 it. It's a fun, quick read, fun, quick horror. I had no desire to pick it up. Hello everyone! So in this vlog I'm so excited. I'm actually quite nervous for this though. Basically a couple years ago, years and years and years and years and years ago, right back at the start of my channel I did reading the highest rated books on my TBR. And I've always meant to do reading the lowest rated books on my TBR but I've always put it off. You are such a bunch of cowards. You are such a bunch of cowards. I think just out of fear and just out of, you know, procrastinating. I just put the video off but we're gonna do it. We're gonna read the lowest rated books on my own TBR this video. I'm excited. I actually got more excited after I did a whole video reacting, this was like probably a year ago now, reacting to the lowest rated books that I've read. And there were quite a few on that list that I'd really loved. Like Catherine House for example is one that springs to mind was at the time in like the 10 lowest rated books that I'd ever read. And I love Catherine House. That's a five star. It was a top 10 book for me the year that I read it. So I feel like we could find a top 10 book here because I do sometimes go against the mold. It's so different. Just so different. What's gonna be fun, we're gonna read the book and then something I thought would be fun is that we'll maybe read a few of the reviews afterwards to see what other people were thinking. I don't usually do that with the books I read but because these are low rated I would love to see why they're low rated. And then regardless of whether I like the book or not, we'll come up with probably three reasons as to why I can understand it's low rating, even if I liked it. I mean that'll be easy to come up with if I didn't like it. But if I did, we'll kind of come up with some ideas as to why it's low rated. So I've got my good reads open in front of me, my own TBR shelf, 226 books on here. I ain't got a problem or anything. Stop it. Get some help. I remember when I hit like 80 books on my TBR, like 100. I was like, this is a good number to stick at. Or like when I hit 100 I was just shamed. I was like, 100? Nice. And then I'm like, yeah, 226. Everyone live with it. Okay, what I'm gonna try and do is I'm gonna click average rating and then I'm gonna zoom in and we're gonna see what it is. Pride and Pride. Okay, I've been having a problem with my edition of Pride and Pride. I wonder if this is what happened. Where like however I saw my list, where it's like by number of ratings, because sometimes I like to see that kind of stuff or they add it to my TBR, like when I manually myself saw it, Pride and Pride just comes up first. Is it me? Am I the drama? I don't think I'm the drama. Maybe I am. But I haven't average rating a full point, do I? So it's not gonna be that. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. The Perishing by Natasha Dion, I think is how I say her name. 2.84. That could be the lowest rated book I've ever read. Hang on. I don't think I've ever seen it before. Let me go to my books and my red. Okay, I've read something with a 2.80. I read this for journalism, but it has five ratings, so that's not really legit. But cracking out, Rebel City of Indra by Kendall and Kylie Jenner has a 2.96. So this is a 2.84. Okay, we're reading that. I don't know too much about it other than it's, I think, a set in the 1920s, New York, and following this Black Time Traveler. I think we go in the future as well. I'm gonna be intrigued to read that. Interesting. Okay, next one. Oh, okay, The Woods Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins with a 3.09. Interesting. I know this is like a slasher horror YA with these cheapest friends go on this hike together and then horror stuff starts occurring, I think, is the entire premise really. And I know that Stephanie Perkins' horror, I'm not particularly surprised she's on here because I know that her horror has been very mixed, mixed bag. I wonder what the rating for this someone in your house is because that was her first horror. I don't think either of them have been particularly popular. That's got a 3.42, so it's got a higher rating than The Woods Always Watching. But compared to like her, you know, Anna and French Kiss back in the day with a 3.99, her horror isn't doing it, rather girly. So I'm excited to see what I think about this because I have been wanting to read these. I feel like this is the kind of thing I could enjoy more than the general population because I like kind of crazy, ridiculous, over-the-top plot. Bus, club, another club, another club, plane, next place. Whereas I think some people are looking for more realism in their books, I don't mind if it's a bit ridiculous and I feel like that's what I've kind of heard on The Great Blind. And then what is our third one? Oh shit. Witches, steeped in gold, yeah. I could have probably predicted this would be on here too. This was one of my most anticipated releases. When I was like, when it was coming out, before it was coming out, I was so excited, I