I love your honesty. :) The books I disliked reading the most this year were: - Evershore by Janci Patterson (and Brandon Sanderson) - The Book that Broke the World - Mark Lawrence. - A Psalm for the Wild-Built and the second book A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers. - How to become the dark lord and die trying by Django Wexler.
Agree with you about The Thursday Murder Club. After I read it I thought I had missed something with all of the hype this book gets! I continued on and finished the series and it’s not worth it. If you didn’t enjoy the first book then don’t worry about reading the rest
Thing for me was Crossroads I was warned about so I couldn't really call it disappointing. I was more salty that folks didn't tell me how bad Winter's Heart was ha ha!
I took a break between books 7 and 8 for three months, there are some very good quality recaps on UA-cam, about 20 minutes each or so, that will catch you back up if you want to avoid burnout.
Here's my picks Memnoch the devil by Anne rice book 5 in the vampire chronicles Steelstriker by marie lu Some desperate glory by Emily tesh Flying solo by linda Holmes It happened one summer by tessa bailey Same time next summer by annabel Monaghan Taming 7 by chloe Walsh
Doors of Midshite by RR Virdy, really wasn't expecting much and it still failed to meet that low bar. Not surprised to see 2 Wheel of Time books on here, if you make it to Brandon's books and say they are better I might just skip to them. I don't think I have more, everything else was really good, finished the first 3 books of Red Rising and they were great, finished the first book of Sun Eater and really enjoyed that too. I just got loaned a bunch of Terry Pratchett books from a friend, I told her I need to get more and she came back with arms full of books and said I could have them for as long as I needed to read them so that's probably all my physical book reading for 2025 sorted there! It's ok to talk about bad books as much as good books, you can't have good books without bad, that's always been my motto.
You can't just "skip" to the Sanderson WoT books. The entire series is one story, and everything that makes the series great is to be found all through the series, and Sanderson brings it to a great finish without ever feeling like he's trying to change things up.
I definitely don't think it's a bad thing to talk about books we dislike, too. I just prefer to talk about them in one video like this or during monthly wrap-up video. I look forward to reading the last 3 books in Wheel of Time. Knife of Dreams, too, actually!
Hahaha, if you think winters heart was bad. Good luck with crossroads 😂😅 I put a pillow over my face and screamed into it more than once whilst reading that book 😅 The last three books by sanderson is a game changer though, so keep going, it will be worth it.
Nooooo. Helpppp! 🤣🤣Seriously, I'm struggling so much reading Crossroads. Let's see how many months this will take. I'm so looking forward to reading the last three books in WoT!
@@PetrikLeo Knife of Dreams is Jordan's best work. If you make it through the Crossroads the last few books are amazing. You can definitely see Sanderson's influence but he handled it really well.
Hey Petrik, I understand the struggle of Crossroads of Twilight, the Slog is real. But slogging through it is a right of passage for every Wheel of Time fan. It adds to the bitter-sweet end when you finally finish the series. Push through my man, it's worth it.
I didn't read much this year, but here's few my few disappointed reads: Karavans - very clingy. ORV - I got disappointed when I found out about the ending Ghoul I believe that could Saved the world (manga) - Too much fanservice Neon's Revenge (webcomic) The ending of TBATE Vol. 6 (webnovel)
When I finished "Crossroads of Twilight", I immediately went to BookTube to see if I was the only person who thought it was terrible. I see nothing wrong with you reading a summary and moving on to "Knife of Dreams", which is actually a good book. Unless you want to be a 100% completionist on WoT, don't punish yourself. Your TBR is huge.
@@PetrikLeo I was referring to the time when I was in the transition from adolescence to young adulthood, not the time when the book was written. That was the age when I liked this kind of book.
I tried to read A Gentleman in Moscow and I realize it’s character driven, however it seemed like absolutely nothing was happening. I did read The Lincoln Highway by Towles and really liked it.
