Most Disappointing Books of 2022 || Reviews
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- Hey Booktube, this is the best time of the year... here are the most disappointing books I've read in 2022! Letting you know with quick reviews which ones are now non recommendations! They weren't quite the worst books I've read this year but I was hoping they'd be better!
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Upgrade by Blake Crouch
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Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
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Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
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A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
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Sunreach by Brandon Sanderson by Janci Patterson
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The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
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Before They Are Hanged & Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
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Bunny by Mona Awad
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The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
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Persuasion by Jane Austen
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What are the most disappointing books you've read this year?
Upgrade...Still hurts.
Nine princes in Amber.
Beach read.
Ancillary justice.
Oh, I've been meaning to read Ancillary Justice. Why was it disappointing?
Honestly?
Boring!
But maybe I wasn't in the right moode.
Conversations with friends
Beach Read and Carrie Soto is back
I regret not including She Who Became The Sun... the first part was so strong and it was downhill fast after!
I dnf that book so fast after the attention shifted to other characters 🙆
AGREE 1,000
oh no. that's one of my fav from last year.
SPOILERS
I'm still traumatized by that fisting scene that came out of nowhere XD
@@BookswithEmilyFox Oh no, why did I read the spoiler, I never planned on reading the book...
Sweet bean paste is one of my faves! I still think about it!
I just got done with finals and I haven’t had the time to sit down and watch your December videos, I’m so excited! let the bingewatch begin
Thank you so much for your views. 📚
Hope the cats are safe during winter. 🐈⬛🐈
As a fat person, I really appreciate that you comment on fatphobia in books. It’s great allyship and it makes me feel seen/valued as fatphobia (and fat people) are so often overlooked. Thanks for keeping the feminism intersectional ✌️.
I agree on Before the Coffee gets cold. That last story was disgusting, I hate that trope too. I only liked one of the stories so I will not be picking up any of the others. Hopefully the 3rd one ends up working for you!
I started it last night and put it down right away lol
The author just keep going with the story line I hate so I stopped torturing myself. Fun trope, bad story
You know, I’m always travelling when you post your end of the year series and I love it! When I rewatch your videos some months later they bring back so many memories 😌 I’m now in New Zealand visiting my brother
Oh, I'm in NZ travelling right now too 😅
I’m so glad you mentioned the spoiler for before the coffee gets cold, it was on my TBR but there is no way I want to read that last story, I hate that trope so much.
It's such a pet peeve of mine -_-
I didn't like Before The Coffee Gets Cold, the 1st one. AT ALL. I couldn't understand all the hype 😭
I started the third one last night and I'm DNFing it early. Idk why I keep thinking it's going to get better. I like the premise but it keeps continuing with the "twist" of book 1 and I hate it
My worst book of the year - one star. 🗑
I knew before the tea gets cold would be bad since it’s so hyped on tiktok lmao
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Took me ages to finish it 😞
I actually loved Killers of a Certain Age because I spent the whole time envisioning a bunch of my favorite older actresses as the characters 😂
But my biggest disappointment was Bombshell by Sarah MacLean, because she used to be my go to author for historical romance but the last few have not been great. It was 3 stars and good enough, but the "fun" was exhausting.
Yes I always hate when a book disappoints 😭 thanks for saving us!
I started reading the Skyward series when I heard you talking about it. And purposely didn’t read the novellas after hearing you talk about them. I don’t feel like I missed out on any important content (plot wise) lol.
Oop, I wonder what you'll think of Cytonic. I didn't hate it but it also felt very quickly put together and surface level. I was disappointed. And the novellas weren't for me either. But I loved Skyward so much! :(
I loved Skyward too! I've been nervous to continue :/
I DESPISE open endings! Totally the author’s fault. I’m always like “come on, *can* you write a complete story or not?” it just seems such lazy and insecure writing to me. I’m glad someone finally said it!
I have enjoyed most of the Japanese authors I've read. Silence by Shusaku Endo is great (there's a movie but I haven't seen it yet) and Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama was a nice comfort read. This year, however, I really enjoyed Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada - it's basically about a time when Japan has disappeared because of global warming and a climate refugee gets linked up with a linguist who tries to help her find someone who speaks her native tongue. It's funny at times and ridiculous and Tawada flips everything on its head - language, food, nationality, ethnicity, gender, parental bonds. It's supposed to be the first in a trilogy I think.
