I DNF’d Lessons in Chemistry 😮 I did like the show though. This makes me curious if you would ever read Divine Rivals since you love RR writing but it’s definitely a romance.
colleen hoover is probably at the top of my "will never read from" list... even the "not so bad" books people find excuses for-- which, if some people enjoy this author, that's cool, but the fact that they feel the need to justify it for some of her books is kinda telling lol.
I'm never going to read the seven husbands of evelyn hugo because I'm tired of seeing it everywhere for years. There's also a story called Susanna's seven husbands by Ruskin Bond, which got made into a bollywood movie starring Priyanka Chopra. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with this book except for the similar title, but in my head I'm convinced that I only need 1 of them in my life 😂😂 It makes no sense
I'm going to advocate for Carrie Soto is Back. I resisted, and I'm so glad I gave in. It was a great book and I really like how many faults the main character has. Don't worry about the tennis part, legit, i know nothing about it and it really doesn't matter. The way the book is written, there is no assumed knowledge for you to have about tennis. It's a book that is legit worth the hype. And I say this as a girlie who has resisted soooo many books
Not trying to convince you to read Carrie Soto is Back, but I will say, I was in the same position as you when it came out. It sounded like something I wouldn't enjoy, I bought it upon release and it took me over a year to get to it but once I did I did not put it down, it was a one day read for me! And a five star. Carrie is one of the most beautifully complex woman I have read in a while, she is brusque, and single-minded to the detriment of everything else in her life, and a little arrogant(is it arrogant if she can back it up with literally having been the best?), and yet you are on her side, you get where she is coming from. Her relationship with her dad/coach, with the sport, with her fellow players, with SPOILERS, and most of all with herself is just so complicated and rich and wonderful.
This is exactly how I felt about it! I absolutely loved the talks of intersectionality too, and the discussion of how women are seen as "outdated" as a certain age. I wasn't expecting to love it that much either but it ended up being a five star book for me too.
It's totally okay not to like everyone's favourite books, even if they're popular, just means you have an opinion 😆 Like this might sound weird but I would never want to enjoy every book I read, because it would mean I don't have taste and/or I'm only sticking to books I know I'll enjoy, which is not how I like to live my life, I like trying everything haha
I am here BEGGING you to give Carrie Soto is back a chance. I haven't read any other tjr books so I can't 100% guarantee that it doesn't have similar elements to daisy Jones or Evelyn hugo, but based on what you said I'm willing to stick my neck out haha. While it uses a season of professional tennis as a backdrop for the story, it is SO much more about her relationship with her dad/coach, her struggles with self-identity and being th best, and provides a look at the differences in how the public views men and women know profession tennis. EASILY one of my favorite books I read this year so far!!
Carrie Soto is Back was actually amazing, I was shocked by how much I loved it, and I have never cared about tennis, sorry lol, the relationship she has with her trainer dad is gold (but complicated) I took notes, I underlined lines which I never do....but yeah if you ever change your mind in the future you might like it :) I'm currently doing the audiobook for Wayward Children #9, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire and all thanks to you! I binge read all the previous books last year because of your incredible reading vlog for them
@@meozones Oh love that, thank you for sharing :) I felt so invested in it! I hear the audiobook is good too, might do it in the future if I feel like a re-read.
@@devonmunn5728 I read that hack piece on the Feminist Book Club site about it, pretty ridiculous if you ask me. The real problem is with publishing houses giving more money and space to white writers, that's the issue they should be complaining about.
Books, even paperbacks, are expensive so it is okay to play hard to get when it comes to buying. Last year, I got some 'popular' books and they disappointed me. The books that I really liked were the lesser known recommended books or the impulse buy where I got lucky.
Same! Last yr, i was buying popular booktok rec but failed to realize that it just wasnt my genre. Hated most. My spontaneous buys were the best books ive read
What annoys me the most about the Lessons in Chemistry US cover is just that it gives the exact opposite vibe of what the book is actually like. 😐 But I understand Jesse. It took me a very long time to pick up that book because it was too darn hyped for the longest time. Then I fell in love with its UK cover and caved 😬
I agree with your stance on the romance in fantasy. It needs to take a backseat for me to really enjoy the world of the book. I'm also never gonna read Fourth Wing, ACoTaR, or any of those because I don't vibe with them. Its refreshing to hear I'm not alone in not reading tiktoks most popular books. Would love to hear unpopular book recommendations. Always looking for those!
What bothers me the most is that before book 2 came out, it had 500 5 star ratings from fans who were anticipating it, and I suspect book 1 went through the same treatment, artificially boosting it's popularity. I watched Regan from Peruse Project review it and it sounds absolutely silly with huge plot holes that are illogical, so I will be skipping reading them for sure.
