the reason I’ll never really go back to things I loved when I was little is because everything is so much better when you’re younger it’s like never meet your idols 💀
early to mid 2000s books are weird to go back to, its like reading Victorian era books. There was a vary specific, recognizable way of writing back then and it can often be hard to re-read or for new readers to get into
omg I'm pretty sure that seventeen magazine had an excerpt of vampire kisses in it back in the day and i REMEMBER READING THE EXCERPT 💀 wow this was such a nostalgia trip, please please read more 2000s cheesy YA, I would watch a dozen videos of this
I have to admit when i was in 6th or 7th grade... I read the Vampire Diaries and The Secret circle by L.J. Smith series in 1991/2/3 and also liked books by Christopher Pike. When I went to re-read those at my older age.. I cringed and said to myself 'why did I like these books again?' LOL
Ahh the OG vampire lovestory lol I read the vampire diaries ~ironically~ as a teen but after the twilight saga and my goodness the overlap. Truly ahead of its time lol
Glass house did so well in the 2006 vampire craze that it got turned into a series - "morgantown vampires" and there are like 10 more books that follow. I had gotten really into them and read a number of the books in the series.
I read the first and second of these some years back and it was kind of campy fun, plus, it's always nice to see vampires actually having taken over a town, it was somehow the first time I encountered that as a concept.
I haven’t even watched the video yet BUT OMG FINALLY SOMEONE TALKING ABOUT THE MORGANVILLE VAMPIRES I’VE PRAYED FOR THIS!!! My teen self is shaking and crying I was so obsessed with this series omg 😭
I would've had a huge gay crush on you. but obliviously convinced myself I just admired your style and smarts in high school for sure. I was reading Game of Thrones in high school, no lie. I started many books but didn't finish them because there was too much romance and not enough violence. Definitely more of a Goosebumps kid.
The way everything is fae/fairies now is the way that literally Everything Was Vampires back in the early 2000s 😂 I read so much vampire fiction that i got bored of YA in 2013 and stopped reading in general for, like a year, and then i started reading like quirky horror comedy? It was very christonpher moore and A lee martinez for a while
I'm currently rereading Kissed by an Angel by Elizabeth Chandler. I was obsessed with this book when I was younger. The writing definitely gets cheesy, but I think it still holds up. The nostalgia definitely helps, and it made me cry again 😂.
As somebody whose favorite genre is cringe old school YA I ate this video up😂 I read all of Vampire Kisses books a few years ago and pretty much gave them 4 to 5 stars 😅 hope you make another video like this one day 🦇
This vlog is tripping me out because I went to high school at the exact same time as you and I remember all of these books. I read Twilight for a summer reading project right before my freshman year and I owned the entire Vampire Kisses series. I'm going to leave these books in the rose colored wonderland of my memories because I know I would hate them passionately if I reread them again 🤣🤣
oh my god, I also read Blue is for Nightmares back in the day, although I remembered absolutely NOTHING about it. It was wild to hear you talk about it in this video.
It's SO WEIRD seeing Vampire Kisses as an actual book! When I was a teen I mostly read manga and I came across this trilogy called Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives. I was emo/goth and LOVED the main character in this. The manga mentions that it's based on the book, but I've never seen it anywhere. I really wanted to read the books, but the manga was the only thing that popped up when I looked for it (the English books popped up but never the ones in my native language and even the English ones were hard to get back then)
I just looked and there are NINE vampire kisses books! NINE!! I was obsessed with Blue is for Nightmares back then too! that and the sweep series were my entire personality for a while, I'm sure
I actually started reading Blue is for Nightmares not long ago cause it was available on Libby. Just for the nostalgia. I didn’t get very far before I went yeah never mind I’ll keep my nostalgia and not ruin it 😂
You should do this again! I would recommend from my childhood YA fantasy nonsense is the Vladimir Todd series, Emily Winsnap series, Phillipa Fisher series. I was obsessed with these in my youth so maybe slightly more for children but i dunno time
the whole morganville vampire series is a TRIP to read, if you just wanna read a quick cheesy read with wild plot twists, i actually recommend finishing the series 😂 sadly rachel caine died of cancer a few years back, but the morganville vampires were my teenagehood
You just violently knocked my over the head with the nostalgia stick! I can’t tell if I went through books too quickly, read too much, or just have a really bad memory. but these titles had slipped my mind.
lol not the girl working at Common Grounds, that's a real coffee shop in a Texas college town. I wonder if this town is meant to be based on Waco, TX where Baylor University is.
