**Goodreads Choice Awards: A Year of Disappointment**

I know I'm sorry but like those books just let me down okay so much hype so much disappointment we have you made it full of death with your beauty by aquake MSA. This one's tough for me because I definitely had like the wrong expectations going to this book I really thought this was going to feel like Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan something that was deeply emotional that really dealt with the aftermath of grief and what that's like. But this book is really just about our main character FEI getting with multiple different dudes getting with the guy she is like dating getting with his dad and calling it true love the way that she views these men and the way she talks about them doesn't feel romantic to me like I never felt like oh wow they have this incredibly Rich uh relationship an incredibly Rich connection and they should be together. I never felt that way, it felt like well Faye was trying to use her grief to justify her relationship with this man she shouldn't be with and there's definitely repercussions there but it never felt high stakes. I don't know this book was messy to me and not in a fun way, not in a way that I found satisfying. I think having read other books about grief and other books about really heavy topics this year in Romance I just feel like this one was lacking in so many ways. I don't think it went deep enough with the grief, I don't think it went deep enough with the healing, and it definitely didn't go deep enough with the romance. It's like okay I think you're hot you're grieving let's oh my God I love you, I just I didn't love it. And I'm sad. Um I know that a quick game essay has written other books that people really love, I'd definitely be willing to give more of their books a try in the future. This one just was not for me.

**A Disappointing Romance: A Review**

This book is probably the one that I liked on this list the most. I'm looking at the other books on this list and they're all two Star reads, Ruby Fever by Lola Andrews is actually a three-star read for me. It was not terrible, but it was one that I was deeply disappointed in because it was supposed to be the ending of a Trilogy and it was supposed to really wrap up this great love story and great like urban fantasy romance series and it just didn't do that for me. So this book's about Alessandro and Catalina, I don't really want to go into the plot of this book because obviously it's the continuation of a series but but in general I feel like this Trilogy compared to the first Trilogy which was Nevada and mad rogans Trilogy, I feel like the romance was lacking throughout the story. Right, we're just supposed to know that these two aren't meant for each other, that they understand each other without any like on-page evidence of that. It's like oh we spent an entire summer together and we got to know each other it felt like a throwaway. I wanted more on page with the romance than I thought in this third book, we never did. And then also it's like we're leading up to this big battle we're excited about this big battle for like three books we finally know what's happening we understand what the big bad is after and then we have this encounter and it is the most lackluster like lack of battle ever. It's like at the 97 Mark, okay let's have a three-page scene on this battle or like this encounter and then it's over and then everybody lives happily ever after and that was so not satisfying. Because I know that this author Duo is capable of so much more in this book kept getting pushed and pushed publishing wise, so I'm not sure if they didn't know how to wrap up the series or what but it just felt unsatisfying after having waited quite a while for this book to come out.

**Conclusion: A Year of Disappointment**

Those are the six books that disappointed me this year, they're obviously more disappointments but these are the ones that really stood out to me as books that I was so excited about that really just didn't hit that final Mark. So let me know in the comments down below if you agree or disagree with any of these and also let me know what books you were most disappointed in this year, but thanks so much for watching I love you all so much and until next time thank you

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello welcome back to my channel in today's video I'm going to be talking all about the books the disappointed me the most this year now this video is different distinctly different from my worst books of the Year video in that not all of these books are like two or one Star reads but they're books that I had some sort of expectation going into that they would be new all-time favorites or at least enjoyable in some way and all of these books let me down in one way or another that's why I like to put together these videos I'm someone who buys under the hype with books I get excited about books that maybe I shouldn't have picked up because it's like not really my thing and then I'm left disappointed and now I'm here to talk to you about the books I'm disappointed about so I did not take extensive notes for this video compared to worst and best books so hopefully this is still fairly seamless first up we have Twisted Hate by Anna Huang this book is about Jules and Josh Jules is the best friend of Josh's little sister and they've kind of always butted heads right like they do not get along very well and this is an enemies to love her story and I was really excited about it because in the past I've really liked Anna huang's writing I want to say all four of the books in the Twisted series came out this year I could be wrong maybe twisted love came out last year I'm not sure but I've read all of her books at this point I really like Twisted love I really like Twisted games and I really like Twisted lies but Twisted hate was simply not for me and I'm not sure if it's because I don't think