Books I thought would be 5 stars and the ones that were... || Recommendations!
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Which books were you surprised weren’t 5 stars for you? What about the ones that surprisingly were?
Normal People are Sally Rooney. I have deep rooted hatred for that book.
It happen one summer
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
In 2022, I was maybe not expecting to give it five stars, but I was expecting to love Illborn since almost every fantasy focused CZcams channels was raving about it, but I DNF'd at 20%. The writing is bad and the story is derivative. My biggest surprise this year is Carrie Soto is Back. I wasn't expecting to love it cause Malibu Rising was ok and the premise didn't excite me, but TJR proves again she's an amazing character writer and storyteller.
The secret History...
Other people: "this is so romantic" ...
Emily: "where"???
One of your best quotes ever! Had to pause your video just to write it!
I agree that Lizzie is the best but I actually love that Jane Austen is also creating female characters that do not fit the “strong extroverted women” picture and that show that you can be strong in different ways. Austen always gives her characters one central flaw and for Persuasion that is that Anne Elliot is a pushover and the book is largely about her overcoming that
Totally agree. Persuasion is my favorite by her. Anne was always trying to do the right thing for everyone but herself. And she learned at the end to overcome this. I loved her actually more than lizzy because lizzy was horrible to Mary, who is just a nerd and socially awkward and she could have tried to help her, especially that she was bullied by her little sisters. I love Lizzy too but I also love every other heroin because they all have flaws that they learn to overcome by the end.
I wish that there was a book about Mary.
“Why is everyone growling” 😂
I can already tell what book this is! 🤣
That would be a good headline about the current state of world politics.
Yes! Thank you for bringing up older reads, too!
oh, flowers for algernon - one of my favourite books of all time
Fangirl fascinated me because a ton of the plotpoints were used at that time for contemporary fanfictions. For me it read like a long fanfic. Maybe that was what the hype was all about
I bought Spin years ago when you first recommended it & its still sitting on my shelf unread 😂 I need to get to that one! Also I am currently (finally) reading The Sword of Kaigen & enjoying it so far!
Shame! Shame! SHAME!
(Did it help? Lol)
If the calmer female charakters of Jane Austen don't work for you, you probably should'n read Mansfield Park. Fannys self esteem is quite low, because of her upbringing, but on the other hand she sees much more and makes the right conclusion because she gets ignored and/or overlooked most if the time.
I love Persuasion and Mansfield Park even more than Pride and Prejudice, because Anne and Fanny are more quite and not so obviously assertive. But in the right moment they stand their ground. 🥰
Or try Northanger Abbey, if you want a Jane who preferred strong coffee to tea.
Yes!
I love Mansfield Park and Fanny ❤️.
I really don't understand how this book is so disliked.
@@mairabezerra915 I think most readers can't comprehend such a passive main character as Fanny. The heroine of today needs to be active and must take her fate into her own hands ... or at least there must be an obvious character development at which end the passiveness will be overcome.
I hope that makes sense 🤔😅😇
Yes, I guess that is the reason.
I just think it's a pity, I believe that Fanny is also really strong but in a different way.
Anyway I really like her and the book (there was a lot of rich people problem and fanny judging in silence. Relatable lol).
@@angelazeiler6838 it’s been years since I’ve read Mansfield Park but it was my introduction to Austen. I’m not someone who needs an extremely independent strong female character and sometimes I find when characters are written as too independent they can be off putting but there was something about Fanny’s passivity that I disliked so strongly-coupled with the fact that it was required reading for a college class. I basically said nope Austen isn’t for me and have never been tempted to read anything else she’s written. I say that not to just be an Austen hater but to highlight how visceral a negative reaction I had to this character that it’s been like 10 years, I don’t even remember the plot of the story but something in the back of my head still says nah you don’t like Austen just because of that one book. I will say if it wasn’t required reading I would have just DNFed the book tried a different Austen and likely have had a less negative reaction to her.
