I love that all your comments were rooted in kindness! 🥰 I definitely prefer closed-door romances myself or I just skip through any spice. I recently read a book where the first page had a trigger warning list and also said “if you prefer no bedroom scenes, skip chapter 34” and I thought it was amazing that the author did that!
That means so much to me, thank you!! ☺️💜 and I LOVE when authors include trigger warning lists. I don’t see them too often but I know I definitely benefit from them. And that’s so helpful about the spicy chapter warning too!! I love that!!
The way you knew the specific number of pages that were damaged to this day. Core memory. I’m so sorry this happened to you. It’s clear the trauma runs deep and that is gone unhealed. I don’t even know how someone goes about dealing with something like that. Some wounds just never fully heal.
I agree about TOG vs ACOTAR. I prefer TOG overall (I just love the story) as it feels more adult or mature in some way. However, Rhys and Feyre are my favorite. They’re both good in their own way. ❤
I’m so glad you feel the same way!!! I just remember how they shortened the timeline (which I loved) as well as turned these emails, I.M. Chats etc into a a movie that I thought was pretty good! 😊
Hoping for a bit of advice here. I feel like many authors nowadays are self-published. While that can be a good thing, it also means that there is an overload of very similar and sadly not high-quality books out there. Some of which are picked up by booktok and Co. and there is so much hype around them that other, potentially to definitely better books do not get any spotlight. I find it really difficult to find well-written books that are labeled correctly as to their content that I don't have to either fight my way through or put down outright in the middle of it. So here I am, struggling to find my next book to read that will not disappoint. I love fantasy and dabble in almost every other genre. Can someone please recommend well-written books that are not full of booktok hype but actually good books? Series or standalones is whatever, but I do prefer finished series. Can someone help me find my next book?
Hi there!!! I haven’t read it yet, but I heard When the Moon Hatched is very good. But I can’t speak on it myself. I’ll post reviews when I more fantasy books on KU that I love! Happy reading and best of luck in your search ☺️
KAT!! I know this doesn’t have much to do with the video but I finally read Divine Rivals and I thought we had talked about it previously and I stalked your videos trying to find that conversation but I couldn’t find it.😆 so hopefully I don’t sound crazy but I NEED something to talk to about this!
This is to the person(s) that thinks ACOTAR is better than ToG, the person(s) that think Shatter Me is overrated, and the ones that think Powerless wasn’t it. Go ahead and sign me up for the newsletter, the club will meet 3 times a month, matching Tshirts will be provided. I have found my tribe. I can’t relate with The Cruel Prince girlies though. If you saw my comment about going through it in 2020/2021 and feeling disconnected because contemporary romance wasn’t it for me anymore and I didn’t know up from down, I remember randomly picking up The Cruel Prince in the fall time with such little hope. I never bing’ed (binged?) series at that time and I flew through that trilogy. I had the added benefit of not having TikTok marketing it to me as a romance though. I knew what I was getting into. Except the tail. I didn’t expect that.
Yay, you uploaded a long video and it was soo entertaining to hear other people's unpopular opinions🤩 I wish I had read more of the popular book series, like Shatter Me, Throne of Glass, The Cruel Prince, Acotar (I finished book 2 last month, so at least something 😂),... so that I could join in the conversation, but I'm getting there eventually😅 When it comes to smut though, I actually prefer clean romances. A few years ago it didn't really bother me in books but nowadays I can really do without it😅 I love it though that all of us have different opinions about this and all the topics mentioned in the video! That makes it so great to discuss them🥰
This is for the person that doesn’t feel valid because you aren’t able to read as much. I use to read well over a 100 books a year. 2020 affected me different. Everyone was finding reading again and I couldn’t complete a book to save my life. I came out of it but I was no longer interested in the contemporary romances that I was reading 3-5 of a week. So my numbers still weren’t great because fantasy took me longer to digest and I was just reading longer books. I’ve only this year started showing myself some grace. I may only be reading a fraction of books compared to other readers but my page count is similar if not better. If you read, you’re a reader and your bookish journey is yours. It doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s. I watch TBR videos and readathon content with all the prompts. I adore making TBRs. I’m slightly unhinged and I have multiple TBR jars. I have made a handful of Bookopoly game boards myself. So I make more than one TBR list every month and season. But at my core and all of the other places, I’m a mood reader. That’s right. I make TBR lists and then just read whatever I want to in the moment. Every month. Completely. Unhinged. I understand you want to be represented with what you’re seeing in the content you consume but those people are on their own journeys too. Reading can provide many things to many people. Entertainment, escapism, solace, education, comfort, hope, community, and it’s just good for a person’s health. If you’re going to take anything away from being a part of the book community let it be this. Other readers are rooting for you and your unique journey. It matters and you matter. The what, how, why of it all is yours and yours alone and you’re still one of us. You belong. You belong while doing an activity that is traditionally done solo. I hope everyone thinks about that because it actually blows my mind. We all do this thing that we don’t need anyone else to participate in with us for us to find enjoyment in it. Despite that fact, we still let it bond and unite us. ❤
