final 2023 wrap up! tier ranking all 146 books i read this year 📚⭐️
**A Year of Reading: My Favorite Books and Tier Ranking**
As I sit here reflecting on the past year, I feel grateful to have had an incredible reading experience. From discovering new favorite books to connecting with fellow book lovers, this year has been truly special. As I take a moment to look back at all the books I've read, I'm excited to share my thoughts and tier ranking of each book. This exercise allows me to process my emotions and thoughts about each book, and I hope it will help you discover new titles to add to your reading list.
**Tier Ranking: A Visual Representation of My Favorite Books**
I've always been fascinated by the idea of a "tier ranking" - a visual representation of how much I love or dislike each book. It's become an essential part of my reading process, and I'm excited to share mine with you. From the top spot to the bottom, each tier represents a different level of affection for a particular book. With over 100 pages left in one of the books on this list, I feel like I've made some progress but still have a long way to go.
**The First Book: A Thrilling Start**
I must confess that my favorite book from the trilogy is actually the first one. While it has elements that I eagerly anticipated and enjoyed, it wasn't quite my favorite overall. The superhero aspects and action-packed scenes kept me engaged throughout the story, but there were moments where it felt like I was backtracking or rehashing ideas I'd already seen. Still, I appreciate the effort that went into creating this world and its characters.
**Ghosted: A Reread Worth It**
I recently reread Ghosted, which was one of my favorite books from last year. This time around, I picked up on details that I had missed initially, and it only reinforced my love for the story and characters. What struck me most about this re-read was how much more nuanced and complex the world-building became. The reread allowed me to appreciate the little things that I'd previously overlooked, and it solidified my affection for this series.
**Ruins V: A Solid Duology**
While Ruins V didn't blow me away entirely, I still enjoyed the experience of reading it. As a duology, there were moments where I felt like some plot threads were left dangling or unresolved. However, the world-building and characters were still well-developed, and I appreciated the themes explored throughout the story.
**The Book Club: A Community to Share My Love for Books**
One of the highlights of my reading year has been participating in our book club, which was a subscription-based service on Patreon. We have different tiers of membership, ranging from free trial periods to exclusive content and voting rights over future books. As someone who values community and connection with fellow readers, I found this experience truly enriching.
**Shouting Out Our Book Club**
To anyone interested in joining us next year, I invite you to check out our Patreon page for more information on the different tiers and benefits. From weekly updates to exclusive videos and giveaways, there's something for everyone. We also have readathons and Discord channels where we connect and discuss our favorite books.
**A Message to My Wonderful Community**
As I wrap up this year's reading journey, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you who has supported me on this path. Your engagement and enthusiasm mean the world to me, and I'm honored to be part of a community that shares my passion for books.
**A New Year's Message**
As we bid farewell to 2023, I look forward to an exciting new year filled with great books, engaging discussions, and wonderful connections with fellow readers. Whether you're a seasoned book lover or just starting out, I invite you to join us on this journey through the world of reading.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello guys welcome or welcome back to my channnel welcome to the last video of 2023 which is absolutely insane to say I thought we could do the same thing that we did last year at the end of 2022 and that is tier ranking every single book that I read this year almost like a kind of end of the year consensus on how I really feel about these books after a whole year of reading has passed I'm definitely a different reader than I was in January when the year started so we're going to go through my final thoughts if they've changed since when I first read them we'll see so I created a tier ranking to rank all of these books and I also figured out how to put all the books in order from January to December in the order that I read them so we're going to go through all the tears all my stats all the books reviews it's going to be a fun time it's also going to be a long time probably going to have a lot to say cuz I did read a lot more than I did last year so we'll get into more of like a stats right now so in 2020 I read 10 books out of 15 books that I wanted to read so I did not meet my goal in 2021 I read 53 books and I wanted to read 35 so this is where I started to read a bit more where I got kind of more into reading and then last year I wanted to read 100 books and I read 129 so I surpassed my goal and this year I made my goal a little bit higher than 100 books from 2022 because I feel like since I surpassed my goal last year and I've started to make more book focused videos I've been reading a lot more so I feel like I can up my reading challenge goal and this year I wanted to read 120 books and I read 146 which is so much more than I thought I would but again it all comes back to me recording and creating so many book videos like I read a lot for videos but like I said before reading challenges reading goals the numbers of books you've read don't really mean anything it kind of just shows what you've been doing but aside from the numbers I've had a great great reading year I found such amazing books this year I did read a lot more than I thought I was going to but that's not in a bad sense I did read plenty of books I did not enjoy but also has helped me and kind of shaped me into the type of reader I am right now and kind of showed me the books that I like what I look for in books and I have more of a taste for what I like in books now The more I've read this year so first one we have on the top is I haven't showed up about it for a reason this is just like my absolute favorite books of the year the ones that if you've watched my Channel all throughout the year and you hear the names of these books you probably may think of me not shutting up about it or they're just books that I can't stop talking about or bringing up any chance that I get and that's because I love them so much like they are my writ or die books books I will take with me for years to come as my favorite books then underneath that we have top reads of the Year this is kind of like a four star 4 and a half 4.75 like books that aren't my absolute favorites of the year but they're like top reads some of my favorite books that I did read this year just not like the like six seven 10 Star reads and then underneath that we have didn't love but recommend these are books kind of like a maybe a four three star range these are books that I personally didn't absolutely love they're not my favorite reads of the year but I would put them in a recommendations video I would recommend them to someone who wants something like that that kind of plot that kind of genre they're books that I personally wouldn't go out of my way and say they're my favorite but I would recommend them then underneath that is not the best but not the worst these are kind of like mid books books that are like they were good they weren't great but they weren't absolutely bad they weren't my like least favorite books of the year they're just like a good old mid book and then underneath that is I actually forgot I read this there are so many books that I read this year maybe not so many but was adding all the books that I've read this year and kind of putting them in order order from January December of books that I've read There were so many that I genuinely forgot that I've read and it's so crazy I've read so many books and when I bring up a book that I've read I can kind of say the summary I can say how I felt while reading it but there are books that I've read throughout the year that I forgot that I even did that I didn't even read that and it was kind of just sparking my memory going through the books that I read putting them into this tier ranking list but right now present day where I am right now I forgotten that I've read some of these books then we have simply not a fave this one is kind of like a maybe low three two Star reads not a favorite book of mine I probably don't recommend it I just didn't enjoy reading it maybe they're just not my favorite books they're lower on my list and then my last one is 2023 would have been better with so these are just one Star reads if I had my dnfs in here this is where the dnfs would go yeah these are just books that been fine not including them into my challenge I'm good without thinking about them looking at them reading them again well obviously I wouldn't read them again but you know what I mean they're just like the bottom of the list of books I've read this year okay and then there was this website that I think someone created and it kind of gives you stats it's called my year in books and these are the stats that I got back I read like I said 146 books that is 104,000 minutes read that is a lot of minutes that is a lot of my life of this year my top genres were romance contemporary and fantasy and then my top author was Sarah J Mass my reading Vibes were hopelessly romantic and some of my Five Star reads were Kingdom of Ash love redesign and queen of Shadows so I read all of Throne of Glass this year I read aquar silver Flames I think I read yeah Crescent City recently so I read a lot of sour mask this year but wouldn't say she's my top favorite author of the year I think she's just the top author that I've read this year I've read the most of her books out of any author now let's get into teer ranking and all the books that I've read this year I'm pretty to go through these and kind of rehash how I feel about them and just my personal year in review my wrap-up my final full wrapup so starting strong my first book of the year was part of your world by Abby Jimenez my first Abby Jimenez book and I wouldn't say it's my top read of the Year this is where it gets difficult okay I do recommend it I don't think it's my top read of the year I would say I didn't love it but I do recommend it it's not my favorite book by ha there's a lot other ones that I think could be like a top read of the year that I enjoyed a lot more but I do recommend this book I think it is so good then we have binding 13 by Chloe wall this one I'm not going to say 2023 would have been better without it because I am happy I read it I've experienced it I know what other people have read through the book so I would just say that I just simply it's just not a favorite I didn't enjoy it but it's not that the year would have been better without it it's not like the worst book I've ever read it's just I didn't enjoy it compared to how much people love this book then we have booked on a feeling this one I think I gave like three stars but I honestly forget that I read this so I would either put it there or I would put simply not a even would have been better with it I just did not like this this was like one of the first romance books I bre that I got the ick from I just did not feel the chemistry or anything but it took place in a bookstore that was really cute so I will give it some Redemption points for that so I think I'm going to do either I forgot I read this but we'll just simply not a fave I just didn't really enjoy that book all the boys I loved before this one I read in like a blind dates with a book video and I'm honestly happy I read it after watching the movie cuz I can picture it like perfectly and I like seeing what they took from the book into the movie and like what things were changed so not the best but not the worst like it wasn't the best book I've ever read but I also had a really fun time reading it then we have gracing this is a fantasy this is only my first first fantasies of the Year this was my first fantasy of the year it didn't really spark anything in me that made me want to continue wrting fantasies I honestly kind of found it a little boring I think I'm going to put this and I actually forgot I read this unless someone brings this book up completely forgot that I read it I never recommend it I never really talk about it how to love your neighbor I loved this book this is one of my top reads of the year I never talk about it unless this may be like a recommendations video but this was like such a good contemporary romance small enemies to lover situation they were neighbors one was like an interior designer one's a real estate agent it was really good I love the banter the the side characters I'm pretty sure there was no third act breakup like it was really really good I do forget that I read this book but I do know I did really enjoy it like a lot more than I thought I would then we have forever Never by Lucy score honestly forgot that I read this I would put that there but I did enjoy it like it's not my favorite book by her but it wasn't the worst book I read this year I think I would put like didn't love no I think I would do not the best but not the worst I don't know the story was interesting it had like a mystery element thrown into the romance but I don't know just not my favorite then we have never lie by Freda mcfaden this was my first book by her of the year and it's sent me down a rabbit hole of her books earlier this year I would say this is one of my tow breeds of the Year this is one of those like mystery thrillers that really keep you on your toes and her books are so bingeable like I think I got most of my reading challenge done and a lot of books like into my reading challenge because of how fast I read Freedom MC found books like this one was so good it caught me so off guard I did not guess it I absolutely loved this book I read the inmate by her this one I didn't love I would say it's not the best but not the worst I don't see myself ever recommending this book too often but it was it was good then we have Bright Side by Kim Holden I think I read this in trying to find five star video my first one that I did this year and I remember just being up at 2: a.m. finishings book balling my eyes out and I didn't love it I would recommend it like if someone said do you have a book that's going to make me cry like yeah right side by Kim Holden we'll do that for you we finally get to Magnolia Parks I'm honestly surprised how early in the year I've read this book like I think I read this maybe like February is and it's so crazy to think that I've read this book for the first time this year like it feels so long ago that I started this series and just found my love for Magnolia Park so this one we all know is going I haven't shut up about it for a reason you guys know I talk about this book any chance I get I think it was like the first one I read where the writing felt so beautiful and so personal and made the characters feel so real in so many different ways and aspects the quotes that came out of here the way this book made me feel one of my favorites we all know I haven't shut up about it personally for a reason but just because I love it so much then we have Daisy hates the first Daisy hates and I think I'm going to put this in my top reads of the year I know I say this series is like my top favorite series but when I read Daisy hates I actually get that one a four star it wasn't my favorite out of the whole series my least favorite but it definitely is a top read of the year like you get more of the characters I also love J rating in this but I just didn't love the main characters in here Christian and Daisy they're not my favorite to follow along with I do love them more in the next Daisy hates book but yeah this was definitely a top rate of the year but I don't really talk about this one when I talk about the Magnolia Park series then we have one by one by again frea mcet and I'm going to put this in I actually forgot that I read this I did not enjoy this I think I gave this one three stars I didn't really like this one I didn't really like the ending of this one I don't think about it I do forget that I've even read this this year and let me have the perfect marriage which I'm really excited about I heard like great things about this but I think I'm going to put this in simply not a favor the storyline of this book and the plot of this book was so good I was so interested in it but the ending I just didn't enjoy I just don't like this type of ending in a mystery or a thriller I don't really know how to say that without giving the whole book away but I just didn't enjoy the ending of this one then we have 7 Days in June I don't know where I would put this one because I enjoyed it when I read it but I don't ever talk about this one I think I would put this in either didn't love what recommend or actually I think I put this in not the best but not the worst it's not my favorite Romance