like, flooded the author on Twitter, I was like, swiped. And then it hasn't had the best reviews. I just noticed this African inspired fantasy with witches. Now I have, I will say, I've been loving a lot of witch books lately. I loved The Once and Future Witches last year. I really enjoyed the Raven series. I've really been enjoying witchy vibes, me and the witches, you know? I feel like I could enter my witch eras. But I have been very scared to read this because I was so excited for it and then it hasn't had good reviews. So anyway, those are the three books I'm going to be reading. I wonder what else there was. Like A Sister, I didn't know that had a low review. Switch by A.S. King. I would have loved to read that. I know A.S. King's a polarizing figure. A.S. King's interesting. We're not obviously going to be reading this. A Star Daughter. I could have been one of those murderers. Anyway, sorry, I'm getting interested. A.S. King I have an interesting relationship with. Great. I either give her books Five Stars and they're some of my favorite book I've read that year up there, top 10. Or I give them like a two star. Yeah, please ignore real dates. I gave Five Stars. Also, Passengers I think was a 2.5, Rarity Boy was a 2.5 and Dick was a 5. So we have a very mixed relationship. So I don't know which of those Switch would fall under. I would have loved if Switch had been a bit lower rated and we could have ended up reading that because I'm a bit scared of which student got. I'd rather read Switch, but we're going to read Witch of Seed and Gold. So I don't know which of these I'm going to start with, but I will see you when I start the first book. Book one. I chose The Woods Always Watching because it's a quick read. And also it's the book that had already been on TBR Cluedo. So I was kind of like, I'd already mentally prepared myself to read it. Sometimes I have to like really work myself up to being like, okay, I'm going to read this book next. Do you know what I mean? Like I have to get myself, I have to like fill the fantasy. When it's like a surprise video, I have to, yeah, mentally prepare myself for reading that book. And I'm halfway through and I'm actually really enjoying this. Don't be shocked. You're shocked. You're shocked. It's not a Five Star barely means, but this is like a four star for me at the moment. I'm actually enjoying it and it's got, I mean I was going to say it's got bad reviews, but I mean that's every book in this video. That's our point. So basically we've got best friends Nina and Josie who are going away to university, but before they do so, they are going on this hike together. You're like gal gal. They're like woefully unprepared. They don't really understand how hiking camping works. And the whole first half has been the tension building of us obviously knowing something terrible is going to happen. And also them kind of negotiating the issues that they're feeling that the hurt that they're feeling about this kind of university, them being apart, you know, that happening, their relationship kind of suffering in the first half. And then something literally just happened like 10 pages ago. My jaw dropped. I was like that. I hate it. I forgot I'm not great with like gruesome horror. I kind of like wanted to look away and I was like hang on I can't look away and read the book. I'm really enjoying it. I feel like the writing's fine, you know, it's not like it's not like a work of art, you know what I mean? But I feel like the tension has been built very well. The pacing's worked well. It's a nice short book. I don't think it needs to be much longer. The first half has definitely been the calm before the storm and you know that throughout the first half. But I'm ready for the second half to go bonkers. Now if it doesn't go bonkers, will I be a bit disappointed? Yeah, basically in the first half, the girls were together, but in the second half, it seems like they're going to be separated pretty much the second half. And I just feel very tense. I feel very into the book. I feel very like caught up in it all. So I'm enjoying it. Like I don't have much to say about it. It's not a particularly, you know, insightful book. But I like the discussions around their relationship. I think having been on the easy hike that was Pulpit Rock a couple weeks ago, I like can kind of picture the stakes a lot better in this situation. I mean, Pulpit Rock, I was actually fearing for my life. I was like, I'm about to fall down and crack my head open. It was a real possibility. It was really, it was really, really a possibility. I'm really excited to see where this goes. The synopsis doesn't say what has happened at the halfway point. So I'm going to try and like keep it slim. But I'm enjoying it. It's a fun, quick read, fun, quick horror. And I feel like I'm participating in Summer Ween, which is all I wanted. I wanted to do Summer Ween properly. But having been ill last week, I was like, I'm just not up for it. And so this is my Summer Ween participation and watching all the vlogs. So yeah, I'm home alone this