I felt the same with Upgrade. Went into it super stoked. Gave it 2 stars. However, I absolutely loved The Wheel of Time series, Season 1. I had read most of the novels about 10 yrs ago, and feel they did a wonderful job with bringing the story and characters to life.
god i remember your reviews of attachments and fangirl back in the day, convinced me to never pick them up 😅 and the iconic sarah j maas reading vlog where everything just sucked lmao i’m gonna rewatch them asap
I watched the WoT tv series (and didn't mind it) which got me into the books. I'm nearly done the fourth book and really enjoying it! I recommend you continue it when you feel like reading some fantasy again, I think you'll appreciate how the plot evolves and the characters develop. :)
Anihilation for me was the other way around. I had seen many mixed reviews and was expecting not to enjoy it very much but ended up loving it.
Similar vibes to Annihilation, and for fans of Iris van Herpen's fashion: House of Hollow, a dark fairy tale-horror story that is a "YA for adults". Surprise 5 star read that is eerie, has body/nature-related horror mixed with elements of the fashion/celebrity world, with a mystery to figure out involving sisters and what happened to them while they went missing as kids for a month. Main character is 17, but others are in their early 20s and the writing is actually elevated enough with vivid description to not come across as "juvenile" which I'm finding to be the case for a lot of YA nowadays.
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I read Flowers for Algernon when I was in high school -- 80s yikes, it's stayed with me all this time. I plan to re-read next year. Also you've got me interest in Spin. Thanks.
I have the same feelings about rereading I'll Give You the Sun. I read it years ago and I don't want to reread it and then not love it as much!
That's my biggest fear about rereads! I used to always reread books and now I pretty much never do lol
I always thought of this book as my favourite of all time but I read it in 2016 and I recently reread it and OMG I just fell in love with it all over again ! This book is a masterpiece and one of the best YA contemporary out there
I’ll Give You the Sun was fantastic! It was such a surprise 5 star book.
It's always interesting hearing people's opinions on books because we all have such different tastes. Persuasion is actually the only Austen book I genuinely like.
For books I was surprised weren't 5 stars,
Matt Haig's The Radleys. I liked The Midnight Library so much and then ended up DNFing Radleys. It wasn't awful, but the kind of love triangle that was set up there made me not want to read it.
There's also Polish book Kto zabił mamusię (Who killed mommy [mother-in-law here]) that sounded like something I would absolutely love, the beginning was promising, but it ended up being 3,5*.
Also The Beast Within, it was first book I've read in a series that's supposed to explore why villains were villains. You could say I should've expected to not love it since the author made the choice of focusing on Beast instead of Gaston, but it was still disappointing. Spoiler if anyone wants to read it, but he's a dick from the beginning so we don't even get the reasoning except it's just who he is. I've also read the first and third book in this series and they're just a smidge better because they do give some reasoning behind the evilness, but the third one (Ursula's!) is about her for less than half of it and it's a single event. In the first one it's like a slow build-up in a way and it does have interesting ending. This is more of a disappointing series to be honest.
The Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally Greatest Love Story Ever Told was another DNF. I could see it being good in audio format, but it read like them interrupting each other constantly.
The last one is Labyrinth of Spirits by Zafon. The conclusion to his Cementary of Forgotten Books series. I just did not like the main character at all (she hit on a married man, even though she knew he was married, definitely read like a "not like other girls/I just get on better with guys" type, pretty much every guy who spent even a minute with her loved her) and the book generally stripped off the magic of the series. I know in general it's liked but I don't personally know anyone who likes it.
For the book that I didn't expect to be a 5 star but was - The House in the Cerulean Sea. I'm so-so with hyped books and House was EVERYWHERE so I thought it'd be over-rated (Addie was also everywhere and I DNFed before 50% mark, for comparison). But I ended up loving it and now TJ Klune is in my top 3 favourite authors.
Go figure that mostly I have disappointments. I admit I'm pretty stingy with 5 star ratings. I do have a few surprising 4 stars, though.
I'm glad to hear your take on Upgrade. I just added it to my TBR yesterday and I imagine I'll be removing it. I first read Crouch with the Wayward Pines series. The first book of that one was good...and the rest went downhill. I was pleased that I gave Dark Matter and Recursion a try because I liked both of those. I was hoping Upgrade would be like them. Too bad it isn't.
