TOP 6 DISAPPOINTING BOOKS OF 2021 | Chanmas Day 25

[@Ilikefrogs..]

I genuinely loved The Heart Principle. I feel like so many romance novels focus exclusively on male trauma, so much so that "Damaged Hero" is an actual trope, it was nice for once to see a book focus on female trauma, and actually show the male lead support her through it. It was an A+ romance for me.

[@bookswithlexie]

Disappointing books are more upsetting for me than books I didn't have high expectations for that end up being bad honestly

[@rebeccaridgway1117]

My most disappointing read was the Spanish Love Deception! Everyone seemed to love it and I wish I waited to hear your opinion bc I felt the same lol

[@glomar9982]

I really liked Dreaming of You, I loved a historical romance that wasn't about a duchess/duke, but about the people of the country

[@katherinemayrecio5918]

Merry Christmas Chandler! Thank you for the 25 days of Chanmas. Totally been a comfort channel this holidays 🎄

[@chandlerainsley]

thank you! and there's actually 6 more videos left ;)

[@stephaniebookish]

Yes, exactly about the Immortalists! I was so upset about the stereotypes and how the only gay character was handled so insensitively

[@xoxoAlkiiesxoxo]

Happy Holidays!! The heart principle is one of my fav books! Sad to hear you didn't like it but I understand what you mean, it was mainly focused on Anna's struggles with her autism diagnosis, therefore, it lacked a little in the romance department. It was also very gloomy and sad, totally different from the first 2 books but still I loved it and the characters sooo much!

[@parismcmanus5205]

Two of my most disappointing were The Maidens and The Midnight Library! Merry Merry Christmas everyone!!

[@niamh2676]

Merry Christmas! I read CC's Lady Midnight & Lord of Shadows this year & I agree wholeheartedly with you! Its the same plot as the Mortal Instruments and the Infernal Devices rehashed again and again. I skim read Lord of Shadows very quickly and didn't miss any of the plot.

[@PinkCatsy]

Duke, Actually by Jennifer Holliday. I liked A Princess for Christmas well enough and was so excited to see Max and Dani together that I pre-ordered the book. Long story short: the book is proof of the value of show, don't tell. There was so much conveyed by telling and so much skimming and finding out stuff after the fact that I only became further and further divested from the central relationship.

[@amysafinuk3334]

I love Dreaming of You but agree with some of the others. My disappointing books of this year were Bad Cruz by LJ Shen, Madison Kate, The Devil in her Bed by Kerrigan Byrne (who I normally love).

[@chandlerainsley]

ugh i’ve been putting off that kerrigan byrne, the reviews have been not great. usually love her stuff too!

[@ellie5560]

i *finally* read Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, then the recent sequel... and yeah... i was super bummed i wasn’t obsessed since the first book has been hyped relentlessly for the past decade? i mean, i liked it, just wasn’t wowed :(

[@pardonthisbookaddict]

I liked Dreaming of You because the heroine saved the hero and she was a writer. I also liked how the hero’s baggage was dealt with. Was it as good as a Hathaway, Wallflower, or Ravenels book? No, but I did like the breadcrumbs, mainly meeting Evie’s dad in it.

[@zeeybooknook]

*gasp* Not Dreaming of You slander!!? Chandler!!

[@Optimist788]

Happy Holidays all, stay safe and healthy everyone ❤️

[@alyxandriaang]

love these types of videos and appreciate the differing of opinions on Booktube! scared to read the heart principle bec I didn’t enjoy the bride test but we’ll see 😇

[@denisecoovert1]

My most disappointing books were: 1. From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata 2. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

My most disappointing was About a Girl by Lindsey Kelk. Not because I hated it, but because I thought I would love it more.

[@bailey3645]

I had quite a few disappointing reads this year, which were either from authors I had read before and loved or were books that sounded right up my alley and fell flat: - The Project by Courtney Summers - Kim-Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo - Legendborn by Tracy Deonn - The Devil and the Heiress by Harper St. George - Splendor by Anna Godberson (and this was a reread too, rip) - Bunny by Mona Awad - The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling - Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

[@brennasullivan8273]

My most disappointing books of 2021 are:: 1) The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter 2) The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 3) This is How I Lied by Heather Gudenkauf 4) Then she was gone by Lisa Jewell 5) The Bromance Bookclub by Lyssa Kay Adams

[@debbieberens2130]

Oh rats just bought The Bromance one

@@debbieberens2130 i liked the bromance series! Not great but good enough

[@brennasullivan8273]

@@debbieberens2130 It is not for everyone. Just because I didn't like it doesn't mean that you won''t!

