just cause they're viral doesn't mean they're good, don't feel bad for not wanting to read them, read what u like and be a hater cause that's more fun!
Hearing a re-telling of A Little Life's plot was when I realized I don't trust books that are only famous for being sad. Seems like there's literally nothing else to that story.
I 100% agree with you regarding A Little Life, I did the same and read the Wiki page and that's a nope for me for pretty much the same reason you mentioned. As for Colleen Hoover, I doubt she will change since she got a movie deal for It Ends With Us and has so many people praising her for her books, I refuse to read her books as someone who actually lived in an abusive relationship and believe me when i say, there is NOTHING romantic about it!! Same goes for anything labled "Dark Romance", SA and abuse is really not for me. As for anything with smut, I am uninterested in them, I do enjoy romance with some intimate scenes and usually close door or fade to black are my preference, no shame to people who enjoy smut, I just don't enjoy "watching" other people have sex.
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Yeah, not touching CoHo even with a 10ft pole! also, love Steph but our tastes dont match 😂
as someone who is very picky in what romance novels they read, i absolutely loved it happened one summer. I only picked it up because leonie (the book leo) sais she loved this one cuz it sounded corny. But rn it's litteraly one of my favorite romance novels
I read it too and although I enjoyed myself and had fun in the beginning (exactly because of how corny and unserious it seemed), I actually fell out of it the more I read. I would rate it a 2/5, some things didn't sit right with me, but the potential was there for just some fun and light read
you and I being on the same page about Coffee gets Cold, it’s sooooo loved but I got so bored of it but I persevered because too many of my faves recommended it for me to take it lightly. I finished the book annoyed so yeah that’s enough for me. 💀 Also, I read the Tessa Bailey book, gave her another shot with hook,line and sinker and said never again 🙏
In my opinion Magnolia Parks is Not Good BUT there was some quality to characterisation in the first book that still managed to hook me really well. It's one of those series that is impossible to say one way or the other, unless bad writing makes it truly impossible for you to enjoy a story, because it's all about your connection to the cast of characters. I hated the experience of reading those books, but I miss those characters like old friends. It's worth giving a try in my opinion, but don't try to push on if you don't want to. Pick up the book and read a few chapters, and you'll know very quickly if it's for you or not. It's also worth noting (despite what people say) you CAN just read the Daisy Haites books on their own, and you can just read the chapters of the people you care about. It's not that deep, you'll be able to follow the plot lol.
There are much better hockey romances than Icebreaker. I'm quite a fan and won't touch that, but then I also think I'm generally too old to read stupid college age BS. Don't let booktok get to you on that.
@@rayareadzzzz oh yah, I believe it - I'm disappointed much more than I'm impressed, or entertained even. What would you want to avoid? Cause there's well written books and entertaining books and the two are rarely the same, IME. 😄
There’s a video on CZcams I watched talking about A Little Life and he also said that the cover was from a photo shoot from the 80s, used without permission I believe, of this man at the moment of ejaculation (the more you know 🌠) I hate that cover so much. For a while I was seeing it all the time on Goodreads and every time I saw it, I’d think the guy looks like Elon Musk 😭
I read one book by Tessa Bailey and it was kinda funny but also kinda unnecessary. I think that if I have read one of her books, that's more than enough.
Omg I felt exactly the same about Binding 13. I also picked it up because it seemed like everyone was hyping it up, but I had no idea the characters were so young? 😅 I think I’m officially too old to be reading school romances I think, I couldn’t get into it
As someone who loves tragic queer love stories and queer books in general you can not pay me to read a little life it’s just trauma corn for straight girls that love fetishizing gay men and have never read or even thought of reading a gay/queer book written by a actual queer person. Also the writer saying she doesn’t care when people asked her if she was exploiting gay men and writing gay torture corn really rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe open your mind and hear actual queer people out on their opinions about your books instead of just using them for profit.
I personally thought Magnolia Parks was insufferable. I dnf'd at 100 pages or so, but other comments are saying they liked it so maybe I should have pushed through. Part of it for me was the plastic bag in the wind FMC, which is my least favorite kind of character.
