@@AshleyZieman nothing really, in the sense that if you want to read it you absolutely should. However, it's generally considered to be not great writing (you can google 'why do people dislike Fourth Wing' for concise answers and examples), yet it's being pushed SO HARD everywhere, it's getting kind of annoying. Getting beaten to death with it in every corner of the internet only deepens people's resolve not to read it if they weren't already interested in reading it.
@@AshleyZieman the author appropriated and absolutely butchered the Gaelic language for no reason and without apology and is taking a very icky stance on the genocide in Palestine (basically saying having her book published in Israel is more important than that). It's ultimately up to you whether to read the book but maybe consider buying second hand so you don't support the author directly :)
Also I cried a little at the part where Rob was on call and Kayla was trying to make him feel better with a free smoothie but then he ends up gifting it to her 😭 #couplegoals
You’re one of the few booktubers I watch who do not have the same taste in books as me (I did not like monstrilio, to rec another book I hated, Juniper Unraveling)- I come here purely because listening to you is a pleasure and your videos are always excellent, even if I don’t come away with book recs
I LOVED _Book of Night_ exactly for its beautiful mundane life snuggled inside the fantasy narrative.🖤 It felt like both a b/w-noir-film-with-fantasy-elements type of thing and an intimate story about flawed people and their genuine connections. I feel like we rarely get plots like this and it breaks my heart that many people seem to dislike it. Great video as always!)
Ahhh, I was so excited for a half minute thinking you might read A Deadly Education, which is one of my favorites from last year and in general I think it has to say a lot interesting stuff about precarity / loneliness / the absence of a social net. I can't read YA anymore that much, but I ate that book up and I loved the prickly, hardened by life heroine. Can't leave you a recommendation, though, cause we have a loooot in common in our reading.
This is such a fun concept! Thanks for sending me Jan's way. Watching the two videos back to back was a wild ride, and I loved how differently each of you approached the challenge on top of everything else. This is a great reminder not to be afraid to add books to my TBR even if other people didn't care for them.
not Jan’s list of least favorites having like 20 of my all time favorites on it 💀 I guess I’ll be adding all the other books I haven’t read to my TBR then 👀
Yes! Your description of Book of Night was spot on for me! I couldn’t put down how I felt but it felt like you read my mind haha. My review was like “yep, I definitely read that book”
I love that you led me to Jan. She's so cool! And I love that you kept updating with what was going on in One Dark Window because I'm reading it for my book club and feel like I don't understand it. Your recaps helped. lol
We have similar tastes and I kind of want you to give A Deadly Education another try. It’s not YA but I can see why the writing might come across that way. She’s just a very grumpy girl with super volcano powers and it’s fun.
A proud and happy subscriber here!!! 😊 I truly enjoy watching your channel you inspire me to continue reading! I don’t know how you do! Either way keep up the good work because, I know that it’s not easy!
There are so many things you dislike that I love so when we both like something it always makes it more exciting. Seeing that you DNFed Gods of Jade & Shadow hurt my soul though since it’s the reason I keep giving SMG chances. Loved this video!
I was really hyped for Book of Night. Your comments as to how it was a "passive" experience to read and how it didn't feel like a seasoned author wrote it quite captured some of my feelings. One of a string of books in the past couple years from established authors that felt more like creative writing exercises that should have stayed in the drafts rather than been published as books...for me anyway. It's technically written just fine but didn't stick with me at all.