[@leoniesliberi]

A romance I was very disappointed by was Dangerous Temptation by Giana Darling. I discovered her this year and I fell in love with her stories, the Anti Heroes In Love-Duet and the Fallen Men series were two series I really enjoyed the heck out of. However, her newest release was not it for me. I received an ARC and was so incredibly hyped for it and I ended up pretty much hating everything about it. Very sad about that :(

[@chandlerainsley]

my friend had nearly the exact same experience! i'll definitely be avoiding that one

[@ryanpayne8439]

Most disappointing reads: -Punk 57….um no one finds it weird that this adult author is writing HIGH SCHOOLERS?!! in such a sexual manner. Lowkey it was weird. Did not connect with the main heroine. I hated her. I have simpathy for people who feel that they can’t be themselves but she was a literal bully (I DNF’d the book before I got to her redemption but I skimmed and still not a fan). Misha is fine, I’m choosing to overlook his disrespectful language towards Ryen because she was doing some really messed up stuff. -The Hating Game: Say it with me yall. AVERAGE. There was nothing special about this story at all. The main reason our hero is an a-hole isn’t really all that justifiable to me. Our main heroine bores me. There was just nothing that I loved about this. The guy was a butt and the girl was boring and what little we did get to know about her was never explored. Honestly I liked The Spanish Love Deception better 😭😭 sorry guys

[@mdelaney4619]

if you can stand it, you should listen to the fated mates episode of dreaming of you! they love the story, but acknowledge the faults. i think regardless if you liked the story, it is an interesting take and i'd highly recommend. merry christmas :)

[@meganstewart1977]

merry christmas chandler!

[@chandlerainsley]

to you too!

[@fakexpearls]

I cannot seem to find a Lisa Kleypas book that works for me. One I read and hated and all others that I've started, I put down (Dreaming of You is on that list) because I just don't GET IT.

[@natalietruesdell182]

My most disappointing read was Bad Cruz by L.J. Shen. I liked most of the author's other books, so I was surprised by my intense loathing of this book. It makes me angry just thinking about it! and it got such good reviews, too! UGH!!

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I’ve had an arc of the immortalists on my shelves forever

[@BooksCauseInsomnia]

The books that immediately come to mind for my disappointments are: the Project, Where the Crawdad's Sing, Malibu Rising, the Drowning Kind and the Family.

[@cori4727]

I agree with a lot of what you said about Chain Of Iron! SPOILERS BELOW!!! I just couldn't believe it ended with a miscommunication trope. Like this woman has written so many books, you'd think she could come up with something new or fresh.

[@brandim1230]

Merry Christmas

[@heatherw5632]

I felt the same way about The Immortalists. I finished it but decluttered it almost immediately. Each sibling’s storyline was either insensitive or a complete reach (or both).

[@bookswithbray]

I loved The Ex Hex lol!! But one of my most disappointing books of 2021 was probably Daisy Jones and the Six, it just didn't connect with me at all.

[@ryanpayne8439]

I gave Daisy Jones and the six 3.5 stars. I feel like I didn’t connect with anything because of the style that the book was in (transcript) and I missed the Taylor Jenkins Reid writing that was in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

[@bookswithbray]

@@ryanpayne8439 I’m going to read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo soon!

[@aimeelee6365]

The only one star I gave out this year was The Starless Sea. But also the Midnight Library, Shipped and Take a Hint Dani Brown were major disappointments

[@leilanibaby3975]

disappointing are the night circus yolk by mary hk choi one of us is lying annihilation ACOTAR (unpoular i know) turtles all the way down by john green

[@chandlerainsley]

i also didn't love the night circus & one of us is lying!

[@841-zainabshanafarook7]

The Immortalists felt too impersonal to me, in the sense that there was a clear disconnect between my thoughts (and feelings) and the MC's. I tried, I really did, but I could not muster up the dejection you'd expect to feel for MC's that end up dying (except for maybe Simon). For something that was supposed to be "deeply moving" this left me feeling more unsettled than anything.

[@bebella9005]

Merry Christmas!

[@chasmendoza1998]

My most disappointing book of 2021 was 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne. After reading and loving The Hating Game, I had high hopes for her next book but unfortunately, it just didn’t deliver for me

[@chandlerainsley]

ugh that one disappointed me too

[@martinamakek9608]

mine was never let me go, it was fine but i thought I'd love it and i didnt

[@martinamakek9608]

also chloe brown i guess? it was good but way too twee for me personally. I liked the represantation and also the mentions of class tho.

[@hams2410]

I think Bully by Penelope Douglas was a disappointment for me ( although I liked Tryst Six Venom 😅 ) this year, even though I enjoyed it while reading it. I feel like the hero didn't grovel enough for his bullying. Then again, I guess it's common with many bully romances. But I thought the next book, Until You from Jared's pov was better.

