Hearing you talk about how many of these "adult" characters act like they're 19 really makes me realize how much we lack mature characters in romance (not just age-wise, but maturity-wise as well). I'd be SO curious to see a rec video from you of romances that involve characters that are a bit older (maybe 28-30+) who also ACT like they're that age and have some of their shit together!
@@laisarcanjo6025 That’s why it’s nice to read it in fiction 😂 Also I think you can emotionally have your shit together even if financially we’re all in black holes of debt, and I’d love to see more emotionally mature characters…even if they can barely afford rent lol
For real!! Now that I am 26, it bugs me so much that these women act like teenagers. I think that's why people enjoyed Book Lovers because the lead character atleast to some extent acts like an adult.
Dating Dr. Dil gave a certain ~member~ the same name as my brother and I had to DNF for that reason alone 💀 I am absolutely loving this video, thank you for reading so many bad books for our entertainment!
I was going to make popcorn for this but it’s a good thing I didn’t bc I would definitely choke between all the cackling omg 🤣😭 thank you for blessing us with this video
So many amazing one-liners here. I very rarely pick up romance, but I love watching people talk about it and your comments are truly top tier. Really here for you calling yourself out for a love interest dad and realizing remembering his name would have served you better 😂 Big mood
“I could just remember his name, that could be a thing”😂😂😂 you are the only booktuber that can roast my favourite book of the year, and make me enjoy every second of it lol this whole video is a pure serotonin boost, love it so much🤍🤍🤍
Thanks so much for this video Chandler! I’m pregnant, miserable, and bedridden. This video did a great job of keeping me entertained and made me miss reading! I will be picking up a book from this video ❤️
Loved the video! I read Part of Your World right after I saw your 5-star review on Goodreads a few months ago and it’s my absolute favorite romance/book of the year.
I am glad you brought up Julia Whelan's book!!! She is one of my favourite audio book narrators and this book is SO GREAT! My favourite this year! It deserves way more hype and is way better than Book Lovers (and yes I usually love Emily Henry but this one left me a little cold). I hope more people read it because it is so good! As you said, this one deserves more love!
I needed a new romance, the soulmate equation that was recommended for me through the comments wasn’t a very good match so I decided to pick your number 1 romance of the year today. Just started part of your world and I hope is more interesting than the other one !! Thank you always girl ❤
Darn it I really loved Funny You Should Ask! To me, Hani seemed confident from the get-go when she went to a red carpet premiere with Gabe. I listened to it on audio and was so surprised with how much I liked it.
This video just cemented the fact that I can rely on your book reviews. Your thoughts on the books that I have read out of this bunch matched mine exactly! ❤
Completely off topic but I just had to say you I love your style! You always have such a pretty romantic way of doing your makeup and outfits and it really suits you!
I love how you did this video! The vlogs mixed with the sit down sessions was a nice combo (and we always love some Haden side commentary). Also, I will never tire of you ranting about Things We Never Got Over lol
Chan! I love this video and hope you do another top romance predictions for 2023. Might as well put Emily Henry’s next romance novel at number 1 for next year since the girlies love her (it’s me I’m a girly) I can’t lie i have given all 3 of her romance novels 5 stars….🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️ love your reviews on here as well as GR you genuinely make me die of laughter at times. ❤
I love how much we disagree about some books and yet we align so much on others! EG I adored book lovers, u were not a fan, I thought the sister thing was super realistic to sisters i know and the hero was 10/10 LOL. But thank u so much for talking me out of cover buying funny you should ask, ALSO u r stunning as always in the black sparkly sleeves moment, also, queen of being well-spoken! love ur content as alwaysssss
I'm enjoying Booklovers..probably because it's a play on all those tropes done to death in Hallmark Channel movies. I think Reminders of Him sounds more like a contemporary fiction book vs a romance. Marketing needs to really label her books better
I guess it just depends on if you feel more uncomfortable with the idea of the old stereotype of girls being pathetically hung up on just one guy forever even when that guy clearly couldn't care less about them ever as if girls have nothing else more about them than an interest in some guy...or more uncomfy with the whole old thing of girls being interested-in or liking someone else almost mandatorily just because that person likes//wants the girl[ & the girl's afraid of hurting people's feelings or afraid that no one else would ever want them except the first option that readily presents itself] and/or girls worrying all the time much much more about who does or doesn't want them than the girls concern themselves properly with who they do or don't personally actually want for themself like they really should[ as if they are limited to only ever waiting for someone else to make the first move so they almost need to be granted 'permission' somehow first before they're allowed to have feelings safely as if they don't choose for themself who their own options are or aren't as if finding a partner is waiting for other people's greenlight(s) decided for you rather than deciding your own greenlight(s) for yourself & just looking for the areas of mutual overlap in the circles of both your interest AND their interest like looking for the intersections in a venn diagram or something]..maybe?? 🤔😅🤷♀️ 👀 (I dunno-I'm just thinking out loud here, pondering it.) LOLL ( I prefer mutual pining, or when they both just seem to kind of fall together roughly around the same time, too. 🤭🙃😅😅😁😊 ^-^ )