evening, which I don't know how much reading of this I'll actually get done, but I'm going to order some food in, which I never do. Obviously, when we were at uni a lot, Tom and I would get takeaway a lot. And we live where we live now back at home, specifically my house. His house, not so much, but my house like, girl, there's not a lot of like food you can order. I can't order McDonald's. I can't order what else would we use to order a lot, like Pizza Hut. Like I can't order a lot of what I used to would have ordered once upon a time. So I think I'm going to get some starters from Prezzo, which I know sounds bougie if you're in the UK, Prezzo's like a restaurant. But there's only fast food I can get as KFC and I don't like KFCs. I think I'm going to order that and some sweet stuff because I'm home alone. I could not be bothered to cook. And we'll see if I read it tonight. I don't know if I will, but if not, I will speak to you soon. I'm very intrigued to see where it's going to go. Okay, so for dinner, I got some of the bruschetta from Prezzo and crispy mozzarella. I'm obsessed with their bruschetta. It's literally so good. And then I'm not going to have both of these now, obviously, but I got a biscuit cookie cone and a cornflake brownie, which I've already had the corner of and it's really good. So I love my life. Okay, this is a near impossible book to discuss. I actually can't even speak to you about it. There's a lot to tackle here. First things first, this is a book of two halves like I was kind of predicting. The first half is kind of chill, ominous. You don't really know which direction the book is going to go. Is it going to be like supernatural horror? Is it going to be like slashery? Don't really know the direction it's going to go in. Halfway, it flips on you. It flips on you and it goes crazy. The book is crazy. I couldn't read section of this. I felt so sick. Like it's some of the most graphic depictions of gore that I've read in a long time, especially a YA book. I am in two minds about this book because I actually enjoyed the reading experience of it. I enjoyed reading it, but it's taken me a week to read a 200 page book. I'm not one of those people that forgive and forget. I'm one of those people that fucking take score. I had no desire to pick it up. Do you know what I mean? When I wasn't reading it, I didn't want, like I didn't feel the need to read it. I wasn't pushed to read it. I wasn't excited to read it. But I read the last 80ish pages this morning in one go and I enjoyed it. So like, how do I read that? I feel like I'm going to give it a four star in terms of enjoyment, but demote it to a 3.5 because I didn't want to pick it up. But I really enjoyed this. I enjoyed the friendship that the girls had. The writing was solid. The writing is solid writing. It's good. Like the pacing is good. The characters are good. The gore is a lot. I would have to put it down for a couple seconds or a minute and then pick it back up. And it takes a lot for a book to do that to me. I mean, I will say it's ridiculous. Like it is ridiculous. Like especially the ending, the last twist, girl. I actually laughed out loud. It was that. It was like when a book is so ridiculous and nonsensical and just like, girl, come on. Like, I mean, like it's reinvented into fantasy territory here. Like this is not happening. Usually it's a side of a bad book when I laugh out loud and it's sheer stupidity, but I actually kind of bought into it in that kind of slashariness, like ridiculousness. I liked that. So I don't think this deserves to be one of the lowest rated books on my TBR. I'm going to say it. I've read far worse books than this. And I think this had like a 3.06 average rating. And I've read so many worse books than this that should be lower in my opinion. But I can understand why people don't like it. So let's quickly read a few of the reviews. Let's read some of the lower rated reviews. So it's pretty much a lot of three stars. Oh, it's got a 3.09 average rating. A lot of three stars is what has given it this rating. Main issue is that it took a while to get into it and nothing happens for the first 100 pages or so. That is true. But I think it builds the suspense quite well. The two main characters were good at times but they got on my nerves. I think they should have been more developed. Certain aspects of the plot especially and what unrealistic. I mean, it's beyond unrealistic. One star, geez Louise. You've been very, very harsh. Nice to meet you, Kelly. I don't think it deserves a one star. I don't think it's that bad. Nothing happens in the book. When something does happen it's so unbelievable. No motivational backstory is ever given for the villains. Ah, I suppose that's true. But like, I think that can go both ways. I think you can be like bitch, why are you giving me a backstory? Because without spoiling anything. For like the villain character aura part of the story. Some backstories tend to be given but I think when you give a given, giving a backstory to the malevolent thought in your story, whatever form that