Hi hi I was this person. Thank you for saying this. It can feel overwhelming with all the releases and trying to keep up. I want to be able to keep up, but starting to learn it's okay to not be. So many books, so little time! I have ADD and dyslexia, which definitely play a part in my reading speed. I want other slow readers to feel validated too, knowing I'm certainly not alone. I love all TBR videos and watch SO many. I just hope at some point some creators who read less post content in the future (I might want to one day) or to find them if they exist. All readers do matter, and representation for everyone is such a big thing in the book community that I would love to see these creators make content, even if it's quarterly TBR videos. 😊 Hope you are doing well and it means a lot for you to write so much for me (and anyone who feels similar). Thanks again!❤
@@kristinr4928 I’ve seen even big BookTubers get real and say they’re scaling back. A lot of readers have stopped putting stock behind setting the Goodreads Goal too. I’ve never had to live with dyslexia (I did watch one little girl in my life battle it) so I don’t know the ins and outs of it or if it’s different for each person. But I have seen the font on Kindle that I think is meant for people with dyslexia. Have you tried it? If you have, does it make a difference? I’ve always wondered if it works and how well. There’s always audio too. Audio is how some creators are able to achieve those outrageous numbers of books read in a month too. And if you want to be the change you want to see on here then you should absolutely do it. The landscape of BookTube has changed so much since I first started watching it. I don’t doubt the passion for reading these creators have but it is more of business for some of them now. I’m not saying that it’s a bad thing! I wish we all got paid to do the things we’re passionate about.
Hi!! An ereader is a device where you can read books ☺️ Amazon sells their version which is a kindle (it’s very popular) and there is also ones by Barnes and noble called the Nook and in Canada there is one called a Kobo. Apps I recommend for readers to read are the Libby app (it’s a library app) where you sign up for your local library and read that library’s books on whatever device you have. For my I have it on my phone and iPad. I also have the kobo and kindle app too. I hope this helps!
Hi there! I just want to say what a sweet soul you seem to be, you’re so sweet and gentle with your delivers of your opinions and I think that’s why I enjoy your videos so much. I wish I caught the chance to put in another opinion so I’ll just jot it down below! Great video as always! My unpopular book opinion is that I’m so tired of people hating on certain authors ( cough cough Colleen Hoover) I personally enjoy her books and it’s okay that others don’t obviously but to go out of your way to spread hate and hurtful thoughts about her and her writing I don’t think is okay. Us as readers have to take the good books with the bad but to just hate on someone who a lot of these people do not even know personally I think is a bad look for the book reading population. If you don’t like them or her just move on and read something else 🤷🏻♀️
This comment genuinely made my day 🥹💜 thank you so much!! That’s something I really strive for. I want to share why I loved something (book, movie, album whatever) and or why something didn’t work for me in a way that feels good to me. It’s also someone’s work, you know? They put a lot of themselves into something they created. As well as it’s someone else’s fave book too. I don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum. I want to be as honest and kind about that feedback as possible so that it finds the books best audience (or helps a reader/author in any way). I love your unpopular opinion!! I feel the same way. I don’t love plenty of popular books or series but I try to give that feedback and move forward. That’s just what feels best for me.
My hottest take, Brandon Sanderson is boring! For me his books are like a complex spreadsheet of plot points filled in to resemble a story. I call him Banjo Sandman bc he bores and annoys me. Smut gets repetitive bc it feeds off of itself and chases trends. Example they use the same few mythological characters instead of taking a more obscure character and doing someting creative. Also they lack detail where could make something more than the same scene but the dude has horns instead of wings. Other senses like taste are often overlooked. Luna Fury is my personal fav smut writer, her Taken by the Witch Queen series is great and I'm invested in the story.
I love that all your comments were rooted in kindness! 🥰 I definitely prefer closed-door romances myself or I just skip through any spice. I recently read a book where the first page had a trigger warning list and also said “if you prefer no bedroom scenes, skip chapter 34” and I thought it was amazing that the author did that!
That means so much to me, thank you!! ☺️💜 and I LOVE when authors include trigger warning lists. I don’t see them too often but I know I definitely benefit from them. And that’s so helpful about the spicy chapter warning too!! I love that!!
The way you knew the specific number of pages that were damaged to this day. Core memory. I’m so sorry this happened to you. It’s clear the trauma runs deep and that is gone unhealed. I don’t even know how someone goes about dealing with something like that. Some wounds just never fully heal.
the absolute worst trope is love triangle.
The only true exception I recommend to anyone willing to try this trope is The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare ☺️.