in terms of witch romances: you should read Juliette Cross' Stay A Spell series (6 books, 6 witch sisters from New Orleans, each sister has her own book). I absolutely loved these characters, and the books are really well written 😃
Chandler you’ve helped me read more romance this year! I was happy that I’ve read a majority of these books even though many were baaaad. While I disagree with you on Book Lovers, still love your wit and savagery (sp?) haha love this video
I CACKLED MY WHOLE WAY THROUGH! Ive already had a hard day so thank you for the giggles! And even though you don't love book lovers, i still love you hehe
This is such a fun video! I'm glad you found a few that you liked, and kudos to you on guessing 9 out of the top 10! Impressive! I'm sorry to say that my favorite romance I read this year was Book Lovers 🤪 But People We Meet on Vacation is still my favorite Emily Henry too.
None of my top romances was released this year, but I truly loved: Salt Magic Skin Magic by Lee Welch, A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske, Paladin's Grace by T Kingfisher and the Enlightenment-Trilogy by Joana Chambers (scottish narrator for the audiobooks, to die for!). I would not have said that I like fantasy romance, but apparently, I do ^^
I trust your rankings and appreciate you weeding some of these out of my very long TBR for me. I just need to read terms and conditions, otherwise I’ve read your top 5 and loved them too :)
I didn’t agree with some of your reviews, but also didn’t read all the books. 😂 But I really enjoyed how this video was set up and how in depth you went with all your reviews and predictions! ❤ I really enjoyed the Runaway Groomsmen by Meghan Quinn that came out this year. Not sure if I would say it was number one, but it’s definitely at the top somewhere!
In the vein of Thank You for Listening, you should give a listen to If These Walls Could Talk by Erin Mallon. It’s narrated by some of the best romance narrators out there. When I read it, it was on Audible Plus. Sebastian York’s character is so great.
First and foremost your Christmas decor video love it watched it like 4 times so relaxing couldn’t gosh enough and congrats on your wedding love to see it you guys are awesome 🎉🤗 love on the brain is on my next to be read this week I can’t wait to get to it so excited to read it heard nothing but great things 😃
Honestly, I want to see more indie romances. I read more indie romances than I do traditionally published. And while it's nice to see Terms and Conditions, Twisted Hate, & (I believe) Things We Never Got Over... they are all now being published under Bloom Publishing which is an imprint of Sourcebooks and I'm not sure we can consider them indies any longer. lol. All in all, you did great on your predictions and because of you I will be picking up Part of Your World and The Bodyguard sooner rather than later! Love all your content
is Sourcebooks still an independent publisher though? (I'm woefully underinformed about individual publishers) I just know there is technically a difference between traditional publishing, independent publishing, and self-publishing-but I'm not a total expert on what the line is exactly between trad pub versus indie pub, and I know a lot of people these days do actually seem to just consider "self-pub" to be "indie pub"[ &/or vice versa] as well considering basically any kind of official publisher[ other than just the author themself] to be "trad pub" too((even though indie pub is technically [or at least has traditionally been recognized as being ]a different thing than either self-pub or trad-pub, except that self-pub authors are technically independent/"indie"/ authors, whereas trad & indie published authors aren't[ I don't think] rightfully considered indie authors .. even though their books are technically still indie published books despite not being self-pubbed books...GOSHH _no _*_wonder_* it's really confusing terminology/terminology-usage/ out there sometimes!)).🤔😅😅😁🤷♀️ Loll ( *# Send Help* ) So ... I guess it really just depends on what exactly you mean by "indie", here: Published by an Indie(Self-pub) Author - or - Published by an Indie Publisher?? _(((I just looked it up quick, and supposedly Sourcebooks ARE an indie publisher, though-even if they don't count as being self-pub! ^-^)))_
@@jaginaiaelectrizs6341 that's a great way of looking at it. Sourcebooks isn't part of the big 5 publishers (since I don't think the prh/Simon merge has happened) but I personally distinguish it by traditionally published (query for an agent and an agent then sells you to a publisher and the author has very little say in anything other than doing the writing) versus self-published which I call indie since they're indie authors (where the author hires everything out and publishes themselves and keeping all the control in what happens to the entire project). But, yes it can get very confusing at times! 🤣
