Say No More! I remember your romance vlog when you read Done and Dusted. I see that book in the bookstores all the time and just turn my nose up at it thinking about that whiskey scene. Gross!! I have read one Tessa Bailey book and know she is not for me. I loved the Drunken Rant video and the Patreon videos for My Killer Vacation. Won’t be reading that one either. 😂
Nooooooooo, not one of my favorite books of last year (Into The Drowning Deep)!!! 🤣 In all seriousness totally understand and agree with why you didn't vibe with this book, I adored it and even for me there were times when the pace was GLACIAL. Also the writing is sooooo dry and journalistic, which I strangely like but definitely understand why most wouldn't. Their zombie apocalypse book, feed, had the exact same issues and no killer mermaids, so I enjoyed that one a bit less. 😂
Ooh so interesting to see your number one worst book! I really liked Cultish, but felt like it was targeted to a very specific area of her interest (the focus on language use in cults and cult-like groups). Then I also found her podcast to be pretty self-interest focused…I guess I am not totally surprised that this book is like this 🤷♀️
Great video! Looking forward to your "Best of 2024!" also. I think the only one of these I've read was Y/N, and it was a lowlight for me too. I wasn't expecting a lot, but I have friends who write readerfic, so I said I'd take one for the team and give it a read (At least it's short). It very much felt like someone who thought fanfic, k-pop and everything around them were silly and gross and no serious people would be into them, did no research into what fandom was like, and then wrote a book making fun of the whole situation. I'd have enjoyed an actual satire from someone who knows the culture, because it often is very silly, but this was just ???.
23:00 You might like Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words by Jenni Nuttall linguistics at the intersection of gender through history.
I loved your opinion about Disappearing Acts! As someone who read it when it was first published, I can tell you that your reaction is apt. Keep in mind that the book was originally published like 35 years ago. Reading it with a 2024 perspective is an entirely different experience!
Haha I personally loved Y/N by Esther Yi but that's because I thought the prose was so absurd it warped back around to being hilarious. I read it more as a satire on literary 'girlfailure' books , but I think if I'd gone into it expecting a straightforward book I probably would have hated it
Oh I hate it when people with podcasts just put out a book about the same topic as their podcast. I think with how many podcasts there are this will be a thing done more often in the future, a built in audience is already there and it doesnt Sound like a bad deal for the publisher and author. BUT You can't tell me there is a need to have the same stuff just published in a different Medium. My most dissapointing book of the year did that. A austrian Journalist who has a podcast with a mortician out out a book, I read it and my friend wanted to. I just told her which Story and chapters where which podcast episode and we have the same knowledge of the stories now that I read it and never listen to it, just looked up the titles and episode descriptions amd she never even read a page and just listend to 20 episodes.
16:21 This is why I haven't picked up a Terry book 😂😂😂 After all the cover drama for Tessa's book is why I put her up on the shelf. Oh going back to birding and it's a NOOOOO for me.
I have the Tessa Bailey book, bought for 1 dollar (which converted to 5 reais), but I haven't read because EVERYONE says is bad. and I'm like you, I loved 4 of the 6 books by her I've read, so maybe I'll skip this one, at least it was cheap.
I haven’t read any of these (whichh sounds like a good thing 😅) but one of the worst books I read this year was “business or pleasure” for a book supposedly about fandom culture it sure was derogatory *and* wildly inaccurate 😂
That's so disappointing about ghost station. I actually have it on my reading list for 2025. It sounded right up my alley. Does anyone have recommendations for similar books?
I loved Dead Silence too and now I am tempering my expectations for Ghost Station because you're the 3rd (possibly 4th) person I've watched who said it was disappointing.
I'm not going to point out the irony of the book "Done and Dusted" for the title. 😂😂 But also, *quickly removes from TBR* Terry McMillan is an author that's hit/miss with me. Terrible/rage-inducing things happen in her books a lot.
