my WORST BOOKS of 2023! 👎🏻 these books sucked

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[@oliviaharris1245]

"Every Line of You" sounds like it has crossed almost every line

[@lizibeff]

is it bad that I look forward to people’s least favourite books of the year as much as people’s favourites?

[@Luvkpopstan]

Lmao same

[@maki4229]

I totally agree with your thoughts on Fourth wing! I’ve only had 2 books out of 120 that I hated this year which was Fourth wing and Survive the night.

[@lavenderrosecosplay5639]

Found your channel earlier this year and I've been enjoying it so much. You introduced me to the Lady Hardcastle books and they are wonderful!

[@Priyanshi-td6sm]

Yeah, I too devoured that series because she just kept recommending it.😂😂😂

[@story.struck]

Oh my god the plot of Every Line of You 😭

[@kirsty2299]

Yasssss. I’ve been waiting for this!! 😍

[@sunshinelorena]

I never linked the fact that it has been not a great publishing year and the fact they may have been written during covid. I still have to read the housemaids secret, I still want to give it a go 😅

[@mattthepageturner9128]

do not understand the Frauda mcfadden hype at all

[@sarahhansen8004]

I haven’t even read Wayward, but I have to say- when you described it as 3 timelines, all boring and minimal witches, I was thinking “Once & Future Witches?” 😆 forgive me! But I did DNF halfway through.

[@midlifebookcrisis81]

Girl, I'm with you about Frieda. 🤯 I don't get it either.

[@pigsrlife14]

loving the new meme additions😂

[@beingbridgit]

I just found your channel and I absolutely love it and I love your personality so much, just wanted to share that with you. Ps. Fourth Wing was not my jam either 😂

[@leaslesesessel]

I DNFed „every line of you“ after like 30 Pages because I just couldn‘t stand the way the AI was described. Now I am glad i Never got further in 🤣

[@rosarioreads]

Every line of you sounds so wild 😂 My worst book of the year is The Inmate by Freida Macfadden 💀

[@kaitlinpommert4181]

Loved Weyward! It might be because I'm getting back into reading so I'm not oversaturated with those themes yet. But i loved all of the storylines and switching between them all kept me interested.

[@Sarasstorytime22]

I loved it as well. But not every book is for every reader .

[@kitcat6352]

I loved it too!! I'm part of the reason it won the historical fiction category haha

[@kimerlyhogan6567]

I just discovered your channel, and subscribed immediately! I enjoy listening to your reviews and you are LOADS of fun! 😀

[@mjllw2000]

You talking about the stranger upstairs made me cackle it sounds abysmal !😂

[@Rosalind_Jane]

These videos are my favourite to watch at the end of each year. I loved Weyward but I went into it knowing nothing in advance which helped (i.e. no witchy expectations or hype). I agree that all of the stories had been done before but I thought that the triple timeline helped frame them differently while also drawing connections, and I loved the nature and mobilising the insects. I also liked the way the present day abuse situation wasn't drawn out and explicit at the beginning. Like you mention there are SO many books around at the moment relating to intimate partner violence and they really vary in how it's portrayed. I agree it wasn't really exceptional enough to win both those Goodreads awards and understand that my love for it is weighted by personal taste. Sorry it didn't work for you, I very much enjoy watching your reviews (even when I disagree).

[@kimbberghuis4307]

The number 1 sounds sooo weird. My worst books of the year were Sundial (Catriona Ward) and My Heart is a Chainsaw (Stephen Graham Jones)

[@ohheyjudestrib7921]

I just finished The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder and I really really liked it. I can’t wait for the next one. While I can’t seem to get in to Osman’s books.

[@lorihowell5626]

I love all the little clips even though as an American I have no idea what the references are 😂

[@Alewo2735]

I just don't support your review of Janet Evanovich/Stephanie Plum books but I do get it..... you read the 17th book in a series with no context 20 years after the fact with the lens of 2020s rules. I read these in my teens and 20s and they are hilarious. The romance isn't the main plot at all and Stephanie isn't supposed to be a perfect person. I didn't love the triangle myself but these are meant to be fun, funny, action, mysteries you don't take so seriously. And the New Jersey representation is 100% on point even if you find it problematic. It's accurate. LOL

[@katrinaandallthebooks7993]

I was waiting for Five Survive, which is probably the worst book I’ve read. Im good at dnfing so don’t have too many.

