 Hello friends, today we're doing a video that I was not planning on doing. This was not in my video schedule, but we're going to be doing a one to two star tournament or just one star tournament. It's Katya. So a couple of weeks ago I did my five star tournament which you guys seem to really enjoy and I loved like picking together all of my five stars of the year in like a bracket formation and battling out to see what comes out on top. And today we're going to see what comes out on bottom. Can't get any worse than what it is. Any worse, we're at the bottom. I just enjoyed doing that video so much. It was so much fun. I love brackets. They're fun. So we're going to be doing this. I've collated all my ones, twos, 2.5s, which I have exactly 16 when you make up all of those, which is kind of depressing. Really think I have as many ones, twos and 2.5s as I do, fives and 4.5s. But that's that's a question for another day. I want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it. But yeah, we're going to put them together and see which one comes out worst. Now, I think this is going to be a little bit more interesting than five star one because I think a two could win over one as like pissing me off more. And I do just want to say before we get into it, we're going to get into it right now. But I want to say I will try and give you the synopsis of these, but it's not going to be good. We're getting like a one sentence synopsis of this because when I hate a book, it leaves my brain, it floats away in the wind. I don't remember it. I just, I have limited brain space. What's the point of holding on to something I don't like? So shall we just get into it and battle it out? Okay, battle number one is five survive by Holly Jackson versus the cartographers by Peng Shepard. Wow, I really forgot that I read that this year. Okay, five survive. Let's do synopsis really quick. Come on, Megan. Five survive is a group of friends who are stuck on an RV in like a hostage shooter situation for like six or eight hours or something. And it's written by Holly Jackson, who's the author of Good Girl's Guy to Murder, but alas, I didn't love it like I love Good Girl's Guy to Murder. We are just pretending five survive doesn't exist. Honestly, that is not part of the Holly Jackson discography in my opinion. And then the cartographers is an interesting one. It's about like map making and about I do not remember what is not a spoiler for this. And about a special map and magic maps. That's all I'm gonna say because I really can't remember what's not a spoiler. For me, the cartographers had some interesting ideas. I just felt like the execution wasn't great. There was more elements of the cartographers I enjoyed. Five survive granted it experience was was probably hurt by me reading it overnight set like I read it all in the time in real time. So it happens from like 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. I stayed up all night and pulled all night and read five survive probably didn't help. But my god what like that is the most egregious it really upset me. Oh my god five survive like I was so emotionally damaged. It didn't even cross my mind when I was like making this video and like getting ready to make it and getting ready to read it that this could get less than a four star. It was not even a possibility like I was like I'm gonna really enjoy this book it's me such a fun time reading it. We're gonna have a great video we're gonna have a great book experience. It gave two stars it was so bad. The writing did not feel like Holly Jackson's writing. There were like weird plot points that went nowhere it was like she'd like written stuff into an earlier draft and then gotten rid of like say three times it's mentioned but left two times it's mentioned like an idea a concept part of a character's personality or a little clue that we see like there were little hints of stuff throughout it that then no resolution nothing happened and I thought the whole reveal of like this active shooter and why they were targeting these teenagers and RV was rubbish but I'm excited for her next one. I think her next one is going to be more successful for me. Then we have Book of Night by Holly Black versus The Murder Game by Tom Hindle. Book of Night god knows well that's about shadows shadow is that the one yeah you have shadows we have shadows that are a person I don't know I really have no idea what you're on about it's a ninth house ripoff you've got a galaxy stern main character who's like edgy and she's like comes from a dark world and she's trying to get out of it okay and The Murder Game by Tom Hindle is like a country house locked room murder mystery that I gave one straw but here's the thing I gave The Murder Game one star because I was so disappointed and I think I have very very high expectations for murder mysteries I've read so fucking many that if you are just boring characters with no development stupid plot stupid reveal stupid clues I'm gonna give you one star I'm done I'm done I'm done I'm done I'm not sorry I'm a harsh critic when it comes to murder mysteries I think I gave what did I give Book of Night this is what's interesting I'm tempted to put Book of Night forward even though oh