MY 2022 DNFS!! 🤢 | Literary Diversions
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- In which I tell you about all of the books that were so bad I had to DNF them… and which of them ended up in the trash!
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📖 The Lying Room by Nicci French:
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📖 House of Correction by Nicci French:
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📖 Blue Monday (Frida Klein #1) by Nicci French:
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📖 Jade City (The Green Bone Saga #1) by Fonda Lee:
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📖 In the Seeing Hands of Others by Nat Ogle:
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📖 Hare House by Sally Hinchcliffe:
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📖 A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee:
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📖 The Castaways by Lucy Clarke:
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📖 The Push by Ashley Audrain:
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📖 The Cruel Prince (Cruel Prince #1) by Holly Black:
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📖 The Schoolhouse by Sophie Ward:
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📖 The Family Upstairs (Family Upstairs #1) by Lisa Jewell:
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I LOATHE "but wait it gets better!" I fully believe that a good author should make a book interestinh the whole way through
If I have to read 80% of the book before it gets good, it's not a good book! I love your videos! (and your stranger things shirts!)
I love hearing about people's DNF's! I'm with you about things that are boring but people say things like "Just wait until the third book! It gets so good!" and I'm just like . . . But I have so many other books that are good now.
I ended up DNF'ing over 50 books in 2022, it was a wild time.
I'm a 50-year-old who never was able to have kids due to medical incompetence. (I'm disabled and when I was diagnosed with cancer at 40, no one ever mentioned freezing eggs, even though at the time I had a partner.) Still upset by it. HOWEVER. I definitely don't define my self worth by that. and if I was about to die, I would be thinking about MANY different things besides my lack of a kid, lol.
I looove rant videos! A lot of youtubers are like 'No I want to keep my chanel purely positive' and don't have worstnor DNF lists (which is fine, to each their own) but personally, I adore a little rant or two. Especially when they include meaningful conversations about certain topics and how they are presented.
I only DNF'd two books this year. A little life by Hanya Yanagihara and one with a long German title that I'm sure no one cares for. 😂
So glad I’m not alone with the cruel prince 🤣 I gave the second book a chance but ended up DNFing the whole trilogy
OMG me too! I thought I was the only one!
I wish I'd DNF'd the first! but I had to keep reading it just to see where this book that people love was 😂 never found it between the covers I was reading 😂😂
I wish I'd DNFd it.
Oh gosh! I have The Push on my shelf and now I want to dump it! And when you mentioned The Silent Patient - OMG i HATED that book!
I enjoyed both The Silent Patient and The Push. Well I found The Push a really difficult emotional read but I thought it was written well x
I 100% agree with you on "Cruel Prince. Glad I'm not the only one 😅
You're not the first person to say that about Jade City, I feel valid in avoiding it now!
I'm just applauding everything you're saying, I agree so much. Bitter protagonists are draining. I've started being more ruthless about DNFing. 31% seems to be my limit.
You’ve not even started talking about books yet and I’ve already subscribed. You had me at ST (and the accent obvs)
That is the cutest intro I have ever seen. Absolutely precious
Oh man I'm glad I watched this before I went and bought books. I wanted to read quite a few of the books on this list and now I'm definitely reconsidering them. Especially Hare House 😬
I really don’t want to live in a world where people are just plugging latest trends into a generator and writing whatever comes up. That seems like it would create really bad books.
Despite the gloomy season and gloomy DNFs, you did look warm and glowy here ☀️
I fell in love with Jade city. However, I understand how it can be slow for some people. For me I flew through it and I love the whole trilogy. Again your points are completely valid. If you didn’t like mafia then I understand why you wouldn’t like it. Me personally I love reading about mafia. Me personally I love all the characters and I feel like I knew what they would do in certain situations even from book one. It is funny how different people have different views! No hate ❤
Haha I dnf'd the cruel prince as well! I dnf'd at the class scene. Like, are we in middle school now? Is he going to dump a carton of milk on her head next?
Jude didn't have to get whisked away into Fae land just to experience middle school bullying 😂 One of the reasons I couldn't take the book seriously.
@@evngprimrose_ 😂
@@verucasalt4535 I just finished it a few days ago (begrudgingly) and I'm still salty 😆
So, I liked Jade City a lot, but I thought it was the strongest of the trilogy (with the last one being the weakest). So, if Jade City didn't do anything for you, I don't think you are missing out on anything. 👍
However, I am in the group that found "The Push" really good. Though, listening to your description, I was wondering if we read the same book. 🤣
Looking forward to your next video.
