**A Reader's Experiment: Exploring Romance Books**

In this video, I attempted to read and review five popular romance books, a genre that I don't typically enjoy reading. The goal was to explore why these books are so well-liked by many readers, despite my own lukewarm feelings towards the genre.

As I delved into the first book, "Get a Life, Chloe Brown" by Talia Hibbert, I found myself enjoying its witty banter and humor at times. However, I couldn't help but feel that it was a familiar trope in the romance genre, one that I've seen played out in many other books before. Nevertheless, I appreciated how well-developed the characters were, particularly the protagonist Chloe Brown. She's a strong-willed and determined individual who is not afraid to speak her mind. The chemistry between her and her love interest was palpable, and their romance blossomed in a way that felt authentic and believable.

Moving on to "People We Meet on Vacation" by Emily Henry, I found myself appreciating its unique take on the traditional romance novel. The story follows two friends who embark on a trip together, only to discover that their feelings for each other go far beyond friendship. What I enjoyed most about this book was its ability to balance humor and heartache with ease. The author's writing style is effortless, making it feel like you're reading a conversation between the characters rather than a scripted dialogue. Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to fans of the genre.

The next book on my list was "Well Met" by Jen DeLuca, which I found to be a delightful and engaging read. The story takes place at a Renaissance Faire, where the protagonist, Emily, finds herself falling for her handsome neighbor. What I appreciated about this book was its lighthearted tone, which made it feel like a breath of fresh air compared to some of the other romance novels I've read. The author's writing style is conversational and easy to follow, making it feel like you're experiencing the world alongside Emily.

As I continued reading, I found myself getting tired of the repetitive structure that many romance novels seem to follow. It feels like every book in this genre follows a similar arc: meet cute, develop feelings, over come obstacles, happy ending. Don't get me wrong, it's a formula that works for many readers, but it started to feel formulaic and predictable to me.

Despite my fatigue with the genre, I found myself enjoying "The Bride Test" by Helen Hoang. The story follows Khai, a Vietnamese-American man who agrees to be a fake boyfriend for his mother's sake, only to find himself falling for his partner, Esme. What I appreciated about this book was its nuanced exploration of cultural differences and the complexities of relationships. The author's writing style is poignant and evocative, making it feel like you're experiencing the world alongside Khai.

Finally, I read "Take a Hint, Dani Brown" by Talia Hibbert, which was a delightful surprise. The story follows Dani, a librarian who falls for her new neighbor, Jamie, despite their initial animosity towards each other. What I enjoyed most about this book was its ability to balance humor and heartache with ease. The author's writing style is witty and engaging, making it feel like you're reading a conversation between the characters.

**Conclusion**

Despite my initial reservations about reading romance novels, I found myself enjoying many of these books. While they may not be my favorite genre, I appreciated their unique takes on traditional romance tropes and the way they balanced humor and heartache with ease. If you're a fan of the genre or are looking for a new book to read, I would definitely recommend checking out any of these titles.

**Recommendations**

Based on my experience reading these books, I would recommend "Get a Life, Chloe Brown" and "People We Meet on Vacation" to fans of the genre. Both books offer unique takes on traditional romance tropes and feature well-developed characters. If you're looking for something a bit different, I would suggest checking out "The Bride Test", which offers a nuanced exploration of cultural differences and relationships.

**Experimenting with Romance**

This experiment was a fun challenge for me, as it forced me to step outside my comfort zone and read books that I wouldn't typically choose. While I may not be a fan of the romance genre, I appreciate its popularity and the way it can bring people together. If you're interested in exploring your own reading preferences or trying out a new genre, I encourage you to follow along with future experiments.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ensomeone needs to give this man some sex ed i think we're supposed to be laughing with it  and not at it but i might be laughing at it saying i want to feel you milking me  is the least sexy thing you could possibly say to anyone in any given situation everlike every man is already my enemy when i meet them so i'd rather you be my friend  hello everyone my name is hannah and welcome to this video so i recently uploaded a video  reading five sad books to see if they would make me cry and if you've seen that video  you know that it was pretty rough for me to get through and many of you had the great idea and  suggested that i try doing another experiment but this time i read five happy books that would make  me laugh or smile and so i decided to take some of your suggestions for happy romantic  funny types of books and i went on instagram and asked you all to give me your book recommendations  and for the most part people basically just recommended me romance books and so i decided that  uh because i couldn't find like five just like happy books that people were recommending over  and over again and i wanted to pick like the most popular recommendations that people were giving me  i would read the romance books basically all of these are rom-coms anyway so i thought that it  would work it's in the same vein they should make me laugh they should make me smile so that's what  i did i decided to read five of the most popular romance books they're the most popular in general  i see these all the time online but they are also the most popular of all of the recommendations  that were given to me personally from all of you so yeah um these are all pretty popular books  and i say this in the video at some point too but i will just preface it here if you really  like a lot of these books and you don't want to hear anyone say anything negative about them  just maybe don't watch the whole video if you've been watching my channel for a long time you  know i'm not one to shy away from a negative opinion on a popular book i never have been  and that has definitely not changed about me but i have noticed this new surge with like the growing  popularity of like book talk and booktube and the community just getting bigger and bigger  that people are starting to get really upset again when you have an unpopular opinion about a really  popular book and if you don't like their favorite book people are getting really mad all over again  i've dealt with this for like the past six years so i'm like very much used to it at this point  but i'm just letting you know i may have a very negative opinion of one of your favorite books  in this video so if you don't want to watch that just don't watch it you don't have to listen to me  say everything i don't like about it just don't put yourself through that just like in my last  video this video is also going to be completely spoiler free there's like maybe one or two  sections in this video where i go into like very mild spoilers about one of the books and i put  the cover of the book on the screen during those times so you can just mute me for like a minute  but besides that like there's there are no spoilers in this video so you can watch it if  you haven't read any of the books and you still plan to also quickly before we get into all of  the books i do just want to remind you all that my reading journal the clockwork reader reading  journal is out now it is available at barnes noble amazon other booksellers book depository  if you want to buy it internationally if they ship to you if you are looking for a reading journal  to document the books that you read and you like journaling and you like reading this might be the  perfect thing for you so just a reminder links are in my description box as always if you would like  to order one for yourself and without any further ado let's get into the five popular romance books  that i read to see if i enjoyed them alright so i started off with what is arguably the most  popular book in this video i feel like this one is incredibly popular it is all over tik tok it is  all over booktube instagram literally everywhere everyone keeps recommending this and that is none  other than the love hypothesis first things first we need to address the fact that is pretty widely  known at this point and that is that this book is published braylo fanfiction if you don't know what  reylo is reylo is the pairing of kylo ren and rey from star wars and if you didn't