 Nobody mentioned that I am about a year late with this trend. Thank you. Welcome back to my channel. I hope you're all good. Today we are going to be tear ranking all the books I have read so far this year. So I literally last night finished my 50th book of the year. I am three books behind schedule to read a hundred but this is halfway of the books I hope to read this year. I should be able to read a hundred. I should. I should be able to read a hundred. So I thought this would be a good point to check in and do a tear rank. This is going to be completely subjective. I've never done a tear rank before. I'm not very good at it so and it isn't going to be like based on star rating like I think possibly a three star could rank above maybe a four star on this list. It's all down to the feeling they give me like months on from having read them. Here is the tear ranking. Of course because it's me all of the categories are memes. Okay it's just how we're doing it in this house. Let's start at the bottom. At the bottom is get that fire exit door I'm off by Queen Gemma Collins. Get that fire exit door I'm off. So these are the worst books. These are the books on like get that fire exit door I'm off. I'm not dealing with this book anymore. It can get out of my life. I don't really have many good feelings about it. Get that fire exit door I'm off. Secondly I don't remember love. It was an awful long time ago. I can't do Lorraine's accent but that is the queen of daytime TV Lorraine. I don't remember love. I don't remember at all. I really don't. It's an awful long time ago. It's a book that is completely forgettable like I don't know who she is. I cannot remember much of the plot characters anything. Third is push me up against the wall. Give me a kiss then I might get excited. Another Gemma appearance. Push me up against the wall. Give me a kiss then I might get excited. So this is a book that I'm like I quite enjoyed but I felt like it was missing a bit of excitement. It was missing a little bit of something something to get me going. Then we have I'm an acquired taste. Don't like me acquire some taste. I'm an acquired taste. You don't like me acquire some taste. So this is a book that's you know a bit better than the one below but I didn't quite love it and maybe the problem is I need to acquire some taste. There's a quite a few books on this list that I think were good but they were missing something and I think that something was due to me not due to the book itself necessarily like we just didn't buy it. Then we have the album's amazing song to song I can't stress it enough. The album's amazing song to song I can't stress it enough. This is a great book a book I really really enjoyed song to song you know it's a it's a hit album and then at the top it's I feel faint. We struck gold ladies. No I don't I feel faint. We struck gold ladies. This is gold the creme de la creme the best books my favorite books. So these are alphabetical eyes I think. So first we have got a quiet life in the country. I think I'm going to put this in the album's amazing song to song I can't stress it enough. This is a really fun like cozy murder mystery. It's the whole series of these audiobooks is on script so I'm just going to slowly listen to the audiobooks of them. I've only listened to this first one but it's like a cute historical murder mystery that are very basic but like I really enjoyed it. I really really enjoyed it and I would read it again. Amari and the Night Brothers. I don't feel like it's we've struck gold. I think that's another the album's amazing song to song I can't stress it enough. Great middle grade probably my favorite middle grade I've ever read. Amazing fantasy great vibes great characters absolutely just like so captivating. An Ember and the Ashes by server to here. Now that said the bottom I'm gonna say I don't remember love it was an awful long time ago. This book I don't think I even remembered it once I finished it. Such a forgettable YA fantasy to me like I didn't vibe with the relationship I didn't really vibe with any of it. Haha this is not for me no. It wasn't horrendous like I feel like I may give supper to here a go in the future I'm not going to continue on with this series but I know supper to his adult debut I think is coming out next year and I might give that a go depending on what like the initial reviews are because I enjoyed supper to his writing but the plot is like every other YA fantasy plot the characters like every other YA fantasy plot like I just did not vibe before the coffee gets cold. Now this did make me cry but I feel like I've lost a bit of my love for it as time has gone on from that initial love. I'm gonna put I'm acquired taste don't like me acquire some taste I think it's a great book but I don't have very strong feelings towards it. Black enough this is an anthology I feel like I need to be harsh I feel like I need to be harsh in these ratings oh this is hard I'm gonna say push me up against them or give me a kiss then I might get excited I think it's hard with anthologies for them to be a hit. I love reading them but it's hard for them to be a hit because you have all these different authors some of them are gonna beat your taste some are like really not gonna beat your taste like really not gonna beat your taste it's hard for me to have like a really lasting feeling months on because I barely remember like when I've read a whole novel but this was like 10 pages of each story so I don't remember many of them so I feel like maybe I needed a bit more from it. The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta that's our that's gonna be our first Strut Gold that's gonna be our first Strut Gold ladies amazing one of my favorite books like I've read so far this year this is so good oh my god it's told in verse it's magical wonderful I just loved it I just absolutely loved it oh come tumbling down by Shrull and Maguire I'm gonna go for another We've Strut Gold ladies this was the first in the Wayward Children series I've read physically and I think it really helped me to enjoy it more that was my favorite so far in the series