Bestie, I remember being 14 and being gifted Vampire Kisses by my mom (she knew I was into paranormal romance and tried her best lol) and I literally never got into it bc I was so bored. I could tolerate slow burners, but VK was NOT IT and I donated it within the year lmao. I also pretty recently found a bunch of Chris Pike books I used to love...so baffling why. L.J. Smith had some charm to her style. It was pulpy and cheesy but fun? But nah Chris Pike was not it. I'm also realizing just how many books ended up on my shelf that I just did NOT READ bc I couldn't get into them and they were just not even good lmao. Fallen, THE Fallen, Halo, Thirst, Night World, Hush Hush, etc. I ended up finding reviews on a lot of these not too long ago and donating them realizing I really didn't miss much lol. Only book I remember loving in 8th-10th grade that I never hear anyone talk about these days was Dark Secrets by Elizabeth Chandler. I kinda want to revisit them and see if they're any good as an adult bc I was expecting a lot of my fave middle-grade/YA faves from middle/high school to be bad, but a lot of them hold up pretty well? Dark Secrets may surprise me, who knows. For context, I was a teen (middle/high school) from 2011-2016, and I sorta missed the bus on a lot of ya dystopian, but hey, at least HG was good 🦇
It must be the time for nostalgia because I recently picked up a series that I loved in middle school: Warrior Cats hahahahhaha and it’s actually so violent and unhinged I really don’t understand how it’s considered middle grade. Loved the video 💖🦇
🦇 I was in HS from 04-08. What a time. So many vampire books. 🤣 I don’t remember actually reading Vampire kisses but I know I owned it. I don’t remember the other two. I was of course obsessed with Twilight but this video made me remember I loved the Fearless series and The Mediator series and any teen romance book I could find especially if there was a supernatural or sci-fi theme. Ah, the nostalgia.
Firstly, I reread/finished the morganville vampires last year (I stopped reading them as they came out years ago) and I totally forgot about the book forgery plot lol. 2ndly, I went to school in Stone Mountain… so weird when I here people mention it in a video lol
So I'm a lot older than you (graduated high school in the 90s) but I've always loved YA fiction and still read it to this day. I definitely read like the first four (?) of the Morganville Vampire series but stopped there. My friend read the rest but I was out. I tried to read Vampire Kisses but couldn't get into it. In my teenage years, I read the Point Horror books (authors like Cusick, Pike, Stine, Hoh, Cooney, etc) and then the books written by LJ Smith (the original four Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle and the one about the psychic teens - that was my favorite).
i was also a huge christopher pike reader! i think i've read like 15 of his books. i loooved the final friends trilogy he had. honestly should reread some of those for a video
I read some of Morganville Vampires when I was a teen, I think I read like 3 or 4 of them, and I despised the main character. I always thought she was spineless, but then I went and fell in love with Bella from Twilight, so apparently, I didn’t know what I was talking about lmao
Gee I loved The Glass Houses series as a teen ... Then this year I re-read the first book (in a foreign language I'm learning) and, oh my god, no 😂 But I gotta say, sometimes when you re-read your old favourite book and it still slaps, it's the best feeling 😩
There are some books I loved as a kid but I'm scared to reread them now lol. I'll probably still love "Momo" and "the neverending story" by Michael Ende, but the rest...
Oh man I was back home and took a look at my old books...what a mess I was so I feel you on the bad taste. I was a dark fantasy girlie and oof. If you go back further, I was obsessed with A Series of Unfortunate Events and Edgar and Ellen
I thought of doing something like this, but I graduated in 2005, and YA didn't really exist back then. The closest I have is Harry Potter, which kind of set the standard for YA fiction at the time. All the other big series that inspired other authors came out after I graduated. So I found out that I wouldn't have any books to pick for something like this. I didn't read for fun much in high school because of all the required reading I had to do. Edit: The only vampire book I can remember reading in high school (and middle school) is Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. Interview with a Vampire has been a favorite book of mine since I was about 12/13. 🦇
before i got into vampire books in early high school i used to exclusively read christopher pike and RL stine because my library didn't have a huge teen section. it was hard to find good YA back in the day!