These books by Taylor Jenkins Reid are referred to as California Dream Crossover Series afaik. So the idea is that some characters of these books appear in the other books, and each one explores a different side of the LA stardom between 1950-80. Carrie Soto appeared in Malibu Rising, and her book is about sports stardom. Evelyn Hugo is set in Hollywood, while Daisy Jones is about the music industry.
Carrie Soto Is Back is no Evelyn Hugo, but I surprisingly really enjoyed it. I do not care about sports even a little bit, and yet I found this book super compelling. Lessons in Chemistry was fine, but I don’t think you’re really missing much
JESSE PLEASE READ THIS WOVEN KINGDOM!!! It's similar to Shatter Me in a lot of ways, but it's also way better. It's just so good and one of my favorite series, and I cried like 3 times while reading the second book. If you give it a chance, I think you'd like it (even if you don't enjoy it, you certainly won't hate it). Also, Realm Breaker is also a book I really enjoyed personally, and it's not really that similar to Red Queen. I'm fairly new to your channel, so I don't know your reading tastes, but you could still enjoy Realm Breaker even if you didn't enjoy Victoria Aveyard's other books, so please please consider reading it!! Loved this video, keep it up! ^^
Oh, I recently read Icebreaker, and ohh boy, it was not worth it! So much insta love, so much relationship drama, so many explicit scenes, and no plot to make it worth it
Wow!! I agree with you so much!! Don't waste your time with Ice Breaker, mostly smut and no real hooking plot line. I also refuse to read the last 2 books of Shatter Me. It ended so well with the 3rd book. I refuse to break that beautiful ending!!
Omg, I feel the same way with Victoria Aveyard. Everything I’ve read by her felt so unoriginal. I gave her a second chance with Realm Breaker and I was let down yet again. It was a Throne of Glass dupe with a mix of The Fellowship of the Ring except it was poorly executed.
As much as I love dragons, I am never going to read Fourth Wing and its sequels. And I’m also tired of seeing it everywhere, I even found fourth wing merchandise at Books A Million…
Anything by Colleen Hoover. And probably Cassandra Clare books. I read the first one, City of Bones?, and got turned off by the incest. And even after being told the incest isn’t actual incest, there’s too much pseudo incest for me to want to continue.
there's nothing anyone could say to make me read colleen hoover's books, fourth wing (includes iron flame), any book by sarah j. maas (acotar series or the other series that i forgot the name of 😂), haunting/hunting adeline, and many more that i don't remember their names just now 😆😪
Lessons in Chemistry is one of the worst books I've read in a looong time. I read it for a "book" club with friends where some of us read the book and others watched the show, and only the people who watched the show enjoyed it. I think all the hype comes from the show because the book came across as super pretentious, and it was just overall poorly executed.
I have to say that "Carrie Soto Is Back" was not something I expected to like a lot, but I really enjoyed it! Would definitely recommend it, as I flew through it in 2 days
i'm a huge tjr fan so i felt a similar pressure to read carrie soto even though I wasn't super interested in the description...and I'm so glad I did!! it was one of my favourite reads last year. carrie's character journey completely captivated me, her relationship with her father was so well-written, and even the tennis matches (which I had no interest in beforehand) felt so intense and immersive and made me want to get into watching tennis. I've read all of tjr's books and it definitely feels distinct from daisy jones and evalyn hugo. i would highly recommend giving it a try
@bibliobibuli_ I just didn't love the writing, the plot was what got me to pick up the book, the writing got me to put it down. I might try out the show
I’m interested if you have any books/series from a long time ago that you’d re-recommend. Like I’m talking years, the 2000’s era of books. The ones people never talked about or the forgotten books that get overlooked bc they’re older!!
This woven kingdom actually surprised me a lot. I think the series is definitely the best of taherahs works. I didn’t like the shatter me series because the plot and world felt so underdeveloped but this woven kingdom is not like that at all
Any more of Emily Henry's books. I liked Book Lovers. I might have liked Beach Read if I'd gone in with accurate expectations. But I'm never going to love her books. I definitely agree that Lessons in Chemistry is EVERYWHERE. My local supermarket has copies of it. They don't have Iron Flame.
I do want to read her books though I know her debut novel didn't handle the representation of the Indigenous main character well (especially with her being adopted) though after that her books are everywhere and I have seen everyone reading her books
12:53 towards the end Red Queen series was like losing fuel with the finish line in sight. I’ve read the first book in the Realm Breaker series and (bc it’s the first book) there’s a lot of world building, and it reminded me of The Hobbit (which I never read so take the comparison with a grain of salt), it’s epic, adventurous and is definitely building to something big
you can read lessons in chemistry in peace because I too heavily disliked it. it's not very good and i dont get the hype but hopefully you'll enjoy it !
Why didn’t you like it? I personally really enjoyed it but I’m curious to see why you didn’t. I mean absolutely no hate to you and I respect your opinion I’m just curious the reasoning. Is it the writing style?