okay I gave it 1.5 that's less than I thought no okay I'm gonna put forward Book of Night even though I gave The Murder Game one star because I think also you have to take into account Tom Hindle is only his second book right he could improve right he has a long career ahead of him hopefully Holly Black yes it was her adult debut but girly has been writing very very popular books for a long time she knew better she knew better than to publish that because what was that I have questions okay then we have Confessions by Kanai Minato and Water Wicked Things by Francesca May so Confessions is a thriller where I'm finding it so hard to remember what's not a spoil of these books because I remember such disparate parts of them like such little parts of them remain in my brain I don't remember love I don't remember at all I really don't I know for a long time ago a teacher's daughter has been killed and in the first chapter she is confronting her class because she believes one of the classes killed her I don't think that's a spoiler and then the rest of the book we read from other people's perspectives involved in this a lot of people love this I was just really disappointed by it I just didn't enjoy it at all I think my main problem with this was we were reading the same conversations over and over again no we were reading the same story over and over again because we just go to new perspective and they tell us the whole story from their perspective and I just don't want to read that six times I'm sorry I'm not interested it was the same scene or like we'd hear you'd have slightly different elements of the mystery because it's what they're involved in and they know about but it was the same thing over and over again one of the wicked things by Francesca May is a 1920s witchy sapphic kind of great Gatsby retelling maybe yes or no no yes maybe sort of this was one of my book club picks for my patreon like I remember the live show we just kept remembering parts of this book and be like no that was not a part of it it turns out it was the plot of this oh girl she's everywhere it's a debut and I I don't want to dunk on debuts but I guess I am going to because it was just like the plot I don't have to explain to you how many elements of stuff that was going on this plot and the characters would just act in these stupid ways and like I think it kind of thought it was a great Gatsby retelling kind of like a lot of the characters mirror characters in the great Gatsby and there's like the green light from across the lake and like you know there's a lot of comparisons but then it kind of like halfway through switched it was like okay it's a very different tone I'm gonna put forward Wild and Wicked Things because that was terrible it was so bad then we have two books these are actually in the same video um Smoking 17 by Janet Evanovich and Into the Water by Paula Hawkins were both in my reading The Winner's of the Goodreads of the Goodreads mysteries are a lot of wards Into the Water I cannot tell you a single thing about it it's a small town someone drowns I can't I can't remember anything about that. Into the Water seems like it was boring and forgettable Smoking 17 this is like a mystery series that seems like I think it's got like 40 30 books now you know and you're following a character but like there's no mystery it's really just about a romance well two romances she's like has a boyfriend but then she's cheating on him I always knew there was some type of scandal I felt it like and I assume this happens in every fucking book like super she sleeps with both these guys in every book it's like a love triangle but like she is calling this guy her boyfriend but then we're like oh we never talk about if we're seeing other people I think he might be she goes and sleeps with another guy I'm sorry no and it's a mess it's a mess it's a mess some people I mean I am hopping into this like 17 books into a series but also it's a kind of series that you can do that what was the mystery I can't remember it was like trying to be funny it was not funny I'm putting Smoking 17 forward oh then we have two of my most controversial ones we have Daughter of the Moon goddess by Seelan Dan and the fourth ring by Rebecca Yarris oh suddenly I can't see Daughter of the Moon goddess is about the Daughter of the Moon goddess and it's a fantasy and I was just really disappointed by this I don't think this one's bad fourth wing is bad I did a whole reading vlog for it but I remember saying it in that like I would read the second the next one I inflame or whatever I could be convinced to read it for a video because like I yes at that point I would be like almost hate reading it but there's a little reveal at the end of fourth wing that made me go oh my god I'm intrigued but I hated fourth wing it's boring the writing is terrible the world burning is terrible I mean I don't go watch the video I don't want to relive what I thought of that I don't I don't want to remember what's going on there Daughter of the Moon goddess I wonder if I had read a different time or a different day a different month a different year would I have had a different opinion I still I'm never unhauling it because it's one of the most beautiful