The book Disappearing Acts was listed as a contemporary literary fiction/ urban fiction. The movie adaptation is listed as a romance drama. I just think thats something Hollywood does just for marketing. But this book was written along time ago. I read it over twenty years ago. Terry mcmillans books were so juicy back in day. Lol. I haven't read any of books recently so maybe they're just a bit dated now.
'Sounds fake' - yup, it really does, I call conspiracy 🤨🙃 Listening to folk talk about their worst books is just so entertaining - 'tis my favourite season 😂
I did love Into the Drowning Deep. Shame you did not like it but you do you. My worse book of the year was easily One Dark Window. Now, to be fair to the book it was advertised as an adult gothic and that is what I was in the mood for. It was not a gothic, it was a fantasy. Not even dark fantasy, and it may be adult but it did read like young adult to me. Unexpected genre I can deal with, but if I pick up a book that I thought was adult and it reads like young adult I do feel like I get whiplash and it does affect my enjoyment. Also, I despise the mysterious brooding love interest, and the kind of romance included. If you include that type of character I am going to hate them, and if you could that kind of romance I will hate it too. Think rolling my eyes every time they are on page. Beyond that, and the decently done magic system, the characters were shallow and cliche, the writing wasn't very good and the book was predictable. It was a bad book in my opinion, and I don't understand the love it gets.
you rehashing the whisky spit scene had me loling so hard my daughter came in to check on me 🤣🤣🤣
Now that I know what to not waste my money on, I cannot WAIT for your best books so I know which ones I need!
I am here for the patented Jess Owens Rant. Here For It.
Your vlog about "My Killer Vaction" is one of your funniest videos! Although, I'm sorry you had to suffer through it.
Say No More! I remember your romance vlog when you read Done and Dusted. I see that book in the bookstores all the time and just turn my nose up at it thinking about that whiskey scene. Gross!! I have read one Tessa Bailey book and know she is not for me. I loved the Drunken Rant video and the Patreon videos for My Killer Vacation. Won’t be reading that one either. 😂
Woo! I was having a bad day already and then saw you posted. Can't wait to watch this one :)
Nooooooooo, not one of my favorite books of last year (Into The Drowning Deep)!!! 🤣 In all seriousness totally understand and agree with why you didn't vibe with this book, I adored it and even for me there were times when the pace was GLACIAL. Also the writing is sooooo dry and journalistic, which I strangely like but definitely understand why most wouldn't. Their zombie apocalypse book, feed, had the exact same issues and no killer mermaids, so I enjoyed that one a bit less. 😂
Ooh so interesting to see your number one worst book! I really liked Cultish, but felt like it was targeted to a very specific area of her interest (the focus on language use in cults and cult-like groups). Then I also found her podcast to be pretty self-interest focused…I guess I am not totally surprised that this book is like this 🤷♀️
Come Together and that Catherine the Great biography on your non-fiction shelves are really good.
Great video! Looking forward to your "Best of 2024!" also. I think the only one of these I've read was Y/N, and it was a lowlight for me too. I wasn't expecting a lot, but I have friends who write readerfic, so I said I'd take one for the team and give it a read (At least it's short). It very much felt like someone who thought fanfic, k-pop and everything around them were silly and gross and no serious people would be into them, did no research into what fandom was like, and then wrote a book making fun of the whole situation. I'd have enjoyed an actual satire from someone who knows the culture, because it often is very silly, but this was just ???.
I need that sweatshirt. Also you made me start Way of Kings.
23:00 You might like Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words by Jenni Nuttall linguistics at the intersection of gender through history.
This sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing
I feel like a bad black had me in tears. Girl lol
My husband came in when you were talking about the whiskey spot scene and was laughing his ass off at what you were saying.
I loved your opinion about Disappearing Acts! As someone who read it when it was first published, I can tell you that your reaction is apt. Keep in mind that the book was originally published like 35 years ago. Reading it with a 2024 perspective is an entirely different experience!
