the WORST books i read in 2022 (i want a refund... and therapy) 

No cause same 😂❤

omg same

agreeddd 😂

His humour makes it even better😂

Yesss😭

no because one of my friends literally bought A PHYSICAL WATTPAD BOOK 😭

THIS!! Oh my god I’m embarrassed to say how much money I spent on terrible recommendations 🤦🏽‍♀️

Jack edwards reads the After series next

I have leave the hard way; never trust booktok

@@justfreetea2037 I did for My Life With The Walter Boys and its sitting on my reread shelf rn bc 🎆 nostalgia 🎆. I have no idea if it's actually a good book. Also there's at least 2 wattpad stories I would ABSOLUTELY buy in physical form right this second if they came out bc I genuinely still love them to pieces even 6 years later.

begginggg you to share, even a hint!!

@@eh_maybe it’s Leone Ross

@@eh_maybe start googling authors and see which is a professor 😌

@@sweetestaphrodite ty!!!

@@eh_maybe did you end up finding out?

it's so hard to stay respectful when the publishing industry accepts books that are this bad 😭

Unrelated buy I love ur pfp

that’s an October libra for you 😂

Lmfaoo rip cause same

Samesies. I am so mad that I spent all that time reading the Love Hypothesis and Spanish Love Deception. Workplace sexual assault not doing it for me. WHY does anyone think this is okay?

Please tell me that you read them for free and that you didn’t pay for it

i hate that, as a spaniard, i know some people who the only contact they ever had with spanish culture which is immense was this book😭 pls dont

both were so bad omg

I had a similar fear myself.

the bitter truth critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than their criticism

OH MY GOSH, SAME!!

If you are passionate about writing, dont fear it. Instead, start confronting it and listen to it as a third person. Believe me, once you take up these criticism (by any one), you will realize how much you can improve.👍

@@ionaskualexander1255 RATATOUILLE

SO true

Totally!!! I also feel like maybe cruel prince, I enjoy it when it’s like for survival and they actually kind of dislike/hate each other. If its just let pretend to date, for no real reason, its just so weird lol

the german book die Lügendiebin (translated: the lie-thief) by Saskia Louis does fake dating pretty good as well

Nope, that was lame. There was a weakass motive for it, but it was still bad.

@@js66613how tf was it a weak ass motive?

same💀💀

🤝

The end of the text explains it all

😂 savage

Sounds like a waste of your precious time doesn't it?

At the time when it came out, I was in a community of Sherlolly shippers, who were mostly also into Reylo. They were getting kind of wild about the book, and I just thought the plot sounded ridiculous.

That makes so much sense!

I’ve been thinking that it reads like a fan fiction and now everything makes sense

my roommate and I were just talking about this, AO3 is just such a different format and platform that it makes total sense for the love hypothesis to not translate well. (also reylo....)

even before i knew it was fanfiction i was like. Huh the guy on the cover looks a little bit like kylo

I totally agree! Sometimes a book is just trash and should be addressed as such.

@@lachdownproductionsyt Wrong. Just because you hate something doesn't mean it's trash. Like i dislike The song of achilles and forced myself to finish it because it was so boring and the characters had no chemistry. Do i say it's trash? No. It's just not for me.

@@19Rena96 I respect that, though I think what I was really trying to convey is an overall concept of honesty. I feel like when reviewers don't like something they still play nice so as not to offend anyone. I say if you didn't like something be frank about it. Of course that doesn't mean the whole world should or will agree with you, but at least you were honest with your thoughts about it...

@@19Rena96 there are books that is just shitty fanfiction published. How is it that you should treat them the same way as for example 100 years of solitude is treated. Be real

@@theaizere So what? It's still not trash because you hate it and we don't shame people for what they're reading like so many do in this comment section. I really thought we moved past this ..

I'd put it down and dnf right after just 10 pages into this book, your comment made me believe I'd made the right decision

Now I'm so mad that I bought it because I know it's trash....

You'd be doing everyone a favor!

