HYPED BOOKS I THOUGHT I'D LOVE (and if I did)
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- HYPED BOOKS I THOUGHT I'D LOVE (and if I did) ~ 2023 recap
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i totally relate to feeling nervous about rereading especially my older favorites. is that book i read in 2014 that blew me away at the time still something i would enjoy?? i’ll never know because i refuse to reread it lmao my tastes have changed so much in 10 years i don’t want to potentially tarnish my good memories
I so feel this nervousness about rereads and sequels to great books! And also the part about feeling validated when others like and appreciate the same books I do 😅
Hearing your thoughts on Oathbringer was kind of funny to me as I also reread Stormlight this year. Oathbringer is my favourite but I have the same problems with Words of Radiance as you do with Oathbringer. I always find it so interesting how people can experience the same book in totally different ways.
I feel the same way when I do re-reads, I always worry I am going to hate it for some reason but re-reading Shades of Magic was SO much fun and I think I liked them even better as well.
Can't thank you enough for vouching so hard for Engines of Empire because it's amazingggggg, that and Engines of Chaos are second only to the Dandelion Dynasty books for my favorite reads of the year! I'm baffled that more people haven't read them and hope that they eventually get the credit and attention they deserve
When you lifted up that ginormous Fragile Threads ARC I started drooling… I’m so jealous 😂
Also OMG I never met someone else who ranks Oathbringer as their least fave of Stormlight!!! I feel validated! So many people say that book is their fave and I’m like uh WHAT 😅😅
“You can’t have my pain!” Was probably one of the best chapter intros in Oathbringer. I am about 1/4 of the way through Rhythm at the moment, but so far, I would have to say that Words has had the best pacing so far.
there was a duology i read sophomore year of highschool (oh god, like 11 years ago...) that really got me interested in reading (i was NOT a reader as a kid and i regret it now lol). it was exactly the kind of book i needed at the time and i still have my copies in my bookshelf i will never let go of. but of course as i've grown older and have read more books, part of me is curious to re-read them but the other part feels like my more critical and matured reading eye is gonna realize the book isn't actually that good 😅
00:23 The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
01:34 The Sunlit Man
02:40 Tress of the Emerald Sea
03:37 Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
05:06 Engines of Chaos (The Age of Uprising #2) & The Fragile Threads of Power
08:58 Thornhedge
10:04 The Bone Shard War (The Drowning Empire #3)
11:58 Warbreaker
14:19 Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive #3)
Thank you, kindly.
Elliot: I wasn't all that invested.
Me: lol I see what you did there.
My issue with Warbreaker was I, unfortunately, knew the entire plot due to spoilers from booktubers. I literally have slogged through the book. Loved, loved Mistborn. Really enjoy Elliot’s recommendations.
I feel the same way about Oathbringer!
I read Warbreaker thinking it was a novella and didn't expect it being at the level of Mistborn but it was fun.
Hi, Elliot. You're my favorite booktuber. I'm finishing Winnowing Flame trilogy bc of you. I love the character dynamics and the history. I hate Hestillion so much. Keep recommending these jewels! Greetings from Costa Rica.
I totally get the reread fear! I reread 2 childhood favorites this year. The first one i was anticipating as a comfort read and ended up losing a lot of my respect for it. The second I was legit scared to read because of the other book, but i ended up loving it even more than I remembered! There's just no way to know how a reread will go 🫣
I read both Engines of Empire and Engines of Chaos on your recommendation and thought they were great!
I have the same rankings in Stormlight as you so I totally agree with everything you said! :D
I’ve started oathbringer 3x and still haven’t finished it. Gonna try to give it another try this year after rereading books 1 and 2. Hoping to push through because I want to know the important things in it. Warbreaker was the opposite for me in my reread. I first read it in like 2011 then reread it last year (had forgotten most of it) and thought it was way better than I originally remembered. That being said, it’s not his strongest book.
Hope next year you love and enjoy and books meet your expectations and love it and connect to the stories and characters 🎅🏻📖❄️❄️📙📖❤️❤️🎁📚🎄☃️💚💚🎅🏻📖📙❄️❄️❄️📖💚💚☃️🎄📚🎁❤️❤️❤️❤️🎁💚💚🎅🏻📙❄️❄️❤️❤️❤️🎁🎄☃️💚💚📖📙❄️📙📚📚🎁❤️❤️❤️❤️📚🎄☃️💚💚🎅🏻📖📖☃️
I can totally relate on being nervous about rereading adsom, since my taste has changed so much in the last couple years. But I loved the reread and got so invested in the series, which was nice, only to fall flat when I ended up hating threads of power.
I liked a lot of the ideas and overall world related stuff that was happening and the new characters. But I didn’t like how any of the original cast was treated, especially with the thing that happens with kell at the end which felt rushed, and gave a message that I found kinda uncomfortable.
I always reread and I usually don't regret it! I try to remember where I was at mentally whenever I first read it and then I appreciate for that reason. However some rereads (Nevermore by Kelly Creagh or Furyborn by Claire Legrand) are truly ageless to me 😍
I agree about Oathbringer! It’s not a bad book but I found it the hardest of the 4 to get through.
Have you tried The Sun Eater series? It's what I want Stormlight to be.
The only book I ever did a re-read was "Watership Down." I read that 3 times (a long time ago)
Hope you had a fabulous merry Christmas with your family Elliot 💚📚📚📚💚💚❤️❤️🎅🏻☃️🎁❄️🎁🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻☃️❄️📚📚📙💚💚📙📚❄️❄️❄️🎁🎅🏻🎄🎄🎅🏻☃️🎁❄️📚📚💚📖📖💚📙❄️❄️❄️🎁☃️🎅🏻🎄❤️📖💚📙📙📚❄️❄️❄️🎁🎁🎅🏻
You're an instigator. Oathbringer is the best of the Stormlight Archive volumes. Thank you.