Anna Huang can do enemies to lovers or if this one is just like a standalone um doesn't work for me kind of book there were two main issues with this book number one the dialogue if you're gonna make an enemies to love her story with two adult people who are post-grad they are successful career people you have a doctor and a lawyer I'm gonna expect the dialogue and the witty banter between the two of them to be witty not based on name calling or really stupid insults but funny witty interesting anime still ever kind of dialogue I want to feel the tension here I don't want to be irritated by the interactions that are being had between hero and heroine I was honestly really irritated by these two um especially for that first like 20 to 30 of this book then they end up going to I want to say like a ski Resort or something and I started to kind of warm to their relationship I thought like okay Josh he's kind of taking care of Jules when she is not feeling well like I'm kind of starting to warm to this relationship like I think this could work and then things have to come crashing down for the second reason that I was disappointed in this book and actively kind of dislike it lying is not really the recipe to a successful relationship right and to be caught in a lie and not have a reason for it not a true reason it doesn't really make for a good romance I don't know how to say it I just think that breaking trust is a big deal and I think that coming back from a lie or coming back from cheating and relationship is really really challenging and oftentimes doesn't work and we're supposed to believe that enough groveling here will solve that problem but there is a scene that happens in this book that made me personally deeply uncomfortable so not only did one character lie to the other but the person that's being lied to finds out and treats the other person really cruelly as a result I did not like it it was reminiscent of another book actually now that I'm thinking about it I think in like 2018 or 2019 I read a book that had a completely different premise but had a similar scene and in that book it was like a cliffhanger but in this book it's like they're supposed to come back from this thing that happens and in my opinion it felt like borderline assaulty I didn't like it I didn't like it I was disappointed in it and I'm hoping that in the future I can read anatomy's lovers from in Hong that feels really the Hasty and high stakes and like truly is for me but this one just simply was not I ended up giving this book two stars and I think all of the other books that I've read by this author have given like three to five stars so next up we have a couple of books that were on the Goodreads Choice Awards this year and I've talked about both of these books extensively before so I don't really want to belabor the point and like gush about how much I hate them or how much I didn't enjoy them how disappointed I am in them but I I have to talk about them because they are two books that really disappointed me first up we have Book Lovers by Emily Henry I know you're probably sick of hearing about this book I'm sick of talking about this book it's about Nora and Charlie Nora is a book agent who is looking for someone to edit a book for one of her clients after their editor kind of like ghosted them or something like that Charlie is going to be the guy to do that which is kind of rough on Nora because they have sort of like uh not an enemy sliver situation going on but a Rivals to lovers they've had kind of one interaction that neither of them was really happy with and now they're having a ton of work together that's not actually what the story is about the story is about Nora going to a small town and I want to say like North Carolina with her little sister they're going to bond right before her sister has her like second or third baby the majority of the book is just spent with Nora trying to figure out why her sister is kind of keeping secrets from her and occasionally we get Charlie popping in because guess what he is from the small town to I guess provide some like True Romance this book was disappointing on two fronts kind of like Twisted lies the first issue that I had with this book is that so much time was spent on the relationship between Nora and her sister that you never really get to fully invest yourself in the relationship between Charlie and Nora then the second reason I'm disappointed in this book is because I feel like at this point all of Emily Henry's male main characters are kind of running together they all sort of feel the same to me and I recently watched uh Kayla from books Lala her series reading a ton of different romances and I think she read both Beach read and Book Lovers and had similar feelings maybe not as strong as me but like similar feelings on the way that she writes her characters it's like the guys feel interesting a little bit at the beginning and you're like okay he's like kind of fun and different and then as The Story Goes On the guys become Bland flavorless personality-less guys who are just lusting after the you know female main character listing is probably the wrong word simping also kind of the wrong word but these guys are just obsessed with the women and they I have been in love with her this entire time that's kind of what we find out for pretty much all of the men in Emily Henry's books and in people we've been on vacation it makes sense because they're long-term friends in both Beach read and Book Lovers it's like why are these guys so into these women who they barely know but if they are really cool like it just feels too wish to film it for me and I'm someone who likes wish fulfillment so I don't know I I was just really disappointed in this book it didn't feel like a really well-rounded romance too much time spent with the side characters that's just not for me that's not the kind of romance I like felt a little too Chiclet for me which