@@salamalmahi541 No, I meant about Jan calling it "bad". You don't have to like it (I do like it) but I don't see how it could be considered poorly done.
the excitement of learning about the name of the day thing, then hearing my name was picked, then the low of knowing I missed it and also that the closest location was 2 hrs away anyway -_-
I have this dynamic but with my sister! Complete opposite tastes in Romance, it's so fun that something you love someone else really hates, amazing discussions come out of it, I really liked this video and would absolutely watch a part 2
It's very funny because I finished Assistant to the villain this week and I devoured that one and gave it a high rating lol but usually your top books are 3 stars and more for me.
i feel like our tastes never align lmao. case in point: my least favorites list from last year had: the pallbearer's club, ninth house, and the book of the most precious substance, and i dnf'd my heart is a chainsaw. so going off that, my recommendations: boy parts by eliza clark (though that could go either way honestly); the witnesses are gone by joel lane; dirty heads by aaron dries; everything the darkness eats by eric larocca; the world cannot give by tara isabella burton and maybe the party by elizabeth day.
You explained why I couldn’t get into Book of Night! I thought it was just my depression, but I felt so closed off that I couldn’t connect with anything. Which triggered a reading slump for a long while.
I may be biased because Craig Di Louie is a friend of mine, but I would definitely recommend Suffer the Children. I think it’s more about what you would do for those you love than the kids themselves.
Such an interesting challenge and it really shows that there's a reader for all (ok, most) books. I'd say we have opposite tastes in sci-fi. You loved Dune and Kindred, both which I thought were just ok. And you liked Do You Dream of Terra-Two? which I thought was terrible. So by this logic, you might enjoy The First Sister by Linden Lewis, Loki's Ring by Stina Leicht, which I DNFed, or anything by Emily Skrutskie, who I tried three times before deciding her books aren't for me.
We have absolutely opposite tastes in books, but I love watching your videos! You should read Bear and the Nightingale. One of my favorite books of all time :)
I had fun reading book of night and one dark window. However I ended up unhauling book of night because I knew I wouldn’t re-read it vs I think sometime down the line I would re-read one dark window. I love your channel ❤
Ooooo. We agree on A LOT (Raven Cycle and more recently - Nothing to See Here, Finna/Defekt, etc). But there are also a lot of misses (I love Summer Sons, All For the Game, and Murderbot and you didn’t 😅) but I thought Bunny, If We Were Villains, and Night of the Mannequins were just fine. I DNFd Immortal Longings. And didn’t like Undead Girl Gang, Tell Me I’m Worthless or Throne of the Fallen. I also didn’t love - To Be Taught if Fortunate, Something Fabulous, Lily and Dunkin, The Course of Love, May the Best Man Win, Let’s Talk About Love, and Lost in the Never Woods.
A book i DNFed last year was a book called "No boy summer" By Amy Spalding it's about two sisters this is the summary from goodreads : Lydia Jones and her younger sister Penny have had it with boy drama. Last year was marred by relationship disasters for both of them, threatening Lydia’s standing with her school’s theater tech club and Penny’s perfect GPA. Penny has, naturally, diagnosed the problem and prescribed a drastic solution: a summer off from boys. it was going great for awhile but i started getting annoyed with the main character halfway through but i think you will really like
honestly ive seen a lot of people say that in comparison, the cruel prince sometimes feels more new adult than book of night does. if you ever decide to read it despite it being YA, I wonder if you would feel the same and like it better
I felt the exact same way about Book of Night. I absolutely loved the Cruel Prince trilogy and felt like that world was so well defined and thought out, but with BoN I literally had no idea why anything was important or why any of it mattered. It felt so low stakes compared to her other books...was a weird reading experience for sure
This was such a fun video!! I love watching both of you, so it was interesting to see the different perspectives of these books! 🥰 I also gave What Lies in the Woods 4 stars and felt the exact same way about it you did! Definitely taking The House in the Pines off my tbr though. 😂
I'm going to switch it up and actually recommend you a middle grade I think you'd enjoy - The Mossheart's Promise by Rebecca Mix. I also think you might enjoy Iron Widow which is a YA fantasy. Both of these recommendations are actually based on favorites we have in common from other genres. :)
Love being blessed with a LONG kayla video and I’m the same with SMG, I want to like her books but I guessed the entire ending of mexican gothic and dnf’ed two of her other books. Book of night sounds so interesting but I hate reading books when the character has the same name as me 🩵
I'm sad you didn't like One Dark Window 😢 I actually really like the lore behind the magic. I'm also really confused when people say they don't feel anything from the characters because I feel a lot of things from them. Yes, I agree that Elspeth can be a bit like a damsel in distress, but other than that, I like a lot of the other aspects of the book.
