THE WORST BOOKS I READ IN 2019 aka I wasted showering on this???
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BEST BOOKS I READ IN 2019
🎥 Watch here: • THE BEST BOOKS I READ ...
2-STAR BOOKS
📕 00:45 - The Friend: www.bookdepository.com/Friend...
📕 03:06 - Pride: www.bookdepository.com/Pride-...
📕 04:58 - Exes and Ohs: www.bookdepository.com/Exes-a...
📕 08:09 - The Happiness Project: www.bookdepository.com/The-Ha...
📕 10:27 - The Grisha Trilogy: www.bookdepository.com/The-Sh...
📕 12:26 - Unwind: www.bookdepository.com/Unwind...
1-STAR BOOKS
📕 14:21 - Wool: www.bookdepository.com/Wool-H...
📕 15:36 - How to Date Men When You Hate Men: www.bookdepository.com/How-to...
📕 16:56 - A Court of Thorns and Roses Series: www.bookdepository.com/A-Cour...
📕 20:44 - You: www.bookdepository.com/You-Ca...
📕 22:06 - Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend: www.bookdepository.com/Hot-Pt...
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hearing u say "alan cumyn" so aggressively really just saved 2020
2019 who?
my saving grace
I almost thought of the actor Alan Cumming 😂😂😂
This still holds true during the crisis.
This really hits different now
"Diversity doesn't mean the book is good": yes finally someone said that!
it's safe for me to say it cuz i'm POC lol
I think it's great actually. Cuz let's be real white people make great and shitty content, white characters can be great or very annoying, POC have the right to make shitty content and have shitty characters too. Yeay for equality.
literally everyone says that tho
@@demongoose666I think what they meant was something like "Finally someone said it... Who doesn't do it because they're racist/homophobic/transphobic/misogynistic"
Like, yes, a lot of people do say that diversity doesn't make media good, but a lot of them do so not for the sake of genuine media criticism and reflection but because they want to dismiss diversity as a concept.
@UOL Jessi I am a person of color as well and I would much rather have a structured plot and well written book with some diversity then just a lousy book in general. I completely agree with you.
This channel has gone from “read with Cindy” to “mercilessly roast books with Cindy” and I’m here for it
Isn't that the same thing
@@withcindy READ THEM FOR FILTH. with cindy
Same, same
I love ripping a story apart. As a writer it helps me learn, make sure I avoid those mistakes.
Reading is fundamental!
“Idk if they misspelled *predator* with _mentor_ ” I’m dead
Fire that proofreader
it autocorrected obviously
@@ovp3606 fire the auto correct
so is the predator
Book summary: A grieving girl learns to cope with her loss with the help of a dog.
The dog: Aight, I'mma head out.
NOOO DOGGY COME BACK
We stan a queen who revisits old trauma for our entertainment.
my channel in a nutshell
@@withcindy
When Shinji starts talking about trauma you know he knows what hes talking about
@@slowmoe1686 period
Hey, Shinji. How’s life for you. Sticky???
Lol jkjk, NGE is my favorite anime ever, and I think trauma is your forte, so...
Can't wait until Cindy's sarcastic "I don't think anyone who reads romance deserves rights" rant is taken out of context and starts new book twitter drama.
i'm 100% serious
edit: ok some people didn't get that i was being sarcastic. just don't listen to anything i say from now on
Kellie I don’t mind reading romance unless it’s Colleen Hoover shit in which case I burn it
@@ElinorMahoney burn baby burn
“I think Coolsville sucks!”
@@ElinorMahoney omg colleen hoover is just a mess
cindy: "Hated the books"
also cindy wanting to get money: "but Netflix will improve them"
You right
The Darkling: *is named “The Darkling*
Alina: hmm, he seems like a nice guy
Lmao.
Honestly, "Darkling" sounds kind of exotic in Russian. Especially when you put the emphasis on the second syllable. And if you translate the name into the closest Russian equivalent, "Темнистый" almost sounds cute.
(As an aside, reading Russian Grishaverse fansites is *bizarre*)
Strannik01 damn!! That’s very interesting, I didn’t now it could sound cute in any language LOL
My name is Alina and i absolutely hate the book
@@Strannik01 Thats neat, I wish they had just kept the Russian name for it, because the Darkling is a terrible name.