know this book  started out as fan fiction of those two characters if you look at the cover and then you look  at the actual characters you can tell like that just is adam driver i do not have a problem with  things being published fan fiction if they're good but essentially this is just a rom-com about this  grad student and a professor and no she is not his student so you don't have to worry about  that and the book has like an academic setting but yeah we'll get into it and then you'll see  all my thoughts okay so i'm like halfway through the love hypothesis right now andi feel like y'all are lying to me about this book i don't know how much i'm gonna like this  my current feelings are that there's just like not enough going on and also like not enough chemistry  and also the writing isn't really my favorite it's a little bit like cheesy but not in like the fun  cheesy way that i like just like just cheesy and i don't know like i'm just not feeling it  the main trope in this book is definitely fake dating and like while i like fake dating as a  romance trope i think i prefer fake dating when the characters already knew each other before  they really started fake dating versus like we don't really know each other but we're gonna  just start fake dating i don't think i like that as much so that's definitely part of why i'm not  necessarily having the best time with it also this book is very much like tell and not show  like they constantly tell you that adam is an ass like they barely kind of show it to you you know  what i mean like other than him being kind of like harsh to his students he's not like an ass  which by the way like this book repeats like the same description for like each character like he  constantly just calls her a smart ass which i get is like the pet name in this like i get it  i get that that's where we're going but like he doesn't call her anything else like they just  they reuse the same phrases over and over again like she calls him like an ass like all the time  and like i would like different descriptors other thing this book is obsessed with him being tall i  am having a hard time conceptualizing their height difference because she's supposed to be like five  eight i think and she constantly talks about like how tall and big he is how tall could he possibly  be if he's like three times her height which is what they said at one point because that's a lot  he's like basketball player like tallest basketball players in the world type of  tall if that's the case like i know it's being exaggerated at certain points but like  i don't know the book is very very obsessed with this height difference thing i don't know  it's like not even like making me really laugh or anything some of the lines are like really cheesy  and like i don't want to say like poorly written because i feel like they were intentionally meant  to be written that way but it's just like it's a lot like i'm sorry this line just like took me out  this fact was not remarkable in and of itself as in academia every position above the graduate  student level olive's level sadly required some degree of askedness in order to be held  for any length of time with tenured faculty at the very peak of the ass pyramid like i  think i get that it's supposed to be funny but i don't think i'm laughing for the right reasons i  think we're supposed to be laughing with it and not at it but i might be laughing at it  the writing is just we'll say not my thing also not gonna lie i'm really not feeling the main  character like she's literally just the epitome of yn in every fanfic she's quirky and optimistic and  bright but she also has her like tragic backstory she's of course like thin and slender and frail  which they have used to describe her multiple times at this point and she's just so much  smaller and tinier than he is like there's this one scene where she like sits on his lap and then  he's like you weigh nothing and it's like great who cares this book is like unfortunately very  much making me feel like i'm not a romantic even though i really feel like i am romantic i don't  know maybe this just isn't romantic to me i think that's the case like truly though she just like  kind of doesn't have a personality also with adam like it there's not a lot going on there for me  his entire personality trait is that he's tall and big and that he's an ass that's literally it like  nothing else is really going on here so i'm having a hard time i don't think i see what everyone else  sees in this that's okay i'm glad people have fun with it i wish i was having more fun with it  i also think the fact that i know that this is reylo fanfic is deeply influencing my feelings  about it too i wish i didn't know because i feel like i might enjoy it slightly more i think i'd  still be kind of bored but the fact that i know it's a reylo fanfic is just another level of like  this is a lot for me because i hate reylo like i hate that as a ship i've never understood why  anybody wanted them together i literally hate kylo ren i don't even like adam driver as like an actor  that much it's just like a lot of things that are not for me so i'm not really surprised by  the fact that i am not really enjoying this very much but yeah and knowing that it's reylo fanfic  is like not helping i'm still only halfway through but halfway through checkpoint  i'm really thinking this is not gonna end the best you know we'll see we'll see hopefully it improvesokay the smite is bad i i literally had to stop in the middle of this scene because it's bad listen  i've read a good amount of smutty fanfic okay like more than i should like care to admit and  i've read my fair share of bad smutty fanfic too you know like the really bad ones where you just  you know you're just reading this because like it takes up time because you're already like 300 000  words committed into this like 500 000 word fig and you're gonna get through the shitty  smut scenes you know just because you are too invested at this point honestly some of those  are still better than this this is appallingly bad and i'm very disappointed i thought we'd at  least get to like the scenes where they finally like get together and then i'd be like you know  like this is kind of fun like i actually feel something for them a little bit now and like  i kind of want to see what this is going and all that stuff and like maybe the smut would be  entertaining it's not it's not entertaining i wish i had at least one good thing to say about  it i don't unfortunately it's giving me the ick that's that's the thing that's the thing like the  second this started i was like uh yikes i feel like people are gonna think this because like i  i don't usually read romance or i don't read smut like i mean it when i tell you i've read a lot of  smutty fanfic you think that like everybody on tik tok who's like currently obsessed with  like talking about fanfic and like smutty spicy books is like like a new thing or something no  like we've all been doing this for years like i've been reading thick on ao3 since i was in  middle school probably to my own detriment but i have been so i've read a lot of good smutty fanfic  and bad smutty fanfic and i can tell you that this reads like really bad smutty fanfig it's very  disappointing if the smut was good at least you could excuse like the rest of it being a little  bit boring the rest of these books with like smutty scenes better have good smut like if i hear  him describe her as like tiny or small one more time i'm gonna lose it and if she describes him as  like giant or big one more time i'm gonna lose it like i just i know that that's like a very common  trope it's in like so much romance and so much like smutty romance especially but like i'm really  tired of it i thought we were like past this as the trope that's in like everything that's a thing  like if it was just in some things occasionally sure but like it's in everything and i'm really  not not feeling it other things happened the book has definitely picked up from the first half oh  my god i only have like a quarter of this left i didn't even realize how close to the end i am  what else is supposed to happen they're just gonna have sex and then like finally admit to each other  that they have feelings for each other and like it just ends there like oh this is really upsetting  and really disappointing i really thought that this would be at least a little bit more fun  but it's not honestly though i should have known where this was going when the whole scene started  with the line he could fit her entire breast in his mouth all of it like and i don't want  anyone to think or for this to come across as me like making fun of smutty romance i like  smutty romance as i've said many times in this video already i don't think that it's cringy or  weird or like something to make fun of but like if it's poorly written i'm gonna make fun of it  because like y'all i'm sorry that's not it i will say i don't read as much like romance in terms of  like romance books mostly i read fanfic but i'm counting this as fanfic because like it