I'm about to start book 7 of Wheel of Time and am curious to see how it goes lol i think I'm gonna try to blast through a book and then take a break with other things to avoid burnout, hopefully it works
I only had one, a manga called Until Your Bones Rot that started with a promising first volume and the concept of a bunch of school friends helping to kill the abusive father of one student, which they cover up by burying him in the woods, only for someone to start doing "I Know What You Did Last Summer" threats. The first one didn't earn 5 stars but it felt like it could get there in future volumes especially with the promise of the group slowly turning on each other. But it tries to be a grounded psychological manga that also does things like have a hot homeless woman who keeps flashing her breasts turn out to be an information dealer with a vast tech network of spies. This has no real connection to anything else but is a way to artificially introduce tension. Right about when she appears (volume 3 of 6 I think?) it starts to fall apart on every level. It starts doing shounen style messages about how killing is always wrong, yes even the abusive father who the story admits was about to kill a 10 year old. The person manipulating everyone with the threats of exposure turns out to be a character introduced in volume 5 of 6 but more galling is how the manga tries to pretend he was a character we knew or had even heard of. Just a mess.
I really enjoyed Winters Heart but the book after that...Petrik you were too kind 🤣 I nearly DNFd a 14 book series I loved up to that point...in book 10!! Thank God for the next book and then the sublime Sanderson takeover.
What's worse Petrick? Being disapointed in a book you thought youd like or hating a book you expected wouldn't be great? In any case, thank you for all the quality content in 2024 and wishing you and all your loved ones happy holidays!
@@Ultimatesadventures probably disappointed in the book I expected to like! At least for the other situation I expected to not like it. 😂 Thank you for your support!! I wish your loved ones happy holidays too!
I think if you go into a book expecting to not like it, then it either surprises you in a good way or is as you expected. So either a positive or neutral experience. But if you go into a book with high expectations, it can be disappointing, meet expectations, or exceed them. So a wide range of emotions which can be negative.
Not very often I have a hot take but, Dungeon Crawler Carl is my biggest disappointment of the year by a pretty wide margin. I have no urge to read a book that primary consists of a transcribed video game tutorial. The cat was pretty funny tho.
I don’t read thrillers but I thought I’d give a try and read Razorback tears after seeing incredible reviews and totally disappointed, never touching thriller again. It felt like every other thriller movie I’ve watched.
Same for me - a Gentleman in Moscow...well, above all it felt sooo unrealistic 🙈 for someone who lives in Russia this book was just shallow and full of trops😅
I don't think I had any disappointing reading experiences at all this year, but then I sometimes feel that you need to be exceptionally bad to really achieve that. This year, I pretty much loved everything I read and would consider everything to be worth rereading, only that I don't want to to this too much because I'd rather read new stuff. This said there's one big exception and that's the Wheel of Time saga. I loved it the first time I read it, loved it even more when I reread it and I just can't relate to people not liking it or parts of it. The one criticism I kinda get is that readers call WoT slow, but then they call pretty much everything I favor slow, so to me, that's a compliment, not an actual criticism. The only book I "struggled" with was A New Spring, and that wasn't even because the story was bad, but more because I generally dislike to being taken out of the actual story for a prequel I just don't care about at that moment. Haven't read it for a while now, so who knows if my taste has changed in that regard, but I plan to reread the complete Saga next year and I expect to have as much fun doing so as I had the other times doing it.
Honestly 2024 was such a solid reading year for me the most disappointing book that I finished was a forgettable Thriller, Grave Descend by Michael Crichton originally written under a penname in the 70s. That's about it for disappointments.
Huge thumbs up on The Thursday Murder Club. I DNF'd it after less than 100 pages, I found all the characters mind numbingly dull and the dialogues were just silly.
I have read a few not so great books this year, but I didn't have high expectations for them, so the disappointment wasn't big. But there was one book that fits the bill. And that is Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. The Road by him was tough, but in a way that was engaging to me. Blood Meridian is the only book I seriously considered DNF'ing this year. It is just this never ending torrent of horrible people experiencing or committing horrible things in a ruthless world. And there wasn't even much of a story to engage with. It is of course well written but I really disliked the experience and was very disappointed by it.
For me, the most disappointing book was Matter by Iain M. Banks. It was my 8th Culture book and it was underwhelming on all fronts. Everything it did well previous books did better, and it showcased things I dislike most about the series in abundance. I am stil hopeful about the last two books, though, as the books are quite different in tone, narration style, and themes.
