“Nothing but Blackened Teeth” should be called “No Plot for Blackened Teeth”. However, the cover art is amazing!!

@thesonorista7853

4 ай бұрын

I had never dnfed a novella until this one.

@MattMilu

4 ай бұрын

@@thesonorista7853 I don’t blame you!

@kaylacook1522

4 ай бұрын

I was so disappointed by this novella! None of the characters are distinct enough to care about and the relationships aren't explained. Not scary at all.

@joebloe4734

4 ай бұрын

YES

R. L. Stine I always took home with me when I went to the library. When I was younger, I devoured all the Goosebumps books several times, and later Fear Street. Before I fell for Stephen King, my King of Horror was definitely Stine.

If you like Bake Off - we also have the Great Pottery Throw Down and Great British Sewing Bee which follow the same kinda set up 🥰

@millieb3823

4 ай бұрын

Ahh love all of them! My mom and I have recently started watching the pottery throw down and love it so far!

i have been loving how often you've been uploading! you've been my comfort booktuber for yearssss

@jessethereader

4 ай бұрын

ty lovely! trying my best to be more consistent this year 🖤

I read Gilded and Cursed which is the 2nd book this year and I absolutely loved them both, I agree some parts were questionable but I am a sucker for fairy tale retellings. I also had them on my shelf for quite a long time and one of my reading resolutions was to read some of my older books or get rid of them. Glad you had fun with reading it. 🙂

My heart was a little hurt that the person and you didn't like Dig but I liked the montages! I feel like every time someone says a book is confusing, it's a story told non-linearly and those make so much sense to me as a neurodivergent person

@jessethereader

4 ай бұрын

aw! I'm sad that it wasn't for me, but I'm so happy that so many others seem to love it. I definitely get the appeal!

The Great British Baking Show is my absolute comfort show. Anytime I feel super anxious I always turn it on and it helps calms me down. I totally get you saying it feels like home it’s just so pure it’s perfect 😂

Loving the chill vibes

@jessethereader

4 ай бұрын

in my chill era 🖤

@chelsey8737

4 ай бұрын

​@@jessethereaderi really appreciate your child era! I like putting on this videos while doing housechores or organizing my study materials so your bright personality but chill demeanor is perfect

Jesse, I'm loving these reading vlogs! Please continue with them.

It is 70 in Oklahoma today, and they're predicting snow Sunday night...

I’m currently in the middle of ArchEnemies by Marissa Meyer and it’s so good! I will definitely get to Gilded after

@maddox1776

4 ай бұрын

That series has been one of my favorites for AGES!! I always get so happy when people talk about it! If you finish the series, I hope you love it

Love the atmosphere of this Vlog!! And I like the idea of reading someone's Worst Books because it is experimental and very interesting!👀✨ (The Great British Bake Off is also very popular in Japan! I love it too!💕)

I love your vlogs! They are so cozy!

I've been really loving your reading vlogs lately Jesse! They're the perfect balance between talking/discussion parts and more relaxing, cosy clips from your life. Thank you for sharing!

Love the B-roll you took in the library!

You know, Jesse has the most beautiful videos on the Internet! Look at all these masterfully captured stunning moments in the video! How wonderful!❤

I’m honesty really excited and curious to learn how you’re going to feel about R.L. Stine’s works Jesse. His books were a Major influence on my reading and writing stories as a kid and revisiting those books as an adult is so much fun.

my goodreads review for Nothing But Blackened teeth is as follows: This book should have been named Nothing But Blackened Paper... because that's all it was, black ink on paper.

Jesse, where did you buy the "late night readers club" shirt? I really like ittttt 😍 thank you for the new video, I love the vlog format ☺

I adore Bake Off! I was going through it a few months ago and my mom coaxed me into watching it and now we watch most evenings today, the most recent season was also my first

omggg the great british bake off is my childhood, the og quite literally feels like home oooomg i finally see someone talk about this!!

I'm watching your video for some comfort…. I just finish "if we were villains “ by M.L. Rio. I'm in tears and my emotion is wrecked…..😢😢

What a fun idea to read other people's worst books! Definitely a way to read books you wouldn't normally pick up.