[@Adharamoon]

That last book sounds horrible 😮

[@RivetingReads]

Omg YES about The Stranger Upstairs I dnfed it and suffered through the first half 😂. Also yessss the audiobook 🪦

[@RivetingReads]

Omg #1 sounds truly horrific 😅

[@aurora-cc6hk]

the housemaid's secret was good but also very ridiculous

[@sleuthytv1228]

My worst reads this year were My roommate Is a Vampire and The Writing Retreat 😂 I think might have liked the housemaid secrete if you actually read the housemaid lol

[@gabbyreads]

Lmao I’m so sorry I made us both suffer through The Stranger Upstairs 😂🫠🫢

[@trinforeman54]

I would have banked on you liking The Stranger Upstairs 😂 You like the bonkers books.

[@ramshamemon9684]

My worst books of the year were the entire Cane Brothers series and Before We Were Strangers. The writing did not work for me, and I still have one book each by their authors on my physical TBR. Mine aren't half as bad as yours, though, so silver lining, I suppose?

[@phoebesargeant8822]

I am also STUNNED Weyward won TWO awards. Someone please explain it to me, I do not get why it’s so highly rated 😭

[@chelsey8737]

I'm so sad that it beat The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer. That was such a fantastic debut and Shaffer absolutely deserved that award

[@charliescozycorner]

How to be brave “FOURTH WING IS TRASH” 😂😂 I agree lmao

[@thrillherreads]

You are my spirit animal.

[@ChemicalPenguinn]

RE: Every Line Of You What in the shitty Wattpad fanfic? People actually agreed to PUBLISH that???

[@quillheart877]

I'm so glad to see someone else didn't like Wayward! It's so hyped and I don't get it.

[@tracksuitrob5348]

Girl chill on weyward 😭😭 it was SO good

[@tracksuitrob5348]

Just because you’re uninterested in the story doesn’t make it bad. And just because you don’t understand witchcraft doesn’t mean it wasn’t included. Not hating but a book not being for you doesn’t make it bad.

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

lol luckily I haven’t read any of these 🥰

[@tanellenash7383]

I agree that Weyward wasn’t amazing enough to win two awards. I did enjoy it more than you though, I think it was a 3-star middle of the road for me

[@leilanibaby3975]

I feel so vindicated that you didn't like fourth wing. I read it and im just like... this is the book? THIS is the book that has everyone going feral???? could not be me.

[@marabookstagram]

I think the huuuuge books normally become that way from folks that don't read very much. Thinking of Freida or Fourth Wing. I think folks become pickier when they read more.

[@marabookstagram]

I liked Weyward, but didn't love it.

[@lilystoyanova4900]

my worst books of the year were: 1. Boy's Abyss volume 2 2. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (this is a children's book that has made me learn the lesson to check how children's books end before I start them) 3. Daytime Shooting Star, Vol. 1 with honorable mentions to very dissapointing sequels: 4. Good Girl, Bad Blood (sorryyyyyy) 5. A Curse for True Love

[@JodieTheReader]

Squirrel Nutkin- same!

[@coffee8599]

I personally dont think Book of Night feels anything remotely connected to Ninth house (mid, and pretentious/boring while BOK felt painfully Y2K , lol), but it was absolute trash. Her YA is lovely. Didnt even feel like the same author.

[@jacobneale5844]

Truly your number one book sounds bonkers 😭🤧

[@RICHIEV333]

Wow, Janet Evanovich made the list... Not complaining, I only read up to the 7th book. I like stories with oddball reoccurring characters and crazy situations. I also liked that the lead was the worst bounty hunter ever but she always seemed to get her man. (Yes that's a thing) Sad that the series seems to have gone downhill.

[@kaitieskates]

The angry started pretty quickly haha. I think my "worst books" are just a genre I need to stop buying. Anything that is listed as coming of age story with bylines saying "darkly funny." They just end up not being funny at all and just depressing and about some pretty garbage people that includes at some point some weird sex thing just casually thrown in. Sure, they usually include some social commentary or discussion of coping with grief but I have read better books on the topic that don't bum me out.

[@maeve3007]

I did not like fourth wing. It was bad...

