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"i discovered one of my new pet peeves.... children." LMAO

"Dum dum eats all the candies" is pretty much the story of my life. Can't wait for your top 10 "good porn" books! SMASH the like button you perverts.

Annnnd it starts... Look I'm not judging anyone on what they read. AT ALL. Most of my reading is 100% for entertainment, read all the romance, read all the YA or read all the non fiction you want, I don't care. But let's just stop pretending SJM, CC and all the other popular YA writers are the best writers out there and that it's great literature. It's not. AND IT'S OKAY. But let's just stop pretending!

Salty Emily might be my favourite Emily!

"it wasn't even good porn" 😂 I'm dying 😂 I love your rants!

About kids in apocalypse scenarios: I actually think writers get it all wrong here. Children are super resourceful, adaptive and good at reading people (like their parents) and how these people react in certain situation. So for example they wouldn't be annoying and scream in dangerous situations because they would adapt to the parents behavior and understand that they are in danger. Emotionally they would probably even handle the apocalypse better than grown-ups.

It's that time of year when you talk trash about books I also hated this year and I love you for it!

Sarah J. Maas is on my list of authors to never-ever-ever-read unless I'm being held at knifepoint. I have no interest in trashy YA fantasy novels with archetypal female characters who have to show no weakness and be the most badass person that walked the earth. I think they may be tailored towards a younger audience because I would have likely adored her novels years ago.

I get 2nd hand embarrassment from movies but not books haha 🤷🏻‍♀️

" Like him falling for her?.. like why??..." *whispering on the side* "Because of the rainbow hair" 😂😂 Love your sarcasm giirl 😂 Happy holidays☃️

Totally agree with you about female YA protagonists’ physical descriptions. I think about the idea that female beauty is empowering, but that it only empowers women over other women (and never over men). I feel like that could be what Maas is driving at, but that may be giving her too much credit. Although Shadow and Bone wasn’t as good as I thought it’d be, I was glad they Bardugo mentioned Alina having acne and being sickly. Kinda annoying that it was ultimately a result of her “repressing her powers,” but still nice that she wasn’t pretty. I’ve fallen in love with Mackenzie Lee’s writing & I think Felicity is one of the female protag I’ve read in YA this year. Same goes for Suzanne Collins: Katniss having leg hair is so refreshing, and even though she gets “made pretty” for the games, it’s clear part of herself is being stripped from her. More dystopians/fantasy and historical fiction should take into account differences in beauty standards/ the practicality of things like shaving/plucking/cleaning.

My reading is slowly progressing and I've gone from all YA books to recently finding out my love for adult fiction books. I do enjoy some YA, but I am beginning to get frustrated and become more critical with the one dimensional characters and story lines that aren't as complex and interesting as adult fiction. I do love a good romance, but some of the YA romances are so stupid!! Like 17 year olds who put their partners over LIFE after literally TWO DAYS.... like ??? Be logical ahaha!!!

People have to remember one thing, it’s her opinion and she has the right to express it.

What were the worst books you've read this year? ;)

I love your rants and your expressive eyebrows lol. Sadly I didn’t read enough this year to have any favorites or Hates but that’s definitely going to change for 2019.

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur. Neruda is turning in his grave. The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan. No structure, purple prose, paper thin characters, bad dialogue.

I don't understand all the hype about the TOG Series, maybe I'm too old😂

Thank you for this video. I love that you are not afraid to share your opinions. Since I value your book opinions and you have great and unique taste I look forward to every single video of you. Thanks Emily, keep up the fantastic videos 👍🏽

Hey Emily -- would you be willing to do a video where you recommend a few, specific favorite booktubers? I'd love to know who your personal favorites to watch are!