Glad you liked Flowers for Algernon. I think it's wonderful. (Don't ever watch the movie...called Charly. It does not do the book justice at all. I re-watched it and it hasn't aged well at all (I saw it MANY years ago...when it wasn't an old movie.)
I did add Spin to my TBR. Sounds very interesting.
The sword of kaigen has more books in the series. You should read them! I also loved the book
i ended up losing my umbrella on the train because of the sword of kaigen i was too invested in the story
I hand out five stars on Goodreads like they’re candy on Halloween. This year my most disappointing were:
Dracula
The Pallbearer’s Club
The Only Good Indians
The Ravaged
I also thought I would like News of the World more than I did. It was a solid four stars, though.
As for books I thought were way better than I thought they would be:
Daisy Darker
Hidden Pictures
Confessions
20:04 Same!! I was so sure I'd live the series, I bought them all. Then read Annihilation and immediately regretted my life choices LOL
Oh, I've read Darwinia by Charles R. Wilson recently and immediately wanted to read something else by this author. I haven't done so, because Spin was a part of a series and I have enough not finished one's already I need to prioritise, but... if I knew Spin is standandalone-like....
Loved the Darwinia so so much. First part was "we are going on the adventure " and then so many unexpected twists and turns. The cover is gorgeous also.
Have you read White Hare by Jane Johnson? She was the UK editor for George R. R. Martin and Robin Hobb and wrote a companion book to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. From the book jacket, "In the far west corner of Cornwall lies the White Valley, which cuts deeply through bluebell woods down to the sea at White Cove." And the reading prompt is "There is no such thing as an innocent landscape..." AnseIm Kiefer. I got it at an independent bookstore that had unique books quite different from what Barnes and Noble carry. And it was from Simon & Schuster Canada. I have not finished it, but I am enjoying reading something entirely different than what I usually get.
Ok, confession time: based on Emily's recommendations and reviews I read, I thought for sure "The 7 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" would be a 5 star read. Sadly, it wasn't for me. Couldn't connect with the story or the charakters. Yes, yes, shocking, I know. 😁 On the other hand, I read "The Humans" by Matt Haig without any expectations and really loved it. Guess I like a good surprise sometimes.
Agree with you about Evelyn H. I didn’t enjoy at all. I should have DNF’d.
You recommended me Flowers for Algernon and damn girl I cried it was #emotionaldamage. I also loved I"ll give you the sun. I bought myself a copy :) And SJM I read for entertainment mostly. I hate that my favourite characters by her are never the main ones too. And the plot lines LOL I have learned if things are meh not to continue with a book or series.
I left The Lies of Locke Lamora DNF’d with maybe 50 pages remaining, at a time when I didn’t DNF books. It sat on my shelf for years taunting me, but it was just SO boring! And I had been so sure I would love it that I even gifted it before I read it!
I had no idea that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had a locked-room mystery! Now I want to read it!
Oh wow, you know it's bad when you can't even finish the last 50 pages!
I've read 5 books on that list, and I agree with most of your ratings.
I gave The Lies of Locke Lamora 4⭐, I thought it was good overall but wouldn't reread it - I was annoyed by one very predictable scene *SPOILER* where a Bondsmage thinks he has power over Locke because he knows his name. I knew I'd want to read the second book because I've heard there's character growth (and so the friendship deepens) and I do need more pirates in my life, but I haven't been in a hurry to pick it up either (though I've also bought it).
Flowers For Algernon was an easy 5⭐ I teared up, but once I talked about it to my husband and realized what that ending meant, I started bawling. Truly a life-changing read!
The Sword of Kaigen blew my mind and also made me cry, so 5⭐. I would definitely reread it! 👌
I enjoyed reading Pride & Prejudice, I thought the themes were cleverly executed and I did find Elizabeth and Darcy endearing, but I was really annoyed by that ending (I wish Darcy had confronted the Bennet family as they cared more about their reputation than protecting their 16 years-old daughter) and it kinda ruined it for me. 👀
I thought Dark Matter was fine, but I couldn't overlook at least two important inconsistencies in the story and the fact that it read like a movie-script also didn't contribute to my overall enjoyment (I personally really care about the quality of the prose). I did like the concept, it's more the execution that didn't work for me.