The only books I need you to finish like- today JESSE! is the Strange the Dreamer Duology, I know you read fhe first one but got gotta pick up again and reread it so you can read the second one as well. In fact you could make it a 24 hr Reading Vlog out of it, and I would love you forever.
I will never read ACOTAR. I read the first...50ish pages years ago and remember that it was just boring. I also found out later about some of the content in it and that content makes me uncomfortable, so no.
We need to spend more time talking about how overhype can be off putting sometimes!! Also I am absolutely behind the idea of not needing to read every single book ever put out by a favourite author. I was so underwhelmed by shatter me so I am not going to be reading more mafi either :/ I dnfed after the original tbr. No interest in zodiac academy for me at all. I haven't read any victoria aveyard before but strongly get the vibe that they are not for me??
it's the way i went into twisted love as a joke, and in the end i ended up reading the whole series T-T it was like i knew the books were not the best, but especially the second book was by far the best one story wise! out of all the books that was the one that actually had good romance, and not just two people thirsting over each other. as for haunting adeline i feel the same, just no... it' something about that "dark romance" genre that i'll never understand at all, it scares me for sure...
I might check out "Fourth Wing," but I won't read "Iron Flame." "Lessons in Chemistry" sounds depressing. I will also probably never read the Hunger Games series, the Divergent series, Game of Thrones or ACOTAR. I don't see myself finishing "Anna Karenina" because I don't like Oblonsky and Levin enough to spend 200 pages with them, let alone 800+ pages.
I haven't read Fourth Wing or Iron Flame....yet. But my completely off-the-cuff guess based solely off of people's extremely divided reactions about Iron Flame would be that probably/maybe Iron Flame improves upon whatever it was that people who really loved Fourth Wing liked about Fourth Wing BUT perhaps/likely did not improve whatever it was about Fourth Wing that people who weren't so hot on Fourth Wing didn't like about Fourth Wing-so, basically, the people who enjoyed Fourth Wing enjoy Iron Flame even more while the people who didn't so much like Fourth Wing enjoy Iron Flame even less.? But that's just me shooting in the dark and possibly way off mark.😂🤷🤷♀️🤷🏻♂️ Loll
there's another book called Icebreaker by AL Graziadei and it's EXCELLENT. will forever preach that Icebreaker while ignoring this one 😂 (for those curious: it's a queer hockey romance. it is YA but it's very well written and deals heavily with depression, family expectations, and the pressure on athletes)
10:16 - 😂😂😂 I'm dying, because I know there are definitely readers who would ride or die for that narration style specifically but I also can't blame anybody who wouldn't. Some things simply aren't for everyone, and that's okay!!! 🤭💖😁 LOLL
Rebecca Yarros, I love fantasy, but I will not read her books, it is too hyped, I have read a hyped fantasy book in the past and hated it. Lesson In Chemistry will most likely will not read it, just not interested in it. I like romance, but not sports romance, I don't like sports in real life why would I like it in the book world. I DNF the Shatter Me books after the first book. I bought Twisted Love, haven't read it yet.
Hi Jesse, I finished reading The Merry Adventure of Robin Hood I didn’t love it but didn’t hate it . Popular books I’ll never read as usual anything by Colleen Hoover, Where The Craw Dads Sing, and Twilight . Thank you for adding Lessons In Chemistry because I’ll never read that book either or Zodiac Academy and as well as Fourth Wing . Regardless I’m excited for my next book 📖 ❤
I will probably never read A Little Life, I don't know what its about but based on the cover its a very sad/tragic gay story and I'm tired of sad gay stories. I want happy gays, triumphant gays.
I will never read A Court Of Thorns And Roses. I read the throne of glass series and didn’t really like it at all. I also thought the romance was a bit much. So I won’t be reading that. I also will NOT read Collin Hoover. I don’t like her genre of books or her style much. I also don’t like spice in my books and her’s got a good bit in it.
I’m gonna give a word of support for lessons in chemistry even though I didn’t love it. That cover sucks. It’s terrible and everyone knows it. It gives off rom com and it is in fact historical fiction. Ignore the cover. Rip it off and slap it on the shelf with all the other naked books you have. I repeat, don’t trust the cover!! I trusted the cover, got it in my mind I was getting into a rom com, and color me surprised when it was absolutely freaking not! Talk about selective reading. I read the synopsis and somehow got cute cooking competition romance out of it. And all because that damn cover got all up in my mind!!! That’s all, I’ll get off my soap box now. I didn’t love this book because that cover needs to die in a fire and I am not joking. I would have liked it if it had a chance to impress me. It’s a good story. But that cover man!
