😂😂 “that faith left, and she took hope” Nooooooo not Elatsoe, I was going to read that book!! 🥺😭 Also thank you for the heads up on Black buck, sincerely a woman
'you aren't worth reading' lmaooo the editing of this is so fun, the you judging your past selves for what you said haha and oh gosh interested to finally read elatsoe to see how it lands after hearing your thoughts.
I feel like it's fascinating to watch disappointing books videos because sometimes it just makes it much more blatant how different people's reading preferences play into what they enjoy. Like I adored Elatsoe and it was great for me, but it's totally interesting to see why it was disappointing for y'all to read.
Ughh yes black buck was SO Disapponting! And Sorry to Bother You is one of my favorite movies (which I think it was also compared to along with Get Out?) ever so I was really hoping to like it… I totally agree with you on a lot of these disappointments. I hope 2022 doesn’t have too many disappointing reads! Also love the hitchhikers reference ☺️ and yes!! Hidden bodies…. The skimmed through it in anger!!
My Heart Is a Chainsaw. I was bored for most of it and then confused. Others that disappointed me: The Lost Apothecary (how do you make the premise of an herbalist who provides her customers with poisons to take care of abusive men boring?) and Happy Endings (maybe this is why I don’t usually read romance because the heroine was fun and interesting, but her love interest was trash).
After watching your review I still gave you brought me the ocean a try and can confirm that I felt the same disappointment. It just makes me anxious if I can tell while reading that a sweet moment turnes into a forced coming out... but the colours were gorgeous! Piranesi was the biggest disappointment because it had all the elements I love but didn't work for me at all.
@@JesseOnTH-cam Piranesi seems to be enjoyed by most people, so if y'all have the chance to read it at the library, maybe give it a try? It's not long so it didn't feel like a waste of my time, I was just confused that I didn't enjoy it :')
“What I was given was an empty plate” lmao that was me with The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager😂👏🏻 I’ve enjoyed his other works but damn was TLTIL so boring and disappointing
His mongrels novella is amazing!!! Loved n the last final girl too. The last final girl is a way better choice than chainsaw in my opinion!!! Start with that💗💗💗
After the disappointment of Goblin, y'all might have some luck with Taaqtumi! It's a horror anthology from entirely Indigenous authors, and a lot of them deal with arctic survival. Some hit better than others for me, but it sure beats people appropriating native culture for shock horror.
Your reaction to your kindling joke was hilarious lol. It's ok. We're all cringey at times. Embrace it. But my most disappointing 2021 read was definitely Survive the Night by Riley Sager. I know some ppl don't really like his books but I've enjoyed all of them. But wow, Survive the Night was AWFUL. The dumbest protagonist I've ever read.
my most disappointing read was prob The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw because the publisher's weekly mini summary was amazing but then i opened the book and the prose was so purple i had no idea what was going on for like 300 pages. AND its like the harder edge of sci-fi so you sorta need to know whats going on lol
@@JesseOnTH-cam So I read Nothing But Blackened Teeth after I read that one so I think that helped, because I then knew what I was getting into with Blackened Teeth plus the audiobook helped a bunch to me with understanding. So yes, I preferred Blackened Teeth more than the All Consuming World. The amount of purple pose + science jargon in World just made it impossible to follow for me
@@JesseOnTH-cam for me, it always stings more if I have high expectations for a book and it doesn’t meet them, whereas if a book is badly written or problematic, I find it far easier to walk away. I also love how you pointed out the good parts of each book, even though they ultimately didn’t work for you 💛
Y'all when you held up Elatsoe?!?! But you still had positives to say about it so I think I'll still give this one a go and anything else from this author. I just want more Indigenous books on my shelves!!
i think if you go into chainsaw expecting something really philosophical versus action based, that you'll have a much better reading experience! don't look for me wasn't bad by any means. i just was hoping another one of her books would hit the way the first i read did
I'm surprised to see no mention of Malibu Rising. Partly because that was one of mine. But to be fair, the premise didn't grab me unlike some of her others, and I have seen reviews saying it was not as good. So I took a gamble on it. Wow. That was poorly written, with characters that were either two dimensional or just not fleshed out, with an incredibly boring story and a cop out ending. I wouldn't care about the ending if it wasn't alluded to being this event in the premise and the beginning. Even with lower expectations, it didn't meet them. I hated this book and it should not have won a GoodReads award.
