I won't read books I don't like but I WILL watch 1-2 hour video essays on them with absolute glee

I'm actually cackling at your voice for twisted love. Never thought you had that in you 😂😂😂

colleen hoover is probably at the top of my "will never read from" list... even the "not so bad" books people find excuses for-- which, if some people enjoy this author, that's cool, but the fact that they feel the need to justify it for some of her books is kinda telling lol.

I do not plan on touching the ACOTAR series, icebreaker, or Hooked

"Jolly Jesse Jeans on" *zones out* "WHAT IS THIS, THE DISNEY CHANNEL?!" LMAOOOOOOO 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I am curious to pick up the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo..but also you will NEVER catch me reading Colleen Hoover. Just No.

I'm going to advocate for Carrie Soto is Back. I resisted, and I'm so glad I gave in. It was a great book and I really like how many faults the main character has. Don't worry about the tennis part, legit, i know nothing about it and it really doesn't matter. The way the book is written, there is no assumed knowledge for you to have about tennis. It's a book that is legit worth the hype. And I say this as a girlie who has resisted soooo many books

Not trying to convince you to read Carrie Soto is Back, but I will say, I was in the same position as you when it came out. It sounded like something I wouldn't enjoy, I bought it upon release and it took me over a year to get to it but once I did I did not put it down, it was a one day read for me! And a five star. Carrie is one of the most beautifully complex woman I have read in a while, she is brusque, and single-minded to the detriment of everything else in her life, and a little arrogant(is it arrogant if she can back it up with literally having been the best?), and yet you are on her side, you get where she is coming from. Her relationship with her dad/coach, with the sport, with her fellow players, with SPOILERS, and most of all with herself is just so complicated and rich and wonderful.

I am here BEGGING you to give Carrie Soto is back a chance. I haven't read any other tjr books so I can't 100% guarantee that it doesn't have similar elements to daisy Jones or Evelyn hugo, but based on what you said I'm willing to stick my neck out haha. While it uses a season of professional tennis as a backdrop for the story, it is SO much more about her relationship with her dad/coach, her struggles with self-identity and being th best, and provides a look at the differences in how the public views men and women know profession tennis. EASILY one of my favorite books I read this year so far!!

It's totally okay not to like everyone's favourite books, even if they're popular, just means you have an opinion 😆 Like this might sound weird but I would never want to enjoy every book I read, because it would mean I don't have taste and/or I'm only sticking to books I know I'll enjoy, which is not how I like to live my life, I like trying everything haha

These books by Taylor Jenkins Reid are referred to as California Dream Crossover Series afaik. So the idea is that some characters of these books appear in the other books, and each one explores a different side of the LA stardom between 1950-80. Carrie Soto appeared in Malibu Rising, and her book is about sports stardom. Evelyn Hugo is set in Hollywood, while Daisy Jones is about the music industry.

Books, even paperbacks, are expensive so it is okay to play hard to get when it comes to buying. Last year, I got some 'popular' books and they disappointed me. The books that I really liked were the lesser known recommended books or the impulse buy where I got lucky.

Carrie Soto is Back was actually amazing, I was shocked by how much I loved it, and I have never cared about tennis, sorry lol, the relationship she has with her trainer dad is gold (but complicated) I took notes, I underlined lines which I never do....but yeah if you ever change your mind in the future you might like it :) I'm currently doing the audiobook for Wayward Children #9, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire and all thanks to you! I binge read all the previous books last year because of your incredible reading vlog for them

I agree with your stance on the romance in fantasy. It needs to take a backseat for me to really enjoy the world of the book. I'm also never gonna read Fourth Wing, ACoTaR, or any of those because I don't vibe with them. Its refreshing to hear I'm not alone in not reading tiktoks most popular books. Would love to hear unpopular book recommendations. Always looking for those!