Ok… not to be that person but PLEASE READ Carrie Soto is back. Listen I was not at all interested in tennis but like it ended up being one my favorites from 2023
I think I recall you saying you never want to read the "game of thrones" series A Song of Ice and Fire. But in a video a few months ago you talked a few times about traits you want to see in a book and it vexed me that the answer was right there. You want books that have stakes and kill main characters when they mess up or books that sacrifice characters for a better story? ASOIAF. Also with as popular as the show and book series are I was spoiled for multiple deaths but it barely lessened the impact. I was a big time hater of the show and the series because of that annoying popularity but It's actually incredibly valid. I had to eat so much humble pie for being wrong (about the books at least, the show was a masterpiece for the first 5 seasons but even the bad seasons are a lot better than a lot of tv before or since) Also they're so much detail woven in that rereading the series multiple times I'm still going WOW when I realize bits of foreshadowing and things that connect later on and in previous history/lore. It's truly such an experience.
Realm breaker was so bad and this is coming from someone who loved red queen way to many plot lines it easily could have been dual pov and you wouldn’t miss anything and everything was just so confusing I got to the climax and I’m like what is even happening right now nothing made sense and I read very convoluted adult fantasy
Most of these are also on my "not interested" list! The only one of these I might read is Carrie Soto - I just read Evelyn Hugo and really enjoyed it, but haven't read any of the author's other books yet.
It should be a no brainer that some books simply wont be our cup of tea. I will never read Harry Potter series it never peeked my intrest as a fantasy reader and then there is the author being transphobic thats a forever ban for me.
I felt like one of the very few who did not like Evelyn Hugo. There are just some plot points/twists that I thought were pretty awful and I am surprised they are rarely mentioned by anyone.
@@BRG604 Yeah there's a few twists I had heard of when I decided I didn't want to read it but was curious about all the fuss, and when I heard about some plot points in the book, I was shocked that it had never been mentioned before. It made me very comfortable in my decision not to read it.
I won't read books I don't like but I WILL watch 1-2 hour video essays on them with absolute glee
This is how you do it. I love most of these books but the way you presented your reasons got me chuckling 😁
I DNF’d Lessons in Chemistry 😮 I did like the show though. This makes me curious if you would ever read Divine Rivals since you love RR writing but it’s definitely a romance.
That book isn't high on my TBR but say if I'm looking to get a book and if there isn't anything else I wouldn't mind getting it
I gave in and read twisted love .... And it was an experience 😂
I will never read The Hobbit or Game of Thrones. I probably won’t read The Fourth Wing series either. I feel bad but the plots don’t interest me.
Uh oh, Icebreaker and Twisted Love are both current reads of mine. Hope they’re worth the read. 😅
I refuse to read anything by Jennifer L Armentrout. It is a personal reason. I wont read Hoover or Maas either. Lol.
colleen hoover is probably at the top of my "will never read from" list... even the "not so bad" books people find excuses for-- which, if some people enjoy this author, that's cool, but the fact that they feel the need to justify it for some of her books is kinda telling lol.
I do intend to read her books but not buy them (especially with how she handled her sons SA allegations)
I'm the type I only like one of her books and don't like the rest and won't read them😂
I'm actually cackling at your voice for twisted love. Never thought you had that in you 😂😂😂
I know that was really good actually, as in voice actor quality.
Same! Hahaha. My husband was looking at me weirdly while I was laughing here
I am curious to pick up the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo..but also you will NEVER catch me reading Colleen Hoover. Just No.
I'm never going to read the seven husbands of evelyn hugo because I'm tired of seeing it everywhere for years.
There's also a story called Susanna's seven husbands by Ruskin Bond, which got made into a bollywood movie starring Priyanka Chopra. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with this book except for the similar title, but in my head I'm convinced that I only need 1 of them in my life 😂😂 It makes no sense
I'm never reading seven husbands as I read the description of it and it gave me 0 interest.
@@vrindam1247 not reading something just because it is popular is your loss. That book is fantastic.
@@thehappyrecluse I'm okay with that loss. There are too many books in the world, I'm anyway not going to read them all 🤷🏻♀️
I enjoyed Evelyn Hugo. Very good.
I'm going to advocate for Carrie Soto is Back. I resisted, and I'm so glad I gave in. It was a great book and I really like how many faults the main character has. Don't worry about the tennis part, legit, i know nothing about it and it really doesn't matter. The way the book is written, there is no assumed knowledge for you to have about tennis.
It's a book that is legit worth the hype. And I say this as a girlie who has resisted soooo many books
I do not plan on touching the ACOTAR series, icebreaker, or Hooked
"Jolly Jesse Jeans on"
*zones out*
"WHAT IS THIS, THE DISNEY CHANNEL?!"
LMAOOOOOOO 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not trying to convince you to read Carrie Soto is Back, but I will say, I was in the same position as you when it came out. It sounded like something I wouldn't enjoy, I bought it upon release and it took me over a year to get to it but once I did I did not put it down, it was a one day read for me! And a five star. Carrie is one of the most beautifully complex woman I have read in a while, she is brusque, and single-minded to the detriment of everything else in her life, and a little arrogant(is it arrogant if she can back it up with literally having been the best?), and yet you are on her side, you get where she is coming from. Her relationship with her dad/coach, with the sport, with her fellow players, with SPOILERS, and most of all with herself is just so complicated and rich and wonderful.