This is actually so funny, because there are a few BookTubers I love whose tastes are the opposite of mine. Like Riley Marie & Chandler Ainsley? If they hate a book, that tells me to pick it up. 🤣
According to Goodreads, our tastes are 82% similar for the books we both rated. I didn't enjoy Illuminae, Neverworld Wake, Undead Girl Gang, All Your Perfects, With the Fire on High, The Turn of the Key, everything by Riley Sager, or The Writing Retreat. Other books that weren't for me that look like you haven't read: Tithe by Holly Black, Weird Sisters by Terry Pratchett, The Perfect Family by Robyn Harding, Daisy Jones & the Six, and The Revenge List by Hannah Mary McKinnon.
I know that we are complete opposites in a lot of books. For instance speculative, end of the world type fiction. You loved leave the world behind, which I hated with a passion. But then we differ on thrillers sometimes too, you loved in my dreams I hold a knife, which was a 1 star from me. You loved notes on an execution which was 1,5 stars for me 😅. I’m still looking for books that I have rated highly that you haven’t enjoyed. But this is a bit of a trend. Whenever you love a book I kinda know to avoid 😬😂 List of things you gave 4-5 that I gave 1 star : The darkness outside us We spread The echo wife The last word What moves the dead An unwanted guest In my dreams I hold a knife The glass hotel Pet Sematary Dark places The goldfinch To kill a mockingbird I have yet to find a book that I gave 5 stars that you gave 1 star though 🤔🤔
Kayla, we are almost polar bookish opposites! Comfort Me With Apples was so awful for me! The Push angers me to think about. I almost never like weird or quirky books or literary fiction. But I do want to say that if it weren't for your recommendation, I would have never read Nothing To See Here which was one of my favorite books of last year! So thank you SO MUCH for that! But have you read Vita Nostra? I just DNF'd it 1/4 in and looked up spoilers. I think it's your kind of weird! I hated it. 😅
Like okay, I completely understand that Fourth Wing is not the best written novel, I just think it is so FUN. I think that the fact that it blew up on booktok has given people the ick, but if people absolutely don’t like fantasy romance then obviously it wouldn’t be their thing but if you do like some romantasy that the first book is worth a try.
Book You Recommended: We Ride Upon Sticks. I DNFed this. It felt like I was reading for an eternity only to reach just the halfway point. Book that I Would Recommend: Hogfather. I feel like this could be a fantasy that you might enjoy because of the nonsensical/weird/funny nature of it. There's a chance...
the commitment to not reading fourth wing is so real
And we 100% support this decision.
What's the issue with Forth Wing. I feel like I have absolutely missed this discussion.
@@AshleyZieman nothing really, in the sense that if you want to read it you absolutely should.
However, it's generally considered to be not great writing (you can google 'why do people dislike Fourth Wing' for concise answers and examples), yet it's being pushed SO HARD everywhere, it's getting kind of annoying. Getting beaten to death with it in every corner of the internet only deepens people's resolve not to read it if they weren't already interested in reading it.
@@AshleyZieman the author appropriated and absolutely butchered the Gaelic language for no reason and without apology and is taking a very icky stance on the genocide in Palestine (basically saying having her book published in Israel is more important than that). It's ultimately up to you whether to read the book but maybe consider buying second hand so you don't support the author directly :)
@@exlibrisphoebe thank you for explaining I appreciate it! :)
THE FREAKIN MONTAGE OF OUR VIDEOS HAS ME CACKLING. (did me dirty with that Tinfoil Butterfly clip though LOL)
the way you had to make the graphics for me lmao
@@JanAgaton🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Ok but "books we don't agree on" would be SUCH a fun library display. Taking this to the team soon.
