Worst Books I Read in 2022

hello hello and welcome back to my channel today I'm going to talk about eight

books

that I liked the least in

2022

. no, I like to try to keep things fresh and try to be simple and nice on my channel just because people like them all different ones. kind of thing, but I'm

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y to criticize some

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I hated, and again, this is not an attack on the authors or anyone who enjoyed these books. These are books that I had a problem with the content that I really didn't. enjoy so let's get into the video so I'm going to start with firearms the first book I really didn't like these are not in order just the first book I'm going to talk about is reminders of him by Colleen Hoover this It came out this year and was a favorite of a lot of people, but I thought it wasn't any good.

First of all, I don't think I'm the right person to

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Colleen Hoover books just because I think her writing is a little juvenile and I just don't enjoy it. I feel like, overall, she manipulates the reader's emotions by putting her characters in these traumatic situations and having these men come to save them and I don't. Not only did I read, I read two, I read this one and then I read Verity, which she's very different and I don't even feel like I count her in the same kind of category, but in the romances of her that's the impression I get.

I'm not here just to have these women who have had trauma after trauma and men who have had trauma after trauma like that just doesn't do anything for me. If I'm trying to read a romance, I want it to be a little lighter and if it is it's going to be quite dark and dramatic. I need there to be more than just superficial trauma if that makes any sense. So, aside from the Colleen Haver books as a whole, I didn't like this for many reasons, so it's about a woman who has been in prison for drunk driving, killed her boyfriend and was pregnant with his baby at the time.

Now she was a girl, she was like 20 years old, I think she gave birth in prison something like that and then the baby went to live with her grandparents on the baby daddy's side, so she gets out of prison and decides that she will go try to meet her daughter, but it doesn't go well, so she goes and ends up meeting this guy who turns out to be her boyfriend's best friend, but they didn't realize it. At first, which is a completely different plot element, I think like if you're dating and you're so madly in love but you don't actually know his friends, that's weird or like you know enough about them to have seen a photo and the same.

Since he knew her, my problems started on page two, when Kenna, the female lead, gets out of prison and goes straight to the town where Scotty, the boyfriend who was murdered, grew up, and she walks into a bar and she doesn't drink, but just like hanging up and meets the owner and I don't remember if it's the same day or the next day she ends up going to the grandparents house to try to meet the girl, no you can't just go ambush these people . her house to try to see your daughter who you've never met and who doesn't know you so I understand why you want to see her and I think it's great if you can be a part of her life but that's not how we do that I feel like I could make a whole video like just rant about this book, but I won't.

I'll just say two more things that I didn't like. First of all, the names of these characters are absolutely ridiculous. The male love interest is. her name is Ledger no, that's her first name not her last name the baby slash she's like five now uh her name is diem d-i-e-m as in carpe diem I can't get over that I just can't that's no no, I can't do it and lastly Before move on to another book that I didn't like, I really don't agree with the way the grandparents were portrayed almost as villains because they took in this baby and I mean, yes, it's their grandson, but like they were living their lives.

They don't really know the mom at all, they met her once and didn't really have a great impression and you know, they're raising another kid after knowing they already competed with a kid, so they and I want to do it. protect DM from Canada because they don't know her, they don't know anything about her and it feels really strange the way it's written, while we're definitely supposed to be on Kenna's side and honestly, I felt more For the grandparents se We're supposed to think it's irrational that they don't let her see Kenna when she just shows up at their house.

I don't know, maybe I'm part of the problem, but I think it's such a dumb thing. and it's wrong to be angry at them or make them the bad guy. I don't know if you like Colleen Hoover. I love that for you and I hope you enjoyed this book, but I don't think she could handle another one of her books. after this very touching one, the next book I read this year that I didn't really like is called Cherish pharah by Bethany C Morrow, it came out in February so I don't remember very big details, but I know I don't.

I don't like it, so this is about two girls, both black, one of them was adopted by white parents and the others with their biological parents and they are the only two black children in their Country Club community, super super rich and have been best friends since kindergarten they have a kind of codependent relationship and creepy a little now they appreciate the name of the daughter who was adopted by white parents and she is absolutely spoiled by her parents and farah is the other girl her parents are no way poor way, but they just aren't as rich as Cherish's parents, so Farah ends up spending a lot of time at Cherish's house and likes being involved with her family until one day Phara's family discovers that their house is being embargoed, so things are getting bad, so basically Cherish's family is like we'll accept you, we can have you as part of our family really, really, and of course Farrah's family is fine because that she's our daughter and even though we might not be as rich now as if she were still our daughter so it gets a little strange it's just one of the slowest books I've ever read and the situations were very complicated and convoluted between these two girls and their schoolmates and it kind of walked the line between young adult and adult fiction, but I think it just made it inaccessible to everyone instead of maybe more inclusive, it's written in a kind of current style of Consciousness that just doesn't work for me. most of the time I liked him and some of the other kids at his school who were side characters had little to no personality and he just wasn't interested.