It was one of mine too. I enjoyed "Daisy and the Six", I thought it was the perfect book to read on the beach. But then I tried "Evelyn Hugo" and "Malibu Rising" and both put me to sleep so many times. I only finished them because I paid money for these audiobooks. Mistakes were made and regrets happened. 😕
I agree, romance ruins everything in books and it annoys me so much. I can't count how many times a book took a turn for the worst because the romance ended being front in center. I don't mind it on the side lines but when it takes over, I'm so over it. Ya normally as a serial killer you wouldn't to put yourself out there, I know of only on real life serial killer who did that...disclaimer, the only reason why I know is because I'm really into true crime and would maybe like to study forensic psychology
One of my most disappointing reads of 2021 was The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healy, but my criticism is super subjective. I don’t think it’s a bad book at all.. it just could have been a favorite if things had gone differently so it let me down. I LOVED the first 75% of this book. It’s sapphic and gothic and there’s some spooky supernatural stuff going on, it’s great. But THEN the supernatural stuff gets explained away with logical stuff and a “bad” character becomes even worse (like zero room for morally gray) and then there’s an ending bit that ties everything up neatly with a bow. I felt like all of the air was let out of my balloon. And it was a freaking great balloon 😆
This was a great video. I loved Elatsoe, but I have had so many experiences of a book being overhyped for me that I am feeling y’all there, haha. But I am also really pumped to hear you love A Snake Falls to Earth because that is on my TBR 😍
"Messy Jessy" the book by Caroline Kepnes title "You" the way you describe thAt book thAt reminds me of A movie Titled "Psychic" where this BlackWoman Psychic warn this one BlackWoman that she is going to meet the man of her dreams but she warned her deeply to stay away from him and so she did meet this guy but she didn't listen to the psychic and brought all kind of hell to those close to her he found out about the psychic and stabbed her over ten times, didn't like the nature of the movie but couldnt stop watching it until the end
My most disappointing read of 2021 was All the Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani. I thought it was going to be a romance, but in reality it was just a series of leaps in logic and people who need therapy acting a fool. I should have DNF'd it but I wanted to finish for a blog post.
I really loved Elatsoe and I need to read A Snake Falls to Earth. I think it's totally okay to not enjoy some books as much as others. We're all different readers. I know this is an odd gripe to have but I'm kind of worried that every Black book with a bit of horror is blurbed as "get out meets x..." I feel like that's because Get out might be the only Black horror people us white people have seen. So I would really like to see some variations to that saying.
Most disappointing - "Any Way The Wind Blows." I don't know if Rowell got tired of writing (and yeah, she's problematic), but this was a bunch of disjointed narratives that dropped EVERY plot thread from the 1st two books to follow random new ones. Nothing resolved. No one grew. Except MAYBE LESBIANS! Who knows????? Also had a weird focus on goats. Wherever the wind's blowing, I hope it's far away from this nonsense.
The Caraval series and the book Death in Her Hands were huge disappointments to me last year. The former I could only get through it if I read it as a bad soap opera. The latter was just not for me: super boring and had content that made ne irate. I hope your reading this year has fewer disappointments.
The Maidens was disappointing, I already didn’t like The Silent Patient but I prefer that over The Maidens. The protagonist annoyed me to no end, the side characters were creepy and weird and then the twist pissed me off and it was so problematic and the big explanation, made no damn sense. I cannot!
Girl A. The biggest waste of time! THE biggest disappointment. The biggest let down. It had such potential but just failed. The characters, the writing, the off the wall ending! First time I've ever posted a negative review of a book. NO ONE should read this garbage. ::end rant::
I totally agree about Elatsoe. For the most part, the writing and story were very underwhelming. I wasn’t planning on picking up her second book, but now I might
We all know my thoughts on Josh Malerman. Never read Inspection. It's awful. I don't know how in the world he wrote Bird Box because I have a feeling it's his only success.
"love really does conquer all. it conquers all of my joy" oh m gawddddd ya'll crack me uppP!!
That green lipstick is such 🔥.
Thank you!!!!!!
I'm glad other people are as bored by romances taking over other genres as I am 😂
Ugh it’s got to stop
I actively search for fantasy and sci-fi without romance. I don't want it messing up the plot!
side note y’all’s hair in this video looks STUNNING
😂😂 “that faith left, and she took hope”
Nooooooo not Elatsoe, I was going to read that book!! 🥺😭
Also thank you for the heads up on Black buck, sincerely a woman
“Holden Caulfield but stab stab” 😂😂 oh nooooo 🥴
'you aren't worth reading' lmaooo the editing of this is so fun, the you judging your past selves for what you said haha and oh gosh interested to finally read elatsoe to see how it lands after hearing your thoughts.