Crooked Kingdom um is it We've Strut Gold no I'm gonna put it in the album's amazing song to song I can't stress it enough like it was great I did give it like five stars basically it was like a 4.5 five stars and I really really enjoyed it but maybe it's because I had such high hopes for Six of Crows in Crooked Kingdom I feel like they're so hyped that I feel like I was always gonna be a bit disappointed by them not disappointed the album's amazing song to song can't stress enough like it's a great book but it's I didn't feel like it could ever be We've Strut Gold because I feel like the hype that had been set for it was too high and it was never gonna happen Daughter of Smoke and Bone push me up against the wall give me a kiss then I might get excited yeah like actually it needs to not give me a kiss because the romance was part of the problem the romance was insta love and I didn't find it particularly enjoyable I think you've got to love the romance to love this book and I just didn't the devil and the dark water it's another We've Strut Gold it has to be another We've Strut Gold it has to be another We've Strut Gold hey success I really enjoyed this it's a great historical mystery I really preferred it's the Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle which I read more recently I think this is better like I think give this a go if you've been scared off by the Seven Deaths or you read that and you didn't really enjoy it I've got my mum reading it at the moment I'm really excited to hear what she thinks but yeah Devil in the Dark Water was just like a great mystery Fable by Adrian Young we've got our first get that fire exit door I'm off this was so fucking boring that's what I'm gonna say no plot plot non-existent I don't know her no plot no plot no plot to this book you guys no plot it was not good I do not understand people I have people like this book like it was Fat Chance Tully Vega I have just read I literally that was my 50th book that I just finished I'm gonna put it in the album's amazing song to song I can't stress it enough I really enjoyed it great contemporary romance so many emotions it was really good but I'm not gonna say anything else because you gotta wait till the weekend you gotta wait till Sunday for that vlog get a life Chloe Brown it has to be another the album's amazing song to song I can't stress it enough it was only the second romance book that I've ever really really loved I really liked the romance I thought was so readable I'm really excited to read the second and third in the sisters series I've got them so hopefully I will get to them soon ghost squad oh now here's the thing I didn't dislike ghost squad so maybe but I don't remember anything about it so I feel like it has to go and I don't remember love it was all for a long time ago I don't really remember anything about it it's like this supernatural middle grade but it was just a bit like average for me and months on I don't remember anything I would like to defend myself but sadly that's the truth so good girls got to murder this is two in a series good girls got to murder is going we struck gold ladies good girl bad blood is going the album's amazing song to song really enjoyed these these are part of like my favourite YA murder mystery series at the moment good girl bad blood I did find a bit more predictable the ending did annoy me but other elements of it were better so like I thought the writing was better I thought the incorporation of the mixed media was better I thought the character arc that our main character went on was better but the ending was just really predictable and I feel like that's such a key element of the book it's okay for it for me it's I've talked about this before it's okay for me for the ending of a mystery to be like ambitious and not quite pull it off that I won't usually deduct points for that but if it's like a really predictable ending that I've been thinking for the whole time like oh I hope it isn't that then I will deduct points heartstop of volume four we struck gold ladies I said I was gonna try and be harsh but like these are I'm I'm being honest I'm being honest sure Jan heartstop I will always be we struck gold heartstop is the only series that I go into knowing what I'm gonna rate it like I know what I'm gonna rate it I know it's gonna be five stars I know it's gonna be a favorite it will never be less than that here's beauty by Jack Harbin get that fire exit door I'm off I'm sorry I'm really sorry I'm really really sorry this disappointed me because the first romance book I ever loved was meet cute club by Jack Harbin and then this was just uh not my favorite not my favorite it was a beauty in the B street telling but it was just it was just wasn't it for me it just wasn't it for me a issue of what comes next missed album's amazing song song I can't stress it enough I really enjoyed this I thought it was such an original sci-fi it's weird so like be prepared for that it's a bit strange I don't think everyone's gonna love it but for me I really enjoyed it but I understand why everyone's giving it like two stars but I really enjoyed it honey girl the album's amazing song song I really enjoyed this as well this was one I read recently in my last vlog I thought this was just another really nice like romance contemporary but the character goes on an amazing arc you know looking at burnout and work culture and self-pressure and having how to navigate that and how to like erase that kind of mentality and it's something that I can relate to a lot it's such a quiet book such a contained book I really really enjoyed it house in the cerulean sea we struggle with ladies I loved this book it's probably one of my favorite books I read this year I thought it was just so magical heartwarming cozy house of leaves this book took me two months to read two months two months where should this go I think I gave it like 2.5 three stars because there were elements of it that were five stars there were elements of it there were one star it's I've never had a book like that that's so you know different parts of it I react to so differently I'm gonna