Cindy: the first book is about a girl who lost her best friend/mentor
Me: ok, seems fine, interesting
Cindy: it was her professor who slept with her and other students
Me: 👁 👄 👁
HELLO 911???
@@withcindy you're the level of sarcastic and funny that I am LIVING for
FBI OPEN UP!!
Not today CIA
Two years later, but exactly my reaction.
Without bad books there wouldn’t be good books. And without subtweets, I wouldn’t get paid - Cindy 2020
yay money!!
All about that cheddar cheese
She’s not like other girls, she rated ACOMAF last 😂
I'm quirky like that
She barked in pain too ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
My bone barked in laughter
We stan an Icon.
@@EJ-qp8vs The drama around ACOTAR is equivalent to the hate of love relationship with Twilight.
The Darkling: Im gonna cause a genocide
Stans: omg he is so misunderstoo-
Tale as old as Jareth from the _Labyrinth_
(probably older than that, but that's the oldest example I could think of)
Wait don't call me out like that
Me who has the same exact personality as him and still hates him: 👁👄👁
The relevance of this comment now with the show --- Alina is not a reliable narrator and cannot understand the motivations of characters like Mal, but people like the darkling who literally is a MASSIVE CREEP and highly abusive and alina expresses how afraid of him she is
@@sushi595 are you also a political manipulative mass genocidal?
Every time I see the words “hot pterodactyl boyfriend” my depression becomes worse
every time i see the words hot pterodactyl boyfriend my lifespan shortens
I see it and I just wonder when we’ll get 50 shades of pterodactyl. 😫
No one like this comment so it stays at 69 likes
I wish i could agree. :D
Ah yes my sleep paralysis demon
i LOVE it when people rant about books they hate. no idea why but that stuff is wonderful
i love it when people just do whatever they wanna do and live their truth
Me too
It's very good because like this you know what books not to read. Now I'm not saying that if a person thinks a book is bad it really bad. I wanna say the points they made are the most important
Same, I don’t even read that often lol. Just like listening to people criticize things
Me too, I like to read but don’t have many books to read smh, but like, (reading/watching/hearing) negative book reviews are a guilty pleasure of mine-
*”How to date men when you hate men”*
Idk probably by learning conflict resolution like an adult ☕️🤔
u know most ppl aren't capable of that
And yet it didn't even tell you how 😂
Honestly, the concept is so real tho.
Or just be a lesbian
What would happen if you reversed the title from misandry to misogyny? That would be cool too, yea?
That’s my big issue with Jane Austen retellings because they lack her wit and social commentary. Just rewriting her work isn’t an Austen retelling.
Yeah, that's why I avoid re-writes. Done well, they have the potential to be amazing, I suppose, but so few writers are actually capable of doing it well, particularly the ones inclined to re-write classics. Also, I think the publishers' standards get lowered because they see a handy way to market it to all the "Austen" fans out there.
Yes! You can't have Pride AND PREJUDICE wihtout a commentary on classicism and prejudice!
That’s why I stick to the original Austen works. I don’t want some half-assed ripoff ruining my experience with Jane Austen books.
Same, I believe people forget that Jane Austen isn't just romance. Hell, most of her books are just women dealing with how the patriarchy makes their lives harder and the love interest is just thrown there, although well written. Pride and Prejudice's WHOLE PLOT was because the Bennets would be kicked off Longbourn once their father passed away, and HALF of the drama of that book was that the only two men that could make good husbands for them, Darcy and Bingley, would never traditionally marry them - because they are poor, scandalous, unorthodox, etc. If you can't see the story past the romance, then what's the point even retelling it?
Book synopsis: mc bonds with dog
Actual book: doesnt feature dog
🤡
WHAT KIND OF CLOWNERY
Can we also talk about how the dog wasn’t even a great dane🙄
su j
?? As in the dog hater he mc or..?
