Popular Books I Hate

okay so today we are going to rant about some books i really don't like so i generally try to keep it pretty positive here on my channel i really like giving recommendations for great books but i don't know man today i just really feel like ranting if ranting isn't your thing you don't have to watch this video i put like four or five videos up a week there will be more for you but today i just really want to talk about some books i painted if you're new here you probably haven't heard me rant about any of these if you've been here for a while you may have forgotten some of these because there are some on this list that i read years ago not every book that i have hated not every book that i've given one or two stars is on this list i actually only have a handful of books on this list these are the books that after i've had quite a bit of distance from them they're still seared into my mind and i still feel like talking about how much i didn't like them one of them is fairly recent hi hello editing murphy here with terrible lighting just popping in to let you know that i did end up going into spoilers with almost all of these books in order to properly rant about them so there will be timestamps in the description for each of them so that you can hop around if you want to also several of these books do have um sensitive or mature themes explored and i delve into those themes quite a bit in order to properly rant about them so if you have kids around that you maybe don't want to hear some of this stuff or if you don't want to talk about some of this stuff then i have tags on each of the books for what content warnings there are so that you can also skip around if you want okay under the video the first book on this list a lot of you have probably heard me talk about because i only read it like a year ago nevernight by jay kristoff this is a book that is very popular here on booktube a lot of people love this book a lot of people love this series i do not there are a lot of reasons why this book didn't work for me simple reasons as well as more expansive reasons the simple reasons are assassin training schools doesn't work for me i've read several books with this this premise with this um baseline and i just don't i i don't i don't get the tension of it i don't care about watching kids train to be assassins if i'm gonna follow an assassin i wanna i wanna watch them be an assassin um and just in general it's just it's not something that appeals that much to me footnotes i don't like them this book is littered with footnotes a lot of times in the middle of action just to give me some abstract world building that i didn't even need it's very jarring a lot of people say to just skip the footnotes but i i can't say i like to book if i skip half the book so i read the dagum things and they were dumb and they weren't necessary over half the time but then you have the more the things things that i hated a lot one of them is jay kristoff's writing style in this dagum book when i say flowery it doesn't encompass what happened here the man's pros in this book were the essence of try too hard not only he okay the overuse of metaphors in this book was wild i mean just about everything had to be made into an elaborate metaphor the problem is that the metaphors were usually really bad half the time they didn't even make sense like he would go onto this long elaborate metaphor and by the time you got there you don't even know what we were talking about then there were also there was also the fact that the metaphors were so repetitive there was one character who had a silverware smile whatever that means and every single time this character walked into a room he was introduced as that man with the silverware smile he looked at me with that silverware smile he grinned with that silverware smile and that is how oh my goodness every single metaphor seemed to be used or similarly seem to be used in this book it was just so repetitive and they weren't even good so it was just repeating bad metaphors there was another character that was as beautiful as a fresh suicide i don't remember how it went exactly but it was when he was introduced he was as beautiful as a fresh suicide beautiful to look at now but rotting after it's been in the box for a while what are you even saying man i don't i don't know jay kristoff's life but if you've ever seen a fresh suicide your simile sucks man and then of course as i mentioned before it's incredibly repetitive so this character who's very prominent in the book his suicide beauty is mentioned on so many pages and it's a terrible metaphor and stop using it so i really didn't like jay kristoff's writing style then you have a lot of weird choices made throughout the book i'm only going to mention one because i don't want to rant forever about only one book but there are weird things that happen in this book these teens that are in this assassin training school one class that they got to take was the art of seduction because it's very important when you're an assassin to know when to fade into the shadows and when to come out front and seduce someone so that you can be a good assassin okay fine sure whatever it's weird it's weird but sure okay let's teach teenagers how to seduce adults here's the fun thing there's magic in this world and uh one thing that that our main character got out of this class was that she got a magical you're hot now so she got this little transformation where she got to be hotter because that's important for the seduction stuff so she walks into a room and now everybody looks at her when before she was just so ugly now she's super hot and uh part of that is that she got a magical boob job yep this teenage girl got a magical boob job to make her hot so that she could be an effective assassin because we all know assassins can't have flat chests that'd be a no-no there are so many choices like this throughout this book that i'm just reading it and i'm thinking but why'd you do it what why'd you do it was it really necessary was this truly part of the book that needed to happen next book on this list was really popular on booktube years ago people don't really talk about it anymore and it's not because people have decided they don't like it it's just that you know book booktubers have moved on but i hated it and i'm gonna talk about it it's called paper princess the premise of this is that there is this teenage girl who is a stripper because actually it's such a bad premise she her mom oh my gosh i can't remember her mom died and she didn't want social services to know that she was now an orphan so she was lying about her mom still being alive as if there's not records of death and they wouldn't know so she's lying about her mom still being alive and that she's working as a stripper so that she can pay the bills so that she doesn't get put in foster care then her late father her father's passed away his friend from somewhere over there uh hears that his that his son that his friend's daughter is still around i read this book like three years ago i still remember it so okay so he hears about his friend's daughter