The Twist was really great, but unfortunately I had no interest in the book at the time. period, so I didn't get it, so maybe someone will like this book, it has an audience. I know it's one of the lowest Goodreads rated books I've ever read. I think it's like 3.06 stars or something like that. Yeah, I guess maybe I'm not the only one who doesn't like this book. The next book I'm going to talk about is a big bummer for me because it's by one of my favorite authors and that book is Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner.

So she's, you know, the queen of beach reading. She publishes a new abridged book every year and I've really loved her books in the past. I loved some of the older ones and since I started getting really interested. I read it again a few years ago. I really enjoyed Mrs. Everything and the great summer and what it was like last year. I don't remember that summer. I think it's on my shelf. So yeah, I mean, but this wasn't good at all. So this is three generations of us of a family and the current dilemma is their adult daughter, she's in her 20s, she quarantined with her new boyfriend at the time and now that the quarantine is over, they're engaged, they're basically dating.

He tries to plan the wedding and everyone comes to town and they end up having the wedding in this house where everyone stayed every summer. The mom who is actually his stepmother spent all her summers and the kids spent their summers and that's the general plot. Now I've never read a book where I've analyzed so many stories of characters that just don't matter. This book is over 400 pages and the actual story of what is happening today must be less than 200. So there is a lot. I'm like I don't need to know this about this character there's a lot of infidelity which I just don't know if you could hear that but my cat is original just me so he doesn't like infidelity either it was just excessively long with chapters similar 50 to 60 pages, which makes it much harder to understand, plus all the infidelity, there was a lot of hypocrisy around it, so people are scared, oh.

OMG, is he cheating? Is he cheating or also cheating? So, yeah, it's hard to like the characters in this book. Although I guess the setting was nice and really the amount of coincidences the plot is based on just doesn't work. doesn't work at all, so unfortunately this was one of my

worst

books of the year, so the next book is Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough. I wish I could remember more about this. I mean, maybe not, but basically I remember being bored. It got out of my head and was painfully slow. This is what I remember about a woman approaching her 40th birthday and basically not being able to sleep as if she just couldn't sleep and the same thing happened to her mother when she was approaching her 40th birthday. and they kept saying like oh she's losing her mind, she's going crazy and then she's like, is that happening to me too?

Now I do remember that there was a really stupid poem that is repeated throughout the book and that started to drive me crazy and besides. that my Goodreads review isn't really helping me remember much, all it says is that the first 75 percent is terribly boring, the last 25 percent is chaotic and doesn't make sense, it's clearly very helpful to people reading this review , but if I remember correctly, that's basically what the ending felt like. It was just vague and you know what we're going to do, we're going to leave it there because someone might still want to read this and it's kind of a thriller and suspense book, you know, but ugh, I just remembered reading this and it wasn't. a good time, so another type of dream that revolves around the dream is staying awake by Megan Golden, so it's basically about a woman who wakes up in the back of a taxi and doesn't remember where she was or where she was going. she makes the driver take her to her house and then she gets there and the owners tell her "you don't live here, we don't know who you are" and she ends up with all this writing on her hands when she woke up and that just says "stay awake , stay awake" all over her hands and she has no idea what's going on or how she got there or why she needs to stay awake, so she's obviously very, very disoriented and wandering the streets of New York City and sees in like a window where they play the news uh reports about a murder where the word stay awake is written in blood like a window looking out and she's like oh my god did I have anything to do with this?

So this book didn't work. for me because it was so repetitive it's like every time you wake up and you can't remember where you are you have this writing in your hand and we do this so many times throughout the book this is the same author who wrote the night swim I think it came out in 2020 and I loved it so I was very excited for this and it literally felt like someone else wrote the book the main character Liv drove me crazy to no end and I can't imagine what it's like You wake up every time you wake up and you don't remember what what you're doing, where you're going, how you got there, but at the same time she wasn't accepting help from people who wanted to help her and that was very frustrating and I felt like I was in the groundhog day cycle because I kept feeling like I was reading the same scene over and over again because it was so boring and nothing happened.

