Mid Year Book Freakout Tag | 2018

[@safiaahmed]

I NEVER want anyone to be disappointed in me the way Sam was disappointed by immortal reign

[@juwonds]

What I like with your videos is that you make me discover so many books that other booktubers never talked nor mentioned. They always talk about the same series on and on and on. You don’t. So thanks :)

[@ThoughtsOnTomes]

thank you :)

[@DianaEvergreen]

“Oh no, oh no” 3:40 😂😂 you are my favorite booktuber! 🌟

[@sophiafaye7598]

Station Eleven was my favorite of 2017, so glad you enjoyed it!

[@noorkhan8575]

I really love your unique way of describing love for books

[@ThoughtsOnTomes]

thank you :)

[@alyciaburns8430]

I adored Station Eleven when I read it a few years ago! ❤️❤️❤️

[@kenneddyy340]

When you said there’s a lot of them about disappointments I expected a montage 😂

[@ThoughtsOnTomes]

i live to serve

[@danaepyle8003]

yay for finishing graduate school! after I was done I didn't know what to do with myself...

[@tessavery2151]

I need to read Red Sister. I am so excited to get around to read it.

[@christineupright9543]

Between internship, grad school, and then the job hunt, and another job...reading has been on the back burner in 2018. However, I did love reading the King Fountain Series this summer by Jeff Wheeler.

[@MeSimoneI]

I have Station Eleven on my shelves and it's been there for ages and now I need to read it ASAP!!

[@booksandcatsandnaps9109]

Naomi Novik is a fantastic author! Loved the video!

[@BexnBookx]

I audibly laughed (at work like a weirdo) when you talked about Immortal Reign, I haven't read the series but your 'oh no' voice was super funny! Loved this tag x

[@fictionalives]

i'm really looking forward to station eleven!

[@SeasonsReadings]

This tag is so fun! Station Eleven is also one of my favorite books of the year! Jeff Vandermeer is definitely one of my favorite authors! His Area X trilogy/bind up is really great and creepy af!!

[@BobbiReads]

I cant wait for you to read The Poppy War. It’s amazing

[@IvyGirl22]

Definitely agree about Shadowsong. I loved the first book and was so monumentally let down

[@Stefaneedee]

Station Eleven made the top three for me this year too. I was worried about the hype and waited awhile to read it. Glad I finally did

[@bookellenic1327]

Spinning Silver is one of the books that I want both editions of, and I never do that, I'm so excited for it!

[@ACourtofHooksAndBooks]

Oceans 8 was amazing Anne Hathaway is a goddess...I wont read ready player one but the movie was awesome

[@ReadandFindOut]

I REALLY need to read Station Eleven, I have it on my shelves! Red Sister is was great, and I loved Grey Sister even more. I'm so happy that Jemisin won 3 Hugo's with the Broken Earth trilogy!

[@safinan8008]

Hi from uk 🇬🇧 my first message to u!! Great videos!! Happy reading to u!!

[@ramidib7322]

Liking the vid before even watching it, cuz it's sam 😂

[@ThoughtsOnTomes]

bless you

[@rdpa4019]

Definitely my most disappointed book so far was Children of Blood and Bone!!

[@ThoughtsOnTomes]

yeah that didn't quite live up to the hype but I do have hopes for the rest of the series!

[@aflowerthatcannotbebloomed]

Finally some people are saying it. It was fun but in my opinion not as good as other people say it is

[@WhatCassRead]

SPINNING SILVER 🙆🏻‍♀️🙆🏻‍♀️🙆🏻‍♀️🙆🏻‍♀️🙆🏻‍♀️

[@Mayuka1342]

I can't wait for The Phoenix Empress too! I really enjoyed The Tiger's Daughter. October is just not coming soon enough. XD

[@AspasiaDGordon]

I might have bought Amberlough for the cover...I mean I love what they are about, but mostly the covers.

[@peterporker3177]

Monstress won an Eisner at comic con! As did Marjorie Liu! She's the first woman to win an Eisner Award for Best Writer.

[@amyr3293]

I've read a lot of books I liked this year, but not many that I loved, which is a bit sad. My favourite has been here be dragons by Sharon Penman, and I'm going to read more of her books because it was awesome. My biggest surprise was loving Morgan Matson as I mainly just read fantasy sci fi and historical fiction

[@rocknregalia]

Those Amberlough books are really pretty.

[@aditi7692]

I haven't had the chance to watch a lot of movie adaptations either but I'm really excited for THUG.

[@annfernandez3859]

Personally my biggest disappointment was actually Grey Sister. I loved Red Sister a lot, in part because I felt genuine concern for the character's safety, and I was so pumped for Grey Sister since there were so many good reviews. Sadly though, I didn't enjoy it as much, I felt there was not any real character development at all, I guessed the plot twists, and there was just so much action by the end that there just wasn't any fear or tension in it anymore. Of course, this is an unpopular opinion, and I felt similar things regarding Furyborn, which means most people will love this too.

[@stephl6371]

I actually loved Our Dark Duet more than This Savage song 😂

[@PSYCHOreader624]

Liking the video as soon add you said my small trash child. That alone made me curious about Borne!! I had the same answer for book that made you gru and book that made you happy. It was the closed and common orbit by Becky chambers

[@ThoughtsOnTomes]

Borne is the best! Highly recommend the audio.