again I hate saying I hate I hate putting that energy into the atmosphere I don't think that chicklet is inherently like worse than romance it's just like not necessarily what I like um anyway I give this book two stars moving on another book again for the Goodreads Choice Awards that I didn't enjoy was a book that a lot of people were hyping up for me it's not a book that was on my radar previously or that I was like interested in in and of itself but it was a book that so many people said was amazing I kept seeing quotes everywhere I kept seeing the cover of this book on Instagram and I was like surely I'm going to really enjoy things we never got over by Lucy score and I'm sure a lot of people know at this point I just didn't enjoy this book which was so sad but this book is about Knox and I can't remember the heroine's name I'm gonna call her Luanne it was about Knox and Luanne and she's running away from her betrothed she is uh basically running away in a wedding dress I believe because she doesn't want to walk it down the altar to this guy who is not a very nice guy so she escapes to a small town that her twin sister is residing in and her evil twin sister is taking care of luanne's niece that Luanne didn't know existed and since she is an evil twin the evil twin is going to disappear and leave the niece behind now Luanne is going to have to take care of the kid and also kind of figure out her life because she's 36 but she doesn't have her life figured out at all okay she somehow attracts the attention of the Town Grump Knox and he is going to provide not only hot beef injection but also a lot of Anguish because he's irritating as hell he doesn't know how to use his words or his emotions appropriately he has some daddy issues that we learned about later on in the book that kind of come too little too late overall this book was just so disappointing because it was going for that like Charming small town romance thing I think it was trying to go for again like a slow burn sort of Mariana Zapata thing but again in a small town setting and it just does not accomplish that I didn't find the sex scene in fact I found them a little bit repulsive I remember distinctly as I was reading going ew and like highlighting some scenes because I was like I don't like the way milking is being used here it's just not really for me and I just think that Knox and Luanne don't really act their age and I'm not saying that you have to have your life figured out at any age but I would like to see some signs that you've lived a little bit and these two characters feel like they could be 21 and not like this book and you know if you do that's awesome maybe you are taking something away from it that I am just missing but I feel like a lot of the messages here are a little heavy-handed too so it just wasn't for me two stars um moving on next up is a book that I don't really know that I've fully talked about on my channel I think I've talked about it in a wrap up once but I read my killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey and I disliked it I was highly disappointed in this one and it was one that I was really anticipating so Tessa Bailey I think it's had three releases this year happens dance my killer vacation and hook line and singer and I didn't really like any of them Hook Line and Tinker was the one that I enjoyed the most and it's a traditionally published Romance by her this one is I think Indie published and it follows our main characters miles and Taylor miles is a private detective and Taylor is on a beach vacation with her little brother I want to say and she's a teacher you know normally but she is treating herself to a beach vacation and unfortunately she finds a dead body in the beach house she's staying at and she is on a mission to figure out who did it and uh miles comes in because he has been asked to figure out you know who done it and like why someone would kill the person they found at the beach house this was bad on two counts number one I feel like as a mystery thriller that's a mystery it was just not good I don't feel like there were breadcrumbs left I don't feel like there's really any intention to solve this mystery in a way that was satisfying it was just supposed to be the backdrop for a smuddy romance and like don't get me wrong I like a good smelly romance I really like relationship development and I'm fine if the plot just kind of takes a back seat but you are committing to writing history when you sign up for a plot like this right expected some care and attention to be taken with the fact that again this like is a mystery but no current attention was taken and then also I just find miles creepy like I just did it I didn't like him he ends up stealing the heroine's panties after meeting her one time like he ends up going to the house the beach house that she's staying in kind of confronting her about the fact that she is sneaking around trying to solve this mystery and then he nabs a pair of pennies and keeps in his pocket and like I don't know I just don't like the way he referred to her either I think what I'm noticing about some of Tessa Bailey's books not all of them but some of them is that he spends a lot of time with the heroes lusting after the heroines and not really caring about their personalities and that's not something that I personally noticed myself until Hayden pointed it out when we read It Happened One Summer together this year after we read that book I think this is the next Tessa Bailey I read after it and it really colored my judgment I guess of her books and definitely influenced the way that I viewed this one and I just realized that like miles was talking about how her firm ass looked in those jeans and blah blah and it's like we get you want to be with her but like you care about her personality at all like is that something that doesn't matter I mean here's the thing if you're looking for a smutty good time I