To me Crossroads is the worst book in the entire Wheel of Time series! Knife of Dreams is absolutely a step up, and book 12 is my favorite of the series (followed closely by 6 and 5).
A knife of Dreams is very good but Crossroads of Twilight is my least favourite of the entire series,at least Winter's Heart had a great ending. I see you have 3 editions of The Will of the Many deluxe,the new one 😅.
Sun eater is my biggest disappointment this year. UA-cam seems to love it but after 300 pages the MC just seemed to never learn anything and i couldn't take it anymore and dropped it. I consider it the worst book i have read that i chose to read
Empire of Silence? Agree it’s a 4 star read at best. But if you treat book 1 as a prologue. I am certain you would really like book 2. It’s where the story really takes shape and the action begins. I originally DNF’d book 1 back in 2019. Picked it back up in 2022 and was so glad I did.
Same, same. The plot armor was eye-rolling. And the writing was just meh. I gave up and DNF’d about 2/3 of the way through. Everyone keeps talking about how the writing keeps getting better, so after letting it gather dust for a year, I may pick it up and just bash through it to get to the second book and see if the writing does indeed get better.
Ah, that's too bad! No need to punish yourself if it's not for you. But if you're still curious, I recommend trying until Howling Dark. IF that book still doesn't work, DNF the series. :)
Most disspointed reads in 24 was Robin Hobbs farser triology. I feel the same as Petrik about WOT and hobbs, just swapped around😂 Zack Argyle was also a litle simplistic
@ true, we are all different and there is nothing «right thing» about art. My impression is though that WOT resonante more with people 40+ than 20+. Smartphones and shorter attention spans I think is equally distributed across agegroups. So no clue why. Maybe im wrong
I.... haven't heard of any of those except wheels of time and I have no interest in that series anyway. But I am now on morning star in the red rising series and absolutely loving it the series gets better by the novel
@@PetrikLeoI am loving red rising series can't wait until it gets adapted I heard it is but idk if it's gonna be movies or shows. I haven't really read anything I hated this year but I did read a few books that weren't as good as I was hoping though.
Crossroads in a nutshell: Faile...faile...where is faile?! LIGHT what is that disturbance Cool scene witb perrin and an axe Cool scene with shaidar haran. There, you read COT
Isnt Winter Heart the one where Elaine and Aviennda are taking a bath and bitching about everyone else for like 3 chapters? yeah......consider it a rite pf passage that all WoT readers have to go through. Books 7 to 10 could have been like 200 pages of plot relevant content. For better or worse, RJ decided to go walkabout in his world after book 6 in an effort to flesh out other characters and cities. I guess overall there's a net positive as you enjoy the highs more after going through all the lows. KoD onwards is a wild ride and BS finished strong even if he didnt fully nail every characters voice (he did better with Rand than RJ IMO). See it through my friend. Be an OG WoTer and suffer like we did.
WOT got me into fantasy, and this was only like 12 years ago? So like Mistborn for you. Definitely flawed. I liked Winter’s Heart more than most. Crossroads? Nothing happens. It’s as if it doesn’t need to exist if I remember correctly. And your opinion on the three wives thing is not an unpopular opinion, I don’t believe.
@@michaelfeeney6108 That's fair! Yeah, that's what I'm getting from Crossroads of Twilight. It's utterly boring. And I'm actually glad that my opinion on the 3 wives thing is not an unpopular opinion. I was honestly disgusted. 😅
In my opinion, the WoT "slog" is a self fulfilling prophecy. So many people assume that these books will be like that there is no surprise when they turn out to experience them as such. I don't think there is any such thing as the slog. The books came out years apart and really were not written under the assumption that they would be read back to back. Not to say they are perfect books but I don't believe they are as bad as so many claim. I respect anyone's individual opinions on them and if they don't like them. For example, I cannot stand Brandon Sanderson's writing and many disagree. But I just don't think we should turn our opinions and criticisms into something more than that. SOME people state their opinions on these books as objective fact. You are not saying this, which I respect. It IS an unpopular opinion. Your opinions on the works of GGK are also unpopular. It is wonderful that you can state your opinions and people will take them for what they are. Loving your videos.