There were some really big plot holes, as well as some unnecessary ones. red herrings and from what I understand they are part of thrillers but sometimes you just don't need one after another so it's not my favorite anyway. I haven't finished reading Megan Golden's books because I have enjoyed them in the past. but this wasn't all, next up is another one that is super popular and I'm sure someone will just close this video because I'm slandering their favorite book, but it's all Carly Fortune's subsequent summers so I thought this was It's going to be amazing I love the friends to lovers trope I love childhood friends who grow up and fall in love and this was all I like, I just couldn't stand this book so it's about a girl who has a summer house with his family. on some lake, I don't remember where it was in Michigan, maybe um and these two siblings lived there all year and during the summers they hang out all summer and they're all like best friends and her and the little brother are, I think, the Same age, maybe a year older, but they end up having a romance and then something crazy happens and they don't talk anymore and for their whole life, like when they grow up, they don't have any contact until the girl Percy. is her name, she receives a phone call from the other brother saying that our mother died, who was like a second father to her or a third father, I guess and sheHe asks if you're coming back for the funeral and she's like, of course I will, but yeah but it's.

Bringing out all these emotions because she hasn't seen her ex-boyfriend who likes first love or whatever, so it's kind of like there are flashbacks and nowadays I know teenagers are horny, but there was so much attention on the teenagers, like talking about sex and having sex, that I felt weird reading about it. I hated the older brother because he was always Loki, a predator. like walking up to Percy and making her feel repulsive even though she liked the attention because she was a teenager and what are you supposed to do if there's a hot guy there but like me, maybe it's just me looking like I'm 30 and so many now.

He is disgusting and not a good guy. I mean, now he's a messer and this is billed as a coming-of-age romance, but since I didn't see any character development, I didn't feel connected to these characters and I definitely did. I don't feel like they've come of age in anything other than having sex. Yeah, this wasn't the book for me and I don't want to take anything away from anyone who loved it because I know it was incredibly popular and so were many. people compared it to Christina Lawrence's book Love; in other words, I haven't read it personally, so I don't know, but I do know that some people who didn't necessarily dislike the book weren't too happy with how nearly identical it is. this book, the next one won't be a surprise to anyone and that's New Moon by Stephanie Meyer, so you might say: wait, you liked the other Twilight books, so no, I didn't.

In my opinion, this is simply the

worst

of the worst. Others were stupid and juvenile and I didn't really like them, but I felt like they were fine for what they were. This one, although very boring, I felt like maybe because of what happens next in hindsight, I disliked it even more, but um. Jacob was, you know, the male lead in this one. Bella is basically a sad girl throughout the entire book and Jacob does everything he can to make her feel better and for nothing this was definitely a book that I was so harsh on, Team Jacob and then.

I felt very betrayed after reading the other two books and that's all I really have to say about this one, it was just boring compared to the other one, at least things happened even if they were stupid things, you know, this one was just Bella being sad, okay, the last of the books I really didn't like in

2022

is Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney. I already talked about this on my channel. I think it's some kind of interpretation, since there weren't any Agatha Christie ones. a book that I have read and really enjoyed, many of you know that authors use that type of formula for their thrillers and it can work very well, it can be a super fun moment, this was not one of those moments, so That big twist was Big reveal at the end.

I guessed it from page five and that's not common for me. It usually takes me much longer to understand what's going on. I'm not saying I'm stupid, but sometimes I'm just not. as quick as connecting the dots so all the darkest family is on this island in Ireland Ireland is on a small island somewhere in the UK or Ireland and it's one of those places where you have to go in and out just with the tide, so basically they're stuck on this island until morning and I think it's Grandma Darker's 90th birthday, so the whole family is kind of dysfunctional, they don't always get along very well, but they all come to her little house on this island. for their birthday and one by one they begin to die, that is the basis of the story.

Now my problems really started when one of them died and no one was like, Well, we've got to figure out how to get there, like no one was scared. I understand if their phones don't work there because of course they don't and they can't take a boat out because it's a storm and you know the tide is high but no one is worried and I felt like that was so strange I mean I can't remembering it, I think it's grandma, grandma dies first, sorry, spoiler, but I mean, that happens very early on and no one likes it it just happens and no one seems to bat an eyelid much, so it's just nice.

To be honest it's weird and for a lot of this book I thought okay so this is what's going to happen, we're going to have to wait for everyone to die and then we'll find out what's really going on and honestly that's something like that. what happened, but throughout the whole book it stayed the same in the sense that no one cared that all the people died, like, they were some weird, dysfunctional family, but I probably still care if your estranged brother drops dead and someone in the house probably had something. What to do with that maybe I'm the crazy one I don't know, just no, no, no, no, no, no, no, this was a book club pick for me in October, I think, and I think one person he liked it.

It wasn't a hit with my group, but you might like it. I love other Alice Feeney books, so this was a bummer, but I hope the next one goes back to the way she used to do things. and those are the eight books that I liked the least in 2022. I don't want to say the worst books because it's really just my opinion, but for me they were the worst, I guess, but just the books that I liked the least in 2022. 2022, with Luckily, I was able to articulate it a little because sometimes I get rambling. If you liked this video, leave a comment, give me a thumbs up below.

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