guess maybe this could work for you I just feel like she has other books that are both smutty and have some heart to it and I just feel like this one was just kind of not it was not for me okay and the ending felt a little bit rushed as well it's like we've known each other for two weeks but I love you and I'm gonna move in with you I just feel like I feel like it's a bit too much for me okay personally just a little bit too much for me I like a little bit of realism so not not for me another book from the Goodreads Choice Awards I know I'm sorry but like those books just let me down okay so much hype so much disappointment we have you made it full of death with your beauty by aquake MSA this one's tough for me because I definitely had like the wrong expectations going to this book I really thought this was going to feel like Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan something that was deeply emotional that really dealt with the aftermath of grief and what that's like this book is really just about our main character FEI getting with multiple different dudes getting with the guy she is like dating getting with his dad and calling it true love the way that she views these men and the way she talks about them doesn't feel romantic to me like I never felt like oh wow they have this incredibly Rich uh relationship an incredibly Rich connection and they should be together I never felt that way it felt like well she thinks this man is handsome and he just happens to have a spouse that also died and so now you're jumping into bed with it it was like Faye was trying to use her grief to justify her relationship with this man she shouldn't be with and there's definitely repercussions there but it never felt high stakes I don't know this book was messy to me and not in a fun way not in a way that I found satisfying I think having read other books about grief and other books about really heavy topics this year in Romance I just feel like this one was lacking in so many ways I don't think it went deep enough with the grief I don't think it went deep enough with the healing and it definitely didn't go deep enough with the romance there it's like okay I think you're hot you're grieving let's oh my God I love you I just I didn't love it and I'm sad um I know that a quick game essay has written other books that people really love I'd definitely be willing to give more of their books a try in the future this one just was not for me and then lastly a book that I don't think was terrible this is probably the one that I liked on this list the most I'm looking at the other books on this list and they're all two Star reads Ruby Fever by Lola Andrews is actually a three-star read for me it was not terrible but it was one that I was deeply disappointed in because it was supposed to be the ending of a Trilogy and it was supposed to really wrap up this great love story and great like urban fantasy romance series and it just didn't do that for me so this book's about Alessandro and Catalina I don't really want to go into the plot of this book because obviously it's the continuation of a series but but in general I feel like this Trilogy compared to the first Trilogy which was Nevada and mad rogans Trilogy I feel like the romance was lacking throughout the story right we're just supposed to know that these two aren't meant for each other that they understand each other without any like on-page evidence of that it's like oh we spent an entire summer together and we got to know each other it felt like a throwaway like I wanted more on page with the romance than I thought in this third book we'd get that we never did and then also it's like we're leading up to this big battle we're excited about this big battle for like three books we finally know what's happening we understand what the big bad is after and then we have this encounter and it is the most lackluster like lack of battle ever it's like at the 97 Mark okay let's have a three-page scene on this battle or like this encounter and then it's over and then everybody lives happily ever after and that was so not satisfying because I know that this author Duo is capable of so much more in this book kept getting pushed and pushed publishing wise so I'm not sure if they didn't know how to wrap up the series or what but it just felt unsatisfying after having waited quite a while for this book to come out so it was a bummer that I didn't love it it wasn't terrible it was three star read but like I wanted more and I'm hoping that if they do continue on with the series and that if we do get an Arabella Trilogy that it would be hopefully like more satisfying than this one but that is it those are the six books that disappointed me this year they're obviously more disappointments but these are the ones that really stood out to me as books that I was so excited about that really just didn't didn't hit that final Mark so let me know in the comments down below if you agree or disagree with any of these and also let me know what books you were most disappointed in this year but thanks so much for watching I love you all so much and until next time thank youhello welcome back to my channel in today's video I'm going to be talking all about the books the disappointed me the most this year now this video is different distinctly different from my worst books of the Year video in that not all of these books are like two or one Star reads but they're books that I had some sort of expectation going into that they would be new all-time favorites or at least enjoyable in some way and all of these books let me down in one way or another that's why I like to put together these videos I'm someone who buys under the hype with books I get excited about books that maybe I shouldn't have picked up because it's like not really my thing and then I'm left disappointed and now I'm here to talk to you about the books I'm disappointed about so I did not take extensive