I wrote my MA Thesis about 'Flowers for Algernon' (i'm an English literature major FYI). Its my absolute favorite and i'm constantly looking for something similar. I'll Give You The Sun is my favorite Y.A book till this day. I agree about The Raven Boys series; the relationships between the characters was the best thing, the rest is pretty forgettable. I Finished 'My Sister the Serial Killer' today. I thought it would be a 5 Stars read but it kinda flopped at the end.
Thanks for your recs! I really like Annihilation... The series gets weirder as you go. Have you read any of Vandemeer's other books? Would be interested in hearing your thoughts on Borne.
Hi! Was it weird with a satisfying ending? I first saw the plot in the movie but now i'm super curious about it ( havent watched the movie since i found out it was an adaptation)
TJ Klune‘s ‚Under the whispering door‘. I thought I‘m going to love it. I really liked Cerulean Sea but it felt like it was written for a younger audience. So I thought that this one must be for more mature readers since it deals with death etc. I was just bored, the first half was sooo slow 🙈 overall it felt like a very unsatisfying book. 🤷🏽♀️
Waiting for your review on the book - Kayan kollyn: the spiral of the ellmott
& messenger of the secret
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On Attachment: "he stalked her? Are we supposed to just let that go?" - Emily, 6 years after finishing the book and definitely not letting it go 😂
I was also duped by overhyped YA fantasy books when I first started watching CZcams and have - dieu merci- learned to recognize and avoid those books that I ultimately never enjoy.
A recent surprise was definitely Piranesi for me. I should not have liked it but ultimately loved it.
Thanks for the great video as always!
Haha I'll never let it go! So toxic!
Piranesi is definitely making it to my most surprising reads of 2022!
New to your channel. Love it. Have you read or plan to read Malazan?
I have had Spin and Sparrow on Kindle for yearssss and still haven't gotten around to it. Gonna try for next year! I haven't read Locke Lamora, Sword of Kaigen and Jade City because I feel like I'm not gonna like them but they should be 5s...
Sparrow ist just… 😳🫢😮😭😩😢
I agree with you about Spin! Picked it up at your recommendation and it was amazing.
A book I thought I was going to give 5 stars was Lord of the Flies by William Golding. It was so boring, though, which is a shame, because the premise sounded so interesting 🙃
I've been meaning to read Lord of the Flies! I've heard it's quite shocking
@@BookswithEmilyFox I'm super curious to find out how you'll like it 🤔
I don’t think I agree with your Senlin Ascends assessment! Although I didn’t love it as much as I expected to…I didn’t find it to be sexist at all. Marya was one of his former students yes & she was 10 years younger, but I don’t find an age difference in a relationship inherently sexist. It was made quite clear that Senlin was very kind, & sweet & doting, & that he won her over with his intellect & kindness & bc she trusted him, & found him different than other men. Had he been some lothorio, serial seducer of his students or younger women I could understand the judgment but he was not that at all. He was reserved, intellectual, isolated, until he fell for Marya & was devoted to her from then on. I don’t see anything to be critical about in that!
And secondly, she wasn’t kidnapped! They were separated outside of the tower because of Mayra’s independent spirit, she immediately wandered off on her own, & then she met her own set of unlucky circumstances same as Senlin & they both had to fight/make their way through the tower. IMO, that doesn’t really qualify as woman in the fridge trope considering she’s very much alive & still had some level of autonomy.
Do agree tho that it wasn’t nearly as entertaining as everyone else led us to believe😂 Oh well, to each their own!