I quite enjoyed Magnolia parks... in the same way you would enjoy gossip girl by just being there for vibes and low-key hating every character and relationship... I found it very entertaining but yeah the relationships are SO toxic and not something to be modelled. I think if you go in with that mindset they can definitely be very entertaining. It might be worth a try! Also, first video I've watched and immediately subscribed. Can't wait to go binge all of your other vids! Have a good day ❤
TikTok really lowered the quality of books since the most popular ones are real trash. I know we don't have to read classics and philosophical works but stop giving terrible writing popularity.
I'm currently reading It Happened One Summer. I'm going through a tough period rn and unable to read & process anything heavy so this book ticks all the boxes for me.
I absolutely agree with Tessa Bailey. I read one book by her and was not crazy about it so never again. I felt similarly about Lock Every Door. It’s my least favorite Riley Sager that I’ve read from him so far. I have 3 more of his to try and so far The Only One Left seems to be the only hit I’ve read from him lately. We’ll see what happens. Another author I absolutely refuse to read is Elle Kennedy. Years back I found out in her Off Campus series she wrote her male lead characters as misogynistic so I swore off her books and have not read her to this day. I’ll probably never read her. And also I tried Never by Jessa Hastings and DNFed it so I probably won’t ever read Magnolia Parks. Plus I despise footnotes in books so most likely I won’t ever read from her again.
i’ve read magnolia parks and i can say that this series is pretty good. yes, it toxic af and you either grew to love or hate the characters but the writing is really great and beautiful. there’s a lot of lyrical quotes in there. i think that you should give it a try.
So I read icebreaker last year and gave it a 3.5. It isn’t bad! Just so much spice that really did nothing for the story. I thought there was a plot though albeit not the strongest one. Overall it’s not a great work of literature but it is a fun and enjoyable read.
I have A Little Life in my room but I haven't read it yet. I read the beginning and admittedly there's a view of life that I'm not used to seeing (artists). I'm used to reading dark books, especially historical fiction. I completely understand avoiding it. I have books where I won't even mention, much less describe because it could be traumatic to others.
@@rayareadzzzz honestly getting traumatized isn't worth it 💀💀 did that to myself in my teens because I didn't look up books I picked up. My own fault lmao.
Nah as someone who read a Tessa Bailey last year, you're totally valid for wanting to skip. I read Unfortunately Yours last year and omg it was so bad. Not the worst thing I read last year, but still, bad. First of all the mains were not enemies, just petty ass adults who couldn't talk to each other. Also he says this line about her boobs AT THEIR WEDDING and it just- it gave me the ick. I'm still gonna read her bc I like garbage but still, wouldn't recommend that book at least
The "gay" characters in A Little Life (I’m operating on the assumption that this is in reference to Jude & Willem) aren’t even gay. It’s explicitly stated in the book. The relationship makes perfect sense within the context of the book and serves as a reinforcement of theme, but to make it seem like the book is extending its tentacles to target and throttle any gay person throughout the narrative is highly misleading.
I'm totally with you about A little life! 😂 About Magnolia Parks, I loved the first book, I read it 2x, the second was ok, the 3rd really really repetetive and boring so now I'm nervous to read the next one. But the first one I loved it so so much, some quotes still live in my mind. But for what I already saw from your videos I think you will not like it. The characters are really anoying and always making bad decisions and stupid acts... Like really spoiled brats. 🙃
hahahha thanks a lot, yes i kind’ve heard the same about the 3rd book i might still give it a try maybe idk at least read till about 30%, i think i just want to relieve the “gossip girl” experience 😂
To some extent this was interesting...but at the end when you sad "nothing was trilling" now I am curious what would you sugest als trilling and also as oposit "good" to these books...
i assume you are talking specifically about “lock every door” and if so then i can name dozens of thrillers which are better imo of course, a couple that come to mind: dark matter,look closer, if something happens to me, there are a lot :)
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A Little Life is also a book I don't wanna read because it's fricking long and I think it would damage my brain ://// same for CoHo, I have It Ends With Us at home (got it as a gift on a first date lol) but I think I might gonna watch the movie (not sure yet if I wanna spend money on that tho). I have Icebreaker at home and plan on buddyreading it with a co-worker (lmao) but I think it's just gonna be 50 Shades of Grey for Gen Z and with hockey.