notes for this video compared to worst and best books so hopefully this is still fairly seamless first up we have Twisted Hate by Anna Huang this book is about Jules and Josh Jules is the best friend of Josh's little sister and they've kind of always butted heads right like they do not get along very well and this is an enemies to love her story and I was really excited about it because in the past I've really liked Anna huang's writing I want to say all four of the books in the Twisted series came out this year I could be wrong maybe twisted love came out last year I'm not sure but I've read all of her books at this point I really like Twisted love I really like Twisted games and I really like Twisted lies but Twisted hate was simply not for me and I'm not sure if it's because I don't think Anna Huang can do enemies to lovers or if this one is just like a standalone um doesn't work for me kind of book there were two main issues with this book number one the dialogue if you're gonna make an enemies to love her story with two adult people who are post-grad they are successful career people you have a doctor and a lawyer I'm gonna expect the dialogue and the witty banter between the two of them to be witty not based on name calling or really stupid insults but funny witty interesting anime still ever kind of dialogue I want to feel the tension here I don't want to be irritated by the interactions that are being had between hero and heroine I was honestly really irritated by these two um especially for that first like 20 to 30 of this book then they end up going to I want to say like a ski Resort or something and I started to kind of warm to their relationship I thought like okay Josh he's kind of taking care of Jules when she is not feeling well like I'm kind of starting to warm to this relationship like I think this could work and then things have to come crashing down for the second reason that I was disappointed in this book and actively kind of dislike it lying is not really the recipe to a successful relationship right and to be caught in a lie and not have a reason for it not a true reason it doesn't really make for a good romance I don't know how to say it I just think that breaking trust is a big deal and I think that coming back from a lie or coming back from cheating and relationship is really really challenging and oftentimes doesn't work and we're supposed to believe that enough groveling here will solve that problem but there is a scene that happens in this book that made me personally deeply uncomfortable so not only did one character lie to the other but the person that's being lied to finds out and treats the other person really cruelly as a result I did not like it it was reminiscent of another book actually now that I'm thinking about it I think in like 2018 or 2019 I read a book that had a completely different premise but had a similar scene and in that book it was like a cliffhanger but in this book it's like they're supposed to come back from this thing that happens and in my opinion it felt like borderline assaulty I didn't like it I didn't like it I was disappointed in it and I'm hoping that in the future I can read anatomy's lovers from in Hong that feels really the Hasty and high stakes and like truly is for me but this one just simply was not I ended up giving this book two stars and I think all of the other books that I've read by this author have given like three to five stars so next up we have a couple of books that were on the Goodreads Choice Awards this year and I've talked about both of these books extensively before so I don't really want to belabor the point and like gush about how much I hate them or how much I didn't enjoy them how disappointed I am in them but I I have to talk about them because they are two books that really disappointed me first up we have Book Lovers by Emily Henry I know you're probably sick of hearing about this book I'm sick of talking about this book it's about Nora and Charlie Nora is a book agent who is looking for someone to edit a book for one of her clients after their editor kind of like ghosted them or something like that Charlie is going to be the guy to do that which is kind of rough on Nora because they have sort of like uh not an enemy sliver situation going on but a Rivals to lovers they've had kind of one interaction that neither of them was really happy with and now they're having a ton of work together that's not actually what the story is about the story is about Nora going to a small town and I want to say like North Carolina with her little sister they're going to bond right before her sister has her like second or third baby the majority of the book is just spent with Nora trying to figure out why her sister is kind of keeping secrets from her and occasionally we get Charlie popping in because guess what he is from the small town to I guess provide some like True Romance this book was disappointing on two fronts kind of like Twisted lies the first issue that I had with this book is that so much time was spent on the relationship between Nora and her sister that you never really get to fully invest yourself in the relationship between Charlie and Nora then the second reason I'm disappointed in this book is because I feel like at this point all of Emily Henry's male main characters are kind of running together they all sort of feel the same to me and I recently watched uh Kayla from books Lala her series reading a ton of different romances and I think she read both Beach read and Book Lovers and had similar feelings maybe not as strong as me but like similar feelings on the way that she writes her characters it's like the guys feel interesting a little bit at the beginning and you're like okay he's like kind of fun and different and then as The Story Goes On the guys become Bland flavorless personality-less guys who are just lusting after the you know female main character listing is probably