I love Emma from Jane Austen! It deserves 5 stars! Love it good book ❤️🍃🍁🍃❤️🧡🍂🧡🍃🍁🦃🦃📖📙📚📖🦃🦃🤎📖📖📚📙🤎🦃🍁🍁❤️🧡🍂🍂🧡🍃🍁🍁❤️🧡📚📚📙🤎🦃🦃📖📙📚📚🍂🧡❤️🍃🍃❤️🍂🧡🍃🦃🦃🤎📖📙📚📙📖🦃🦃🦃🍂🧡❤️🍁🍁❤️🧡🧡📙📙
i love kristin hannah’s historical fiction books (the nightingale, etc.) but i HATED firefly lane and gave it 1.5 stars 💀
Oh good, you didn't love Locke Lamora either xD I thought I was broken or something... Everyone is so amazed and inlove with it 😅
Because of you I read “Vita Nostra” and it was amazing. I think about it A LOT. And I am happy you also liked it. And after that you recommend “Babel” I was like oh cool we’re continuing the vibe. I absolutely hated “Babel” it was one of the worst books ever written. It was so so so bad.
I usually don’t write reviews on Goodreads but I wrote a very salty one about this book because I was let down so much.
This book manages to be so long and so rushed at the same time, so stupid and shallow for such a long book, no character development, extremely obvious plot lines, etc, etc.
And how much I wanted to love that book.
I have really mixed feeling about that book!
Felt the exact same thing with Locke Lamora 😆😬
I've heard book 2 is better but it will take me awhile to try it lol
Flowers for Algernon broke my heart 💔
I've never had any desire to read Rainbow Rowell. None of her books appeal to me, and it sounds like I'm not missing out.
I'm also convinced the only reason I'm able to enjoy Maas's books is I skim her weird sex scenes, and without them, her books aren't half bad. I still enjoy them for what they are, Fantasy Romance. But everything else about the books is mid-tier at best, but they are *way* too long. (Also do not, I repeat *DO NOT* read the fourth book in her Court of Thorns and Roses series. It's bad.)
I thought I'd love the new book by Ruthanna Emrys but it didn't work for me at all. On the other hand I had low expectations for I'm Glad my Mom died by Jennette McCurdy and absolutely loved it.
Have you read Patricia Cornwell? It’s a must. Great series and so many to read.
I could not finish Fangirl...I hated it so much. It was my first and only Rainbow Rowell book and I've steered clear ever since.
I had the same opinion on Throne Of Glass! We're constantly told she's this most amazing bad ass assassin. But then like... she eats a random bag of chocolates left on her bed?? Like??? Girl???
Too much showing and not telling. However, I think they get infinitely better. I LOVED Empire of Storms and Kingdom of Ash.
I bought Spin maybe two years ago on your recommendation and still haven’t read it 😢
I would love to get your opinion on jeffrey archers clifton chronicals and prisoner at birth..both easy 5 stars for me..and every one agrees who i reccomended them too. inc my son whos a die hard fantasy sci fi only type reader..clifton chronicals is his fave ever series and hes read..listened too a lot
I read the Raven Cycle in September after seeing how much people love it. Half of the books I really enjoyed, half of them were a bit meh. But I do love the characters and the friendship between them. Interestingly, I didn' care for Blue's family at all.
I think I just love witches lol
I'll give you the sun is so good, period ! I reread it as an adult and it holds up, the messages, the writting, the characters, everything😍😍
That's good to hear!
Me too, also one of the first books with a queer relationship that wasnt fetishized or made the "main spectacle" they where just characters and allowed to simply just exist. Made me really happy as a teen.
I actually really liked annihilation but I can't recommend the rest of the series. Nothing really gets explained especially book two is just alot of stepping in the dark and book 2 and 3 are way bigger than the first one.
Books three atleast had some redeeming qualities for me but I also questioned if I was just thankful to get any conclusions after the second book.
For that I would say book one can work as a standalone pretty well but especially when you didnt vibe with the first one dont bother getting the second or third it doesnt really get better.
Can you please mention in the description box what lipstick are you wearing in every video!