Wow! You perfectly managed to capture how I felt after reading Carrie Soto is Back!
This is exactly how I felt about it! I absolutely loved the talks of intersectionality too, and the discussion of how women are seen as "outdated" as a certain age. I wasn't expecting to love it that much either but it ended up being a five star book for me too.
Wow, you sold it to me. I was hesitant about reading it, too. But I think i will pick it up.
It's totally okay not to like everyone's favourite books, even if they're popular, just means you have an opinion 😆 Like this might sound weird but I would never want to enjoy every book I read, because it would mean I don't have taste and/or I'm only sticking to books I know I'll enjoy, which is not how I like to live my life, I like trying everything haha
I am here BEGGING you to give Carrie Soto is back a chance. I haven't read any other tjr books so I can't 100% guarantee that it doesn't have similar elements to daisy Jones or Evelyn hugo, but based on what you said I'm willing to stick my neck out haha. While it uses a season of professional tennis as a backdrop for the story, it is SO much more about her relationship with her dad/coach, her struggles with self-identity and being th best, and provides a look at the differences in how the public views men and women know profession tennis. EASILY one of my favorite books I read this year so far!!
Carrie Soto is Back was actually amazing, I was shocked by how much I loved it, and I have never cared about tennis, sorry lol, the relationship she has with her trainer dad is gold (but complicated) I took notes, I underlined lines which I never do....but yeah if you ever change your mind in the future you might like it :)
I'm currently doing the audiobook for Wayward Children #9, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire and all thanks to you! I binge read all the previous books last year because of your incredible reading vlog for them
Yes! For me the relationship with her dad was definitely the highlight of the book!
@@meozones Oh love that, thank you for sharing :) I felt so invested in it! I hear the audiobook is good too, might do it in the future if I feel like a re-read.
Agreed. Loooved Carrie Soto is Back! I am sure it’s not for everyone, but definitely it was for me!!!
That book did get some flack because the author wrote another book with a Latina main character when TJR isn't Latina herself
@@devonmunn5728 I read that hack piece on the Feminist Book Club site about it, pretty ridiculous if you ask me. The real problem is with publishing houses giving more money and space to white writers, that's the issue they should be complaining about.
Books, even paperbacks, are expensive so it is okay to play hard to get when it comes to buying. Last year, I got some 'popular' books and they disappointed me. The books that I really liked were the lesser known recommended books or the impulse buy where I got lucky.
Same! Last yr, i was buying popular booktok rec but failed to realize that it just wasnt my genre. Hated most. My spontaneous buys were the best books ive read
What annoys me the most about the Lessons in Chemistry US cover is just that it gives the exact opposite vibe of what the book is actually like. 😐
But I understand Jesse. It took me a very long time to pick up that book because it was too darn hyped for the longest time. Then I fell in love with its UK cover and caved 😬
That cover is a crime against that poor book! Now she's judged on the wrong basis. :(
I agree with your stance on the romance in fantasy. It needs to take a backseat for me to really enjoy the world of the book. I'm also never gonna read Fourth Wing, ACoTaR, or any of those because I don't vibe with them. Its refreshing to hear I'm not alone in not reading tiktoks most popular books. Would love to hear unpopular book recommendations. Always looking for those!
I´m so sick of seeing fourth wing everywhere, can we just stop?!
Right?! It’s nothing profound and not very well written.
What bothers me the most is that before book 2 came out, it had 500 5 star ratings from fans who were anticipating it, and I suspect book 1 went through the same treatment, artificially boosting it's popularity. I watched Regan from Peruse Project review it and it sounds absolutely silly with huge plot holes that are illogical, so I will be skipping reading them for sure.
These books by Taylor Jenkins Reid are referred to as California Dream Crossover Series afaik. So the idea is that some characters of these books appear in the other books, and each one explores a different side of the LA stardom between 1950-80.
Carrie Soto appeared in Malibu Rising, and her book is about sports stardom. Evelyn Hugo is set in Hollywood, while Daisy Jones is about the music industry.
I love the matching your mug!! Also I love a video from you!!