go for I'm an acquired taste don't like me acquired some taste because I can see how people love this book and get obsessed with it I can see how people like think this is the best book that has ever been written in the world it's not like it's not and if you think that you're incorrect but don't be fucking rude are you kidding me I think part of it may just be me and the fact that I was like really busy with uni at the time whatever I understand in order to live by you know me park hmm I'm gonna go the album's amazing song to song really insightful memoir I learned a lot about like North Korea and life in North Korea while reading it King and the dragonflies is gonna go is it me or is it the book I'm gonna go push me up against the wall give me a kiss and I might get excited yeah that that feels right this is another middle grade and again it just didn't quite hit the mark for me I think it's a lovely book it's about this boy actually it's actually gonna go I don't remember love it's awful like time ago no no it's not online it's gonna go and push me up against the wall yeah it's a lovely story about this boy whose brother has recently died and he thinks he can see him in the dragonflies it's also also about a friend who's being bullied but it just was missing a bit of spice a little bit of spice add a little bit of spice not spice is in like adult things this is the middle grade I mean I mean spice is in you know it's missing a bit of something something it's missing a bit of flavour it's missing a bit of like give me something you know legend born by Tracy Dion oh okay this is another push me up against the wall I didn't love this either I am gonna continue on the series because the ending to this was very good but I found the rest of the book a bit boring I found it a bit like monotonous a bit drawn out it's going there love is a revolution by Renee Watson another push me up against the wall I'm sorry I'm sorry to this man sorry to this man I wanted to love it I have loved Renee's Watson's books in the past but it was just again missing something it's like half a romance book half a learning to self-love book and unlike honey girl which I thought the self-love kind of element took control is what I think needs to happen in a situation it is one of the romance to control and the self-love was a subplot but I don't think self-love because it's such an internal thing that you can't show through dialogue you've got to have a lot of time with the character for that I don't think that works I think if you've got romance plot and self-love self-love needs to take precedence and I think that was the problem with this me my dad and the end of the rainbow album's amazing song to song lovely middle grade lovely lessons to be learned I've spoken about this one a lot it was a beautiful book I really enjoyed it the citizen mystery of the mesmerizing girl we've struck gold we struck gold we have struck gold I love this series so much it's my favorite series all these books are like a game like heart stopper I probably could have told you I was gonna give this five stars it was not an objective rating mama room still me the strange case of the alchemist daughter series like that is not objective in any way it's not objective that is just it's gonna be five stars and if there's any ever any more books which I like come on please but there probably won't be but like there will be five stars there will be five stars this series these characters are my favorites six of crows I was amazing song to song let's put it it's a croaking them together and that key I didn't love it as much as croaking them but it's not you know in the category below sorcery of oh we've got a couple shit ones coming up okay um sorcery of thorns I'm gonna go for push me up against will give me a kiss then I might get excited again felt like something was missing the romance in this I actually quite enjoyed but I felt like you know I'm as much as I love that it's a sandstone fantasy we need more sandstone fantasies I didn't love that I then lacked in certain areas I just was a bit bored and I didn't think some of the pot made sense I just I just have like very ambivalent feelings towards this bit supernova by Marissa Mayer oh this is hard I'm gonna go in retrospectiveness get the fireworks at door I'm off this is very disappointing which is part of why it's in a bomb category I expected so much and it delivers so little it was supposed to give but it did not give what needed to be gave it was just like such a shit ending such a shit ending to a series like so bad like very very bad like very very bad the characters did not act like themselves it made no sense to me what was happening it was just not good the baby is mine by oh yin can break away um I don't remember love it was an awful long time ago not terrible but not good either like I only just read it and I I already am like what was the point of that what was the point of that the writing was fun because this is a good author but like no plot not much going for it you know what I mean the big four by Agatha Christie get that fire exit door I'm off I will say I'm gonna put my laptop down for this if you haven't watched Buzzfeed Unsolved's episode on Aether Christie yet go do it I was already very interested in this topic before I've uploaded the episode on it I've read about this a lot but go watch it if you haven't already in basically Agatha went missing for like a week or something and it was just after she'd found out like her husband was cheating on her and stuff when it came to like she had a publishing deadline and she hadn't finished her book the next book in the Urquiporo series so this book I can forgive it because it's just a collection of short stories she'd written previously like kind of cobbled together because she was not in a good headspace sis had apparently like forgotten who she was so I can excuse it being one star but at the same time get that fire exit door I'm off like it wasn't good it wasn't good but it was never gonna be good because sis was going through it you know what I mean the fair fight um we'll put that in a lot of