[@haleythomas5854]

The Immoralists sounds like it had such promise. A shame the execution was lacking and the representation was not so good. I also read The Heart Principle. I liked it but more for the heroine’s journey than the romance and it was my least favorite of Hoang’s books.

[@jaginaiaelectrizs6341]

Unfortunately... I feel like Cassie Clare may possibly need some personal rest & recreation time; but I suspect she's maybe pretty locked down in those deadlines right now, and her work/writing may be suffering just a titch for it.. Of course, I haven't gotten to the 'Chain of' books yet though, myself-I'm currently reading 'Queen of Air and Darkness' still. But through QoAaD and the book before it especially, as much as I have still enjoyed many parts of them, there have also been other parts where I feel as if I can really feel the author kind of struggling a little. Like, in an outside of just the story or the writing itself kind of way, which I think is perhaps maybe bleeding into the story/writing/etc. a bit and affecting it or how its turned out somewhat. I mean, I have no idea! Maybe I'm just wildly off-base here-but, for whatever reasons, that's just the sense/impression that I have gotten at some points.😶😅😅😅 🤔🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ And I don't intend that in a mean-spirited way at all. Everyone goes through shite sometimes, right; and it's natural for that to make it more difficult to keep working through it or to maintain the same level of enjoyment or ingenuity or whatever in it all of the time, sometimes. But, nonetheless, she is still an author whose writing is very near and dear to me and that I enjoy very much - and we'll see how I do or don't actually end up feeling about the _Chain of_ book, myself. Once I do eventually get there!! 😅😅😁🙂 Loll ^^ Sorry! Rambling!! ONWARD = to day 26, I go!!!!!

[@Marie45610]

Tryst Six Venom was among my most disappointing reads of the year too, but I also didn't care for the romance. Nothing in that book worked for me.

[@heatherw5632]

My most disappointing book was The Husband’s Secret. Interesting premise but as soon as I saw where it was going (and I skipped ahead to confirm), I literally threw it across the room. The ending is trash, do not waste your time. I’m still mad about it.

[@Nataliecj]

Chain of Iron was disappointing for me as well, which is honestly shocking because TLH is the most excited I’ve been over a series in years. TID is my favourite trilogy ever, so as soon as she announced TLH I was so excited, but CoI let me down. I think the way I feel about the series overall will depend on how Chain of Thorns goes. I have faith in Cassandra Clare because she does stick the landing with her finales, so we’ll see. I feel the same as you, she’s recycling plots and conflicts at this point and it’s getting tiresome. Miscommunication and misunderstandings are the root of all pretty much all of the conflicts in her books. The ending rather than making me sad or heartbroken just made me angry. I didn’t hate the book or anything, there was lots I did like, it was still a 3 star read, but it was definitely disappointing to me. I’m sorry you didn’t like Dreaming of You, I read it earlier this year and liked it. I read Suddenly You by LK this year and *hated* it. The consent issues in that book were godawful. And yet, Married by Morning and Love in the Afternoon by her were both 5 stars. She’s mostly a hit for me, but does have some WTFs as well 😂

[@angelaholmes8888]

Here's my disappointing books of this year gods and monsters Witches steeped in gold Duma key Chain of iron A court of silver flames

[@moodyfloral6234]

My most disappointing reads this year were: Little Women, Ninth House, Jade City and Frankenstein (which was the most disappointing to me personally).

[@jeneralkenobi]

yesss jade city was so bad 😭😭 it was so boring and i never cared about anyone or anything that happened

[@jeneralkenobi]

i just DNF’d the ex hex this morning, oh good lord it was so boring and irritating

[@becca3956]

The Midnight Library was a disappointing one for me, it was so hyped but I found it to be pretty basic. I also recently got round to Then She Was Gone, which I've been meaning to read for a couple years--the writing and characters were great but I saw the plot 'twists' an absolute mile off, which was a shame.

[@missy3259]

I the only one who didn't love the love hypothesis???😟😑🙄

[@carolpack8511]

Hi! I just wanted to say that it felt a little hypocritical to say that "you're glad people liked the books you didnt" and then making fun of fans of Addie Larue because it's "asthetic". As a fan of Addie Larue I can say I like the book because of the message and how the overall story made me feel and the look at mental health that she throws in as well and it made me feel very upset when you said that. I hope I'm not coming off as rude but, I would've rather had you say the book was bad and terrible than making fun of the fans of the book.

[@angelaholmes8888]

I didn't like chain of iron either I will not be continuing with the series

[@dndkjddjodjdhdkdkd]

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