popular books i will not read yeah
i don't know what that was sorry hi guys my name is leonie welcome back to my
channel today we're gonna talk about popular books that i'm not gonna read even though there
are a lot of other people that absolutely adore these books i'm just like no oh it's popular
i happen to not be interested in that that makes me cooler... no that's not that's not
gonna be this video this video is not gonna be any negativity. i see this as honesty. i think it's
a good thing to just be honest to yourself and accept that sometimes there are books that you're
just not interested in and that you're just never gonna get around to reading. if i don't think
that a book is gonna be a four or five star read i'm not gonna start it even if it's super popula.r
if i don't think i'm gonna absolutely love it i'm not gonna do it just because it's popular. that's
why i really like the idea of this video you know just be honest to yourself you don't have
to read something just because it's popular read things that make you excited so
today i'm gonna talk about all the books that are very popular that i have no interest in
reading and at the end of the video there's gonna be two books that you yes you watching this video
can still change my mind about also by the way this video is definitely inspired by the
tag that was made by nicole... by nicole... well made by nicole from nicole and her books
which is the anti tbr tag. i'm not gonna follow the tag exactly but i just took some inspiration
from the questions to come up with my list so i'll leave a link to that tag in the description.
i highly recommend checking out her video! okay let's begin! let us start with a book that is
very often recommended to me in the comments of my videos um but that i'm actually not interested in
reading i'm very sorry but that is the raven boys by maggie stiefvater. a lot of people recommend
this to me because i say that i love atmospheric dark and eerie stories and this is like an urban
fantasy about a bunch of teens that are looking at ley lines and there's like a king and there's
some witchy stuff going on... it's apparently very atmospheric and mysterious but the thing
is i actually started reading this book once and i dnf'd it after 50 pages and i know what
you're thinking: 50 pages is not enough to dnf it but sometimes you just notice that the
book's vibe is not your thing and in those cases i'm just like just gonna let it go. so i
don't think i'm ever gonna read the raven boys. next up we have anything by sarah j maas. ho!
stop! i know what you're thinking, don't worry this is not going to be a bashing of sarah j maas.
i know that it's become kind of popular to hate on sarah j maas because she is so popular even
though i'm pretty sure the majority of people still love her. i don't hate her books
... let me just give you a quick history lesson
of my experience with sarah j maas books: i read throne of glass - yes i did hate that book
- somehow i did continue to read crown of midnight and i absolutely adored that
book. moved on to heir of fire, realized the story was going into a direction
that i really didn't like and then abandoned the series. i did read a court of thorns and roses,
enjoyed it but definitely didn't love it. i did again move on to the second book because it
was so hyped, a court of wings... a court of mist and fury, and i never got around to
finishing that book so i'm also abandoning that series and i have no interest in continuing
those series or reading one of her other works. i've just noticed that i don't really vibe with
those books the same way other people do so not gonna read them. next one is city of ashes.
i've talked about it a lot so i won't linger on this one too much. i read city of bones
enjoyed it, never got through city of ashes and i have no interest in reading any of cassandra
clare's other books because... there are so many! there are so many shadowhunter books i just can't
handle the commitment. next up we have a serpent and dove. i've seen enough readwithcindy videos to
know that this YA romance is not gonna be my thing even though it has enemies to lover trope which
i love because it's a romance between a witch and a witch hunter. this is one of those books
that a lot of people adore and a lot of people hate. i just don't want to subject myself to
something that i could potentially really hate. then we have literally all the books by adam
silvera. he's a super popular YA contemporary author. i've just recently made peace with the
fact that YA contemporary is just not really my thing anymore. i noticed that i can't
really relate to the characters anymore. also adam silvera's stories are supposedly very
tragic and... ew emotions. next up we have the a song of ice and fire series. now i did watch the
show and really enjoyed it but i just don't think that the books are for me. they're very bleak,
very long, also there's like eight books: again intimidating, and i know that this whole
fantasy series kind of hinges not on magic and magical storylines but more on the political
intrigue and as you know i'm just not a fan of political intrigue in books. i like it in tv shows
but for some reason not in books. definitely never gonna read that entire series. then we have
in the same vein outlander by diana gabaldon. um i think we're sensing a theme here and
that is that long series just intimidate me and i don't wanna even start them. and i'm gonna
say something very sinful right here but it is one of those books that if i ever want
to experience the outlander story... i'm probably just gonna watch the tv show.
sorry. then we have the very popular science fiction stories illuminae and aurora rising.