@@katreadsit makes a note
@@katreadsit FRR I LOVE THAT SERIES SMMM
IT IS MY FAVOURITE TRILOGY EVER!!!
I agree about TOG vs ACOTAR. I prefer TOG overall (I just love the story) as it feels more adult or mature in some way. However, Rhys and Feyre are my favorite. They’re both good in their own way. ❤
YES!!! Exactly!! It’s just such a satisfying story. KoA?! Epic in all the best ways.
10:13 Divine Rivals was like this and I ate it uppp
I know myself too well to know if I had an e reader and read books there and love the book I will definitely by the physical copy as well
I definitely do that 😂 if I really love an ebook, I purchase the physical copy for sure
I agree with you that Love, Rosie is an amazing movie adaption and honestly a better movie. Doesn't happen often either!
I’m so glad you feel the same way!!! I just remember how they shortened the timeline (which I loved) as well as turned these emails, I.M. Chats etc into a a movie that I thought was pretty good! 😊
If I’m gonna read spice I prefer it to be at the end of the book after the characters have created an emotional connection first
That makes total sense! I definitely like to see a solid connection first. It just helps all around.
My husband loves the Dune series and he says the movies don't do the books justice and that they changed a lot.
Oh no! That’s sad to hear. Please pass along my bookish condolences 😔.
Hoping for a bit of advice here. I feel like many authors nowadays are self-published. While that can be a good thing, it also means that there is an overload of very similar and sadly not high-quality books out there. Some of which are picked up by booktok and Co. and there is so much hype around them that other, potentially to definitely better books do not get any spotlight. I find it really difficult to find well-written books that are labeled correctly as to their content that I don't have to either fight my way through or put down outright in the middle of it. So here I am, struggling to find my next book to read that will not disappoint. I love fantasy and dabble in almost every other genre. Can someone please recommend well-written books that are not full of booktok hype but actually good books? Series or standalones is whatever, but I do prefer finished series. Can someone help me find my next book?
Hi there!!! I haven’t read it yet, but I heard When the Moon Hatched is very good. But I can’t speak on it myself. I’ll post reviews when I more fantasy books on KU that I love! Happy reading and best of luck in your search ☺️
I agree with all the opinions about the cruel prince, I didn't like it at all.
KAT!! I know this doesn’t have much to do with the video but I finally read Divine Rivals and I thought we had talked about it previously and I stalked your videos trying to find that conversation but I couldn’t find it.😆 so hopefully I don’t sound crazy but I NEED something to talk to about this!
Omgosh!!! What did you think?! I’ve only read the first one and exactly 50% of the second. Feel free to dm me on insta!!! 🥰
The dune in 2021 is the best one in Scifi movie
I really liked it 😍
This is to the person(s) that thinks ACOTAR is better than ToG, the person(s) that think Shatter Me is overrated, and the ones that think Powerless wasn’t it. Go ahead and sign me up for the newsletter, the club will meet 3 times a month, matching Tshirts will be provided. I have found my tribe.
I can’t relate with The Cruel Prince girlies though. If you saw my comment about going through it in 2020/2021 and feeling disconnected because contemporary romance wasn’t it for me anymore and I didn’t know up from down, I remember randomly picking up The Cruel Prince in the fall time with such little hope. I never bing’ed (binged?) series at that time and I flew through that trilogy. I had the added benefit of not having TikTok marketing it to me as a romance though. I knew what I was getting into. Except the tail. I didn’t expect that.
Yay, you uploaded a long video and it was soo entertaining to hear other people's unpopular opinions🤩
I wish I had read more of the popular book series, like Shatter Me, Throne of Glass, The Cruel Prince, Acotar (I finished book 2 last month, so at least something 😂),... so that I could join in the conversation, but I'm getting there eventually😅
When it comes to smut though, I actually prefer clean romances. A few years ago it didn't really bother me in books but nowadays I can really do without it😅 I love it though that all of us have different opinions about this and all the topics mentioned in the video! That makes it so great to discuss them🥰
I hate surprises smut, and would prefer closed door romance.