of the year but also not like my least favorite I did enjoy it again when I read it and some quotes in here really pretty but not my favorite romance then we have Magnolia Parks the long way home this one tore my heart into 18 billion pieces and didn't even put it back together it actually put it back together for maybe 20 pages and then ripped it back open all over again but you know that's what you get when you go into the series Rock Bottom Girl by Lucy score I think I'm going to put this one in simply not a favorite I didn't really enjoy this one too much compared to like her other books that I've read by her then we have Kingdom of the fear I'm putting this in top reads of the year the first two books in this Kingdom of the wicked Trilogy aren't my favorite but something about Kingdom of the fear really did it for me like all of the romance fantasy tropes kind of came into one with wrath in this book and it really set me down a rabbit hole of needing more of that and that's why this is my one of my top reads of the year just because of how much I fixated on wrath after reading this like I needed what wrath gave me in this book and other fantasies and that's where it all stemmed from and why I started reading so much more fantasy this year so I just want to put it in my top read of the year I just want to thank this book for doing that for me cuz I love fantasy now as we know next we have Anastasia by Sophie Lark this is so sad to say but I think it would have been better if I didn't read this it is such a long book it is also a fantasy I just had no idea what was going on and I don't think it's because it was a retelling but I think it was just because the way the story line was going and the pacing of it and the way that plot lines would come up I just didn't really enjoy it I wish this wasn't the first Sophie Lark book that I read but I really wanted to again like I said a fantasy and that's the one that I chose and not a favorite like at all then we have Serpent and Dove this one definitely not my top reads of the year or one of my top reads of the year I would say I didn't love it but I recommend it I think it's such an easy fantasy to get into I think the story Line's really interesting it was definitely a good book also seeing how I was trying to get into fantasy I think this is a good one to kind of start with then we have the housemade secret which is the sequel to The housemade by freedom mcfaden I actually enjoyed this one more than the housemade I think it had more plot twists and kept me on my toes more and I was excited to see the ending this one I wouldn't say is my top actually no I feel like I don't really talk about it I would say not the best but not the worst not my favorite mystery thriller I don't really talk about it much but it's not the worst one I've read this year then we have the doover by Linn painter I actually read this was one of our book club books earlier this year and I just personally did not love this one I don't think I really like the groundhog Trope that goes on in this book so that may be a reason why I didn't love it I also don't really connect to ya romances too often I don't really read them too often so I think I would put this in simply not a favorite I kind of only got through it and read it for the book club but I will say I love LM painter's writing I love the way that she can create a romance to make it feel like a romcom like such a nostalgic feel almost so I do love it for that reason but the book itself just wasn't for me then we have things we hide from the light which I think is an unpopular opinion I think I think a lot of people or what I'm about to say I think is an unpopular opinion so I think a lot of people who read this is one of their least faves of the series and just did not like it but I personally really enjoyed it I think it's like a top R of the Year this book felt like the Lucy score of writing that I love and all the characters that I loved from the knock him out Series in the first book I like seeing the banter between them and like learning about new characters and the history of them and I personally really enjoyed this one k stto is back like I forgot that I read this book until I look at on my shelf or I'm recommending a book so I know I gave it I think around four stars I did enjoy it compared to like other tailor read books I've read but I would probably put it in didn't love but recommend cuz I do recommend this book I put it in recommendations video I did enjoy it when I read it yeah just not my favorite read then we have Once Upon a broken heart I would put this in top reads of the year I just think the fact that this was like a fairy tale fantasy I enjoyed that like so much like I love a fairy tale fantasy I love the settings of it I love the Whimsical of it and I liked learning about the characters in this one definitely one of the top reads of the year and then we have Taste of Poison this one I would feel like was not the best but not the worst it's not my favorite out of all the books in in the series but again it's not the best one best fantasy I've read this year but not the worst cuz I really did love the princess retelling then we have the ballot of Never After honestly I think I would put this in I haven't shut up about it for a reason I feel like maybe I don't talk about this a lot but I feel like I talk about it more than the other books on this list or it's definitely up there one of my favorite books that I've read this year what I wanted from Once Upon a broken heart and why Once Upon A Broken Heart wasn't a festar read she gave in the ballot of Never After and I think I was in a slump when I read this like a really really bad one and this one completely got me out of it like I was convinced I wasn't going to read again that's how bad my slump was so shout out this book I love this book definitely top top list of books I read this year then we have my dark Romeo this book I wouldn't say it's a top rate of the year I also don't think I recommend this one because of how interesting of a plot it is so I would say it's not the best but not the worst I just think the main character Romeo from where he started in the book to where he ended crazy character development I think some of the things he said was so out of pocket that it almost felt like comical entertaining at points I could not take him seriously and just the dynamic between the two main characters was so just not what you would expect and it was just an entertaining read like I did not take this book too seriously it just felt super entertaining then we have daughter of no world this is probably a top read of the year I love love loved this book I think it was so interesting the story line it's so different from other fantasies I've read before this one main guy character wasn't like morle gray he was just really sweet and kind I feel like you don't really get that too much in fantasy romances plot when somewhere I did not expect it to go and I really really enjoyed her writing in this one it was the first book I read by her and it was just so easy to understand and get into which I love just so much then we have from blood and Ash by Jennifer L armant trout I don't know if I would put this in simply not a fave or it would have been better without this book because I truly just did not enjoy it I think I gave him three stars but I never really think about this book I would never really recommend it it's not a fantasy that I enjoyed it was honestly really long and I feel like it was like maybe 300 Pages too long so I would say it would have been better without this book this year I was expecting to like love this book I don't know why I think it's CU I've seen lots of people enjoy it so I was excited to get into another fantasy series but yeah I did not really enjoy this one okay then we have then she was gone this one is a top read of the Year this was like a mystery thriller type of book that really made me feel like uneasy and whenever a book makes me feel a type of emotion like that or makes me feel something I just think that's such a incredible thing that words on paper can do that to someone so I did kind of guess what was going on but it just kept me on the edge of my seat I think I've read this book in like a day I loved it I thought it was so good then we have caral this one I would put and didn't love but recommend I didn't really connect to the characters but I did love the creativity of it and getting in the car Marvel world and seeing all the things that Stephanie Garber could create I do recommend it and I did enjoy reading it then we have this woven Kingdom this one I'm stuck between 2023 would have been better without or I actually forgot that I read this I may put it in I forgot that I read this wouldn't put it in 2023 would have been better without I think because while reading it what I could understand from it I did enjoy and like the romance that was happening and some of the quotes in here I did enjoy cuz I do love her writing but this book was just too confusing for me I could not grasp the world and the politics of it so I was just confused like 70% of the time but that 30% I did enjoy then we have all the dangerous things honestly forgot that I read this I think I read a couple of her books I think there's another one that's coming up but I went into this book thinking I was going to absolutely like be obsessed with it and be like one of my favorite mystery thrillers find a new favorite thriller author I hly don't remember what this book is about I've read two of her books like I said and I don't know which one was which I don't know what this one was which I think shows that I forgot that I even read this book cuz I have no idea what the plot of this was but I do remember it being a slow buildup and I just being underwhelming or I was underwhelmed by the ending then we have Renegade this one I think would be a top read of the year not my favorite book ever but it was one of my first kind of like dystopian superhero type of books and it was very interesting it was different than other dystopian sci-fi kind of reads that I've read was action-packed there was lots of characters it was very interesting it kind of felt like a movie in your head so I really did enjoy reading this then we have the love wager by Lin painter I loved this book one of my top reads of the Year this is a contemporary adult Romance by Lin painter I just needed a good fast-paced romance and I knew Lin painter would deliver and I did not expect to love this book as much as I did I just felt the chemist between the two characters I thought the storyline was really interesting she threw some tropes in there that I love so much and again I love LM painters writing so this one really did it for me then we have serit and wings of the night this one is another top read of the year like I said Chrissa broadband's writing is so easy to understand and get into this one was so good because you have like trials you have an enemies to lovers you have an interesting politics like the pacing was so good like this was like such a good book I absolutely loved reading this have six Scorch roses which is the Nolla between this book and the second book in this series and honestly not the best but not the worst it's a Nolla I can't really say too much about I will say for being a Nolla I think she did a great job creating these characters and giving like history in a story and then we have the second book honestly I put in top reads of the Year this one was more politics based but usually politics and fantasy books could bore me really easily and this one I was very interested in I kept up with I was intrigued to see where the story line was going to go with these politics we were learning about so definitely a top read that series The Super Wings of the night was just one of my favorites of the year then we have DC hates the great undoing going right back up there I haven't shut up about it for a reason I talk about some of the quotes in this book so much I've posted the quotes before I think about it all the time I listen to the audiobook of this one on Spotify like no one's business the storyline of this one the pain from this one is just unlike any other then we get into Flawless by Elsie silver my first Cowboy Romance of the Year this one threw me down a rabbit hole of one Elsie Silvers series of chestnut Springs just Cowboy romances Cowboy anything like country music cowgirl boots like all of that it really did it for me like it threw me head first into the world of cowboys so this one one of my top reads of of the Year her writing style I love so much dialogue Side characters the tropes like it's just it was so good then I read fool me twice this one honestly would have been better without the story line of this has like a sad undertone which I've talked about before but where it goes I just did not like it it's just not a favorite of mine I would have been fine not reading this book this year but I had it on my TBR for a while and it was pretty short so I did read it obviously then we have the next book by the same author as all the dangerous things this one forgot that I read this actually I'm going to put this in simply not a favorite actually I'm put I forgot I read this these two books again don't know which plot this one is then we have heartless of course is one of my top reads of the Year Cade is one of my top favorite eaten Brothers like it was just so good Elie silver knows how to write the single father show she knows how to write a grumpy cowboy and Willa one of my favorite like female main characters of the entire year like she is just she was amazing I loved her then we have one in Rome I would say didn't love but recommend it's definitely a good adult romance I think the tropes are fun all cute stuff going on but I don't think it was my favorite Romance of the year I do love Sarah Adams writing but yeah not my favorite of the year then we have float this one's not the best but not the worst it was good for what it was I think the Vibes of it were perfect I think it's exactly what you expect from a book like this so yeah not the best book but it's also not the worst I had a fun time reading that one be read 100% haven't shut up about it for a reason one of my top books ever I've made it a thing for myself that I have to reread it every single summer I've reread it this year next year I'm just like counting down the days until I open up this book again everything about it to me is just chef's kiss I don't know why I connect to it so much I just do and I just love it like an incredible amount then we have yours truly this one I wouldn't put in I haven't shut up about it for a reason cuz I feel like I don't really talk about this one but it's 100% one of my top reads of the year I love Abby jimenez's writing it was just yeah really really good then meet me at the lake I think I would put simply not a favorite I am happy that I read it because I did enjoy her writing in the first book that she wrote what was it called every sumwhere after this one I just didn't connect to the characters or their chemistry I didn't feel I don't like the way that they met I don't know something about it rubbed me the wrong way I just did not enjoy this one then we heartless bisa Meer I'm going to put this in I forgot that I read it I'm going to be honest I don't ever think about this book I think I read it higher than I would right now like I think I gave it four stars when I read it but I think right now I'd give it like a three I feel like it's kind of like a mid book to me but I do think it was creative I do like the aliceon Wonderland Vibes of it I enjoyed that yeah I didn't really completely enjoy the book and I honestly forget that I even read this until I see it somewhere or someone else brings it up okay and then we have happy place I'm going to put this in I haven't shut up about it for a reason again I may not talk about this too much but I definitely don't think it's just top reads of the year I think this is one of my favorite reads of the year I annotated that book like crazy I connected to the main character like crazy I love the story line I Love The Way It Was Written the dialogue the quotes the side characters I just like was obsessed with this it just felt really real and I was just obsessed I'm going to reread this one I think soon our final Love Song by NS Perkins this one I didn't love but I would recommend this one I didn't love just because the setting of it is like a camp setting which isn't my favorite but I think it was an interesting take on a romance or a second chance it's kind of like a time travel romance and I do love Andis Perkins writing so I did enjoy this book but it wasn't my favorite but I would recommend it then we have powerless by Elsie silver I think this is like one of my tops of the year I don't know if it was the tropes of this one that I really enjoyed I love the two of them I also just love that it's just Chestnut Springs like being back in that world was amazing seeing all the side characters and it's just it was just my favorite or one of my favorites from the series then Indigo Ridge this one was not the best but not the worst I didn't really connect to the characters in this one I do like the setting of it I liked that