the wrong word simping also kind of the wrong word but these guys are just obsessed with the women and they I have been in love with her this entire time that's kind of what we find out for pretty much all of the men in Emily Henry's books and in people we've been on vacation it makes sense because they're long-term friends in both Beach read and Book Lovers it's like why are these guys so into these women who they barely know but if they are really cool like it just feels too wish to film it for me and I'm someone who likes wish fulfillment so I don't know I I was just really disappointed in this book it didn't feel like a really well-rounded romance too much time spent with the side characters that's just not for me that's not the kind of romance I like felt a little too Chiclet for me which again I hate saying I hate I hate putting that energy into the atmosphere I don't think that chicklet is inherently like worse than romance it's just like not necessarily what I like um anyway I give this book two stars moving on another book again for the Goodreads Choice Awards that I didn't enjoy was a book that a lot of people were hyping up for me it's not a book that was on my radar previously or that I was like interested in in and of itself but it was a book that so many people said was amazing I kept seeing quotes everywhere I kept seeing the cover of this book on Instagram and I was like surely I'm going to really enjoy things we never got over by Lucy score and I'm sure a lot of people know at this point I just didn't enjoy this book which was so sad but this book is about Knox and I can't remember the heroine's name I'm gonna call her Luanne it was about Knox and Luanne and she's running away from her betrothed she is uh basically running away in a wedding dress I believe because she doesn't want to walk it down the altar to this guy who is not a very nice guy so she escapes to a small town that her twin sister is residing in and her evil twin sister is taking care of luanne's niece that Luanne didn't know existed and since she is an evil twin the evil twin is going to disappear and leave the niece behind now Luanne is going to have to take care of the kid and also kind of figure out her life because she's 36 but she doesn't have her life figured out at all okay she somehow attracts the attention of the Town Grump Knox and he is going to provide not only hot beef injection but also a lot of Anguish because he's irritating as hell he doesn't know how to use his words or his emotions appropriately he has some daddy issues that we learned about later on in the book that kind of come too little too late overall this book was just so disappointing because it was going for that like Charming small town romance thing I think it was trying to go for again like a slow burn sort of Mariana Zapata thing but again in a small town setting and it just does not accomplish that I didn't find the sex scene in fact I found them a little bit repulsive I remember distinctly as I was reading going ew and like highlighting some scenes because I was like I don't like the way milking is being used here it's just not really for me and I just think that Knox and Luanne don't really act their age and I'm not saying that you have to have your life figured out at any age but I would like to see some signs that you've lived a little bit and these two characters feel like they could be 21 and not like this book and you know if you do that's awesome maybe you are taking something away from it that I am just missing but I feel like a lot of the messages here are a little heavy-handed too so it just wasn't for me two stars um moving on next up is a book that I don't really know that I've fully talked about on my channel I think I've talked about it in a wrap up once but I read my killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey and I disliked it I was highly disappointed in this one and it was one that I was really anticipating so Tessa Bailey I think it's had three releases this year happens dance my killer vacation and hook line and singer and I didn't really like any of them Hook Line and Tinker was the one that I enjoyed the most and it's a traditionally published Romance by her this one is I think Indie published and it follows our main characters miles and Taylor miles is a private detective and Taylor is on a beach vacation with her little brother I want to say and she's a teacher you know normally but she is treating herself to a beach vacation and unfortunately she finds a dead body in the beach house she's staying at and she is on a mission to figure out who did it and uh miles comes in because he has been asked to figure out you know who done it and like why someone would kill the person they found at the beach house this was bad on two counts number one I feel like as a mystery thriller that's a mystery it was just not good I don't feel like there were breadcrumbs left I don't feel like there's really any intention to solve this mystery in a way that was satisfying it was just supposed to be the backdrop for a smuddy romance and like don't get me wrong I like a good smelly romance I really like relationship development and I'm fine if the plot just kind of takes a back seat but you are committing to writing history when you sign up for a plot like this right expected some care and attention to be taken with the fact that again this like is a mystery but no current attention was taken and then also I just find miles creepy like I just did it I didn't like him he ends up stealing the heroine's panties after meeting her one time like he ends up going to the house the beach house that she's staying in kind of confronting her about the fact that she is sneaking around trying to solve this mystery and then he nabs a pair of pennies and keeps in his pocket and like I don't know I just don't like the way he referred to her either I think what I'm noticing about some of Tessa Bailey's