and he's like oh no i should go save her so he flies across the country goes to the strip club gets a lap dance from this teenage girl and then um stops the lap dance because he's a good guy and uh whisks her away to his to his rich home he has a whole lot of kids these kids are the worst and uh they they're mean to her they're horrible to her they don't want her there there's a lot of weird stuff that happens in this book um like at one point in gym class they steal her clothes to humiliate her so she just walks through the school in her underwear and i don't know everybody's fine with it i it's the kids at one point again steal her clothes while she's in the shower and then they have video cameras set up in their house because they want they want they want it on camera for her to run through the house naked humiliated they think it'd be a funny joke that's a funny joke isn't it the dad of this household has a girlfriend who he has sex in the open with like at the dinner table because he doesn't think his kids are around but the kids walk in on him doing stuff like this regularly i he's a good dad it's good actually he's not really depicted as a good dad he's it's a mess i didn't like this book but i pushed through it because someone who i at that point trusted to have a similar opinion about books as me uh said that it was great so i just kept reading thinking it's gonna get good it will get good and it didn't anyway the thing that really threw me over the edge with this book from just being like i don't get this i don't get this i don't get this um the thing that really threw me over the edge is one of the kids who is absolutely horrible to her is her age it's obvious from the start that he's gonna be the love interest and um there is one scene where she goes to a party and gets drugged because some guy at the party wants to rape her and the boys the the kids that are around her age save her they rescue her we don't want that to happen to her they take her home but because she's drugged she's super horny and they decide the right way to handle this is is to get her off so this drugged teenage girl the guy who's supposed to be the love interest takes her to his bedroom and you know what it's i don't understand i don't understand how it's romantic or acceptable to do this to a drugged teen but i don't know it's dramatic i guess and people like it and i i couldn't you'll find a pattern with me is generally if there is some sort of abusive nature to the romance i tend to not find it romantic on a lighter note let's talk about the story life of aj fickery this was a recent read for me and uh no weird sex stuff this is a literary fiction and it was one that i really thought i was gonna love i even recommended it to people before i had finished it and then i had to run back to those friends and tell them no no no i changed my mind so the premise of this book is that it's a guy i can't remember his age now he's middle age and he recently lost his wife and he's very cranky reasonably so because he's grief ridden and um he he runs a bookstore and he's a cranky old bookstore runner guy and then a kid is left in his bookstore with a note basically saying raise my kid for me please and so he does there's a lot of stuff in this book that's glossed over that really bothered me like um i remember there was a line uh well a lot of things actually when he got the kid the police were just like yeah the kid can stay with you while we try to find a better home for it no problem i don't know you random middle-aged man but yes you can have this two-year-old girl in your home it'll be fine the police officer did vaguely know him but they didn't really have any sort of relationship at this point in the book and then like random things were glossed over about uh the adoption took the normal amount of time a little bit under a year and it all went fine for the most part there were a couple hiccups but it was fine and then then we just move on first of all adoption does not take under a year it takes two to four years i know this because i'm in the process of adoption second of all it why'd you gloss over it this is a really important part of his life why are we glossing over it and this happened a lot throughout the book where really big things were happening happening in this man's storied life that we're supposed to be following and it's just like i don't really feel like writing that part in this so we just move on the book took a really big turn at the halfway point and it stopped being this slow story about this man's life and how he changed throughout the things that happened in his life and it turned into a romance of sorts not not a big but the focus was more on him finding love in the second half and i really didn't like that shift because i was loving this slow story of the man's life but i figured it would come back around in the end and it would still be a satisfying read unfortunately it did not it ended up being horrible there was this thing that happened near the beginning of the book where um his he has this thing that got stolen from him and this thing is quite valuable so we finally get back around to it and i knew we were going to because the book has really heavy foreshadowing so i knew we were going to come back around to it and when we do it's the most convoluted nonsense stuff that doesn't even have any payoff but basically this person took the thing so that they could pay off this other person and then this other person held on for it for two years but then couldn't really do anything with this so they came back and gave it back to the person but then this person couldn't do anything with it so they put it in their closet then they had this other person over at their house for a night and then that person saw the thing but didn't want to say anything because he didn't want to mess up the relationship so he just didn't say anything for a long time and then later when aj is about to lose his life and he needs money to pay for his surgery then this guy remembers the thing that's in the closet and it's just been there for 10 years i guess and then he tells her that he knew about the thing in the closet and then they take it and then they give it back to aj but in like a really discreet way so that he won't know about it and then he can have it so that he is able to have the surgery to save his life but then we can skip that part of his life so it's like this really convoluted ridiculous thing to make this plot point happen like it's this convoluted series of ridiculous events that finally get the stolen item back into the guy's hand so that he can pay for the surgery to save his life only for us to then skip that part of his life as soon as we got to the point where he's like ha i can pay for surgery then we just skip to the end why did we do it why did we do it why did we go through this convoluted thing just so that we could skip the purpose of the convoluted thing and just skip to the ending and then the ending i don't have any like moral problem with this book people can like it in fact i know that this is a very well-loved book and so i always feel bad