popular BOOKTOK books I wish I never read

[@myfavbookbrontejaneeyre3752]

Please do a part 2 video on this. I love this kind of video. I DNF Icebreaker too, couldn’t connect with main characters. I tend to read a few of the low star reviews (even some spoilers) before I read a new book just so I have an idea about what people disliked about the books (and I did that for that Lauren book & someone mentioned the reason for their breakup and I didn’t even read that book because of that). I did love the Bonds that tie series, but I did have to push myself to finish the last book so it was slow. There is one book that everyone loves and I truly think I am the one person that DNF this book.

[@AvivasLibrary]

I will put a part 2 on my list of videos to get to then! And which book are you talking about that only you probably dnfed? Cause I’m sure it wasn’t just you lol

[@myfavbookbrontejaneeyre3752]

@@AvivasLibrary I think I’m the only person in the world who DNF Heartless (I got to the point where the girl had met his kid).

[@AvivasLibrary]

@@myfavbookbrontejaneeyre3752 I didn’t dnf that one, but I didn’t like it so you didn’t miss much.

[@motion.8834]

​@@myfavbookbrontejaneeyre3752 which lauren book did you dnfed ?

[@Kittyzero13426]

This is a great idea of a video because sometimes I don't know which books to pick up and then regret doing it based on booktok choices.

[@AvivasLibrary]

Yea I’ve learnt that me and booktok do not have the same taste in books lol

[@maddiet8495]

FINALLY someone who doesn't love Love and Other Words!! Everyone I know rates it 5 stars and it baffles me.

[@AvivasLibrary]

BLOWS MY MIND!!! the way people can read the same book and have two polar opposite experiences 🤯

[@skyyrodriguez4125]

Finally, someone said it!! I dragged myself through Adeline (and I had the audiobook, it didn't help much) and even with the cliffhanger at the end, I have absolutely no desire to read book 2, I don't get ittt

[@AvivasLibrary]

I see the appeal but yea it just was not as good as I expected it to be

[@ashleyl.8]

Oh my gosh I felt the same way with love and other words!! The 11 year separation was WAY WAY too long (if it was like 4 or 3 years or something it would have made way more sense to me)and it just doesn’t seem believable at all to me that it would have happened. The whole break up thing with him cheating but not remembering and then her dad dying and it just all of it didn’t make sense and wasn’t fun to read. And I can’t believe we had to wait until the end to find out why she ghosted him because it just made her seem like a jerk the whole time. Also I’m probably the only person who felt this way but I’ve read high school romances before where the young characters have sex but this was the first time that it felt super weird to me for some reason? Maybe it was just because the characters felt really young but I wish the sex scene when they were young was just fade to black or something? I don’t know but it felt weird and uncomfortable to me🤷‍♀️

[@ashleyl.8]

Also I didn’t like people we meet on vacation for basically your same reasons. The break up reason was so dumb and I feel like so many of these second chance romances don’t have near enough relationship development in the present timeline

[@AvivasLibrary]

@@ashleyl.8 yea I completely agree!

[@maddiet8495]

My thoughts exactly

[@marikasundell6327]

Yes! I agree with all the books i have read as well. Also rubbed me the wrong way.

[@priscillarazo4327]

I finished ice breaker buuuut i literally skimmed thru it lol . I agree on the people we meet on vacation I had to DNF it! For the Christina Lauren I have it still haven’t been able to get around it. Hearing your comment about it I’m likeeee hmmmm….. im good 😅

[@AvivasLibrary]

Hahahahha if I was better at dnfing back when I read PWMOV I would have stopped before the ending

[@valeri_t]

we want part 2 for sure!!!

[@AvivasLibrary]

🥰🥰🥰 will put it on the list of videos to make

[@ashleyp6591]

I’m literally screaming “YAAAASSSS!” Through this video. I’m getting so sick of modern romance for all these reasons.

[@SarahNoelle17]

I loved this video!! Buying books is one of my fave coping mechanisms too😅❤️ also pleeeeease do the ACOTAR spoiler vlogs!!!

[@AvivasLibrary]

I already have! Here’s a link kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnOXanSLhN6YqZY

[@sabrinafernandes299]

I agreed so much with these. I actually manage a bookstore and majority of my "booktook" section is a "how is this popular" vibe. I was curious if you've ever read a Stephen King book, are y? I found you because of my love for Sarah J. Maas, but I honestly would love to see you do a review on Misery or Firestarter or even Christine.

[@AvivasLibrary]

No I haven’t read Stephen king yet!

[@kellyl6144]

Haha your thoughts on icebreaker are pretty much my exact thoughts on it…. I couldn’t do it, dnf for sure

[@AvivasLibrary]

Idk what everyone else sees in it. I really really don’t get it

[@60sbaby70sgirl]

I liked People We Meet on Vacation and Love in Other Words. The rest I haven't read.

[@AvivasLibrary]

Glad you enjoyed them more than I did!