_NO. THE END_
That cackled me 😂
Carrie Soto Is Back is no Evelyn Hugo, but I surprisingly really enjoyed it. I do not care about sports even a little bit, and yet I found this book super compelling. Lessons in Chemistry was fine, but I don’t think you’re really missing much
I am currently trudging through Haunting Adeline, and I can confidently say I don't recommend the book to anyone!! So I back your decision 😊
JESSE PLEASE READ THIS WOVEN KINGDOM!!! It's similar to Shatter Me in a lot of ways, but it's also way better. It's just so good and one of my favorite series, and I cried like 3 times while reading the second book. If you give it a chance, I think you'd like it (even if you don't enjoy it, you certainly won't hate it). Also, Realm Breaker is also a book I really enjoyed personally, and it's not really that similar to Red Queen. I'm fairly new to your channel, so I don't know your reading tastes, but you could still enjoy Realm Breaker even if you didn't enjoy Victoria Aveyard's other books, so please please consider reading it!! Loved this video, keep it up! ^^
The voice for twisted love 😂😂😂 bruh I died laughing! I very much agree with your opinion on this book tho
Oh, I recently read Icebreaker, and ohh boy, it was not worth it! So much insta love, so much relationship drama, so many explicit scenes, and no plot to make it worth it
Wow!! I agree with you so much!!
Don't waste your time with Ice Breaker, mostly smut and no real hooking plot line.
I also refuse to read the last 2 books of Shatter Me. It ended so well with the 3rd book. I refuse to break that beautiful ending!!
Omg, I feel the same way with Victoria Aveyard. Everything I’ve read by her felt so unoriginal. I gave her a second chance with Realm Breaker and I was let down yet again. It was a Throne of Glass dupe with a mix of The Fellowship of the Ring except it was poorly executed.
that voice you used to narrate twisted love was TERRIFYING lmao
As much as I love dragons, I am never going to read Fourth Wing and its sequels. And I’m also tired of seeing it everywhere, I even found fourth wing merchandise at Books A Million…
Anything by Colleen Hoover. And probably Cassandra Clare books. I read the first one, City of Bones?, and got turned off by the incest. And even after being told the incest isn’t actual incest, there’s too much pseudo incest for me to want to continue.
there's nothing anyone could say to make me read colleen hoover's books, fourth wing (includes iron flame), any book by sarah j. maas (acotar series or the other series that i forgot the name of 😂), haunting/hunting adeline, and many more that i don't remember their names just now 😆😪
Lessons in Chemistry is one of the worst books I've read in a looong time. I read it for a "book" club with friends where some of us read the book and others watched the show, and only the people who watched the show enjoyed it. I think all the hype comes from the show because the book came across as super pretentious, and it was just overall poorly executed.
I have to say that "Carrie Soto Is Back" was not something I expected to like a lot, but I really enjoyed it! Would definitely recommend it, as I flew through it in 2 days
i'm a huge tjr fan so i felt a similar pressure to read carrie soto even though I wasn't super interested in the description...and I'm so glad I did!! it was one of my favourite reads last year. carrie's character journey completely captivated me, her relationship with her father was so well-written, and even the tennis matches (which I had no interest in beforehand) felt so intense and immersive and made me want to get into watching tennis. I've read all of tjr's books and it definitely feels distinct from daisy jones and evalyn hugo. i would highly recommend giving it a try
I DNF'ed Lessons On Chemistry😬
@bibliobibuli_ I just didn't love the writing, the plot was what got me to pick up the book, the writing got me to put it down. I might try out the show
Same I started reading and it was so much depressing and who gonna through some bad situations like that it feels to real
@@avdhutdeshmukh2123 😬 I hope you are alright
@@dianaisme Yeah I am okay, thanks for asking😊
Me too.
I’m interested if you have any books/series from a long time ago that you’d re-recommend. Like I’m talking years, the 2000’s era of books. The ones people never talked about or the forgotten books that get overlooked bc they’re older!!
Icebreaker was okay, definitely not horrible, but I thoroughly enjoyed the next book in the universe, Wildfire, so much more
This woven kingdom actually surprised me a lot. I think the series is definitely the best of taherahs works. I didn’t like the shatter me series because the plot and world felt so underdeveloped but this woven kingdom is not like that at all
I feel like you would actually enjoy the Lessons in Chemistry maybe just find a different cover so you don’t want to rip your eyes out.
Any more of Emily Henry's books.
I liked Book Lovers. I might have liked Beach Read if I'd gone in with accurate expectations. But I'm never going to love her books.
I definitely agree that Lessons in Chemistry is EVERYWHERE.
My local supermarket has copies of it. They don't have Iron Flame.
I do want to read her books though I know her debut novel didn't handle the representation of the Indigenous main character well (especially with her being adopted) though after that her books are everywhere and I have seen everyone reading her books
I will never read game of thrones and unless if the name of the wind guy comes out with the last book… I’ll probably never read that either 😂
Yay 😂
12:53 towards the end Red Queen series was like losing fuel with the finish line in sight. I’ve read the first book in the Realm Breaker series and (bc it’s the first book) there’s a lot of world building, and it reminded me of The Hobbit (which I never read so take the comparison with a grain of salt), it’s epic, adventurous and is definitely building to something big
you can read lessons in chemistry in peace because I too heavily disliked it. it's not very good and i dont get the hype but hopefully you'll enjoy it !