Mine were Blindsight by Peter Watts. Awful everything. Plot, unlikeable characters, underutilized gimmicks (vampire in space but he might as well be a computer talking to the crew), awful writing style. Followed by whole God Eater saga by Rob J. Hayes. Herald was boring and endless, Deathless was the only one ok and Demon made me decide not to ever touch Hayes's books again. The lore was great but I had big issues with main character and cringy writing (this especially in Demon).
Ah that's too bad! I actually really enjoyed God Eater Saga. Deathless was incredible. I do think Herald would be much better enjoyed after reading Demon and Deathless than the other way around, though. I'm never interested in Blindsight by Peter Watts, thankfully! 🤣
Here for Salty Petrik!
@@mariareadsssf not too salty this time! I think. 😂
It’s absolutely worth it to get through the slog and get to the Sanderson books!
@@significantice i shall do my best!!!
I love your honesty. :) The books I disliked reading the most this year were:
- Evershore by Janci Patterson (and Brandon Sanderson)
- The Book that Broke the World - Mark Lawrence.
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built and the second book A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers.
- How to become the dark lord and die trying by Django Wexler.
You love Rand and Matt.That's fantastic!!!Keep reading wot please.😊
Wind Ond Truth!? 😆
@@PetrikLeo I heard its better than Oathbringer and Rhythm of War! Can't wait.... 😭
Agree with you about The Thursday Murder Club. After I read it I thought I had missed something with all of the hype this book gets! I continued on and finished the series and it’s not worth it. If you didn’t enjoy the first book then don’t worry about reading the rest
Thing for me was Crossroads I was warned about so I couldn't really call it disappointing. I was more salty that folks didn't tell me how bad Winter's Heart was ha ha!
Ah yeah! That's fair. 😂😂 For me, I didn't realize just how bad Crossroads would be. It's really as bad as people claimed.
I took a break between books 7 and 8 for three months, there are some very good quality recaps on UA-cam, about 20 minutes each or so, that will catch you back up if you want to avoid burnout.
Here's my picks
Memnoch the devil by Anne rice book 5 in the vampire chronicles
Steelstriker by marie lu
Some desperate glory by Emily tesh
Flying solo by linda Holmes
It happened one summer by tessa bailey
Same time next summer by annabel Monaghan
Taming 7 by chloe Walsh
I haven't read any of those. I heard mixed things about Some Desperate Glory, though!
Doors of Midshite by RR Virdy, really wasn't expecting much and it still failed to meet that low bar. Not surprised to see 2 Wheel of Time books on here, if you make it to Brandon's books and say they are better I might just skip to them.
I don't think I have more, everything else was really good, finished the first 3 books of Red Rising and they were great, finished the first book of Sun Eater and really enjoyed that too. I just got loaned a bunch of Terry Pratchett books from a friend, I told her I need to get more and she came back with arms full of books and said I could have them for as long as I needed to read them so that's probably all my physical book reading for 2025 sorted there!
It's ok to talk about bad books as much as good books, you can't have good books without bad, that's always been my motto.
You can't just "skip" to the Sanderson WoT books. The entire series is one story, and everything that makes the series great is to be found all through the series, and Sanderson brings it to a great finish without ever feeling like he's trying to change things up.
@MichaelSmith-zx5lw I read to book 7, I suffered enough! I wish I stopped when I was bored to tiers after the first one!
I definitely don't think it's a bad thing to talk about books we dislike, too. I just prefer to talk about them in one video like this or during monthly wrap-up video. I look forward to reading the last 3 books in Wheel of Time. Knife of Dreams, too, actually!
Hahaha, if you think winters heart was bad. Good luck with crossroads 😂😅
I put a pillow over my face and screamed into it more than once whilst reading that book 😅
The last three books by sanderson is a game changer though, so keep going, it will be worth it.
Nooooo. Helpppp! 🤣🤣Seriously, I'm struggling so much reading Crossroads. Let's see how many months this will take. I'm so looking forward to reading the last three books in WoT!