there was like a mystery element of it but I like the mystery element more than the romance of it so not my favorite in the romance category that I've read this year but it wasn't the worst one that I've read then we have one for my enemy this one I think would be one of my top reads of the year I feel like I don't talk about this one too often but I love the modern day fantasy of it and like the two families against each other the Romeo and Juliet retelling the quotes in here are like phenomenal there's some like really beautiful beautiful quotes I love olivie Blake's writing I think it's very interesting like this one a lot definitely one of my top fantasies of the year and I know I don't talk about it a lot it wasn't in my like top 23 reads of the year but it definitely was a book that I really enjoyed this year then we have the friend zone I don't think this was my favorite but I recommend it because this interconnected Stalone series I really enjoyed this one was just like a little bit install lovy but again I love her writing and I did enjoy it for what it was I would recommend it but it's not my favorite once more with feeling this one's simply just not a favorite I didn't really enjoy the storyline of this one I do like her writing I think it flows really nicely I just didn't love the characters or really like the storyline of it then we have Reckless one of my top reads of the Year this is my second favorite in the chestnut Springs the storyline of this is a surprise pregnancy Trope and again Elsie silver just knows how do these tropes like she is so good at it but again the side characters being in chess spring setting and all of that together so good then words in the deep blue honestly probably would have been better without I did not enjoy this book I had so many different expectations going into it and it just did not deliver what I thought it was going to I did not like the storyline of this one red white and royal blue I think this is one of my top reads of the year I like the dialogue and the characters I really enjoyed this one and I don't know why it took me so long to read it then one of us is lying honestly I would say this is not the best but not the worst it was a fast-paced book it's a Y mystery I def enjoy this one too much but it was a fast read so it's like not the best one I've read this year but also it wasn't like the worst book I've read then Juniper Hill honestly I would put this in simply just not a favorite I could not connect to this one at all like the main characters the the storyline anything about this one I just did not really enjoy this one then practice makes perfect I would put it in the same one as one in Rome I didn't love it but I recommend it I think I liked a little bit more than one in Rome which I think a lot of people usually like one in Rome first I don't really know but I like the male main character in here I think his name is Will I really enjoyed him it was cheesy at some point points but I think it was really good again I love SAR Adams writing it was cute then D and dusted probably a top read of the Year guys it was so good then we have Charlie love and cliches I my year would have been so much better without this book this is another one that gave me the ick while reading it but there was nothing to kind of redeem that part of it like I got the I and I also just did not like the story or the character so this one felt so flat for me and I love marriage for one by the same author but this one I just couldn't do it then we have rrit our story it's hard because I enjoyed like the first half of this book but then I think it kind of went downhill the more you got to know the characters and their history and towards the end of it and I feel like it was a little bit dragged out I don't really know but I don't know I would say it's not a favorite of the year we have Happy Ever After playlist I think this is a top reads of the year I love this book this is my favorite Abby him in his book or one of them I just liked their dynamic in this book like so much then we have what happens after midnight this one not the best but not the worst I think I ended up giving this one like four stars but it's cute it's ya it's fastpaced it takes place at I think like a prep school I enjoyed the story line I thought it was very fun but yeah not my favorite read of the year but not the worst have Only Love Can Hurt Like This this honestly I don't think my year would have been better without it but I don't think it was a favorite I don't really know what it was about this that I couldn't connect to but I just did not enjoy this book like I thought I was going to we have the last word I loved this book it's definitely one of my top reads of the year one of those Thrillers that really has you on the edge of your seat like your adrenaline is pumping with the main character trying to figure out what the heck is going on and I really love that one and then we have Divine Rivals I think I haven't sh up about this for a reason this is one of my top top top reads of the year a romance in it is very sweet and just romantic and just so good and I love the storyline of this yeah definitely top top of the year then we have I found you honestly I'm going to put this in simply not a favorite this is just like a mystery that I don't enjoy it's one of those where not a lot of like mini plot twists are happening you're not like on the edge of your seat you're just kind of following along the story until the end where everything kind of just like wraps up and you kind of understand what happened you can kind of figure it out as it's going on so it's not my favorite type of mystery but it was still good just not a favorite Mar scorching summer this one I don't think it was a top romance of the year maybe I didn't love it I did like it I do recommend it it's a really fun summer romance I did enjoy the writing of it the characters the chemistry and everything everything was so good love theoretically another top read of the Year this is one of I think my favorite Ali Hazelwood books this is one of those books that I read and kind of forgot the plot line of it like I literally don't remember but I do remember enjoying reading it while I was reading it we have good bad girl this is Alice's new release this year I think it's not the best but not the worse only because I think some of her other books I liked more than this one but it was still good the plot twist got me definely is a top Contender but not my favorite then we have Book Lovers I gave this one a second chance this year I don't know if it was my top read I didn't absolutely love it as much as I love some of her other books but I did like it I did like the banter between the two I think it was like top tier banter I would recommend it I feel like I do recommend it often but not my favorite I think it's just because it took me a while to get into it and connect to it then we have the atlas 6 this one I think is not the best but not the worst I enjoyed the characters and again ol Blake's writing is so just unique but she lost me a lot with the science talk and the theoretical talk like it got really deep into that and really intricate with that but the characters and the storyline aside from that was really interesting Belladonna I think simply not a favorite I went into this thinking I was going to absolutely love it but it just wasn't a favorite of the year that's all I have to say the naturals top reads of the year I love the series so much it's one of my favorite series of the year then we have the summer of broken rules this one probably not the best but not the worst it's cute you got all the summer Vibes that you could want like a Pinterest worthy summer family vacation Vibes but not my favorite read then we have the final offer I think reading this it's my favorite out of the whole Dreamland billionaire series but I don't think it's my favorite Romance of the year I didn't absolutely love this as much as like thinking back on it I did when I read it but I did like it I liked the writing I liked these characters I like this story line I would recommend it but I don't think it's my favorite Romance of the year then we have War d by Freeda mcfaden honestly I don't know if I forgot that I read this or it just wasn't a favorite or not the best not the worst it's definitely fast-paced you can get into it really quick but it's not my favorite read that I read this year by her then we have the grace year this one didn't love but I would recommend if anyone would want a story like this it didn't really connect too much to the characters in it but the story line I feel like I connected to then we have throttle I always say it's just not a favorite I think it's like a mid book which I feel like could go in not the best but not the worst but I just did not really enjoy this one I never really think about this book not a favorite I do want to continue the series and continue on I love Lauren Asher's writing but the actual story and characters I don't think is my favorite then we have Scarlet princess I think this is maybe top I don't know I've read this one really fast it's fast-paced short chapters an enemies to lovers type of fantasy I would say it's like not my favorite fantasy of the year but I would 100% recommend this book then we have Killer Instinct one of my top reads of the Year this whole series is going to be probably in this row this one is one of my favorites of the whole series cuz you follow a character that I really wanted to know more about in the first one which I love so much much then we have tarnish Crown not my favorite fantasy series of the year but so good Life's too short I think I didn't love but I would recommend this is in the interconnected s alone of Abby Jimenez series with the friend zone Happy Ever After playlist and then you have Life's too short I did enjoy her writing in this one again fast-paced you can read her book so quick the way she has these main characters meet I don't know I just like the way that she does it I like her writing but it's not my favorite book by her but I would always recommend her books then Crimson Kingdom honestly not the best but not the worst this one was my least favorite out of the books in the series that I've read it kind of just felt like a filler book like it could have been like a Nolla or could have just combined with the second book or the last book so then we have the five star weekend this one I think is just not a favorite of mine I've read a bunch of her other books that I really enjoyed but this one's just not my favorite of hers this one I feel like was definitely more towards her demographic of like Mom readers I feel like they would enjoy it more I couldn't really connect to the characters or like storyline of this book too much but yeah not my favorite of hers and not my favorite read of the year and then we have all in again top read of the Year this whole series is just so so so good the story line follows another one of my favorite characters from this whole entire Series so I loved that part of it and then Janette mccartie her Memoir I don't really know where I should put this because it's her story and I feel like I can't say I didn't like this book because I did enjoy the book I don't think it was my favorite book that I've listened to or read this year I didn't absolutely love this book I would 100% recommend it if you want to listen to a memoir you want to know more about her story tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow I think it was not the best but not the worst and I feel like that's surprising cuz I enjoyed it when I read it not as much as I feel like a lot of people enjoy this book but I think it just took a turn that I didn't expect and I wanted to go a different way so bad that it wasn't just just it just wasn't my favorite it wasn't my least favorite of the year it definitely was mid thinking back on it then we have power list by Lauren Roberts obviously we know where this is going I have not shut up about this book for since I read it literally since I read it I'm currently rereading a book right now and after I finish that I'm starting my reread on this and my audio book I'm going to listen to some of I think the chemistry of my brain changed dramatically when I read this book and if you have read this book this year too and loved it as much as I did you understand why I haven't shut up about it and why I love it so much like all of the trps you want in enemies lovers fantasy like you're going to get in this book book and it is so good then we have bad blood which is also going to go into top reads of the Year this one is my second favorite I think or maybe tied with my favorite of the series the way that the whole series comes full circle in this is just so good and then the 12 is a Nolla right after that I hope this is not the best but not the worst it's a Nolla it's quick and short it's not what I expected the Nolla the kind of wrap up of the series to be I kind of wanted a little bit more from the characters in this it's not what I expected but it was still good I love the characters and I'm happy that they had a novella to kind of wrap up the series then we have a river Enchanted I'm going to be so honest I would have been okay okay not reading this this year I will say I only read it because I love divine rival so much so I wanted to read another book by Rebecca Ross but this one is kind of like a folk fantasy and it was just so slow that I had to download an Audi book of this book because I needed to listen to it cuz I couldn't sit and read it without stopping and just like I did not want to finish it but I felt like I had to I will say the ending was more interesting and like the leadup into the second book I feel like it's more interesting and the second book may be a little bit better but I don't think I'm going to read it I honestly did just not enjoy this book then we have the prison healer this book I think being the first book in the series it was really really slow I think the ending was amazing and I recommend this book like all the time I think it is such a good fantasy series but it's not my favorite out of the whole series and out of all of the fantasies I've read this year and that's going into the second one I think is one of my top reads of the year I loved the second book not as much as the third which we'll talk about when that book comes up but I think getting more into the politics of the world and kind of more into the fantasy elements and all of that was really fun in this one so then we have one dark window another top reads of the Year this one was so good it was definitely different fantasy than the other ones I've read this year it was Gothic fantasy the storyline was interesting the magical system was interesting it had a romance in it it was really really good read and then we have the problem with forever this one I think is not the best but not the worst it's a ya romance but it has kind of like a deeper theme and deeper things going on with the characters in it so it was interesting on that aspect of getting to know the characters what they've been through but not my favorite Romance of the year then we have the only one left I really enjoyed this one I think this is one of my top mystery thrillers of the year I feel like slowly getting into the second half of the year I stopped reading a lot of mysteries like I read a lot in the earlier of 2023 but then I kind of picked up more fantasies and stopped reading mystery through look like I don't think I've read one in a really long time but this one was really good it kept me to the edge of my seat there were little plot twist I was trying to figure out the whole time of what was going to happen one of the plot twists took me so off guard then we have the brothers Hawthorne I would say not a favorite of the year I'm happy that I read it because I do like the characters from The Inheritance games but it's not what I expected it's not my favorite kind of disappointing and that's the same as things we left behind I think it was I don't know if it was not a favorite or not the best but not the worst I think I'm going to put that there I just was disappointed in this one it's not what I expected Lucian and slone story to be because from the first knock them out book they were my favorite out of anyone and we didn't even have their book we just had Snippets of them so getting their book I was just a little bit disappointed on how the story of them went and like I was just anticipating it so much and I had my own almost like storyline of how I thought their romance was going to happen that it just wasn't my favorite then we have fourth Wing I don't know if I'm going to put this in didn't I think yeah I think I'm going to put this in didn't love but would recommend I think I rated this like four something but thinking back on it I would probably give us like three and a half four stars I don't think it was a favorite fantasy of mine it was just so incredibly hyped up that I had to read it I had to see for myself like what it was about this book that everyone loves so much not my favorite fantasy I've read this year but I do recommend it especially again if you're getting into fantasy I feel like a lot of people did that reading it as their first