takes, it can be seen as why you're doing that. Does the author want us to sympathize with this evil, evil thing, you know? And then other breeders are going to be like, no, I want to understand their motivations more, like why they're doing what they do. So it's a difficult line to tread. I think I don't need it all the time. Like things can just be shitty. People can be shitty. People can be bad people. I don't think you need necessarily a backstory, but I'm not gonna be like, if I get one, I'm not gonna critique it either. I didn't feel like that. So I guess my three reasons as to why I think that this book is understandably rated low even though I enjoyed it. This is fun. Number one, I think given that Stephanie Perkins before this wrote romance and that might be where some of her audience are coming from and they're kind of pivoting and the fact that it's also YA, I think it could be too gory for some people. Understandably there were times for me where I was like, holy shit, like this is a lot. A version adult description for me of what was happening. Number two, I think that split book where it's like slow and then ridiculous. I can understand why that wouldn't be for some people. I think I actually quite enjoyed it, but you know, all of these critiques could be part of the reason why I didn't really feel incentivized to pick it up. Once I did pick it up, I enjoyed it, but I didn't feel incentivized. And what else? We need a third one. The more I think about how unrealistic a lot of this was. It's not realistic. It's just not realistic. Unrealistic in terms of like human incapability of doing certain things of like living past something or like being able to do stuff when other stuff has happened to you. Like it was just unrealistic. It's just not gonna happen. I don't know. It's a slasher guys. It's a slasher. So like it's gonna be a bit ridiculous and over the top and like people are gonna find lists like superhuman strength from somewhere. But I guess yeah, it's unrealistic. At the ending did get me. The ending did make me laugh. I don't think it was supposed to. So we'll go with that as our three. But yeah, I don't think this deserves to be one of the lowest rated books on my TBR. I've read far worse and I actually think I might try there's someone inside your house. I actually might. I think I like this kind of slasher-iness. But if I do pick that one up and it takes me a while to get through it, then like get rid because they're 200 pages long. Like it should be a book I read in a day and I read it in a week. So that is a drawback of it. Anyway, let's get into our second book. All right, book two everyone. The lowest rated book I've ever read. Like this is it. I know there's one book there that's been rated by like four people and someone was salty, probably like the ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend of the writer and gave him one star or some shit. So this is really the lowest rated book I've ever read. And I don't think it deserves to be, but I don't know how much I'm enjoying it. So I think I've pitched this before as like a time traveler, but it's not really. It's about an immortal person who wakes up in New York, not New York. I said New York for the first time, LA, wakes up in LA. In the 1930s, doesn't remember who they are and we're kind of hearing from them. And then them I think in, are we going to say in the future 2102 or 2102? We're going to say 21, because we say 2000 now, 2022. We're going to say 2102 or 2102. Anyways, I'm here to investigate. We're hearing from them as well. I think like aged up in the future. I mean, she's a weird book. She's a weird girl, but like not weird in a fun way. It's kind of literary fiction. It's kind of fabulous. It's kind of historical fiction. It's kind of a lot. I don't know what it's trying to do. The writing I think is good. It reminds me of some like weird literary fiction I've read before. It's in that kind of vein. I think the writing is written well. The first 60 pages of this, I would say I was really enjoying it. I really liked the character. I feel like we're very like moments of the book. I think it might even be that she speaks to us directly, or at least it feels that way, kind of addressing us as the audience. So you feel very close to her, like we're kind of bestie mates. And the book feels a lot like a love letter to the history of our lay to me and the eras. And I feel like we're just going to get that even more kind of like following the past character through history and major events that happen. But I'm kind of, there's moments where I'm a bit confused. I'm a little bit confused and I don't really understand what's going on. And it just breaks the flow of reading it, right? There's moments that kind of get a bit philosophical or like meaning of life and like, or she'll be somewhere and then she'll believe that she's somewhere else and it's kind of like made up scenario. And that scenario is very like dreamlike and difficult to follow. And it just breaks the flow of me enjoying the book. You ruined it. You know, I'm halfway