@@bibiooh118 i wish i had! i was just intrigued to see if it got any good cause it was sooo highly recommended! i was tricked by the hype

I started a “NOT” TBR list and this one is on it! I’d probably love typical TikTok book recs if I was 14 years old. 😅

Yea i love that book but only because i recognise its really bad, and it manages to be good bad not bad bad yk

The book is only readable once you can imagine the guy as adam driver

@@isilmonika I found it readable for many reasons, including that one. Adam Driver, I mean Carlsen, is so hot.

Exactly. There is a reason why I refuse to pick it up because I know that I will hate it 😂😂😂💀

NO WAIT WHY DID I MISS THAT BEFORE I BOUGHT IT EWWWWW

Same. Plus it was based on reylo (its not even fucking hiding that shit) which is already a red flag to me.

Sameeeee

SAME

Yup I completely agree 😭 I just finished it

So true

I was on goodreads trying to find someone else who hated the book to no avail, and I think I realised what tiktok girls see in it. Its only redeeming qualities are its fanfiction-ness, as in, it’s tropeish and a bit unrealistic, which in fanfic are more forgiveable since it’s just a different reading experience. I don’t go into fanfic wanting a literary experience, you know? I enjoy the fics for how tropey and simple they are. I mean, you do need good writing which this book did not have, but the fun of it is reading the tags and knowing the entire plot ahead of time so you can just switch your brain off and enjoy reading about your favourite characters. This tells me that the tiktok girls would really love fanfic, but they don’t read it, (or they only read like Wattpad and the like) so they appreciate the scraps of that kind of culture they get from this book rather than going to the source and reading genuinely good fanfic. At least, that’s my theory.

@@marshm3llow467 I read it on my 29th birthday last year and enjoyed it throughly. Like... it was inoffensively sweet and I don't always want my books to be serious. Many of those "tiktok girls" (that sounds like you're being condescending, don't do that) read and write fanfiction. The snobbery of "but I want a LITERARY experience" is making me roll my eyes into the back of my head. Okay, you want that, not everyone does. Sometimes people just want to crack open a book and enjoy the ride. Don't make it any deeper. Say you didn't like it, and why, instead of going into a spiel. You're not the target audience, you live and you learn

okay? and sometimes we want a cliche plotline. not everything needs to be a literary masterpiece, books can be silly and stupid and still be a great time.

Great line, like so many others in this book!

Lol good one 😊

imo size differences always feel so forced in anything other than a fantasy setting, like why is this man who works in an office 6’5 with an eight pack and a 12 inch pp and why does he growl during sex. stop being a coward and just write monster smut

Omg😂😂

☕️ 😂

I got a lot of solid lines out of this one!

My fav quote like this “The Bar Was So Low It Was A Tripping Hazard In Hell, Yet Here You Are, Limbo Dancing With The Devil” 😂 (and sorry idk who the original poster was, but kudos to them!)

There's certainly satisfaction in knowing you aren't alone in your opinions of something.

Yes!! Atleast Love Hypothesis was like a fanfic but Love on the Brain was soooooo unbearable. I'm not good at predicting the plot but even saw everything coming from miles away. The author just wrote the same Book twice.

I hated it. Hahahaha i didnt even finish it

@@Old_Soul_ okay good thing I haven't bought it. Love Hypothesis was a romance novel I read after ages so I kinda liked it? Then after reading more (better) books in the genre I kinda realised I was only deprived of my share of romance novels 🥲

Wait is it?😳 the reviews were good so I bought it oops

I feel like I got cheated with ali hazelwood, all I wanted to do was to get back into reading 😭

Me too!

there is a manga adaptation of the book as well, illustrated by tsubasa yamaguchi (mangaka of blue period), and the art is truly beautiful.

@@faenights this is amazing news, thank you I will check it out!

@@faenights ooh thanku!!

Me too, it was so much fun to watch this

Right? It was unexpectedly entertaining, and now I need more!