I’m a fair bit younger than you, so I did read some of the cringe 2000s romance but they weren’t really my speed, I only really remember liking the Ruby Red trilogy, Beta (which was as trash and scifi as YA can get I think) and Strange Angels (which I’ve reread recently and it SUCKS omg). I also obviously stanned Percy Jackson, though by the time I was 15-16 I was already becoming the literary snob that I am by reading (of my own volition) and absolutely loving A Brave New World. I was a weird kid I think 😅
@@sarawithoutanH It REALLY sucks and the time travel is just… bad. Like it’s poorly done and full of plot holes 😟 The worst part of rereading it this summer out of curiosity was realising I had no interest whatsoever in the love interest, but his uncle could get it honestly.
can you do a video on katee robert's books? while it's fun seeing you suffer I feel you can use a break 😂 katee robert is one of my favs - scenes are hot and CONSENSUAL. would love to hear your take ♥
“-girl named Clare” my head swiveling around 😂 I feel like my name is not actually super common in books lmao. Also it’s probably not spelled the way I spell it 😂
Also I read the ENTIRE I am Number Four series as a kid with my sister and I have nothing but nostalgia and fond memories of that all series and I’m terrified to reread them because I know they’re not good HAHAHA
the reason I’ll never really go back to things I loved when I was little is because everything is so much better when you’re younger it’s like never meet your idols 💀
probably for the best 😂
I live by this, too! Going back only leads to severe disappointment 😅
Yes omg
I’ll be like “this show was so good 😄!” so I watch it again and then I’m like “I THOUGHT this show was good 😞”
That’s how I feel about Pretty Little Liars and The Vampire Diaries.
early to mid 2000s books are weird to go back to, its like reading Victorian era books. There was a vary specific, recognizable way of writing back then and it can often be hard to re-read or for new readers to get into
Totally feel you on “teenage me had bad taste”. Totally wasn’t our fault - look at the material! Haha 🦇
It was tough back then 😂
omg I'm pretty sure that seventeen magazine had an excerpt of vampire kisses in it back in the day and i REMEMBER READING THE EXCERPT 💀 wow this was such a nostalgia trip, please please read more 2000s cheesy YA, I would watch a dozen videos of this
I'll definitely do a part 2 for sure!
I have to admit when i was in 6th or 7th grade... I read the Vampire Diaries and The Secret circle by L.J. Smith series in 1991/2/3 and also liked books by Christopher Pike. When I went to re-read those at my older age.. I cringed and said to myself 'why did I like these books again?' LOL
Christopher Pike was my obsession in middle school! I have distinct memories of a lot of the books
Ahh the OG vampire lovestory lol I read the vampire diaries ~ironically~ as a teen but after the twilight saga and my goodness the overlap. Truly ahead of its time lol
Maybe I just have trash taste but I love both of them and tv series as well 😂
Omg, vampire kisses! Seeing that was like remembering a fever dream 😂
it was such a trip down memory lane!
I know it’s not a good book, but the nostalgia got me🖤😂
Glass house did so well in the 2006 vampire craze that it got turned into a series - "morgantown vampires" and there are like 10 more books that follow. I had gotten really into them and read a number of the books in the series.
I read the first and second of these some years back and it was kind of campy fun, plus, it's always nice to see vampires actually having taken over a town, it was somehow the first time I encountered that as a concept.
I knew it i fucking knew it as soon as she said Morganville i was like wait a minute....
Listen the absolute chokehold Vampire Kisses had on 12 year old me is unreal. Honestly still want a sweet vampire boyfie like Alexander.
