WORST BOOKS OF 2022 😩 i want a refund for my time
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- hi besties! these are the seven books i absolutely hated in 2022. let me know what your least favorite books were in the comments below!!
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"I view Colleen Hoover as a war criminal" best quote ever. I do not get the love for her at all. Her books are toxic, can not stand them.
Agreed!!! If they were all labeled dark romance maybe I wouldn't be so critical but they're billed as being totally normal and sweet romance
Seriously, I have never understood the stranglehold she has on the girlies because like... Why
"i view colleen hoover as a war criminal" PLEAAASE LMAO
it had to be said
YESSSSS
i watched/listened to today a long podcast on youtube hating on her books and a p2, like, i had never heard of her until today and oh God, how fortunate i was. at least it was good to cringe about bad books and learn who to avoid lol
"You can't even predict the plot twists, not because they're good but because they're so far outside the realm of what could actually happen" ahh yes ... Pretty Little Liars syndrome
Perfect way to describe it!!!
Co-Ho is in the same bucket for me as Sarah J. Maas. I have absolutely no intention of reading their books because they just don't sound like they're my jam, but for some reason, all the negative reviews are just so hilarious. I feel bad for enjoying watching booktubers dunking so hard on them, but also... 🍿
I only appreciate SJM because as a pre teen when ACOTAR came out it was one of the books that started my spiral into loving reading. I was young 😅 but if I hadn’t gotten it I might not be where I am w devouring books today. So I feel I can’t slander her 😂
I only recently tried reading ACOTAR, I couldn’t even make it to the third book. I will never willingly read a co ho book, but based on writing Iv seem, they are very similar and both in the really cringy “I’m not like other girls but I totally need a man to make me feel not depressed” area of books
@@no_where_land9947 Haven't read CoHo either, but given what I've gathered from watching reviews what'd be the most frustrating for me as a reader would not be the themes, or controlling main male characters, or anything... it's the lack of awareness, re: those topics. I won't spoil but numerous lines from Lowen's narrative in Verity made me think 'how the heck are we supposed to root for this girl, she's an awful human being.' Would CoHo have given proper thought as to what she was writing, what her characterization and subtext truly implied, Verity could have ended being (for instance) some kind of gothic horror piece about a woman with already shaky morals acting out on her attraction to a suspicious man, in a strange estate, compelled by that manuscript she pilfered, and progressively losing sight of what's right.
Same goes for ACOTAR- of course, I may be biased there, because I liked Tamlin, -because book 1 tells us as readers to like him and I progressively warmed up to him during its course- but not only did I find his later development somewhat out of character and not believable, but some of the stuff the heroes got to struck me as dubious if not straight-up villainous. Which wouldn't be a problem if the narrative acknowledged it, but nope, nada, nothing. Again, take it with a grain of salt so big it might've been a mountain, there's a bias there on my part, but the fact that the story constantly exonerates them from anything got exponentially more tiring as I read on.
I've read Verity like tw years ago and what drove me crazy is that she comes there to ghost write for Verity, and like she stays there for a while but she never writes anything, all she does is obsess over the manuscript and fuck Verity's husband
SO TRUE BESTIE. she was the worst!!!!!
And she took 200 years to read the manuscript I would have devoured it in one sitting and then scadattled
Okay but the way you described The Push sounds like what happens when "I only hang out with guys, other girls are just so much drama" becomes an adult
I used to love Colleen Hoover - then as I entered late twenties to early thirties I realised how problematic they are and cringey. Going back and reading them again now I just get angry hahaha
I do think a lot of people who love her books are very young. It sometimes makes me sad because they don't see the toxicity of a lot of the love interests!
Omg I knew each book you were going to say before you said it. You could just tell. I was like “oh it’s verity for sure” or “the Spanish Love Deception!” Like I was on a game show
hahaha you know meeee!!
i hateddd “the friend zone” for all the same reasons you did 🖤
It was SO BAD!!!!