@@stephinwonderland49 👍🏻🙂 Thanks! Well, I mean... I think some small/indie publishers do actually still accept submissions even without requiring the author to have an agent first, too, though(and there are indie publishing houses out there that do still give authors much more self-involvement / final-say/deciding-power or such than other proper big-name traditional publishers do too).😅🤭😁 But, yeah, I think the trend these days-since self-pub really took off-generally IS to [at least colloquially ]think of indie as self-pub ... and just using a publisher in general as being trad-pub, even if it's not one of the big whatever-number publishers. I guess maybe that's just the way that terminology usage naturally evolves over time though, sometimes; and maybe why languages that aren't still in common use are considered "dead"-languages, because they don't really continue adapting/evolving over time like that. ^--^ It's kinda like "that's sweet" meaning either 'that's nice' _or_ 'that's really not nice at all'-context is super necessary, sometimes. (Or like certain same terms or acronyms or other abbreviations sometimes meaning drastically different things within different fields or niches of work/interests.) Loll I just find it interesting, because I first started really wanting to learn more about indie/non-big-X#/ published books right about when self-publishing was really taking off...and the crossover in terminology usages really complicated the ease of doing that oftentimes for me, because sometimes people don't specify what they mean by "indie" at all, so I was basically still left just researching the publishing behind every book individually for myself or simply choosing not to care too much personally how it was or wasn't published! 🤭🤣 (That's just my own personal woe though, I guess😂-I totally get why so many people can make the distinction differently.😊 I'm just always finding myself compelled to look for clarification, myself Lol)
I really liked The Bodyguard! That is the one I voted for but it is also one of the two that I read on the list. I have also been trying to read backlist books though
lol when you said you got stockholm syndrome with one of these books i laughed out loud for real, yes i know that feeling well 😂 Loved this video, such a great job as always!
i loled so many times kinda sad, but also not surprised that you didn't like Funny You Should Ask. i gave it 4 stars, but i also do like a story where nothing really happens. also, i read You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty and gave it 5 bat-shit-crazy stars, but also can see why it is so controversial. my favorite romances of the year were Flowers from the Storm (a historical romance from 2003) and The Roughest Draft. i really deep dived into HistRom this year, and don't have many contemporaries on my list of faves.
That's what I love about Chandler-she doesn't hold back her own opinion, but she also doesn't make it feel unsafe at all to have your own opinion whether that opinion is totally the same _or_ differs completely from her own either.! (And even if you might have different opinions about some things, you know her reasons are pretty much always going to be ones that you can respect[ because she never makes it feel like she thinks herself an absolutely infallible authority on literature or entertainment or whatever nor does she ever make it feel like it's not okay to like what you like even if what you like maybe isn't always the bestest book ever or such she always feels as casual or down-to-earth as just talking books with a friend], even if/when things did sometimes land a bit differently with one's own self personally!) ^-^
I haven't read any of them yet, but I do have Part of My World, Thank You For Listening, and The Bodyguard in my TBR pile. (I was waiting to read Part of My World after I've made my way through Abby Jimenez's other books.) Since you enjoyed Julia Whelan's book so much, you might try her first novel -- I think it was her first -- which was published in 2018, My Oxford Year. I enjoyed it very much and bought this latest book based on that enjoyment.
Re: celebrity romances - I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on The Idea of You by Robinne Lee. That one ripped my heart out. And it’s getting adapted into a movie with Anne Hathaway!
As an Indian person who is aspiring to one day publish a book. Aunties often love to meddle and it's so annoying but that's what they do. The exaggeration and drama or exaggeration is normal in Bollywood movies but there's a reason for it. Personally, I can't stand the over the top drama ... For unnecessary shit. Personally, I don't love Nisha Sharma's books
@@chandlerainsley The more you learn, I guess, some days! 😅🤭🤭😊 (It just makes me think of Dr. Seuss / 'Fox in Socks', myself!🤣) It's funny how easy it is to forget, at times, that names can vary so much just based on region and/or country alone; unconscious/subjective biases can be really something unexpectedly sneaky like that.😅😅 😁😁😁
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING by JULIA WHELAN was sooo goood! I loved the book, and especially, the autor-narrated audiobook. It made me tear up, I laughed, I ugly-cried, I squeaked and squealed :D If only there was more hot on-page sex, it would be somewhere in my ultimate top of romances EVER. Still, it was not one of those sexless books that have no heat - there were scorching hot scenes without being explicit, which might be even harder to write if one thinks about it… This girlie needs the on page hanky-panky though… Still, I absolutely highly recommed this book, screaming this from the rooftops y'all! The emotions are real, hero - swoony, heroine - damn interesting, and the plot - really original
‘Funny You Should Ask” felt very fan fiction-y to me, and not in a good way. It’s also weird to me that she stole someone’s else story and didn’t deviate much, but then didn’t acknowledge the original writer.
