Worst Books of 2017 & Unpopular Book Opinions || Books with Emily Fox
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- It's the end of the reading year 2017 so it's time to share what were the best books, worst books, most disappointing books and most surprising books I've read! We're continuing with the worst books of 2017! The ones I hated, the ones that bored me, the ones I wouldn't ever recommend! Some of these are very popular books but they weren't for me!
Most Disappointing Books of 2017: • Most Disappointing Boo...
Most Overhyped Books of 2017: • OVERHYPED BOOKS 2017 |...
Best Books of 2017: • Best Books of 2017 || ...
Most Surprising Books of 2017: • Most Surprising Books ...
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LET THE HATE FLOW THROUGH YOU
What's the worst book you've read this year? :D
The lovely reckless and paper princess, I want to wash out my brain with bleach to forget it all
I recently started liking historical romances so I gave "Whitney, my love" a try........ Nope.
The Covenant series (5 books) by Jennifer L. Armentrout....literally a Greek mythology version of Vampire Academy, but much worse.
Geralds Game by Stephen King
Really unpopular opinion here... The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner. Hated it.
You mention your next book and I get shocked, then I listen to your reasons and I'm like okay, and then you mention your next book and I'm shocked again! You are literally the UNPOPULAR OPINION QUEEN 👑
Same but with the way she explains her reasons i cant blame her, even though i genuinely liked some of the books she mentioned.
“Oh you’re not like the other girls...” hahahaha. Really Emily, please be my best friend 😂
I laughed when you were talking about The Selection Series, I think you captured the essence of the experience quite well and now I wanna read them all just for fun. XD
Yes! I love to hate those books XD They're so annoying and yet addicting at the same time.
The reason I will never read Attachments is because of the stalker element. Like everyone on booktube is "so feminist" where they want to erase the damsel in distress trope (which is my brand of trash, I am completely trash for the damsel in distress so when people try to get rid of it it pisses me off, I'm not trying to get rid of your favourite bad trope) yet everyone loves a love story about a literal stalker? It makes no sense to me.
Also, I HATE the plain girl trope. To dress up for an important event or date she does one coat of mascara and puts on some lipgloss and it completely transforms her because she's wearing so much makeup. Give me an MC that wears a smoky eye on the daily, for fuck sakes.
A great stalker novel is You by Caroline Kepnes. The female that is being stalked is in no way a damsel in distress and in many ways so unloveable and horrible it's interesting. It's definitely refreshing.
Tara Taillon For your second point Isabelle Lightwood from the Mortal Instruments series is who you're looking for.
I can't agree more with this comment
The reason people say that ACOTAR is a beauty and the beast retelling is because that's what Sarah J Maas was saying when it was being published. I can see the elements she pulled from Beauty and the Beast, but she honestly didn't do that great of a job. She should not have claimed it was a retelling because I agree with you, it's not. Also, I hate Tamlin, and I continued to hate Tamlin throughout the series. Great Video!
‘Other girls are freaking awesome’ - Emily I love you!!!!
I remember when people were talking about how Dimple is always hitting Rishi and defending her by saying, “Oh, she’s just a teenage girl!”
If it was the other way around NO ONE would be saying, “Oh, he’s just a teenage boy!” They would (rightfully so) be freaking the hell out!
Damn, please do a reasons for disliking YA video. I feel like so many people around here are too nervous to move away from YA books because nobody says anything negative about them! Shout them truths!
I'll edit my comment since the other person deleted hers.
I think the problem is that a lot of publishing companies are pushing YA books to be reviewed :/ We see them everywhere and everyone seems excited so we get them and then... most of them aren't that great!
That's all I've been offered as ARCs so far and 99% of them I wasn't interested!
BookswithEmilyFox 100% agree. I don't even hate all YA books (I just say I do for comic effect). The truth is they're the popular thing so everyone gets all hyped up about them, it doesn't bother me that people really do enjoy YA books. It's just fun to see some 'controverisal' videos and I think you'd make a great video on the topic :)
I also heard from a Booktuber that they get fewer views if they don't limit themselves to good reviews of YA. Is that a pressure point for you?