I’m appalled about the ending of The Friend Zone! Will not be reading now, that’s so insensitive 😤🖤
RIGHT!? I was shocked!! But also not surprised since the whole book was horrible up to that point. I have a bone to pick with miss Abigail
Girl you are serving a lewkkkk here 🖤 also I love “I’m actually going to take her to small claims court”
I saw the Push in the thumbnail and immediately clicked
It felt like the author read the premise of We Need To Talk About Kevin and decided she could do it too, except she couldn't
The part I was interested in was the whole 'is the girl really evil or is the mom is delusional' but the way it's described fails the 'show don't tell' technique
At one point the girl asks the mom 'Hey does this *random object* work for such or such thing?' mom, not caring, says 'Yeah' and next thing you know, something bad happens in which the object is involved and that's it, not an ounce of mystery was ever found in that book for me at least
you are so right!!! i also read a book called Baby Teeth that had literally the same exact plot and i also didn't care that. i just found the book to be a little uninspired!! i kind of knew she wasn't crazy the whole time i was reading it
Finally someone that critiques Colleen Hoover, haha. So happy I found your channel last month and binged so many of your videos! Looking forward to watching more in 2023 🖤
i am first and foremost a coho hater
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah! That's exactly what I thought about "The Friend Zone". So many times I was thinking the same "Abigail, why would you write this?" I haven't read the other books but very sure I would feel the same.
something that makes me giggle is when people comment my name with an H when my channel name is quite literally sarawithoutanH 😂💗 but yes, you should stay away from these other books!! 😅
@@sarawithoutanH Oh, Lordy, so sorry Sara. I knew your name is without the H yet I still wrote it with it and didn't even realize it, take the keyboard away from me! 😅
Nothing I hate more than a miracle baby trope when the book has a supposedly infertile main character. It makes me so angry. It’s something I’ll give Colleen Hoover a point for, in All Your Perfects there’s a couple who struggles with infertility and there is no miracle baby trope. I was so pleasantly surprised because authors are really afraid to go against the Babies Ever After trope.
Abby Jimenez definitely writes conservative romances. I tried reading The Happy Ever After Playlist but I had to DNF it because it was so pro-hunting I had to stop. Not for me.
I didn’t have any obviously terrible books that I read this year but I really didn’t like Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. I’m in the minority because everyone seems to love this book but I found it unbelievably irritating, which was weird because I agreed with everything the book was saying, it just came across as very annoying to me. Also wasn’t a fan of Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead, I hated all the characters.
This video was hilarious, I love the way you talk about books, positive and negative!
i've actually been hearing such bad things about lessons in chemistry! it's crazy because when you go B&N it's plastered everywhere as 'best book of the year'
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To quote Captain Raymond Holt of the 99, “VINDICATIOOOOONNNNN!”
The ONLY thing I will give this book credit for is that Ms. Hoover answers the “cliffhanger” question in such a way that you have to pay attention to the subtext to understand it.
At the end (spoiler), Lowen finds Verity’s letter to Jeremy, which reveals that the manuscript was not actually autobiographical. There’s an argument as to whether this letter was actually true or just manipulation (e.g. the “cliffhanger”). This is the only place Ms. Hoover actually does anything clever in this book… BECAUSE the name Lowen means “happy,” while Verity means “truth.” Ergo, Verity is in fact telling the truth in the letter.
And bonus: After helping Jeremy to k*ll Verity, Lowen then destroys/eats Verity’s letter before Jeremy ever reads it. Happiness destroys the truth. So, in the end, Jeremy k*lls the truth so that he can have happiness, and by Lowen keeping the letter from Jeremy, she is keeping him ignorant. And you want to know another word for happiness? Bliss. Literally, the end of the book is “ignorance is bliss.” (Stellar message! 🙄)
Too bad the people who enjoy this garbage book will probably never figure that out.
You are preaching to the choir about all of these books. The Spanish Love Deception and The Friend Zone. Ugh. Abby Jimenez is dead to me. Her cute book covers catfishing us with these dramatic awkward storylines and miracle babies. It was a punch in the face.