books I own um I'm paying fourth wing forward I hated that more I hated it more but like there's Stockholm syndrome in me in fourth wing because I'm like I would read I don't know what's wrong with me what is wrong with this girl what is wrong with this girl but it took me like three weeks to read it I was reading nothing else in that time it took me three weeks to read fourth wing then we have two that I really do not care about either them one bit that is The Joining Woman by Robin Harding and Wayward by I don't even know Amelia maybe The Joining Woman is a thriller we're following a homeless woman who saves a drowning woman and it's about their lives intertwining and it was so boring so sorry it was just it was oh god there was a lot of plot holes and I had issues with the the portrayal of abuse in this I felt like it really played into thriller stereotypes rather than being like a really like careful and caring approach to abuse and Wayward by whoever it was story of witches throughout history but it's not witches you promise me witches and you don't give me witches the magic in this is minuscule the connection between these women like they're you know from the beginning they're related to one of that minuscule minuscule minuscule minuscule it just gave me nothing both these books gave me nothing they gave me nothing no vibes no entertainment they gave me nothing so I don't know which one to put forward I think Wayward is more egregious because there's plenty of bad thrillers out there but if you promise me witches you gotta deliver oh this next one is easy um every line of you might be the worst book I've ever read no one's reading that book it's YA following a girl who creates an AI I don't want to spoil it for you she creates an AI and it goes downhill from there I think I spoil elements of it in my vlog but I did I read it when I did wrapped up rejects the writing ooh the plot ooh like it's bad very bad I don't even know how to sum this up to you it is some of the worst writing I've ever read it reminds me of like when I'd read a shitty book from the YA section when I was 13 in the library like I picked something up and it'd be awful it was that level and it's there's there's elements of this that are unchecked there's a character who does awful things the main character there is um a relationship that is extremely problematic there is actions surrounding consent that are terrible that just go unchecked everything goes unchecked in this book so I don't believe it's a commentary for young kids about like don't do this or like teens don't do this it just oh I don't even get me started the dog said a little bit of Frankenstein by Kirsten why it was a 2.5 its only sin was being boring it's a Frankenstein retelling from the perspective of Frankenstein's wife we're moving every line of you forward get out of here and then this one's easy as well so the antique hunters guide to murder was extremely disappointing because I had such high expectations for this we're following an antique ex antique hunter whose antique mentor is murdered and she tries to solve his murder and like that is buzzword upon buzzword upon buzzword for me it was so boring there's like five scenes in the whole book and it the physical version that's gonna come out when it gets released is 380 pages excuse me did I hear that right 380 pages and there's like five scenes in the book but the strange upstairs I just read for Gabby's book club and I gave it one star I've only just read it I finished it like two days ago and I gave it one star it's about an influencer but she's not an influencer an influencer just a buzzword to market this book who buys a haunted murder house and starts losing it you know and is the house haunted what is going on that I could not even go watch I will link Gabby's live show down below I cannot even begin to get into the problems about this right now I can't even begin it was just the writing the writing was a problem everything about this annoyed me I was literally ready to like I wasn't even reading the book I was reading the audiobook on my phone I was ready to throw my phone across the room I'm finding you quite aggressive now actually to be honest I just thought so much of it was so stupid so oh let's do a kind of color matchy though okay now we have to give synopsis we can just eliminate further okie dokie five survive versus book of night oh I think book of night is a worse book I think book of night is a worse book but five survive hurt me more I'm gonna put five survive forward I gave that two stars and I gave book of night 1.5 but five survive hurt me deeply like Holly Jackson is my girl you don't understand how much it hurts me to speak like this she is my girl she is my girl as good as dead by Holly Jackson I will defend to the great anyone who doesn't like it who I don't know what's wrong with you I love the whole good girls guy to murder series but she really let me down with five survive um next pairing wild and wicked things versus smoking 17 I think I'm gonna go with wild and wicked things because smoking 17 to be fair to it is like I shouldn't judge it on par with other books girl the shade the shade of it all because it's not trying to be that it's a separate