 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to Top 5 Friday. I'm doing something a little different with the lights, and also if you hear a little more of an echo than you normally do, it's because we are rearranging things here in the studio or office or shed, whatever you want to call it. Today's topic of Top 5 Friday is the much-contended worst of the year list. I've been seeing a lot of stuff of people, especially on Twitter, saying it was the point of a worst of list. My whole thought on it is it's all about solidarity. We talk about the stuff we like, we talk about stuff we don't like, and if you're one of those people who trust my opinion on something, whether or not to buy something or not, or whether or not to buy something, then this will help you in case you missed all of my, in case you missed these reviews. This is a nice condensed place where you can find books that I suggest no one buys. You guys already know what three of them are going to be, but there's two of them on here that I couldn't even finish, and those will be at the top of the list. But right off the bat, we're going with, you knew it was coming, Marisha Pessels, Neverworld Wake. This book did not live up to, not really the hype, it didn't live up to expectations, but on top of that, I've had a lot of time since finishing it to think, you know, was I too hard on it? Was it only because of my expectations that I liked it? But the more I think about it, the more, you know, the more it's obvious, nothing happens in this book. Every single time something is about to happen, everything starts over. And that's the whole point of the book, really, is a Groundhog Day scenario. And this is the worst I have seen it done. What was the one with Tom Cruise, Oblivion, something like that? Then there's actual Groundhog Day, there was even the Christopher Nolan short film, I think that was like it, they kept on starting over. Happy Death Day was a good movie based on that concept. This was not good. Next up we have another disappointment of mine, my Gugans falling all over the place. Elevation, I mean we know why this sucks. I talked about this numerous times. I talked about it a lot more than I ever would want to or thought I would have. But it being released toward the end of the year means that it's on all different kinds of different lists. My top disappointments, top worst books of the year, nothing about this book is good, nothing. There's not a single line in here that I could quote. Usually I write down in the back when there's quotable lines. There's nothing there. Next up, one again recently that I did is Ezekiel Boone's Dimension. This is god-awful. If I would never have finished this, honestly never would have finished this if it hadn't been from a major publisher that I trust. Emily Bestler Books or Atria Publishing, I love just about everything they do. Not so much here. Actually not at all here. It's not so much. This was so bad. Once again, nothing happened in it. You cannot give a premise like this and then have nothing happen for three quarters of the book. And when your book's called The Mansion and they don't even get to The Mansion until halfway through the book until page 200 of a 400-page book, you got problems. Now, the next two things I'm going to be talking about I don't have on hand because one of them I donated and the other one was simply a joke. It wasn't really a joke but people talked me into taking a bullet for the team and I couldn't even finish it. I'm going to try and put pictures, let's see here, right about here of what I'm talking about. So right now we're talking about, oh it survived the night? Sees the night? What does that say? I don't know. It's by an author. I can't even be bothered to remember the name of the author right now. The number one thing I remember about this book is that it has jump scare. In case you don't know, a jump scare in a movie is when something jumps out at you, jumps out at the camera or whatever and scares the audience. It never works in books and this literally had a cat jump scare. The worst possible jump scare you can have in your movie is a cat jumping out. I mean it's the oldest trick in the book, very cliched and this actually had a cat jumping out. Now if this was a parody of overused tropes kind of thing then yeah I'd be all for it. But on top of that there was so much wrong with the main character who was supposedly in rehab for drug addiction. She didn't act like an addict at all whatsoever and there's one part where she literally goes from seeing her disemboweled friend to kissing on her boyfriend or ex-boyfriend. It looked like two scenes away and it's not like oh my god I'm so glad to see you. It's literally oh my god dead friend. Hey boyfriend I think is cute. Here let's kiss. The book was terrible. I couldn't finish it and it's definitely number two and the only reason number one is number one is because of who wrote this down. This says the prez is missing. So the worst book of the year of course is by James Patterson. The worst book of the year every year is by James Patterson. But this one is especially bad because not only is James Patterson's name on it but Bill Clinton's name is on it and neither one of them wrote the book. It was written by a guy named David Ellis who wrote the absolutely terrible book Invisible with James Patterson. You can check out my review of Invisible on Goodreads. It has one of the worst lines ever written in the opening page. It has one of the worst lines. At least you don't have to get too far before you realize holy crap these guys are idiots. So the president is missing is exactly what you would think it is if you got James Patterson and Bill Clinton together. You have a horn dog and a terrible plotter get together and to write a story about the president vanishing and it's just as bad as you would think it is. The writing is terrible. There's a joke that goes around like Tumblr, Twitter, all that stuff about male authors writing things like she bounced boobily down the stairs. There is almost word for word that exact kind of line in there. I think the woman is jogging out of the airport and her boobs are bouncing. You can't make this stuff up. But you can go check out my DNF review on Goodreads of The President is Missing. It was so, so bad. Even worse, it doesn't have the super short chapters that James Patterson is known for. So you really have to push. I think I made it 14% into the book. You really have to force yourself to keep reading because it's not even the guarantee of a short chapter coming up. It's just page after page of terrible writing because David Ellis is one of the worst in the business. So definitely let me know so we can have solidarity down in the doobly-doo. Let me know your worst books of the year. If you have videos, link them down there in the doobly-doo. If they don't show up right away, it's probably because the spam filter catches them. So I will try and make a point of going over the spam and clearing that out every day and approving them. So if you got videos, leave them down there in the doobly-doo. But until next time, I have been E. You have been U. This has been another Top 5 Friday. I'll talk to you guys later. Oh, also, if you're still here, if you like the new lighting, let me know. Bye-bye!