Me: *Hates the blandness, cringe and toxicity in romance plots*
People: wow you really hate roma-
9910 kitty I’ve always wondered why I enjoy romance fanfics but not actual romance 😭 that sums it up
Nicole Diaz Same. I can’t pick up a romance book, but I read ship fanfic religiously.
@@Air_Serpent That's literally me! Fanfics can flesh out the relationships wonderfully, have the characters learn to communicate properly, and you know, develop into a relationship, but actual romance is just so uninteresting at times.
@@Air_Serpent I completely agree!! :)
@@Air_SerpentI think it’s because when you read fanfics, ur already familiar with the characters so it’s easier to invest ur time in the relationship, whereas romance novels have to build chemistry, which is hard to do if ur characters are not strong. At least, that’s my train of thought 😭
The pro-life vs pro-choice book sounds like it was written by someone who thinks pro-choice just hates kids. Who TF would agree to raising a kid and then being like "finally 13, eh? now die"
The words ‘hot pterodactyl boyfriend’ took 20 years off my lifespan
Same I'm about to die
@@withcindy "Even her mom isn't safe from the pterodactyl d**k" -quote of the decade
ACOTAR took 20 inches off my wingspan
This would be a great way to measure your life span
Honestly I have never said what so many times during a book description.
cindy: has acomaf in the thumbnail
me pretending that I didn't see it coming: 😮😮
😮 who couldve predicted this
Surprised pikachu face.
When Ferya turned into the avatar I suspended my disbelief so much my disbelief is now broken.
“Really shows the range of Leigh Bardugo”
BLESS YOU AND YOUR SHADE. Made me laugh out loud lady
HAHAHAHAHA I COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING AT THAT I LOVE IT HAHAHAHHAHAHHA
"I just don't get how you can try to teach happiness to people when your life circumstances and your privileges have made it very easy to be happy."
Cindy, say it louder. SAY IT LOUDERRRRR
must be NICE
"He starts murdering people... you know just typical guy things." :D
i love being a woman!
@@withcindy I don't! How am I supposed to spur my serial killing career in that male-dominated field? 😂
we stan someone who reads through these awful books for our entertainment.
I do what I can
she’s doing god’s work
Yes, thank you for your service, Cindy!
I want a bookmark that says "nobody who reads romance deserves rights"
and use that bookmark only for when u read romance books
And now I shall make one.
Yess
Cindy: "This book makes me extremely embarrassed to be straight"
Me, a bi girl with a lil crush: "🙁"
im sorry :(
Guys you can’t really tell a person’s sexuality by their looks. Except Cindy. Cindy’ gaydar is off the charts.
WHAT
She could form a cult with all the girls thirsting for her (I would totally join)
dw shes dating a girl now lol u at least have that validation though no chance sorry-
"the leaps of logic that people had were about the same as the leaps of logic in exs and ohs." MY HEAD SNAPPED BACK SO FAST. 👏👏👏
life imitates art
I paused my mental breakdown for this
I filmed my mental breakdown for this
@@withcindy i had a mental breakdown because of this
I’m the mental breakdown, hi
"i didnt feel conected to the predator"- im glad cindy
The fact that they really hired her to review Shadow and Bone show is just so funny to me lol
Cindy can rip apart my favorite book and I will ask for more.
weird kink but ok
hahaha she just did it to mine, and I agree. The unwind series was one of my favorites growing up.
One of my fave series is ACOTAR and I love her rants about them 😂😂
I guess the author of Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend wrote it on a bet. Or on drugs 🤔
Why not both
They just wanted to troll the entire YA community. It went horribly right.
Y’all saying she’s doing God’s work but you’re sleeping on the fact that she is God
Wow I'm honored
I’m a noob writer. I feel like I’m probably the only person here watching with notebook and a pen. Only Cindy could diss a book but actually gives feedback and how to fix it.