I haven’t even watched the video yet BUT OMG FINALLY SOMEONE TALKING ABOUT THE MORGANVILLE VAMPIRES I’VE PRAYED FOR THIS!!! My teen self is shaking and crying I was so obsessed with this series omg 😭
I would've had a huge gay crush on you. but obliviously convinced myself I just admired your style and smarts in high school for sure. I was reading Game of Thrones in high school, no lie. I started many books but didn't finish them because there was too much romance and not enough violence. Definitely more of a Goosebumps kid.
My obsession in middle school was actually fear street books! I should go back and read some of those too 😂
@@sarawithoutanHThey were so good! R.L Stine had some bangers. Horrorland was everything
The way everything is fae/fairies now is the way that literally Everything Was Vampires back in the early 2000s 😂
I read so much vampire fiction that i got bored of YA in 2013 and stopped reading in general for, like a year, and then i started reading like quirky horror comedy? It was very christonpher moore and A lee martinez for a while
Yep and we've gone thru a dystopian cycle a zombie cycle and a witch cycle now its fae
I'm currently rereading Kissed by an Angel by Elizabeth Chandler. I was obsessed with this book when I was younger. The writing definitely gets cheesy, but I think it still holds up. The nostalgia definitely helps, and it made me cry again 😂.
As somebody whose favorite genre is cringe old school YA I ate this video up😂 I read all of Vampire Kisses books a few years ago and pretty much gave them 4 to 5 stars 😅 hope you make another video like this one day 🦇
This vlog is tripping me out because I went to high school at the exact same time as you and I remember all of these books. I read Twilight for a summer reading project right before my freshman year and I owned the entire Vampire Kisses series. I'm going to leave these books in the rose colored wonderland of my memories because I know I would hate them passionately if I reread them again 🤣🤣
when i read twilight i thought it was the pinnacle of literature 😂
oh my god, I also read Blue is for Nightmares back in the day, although I remembered absolutely NOTHING about it. It was wild to hear you talk about it in this video.
🦇Was not expecting a tipsy synopsis of a random early 2000s vampire book... living for it LOL
It's SO WEIRD seeing Vampire Kisses as an actual book! When I was a teen I mostly read manga and I came across this trilogy called Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives. I was emo/goth and LOVED the main character in this. The manga mentions that it's based on the book, but I've never seen it anywhere. I really wanted to read the books, but the manga was the only thing that popped up when I looked for it (the English books popped up but never the ones in my native language and even the English ones were hard to get back then)
If you read the sequel for Blue is for Nightmares, PLEASE do a vlog!!
I just looked and there are NINE vampire kisses books! NINE!!
I was obsessed with Blue is for Nightmares back then too! that and the sweep series were my entire personality for a while, I'm sure
i'm pretty sure i didn't read anymore of the series 😂
Yesss the sweep series is so bad its good again
Omg we’re the same age! The vampire era was so intense then 😂
i know i definitely read sooo many more vampire books
From memory the glass house series would make a great TV teen drama, it goes off the rails just like one of those shows
I actually started reading Blue is for Nightmares not long ago cause it was available on Libby. Just for the nostalgia. I didn’t get very far before I went yeah never mind I’ll keep my nostalgia and not ruin it 😂
Lol yes you made the right choice! Although I might read the sequel...
@@sarawithoutanHplease read the sequel 😂
You should do this again! I would recommend from my childhood YA fantasy nonsense is the Vladimir Todd series, Emily Winsnap series, Phillipa Fisher series. I was obsessed with these in my youth so maybe slightly more for children but i dunno time
the whole morganville vampire series is a TRIP to read, if you just wanna read a quick cheesy read with wild plot twists, i actually recommend finishing the series 😂 sadly rachel caine died of cancer a few years back, but the morganville vampires were my teenagehood
I didn't know she passed away, that's so sad. I also read some of the series when I was younger, though I didn't like the main character
Omg blue is for nightmares used to be my fave series as a teen! I’ve been wanting to reread it sooo bad as an adult lmao
Oh my gosh, I LOVED Blue is For Nightmares! I didnt know anyone else who read it besides my best friend who got me into it first!
I 10000000% read the Blue is for Nightmares series and LOVED them.
You just violently knocked my over the head with the nostalgia stick!
I can’t tell if I went through books too quickly, read too much, or just have a really bad memory. but these titles had slipped my mind.