[@ChemicalPenguinn]

This is going to be a ROAST

[@hedgie58921]

My worst books of the year will make some people mad... The cruel prince Once Upon A Broken Heart Immortal Longings by Chloe gong All three had terrible romance plots with terrible men, and questionable world building

[@gabrielacarolina_]

Worst book of the year was The Other Black Girl. NOTHING HAPPENS FOR 320 PAGES.... I hated the protagonist and found myself rooting for the antagonist. I think it hurts more because I went into thinking it was going to be one of my faves of the year. What a disappointment

[@bluecannibaleyes]

Glad to hear someone hate Fourth Wing for many of the same reasons I did. I also found Violet to be an insufferably unlikable Mary Sue character who just cheated her way through everything and had one of the worst cases of main character immunity I’ve ever seen. And the way the author virtue-signaled by including so many POC, gay, non-binary (seriously, that character was literally just there to be there to signal that the author believes in that stuff, the character had basically no role in the story) etc. characters made it pretty predictable when all of them managed to survive despite being lesser equipped to and only the straight white male characters died. And I hated the way everyone suddenly ganged up on and bashed the childhood friend character (who would have been a MUCH better love interest and could have been and lent to ACTUAL romance) halfway through, who did absolutely nothing wrong except to be reasonable and try to protect the MC from her own reckless stupidity. Violet just struck me as a completely immature rebel without a cause who constantly put herself into danger just to make some sort of point, and the only reason it didn’t backfire and get her k!lled countless times over was because she was the main character. I don’t get what the dragons saw in her. And don’t even get me started on the sx/dragon sx…it wasn’t romance, it was just sx. But it was presented as romance, which made it awful. I didn’t care for The Housemaid much either. I too feel like abvsers!ve husband stories, especially ones written by women, are just so overdone nowadays. I felt like the book was more interesting at the beginning when the women seemed to be the cr4zy one, and I felt like the ‘twist’ cheapened the whole thing by making it just a standard ‘man bad’ story. And never mind that what the housemaid does is actually so much worse than what the man did, yet we’re supposed to be rooting for her while condemning the man.

[@bluecannibaleyes]

I should clarify that I haven’t read Housemaid’s Secret, just The Housemaid. But it sounds like it’s more of the same tropes I disliked, so I definitely have no plans to read it.

[@lmbk3294]

Ward D was the worst book of the year for me- never again reading Freida after this book

[@bethmetcalf3447]

It amazes me that you disliked Fourth Wing so much and yet love the Shadow & Bone books. I don’t get it 🤷🏻‍♀️ I loved Fourth Wing and hated the Shadow & Bone books; I mean all of them. 😒 Each to their own I guess 😂

[@silverx_1848]

"I don't get how any could like it". This will be one of life's great mysteries. Fourth wing sucks from page 1 and does not let up

[@lmbk3294]

100% agree on Freida- her fans are nuts! Her and Colleen Hoover- ugh

[@jacobneale5844]

‼️ Women in STEM (Hint this is a reference to Meg’s worst Book at number 1)

[@crawfishpi]

The only people I've seen talking about Weyward absolutely HATED it lol, wild that it won TWICE

[@jodydiou]

I DNF'd Wayward it was awful!!!! Every man in this book was a put in a negative light!! Of course with the abusive guy it was understandable to have him be awful he is awful!! In my opinion It was just a book that bashed the males!!! Zero stars

[@rebelbelle1388]

Finally, someone is speaking up about that ridiculous bounty hunter series by Janet Evanovich. It is so popular and I can't for the life of me figure out why. I read One For the Money (the first title in that series) years ago and I absolutely HATED it. It wasn't funny, it wasn't charming, the mystery wasn't interesting, the MC was bad at her job and she only succeeded because she was lucky. That's it.

[@annoftheoldbogroad1534]

Can’t watch you. Giggling every 2 mins What at. Yourself

[@ke_nickie]

then don’t watch and don’t comment 🤪🤪✌️

[@charliescozycorner]

You don’t have to watch her 😂

[@annoftheoldbogroad1534]

@@charliescozycorner. I just said I didn’t 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Can’t. 🤣🤣🤣. Never mind.

[@ke_nickie]

@@annoftheoldbogroad1534 well that’s interesting because you left a comment on one of her videos 8 months ago as well… so like why are you still here watching and leaving rude comments

[@annoftheoldbogroad1534]

@@ke_nickie not still here as clearly evident. Perhaps I thought times passage would clearly help in my Christmas perusal. No idea what I said eight months ago either. Rude. Anyone being rude is you.

[@rebeccamarsden2128]

My worst books of the year were The Writing Retreat and The Last House on Needless Street 🫣

[@4wz7]

Why didn't you like the Last House On Needless Street? I always like hearing different opinions.