Love the Booster Juice Subplotline 😂💌
Same, I was so invested lol
I love how 'what lies in the woods' and 'a house in the pines' are a complete question and answer
Ooooooh 🫰🏻🫰🏻🫰🏻
Haa haa... I thought the same thing. It would be funny to do a challenge where the titles told a story.
…with one dark window 😂
Kayla - I would never tell anyone not to read a book
Also Kayla - Don't read this book 🤣
Contradiction Queen 👑
This is literally why I love Kayla's videos. Books she ends up disliking I usually LOVE, and occasionally we end up adoring the same book.
I literally go through her videos and take recommendations based on the ones she hates. It’s been a good time lol
Also I cried a little at the part where Rob was on call and Kayla was trying to make him feel better with a free smoothie but then he ends up gifting it to her 😭 #couplegoals
You’re one of the few booktubers I watch who do not have the same taste in books as me (I did not like monstrilio, to rec another book I hated, Juniper Unraveling)- I come here purely because listening to you is a pleasure and your videos are always excellent, even if I don’t come away with book recs
LMFAO THIS INTRO OF ALL THE OPPOSING RATINGSSSSS what a perfect collab
the handyman method was inspired by unedited footage of a bear and that made me find it even funnier
This comment made me laugh so hard that I farted 😂
@@omgitsyelhsa13 it’s a real UA-cam horror short!!! You should watch if you haven’t seen it before
@@omgitsyelhsa13 noooo it’s an actual video!!! You can look it up!!!
I LOVED _Book of Night_ exactly for its beautiful mundane life snuggled inside the fantasy narrative.🖤 It felt like both a b/w-noir-film-with-fantasy-elements type of thing and an intimate story about flawed people and their genuine connections. I feel like we rarely get plots like this and it breaks my heart that many people seem to dislike it. Great video as always!)
love this concept congrats on 150K!
Ahhhh thank you!!
I dnf'd Deadly Education after the first chapter. Then ended up going back to it later and it became one of my absolute favorites.
Ahhh, I was so excited for a half minute thinking you might read A Deadly Education, which is one of my favorites from last year and in general I think it has to say a lot interesting stuff about precarity / loneliness / the absence of a social net. I can't read YA anymore that much, but I ate that book up and I loved the prickly, hardened by life heroine. Can't leave you a recommendation, though, cause we have a loooot in common in our reading.
Your description of the feeling while reading Book of Night is so accurate! I couldn't put my finger on why I didn't like it but you said everything.
This is such a fun concept! Thanks for sending me Jan's way. Watching the two videos back to back was a wild ride, and I loved how differently each of you approached the challenge on top of everything else. This is a great reminder not to be afraid to add books to my TBR even if other people didn't care for them.
this is such a fun concept omg!!
not Jan’s list of least favorites having like 20 of my all time favorites on it 💀
I guess I’ll be adding all the other books I haven’t read to my TBR then 👀
OMG same 🤣
Yes! Your description of Book of Night was spot on for me! I couldn’t put down how I felt but it felt like you read my mind haha. My review was like “yep, I definitely read that book”
You totally need to at least look at One Dark Window in person since the cards are in the book and so cool. I loved it!
I love that you led me to Jan. She's so cool! And I love that you kept updating with what was going on in One Dark Window because I'm reading it for my book club and feel like I don't understand it. Your recaps helped. lol
We have similar tastes and I kind of want you to give A Deadly Education another try. It’s not YA but I can see why the writing might come across that way. She’s just a very grumpy girl with super volcano powers and it’s fun.
I know I say it about once a month but this might be my favourite vlog idea you’ve done! This was so fun!! The montage at the start was perfect 😂😂
This was so fun! I'm headed over to Jan's channel for the first time ❤
Agreed about recommending books you hate to someone if you think they might enjoy them! I do that a lot 😂
A proud and happy subscriber here!!! 😊 I truly enjoy watching your channel you inspire me to continue reading! I don’t know how you do! Either way keep up the good work because, I know that it’s not easy!