I read the Vampire Kisses series waaaaay more than I’d like to admit 😅🦇
I really ate up the vampire kisses series 😭😭 a memory of good times
All we had was vampires 😂
Omg I shipped Raven with Trevor in Vampire Kisses too! That is my main memory of the series
Literally would be so much better 😂
I remember reading the Blue is for Nightmares series! I think we still have some of the books.
Blue is for nightmares I've never seen anywhere else watching for that
Excellent video more cringe 00s books please!
lol not the girl working at Common Grounds, that's a real coffee shop in a Texas college town. I wonder if this town is meant to be based on Waco, TX where Baylor University is.
I was OBSESSED with Vampire Kisses in middle school, it had a chokehold on me
whats it say abt me that the last one interests me
i think i want the voncept more than the actual book
anyway you looked adorable w a perm!
Bestie, I remember being 14 and being gifted Vampire Kisses by my mom (she knew I was into paranormal romance and tried her best lol) and I literally never got into it bc I was so bored. I could tolerate slow burners, but VK was NOT IT and I donated it within the year lmao. I also pretty recently found a bunch of Chris Pike books I used to love...so baffling why. L.J. Smith had some charm to her style. It was pulpy and cheesy but fun? But nah Chris Pike was not it. I'm also realizing just how many books ended up on my shelf that I just did NOT READ bc I couldn't get into them and they were just not even good lmao. Fallen, THE Fallen, Halo, Thirst, Night World, Hush Hush, etc. I ended up finding reviews on a lot of these not too long ago and donating them realizing I really didn't miss much lol. Only book I remember loving in 8th-10th grade that I never hear anyone talk about these days was Dark Secrets by Elizabeth Chandler. I kinda want to revisit them and see if they're any good as an adult bc I was expecting a lot of my fave middle-grade/YA faves from middle/high school to be bad, but a lot of them hold up pretty well? Dark Secrets may surprise me, who knows.
For context, I was a teen (middle/high school) from 2011-2016, and I sorta missed the bus on a lot of ya dystopian, but hey, at least HG was good 🦇
These were my exact same favorite series when I was a teenager omg 😂
I loved the Morganville vampires so much!
It must be the time for nostalgia because I recently picked up a series that I loved in middle school: Warrior Cats hahahahhaha and it’s actually so violent and unhinged I really don’t understand how it’s considered middle grade. Loved the video 💖🦇
omg i never read warrior cats but i've thought about doing a video where i read some of them
I love the way you review books tell me everything!!!
🦇 I was in HS from 04-08. What a time. So many vampire books. 🤣 I don’t remember actually reading Vampire kisses but I know I owned it. I don’t remember the other two. I was of course obsessed with Twilight but this video made me remember I loved the Fearless series and The Mediator series and any teen romance book I could find especially if there was a supernatural or sci-fi theme. Ah, the nostalgia.
The mediator series was my favorite!!
I recently reread all nine of the Vampire Kisses book and it was an experience for sure
For me it was Vampire Academy. I was so crazy about it in middle school 😅
Firstly, I reread/finished the morganville vampires last year (I stopped reading them as they came out years ago) and I totally forgot about the book forgery plot lol. 2ndly, I went to school in Stone Mountain… so weird when I here people mention it in a video lol
My immature brain when Sara said TPU: Toilet Paper University 🧻
Lmaooo as you should
So I'm a lot older than you (graduated high school in the 90s) but I've always loved YA fiction and still read it to this day. I definitely read like the first four (?) of the Morganville Vampire series but stopped there. My friend read the rest but I was out. I tried to read Vampire Kisses but couldn't get into it. In my teenage years, I read the Point Horror books (authors like Cusick, Pike, Stine, Hoh, Cooney, etc) and then the books written by LJ Smith (the original four Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle and the one about the psychic teens - that was my favorite).
i was also a huge christopher pike reader! i think i've read like 15 of his books. i loooved the final friends trilogy he had. honestly should reread some of those for a video
🦇 forget Shakespeare and Arthur Conan Doyle, these are the classics I care about
I was obsessed with these books by Amelia Atwater Rhodes when I was 15 and this makes me want to revisit them!