Nicci French: you're not alone in your opinion. I read 2 or 3. The first one (their debut) was kind of fun, but after that i felt they were just writing the same story over and over.
Can I say that I get turned off by the overly-broken man? It gets to the point where I can’t forgive because I can’t move on to allow that redemption. I just read a romance that was really cool because of the main character and her girlfriends all with some kind of disability, brought up some amazing points and issues but the neuronormal man having a tantrum just didn’t do it for me. Even the resolution at the ending was just bleh.
I have so many books across all of my TBRs (shelf, library, ebook) that I've been ruthless with my DNFs as of late. Too many books, not enough time to bother wasting on ones that don't grab me early on!
was so waiting for this video!! tragically I'm in a reading slump so no DNF's just "gosh I wish I could get the mental strength to finish anything" but hoping to read more this year
I bitterly DNF'd The Creeper at 90% because of the "reveal" and I couldn't read another 30 pages of torture 😂 Alsp very bitter about DNFing Daughter of the Moon Goddess because it made no sense. I also might have had my last attempt at reading Natalie Haynes because I DNF'd Stone Blind 😂
The only Nicci French book I've read is Secret Smile, which I did enjoy but not enough to actively want to read their other works.
THANK YOU, I feel like im the only one who HATED The Push. I always describe it as a "thriller for warrior autism mommies".
I’m so glad there’s another person on the planet who didn’t enjoy jade city. I was so bored ALL the way through
I predicted the plot of The Push by the title 😂
You. Are. Hysterical.
I only dnf'd 3 books in 2022: Finlay Donavan is killing it ( I don't understand how that book got so popular 🤔), the Cloisters and Harrow the ninth.
I had a couple of book club losers this year, but the worst was Where the Forest Meets the Stars, which had a bunch of harmful mental health stereotypes and ableist crap in it. I was really angry about it too, but from the reviews I am not alone.
I was so glad to hear your opinion on The Family Remains. I loved the first book and hated this one, I also felt like this ruined the first book for me.
Hope you feel better soon!
I DNF’d my first book in 2022 and it was The League of Gentlewoman Witches by India Holton!
I also dnf Jade city, it just wasn't any interesting or enjoyable. I did 100 pages but I could tell about a couple of pages that I probably wouldn't finish it.
I actually managed to finish The Cruel Prince. I was hoping to like it because I thought the synopsis was interesting. Unfortunately, it was executed badly. I like Fae books but this one didn’t work for me. They were cruel alright but I wanted mind games and trickery not petty middle school bullying.
Always enjoy your vids :) I dnf-ed 'The Dangers of Smoking in Bed' - mostly because it got really gross, but like, not in an interesting or compelling way, just in an okay, this is really icking me out now and I don't know why it's doing it way
I try hard to push through and not DNF a book. Heck, I even made it all the way through Piranesi because I was determined to figure it out. But the book I angry DNF'd last year was My Heart is a Chainsaw. The constant and unending references to horror movies. Aaahhhh!!!!! It was too much - annoying - like name dropping. That author was determined to let us know just exactly how much research they had done for the book. I was so angry I had wasted so much time reading that book when I could have been reading something else. Ugh. On the flipside I also read lots of great books last year.
i loved the family remains by lisa jewell i actually think i enjoyed it more than the first. but i do wanna reread them both i'm nervous that i wont like it as much now. great video thought always enjoy youre content.
Thank you for putting into words why The Push didn’t work for me, ugh!!
I DNFed The Family Remains, too. I just felt like the characters' motivations were really flimsy and unbelievable and I just truly could care less about the murdered dude's wife and the main dude (can we have his rebel, witchy, potion-brewing teenage self back please?). I came into this book hoping Lucy would be the main character (my fav from The Family Upstairs), but was sad she seemed to be a minor character (spending her time at school bake sales? What?!?).
Bahahaha sooo we do twin again, I dnf ed half of these and all read ones in your list! I hated them. Particular ly horrific was forking out for a hardback lesson in vengeance from USA, to find myself laughing at the prose, I mean.. "She laid out the tarot cards, for the aesthetic" oh dear god save me from mediocrity in books! I couldn't even try to care, unrealistic and ridiculous and of no substance at all, but soooo pretty to unhaul.. Missing the mark. For actual dark academia vibe done for substance, I go back to classics like Maurice (though no murder here its dark enough at gays emotional turmoil in the elite upper class families, be prepared to cry) then we have as meat loves salt.. Maria McCann.. Very dark, and gay, kill your darlings (I forget the book name this was the film adaptation but liked the book) all of these outstrip every single book I've bought telling me its dark academia this decade...