I wanted to read Funny You Should Ask because the guy is supposed to kinda be Chris Evans, but I just couldn't get over the fact that his name is Gabe 💀
It’s not the end of the year until we have chandler’s gr romance video and an hour long ahhh!!! I loooooved it and I took funny you should ask off my tbr 😬 but my fave romance of the year was book lovers 💗
I’m so disappointed You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty didn’t work for you. I do think that the story felt more like a healing journey rather than one trying to be submerged in grief and this was about Feyi learning how to reclaim herself after being lost for so long. Which is probably why things felt so surface level but I really liked it! Love ur videos 💕
It's funny but my first (and only) Ana Huang novel was Twisted Hate and I picked this particular one up because it was nominated, but ultimately I felt the exact same way about it that you did. I had basically written her off as an author because it left such a bad taste in my mouth. I still don't know if I will try anything else from her.
I agree with your review on the American Roommate Experiment. Everything but some part at the middle is horrible. They are immature and in the end Lucas becomes just a neanderthal.
Hearing you talk about how many of these "adult" characters act like they're 19 really makes me realize how much we lack mature characters in romance (not just age-wise, but maturity-wise as well). I'd be SO curious to see a rec video from you of romances that involve characters that are a bit older (maybe 28-30+) who also ACT like they're that age and have some of their shit together!
I second this! Been really into books with characters that are fully grown adults (like Part of Your World) and would love to get some new recs
Who has their shit together at 28y? Not us millennials, not us… T.T
@@laisarcanjo6025 That’s why it’s nice to read it in fiction 😂 Also I think you can emotionally have your shit together even if financially we’re all in black holes of debt, and I’d love to see more emotionally mature characters…even if they can barely afford rent lol
@@isabellaoliveira4945 Yes, same! I want to see more characters with emotional maturity!
For real!! Now that I am 26, it bugs me so much that these women act like teenagers. I think that's why people enjoyed Book Lovers because the lead character atleast to some extent acts like an adult.
I am not on tiktok at all, so maybe that’s why I feel so out of the loop, but I watch a TON of booktube and some of these I’m like “huh?! 🤔”
as a person that is religiously on tik tok this list of nominees has me scratching my head as well
I've seen 90% of these on either Instagram or TikTok, but some of them I've only ever heard Chandler talk about.
Dating Dr. Dil gave a certain ~member~ the same name as my brother and I had to DNF for that reason alone 💀 I am absolutely loving this video, thank you for reading so many bad books for our entertainment!
HAH omg
I was going to make popcorn for this but it’s a good thing I didn’t bc I would definitely choke between all the cackling omg 🤣😭 thank you for blessing us with this video
lmao ty ty friend
So many amazing one-liners here. I very rarely pick up romance, but I love watching people talk about it and your comments are truly top tier. Really here for you calling yourself out for a love interest dad and realizing remembering his name would have served you better 😂 Big mood
“I could just remember his name, that could be a thing”😂😂😂 you are the only booktuber that can roast my favourite book of the year, and make me enjoy every second of it lol this whole video is a pure serotonin boost, love it so much🤍🤍🤍
Thanks so much for this video Chandler! I’m pregnant, miserable, and bedridden. This video did a great job of keeping me entertained and made me miss reading! I will be picking up a book from this video ❤️
ah i'm so sorry! hope you feel better soon & everything goes well
Loved the video! I read Part of Your World right after I saw your 5-star review on Goodreads a few months ago and it’s my absolute favorite romance/book of the year.
i'm so glad you liked it!!
I am glad you brought up Julia Whelan's book!!! She is one of my favourite audio book narrators and this book is SO GREAT! My favourite this year! It deserves way more hype and is way better than Book Lovers (and yes I usually love Emily Henry but this one left me a little cold). I hope more people read it because it is so good! As you said, this one deserves more love!