“Love does conquer all. It conquerors my JOY.”
Hard agree. 😂😂
I feel like it's fascinating to watch disappointing books videos because sometimes it just makes it much more blatant how different people's reading preferences play into what they enjoy. Like I adored Elatsoe and it was great for me, but it's totally interesting to see why it was disappointing for y'all to read.
“What I was given was an empty plate 😒” lol the sass 😭😂😂 ima use this from now on 😝
Editing Jesse's reactions elevate this from a mere video to art.
Lmao ty
off topic but i love ur necklace and outfit 😍 where can i get that necklace! if you don’t mind
This one I got at a thrift store! I believe it was hand made :(
This green looks so good on y’all!
Thank you!!!!!!!
your makeup with the color of your fit is excellent
Omg ty
The cuts to editing Jesse 😭😭😭 I'm dead
Ughh yes black buck was SO Disapponting! And Sorry to Bother You is one of my favorite movies (which I think it was also compared to along with Get Out?) ever so I was really hoping to like it… I totally agree with you on a lot of these disappointments. I hope 2022 doesn’t have too many disappointing reads! Also love the hitchhikers reference ☺️ and yes!! Hidden bodies…. The skimmed through it in anger!!
“Romance ruins everything” 🔥 😂 hard agreeeeee (my aro soul)
My Heart Is a Chainsaw. I was bored for most of it and then confused. Others that disappointed me: The Lost Apothecary (how do you make the premise of an herbalist who provides her customers with poisons to take care of abusive men boring?) and Happy Endings (maybe this is why I don’t usually read romance because the heroine was fun and interesting, but her love interest was trash).
Yessss no parental figures in YA drives me bonkers! I feel like that’s how I know I’m getting old 😂
After watching your review I still gave you brought me the ocean a try and can confirm that I felt the same disappointment. It just makes me anxious if I can tell while reading that a sweet moment turnes into a forced coming out... but the colours were gorgeous!
Piranesi was the biggest disappointment because it had all the elements I love but didn't work for me at all.
OMG!!!! Was thinking of reading piranesi noooo
@@JesseOnTH-cam Piranesi seems to be enjoyed by most people, so if y'all have the chance to read it at the library, maybe give it a try? It's not long so it didn't feel like a waste of my time, I was just confused that I didn't enjoy it :')
"you're right, love does conquer all. it conquers all of my joy" is jesse in a nutshell
Ily
AND THEN IF THE UNICORN COOKED ME DINNER LMFAO
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I SO agree with your opinion about book 2 of „You“ (of which I also forgot the title) 😂 This whole thing was so dumb 😂
I thought the ace rep in Elatsoe was so good; I felt very seen lol 😆
The kindling comment... I was dying of laughter.
Lmaoooo Im glad Im Not the only one who thinks my weak jokes r gold Lmaoooooo
This is absolutely your funniest video I’ve seen. Had me cracking up!!
Omg Awwww ty!!!
3:43 Yes. Yes, it does.
Love your sass when ranting about books :)
“What I was given was an empty plate” lmao that was me with The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager😂👏🏻 I’ve enjoyed his other works but damn was TLTIL so boring and disappointing
i love when you make yourself laugh PLS
Past You making Future Editor You suffer is my new favorite genre. XD
Omg why are u so cute
@@JesseOnTH-cam yall are the cute one!!
I haven’t finished the video but the board comment had me cackling at work lmao I thought it was pretty 💯😂👌🏼
Nooooooooo , dang I was going to pick up My heart is a chainsaw. Ive only read his novellas and Im nervous to start on his full size novels
His mongrels novella is amazing!!! Loved n the last final girl too. The last final girl is a way better choice than chainsaw in my opinion!!! Start with that💗💗💗
WHAT IF DEXTER WENT ON A GRAND ADVENTURE I'M CRYING-
LMAO
Like he had to find himself…
and maybe he should’ve just stayed lost…
@@JesseOnTH-cam lmao have you watched the dexter reboot bc.....its bad. 💀
12:35, 😳 Oh my gosh!
After the disappointment of Goblin, y'all might have some luck with Taaqtumi! It's a horror anthology from entirely Indigenous authors, and a lot of them deal with arctic survival. Some hit better than others for me, but it sure beats people appropriating native culture for shock horror.