straight  up reads like a fan fiction it's structured narratively exactly how fan fiction is structured  it does that like thing where they break up like parts of the sentences and put like a period after  like two or one or two words and like list them down i don't know how to explain this i'll put an  example on the screen for like multiple examples where they do this in the book it breaks apart the  words of a sentence and like puts a period after each one and like separates it on a different  line to like emphasize what they're saying and it's like such a fanfic thing to do and that's  not necessarily a bad thing but it's like one of the signs that like i know that this person is  a fanfic writer and like you can just feel it and you can tell and again that's like not a bad thing  again because i read fanfic i like fanfic but i like good fanfic anyway i'm gonna finish this  i'll update once i'm done and then we can talk about all of my thoughts even though i think i've  probably said the majority of them at this point i finished it i finished the love hypothesis um  i didn't like it here's the thing i get why other people would enjoy this it was  like simple light-hearted for the most part apart from the fact that like sexual harassment is like  a theme in this story and like a major event plot point of the story so like be aware of that before  you read it i didn't know when people were first recommended to me but thankfully somebody did  warn me and i'm grateful that they did warn me besides that it is a fairly light-hearted  generally happy and like simple story like there's not a lot of angst or drama  or anything and it's really fast to get through as far as like good things i can say about it  that's about it i don't find it like offensive or anything like that i just personally don't  think it's for me but i can understand why others would have a good time with it now on to all of  the reasons why i personally don't like this book i think this is probably the thing that makes me  dislike this book the most and that's the fact that the characters are so bland they don't have  personalities they don't have interests or hobbies outside of being a scientist like he's literally  just a professor and she is a grad candidate like and that's it that's literally it they  don't exist outside of that like little bubble that has been created for them they barely even  have like insecurities like they have some but like there is no time in the book for us to even  delve into them whatsoever and honestly there was just like no character to develop you know what i  mean like they literally like she was literally just a woman in stem and like that was her whole  personality she didn't have anything else except for being like insecure skinny and like small  which is like every single yn in existence and then adam also no personality outside of being  broody and an ass but like we're just told he's an ass like you never even see him be that mean  to anybody or anything and like it's just there is nothing there's nothing there there's nothing  there so the character development characters in general bland lacking i needed something and i got  nothing the next thing that i wasn't a fan of the smut it was dull it was dull it was a  little cringy or a lot cringy from time to time there were some lines in there that were just  not the best also in that whole scene too like there's just this one section where she like  low-key comes out to him as basically demisexual like i'm not trying to label her because we  don't get any kind of label for her but she basically explains to him that she like doesn't  feel attraction for anyone unless she really really knows them very well which is essentially  demisexuality um and she's like going into this entire explanation like in the middle of them like  having sex and it's weird because like we don't really address it again and like the thing that  made no sense about that to me was that like they barely even speak that often in this book honestly  like they don't even have that many like moments together and she falls for him like so fast like  this entire book takes place over the span of like one month barely and they've been fake dating for  like only a couple weeks before any of this even happens and i just don't get like what there was  to fall for because like none of the relationship was even like developed we have one scene where  she opens up to him about like her family life and stuff so there's like a little bit of an emotional  conversation between the two of them but like not a lot you know and so like it all happens really  really really fast which is why i say i feel like this book needed to be like twice the length for  us to develop anything i don't know like we wasted all of our time talking about i don't even know  what because like nothing happened like literally just nothing happened i would say that there was  like a bunch of build up and no payoff but there wasn't even build up like we didn't even build up  to anything you know like we just start off with this like fake dating lie and then like everything  that follows is so obvious in the way where it's only fun to read that if you are reading  a fanfic of a ship that you already know and like which is why this reads so much like fan fiction  it felt like both the main characters had no personality because they were supposed to have  the personalities of kylo ren and rey and when you take that out then they're literally just like  shells of people who are kind of going through the motions and you've given them like an occupation  or like one interest or something and like one insecurity but the reason that fan fiction works  when you do something like an au like this is because you already have an emotional investment  in those two characters and you know their characters so when um adam in this book does  something and you're reading this as kylo ren and frey fanfiction when he does certain things  you can rationalize the reasons or the emotions or the behaviors or whatever behind it  because you know it's kylo ren's character if that makes any sense i don't know how well i'm  describing this but that's what makes reading fanfiction and aus especially so much fun and  so nice it's because you already have those set characters you know them so well so you can put  them in any situation and it's still fun to read because they still have personality but like  when you don't have that like set knowledge of who their characters already are you don't have that  emotional investment in their characters and then you take that out of it you take them out of it  they're gonna be like lifeless shells of people like they just don't have personalities anymore  and i could feel that the entire time i was reading it and i think that's really what took  away from any kind of enjoyment i could have in this book it was so boring to me and i feel really  bad saying that because i know how well loved it is but i think i've learned that i'm never  going to read reylo fanfic or anything that is reylo fanfic adjacent ever again not my thing i  think that's the main thing i've taken away from this book this book is not my thing it wasn't  meant for me i know this is the first book that i read so far in this video but i have a  feeling that the overarching theme of this is just going to be that i'm not necessarily the biggest  romance fan but who knows because i love romance is the thing i think i just don't like it in this  context like is it just the fact that this book isn't written in the way that i personally enjoy  or is it that i just don't like singular romance books where the characters get together and have  sex within the first like 300 pages i like the yearning and the angst like you need to build  up to them even like holding hands okay and then we can get into everything else but like i want  the yearning i want the angst and this lacked both of those things completely so yeah love hypothesis  not my favorite i would give this solid two stars not the worst thing i've ever read but i don't  think it's particularly good i'm just not a reylo stan and i don't think that this book is for me  i don't think this book is only for reylo stans i think you might like it even if you don't know who  reylo is but if you do and you don't like them i don't think you'll really like this book alright  moving on to book number two i read none other than the spanish love deception out of all the  books on this list i feel like this is one of the ones i was the most curious and excited about not  necessarily because i thought i would like it the most or that i thought i would dislike it the most  or anything because i didn't know anything about it i just knew that everyone was talking about  it and everybody was raving about it and i just wanted to know what the hype was about plus this  one was highly recommended from all of you this is essentially a fake dating enemies to lovers  rivals to lovers i'm sure everyone already knows what this book is about but if you  don't it's about this girl who needs a date to her sister's wedding