 saw this was like oh my god bought it read it didn't like it that's so upsetting well welcome back to my channel i hope you are well today we're gonna be filling our lives with negativity you gotta do what you gotta do we're joined by the queen of negativity rora the most vicious cat the we're not really grumpy you're just you just don't take any shit so today we're gonna be going through my most disappointing books that i've read these are all really really popular books i would say and i basically hated all of them i did not enjoy my reading experience at all this video is inspired because i literally just read a book that i hated that i thought i was gonna love i don't want to speak about it yet because it's gonna be in this weekend's vlog so make sure you hit the bell button so you know when i'm posting that vlog i don't want to spoil anything but it was bad and i'm really sad about it so i thought we would reminisce all the other books that i was severely disappointed by and that still to this day i'm like why couldn't you just be better so the first book that was incredibly disappointing that i hated i think i gave us about 1.5 two stars something like that i don't think you're ready for this i've never really fully spoken on my channel about how i hated this book because i'm not ready for the hate but it's red white and royal blue by kason acquiston i was like oh my god that shit took me caught me off guard i did not expect it i was chilling at home so this was one of the most hyped romances ever i believe it won like the goodreads choice awards for romance everyone and their mum loves it i hated it for me and i i know a few people have shared this feeling the prince henry of this is a relationship you don't know between the son of the president united states and a prince of england and he is like obviously what the author thinks is stereotypically english and i'm not a brit who's like oh my god i love the royal family i don't and i'm not someone who's like oh my god we don't talk like that but like we don't talk like that for me henry just felt like such a caricature that because this book is literally just their relationship it's not really about anything else if i feel like one of the people in this relationship isn't a real person i'm not going to be interested in this romance like i can't connect to you as a couple if i feel like one of you isn't a real believable character and i didn't feel like henry was that do you see how that's incredibly offensive yes i do that's why i said it he's spoken a way that was very old fashioned which i don't think is realistic when you look at our current royal family i feel like it would have been so much more interesting if he had been like a wild rebellious prince like harry prince harry was back in the day i feel like that would have been such a cool dynamic that we could have gone down but instead he was just so stereotypical of what you think of when you think of like a 20th 19th century prince it was sometimes also very unclear in the sex scenes whether sex actually occurred i don't mind feta black sex scenes but this book would get you so like into the sex scenes and then it would stop do you know what i mean then it would be feta black and i think it needs to be one or the other you either need to go all out and not be afraid to go all out or it just needs to be feta black and you don't need to get us so invested in those scenes because it would be all the foreplay would be very much in detail and then it would just stop and i'm like what is going on here either give me at all or give me nothing go ahead girl give us nothing you know because all i'm gonna do is disappoint me this i'll fucking point me when i when i read a book and it has a feta black sex scene i don't mind that but they don't they don't get you into the moment into the sexy times and then pull the plug pull the plug ew that was really weird another thing i heard about this was that it felt like the last 100 pages could have been cut we had like four end scenes you know in in a book in any book have you heard of this thing called a book they have that big end scene we're like everything is resolved and whatever but this had four of them and every time i was like we can be done now like we don't need anymore and it would suddenly find a minor plot point that we had you know mentioned on page 90 like let's resolve that i'm like i don't care anymore just shut up just shut up i don't understand why everyone loves it i think it is a bit of a uk us divide i don't think i'm the target audience for this book and that's okay but i hated it i really hated it now the next one is kind of a whole series but i'm particularly going to talk about the last in the series which was Ruin and Rising Bali Bardugo so this is basically the whole Shadow Bone series was a big disappointment but i feel like it gets progressively worse as it goes on so the first the Bardugo i ever read was Ninth House and i loved it i know a lot of people didn't love that but i thought oh my god that is so good one of my favorite maybe was too ahead of its time for certain people i wasn't particularly hyped to read this but i was the kind of person who wanted to read the trilogy before i got into Six of Crows and Quick Kingdom i've still got really high hopes for the geology but this trilogy ain't shit i would still encourage reading it like i'm i would still encourage reading it because i think it does set you up in the world but it actually doesn't i don't feel like the world is very vivid in this trilogy so i actually i don't know if you need to put yourself through it like i did so in this series will you follow Elina as i'm sure many of you know and she finds out she is like the sun summoner i might i don't even remember anything but it's basically her being able to be a human torch and then there's someone called the Darkling he's in charge of darkness as i'm sure you can imagine and it's essentially the story of their back and forth of her figuring out whether she wants to be with a dark overlord or whether she wants to be with like you know a normal guy it hasn't got a strong identity it hasn't got a strong plot here's the tea this one was particularly disappointing because i started the audiobook actually i didn't really read this physically and i think the narrator was great if you are going to read them i would actually really recommend the audiobooks because i think they really enhance the reading experience i think this book would have been rated even lower had i not listened to the audiobook so i would definitely recommend them i think the narrator is great however nothing happened i could not tell you i actually can't tell you a single thing that happened in this book this was such a disappointment i was really hoping that the last one in the series would be my favorite and it would be redeeming and i'd be in love with it and because it's the last one it's the most recent of the trilogy of her writing of course it's the last one i was just like okay this is gonna be the one and the thing with all of the books in this series the first 80 pages are really strong and all three of them the first 80 pages are so strong and then it just loses it until the end scene at the end and you're like what is happening so when i started this and i read the first like 20 percent i was like wow we've done it we've you know worth something and then we lost it you did your best but i guess your best wasn't good enough the next book oh my god i could cry thinking about what a disappointment this was and it is vengeful by the ishwab i have the banzan noble exclusive signed edition and like this was one of my first signed copies i mean now it's like you know the norm but at the time i was just getting into collecting and buying books and i was like oh my god it's signed what i loved vicious by the ishwab so this geology is about victor and elie