Oh my god!!!!! Thank you for this rec
Goblin was…. So racist
Your reaction to your kindling joke was hilarious lol. It's ok. We're all cringey at times. Embrace it. But my most disappointing 2021 read was definitely Survive the Night by Riley Sager. I know some ppl don't really like his books but I've enjoyed all of them. But wow, Survive the Night was AWFUL. The dumbest protagonist I've ever read.
I literally love you
@@JesseOnTH-cam ❤❤❤❤❤
my most disappointing read was prob The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw because the publisher's weekly mini summary was amazing but then i opened the book and the prose was so purple i had no idea what was going on for like 300 pages. AND its like the harder edge of sci-fi so you sorta need to know whats going on lol
Late but…was it more disappointing than Nothing But Blackened Teeth?
@@JesseOnTH-cam So I read Nothing But Blackened Teeth after I read that one so I think that helped, because I then knew what I was getting into with Blackened Teeth plus the audiobook helped a bunch to me with understanding. So yes, I preferred Blackened Teeth more than the All Consuming World. The amount of purple pose + science jargon in World just made it impossible to follow for me
Disappointing is ALWAYS worse than bad books! 👏👏👏
Love this hot take
@@JesseOnTH-cam for me, it always stings more if I have high expectations for a book and it doesn’t meet them, whereas if a book is badly written or problematic, I find it far easier to walk away. I also love how you pointed out the good parts of each book, even though they ultimately didn’t work for you 💛
Y'all when you held up Elatsoe?!?! But you still had positives to say about it so I think I'll still give this one a go and anything else from this author. I just want more Indigenous books on my shelves!!
It’s not a bad book at all!!! Also add ready when you are by Gary Lonesborough to ur TBR!
@@JesseOnTH-cam haha okay will do!!
Don't Look For Me sounds like a book I wouldn't read but my mom would probably love so thanks!
no problem!! :)))
I tried to start my heart is a chainsaw. Then nothing of substance happened for a while and I gave up. Lol
“when I say that I was !!!BORED!!!” yea, not reading that one lol thanks 😅
Wait that ocean book sounds SO INTERESTING tho
“YOU…….. let me down?” 💀🤣
i hate u hahahaha
I did a soft DNF of Elatsoe without realizing it and felt guilty cause I couldn't really say why it was bad
💜 your outfit 😁
Oh no. I just put Don't Look for me on my 15 horror/thriller books to read in 2022. I've heard such polarizing views of My Heart is a Chainsaw.
i think if you go into chainsaw expecting something really philosophical versus action based, that you'll have a much better reading experience! don't look for me wasn't bad by any means. i just was hoping another one of her books would hit the way the first i read did
@@JesseOnTH-cam Good to note!
I'm surprised to see no mention of Malibu Rising. Partly because that was one of mine. But to be fair, the premise didn't grab me unlike some of her others, and I have seen reviews saying it was not as good. So I took a gamble on it. Wow. That was poorly written, with characters that were either two dimensional or just not fleshed out, with an incredibly boring story and a cop out ending. I wouldn't care about the ending if it wasn't alluded to being this event in the premise and the beginning. Even with lower expectations, it didn't meet them. I hated this book and it should not have won a GoodReads award.
It was one of mine too. I enjoyed "Daisy and the Six", I thought it was the perfect book to read on the beach.
But then I tried "Evelyn Hugo" and "Malibu Rising" and both put me to sleep so many times. I only finished them because I paid money for these audiobooks.
Mistakes were made and regrets happened.