Verity!
With the huge hype, I figured it’ll be a good one time read! But the writing style being a strong point for CoHo didn’t live up to the hype for me & the final twist wasn’t twisty enough! Felt like she took a basic writing course & thought to write a novel around it 😅
I have yet to try one of her book :/
I steer WELL clear of Colleen Hoover and her novels lmao. Nothing about her writing speaks to me at all and I have never understood the hype.
@@BookswithEmilyFox I’m pretty sure you won’t like them at all!
Emily you should watch Three Pines! New show based on louise Penny’s series that you mentioned but it’s not at all like the books. It doesn’t have the problematic elements and actually has a huge part added about missing and murdered indigenous women.
I've been wanting to but I thought there would be spoilers for the book series and wanted to continue before!
I dropped in here because I was looking for Red Bean Paste the movie and then I saw your review for Before The Coffee Gets Cold and Sweet Bean Paste and I kinda get that you don't get those books because you are looking for the wrong things from these types of books.
Good view though, to know there are people who don't see things the way we do. Sorry I didn't get past your other reviews but I kinda felt like we aren't already on the right frequency and it was just chance that brought me here (since I already covered Coffee and Bean Paste in the last 3 months and trying to devour more of those types of books)
You look lovely in Magenta/Berry! My most disappointing read was Nightbitch which I DNF'd half way through (I plan to finish it when I have the energy). It was such a brilliant high concept and when I picked it up I expected so much... and then it turned into a repetitive book about taking care of a boy toddler - who loves trucks much to the readers and his mothers demise.
Leviathan Wakes has to be my most disappointing read of 2022. (Should’ve guessed based on your rating 😂) but it was my friend’s favorite book and the premise sounded up my alley. But oh man was it just overall boring, I kept thinking it was going to get better so I finished it but I wish I’d dnf’d it haha 🙃
I loved the audiobook for kings of the wyld! He’s also got a playlist on Spotify that has all the boys are back vibes - I think I read and listened to it in a day and had such a positive experience- so sad it didn’t work for you!
I already found Crouch's Dark Matter to be totally underwhelming, so definitely not going to read anything even less impressive. I'm also with you on Before the Coffee Gets Cold - wasn't horrible, but it had been so hyped I was expecting more, and just... meh. I'm not even going to bother reading Book 2. My most disappointing ones this year are probably Gods and Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull which was ... bleh, after I'd really liked his previous book The Lesson. And I'd been looking forward to The Half-Built Garden; the blurb sounded awesome, but no. I DNF'd it.
I read Recursion by him and it took me about 6 weeks to finish🙃 first half of the book was meh, second half was pretty good but I'm not in a rush to pick up anything else by him either!
Gods and Monsters was just confusing and the pacing was garbage…
Oh,and your tree, your beautiful tree! 🤩💚🌲
i recently dnfed uprooted really early on and i saw that you had dnfed on GoodReads too!! what a relief, almost wasted my time 😅
I agree so much with u on before the coffee gets cold
Haven't even started the video yet but I see some of my anticipated reads that I haven't gotten around to reading yet... This is going to be fun 🤭
Thank you! I have seen all these great reviews for bunny. I thought it was actually boring. I didn't care about the characters especially the bunnies. Ya it was just so reforgettable.
I DNFef Bunny. I just couldn't move past few pages. I guess i made the right decision.
lmaoo i bought and read before the coffee gets cold bc u talked about wanting to read it. it was pretty bad 😭😭
I couldn’t finish it. Boring
I often agree with your assessments of books, but I have 2 or 3 of these, and I suspect I might like them better, I'm curious to find out!
Gurrrrrllllllllllllll, my most disappointing book of the year was Nevernight! I thought I was going to love it and it wasn't for me. It's the book that convinced me how necessary it is to DNF books you're not enjoying.
That's my most disappointing series ever, tbh.🤣
Unfortunately it was East of Eden for me. Lee and Samuel were the only things I liked.
PS was Cate's ending to harsh or not harsh enough for you?
