WORST BOOKS OF 2022 [CC]
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Hey hey! End of the year is here, I cannot believe it. And it's time for the lists...and we're starting with my WORST and most disappointing reads of the year. Some of these really hurt me. Let me know your worst or most disappointing books you read this year. Thanks for watching & Happy Holidays !
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The timing between your rants and Andrew screaming at the TV in another room is perfection. 🤣
Best supporting actor for this video goes to Andrew
TH-cam gave me a survey about this video and I clicked that it was life-changing 🤗
🥹🥹 I appreciate you so
I feel like there were a lot of books I read this year that were just “ok” and I don’t have a lot of books I hated or loved :(
Sorry you didn't find any books to love this year there's always next year
me too! I had a lot of disappointments, but few books I truly thought were trash
Same !! Which makes me sad
same!! a lot of 2 and 3 stars. i had no 5 stars which is rlly depressing
this is, hands down, the best monologue of the year. hysterical 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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“She floated through the story like a mist.” I RARELY laugh out loud, but that was a true LOL moment!!! 😂
I totally feel you about gothic books. I always want to read them for the aesthetic and they ALWAYS disappoint. Shows? Movies? Love. But the last time I read a book with gothic vibes that actually came across for me was Jane Eyre in high school. 😂
I like the idea of Razzies for books.
Maybe there should be a biggest ‘catfisher’ award too. Sometimes the cover promises so much, looks so wonderful and then…nothing. I haven’t read any of these ones but I think I have the woman in the library and dating dr dil on my TBR so I will see. I only buy most books when they are 99p on kindle so it will be no loss if they are rubbish. But it’s good to hear other viewpoints even if I do end up liking them.
YEEEEEES. The video we've all been waiting for. Thanks for suffering so we don't have to.
Merry Christmas, Jess! I hope you have a gentle and restful time. You deserve it.
Merry Christmas !!!
Aside from the joy of watching you rant, I just have to say the skin is GLOWING in this video, my god 👏👏👏
Stawppp it 🥰🥹
I love the idea of book Razzies! This needs to be a bigger thing! Honestly a hilarious idea.
This is hilarious, Jess! I didn’t know I needed a book razzies until now 🤣 Thank you for the s/o! 🥰
I look forward to watching you shred these books every year - love it.
I love your ranty videos! This was brilliant. Loved it!
I love your energy in this video, Jess. 📹
I remember you zooming Jade Legacy in one of your to be read videos.
Loved the ranting! What Moves the Dead is probably my next read. Since I have loved gothic fiction, including Poe, I have high hopes.
Not sure if you read it already but I read it with a horror book club in October and really enjoyed it. It was hard not to compare it to Mexican Gothic though which is one of my all-time favorite books.
@@SarahEsmaeWolfeThis was months ago, but I did read WMtD and loved it! I continue to seek out spooky, Gothic type books, but Mexican Gothic is still TBR.
Your rant and emotions and descriptions had me CRACKING UP!!!
This Woven Kingdom by Tehereh Mafi. I feel it was like your experience with Holly Black. I have heard of her for years and always meant to pick up on of her books. This was about 500 pages of just vibes. Like where we spend an entire chapter of the love interest walking down a flight of stairs or the chapter where he fails at masturbating. Or the main character wining about everything but rarely ever doing something, or somehow looks like she's always bleeding but has clear blood.
I keep hearing this about This Woven Kingdom 🫢
The fact you even finished Book of Night is impressive lol. I read ( and DID NOT LIKE) the cruel Prince, so I was like well I don't like Fae, so this has to be better... Got 2 copies in book boxes..... HATED it so much that I think I made it 100 pages before getting rid of both copies.
You are so hilarious. Appreciate your note on Bone Orchard. I have had it on hold at the library for a while and now when I try it I won't fight through if I'm not feeling it
CATHERINE HOUSE OWES ME MY TIME BACK 👏🏾👏🏾
YES IT DOES
Lol why are we the same person? Our reading year was pretty much the same. Not enough bad books to invoke anger but a lot of mediocre
So entertaining 😂😂😂 loved your rants on these books and the razzie style presentation 🤩⭐️.
I was looking for winter book recs and I came across this lol. Glad I clicked on this video and found your channel.
wow you're glowing!!
Loved all your reviews! Thank you very much for s video😎👌🔥
The House Across the Lake - WTAF was that twist? Hated it!
I am all here for "Worst of" videos. They are so cathartic.