😕
Dude, TOTALLY forgot to mention Malibu rising in this video. That’s how deeply I buried it
I agree, romance ruins everything in books and it annoys me so much. I can't count how many times a book took a turn for the worst because the romance ended being front in center. I don't mind it on the side lines but when it takes over, I'm so over it. Ya normally as a serial killer you wouldn't to put yourself out there, I know of only on real life serial killer who did that...disclaimer, the only reason why I know is because I'm really into true crime and would maybe like to study forensic psychology
One of my most disappointing reads of 2021 was The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healy, but my criticism is super subjective. I don’t think it’s a bad book at all.. it just could have been a favorite if things had gone differently so it let me down. I LOVED the first 75% of this book. It’s sapphic and gothic and there’s some spooky supernatural stuff going on, it’s great. But THEN the supernatural stuff gets explained away with logical stuff and a “bad” character becomes even worse (like zero room for morally gray) and then there’s an ending bit that ties everything up neatly with a bow. I felt like all of the air was let out of my balloon. And it was a freaking great balloon 😆
This was a great video. I loved Elatsoe, but I have had so many experiences of a book being overhyped for me that I am feeling y’all there, haha. But I am also really pumped to hear you love A Snake Falls to Earth because that is on my TBR 😍
It’s so good!!!!!!!!!! I really think that one will hit better
HAHAHHAH THE KINDLING LINE
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"Messy Jessy" the book by Caroline Kepnes title "You" the way you describe thAt book thAt reminds me of A movie Titled "Psychic" where this BlackWoman Psychic warn this one BlackWoman that she is going to meet the man of her dreams but she warned her deeply to stay away from him and so she did meet this guy but she didn't listen to the psychic and brought all kind of hell to those close to her he found out about the psychic and stabbed her over ten times, didn't like the nature of the movie but couldnt stop watching it until the end
Ok going to check out psychic! Ty eric!!!
@@JesseOnTH-cam You're Very Welcome, I hope you liked it
@@JesseOnTH-cam My Sweetie
My most disappointing read of 2021 was All the Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani. I thought it was going to be a romance, but in reality it was just a series of leaps in logic and people who need therapy acting a fool. I should have DNF'd it but I wanted to finish for a blog post.
Kindling 😂😂😂😂😂 I'm dead
I hate a sudden tone shift in a book!
Like whyyyy
You're hilarious! Love this. 😃
Thank you!!
I really loved Elatsoe and I need to read A Snake Falls to Earth. I think it's totally okay to not enjoy some books as much as others. We're all different readers. I know this is an odd gripe to have but I'm kind of worried that every Black book with a bit of horror is blurbed as "get out meets x..." I feel like that's because Get out might be the only Black horror people us white people have seen. So I would really like to see some variations to that saying.
thank you!
KINDLING💥💥🤣
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I love Wendy Walker… I haven’t read don’t look for me though… 😬
Omg read it so we can discuss
all is not forgotten except the title of that book lmao
I forget it all the time ugh
Most disappointing - "Any Way The Wind Blows." I don't know if Rowell got tired of writing (and yeah, she's problematic), but this was a bunch of disjointed narratives that dropped EVERY plot thread from the 1st two books to follow random new ones. Nothing resolved. No one grew. Except MAYBE LESBIANS! Who knows?????
Also had a weird focus on goats.
Wherever the wind's blowing, I hope it's far away from this nonsense.
Lmaoooooioooo
this also i feel like there were a lot of unanswered questions
The Caraval series and the book Death in Her Hands were huge disappointments to me last year. The former I could only get through it if I read it as a bad soap opera. The latter was just not for me: super boring and had content that made ne irate.
I hope your reading this year has fewer disappointments.
unrelated but your booktube name makes me hungry jdklsfjkal;kfadf
The Maidens was disappointing, I already didn’t like The Silent Patient but I prefer that over The Maidens. The protagonist annoyed me to no end, the side characters were creepy and weird and then the twist pissed me off and it was so problematic and the big explanation, made no damn sense. I cannot!
the maidens was so much better than the silent patient and i agree, that twist was freaking bullshit
What's up Baby I always Love the green lipstick on you
Obsessed with green 💚🙌🏽
@@JesseOnTH-cam Green looks Great on you
:) have a great weekend
At 0:40 main while it's now raining in my country
At 9:08 should I be laughting at this or not that is more important
At 11:16 are you sure if not with a bird? Wait it maybe had been to small?
I can ralte whenever popular books by booktube I read Hate them worse I usually dnf but I think my mind is so high hopes
Girl A. The biggest waste of time! THE biggest disappointment. The biggest let down. It had such potential but just failed. The characters, the writing, the off the wall ending! First time I've ever posted a negative review of a book. NO ONE should read this garbage. ::end rant::
Omg why do I own that????! Booo no
Lmfaooo I thought the board joke was funny
I totally agree about Elatsoe. For the most part, the writing and story were very underwhelming. I wasn’t planning on picking up her second book, but now I might
Did you ever end up grabbing it?
We all know my thoughts on Josh Malerman. Never read Inspection. It's awful. I don't know how in the world he wrote Bird Box because I have a feeling it's his only success.
Surrender Your Sons. Nopenopenope.
HAVE I HEARD OF THIS
@@JesseOnTH-cam I hope not bc it pissed me off so much lol, it came out in 2020