Now this folks is what you call being brutally honest. I love it! I haven't read a lot this year, but will try to ko kick it off a notch next year. Definitely good video on what to avoid. 👍

"I want you to die, i will leave you to die, i hope you die." That's gonna be my favorite quote from you.😂😂 I really love how you trash talk this books and gives me life😂😂

LOL your synopsis of Throne of Glass was spot on. I read it several years ago back when I feel that I was far less critical of books and actually rated it 4/5 on Goodreads. But even at the time Celaena drove me crazy because she really was the worst assassin in the history of ever. If she's the best assassin in that realm, they must not have a very high bar for assassins. I started to grow more and more frustrated with the series as time went on. The third book was absolute garbage. 4th book was better, but even so I've had the 5th book sitting on my shelf for months and I still haven't brought myself to read it. I'm noticing the older I get, the less patience I have for YA main characters. Especially when they are written like Celaena.

I just love negative opinions

You are wonderfully salty and sarcastic in this video and I am Here For It. And I totally agree, getting hate for disliking a book just makes me double down on how trash that book is. Not sorry! 💁‍♀️

Sooooo ready for this!!! You upload I very happily watch!!

Great video, as always!I just love the way you talk about books and show us exactly what you did or didn´t like the book honestly!Could you make video just talking about the romances in books that you ended up liking it ?

I think I will stay far, far away from Sarah J. Maas...

I love the way to say "Trillers." I'm going to call them that now.

Absolutely loved your descriptions of these obviously horrible books! Thank you so much...I won't waste my time. Happy New Year! I look forward to another great year in books with you!

I knew you were gonna include Altered Carbon. Love the rant.

This is my first video I’ve watched of yours but I’ll definitely watch more! I had the exact same issues with ToG so it’s a relief to find someone else who feels the same!

thanks for your honesty! these kind of vids help when deciding to pick up a book or not!

Ugh your blunt honesty is always so refreshing. Thanks for blessing us with these videos every year! ✨

This video made me want to watch more from you 😄 Love your honest opinions! Thanks for sharing!

Wow, I’ve never watched any of your videos before but I’m so happy I happened upon this one. I love that you get to the point and tell it how it is, that’s what I need for book recommendation videos! Thank you, can’t subscribe fast enough.

Thank you for another great year of reviews. I'm at a disadvantage because I'm loving everything I am reading. I don't think it is a question of how deep I am assimilating the books. I know it is not the focus of this channel, but I am curious about your thoughts on First Man (2018). I loved the characterization of the one INTP test pilot engineer NASA NEEDED to be on that particular flight to do the calculations & adapt to the evolving danger. Gratitude for reading all these crappy (for you) books. At least you can say 2018 Was the year you found your pace for the large books! 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

Loved it!! I loved Eragon when I was young, and would really like to reread it to see if I still love it, but I fear I won't … Can't wait to post my worst books of 2018: it'll be cathartic x)

So excited for the whole video series, but especially this one😂❤️

LIVING for the honesty and sass in this video! love u emily

I love the way you resent those books, especially when you talked about Run and The Sixth Extinct. So hilarious 😋

I’m so distracted by your beautiful eyeliner .

I like the little faces you draw on your annotations. Super cute. Makes me want to annotate! Haha.

I read warcross because it was on sale somewhere and really cheap. But the second when she saw the rich guy on like a magezine cover I knew that he was the love interest. The book was pretty predictable but i didn't hate it because i had really low expectations😅 btw. I really enjoy these end of the year videos so thank you for making them

Totally agree with your opinions on THRONE OF GLASS Thank you so much for expressing my frustrations 🙇🏻‍♀️

Great video!!! Love the honesty!!!!!

I have not had so much fun watching a video so far in this year. Content, people. THIS is good content. I trust you my reading life. Thank you very much.

Sarah J Maas is overrated. The same love triangles and cringey characters are too much. Even the most badass female characters turn into little, blushing, lash batting girls when they see a guy. It’s a pain to go through these books really.

I looooooooove how confident you are with your opinions. I just love you. I always get a heart attack when you upload. Love you.

'... and I discovered one of my new pet peeves: children!' XD Oh man, it's great that you're so honest and don't really care about having an unpopular opinion! That's one of the (many) reasons why I love your videos. This one was hilarious, highly entertaining and so true (for me at least). Keep 'em coming! ;-) I didn't read a book this year that I *hated* and only gave one star, but Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue and The Night Circus are some of my lowest rated books (I'm cleary not a YA lover). And A Little Life, bah...

the way you go off on these books is so fun to listen to, i really love your commentary, it's so entertaining to listen to.