[@stay8434]

I’m glad that someone didn’t like Love and other words bc I dnf it at 36% , I tried to love the character but they didn’t do it for me! Spoiler for pwmov Literally hated the reason they didn’t talk for two years just bc of a KISS , seriously? You could’ve came up with something better 😃

[@AvivasLibrary]

Ik!!!! It was soooo underwhelming she stupid imo. She could have come up with anything; and she came up with that 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

[@AnnaMurrah]

I wasn't ready for Haunting Adeline. I picked it up bc I liked the cover. Didn't look it up, read the back. Nothing I just bagged it up an went home. My Friday night was ruined after that. 😭

[@AvivasLibrary]

Hahahha omg yea that’s not a book to per say go into blind lololol

[@savagejazz4958]

I felt the same way about people we meet on vacation I think I dnf at least 3 times before finishing it like I felt the characters were forced and once I finished I gave the book away couldn't do it

[@AvivasLibrary]

It took me forever to get through it too 🤣 I put it down like every chapter

[@savagejazz4958]

@@AvivasLibrary same like i literally did not care about anything that happened 🤣🤣🤣

[@AvivasLibrary]

@@savagejazz4958 same!! It was a boring book that had a super anticlimactic ending 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@savagejazz4958]

@@AvivasLibrary exactly story felt like two strangers put together n someone said go on vacation together and called it a book 🤣🤣

[@AvivasLibrary]

@@savagejazz4958 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@missdenisebee]

I did a 30 day inpatient program last spring, found out the e-reader I’d been told was fine to bring was NOT FINE after all, & ended up with zero reading material for my stay. One of the ladies on my floor gave me People We Meet On Vacation, saying she’d heard it was popular but just couldn’t get into it, & maybe I’d like it better. Well…even with zero other book choices, I just couldn’t do it either. Ended up resigning myself to watch ID Discovery for a month instead lol

[@AvivasLibrary]

Haha yea i would have watched something over forcing myself through pwmov too 🤣

[@angelaholmes8888]

I definitely have some popular books that I regret reading In the name of the wind The bone orchard The hating game The honey don't list by Christina Lauren

[@AvivasLibrary]

I remember enjoying the honey don’t list when I read it yearssss ago… but I know that I would not enjoy it at all if I reread it now lol

[@user-jadine99]

Great book

[@taslima3210]

Yeah love and other words was very bland. Had to force myself to finish it

[@bigbossvi429]

Breathe woman breathe.

[@S0phia20]

I was soooo disappointed in icebreaker. This book was entirely too long and didn’t follow through with most of the plot points. There were barely any scenes of them skating together, she really only used her planner that was apparently her entire personality at the beginning and end, and the expectation that her parents were crazy and only wanted her to skate was false and very short lived. It tried to do entirely too much. And the idea that she could go solo and immediately win gold is :) infuriating.

[@AvivasLibrary]

It was such a messy book I have no idea how so many people seem to love it so much… it really makes me respect other’s opinions alotttt

[@anirex3919]

Why do you have more of an issue with the character inconsistencies in Haunting Adeline’s writing than the fact that it literally romanticizes r*pe?

[@AvivasLibrary]

When i read dark romances I expect things like that to happen. It was written in the trigger warnings and therefore I cannot complain about a book that specifically states what you are getting yourself into… if you are uncomfortable reading a fictional book that has topics along those lines, then you were clearly warned at the beginning that this might not be the book for you… but I do have an issue with inconsistencies within a character’s personality, because if he’s going to be a rapist, then he shouldn’t also be someone who hunts down and kills other rapists because he believes that they are bad people and what they do are wrong.

[@LynnieLovesJinyoung]

Icebreaker was so bad... At this point I don't trust booktok anymore. I didn't like Anastasia at all

[@iloveBooks378]

I wish I never read neon gods🫤

[@Sahara-vp7dg]

Me too! I found it so boring and bad

[@AvivasLibrary]

I listened to my gut on that one and am glad I never wasted my time with it!

[@iloveBooks378]

@@AvivasLibrary I hope I would have done that too. It was such a waste of time and money! Now I'm reading vicious by L.j shen. I like it so far :)

[@AvivasLibrary]

@@iloveBooks378 I’m a big fan of vicious! I hope you enjoy it

[@iloveBooks378]

@@AvivasLibrary I enjoy it so far. I have the other books on my tbr and I'm excited to read them. Vicious is my first book from L. J shen.

[@booksanddrafts]

I agree with literally 95% of these!! Honestly booktok does us so dirty sometimes so frustrating. I started my dark Romeo a while ago and I found it so completely ridiculous- same as things we got over🫣 btw I also dnfed savage lands and icebreaker, plus I’m never reading haunting Adeline and broken bonds😅

[@AvivasLibrary]

I think I like your taste 😉 - I’ve come to realize me and booktok just have completely opposite tastes so when I see a popular book these days… I generally stay away