I think It Ends with Us is probably the second best CoHoo book. First one is Verity. I tried to read All Our Perfects and I was bored to death despite the angst
Don't read magnolia parks ! It's awful , it was a quick dnf for me , the author use the word "f***" every sentence , the characters are very childish nd annoying , save your time!
just cause they're viral doesn't mean they're good, don't feel bad for not wanting to read them, read what u like and be a hater cause that's more fun!
once a hater always a hater ❤️
Hearing a re-telling of A Little Life's plot was when I realized I don't trust books that are only famous for being sad. Seems like there's literally nothing else to that story.
right?! i feel like they are only written for the shock value somehow :(
I 100% agree with you regarding A Little Life, I did the same and read the Wiki page and that's a nope for me for pretty much the same reason you mentioned. As for Colleen Hoover, I doubt she will change since she got a movie deal for It Ends With Us and has so many people praising her for her books, I refuse to read her books as someone who actually lived in an abusive relationship and believe me when i say, there is NOTHING romantic about it!! Same goes for anything labled "Dark Romance", SA and abuse is really not for me. As for anything with smut, I am uninterested in them, I do enjoy romance with some intimate scenes and usually close door or fade to black are my preference, no shame to people who enjoy smut, I just don't enjoy "watching" other people have sex.
Yeah, not touching CoHo even with a 10ft pole! also, love Steph but our tastes dont match 😂
yeah same, she is such a sweetheart, but every time i see her faves i am like giiiirllllll
as someone who is very picky in what romance novels they read, i absolutely loved it happened one summer. I only picked it up because leonie (the book leo) sais she loved this one cuz it sounded corny. But rn it's litteraly one of my favorite romance novels
I loved this one too!
I read it too and although I enjoyed myself and had fun in the beginning (exactly because of how corny and unserious it seemed), I actually fell out of it the more I read. I would rate it a 2/5, some things didn't sit right with me, but the potential was there for just some fun and light read
you and I being on the same page about Coffee gets Cold, it’s sooooo loved but I got so bored of it but I persevered because too many of my faves recommended it for me to take it lightly. I finished the book annoyed so yeah that’s enough for me. 💀
Also, I read the Tessa Bailey book, gave her another shot with hook,line and sinker and said never again 🙏
yeah i kept thinking it’s gonna get better and it never did ☕️😂
In my opinion Magnolia Parks is Not Good BUT there was some quality to characterisation in the first book that still managed to hook me really well. It's one of those series that is impossible to say one way or the other, unless bad writing makes it truly impossible for you to enjoy a story, because it's all about your connection to the cast of characters. I hated the experience of reading those books, but I miss those characters like old friends. It's worth giving a try in my opinion, but don't try to push on if you don't want to. Pick up the book and read a few chapters, and you'll know very quickly if it's for you or not. It's also worth noting (despite what people say) you CAN just read the Daisy Haites books on their own, and you can just read the chapters of the people you care about. It's not that deep, you'll be able to follow the plot lol.
thank youuu
There are much better hockey romances than Icebreaker. I'm quite a fan and won't touch that, but then I also think I'm generally too old to read stupid college age BS. Don't let booktok get to you on that.
ohh do you have any recs for hockey romances??
so far pretty much any sports romance book disappointed me :(
@@rayareadzzzz oh yah, I believe it - I'm disappointed much more than I'm impressed, or entertained even. What would you want to avoid? Cause there's well written books and entertaining books and the two are rarely the same, IME. 😄
@@rayareadzzzzI recommend Gravity by Tal Bauer. His writing is phenomenal and not immature at all. Low on spice but highhh on feels and found family.