Literally so bad! And her authors note made it worse 😵💫
Yes, I feel like CoHo and Sarah J Maas owe me both a refund and an apology ( I mean like full size lettering on the Jumbotron or something tasteful in skywriting) for wasting my time with their🗑. Both are on my "war criminal" list at this point. 😂 Feeney is the answer to: I'm looking for something like Riley Sager but with even less imagination in the "twist ending " plus make it more problematic. 😏 The Lord of the Rings of fake dating. 🤣😂 How dare you ma'am?🤨 Unlike Spanish Love Deception, The Lord of the Rings contains plot, character development and good writing. This, Beach Read and Love Hypothesis have caused me to stop reading 🛑 all cartoon cover romances. They contain disappointment and are mediocre and entirely too forgettable at best. They're for people who read like 4 books a year so just don't know any better so they rely on Oprah or Reese to pick their 📚 for them. 🖤
Simply comparing to LOTR in terms of length 😂 also I'm an Emily henry stan unfortunately so I love Beach Read and her other books 😅💗
Mansfield Park is also my least favorite JA book, but if you haven't seen it, the 1999 Mansfield Park film is actually really good. It makes Fanny more three dimensional and human. The cousin thing is still there, but gives less ick imo than the book. 🖤
My least favorite book was The Christie Affair by Nina De Gramont, supposedly about the 11 days Agatha Christie went missing, but by the end, she's had an affair and her child isn't her child? Just such a mess, so disappointing.
YESS. FINALLY. Someone else who didn’t like the push. That book rubbed me so wrong lol.
solidarity!!
I’m convinced the majority of booktok has never read an actually good book because nearly every book I’ve read that has been hyped up by booktok has been awful
I'm glad you went into detail about why you didn't like Verity. I was on the edge of giving it a try because of all the romance girlies. I think I dodged a bullet.
The push sounds exactly like the book We need to talk about Kevin. I feel that book is great at getting into the psychology of raising a kid you think is evil and it has you at the edge of your seat throughout. The twist at the end shocked me and it is by the one of the best books I have read. If the push did not satisfy you I truly recommend this book.
Very funny review as usual. I was gonna read a few of these last year and then decided against it, feel like i've dodged a bullet lmao.
i found your channel few days ago and im slowly watching your vids and when i saw The Push in the thumbnail ive clicked so fast... ive read this book few months ago and its one of the worst books ive ever read tbh. ive seen people recommending it and i really hoped it will discuss generational trauma. it had a promising beginning and then it turned into very cheap horror/thriller but without the scary/disturbing elements. i HATE when kids (or teens) in books or films act and talk like adults. i just couldnt buy the daughter's character, she acted like a grown woman most of the times.
i think that the book might have been better if it was straight up paranormal thriller/horror. make the girl actually possessed or something. itd still be a cliche but at least it would have kinda made sense
🖤My least favorites are fairly unpopular opinions 😬 comfort me with apples(I don’t get the hype, for me it was a weird fever dream and not at all interesting. ) . In my dreams I hold a knife (hated all the characters especially the main character 🤮) And the perfect marriage (totally unbelievable dialogue and scenes and dumb ending)
omg the perfect marriage was on my worst list last year!! truly abysmal writing. the only one i (respectfully) disagree about is in my dreams i hold a knife but i personally loved how unlikable everyone was. it was just one of those times where that setup worked for me but other times it hasn't, so i totally get why people would feel that way. also, you're not the only person i've seen say they dislike comfort me with apples! i saw it on a few people's worsts list recently!
You need to read The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry. It’s similar to The Push but so much better! Creepy little girl x10!!
🖤 I hadn't found you when you did that Jane Austen vlog so I'm veeery excited to go back and watch that now!
ooh you can go back and enjoy some classic blonde sara content. i had never been any other hair color besides blonde until mid 2022!
@@sarawithoutanH I'm so excited to meet her 😂
It was funny hearing you talk about the Alice Feeney book but it also made me want to read it more haha!