I felt like her character started making less and less sense :/
Fair enough, personally I thought it made sense and she was pure manipulative evil TBH
I love Persuasion it's very angsty and I like that, but I understand why some people would not like it tho. My biggest dissappoinment this year was The Toll by Neal Shusterman and it such a shame cause I really enjoyed the first 2 books but I don't understand why he did that in the third book, it was so boring I was kinda mad 😭 wasted potential
Yeah the third book was kind of a mess :/
Upgrade made my list EASILY. It’s by far not the worst book I read this year but I was so let down.
I cannot believe you included before the coffee gets cold. This is truly an excellent book
In „Before your memory fades” there’s a child who’s got a book called something like “100 questions to answer before you die” and it’s so melodramatic and twee and cringe and eugh. The only thing that could make this series even worse was a tiny tiny so so sweet and so so inquisitive little child
I had so many disappointing books this year: Cytonic, The Book of Cold Cases, Gallant. It was a bad reading year in terms of quality, my average Goodreads rating for the year is 3.3 😂
That's funny because I had a really good year and mine is 3.5 XD
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The science stuff in Upgrade saved it for me and I liked the epilogue, but yes the plot is forgettable. I liked the skyward novellas for what they were. But I feel like the series has gone down in quality after book 2. I hope Defiant delivers a satisfying conclusion.
Bunny was very boring to me. The main character had strong NLOG vibes and I just couldn't vibe with it. Ah, Sweet Bean Paste was also a disappointment for me as well. I was not at all interested in *his* story at all. I really liked the older woman and was so sad that her story ended the way it did.
Have you read Sakaya Murata or Mieko kawakami? I think their translations are great and not dry at all
I read Convenience Store Woman. I liked the first half but I was hoping she would make a social commentary in the second one... the ending wasn't good :/
I listened to it as an audiobook but you're right, it didn't feel too dry.
ugh Persuasion was SO. BORING. It's the only Austen book I've read so far and I feel no inclination to pick up other books by her lol
I know I've said it before but Persuasion is my favourite Austen book. It's in fact her only book that I actually enjoyed.
I hope I'll like Before they are hanged and Last argument of kings, because I subscribed to broken binding for them lol. I could always sell them if they're bad but first book was one of my favourites of 2021.
The most disappointing books of 2022 for my that I don't think is necessarily bad?
Saga volume 10. It suffers from what happened in volume 9, but nothing really happened in it until the very last few pages and after 4 years of hiatus it was altogether disappointing.
Gallant is another one. I tried reading Addie last year and DNFed it pretty early on because I didn't care for it, but I wanted to try another one of her books because she's so hyped and tor decided to kinda ruin Klune's books with her quote of approval (listen, if you get such beautiful covers, don't put anything but author's name and book title on it because no matter who the quote is by, I think it ruins the cover). I know it's YA but it was pretty basic. If she at least killed off both characters I would've liked it. Also apparently she has another series where there's two worlds so it also seems like she's re-using her own ideas.
Last two books in the Witcher series. Nothing happens in that series and I think it's kind of bad writing when you have to force your main baddie to have a change of heart out of nowhere to spare the world and lives of your characters.
Polish crime comedy Kto zabił mamuśkę. I enjoyed it at the beginning, but I'm petty so it annoyed me that the author decided the main character would call her friend Barbs. Not Barb. Not Babs. Barbs. Also the resolution wasn't completely clear, and it got boring reading about her female character acting like a gender bent boomer husband hating his wife. Just effing divorce already.
Empty Smiles by Katherine Arden. It was okay, but it made me want to read a book about the main baddie, because in the end he seems like the most interesting character.
Cat's Cradle: The Golden Twine, it was fine, but it was released in 2012, not much happened and the sequel comes out in 2023.
Single White Female, it took me 2 years to read it. I didn't hate it, but the main character was like slightly overcooked noodles. I understand that she must've been traumatised by what happened to her, but the whole book is so short that not enough emphasis was placed on how her roommate affected her. It felt like she was mostly affected by her bofriend cheating on her again and again.
Honourable mention to (most of) last 10 Poirot books, but I admit it's my own fault for not wanting to be in the middle of too many long series and speeding through Poirot.
Wow, there were a lot more than I expected.
