 We figured out what I do like in books. Now it's time to figure out what I don't like. Hey friends, welcome back to my channel. I hope you're all good. So recently I did a video called a five-star audit where I went through books I've given five stars and I picked out similar features, tropes, aspects of books that I'm consistently giving five stars and a lot of you asked me to do a one-star audit. So that's what we're gonna be doing today. We're gonna be figuring out what do I hate in books. Now if I were to do a one-star audit we'd literally have like five books to pull from. I very rarely give one stars. It's literally if it's like offensive or like I really really really hate it. But I feel like as time goes on I'm especially getting good at not picking up books so that I'm gonna hate that much. So this is gonna be like a one and two star audit. I'm gonna be using one and two star books that I have read but yeah let's just head over to Goodreads, have a look at what I've got and see what am I rating low. So when I did this for the five-star audit I had to have three books I had that trope or feature in. This because I have so many less one or two stars we're gonna have to change up the barometers a bit. I'm looking for at least two books. Ideally three, ideally three books that have had that feature but if it's only two and like maybe I've subconsciously realized I don't like that and I've stopped doing that kind of thing I still think it's something we can talk about. The rules don't apply. And I looked for ten features in the five-star audit video. Again I've read so many less two and one stars then I have five stars. So I'm gonna look for between five to eight. If we can make it to ten I'll be so happy but if we only get like six that's fine because like proportionally I've read so many less one and two stars. So maybe something that we can start with is like spiritual self-help. I've read at least two that I've given low ratings. So we've got Only Love Is Real, oh god that was a Kylie Jenner book. That was one of Kylie Jenner's favorite books. Yeah Power of Your Subconscious Mind. Oh yeah The Untethered Soul. I didn't like any of those. The Untethered Soul was when I read to the voluntarily because here's the thing I love yoga. I'm so happy. I swear I swear I've been doing yoga. Right and I love meditation and I love bettering yourself and like when I watch Yoga with Adrienne right like Queen literally I'm like emotionally bondage done. You know when I watch her I want to kind of think the way that she does and I want to look after myself in that way but then when I try and read some spiritual self-help sometimes it doesn't work. It just doesn't seem for me in like written format. Now if Yoga with Adrienne were to write a spiritual-esque self-help book I think I'd give it five stars because I just love her but all these guys I keep reading. So yeah first was spiritual self-help books and in principle I don't. I'm open to that. Like I said I love yoga and meditation like I'm open to us talking about that. I listen to a podcast. What is a podcast called? It's a podcast by a Buddhist monk that I listen to. I really enjoy it and I enjoy the way they speak. The way out is in. Zen and the art of living. I like that. I love that podcast but book form something about it just don't like. In terms of what I have on my TBI I don't really have a lot because as you can tell it's something I figured out I don't like but I do have the tree of yoga and I do I do want to love this because it's maybe about yoga maybe I'll be more into it. Like I you know I really really enjoy yoga and that you know my Queen Yoga with Adrienne recommended it but she also recommended some other books I didn't like so. I don't know we shall see but hopefully I will enjoy this but yeah like for all of these we're gonna try and find you know books on my TBR that have that feature because that's what we did for the five star audit but like I don't know if it's gonna be as easy because I try not to buy stuff I don't think I'm gonna like. Next we can probably say when I read a book and it's like young YA I keep having an issue with that. Midnight in Everwood this Midnight in Everwood is not good that was the first book I read this year and I hated it. You've also got The Gilded Ones by Namina Fauna, Belladonna by Adeline Grace, Cinderella is dead there's just like quite a few that I I felt like read young. Right next was Young YA which I have no way of telling what on my TBR is gonna be Young YA I really don't. The Young YA book sneaking on to my TBR because that's my biggest problem I think with these books is that it almost needs to be like a separate age category like these are books that I think should be marketed towards like 12 and 13 year olds 11, 12 and 13 right. I was reading YA by the time I was 11. I don't think 11 year olds are really reading middle grade they're reading YA and I think it's so important that this YA exists and these books exist for this age group but what you want to be reading at like 11 and 12 versus 16 is like very different things and yes I think also the part of the problem is we get used to YA that's really written for adult audiences because that's an issue as well so I think this should exist right but I just don't want to be reading it and I know I don't but people aren't talking about when a YA book is released oh this is Young YA people aren't talking about that and again this is an issue I have with like expectations versus reality right middle grade when I read it I really enjoy it because I know what I'm getting myself in for but when I pick up a YA book I expect it to be similar to other YA books that I read and then it ends up not being to other YA books that I read. I've heard some people say maybe gallant which makes me nervous because a lot of people have told me that I'm gonna love this as well it's following a 16 year old but I heard some people going oh is this middle grade so I don't know maybe gallant maybe I'll not like gallant but yeah I think actually it's like an expectations situation. I have quite a few murder mysteries I think that I've given two stars we have got if I disappear Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder Malabar Hill what is Malabar Hill uh like the Christian murder on the links we've got one star somewhere for Agatha the big four oh girl not the big four like I'm not gonna say murder mysteries as a feature that I give low ratings but I think I am so picky now with murder mysteries because I read a lot of them and I love them and I expect so much from them that like I think perhaps like there's some examples on here like Widows of Malabar Hill that I feel like if I