I haven't been giving them good reviews as a whole so far (some were great and are in my best of coming Friday!) and I think my views are doing just fine!
I get that their main audience is younger but it's a two-edged sword. The more positive reviews you do about YA books, the more you'll attract younger viewers and the more younger viewers you have, the more positive reviews they'll expect.
My audience is like 80% 18-34... I think no one expects me to be positive if I'm not which is great!
Also this channel is a second channel so I don't have too much pressure for its growth :)
When Dimple Met Rishi made my list this year too. It was just... so bad.
Im halfway through it and i like it but im surprised to find so many people dont. One thing i can tell though is how it really is straying away from the app plot and is turning into a fast romance.
Im not going to even try reading it. Ive realised contemporaries/ ya romance just isnt for me. Way too much eye rolling involved.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts after you finish. The second half of the book takes a weird turn that really ruined it for me.
Ill let you know. Im curious now haha
It didn't make mine but I thought it was okay at best. Even if I had wanted to read it for the romance, which I didn't so there's that, I thought it hit every possible cliché of the genre and was way too predictable. And the ending pissed me off. Overall: not too bad, but definitely not worth the hype.
I think I love watching you diss a book as much as I love you raving about one! Keep it up! :D
It's fun to talk trash because I've accumulated all the frustration in the last year 😂
With that said, I would prefer reading less bad books next year!
Thank you so much for your honest reviews! I love that your shared these unpopular opinions. It is so important to share some of these.
I am so glad I found you because it is honestly so hard to find booktubers who don´t like Sarah J Maas or are generally open about not liking some super beloved author/book series
I started the year off by reading Paper Towns for school....oooooOOOO don't even get me started about that book. I donated it somewhere immediately, then watched the movie to see if it was better. NOPE..no it wasn't.
I love how honest you are! I would love to hear your opinions on more things, like movies and tv shows 😅😅
I honestly just came across your channel but that burning tea had me susbcribing
I cackled up so much during your rants, especially the one on mara dyer 😂 great video as always!
you should definitly do a video about why you hate most YA books, I adored your rants!! especially the When Dimple met Rishi one, I waited for so long for someone to not like it's ridiculous lol
I am so glad I found your channel (few minutes ago xD). Your book taste is 👌. Humor too.
Do a YA rant video!!!
"I was considering keeping this book just so I could hate on it more" LMAO! That's some dedicated hate right there. I love it.
Sometimes you gotta be a bit petty 💁🏻
do you also find yourself considering rereading it? I have that with 'Moby Dick'
I really love your eye expression movements when you ranted about Attachments 😂
I love your dislike for Mara Dyer
I laughed so much at your review of attachments!! I pretty much share your opinion on that one!
Sorry for the offtop but your lipstick looks so good!!
Omg so talking about the "When Dimple met Rishi" you said create an app and I understood create a nap and had to stop the video and search for the book's plot summary cause it made no sense (I swear check it out at 4:02 😂 )
Also your sense of humor reminds me a lot of Kathleen Lights!
Accent problems 😂
Omgggg same, i heard nap too 😂
Emily, I LOVE you!!!! Having you on book tube is a real blessing = D
OMG the selection made my list too! Love your videos I wanted to read shatter me and the Mara trilogy but not anymore thanks!
You got very passionate at some points and it made me laugh 😂 I get the same way about books I hate if someone even mentions the title I immediately want to rant about how much I hated it.
Your facial expressions are the best, i love your presence! Totally subscribing!
Shatter me is so overrated. I also bought the whole series (and even the novelas!) like 2 years ago and I finished it all last week. It was so... meh. Kenji was interesting, but other than that... Today I donated them to my library, but damn, why it is so loved I don't understand.
You're making want to not continue 😂
It's not getting better and I think you'll really not like the 3rd book. I finished it because I hate not using something I paid for.
