ah this video was so fun, i've been watching your videos for so long so i was shocked to see my own face in a thumbnail!!😳but i totally get what you mean about emily wilde's, the ending was definitely a different vibe from the beginning, but i think the second book in the series is a lot stronger overall and maintains the same tone throughout, also emily and wendell continue to have great banter in the sequel! i can't wait to hear your thoughts if you pick it up!!!

The laughter the moment you fell down gave pure evil energy 😂😂

I didn't realize how soon this had been posted and was very disappointed to find that there were no comments to scroll through.

I have the seven year slip and I am super looking forward to it! I would definitely read an adult version of the spiderwick chronicles D: I have emily wilde as well, and I'm looking forward to seeing the woman being the grumpy one for once! It's so true that it is usually the male love interest in the m/f takes on the trope.

@33:18 is the summary of how I've been feeling lately. I recently read Godkiller and loved it because the romance was subtle and not just out of nowhere. We didn't take chapters-long detours just to gush about the romance, and I got to enjoy my fantasy book. I told my husband about it, and he was like "Oh, you hate romance, huh?" and I had to explain to him that I love love, but it feels like *everything* has to have a romance in it now, and sometimes I just want a different kind of story.

Emily Wilde was one of my favorite books of 2023, but I wouldn't describe it as cozy fantasy! It might have some cozy elements, but I don't think it really fits that description.

I’m pretty sure you’re the only KZfaqr I jump in my seat when I see you posted another video! Thank you for being so descriptive with your reviews! 😁

If you want a true cozy fantasy: Legend & Lattes by Travis Baldree. This is about a former adventuring orc who sets aside her sword to start up a coffee shop in a town that has never heard of coffee. She gathers a cast of characters around her that help her build the business. It’s so cozy with such lush descriptions of food. Great found family vibes with just a hint of a sapphic romance. I think the marketing for Emily Wilde did the book a disservice by posing it as a cozy fantasy. I didn’t find it all that cozy from the offset. It had this creepy but whimsical vibe from the outset. I still enjoyed it! The sequel is good too but definitely even more adventurous in tone/vibe. I enjoyed The 7 year slip quite a bit! Did you catch the Dead Romantics cameo? So the two books exist in the same universe.

Jesse, you could never be a failure , no matter whether your bye-ohs are always perfect or not! 💖

Hey Jesse! I literally never comment but I live close to where you go in Arkansas and I NEVER knew we had an independent bookstore! So thanks for showing me that!

I recommend the BookLeo 😁

I agree about Emily Wilde! I didn’t expect where it ended up going and I would have been happier with her still wandering around the forest and us seeing her finish the encyclopedia. I don’t understand why people falsely talk about what books are, like I know it can be subjective but I didn’t feel like that book was cozy. Maybe at times but not a lot.

I love your videos! It feels like a couple of friends just hanging out talking about books!

I read Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries when it first came out in the UK. I think I gave it 4 stars, but I didn't feel like I wanted to continue with the series. I enjoyed my time with it, but I think I was reading it at the wrong time in my reading journey because it took a while for me to get through. I rehomed it with my best friend though, because she wanted to read it and I figured it would be better with her than gathering dust on my shelf.

Your thoughts made me want to read all three! Especially “Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries”! I’m curious to read it! Also, I'm glad and so jealous you got another cutie boba frog! I decided to call a new one "Boba-Jiro" 🐸🐸♪

I’m about to get the wishing game so I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it (besides the romance)

Yes 100% would be all in for an anthology of fae shorts, maybe with some of the characters we met in book 1!!

Happy to see you choose a book from Katie is reading !! I like her content ! 🌈

Woww. You are reading two of favorite booktuber’s fav book in this video. I think I already love this video 🥺💗

Book tubers I’ve been enjoying lately = BookLeo and Books are Sick I’m new to your videos, but I really enjoy your thoughts and reviews! Thank you ☺️

I love love loooooved The Wishing Game. Lol, while recommending it to a customer and coworker, I read a quote from the book and literally teared up (embarrassing!). Like you said, it was just so warm and comforting. It just perfectly encapsulated what makes reading such a special experience.

I love this so much!

I just realised Jesse is the only booktuber that is still going from when I started watching booktube like 12 years ago. How crazy!

A book I immediately thought of when you brought up the Seven Year Slip was Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds. It is about time travel, loss, grief, and has a romance element but the main focus is this group of friends navigating their final year of high school. There are family issues addressed, and although the story is very fast paced, it is not an insta love story at all. I absolutely loved this book, and I think you might love it too!

Yay. Happy you enjoyed Emily Wilde

Hi, Jesse, dangg one day i would be reading your favourite books..

Great vlog I love Katie's videos. Such cozy energy she always gives 🍄🫖☕📚🎥🍿

Boiling a book down to just "cozy" vibes or having "grumpy sunshine" etc. does it a massive disservice in a lot of ways. Tropes don't actually tell you anything all that significant about the plot. You're much better off ignoring hyped up tropes and just reading the synopsis on the back of the book and basing your expectations on that. It's a fun way to get to know someone though, to read the books they most enjoyed reading. Or, even the ones they most hated. I find these kinds of videos really interesting and it's cool to see how your own opinions and reasoning can vary from or coincide with theirs.