Good luck bestie
Endorse reality is my new favorite phrase
TFZ is definitely Abby Jimenez’s worst book so far in my opinion. But I HIGHLY recommend “Part of Your World,” “Yours Truly,” and “Happily Ever After Playlist.” Those are three of my favorite contemporary romances of all time. Actually, Part of Your World is my favorite of all time. It has so much heart to it, and I absolutely adore the main relationship. (I can’t even think about it now without crying happy tears lol)
This is a spoiler but I read POYW for the vlog I'm posting this week and Miss Abby redeemed herself!!
OMG Thank You! I hated Verity. My first and last CoHo book
Truly for the best 😂
Colleen Hoover was my favourite author at 14, but, fortunately, I got better
GIRLLL I was starting to think I was crazy like what is the deal with the Colleen Hoover cult bc I don’t get it 😭
I really thought we had peace from this woman when booktube stopped talking about her but then booktok made her famous again 😭✋🏻🛑
I enjoyed verity but I couldn't get over the whole cheating. I was expecting verity to kill lowen. The push was a snooze fest I couldn't decide between 2 or 3 stars.
I actually read The Push because you described it so well in your last video and I thought I might enjoy it more than you because I don’t mind motherhood stories, buuuut I was disappointed to say the least. Now I trust your ratings even more but next time I’m going to read a book you actually liked 😂
Hahaha well it's still a compliment that you read a book I didn't like because you liked my description of it. I do feel like I sometimes do too good of a job describing the plot of books I hate 😂😂😂
I couldn't even get through the first 50 pages of Spanish Love Deception. That book is so stupid... I can't.
I’ve never been interesting in reading CoHo books. I don’t understand all the popularity she’s gotten but it’s annoying.
Not The Push being my favorite book of the year.
hahahah Riley (another booktuber) said the same thing when I sent her my thumbnail to ask if she liked it. I know I'm one of the lone people that didn't like it! I don't think thrillers/books about motherhood appeal to me very much unfortunately
@@sarawithoutanH I actually agree with why you wouldn’t like it! I have a really hard time recommending it to people because of what happens it feels so traumatizing
Why does “The Push”, “Verity” and “Baby Teeth” sound exactly the same
I can't speak for The Push, but Verity and Baby Teeth are completely different. Loved Baby Teeth, hated Verity.
I HATED VERITY SO MUCH!! Also despised Ugly Love. It was so, so bad. To be fair I didn’t hate a couple of her books but I won’t be picking up any of her books after I finish It Starts With Us which is a group read I’m going to give a try this year. But I’m not expecting much because I’ve heard very mixed thing about it.
one of the worst things i know about it ends with us is that the main character writes letters to ellen degeneres 😭
@@sarawithoutanH 😂 It’s true. It’s odd. I read it when it first came out lol
Ugh yeah I absolutely loved the Push but I do understand the criticism. Something bout a Satan Spawn just gets me maybe, who knows
Spanish Love Deception is my arch nemesis. Hated that book.
horrible!!!!!!! lost actual brain cells reading it
it always amazes me seeing people say that verity had jumpscares/was scary bc like.. it's a mystery thriller abt a woman in coma whose name is the title of the book...clearly the twist is gonna be that she's not actually in a fucking coma like cmon yall use ur brains
EXACTLY. Thank you for saying this bestie!! There was nothing shocking about it!!
Whoa, WHOA, Sara(-h), I haven't watched your videos since I was a baby in high school and this video came up in my recommendeds... and I was like "i know that name".... and then like two minutes in it clicked WHO YOU WERE, YOU LOOK SO DIFFERENT from say six or so years ago.... damn time flies..... hi! (love the long hair btw)
Hahah thanks for coming back! I dyed my hair red mid 2022 and have been growing it out for a while!! So funny it took a second to connect the dots 😂
Please do more Nintendo switch videos. Love your taste 🖤
YES FINALLY SOMEONE FULLY AGREES WITH ME ON MANSFIELD PARK! I had to read it for a class and hated it but so many people in that class were like "its soooo unique to her other stuff tho" like??? Yes. In a bad way 🖤
Also the "Edmund being her cousin" thing is made so much worse by his parents explicitly raising Fanny as his *sibling* so they didn't run the risk of the kids falling in love with each other AND THEN THEY STILL FELL IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER! It just doubled down on the incest atp
I agree with you 100% on The Push. Didn’t like it, wouldn’t suggest it to anyone else.