The Family Remains was my ONLY dnf of 2022 😭
This year I’ve decided that DNFing is for me x This year for the first time ever I DNFed a book! It was Layla by Coleen Hoover. I’m so done with her lmfao😅 I loved It Ends With Us and I think that’s it 💓
Yes for DNFing! 👌🎉
@@bethmw28 I read 60% and I just couldn’t, it was going no where. Audibly scoffing so I was🤣 I googled the end and I think the concept was good but the execution was just not there💓
@@PinkBeautyXx there's something extra satisfying about DNFing that far in for me 😂 I read over 500 pages of a ~750 page book and the feeling of finally admitting defeat was a joy 😂😂
@@bethmw28 oh my Lord!! 😅😅 that’s why I used to not dnf, I was like I’ve wasted this amount of time already🤣 I also have crazy FOMO x do you have a bookstagram? 💓
No spicy DNFs for me last year - all 10 were just various forms of meh... also a good summary of 2022. I'm one of the many people that enjoyed jade city - although I'm a 3-4* rather than 10s across the board - and I completely understand why others would be bored by it or dislike the plot/characters😂 but I would never have recommended it to you 😂
I didn't vehemently DNF in 2022..it was more of a yeah nope.
This.
I was horribly disappointed by Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson. I had only ever read Life After Life and loved it but her debut just didn't hit right. I didn't care about all of these people and it just seemed more like a case study of women who shouldn't have had children but did because of the patriarchy. I dnf'd a little over half way through which was more generous than it deserved honestly.
Not a DNF but I hated Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall so much that I basically wrote a 100k fix it story inspired by it for NaNoWrimo
I've got no interest in Jade City and I read ALLLLL the fantasy.
I happily DNF'd When Life Gives You Vampires by Gloria Duke. The main character's entire personality was how much she hated herself for being plus size. I came for a Vampire romance, not fat phobic nonsense!
I realllllyyyy tried to read Jade City...but I had the same experience as you 😐 on a unrelated note have you watched the Netflix film The pale blue eye??? Gosh I thought it was a masterpiece 👍💜🤗💐
I really wish I could DNF! Teach me your ways! Lol No matter how hard I try I just cant! Im the same with rubbish movies and achievements in games! I think I have completion issues 🤣
you could give it a set nr of chapters or pages, and say if it hasn't graped your interest by then you will DNF it, and then find something you like, you can use to reward yourself everytime you actually DNF a book there don't deliver on the interest after those chapters/pages it was how I began DNF'ing even though it really felt like I was violating me in the beginning, when I tried to dnf a book there had lost interest
I will also when I Dnf write a little note on why, is it because it is boring, I am not in the mood for that kind of story, just not enough time or something else. Is it because it is boring or just annoying I will just get rid of it, but is it because my mood had changed or not enough time for reading I will pick it up another time, where my mood is for it or i have more time
I have now the rule that any book will get 4 chapters before I DNF'd and my reward was that I was alowed to buy another book or notebook or take away that day, which I don't use any more because it is not a probelm anymore with DNF'ing
The only one I’ve read is The Cruel Prince 😂
If you like Patricia Briggs, have you tried Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series? I
I hated Jade City. I thought it was slow.
Do you have a past video where you talk about The Silent Patient?
Actually just found it myself, but in case anyone else is curious it’s her worst books of 2020 video
Anyone have a rule for DNFing books? I'm generally a give it 50 pages then I'm out if I don't want to find out what happens.
Same here, or 1 hour of an audiobook
Nope! As soon as i KNOW i won't have a good time it's gone. I've DNFd on the first page a couple of times before 😂 I rarely buy books new (90% charity shops or library audiobooks) so that may be contributing to how easy it is for me. I'm very careful with how I spend actual money on books so I'd push through for longer on those but it's much rarer I want to DNF those
I didn't mind The Cruel Prince... I mostly tolerated Jude. I find I have felt that way about every one of Holly Black's protagonists. And because of that, I won't be picking up another Black book anytime soon.
omg Hare House was DREADFUL. I couldn't spend even one precious reading hour in that narrator's bigoted little mind, it was a straight DNF 💀💀💀