kind of thing it's like a cozy not cozy like I don't even know how to describe what this kind of concept is but you if you know you know like it's not trying to be an incredible novel you know it's it knows it's a bit shit I so I don't feel it doesn't feel fair putting that forward and what are wicked things I gave one star I mean it's awful the plot that I again I've forgotten this but that book club live show was one of the most fun ones I've ever done on the patreon because we all hated it and we all kept realizing things this is the year of realizing things we all kept we all kept realizing things about this book and being like what what what is what why is that happening fourth wing versus wayward fourth wing is winning that one well losing that one I suppose because uh the love for fourth wing it is one of the most highly rated books on goodreads I don't get it and you can't ask me to get it because I don't and I will never get it like why do you all love this so much the romance doesn't really do it for me the world building is terrible like I don't get it then every line of view versus the stranger upstairs I think it's got to go to every line of view I think it's got to go to every line of you that is it they're both terrible these could be up there as like two of my worst year but um every line of you go go watch I I don't want to spoil it again I've already spoiled another video so if you're intrigued go watch the vlog it was in which is the wrapped up rejects one but I don't believe this should even be on the shelves sorry nice to meet you Kelly it's the truth it's the truth okay five survive versus wild wicked things again I think what are wicked things is by far a worse book again fire survive hurt me more out of everything on this whole list five survive was the most painful probably followed up then by daughter of the moon goddess because I had high hopes for that oh no an annity hunter's guide to murder those were the three most painful but out of those three I think fire survive is the worst book out of those three but like it comes upon like is it fair to just keep putting fire survive forward I don't know I don't know this one's tricky this is way trickier than my my five-star tournament um I think I gotta go with wild and wicked things I think I gotta put that forward it's not fair it reaches a point where I I have to be fair to five survive it's not fair to keep it it's not the worst well it was a two-star but um I just don't know how to sum up to you how bizarre wild and wicked things is and how bad the character development is and just it was bad okay fourth wing versus every line of view again I think I've got to put every line of view forward because like again it is a much worse book than fourth wing there are redeeming elements to fourth wing enough for me to say I could put myself reading iron flame if you guys want a video you I would I'm not sure I would take no I don't want to say this this is really mean this author better never watch my video no one ever linked this to her if you are Naomi Gibson please click off this video right this second because what I'm about to say is not fair and I don't want you to see it I don't want to see it but it's my truth I'm not sure how much money you would have to pay me to read another book by this author don't you go there don't you go there I'm going you're a monster get out of my face you are disgusting you can't do that you are you can't that is that is my truth okay that's my truth that I am living with like you'd have to you'd have to give me some dollar I'm talking would I do it for a million don't know like it was it was so bad you know so I think for that reason I think every line of you is gonna win uh well it's gonna lose it's gonna win the as my least favorite book of the year so far five survive fourth wing you know they made it far because they hurt me but I can picture someone liking these maybe well I have to because a lot of people do like them I cannot understand why anyone would like this book I'm so sorry I don't it's my truth it's my truth do you want me to like you okay I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I don't want to say that someone spent time on this book I want to say that it's my truth okay everyone that was my one to two star tournament finding my worst book of the year again this might change by the end of the year we've still got time for me to read some awful ones so we'll see how the rest of this year guys but this was kind of a mix of like not just what I thought was the worst book because I gave the murder game a lower rating than book of night but it's like how egregious is this book right this isn't even like the my worst book of the year necessarily this is like which one would I least recommend and which one of my most outraged by like because I get outrage reading a bad book you waste my time and like if you're an author that I've loved before that ups the out that gives an extra outrage point if you're a book that's super hyped that gives it another outrage point so I hope you enjoyed this video let me know what some of the worst books you've read this year are it's all commiserates together and I will see you very soon in another video bye