There’s a video on CZcams I watched talking about A Little Life and he also said that the cover was from a photo shoot from the 80s, used without permission I believe, of this man at the moment of ejaculation (the more you know 🌠) I hate that cover so much. For a while I was seeing it all the time on Goodreads and every time I saw it, I’d think the guy looks like Elon Musk 😭
😨😨 i miss the person i was before i read this
Oh!
I read one book by Tessa Bailey and it was kinda funny but also kinda unnecessary. I think that if I have read one of her books, that's more than enough.
I finished Little Life and I cannot understand what people like about it? I personally found it boring.
Omg I felt exactly the same about Binding 13. I also picked it up because it seemed like everyone was hyping it up, but I had no idea the characters were so young? 😅 I think I’m officially too old to be reading school romances I think, I couldn’t get into it
yeah same 👵🏻👵🏻
As someone who loves tragic queer love stories and queer books in general you can not pay me to read a little life it’s just trauma corn for straight girls that love fetishizing gay men and have never read or even thought of reading a gay/queer book written by a actual queer person. Also the writer saying she doesn’t care when people asked her if she was exploiting gay men and writing gay torture corn really rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe open your mind and hear actual queer people out on their opinions about your books instead of just using them for profit.
I personally thought Magnolia Parks was insufferable. I dnf'd at 100 pages or so, but other comments are saying they liked it so maybe I should have pushed through. Part of it for me was the plastic bag in the wind FMC, which is my least favorite kind of character.
I quite enjoyed Magnolia parks... in the same way you would enjoy gossip girl by just being there for vibes and low-key hating every character and relationship... I found it very entertaining but yeah the relationships are SO toxic and not something to be modelled. I think if you go in with that mindset they can definitely be very entertaining. It might be worth a try!
Also, first video I've watched and immediately subscribed. Can't wait to go binge all of your other vids! Have a good day ❤
thank you very much 🥰🤍
TikTok really lowered the quality of books since the most popular ones are real trash. I know we don't have to read classics and philosophical works but stop giving terrible writing popularity.
for me TikTok is always either hit or miss, never anything in between😂
I'm currently reading It Happened One Summer. I'm going through a tough period rn and unable to read & process anything heavy so this book ticks all the boxes for me.
yes i can totally see how that could work!!
sending you lots of love btw 🙏🏻✨
@@rayareadzzzz ❤❤❤ thank you. Love your channel a lot.
Little Life made me sick, never touching that author again
ughh
I read Icebreaker and it wasn't great 😬
Gossip girl was actually originally a book!
You are so real for this, and I subscribed so fast! I appreciate this video so much.
thank you for watching and subscribing 🥰🥰
I absolutely agree with Tessa Bailey. I read one book by her and was not crazy about it so never again. I felt similarly about Lock Every Door. It’s my least favorite Riley Sager that I’ve read from him so far. I have 3 more of his to try and so far The Only One Left seems to be the only hit I’ve read from him lately. We’ll see what happens. Another author I absolutely refuse to read is Elle Kennedy. Years back I found out in her Off Campus series she wrote her male lead characters as misogynistic so I swore off her books and have not read her to this day. I’ll probably never read her. And also I tried Never by Jessa Hastings and DNFed it so I probably won’t ever read Magnolia Parks. Plus I despise footnotes in books so most likely I won’t ever read from her again.
oh yeah Off Campus series hahha it’s another one i refuse to read actually 🙈😂 might add that to my list for another video
lock every door for lack of a better word sucks ass. try the house across the lake which ate up!
i’ve heard mix things about that one too :(
@@rayareadzzzz it was way more interesting at least. some of the relationships were iffy but same with ninety five percent of thrillers ig
i’ve read magnolia parks and i can say that this series is pretty good. yes, it toxic af and you either grew to love or hate the characters but the writing is really great and beautiful. there’s a lot of lyrical quotes in there. i think that you should give it a try.
i think i actually might after reading through the comments
thank youu
I love a little life and the boys of tommen series and then agree with you on some of the others 😂. Just starting Butcher and Blackbird! X
So I read icebreaker last year and gave it a 3.5.