i can't really explain why but there's just nothing about these two series that really
attract me. maybe it's just the space science fiction thing because i'm not very familiar
with it but i do know that if i ever want to get into space science fiction i'll probably
start out with like a more classic story like the hitchhiker's guide of the galaxy. i don't
have any funny or eloquent arguments for why i don't want to read them other than i'm just
not interested. okay next up we have one that might surprise a lot of people. as you all know
i'm a really big fan of leigh bardugo's books. should i just stay like this for the rest of the
segment just carrying these books just like hello let me continue to talk. anyway, the books that
i will not be reading are the language of thorns and the lives of saints. the lives of saints
- i don't know if it's out yet maybe it's just out or it's gonna be published soon - but
basically these are both short story collections about the grishavers by leigh bardugo. i
kind of feel like a fake fan for not buying these books but here's the thing okay, these
are short story collections and i just know that i tend to not read short story collections.
i'm not a huge fan of reading short stories, i like finishing full novels, i'm just not
really interested in reading these short stories, so i'm not gonna buy them. i don't know does
that make me a fake fan i i don't know. and i don't really get enough satisfaction out of
just owning them for my collection which i know could be a reason for people to get them
but for me that's not enough of a reason so yeah these are gonna be some grisha books that i
will never read and that is painful to admit but sometimes you just gotta be honest with yourself
okay. next up let's talk about a classic or like a collection of classics that i will
probably never read and that is anything by our mr shakespeare. here's the
thing okay i know if i'm gonna be fully honest with myself i am more interested in
the idea of having read shakespeare than actually reading shakespeare, if you know what i mean. like
i would love to be able to have read these stories but um i've tried reading the merchant of venice
once and i just i can't, i can't get through it, the stories don't interest me enough and
also like the old-fashioned english... i just... it feels really stupid to admit
it but i just i can't really understand it. just the fact that it's shakespeare shouldn't be a
reason for me to force myself to read them just so i can say 'oh i did read the merchant of venice'
so just gonna let it go. then we have another very very popular series just like every book on
this list and that is the millennium trilogy, more well known as the girl with the dragon
tattoo. this is like the swedish crime novel that is hugely popular and i'm just not really
interested in these kind of like crime books. i did however watch the swedish movies and
i did really like them. you know that's the thing with like crime is one of those genres
where i really like it in movies and tv shows but not in books... don't really know why. why
are there certain things that i enjoy on screen but not really in books? like the same thing
with political intrigue, i don't know what it is. it does happen apparently. and then
the last one before we get to the ones where you can still change my mind on, is children
of virtue and vengeance. you may know that i really really loved children of blood and bone,
the first book in this series, but i've heard so many people being just completely disappointed
by the sequel, children of virtue and vengeance, and i just don't want to like ruin a good
experience with a disappointing sequel so that's why i've just accepted that i'm not
gonna continue this series even though i did really love the first book. and speaking
of disappointing sequels, that makes me go to the two books that you can still change my
mind on because they are both sequels to books that i really loved that do get kind of bad
reviews or very mixed reviews. the first one is a vengeful by V.E. schwab because vicious is
actually one of my favorite books of all time when i first heard that there was gonna be
a sequel i was so excited and then when it finally came out... just negative reviews flowing
in. some people say that it's good, just not as good as vicious, and then other people have said
that you know it doesn't exist and they pretend it just doesn't exist because i really didn't
like it so this is one that i'm like you know i just don't want to ruin vicious for myself. on the
other hand it feels weird to not read the sequel to one of my most beloved books. so please let
me know do you think i should read vengeful or should i just join the group of people that just
pretend this sequel doesn't exist. let me know i'm undecided on this one. and the next one that i'm
a little bit on the fence about is actually king of scars. we have the original grisha trilogy, the
six of crows duology and then we have the king of scars duology. i'm going to be honest: even though
i love all the other books in the grishaverse this story didn't really attract me in its premise
and then on top of that it didn't get very good reviews like people who loved the other grisha
books didn't really love king of scars. because here's the thing okay king of scars follows as
the main character a beloved side character of the original trilogy, nikolai lantzov, he's a prince,
beloved character, i loved him and he's the main character in king of scars. but here's the thing
okay please don't hate me but sometimes there are characters that work really great as side
characters that i'm just not really interested in seeing as a main character and that's what i
had with prince nikolai. i loved him as a side character but i'm just not really interested
in reading a book completely about him, sorry. so this is also one that i was like maybe
i should just let it slide but that yeah on the other hand you know it is the grishaverse you know
one of my favorite... how you call that, like book universes? so let me know, do you think i would
like king of scars or do you think i should just you know skip it. let me know in the comments
what you guys think. please let me know what some popular books are that you have no interested
in, really i love knowing that i don't know why i love watching other people's videos about
popular books i don't plan on reading. definitely again check out the video made by nicole in the
description. if i ever do end up reading like one of the books on this list i've been exposed as
a fake, i think. if you like this video give it a like and subscribe to my channel if you haven't
already. you can follow me on my social media at thebookleo. i really hope you enjoyed this video
and i will see you soon in another one goodbye