I adore this idea. Me and my friends have massively different tastes and this is a way more fun way of experiencing each others reads!
I loved One Dark Window hahah. My friend listened to the audiobook and she hated it. I read it on my Kindle and was obsessed. LOL
I love this!! It’s so true that sometimes people’s least favorite reads will be your favorite!
There are so many things you dislike that I love so when we both like something it always makes it more exciting. Seeing that you DNFed Gods of Jade & Shadow hurt my soul though since it’s the reason I keep giving SMG chances. Loved this video!
Omg I really hope this becomes a trend, I LOVE this!! I can't wait to go watch hers now!
I was really hyped for Book of Night. Your comments as to how it was a "passive" experience to read and how it didn't feel like a seasoned author wrote it quite captured some of my feelings. One of a string of books in the past couple years from established authors that felt more like creative writing exercises that should have stayed in the drafts rather than been published as books...for me anyway. It's technically written just fine but didn't stick with me at all.
Personally I did like book of night. Gave it 3 stars because there def are issues/struggles but had a good time so I wasn't mad.
Calling A Deadly Education a legitimately bad book is a WILD take.
It is a divisive book for sure
I mean she also said she hated Harry Potter in the same breath 😭
@@salamalmahi541 No, I meant about Jan calling it "bad". You don't have to like it (I do like it) but I don't see how it could be considered poorly done.
Loved the trilogy
the excitement of learning about the name of the day thing, then hearing my name was picked, then the low of knowing I missed it and also that the closest location was 2 hrs away anyway -_-
I have this dynamic but with my sister! Complete opposite tastes in Romance, it's so fun that something you love someone else really hates, amazing discussions come out of it, I really liked this video and would absolutely watch a part 2
It's very funny because I finished Assistant to the villain this week and I devoured that one and gave it a high rating lol but usually your top books are 3 stars and more for me.
Oh yes! I had a wild time reading The Handyman Method and I am so glad you read it!
i feel like our tastes never align lmao. case in point: my least favorites list from last year had: the pallbearer's club, ninth house, and the book of the most precious substance, and i dnf'd my heart is a chainsaw.
so going off that, my recommendations: boy parts by eliza clark (though that could go either way honestly); the witnesses are gone by joel lane; dirty heads by aaron dries; everything the darkness eats by eric larocca; the world cannot give by tara isabella burton and maybe the party by elizabeth day.
I loved One Dark Window, I finished it and then bought the sequel to later finish it the next day
This video was so fun!
im so glad you liked What Lies in the Woods! its not my normal type of read but i really loved it.
43:20 I love the JANis Joplin shirt for your Jan video lol
I was sooooo hyped for the house in the pines and now I feel justified in my rating 😂
I feel so good about my decision to DNF The House in the Pines haha 🫣
I’m so excited someone else liked The Handyman Method. 😂 like for real it was just kind of a good time. 31:46
Interesting I loved both what lies in the woods and one dark window.
You explained why I couldn’t get into Book of Night! I thought it was just my depression, but I felt so closed off that I couldn’t connect with anything. Which triggered a reading slump for a long while.
two faves with a superb concept! love this so much!
I may be biased because Craig Di Louie is a friend of mine, but I would definitely recommend Suffer the Children. I think it’s more about what you would do for those you love than the kids themselves.
this was SO much fun! thank you ❤
I’m a silent follower and just came to say this video made me put down my phone and genuinely just watch. Thank you for the engaging content!
Such an interesting challenge and it really shows that there's a reader for all (ok, most) books. I'd say we have opposite tastes in sci-fi. You loved Dune and Kindred, both which I thought were just ok. And you liked Do You Dream of Terra-Two? which I thought was terrible. So by this logic, you might enjoy The First Sister by Linden Lewis, Loki's Ring by Stina Leicht, which I DNFed, or anything by Emily Skrutskie, who I tried three times before deciding her books aren't for me.