fantasy book then we have the seven-year slip I don't know if I should put this in top reads of the year or I haven't shut up about it because it truly is one of my absolute favorite books of the year I think I'm going to put it in the top top one I know I don't talk about it a lot but I will recommend this book any chance I get it is just so so good and took me so by surprise I did not think I was going to love this as much as I did the quotes in here are so so good the way that the main characters connect are so good I love that book The Blood Trader going to put this in the top top this was one of my favorite fantasies I've read this year and I think it's because the buildup of the first two books was so good going into this one you have so many tropes that I love like found family and the force proximity and like a love declaration all of it was just so good like I ate this book up I loved this book I love the characters I love the way it ended and the way the series wrapped up so good then we have Throne of the Fallen which I feel like I don't talk about too much but I really really really enjoyed this book I don't think it was a top read of year but I think it was a really good fantasy I loved the storyline of this one I would recommend it I just don't think it's might one of my favorite reads of the year then we have Arch enemies I think this wasn't the best but not the worst I feel like this one kind of dragged out the series a little too much like there were so many questions unanswered that still aren't answered in the second one like I'm currently listening to the third one right now I'm about to finish it and I don't know I just didn't love the second one as much as the first one or as much as I'm enjoying the third one right now then a study and drowning I really didn't enjoy this one I'm going to put this in my year would have been better without it it's another Folk fantasy and I didn't expect it to be and like right off the bat I think I was like 30 pages in and I was like this isn't for me but it was one of those books where I had to see it out like I had to finish it and see where it was going to go because the Storyland was really interesting the cover is really pretty and I really wanted to see what it was going to be about but I simply just did not enjoy this one then we have my roommate it's a vampire I think I'm going to put this in simply not a favorite when I was reading it it was fast-paced I read it really quickly it's one of those books that you can just kind of binge and kind of get into like the Halloween spirit almost because obviously one of the main characters is a vampire but the romance I just couldn't not see or connect to I got the a again in this one they felt more platonic friends to me than romantically connected or chemistry with each other so yeah not my favorite then we have red queen I think this is not the best but not the worst I enjoyed the story line of this but I thought the romance in here was going to be a little bit heavier and I didn't really connect to that I don't think I even connected to the characters but I did enjoy the storyline of this I feel it's like a blueprint fantasy storyline for so many fantasies that I've read this year then we have a quart of silver Flames I don't even know where to put this I still haven't even rated this book it took me so long to read this I think I just listen listen to it I barely read it I don't even know what I listen to I think I'm want to put in didn't love but recommend like I recommend the aatar series I recommend reading it I didn't love this one because I don't even remember what I read or listen to so that's on me that's a personal one then we have Wildfire I think this is I don't know if I didn't maybe didn't love but recommend it's not my favorite romance I did like it a lot I love this author's writing I think the camp setting isn't for me but I like the two main characters chemistry the way they connected and all of that so I would 100% recommend this one but I don't think it's my favorite romance that I've read this year and then we have hopeless which is honestly a little disappointing for me because it's my least favorite in the chestnut Springs and I thought it was going to be one of my favorites so I would say it's not the best but not the worst it's not the best out of the whole series it's not the worst romance I've read this year it's just not what I expected from Bose's story but again I love Elsie Silver's writing I love the characters in the setting and everything but just not my favorite then we have maybe meant to be I'm going to say I forgot that I read this book the plot of this book is not what I expected it to be like at all you kind of follow two different characters and their romantic interests and stuff but I thought that those two main characters were going to get together writing is fastpaced I just didn't connect to like I don't think anything about this I never really think about this book either then we have the Grump who Soul summary honestly not a favorite of mine it was definitely an interesting story it's kind of a second chance but the main characters are very toxic with each other and I didn't really love that aspect I do like Ella Field's writing and her writing style and the way she writes stories but I didn't really like the actual storyline of this one like the plot then we get into Throne of Glass series assassin's blade I would say it's like one of my top reads of the year it's one of my favorites out of the series just reading the whole series and then thinking about this prequel and everything that happened I'm so happy I read it first I connected so much with the main character the dead romantic I think is not the best but not the worst I didn't really enjoy this one as much as the seven-year slip I enjoyed the Magical elements but it's just I don't know I think I wanted a little bit more from this book maybe that's what it was I'm not too sure Throne of Glass one of the top reads of the year I loved this series it's one of my favorite series of the whole entire year maybe if not no probably my second favorite series of the whole entire year the XX not a favorite I think I rated this a little bit higher than I probably would thinking back on it it's definitely good for the Halloween season but yeah it's not a favorite read crown of midnight one of my favorites probably one of my top three of the entire Series so good criminally underrated I think it's one of the best in the series like you find out so much that is the blueprint for the rest of the series in this book then we have air fire I feel like this one's going to be a little surprising and unpopular but I didn't love this one obviously I'm recommending it cuz I'm recommending this whole series after reading the whole series I now appreciate aaire a lot more but while I was reading it this one was just a little boring to me because it gives you a lot of new information New World building so it was harder to read and get into but I definitely appreciate it more after reading the whole series now then we have spells for lost things this one is not the best but not the worst I enjoyed this one it's another kind of magical witch story but also has kind of like a small romance in it it was fun to go along fun to read but not the best read of the year but not the worst it was good for again Halloween season the kiss curse I'm going to put next to the xhex not a favorite it was entertaining for what it was I enjoyed like the witch magical system it was good it wasn't bad it's just I don't think it was like a favorite of the whole year like I never really think about this book Chris for true love was a little disappointing to me I think it's going to put it in didn't love but would recommend it's not my favorite out of the trilogy it's not how I expected the last book to go but I recommend the trilogy all the time queen of Shadows another top of the whole entire actually might even put this and I don't shut up about it for a reason because I love it so much so much happens in this book that literally have me on the edge of my seat so much comes full circle so much is going on if we're talking about thrown of glass I'm probably talking about this book or another one we're about to get to okay then we have love redesign I loved this book so much I think it was one of my top reads of the year but I feel like it's too low to even put it there like obsessed with this book I think I'm going to put it and I haven't shut up about it for a reason I know I don't talk about too much but since reading it it's like one of my favorite romances it had everything that I loved the tropes in it the side characters the setting the banter the the history everything was just exactly what I love in a contemporary romance book and Lauren Asher's writing in it was just so so good we have the right move I think I'm going to put didn't love but would recommend I think this book was just a little too long for me I would recommend it but I just don't think it's my favorite book that I've read this year I do think it was a good romance and like for what it was I enjoyed it but I just felt a little too dragged out then we have check and mate I'm going to say simply not a favorite yeah I didn't really enjoy this one it was not what I expected again I always say this when I talk about this book I know chess was going to be a big component but I feel like it was a lot of Chess and not a lot of the romance that I expected it to be it's also ya which I don't connect to a lot so not my favorite two Twisted crowns one of my top reads of the Year this one is so good I liked it a little bit better than one dark window because there's another character's point of view that you get in here and you get their romance story so you're throwing in a new romance that you get to connect to and follow along with with the way the first one ended and trying to wrap that up it was so good it was the perfect way to end this duology then we have Tower of dawn not my favorite out of the series I would say I didn't love it obviously would recommend it there was a character's point of view in here that I just really did not or was not interested in I understand why it was in there for the plot and the way the rest of the books were going to go but yeah this one kind of took me a bit to get through like the tandem ra this was part of it and it just took me a while it was good looking back on it but while reading it it was hard to get through an Empire of storms I honestly feel the same way I feel feel about Tower of Dawn I know that's surprising I feel like a lot of people love Empire storms but I honestly forget what even happened in that one we do follow along some of my favorite characters ever but I think compared to the rest of the series is not my favorite one I you think the ending obviously is crazy and one of like the craziest endings because of the boy s Dr mask ends her books but not my favorite out of the whole entire series then we have house in the Cerulean sea I didn't love it I would recommend it I think it's a sweet story it's definitely different from the other books that I read this year and I enjoyed it for what it was I just didn't love it Kingdom of Ash we're putting right next to or in the same row as Queen of Shadows if I'm talking about Throne of Glass I'm probably going to bring up Kingdom of Ash Masterpiece in my opinion it is phenomenal everything that comes full circle into this book the way that it ends the pain that you go through for almost 1,000 pages is incredible and I would do it all over again then we have never by Jessa Hastings which I haven't talked about I honestly think I'm going to put this in simply not a favorite I'm going to talk about this more in my wrap-up in January for November and December but I had high expectations for this one I was really excited about this one but it just did not do what I thought it was going to do it's just was not a favorite book that I read this year then we have bending on you I really really enjoyed this book I didn't absolutely love it but it's one of my favorite or my new found favorite Lin painter books it's ya it is so cute the way that the characters meet and everything but not absolute favorite of the year but I would recommend it I thought it was so cute then we have legendary I think not the best but not the worst I feel like the same way I felt about caral I like the Magical elements of it and what you're following along in the story line I do think the character that it follows in here and a little bit of the romance in this one I enjoyed you obviously meet Jax which is one of my favorite characters of the Once Upon A Broken Heart Trilogy so I enjoyed those elements but just not my favorite book that I've read this year then we have the Christmas fix this one's not the best but not the worst it's a short little Nolla for like Christmas season obviously the ending was definitely unexpected and different than what I thought it was going to be it was cute it was short it was sweet it was nothing crazy but it was a fast cute read then we have the Christmas fix I think this was not my favorite of the year it didn't really feel like a Lucy score book which I talked about in the reading Vlog where I read this it was good for what it was but I just didn't really enjoy it too much I didn't even feel like that holiday esque and I didn't really love the storyline really that much of the characters I don't know I didn't really connect to this one then we have the naughty the nice and the nanny I listened to this book it was really short it's another novela I think it's like 4 hours maybe even shorter I'm going to be honest I don't remember even what this book is about so I'm going to say it's not a favorite just because I have no idea what I even listen to I know that it was a nanny and a single father and that's all I can remember about this book then we have House of Earth and blood is that what it's called yeah I think that's what it is the first Crescent City book I think it's not the worst but not the best book I've read I'm excited to read the second one in January just to see how it goes and get to the ending of it cuz I heard the ending is crazy but it's not bad it's just not my favorite we have a winter in New York this one I feel like is the same probably not the best but not the worst it's a great setting the romance I didn't love too much and there was one part of this that really just bothered me a lot which again we'll talk about in my wrapup in January then we have Supernova which I'm listening to right now I have not finished it but I will finish it before December ends so I included it in here I feel like from where I am right now I have about maybe a little over 100 pages left I'm going to put this in didn't love but would recommend I think I love the first book out of this Trilogy the best this one has elements in here that I've been waiting to read about and find out about but it's kind of like backtracking almost I don't really know how to explain that but I definitely love the superhero elements and following along with superheroes and their powers and all the action that goes on but it's just not my favorite I would recommend the trilogy but then we have ghosted which I just reread the other night I finished it so good honestly I haven't showed up about it for a reason the rre was even better cuz I picked up on little things that I just didn't pick up on the first time around and I just know the character so well in the storyline that it was just so good I love that book so much and then I just read ruus V which again we will talk about next year next year that's crazy to say in January but I would say I didn't love but would recommend recommend this duology and these books it just wasn't my favorite didn't absolutely love it I did like it but yeah okay so that is tier ranking all of the books I read this year that took a really long time I just personally love seeing the visual of my absolute favorite books at the top and just following it along to the bottom and like books I didn't love throughout the year just seeing it visually I don't know something about it I love doing this seeing my favorite books at the top really makes me happy I truly truly truly am so happy that I found some incredible books this year some of my absolute favorite book some rots that I love so much like it was a really really great reading year for me not just in the reading sense but just in the reading Community like I feel like I've connected like no other this year with so many people especially just creating videos and connecting on all of these books and reading the same books and talking about the same books like it is just such a wonderful community and I could not be more grateful and thankful should be a part of it and that you guys watch my videos like I again cannot thank you guys enough for being here this whole year even if you've been here since years ago or beginning of this year or sometime later this year it does not matter when you have joined us on this channel I just want to thank you guys so much for just being here and watching my videos and all of us just loving books as much as we do it is such an amazing thing to be a part of and be able to connect with people