20 seconds in and the tea is just pouring
🐸☕️
The disrespect is unbelieveable, how dare u put hot pterodactyl boyfriend in the thumbnail!??!?!
u know i had to do it to em
rawwrrr hihi at first, I thought this was a reference to ACOTAR lol like maybe something she’d said in her review (I’m new). I’m upset this is a REAL book 😂
@@whitneymouse i think everyone is upset that this is a real book😂
rawwrrr hihi bro I thought this was a reference to Rhys and his bat wings and then I was like
HOLY FUCK
@@aight_lol 😂😂
"We didn't learn that much about the pterodactyl" urgh why do so many romance books just not get this. We WANT to learn MORE about the PTERODACTYL. Less hating women, more pterodactyl, is it really so much to ask???
it's sad that your name is readwithcindy but we never get to read WITH cindy 😔
That's deep 😔
ah perfect, my afternoon tea came in at the right time
it's a tea party
I just told some Court of thorns and roses fan on Omegle about your channel so you would get one more hater, you should thank me.
hooray more money!
As an ACOTAR fan I absolutely love listening to cindy trashing books especially ACOTAR, because she just does it so hilariously.
@@withcindy 69 likes
Gabrielle King same 😂 and honestly I enjoy hearing a different perspective
@@gabrielleking4219 Same😂😂
“She’s depressed and likes dogs. That’s my personality in a nutshell.” Same Cindy, same.
"If your last name is Cumyn, that's your origin story"
Oh no
Cindy, I love you.
I've relapsed into depression last year. I discovered you towards the end of the December and this channel has become a great company. You brought my long lost laughter. Thank you.
Sending love from Korea ♡
omg T_T im saving this comment, thank u
@@withcindy *cries*
How are you?
“I’m here to see you play around with fairy balls!”
Me: You put those words back into your mouth!
NO!!!!
i was in a bookstore yesterday and a book fell on my head. i am not joking when i tell you i picked it up and it was freaking I HAVE LOST MY WAY LMAOOO
WTF
my saga of learning english with cindy: I could understand 80% of what you said without the subtitles (which are not available yet), for my study this was great! Considering the plots, Jesus, disgusting.
I'm so sorry your education system is that bad that you have to learn English for my videos
@@withcindy it's bad not knowing what bhaskara is, but it's great to watch your videos 🙌😭
Savage and witty
“I’m not here for the snowball fights, I’m here to see you play around with fairy balls.”
In that next moment, I could *physically* see, the remaining light behind your eyes Completely Diminish.
I’m praying for you Cindy 🥺🙏🏻
This comment made me laugh bc it's true
I love how Unwound presents a "compromise" where you have to raise and finance a child to the age of 13, and then are given the choice whether or not to terminate them. Seems almost like a strawman of Pro-choice ideology if you ask me.
I've only read the first book, but it didn't even address the fact that (to my knowledge) most afab people get abortions because their body couldn't take the strain of giving birth.
I read the first book and I think what the author tried to portray was that the whole compromise thing just presented a new problem which was storking (or when new moms leave their babies on random peoples’ doorsteps)
The world building is greatly expanded in the later books in the series, and by the end it’s pretty clear that the “compromise” was something thought up by powerful government business lobbyists to allow them to have access to a lot of organs that were pretty much indefinitely viable due to advancements in organ transplant technology developed during the war. It didn’t actually have much to do with the war, and was very manipulatively advertised so that people would think it was this amazing compromise which solved all their problems and more.
Honestly the books do require a certain amount of suspending your disbelief. But once you do it's really just something that sticks with you. I don't think I'll ever forgot the scene where the guy was unwound. That was teRRifying.
When I heard you say “The Grisha Trilogy,” and THEN mention how your favorite series was the “Six of Crows” duology, I actually screamed out “IT’S NOT JUST ME!!!”
cindy: *puts acomaf as one of the worst books of 2019 list*
me: *pretends to be shocked*
Whats acomaf?T-T i feel so stupidd
Xandy Armamento a court of mist and fury by sarah j maas (: it’s a series of four books (mist and fury is the second book)
All her book have potential in the beginning but then disappoints you when you least expect it.
The most torture I ever felt reading a book
*I see we are talking more about ACoTAR today*
Edit: btw the next novella is coming out in may I'm pretty sure so have fun!
when u know, u know...
Lmao thank you.
The real romance I want to read is Sexy Stegosaurus Girlfriend
"I'm not sure if they misspelled predator as mentor"
Girl you golden.