I remember seeing these on book blogs of that era and later on early booktube 😂
Nothing like a 2007 book blog
I read some of Morganville Vampires when I was a teen, I think I read like 3 or 4 of them, and I despised the main character. I always thought she was spineless, but then I went and fell in love with Bella from Twilight, so apparently, I didn’t know what I was talking about lmao
Not the you’re not like other girls line 😂
Gee I loved The Glass Houses series as a teen ... Then this year I re-read the first book (in a foreign language I'm learning) and, oh my god, no 😂
But I gotta say, sometimes when you re-read your old favourite book and it still slaps, it's the best feeling 😩
Loved this video soo much!!! 😂🦇
AHHH someone shares my love and pain for Vampire Kisses! Man thats a deep cut haha
There are some books I loved as a kid but I'm scared to reread them now lol. I'll probably still love "Momo" and "the neverending story" by Michael Ende, but the rest...
Oh man I was back home and took a look at my old books...what a mess I was so I feel you on the bad taste. I was a dark fantasy girlie and oof. If you go back further, I was obsessed with A Series of Unfortunate Events and Edgar and Ellen
I did not read Blue is for Nightmares, but I did read White is for Magic 😅 one may only read one book out of the series
Lmao just reading them out of order 😂
@@sarawithoutanH story of my lifeeee
I thought of doing something like this, but I graduated in 2005, and YA didn't really exist back then. The closest I have is Harry Potter, which kind of set the standard for YA fiction at the time. All the other big series that inspired other authors came out after I graduated. So I found out that I wouldn't have any books to pick for something like this.
I didn't read for fun much in high school because of all the required reading I had to do. Edit: The only vampire book I can remember reading in high school (and middle school) is Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. Interview with a Vampire has been a favorite book of mine since I was about 12/13. 🦇
before i got into vampire books in early high school i used to exclusively read christopher pike and RL stine because my library didn't have a huge teen section. it was hard to find good YA back in the day!
I read glass houses this read and let me tell you it was a WILD ride
Omg my sister had the Morganville vampire series and I remember starting the first book in like 2015 and I hated it 😂
Nah Sarah was the it girl of the 2000s 😂🧚♀️🧚♀️✨😭
I’m a fair bit younger than you, so I did read some of the cringe 2000s romance but they weren’t really my speed, I only really remember liking the Ruby Red trilogy, Beta (which was as trash and scifi as YA can get I think) and Strange Angels (which I’ve reread recently and it SUCKS omg). I also obviously stanned Percy Jackson, though by the time I was 15-16 I was already becoming the literary snob that I am by reading (of my own volition) and absolutely loving A Brave New World. I was a weird kid I think 😅
i tried reading ruby red when i joined booktube but i was in my 20s and i couldn't do it 😂
@@sarawithoutanH It REALLY sucks and the time travel is just… bad. Like it’s poorly done and full of plot holes 😟 The worst part of rereading it this summer out of curiosity was realising I had no interest whatsoever in the love interest, but his uncle could get it honestly.
You look so gorgeous in this video!!!
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can you do a video on katee robert's books? while it's fun seeing you suffer I feel you can use a break 😂 katee robert is one of my favs - scenes are hot and CONSENSUAL. would love to hear your take ♥
i read vampire kisses in high school! now i want to reread it for the cringe. cringe is my fav genre.
oh then you will love the cringe in it! 😂
I’m 20 and still love the series. I understand it’s cheesy but it’s funny and I love lighthearted vampire stuff
I’m reading a book series called The Mark Saga by Bianca Scardoni it’s pretty good. 😊 there’s currently 7 books in the series the 8th isn’t out yet.
“-girl named Clare” my head swiveling around 😂 I feel like my name is not actually super common in books lmao. Also it’s probably not spelled the way I spell it 😂
Also I read the ENTIRE I am Number Four series as a kid with my sister and I have nothing but nostalgia and fond memories of that all series and I’m terrified to reread them because I know they’re not good HAHAHA
I didn’t think your perm looked bad at all, I actually thought you looked pretty 😀
😂 not sure if I agree but thanks for that!
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