I had zero desire to read the Lila Sage books, but the whiskey spit section actually intrigued me. Lol!
i had the same critique on cultish
Haha I personally loved Y/N by Esther Yi but that's because I thought the prose was so absurd it warped back around to being hilarious. I read it more as a satire on literary 'girlfailure' books , but I think if I'd gone into it expecting a straightforward book I probably would have hated it
Oh I hate it when people with podcasts just put out a book about the same topic as their podcast. I think with how many podcasts there are this will be a thing done more often in the future, a built in audience is already there and it doesnt Sound like a bad deal for the publisher and author.
BUT
You can't tell me there is a need to have the same stuff just published in a different Medium. My most dissapointing book of the year did that. A austrian Journalist who has a podcast with a mortician out out a book, I read it and my friend wanted to. I just told her which Story and chapters where which podcast episode and we have the same knowledge of the stories now that I read it and never listen to it, just looked up the titles and episode descriptions amd she never even read a page and just listend to 20 episodes.
16:21 This is why I haven't picked up a Terry book 😂😂😂 After all the cover drama for Tessa's book is why I put her up on the shelf. Oh going back to birding and it's a NOOOOO for me.
I have the Tessa Bailey book, bought for 1 dollar (which converted to 5 reais), but I haven't read because EVERYONE says is bad. and I'm like you, I loved 4 of the 6 books by her I've read, so maybe I'll skip this one, at least it was cheap.
Glad I’m not the only one that didn’t really like Into the Drowning Deep. Did not care!! And really would’ve liked more killer mermaids for sure 😂
WAIT my killer vacation got ANOTHER cover change??? Damn
Well you have tattoos so are you also a bad boy by Tessa Bailey standards???
I read Y/N by Esther Yi. It made no sense, was so stupid and seemed to actively hate the reader.
I haven’t read any of these (whichh sounds like a good thing 😅) but one of the worst books I read this year was “business or pleasure” for a book supposedly about fandom culture it sure was derogatory *and* wildly inaccurate 😂
That's so disappointing about ghost station. I actually have it on my reading list for 2025. It sounded right up my alley. Does anyone have recommendations for similar books?
I loved Dead Silence too and now I am tempering my expectations for Ghost Station because you're the 3rd (possibly 4th) person I've watched who said it was disappointing.
I'm not going to point out the irony of the book "Done and Dusted" for the title. 😂😂 But also, *quickly removes from TBR*
Terry McMillan is an author that's hit/miss with me. Terrible/rage-inducing things happen in her books a lot.
Worst books of the year were
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow & Sky Full of Elephants
100% agree on My Killer Vacation.
The book Disappearing Acts was listed as a contemporary literary fiction/ urban fiction. The movie adaptation is listed as a romance drama. I just think thats something Hollywood does just for marketing. But this book was written along time ago. I read it over twenty years ago. Terry mcmillans books were so juicy back in day. Lol. I haven't read any of books recently so maybe they're just a bit dated now.
'Sounds fake' - yup, it really does, I call conspiracy 🤨🙃 Listening to folk talk about their worst books is just so entertaining - 'tis my favourite season 😂
I did love Into the Drowning Deep. Shame you did not like it but you do you. My worse book of the year was easily One Dark Window. Now, to be fair to the book it was advertised as an adult gothic and that is what I was in the mood for. It was not a gothic, it was a fantasy. Not even dark fantasy, and it may be adult but it did read like young adult to me. Unexpected genre I can deal with, but if I pick up a book that I thought was adult and it reads like young adult I do feel like I get whiplash and it does affect my enjoyment. Also, I despise the mysterious brooding love interest, and the kind of romance included. If you include that type of character I am going to hate them, and if you could that kind of romance I will hate it too. Think rolling my eyes every time they are on page. Beyond that, and the decently done magic system, the characters were shallow and cliche, the writing wasn't very good and the book was predictable. It was a bad book in my opinion, and I don't understand the love it gets.
into the drowning deep got sooooooo boring i was sad