I'm pretty sure it's Mac Modesty
I thought Babel by R F Kuang would be five stars but I couldn't even finish it 🤭 the character work was terrible and every message was so heavy handed and force fed
In SJM's defence, she wrote Throne of Glass when she was 16. The first several books in that series are a hot mess, but they really do build up to the best books with loads of fantasy and adventure (but it's totally okay for people to not like them, and the SJM fandom needs to chill). And the growling, lol... all the fantasy romance authors do it. And yes, it's extremely cringey in all of them.
If we were villains is the one I thought would be 5 stars, I even bought the physical book, and oh man...1 star for sure, the only reason I forced myself to finish it is because I had the physical copy...
İ really thought I was going to love „We were liars“, but I ended up hating it😅 On the other hand, I thought I wouldn’t care for „Vicious“ by V. E. Schwab, and ended up giving it 5 stars😅
I read 4 Jane Austen books in July and honestly…. not for me. But at least I can say I tried
The inheritance games! I was looking forward to it but I hated it and it put me in a slump
Did you know Octavia’s book Kindred getting adaptation?
NOOOOOOO?!
@@BookswithEmilyFox its coming out this December 13 on hulu. I am so excited for the series
Omg yes - the lies of Locke was disappointing… expected it to be a 4/5 star too but ended up dnfing
Ok so... i was thinking why i never picked up the millenium trilogy and
WARNING FOR SPOILERS ( not sure which book tho)
Tbh idek if they really are spoilers but i would guess they are... basically a friend that really loved the trilogy told me about a scene where they show kidnapped children tied while beeing r*ped? And i just decided that no matter how good the mistery was i just didn't want to read sth like that...
But now i need to know: people herr that have read the whole thing, do they really show many things like that? I get that its supposed to be critizicing that those things happen but i'm not sure i wanna read sth like that... unless maybe it has a great payoff? Idk
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I thought that I'd love a sequel to a book I absolutely could not put down. (It was a duology, and I'm not gonna bother naming it because 1. I doubt you'll read it and 2. I just feel bad bashing it because it was ultimately not for me, and maybe someone else would think it's great for them.) Book 1 was just great. Good action, good character development, etc. But the sequel was just awful for some reason. It just became painful to pick up, the plot became meandering and confusing, and I DNF'ed. I skimmed the ending and satisfied my curiosity.
I’ll give you the sun ❤️❤️❤️
Life changing book, try A Little Life by hanya yanagihara was hugely popular. Pretty sad but uplifting.
That book broke me!
Agree about Upgrade, DNF for me.
"So here I am...trying to convince you ~brainwash you~" 🤣🤣🤣
I'm a simple human, I see I'll Give You the Sun, I click
You stopped TRC at the right time, the fourth one is the worst. You are right the series has a loooooot of filler. I loved the first book, felt 50-50 towards book 2/3, book 4 was an awful ending imo. It should've been a duology.
Robert Jordan & Mat 🖤
I would say The Wheel of Time, is the reason Brandon Sanderson went from an average writer to a good writer 🙂
Without him helping to finish The Wheel of Time, after Jordans death. he would probably still be on the boring mistborn kinda style stuff he used to do.
The Stormlight Archives, really stepped up his work 💙
Ugh and lets not talk about that miserable crap that is the tv show o O
As a fantasy show, its a shmaybe 5 out of 10 as an The Wheel of Time adaption, its a low ranking 3 out of 10 💀
The books that come to mind are Wool, Red Rising, Upgrade, The best of HP Lovecraft and Jade city. I only finished Upgrade, it wasn't a bad book but there was just too much action in it. I'm sure it will be amazing as a movie. Get a life, Chloe Brown got a great hype as well and I just hated it. The main character is super annoying and not a nice person and that she has chronic pain (or what she has) is not an excuse. The other ones I wrote were just plain boring so I couldn't finish them.
I have the exactly same complain about Throne of glass, like: where the hell is the fucking awesome assassin? I just couldn't do it and never finished.
She was being so dumb too. People are trying to kill her and she's eating candy (chocolate?) left for her in her room like???
The one thing I didn't like about Kaigen was that I didn't find the husband's story believable
I thought that the change at the end came very quickly. They fight and the next day he's almost a different man. I liked that both wanted to do better and be better partners but this wasn't very realistic in my opinion. But I loved the book even with its faults.