I needed a new romance, the soulmate equation that was recommended for me through the comments wasn’t a very good match so I decided to pick your number 1 romance of the year today. Just started part of your world and I hope is more interesting than the other one !! Thank you always girl ❤
the fact that part of your world and thank you for listening didn’t make the top 10… criminal 😩
You can see how much love and work you put into this and we always appreciate it
Darn it I really loved Funny You Should Ask! To me, Hani seemed confident from the get-go when she went to a red carpet premiere with Gabe. I listened to it on audio and was so surprised with how much I liked it.
I loveee the way this was edited with a mix of vlog and sit down clips🤩
This video just cemented the fact that I can rely on your book reviews. Your thoughts on the books that I have read out of this bunch matched mine exactly! ❤
I look forward to this video every single year. Thank you for all of your hard work, you’re amazing!
i look forward to this every year, so excited that it’s here!!!!
This is my most anticipated video of yours every year! Glad it’s both if our favorites!
Loving the combination of vlog and sit down video!
Loved this video! I really like Book Lovers, but I understand your critique. :) I also really liked the Spoiler Alert series this year.
My favorite video you’ve ever done! So crisp, so we’ll articulated! So entertaining!
Completely off topic but I just had to say you I love your style! You always have such a pretty romantic way of doing your makeup and outfits and it really suits you!
ah thanks so much!
ONE HOUR LONG we have been truly blessed
I love how you did this video! The vlogs mixed with the sit down sessions was a nice combo (and we always love some Haden side commentary). Also, I will never tire of you ranting about Things We Never Got Over lol
Chan! I love this video and hope you do another top romance predictions for 2023. Might as well put Emily Henry’s next romance novel at number 1 for next year since the girlies love her (it’s me I’m a girly) I can’t lie i have given all 3 of her romance novels 5 stars….🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️ love your reviews on here as well as GR you genuinely make me die of laughter at times. ❤
I love how much we disagree about some books and yet we align so much on others! EG I adored book lovers, u were not a fan, I thought the sister thing was super realistic to sisters i know and the hero was 10/10 LOL. But thank u so much for talking me out of cover buying funny you should ask, ALSO u r stunning as always in the black sparkly sleeves moment, also, queen of being well-spoken! love ur content as alwaysssss
My all-time favorite Chandler video of the year! Woo! I squealed when I saw it pop up!
Excellent video. My favorite book of 2022 is "You Deserve Each Other" and "Carrie Soto is Back".
Read it and tbh I’ve only seen good and good reviews only for this book🙌🏻
I ABSOLUTELY love her videos!! They are soo fun.
“I feel like I don’t want to judge this book too harshly…”
Then,
“What a bizarre book!”
😄😄😄
Love you Chandler💋💋💋
I'm enjoying Booklovers..probably because it's a play on all those tropes done to death in Hallmark Channel movies.
I think Reminders of Him sounds more like a contemporary fiction book vs a romance. Marketing needs to really label her books better
I have not agreed with anyone more than when you said that you prefer mutual pining or when the guy falls first. Hells yes to both situation!
I guess it just depends on if you feel more uncomfortable with the idea of the old stereotype of girls being pathetically hung up on just one guy forever even when that guy clearly couldn't care less about them ever as if girls have nothing else more about them than an interest in some guy...or more uncomfy with the whole old thing of girls being interested-in or liking someone else almost mandatorily just because that person likes//wants the girl[ & the girl's afraid of hurting people's feelings or afraid that no one else would ever want them except the first option that readily presents itself] and/or girls worrying all the time much much more about who does or doesn't want them than the girls concern themselves properly with who they do or don't personally actually want for themself like they really should[ as if they are limited to only ever waiting for someone else to make the first move so they almost need to be granted 'permission' somehow first before they're allowed to have feelings safely as if they don't choose for themself who their own options are or aren't as if finding a partner is waiting for other people's greenlight(s) decided for you rather than deciding your own greenlight(s) for yourself & just looking for the areas of mutual overlap in the circles of both your interest AND their interest like looking for the intersections in a venn diagram or something]..maybe?? 🤔😅🤷♀️ 👀 (I dunno-I'm just thinking out loud here, pondering it.) LOLL
( I prefer mutual pining, or when they both just seem to kind of fall together roughly around the same time, too. 🤭🙃😅😅😁😊 ^-^ )
in terms of witch romances: you should read Juliette Cross' Stay A Spell series (6 books, 6 witch sisters from New Orleans, each sister has her own book). I absolutely loved these characters, and the books are really well written 😃
Chandler you’ve helped me read more romance this year! I was happy that I’ve read a majority of these books even though many were baaaad. While I disagree with you on Book Lovers, still love your wit and savagery (sp?) haha love this video
thanks so much
Waited all year for this video!!!!