It isn’t bad! Just so much spice that really did nothing for the story. I thought there was a plot though albeit not the strongest one. Overall it’s not a great work of literature but it is a fun and enjoyable read.
I have A Little Life in my room but I haven't read it yet. I read the beginning and admittedly there's a view of life that I'm not used to seeing (artists). I'm used to reading dark books, especially historical fiction.
I completely understand avoiding it. I have books where I won't even mention, much less describe because it could be traumatic to others.
yeah, i think i would have been hella traumatized by it for sure :( so the notion of it even being a “booktok book” shocks me 😅😂
@@rayareadzzzz honestly getting traumatized isn't worth it 💀💀 did that to myself in my teens because I didn't look up books I picked up. My own fault lmao.
Nah as someone who read a Tessa Bailey last year, you're totally valid for wanting to skip. I read Unfortunately Yours last year and omg it was so bad. Not the worst thing I read last year, but still, bad. First of all the mains were not enemies, just petty ass adults who couldn't talk to each other. Also he says this line about her boobs AT THEIR WEDDING and it just- it gave me the ick. I'm still gonna read her bc I like garbage but still, wouldn't recommend that book at least
i like garbage😂😂 i chuckled
The "gay" characters in A Little Life (I’m operating on the assumption that this is in reference to Jude & Willem) aren’t even gay. It’s explicitly stated in the book. The relationship makes perfect sense within the context of the book and serves as a reinforcement of theme, but to make it seem like the book is extending its tentacles to target and throttle any gay person throughout the narrative is highly misleading.
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I'm totally with you about A little life! 😂 About Magnolia Parks, I loved the first book, I read it 2x, the second was ok, the 3rd really really repetetive and boring so now I'm nervous to read the next one. But the first one I loved it so so much, some quotes still live in my mind. But for what I already saw from your videos I think you will not like it. The characters are really anoying and always making bad decisions and stupid acts... Like really spoiled brats. 🙃
hahahha thanks a lot, yes i kind’ve heard the same about the 3rd book
i might still give it a try maybe idk at least read till about 30%, i think i just want to relieve the “gossip girl” experience 😂
To some extent this was interesting...but at the end when you sad "nothing was trilling" now I am curious what would you sugest als trilling and also as oposit "good" to these books...
i assume you are talking specifically about “lock every door” and if so then i can name dozens of thrillers which are better imo of course, a couple that come to mind: dark matter,look closer, if something happens to me, there are a lot :)
@@rayareadzzzz Thank you. I will look those up.
What a fantastic video. Thank you. Agree 100%.
thank you for watching 🫶🏻
I agree with most of these 😅
"It Happened One Summer" was a poorly written book. It was just as you predicted, "corny and cringey."
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Do you know of any books like the Mindf*ck series?
sadly no, i am chasing the same high :)
the closest one i heard of was the butcher&blackbird but again it wasn’t all that
A Little Life is also a book I don't wanna read because it's fricking long and I think it would damage my brain ://// same for CoHo, I have It Ends With Us at home (got it as a gift on a first date lol) but I think I might gonna watch the movie (not sure yet if I wanna spend money on that tho). I have Icebreaker at home and plan on buddyreading it with a co-worker (lmao) but I think it's just gonna be 50 Shades of Grey for Gen Z and with hockey.
it ends with us was the only book that i kind of liked and i am planning to go see the movie, if nothing else, to stare at blake lively 😂✨
@@rayareadzzzz true, i should go watch it to .... enjoy the view haha she's so gorgeous
I think It Ends with Us is probably the second best CoHoo book. First one is Verity.
I tried to read All Our Perfects and I was bored to death despite the angst
Don't read magnolia parks ! It's awful , it was a quick dnf for me , the author use the word "f***" every sentence , the characters are very childish nd annoying , save your time!
what is wrong with you i love colleen hoover
good for you