@@PetrikLeo Knife of Dreams is also really good! You're almost out of it, but Crossroads is definitely the low point of the series.
@@PetrikLeo Knife of Dreams is Jordan's best work. If you make it through the Crossroads the last few books are amazing. You can definitely see Sanderson's influence but he handled it really well.
Hey Petrik, I understand the struggle of Crossroads of Twilight, the Slog is real. But slogging through it is a right of passage for every Wheel of Time fan. It adds to the bitter-sweet end when you finally finish the series. Push through my man, it's worth it.
I didn't read much this year, but here's few my few disappointed reads:
Karavans - very clingy.
ORV - I got disappointed when I found out about the ending
Ghoul I believe that could Saved the world (manga) - Too much fanservice
Neon's Revenge (webcomic)
The ending of TBATE Vol. 6 (webnovel)
When I finished "Crossroads of Twilight", I immediately went to BookTube to see if I was the only person who thought it was terrible. I see nothing wrong with you reading a summary and moving on to "Knife of Dreams", which is actually a good book. Unless you want to be a 100% completionist on WoT, don't punish yourself. Your TBR is huge.
I didn’t hate Winter’s Heart - I have really enjoyed all the slog books, which is quite funny. Starting Crossroads of Twilight next week!
The biggest disappointment is the Red Rising series. I think if I had read it 25 years ago I would have enjoyed the full potential of the series.
25 years ago the series doesn't even exist man.
If it came out 25 years ago it would be the only series people were talking about and reading, like Twilight or Harry Potter.
@@PetrikLeo I was referring to the time when I was in the transition from adolescence to young adulthood, not the time when the book was written. That was the age when I liked this kind of book.
I tried to read A Gentleman in Moscow and I realize it’s character driven, however it seemed like absolutely nothing was happening. I did read The Lincoln Highway by Towles and really liked it.
I love disappointed petrik
@@ayushkatarpawar6429 😂😂
I'm about to start book 7 of Wheel of Time and am curious to see how it goes lol i think I'm gonna try to blast through a book and then take a break with other things to avoid burnout, hopefully it works
Just started and looking forward to Salty Petrik. Things have been kind of bland IRL recently 😂
Hahahahaha!! I hope this will spice up your life!🤣
I only had one, a manga called Until Your Bones Rot that started with a promising first volume and the concept of a bunch of school friends helping to kill the abusive father of one student, which they cover up by burying him in the woods, only for someone to start doing "I Know What You Did Last Summer" threats. The first one didn't earn 5 stars but it felt like it could get there in future volumes especially with the promise of the group slowly turning on each other. But it tries to be a grounded psychological manga that also does things like have a hot homeless woman who keeps flashing her breasts turn out to be an information dealer with a vast tech network of spies. This has no real connection to anything else but is a way to artificially introduce tension.
Right about when she appears (volume 3 of 6 I think?) it starts to fall apart on every level. It starts doing shounen style messages about how killing is always wrong, yes even the abusive father who the story admits was about to kill a 10 year old. The person manipulating everyone with the threats of exposure turns out to be a character introduced in volume 5 of 6 but more galling is how the manga tries to pretend he was a character we knew or had even heard of. Just a mess.
@@andrewlavigne44 Never heard of this manga. Not sure I ever want to read this now. 😂😂
Completely disappoined by Stuart Turtons third book , The murder at the end of the world. Dnf'ed it after listening to it for an hour.
@@ajaynarayanaswamy3073 i enjoyed the first book by Stuart Turton a bit! Haven't read the rest of his books!
I really enjoyed Winters Heart but the book after that...Petrik you were too kind 🤣
I nearly DNFd a 14 book series I loved up to that point...in book 10!! Thank God for the next book and then the sublime Sanderson takeover.
It's brutally boring. I think this is one of the most boring books I've ever read. Maybe the most boring fantasy book of all time. 🤣
What's worse Petrick? Being disapointed in a book you thought youd like or hating a book you expected wouldn't be great? In any case, thank you for all the quality content in 2024 and wishing you and all your loved ones happy holidays!