The twist was TRASSSSHHH
I'm so glad I'm not the only person who hated the bone orchard 🙏 I just couldn't get into the book I should had dnf it
The emotion behind this 😪 so good. And so hilarious lmao I was cracking up the whole time
2022 is meh. I hope 2023 is better. So many 4 stars of mine dropped to 3 thinking about them
2023 please, give us gems !
I love to see these videos. Especially when my own favorites are on it. I loved what moves t h e dead but if you don't like gothic horror then there is no reason to read. I don't like romance so I don't read it. Good for you to figure it out....but we'll just have to agree to disagree on the bone orchard. Enjoyed the rant though. Happy Holidays.
I loved the energy in this one TᴗT I feel u with the mediocre books. It's so disappointing because they're just okay. Like, no emotions evoked.
I love watching all the year end worst lists, they’re so much more interesting than best books videos.
The worst book I read this year (I DNF’d it at 12%) was easily the last hacker by Mark Whalbeck. It felt like I got cornered at a bar by a bit coin bro who kept talking at me about bitcoin and NFTs, but the more they talked the more it seemed like they were an incel. I had to send passages to my sister. We were HORRIFIED.
Can I just say that your skin is GLOWING✨✨ skin is on pointttt!!!!
Thank you 🥰🥰🥰
This was entertaining 🐢✨️ But I also haven't read any of those so that's always fun!
I forgot the name of my worst book, some romance which hasn't really been one ('her name is Sarah' or something along those lines). But I also was really disappointed by Lore :')
Finally, someone that feels the same way as me about Mexican Gothic. That book made my soul itch.😑😑
Gothic doesn’t speak to me either in book form. I read Rebecca and I was cheering for a ghost.
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That was some serious hands-throwing round 7:56 Fonda Lee's books would do well to keep their distance 😄😸
I’m ready to fight !!
Holly Black is way over hyped. The Cruel Prince was such a slog to get through.
I haven't read The Cruel Prince, but I read Tithe and didn't really enjoy it at all.
2022 was also such a blah forgettable reading year for me too and its so interesting that that seems to be like ... everyone's experience this year??? what was with books published this year?? ugh :oT
Same for me. The books were not hitting.
i agree! i think with the growth of online book communities there's a push to publish stuff ASAP and market based off tropes, and that means that I've read a lot of really promising blurbs but not very many books that actually hit. I'm kind of sad, YA just isn't the way it was in 2014-2017.
@@miavanopst1187 omg yeah a lot of 2022 books i read felt like good stories in theory but not complete pieces of work like they skipped a few steps in the editing process or something idk
Very boring indeed. What were the trad publishing trend for this year anyway? Did any other title other than lightlark have a big marketing push?
Publishing was not on it this year 🥲
I didn’t read a whole lot but my 3 lowest rated books 2022 were:
3) the secret history 6/10
2) it ends with us 5/10
1) things have gotten worse since we last spoke 3/10
And dnf’d a little life which was probably the best act of self care I did this year
Things have gotten worse .... Honestly what was that book 🤢
@@JulEnglefaris fr the only good thing about it is how short it was
I’m glad you DNFd A Little Life
Only one I've read is What Moves the Dead. I liked it, but didn't love it, partly because I do know the original source material, so the ending was really obvious.
Nettle and Bone was the way better T. Kingfisher book from this year, that I read. (She self published a YA book too.)
I do not get much time to read for pleasure on account of being in college and a work intensive major, so the worst book I read this year was indeed a book I read for a class: Regarding The Pain of Others by Susan Sontag. This book could have been an email because she just repeated the same points over and over each chapter, and the pretentious, hit the word count on an essay writing style just cemented how much I did not like having to read this book.
I just made a fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies. I’m excited for this
Send me some
lmao! The Bone Orchard is my second favourite book of the year! 😂
I'll probably end the year on 275 books read and this was #1 for me up until I read _Babel_
275 woww that's amazing! I read a few chapters of The Bone Orchard and I really like it so far 🤫
Amazing reading year 👏🏾!
The juxtaposition of man screaming at screen over games and woman ranting at camera about books is beyond comedic. This is why life is great.
I’m invested the moment your worst book of the year is also my worst book of the year. I donated it to a library sale.
what is the skincare routine 👀👀👀
Can you do a dark or horror romance list or recommendations
All I can say is that I love Andrew shoutouts love you and your amazing channel prayers and thoughts for you and your family love your family friend John ❤❤❤Merry Christmas 🎄
🥰 thank you, merry Christmas !!