What annoys me the most about the Lessons in Chemistry US cover is just that it gives the exact opposite vibe of what the book is actually like. 😐 But I understand Jesse. It took me a very long time to pick up that book because it was too darn hyped for the longest time. Then I fell in love with its UK cover and caved 😬

_NO. THE END_ That cackled me 😂

This is how you do it. I love most of these books but the way you presented your reasons got me chuckling 😁

Oh, I recently read Icebreaker, and ohh boy, it was not worth it! So much insta love, so much relationship drama, so many explicit scenes, and no plot to make it worth it

I have to say that "Carrie Soto Is Back" was not something I expected to like a lot, but I really enjoyed it! Would definitely recommend it, as I flew through it in 2 days

I love the matching your mug!! Also I love a video from you!!

that voice you used to narrate twisted love was TERRIFYING lmao

Wow!! I agree with you so much!! Don't waste your time with Ice Breaker, mostly smut and no real hooking plot line. I also refuse to read the last 2 books of Shatter Me. It ended so well with the 3rd book. I refuse to break that beautiful ending!!

Carrie Soto Is Back is no Evelyn Hugo, but I surprisingly really enjoyed it. I do not care about sports even a little bit, and yet I found this book super compelling. Lessons in Chemistry was fine, but I don’t think you’re really missing much

JESSE PLEASE READ THIS WOVEN KINGDOM!!! It's similar to Shatter Me in a lot of ways, but it's also way better. It's just so good and one of my favorite series, and I cried like 3 times while reading the second book. If you give it a chance, I think you'd like it (even if you don't enjoy it, you certainly won't hate it). Also, Realm Breaker is also a book I really enjoyed personally, and it's not really that similar to Red Queen. I'm fairly new to your channel, so I don't know your reading tastes, but you could still enjoy Realm Breaker even if you didn't enjoy Victoria Aveyard's other books, so please please consider reading it!! Loved this video, keep it up! ^^

i'm a huge tjr fan so i felt a similar pressure to read carrie soto even though I wasn't super interested in the description...and I'm so glad I did!! it was one of my favourite reads last year. carrie's character journey completely captivated me, her relationship with her father was so well-written, and even the tennis matches (which I had no interest in beforehand) felt so intense and immersive and made me want to get into watching tennis. I've read all of tjr's books and it definitely feels distinct from daisy jones and evalyn hugo. i would highly recommend giving it a try

Omg, I feel the same way with Victoria Aveyard. Everything I’ve read by her felt so unoriginal. I gave her a second chance with Realm Breaker and I was let down yet again. It was a Throne of Glass dupe with a mix of The Fellowship of the Ring except it was poorly executed.

12:53 towards the end Red Queen series was like losing fuel with the finish line in sight. I’ve read the first book in the Realm Breaker series and (bc it’s the first book) there’s a lot of world building, and it reminded me of The Hobbit (which I never read so take the comparison with a grain of salt), it’s epic, adventurous and is definitely building to something big

I am currently trudging through Haunting Adeline, and I can confidently say I don't recommend the book to anyone!! So I back your decision 😊

As much as I love dragons, I am never going to read Fourth Wing and its sequels. And I’m also tired of seeing it everywhere, I even found fourth wing merchandise at Books A Million…

The voice for twisted love 😂😂😂 bruh I died laughing! I very much agree with your opinion on this book tho

The only books I need you to finish like- today JESSE! is the Strange the Dreamer Duology, I know you read fhe first one but got gotta pick up again and reread it so you can read the second one as well. In fact you could make it a 24 hr Reading Vlog out of it, and I would love you forever.

Anything by Colleen Hoover. And probably Cassandra Clare books. I read the first one, City of Bones?, and got turned off by the incest. And even after being told the incest isn’t actual incest, there’s too much pseudo incest for me to want to continue.

Lessons in Chemistry is soooooo good! Like amazing!

I´m so sick of seeing fourth wing everywhere, can we just stop?!

I DNF'ed Lessons On Chemistry😬

Omg I really agree with you on This Woven Kingdom! I did read it and loved it so much but then I read the blurb of the next book and decided it was going to be like shatter me: too focused on the romance and not enough on the plot for my taste

it's the way i went into twisted love as a joke, and in the end i ended up reading the whole series T-T it was like i knew the books were not the best, but especially the second book was by far the best one story wise! out of all the books that was the one that actually had good romance, and not just two people thirsting over each other. as for haunting adeline i feel the same, just no... it' something about that "dark romance" genre that i'll never understand at all, it scares me for sure...