Your reviews are literally refreshing to listen to. Your hilarious, but honest.

With Throne of Glass did you find you enjoyed certain parts more than others? I struggled to get into it, but kept going, and really enjoyed book two and am enjoying book three. I feel like Caelena becomes a bit of a nasty person in the second and third books, is that a good thing?

LOVED this so much! Also damn I though you slapped yourself at 22:58 because of the cut sound and how your hand went up so quickly xD

Emily, your rants are awesome! Ha! I do hear you on Stars Are Legion. It is definitely confusing at first and it's intentionally messy. But frankly, it's not where I would have started with Kameron Hurley. Her other books God's War and The Mirror Empire are much easier to get into.

"I was really hoping she'd get poisoned and die" omg mood

I love that you are doing these!

Love your vids and opinions! We need more of these videos of people actually saying the truth and not just loooving every book.... Thank you!!

Your eyeliner is always so on point, dudette! 😍

Totally off topic, but I love your shirt! Where did you get it?

HERE! FOR! THIS! The "not like other girls" trope is the absolute worst, I'm soooo tired of it. I read The Kind Worth Killing and Dark Matter of your recommendation! Bummer that you didn't like some of their other books.

Your sarcasm is killing me I LOVE IT. 😂

Thank you sooo much, Emily! This video is great. Love it, love you. I enjoy your review, it's useful, I LOL all the time, I'm becoming familiar with different books. It's all around great experience. I laughed so hard. Your comments are on point. I showed your review of Eragon to my friend who also complained to me about it. She loved it and she agrees with you 100 %. You're hilarious. Also, I wanted to say thank you because you notice and discuss sexist things. I think this trend should be widely acknowledged.

I hope you do continue reading the Throne of Glass series because in my opinion the series does get a lot better, the author had a whole series in mind but didn’t know if it would sell so (like most authors) she wrote the first book to be a stand alone but the rest of the series is planned really well. again that’s my opinion and everyone has different opinions but...ya also this is the first of your videos i’ve ever seen but wow i love your eyebrows, you’re killing it

This is my third comment regarding Throne of Glass on your channel/Twitter :D :D :D I swear, it really gets better with each book. I, as you, was waiting for the assassin bit in the first book - nothing happened. But lot will happen in second book and the following ones. I think that from the 7 (or 8 if you are counting the prequel) books I truly fell in love with the series in the 4th book and then it was just jaw dropping. Just saying to not give up on the series ;) I totally get your opinion I was feeling (not as strongly) similarly dissapointed but it really really really gets better. :)

I’ve not read Altered Carbon (I have watched the Netflix show, which was excellent and sounds totally different to the book) but your review was amazing, laughed out loud hehe I’ll be giving the book a miss! Fab video 😀

Oh my god your Eragon Simulated Conversation has me dying!!! (I did grow up reading the books and they were good but waaaaaay too long).

Yes! I look forward to these videos every year.

Love to hear your opinion, especially when you get so salty lol. While I often have similar taste as you there were a couple on this list I enjoyed but respect the reasons you didn’t. The worst book for me was The North water (don’t even remember who it was by) but oh man was it an awful waste of time. Can’t wait to see the rest of your end of the year videos!

Hi Emily! Have you read any David Mitchell book? Like Cloud Atlas or The Bone Clocks?

your reading tastes are exactly like mine. when i start to read a fantasy/sci-fi book i look for death, adventure, battles, technology, futuristic stuff, medieval stuff, not a boy and a girl falling in love. i get so cringy when the author seems to force a romance that just doesnt need to be there. i feel you girl

I came for the tea and I got the tea 😏🍵. Thank you!! I love these videos.