these now are kind of in the same category so the fair fight will put the album's amazing song to song I really enjoyed this great like historical fiction about like women in this time period like trying to beat boxes and like the constraints that women had to live under it's very very a very interesting book the fifth season by NK Jemisin I feel like objectively it is gold because it is so good and I know it's so good but I was a bit confused for some of it like personal enjoyment wise it's a clever book and I am not as clever as it so it's gonna go in the album's amazing song to song so is the five by Halle Rubinhold it's a really interesting book about the lives of Jack the Ripper's five chronological victims so the ones that we like pretty much know that he killed and like looking back at their lives it was just so interesting a how the author was able to find out this stuff about these women but also just kind of the lives they had to live as women born into poverty I really really enjoyed it okay I'm just gonna put the girl in the tower and went of the witch I don't even know if I should do them because they are rereads they are gold they're like my favorite fantasy series but they're like not from this year well they are because I reread them but they're rereads you know so I feel like they kind of shouldn't be there but hey hope they're there my favorite fantasy series you can't tell me otherwise they are amazing the hand on the wall by Maureen Johnson I'm gonna put in I'm an acquired taste don't like me a quiescent taste a fun murder mystery or it might actually be a mystery I can't remember everything that happened but it didn't quite hit the mark for me I feel like this series hasn't been quite as good as I wanted it to I think having read like YA mystery like a good girl's guide to murder I know what can be done in the YA genre and I feel like there's a really lot of really cool elements of this I love how it combines a historical storyline and this one and they're really interweaved um but it was just like okay it wasn't great the hongin murders the album's amazing song to song colors just enough really enjoyed it a fun like Japanese translated murder mystery I really want to read the other one that has already been translated this author has written like 70 books but only two have been translated to English the islanders by sv oh my god I don't know I'm gonna put it in get that fire exit door I'm off just because because of how disappointed I was by it because it was like a five star prediction it was two stars it wasn't like terrible there was some elements of it I really enjoyed but it was such a disappointment like so heartbreaking that I think it has to go there the raven boys I'm gonna put it in push me up against a wall because I think it felt like a prequel and I don't think this was me I think this is the book's fault in terms of like attributing blame it felt like I deserved more from that book so do you think I deserve better than that yes and it got going at the end that's why I say it felt like a prequel it felt like to set up the rest of the series and I don't appreciate that I need each book to stand on its own in a series if you've all got to be individual the sanatorium by Sarah Pierce I'm gonna put in the album's amazing song to song I can't stress it enough great book really really good book great debut thriller I thought it did such a great job seven desert event hard castle I'm gonna pin I'm an acquired taste don't like me acquire some taste I think it could have been me I don't know this one's a hard one I did enjoy the premise the idea a lot of the execution but the ending really let me down it really really let me down so I think I ended up giving it like 3.5 this time will be different by Misa Seguria I feel like I have to go in that as well I'm an acquired taste like I really enjoyed it but looking back I think the ending to this was a bit disappointing as well and it just didn't quite hit the mark that I wanted it to the traveling cat chronicles by hero kawa we've hit gold ladies my god I love that book I love that book and this book may require like no other it was such a sad book this is like relationship between a cat and their owner if you love cats you have to read this book like you don't have a choice like you you have to read it right now we need this this is essential this is a crisis watch over me my nina the court I'm gonna say we've struck gold I loved this it was such an interesting book it's a story of this girl who goes to work at this farm and there's basically ghosts there and you're like are these really ghosts or are these the ghosts of our past we don't know and then the last three when the tiger came down the mountain whites on race and other falsehoods and the year of the witching I'm gonna put them all in the album's amazing song to song when the tiger came down the mountain a great novella I really love this novella whites on race and falsehoods are really interesting and insightful like piece of essays on racism particularly around the death of George Floyd and the year of the witching a haunting beautiful horror historical fantasy so that is the 50 books I have read this year tear right I feel like that we've struck gold is realistic I feel like maybe I needed another category to split up the album's amazing song to song I can't stress it enough I feel like we needed another category here I feel like we needed one two three four we did seven categories we needed one more so apologies but they are all really good like four star books I hope you enjoyed this video I actually had so much fun tier ranking these I definitely want to do some more in the future so let me know other things you would like me to tier rank and if you got into the end of this video comment what emoji am I feeling like today comment a thumbs up emoji if you got into the end because I feel like my reading on the whole after doing that I feel very positive about my reading so far this year I felt like my reading on the whole has been pretty good and thank you so much for watching as always I will see you very soon in another video bye