I CACKLED MY WHOLE WAY THROUGH! Ive already had a hard day so thank you for the giggles! And even though you don't love book lovers, i still love you hehe
Thank you for Listening and Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase are two of my 5⭐reads for this year.
Part of Your World is my 🏆 of the year! I’m surprised you rated Dating Dr. Dil so high, I got the biggest ick at ‘Charlie’
hahaha honestly so valid
I loved Thank You For Listening. I’m glad you did too!
This is my favorite video of the year too!!
Part of Your World was a major surprise in 2022z
I felt personally attacked with the things we never got over segment lol! im in my early to mid 30s n still don't know what I want to do lol!
This is such a fun video! I'm glad you found a few that you liked, and kudos to you on guessing 9 out of the top 10! Impressive! I'm sorry to say that my favorite romance I read this year was Book Lovers 🤪 But People We Meet on Vacation is still my favorite Emily Henry too.
i love your nails!!! the one when you talk about dr dil 😙😙👌👌
One of my favorite videos you do every year as well❤
Your predictions were so good though 😱
None of my top romances was released this year, but I truly loved: Salt Magic Skin Magic by Lee Welch, A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske, Paladin's Grace by T Kingfisher and the Enlightenment-Trilogy by Joana Chambers (scottish narrator for the audiobooks, to die for!). I would not have said that I like fantasy romance, but apparently, I do ^^
that cat is really enjoying their shower 48:17
I trust your rankings and appreciate you weeding some of these out of my very long TBR for me. I just need to read terms and conditions, otherwise I’ve read your top 5 and loved them too :)
I didn’t agree with some of your reviews, but also didn’t read all the books. 😂 But I really enjoyed how this video was set up and how in depth you went with all your reviews and predictions! ❤ I really enjoyed the Runaway Groomsmen by Meghan Quinn that came out this year. Not sure if I would say it was number one, but it’s definitely at the top somewhere!
I always look forward to this video!
My favorite video of the year
You definitely convinced me to pick up Thank You for Listening!!!
I bought part of your world because of you and i am so excited
In the vein of Thank You for Listening, you should give a listen to If These Walls Could Talk by Erin Mallon. It’s narrated by some of the best romance narrators out there. When I read it, it was on Audible Plus. Sebastian York’s character is so great.
You look stunning! The black outfit is super chic!!!🖤♥️
First and foremost your Christmas decor video love it watched it like 4 times so relaxing couldn’t gosh enough and congrats on your wedding love to see it you guys are awesome 🎉🤗 love on the brain is on my next to be read this week I can’t wait to get to it so excited to read it heard nothing but great things 😃
Honestly, I want to see more indie romances. I read more indie romances than I do traditionally published. And while it's nice to see Terms and Conditions, Twisted Hate, & (I believe) Things We Never Got Over... they are all now being published under Bloom Publishing which is an imprint of Sourcebooks and I'm not sure we can consider them indies any longer. lol. All in all, you did great on your predictions and because of you I will be picking up Part of Your World and The Bodyguard sooner rather than later! Love all your content
thanks so much
is Sourcebooks still an independent publisher though? (I'm woefully underinformed about individual publishers) I just know there is technically a difference between traditional publishing, independent publishing, and self-publishing-but I'm not a total expert on what the line is exactly between trad pub versus indie pub, and I know a lot of people these days do actually seem to just consider "self-pub" to be "indie pub"[ &/or vice versa] as well considering basically any kind of official publisher[ other than just the author themself] to be "trad pub" too((even though indie pub is technically [or at least has traditionally been recognized as being ]a different thing than either self-pub or trad-pub, except that self-pub authors are technically independent/"indie"/ authors, whereas trad & indie published authors aren't[ I don't think] rightfully considered indie authors .. even though their books are technically still indie published books despite not being self-pubbed books...GOSHH _no _*_wonder_* it's really confusing terminology/terminology-usage/ out there sometimes!)).🤔😅😅😁🤷♀️ Loll
( *# Send Help* )
So ... I guess it really just depends on what exactly you mean by "indie", here: Published by an Indie(Self-pub) Author - or - Published by an Indie Publisher??