This woven kingdom actually surprised me a lot. I think the series is definitely the best of taherahs works. I didn’t like the shatter me series because the plot and world felt so underdeveloped but this woven kingdom is not like that at all

I loved the Lux series! ❤️

The voice for twisted love was so unexpected, I almost cried laughing 😭

I loved how your mug matches your shirt.

I’m interested if you have any books/series from a long time ago that you’d re-recommend. Like I’m talking years, the 2000’s era of books. The ones people never talked about or the forgotten books that get overlooked bc they’re older!!

Hi Jesse, I finished reading The Merry Adventure of Robin Hood I didn’t love it but didn’t hate it . Popular books I’ll never read as usual anything by Colleen Hoover, Where The Craw Dads Sing, and Twilight . Thank you for adding Lessons In Chemistry because I’ll never read that book either or Zodiac Academy and as well as Fourth Wing . Regardless I’m excited for my next book 📖 ❤

I kind of want to read Carrie Soto Is Back

Icebreaker was okay, definitely not horrible, but I thoroughly enjoyed the next book in the universe, Wildfire, so much more

The only one I would recommend to give a try is 'Lessons in Chemistry', but maybe as an audiobook sample! I think it is a book you can fairly quickly see if you like the writing style or not. It was one of my favorite books last year (read it in January 2023).

I was both scared and intrigued by that voice you used for "Twisted Love"

What I notice is that when you read more works by authors, the works tend to be similar. Like with Nicholas Sparks with Message In A Bottle & Lucky One. I only read Daisy Jones & The Six. I didn't like it but I am still eager to read her other works. Yea! I feel you with the underwhelming feeling in the Shatter Me series. 😢 I am not gravitated to Lucy Score's book for some reason.😅

Carrie Soto is Back is my favorite TJR book. Hope you change your mind about it because it was amazing.

You should definitely read Lessons in Chemistry! It’s phenomenal and worth all the hype. Trust me I avoided it for so long because I thought I would be disappointed no matter what because of all the hype but I most definitely wasn’t. It has become one of my favorite books and changed how I rated books. Just be aware that it is a fairly heavy book so don’t go into it expecting rainbow’s sunshine and chemistry because that is most definitely not what you will get.

there's nothing anyone could say to make me read colleen hoover's books, fourth wing (includes iron flame), any book by sarah j. maas (acotar series or the other series that i forgot the name of 😂), haunting/hunting adeline, and many more that i don't remember their names just now 😆😪

'Jolly Jessie Jeans' - Oh yeah, the way I can imagine all your Disney character backstory.

Any more of Emily Henry's books. I liked Book Lovers. I might have liked Beach Read if I'd gone in with accurate expectations. But I'm never going to love her books. I definitely agree that Lessons in Chemistry is EVERYWHERE. My local supermarket has copies of it. They don't have Iron Flame.

Iron flame (I enjoyed 4th wing but it's a 2 star at max), anything by coho, inheritance series, twisted love series, crescent city & Co, etc

I probably won't be picking up any more Jennifer L. Armentrout. I dnf'd my reread of the Covanent Series because I realised that that her writing style isn't what I enjoy anymore. I'm much more in my thriller era, and know I'll end up burning myself out if I pick up a fantasy (at this time. I am open to maybe picking up JLA again in the future)

Funnily enough, I feel the same about Mafi, except the other way around. I enjoyed This Woven Kingdom. Then I read the first chapter of Shatter Me in a bookstore and knew it wouldn't be something that I'd like.

I feel you on Carrie Soto 😬

Most of these are also on my "not interested" list! The only one of these I might read is Carrie Soto - I just read Evelyn Hugo and really enjoyed it, but haven't read any of the author's other books yet.

Honestly, if the only problem you had with the shatter me series, give this woven kingdom a chance because it does in fact have a plot

I finally finished Red Queen series a couple years ago. I still need to read her new one. I like Zodiac Academy but I read it when I don’t want a serious book 😂 Like, it seems fanfiction-y, but I love it. 😅

I DNF’d Lessons in Chemistry 😮 I did like the show though. This makes me curious if you would ever read Divine Rivals since you love RR writing but it’s definitely a romance.

I loved Fourth Wing and Iron Flame so much that I have hard time reading any other Fantasy right now.

