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A deadly education was so funny to me!! I loved the ML and FL's relationship

i reeeeeaaaallllllyyy wished we could have heard his conversation with verity and shade in the skill pool. only nighteyes remebering the conversation with both of them and feels so bad not knowing the whole thing. (just binged everybook of the series these last 2 months)

The cover thing ALWAYS gets me. I try to recommend the book to friends and have to beg them to overlook the cover of moon called😅 thank goodness the newer books are better

Thank you for the review. I just purchased this book from the thrift store. Wasn't sure what to expect. Now I'm looking forward to it.

I read Ocean's Echo on your recommendation, and I loved it so much! And Piranesi was also my favorite book of 2024

I read 187. Here's my Top 5 -The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec -The Wedding People by Alison Espach -Project Hail Mary by Andy Wier -Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See -The Unmothers by Leslie Anderson Honorable mentions -The Seven Year Slip by Ashly Poston (best romance) -Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (best literary fiction) -Dragonrider by Taran Matharu (best -No Gods No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull (best sci-fantasy) -Other Birds (best contemporary) -Godzilla x Kong by Richard Keyes (best big dumb action book!) -Taken by the Witch Queen by Luna Fury (best smut) -Her Spell that Binds Me by Luna Oblonsky (best dark academia) -The Fossil Hunter by Tea Cooper (best dual timeline) -Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck (best Historical fiction) -The Bird King by G Willow Wilson (best historical fantasy) -Star Scrapper by JN Chaney (best sci-fi adventure) -The Hidden Gaurdian by JDL Rosell (best sequel) -The Princess and the Foxgirl by Julie Law (best dirty fantasy) -The Crypt by Scott Sigler (best scifi horror) -Her Spell that Binds Me by Luna Oblonsky (best dark academia/romance) -The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska (best clean romantasy) -The Lost Village by Camilla Sten (best mystery thriller) I loved Piranesi when i read it a couple years ago! The next sni-fi romance i have is The Blighted Stars by Megan E. O'keefe, and Its more of a spicy horror Sci-fi but also Thrum by Meg Smitherman.

That's so cool that your list was included in BookswithLala's video! I have read one book from your favourites (Ninth House) and it was 5-stars for me too 😁 a lot of these are on my tbr, including Piranesi!

Murphy's death broke me

🦩Wow! 🤯 So many GREAT books! 📚 You mentioned that you read a lot of books this year- How many books did you read this year?

I’ve read 12 of these🎉

I gasped aloud when watching the BookswithLala video and it was revealed to be your list! I had just thought it was so funny that there was another person who’s favorite books of the year were so similar to the ones you love to hype 😅

Piranesi is a high priority read for me this year after loving Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell! I also really need to read Deadly Education already

I remember reading Piranesi a few years ago. It is an amazingly immersive world. And the style it is written in isn't something I normally like, but it worked for me in this instance.

Looks like Taming Demons for Beginners is my next read. The others are on hold. I want to thank you for pushing the Vorkosigan books last year. I ended up binge reading the entire series after my Mom passed. Those books helped me get through a bad time. I reread my favorites, then binge read the entire series again. Now I'm slowly making my way through Bujold's Pendric and Desdemona books. I always appreciate your recommendations.

did you see the summary for Everina Maxwell's next book was announced?? I'm so excited for it! I'm so curious to check out When Among Crows! Glad you liked the Hacienda so much!! I can't wait for more from Canas!

Yesss to A Deadly Education!!!! Was my #5 of the year 🤩 I also looove the Alex Stern series atmosphere, it’s delicious **nod** I need to read Piranesi ASAP. Happy new year!

Shoutout to me for continuing my tradition (3 years running!) of getting a terrible cold at the end of December so my Best Books of the Year Video has a breathy raspy voice to it 😆

I was happy at first too but it was broken 2 times in one year. Poor quality boox ! 😢

I'd go so far to say Jacob wasn't only not fleshed out. He was such a flat nothing of a character that only lived to die that if the genders were reversed this book would be bashed as misogynistic slop and not of been successful enough for so many sequels

I really was bored by this book

fantastic recommendations! you’ve got the right scope for this type of character 🌙

bonnes critiques honnêtes

I love this book. :)🔑

It brings so much lore, i don’t think it was boring

Great honest takes. Think you were both more fair than some of the other reviews I have seen

Hobbs biggest issue is pacing, i dropped Dragon Keeper before page 100, way to slow Hobbs is an acquired tatse i can tell But ima still continue to voice my very very negative opinions about her as a author

Agreed, this book is bloated, feels both too short and too long at the same time. This book is easily the worst out of the 5 I'm gonna be honest.

So intresting. A lot of what you are saying i am enjoying. I love seeing so many POVs, stormlight is so big and i love almost every character. The interludes are so cool and i want more from every single character in the inteludes. Plus knowing odium had one in every section had me looking forward to ending days. To me Sandersons prose is so not concise he needs this many words, if not more because he did some telling not showing. So to me stormlight is just the big over bloated series where every book has mostly the same negatives. For good or worse were at book 5 and i feel like book 5 was status quo.

I'm not sure how I feel about the book at the moment. I think I'll need to think about it for a while and then re read it. I also like hearing these other perspectives and reviews that go over things I might have missed.