You: *explains the "experiment" portion of the Happiness Project
Me: this doesn't sound like an adequate sample size.
Should have recruited 100s of mommy bloggers to sing every morning, so that the streets of Manhattan quivered from the reverb of offkey top ten tunes
Yes, yes YES!
“You” is a way better tv show than it is a book. The only way I’ve even been able to get through the book is by listening to it. Trying to read a hardcopy was physically painful.
Rachel Narula and the season 2 is even better! Its hard for me to believe the book could be this bad, but Im going to trust you and Cindy and not waste my time on this.
I agree that season 2 is better!
Dude I think this is one of the few book to media changes that people actually liked (I didn’t even watch “You”,but a ton of people said that.
LOOK AT U CINDY ALMOST 100K I REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE 20K IM SO PROUD
thank u so much!! T_T
watching this after the netflix series released is so fucking funny cause she really did exactly what she set out to do in this video
What I wouldn't give for an interview with whoever gave you Exes and Ohs
I hope I meet her again!
Read with Cindy just read the hell out of these books.
indeed i did
Last time I was this early Cindy still hadn't taken that damn shower.
its true, im sweating right now from my pits
cindy: *explaining the plot of hot pterodactyl boyfriend*
me: ALEXA CALL 911
This is literally the only channel where I scroll down to like every single comment, including all of Cindy's replies 😎
Awww thank you!!
Relatable
"Where was the dog?" I definitely would have been asking the same thing because I too am depressed and love dogs XD. I also second the "diversity doesn't mean the book is good." Sometimes I feel bad for not rating a book higher because I get that representation is important, but I also like being objective in my reviews. If the book isn't well written or have good characters, then it's not objectively a good book to me regardless of the message of the book or the representation in the book.
i completely agree!!
god bless Cindy for reading the court series ones so we dont have to. we stan.
I want you to read The Cruel Prince trilogy so bad, I can’t even imagine what your thoughts would be
Is it sad that I’ve gotten so used to YA protagonists being so annoying and dislikable that it doesn’t even bother me anymore?
this was literally just ranting and i'm here for it
i guess thats all i do now
@@withcindy good for you!
readwithcindy rantwithcindy?
@@gnomercy14 petition for Cindy to change her username to that
cindy really kept her promise with the whole shadow and bone thing
Real talk, if you've written a book about young people who are raised to be organ harvested and ur name's not Kazuo Ishiguro, well. Good luck lmao.
Never Let Me Go was emotionally traumatizing in the best way possible
the good thing about the grisha netflix adaptation is that it's not just the shadow and bone characters, so although you may have to promote alinas bland ass, you also have kaz and inej and jesper to get hype about
I feel like the show will improve the grisha trilogy characters but I'm not sure about six of crows yet 🥺
@@withcindy nothing to improve on six of crows lol
Cindy over here blessing my nasty 2020. Not all heroes wear capes
i do what i must
Ex's and Oh's is the reason I subscribed to you. That video was a wild trip.
that book was a wild and fun ride and it kinda sucks that it got marred by unnecessary drama lol
IM DECEASED YOU PREDICTED NETFLIX WOULD REACH OUT KSSKSKSKSKSK I LOVE THIS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 get that bag Cindy!!!!
“I don’t think anyone who reads romance deserves right.”
I read almost exclusively romance and this made me cackle! 💀💀
FAIRYSMUT
that's it.
That's the comment
that's my life
@@withcindy the only reason I'm waiting on the next book is because of your reviews. Because let's be honest, my dislectic ass isn't going to read that.
@@zombified_bee ❤
@@123biler thank uu
Forgot you read the grisha trilogy early 2019, there's been so much booktwitter drama since then it feels like years ago
Good God ur right
I'm a month late but links? 👀
@@7thsense97 I don't have any links to the tweets but here's some vids that talk about some of the different dramas
Danielle Green: th-cam.com/video/n4vQo2rywhk/w-d-xo.html Chanelletime:
th-cam.com/video/BPcod6U0Lss/w-d-xo.html
And of course Readwithcindy:
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th-cam.com/video/Y3RVwx5RIC0/w-d-xo.html
One year later and she is doing the fake love for shadow and bones show. We love a woman of word!
