my BEST and WORST BOOKS of 2023!!! 😩❤️📚 booktube faves, sh*t romances & more

It's finally time to share my best and worst books of the year! I'm super curious what you thought of the books mentioned here + what your (least) favorite reads were of 2023 👀
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In today's video
00:00 welcome everyone!!
1:20 favorite book 1: my queen!!
3:24 a 2022 fan favorite... what's my opinion?
5:48 ofcourse I had to include this one
6:04 should've read this one sooner
8:01 my last read of the year and my ABSOLUTE fave!!
10:35 my worst reads of the year: least worse to UGH WHY
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[@alyxandriaang]

You should watch the Apple TV series for Lessons in Chemistry! So glad you read it ❤🎉

[@AbiofPellinor]

I really need to try Ninth House, it sounds amazing!

[@SabinesBookNook]

It is really good 😩

[@kelseytaylor6314]

I met Bonnie Grams last year at Waterstones book event. :) Great video Sabine

[@SabinesBookNook]

Omg that must’ve been amazing! Thanks Kelsey 🥰

[@lyckemoorman5192]

I totally feel you when it comes to 'Better than the movies'. I really don't get the hype around that book haha. Two of my favourite reads were The Mindfuck Series by S. T. Abby and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

[@entrepaginasinfinitas]

You convinced me: I wanna read Abby Jimenez's books ❤

[@SabinesBookNook]

AAAH if this isn’t my proudest accomplishment of 2024 so far… then I don’t know what is 😩❤️

[@HotTamaleRock]

I thought I was the only person who didn't enjoy Reputation haha! I so badly wanted to love it but it just wasn't it for me :( Going to pick up Ninth House for a long bus journey I have coming up this week, I just finished In My Dreams I Hold A Knife so I am clearly in my villain/dark academia era. Super intrigued by Abby Jiminez too, will have to check her books out! Happy New Year and I hope 2024 is good to us all

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I still need to read an Emily Henry book 😭

[@SabinesBookNook]

Go do it now!!!!

[@chelsey8737]

My worst book was Treble Maker by Annabeth Albert bc it had so so many gross stereotypes and toxic behaviors. I am a huge Annabeth Albert fan and have read nearly every single one of her books so this was exceptionally disappointing because I have a really good track record with her other books and expected this same with this one. My best is really hard to choose. I think The Breakaway Series by E.L. Massey and Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen might be tied. I was predestined to love the breakaway series because it has literally every single thing I love but The Kingdom of Sweets came out of nowhere and I was enthralled immediately. It led to me to finding every nutcracker retelling possible

[@chelsey8737]

Axie Oh wrote XOXO which is a ya kpop romance and it read very young to me. I think it would be one of those romances you dislike bc the ending is melodramatic and hinges of major ridiculous miscommunication

[@Nia_meow_]

Why you not posting 😢😅

[@certain.bookish.things]

Personally, I had the same critiques of Gwen and Art are not in Love that you had for the author’s other book 😬 It’s marketed as being all Arthurian based but that plays next to no part in the story and it’s so long for nothing to happen in it 😅

[@SabinesBookNook]

Mmmm… good to know to because then maybe I should just skip Lex Croucher’s work all together 😅🥲

[@certain.bookish.things]

@@SabinesBookNook yeah after hearing about her other book I was thinking the same thing 😅🤣

[@chelsey8737]

Read queer romance! Way way less toxic male love interests and casual sexism