Everyone is different so respect people decisions, I’ve loved this book and obviously if a lot of people love the the book common sense it was good it just wasn’t the book for you or anyone who doesn’t agree it was good
Yeah, isn't it obvious I'm talking about my own experience and opinion? I'm not hating the book or people who love it. I get that there are people who do, but come on, we don't need a disclaimer before every comment.
Eventhough it hurt a couple of times, this was an absolute delight to watch 👏🏼👏🏼
This is amazing! I do like some of books you mentioned but I still totally agree :D
I haven't read many of these books, but I just really enjoy you ranting about things hahaha
The junk food analogy was one of the best things ive heard this year.
I've watched a couple of your videos and I love your style of reviews. You just got a new subscriber
I love that I knew you were talking about the Rainbow Rowell book before you even held it up haha
Recent subscriber to your channel and watched all your X of 2017 in a row. Love your unfiltered opinions and I'll be checking out your other videos!
You dissed two series I actually enjoyed but they're legit reasons and I'm not even mad. You're sooooo entertaining to watch.
OML!! I laughed so much at this! Your expressions hahaha!!! I don't think anyone should shade you for your choices as they are your opinions and something which works for you might not work for someone else and vice versa and that's finee!
How did I just now find your channel, you're speaking TRUTH in this community! And you read/recommend sci-fi, which is so refreshing. 😆
I've got 2 weeks left to read more books before I make my year end videos. But I love these videos and I'm so glad people do them early! 😀 (New subscriber 👍)
I get too busy during the holidays and always reread some HP books that's why I can do them early!
I can't wait to watch these videos from everyone! :)
I really want to screenshot some of your rolling eyes' face and make them into memes. Loved your video. haha.
Hi Emily! Will you be doing a most anticipated books of 2018 video?
I'm really bad at keeping up with when books are coming out :/
If anyone knows a website that has some lists, I'll definitely look and do a video on the ones I'm excited about!
Hey Emily, I use good ole Barnes and Noble. On their site, under Books, is a Coming Soon link. They show books coming out up to year in advance.
messy678: Stop it with your logic!! That makes so much sense I'll do that 😂
I knew from the first sentence that I was going to love this video, haha. But based on your opinions about The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, you should definitely listen to the song "Most Girls" by Hailee Steinfeld. Great video once again! - Shayna
I'm 16 and I've read like 50 YA books this year and after 30 I already was done with them, especially with YA contemporary, I have the feeling I'm reading the same book every time. Ofcourse there are exceptions but I'm kinda done with only liking 1 YA book out of the 10 I read.. I love the fact that you actually dislike a lot of YA books too and talk about them, because sometimes it feels like every booktuber only talks about YA and how great it is(like, how can you read 300 YA books and still end up loving them all?!)
Agreed. Out of the 55 YA books I've read this year, only 3 will be in my Best of 2017!
Try some books by Malorie Blackman x
Just avoid contemporary. xD Same books, different covers... Try to find some originality in synopsis. I honestly feel your pain. It takes me a week to find a single book I want to read, only to DNF some.
I agree... won’t touch YA Contemporary with a pooey stick.
I have to agree with the "try to avoid YA contemporary"... it's won't end well. (Maybe only the ones which sound super unique)
And maybe try to read some more adult books in 2018. YA just gets boring after a while, since you read recycled books and ideas over and over. I, for example, like to bring variety into my reading schedule by mixing in adult fantasy (high/epic fantasy), classics and poetry.
Love this. Please do a things you hate about YA!! I would love to see that. My most hated books this year were Red Queen, The Bone Season, The Thousandth Floor, and The Gentlemen's Guide to Vice and Virtue. All popular YA books I expected to love. So I would love to hear more of your thoughts on YA, since I tend to agree with your taste in books!
Thank you for actually being honest about these books! I'm so sick of big booktubers pushing mediocre books
Love this video!
Got a good chuckle from lots of your observations.
this video is soooo goood i feel like i want you do this for like .. every month u know .. worst book of the month kind of thing
I wasn’t crazy for the Gunslinger either, but the rest of the series is so amazing - I recommend you keep going!!