@@Ultimatesadventures probably disappointed in the book I expected to like! At least for the other situation I expected to not like it. 😂 Thank you for your support!! I wish your loved ones happy holidays too!
I think if you go into a book expecting to not like it, then it either surprises you in a good way or is as you expected. So either a positive or neutral experience.
But if you go into a book with high expectations, it can be disappointing, meet expectations, or exceed them. So a wide range of emotions which can be negative.
Not very often I have a hot take but, Dungeon Crawler Carl is my biggest disappointment of the year by a pretty wide margin. I have no urge to read a book that primary consists of a transcribed video game tutorial.
The cat was pretty funny tho.
Took me almost 2 years to finish Crossroads of Twilight... Trust me it gets MUCH better.
At this rate, it will take me a year to finish it. 🤣
I don’t read thrillers but I thought I’d give a try and read Razorback tears after seeing incredible reviews and totally disappointed, never touching thriller again. It felt like every other thriller movie I’ve watched.
Same for me - a Gentleman in Moscow...well, above all it felt sooo unrealistic 🙈 for someone who lives in Russia this book was just shallow and full of trops😅
I don't think I had any disappointing reading experiences at all this year, but then I sometimes feel that you need to be exceptionally bad to really achieve that. This year, I pretty much loved everything I read and would consider everything to be worth rereading, only that I don't want to to this too much because I'd rather read new stuff.
This said there's one big exception and that's the Wheel of Time saga. I loved it the first time I read it, loved it even more when I reread it and I just can't relate to people not liking it or parts of it. The one criticism I kinda get is that readers call WoT slow, but then they call pretty much everything I favor slow, so to me, that's a compliment, not an actual criticism. The only book I "struggled" with was A New Spring, and that wasn't even because the story was bad, but more because I generally dislike to being taken out of the actual story for a prequel I just don't care about at that moment.
Haven't read it for a while now, so who knows if my taste has changed in that regard, but I plan to reread the complete Saga next year and I expect to have as much fun doing so as I had the other times doing it.
Completely off topic, but I absolutely love your shelves
Hey, those are words I love to hear! :)
I’m stuck at crossroads of twilight too…i just can’t finish. But i want so much finish this series
The Wheel of Time is only popular because of the sunk cost fallacy, change my mind 🤣
I can't change your mind on it to be honest. 🤣
Honestly 2024 was such a solid reading year for me the most disappointing book that I finished was a forgettable Thriller, Grave Descend by Michael Crichton originally written under a penname in the 70s. That's about it for disappointments.
I envy you. This year is the worst reading year for me!🤣
Huge thumbs up on The Thursday Murder Club. I DNF'd it after less than 100 pages, I found all the characters mind numbingly dull and the dialogues were just silly.
I have read a few not so great books this year, but I didn't have high expectations for them, so the disappointment wasn't big. But there was one book that fits the bill.
And that is Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. The Road by him was tough, but in a way that was engaging to me. Blood Meridian is the only book I seriously considered DNF'ing this year. It is just this never ending torrent of horrible people experiencing or committing horrible things in a ruthless world. And there wasn't even much of a story to engage with. It is of course well written but I really disliked the experience and was very disappointed by it.
Empire of the Vampire and book 2. Those were massive let downs.
But I now know that I’m not a Jay Kristoff fan. Just isn’t for me.
Ah that's too bad! I liked Empire of the Vampire. But hey, nothing wrong with not liking it! At least you know his books are not for you! :)
For me, the most disappointing book was Matter by Iain M. Banks. It was my 8th Culture book and it was underwhelming on all fronts. Everything it did well previous books did better, and it showcased things I dislike most about the series in abundance. I am stil hopeful about the last two books, though, as the books are quite different in tone, narration style, and themes.
Knife of dreams is amazing, and Sanderson sticks the landing. Hang in there, you're almost through the slog
Thank you! I'll persevere. I'm so excited for the last three books!
Totally agree with Winter 's Heart. I read it years ago but still I remember that I thought great start and finish but wth is going on inbetween?