in spain and her co-worker  offers to be her fake date for this wedding and that's essentially what the whole book is abouthow am i going to talk about this and not okay okay first things first we're going to  ignore the fact that my eye is super red i don't know what's wrong i woke up this way it's been  tired and itchy all day so we're ignoring that fact i've also just currently as you can tell been  crying from laughter because of the spanish love deception i'm reading the spanish love deception  very close to the end at this point i i have many i have many thoughts to share but i'm currently  i'm in like chapter 23 i think that's where i am and i'm reading the like smut scene okayand i thought i said that the smart in the love hypothesis was badif you like this book just maybe don't watch this because like i don't know how much i can hold back  this started out as like you know pretty average a pretty average smut scene but the scene  progressively went from like standard we're gonna include the classic lines that are in like every  slide scene you know like is this all for me which is in like every single one all the time  i don't know how we can read a heterosexual smart scene without that line being in it maybe one day  the people will find the will but not today i need to preface this by saying  as i've said many many times in this video already i have read a lot of smut okay  this is not coming from somebody who's never been exposed to this type of book or like content in  general okay this is this is not coming from someone who is inexperienced okay i know  i know how smut goes i have read more than enough of it this might just be the cringiest line  the the worst thing i've ever read in any smut scene he literallyi can't do it i can't say it he literally says i he literally says i want to feel you  milking me baby is that not objectively so cringy like i'm sorry honestly like i'm not even sorry  that's objectively bad like it's just objectively bad come on i literally can't get over this line i  have been laughing at this for literally the last like 15 minutes it took me so long to even set my  camera up and start talking because like i have just been laughing at that line i keep stopping  and laughing unfortunately not in the way the book wants me to i don't think i'm supposed to  be laughing while they're having sex like i don't think that's supposed to be happening but i'm  cackling i'm having a great time like i don't think this is why i'm supposed to be enjoying  the book and i wouldn't say i'm enjoying the book but i'm having a good time laughing at this this  is honestly honestly really funny and i'm sure there's probably stuff that's in some like other  smuttier books that is like worse maybe you know or even at least objectively as bad but that that  is so funny to me it is so funny um and we should talk about it there are things about it that i  actually enjoy more than the love hypothesis like i think that the characters have more development  maybe that's just because the book is like around 100 pages or so longer so we have like more  time also because the characters already knew each other before they like started fake dating i'm  comparing them because they have really similar concepts because they're both like about fake  dating so far i am 60 pages or so away from the end still so there's still some time so far i  think this one might be worse i went into all of these fully intending to enjoy them and hoping to  enjoy them it's not my fault that i don't like them it's lines like i want to feel you milking  me that make me not like them i just really think this isn't my thing like it's just it's  not my thing i found out that he was like a former football player and immediately my brain was like  ick this book basically starts off with them going on some fake date where aaron gets auctioned off  as if this is that one episode of one tree hill where they literally auction off these teenage  basketball players for charity like what era are we living in and their writing style again  is not my favorite this one definitely reads less like fan fiction than the love hypothesis did but  honestly part of me kind of prefers some of the um like writing style of the love hypothesis compared  to this one but yeah like i don't know i just i really don't think that this is my thing i think  that's like the main issue it's like i'm not gonna say not a problem with the book it's definitely  partially a problem with the book but it is also that this is not like my thing so i'm not  like gonna go into this necessarily with a high chance of enjoying it because it's not the type of  thing that i personally would enjoy however i do think it also has some glaring issues once again  just like in the love hypothesis if not emphasized more in this one she's like tiny and small so much  smaller than him and he's so big the number of times she has said big body in this book has been  insane and there are just like so many lines that are like this one line she says and he's  unbelievable out of this world ad where the upper body was so flawless that it made me want to weep  that makes me want to weep i'm having a little bit of a crisis like maybe this book is just too  straight for me maybe that's the issue and then like there's this other part where he ends up like  telling her about his like tragic backstory that's literally not tragic whatsoever and then later is  talking to her about how he likes disney movies like she finds out that he likes disney movies and  his favorite movie is up and she literally says in her subconscious it's first person she literally  says this was too much first he opened up about his childhood earlier today and now this like  the bar is in hell ladies i can't i can't it's i'm gonna hold my tongue you know it's fine i  like i said i think i've just accepted this is not for me and that's okay again i get why  people would enjoy this like it would be fun to read if like this is what you're into but like i  don't think this book is it you know what i mean like there is definitely better romance than this  i'm gonna go finish this just needed to update and let you all know that i'm losing my mind  over that line and i am never letting anyone who recommended this book to me live it down  because you all need to take accountability for this line you told me to read this and you told  me it was good and you told me that knowing that this line is in this book it's hilarious  thanks for the laughs thanks for the memes um i'm gonna go finish it and then i'll update you all  i swear to god if he calls her baby one more time elmo's gonna sue the way that i'm liking this book  less and less with every line that i read okay someone needs to give this man some sex ed because  first of all he didn't even go down on her before like everything happened but i was very minimal  for play in this and like you know that's never good for a smut scene like we're not here for that  second of all he literally said he only brought one condom because like he was hoping that they  would like get together you know but he literally said he left it in his bag because it had been  in there forever you know they expire right like they probably just used an expired condom that's  stupid this is what i mean i hate it more and more with every single line i read practice  safe sex friends practice safe sex because this isn't it this is teaching you bad things  don't do that don't use old condoms that have just been lying in your bag forever he literally says  but i'm not going to lie to you a big part of me hoped it would and maybe that's why i left it in  it had been in there forever anyway so i thought it wouldn't hurt it would hurt it would hurt if  it's expired did you check the expiration date because i don't think you did if it's been in  there forever that seems like a long time sir he also called her spider monkey like what is this  twilight honestly bella and edward's honeymoon was better than this when he literally broke their  bed that was better than this hello quick brief um editing hannah interlude i just realized  that there are actually like several references to twilight in this book and also a scene where  aaron breaks a bed when i just like referenced them breaking the bed in breaking dawn so now i'm  thinking that this was at some point maybe before it was published some form of twilight fan fiction  don't know if that's true but if anyone can confirm that for me or find any evidence to  to say that that is true let me know i'm very curious now because there are so many twilight  references in this now that i'm looking back on it and i feel like it it has to mean something  okay i finished the spanish love deception i don't like it the book just got like progressively worse  and worse so first it took forever to get into their relationship and not in the fun slow burn  way all the time like at first it was okay then like we just kept repeating the same thing over  and over and over again like i feel like this book really needed an editor to like go through and cut  out maybe a hundred