my WORST BOOKS of 2023! 👎🏻 these books sucked 

"Every Line of You" sounds like it has crossed almost every line

is it bad that I look forward to people’s least favourite books of the year as much as people’s favourites?

I totally agree with your thoughts on Fourth wing! I’ve only had 2 books out of 120 that I hated this year which was Fourth wing and Survive the night.

Oh my god the plot of Every Line of You 😭

Found your channel earlier this year and I've been enjoying it so much. You introduced me to the Lady Hardcastle books and they are wonderful!

I never linked the fact that it has been not a great publishing year and the fact they may have been written during covid. I still have to read the housemaids secret, I still want to give it a go 😅

do not understand the Frauda mcfadden hype at all

I haven’t even read Wayward, but I have to say- when you described it as 3 timelines, all boring and minimal witches, I was thinking “Once & Future Witches?” 😆 forgive me! But I did DNF halfway through.

Girl, I'm with you about Frieda. 🤯 I don't get it either.

Yasssss. I’ve been waiting for this!! 😍

Every line of you sounds so wild 😂 My worst book of the year is The Inmate by Freida Macfadden 💀

I DNFed „every line of you“ after like 30 Pages because I just couldn‘t stand the way the AI was described. Now I am glad i Never got further in 🤣

The number 1 sounds sooo weird. My worst books of the year were Sundial (Catriona Ward) and My Heart is a Chainsaw (Stephen Graham Jones)

I just found your channel and I absolutely love it and I love your personality so much, just wanted to share that with you. Ps. Fourth Wing was not my jam either 😂

I just finished The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder and I really really liked it. I can’t wait for the next one. While I can’t seem to get in to Osman’s books.

These videos are my favourite to watch at the end of each year. I loved Weyward but I went into it knowing nothing in advance which helped (i.e. no witchy expectations or hype). I agree that all of the stories had been done before but I thought that the triple timeline helped frame them differently while also drawing connections, and I loved the nature and mobilising the insects. I also liked the way the present day abuse situation wasn't drawn out and explicit at the beginning. Like you mention there are SO many books around at the moment relating to intimate partner violence and they really vary in how it's portrayed. I agree it wasn't really exceptional enough to win both those Goodreads awards and understand that my love for it is weighted by personal taste. Sorry it didn't work for you, I very much enjoy watching your reviews (even when I disagree).

loving the new meme additions😂

Loved Weyward! It might be because I'm getting back into reading so I'm not oversaturated with those themes yet. But i loved all of the storylines and switching between them all kept me interested.

I love all the little clips even though as an American I have no idea what the references are 😂

I just discovered your channel, and subscribed immediately! I enjoy listening to your reviews and you are LOADS of fun! 😀

You talking about the stranger upstairs made me cackle it sounds abysmal !😂

That last book sounds horrible 😮

My worst reads this year were My roommate Is a Vampire and The Writing Retreat 😂 I think might have liked the housemaid secrete if you actually read the housemaid lol

the housemaid's secret was good but also very ridiculous

I was waiting for Five Survive, which is probably the worst book I’ve read. Im good at dnfing so don’t have too many.

I am also STUNNED Weyward won TWO awards. Someone please explain it to me, I do not get why it’s so highly rated 😭

Lmao I’m so sorry I made us both suffer through The Stranger Upstairs 😂🫠🫢

Omg YES about The Stranger Upstairs I dnfed it and suffered through the first half 😂. Also yessss the audiobook 🪦

My worst books of the year were the entire Cane Brothers series and Before We Were Strangers. The writing did not work for me, and I still have one book each by their authors on my physical TBR. Mine aren't half as bad as yours, though, so silver lining, I suppose?

I would have banked on you liking The Stranger Upstairs 😂 You like the bonkers books.

How to be brave “FOURTH WING IS TRASH” 😂😂 I agree lmao

RE: Every Line Of You What in the shitty Wattpad fanfic? People actually agreed to PUBLISH that???