Hi Emily, I realized this year after reading a few horrible YA books that I just don’t enjoy YA for all the reasons you mentioned. There are a few YA books that are an exception but I’ve decided for my reading list this year I’m going to stick with adult books/series. Great vid!
New suscriber and Im already addicted to it! I love it!
I love this video! You made me laugh so much!
YES!! I've found someone else who didn't like Shatter Me lol. I really did not like that book. And all the hype around it made me hate it even more 😅
Those videos are so much more interesting than normal videos. I wanna see more of this.
I really hope to never read enough bad books to post this type of video more than once a year 😂
The way you described Shatter me is exactly how i read it! I still haven't finished it yet but honestly i bought it mainly for the cover 😅
Just found your channel and subscribed. You're fun! 😊
I find so much satisfaction with just how frustrated you are explaining how bad these books are dfjkljf I AM in love, (new subscriber wooo) and also looking gorgeous and slytherin-y Emily! :DDD
I didn't really like ACOTAR either but I gave the second book a chance and it COMPLETELY changed my mind about the series. It gets much better and I highly recommend checking it out!
This vídeos are so entertaining that I feel a bit of desire to read these books to have a good laugh 😂
Favourite video so far! YOU ARE THE BEST EMILY!! Your opinions are not controversial, they are just honest and REAL. 13:10 HAHAHAH SO TRUE
Oh my gosh yes ! LOVE this!
I enjoyed some of the books you talked about but your facial expressions made this video amazing! Despite enjoying the books, I love hearing about people's least favorite books.
Wow I didn't finish When Dimple Met Rishi either, totally agree
first, i love your lipstick. I really love your description for books. normally i hear plot complaints. but you seem to have more structural complaints and it is neat to hear those. I think with stephen king people recommend gunslinger because it is one of his shorter books. most of his other books are over 1000 pages. but it seems like you like stephen king books. I couldn't really get into a court of thorns and roses.
I would love to see a YA rant video. I have watched so many videos praising books and then critiquing books that are basically the same type of book (i.e Attachment) and would love a video about that! Also, I think it would be cool to see a video where you take some popular YA books and show an adult contemporary book that is similar or like a "if you like this book read this one"
Honestly Contemporary isn't my genre. I've probably read less than 5 adult contemporary since I started my channel :/
Thank U thank U thank U for doing this video I have been thinking about reading pretty much all of those and I'm glad I watch this video before I went out and bought them!
Hi Emily! I'm a long-time subscriber of your beauty channel and new subscriber over here:) I couldn't stop laughing through this video- besides the fact that I love your sass I am thoroughly happy at the fact that your just managed to make me erase quite a few books off my to-read list!
Ps. Mind telling me what that stunning lip color is?
Maybelline Matte Ink in Pioneer :)
hahahhaa omg i loved this so much when you were making fun of the lines. YES LET THE HATE FLOW haha! I too am not a fan of YA for all the reasons you described!
and yes please do a whole video ranting about YA haha
Love this video! You seem to hate all the same things I hate in these kinds of books. I swear I have had this rant so many times over 😂
I love all your recommendations!!! Including ones I shouldn’t waste my time on! Hahaha!
Creep, creep, creep! 😅 Loved this video, and that bit really made me laugh 😊
Subscribed omg already Love you
I agree with you on everything except Caraval.
I love that book, it was actually different. I'm looking forward to book two.
I really didn't have any books this year that I really didn't like, because I had such an awesome booktuber giving me such good recommendations! ;) We usually have the same taste and I loved like everything I read thanks to you! :)
Please read City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty! It's an adult fantasy, it's wonderful and I NEED to hear your opinions on it :)
i literally love this video - everything youre saying is life
Where's that lipstick from? i looooove the color!