This is for the person that doesn’t feel valid because you aren’t able to read as much. I use to read well over a 100 books a year. 2020 affected me different. Everyone was finding reading again and I couldn’t complete a book to save my life. I came out of it but I was no longer interested in the contemporary romances that I was reading 3-5 of a week. So my numbers still weren’t great because fantasy took me longer to digest and I was just reading longer books. I’ve only this year started showing myself some grace. I may only be reading a fraction of books compared to other readers but my page count is similar if not better. If you read, you’re a reader and your bookish journey is yours. It doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s. I watch TBR videos and readathon content with all the prompts. I adore making TBRs. I’m slightly unhinged and I have multiple TBR jars. I have made a handful of Bookopoly game boards myself. So I make more than one TBR list every month and season. But at my core and all of the other places, I’m a mood reader. That’s right. I make TBR lists and then just read whatever I want to in the moment. Every month. Completely. Unhinged. I understand you want to be represented with what you’re seeing in the content you consume but those people are on their own journeys too. Reading can provide many things to many people. Entertainment, escapism, solace, education, comfort, hope, community, and it’s just good for a person’s health. If you’re going to take anything away from being a part of the book community let it be this. Other readers are rooting for you and your unique journey. It matters and you matter. The what, how, why of it all is yours and yours alone and you’re still one of us. You belong. You belong while doing an activity that is traditionally done solo. I hope everyone thinks about that because it actually blows my mind. We all do this thing that we don’t need anyone else to participate in with us for us to find enjoyment in it. Despite that fact, we still let it bond and unite us. ❤
Hi hi I was this person. Thank you for saying this. It can feel overwhelming with all the releases and trying to keep up. I want to be able to keep up, but starting to learn it's okay to not be. So many books, so little time! I have ADD and dyslexia, which definitely play a part in my reading speed. I want other slow readers to feel validated too, knowing I'm certainly not alone.
I love all TBR videos and watch SO many. I just hope at some point some creators who read less post content in the future (I might want to one day) or to find them if they exist. All readers do matter, and representation for everyone is such a big thing in the book community that I would love to see these creators make content, even if it's quarterly TBR videos. 😊 Hope you are doing well and it means a lot for you to write so much for me (and anyone who feels similar). Thanks again!❤
@@kristinr4928 I’ve seen even big BookTubers get real and say they’re scaling back. A lot of readers have stopped putting stock behind setting the Goodreads Goal too. I’ve never had to live with dyslexia (I did watch one little girl in my life battle it) so I don’t know the ins and outs of it or if it’s different for each person. But I have seen the font on Kindle that I think is meant for people with dyslexia. Have you tried it? If you have, does it make a difference? I’ve always wondered if it works and how well. There’s always audio too. Audio is how some creators are able to achieve those outrageous numbers of books read in a month too. And if you want to be the change you want to see on here then you should absolutely do it. The landscape of BookTube has changed so much since I first started watching it. I don’t doubt the passion for reading these creators have but it is more of business for some of them now. I’m not saying that it’s a bad thing! I wish we all got paid to do the things we’re passionate about.
What is a e reader? And what apps do you recommend?
Hi!! An ereader is a device where you can read books ☺️ Amazon sells their version which is a kindle (it’s very popular) and there is also ones by Barnes and noble called the Nook and in Canada there is one called a Kobo.
Apps I recommend for readers to read are the Libby app (it’s a library app) where you sign up for your local library and read that library’s books on whatever device you have. For my I have it on my phone and iPad. I also have the kobo and kindle app too. I hope this helps!
@@katreadsit Ohhh! Thank you very much!
Hi there! I just want to say what a sweet soul you seem to be, you’re so sweet and gentle with your delivers of your opinions and I think that’s why I enjoy your videos so much. I wish I caught the chance to put in another opinion so I’ll just jot it down below! Great video as always!
My unpopular book opinion is that I’m so tired of people hating on certain authors ( cough cough Colleen Hoover) I personally enjoy her books and it’s okay that others don’t obviously but to go out of your way to spread hate and hurtful thoughts about her and her writing I don’t think is okay. Us as readers have to take the good books with the bad but to just hate on someone who a lot of these people do not even know personally I think is a bad look for the book reading population. If you don’t like them or her just move on and read something else 🤷🏻♀️
This comment genuinely made my day 🥹💜 thank you so much!! That’s something I really strive for. I want to share why I loved something (book, movie, album whatever) and or why something didn’t work for me in a way that feels good to me. It’s also someone’s work, you know? They put a lot of themselves into something they created. As well as it’s someone else’s fave book too. I don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum. I want to be as honest and kind about that feedback as possible so that it finds the books best audience (or helps a reader/author in any way).
I love your unpopular opinion!! I feel the same way. I don’t love plenty of popular books or series but I try to give that feedback and move forward. That’s just what feels best for me.
Such a fun video to watch, and I agree with a lot of the opinions in it!! ❤
I’m so glad you enjoyed it 🥰😍💜
My hottest take, Brandon Sanderson is boring! For me his books are like a complex spreadsheet of plot points filled in to resemble a story. I call him Banjo Sandman bc he bores and annoys me.
Smut gets repetitive bc it feeds off of itself and chases trends. Example they use the same few mythological characters instead of taking a more obscure character and doing someting creative. Also they lack detail where could make something more than the same scene but the dude has horns instead of wings. Other senses like taste are often overlooked.
Luna Fury is my personal fav smut writer, her Taken by the Witch Queen series is great and I'm invested in the story.
❤❤❤❤ just subscribed 😊
🥹💜 thank you so much!