I pre-ordered a limited edition copy of the Atlas Six and DNF'd at around page 90, definitely one of the most disappointing reads for me this year! The writing is just waffle & EVERY character was unbearable!! 😭
Ouf that was a rough book! Such a let down for me too
I hated the last story in "Coffee" too! Ruined the book for me.
Before they were hanged was my favorite in the trilogy!!
But I agree on Blake Crouch. Dark Matter was shit.
I loved Sweet Bean Paste!
I did too.
I wanted to :( I wasn't emotionally invested at all sadly
If you haven't seen it there is a movie called "Upgrade" which really made that trope work.
I'm glad someone agrees with me on first law trilogy. =P
I agree too, but I was even harsher on book 3
Interesting how you and I differ so much on our tastes. Respect. :)
Yes I agree with Kings of the Wyld I was told it was really funny and good... It was not funny at all and boring I only read maybe 50 pages and couldnt read more.😅
Why was this reuploaded?
This one wasn’t but the worst one I did because TH-cam didn’t like that I used “the C word”
Upgrade was SUCH a letdown it's embarrassing, you can tell he ran outta ideas and had to put together something that resembles his previous works
That would be "Sense & Sensibility" and "Spin the Dawn" (The whole duology)
My most disappointing books of the year are The Law of Debtors and Creditors by Elizabeth Warren and Katie Porter, and the statutory supplement. Mostly because they cost *$300*, and my professor required us to have the new editions but then never used them in class. To be fair, I'm sure it's the publisher who decided the prices here, but Warren and Porter are such phenomenal consumer advocates that this whole scenario is my most disappointing reading experience in 2022
Ah finally someone else who sees the awfulness of before the coffee gets cold. I abhor that trope
Yes, Upgrade was the year's biggest disappointment for me! I just wanted the magic from his two previous books recreated. I wouldn't care if he never evolved as a writer, if all his future books were like Dark Matter and Recursion I'd still be a loyal reader lol
Yes I just want them to be fast reads that keep me up with some cool sci fi twists. I don't care that his characters are 2D... I wish he wouldn't try to change that because it was such a fail!
The humor in Kings of the Wyld isn't my kind of humor either. I find it immature and not funny. I have Upgrade sitting my shelf so hopefully I will like it more than you did 😉.
I DNF ‘ es a fatal grace. Y l’Oise penny because of the fat phobia! I hated it. But I liked the 3 pines series. It is tacking a big issue here in Quebec which is the missing indigenous people. I like it a lot. U should try to watch it.
I wasn't sure if the tv show had spoilers for the series! Does it? I want to keep trying the books before the show if there are
I read the 3rd book “ before your memory fades” and it was meh I do not know why I keep picking up those books.
I DNFed it pretty much instantly :/
Upgrade was one of my five star predictions but then the reviews started coming out, so I skipped it. So disappointing!
I was so ready for it, he had improved with every book and then… nope lol
I just finished book 5 in the Louise Penny series and the fat phobia is improving but it's definitely still there.
Thanks for the heads up! It's so annoying because I love murder mysteries in small town and the characters are so attaching :/
@@BookswithEmilyFox Agree that it gets much better and by halfway through the series it's virtually not there as far as I can remember. The first in the series was published nearly 20 years ago (I think you mentioned) when fatphobia was not a thing being addressed in any meaningful way. I looooooooove these books, though, and by #4 they hit their stride.
I follow you on GR and this was my first time listening to you talk.. I'm taking aback by your accent 😅 for a minute I thought it was like an Americanized Scottish/Welsh? Realized it was Canadian then haha.. I don't really hear Canadian ppl talk like that no offense I'm interested in knowing if that's common in your province
I'm French Canadian so it's not the average accent here, just the ones in Quebec!
@@BookswithEmilyFox thats so cool thanks for letting me know ✨
Nooooo, not Before the Coffee Gets Cold. 😜 So, so beautiful. 😭
Upgrade sounds suspiciously similar to the movie Upgrade 2018. And Summer Frost was suspiciously like the movie Ex Machina 2015... Just sayin
If you liked the premise of Killers of a Certain Age, you might like An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good
I'll check it out! I had added "Peg and Rose Solve a Murder" to my TBR for a cozy mystery too
I found An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good to be so…. Dumb. 😬
I hated Upgrade so much. I swear there was zero plot, just the same thing happening multiple times and then it ends. Super disappointed.