on something that we all love there really is truly nothing like it and I want to shout out our book club that created this year if you guys want to join us in January we have picked our January book it's on patreon it's subscription based there's different tiers you can join free for a week see if you even like it the lowest tier you kind of get weekly updates on the books that we're reading my final review at the end of the month the middle tier you get the Discord you get videos for the books we're choosing you get to help choose the books for each month you get a video for the winner of the month and then the top tier you get extra videos for me each month this month I put in me creating my reading Journal an unhaul of books that I got rid of a little Vlog of some random things and you also are helping vote on books you get an extra channel in the Discord I do giveaways once a month we also have readathons once a month together for 24 hours in the Discord everyone is so lovely I seriously could not thank everyone that's in the book club connecting with everyone has been just so wonderful in just in general so the link to the book club is in the description if you want to join us next year at least try it out all the tiers are explained more in detail on patreon so you can check that out and again I just want to thank you guys for giving me such a wonderful place to talk about books and just letting me be part of such a wonderful Community I could not thank you guys enough so I hope you guys have a wonderful New Year I hope you guys have a wonderful 2024 we have lots of fun videos coming next year I am so excited I hope you guys enjoyed the tier ranking let me know some of your favorite books of the year your top reads ones you can't stop talking about and I will see you in January of 2024 for our next video thank you guys again for watching and for such a wonderful year and I will see you hopefully in the next one byehello guys welcome or welcome back to my channnel welcome to the last video of 2023 which is absolutely insane to say I thought we could do the same thing that we did last year at the end of 2022 and that is tier ranking every single book that I read this year almost like a kind of end of the year consensus on how I really feel about these books after a whole year of reading has passed I'm definitely a different reader than I was in January when the year started so we're going to go through my final thoughts if they've changed since when I first read them we'll see so I created a tier ranking to rank all of these books and I also figured out how to put all the books in order from January to December in the order that I read them so we're going to go through all the tears all my stats all the books reviews it's going to be a fun time it's also going to be a long time probably going to have a lot to say cuz I did read a lot more than I did last year so we'll get into more of like a stats right now so in 2020 I read 10 books out of 15 books that I wanted to read so I did not meet my goal in 2021 I read 53 books and I wanted to read 35 so this is where I started to read a bit more where I got kind of more into reading and then last year I wanted to read 100 books and I read 129 so I surpassed my goal and this year I made my goal a little bit higher than 100 books from 2022 because I feel like since I surpassed my goal last year and I've started to make more book focused videos I've been reading a lot more so I feel like I can up my reading challenge goal and this year I wanted to read 120 books and I read 146 which is so much more than I thought I would but again it all comes back to me recording and creating so many book videos like I read a lot for videos but like I said before reading challenges reading goals the numbers of books you've read don't really mean anything it kind of just shows what you've been doing but aside from the numbers I've had a great great reading year I found such amazing books this year I did read a lot more than I thought I was going to but that's not in a bad sense I did read plenty of books I did not enjoy but also has helped me and kind of shaped me into the type of reader I am right now and kind of showed me the books that I like what I look for in books and I have more of a taste for what I like in books now The more I've read this year so first one we have on the top is I haven't showed up about it for a reason this is just like my absolute favorite books of the year the ones that if you've watched my Channel all throughout the year and you hear the names of these books you probably may think of me not shutting up about it or they're just books that I can't stop talking about or bringing up any chance that I get and that's because I love them so much like they are my writ or die books books I will take with me for years to come as my favorite books then underneath that we have top reads of the Year this is kind of like a four star 4 and a half 4.75 like books that aren't my absolute favorites of the year but they're like top reads some of my favorite books that I did read this year just not like the like six seven 10 Star reads and then underneath that we have didn't love but recommend these are books kind of like a maybe a four three star range these are books that I personally didn't absolutely love they're not my favorite reads of the year but I would put them in a recommendations video I would recommend them to someone who wants something like that that kind of plot that kind of genre they're books that I personally wouldn't go out of my way and say they're my favorite but I would recommend them then underneath that is not the best but not the worst these are kind of like mid books books that are like they were good they weren't great but they weren't absolutely bad they weren't my like least favorite books of the year they're just like a good old mid book and then underneath that is I actually forgot I read this there are so many books that I read this year maybe not so many but was adding all the books that I've read this year and kind of putting them in order order from January December of books that I've read There were so many that I genuinely forgot that I've read and it's so crazy I've read so many books and when I bring up a book that I've read I can kind of say the summary I can say how I felt while reading it but there are books that I've read throughout the year that I forgot that I even did that I didn't even read that and it was kind of just sparking my memory going through the books that I read putting them into this tier ranking list but right now present day where I am right now I forgotten that I've read some of these books then we have simply not a fave this one is kind of like a maybe low three two Star reads not a favorite book of mine I probably don't recommend it I just didn't enjoy reading it maybe they're just not my favorite books they're lower on my list and then my last one is 2023 would have been better with so these are just one Star reads if I had my dnfs in here this is where the dnfs would go yeah these are just books that been fine not including them into my challenge I'm good without thinking about them looking at them reading them again well obviously I wouldn't read them again but you know what I mean they're just like the bottom of the list of books I've read this year okay and then there was this website that I think someone created and it kind of gives you stats it's called my year in books and these are the stats that I got back I read like I said 146 books that is 104,000 minutes read that is a lot of minutes that is a lot of my life of this year my top genres were romance contemporary and fantasy and then my top author was Sarah J Mass my reading Vibes were hopelessly romantic and some of my Five Star reads were Kingdom of Ash love redesign and queen of Shadows so I read all of Throne of Glass this year I read aquar silver Flames I think I read yeah Crescent City recently so I read a lot of sour mask this year but wouldn't say she's my top favorite author of the year I think she's just the top author that I've read this year I've read the most of her books out of any author now let's get into teer ranking and all the books that I've read this year I'm pretty to go through these and kind of rehash how I feel about them and just my personal year in review my wrap-up my final full wrapup so starting strong my first book of the year was part of your world by Abby Jimenez my first Abby Jimenez book and I wouldn't say it's my top read of the Year this is where it gets difficult okay I do recommend it I don't think it's my top read of the year I would say I didn't love it but I do recommend it it's not my favorite book by ha there's a lot other ones that I think could be like a top read of the year that I enjoyed a lot more but I do recommend this book I think it is so good then we have binding 13 by Chloe wall this one I'm not going to say 2023 would have been better without it because I am happy I read it I've experienced it I know what other people have read through the book so I would just say that I just simply it's just not a favorite I didn't enjoy it but it's not that the year would have been better without it it's not like the worst book I've ever read it's just I didn't enjoy it compared to how much people love this book then we have booked on a feeling this one I think I gave like three stars but I honestly forget that I read this so I would either put it there or I would put simply not a even would have been better with it I just did not like this this was like one of the first romance books I bre that I got the ick from I just did not feel the chemistry or anything but it took place in a bookstore that was really cute so I will give it some Redemption points for that so I think I'm going to do either I forgot I read this but we'll just simply not a fave I just didn't really enjoy that book all the boys I loved before this one I read in like a blind dates with a book video and I'm honestly happy I read it after watching the movie cuz I can picture it like perfectly and I like seeing what they took from the book into the movie and like what things were changed so not the best but not the worst like it wasn't the best book I've ever read but I also had a really fun time reading it then we have gracing this is a fantasy this is only my first first fantasies of the Year this was my first fantasy of the year it didn't really spark anything in me that made me want to continue wrting fantasies I honestly kind of found it a little boring I think I'm going to put this and I actually forgot I read this unless someone brings this book up completely forgot that I read it I never recommend it I never really talk about it how to love your neighbor I loved this book this is one of my top reads of the year I never talk about it unless this may be like a recommendations video but this was like such a good contemporary romance small enemies to lover situation they were neighbors one was like an interior designer one's a real estate agent it was really good I love the banter the the side characters I'm pretty sure there was no third act breakup like it was really really good I do forget that I read this book but I do know I did really enjoy it like a lot more than I thought I would then we have forever Never by Lucy score honestly forgot that I read this I would put that there but I did enjoy it like it's not my favorite book by her but it wasn't the worst book I read this year I think I would put like didn't love no I think I would do not the best but not the worst I don't know the story was interesting it had like a mystery element thrown into the romance but I don't know just not my favorite then we have never lie by Freda mcfaden this was my first book by her of the year and it's sent me down a rabbit hole of her books earlier this year I would say this is one of my tow breeds of the Year this is one of those like mystery thrillers that really keep you on your toes and her books are so bingeable like I think I got most of my reading challenge done and a lot of books like into my reading challenge because of how fast I read Freedom MC found books like this one was so good it caught me so off guard I did not guess it I absolutely loved this book I read the inmate by her this one I didn't love I would say it's not the best but not the worst I don't see myself ever recommending this book too often but it was it was good then we have Bright Side by Kim Holden I think I read this in trying to find five star video my first one that I did this year and I remember just being up at 2: a.m. finishings book balling my eyes out and I didn't love it I would recommend it like if someone said do you have a book that's going to make me cry like yeah right side by Kim Holden we'll do that for you we finally get to Magnolia Parks I'm honestly surprised how early in the year I've read this book like I think I read this maybe like February is and it's so crazy to think that I've read this book for the first time this year like it feels so long ago that I started this series and just found my love for Magnolia Park so this one we all know is going I haven't shut up about it for a reason you guys know I talk about this book any chance I get I think it was like the first one I read where the writing felt so beautiful and so personal and made the characters feel so real in so many different ways and aspects the quotes that came out of here the way this book made me feel one of my favorites we all know I haven't shut up about it personally for a reason but just because I love it so much then we have Daisy hates the first Daisy hates and I think I'm going to put this in my top reads of the year I know I say this series is like my top favorite series but when I read Daisy hates I actually get that one a four star it wasn't my favorite out of the whole series my least favorite but it definitely is a top read of the year like you get more of the characters I also love J rating in this but I just didn't love the main characters in here Christian and Daisy they're not my favorite to follow along with I do love them more in the next Daisy hates book but yeah this was definitely a top rate of the year but I don't really talk about this one when I talk about the Magnolia Park series then we have one by one by again frea mcet and I'm going to put this in I actually forgot that I read this I did not enjoy this I think I gave this one three stars I didn't really like this one I didn't really like the ending of this one I don't think about it I do forget that I've even read this this year and let me have the perfect marriage which I'm really excited about I heard like great things about this but I think I'm going to put this in simply not a favor the storyline of this book and the plot of this book was so good I was so interested in it but the ending I just didn't enjoy I just don't like this type of ending in a mystery or a thriller I don't really know how to say that without giving the whole book away but I just didn't enjoy the ending of this one then we have 7 Days in June I don't know where I would put this one because I enjoyed it when I read it but I don't ever talk about this one I think I would put this in either didn't love what recommend or actually I think I put this in not the best but not the worst it's not my favorite Romance of the year but also not like my least favorite I did enjoy it again when I read it and some quotes in here really pretty but not my favorite romance then we have Magnolia Parks the long way home this one tore my heart into 18 billion pieces and didn't even put it back together it actually put it back together for maybe 20 pages and then ripped it back open all over again but you know that's what you get when you go into the series Rock Bottom Girl by Lucy score I think I'm going to put this one in simply not a favorite I didn't really enjoy this one too much compared to like her other books that I've read by her then we have Kingdom of the fear I'm putting this in top reads of the year the first two books in this Kingdom of the wicked Trilogy aren't my favorite but something about Kingdom of the fear really did it for me like all of the romance fantasy tropes kind of came into one with wrath in this book and it really set me down a rabbit hole of needing more of that and that's why this is my one of my top reads of the year just because of how much I fixated on wrath after reading this like I needed what wrath gave me in this book and other fantasies and that's where it all stemmed from and why I started reading so much more fantasy this year so I just want to put it in my top read of the year I just want to thank this book for doing that for me cuz I love fantasy now as we know next we have Anastasia by Sophie Lark this is so sad to say but I think it would have been better if I didn't read this it is such a long book it is also a fantasy I just had no idea what was going on and I don't think it's because it was a retelling but I think it was just because the way the story line was going and the pacing of it and the way that plot lines would come up I just didn't really enjoy it I wish this wasn't the first Sophie Lark book that I read but I really wanted to again like I said a fantasy and that's the one that I chose