pages um because it was really repetitive and then we finally like get them  together and whatever then i'll like the smut and everything happens i'm gonna get into some like  mild spoilers talking about this really quickly so i will put the cover of the book on the screen  if you want to mute me if you don't want like any kind of spoilers but then after that point it felt  really rushed because we immediately go into i don't even want to call it a third act breakup  because it's not even in the third act it's like 20 pages before the end of the book  and like it's not a breakup breakup but like they have a fight and whatever so you know like we have  some drama but like nothing is going on for like the entire book and then suddenly in 20 pages  they're like everyone in the workplace knows she's reliving all of her trauma now they're  not on speaking terms anymore and his dad is dying like all of that happened in like 10 pages  it was insane and the pacing of this book was just so off to me so yeah i i didn't really enjoy that  aspect of it you know i don't really know how to like review this precisely because like you know  how i feel you know i don't really like it very much if you really like this just like skip over  this part of the video because i'm gonna like just talk about what i don't like because that's why  we're here right these are my opinions and if you don't agree with them go read the book and enjoy  it and live your life i'm gonna enjoy sitting here talking about everything i didn't like about it so  let's go through everything that i annotated first of all we have this whole quote where she like  blurts out to him this is at the very beginning she just like blurts out to him her emotional like  baggage and her like body image issues like out of nowhere they like don't like each other  at this point and like they're still enemies which by the way it's a stretch to call this  enemies to lovers they are not enemies they just kind of don't like each other very much  and she holds like a grudge against him and he has like gotten over that a long time ago and  has liked her like basically this entire time and she's just choosing to ignore the fact that he's  interested in her catalina's really dumb i'm not gonna lie to you it was rough it was rough to read  because she is not smart but at this one point she just like out of nowhere just like confesses all  of her like deep inner turmoil about her like body image issues and stuff and she's talking about how  some guy had compared her to sofia vergara in like a mocking way and she says having half the curves  or wit that woman has wouldn't be the worst thing in the world not that i'm unhappy with my body i'm  okay with being the way i am normal plain and i was everything about me was pretty standard where  i came from brown eyes brown hair on the shorter side not thin but not fat wide hips but rather  small bust we were millions of women that fit that description so i was average not a big deal  it wouldn't hurt losing a couple pounds for the wedding but i don't think whatever i'm doing is  working this girl has like some serious body image issues and there's like a lot of disordered eating  in this book i definitely would put a content warning on it for that because like 100 like at  the beginning especially she's just like dieting a lot she like passes out because she didn't eat and  like just know that if you're gonna read it um i feel like at times it gets probably like a little  bit fat phobic and there's just like a lot of diet talk a lot of body image talk there are like  periods of this book where she doesn't eat and then suddenly she's like oh whatever and then like  basically i wouldn't say binges but she just like indulges in like eating a lot um which is like a  very common disordered eating behavior so like it just wasn't pleasant to read about that in here  um and it would have just been nice to know that that was like a theme i don't even want to call  it a theme it was just like present in the story um and honestly very unnecessary to the story it  didn't add anything to her character she didn't really have a personality she was just dumb like  that's pretty much it oh here's a fun cringy line this is when they're at the auction when  he's being auctioned off i think i mentioned this earlier when he's being auctioned off on the first  fake date that they go on for this charity event and she's asking like what the bidding is for like  what they get out of like bidding on the man that they're bidding on or whatever and she says when  the bachelor is acquired what is he acquired for i mean it's not like bidding for a boat or a porsche  i guess you cannot take a bachelor for a ride realizes what she says and then she's like not  like a ride in a yeehaw kind of way i just said that because one takes cars for rides like for a  spin but not men in that way at least i have never taken a man for a spin not in a yaw kind of wayi don't think i need to say anything um i think that speaks for itself oh this is one time where i  just annotated one of the million times where she refers to him as having a big body she's obsessed  with saying that he has a big body that he's huge that he's large that's a very common thing i just  get a little bit tired of the whole big body large body his giant hard body like chill it's okay oh  then we get into a couple of like moments that give me like red flags like i don't know again  you do you this is my opinion he spent a lot of this book trying to convince her that she needs  him like he said so many times like i'm gonna prove to you that you need me you need me you  need me you need me like to me that's red that's a red flag it's a red flag if a guy was like  you need me i'd be like no i literally don't need you like get away from me reading this has really  made me rethink a lot of things about myself i'm having lots of realizations okay anyway oh the  number of times that he says baby like the pet names in this drove me crazy like it was  so much i never want to hear someone call someone baby ever again in my entire life immediately just  like an ick i cannot stand it now i have never really been a fan of pet names in general but now  this just took it to another level like it got so intense by the end that like every single time he  spoke to her he was just like okay baby yeah baby let's go baby like okay whatever baby like i can't  just never say that word around me ever again i can't take it then of course we had some like  classic like claiming language during the sex scenes um which is very sarah j maas very omega  verse of the book love that representation and then after that their relationship just gets  so so cringy and corny and just unbearable it was a lot it was a lot anyway that was the spanish  love deception what did i learn from this former football player gives me the egg i despise the pet  name baby absolutely cannot stand it never trust a guy who takes you to a charity function where  he's being auctioned off as the first date saying i want to feel you milking me is the least sexy  thing you could possibly say to anyone in any given situation ever always check and make sure  that your condoms are not expired and just overall i think we need to raise our standards for smut  that's what i got out of this but yeah spanish love deception easily one star easily my least  favorite book i read in this video and i just wouldn't recommend i don't really have much more  to say about it i feel like my goodreads review kind of says it all all right and then moving on  to book three i read people we meet on vacation by emily henry people we meet on vacation is a  friends to lovers romance that follows the story of these two characters who've been friends for  the span of like i don't even know 15 years like a really long time and the two of them like to  travel together a lot so they go on vacation with each other a lot and we follow the development of  their relationship after they've had like a bit of a falling out all right okay hello i have started  reading people we meet on vacation i really like it so far i'm so glad that i'm finally enjoying  something but i am genuinely actually enjoying this book so far so i'm currently like a third  of the way through the book i'm about 100 pages in i'm so happy that i don't have something like  bad to say again and i'm also just happy that i'm actually having a good time reading something in  this video for once i actually had to put the book down for a couple of days because  uh there's an aspect of the story that was just like a little bit too relevant to my life at the  moment so it was making it like a little bit hard to read like you know too real like i could relate  too much and so i put it down for a couple of days but um i'm picking it up again and continuing to  enjoy it i like the writing i like the characters they actually have chemistry what a concept i'm  like i'm actually not like a friends to lovers person i like friends to lovers i don't hate it  by any means but it's not like my favorite trope but honestly the older i get i think