I like gilded by Marissa Meyers it was an interesting retelling but I prefer The lunar Chronicles more but I'm very excited for with a little luck that's coming out soon it's set in the same town as instant karma and if I had to pick my wost book of 2023 is good as dead by Holly Jackson it was not as good as the other plus what pip did was way out of Left field there was something to be desired at the end

The cinematography is chefs kiss

I always say The Great British Bake Off is like a warm hug

OMG I Loved Dig !! I hope you enjoy if you end up reading it

If you're ever interested in reading something way out of your norm, I'd be interested in you reading The Fisherman by John Langan! However I don't know if you'll have luck finding it at the library. I love that book, I think about it so often.

I just bought "Dig"! I wonder what I'll think. Thanks for your review.

I feel you. Im getting ready to start The Atlus Complex (3) by Olivie Blake which already has very conflicting opinions and reviews. Pretty sure this train is coming right off the tracks... Also, i have to point out the Totoro at 1:56. Its like a litte easter egg at this point and someone must do it. 👈

I have Gild on my shelves so I'm glad to hear it was the best of the bunch :3

I'm feeling the "expected a standalone" vibe, too, 'cause I just finished What the River Knows, enjoyed it tremendously, but then felt a bit betrayed when I realized the ending demands a sequel. And yes, it clearly says on GR that it's book 1 in a series, so my fault, but still. *sigh*

DIG IS ONE OF MY FAV BOOKS OF ALL TIME. Highly recommend the audiobook!

@jessethereader

4 ай бұрын

I wish it would have worked for me 😭😭

@pamelakibildis1177

4 ай бұрын

@@jessethereaderThey way you’re describing Gilded it sounds exactly like Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik Jesse which I’m currently reading 📖 Lol 😂 Great Video & After I finish Spinning Silver I’m going to be reading A History of Wild Places and I can’t wait to tell you what I thought about it 📖😊 Have a Great Weekend & Happy Reading 📖🙂

I was mad about Gilded having a sequel too, but I enjoyed it. You'll have to tell me of the second one is worth the time cause I already thought this one was too long and the second one is longer.

7:27 I was literally making a smoothie at that moment of watching this haha

I read Nothing But Blackened Teeth a couple of years ago. I agree, it was too short to work.

Lots of people believe there are two different kinds of YA-'Upper YA' & 'Lower YA'. I'm not super familiar with where / how exactly most people do or don't divide the two, but perhaps it is possible that Gilded might be closer to the latter while the Lunar Chronicles might be closer to the former? 🤔 I'm kinda curious if anyone else has any thoughts on whether this might or might not, in fact, be actually the case?.😊🤔😁😁

Most of the Books i know in German but i never read them q.q I have to Change that anytime soon! .. If you search for Standalone Fantasy you can try The Stone and the Flute from Hans Bemmann , Anthea Bell (Translator), Angel Mage from Garth Nix or The Library of Shadows from Mikkel Birkegaard 😊😊 If you like also the Sci-Fi Section i through in The Medusa Chronicles from Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds

starting this video hurt my soulllll. A.S King is my favourite author omg. yes I admit DIG isn't her best but her writing is absolutely stunning. am just glad that that person didn't pick up I crawl through it,,,bc if you think DIG was weird well... and for Jesse if you do want to try a book from her which you might like more I'd recommend Ask The Passangers. magical realism, magnificent writing and it's about coming out and all the questions that come with it about yourself

Bake off is top tier TV! What do you think of Alison Hammond presenting?

Seeing it right 13 minutes after your upload hehe. ❤

Thank you for the joy of watching your video! I read _Gilded_ 2 years ago and really enjoyed it, even if the complete story (with _Cursed_) wasn't my favorite. That's on me, though. I really don't care for dark fantasy, and for some reason I didn't realize this story was in that genre until halfway through, so it just didn't quite click with me. What you said about how Meyer's style doesn't blend well with that sub-genre made total sense, though. Great insight. I'm curious: What was the one "absurd and weird" thing in _Gilded_?

hey Jesse, have you read RENEGADES by MARISSA MEYER ? it's one of my favorites books ever . Great content btw . will always support . love you

My two worst books of last year were "El boxeador polaco" by Eduardo Halfon, a collection of interconnected short stories that seemed super pointless to me, and the self published vampire romance of a friend of mine.

I did a double take seeing the cover of Gilded because I thought it was Gild by Raven Kennedy. A book a hundred times worse than Gilded, which I haven't even read. Gild I did read. Please erase it from my brain.