and not a favorite like at all then we have Serpent and Dove this one definitely not my top reads of the year or one of my top reads of the year I would say I didn't love it but I recommend it I think it's such an easy fantasy to get into I think the story Line's really interesting it was definitely a good book also seeing how I was trying to get into fantasy I think this is a good one to kind of start with then we have the housemade secret which is the sequel to The housemade by freedom mcfaden I actually enjoyed this one more than the housemade I think it had more plot twists and kept me on my toes more and I was excited to see the ending this one I wouldn't say is my top actually no I feel like I don't really talk about it I would say not the best but not the worst not my favorite mystery thriller I don't really talk about it much but it's not the worst one I've read this year then we have the doover by Linn painter I actually read this was one of our book club books earlier this year and I just personally did not love this one I don't think I really like the groundhog Trope that goes on in this book so that may be a reason why I didn't love it I also don't really connect to ya romances too often I don't really read them too often so I think I would put this in simply not a favorite I kind of only got through it and read it for the book club but I will say I love LM painter's writing I love the way that she can create a romance to make it feel like a romcom like such a nostalgic feel almost so I do love it for that reason but the book itself just wasn't for me then we have things we hide from the light which I think is an unpopular opinion I think I think a lot of people or what I'm about to say I think is an unpopular opinion so I think a lot of people who read this is one of their least faves of the series and just did not like it but I personally really enjoyed it I think it's like a top R of the Year this book felt like the Lucy score of writing that I love and all the characters that I loved from the knock him out Series in the first book I like seeing the banter between them and like learning about new characters and the history of them and I personally really enjoyed this one k stto is back like I forgot that I read this book until I look at on my shelf or I'm recommending a book so I know I gave it I think around four stars I did enjoy it compared to like other tailor read books I've read but I would probably put it in didn't love but recommend cuz I do recommend this book I put it in recommendations video I did enjoy it when I read it yeah just not my favorite read then we have Once Upon a broken heart I would put this in top reads of the year I just think the fact that this was like a fairy tale fantasy I enjoyed that like so much like I love a fairy tale fantasy I love the settings of it I love the Whimsical of it and I liked learning about the characters in this one definitely one of the top reads of the year and then we have Taste of Poison this one I would feel like was not the best but not the worst it's not my favorite out of all the books in in the series but again it's not the best one best fantasy I've read this year but not the worst cuz I really did love the princess retelling then we have the ballot of Never After honestly I think I would put this in I haven't shut up about it for a reason I feel like maybe I don't talk about this a lot but I feel like I talk about it more than the other books on this list or it's definitely up there one of my favorite books that I've read this year what I wanted from Once Upon a broken heart and why Once Upon A Broken Heart wasn't a festar read she gave in the ballot of Never After and I think I was in a slump when I read this like a really really bad one and this one completely got me out of it like I was convinced I wasn't going to read again that's how bad my slump was so shout out this book I love this book definitely top top list of books I read this year then we have my dark Romeo this book I wouldn't say it's a top rate of the year I also don't think I recommend this one because of how interesting of a plot it is so I would say it's not the best but not the worst I just think the main character Romeo from where he started in the book to where he ended crazy character development I think some of the things he said was so out of pocket that it almost felt like comical entertaining at points I could not take him seriously and just the dynamic between the two main characters was so just not what you would expect and it was just an entertaining read like I did not take this book too seriously it just felt super entertaining then we have daughter of no world this is probably a top read of the year I love love loved this book I think it was so interesting the story line it's so different from other fantasies I've read before this one main guy character wasn't like morle gray he was just really sweet and kind I feel like you don't really get that too much in fantasy romances plot when somewhere I did not expect it to go and I really really enjoyed her writing in this one it was the first book I read by her and it was just so easy to understand and get into which I love just so much then we have from blood and Ash by Jennifer L armant trout I don't know if I would put this in simply not a fave or it would have been better without this book because I truly just did not enjoy it I think I gave him three stars but I never really think about this book I would never really recommend it it's not a fantasy that I enjoyed it was honestly really long and I feel like it was like maybe 300 Pages too long so I would say it would have been better without this book this year I was expecting to like love this book I don't know why I think it's CU I've seen lots of people enjoy it so I was excited to get into another fantasy series but yeah I did not really enjoy this one okay then we have then she was gone this one is a top read of the Year this was like a mystery thriller type of book that really made me feel like uneasy and whenever a book makes me feel a type of emotion like that or makes me feel something I just think that's such a incredible thing that words on paper can do that to someone so I did kind of guess what was going on but it just kept me on the edge of my seat I think I've read this book in like a day I loved it I thought it was so good then we have caral this one I would put and didn't love but recommend I didn't really connect to the characters but I did love the creativity of it and getting in the car Marvel world and seeing all the things that Stephanie Garber could create I do recommend it and I did enjoy reading it then we have this woven Kingdom this one I'm stuck between 2023 would have been better without or I actually forgot that I read this I may put it in I forgot that I read this wouldn't put it in 2023 would have been better without I think because while reading it what I could understand from it I did enjoy and like the romance that was happening and some of the quotes in here I did enjoy cuz I do love her writing but this book was just too confusing for me I could not grasp the world and the politics of it so I was just confused like 70% of the time but that 30% I did enjoy then we have all the dangerous things honestly forgot that I read this I think I read a couple of her books I think there's another one that's coming up but I went into this book thinking I was going to absolutely like be obsessed with it and be like one of my favorite mystery thrillers find a new favorite thriller author I hly don't remember what this book is about I've read two of her books like I said and I don't know which one was which I don't know what this one was which I think shows that I forgot that I even read this book cuz I have no idea what the plot of this was but I do remember it being a slow buildup and I just being underwhelming or I was underwhelmed by the ending then we have Renegade this one I think would be a top read of the year not my favorite book ever but it was one of my first kind of like dystopian superhero type of books and it was very interesting it was different than other dystopian sci-fi kind of reads that I've read was action-packed there was lots of characters it was very interesting it kind of felt like a movie in your head so I really did enjoy reading this then we have the love wager by Lin painter I loved this book one of my top reads of the Year this is a contemporary adult Romance by Lin painter I just needed a good fast-paced romance and I knew Lin painter would deliver and I did not expect to love this book as much as I did I just felt the chemist between the two characters I thought the storyline was really interesting she threw some tropes in there that I love so much and again I love LM painters writing so this one really did it for me then we have serit and wings of the night this one is another top read of the year like I said Chrissa broadband's writing is so easy to understand and get into this one was so good because you have like trials you have an enemies to lovers you have an interesting politics like the pacing was so good like this was like such a good book I absolutely loved reading this have six Scorch roses which is the Nolla between this book and the second book in this series and honestly not the best but not the worst it's a Nolla I can't really say too much about I will say for being a Nolla I think she did a great job creating these characters and giving like history in a story and then we have the second book honestly I put in top reads of the Year this one was more politics based but usually politics and fantasy books could bore me really easily and this one I was very interested in I kept up with I was intrigued to see where the story line was going to go with these politics we were learning about so definitely a top read that series The Super Wings of the night was just one of my favorites of the year then we have DC hates the great undoing going right back up there I haven't shut up about it for a reason I talk about some of the quotes in this book so much I've posted the quotes before I think about it all the time I listen to the audiobook of this one on Spotify like no one's business the storyline of this one the pain from this one is just unlike any other then we get into Flawless by Elsie silver my first Cowboy Romance of the Year this one threw me down a rabbit hole of one Elsie Silvers series of chestnut Springs just Cowboy romances Cowboy anything like country music cowgirl boots like all of that it really did it for me like it threw me head first into the world of cowboys so this one one of my top reads of of the Year her writing style I love so much dialogue Side characters the tropes like it's just it was so good then I read fool me twice this one honestly would have been better without the story line of this has like a sad undertone which I've talked about before but where it goes I just did not like it it's just not a favorite of mine I would have been fine not reading this book this year but I had it on my TBR for a while and it was pretty short so I did read it obviously then we have the next book by the same author as all the dangerous things this one forgot that I read this actually I'm going to put this in simply not a favorite actually I'm put I forgot I read this these two books again don't know which plot this one is then we have heartless of course is one of my top reads of the Year Cade is one of my top favorite eaten Brothers like it was just so good Elie silver knows how to write the single father show she knows how to write a grumpy cowboy and Willa one of my favorite like female main characters of the entire year like she is just she was amazing I loved her then we have one in Rome I would say didn't love but recommend it's definitely a good adult romance I think the tropes are fun all cute stuff going on but I don't think it was my favorite Romance of the year I do love Sarah Adams writing but yeah not my favorite of the year then we have float this one's not the best but not the worst it was good for what it was I think the Vibes of it were perfect I think it's exactly what you expect from a book like this so yeah not the best book but it's also not the worst I had a fun time reading that one be read 100% haven't shut up about it for a reason one of my top books ever I've made it a thing for myself that I have to reread it every single summer I've reread it this year next year I'm just like counting down the days until I open up this book again everything about it to me is just chef's kiss I don't know why I connect to it so much I just do and I just love it like an incredible amount then we have yours truly this one I wouldn't put in I haven't shut up about it for a reason cuz I feel like I don't really talk about this one but it's 100% one of my top reads of the year I love Abby jimenez's writing it was just yeah really really good then meet me at the lake I think I would put simply not a favorite I am happy that I read it because I did enjoy her writing in the first book that she wrote what was it called every sumwhere after this one I just didn't connect to the characters or their chemistry I didn't feel I don't like the way that they met I don't know something about it rubbed me the wrong way I just did not enjoy this one then we heartless bisa Meer I'm going to put this in I forgot that I read it I'm going to be honest I don't ever think about this book I think I read it higher than I would right now like I think I gave it four stars when I read it but I think right now I'd give it like a three I feel like it's kind of like a mid book to me but I do think it was creative I do like the aliceon Wonderland Vibes of it I enjoyed that yeah I didn't really completely enjoy the book and I honestly forget that I even read this until I see it somewhere or someone else brings it up okay and then we have happy place I'm going to put this in I haven't shut up about it for a reason again I may not talk about this too much but I definitely don't think it's just top reads of the year I think this is one of my favorite reads of the year I annotated that book like crazy I connected to the main character like crazy I love the story line I Love The Way It Was Written the dialogue the quotes the side characters I just like was obsessed with this it just felt really real and I was just obsessed I'm going to reread this one I think soon our final Love Song by NS Perkins this one I didn't love but I would recommend this one I didn't love just because the setting of it is like a camp setting which isn't my favorite but I think it was an interesting take on a romance or a second chance it's kind of like a time travel romance and I do love Andis Perkins writing so I did enjoy this book but it wasn't my favorite but I would recommend it then we have powerless by Elsie silver I think this is like one of my tops of the year I don't know if it was the tropes of this one that I really enjoyed I love the two of them I also just love that it's just Chestnut Springs like being back in that world was amazing seeing all the side characters and it's just it was just my favorite or one of my favorites from the series then Indigo Ridge this one was not the best but not the worst I didn't really connect to the characters in this one I do like the setting of it I liked that there was like a mystery element of it but I like the mystery element more than the romance of it so not my favorite in the romance category that I've read this year but it wasn't the worst one that I've read then we have one for my enemy this one I think would be one of my top reads of the year I feel like I don't talk about this one too often but I love the modern day fantasy of it and like the two families against each other the Romeo and Juliet retelling the quotes in here are like phenomenal there's some like really beautiful beautiful quotes I love olivie Blake's writing I think it's very interesting like this one a lot definitely one of my top fantasies of the year and I know I don't talk about it a lot it wasn't in my like top 23 reads of the year but it definitely was a book that I really enjoyed this year then we have the friend zone I don't think this was my favorite but I recommend it because this interconnected Stalone series I really enjoyed this one was just like a little bit install lovy but again I love her writing and I did enjoy it for what it was I would recommend it but it's not my favorite once more with feeling this one's simply just not a favorite I didn't really enjoy the storyline of this one I do like her writing I think it flows really nicely I just didn't love the characters or really like the storyline of it then we have Reckless one of my top reads of the Year this is my second favorite in the chestnut Springs the storyline of this is a surprise pregnancy Trope and again Elsie silver just knows how do these tropes like she is so good at it but again the side characters being in chess spring setting and all of that together so good then words in the deep blue honestly probably would have been better without I did not enjoy this book I had so many different expectations going into it and it just did not deliver what I thought it was going to I did not like the storyline of this one red white and