Oh my gosh yay! I loved The Handyman Method. ❤
I absolutely loved Book of Night. So different and I hope Holly Black continues the book with a series. But your take on it, is very accurate.
Please make this a series!
I am very behind on watching videos so get ready for a TON of comments coming through over the next few days while I play catch up. lol
We have absolutely opposite tastes in books, but I love watching your videos!
You should read Bear and the Nightingale. One of my favorite books of all time :)
2:38 you almost got a bingo lol
I was hoping you'd pick Suffer the Children bc I liked that book so much! I loved this video concept!
Always love your videos Kayla! So unique and entertaining. The house in the pines I looked up and now want to read it ❤
I had fun reading book of night and one dark window. However I ended up unhauling book of night because I knew I wouldn’t re-read it vs I think sometime down the line I would re-read one dark window. I love your channel ❤
Ooooo. We agree on A LOT (Raven Cycle and more recently - Nothing to See Here, Finna/Defekt, etc). But there are also a lot of misses (I love Summer Sons, All For the Game, and Murderbot and you didn’t 😅) but I thought Bunny, If We Were Villains, and Night of the Mannequins were just fine. I DNFd Immortal Longings. And didn’t like Undead Girl Gang, Tell Me I’m Worthless or Throne of the Fallen.
I also didn’t love - To Be Taught if Fortunate, Something Fabulous, Lily and Dunkin, The Course of Love, May the Best Man Win, Let’s Talk About Love, and Lost in the Never Woods.
A book i DNFed last year was a book called "No boy summer" By Amy Spalding it's about two sisters this is the summary from goodreads : Lydia Jones and her younger sister Penny have had it with boy drama. Last year was marred by relationship disasters for both of them, threatening Lydia’s standing with her school’s theater tech club and Penny’s perfect GPA. Penny has, naturally, diagnosed the problem and prescribed a drastic solution: a summer off from boys. it was going great for awhile but i started getting annoyed with the main character halfway through but i think you will really like
I really loved what lies in the woods
I read one dark window and loved it not as a romance though. but it doesn't seem like the audiobook would work
honestly ive seen a lot of people say that in comparison, the cruel prince sometimes feels more new adult than book of night does. if you ever decide to read it despite it being YA, I wonder if you would feel the same and like it better
I felt the exact same way about Book of Night. I absolutely loved the Cruel Prince trilogy and felt like that world was so well defined and thought out, but with BoN I literally had no idea why anything was important or why any of it mattered. It felt so low stakes compared to her other books...was a weird reading experience for sure
This was such a fun video!! I love watching both of you, so it was interesting to see the different perspectives of these books! 🥰 I also gave What Lies in the Woods 4 stars and felt the exact same way about it you did! Definitely taking The House in the Pines off my tbr though. 😂
I'm going to switch it up and actually recommend you a middle grade I think you'd enjoy - The Mossheart's Promise by Rebecca Mix. I also think you might enjoy Iron Widow which is a YA fantasy. Both of these recommendations are actually based on favorites we have in common from other genres. :)
I absolutely love this video concept
Same exact feelings about one dark window
IMAGINE if someone puts Fourth Wing in the Members' TBR jar and it gets picked😬
Oooh I didn't even consider that as a possibility 😅
@@BooksandLala if that ever happens... No it didn't, and I'm sure no one knows what happened to the footage of you picking it from the jar...
I really enjoyed Weyward... I feel like you would like it.