_(((I just looked it up quick, and supposedly Sourcebooks ARE an indie publisher, though-even if they don't count as being self-pub! ^-^)))_
@@jaginaiaelectrizs6341 that's a great way of looking at it. Sourcebooks isn't part of the big 5 publishers (since I don't think the prh/Simon merge has happened) but I personally distinguish it by traditionally published (query for an agent and an agent then sells you to a publisher and the author has very little say in anything other than doing the writing) versus self-published which I call indie since they're indie authors (where the author hires everything out and publishes themselves and keeping all the control in what happens to the entire project).
But, yes it can get very confusing at times! 🤣
@@stephinwonderland49 👍🏻🙂 Thanks!
Well, I mean... I think some small/indie publishers do actually still accept submissions even without requiring the author to have an agent first, too, though(and there are indie publishing houses out there that do still give authors much more self-involvement / final-say/deciding-power or such than other proper big-name traditional publishers do too).😅🤭😁
But, yeah, I think the trend these days-since self-pub really took off-generally IS to [at least colloquially ]think of indie as self-pub ... and just using a publisher in general as being trad-pub, even if it's not one of the big whatever-number publishers.
I guess maybe that's just the way that terminology usage naturally evolves over time though, sometimes; and maybe why languages that aren't still in common use are considered "dead"-languages, because they don't really continue adapting/evolving over time like that. ^--^
It's kinda like "that's sweet" meaning either 'that's nice' _or_ 'that's really not nice at all'-context is super necessary, sometimes. (Or like certain same terms or acronyms or other abbreviations sometimes meaning drastically different things within different fields or niches of work/interests.) Loll
I just find it interesting, because I first started really wanting to learn more about indie/non-big-X#/ published books right about when self-publishing was really taking off...and the crossover in terminology usages really complicated the ease of doing that oftentimes for me, because sometimes people don't specify what they mean by "indie" at all, so I was basically still left just researching the publishing behind every book individually for myself or simply choosing not to care too much personally how it was or wasn't published! 🤭🤣 (That's just my own personal woe though, I guess😂-I totally get why so many people can make the distinction differently.😊 I'm just always finding myself compelled to look for clarification, myself Lol)
What a fit for those reviews, dressed to the 9s!
I’m never going to look at a cranberry the same way 😂😂😂😂
I love your personality 😂
I really liked The Bodyguard! That is the one I voted for but it is also one of the two that I read on the list. I have also been trying to read backlist books though
you're literally an expert on popular romance
lol when you said you got stockholm syndrome with one of these books i laughed out loud for real, yes i know that feeling well 😂 Loved this video, such a great job as always!
I hate “things we never got over” and “twisted hate” too. Love you videos and I know I can always trust your taste. Lol
i loled so many times
kinda sad, but also not surprised that you didn't like Funny You Should Ask. i gave it 4 stars, but i also do like a story where nothing really happens. also, i read You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty and gave it 5 bat-shit-crazy stars, but also can see why it is so controversial.
my favorite romances of the year were Flowers from the Storm (a historical romance from 2003) and The Roughest Draft. i really deep dived into HistRom this year, and don't have many contemporaries on my list of faves.
I loved this video even when I disagreed on some books. So fun and interesting to compare!
That's what I love about Chandler-she doesn't hold back her own opinion, but she also doesn't make it feel unsafe at all to have your own opinion whether that opinion is totally the same _or_ differs completely from her own either.! (And even if you might have different opinions about some things, you know her reasons are pretty much always going to be ones that you can respect[ because she never makes it feel like she thinks herself an absolutely infallible authority on literature or entertainment or whatever nor does she ever make it feel like it's not okay to like what you like even if what you like maybe isn't always the bestest book ever or such she always feels as casual or down-to-earth as just talking books with a friend], even if/when things did sometimes land a bit differently with one's own self personally!) ^-^
Eyyyy so excited for this
I agree with you.... Things with never got over...
I haven't read any of them yet, but I do have Part of My World, Thank You For Listening, and The Bodyguard in my TBR pile. (I was waiting to read Part of My World after I've made my way through Abby Jimenez's other books.)
Since you enjoyed Julia Whelan's book so much, you might try her first novel -- I think it was her first -- which was published in 2018, My Oxford Year. I enjoyed it very much and bought this latest book based on that enjoyment.
As an Indian woman, Dating Dr. Dil very much irritated the hell out of me
For me, I have a tie between Reel by Kennedy Ryan and Wound Tight by Tessa Bailey for my favorite (s) book of the year.