were to read a fantasy book and feel how I felt about the fantasy book how I felt about that like in terms of quality and story I would give the fantasy a three star but I am just so disappointed because I'm so excited in time I'm getting to read a murder mystery that I am like how dare you two star two star how dare you so I'd say like murder mysteries that disappoint me but there's no way of like knowing that before going into them but it is a common theme that if I feel let down by a murder mystery whereas perhaps I would have given that book a three star in a different genre I'm like no no no no two star so yeah we have another expectations versus reality here this is again one that I can't really draw out because I hope all the mystery in the murder mysteries I have my tbi I'm gonna love but when they disappoint me they disappoint me like because all they're gonna do is disappoint me we really don't get along like if they disappoint me it's like being let down by like a close friend you know if you're let down by someone you thought would let you down who cares right if you're let down by someone you you thought would never betray you then it it hits hard so again like I don't have any that I could show you that I think it's gonna disappoint me because I really hope they're not going to but inevitably there's some imposters here that I that are gonna betray my trust but 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two perspectives and they're following completely different storylines i don't mind it when there's mode i love it in fact there's multiple perspectives but i want us to all be contributing contributing to the same storyline okay so for this we have got there's loads shiva has that and ember in the ashes has that i could say i think the ones we're meant to find you could argue has that hairpin bridge kind of has that oh next year and hirvana definitely has that that's one where it's set in the present day versus the past yeah i don't like split timeline slash storyline books i like it multiple perspectives but i want us to all be following the same story i want a cohesive story okay split timelines is an interesting one again because you don't always hear people talk about them sometimes i pick a book up and it's got a split timeline i'm like we didn't discuss this i'm so sorry i know but like honestly i just feel so deceived are there any on my tbr that i know have got split timelines no here's the thing right i don't mind it in books when there's like an obviously subordinate timeline it's when they're equal that i find it difficult so like i recently read in my dreams i hold a knife and i loved that but i felt like the present day timeline was obviously the most like serious timeline you know it was the main story and it was like feeding informations the other timeline but i don't mind that it's when it's two story lines or two timelines there are like separate stories that i object to so like i'm pretty sure the it girl by ruth wear has flashback scenes maybe it has like before and after that could make me not like it but i feel like it's okay if like the present day is the main timeline and the before is informing what we find out in the present i don't mind that so this one is a risk i'm a bit nervous because i love ruth wear but this could be the first ruth wear i hate because it has split timelines i would say now this is people are gonna get mad at me for this but i would say we have more romances in here than is proportionate for how many romances i read you know we know i have good luck with some romances i would say you know aliexpress would i always give five stars talia hibbet i gave four and five stars but we've got his beauty by jack carban um i mean there's lots in here that have romance subplots like bella donna by adlyn grace is basically a romance red white and royal blue by kasey mccristen next year and her vanna oh let's not even talk about midnight sun i just normal people by sally rooney good class is having a romantic element so yeah romances aren't for me i don't know now i don't want to say romances for me because i've loved some romances that i've read you know i love aliexpress word she can do no wrong but there's obviously some romances in there that a lot of other people have loved and i just could not get on board with so yeah romances listen i don't think i'm a romance girlie i mean i enjoy i enjoy them from time to time but one that i am nervous about is one of my most anticipated releases of the year that i still haven't got to is yeah bebruna by nina lakor this is technically classed as a romance and i love nina lakor but like i don't know how i feel about this one we'll have to see i need i need to read this soon it's like very short it's less than 300 pages and the font is possibly the biggest font i've ever seen in the book of the month book it's absolutely huge i also have spoiler alert by alivia date this one is one that i put off more but again like i love tally a hibbit like i do love a good romance but it's just sometimes they let me down so i don't know we'll see we'll see when i read these when i end up thinking about them but this is the reason i don't pick up many romances because proportionally for how many i read there's far too many that i've given like two stars i also think this isn't necessarily like a feature but there's quite a lot of ends of series on here that i am disappointed by i think if i like have again it's similar to murder mysteries where if i put all that effort into reading a whole series and i'm disappointed by the ending whereas i would probably give that a three star in other circumstances if it was like the first book in a series or whatever like a standalone and i had that amount of enjoyment and thought the same thoughts because it's the last book in a series and i've wasted my time i tend to rate them lower so we've got the king of crows by libra bray we've got um binti the night masquerade we've got super no virus omega we've got there's definitely more uh oh yeah ruin and rising but what do you go so i think that that is something for me where like if i've invested that amount of time i haven't finished many series apparently this is why maybe this is proof i shouldn't finish series maybe i've been right all along and i've been trying to correct in an instinct that is correct right obviously i should just never finish a series again so um i'm letting go of my series goal yep yep yep yep yep or finishing a certain amount of series yeah uh again this is very similar to expectations like i think that's often what makes me give a book to starts is feeling let down you know and if i've invested that time i've chosen you as a