the more and  more appreciation i have for friends to lovers because i loved enemies to lovers when i was  younger but like as i get older i have no interest in someone being my enemy like i want to like you  you know like i just want to like you from the beginning like every man is already my enemy when  i meet them so i'd rather you be my friend i know the bar is so low but the fact that they actually  like enjoy each other's company and like like each other as a person adds so much to this story like  the other books like they didn't know each other they didn't like care about each other or anything  or really like each other very much and if they did it was like a secret or we don't even like  get to see it at all so like why would i care but with this one we actually get to like see their  relationship and like how it developed from the time they met until like their current situation  now and so like we see their relationship build we see them go from like acquaintances  to friends to really good friends and obviously eventually lovers because they're going to get  together because that's the point of this book but like you see their relationship build and like  that's the thing that i think was missing from the other two books for me like nothing about  their relationships were built up like there was just no build up whatsoever it was just  one second they don't really like each other or they don't really know each other very much and  then all of a sudden they're having sex and it's like i need something in between there you know  and this is really giving me that and it's so nice um it's really honestly very well written i like  the writing it's funny even a little bit cheesy at times but not like too cheesy it's in like  the good way you know the fun way it's enjoyable it's very easy to read and i mean that as like  a compliment i don't hate the main characters i actually like the main characters again the bar is  so low but like i genuinely like them we are not obsessed with the whole height difference thing  in this book which is nice he is taller than her and they have pointed that out but it's not like a  main focus of the book so far at least they don't point out the fact that he has like a big body  or that she's like tiny and frail and small we haven't had that mentioned like 75 times already  you know like they said it once and like we moved on i don't have a problem with the whole height  difference thing i have a problem when you mention it every five seconds so far the main characters  also have personalities which i deeply appreciate and they have like interests and hobbies and  other friends and stuff like that and like families and siblings like you know what i mean  like they're fleshed out characters and i like it it adds so much more depth to the actual story and  makes me care about the romance a lot more so yeah i'm very much enjoying this i actually  think i will really like this book by the time i finish it i'll update with more thoughts as i have  them um otherwise i will update once i finish it and let you know my final thoughts all right okay  i finished people we meet on vacation i really liked it can we get a round of applause for the  fact that i finally like a book in this video it's been rough it's been rough but this one this one  was good to be honest i don't really have too much to say about it when i first started reading the  book um the beginning was just a little bit slow a little bit cliche not necessarily my favorite  thing but not awful by any means and then once we got like towards the middle and like things  started picking up and their relationship started to develop a little bit more i started really  liking the book i went from the beginning the book being like a solid like probably three stars for  me and then towards the middle i was like this is four stars like this is so good if this ends well  this could be like a five star book for me like i could like it that much and to be honest by the  end like it kind of tipped off a little bit for me so this one ended up being around more of like  a middle kind of um three to four star range book but i still really liked it i liked the characters  i liked their relationship i will say um poppy wasn't my favorite main character but she wasn't  my least favorite main character definitely not close to that i've noticed this trend in  at least the romances i've read in this video where the main character always has this very  specific um outlook on life and like personality trait where she's like super bubbly and like  outgoing and talkative and stuff like that and like all of these main characters are kind of  like some variation of that and by far poppy was the best one like she had the most depth she was  the most like a real person and not just like a trope but still sometimes the like optimistic  outgoing like super talkative bubbly personality isn't my favorite thing and that's fine like i  don't mind reading it every once in a while i've just read three books back to back where the main  character had that basic exact same personality so it's getting a little bit tiring had i read this  not having read the love hypothesis and spanish love deception right before it i might have liked  poppy a little bit more so that's more of just a timing of when i read this thing less so of like  a critique of her actual character i think it was totally fine i think i'm just tired of seeing it  as far as alex goes i really liked him he very much felt like a real person he wasn't like  super cheesy um and he also wasn't creepy or weird he wasn't like really unrealistic or anything what  i'm trying to say is he had a personality that was something apart from just being tall and broody  he's definitely tall they did mention it a couple more times since the last time i talked about it  but again nothing like the first two books um so it was totally like fine i could handle it but he  actually had a personality like he had desires in life and he had fears and anxieties and just like  you know things that people and characters should have unlike our first two main male leads who  lacked all of that in my opinion and i just like genuinely really liked alex i thought that he was  a good love interest and i understand why poppy was in love with him i understand why alex was  in love with poppy like it was just really well written um there were so many lines in here that  like really just made me feel a lot i thought it was honestly very romantic i really like the  writing i will say that too i loved the writing in here like truly um emily henry is a great writer  and i definitely want to read beach read as well because i have a feeling i would like that one too  and honestly anything else she's written it's so easy to read and that's fully a compliment  um she's clear concise gets her point across and also has a lot of emotion and depth in her writing  as well even in something that's like a simple story like this it still had substance you know  and i really like that in her writing i i just think she's a really good writer and i think that  definitely helps with making me enjoy like the characters of the plot a lot more obviously one of  my favorite quotes in this book if not my favorite one that was in here that just like like really  really hit close to home is this one that poppy says she says it's possible that all those little  moments that meant so much to me never meant quite the same thing to him it's possible that he didn't  reach out to me for two full years because when we stopped speaking he didn't lose something precious  the way i did like that one oh it like really really hit and there were just like moments like  that throughout the entire book that i think were just so well written and just were really  impactful the ending was definitely like a bit um rushed in my opinion in some ways like it wasn't  rushed i just wish that it had been more fleshed out like the beginning of the book had been  i've noticed that as a trend with a lot of these romance books the ending is just like very quick  like they get together and then all of a sudden it's just like okay we're done now i understand  how like sometimes it can get boring after the two characters get together and it's just like  the angst and build up that people are reading for sometimes i want like a little bit more at the end  i feel like that's probably why it wasn't like an exceptional book to me or one of my favorites or  something like that other thing this one is much less like smutty i wouldn't really call this book  smutty at all like there are sex scenes in it but it's not smutty um it's very different so yeah  definitely a different type of romance book if you're not looking for something that's  like smuttier this one might be more your thing despite the fact that like i did not like the  first two books that i read that worse muddier i actually like romance books that are smutty  in that way sometimes over ones that just have like fade to black scenes but like only if they're  well written smutty scenes and we've still yet to find that i've