i accidentally read the worst book of the year so far

I know I'm reading a romance book but it feels like I'm reading a thriller your honor don't put him in jail he was just a little confused his daddy wasn't very nice to him last week I innocently decided to Vlog my experience trying to get out of her reading slump and I accidentally ended up capturing the exact moment that I read the worst book of the year so far this book oh oh so weird so whenever I want something light to read I pull out the Trashy romances and that's why I ended up picking up Misfit by Elle Kennedy this is a High School drama about sendover prep school which is full of Rich teenagers brimming with hormones this book ended up subjecting me to romanticizing stalking a very problematic student teacher hookup and worst of all someone using the pet name cupcake for their girlfriend this was supposed to be like a normal Vlog but enjoy my live response to reading this book enjoying my pain moving on to the book that I'm currently listening to it is this Misfit by L Kennedy now should I be reading this book absolutely not I'm clearly not a target audience for this book but I have to tell you a little bit of a story so I have kind of a bit of a love-hate relationship with Elle Kennedy she is the one who wrote paper princess from the Royal series which is one of my most hated books of all time it's about this high school girl she's 17 and somehow also a stripper and she has to live in this beautiful Rich Mansion of her step family where she lives with her like four hot Step Brothers well you see where this is going like just one example one of the scenes that happens in that book is that our main character gets roofied and then our love interest saves the main character from the guy that roofied her which is good but then the plot is that our love interest is just gonna have sex with our main character anyway because she's drug so someone needs to take the edge off she's still under influence so that's still really really bad of you to do but it's portrayed as something that's like totally okay normal horrendous and the book's like full of things like that um so that's why I don't like L Kennedy but for some reason I also ended up reading another book by her called the deal which takes place in college I actually really really loved this book it was one of the best Chemistry Between Two romantic characters that I'd ever seen in a Roman's book even though the book is still full of like casual misogyny so as you can tell I just have a weird relationship with L Kennedy and I have a friend who is kind of in the same situation so L Kennedy is kind of like our inside joke so when she came out with a new book we were like let's just buddy read this to see what kind of trash fire this is or if we're gonna enjoy it anyway about like four perspectives of people on this like really preppy school and so far it's just about these teenagers lusting after each other talking about sex and drugs and alcohol and parties and it's horrendous but potentially will put me even deeper into this reading slump throw me into a pit of despair that I will never get out of or it's gonna be like so hilariously bad that I'm not gonna be able to stop reading we'll see where it goes [Music] what a disaster of a book either the author L Kennedy is just creating a fictional version of what she as an adult thinks teenagers behave like or I'm learning some dark things about the other teenagers in my high school what what is happening it's so weird I would say kind of the main characters this guy RJ who is not a rich dude but somehow did end up in this school so he like hates everyone and he has this obsession with the daughter of the head of school this girl named Sloan who's very cool she doesn't date Chic from everyone she will Stomp all over you um and he likes that and literally the moment that he meets her he's just like I want to put my in her mouth sir you are 18 years old when we're in Sloane's perspective she's like I'm gonna change my life around I'm gonna become a good person I'm gonna study hard so I can get into college I'm done with all this partying and all the drugs and all the alcohol and I'm done hooking up with these bad boys and I'm just like girl you just turned 18. you just turned 18. I know rationally I know people did this in high school but it's like so far removed of my personal experience in high school that I'm reading this and I'm just like I'm not here to just like make fun of a book that just I just talks about like people being wild but of course L Kennedy strikes again with all of her casual weird just a bad influence on kids things there's this moment where Sloan gets a text from this guy RJ who was you know into her you know the guide I was thinking about how he wants to put his in her mouth consider this they match for like a few minutes had a quick talk they didn't even exchange names and then because he's a hacker he found out her number and he found out in her name so he sends her text it's like hey I found your number and your name hi she receives this text and you know what her reaction is that I'm supposed to be like running away scared right now no she's like oh my God kind of hot money found out that's kind of attractive oh this is a disaster so my friend who embodying reading this with is already way ahead of me she's almost finished it she just texted me saying I missed the person I was before I read this book so that bodes very well for me okay so this book currently book currently seems to be working up towards a threesome between one of the students and two of the teachers this book is so ridiculous I have I think I have to sit down for a second to talk to you guys about it hello welcome to the corner of book discussions I know this was supposed to be a vlog but you're going to get a wide expose of all the horrors that this book is currently inflicting on my mind I'm about halfway into Misfits and this has got to be one of the worst books I've read this year so far um so I've decided to just share the pain with you there's like two plot lines that have me in the Chokehold the most because they're just