I adore Jesse's vlogs, my goodness if he posts a +10000 hours vlog I would gladly watch it^^ How truly talented and incredible he is! I am really grateful for all the efforts he put in making these videos~

Oh wow I made it here fast. Hope you’re well Jessie! Thanks in advance for the recommendations :D

You might like Books with Emily and Abi of Pellinor, if you don't already follow them.

I haven’t read any of these but I own Emily Wilds encyclopedia of fairies and hope to read it soon! Some booktubers you should watch are Destiny Sidewall, Sara Carollie, Syd BookWorrom, Andrew Watson, and PeruseProject. These are all some of my favorite booktubers that I think you would love!

I need to read The Wishing Game asap 😍

With the way that you talk about Emily Wilde, you would probably like Marie Brennon's A Natural History of Dragons series. All out in the field learning about dragons with a similar voice, and no footnotes.

EMILY WILDE

My favorite booktubers are Book Roast and JadeyRaeReads.

I was thinking about getting the seven year slip and now that you talk about now it's on the top of my must get now plus I love Ashley potions books

Hi Jesse: If you want to get more into cozy fantasy, have you read The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna? I feel like you might have but it was the first thing that popped into my head. Enjoy your content.

Dead Romantics was in my top 5 fo r2023 reads. I hope to get to 7 Year Slip soon.

I have four booktuber recommendations for you! lexi aka newlynova; Becca and The Books; and Katie Colson

8:45 Is me in the near future, lol. I signed up for a Savage Race in May 😅

Hi Jesse, I don't usually comment but I just wanted to tell you that you got me out of my reading block!

I read all three books last year and I loved Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries and thought the other two were just okay. I definitely agree with you about the forced romance in The Wishing Game. I think I would have liked it a lot more without that.

The Wishing Game was my favorite book of 2023!!

Yay!!! I suggested Haley!!! ❤😊

Love Haley Pham. Great video!

Jordaline Reads is a real hoot! 🦉

If you like books with time manipulation, you might like See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon

I felt the same about the last quarter of Emily Wilde. I appreciated the first 3/4ths but really didn't like where the plot turned and just kept imaging other directions she could've taken the story. I'm hoping I'll like the second book more.

Very bold of me to recommend my own booktube channel but I do 🙈🙈

Glad you enjoyed it. I fill like you are kinda forcing yourself to read a lot more for the sake of youtube videos, specially cause it is books from trends, not personal interest so make sure sure you respect yourself and dont do things just because of youtube! My favorites were wheel of time #4 and farseen trilogy #2 and one piece. Now that I've read more 300 chapters of one piece in 2024 I can say it is one of the best stories ever written. You would love it. I find it very hard to imagine someone who wouldnt. For every age, for every type of life. Just heartbreaking, fun and unbelievably crafted. It will be finished wither this year or next year so I'd completely recommend you trying (and yes, it gives a lot of views too haha)- It is one of the (if not the best) decision of my life to start it. No one who has read it until water seven says they regret and it just keeps getting better every saga. And it's so addicting. This month I was spending 2-3h reading non stop losing awareness of people around me and tv. We just cant stop!

I wonder if king of wrath Is on this list if it is then I will skip I’m reading king of wrath right now

As an asexual trans guy, I want to thank you for introducing me to Every Heart a Doirway + the rest of the Wayward Children Series. Loved the series with all my heart

Jesse introducing other booktubers , it's their debut to Jesse's followers . 😅

Yes yes omg yes! The unnecessary romances! I blame the tropification of books as a marketing strategy on social media.

have you read her majestys royal coven by Juno Dawson if not I think you would really enjoy it

I gotta be honest: I DNF'd Emily Wilde - because I didn't like Wendel! XD I was more interested in Emily's investigations and was annoyed that he kept getting in the way

I gave The Wishing Game 5 stars and DNF'ed Emily Wilde's

seven year slip felt so bland to me, I didn't feel the chemistry between the main couple, and why she was clinging to him, or why he waited. at least in the movie "the lake house" (which probably is the inspiration, and it is WAY better than this book, and now I'm kinda laughing because you said this book is unique just after I typed that this book is a copy, sorry). I don't like the writing style of the author, I think she writes not for the sake of character development, or as a plot device, but for impact and to manipulate the reader to feel. but it's good the book is a hot to others and people can get something good from it.

I read The Wishing Game and I don't know but it gave me extremely uncormfortable feelings. The fact that a teacher kisses one of the little kids, cuddles him? That‘s child abuse in my opinion. Even if she wants to adopt him - it is not her kid und she should lose her job an go to jail for that. Will definitely never read anything by that author again. Romanticising child abuse is disgusting and should never be published.

Would recommend the booktuber Dead good book reviews