Love your video! Love your end of the year serie! 😻 I really love the ACOTAR serie by SJM, and I think i really like her books, but I'm so thrilled to hear FINALLY a bad critic! I really think her books and magic universes are not THAT special and that her writing is like really simple/ok/not that impressive, and sometimes I wonder how tf can her books can be so muuuuuch loved - and again, i, myself, really enjoy ACOTAR. Although i didn't pick up ToG serie yet, i can't wait to do so, but so glad to see someone not liking it! 💙 Also, aucun rapport, but did you already read Six of Crows/Grisha by Leigh Bardugo? :)

Hi Emily ! I respect your opinion about ToG but let’s keep in mind it was her first book published years ago, the last ones are really better 😊 love your videos, bonnes fêtes de fin d’année ! 😘

I’ve still yet to read Throne of Glass 😅😂

I live for your rants 😂 also the worst book I read this year was In The Woods by Tana French. My dad read it and loved it, so I listened to the audio book. It INFURIATED me like there was a mystery in it that’s stated in the summary that NEVER. GETS. RESOLVED. I was so mad and annoyed, I literally gave it 1 star I think 🙊 Also are you doing an anticipated 2019 reads video? ☺️

I liked this before I even started! 🖤🖤🖤 Also, where did you get that cute sweater?!

Oh man do I love these videos! YA can be so cringey! I totally agree with your points. Excited for the next video!

OH MY GOSH I LOVE YOUR BRUTAL HONESTY!

I never wanted this video to end... I love your rants :D You should read more book that you hate, just for the sake of the videos you make afterwards 😂

Thanks for this! Going to go cross Throne of Glass from my reading list

I am a new subscriber because of this video!!! Can I asked where your from? I love your accent!!!! I also love your reviews and how you explain yourself!!!

Lol, was laughing throughout the video!!! Kudos to your humour sense and honest opinions🙌

This video just completely confirmed that you are my favorite book KZfaqr. The "rants" about children and ya tropes in particular made me die laughing because you sounded so much like me,.

I like that you are mature enough to have your own opinion (even an unpopular one), explain the reasoning behind it clearly and stick by it, yet at the same time be so quirky and have such an lively gestures and facial expressions

I agree on ToG! I rolled my eyes a lot in that book and the second (so many explainable points and ellipses), but I feel more lenient now that I know it was her absolute first book. Mostly, I'm reading the series because she has had to do a lot to fix plot holes and I think that's an interesting problem for beginning writers. Also: I'm so glad you're pointing out the "pretty girl" parts of the book because it is really trite and toxic to always be exposed to. Good points 🙌🏼

Reading and Writing are subjective art forms and I love that everyone can have opposite opinions on the same thing. It is all art and regardless of the interpretation or opinion, it still remains art for some people. I love that! Also, I love "worst books" videos because I love seeing a fav of mine on another person's "worst" list. It just reminds me of how amazing literature is in that way. Nothing is objectively bad and nothing is objectively good. Everyone has their own opinion and every opinion is valid😍❤️

My thoughts on Throne of Glass: YA is not an excuse for poor writing. Great video! :)

Emily hating on books is my favorite thing in booktube 😂😂

THANK YOU FOR CALLING OUT THRONE OF GLASS! I DNF’d that book twice - I eventually just skipped it entirely and started the series from book 2 which was still bad but better than the first. If you can make it to book 3 that’s where things actually get quite a bit better

I had similar issues with Throne of Glass, it took me ages to get through it, but I have the second book so hoping it does get better!

Love your shirt. Where did you get it !? lol

I’m trash for SJM but I hate Cassandra Clare books but a burning passion!

Throne of glass- I really liked this book but also totally agree with this review of it. I kind of feel so torn now.

This is why you're one of my favourites, everyone loves Throne of Glass and I hate the damn thing. I expected to though, because numerous people have mentioned that the first is one of the worst in the series so I will give the second book a chance because I do enjoy SJM writing, it's simple and easy to read which is what I need right now haha

Oh no, I have the entire a court of series and now I’m like shit! Lol love this and the sass!!

I loooved this video haha. I haven't read any of the book apart from Throne of Glass and it was also definitely not my favourite. Unhauled it straight after I read it 😂

does anyone know where her top is from?? it is important for my closet

i'll wait for your review on the 2nd and third book of throne of glass i don't think i could trudge on this :c

It's ok to have different opinions ^^ I love Eragon and will still love it even if it is not well loved by the rest of the community. I can't comment on the rest, didn't read none. But i still love this videos xD