Why is everyones bar in hell? 😖😑6 books with actually good writing

[@WeirdGirlSafeSpace]

I feel like “booktok” turned into straight up smut. I deleted TikTok bc I tried making friends who are into poetry, writing, and reading…but they all ended up being Hoover fans or straight up corny 😭

[@Luluandherbooks]

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

[@water_plantt]

Thanks for speaking up for this weird trend of terrible books going viral! TikTok book recommendations have literally scarred me. Thanks for the recommendations too!

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Best wishes with your reading choices this year. I hope you get some great stories.

[@RafBlutaxt]

Out of these I've only read Dracula but I agree it is a pretty good one. I think it is the very limited povs in these diaries and letters that help building the suspense.

[@kaia.0]

istg youtube just heard me ranting about how the best selling authors of america being stephen king, colleen hoover and jkr means the bar for literature is in hell because i found this not even an hour later😭

[@Luluandherbooks]

Satan is quaking

[@booksandthings8297]

I'm reading Rebecca and the writing is so good! I also love The bear and the nightingale and Spinning Silver. And the Lockwood & co series. The overarcing plot is sooo well done. Honestly YA writers can learn something from those middlegrade books. Like how you actually should plan a story out and have character development. And for manga my favorites are The apothecary diaries and Yona of the dawn. There are a lot of well written manga out there but you definitely have to search. Booktok should really raise their bar because it's atrcocious how low it is rn 😂

[@Luluandherbooks]

Their bar is literally in hell🤣

[@herchaoticmind]

Loved this video gurl. Keep them coming!

[@someothercharacter]

Dracula has not gone out of fashion since it was published. Bram Stoker got it right. And I've been lurking around the Miss Peregrine series for a while. Might buy it for my daughter then "borrow" them from her. She'll never know.

[@Luluandherbooks]

It's an investment

[@kiczcock]

You just gained a new subscriber ^^ As a literature PhD student I can't stand awful writing and it's hard to trust a lot of reviewers these days... I love "Dracula" btw, haven't read the others.

[@Luluandherbooks]

I recommend to you the Mask of Mirrors then. It's chunky but for good reason. No page is wasted there👍

[@Mm-tv3jr]

Fourth Wing was pretty fun ngl

[@SonyaLanoBooks]

Have you read N.K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms or anything by Laini Taylor? They both write SO amazingly. (I also love Atwood's and Bram Stoker's styles, although I read Dracula in Czech when I was studying the language, so I can't really judge his :-D .)

[@Luluandherbooks]

No I haven’t but I’ve been meaning to pick up Daughter of Smoke and Bone because it sounds super good

[@aisalao7896]

youre so right about the infernal devices it is so fun to read ,and the love triangle is amazing.

[@ninakocjancic9346]

I really wanna read Mask of Mirrors. I really enjoyed the Natural History of Dragons series by one of the duo of authors. I still have to read Alias Grace. I read her stuff whenever i find it in second hand shops, and i have no plan on stopping. If you're interested, her Penelopiad is so amazing (and very short), or the Blind Assassin (so very long, and heartbreaking, and i would recommend the audiobook). She's so good! But i totally get what you mean about the uncanny and difficult and unpleasant. Some of her works make me feel so raw. I get a lot of the same intensity from Octavia E. Butler. I almost dread her works, even though i know i'll love them, because the harshness affects me so much I read Dracula too last year. I'm attempting to listen to another victorian gothic novel, the Beetle, right now. Not sure how i feel about it yet...

[@Cierrareadsandwrites]

This reminds me of the tiktok someone was telling people to rate books even ones you hate 3 stars because writing is hard. Like girl no one told them to write!

[@Luluandherbooks]

It's giving participation trophies 😑

[@herchaoticmind]

Oh my god!!! YESSSSSSSSSSS

[@Dark_book_princess]

I feel like the free writers on wattpad took over TikTok lol

[@Luluandherbooks]

See I would say that too but there's better writing on Wattpad than on Tik Tok lol

[@JohnJohnson-ys6tp]

I love Dracula, but I think The Infernal Devices and Six of Crows are bad books. There is no science to liking books.

[@Luluandherbooks]

Fully fair. Everyone has their own icks when it comes to books. mine just happens to be shitty writing 😤

[@Bookreader008]

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