Whenever someone asks me about my opinion on FW, I’m just gonna show them your reaction 3:14, cause nothing ever has described my feelings towards this book more than you in this moment 😂 + Lessons on Chemistry & Red Queen & Zodiac & FBAA are in my TBR (has been for a long while just like many other books) + I loved the Shatter Me series and I think we needed more than just 3 books in order to understand the past of the characters and how did their world came to be the way it is in the story. Also, I just really love long series. I just started reading This Woven Kingdom, the start is a bit slow but I think I'm gonna like where this is going, especially that the book is talking about geneies. + I really hated Evelyn, I just DNFed it. + Same opinion about the whole Twisted series. Honestly, all men written by Ana are the exact same man but in different fonts 🙃

I tried to reread the shatter me series since it was quite some time since I have and Ive forgotten it, but it didnt age well for me personally

You should totally read this woven kingdom. It’s an amazing series and way better than shatter me. Though I loved shatter me as well. It’s different than shatter me. Shatter me is more a dystopian book while this is a fantasy book with a bit of romance. It’s so good! You should definitely at least try it! This only has three books so far and I don’t think there will be many more.

I love the matching mug and shirt. Eating

Every book you mentioned is on my ‘won’t read list’ except Realm Breaker….I’ve also never read anything by Victoria Aveyard so hopefully I like it….since I bought the first two books already 😂

I just finished Lessons in Chemistry and I went in thinking that I might not like it and I actually did like it. I kinda want to watch the show that was made for it even if that means getting Apple TV for a little bit. I love the dog 6:30 is the best!

Uh oh, Icebreaker and Twisted Love are both current reads of mine. Hope they’re worth the read. 😅

I agree we don’t all to love the same books. Still love ur videos. We shouldn’t spend time reading books we don’t want to.

There's quite a few very popular books I know I'll just never read - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is one of those books.

I feel like you would actually enjoy the Lessons in Chemistry maybe just find a different cover so you don’t want to rip your eyes out.

Jesse. Thanks for showing me all the HigH Fantasy books that I need to avoid!! There are 2 books on your list that I do want to read. Lessons in Chemistry - the TV Show looks good - and Carrie Soto - because Evelyn Hugo was wonderful and they do have a slight connection!! The rest I can ignore. Especially Icebreaker. I live in Canada and Hockey is way over saturated up here!!

I couldn’t finish the book Lessons in Chemistry.

I will read the fourth wing and iron flame I’m just interested

I think I recall you saying you never want to read the "game of thrones" series A Song of Ice and Fire. But in a video a few months ago you talked a few times about traits you want to see in a book and it vexed me that the answer was right there. You want books that have stakes and kill main characters when they mess up or books that sacrifice characters for a better story? ASOIAF. Also with as popular as the show and book series are I was spoiled for multiple deaths but it barely lessened the impact. I was a big time hater of the show and the series because of that annoying popularity but It's actually incredibly valid. I had to eat so much humble pie for being wrong (about the books at least, the show was a masterpiece for the first 5 seasons but even the bad seasons are a lot better than a lot of tv before or since) Also they're so much detail woven in that rereading the series multiple times I'm still going WOW when I realize bits of foreshadowing and things that connect later on and in previous history/lore. It's truly such an experience.

I know The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is like THE book but I loved Carrie Soto so much, it's literally my favourite TJR book. And I was sceptical at the beginning, cause I don't really care about tennis, and like yeah, I still don't get those tennis descriptions, and yeah there are some predictable moments, but the story slayed. The main difference between Carrie and Daisy and Evelyn is that Daisy and Evelyn are secure in their position in history, as these legends in their field. Carrie is not, all she has is tennis and her records and as long as she is the best, it's great, she'll be remembered. But when it looks like someone might take those records away, she's convinced she'll be forgotten. So she returns, and it's really heartbreaking, that she'll either win and get what she wants, or she'll lose and will fall even further down. And of course along the way she's learning there's more to life than just winning 🤩And this is personal but I kinda identified with Carrie, so I'm a bit biased, but something about this desire to be remembered, to be the best at all cost just spoke to me. I'm not sure if I'm doing the book justice with this description but of course I won't judge if you're not going to read it. 💕

I will never read game of thrones and unless if the name of the wind guy comes out with the last book… I’ll probably never read that either 😂

Anything by Murakami

That voice for Twisted Love 😂🤣😂🤣

I gave in and read twisted love .... And it was an experience 😂

I thought I was going to read lessons in chemistry and then I didn’t read it and decided I’m not going to and watched the show lol but I did like the show! I loved icebreaker but I do not think it’s for you lol I loved Carrie Soto and I think it’s her best book but not everyone thinks that so it’s okay I skipped this woven kingdom as well it just didn’t interest me but maybe I’ll be sold later on

You narrating twisted love has me *dying* 😂😂😂😂 what’s up with the Death Metal voice jesse?