so bizarre the first one is RJ and Sloan our little stalker romance and the second is the surprising edition of our character Lawson um who I had The Misfortune of reading their POV in which they are likely fantasizing about their English teacher and his English teacher's wife who is also a teacher and he just made this declaration of I'm going to these teachers and that is a legitimate plotline in this book from which I'm still asking myself who was this written for what is the age category of people that is supposed to be reading this book oh and I missed all of that there's this plotline going on where there's a fighting ring underneath the school where the boys just brawl it out because if it's not socially acceptable to kiss your homies you just fight them in a dimly lit Cellar and RJ is going to fight the king of the school so that he became can become the king himself it's basically what boys with no movie comprehension skills think the movie Fight Club is okay let's start with the stalker romance so Sloan and RJ are dating he keeps rizzing her up because he can talk about you know her favorite bands and her favorite things and she's like oh my God we're so similar and he's like haha I found this online she doesn't know this romance book is a very good example of where you're like I know I'm reading a romance book but it feels like I'm reading a thriller because we are in RJ's point of view and we can just see him thinking making plans like I'm gonna say this I'm gonna say I like this band because I saw online that she's really into this band and if I do this and if I don't do that then it's that's like this is going to be the perfect way to get her to slowly fall in love with me and I Can Tell She's this kind of girl so I should say these kind of things and this is how I'm gonna make sure she falls for me perfectly this perfect manipulation this man invented weird pickup Artistry the way weird pickup artist of YouTube probably bowed down to this 18 year old creepy guy and when you're in Sloane's point of view you can see her slowly falling in love with this guy and being like wow he really kind of understands me and I'm slowly starting to trust him I don't trust anyone and you can tell that she's starting to share things about her past and her troubled family because all of these characters have like troubled family stories because of course they do and it's really weird and creepy but it's supposed to be romantic now at first I was kind of scared that this was just not going to be addressed but of course you know around the halfway of the book um she finds out she finds out that he's been hacking her he's a hacker and he's been looking into her stuff and he's been saying exactly what she wants to hear luckily she does get angry but you think okay this is over right this there's no redeeming this this is so creepy this romance it's done no no it's just a little little hiccup full hiccup in their romance okay it's just a little plot point to get over she's talking to her sister and her sister has the gal to be like well girl Sloan you're also not perfect like you've let guys on sometimes you can't really be mad at this psycho stalker who's been hacking into your computer figuring out hidden things about you online and perfectly crafting a version of himself so that he can get into your pants you're also not perfect because sometimes you flirt with guys you don't want to sleep with even and what follows is the very classic oh but he has a sad backstory Spiel where he tells her about his criminal father and how his mother doesn't really care about him and that he's starting to see that maybe he's using the hacking as like a coping mechanism and she's like wow I can't understand you because I also have a bad family so it's fine and she does the classic the classic white boy exclusive well looks like he's just a little confused your honor have you considered the fact that the prosecutor might have just been a little confused your honor don't put him in jail he was just a little confused his daddy wasn't very nice to him when they're dating now and he's training to fight her ex-boyfriend in the ring of sand over prep school and the funniest thing is that a few chapters later we get RJ's point of view and he's reflecting on what he's done and he has the Fantastic just life-changing World shattering epitome where he's like wow I think maybe if you try to find things out about people by just looking at them online you don't actually know them you think this by the way does not stopping from continuing the hacking and stalking online later in the book he just stops doing it's a Sloan because like I said these characters are misogynistic or just generally morally corrupt unless it's for a woman that they have a crush on you know they're not but everyone else it's fine excited to see where that's going and then we have the teach we have the teacher storyline we have this one character called Lawson he's bisexual so we have a little bit of LGBT representation but it's a horrible representation because it's the classic he is an extremely like [ __ ] sleeps around with everyone character it's the very stereotypical oh bisexual people just have sex with everyone all the time stereotype so that it's kind of sad to see that like come on it's 2023 are we still doing this but there's a Twist because you know he wants to sleep with his teachers it's different here I was listening to this while I was on my bike heading to the grocery store and I had to sit through a chapter in which his English teacher calls Lawson to his office and it's like bro you need to do your homework and Lawson the man the myth takes this opportunity to just shamelessly flirt with his teacher and I'm not talking like they're flirting I'm talking he is graphically talking about sex and the sex that the teacher has with his wife and he is you know insinuating that the teacher is bisexual which again so we get the very wonderful little side storyline of the teacher figuring out that he might not be straight but instead bisexual because of his crush on that student boy who just turned 18 side note they keep throughout