Why didn’t you like it? I personally really enjoyed it but I’m curious to see why you didn’t. I mean absolutely no hate to you and I respect your opinion I’m just curious the reasoning. Is it the writing style?
I will never read anything from Sarah J. Maas
You'll be shocked but I'll never read Harry Potter series
I hear the author sucks :P
The only books I need you to finish like- today JESSE! is the Strange the Dreamer Duology, I know you read fhe first one but got gotta pick up again and reread it so you can read the second one as well. In fact you could make it a 24 hr Reading Vlog out of it, and I would love you forever.
I will never read ACOTAR. I read the first...50ish pages years ago and remember that it was just boring. I also found out later about some of the content in it and that content makes me uncomfortable, so no.
We need to spend more time talking about how overhype can be off putting sometimes!! Also I am absolutely behind the idea of not needing to read every single book ever put out by a favourite author. I was so underwhelmed by shatter me so I am not going to be reading more mafi either :/ I dnfed after the original tbr. No interest in zodiac academy for me at all. I haven't read any victoria aveyard before but strongly get the vibe that they are not for me??
Just commenting to say I think you should reconsider Carrie Soto... :P
You know there is not a single book on this list that I would argue against. I'll pass on them with you.
it's the way i went into twisted love as a joke, and in the end i ended up reading the whole series T-T it was like i knew the books were not the best, but especially the second book was by far the best one story wise! out of all the books that was the one that actually had good romance, and not just two people thirsting over each other.
as for haunting adeline i feel the same, just no... it' something about that "dark romance" genre that i'll never understand at all, it scares me for sure...
The facial expressions in this video were top-tier 😂
I might check out "Fourth Wing," but I won't read "Iron Flame." "Lessons in Chemistry" sounds depressing. I will also probably never read the Hunger Games series, the Divergent series, Game of Thrones or ACOTAR. I don't see myself finishing "Anna Karenina" because I don't like Oblonsky and Levin enough to spend 200 pages with them, let alone 800+ pages.
I haven't read Fourth Wing or Iron Flame....yet. But my completely off-the-cuff guess based solely off of people's extremely divided reactions about Iron Flame would be that probably/maybe Iron Flame improves upon whatever it was that people who really loved Fourth Wing liked about Fourth Wing BUT perhaps/likely did not improve whatever it was about Fourth Wing that people who weren't so hot on Fourth Wing didn't like about Fourth Wing-so, basically, the people who enjoyed Fourth Wing enjoy Iron Flame even more while the people who didn't so much like Fourth Wing enjoy Iron Flame even less.? But that's just me shooting in the dark and possibly way off mark.😂🤷🤷♀️🤷🏻♂️ Loll
I kind of want to read Carrie Soto Is Back
there's another book called Icebreaker by AL Graziadei and it's EXCELLENT. will forever preach that Icebreaker while ignoring this one 😂
(for those curious: it's a queer hockey romance. it is YA but it's very well written and deals heavily with depression, family expectations, and the pressure on athletes)
The voice for twisted love was so unexpected, I almost cried laughing 😭
10:16 - 😂😂😂 I'm dying, because I know there are definitely readers who would ride or die for that narration style specifically but I also can't blame anybody who wouldn't. Some things simply aren't for everyone, and that's okay!!! 🤭💖😁 LOLL
Rebecca Yarros, I love fantasy, but I will not read her books, it is too hyped, I have read a hyped fantasy book in the past and hated it. Lesson In Chemistry will most likely will not read it, just not interested in it. I like romance, but not sports romance, I don't like sports in real life why would I like it in the book world. I DNF the Shatter Me books after the first book. I bought Twisted Love, haven't read it yet.
I loved the Lux series! ❤️
Hi Jesse, I finished reading The Merry Adventure of Robin Hood I didn’t love it but didn’t hate it . Popular books I’ll never read as usual anything by Colleen Hoover, Where The Craw Dads Sing, and Twilight . Thank you for adding Lessons In Chemistry because I’ll never read that book either or Zodiac Academy and as well as Fourth Wing . Regardless I’m excited for my next book 📖 ❤
I couldn’t finish the book Lessons in Chemistry.
Why? No shade I’m just curious.
I will probably never read A Little Life, I don't know what its about but based on the cover its a very sad/tragic gay story and I'm tired of sad gay stories. I want happy gays, triumphant gays.
I am never reading Cassandra Clare books again. The Last Hours trilogy and Sword Catcher finally made me realize how godawful her writing actually is.
I will never read A Court Of Thorns And Roses. I read the throne of glass series and didn’t really like it at all. I also thought the romance was a bit much. So I won’t be reading that. I also will NOT read Collin Hoover. I don’t like her genre of books or her style much. I also don’t like spice in my books and her’s got a good bit in it.
Carrie Soto is Back is my favorite TJR book. Hope you change your mind about it because it was amazing.