Fourth Wing, romance, fantasy and dragons. Those 3 separately dont work for me. I can't imagine how a disaster it will be together.

11:07 if you want to read a GOOD zodiac series, go for the one by Romina Russell

I might check out "Fourth Wing," but I won't read "Iron Flame." "Lessons in Chemistry" sounds depressing. I will also probably never read the Hunger Games series, the Divergent series, Game of Thrones or ACOTAR. I don't see myself finishing "Anna Karenina" because I don't like Oblonsky and Levin enough to spend 200 pages with them, let alone 800+ pages.

The facial expressions in this video were top-tier 😂

I probably will never read: Haunting Adeline (Just no), Hooked, anything from Sarah J. Maas (don't hold me to it tho, my curiosity might win) or anything from Ali Hazlewood

10:16 - 😂😂😂 I'm dying, because I know there are definitely readers who would ride or die for that narration style specifically but I also can't blame anybody who wouldn't. Some things simply aren't for everyone, and that's okay!!! 🤭💖😁 LOLL

a little life and haunting adelaine are my biggest "nopes"

We need to spend more time talking about how overhype can be off putting sometimes!! Also I am absolutely behind the idea of not needing to read every single book ever put out by a favourite author. I was so underwhelmed by shatter me so I am not going to be reading more mafi either :/ I dnfed after the original tbr. No interest in zodiac academy for me at all. I haven't read any victoria aveyard before but strongly get the vibe that they are not for me??

Popular books I’ll never read: anything new by Sara J Maas. I liked ACOTAR and then read throne of glass and that’s where it all fell apart for me. SJM has writing quirks that are really noticeable to me reading her books back to back and I can’t unsee them now.

I have friends who've read "Lessons in Chemistry," and I can't manage any kind of interest in it. Even as the TV adaptation keeps getting awards or whatever, I just know it's not my kind of book (or show), and I'm okay with that.

If you don’t want to read Lessons in chemistry but you’re still interested in the story I recommend the series

"Haunting Adeline, NO THE END." 😂

I haven't read Fourth Wing or Iron Flame....yet. But my completely off-the-cuff guess based solely off of people's extremely divided reactions about Iron Flame would be that probably/maybe Iron Flame improves upon whatever it was that people who really loved Fourth Wing liked about Fourth Wing BUT perhaps/likely did not improve whatever it was about Fourth Wing that people who weren't so hot on Fourth Wing didn't like about Fourth Wing-so, basically, the people who enjoyed Fourth Wing enjoy Iron Flame even more while the people who didn't so much like Fourth Wing enjoy Iron Flame even less.? But that's just me shooting in the dark and possibly way off mark.😂🤷🤷‍♀️🤷🏻‍♂️ Loll

I love Shatter me but I will never read her other series 😅 just not for me. For sure she needs to write some adult fantasy that would be awesome. I read Twisted Love out of curiosity. It was terrible 😂 like trash tv but still I read the second one and it improved. I don’t think I will read the rest tho

Here after Having a summer of broken rules I’m excited to read it spefically because I’m a swiftie

I will never read A Court Of Thorns And Roses. I read the throne of glass series and didn’t really like it at all. I also thought the romance was a bit much. So I won’t be reading that. I also will NOT read Collin Hoover. I don’t like her genre of books or her style much. I also don’t like spice in my books and her’s got a good bit in it.

Realm breaker was so bad and this is coming from someone who loved red queen way to many plot lines it easily could have been dual pov and you wouldn’t miss anything and everything was just so confusing I got to the climax and I’m like what is even happening right now nothing made sense and I read very convoluted adult fantasy