through by the way. Don't think I said that. I'm 150 pages in. It is a slow read. You have to really pay attention to what's being said. It's not a quick easy breezy beautiful cover girl read. I don't think it's the worst book I've ever read though. There's many worse books. There's many books out there that for me are a lot more poorly written and just shit than this. And I don't think it's shit. I think it's trying to do a lot. I think it's a very ambitious book. I think it's like wanting to really achieve a literary feat. And I don't know if I know what that literary feat is. I want to try and finish it tonight though. I want to try and read the next 150 pages this evening. It's a very difficult book to discuss and I really don't know how I feel about it. I can perhaps see what it has got the low rating, but I don't think it deserves to be the lowest rated book I've ever read. This book is near impossible to talk about. I don't know what I think of it. I still don't. There's some aspects of it that are like one star. There's some aspects of it that are five star. Not many that are five star. Quite a bit that are four star. Yeah, I found it very difficult to focus at points in this book. It's very confusing, but I really liked it. Oh my god. By the way, I haven't worn my retainer for many years properly and I've been wearing it again lately and my teeth are being uprooted and I'm in so much pain to get the hunt here. Talking hurts. This is the worst. This is the worst. This is the worst. Yeah. But the writing, I think, is really good writing. I think this is really clever, clever writing. It's not really a magical and fabulismy book. It's more a historical fiction about black communities and how important they are, but the historical erasure and dismantling of them. It's about ingrained trauma within black communities, the kind of legacy of trauma that many people suffer from. It's got a lot of really interesting points that it tries to make and I think it was written very well in terms of the quality of the writing. I think it's a very clever book. I think the problem with why this is rated so low is it was a book of the month pick, right? That's how I got it. I think it's been exposed to audiences that is not its target audience. I think this is quite a niche book looking for quite a niche audience, particularly quite, you know, a literary fiction, you know, kind of high brown audience is what it's looking for. And I think, you know, that audience does exist for them book of the month, but a lot of book of the month readers are like thriller readers, romance readers. You know, it kind of is more like mainstream. For a wider general audience is the books they usually pick. So I feel like by being a book of the month pick and a lot of people probably discovered it through that, it perhaps isn't reaching the correct audience. And that is number one reason. Let's get the reasons up quickly. Number one reason why I think the rating is so low. Number two, because it is confusing at times. Number three, I guess there really isn't any plot. There's not really an in-depth plot that happens. This is a mild spoiler if anyone cares, but like you get told literally at the start a black immortal in 1930s, essentially seeks to recover the memory of her past. That's kind of the reveal at the end. You know she's an immortal throughout the whole book. Like you know that, like you know that from page 10. Do you know what I mean? But then that is also kind of the reveal at the end. So there's not, in terms of plot, nothing crazy happens, nothing unforeseen happens. So I can understand it's low rating. I'm going to give it a three star. It wasn't great, wasn't bad. You know, I don't think it deserves to be the lowest rated book I've ever read when Kendall and Kylie Jenner's book is right there. I think it has a lot of interesting stuff to say. I think people, A, I don't think it's being pitched right. I think people are expecting something a bit more magical or it's really historical fiction. And I don't think it's reaching or has reached the correct audiences. But it was a very interesting read and kind of a book that made me stop and think for the first time in a while where I was like, huh, like this is very different than what I usually read. And whilst I'm struggling with aspects of it, I do appreciate it in the moment. I don't think it's going to stick with me, however. I don't think it's given me any long lasting revelations, but it was still an interesting, insightful, okay book. It was fine, you know? So we're doing okay. I hate myself. I hate myself. I don't want to say anything too soon. But we've had a four star and a three star while reading the lowest rated books that I own. So that's not terrible. So yeah, let's go ahead and read our last book. I actually can't do the last time I was happy. I literally can't tell you. I have 100 pages into which is steeped in gold, my lovely fair elite edition. And guys, I don't have a clue what's going on. I don't, I don't understand what's happening. I have zilch zero zero reading