You know you see all videos of a person when you particularly know all the books that will be in this videos 😂💙
Love this series needs to be a tradition every year 💚❤️❤️🎄🎅🏻📖📚📙📚📚📙❤️❤️🎅🏻📖📖📚📙📙📚📚❤️💚🎅🏻🎅🏻📖📖🎄💚❤️🎅🏻📚📙📙❤️💚🎅🏻📖📖🎅🏻🎄❤️❤️🎄🎅🏻🎅🏻💚
It is a tradition.
Yes, this is an annual tradition
Upgrade and The Echo Wife were so dull. I was actually skimming The Echo Wife because it was so flat and boring. Megan Miranda's books have become so forgettable.
Upgrade is no doubt my most disappointing book of the year.
It looks like it's the case for a lot of us!
I just got a copy of Bunny… oh no
I'm in the middle of bunny and although I am not a big fan of certain descriptions of scenes and can understand the take back on the "magic", it's been very enthralling. The best audience is for the current 25-30 year olds who are a bit lost in the world.
I would say do not take an artificial approach to this book and look past the face value of the story and look more into the main character trying to find herself despite constantly taking pity on herself and losing it. Because that's how I see it and I enjoy the hell out of it
I loved the Echo Wife!
I wish the author went further... full on Gone Girl level lol
listening to her talking about books she hated >>>>>>>
Good video
The third story of "Before the Coffee get Cold" made me hate the whole book. It should have been called "The Book of Women doing their Social Duties". Even the end of the second story was questionable. However if you are a pro-lifer you will love this book. It will give you pro-life orgasms.
Did you finish it? The ending was... bad
@@BookswithEmilyFox I did finish it. While I found the second story questionable it was a deal breaker. But that third story was the worse. I will not be picking up any other books by the author.
agree！agree agree agree！Upgrade，90 %upgrading，10%plot，done😂sweet bean paste，the hell？coffee gets cold，are they for kindergartens，question？
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My most disappointing this year are “And Then There Were None” and “The Ravaged” by Norman Reedus.
Ughh I hate the J G thing too
I swear someone mixed them up a long time ago and we’re stuck dealing with it lol
you so kind kindness favorite friend
I forgot I read upgrade 😂 so forgettable
Characters aren't Blake Crouch's strength?! I dare you to look every 40 year old white, brunette man in his books and say that 🤣
Personally my most disappointing book was All Systems Red, the first Murderbot book. I’d heard so many good thing about it and how cozy it was but didn’t really like the voice of the main character and didn’t think it was cozy at all. It was hard to get through- and it’s a novella! Disappointing because so many people love it but it just wasn’t for me.
Idk why people are calling it cozy... I guess Murderbot watching shows?? I thought it was fun and different but I was disappointed with the rest of the series
I really enjoy your channel, but I think you are much too eloquent to use the word "meh" so much. I am certain you can find much more interesting words to describe mediocre books and/or mildly unpleasant emotions.
My most disappointing book of the year: The story of my face. It promises to tell you the story of the disfigurement of a young woman's face but the book is just a lot of pages where nothing happens concluding in an anticlimax. Do not recommend.
My most disappointing book of the year was Babel... To this day I still don't know what that book was trying to do other than a weak ass "commentary" on colonialism and academia 🙄🙄
YOUR THE BEST EMILY! 🎅🏻❤️💚📖📖📖📖💚💚❤️🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻📖📚📖📖📖📖💚❤️🎅🏻🎄📙📙🎄❤️💚💚🎅🏻📖📚💚❤️❤️🎅🏻🎄📙📙🎄
Upgrade was so boring I couldn’t even finish it 💚🎅🏻❤️🎅🏻💚🎄📖🙏🏻📙📙❤️🎅🏻💚💚🎄🎄💚🎅🏻❤️❤️💚📚📚📙📙🎅🏻🎅🏻💚🎄📖📖📖💚🎅🏻🎅🏻💚📚📚📙📙📙❤️❤️🎅🏻💚📖📖🎄🎅🏻❤️📚📚📙❤️🎅🏻💚
Some of the most disappointing books of 2022 for me were “Babel” and “atlas six”🥲