kind of ragging on a book that somebody else loves well usually i do today i just feel like ranting so i'm kind of not holding back but i i think that i i don't think that this book is is problematic i don't really like that word but i don't think this book is problematic uh i think that people are well within their rights to love it i hated it because i hated the execution of it it felt like a cheap tool being used instead of feeling like a deep exploration of pain that we have in common and um you know i buddy read this over on my patreon some people did love it some people felt similar to me so i think that different people are going to come out of it different ways so if you loved this book more power to you i totally respect that i hated the execution of it and that was what made it so low on my list one more book for the ranting this is also a relatively recent read i read it last year i think maybe i read it this year it doesn't matter the duke and i no i definitely read it last year anyway so there were two things that i hated about this book and they were the two main characters uh the main female chara i don't remember either their names the main female character she was really clever and able to hold her own um it's it's a historical setting and when she's being like when people are looking down on her when people are teasing her when people are being um when people are having double standards she's very clever and witty and could stand up for herself and she was really enjoyable to read in the beginning the problem is she's smart until she isn't and then she's really freaking dumb she's i think she's like 22 years old in this book and when she's about to get married and her mom uh has to tell her how babies are made like what it takes to make a baby she's absolutely shocked and scandalized and even after she had a sex talk with her mom she still didn't really understand how it all worked so her husband who also is the worst uh basically he doesn't want to get her pregnant so he i'm trying to put this tactfully i he would pull out uh every time they would have sex and she just kind of was like i wonder why he does that i wonder what he what he's doing over there i don't really understand it oh well we're i'm probably pregnant now right so the thing is here's the thing the thing is i if you don't want to have kids more power to you do what you want but you don't take advantage of your spouse's lack of knowledge and lie to them and manipulate them in this i didn't like the way he handled it he handled it very very poorly and then she found out what her husband was doing she was very upset about it so she raped him i'm going to explain it so if you want to click away if you want to skip basically what happened is uh they were having sex she was on top and he tried to pull out and she would not let him she forced herself down on him forced him to finish inside of her and then um after that was all done and he had a big freak out because he didn't want to get her pregnant because he didn't want to pass something on to his kid um she felt good about it she even had an internal monologue of what i did wasn't okay but you know what i don't feel bad about it because i'm probably pregnant right now and i i feel pretty good about that so not only is there just a ton of lying and manipulating happening from the get-go in this relationship but there's actual rape happening and she feels good about it and um and then and then there's this whole thing where he just like leaves her and goes away for a while and then she thinks she's pregnant so she sends him a letter and then he comes home and by the time he's home she finds out that she's not pregnant and she's mad at him because she should be pregnant right now and now there's probably no chance of her getting pregnant because she's probably not going to be able to pull that stunt again and then he decides you know what maybe i do want a kid and so they live happily ever after and they're in a good relationship and it's fine and everything's fine now don't get me wrong i don't think there's anything wrong with portraying flawed people flawed relationships people making big mistakes i do think there's something wrong with depicting an extremely abusive relationship and then just like it's romantic i mean these characters are portrayed as flawed and we're not supposed to think that every one of their actions is good but there's really no discussion i mean there was discussion actually when he came back and he was like yeah let's have a kid and she said i thought you were mad at me because of what i did to you and he said oh yeah i didn't like that um please don't do that again but that's not why i was mad i actually left for something else and so he didn't he didn't even leave because of what she did to him he wasn't even actually mad about that he was just like oh yeah i didn't like that don't do that again and she never felt bad about it she never felt bad about she felt like she did the right thing and they are portrayed as flawed characters but the relationship is still romantic i know this because i read a whole lot of goodreads reviews from people who love this book and they're like these people are flawed but man was that a romantic story where where was that a romantic story when did that happen i must have ripped those pages out i didn't rip pages out of the book i gave it to the library when i was done with it but come on anyway i actually feel kind of bad i i feel kind of bad now because i generally like i said i generally don't like going negative on my channel if i do go negative i try to keep it relatively like hey here's the reasons why this book didn't work for you respect to all who love it moving forward and i just really went in on this video and i feel a little bit bad about it now please know that if i said really mean things about your favorite book i it's okay to love things that i hate those are just very extensive reasons why i hate them oh also i did want to give an honorable mention to anna and the french kiss which used to be super popular and i hated so much there's a really great goodreads rant if you want to check it out but it doesn't really belong on this list anymore because it's not popular anymore because most people that loved it grew up realized it sucked and then stopped loving it oh no i'm so mean today i i feel kind of bad i'm gonna i'm gonna end it there all right well i hope you enjoyed the rant if i if i hate it on one of your favorite books please know that i'm just being really extensive and salty about the stuff that i don't like but it please love your favorite books it really doesn't i i have no stakes in the game of what other people love this is just why i don't love these books anyway that was the whole story please chat with me if you've read any of these books if you also hated them or if you loved them and why you did i'd love to chat about that and let me know what books you hate i guess i post videos every sunday tuesday thursday and saturday i'll see you guys again soon bye

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Published: Sat Aug 29 2020