 Hey guys, it's Tilly, and today I'm doing my worst books that I've read in 2016. I did a video a few days ago with my favorite books of 2016, which I will leave a link to below. I did read a lot of fantastic books this year. I think my total is actually about 89 books. I didn't reach my Goodreads goal, but whatever. Unfortunately, there were books that I read that I did not enjoy, that did not reach up to the hype that they deserved, or that just went up to the standard quality that I enjoy, and I have eight of them sitting right here that I will show you guys, but first of all, I do want to say that these are my opinions. If you guys enjoyed these books, I am very happy that you did. I can see where people would like them, but unfortunately I did not enjoy them, but I will explain why I did or why I don't when it comes up to this, and I won't spoil any of these books either. So first of all, one of the books that I did not enjoy this year at all was It's a Wonderful Death by Sarah J. Schmidt, and I remember when I picked it up in the bookshop that I did read the first page, and it had a very entertaining writing style. It seemed very similar to Rick Warden in that kind of fun, sarcastic sense, and just, ah, the storyline was terrible. Like, there was one plot twist at the end that I did enjoy, but I did skip a lot of parts in this book just to kind of know what happened. It was very slow-moving and predictable, and it was, yeah, it was just so below average. It was a very fun and quick read though, so if you guys want something like that, I guess you guys should pick it up. I got this next one as an ARC, which is an advanced reader's copy, and although the writing science and the world building is phenomenal, the plot for me dropped off about halfway through and ruined the book for me, and then it's The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid. Honestly, the world building is freaking fantastic. It is a sci-fi slash fantasy, and I really, really enjoyed that first half of it, but the second half just, like, it's in a completely different book. So The Diabolic is kind of like an advanced human in a way. They have a program to protect one person and one person only for the rest of their life, and so you have Nemesis, who looks after Sidonia, and Nemesis is The Diabolic, and you follow her journey, and yeah, I don't know, like, I really, really wanted to like it, and I love the cover, but unfortunately it just didn't live up to the expectations that I had, and it just, yeah, if you guys read it, let me know how you liked it. I really do hope that many people have enjoyed it. I have seen very many good reviews. The next book isn't terrible per se, but it did do a trope that I absolutely hated, and for the majority of the book, it was kind of pretty slow. So I didn't hate it. It was just more of a dislike. I gave it like a pretty, like, things like a two star rating, and that one was The Memory Book by Lara Avery. This is a really, like, it's a contemporary, so it's a pretty quick read. So the main character, Sam, is diagnosed with a really rare disease, and she ends up losing her memories through it, but nobody really knows what's going to happen to it if she'll make it or not, because it hasn't happened to anyone else before. So she starts writing a memory book, and that's what this is. So yeah, it was just average for me. The next book I have is Our Chemical Hearts by Crystal Sutherland, and this cover, like, is so stunning. I really, really wanted it for the moment that I saw it, and then I was lucky enough to get an ARC of it as well, and to be honest, this is a very typical and generic YA contemporary book. The ending is slightly different, and I think it is the ending that redeemed itself, but you have this, like, quirky guy and this mysterious girl that has something terrible that's happened to her in her past, and of course they fall in love, but I also think that the characters in this were over-stereotyped, and the parts of it were just, you know, I've heard the story so many times before. I can say, though, like I did at the beginning, I can see why a lot of people would like the style. In my opinion, Crystal Sutherland has a really good writing style, it's like a quick, fun-paced read, and so if she does write anything else, I will pick it up, but unfortunately this storyline wasn't one that I enjoyed. This next book was a did-not-finish for me, and I really, like, do not finish books, but this one I just couldn't stand it, and that is The Outliers by Kimberly McCryte, and like, I can't even tell you guys what happens in this, because I probably got, like, maybe just over 150 pages in, and then I thought, this is terrible. From what I know and what I have, like, heard from people, you have the main character whose best friend ends up going missing, so her and her best friend's boyfriend go to find her, and then all this weird shit goes down. I wouldn't say this is an official review on this book, because like I said, I didn't finish it. I just couldn't stand it, and the writing style, I just, it wasn't one that I could work with. This next one might actually anger a few of you, but like I say, please don't hate on me. This is just my opinion, and I do know a lot of people have shared the same opinion with me on this certain book. It is a newly released one from a big series, and it just didn't match up with the other books. It wasn't on the same level as them, and yeah, I did a full review of this, which I will leave a link to below. It is a video so you guys can watch it and listen to me probably slay one of your favorite books, but that is Empire Storms by Sarah J Ma. And although this book is like huge, nothing really happened in it, in my opinion. A lot of this had a lot of filler chapters, and the characters just seemed so out of themselves, and scenarios that happened were predictable, and stuff just wasn't up to par with the rest of the series, and so I didn't enjoy it as much. So this is part of the Throne of Glass series if you guys haven't heard of this book before. It is a fantasy, and yeah, I guess it just wasn't what I was hoping, especially since A Quarter Mist and Fury came out, and that was amazing. And then she released Empire Storms, and I was kind of hoping that with every book she wrote, she would be better and better. But this felt kind of like a step in the wrong direction. Second last one is Nerve by Giann Ryan. I bought this book because it turned into a movie, and the movie is fantastic. I loved it, but the book was very, very disappointing. It was nothing like the movie, not really. The ending was completely different. In this book, you have the main character whose name is V. She doesn't really do anything dangerous, and then one day she sees this game dare and decides to play because her friends are pretty much saying she doesn't do anything. So it's like peer pressured into it. You choose to be a player or a watcher. If you're a player, you get given dares, and you complete them, and you get money and all these other cool things. And so V does that, but it goes wrong, and the game ends up controlling her life. You would expect that to be pretty action packed with that synopsis, but yeah, it just wasn't very good. And as for the last book, I also have a full review that I just did on this. It is a spoiler free first half and second half, it is spoilers. And then there's Three Dark Crowns by Ken Dare Blake. I really enjoy Ken Dare Blake's books, but unfortunately this one was just like nothing that I expected, and that was not in a good way either. I have the full review on there, which you guys can watch, but I pretty much just gave this book one star. The plot was so, so slow. The characters were kind of unmemorable, and not to mention that like this book I feel was advertised in the wrong way, especially because I know Ken Dare Blake is good with gore and horror and everything like that. And I expected that with this book, especially with the caption up here, which says three sisters, one thrown, a fight to the death. But in fact, it was just not that at all. So there you guys have the worst books that I read in 2016. And once again, I hope I did not offend any of you I did not mean to. And I really do hope that some of you have enjoyed those books and yeah. Thank you guys for watching. Hopefully you guys have a wonderful bookish day and that great things happen to you. I haven't actually counted how many books I've got here. I kind of just had a good read for this and chose the book that I absolutely loved. So I will be quick. I won't talk too much about some of them.