i loved the push but i did feel like the thriller/mystery aspect of it wasn't really its strength and it honestly shouldn't be marketed as such- i think it worked much better as a commentary on how society views mothers and motherhood and the alienation of the main character based on how she didn't fit those roles. i will say the very end of the book and the last line were.......cheeky at best
i think a huge problem for me is that stories about motherhood do not appeal - so that makes it a bit of a personal issue of why i didn't like it. i just am not drawn to commentary or books about being a mother
@@sarawithoutanH tea 😔
i wasn’t a fan of the push either!
LOL saaaame about Verity and CoHo in general 😬
🖤 Why everybody is obsessed with Colleen Hoover... I don't know. :P Also I would ditch a man just for saying he wants a baby but only a copy of himself. What is this? my genes are so perfect I need to breed? Or do you think an adopted baby cannot be loved because it is not partly you there? Major narcissistic vibe if you ask me.
The men in colleen Hoovers books are walking red flags 😭
Colleen Hoover is for girls that are not long time readers.
I think the ones that evolve into long time readers eventually get better taste 🤭
@@sarawithoutanH truue
Oh I made my own video with the worst books 🤣 I have a list too, and i felt so bad talking shit about books
I always look forward to the Worst of list more than any other. Maybe I'm just a salty b**** 🧂😌
Aren't we all?
I was never interested in reading any of Colleen Hoover’s books. I’m not into romance genre anyways. 🖤
for the best! lol
i stopped reading romance because i cannot find a book where they a) don’t constantly bring up how tiny the main character is and b) don’t go on and on about how big the man’s penis is
Honestly so true bestie
God WHY did I read Verity??? I've never wanted to come near Colleen Hoover, but I live a good thriller and this was.... A mess. Also yeah, Mansfield Park. I don't hate it but it's the weakest of Austen.
Sometimes I Lie is one of my least favorite books ever. I would have thrown the damn book across the room if I was sure it wouldn’t break something I did like.
it was BAD and alice should be ASHAMED
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Verity was the first and last CoHo I will ever read. The ick factor was high.
and the fact the verity was better than the other coho book i've read 😭✋🏻
The wrong heart… sounds… so.. not good 😬
“The Lord of the Rings of fake dating” 🤣🤣💀
Romance books do not need to be over 400 pages 😭😭😭
@@sarawithoutanH Haha I agree 😆
While I gave Verity 5 stars I still skipped every sex scene😭 they were so unnecessary
if you have to skip 70% of the book is it really 5 stars? 😭😭😂😂
@@sarawithoutanH touché
Jail, straight to jail 😂
Oh my. Glad I have not read any of these. haha. I totally get what you are saying about Feeney being obsessed with plot twists. I liked Rock Paper Scissors but it was one of the first thrillers I had read in a long time so I felt fine with it. I did read The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendrickson and someone else and mannnnnn the plot twists were so much. so so much. It was ridic and I'm embarrassed. (So maybe that was my worst book of the year??)
I've only read one book by Greer Hendricks and it was so not memorable - I can't even rememeber what it was called. I think it was cowritten with another author? I've heard only bad things about The Wife Between Us
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19th like!!! 🖤🖤🖤
💖💖💖 truly always look forward to this comment on every video
Verify was horrible. Very cringey.
Why are you literally the funniest person? Colleen Hoover is a war criminal sjxjsisoapzvsk 🖤🖤🖤🖤
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I'm going to use your mindset with seeing Colleen Hoover as a war criminal from now on djdjsj
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god's favourite people are CoHo haters !!!
So just because someone is conservative that makes them a bad person?
Not personally a fan of conservative views 💗
@@sarawithoutanH doesn't make conservative people bad though just because you don't agree with them.
Some of these books are on my tbr 🫣 so scared to see what I think since I trust your opinion!
you know i am first and foremost a hater so there's a chance you'll like some of them 😂
EDIT: unless it's anything from spot 4 and up 🥲
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