I remember so little about Winter's Heart and I read it this year. 🤣
@PetrikLeo plot wise I also remember nothing I just associate the name with good start and finish and pain inbetween 🤣
Crossroads was the toughest book to read this year,doubtless.😅
Tough is an understatement. It's so damn boring. 🤣
@@PetrikLeo It wasn't that bad for me but a decent book. Book 11 is great and books 12-14 are masterpieces. 🙏
Oooof. Not gonna lie, Marie Brennan hurt. At least Tropic of Serpents kept the hope alive!
@@OnlyTheBestFantasyNovels yeah! I will still continue for sure!
Hey Petrik,
If you like murder mystery, historical fantasy try this series
It is so good!
The Frey & McGray book series by Oscar de Muriel.
Tropic of Serpents is soooo much better than Natural History of Dragons. I am so happy I gave it a try.
Yeahhh I think so too!!
So glad none of my faves made this list 😊
Whew! 🤣
@ 😆
This year has been on and off with books.. some great books and some DNFs too. 😊
I'm mostly off with books this year. 🤣
To me Crossroads is the worst book in the entire Wheel of Time series! Knife of Dreams is absolutely a step up, and book 12 is my favorite of the series (followed closely by 6 and 5).
A knife of Dreams is very good but Crossroads of Twilight is my least favourite of the entire series,at least Winter's Heart had a great ending. I see you have 3 editions of The Will of the Many deluxe,the new one 😅.
Push through CoT. CoT is most fans worst book in the series. Knife of Dreams is good again. The ending of the series is great.
Thank you so much! I'll do my best! I'm confident the rest of the series will be great again!
Sun eater is my biggest disappointment this year. UA-cam seems to love it but after 300 pages the MC just seemed to never learn anything and i couldn't take it anymore and dropped it. I consider it the worst book i have read that i chose to read
Empire of Silence? Agree it’s a 4 star read at best. But if you treat book 1 as a prologue. I am certain you would really like book 2. It’s where the story really takes shape and the action begins. I originally DNF’d book 1 back in 2019. Picked it back up in 2022 and was so glad I did.
Ditto, really don't understand the praise.
Same, same. The plot armor was eye-rolling. And the writing was just meh. I gave up and DNF’d about 2/3 of the way through. Everyone keeps talking about how the writing keeps getting better, so after letting it gather dust for a year, I may pick it up and just bash through it to get to the second book and see if the writing does indeed get better.
Fully agree. I did finish it and the setup for the second books sounds a lot more interesting, but it was tough to get through.
Ah, that's too bad! No need to punish yourself if it's not for you. But if you're still curious, I recommend trying until Howling Dark. IF that book still doesn't work, DNF the series. :)
Most disspointed reads in 24 was Robin Hobbs farser triology. I feel the same as Petrik about WOT and hobbs, just swapped around😂 Zack Argyle was also a litle simplistic
Nooooo!! Not Robin Hobb!!! 😂 Oh well, we can't all love the same thing!
@ true, we are all different and there is nothing «right thing» about art. My impression is though that WOT resonante more with people 40+ than 20+. Smartphones and shorter attention spans I think is equally distributed across agegroups. So no clue why. Maybe im wrong
Was worried Navigators Children would be on this list
@@jackbharucha1475 no way that's happening. Tad Williams will never appear in disappointment list. 😂
I.... haven't heard of any of those except wheels of time and I have no interest in that series anyway. But I am now on morning star in the red rising series and absolutely loving it the series gets better by the novel
I thought you were going to say you hate Red Rising. Hahaha. I LOVE Red Rising Saga. Enjoy!!!
@@PetrikLeoI am loving red rising series can't wait until it gets adapted I heard it is but idk if it's gonna be movies or shows. I haven't really read anything I hated this year but I did read a few books that weren't as good as I was hoping though.
Crossroads in a nutshell:
Faile...faile...where is faile?!
LIGHT what is that disturbance
Cool scene witb perrin and an axe
Cool scene with shaidar haran.
There, you read COT
@@ashleyholbird4287 GOD HELP ME 🤣🤣🤣
Isnt Winter Heart the one where Elaine and Aviennda are taking a bath and bitching about everyone else for like 3 chapters? yeah......consider it a rite pf passage that all WoT readers have to go through. Books 7 to 10 could have been like 200 pages of plot relevant content. For better or worse, RJ decided to go walkabout in his world after book 6 in an effort to flesh out other characters and cities. I guess overall there's a net positive as you enjoy the highs more after going through all the lows. KoD onwards is a wild ride and BS finished strong even if he didnt fully nail every characters voice (he did better with Rand than RJ IMO).