Love your videos! My worst book this year was The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons. A “classic” in horror books from the ‘70s, I found no horror or even a simple scary scene. A big waste of reading time!
Hey, Jess I thought you were going to include that book with the college professor fake dating the phd student(?) so that she can get her pushy friend off her back. I think they meet up in the coffee shop for about 5 minutes to put in an appearance to make it seem real. You were so pissed about that recommendation that your review had me in stitches. 😂. I think it’s called The Love…something or other….
You know what! Watching this and checking books off my TBR 🤣
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By you're guidelines
Worst Book (Picture) : Catherine House EASILY
Worst Male Lead : Love Sick TL Smith both dudes were terrible to be honest
Worst Actress : Initial Insult Tress
Worst Supporting Actress : Felicity from Initial Insult
Worst Supporting Actor : Felix from The Kindred DOES NOTHING
Worst screen couple : Skin Of the Deep. He honestly was unnecessary and didn't do anything for the book. Nor the romance. He was PEAK basic and unhelpful.
Worst Re-Make, Sequel, Retelling : A HEART SO FIERCE AND BROKEN
Worst Author (Director) : Alissa Nutting for her book Tampa about woman child predator..the book was disgusting for shock value and cheap commentary. As an author for me she's redacted and blacklisted.
Worst Screenplay (Boring) : So This is Ever After .... Honestly it's a funny idea that really never took off
I like this idea. Yeah The Woman in the Library was a slog. Gothic literature can be tough to get into because they can be really slow. I have never read a Riley Sager and don't intend and I thought I wanted to read The Bone Orchard because I was intrigued by the cover, but I don't want to now..
Covers really got my ass this year
My toxic trait is loving every Riley Sager book 😂 although I do hate the font of that book
The drama of this entire video is epic
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I really liked Mexican gothic and what moves the dead feels like one of the biggest wastes of my time this year. Novella or no it felt like it took a month to get through and I still don’t understand the point.
But worst book, or worst director I guess, was Carrie Soto is back. Taylor Jenkins Reid doesn’t do the work go dive into anything deep so it just ends up being insulting.
It's silly that people have to have a disclaimer like "if you don't like this kind of list don't watch it"....internet people DO BETTER 🤣🤣🤣 literally just don't watch if it bugs you. Wait....he named his junk Charlie? I'm dead
He truly named his weenie Charlie 🙃
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THis has been the year of perfecting the DNF so i havent suffered through as many bad books as previous years. but when it comes to books i finished the WORST by far, no contest is ACOSF coz wheew chile what was that atrocity?! Rebecca by Daphne whoever, that classic story, it ended while i was waiting for the story to start like?? this yall fave?? very dissapointing.
This is so great 😂
Riley Sagar I read the "Lock Every Door" (the title should have given it away.. because its boring.. like the book itself). The writing felt so juvenile and the first half of the book is dry as hell. Second half.. cool twists & kinda good imo. But it wasn't enough to redeem the overall experience for me 🤷♂️ doesn't make me keen to pick up his other books
I appreciate the Bootube community for saving me from Book of Night. My worst book of the year is King of Ashes. Cliche fantasy with underdeveloped characters and big heap of misogyny and sexism. Worst 2022 release is Five Survive by Holly Jackson. One of the most boring and annoying thrillers I've ever read. I can't believe the same author wrote A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.
I’m glad that I could save people from Book of Night
I agree House Across the Lake was not a favorite, very disappointing! I DNF’ed What Moves the Dead lol I thought it was so boring and it felt soooo long for being such a short book! 👀
Yesss, it felt so much longer 🥴
I just got into reading again this year, yet my reading year was still MEH.😐
Awww... I really enjoyed the Bone Orchard 💀💀😀
Definitely will not be reading book of night
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR AGREEING WITH ME FOR BOOK OF NIGHT OMG! I couldn’t finish it! She had such a bland protag.
I haven't read any of the books here, but What Moves the Dead is on my tbr. As for the worst books of the year, I don't actually have many I have strong negative feelings on. I didn't hate any of my reads, but there were still some I didn't enjoy. But Fierce Fairytales by Nikita Gill, a more recent read, read like a first draft. A series of stories and poems that read like plans or ideas instead of the stories and poems they were meant to be. Apologies to say a book you like but The Bear and the Nightingale just didn't do anything well in my opinion and I am actually confused by the love it receives. Lastly, The Atlas Six which I found lacking. Those are the ones that comes to mind.