Love this concept, I have had a few booktubers in the past where I tend to like their dislikes. Almost as good as a recommendation 😂
Love being blessed with a LONG kayla video and I’m the same with SMG, I want to like her books but I guessed the entire ending of mexican gothic and dnf’ed two of her other books. Book of night sounds so interesting but I hate reading books when the character has the same name as me 🩵
The smoothie drama is exciting! 😂
The whispering dark is one of my favourite books, I feel like I hear no one talk about it but sad that it was a least favourite 😢
I just finished The House in the Pines a week or so ago. So ready for your thoughts
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good is a fun read! Suggest you give that one a shot if you can!
Omg the intro brings me much joy 😂
I'm sad you didn't like One Dark Window 😢 I actually really like the lore behind the magic. I'm also really confused when people say they don't feel anything from the characters because I feel a lot of things from them. Yes, I agree that Elspeth can be a bit like a damsel in distress, but other than that, I like a lot of the other aspects of the book.
Kayla I think I agree with you on Rachel Harrison and I’m sad about it 😢
A lot of books I adore are on her least fav list too! 🫢Book Lovers and Delilah Green are two of my all time fav romances!
This is actually so funny, because there are a few BookTubers I love whose tastes are the opposite of mine. Like Riley Marie & Chandler Ainsley? If they hate a book, that tells me to pick it up. 🤣
According to Goodreads, our tastes are 82% similar for the books we both rated. I didn't enjoy Illuminae, Neverworld Wake, Undead Girl Gang, All Your Perfects, With the Fire on High, The Turn of the Key, everything by Riley Sager, or The Writing Retreat. Other books that weren't for me that look like you haven't read: Tithe by Holly Black, Weird Sisters by Terry Pratchett, The Perfect Family by Robyn Harding, Daisy Jones & the Six, and The Revenge List by Hannah Mary McKinnon.
This was so awesome!!!!
I freaking LOVED Book of Night. Not everyone hated it.
Absolutely not poor taste to not like Harry Potter lol, I stan every trashing of J.K. and all that's related to her
Its like polar opposites 😂😂😂 in the beginning
Book of night... I am reminded of my really bad reading experience everytime I see that cover
I would have gotten a smoothie! 😂
This concept is so fun!!!! 🔥 what a great vlog
I know that we are complete opposites in a lot of books. For instance speculative, end of the world type fiction. You loved leave the world behind, which I hated with a passion. But then we differ on thrillers sometimes too, you loved in my dreams I hold a knife, which was a 1 star from me. You loved notes on an execution which was 1,5 stars for me 😅. I’m still looking for books that I have rated highly that you haven’t enjoyed. But this is a bit of a trend. Whenever you love a book I kinda know to avoid 😬😂
List of things you gave 4-5 that I gave 1 star :
The darkness outside us
We spread
The echo wife
The last word
What moves the dead
An unwanted guest
In my dreams I hold a knife
The glass hotel
Pet Sematary
Dark places
The goldfinch
To kill a mockingbird
I have yet to find a book that I gave 5 stars that you gave 1 star though 🤔🤔
Kayla, we are almost polar bookish opposites! Comfort Me With Apples was so awful for me! The Push angers me to think about. I almost never like weird or quirky books or literary fiction. But I do want to say that if it weren't for your recommendation, I would have never read Nothing To See Here which was one of my favorite books of last year! So thank you SO MUCH for that! But have you read Vita Nostra? I just DNF'd it 1/4 in and looked up spoilers. I think it's your kind of weird! I hated it. 😅
Like okay, I completely understand that Fourth Wing is not the best written novel, I just think it is so FUN. I think that the fact that it blew up on booktok has given people the ick, but if people absolutely don’t like fantasy romance then obviously it wouldn’t be their thing but if you do like some romantasy that the first book is worth a try.
Book You Recommended: We Ride Upon Sticks.
I DNFed this. It felt like I was reading for an eternity only to reach just the halfway point.
Book that I Would Recommend: Hogfather.
I feel like this could be a fantasy that you might enjoy because of the nonsensical/weird/funny nature of it. There's a chance...
I read Velvet Was the Night. I loved it! Ha!
I’m still tempted to read some of these books 😅