still yet to find a good smutty  scene in any of these romance books i'm not counting this one because these were not the  same as the other ones like i said these were more fade to blacks those were definitely more explicit  so yeah hopefully the next book has at least one decent smut scene because i'm still on the hunt  for that um apparently it's tough to find but yeah people we meet on vacation definitely enjoyed it  i would give it 3.75 stars not my favorite thing i've ever read but definitely something i like and  i would definitely recommend it as a romance book by far my favorite one i've read in this video so  far would recommend it if that's what you're into and if this is something that you want to read  i do think this one is very good okay and then moving on to book number four i read one last  stop by casey mcquisten out of every book on this list this is the one that i was by far the  most excited to read because it was already on my tbr i'm not gonna get too much into the synopsis  because um you'll see once i start reading it but it's basically a sapphic romance novel about  this girl named august who moves to new york and she meets this girl named jane on a subway  and it's about their relationship developing and yeah just you'll see what happened i had  no clue that one last stop had like a time travel slash paranormal component to it nobody told me  this to be fair this is 100 my own fault i literally just didn't read the summary of  the book i never read the summary of like almost any book so i never really know what's going on  so it is my own fault because then i went on goodreads and i read the summary for the book  and it literally tells you in the description she's stuck in like the 1970s and she's like kind  of a ghost we don't exactly know like it's in the summary of the book it's not even like a spoiler  i had no clue i was reading this last night and i was like oh this is like just gonna be some like  you know basic they live in new york city romance they met on a subway yeah blah blah blah and then  all of a sudden they were like i think she's a ghost and i was like what literally what anyway  that was very shocking but honestly a pleasant surprise because i'm not gonna lie  i was really bored really really really bored i was genuinely tempted to start a different  book instead because i was not feeling it i think i'm currently on like chapter eight i'm like more  than a third of the way through this book at this point and it's finally starting to get interesting  it was really slow at the beginning for me not gonna lie i've read red white and royal blue by  casey mcquiston and before i started reading that i really didn't have expectations i didn't think  i was going to like it very much but i ended up surprisingly really really loving that book and  it was so much fun it was so funny and super entertaining and i gave that five stars like  i genuinely really like it and probably of all the romance that i've read that's probably my favorite  one and i have high expectations for this one as well but at the same time i have a feeling i won't  like it as much because part of the reason i found that one so entertaining was just the like out  there wild premise of like the prince of england and the first son of the united states being in  love with each other was just like so over the top and that's what i really liked about that book and  that's what made it so much fun to me and so this one like obviously isn't going to have that to the  same degree but now that i know that it has this like paranormal like time-travelly component to it  that definitely makes it way way way more fun so i think i might actually enjoy this a bit more now  in like the second half i will say i'm not feeling very much for the romance um just because it feels  like really insta lovey like she sees her for the first time and instantly it's just like oh my god  i love her and like i get that like that does happen with people like it's an experience that  definitely does happen but it's just it's less fun for me to read about because as i've said multiple  times in this video i like angst i'm still optimistic i still feel like i could enjoy it  again for now um just completely shocked by the fact that this had like a whole like time  travelly component to it that i literally just didn't know was even a part of the story it was  very shocking it was like 1am and i was lying in my bed and all of a sudden they were like i think  she's a ghost and i like i thought i was dreaming or like hallucinating it was a lot anyway um glad  i know now at least i will update once i'm done and hopefully i end up liking it because so far  i feel like this one does have some potential i don't think this is going to be like disastrous  like the first two we're headed on an upward trend with these next few books these last few  books so people being on vacation was like a solid start hopefully this is better and then the last  one i read is the best i'm just hoping that i at least like this one that's that's like all that's  all i'm asking for at this point okay before we even get into anything i just need you all to  see my shirt because this is the greatest article of clothing that i own anyway  back to the matter at hand so it's actually been a couple of days since i finished one last stop but  i didn't realize that i hadn't finished filming um my thoughts on it like i never did like a final  thoughts clip so i'm doing this now um and you're gonna see me look exactly like this in a later  clip once i finish the last book but just ignore that but one last stop i didn't love this i think  it's a solid book and i can understand why you'd have a good time reading it i like the writing i  like some of the characters sometimes i like that it is a sapphic romance but i think that  the execution was done poorly my biggest problem with this book is that because jane is like just  stuck on the cue like she literally can't leave this space essentially and like we  really only ever get to see her in that one environment she doesn't feel like she really  has a personality she doesn't feel like she's very well developed because she's literally like stuck  in time or like whatever she is i don't know i'm still unclear about whether she's a ghost or not  she's not a ghost but you know what i mean it's just like really hard to connect to the romance  and connect to her as a character when she's just like stuck in this one space and there's like no  room both literally and metaphorically to develop her or to develop their relationship so it just  fell flat to me every single time they would have any kind of interaction it just didn't feel really  possible to like build towards anything like they meet and then all of a sudden they're just like in  love but it's like why they don't know anything about each other it's just like very insta lovey  but not just because they like fell in love at first sight it's insta lovey because it just felt  like the relationship was so underdeveloped and so it made it just really hard for me to connect to  them as characters and just to their relationship in general and that honestly makes me sad because  of all of the books i read on this list this was the only queer romance and i expected to like the  queer romance the most honestly especially after the way the first few books were going and i wish  i liked this more i just like i said i feel like it was really hard to connect with the characters  and they didn't feel as fleshed out as i wanted them to be i just felt like a  little bit removed from the story and i didn't feel like immersed like it just it wasn't very  fun in my opinion and it was nowhere near as funny as red white and royal blue was and one  of my favorite things about that book was how like funny it was so at the very least i was  expecting to like laugh in this but i just i didn't really think it was very funny and again  didn't really feel any kind of like connection with the characters or their relationship so  yeah i'm very disappointed i wish i liked this more i don't think it's bad by any means  yeah i would probably give this like a solid three like if you're looking for like a sapphic romance  to read then i think like you can pick it up and i don't think it would be like a waste of your time  i just don't think it's like the greatest i wouldn't particularly like go around recommending  it i feel like i need to read some more sapphic romance books and see what i actually like because  i feel like this one will fall even lower once i read some other ones that i enjoy more the  smut was also like okay in this it wasn't cringey like some of the other ones that was definitely  completely fine in this book honestly one of the best parts of the book in my opinion i will say  there were some times though where i was like is this sanitary and if you've read it you know  what i'm talking about it wasn't like the actual like smut it was like where we were you know but  besides that i think it was completely fine again just like a little bit of a letdown not really my  favorite not close