I have read none of these books, haha. But goodness I can't thinknof any books that I didn't like rn. But I know there r a few
I read some pretty bad books this year but the most DISAPPOINTING to me was The Atlas Six! I feel like everyone loved it and I’m the only one who found it boring and contrived. Im probably still going to read the sequel but I was expecting this book to be like a 5 star for me and it was like a 2.5 or a 3.
This is an amazing idea lol 10/10
yeah i don't get why ALL of riley sager's books are about young women who usually are dealing with some kind of mental health issue/trauma (something which is not dealt with well). looking at his next release I think that trend will continue
I enjoy worst book rants way more than best books, I guess I am a bitter, negative person 😂
My least favorite of the year was The Pallbearers Club. I was SO looking forward to it because parts of the plot are (loosely) based on local New England history. But it was ridiculously boring, nothing remotely spooky even happens, and I hated both main characters.
Seeing everyone putting Book of Night in their worst lists is solidifying my lack of want to read that book 🤣
Book of Night was the worst book of read in 2022...and I love her other books so was looking forward to this one
some sh!t is about to go down in this video I can just tell
Here's my list for worst books of 2022 1. Rhythm of war
2. Toll the hounds
3. Reaper's gale
4. Husband material by alexis hall
5. The war of two queens by Jennifer l armentrout
6. The regulators by Stephen king
7. Cell by Stephen king
8. From a Buick 8 by Stephen king
9. For the throne by hannah whiten
10. The bone orchard
Stephen King really is so overrated 👌
NOT HUSBAND MATERIAL 😩😩
@@JulEnglefaris I actually did enjoy some of kings books this year just not these it's hit or miss with his books
@@JessOwens yes sadly I didn't enjoy the book it doesn't come close to boyfriend material
My worst book of the year would be Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen (YA Fantasy).
Wooden prose, bad pacing (nothing happens for the first 80 pages, and then we get one interesting event and back to boredom...), romance without proper development (enemies to lovers but we don't understand why are they enemies and why they become lovers either), lazy worldbuilding (mish mash of random common fairy tale elements), tone mismatch (slapstick comedy scenes in a theoretically atmospheric and brooding narrative), tokenism (token stereotypical lesbian side character, token brown-skinned guy), no resolution because author wants a cliffhanger ending to set up a sequel, meandering plot, protagonist who paints herself as "look what I need to do to survive" meanwhile she has a cushy job at the royal court, love interest with 0 personality...
There were 3 books that I absolutely abhorred and gave my first 1 stars to:
The Vicious Cycle by Katherine St. John (cult book that went off the rails, which says A LOT)
None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marnie (kids smarter than the FBI????)
The Other Woman by Sandie Jones (which was a Reese book club pick, and I found it completely laughable.)
I think I had the other woman and read like a chapter and was like nahhh
Girl, yes!! I dnf’d Bone Orchard at 250 pages. I could not. I just did not care. At all.
For me it was the Invisible Life of Addie la Rue … didn’t resonate with me, didn’t like the main characters, and the writing style want for me. So disappointed as so many people I know loved it.
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My worst book of the year must've been something something Sigurd, this viking trilogy I found at a charity store. I DNFed at book 2 & dropped book 1 down to a 1 star after I fucking KNEW what would happen. & what happened exactly? The only woman in the group got together with the main character after her lesbian lover died right at the start of the book. Like, fucking hell! This book came out like in the early 2010s or something! & authors still put this bullshit 'bury the gays' shit so BLATANTLY into their works! & I thought the ending of Supernatural was on the nose, these boring, repetitive, dragging, characterless books hit you on the nose with an entire brick! & like the only interesting character at all doesn't even get any lore or character development, there is ZERO character development despite the amount of characters there are! They just keep on dying! Ugh, absolute bullshit
I browse reddit from time to time and I recall I think one on either bad writing or books in general that had an article about a guy who won the equivalent of the Razzies but its awards for bad books. Can't remember what its called though. Anyway his was labeled worst written sex scene cause it involved a chef eating some kind of cheese off a lady's nipple. Not sure why he thought that was sexy with all the foods to chose from for sex scene. Just something I wanted to share.
Worst Book/Author
The Black Book Guide by Kingzman's Depiction. It's not just a completely misogynistic book but it was clear that the author did no research on potential reviewers that he requested to review his book. A quick scan of my blog would have shown that I am far from the target audience.