Reel was SO good
Just here to say you are STUNNING
thanks so much
As a Muslim, this just got me into the Christmas spirit. Thanks Chandler!
my fav romance this year was Darcy's from zodiac academy! I swoon every time I think of that couple! granted im on book 6 and have 2 more to go.
Love this video! You look so pretty!!!
I think Always by Loren Leigh, Icebreaker by AL Graziadei or You & Me by Tal Baur were my favorite contemporary romance of the year.
God what a white heterosexual nominee list. Goodreads choice awards are always out here disappointing me.
its not goodreads, its about what the public read the most. the majority of the public just happen to read white heterosexual books
@@freyahunter667 (That doesn't mean the Awards' list/ selection/ created by that can't still be disappointing to some)
Re: celebrity romances - I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on The Idea of You by Robinne Lee. That one ripped my heart out. And it’s getting adapted into a movie with Anne Hathaway!
59 minutes we are blessed
As an Indian person who is aspiring to one day publish a book. Aunties often love to meddle and it's so annoying but that's what they do. The exaggeration and drama or exaggeration is normal in Bollywood movies but there's a reason for it. Personally, I can't stand the over the top drama ... For unnecessary shit. Personally, I don't love Nisha Sharma's books
Are people named Knox in the real world? It’s a name I’ve ONLY ever come across in romance novels (always the hero).
i see a lot of little boys in the south named Knox
@@chandlerainsley The more you learn, I guess, some days! 😅🤭🤭😊
(It just makes me think of Dr. Seuss / 'Fox in Socks', myself!🤣)
It's funny how easy it is to forget, at times, that names can vary so much just based on region and/or country alone; unconscious/subjective biases can be really something unexpectedly sneaky like that.😅😅 😁😁😁
Sooo excited for this video!! Also, your makeup & outfit in the thumbnail? 🔥🔥🔥
ty!!
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING by JULIA WHELAN was sooo goood! I loved the book, and especially, the autor-narrated audiobook. It made me tear up, I laughed, I ugly-cried, I squeaked and squealed :D If only there was more hot on-page sex, it would be somewhere in my ultimate top of romances EVER. Still, it was not one of those sexless books that have no heat - there were scorching hot scenes without being explicit, which might be even harder to write if one thinks about it… This girlie needs the on page hanky-panky though… Still, I absolutely highly recommed this book, screaming this from the rooftops y'all! The emotions are real, hero - swoony, heroine - damn interesting, and the plot - really original
I 100% agree with your premise about Dating Dr Dil
‘Funny You Should Ask” felt very fan fiction-y to me, and not in a good way. It’s also weird to me that she stole someone’s else story and didn’t deviate much, but then didn’t acknowledge the original writer.
I wanted to read Funny You Should Ask because the guy is supposed to kinda be Chris Evans, but I just couldn't get over the fact that his name is Gabe 💀
Ooooooh excited for this
I would like to see for lines of comparison. My top 10 from goodreads 20, my predictions, the real top 10 and my actual top 10 of the year.
i have a separate best books of 2022 coming :)
It’s not the end of the year until we have chandler’s gr romance video and an hour long ahhh!!! I loooooved it and I took funny you should ask off my tbr 😬 but my fave romance of the year was book lovers 💗
I'm glad I'm not alone in my dislike for Every Summer After. Loved your commentary on it!
my favorite romance (and favorite book period) of the year is a lady for a duke by alexis hall. without a doubt.
such a good one!
while I admire you for all your hard work, I believe your cat's cleanliness deserve 5* too😁
‘Fan Service by Colleen Hoover’ 😂
I’m so disappointed You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty didn’t work for you. I do think that the story felt more like a healing journey rather than one trying to be submerged in grief and this was about Feyi learning how to reclaim herself after being lost for so long. Which is probably why things felt so surface level but I really liked it! Love ur videos 💕
yes yes yes to "you made a fool" being *so* surface level and Nasir's character change in the end was *so* odd
It's funny but my first (and only) Ana Huang novel was Twisted Hate and I picked this particular one up because it was nominated, but ultimately I felt the exact same way about it that you did. I had basically written her off as an author because it left such a bad taste in my mouth. I still don't know if I will try anything else from her.
her other one's are still a little... unpolished i guess? but i had fun with them
You look beautiful. Love the hair.
speaking of grief & dads i feel like you might like gravity by sara cate, it was surprisingly emotional and sexy.
I agree with your review on the American Roommate Experiment. Everything but some part at the middle is horrible. They are immature and in the end Lucas becomes just a neanderthal.