Yeah... I'm never going to forgive you for recommending Sword Of Kaigen to me.... I was a wreck. I didn't cry but honestly, I was shook.
At first I thought you meant you hated it lol that second half was a tough read!
I agree trc plot is non existent mostly like fillers but I love the series for the characters yesss 300 fox way psychics my fav
I’m still so bummed you gave up on Sarah J Maas, which is totally get though, but I would just love to hear your opinion on Crescent City 🤓
After 5 books we can all agree I tried haha
@@BookswithEmilyFox yeah, that’s totally fair! 😂 and Crescent City is a brick so that doesn’t make it more enticing to pick it up 🤓
People thought someone stalking someone was romantic, others like growling? Have I woken in some parallel world. I hated seven deaths of Evelyn hardcastle and that one where this woman is recalling hubbies, I was so bored with it.
For me it was actually Flowers for Algernon that let me down 😅 I felt emotionally manipulated from the start and jeeez the female characters smh I couldn't with the sexism and awful portrayal of literally every woman in that story
(That being said I understand if people look past it as soon as one gets emotionally involved, but I couldn't)
You sold me on I'll give you the sun, but it was such a let down for me 😱
Too caricatural.
I thought i would love the book Practical Magic since i love/adore the movie and is one of my cozy movies. I really disliked the book. Sally and Gillian were horrible and horrible to each other and there was not enough magic. Such a let down. Now i don't know if i want to read the companion books.
I remember thinking that the way the female characters were described did not age well at all. Great movie tho
The Sword of Kaigen was a huge disappointment for me. I don't tend to like worlds where magical sword fights and fighter jets/cell phones exist simultaneously.
It´s called an empire
I tried to read I’ll Give You The Sun after you said you loved it and…. Yeah don’t reread it 😂
LOL consider me warned!
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Can’t stand Jane Austen had to read all her stuff in uni and just do not jive with her. Now a Brontë I’ll take any of them.
I really enjoyed Girl With the Dragon Tattoo as well! I'm currently trying to get through the second one (Played with Fire?), but Lisbeth is making questionable decisions in the beginning. Really, girl? Really?? Also, we've started hanging out inside the head of a man (he's a POV char.) that needs to be thrown of the nearest tall tower. I really don't want to know anything about this man, let alone what he thinks about on a daily basis.🤢 Maybe he'll be the one that gets 😵? I'm so hopeful right now.😂
OMG I know!! I remember being so confused about "that".
I'm going to get some hate for this, some of my friends love the book... but I thought I would love Call Me By Your Name. Coming of age story? Summer in Italy? Sign me up. But the creeper/grooming vibes in the first half were too over the top for me, it was a DNF. Plus the writer is straight and wrote about queer relationship.
The Lies of Locke Lamora was great for me. Fangirl was awful.
Oh, Raven boys...nothing better then 2.5 stars. Boring. Blues mom and aunts would have been a fun series.
Upgrade is probably the most disappointing book I've read this year! I loved Recursion. And this one was just boring. I gave it 2 stars 😂
Re Jane Austen. I cannot stand Emma and I loved Persuasion!!! P&P was OK - meh. But it has been way overhyped!!
I would give Persuasion 5 stars, P&P 3 stars and Emma just 1 star. Or No stars if that were possible.
Oh, Attachments...the YA version of YOU.....
Unpopular opinion: I read The Sword of Kaigen upon your recommendation and I hated it. I only pushed through the end because I trusted your opinion and I always had the same ratings as you for other books. I cannot understand why you rated it 5 stars because it has so heavy on sexism and hate on women, and it did not get better in the end; other books with sexism you literally destroyed them and I was so confused why you saved this one.
I definitely thought The Lost Apothecary was going to be a 5 star⭐️ for me. Total flop, 2 ⭐️
I DNFed it!!
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I loved Throne of Glass, but she definitely wasn't really an assassin; more of a survivor with good fighting skills. And ACOTAR was super disappointing, the main character was weak, the plot boring, and the only reason people like it is all the s** scenes.
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