See it through my friend. Be an OG WoTer and suffer like we did.
Skip any pov sequence containing a trakand and it will be much more bearable
Wind and Truth is my most disappointing book of 2024, and by a fair margin. And that includes books i DnFd lol.
Whoaaa! That must be an unpopular opinion! :D
WOT got me into fantasy, and this was only like 12 years ago? So like Mistborn for you. Definitely flawed. I liked Winter’s Heart more than most. Crossroads? Nothing happens. It’s as if it doesn’t need to exist if I remember correctly.
And your opinion on the three wives thing is not an unpopular opinion, I don’t believe.
@@michaelfeeney6108 That's fair! Yeah, that's what I'm getting from Crossroads of Twilight. It's utterly boring. And I'm actually glad that my opinion on the 3 wives thing is not an unpopular opinion. I was honestly disgusted. 😅
@@PetrikLeo Next time I read it I’m considering skipping Crossroads. This coming from a big WOT fan. Good luck! I did enjoy the next one more.
@@PetrikLeo Next time I read it I’m considering skipping Crossroads. This coming from a big WOT fan. Good luck! I did enjoy the next one more.
Its ok. If you reed vampier hunter d it will make it all beter. Pads heads* :3
I watched that movie a long time ago! :D
new tshirt? looks good!
I'm so sad for you that you didn't enjoy The Thursday Murder Club, I literally couldn't stop laughing while reading it.
@@The.dog.and_books i didn't laugh or smile at all. I was confused hearing people laughing at it. 🥲 Different experience!
@PetrikLeo Oh well. We all have different senses of humor, and this clearly wasn't yours. Sorry man.
I was actually crying a lot. Old characters just hit differently
Petrik doesn’t like a book?! I must know what it is 🧐🤣
oh these are SPICY
Hahaha thank you!
Crossroads is super not good
@@AndrewsWizardlyReads it' so bad, IMO 😂
Salty Pwteik!!!
Not too Salty but here I am! 😆
@PetrikLeo haha I knew you'd say that!!!
In my opinion, the WoT "slog" is a self fulfilling prophecy. So many people assume that these books will be like that there is no surprise when they turn out to experience them as such. I don't think there is any such thing as the slog. The books came out years apart and really were not written under the assumption that they would be read back to back. Not to say they are perfect books but I don't believe they are as bad as so many claim. I respect anyone's individual opinions on them and if they don't like them. For example, I cannot stand Brandon Sanderson's writing and many disagree. But I just don't think we should turn our opinions and criticisms into something more than that. SOME people state their opinions on these books as objective fact. You are not saying this, which I respect. It IS an unpopular opinion. Your opinions on the works of GGK are also unpopular. It is wonderful that you can state your opinions and people will take them for what they are. Loving your videos.
Mine were Blindsight by Peter Watts. Awful everything. Plot, unlikeable characters, underutilized gimmicks (vampire in space but he might as well be a computer talking to the crew), awful writing style. Followed by whole God Eater saga by Rob J. Hayes. Herald was boring and endless, Deathless was the only one ok and Demon made me decide not to ever touch Hayes's books again. The lore was great but I had big issues with main character and cringy writing (this especially in Demon).
Ah that's too bad! I actually really enjoyed God Eater Saga. Deathless was incredible. I do think Herald would be much better enjoyed after reading Demon and Deathless than the other way around, though. I'm never interested in Blindsight by Peter Watts, thankfully! 🤣
Well of ascension was the worst book of the year for me I didn’t see that coming lol
Oh nooo! 😂
Peeeetrik
@@zenthepoet. zeeennn!!!
Completely disappoined by Stuart Turton's third book , The murder at the end of the world. Dnf'ed it after listening to it for an hour.
@@ajaynarayanaswamy3073 oh that's a shame! I've read only his first book and enjoyed it a bit. 😅