series i actually finished you know how rare that is and you let me down oh is there any ends of series that i fear could let me down i'm i am putting off girls of fate in theory i don't know where that is but i'm putting off reading girls of fate in theory i'm very nervous about that one especially because i haven't read the last two for a long time and i haven't heard anyone really speak about girls of fate in theory i'm a little bit concerned and girls of someone's shadow was like a three star a little bit concerned but again there's no way of really knowing this until you read them and they let you down and you feel betrayed okay we've got six let's try and get if we get two more and get to eight i'll be so proud of myself let's try and really look at those one stars but i very rarely give out any one star so we have Girl Missing by Sophie McKenzie which doesn't really count that was a reread from my chartered as was Jonas the beautiful dead i was obsessed with that book when i was younger but not anymore the gender game uh rebel city of injera i mean those two i i am not a big fan of i mean this is only two and one of them is Kenseth and Kylie Jenner so like the fates weren't in its favor but i am not a fan of YA dystopia and i think i know that now i think i've not really read any YA dystopia since then so i think we can count this as one oh god the gender game was so bad like this is the worst this is the worst this is the worst yeah like sci-fi YA dystopia oh i don't like it i often find it very heavy-handed with what it's trying to say i don't think i would mind like adult dystopia quite as much but YA it's just on the nose and i was never a dystopia girly you remember when everyone was like the maze runner the hunger games i never read any of them i didn't like them i was to the my paranormal romance era at 12 years old at that point so it's just never been for me and i think it's just something that like and not as much of it comes out anymore but i think if something were to come out i don't think i would read it yeah YA dystopia is not for me it's never been for me i was never a maze runner was the other one divergent hunger games never was that girly i don't think i have any YA uh sci-fi on my tbr both of those books that i read were for videos neither the more ones i picked up because i was interested in that book and i think the gender game was like for booktubers give me reading prompts video and it was like pick pick up a one star prediction or something and it was a one star so i don't pick this up in my own time i know pretty much to stay away from this it's not for me again i don't mind like adult dystopia you know i think i'm gonna really love station 11 by mvc john mandel like you know these kind of books i think i do enjoy but i think YA often have a message that they want to give that can be a little bit like heavy-handed and that's just not what i'm looking for okay let's let's let's just end it with unreliable narrator right we've got the silent patient no up here we've got rock paper scissors by lasfini and we've got survived the night by ryanie seger i don't like unreliable narrators also add to the fact that it's often not always not in all those cases but often women who have mental health issues and it's like that makes them unreliable you know what i mean i just don't like it i don't like unreliable narrators i don't think well actually no that's a lie here's the thing i do sometimes like unreliable narrators so i'm lying to you i did tell a bit of a lie there but i did tell a bit of a lie there but it's when it's done in a way that is like i think to do with mental health or a disability like in rock paper scissors her husband the husband in the relationship has face blindness and i just don't like it when disability or i don't know if you would call face blindness a disability sorry if i'm incorrect there but you know what i mean you know in silent patient we've got a woman who killed her husband and doesn't speak and there's something mentally wrong with her everyone says in survive the night she has some kind of like trauma imagines movies imagines movies in her brain i don't know but when someone's like mental health or health in general is used as an excuse for them to be an unreliable narrator i don't like that i just think it's a cheap way out and i think it can be offensive to many people i do like it when an unreliable narrator is just shady if you're just shady and just not telling us everything then i like that you know if you're like a little bit creepy a little bit suspicious and we can't trust you then i do like that but when it's played up on health aspects i don't like that i find it cheap and finally yeah we had unreliable narrator but like it's unreliable because of mental health issues or disabilities or you know being divergent from divergent being divergent from what the average person is like i don't think i know the correct way to phrase all of that but i don't like it when authors do it it feels like a cheap shot makes me angry especially when it's woman mentally ill right oh my god she's a woman and she's like depressed so like of course she's a liar i hate it i hate it it really really annoys me i was angry i was angry but like i said i actually love an unreliable narrator if they're shady right i read murder mysteries if it you know it turns out a narrator is unreliable we know we can't really trust a narrator like if we know that it's just because we can't really trust them i like that but just don't be like a woman woman with i don't know insert mental illness here we can't trust her do you know what i mean i hate i hate that it just it offends me it offends me so that's a surefire way for me to rate your book liar so there we have it that is my one to two star one to two star audit i feel like we've learned something here and that i should never read romance never finish series and never read murder mystery again because it's the in case they betray me i'll give it a two star if they do anyways i hope you guys enjoyed this video i love doing these audits it's so interesting i don't know what other audits we can do but it's it's interesting like evaluating my reading i'm a bit of a stats girlie you know so i really like evaluating stuff and thinking what's the truth behind the ratings i don't know um again make sure you check out atlasvpn down below thank you so much again to them for sponsoring this video and if you got onto the end what should we comment comment the thumbs down emoji everyone's going to get onto video be like why does everyone hate me again comment the thumbs down emoji if we got to the 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