I can't stop reading Frieda McFadden because they always sound so good. They're not. They're really not. I will say they're more enjoyable listening to the audiobook because I sometimes don't notice bad writing when I'm listening.

[@xxELK]

Love the hatred, some things are just BAD! I was going to read Butter but have seen several negative comments about it and for 450 pages I'm not going to bother trying.

[@goaskellice]

I subscribed the second that you said Butter…. That was one of my very few DNFs of the year.

[@goaskellice]

Also, have you read Out ? That’s a very fun Japanese thriller

[@marabookstagram]

The most popular thrillers generally don't seem very good to me. Nowawadays they're all twists and the characters are so flimsy.

[@taraf6853]

My work book club keeps picking Freida books and I'm about ready to quit 😅 I did like the dual timelines in The Boyfriend tbf but please no more

[@JennaThePanda]

I loved the housewives video, it was wild 😂

[@LolaReadIt]

Not The Boyfriend and The Teacher!!! I LOVE those books 😂😂😂

[@anthropomorphicpeanut6160]

I loved the wasp factory oops

[@stephfoxeh]

i loved the housewives video. Just to defend Frieda readers, we do not look to FMF for a moral code. We know she writes about awful people doing awful things and we just hope they get their comeuppances. i would never suggest her books to anyone lol

[@EnragedTiefling]

If you have strong thoughts on cat narrators, PLEASE tell me you've read a Warrior Cats book 👀

[@ChemicalPenguinn]

Goodness I love a book roast!

[@abbywonder3825]

I haven’t read any of these

[@ThisKiwi03]

Dun dun Duuuuhn! One of my most anticipated videos of the year!

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I’ve only read Shine… and it was borrrrrring 😂

[@michellecgb]

Honestly, I love you’re a Freida hater. I’m kinda sick of majority lukewarm takes about her books. I gave her 3 shots, they were all so bad.

[@phenrichsen1]

Meg, I adore your videos! The Wasp Factory sounds like my worst nightmare of a book! I LOATHE when writers put scenes of animal abuse in books. I can not read that! People (fictionally) being murdered is fine by me too!😂. I love when you say you hate something with “every fiber of your being!”…..I say that all of the time! And, I think it would be totally understandable if you still did the Goodreads mystery/thriller reading video and just refuse to read Frieda. I’ve never read anything by her and have no plans too!….sounds awful.

[@eproudfoot2799]

Seeing you hating on the books I also hated made me instant subscribe lol 🙌

[@Potato_Disco]

freida books are so poorly written

[@YW2324]

That's what I've heard too 😮

[@marabookstagram]

My worst was Alex Michaelides' latest book!

[@karajayde23]

I suspect that Frieda McFadden (pen name) is actually a man and that’s why the female characters are the way they are.

[@vickihakansson1375]

I like Frieda McFadden I haven't read the teacher or the boyfriend and won't only because the plot was interesting. The other three books I have read from her I really liked and no it was not the housemaid series.

[@rebeccamarsden2128]

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[@JessicaRoseReads]

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[@lauraann7816]

@mattthepageturner OMG that is so funny! I never read any of her books, but I have seen my share of Tubi Original movies 😅😂🤣