Wonderful video😂 Great job in ditching the books 👍🏻
I love watching you hate on books, you should have a series about books you disliked because you are so funny to watch! And I see your point, definitely. I did not read any of these books and I don’t feel like doing it as well after this video (my TBR is gonna thank you ^_^ ), and honestly one of the reasons why I’m not into YA books is well explained here (the other one being they’re just not my cup if tea :) ) - and it’s a shame so many YA books still perpetuate unrealistic/generally bad ideas to so many young readers! I’m looking forward to your next videos ^_^
I will say that when I read the gunslinger I was also luke warm on it until I read the drawing of the three which is unfathomablely better than the first one, to the point that I doubted the fact that these books were written together, and then, I went back and reread the gunslinger and for some reason I now think its brilliance incarnate perhaps its context perhaps I finally got in the right mindset for it.
You look so gorgeous 😭😭❤️
J'aime beaucoup tes vidéos, elles sont toujours très agréable à regarder. J'apprécie beaucoup ton honnêteté et j'aurais tendance
à suivre tes recommandations, que je trouve plus fiable par rapport à d'autres youtubeuses. Et bonus pour tes petites mimiques xD
J'ai aucun controle sur mes sourcils... ils font ce qu'ils veulent 😂
I love this video. You’re so funny! I read Shatter Me. The writing was so weird, but I couldn’t stop. I have to read the others to see what happens. It’s like you said...junk food of books.
This was the funniest video I’ve ever watched about books 😂 thank you for making my day better ☺️
Thank you! :)
If you haven't seen it yet I had a lot of fun doing the one about disappointing books! th-cam.com/video/TkxckLFcKYE/w-d-xo.html
"It was just... uuuuuugh" x'D
"Creep, creep, creep"
Loved the video, made me laugh!
I've read a few of these and loved them, and also really want to read a few of the others you mentioned, but I LOVE how passionate you are in your dislike for these LOL I respect how honest you are. You made some really good points with all these books and I can totally see how you dislike the ones I've read too. Looking forward to that YA book rant because I know there will be quite a few books that I'm sure I've read and enjoyed before, but look forward to hearing your thoughts xD
I love your comment! It's fine that some will love, some will hate a book as long as everyone stays respectful about it! :)
Exactly! And it bothers me to see that some people try and push their ideas onto others when the beauty of the book community is how different our tastes and perceptions of books are.
Thank you! I was starting to think that I was the only one who found Lincoln creepy in Attachments 'cause everyone seems to love that book.
"So romantic" 😂
I love this video so, so much. :D
Hey Emily. How are you doing? Thank you so much for this great list I have not read any of those books and now thanks to how well you described what they're about I don't want to read them now. I have actually had some of the same troubles that you have had where I try to read what appears to be a really popular book and I wind up not liking it at all. I am really looking forward to seeing what your favorite books are. Thank you so much for your honest opinion I find it really easy to trust you. Also I wanted to give you my real name it's Julie.
I agree with you so much on a court if thorns and roses. However I think the series improved with the rest of the books
I thought the novel, "A Tale of Two Cities" was bad -- the courtroom where one character slowly changes his features to look like the defendant, the woman who knits stories, and long, rambling sentences that make absolutely no sense littered throughout. I can only imagine how this was interpreted in the graphic novel. Good vid! Have a wonderful holiday!
a good video over all but I don't know what your talking about with a court of thorns and roses, that was like one of the best books i read this year
I totally agree with you about ACOTAR and book 2 or the warth and the Dawn (I loved the first book though)
I really enjoy your ranting I could watch this all day lol
About the Dark Tower book, it's actually a really popular opinion among fans of the series that the first book is horrendous, so try not to be too put off by the Gunslinger! Book 3 is my favorite, so I hope you decide to keep reading! (Also high key jealous of the edition of Gunslinger that you have, the old illustrated edition is super difficult to find and expensive usually)
I'm an avid Stephen King reader and it took me a couple years to actually continue the series after not enjoying The Gunslinger. After being encouraged by multiple people that the second book is very different, I read it. I'm on the fourth book now and I definitely agree that it gets better after the first one. I wouldn't rush it though, there are so many other great King books to fill your time 😊
Aww The Gunslinger is a bad start to the The Dark Tower series though IMO. It gets so much better in the second book, but I can see why a lot of people stop reading it because of the first one. :(