the entire book the other keeps emphasizing that all these carers aren't 18 they all just turned 18. you can't say anything because all these care characters they all just turned 18 so you have to shut your mouth doesn't make it any less weird that this is high school I know I said before I like the student teacher romance but not if it's in a high school setting because that's always weird if you just turned 18 that's like weird and also there's a too much of a abusive power that can happen here anyway so you think okay this teacher is 100 gonna get super angry at this student right and immediately tell him to go no no he's getting a little flustered he's getting a little speechless he's not sending him away until eventually he does and Lawson is like oh let me maybe let me give you my number just in case something about the homework comes up do you want me to leave it here and the teacher is like yeah yeah leave your number here oh if we're going to actually if this book is actually this again why a book is going to actually give me a threesome between a student a high school student who just turned 18 and two of his teachers I am going to call the police I'm going to play some more zelators of the kingdom and listen to this audiobook and I will keep you posted on where the hell this is going okay so not even three minutes later I started listening and the chapter just opens with Lawson hooking up with his teacher jump scare that was a jump scare and let me tell you the last time that they interacted was that scene where they were in his office and you know the the Romantic tension between them was like here it was like at the start you know the teacher not wanting to admit that maybe he has feelings for a student um and then the next seed immediately boom they're doing it in a closet or like his office secretly doing it and Lawson's like tell me what to do and I'm not gonna give you the details it's too gross I feel like this yet again I asked myself who was this book written for I understand the appeal of a forbidden romance totally understand that don't get me wrong but this is between like someone who just started 18 and a teacher and it's like is this Richard is this why a is this for teenagers because it was pretty graphic makes me feel like this is written for adults but that's even weirder the quick escalation of this scene really makes me feel like we're definitely gonna get a story progression where the wife also enters this little threesome and I'm not excited about it but I will keep you posted [Music] hello I just listened for like two hours straight while playing Zelda I still have half an hour left and I genuinely don't know how to how they're gonna tie every plot line up in half an hour I need a cup of tea to get myself through this okay let's go good morning let's sit down again shall we okay I have no words I say before launching into a long rant about this book so um one thing I can say looking back at this book is that Lawson really carried the plot like him trying to rise up his teachers a lot to say about that but it was definitely the most intriguing part to reach but let's start with our stalker romance slow and RJ the relationship that started off very normal with a violation of privacy you know I will say looking back I think I misjudged RJ I said that he was kind of a creep kind of a stalker giving in-cell Vibes but I've come to realize that I just am misunderstanding him you know because the thing about RJ is he is doing all this hacker stuff he doesn't care about what other people think of him he's training for like the underground fighting ring and he's extremely good at it he's extremely good at every sport that he starts the thing about RJ is that he is a sigma male he's a lone wolf he doesn't need other people and I think I just don't have the brink capacity to fully understand RJ's superiority as a sigma male so I have to sincerely apologize for that so how Sloan and RJ's plot line ends up is he goes into the fighting ring fights you know the current king of sendover prep school which is also Sloan's ex-boyfriend and of course he wins because he like hacked into his bank account and it's like if you don't let me win I'm gonna steal your money so he learned nothing he's still hacking and Sloane is totally okay with it it's again like I said it's totally fine to be a horrible person as long as you don't do it to girls that you personally are into you know how every romance every main romance always needs to have a third egg breakup so whenever I see two characters get together I'm always thinking I wonder what kind of stupid thing the author is going to come up with to make them break up in the third act you know what Elle Kennedy did to break RJ James flown apart for a second they brought in the fact that it's a problem that apparently before RJ even came to this school Sloan hooked up once with RJ's stepbrother who wasn't his stepbrother at the time RJ didn't know both of these people when they had a brief hookup and this becomes a huge problem he's going to his stepbrother like how dare you sleep with my girlfriend I can't believe this happened and it's like they didn't know you you didn't know them I mean granted they probably should have told him this a little earlier I understand he's angry but all in all this is just I was tuning out while reading this because it was just so obviously just a third act breakup that wasn't very interesting what is interesting and what I know you guys will want to know about is what happened with Lawson's storyline the funny thing about Lawson storyline is that it's the only storyline that is just completely separate from all the others so we have all these other storylines like RJ and Sloane's romance which is intertwined with like the fighting Club going on there's like something with his stepbrother they all have their own family problems that are intertwined with each other and then there's a loss and storyline he's just on the side gaslighting gatekeeping girl bossing trying to flirt with this stage why was this plotline there there was absolutely no reason for Lawson's plotline to be there other