I came here to say this but in my heart knew it had been said already
@@bit-button our hearts are connected by the hate for Alina (and by the love for Jessie Mei)!
i thought she actually changed her mind 🤡😭😭 i got bamboozled
@@musasaccharomyces308 to be honest, i think she really liked. They made a great work on Alina's personality, her realationship with Mal and the casting. Much less boring!
I love the grisha trilogy but mostly for the side characters and quotes that shook me such as “what is infinite? The universe and the greed of men”
I freaking love your personality you could literally be talking about anything and I’d still enjoy it 😍😍
thanks so much!!
If I go to heaven I hope I hear the exes and ohs rant on my way there
No that's when u go to hell
The saddest part of this video is finding out she's straight
im so sorry
@@withcindy :(
I'm halfway through Shadow and Bone right now, and this book is so anime it hurts lol. I do like it, I just wish we had gotten the story from literally any other perspective besides Alina. Like, I get being insecure about yourself, but this is just painful to read.
Acomaf is trash...
But it's my trash lmao 😬😶
i love that for you!!
I have so many questions about Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend, it sounds horrifying. Like there was a pterodactyl casually walking around? Would unprotected sex result in baby pterodactyls like the donkey-dragons from Shrek??
Tati that my friend is a cursed image in my head now oh boy
You know rewatching this video with the part about of shadow and bone is really ironic now
11:48 we love a queen that sticks to her word. Get that coin, girl.
i'm eating nutella from a big ass jar and watching this, pretending my life isn't burning down around me and this is peak 2020™
bless u, cindy, for making all this *gestures vaguely around* feel less like trash
i hope the nutella was good
@@withcindy almost as good as watching you roast books for 20 mins
These are the kind of book reviews I want to watch on Booktube 🤣🤣🤣🤣
But, I seriously love how you described the romance as a "Love Square."
...
I'M DYING! THAT IS PERFECT! That is the most accurate thing ever!
Main takeaways from the video:
1) Cindy automatically hates any and all romance novels don’t @ me bc this is canonical fact
2) Receiving a 1 star means reading your book is literally a fate worse than death
How the hell do you not get stoked to read a book titled “Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend?” I haven’t heard her review yet, but that book sounds like it has the potential to knock Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov out of my favorite novel slot.
I cannot convey to you Cindy how much respect I have for you for being able to review these books so in depth. This is most definitely due to the miserable fact that I am absolutely awful at focusing on reading and yet also zone out too much with audiobooks, so I skim read and miss over half the details and have to go back to clarify what happened. This is definitely the reason that I was so confused when you mentioned the Grisha trilogy. I am 1000% certain that I barely absorbed anything that happened except what interested me (e.g. pretty people and gorey fight scenes), so my brain automatically loved almost every single character I came across and saw almost no fault. I am starting to realize that maybe oversharing to strangers could be a toxic trait but who has time for studying and working on concerning behavior and working on self loathing? Great video as always Cindy
"Diversity doesn't mean a book is good," yes! 100% this right here!
I'm binging Cindy's videos because depression and ADHD has rendered me incapable of inhaling books with the same intensity as before and I was genuinely looking forward to reading the first two books because I love dogs and Pride and Prejudice remixes but I guess Cindy just saved me a lot of trouble. Also, I noticed you heart every comment!! Knowing you see every comment despite probably getting hundreds every day is very wholesome. We love our romantically repressed queen hate-reading and spitting facts
THANK YOU for speaking about shadow and bone and not only was it so blunt it also had so much cliché tropes of your usual YA fantasy and it was too empty. I was so excited when I finally fully read that book because the relief at the end I felt was unimaginably huge. And not gonna lie, Leigh Bardugo made one of my favourite books of all time (six of crows duology) but she definetly could've done more in this book as well.
Cindy when the Netflix adaptation comes out: the book was NOT better
Edit: I accidentally read unwind years ago and found the plot interesting but kinda astoundingly unbelievable.
i too, despise the entire romance genre and have never sobbed for an hour straight because of a romance novel whoops
m-me neither.... cough
romance genre readers - the most marginalized group of people