With Engines of Empire from what you describe it as it should totally be more hyped but I'm thinking the lack of popularity for this one could be due to lack of marketing which I feel like can screw many really good books over but I dunno just my opinion :') it's on my TBR and I can't wait to read it
Lol I am about to start Oathbringer this is not a good motivation 😂😂
I have not read a stormlight archive book in 2023 so im super hyped anyway
Definitely not a trash video. Love the shirt🤙🏾
I've reread the first two shades of magic (for when a conjuring of light came out) and appreciated them more too! Idk why booktube hates them so much :(
You should checkout Gideon the ninth from Locked tomb series. It's such an interesting series.
Happy New Year Elliot Brooks!
Rereading books is such a weird experience
As a new author i enjoy this channel because i had started doing a lot of things that now i see didnt leave a lasting effect. Too shallow too quick no character development stuff like that. So this has been very helpful.
I don't think it's bad or wrong that we feel validation when others like what we like. We were designed as a communal species. We all WANT to be part of and accepted by the community.
Great Video!
The bone shard war I absolutely loved it and I enjoyed the series the cover is gorgeous 🎅🏻🎅🏻❄️❄️🎁🎅🏻📚📚📚📖❤️🎄📙📙🎄❤️📖☃️📚💚🎅🏻🎁❄️❄️❄️💚🎅🏻❄️❄️📙📙📙🎄📖📖☃️📚📚💚🎅🏻🎁❄️❄️💚🎅🏻📙📙📙🎄❤️📖📖📖📚💚🎅🏻🎁❄️❄️❄️❄️📙📙❤️📖
Oh no! Oathbringer is next for me to read and now I'm super nervous about it. I don't want to read 1,200 pages and not like it.
i had the same experience with warbreaker!!! (as we discussed haha) i also still really like it, but it just didn't feel the same as when i first read it 🥲
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nah nah i love the blackthorn more than current dalinar 🤣 i think i read this book wrong HAHAHAHAHA
Frugal Wizard's issue for me was that the multiverse/sub-universe concept was excellent. But the actual story was blah.
I loved Frugal Wizard's, but I also like comedy scifi, lol. It's so weird to me how hated it is by the Sanderfans.
I havent read it yet, but I dont see how its weird, Sanderson is very well known for fantasy, world building and magic systems. If they arent as strong or they arent there in the frugal wizards handbook then of course it makes sense that his fans wont like it as much.
I had enjoyed Sanderson’s Mistborn series. But most of his other stuff does not engage my interest.
Please read sun eater next :,)
See, I bought Tress because all of the booktubers I watch loved it, but I found it very meh. I borrowed Frugal Wizard from the library because nobody liked it… and I LOVED that one and wished I’d bought that one instead of Tress! (I think the narrative voice is what annoyed me most in Tress, because i liked the characters and story just fine. Whereas I loved the voice in Frugal Wizard, along with the characters and story.)
Finally someone who liked the Frugal wizard 🎉! I also liked Tress, but in the Frugal wizard I could feel (or at least it felt like that) how much fun Sanderson had with it. It was so different from his other stories and had some interesting moments a la „wait, what…? Ohhhhh…“, mostly because of the amnesia the main character had and the reader got new information along with the wizard remembering. I had fun. Great to see, someone else as well 😊.
I really liked the frugal wizard too! Better than Tress 😬 Tress was too silly and corny for me. My favorite is Yumi though
@@kelleyeasterling yeah, yumi was also my favorit. I found the Sunlit man to be the weakest. It started really good, but then it dragged in the second half.
Hi! Do you read in french? I saw your Thread of power
I dropped frugal wizard. The main character’s rating everything he comes across was so annoying and couldn’t go through the book knowing he is totally the type of character to continue rating things until the bitter end 😂
Im glad you didnt care for Acotar. I loved the first book, fell in love with Tamlin and now I raged quit the 2nd book lol. Why change story line so much. Omg. I hate it. Lol. I stopped reading after 6 chapters. I seen wherre they were going
I love the series. However, I think it would have been interesting to having book 2 be that Lucien and Feyre be mated and have to hide it while living under Tamlin's roof.
Oathbringer is my least favorite Stormlight book too.
I was highly anticipating System Collapse (book 7 in the Murderbot Diaries) and just finished a reread of the entire series. So good. Martha Wells is amazing at wrapping up each book, but still introducing new opportunities for exploring Murderbot's character and how it interacts with the world. I was disappointed with Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow; despite all the hype about it being a cool scifi/video game story, it is not. It is literary fiction with two insufferable main characters whose problems I could not be assed to care about, because that's what happens when you're insufferable.
An author in general that I always think im gonna but I just don't is T. kingfisher, I've read like four of her books and I found them all to be kinda meh. Same with the Murderbot series, I do NOT understand the hype. But as far as having high expectations hands down Project Hail Mary lived up and surpassed every expectation.
I was really disappointed by the bone shard war. Loved the first one. Liked the second one. Disliked the last one. It was u fortunately so long for no reason and I feel like the characters made dumb decisions and the plot was very reptitive and wayyy too many plot holes for me.
Isn't is a little disingenuous to say you don't want to be influenced by what others think, and yet the book review videos you do influence people. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy your reviews, but watching them do not compromise my independent judgment about a book once I read it. Just something to think about.
I never reread books for this very reason 🥹😂
Can't relate about Oathbringer, it continues to be my favourite Stormlight book. 😅