I was in the book store today and bought another book for my book club and then I saw Babel and I can't afford to buy more books before christmas but my heart was literally bleeding to leave this book in this shelf... One day my friend I will come back!

i want this book as a christmas gift so much. i just hope the hype around it is worth it

@@IoIita I think it is!! R. F. Kuang writes so beautifully and I absolutely fell in love with this book

yes! i just finished it yesterday, and i was so amazed by everything. first of all, the book wasn’t a type that i would read, but since i gave myself a reading challenge (read dark academia books), i had to. i think the only thing i didn’t like was how the book doesn’t really trust its audience. there’s a little too much explanations about a certain phenomenon even when a character is making an important decision. however, i can live with it. 4/5 for me.

@@yumira.92 yeah, i get what you mean! i felt like that sometimes as well, but i also thought it was helpful to have the explanations too (i might just be a little bit dull jisdfsk)

the guy looking back at the girl after the kiss with the swollen lips : 👁️👄👁️

It’s why I gave it one star 😂

Girl, try libraries. You can read all those terrible books for free 😂

I'm telling you see we watch the same people cuz I've been seeing you for MONTHS, not day not weeks MONTHS!😂

@@ejmniej physical ones dont exist here where i live

yea i was the same. i mean, it's cliché and all but it's nice on its own 🥹

Reading it currently. What's your favourite poem from the collection?

Oh I loved this poetry collection so much 💜💜💜

I wish I was smart enough to understand his poetry. I didn’t get most of the poems in the book 😭 but I absolutely loved On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

his writing is sooo gorgeous!!!

Yes! When I found his books, my life changed. That sounds dramatic but his writing is that beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

He keeps me motivated to keep writing poetry

I think Ocean Vuong was featured on this channel a while ago, but yes very good rec

yes omg poet x is fucking incredible

But it is bad STEM rep!! I'm a stem girlie and i swear to god if my grad school experience starts to resemble anything that happened in that book, im dropping out

You know they had to e a special kind of bad lol.

I read crush by richard siken this year and I loved it too!

I would add The Surrender Theory by Caitlin Conlon, Plums and Apreggio by Seneca Basoalto, and Sometimes I Fall Asleep Thinking of You by Catarine Hancock. I am a little biased as they're my friends but...

Me too. Romcoms are therapy to me lol

Your taste in books is way too shallow.

The Song of Achilles did that for me lol

I only read it recently and skimmed through most of it. When you can skim through a book and not miss any plot points, you know it's bad. I didn't know it was Reylo fanfic until after 😅

Came here to say the same. That was the book I hated on the most this year out of all that I read lol complete nonsense. Felt like it was supposed to be Henry Cavill fanfiction but the way she described him only made me envision a giant towering blob with dark hair and ✨BLuE✨ eyes

I was pissed after reading that book and realizing I wasted $15 😭

I genuinely want to buy it, not because its good, but because I want to torture myself.

Wait omg, I think if this is the same Paige Lewis I’m thinking of, they’re actually my current creative writing professor! One of my favorite professors I’ve ever had, saved me and helped beta read my novel!

Was it high quality? No. Did I have a very fun day reading it in one go? Yes.

Same! I bought it for a holiday; I knew what I was getting into, some fun nonsense to occupy me while I relaxed! :)

Hahahahaha same!!!! 😂

I thought it was just me. But I do understand when people tell me it’s repetitive. Personally, I enjoyed reading it because I paced myself and only read it during my commute back after a long hectic day at work and this book always gave me a sense of comfort. 😅

They certainly do seem to focus on positivity.

Respeito pelo Fernando Pessoa, finalmente.

"Romance tastes truly are subjective and often down to a person's own idiosyncrasies." So true!

I have not been able to find much of Rosario Castellanos' poetry translated into english, do you have any recommendations on where i could find it? (perhaps you have read it in spanish, in which case don't worry)

@@anya1691 hi, I did read them in spanish, so I don’t know a specific translator or edition in english :c I know there are bilingual versions, and the closest collection in english that I could find is called “The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos”

Little Scratch is one of the best books I've read this year and it doesn't get nearly enough love!

YES it's so cute

Well the hunger games was good fake dating