royal blue I think this is one of my top reads of the year I like the dialogue and the characters I really enjoyed this one and I don't know why it took me so long to read it then one of us is lying honestly I would say this is not the best but not the worst it was a fast-paced book it's a Y mystery I def enjoy this one too much but it was a fast read so it's like not the best one I've read this year but also it wasn't like the worst book I've read then Juniper Hill honestly I would put this in simply just not a favorite I could not connect to this one at all like the main characters the the storyline anything about this one I just did not really enjoy this one then practice makes perfect I would put it in the same one as one in Rome I didn't love it but I recommend it I think I liked a little bit more than one in Rome which I think a lot of people usually like one in Rome first I don't really know but I like the male main character in here I think his name is Will I really enjoyed him it was cheesy at some point points but I think it was really good again I love SAR Adams writing it was cute then D and dusted probably a top read of the Year guys it was so good then we have Charlie love and cliches I my year would have been so much better without this book this is another one that gave me the ick while reading it but there was nothing to kind of redeem that part of it like I got the I and I also just did not like the story or the character so this one felt so flat for me and I love marriage for one by the same author but this one I just couldn't do it then we have rrit our story it's hard because I enjoyed like the first half of this book but then I think it kind of went downhill the more you got to know the characters and their history and towards the end of it and I feel like it was a little bit dragged out I don't really know but I don't know I would say it's not a favorite of the year we have Happy Ever After playlist I think this is a top reads of the year I love this book this is my favorite Abby him in his book or one of them I just liked their dynamic in this book like so much then we have what happens after midnight this one not the best but not the worst I think I ended up giving this one like four stars but it's cute it's ya it's fastpaced it takes place at I think like a prep school I enjoyed the story line I thought it was very fun but yeah not my favorite read of the year but not the worst have Only Love Can Hurt Like This this honestly I don't think my year would have been better without it but I don't think it was a favorite I don't really know what it was about this that I couldn't connect to but I just did not enjoy this book like I thought I was going to we have the last word I loved this book it's definitely one of my top reads of the year one of those Thrillers that really has you on the edge of your seat like your adrenaline is pumping with the main character trying to figure out what the heck is going on and I really love that one and then we have Divine Rivals I think I haven't sh up about this for a reason this is one of my top top top reads of the year a romance in it is very sweet and just romantic and just so good and I love the storyline of this yeah definitely top top of the year then we have I found you honestly I'm going to put this in simply not a favorite this is just like a mystery that I don't enjoy it's one of those where not a lot of like mini plot twists are happening you're not like on the edge of your seat you're just kind of following along the story until the end where everything kind of just like wraps up and you kind of understand what happened you can kind of figure it out as it's going on so it's not my favorite type of mystery but it was still good just not a favorite Mar scorching summer this one I don't think it was a top romance of the year maybe I didn't love it I did like it I do recommend it it's a really fun summer romance I did enjoy the writing of it the characters the chemistry and everything everything was so good love theoretically another top read of the Year this is one of I think my favorite Ali Hazelwood books this is one of those books that I read and kind of forgot the plot line of it like I literally don't remember but I do remember enjoying reading it while I was reading it we have good bad girl this is Alice's new release this year I think it's not the best but not the worse only because I think some of her other books I liked more than this one but it was still good the plot twist got me definely is a top Contender but not my favorite then we have Book Lovers I gave this one a second chance this year I don't know if it was my top read I didn't absolutely love it as much as I love some of her other books but I did like it I did like the banter between the two I think it was like top tier banter I would recommend it I feel like I do recommend it often but not my favorite I think it's just because it took me a while to get into it and connect to it then we have the atlas 6 this one I think is not the best but not the worst I enjoyed the characters and again ol Blake's writing is so just unique but she lost me a lot with the science talk and the theoretical talk like it got really deep into that and really intricate with that but the characters and the storyline aside from that was really interesting Belladonna I think simply not a favorite I went into this thinking I was going to absolutely love it but it just wasn't a favorite of the year that's all I have to say the naturals top reads of the year I love the series so much it's one of my favorite series of the year then we have the summer of broken rules this one probably not the best but not the worst it's cute you got all the summer Vibes that you could want like a Pinterest worthy summer family vacation Vibes but not my favorite read then we have the final offer I think reading this it's my favorite out of the whole Dreamland billionaire series but I don't think it's my favorite Romance of the year I didn't absolutely love this as much as like thinking back on it I did when I read it but I did like it I liked the writing I liked these characters I like this story line I would recommend it but I don't think it's my favorite Romance of the year then we have War d by Freeda mcfaden honestly I don't know if I forgot that I read this or it just wasn't a favorite or not the best not the worst it's definitely fast-paced you can get into it really quick but it's not my favorite read that I read this year by her then we have the grace year this one didn't love but I would recommend if anyone would want a story like this it didn't really connect too much to the characters in it but the story line I feel like I connected to then we have throttle I always say it's just not a favorite I think it's like a mid book which I feel like could go in not the best but not the worst but I just did not really enjoy this one I never really think about this book not a favorite I do want to continue the series and continue on I love Lauren Asher's writing but the actual story and characters I don't think is my favorite then we have Scarlet princess I think this is maybe top I don't know I've read this one really fast it's fast-paced short chapters an enemies to lovers type of fantasy I would say it's like not my favorite fantasy of the year but I would 100% recommend this book then we have Killer Instinct one of my top reads of the Year this whole series is going to be probably in this row this one is one of my favorites of the whole series cuz you follow a character that I really wanted to know more about in the first one which I love so much much then we have tarnish Crown not my favorite fantasy series of the year but so good Life's too short I think I didn't love but I would recommend this is in the interconnected s alone of Abby Jimenez series with the friend zone Happy Ever After playlist and then you have Life's too short I did enjoy her writing in this one again fast-paced you can read her book so quick the way she has these main characters meet I don't know I just like the way that she does it I like her writing but it's not my favorite book by her but I would always recommend her books then Crimson Kingdom honestly not the best but not the worst this one was my least favorite out of the books in the series that I've read it kind of just felt like a filler book like it could have been like a Nolla or could have just combined with the second book or the last book so then we have the five star weekend this one I think is just not a favorite of mine I've read a bunch of her other books that I really enjoyed but this one's just not my favorite of hers this one I feel like was definitely more towards her demographic of like Mom readers I feel like they would enjoy it more I couldn't really connect to the characters or like storyline of this book too much but yeah not my favorite of hers and not my favorite read of the year and then we have all in again top read of the Year this whole series is just so so so good the story line follows another one of my favorite characters from this whole entire Series so I loved that part of it and then Janette mccartie her Memoir I don't really know where I should put this because it's her story and I feel like I can't say I didn't like this book because I did enjoy the book I don't think it was my favorite book that I've listened to or read this year I didn't absolutely love this book I would 100% recommend it if you want to listen to a memoir you want to know more about her story tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow I think it was not the best but not the worst and I feel like that's surprising cuz I enjoyed it when I read it not as much as I feel like a lot of people enjoy this book but I think it just took a turn that I didn't expect and I wanted to go a different way so bad that it wasn't just just it just wasn't my favorite it wasn't my least favorite of the year it definitely was mid thinking back on it then we have power list by Lauren Roberts obviously we know where this is going I have not shut up about this book for since I read it literally since I read it I'm currently rereading a book right now and after I finish that I'm starting my reread on this and my audio book I'm going to listen to some of I think the chemistry of my brain changed dramatically when I read this book and if you have read this book this year too and loved it as much as I did you understand why I haven't shut up about it and why I love it so much like all of the trps you want in enemies lovers fantasy like you're going to get in this book book and it is so good then we have bad blood which is also going to go into top reads of the Year this one is my second favorite I think or maybe tied with my favorite of the series the way that the whole series comes full circle in this is just so good and then the 12 is a Nolla right after that I hope this is not the best but not the worst it's a Nolla it's quick and short it's not what I expected the Nolla the kind of wrap up of the series to be I kind of wanted a little bit more from the characters in this it's not what I expected but it was still good I love the characters and I'm happy that they had a novella to kind of wrap up the series then we have a river Enchanted I'm going to be so honest I would have been okay okay not reading this this year I will say I only read it because I love divine rival so much so I wanted to read another book by Rebecca Ross but this one is kind of like a folk fantasy and it was just so slow that I had to download an Audi book of this book because I needed to listen to it cuz I couldn't sit and read it without stopping and just like I did not want to finish it but I felt like I had to I will say the ending was more interesting and like the leadup into the second book I feel like it's more interesting and the second book may be a little bit better but I don't think I'm going to read it I honestly did just not enjoy this book then we have the prison healer this book I think being the first book in the series it was really really slow I think the ending was amazing and I recommend this book like all the time I think it is such a good fantasy series but it's not my favorite out of the whole series and out of all of the fantasies I've read this year and that's going into the second one I think is one of my top reads of the year I loved the second book not as much as the third which we'll talk about when that book comes up but I think getting more into the politics of the world and kind of more into the fantasy elements and all of that was really fun in this one so then we have one dark window another top reads of the Year this one was so good it was definitely different fantasy than the other ones I've read this year it was Gothic fantasy the storyline was interesting the magical system was interesting it had a romance in it it was really really good read and then we have the problem with forever this one I think is not the best but not the worst it's a ya romance but it has kind of like a deeper theme and deeper things going on with the characters in it so it was interesting on that aspect of getting to know the characters what they've been through but not my favorite Romance of the year then we have the only one left I really enjoyed this one I think this is one of my top mystery thrillers of the year I feel like slowly getting into the second half of the year I stopped reading a lot of mysteries like I read a lot in the earlier of 2023 but then I kind of picked up more fantasies and stopped reading mystery through look like I don't think I've read one in a really long time but this one was really good it kept me to the edge of my seat there were little plot twist I was trying to figure out the whole time of what was going to happen one of the plot twists took me so off guard then we have the brothers Hawthorne I would say not a favorite of the year I'm happy that I read it because I do like the characters from The Inheritance games but it's not what I expected it's not my favorite kind of disappointing and that's the same as things we left behind I think it was I don't know if it was not a favorite or not the best but not the worst I think I'm going to put that there I just was disappointed in this one it's not what I expected Lucian and slone story to be because from the first knock them out book they were my favorite out of anyone and we didn't even have their book we just had Snippets of them so getting their book I was just a little bit disappointed on how the story of them went and like I was just anticipating it so much and I had my own almost like storyline of how I thought their romance was going to happen that it just wasn't my favorite then we have fourth Wing I don't know if I'm going to put this in didn't I think yeah I think I'm going to put this in didn't love but would recommend I think I rated this like four something but thinking back on it I would probably give us like three and a half four stars I don't think it was a favorite fantasy of mine it was just so incredibly hyped up that I had to read it I had to see for myself like what it was about this book that everyone loves so much not my favorite fantasy I've read this year but I do recommend it especially again if you're getting into fantasy I feel like a lot of people did that reading it as their first fantasy book then we have the seven-year slip I don't know if I should put this in top reads of the year or I haven't shut up about it because it truly is one of my absolute favorite books of the year I think I'm going to put it in the top top one I know I don't talk about it a lot but I will recommend this book any chance I get it is just so so good and took me so by surprise I did not think I was going to love this as much as I did the quotes in here are so so good the way that the main characters connect are so good I love that book The Blood Trader going to put this in the top top this was one of my favorite fantasies I've read this year and I think it's because the buildup of the first two books was so good going into this one you have so many tropes that I love like found family and the force proximity and like a love declaration all of it was just so good like I ate this book up I loved this book I love the characters I love the way it ended and the way the series wrapped up so good then we have Throne of the Fallen which I feel like I don't talk about too much but I really really really enjoyed this book I don't think it was a top read of year but I think it was a really good fantasy I loved the storyline of this one I would recommend it I just don't think it's might one of my favorite reads of the year then we have Arch enemies I think this wasn't the best but not the worst I feel like this one kind of dragged out the series a little too much like there were so many questions unanswered that still aren't answered in the second one like I'm currently listening to the third one right now I'm about to finish it and I don't know I just didn't love the second one as much as the first one or as much as I'm enjoying the third one right now then a study and drowning I really didn't enjoy this one I'm going to put this in my year would have been better without it it's another Folk fantasy and I didn't expect it to be and