I’m gonna give a word of support for lessons in chemistry even though I didn’t love it.
That cover sucks. It’s terrible and everyone knows it. It gives off rom com and it is in fact historical fiction. Ignore the cover. Rip it off and slap it on the shelf with all the other naked books you have. I repeat, don’t trust the cover!! I trusted the cover, got it in my mind I was getting into a rom com, and color me surprised when it was absolutely freaking not! Talk about selective reading. I read the synopsis and somehow got cute cooking competition romance out of it. And all because that damn cover got all up in my mind!!!
That’s all, I’ll get off my soap box now. I didn’t love this book because that cover needs to die in a fire and I am not joking. I would have liked it if it had a chance to impress me. It’s a good story. But that cover man!
Ok… not to be that person but PLEASE READ Carrie Soto is back. Listen I was not at all interested in tennis but like it ended up being one my favorites from 2023
I think I recall you saying you never want to read the "game of thrones" series A Song of Ice and Fire. But in a video a few months ago you talked a few times about traits you want to see in a book and it vexed me that the answer was right there. You want books that have stakes and kill main characters when they mess up or books that sacrifice characters for a better story? ASOIAF. Also with as popular as the show and book series are I was spoiled for multiple deaths but it barely lessened the impact. I was a big time hater of the show and the series because of that annoying popularity but It's actually incredibly valid. I had to eat so much humble pie for being wrong (about the books at least, the show was a masterpiece for the first 5 seasons but even the bad seasons are a lot better than a lot of tv before or since) Also they're so much detail woven in that rereading the series multiple times I'm still going WOW when I realize bits of foreshadowing and things that connect later on and in previous history/lore. It's truly such an experience.
Fourth Wing, romance, fantasy and dragons. Those 3 separately dont work for me. I can't imagine how a disaster it will be together.
Realm breaker was so bad and this is coming from someone who loved red queen way to many plot lines it easily could have been dual pov and you wouldn’t miss anything and everything was just so confusing I got to the climax and I’m like what is even happening right now nothing made sense and I read very convoluted adult fantasy
Lessons in Chemistry is soooooo good! Like amazing!
I too will never read Haunting Adeline or anything by Colleen Hoover and Freida McFadden
You narrating twisted love has me *dying* 😂😂😂😂 what’s up with the Death Metal voice jesse?
Most of these are also on my "not interested" list! The only one of these I might read is Carrie Soto - I just read Evelyn Hugo and really enjoyed it, but haven't read any of the author's other books yet.
'Jolly Jessie Jeans' - Oh yeah, the way I can imagine all your Disney character backstory.
I have 2 authors that are super popular and I have tried reading but I am not a fan. They would be Colleen Hoover and Brandon Sanderson.
Coho, sjm, cassie clare...Ive seen enough of the books on booktube or the conducts of certain authors to avoid books 😂
I agree we don’t all to love the same books. Still love ur videos. We shouldn’t spend time reading books we don’t want to.
Honestly, if the only problem you had with the shatter me series, give this woven kingdom a chance because it does in fact have a plot
I won't read 'seven husbands of Evelyn hugo'. I know nothing about the story, not even the genre and I'm not interested in it either ._.
Pretty much any romance book or even mildly smutty romantasy book. Like, no thanks 😅
Ali Hazlewood or Emily Henry
sorry to those who love it just don’t think it’s my cup of tea
It should be a no brainer that some books simply wont be our cup of tea. I will never read Harry Potter series it never peeked my intrest as a fantasy reader and then there is the author being transphobic thats a forever ban for me.
I was both scared and intrigued by that voice you used for "Twisted Love"
I loved Fourth Wing and Iron Flame so much that I have hard time reading any other Fantasy right now.
The US cover of Lessons in Chemistry really is ugly. I hate it so much.
11:07 if you want to read a GOOD zodiac series, go for the one by Romina Russell
Didn't Victoria Aveyard attack someone on Twitter for pirating her books? Lmao 😂😂😂
If you don’t want to read Lessons in chemistry but you’re still interested in the story I recommend the series
I know that it has nothing to do with the topic of the video, but I really like that the focus is not on Jesse, but on his bookshelf 😂
lessons in chemistry was annoying and didn't match the cover
There's quite a few very popular books I know I'll just never read - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is one of those books.
I felt like one of the very few who did not like Evelyn Hugo. There are just some plot points/twists that I thought were pretty awful and I am surprised they are rarely mentioned by anyone.
@@BRG604 Yeah there's a few twists I had heard of when I decided I didn't want to read it but was curious about all the fuss, and when I heard about some plot points in the book, I was shocked that it had never been mentioned before. It made me very comfortable in my decision not to read it.
I added Evelyn Hugo to my unhaul pile last week, I just know I'll never read it. 😅
I loved how your mug matches your shirt.
a little life and haunting adelaine are my biggest "nopes"
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