to as bad as some of the other ones i've read in this video but definitely not as  good as people will be on vacation in my opinion in terms of just like story character dynamics and  relationship dynamics and stuff so overall i just wish i had enjoyed it a little bit more but again  definitely wouldn't put it as low as some of the other books that i've read in this video all right  and then finally the last romance book that i read was get a life chloe brown this is another  not enemies to lovers not really rivals to lovers but kind of like mutual dislike to lovers story  we follow our main character chloe who after a near-death experience has this like bucket  list of all the things she wants to do in life and then she moves to a new apartment and meets  this handyman named red and the two of them don't really connect and don't like each other at first  and obviously then the relationship develops from there i just got out of the shower that is why  my hair is wet and looks like this so please ignore that but i just finished reading get a  life chloe brown i didn't update like while i was reading it or anything because i read it pretty  quickly i read it in like two sittings it was okay to be completely honest with you i feel like i'm  just burnt out from reading so much romance and it's like getting to me because like i don't feel  like reading romance anymore so it's influencing my enjoyment of these books at this point and it's  not fair for me to like judge the book based on the fact that i don't feel like reading it  right now so that's not like where my rating for this or anything is going to come from because  obviously like i'm just not in the mood to read this right now and i think i have learned fully  at this point with this being the final book in this video i'm not a romance person i think  i just don't like contemporary romance novels i think they're just not my thing i think i thought  they would be my thing because i like romance i like romance in my other books i like reading fan  fiction i like stuff like that but i have noticed from doing this experiment that um romance like  just contemporary romance especially like smutty romance is not the same because it's not setting  out to do the same thing as like romance in a fantasy book even if it's like smutty or not it's  just it's not the same and i just don't think it's for me and that's like completely okay i have no  issue with that i'm not going to like every single genre and that's completely fine but i think i'm  just a little bit disappointed because i expected myself to enjoy this genre more that's not to say  i'm like completely opposed to ever reading a romance book again i think like i said i'm just  tired of reading five of them back to back to back when i'm really in the mood to read like a lot  of other things that are very much not romance related so i just think reading too much of it  back to back has not been the best for me and just has been tainting the experience a little bit but  to talk about ghetto life chloe brown i actually did enjoy the book i think that of all of these  books the smut in this one was by far the best written i finally found one where like the spot  was fine like it was okay i didn't think it was cringy or weird it wasn't like uncomfortable to  read or anything like that so as far as this goes on the smut rating this rate's like the highest  for sure and i'm very happy that finally one of these books the smart was fine and when i say  fine i mean fine for me like everyone is into what they're into and like that's completely fine it's  pretty subjective except i will forever stand by the fact that the spanish love deception smut is  really bad that was just bad but to be honest with you this one i just found like a little bit boring  and again i think it's just because one i think romance just really isn't my thing two because  like i said i've been reading so much romance that i don't feel like reading romance anymore maybe if  i were in a different mood and i really just felt like picking up like a fun simple romance that i  could easily get through in a day i would pick this up and i would recommend it for that case i  really enjoyed the representation of like chronic illness and i thought that was really well done  this book just felt a lot more like well-rounded as a story than i think some of the other books  that i read in this video personally i enjoyed people we meet on vacation more than i enjoyed  this one only because i just liked the like tropes in there more they were just more of my thing but  apart from that i feel like these two books are pretty equal this one's definitely like smuttier  for sure it's just more explicit people we meet on vacation has like fade to blacks this one has like  full on smart scenes so it's kind of just like what you prefer to read but i feel like  i would put them kind of in the same boat they're a little bit different obviously  but i feel like in terms of like quality of writing and character development and stuff  i definitely enjoyed these two the most the story was honestly cute like i liked the characters  they definitely had personalities apart from just being like short and small and then tall  it was nice to have like representation in like different body sizes like chloe is fat and like  i liked seeing that representation there instead of her just being like tiny and frail and fragile  like every other main character i read about and honestly i just think it was like a good romance  if i was ever in the mood to continue reading some more romance i would definitely pick up  the sequels for this series because again i think it was well written i think that it was funny at  times and i think that the characters were well fleshed out and it was just like entertaining  despite the fact that i was like so tired of reading romance it still held my attention which  is saying a lot so like if i were in a better mood um i feel like i might have even enjoyed it  more but yeah i think it's like a solid book i'd rate this like a solid three stars a lot of people  think when i give a book three stars it's like a bad rating three stars for me is not a bad rating  three stars means that like it's not my favorite thing i've ever read but i see the merit in it  and i would recommend it in specific situations to specific people based on what they feel like  reading and i think it's just a good book just not my favorite book and this one is definitely a  solid three stars i think it's good i'd recommend it if you're interested in reading a romance book  and i think it was well written honestly just glad i ended on this note and it wasn't just another  like really boring or cringy book that i ended up hating i'm glad i actually enjoyed it at least a  little and that it is one that i could recommend if someone was like i need a romance book to read  what's one that you think i would enjoy i would i would say get a life chloe brown or people we  meet on vacation of everything i read in this video i would recommend those two as romance  books to read but there you all have it those were the five popular romance books that i read and all  of my thoughts on them but yeah this was a really interesting experiment honestly in some ways this  was a bit more difficult for me to get through than the sad books video only because i feel  like i was just getting super burnt out reading all of the romance books because all of them have  such a similar structure that i felt like i was reading the same thing over and over again whereas  with the sad books they were all very different from each other so i had more variety so i was a  little bit less bored even though i really hated some of those books way more than i hated some  of these books i just think the fact that it got so repetitive made it a little bit difficult but  nonetheless i think it was still a worthwhile experience and i'm glad i did it so if you  have any recommendations or suggestions of other types of experiments you would like me to do other  types of books you would want me to read please send them my way i definitely plan to continue  doing more of these types of videos because it's honestly pretty fun for me to watch back even if  i'm not really liking all of the books it's still pretty fun but yeah i hope you all enjoyed this  video if you have any more romance suggestions based on like my comments in this video and what  you think that i would like please let me know because i don't want to like write off romance i  don't think i dislike the whole genre and i think what's popular right now isn't really my thing so  i just need to find whatever those romance books are that are more of my thing yeah if you have  any suggestions based on what you think my taste would be uh please let me know because i would  like to read some more but if you'd like to follow me on any of my social media to keep up with what  i'm reading or what's going on in my life all the links are in the description box as always  but thank you all so much for watching i hope you enjoyed and i will see you in my next video byeyou\n"