than that L Kennedy was like let me just add a plotline of a 18 year old student trying to have a threesome with his teachers wouldn't that be so exhilarating and it was he carried the plot so I already told you that they ended up hooking up with his English teacher named Jack and this continues you know he gets an email from his English teacher he's like if you want extra credit meet me after class but of course he does not stop with just one person because Lawson's bisexual and we all know that bisexual people just need to hook up with everyone all the time preferably infidelity it's their favorite thing so it continues working with his English teachers Jack's wife who is also the art teacher at their school right this little triangle going on the funniest thing this art teacher Gwen is talking to Lawson after class do not ask me why she decides to tell this to a random 18 year old student but she's like yeah I'm just having some troubles at home I'm just having some marriage problems and she's like you really shouldn't get married at 20 years old it's too early and she just keeps telling this random boy in her class like yeah I don't know I feel like my husband hasn't been the same lately it's Jack it's the English teacher that's been hooking up with Lawson she's telling Lawson I don't know I think I have a feeling that he might be cheating on me and lost since they're like oh oh that sucks so much for you so awful for you but you can't you know like get back at you and then she kisses him oh she initiates um and now Lawson has hooked up with both Jack the English teacher and his wife Gwen the art teacher score and it's just so funny because we constantly get these two teachers coming to a loss and being like yeah I feel like my wife is not the same as usual I kind of feel like she's cheating on me and then his wife is like yeah I kind of feel like my husband's not the same thing he's cheating on me and Lawson's just they're like oh golly that's so bad you know if he wasn't 18 and this wasn't this high school student teacher romance I would be laughing and this would be a genuinely hilarious genius plotline written by Al Kennedy but I know better I know that we are working up towards the threesome of Hell towards the end of the book when RJ has defeated the king of school in the ring everyone's like partying Lawson gets super super drunk and he starts texting Gwen he's our teacher and like hey can you come over and Gwen is like I really can't and this is the moment that Lawson's like oh is he laying next to you can't he see it and this was the moment where I was like oh my gosh it would be so funny right now if Lawson started texting both of them at the same time while they're both in bed lying next to each other that would be hilarious but at last missed the opportunity for L Kennedy what does happen is Gwen gets out of bed and meets Lawson in one of the classrooms and they hook up remember that Lawson is severely intoxicated at this point which you have to notice like you notice it when someone is severely intoxicated which means that we didn't just have borderline statutory at this point it's just regular because Lawson is extremely drunk um this is again not addressed none of these things are addressed it's just it's just a fun little fun little sexy plot line I guess but what then happens let's keep it light okay what then happens oh plot twist someone turns on the light someone is in the school turns on the light sees them hooking up who is it standing in the doorway it's Jack the English teacher and he is looking at his wife hooking up with the exact same dude that he has been secretly having an affair with Lawson is the main character of the story and all the other characters are just living in his world and Lawson's just standing there like oh so we have this scene Lawson and went together Jack looking at them looking at Gwen they see each other husband and wife they know in that moment they realize what's going on and Lawson's just like I think these two need to have a conversation and then he leaves and that is the end of Lawson's plot line the most anti-climactic thing I've ever seen in my life I would almost be disappointed if this whole storyline wasn't so weird a lot more things happened in the book that I left out because I honestly didn't find them interesting enough to share I just wanted to share like the funniest bits or like the most insane bits I'm aware that I'm clearly not the target audience for this and that massively contributes to me not enjoying this book because I don't think anyone over the age of 20 would enjoy a very graphic romance book about like 18 year olds yet again I ask who is the target audience I don't know what I will say this video originally I started filming this because I was trying to get out of a reading slump and I will say buddy reading kind of bad book with a friend really helps because I finished this book in like four days so in the end mission accomplished I did cure my reading slump normally when I make videos like this I share more like quotes from the book and it's just a little more scripted but because I didn't know what I was going into I didn't make any notes I don't have any quotes because I was listening to the Dutch translated audiobook so sorry this video is a little bit more chaotic than what I usually do when I talk about books that I didn't like I do like in-depth reviews of those books um but I hope it was still entertaining if you thought it was entertaining subscribe thank you to all of my patrons with a very special shout out to all of my Elite hidden Library members and welcome to the new Elite members Victoria and Kim Lazarus welcome um today when this video is going up is our first book club live discussion which I'm super excited about and so if you want to join the patreon and the whole book club also linked in the description that being said I hope you really enjoyed the video I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day and I will see you soon in another video very soon goodbye [Music] foreign [Music]

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Published: Sun Jun 04 2023