Worst Continuation
Empire's Heir by Marion Thorpe-I found out that there is something worse than reading a book in the middle of a series that you haven't read the previous volumes and not knowing what is going on. . Reading a book in the middle of the series without reading the previous volumes and knowing instinctively that it's the weakest one in the series.
Biggest Disappointments
And a couple of ones that were disappointments because I liked the authors' others works so much Vorodin's Lair by J.V. Hilliard, Tracy's Calling by Rob Santana, and The Price of Partisanship by Ian Conner.
Worst Characters
Tracey's Calling by Rob Santana are the worst characters because I couldn't understand most of their motives half the time. Some were incredibly annoying.
Weakest Plot/Subplot
Lexington by D.L. Nelson. It was nice to go behind the scenes of how historical novels are written and how it shows a woman put together a book about the Battle of Lexington. But she put a modern subplot in the book that did not tie into her writing or her historical fiction whatsoever.
For the most part, I liked most of what I read. I mean I had 40 books in my Best lists (20 per list) and even then had to make some painful cuts.
I know I read some pretty bad books this year ( I was doing a re-read of books I liked when I was 16) but This Woven Kingdom stands out as the worst thing. The writing wasn’t bad, but I read 70% of the book and nothing significant plot wise happened. And Mafi, the author, was absolutely torturing this MC, no family, no friends, no kingdom, her one joy in life, sewing (???) taken away from her because she was too good at it. Her life is one misery after another, but she’s also the most kind, gracious and beautiful thing on the earth. The biggest disappointments this year was the whispering dark, it was promising so much! Rivals to lovers ( how can you be rivals with your TA?) , boy falls first, mysterious deaths on campus, but the prose was a disjointed mess, that made this book unreadable to me. The other disappointment was the ones we burn, aside from the whole reverse racism call out, this book was just plain bad, how can even a knife to the throat scene fall flat??? And I hate that she made a victim of oppression the ultimate baddie, I get what she was trying to do, but the author really flamed out on this one!
I disliked the whispering dark too! So many plot holes, like if the evil dude knew Laney could/would screw up his evil plans, why invite her to the school in the first place?!?! It definitely wasn't rivals to lovers or a retelling of Euridice and Orpheus, it was cringey YA tropes trying to be dark academia or fantasy horror and failing miserably.
Here for the worst list so I know what to not add to tbr
This is a fun twist on worst list! Even though the Razzies are so rude as an awards system I love the way you reclaimed it.
I am only a few pages in zodiac academy I am like good lord 🙃 well at least people read something.
Update these boys are for the girls that were drooling over Draco back in the days 💀 just 8 books of this is necessary.
My worst book last year was The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner. Insufferable characters, poor research, sloppy execution.
I love Edgar Allen Poe, but I imagine this wasn’t a good try at all
I've not heard anything good about Book of Night or Zodiac Academy. What Moves The Dead was not T. Kingfisher's best, which sucks because it had trans rep.
I love Holly Black and this book made me so disappointed!!! I felt like I was transported back to 2003 with it and not in a nostalgic way. I skimmed to the end and I still didn't care. I didn't like the characters, the setting, the world (whatever it was). So disappointing!!!!!!!! Give me the Stolen Heir and scrap the rest of this junk, please.
my worst book read in 2022 is definitely dracula... yes dracula by bram stoker... the epistolary format of letters and journal entries add nothing to the story, all the characters write in the same way about the same things, so it makes no sense for the book to be written that way. also it bored me to tears, i love written horror but dracula didn't have any horror or sense of anticipation, all everyone cared about was how pure and pretty and perfect lucy and mina were, to the point that both their characters were redundant as just "pretty defenseless women dracula preys on". also the ending was basically a "and everybody lived happily ever after" which is just bonkers for a horror, it's so soooooooo stupid. i hate this book and everyone that made it be a horror classic
I always do my book stats at the end of the year, and my worst book of the year by far was Velvet Was the Night. NOT SORRY
Oh snap!
Name of the Wind. So much potential, so little follow through. BIGGEST disappointment for me this year by far.
God I hated that book it was terrible
Dammmmmn
Hard to say my worst book, but it's probably one of the ones I angrily ranted about the most:
The Maid, Ogres, People We Meet on Vacation, The Change
I DNF people we meet on vacay so I support this
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"I mean, there's.. RWAARHG👹...lots of reasons why that book is terrible" He totally agrees 😆
Book of Night was so fucking boring!