like right off the bat I think I was like 30 pages in and I was like this isn't for me but it was one of those books where I had to see it out like I had to finish it and see where it was going to go because the Storyland was really interesting the cover is really pretty and I really wanted to see what it was going to be about but I simply just did not enjoy this one then we have my roommate it's a vampire I think I'm going to put this in simply not a favorite when I was reading it it was fast-paced I read it really quickly it's one of those books that you can just kind of binge and kind of get into like the Halloween spirit almost because obviously one of the main characters is a vampire but the romance I just couldn't not see or connect to I got the a again in this one they felt more platonic friends to me than romantically connected or chemistry with each other so yeah not my favorite then we have red queen I think this is not the best but not the worst I enjoyed the story line of this but I thought the romance in here was going to be a little bit heavier and I didn't really connect to that I don't think I even connected to the characters but I did enjoy the storyline of this I feel it's like a blueprint fantasy storyline for so many fantasies that I've read this year then we have a quart of silver Flames I don't even know where to put this I still haven't even rated this book it took me so long to read this I think I just listen listen to it I barely read it I don't even know what I listen to I think I'm want to put in didn't love but recommend like I recommend the aatar series I recommend reading it I didn't love this one because I don't even remember what I read or listen to so that's on me that's a personal one then we have Wildfire I think this is I don't know if I didn't maybe didn't love but recommend it's not my favorite romance I did like it a lot I love this author's writing I think the camp setting isn't for me but I like the two main characters chemistry the way they connected and all of that so I would 100% recommend this one but I don't think it's my favorite romance that I've read this year and then we have hopeless which is honestly a little disappointing for me because it's my least favorite in the chestnut Springs and I thought it was going to be one of my favorites so I would say it's not the best but not the worst it's not the best out of the whole series it's not the worst romance I've read this year it's just not what I expected from Bose's story but again I love Elsie Silver's writing I love the characters in the setting and everything but just not my favorite then we have maybe meant to be I'm going to say I forgot that I read this book the plot of this book is not what I expected it to be like at all you kind of follow two different characters and their romantic interests and stuff but I thought that those two main characters were going to get together writing is fastpaced I just didn't connect to like I don't think anything about this I never really think about this book either then we have the Grump who Soul summary honestly not a favorite of mine it was definitely an interesting story it's kind of a second chance but the main characters are very toxic with each other and I didn't really love that aspect I do like Ella Field's writing and her writing style and the way she writes stories but I didn't really like the actual storyline of this one like the plot then we get into Throne of Glass series assassin's blade I would say it's like one of my top reads of the year it's one of my favorites out of the series just reading the whole series and then thinking about this prequel and everything that happened I'm so happy I read it first I connected so much with the main character the dead romantic I think is not the best but not the worst I didn't really enjoy this one as much as the seven-year slip I enjoyed the Magical elements but it's just I don't know I think I wanted a little bit more from this book maybe that's what it was I'm not too sure Throne of Glass one of the top reads of the year I loved this series it's one of my favorite series of the whole entire year maybe if not no probably my second favorite series of the whole entire year the XX not a favorite I think I rated this a little bit higher than I probably would thinking back on it it's definitely good for the Halloween season but yeah it's not a favorite read crown of midnight one of my favorites probably one of my top three of the entire Series so good criminally underrated I think it's one of the best in the series like you find out so much that is the blueprint for the rest of the series in this book then we have air fire I feel like this one's going to be a little surprising and unpopular but I didn't love this one obviously I'm recommending it cuz I'm recommending this whole series after reading the whole series I now appreciate aaire a lot more but while I was reading it this one was just a little boring to me because it gives you a lot of new information New World building so it was harder to read and get into but I definitely appreciate it more after reading the whole series now then we have spells for lost things this one is not the best but not the worst I enjoyed this one it's another kind of magical witch story but also has kind of like a small romance in it it was fun to go along fun to read but not the best read of the year but not the worst it was good for again Halloween season the kiss curse I'm going to put next to the xhex not a favorite it was entertaining for what it was I enjoyed like the witch magical system it was good it wasn't bad it's just I don't think it was like a favorite of the whole year like I never really think about this book Chris for true love was a little disappointing to me I think it's going to put it in didn't love but would recommend it's not my favorite out of the trilogy it's not how I expected the last book to go but I recommend the trilogy all the time queen of Shadows another top of the whole entire actually might even put this and I don't shut up about it for a reason because I love it so much so much happens in this book that literally have me on the edge of my seat so much comes full circle so much is going on if we're talking about thrown of glass I'm probably talking about this book or another one we're about to get to okay then we have love redesign I loved this book so much I think it was one of my top reads of the year but I feel like it's too low to even put it there like obsessed with this book I think I'm going to put it and I haven't shut up about it for a reason I know I don't talk about too much but since reading it it's like one of my favorite romances it had everything that I loved the tropes in it the side characters the setting the banter the the history everything was just exactly what I love in a contemporary romance book and Lauren Asher's writing in it was just so so good we have the right move I think I'm going to put didn't love but would recommend I think this book was just a little too long for me I would recommend it but I just don't think it's my favorite book that I've read this year I do think it was a good romance and like for what it was I enjoyed it but I just felt a little too dragged out then we have check and mate I'm going to say simply not a favorite yeah I didn't really enjoy this one it was not what I expected again I always say this when I talk about this book I know chess was going to be a big component but I feel like it was a lot of Chess and not a lot of the romance that I expected it to be it's also ya which I don't connect to a lot so not my favorite two Twisted crowns one of my top reads of the Year this one is so good I liked it a little bit better than one dark window because there's another character's point of view that you get in here and you get their romance story so you're throwing in a new romance that you get to connect to and follow along with with the way the first one ended and trying to wrap that up it was so good it was the perfect way to end this duology then we have Tower of dawn not my favorite out of the series I would say I didn't love it obviously would recommend it there was a character's point of view in here that I just really did not or was not interested in I understand why it was in there for the plot and the way the rest of the books were going to go but yeah this one kind of took me a bit to get through like the tandem ra this was part of it and it just took me a while it was good looking back on it but while reading it it was hard to get through an Empire of storms I honestly feel the same way I feel feel about Tower of Dawn I know that's surprising I feel like a lot of people love Empire storms but I honestly forget what even happened in that one we do follow along some of my favorite characters ever but I think compared to the rest of the series is not my favorite one I you think the ending obviously is crazy and one of like the craziest endings because of the boy s Dr mask ends her books but not my favorite out of the whole entire series then we have house in the Cerulean sea I didn't love it I would recommend it I think it's a sweet story it's definitely different from the other books that I read this year and I enjoyed it for what it was I just didn't love it Kingdom of Ash we're putting right next to or in the same row as Queen of Shadows if I'm talking about Throne of Glass I'm probably going to bring up Kingdom of Ash Masterpiece in my opinion it is phenomenal everything that comes full circle into this book the way that it ends the pain that you go through for almost 1,000 pages is incredible and I would do it all over again then we have never by Jessa Hastings which I haven't talked about I honestly think I'm going to put this in simply not a favorite I'm going to talk about this more in my wrap-up in January for November and December but I had high expectations for this one I was really excited about this one but it just did not do what I thought it was going to do it's just was not a favorite book that I read this year then we have bending on you I really really enjoyed this book I didn't absolutely love it but it's one of my favorite or my new found favorite Lin painter books it's ya it is so cute the way that the characters meet and everything but not absolute favorite of the year but I would recommend it I thought it was so cute then we have legendary I think not the best but not the worst I feel like the same way I felt about caral I like the Magical elements of it and what you're following along in the story line I do think the character that it follows in here and a little bit of the romance in this one I enjoyed you obviously meet Jax which is one of my favorite characters of the Once Upon A Broken Heart Trilogy so I enjoyed those elements but just not my favorite book that I've read this year then we have the Christmas fix this one's not the best but not the worst it's a short little Nolla for like Christmas season obviously the ending was definitely unexpected and different than what I thought it was going to be it was cute it was short it was sweet it was nothing crazy but it was a fast cute read then we have the Christmas fix I think this was not my favorite of the year it didn't really feel like a Lucy score book which I talked about in the reading Vlog where I read this it was good for what it was but I just didn't really enjoy it too much I didn't even feel like that holiday esque and I didn't really love the storyline really that much of the characters I don't know I didn't really connect to this one then we have the naughty the nice and the nanny I listened to this book it was really short it's another novela I think it's like 4 hours maybe even shorter I'm going to be honest I don't remember even what this book is about so I'm going to say it's not a favorite just because I have no idea what I even listen to I know that it was a nanny and a single father and that's all I can remember about this book then we have House of Earth and blood is that what it's called yeah I think that's what it is the first Crescent City book I think it's not the worst but not the best book I've read I'm excited to read the second one in January just to see how it goes and get to the ending of it cuz I heard the ending is crazy but it's not bad it's just not my favorite we have a winter in New York this one I feel like is the same probably not the best but not the worst it's a great setting the romance I didn't love too much and there was one part of this that really just bothered me a lot which again we'll talk about in my wrapup in January then we have Supernova which I'm listening to right now I have not finished it but I will finish it before December ends so I included it in here I feel like from where I am right now I have about maybe a little over 100 pages left I'm going to put this in didn't love but would recommend I think I love the first book out of this Trilogy the best this one has elements in here that I've been waiting to read about and find out about but it's kind of like backtracking almost I don't really know how to explain that but I definitely love the superhero elements and following along with superheroes and their powers and all the action that goes on but it's just not my favorite I would recommend the trilogy but then we have ghosted which I just reread the other night I finished it so good honestly I haven't showed up about it for a reason the rre was even better cuz I picked up on little things that I just didn't pick up on the first time around and I just know the character so well in the storyline that it was just so good I love that book so much and then I just read ruus V which again we will talk about next year next year that's crazy to say in January but I would say I didn't love but would recommend recommend this duology and these books it just wasn't my favorite didn't absolutely love it I did like it but yeah okay so that is tier ranking all of the books I read this year that took a really long time I just personally love seeing the visual of my absolute favorite books at the top and just following it along to the bottom and like books I didn't love throughout the year just seeing it visually I don't know something about it I love doing this seeing my favorite books at the top really makes me happy I truly truly truly am so happy that I found some incredible books this year some of my absolute favorite book some rots that I love so much like it was a really really great reading year for me not just in the reading sense but just in the reading Community like I feel like I've connected like no other this year with so many people especially just creating videos and connecting on all of these books and reading the same books and talking about the same books like it is just such a wonderful community and I could not be more grateful and thankful should be a part of it and that you guys watch my videos like I again cannot thank you guys enough for being here this whole year even if you've been here since years ago or beginning of this year or sometime later this year it does not matter when you have joined us on this channel I just want to thank you guys so much for just being here and watching my videos and all of us just loving books as much as we do it is such an amazing thing to be a part of and be able to connect with people on something that we all love there really is truly nothing like it and I want to shout out our book club that created this year if you guys want to join us in January we have picked our January book it's on patreon it's subscription based there's different tiers you can join free for a week see if you even like it the lowest tier you kind of get weekly updates on the books that we're reading my final review at the end of the month the middle tier you get the Discord you get videos for the books we're choosing you get to help choose the books for each month you get a video for the winner of the month and then the top tier you get extra videos for me each month this month I put in me creating my reading Journal an unhaul of books that I got rid of a little Vlog of some random things and you also are helping vote on books you get an extra channel in the Discord I do giveaways once a month we also have readathons once a month together for 24 hours in the Discord everyone is so lovely I seriously could not thank everyone that's in the book club connecting with everyone has been just so wonderful in just in general so the link to the book club is in the description if you want to join us next year at least try it out all the tiers are explained more in detail on patreon so you can check that out and again I just want to thank you guys for giving me such a wonderful place to talk about books and just letting me be part of such a wonderful Community I could not thank you guys enough so I hope you guys have a wonderful New Year I hope you guys have a wonderful 2024 we have lots of fun videos coming next year I am so excited I hope you guys enjoyed the tier ranking let me know some of your favorite books of the year your top reads ones you can't stop talking about and I will see you in January of 2024 for our next video thank you guys again for watching and for such a wonderful year and I will see you hopefully in the next one bye\n"