I just don't support your review of Janet Evanovich/Stephanie Plum books but I do get it..... you read the 17th book in a series with no context 20 years after the fact with the lens of 2020s rules. I read these in my teens and 20s and they are hilarious. The romance isn't the main plot at all and Stephanie isn't supposed to be a perfect person. I didn't love the triangle myself but these are meant to be fun, funny, action, mysteries you don't take so seriously. And the New Jersey representation is 100% on point even if you find it problematic. It's accurate. LOL

I think the huuuuge books normally become that way from folks that don't read very much. Thinking of Freida or Fourth Wing. I think folks become pickier when they read more.

I'm so glad to see someone else didn't like Wayward! It's so hyped and I don't get it.

I feel so vindicated that you didn't like fourth wing. I read it and im just like... this is the book? THIS is the book that has everyone going feral???? could not be me.

Girl chill on weyward 😭😭 it was SO good

lol luckily I haven’t read any of these 🥰

my worst books of the year were: 1. Boy's Abyss volume 2 2. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (this is a children's book that has made me learn the lesson to check how children's books end before I start them) 3. Daytime Shooting Star, Vol. 1 with honorable mentions to very dissapointing sequels: 4. Good Girl, Bad Blood (sorryyyyyy) 5. A Curse for True Love

You are my spirit animal.

I personally dont think Book of Night feels anything remotely connected to Ninth house (mid, and pretentious/boring while BOK felt painfully Y2K , lol), but it was absolute trash. Her YA is lovely. Didnt even feel like the same author.

The angry started pretty quickly haha. I think my "worst books" are just a genre I need to stop buying. Anything that is listed as coming of age story with bylines saying "darkly funny." They just end up not being funny at all and just depressing and about some pretty garbage people that includes at some point some weird sex thing just casually thrown in. Sure, they usually include some social commentary or discussion of coping with grief but I have read better books on the topic that don't bum me out.

I agree that Weyward wasn’t amazing enough to win two awards. I did enjoy it more than you though, I think it was a 3-star middle of the road for me

Wow, Janet Evanovich made the list... Not complaining, I only read up to the 7th book. I like stories with oddball reoccurring characters and crazy situations. I also liked that the lead was the worst bounty hunter ever but she always seemed to get her man. (Yes that's a thing) Sad that the series seems to have gone downhill.

Worst book of the year was The Other Black Girl. NOTHING HAPPENS FOR 320 PAGES.... I hated the protagonist and found myself rooting for the antagonist. I think it hurts more because I went into thinking it was going to be one of my faves of the year. What a disappointment

My worst books of the year will make some people mad... The cruel prince Once Upon A Broken Heart Immortal Longings by Chloe gong All three had terrible romance plots with terrible men, and questionable world building

I liked Weyward, but didn't love it.

Truly your number one book sounds bonkers 😭🤧

Ward D was the worst book of the year for me- never again reading Freida after this book

This is going to be a ROAST

"I don't get how any could like it". This will be one of life's great mysteries. Fourth wing sucks from page 1 and does not let up

I did not like fourth wing. It was bad...

100% agree on Freida- her fans are nuts! Her and Colleen Hoover- ugh

‼️ Women in STEM (Hint this is a reference to Meg’s worst Book at number 1)

It amazes me that you disliked Fourth Wing so much and yet love the Shadow & Bone books. I don’t get it 🤷🏻‍♀️ I loved Fourth Wing and hated the Shadow & Bone books; I mean all of them. 😒 Each to their own I guess 😂

The only people I've seen talking about Weyward absolutely HATED it lol, wild that it won TWICE

I DNF'd Wayward it was awful!!!! Every man in this book was a put in a negative light!! Of course with the abusive guy it was understandable to have him be awful he is awful!! In my opinion It was just a book that bashed the males!!! Zero stars

Finally, someone is speaking up about that ridiculous bounty hunter series by Janet Evanovich. It is so popular and I can't for the life of me figure out why. I read One For the Money (the first title in that series) years ago and I absolutely HATED it. It wasn't funny, it wasn't charming, the mystery wasn't interesting, the MC was bad at her job and she only succeeded because she was lucky. That's it.

Can’t watch you. Giggling every 2 mins What at. Yourself

My worst books of the year were The Writing Retreat and The Last House on Needless Street 🫣