[@PSYCHOreader624]

Thoughts on Tomes ^_^ Good to know!

[@charityyoder9028]

Favorite book: City of Brass. Yessssss to that. Biggest surprise: Renegades. I didn't think I'd care for it as much as I did. Biggest disappointment: The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks. I legit feel like I spent two weeks reading what ended up being so... upsetting? I guess I could say. Best sequel: Obsidio. I started out not caring for the series but wow did it pick up speed. Thunderhead is a close second. Books to get to by the end of the year: Amberlough. I picked it up randomly at the bookstore and read the first paragraph. Such a goner on that alone. Then I want to read The Miniaturist and Red Queen (I've been putting it off but a patron at the library keeps recommending it so I might as well).

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I feel you on Our Dark Duet, This Savage Song was definitely better!

[@mmst761]

I bought Station eleven yesterday!!

[@mmst761]

I'm also reading Red Rising lol you influenced my reading a lot this month I guess

[@finassm]

Ohh need to get around to reading Borne! Have you read Annihilation by Vandermeer yet?? I loved the first book in the series, but the second one was just confusing :[

[@NicoleFoti]

Oh yeah I've heard so many bad things about Immortal Reign :-( So disappointing!

[@ThoughtsOnTomes]

it's a tragedy tbh

[@laurengarren7490]

If you’re into Borne, read Annihilation next and then watch the movie!! The movie is fantastic and came out earlier this year so it could count as your book-to-movie adaptation 😉

[@ThoughtsOnTomes]

I plan to read that one next!

[@Earendil1992]

Currently listening to red sister on audio book! I haven't read anything this year that disappointed me, I've read one that I HATED but it was from an author I wanted to give a second chance after not liking his other books. Current book crush is Hector from a girl of fire and thorns 😍

[@TheHitchhikersGuide]

Have you read Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton? I'm currently reading it and it really reminds me of Station Eleven (not so much about the world that comes to "an end", but more about the people and how they deal with it. Beautifully written and just really interesting), even the covers are alike! 😄

[@raquelc.c.4195]

I don't usually have book crushes, but I read Martha Well's All Systems Down and I want to marry murderbot. I know that's a wierd sentence, but it's true.

[@StitchInTime]

Our Dark Duet 😝

[@mmmcookies8814]

I can't believe you haven't watched Ready Player One yet!

[@ThoughtsOnTomes]

meh not really interested. I'll watch it eventually when I see it on TV or something

[@patriciacabigao7575]

Omg i just finished crystal storm now im afraid to read immortal reign

[@ThoughtsOnTomes]

if you weren't disappointed by CS then you'll probably be fine with IR

[@aflowerthatcannotbebloomed]

Immortal reign oh boy we defintely deserved a better finale then we got. What was that finale😂 I still need to read red sister but I'm dying to read it. Also I finally read truthwitch and basically all the other books and I really liked them. Now I'm dying for bloodwitch to come out in 2019.

[@allisonharlin1751]

I was disappointed by red sister I feel it was just Nona gets in a fight and loses or Nona gets in a fight and wins but it’s really hurt in the plot was really predictable I got like 72% through and then just stopped maybe I’ll pick it back up again later but for now I’m just gonna like nope

[@ThoughtsOnTomes]

no book is for everyone :)

[@veraw3624]

Immortal Reign did suck. So sad but kind of not surprised by it

[@ThoughtsOnTomes]

same

[@hobbleit]

I am dying to read Red Sister but since I have to always start at the beginning with an author, I'm only up to Emperor of Thorns at the moment. I do love that series, though, Jorg is an awesomely horrible person.

[@CarolynsReadingRamblings]

Awesome answers! I also posted this tag a few days ago on my channel 😃. I have a habit now where if a physical book has an accompanying audiobook and I don't hate the narrator's voice, I pretty much need to be listening to the audio and following along in the book so I am waiting on the audio of Spinning Silver from the library before I read it (but only 1 other person ahead of me now 🙆). Glad you are loving the re ad, I am so excited. There is a fellow booktuber who I follow/sm friends with who completely loves Emily St John Mandel, her name is Katie and her channel is called Books and Things and you should check out her videos if you want advice on where to go next with the author 😃. I need to watch your review of the Fallen Kingdoms series now because if the last 2 books are that bad idk if I want to start the first several and then stop or read such a disappointing ending. Also I heard so many comparisons that this is like the YA Song of Ice and Fire and I read Game of Thrones first and loved it so I am worried about thinking this is a younger version of it, is that at all how the book is? Great video!

[@steph2994]

My most disappointing book so far is also ' The Belles'. My it was the hype but I found it lacking.

[@briek9482]

I seriously don't understand the hype for Red Sister. Everyone loves it and it was nothing special for me. Someone explain to me what I missed..

[@ThoughtsOnTomes]

we can't. books are subjective. if you don't like it that's cool.

[@briek9482]

I still like to hear other people's reasons and opinions. Especially differing opinions

[@ThoughtsOnTomes]

I have a whole review to Red Sister so you can hear what I like about it there