who are friends in secondary secondary school university oh my god they're friends in university and they become obsessed with something called eos which is basically when you have a near-death experience you basically die brought back to life and a lesion was some sort of super natural no superhero powered i loved vicious i read it on the plane to florida and i was like this is a new favorite and this could be one of my favorite books of the year i'm obsessed running to banzan noble in florida saw this was like oh my god bought it read it didn't like it that's so upsetting so we follow victor and elie's story in this but we also follow what is her name maria marcella we also follow marcella's story and i felt like that was such an unnecessary thing it wasn't engaging in the same way that victor and elie were and i just thought the story would have been so much better if it had just been them the story also felt really badly written and i don't think the ishwab is a bad writer so like i ain't here to trash her she's not gonna go there but this was not well written in my opinion the pacing was horrendous it wasn't exciting to get through this was heart breaking and it really tainted vicious for me i suppose also because they're a duology it's a bit different to like one book in a trilogy being bad also because i read them near to each other it just really tainted vicious in my memory and i'm like well i don't know if i like vicious anymore i see a lot of people don't love this as much there's people who love it love it love it but there's a few people who i've heard say the same thing as me in that treat vicious as a standalone don't read vengeful it's not worth your time it will just kind of taint the whole thing for you vicious is a perfect standalone it didn't need this the whole time i was reading this i was like why is this a thing like why does this book exist i still don't know the next book that was a massive disappointment was the hunting party by lucy foley so if you know me i go on about it quite a bit but i loved the guest list by lucy foley i was obsessed but this is another murder mystery thriller i love murder mysteries i love agatha christie style murder mysteries and this one we find out that someone has died at this hunting lodge and it's a group of old friends there we have the beautiful one the golden couple the volatile one the new parents the quiet one the city boy the outsider the victim the issue with this was and i often have to compare it to the guest list because i felt like the guest list is lucy foley's newest book this is her one before that and i felt like all my problems with this i could notice had been changed and adapted in the guest list so this is just a group of rich people who i don't like and the same is true the guest list but in the guest list you kind of have that one normal person within the type group who is able to act as your eyes into the situation and that wasn't it here they were all just horrible and i don't think that worked in terms of the conflict it also just wasn't engaging to me in terms of the characters felt very stereotypical they felt completely one night they didn't feel nuanced they felt like villains they felt like movie villains who didn't have any depth to them which was really disappointing to me considering how much i love the guest list when i read that i was like i found a new favorite author and then i read this i was like i do not want to comment why why i found it predictable i also felt like all the kind of reveals at the end there were a lot of reveals in lucy foley's books there's often like everyone has secrets and they're all revealed and it was just rich people problems like it wasn't a serious problem it was problems with their own design that they've gotten themselves into by being so privileged and i just didn't have any sympathy for the situation it also didn't feel like even though we knew someone was dead they didn't feel like any urgency in the book i didn't feel any suspense which you need and a mystery through that i just felt like the pacing was off i felt like the structure was weird you can already tell i didn't like it so i don't need to go on anymore and then the last book which was a massive disappointment i've seen some people agree with me i've seen a lot of people disagree with me but that is the toll by neil schuster man what happened in this book so this is the third one in the scythe series so we have scythe thundered and the toll and the thundered again similar to vicious was one of my favorite books of last year and we follow seetra and roan as they are chosen to be scythe's apprentices in this world you've already heard about this but i'll say anyway death is no longer possible by natural means so scythe's are the people who have to control the population they have to kill or glean it's called a certain number of people every year and seetra and roan are picked to become scythe's apprentices and so the story goes on for there obviously it has a lot of layers the thundered is kind of the piece of intelligence that runs the world but it's not allowed to interfere within scythe business the plot and the structure of the world was perfect in the first two books thundered was incredible and then in this book the path that the story had been taking in my opinion just went out the window it was like neil schuster man had a plan and one day i was like and just threw it out the window and i was like ah i'm not doing this and so we were left with this we met a lot of new characters who ended up playing a bigger role in this book than seetra and roan which i didn't feel like made any sense at all i just wanted to be with the characters that we knew and we'd followed for two books previous and that just didn't happen it was also so boring because there were some events that happened that i felt needed more build up they needed longer within the book and they were kind of just rushed over i feel like if neil schuster man was going to go this way with the plot this needed to be a four book series and this book needed to be split in half because it just felt incredibly rushed and didn't have the nuance and the complexity that the first two books had i decided to give up so it left you bored because you weren't getting the quality and the depth that you wanted and needed for certain things to be interesting i didn't have a problem with the ending i just felt like the way it got there was really weird and i was really disappointed by it i am interested in reading neil schuster man's stuff in the future because i really love his writing but this ending to the series i just felt like was a massive letdown something that had been built up and everything had been set in stone so well for then us to just get rid of certain characters not pay attention to them ignore them made no sense to me so wasn't a fan so there we have it that is the most disappointing books i've read i hated these books and those some of them are so popular it actually kills me let me know down below what's on the most disappointing books you have read uh thank you so much as always for watching the support on this channel recently has just been incredible and i feel like the luckiest gal in the world i kind of want to engage i want to say something now that will make those of you never comment like because i used to be that girl back before i had a channel i would watch booktube but i never commented and i want to connect with you so maybe comment like comment your favorite animal emoji if you've watched the here just because i know sometimes it can be difficult to think of a comment and you're like i don't know what to say but i just want to see some of your faces and know you so comment an animal emoji your favorite animal minds the warthog i love a good warthog emoji and thank you so much for watching as always i will see you very soon with another video bye