comprehension of this book. I don't understand it. I don't, I don't understand and I feel really bad and I'm very sad. You know, this was last year one of my most anticipated releases. And I just, I just have zero reading comprehension of what's going on. So we've got these two perspectives. One has spent her life in prison is kind of the belief she's the rightful heir to the throne. And the other is the princess equivalent, I guess I can't remember what her official term is. But she's kind of working with the resistance who kind of want to unalive her mum, basically. And I just, I really don't understand what is happening. You know, it's the case of there's so much world building. It is, it's too much. Like, we're constantly getting information and facts and information about the world and the politics and the way this works and like history. And it's just like, I can't take it all in. My biggest issue and I have this YA fantasy when I don't like how it's written is I can't picture it. And that leads to me not taking anything of the book in, you know, some people when they read books don't picture it in their head at all. But if I can't picture a scene, if I can't think I constantly this book, I can't figure out where we are, what we're doing, you know, the setting that we're in, if I can't pitch that, I lose it. And I'm really struggling. I've barely been able to picture much of what's been happening. We kind of switch locations very quickly with and I'm like, oh my God, and obviously it alternates perspective. So sometimes I'm forgetting what's been happening. I've read this all today, by the way, it's not like it's taken me a long time. I have barely taken any of this book in. I might have to DNF it. I never DNF. You guys know I never DNF, but I feel like with this video with me reading the lowest rate and I've done well so far and I've been able to see the positives. But I don't know if I can do this. Like what's the point of me reading this book if I literally don't understand what's going on? You guys, I don't understand anything. I don't understand anything. And I feel terrible. I'm gonna read another 100 pages. We'll give it to page 200. If I get into it after that, I get into it. I mean, look, it's fucking this fairy-loot edition has got a bookmark ribbon. I don't want to DNF it. Look at her. I love bookmark ribbons. So sad. But what is the point of me reading it if I have no clue what's going on, you know? Now, I will say, I think there needs to be a discussion around and there has been discussions around previously about like white reviewers saying, oh, I can't understand this book when it's, you know, written by an author of color. This in particular has a lot of its roots in Jamaican culture, Jamaican mythology, but I've read a lot of reviews actually and what I've heard before and I've read reviews actually since. And I was supposed to read them at the end, but I went and looked on Goodreads and a lot of people are saying some of the stuff will go and look together once I finish the book. A lot of people agree with me that they can't get into the book, it's difficult to understand what's going on, the world building's a lot, and it's review with some all different backgrounds. So I think perhaps it is a valid criticism of the book, but I want to put that asterisk in there. And I want to, you know, I always try to be careful and not be like, oh, I just don't understand it because I can't relate to it. That's never something I really look for in books, being able to relate to something. But the world building is just, it's the way it's written, it's so overwhelming. The world building information is not paced well, we're just constantly getting information and I can't take any of it in. So we're going to give it another 100 pages and if I don't like it, I'm going to DNF. Which kills, I mean I've only DNFed one other book this year maybe and I just, I just, if I've got zero reading comprehension, what's the point in me reading it? But I feel bad and I hate DNFing in vlogs because I want to give you my full opinions on the book, but I guess that in itself is an opinion. I've given it like another 90 pages, I think I've gotten to page like 191 and I'm DNFing it. I'm so sorry, I just, I can't, I can't do it anymore. Don't understand anything still. There was one chapter I really enjoyed actually. There was one chapter that was like, oh, I'm into it, we're getting into it. And without spoiling anything it's where one of the girls, one of the perspectives was, she's not a queen, I keep calling her the queen. Doyen, the Doyen. Yeah, she kind of like confronted her, was having like a meeting with her. That was the one part I liked. But the rest, we were set up to fail. We were set up to fail because I don't really like dual perspective stories. I find, especially in YA, they're usually an excuse for neither of the perspectives being strong enough to hold a story. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. That's something I've really discovered this year, I would say in my reading taste. I just don't like it. I'm like, you're obviously not girly enough to hold the story on your own. You know what I mean? There's so many characters on each of the separate perspective site. I don't know who any of them are. There's only like factions of power within the society and groups of people don't know who any of them are. I zero reading comprehension. So there's just like no point me reading this anymore because I just, I don't understand anything. Nothing makes sense to me anymore. In order to carry on, I would have to go back and reread the first 200 pages. Do you know what I mean? Which I don't really want to do. So yeah, I think if I were to finish this, it would be a one star. But I'm not feeling like finishing it. I've already done one of the bookstool policy and I did rate that. I like rated it as if I'd read it on good reason. I gave it one star. I'm not going to do that with this because I don't want to lower the rating of this book even more, even though I didn't enjoy it. I think something needs to be said about the fact that out of the five lowest rated books on my TBR, my physical TBR, three are by women of colour. So I think that needs to be addressed. And you know, there's definitely like a bias there. And I don't want to contribute to that even though I didn't like this book. So I just don't feel right rating it low and bringing the rating down even more. But I reckon if I had finished it, it probably would have been a one star, which I'm very sad about. Because like I said, this was one of my most anticipated releases at the start of last year. It wasn't for me, unfortunately. And I've discovered this year that I do need to be more careful with the YA fantasy that I'm picking up because I haven't had a ton of success with it lately. But let's quickly, let's take a gander and have a look at some of the good reader views and see what people are saying, whether they're saying some of the things to me. Let's look at what my friends have been saying. That's usually where I like to look. My friends is basically my friends on Booktube and you guys. This is my friends on Goodreads. So Elle giving up about 150 pages into it. I hate DNFing. Listen, me too. Slow, so desperate behind unfollowing the world building. Yeah. DNF at 26%, I assume. So we're all kind of DNFing around the same point. I think I got about 35% into this, which I feel like is like a reasonable amount to give it a go, you know? I didn't just DNF 100 pages. Like I really, I tried. It wasn't a bad book, but it didn't work for me. Agreed. The magic system, although a bit confusing, is unique and interesting. Yeah, I could tell that it was interesting, but I just couldn't grasp what was happening in times of the magic system. I did like, that is a good point. I liked how the structure of government has women ruling it. That is a good point. I liked that. The team main POVs were too similar. Agreed. The pacing was off. So I feel like it's got a lot of similar reviews. Joel loved it though, which was great. Jessica gave it four stars. So it's not like everyone doesn't like it. So I'd still recommend giving it a go if you're interested in it. But yeah, it wasn't for me. But in terms of the three lowest rated books that we read in this video, we're always watching probably like a 3.5. The perishing a 3 may be on reflection like a 2.75, but let's just call it a 3 because I don't think it deserves to be the lowest rated book I've ever read and a DNF. But I'm pretty happy with that. I'm glad to have read these books. I found it really interesting reading these books and thinking, you know, do they deserve to be the lowest rated books on my TBR? And I think I've read worse books than most of these books, so I don't think they do. But it was very interesting and, you know, I can see reasons. Oh, I didn't give reasons to this one, but I feel like I haven't. I'm not justified. But yeah, it was interesting thinking of reasons why people would dislike all of these, even though there were elements that I enjoyed, at least in these two, perhaps not in this one. But I found it a very interesting reading experience. So I would love to do this again one day, maybe in years and years to come. Hopefully I'm still around because I found it a very interesting exercise. So yeah, let me know. I'd love to know what some of the lowest rated books you've ever read are or the lowest rated books on your TBR. If you do know, go a little look on whatever reading tracking system you use. I would love to know. I think that's super interesting. I mean, Katherine House is still one of the lowest rated books I've ever read, but I think it's one of the most special books I've ever read. So it shows you that the rating doesn't mean everything, although sometimes the rating can give you a clue. So thank you guys so much for watching this video. If you got into the end of it, comment, comment the cloud with like the thunderstorms emoji. I really love that emoji. Comment that down below if you got to the end. Thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you very soon with another video. Bye!