Three stars from me too. And i agree that you could easily cut 400 pages. It’s so disappointing because of how much potential the books have

I like how you guys recorded your thoughts on each section as you read. Very cool. I've seen a few people complain that the book could have been edited down a bit. It seems a little weird to me to complain about the length of the 5th book in a planned 10 book series. Any book can be edited down. The whole reason I like epic fantasy is because it includes a lot of the things like world building and little character moments other books would leave out. I really like the universe and always want to learn more about it so I enjoyed all the lore stuff. WaT added more to the lore than any of the other books. I agree the Gav fake out was a little contrived. I think think it would have been cooler to leave Navani, Gav and maybe even Shallan trapped in the spiritual realm. Then you wouldn't need a fake Gav. Navani and Shallan both are basically trapped somewhere at the end of the book anyways.

⭐⭐⭐ Only three stars? You seemed to enjoy so much of this book 📚

In my opinion, the interludes are the best-written parts of this book

I feel like I need to rewatch this regularly to keep my dnfing motivation up :P I kind of hate when people say you shouldn't rate your dnfs. If lots of people are dnfing a book, then I think that should impact the average rating of a book.

I seem to be somewhere between your opinions. I'm fine with listening to the lore, but I hate when it then has no relevance whatsoever to the plot. And yes, Adolin steals the show from everyone in this book.

The fact that Kaladin in this book gets so many goodbye scenes and we didn't get a scene of Navani embracing Jasnah when she thought Jasnah dead is saying something. Not yet sure what, but it's something.

Seth would like to make the correction that Towers seems closer to Warhammer 40k than Magic The Gathering.

I realize this isn’t relevant to the video, but I think you should review Dungeon Crawler Carl… hear me out: everyone on TH-cam has reviewed it and loved it. I need someone to hate it just for a contrast. Don’t get me wrong, I actually love it too, but it would just be interesting to hear a different perspective. I can’t imagine you would like it, but I also can’t pinpoint why exactly. The second reason is reviewing a book like that would probably get you more views and help grow your channel.

You have definitely inspired me to DNF more books. I now pay more attention to that "dread" feeling - if I am dreading picking up a book to read more of it, there is something wrong, and I should at least consider quitting.

The only thing more amazing than you knowing that a book will be good just by reading 10% of it is that if a book doesn't make a good impression by then, there is a 90% chance that you won't like it by the end. It makes me feel better about dropping a book I was on that I've dropped half away through. It was a trilogy and I really enjoyed the first but unfortunately the protagonist changed and she was far worse than the first book's protagonist.

If you're running out of books to read*, it makes sense to keep reading if there's any chance that you might like a book eventually. In the real world, there are so many books to read that you're much more likely to find a hit for yourself if you fail fast and start a new book. It's an opportunity cost thing. That said, there is a dopamine hit (at least for me) when I finish a book, even if it wasn't a good book for me. And there's definitely some satisfaction in writing a scathing review of books I hate. So, it's not quite as clear cut for me. (But I absolutely support your choice to dump books.) For me, Dune was one of the few books that I struggled with the start and loved by the end. And I'm very glad I pushed through the start to get to the fascination that was the rest of the book. And now I like the start of the book as well. But that's exceptional, not normal. Finally, I will say that sometimes I can tell that a book just isn't for me at the time. In that case, a soft DNF can give me a chance to get into a better space for a book in the future than trying to force through a reading block. Even that's a rather low probability outcome, though. Most soft DNFs end up as gone and forgotten forever. As to rating books that I don't finish, I absolutely both rate and review books that I dislike enough to drop. I have several reviews that start something like, "Perhaps this book turns into a masterpiece after page 74, but I will never know." It's only fair to let people know that you didn't read the whole thing, but it's likewise a public service to let potential readers know that for at least some people, the beginning is terrible. Good discussion of the issue. * Yeah, right.

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Fahrenheit is not only boring but also chauvinistic. I wish I were as wise as you and had DNFed the long, long way to a small angry planet. That book made me mad.

Funnily enough I feel the exact opposite about the morality of rating DNFs. I consider a rating to be a reflection of the totality of a book so my mind can't even conjure hypothetical ratings for books I haven't finished let alone calculate that into my reading spreadsheet or goodreads. I get what you mean about the bottom cliff of your reading not being reflected if you don't rate your DNFs but because I don't even mentally consider those books read it doesn't bother me. It actually used to annoy me to see my read books and DNFs mixed together on Goodreads shelves until I discovered you could make a whole exclude shelf for them a few years back.

🦩Yes! DNF is a great thing and very liberating! I have enjoyed my reading more with liberal DNF. Why waste time on a book that I don't enjoy when there are so many GREAT books out there - just waiting to be read!? I also count the DNF in my reading total - as long as I picked it up in good faith. 📚

Hello. I totally agree with the love of the characters and plot assessments and your succinct derivations. I started with "A Civil Campaign" and immediately fell in love with all of the principles and LITERALLY all other characters in the novel...and I mean all...Dov, Delia, The Kudelka's, Mark, Greggor, Haute Pel, Gem GNL Bennon, Illian. Lady Alice, Enrika, MdM VorSwasson, Pym, Jerrord, the house guards, Captain Svleros, TsPis, Ma Kosti...the whole caste really of this novel TBH. Thank you for this terrific presentation!

I actually didn't like the ending, I wanted more of the book and I was upset that it was done. I have problems with books ending, I want them to go on forever but all stories end even if you don't want them too. Other than that I loved the book and it even made me laugh out loud at times. It has me on the edge of my seat and I would rate it a 4 and a half.

are the graphs self made or did these come from an app? Great video!