books not all of them but some of them is that he spends a lot of time with the heroes lusting after the heroines and not really caring about their personalities and that's not something that I personally noticed myself until Hayden pointed it out when we read It Happened One Summer together this year after we read that book I think this is the next Tessa Bailey I read after it and it really colored my judgment I guess of her books and definitely influenced the way that I viewed this one and I just realized that like miles was talking about how her firm ass looked in those jeans and blah blah and it's like we get you want to be with her but like you care about her personality at all like is that something that doesn't matter I mean here's the thing if you're looking for a smutty good time I guess maybe this could work for you I just feel like she has other books that are both smutty and have some heart to it and I just feel like this one was just kind of not it was not for me okay and the ending felt a little bit rushed as well it's like we've known each other for two weeks but I love you and I'm gonna move in with you I just feel like I feel like it's a bit too much for me okay personally just a little bit too much for me I like a little bit of realism so not not for me another book from the Goodreads Choice Awards I know I'm sorry but like those books just let me down okay so much hype so much disappointment we have you made it full of death with your beauty by aquake MSA this one's tough for me because I definitely had like the wrong expectations going to this book I really thought this was going to feel like Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan something that was deeply emotional that really dealt with the aftermath of grief and what that's like this book is really just about our main character FEI getting with multiple different dudes getting with the guy she is like dating getting with his dad and calling it true love the way that she views these men and the way she talks about them doesn't feel romantic to me like I never felt like oh wow they have this incredibly Rich uh relationship an incredibly Rich connection and they should be together I never felt that way it felt like well she thinks this man is handsome and he just happens to have a spouse that also died and so now you're jumping into bed with it it was like Faye was trying to use her grief to justify her relationship with this man she shouldn't be with and there's definitely repercussions there but it never felt high stakes I don't know this book was messy to me and not in a fun way not in a way that I found satisfying I think having read other books about grief and other books about really heavy topics this year in Romance I just feel like this one was lacking in so many ways I don't think it went deep enough with the grief I don't think it went deep enough with the healing and it definitely didn't go deep enough with the romance there it's like okay I think you're hot you're grieving let's oh my God I love you I just I didn't love it and I'm sad um I know that a quick game essay has written other books that people really love I'd definitely be willing to give more of their books a try in the future this one just was not for me and then lastly a book that I don't think was terrible this is probably the one that I liked on this list the most I'm looking at the other books on this list and they're all two Star reads Ruby Fever by Lola Andrews is actually a three-star read for me it was not terrible but it was one that I was deeply disappointed in because it was supposed to be the ending of a Trilogy and it was supposed to really wrap up this great love story and great like urban fantasy romance series and it just didn't do that for me so this book's about Alessandro and Catalina I don't really want to go into the plot of this book because obviously it's the continuation of a series but but in general I feel like this Trilogy compared to the first Trilogy which was Nevada and mad rogans Trilogy I feel like the romance was lacking throughout the story right we're just supposed to know that these two aren't meant for each other that they understand each other without any like on-page evidence of that it's like oh we spent an entire summer together and we got to know each other it felt like a throwaway like I wanted more on page with the romance than I thought in this third book we'd get that we never did and then also it's like we're leading up to this big battle we're excited about this big battle for like three books we finally know what's happening we understand what the big bad is after and then we have this encounter and it is the most lackluster like lack of battle ever it's like at the 97 Mark okay let's have a three-page scene on this battle or like this encounter and then it's over and then everybody lives happily ever after and that was so not satisfying because I know that this author Duo is capable of so much more in this book kept getting pushed and pushed publishing wise so I'm not sure if they didn't know how to wrap up the series or what but it just felt unsatisfying after having waited quite a while for this book to come out so it was a bummer that I didn't love it it wasn't terrible it was three star read but like I wanted more and I'm hoping that if they do continue on with the series and that if we do get an Arabella Trilogy that it would be hopefully like more satisfying than this one but that is it those are the six books that disappointed me this year they're obviously more disappointments but these are the ones that really stood out to me as books that I was so excited about that really just didn't didn't hit that final Mark so let me know in the comments down below if you agree or disagree with any of these and also let me know what books you were most disappointed in this year but thanks so much for watching I love you all so much and until next time thank you\n"