I'm a first fan of Marissa meyer. I've read the lunar Chronicles loved them. Read the renegades trilogy loved it. Read heartless, heartbreaking but great. For me she's the queen of retellings. BUT gilded fell flat for me. As you said it read very young but that's ok, the lunar Chronicles at times read young too, bit that's not what I was expecting from this book,, I didn't care for the characters or the plot. I was so disappointed. I still need to read her contemporary to see how she done that but I will still have an eye on what she writes next

Argyle made me think that a writer managed to get their self insert fan fiction produced into a movie. Half over the top cringe with a very tenuous plot, like it’s not necessarily well written but also like a comfort read. Like a fanfic you stay up late to finish despite not being technically well written. It was like fun guilty pleasure.

@remi82

4 ай бұрын

Apparently the movie(script) came before the book, and the producers hired a ghostwriter to basically make the book in the movies real. Which is why the book does not cover what happens in the movie but is literally the book the author in the movie wrote. I explained it so poorly but hopefully you understood

there's a fear street book called Twisted that gives me chills to this day, gruesome!

I also loved Argylle! I don’t understand all the hate it’s getting. Things are allowed to just be fun.

I would highly recommend Heartless by Marissa Meyer. One of my favorite books

Have you seen Hazbin Hotel yet? I know you mainly discuss reading, but the story I feel like just fits your personality. I think you’d love it

Um, why is your library a vibe

Your videos fuel me for when I can't read because of homework and exams

Haven't read ay of those but Gilded is on my TBR

Oh wow! I was listening to this while working and you mentioned that someone named Tori didn't like this book either and I was like "wow what a coincidence" and then I checked the screen and THAT'S MY COMMENT 😆

does anyone know the title and artist of the song that starts playing at 12:03. I love it but can't find it by searching lyrics.

@francese7315

4 ай бұрын

Running Free by Go For Howell

@katiekaboom7747

4 ай бұрын

@@francese7315 Thanks so much! :)

Nothing but Blackened Teeth was on my worst list as well. The characters were insufferable. I disagree with you on the writing style though. I hated it. The author was clearly trying to sound clever by using advanced vocabulary but it read like someone with a thesaurus without actually understanding the connotation or true meaning of the words she was using. Then there were metaphors that made no fucking sense. I HATED the writing style so much that the author went to my never read again list.

I didn't realise you were a Great British Bake Off fan!

I am surprised people didn't like Nothing but Blackened Teeth. I mean I was listening to the audiobook but I still had an okay time. It was only 3 stars for me but still.

I have never heard of anyone liking Nothing But Blackened Teeth. The characters were awful to read about and the whole thing was annoying from beginning to end.

Got scared for a moment when you said Gilded because I thought you were talking about the dark romance Gild and it took me a minute to realize they were two separate books

I had started Gilded but hadn't gotten back to it and now I'm worried. The worst "book" I "read" last year was "33 Unplayed Voicemails". I think it was an Audible Original. The format was unique but I really didn't care about the characters and the MC was so unlikeable

did you read argyle?

After being disappointed in Blackened Teeth, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Khaw's upcoming book in collaboration with the folks of Critical Role will be a hit

I've been on the fence about Gilded, but you've pushed me off onto the 'willing to give it a read' side! The worst book of 2023 for me was 'The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires' by Grady Hendrix. I pushed myself to 50% before it became my first ever DNF. It is a shining example of why *some* men should never be allowed to write characters who are women. It also has a lot of racist undertones which, yes it's the deep south in the 80's, but I feel like the author really used that as an excuse to just not even try for any sort of unproblematic representation, and instead even leaned into it. ANYWHO, needless to say, not a book I recommend to anyone despite the awesome title and fun premise.

I felt the same way about gilded…. Like WHY DOES IT HAVE A SEQUEL

I loved Dig! 😭😭

@jessethereader

4 ай бұрын

I'm genuinely sad that it didn't work for me!

@amber0808

4 ай бұрын

@@jessethereader I'm sad for you too! But at least we agree about nothing but blackened teeth 😅

A book I keep dnfing would be The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs by Nick Trout. I thought I was going to like this book cause is about dogs and it seemed like a good human-dogs friendship, but somehow I found the main character a little frustrating 😂. If someone reads it, let me know if I should give it another try.

Mine was The Elite by Kiera Cass

I read Dig few years ago and also hated it.

Nothing but Blackened Teeth could have been so good, but it felt like the author was just trying to show off their writing style and research rather than tell a story

Fun fact: My aunt's boyfriend's mom was on The Great British Bake Off

My worst book of 2023 was She Is A Haunting BUT it’s worth noting that I had no 1-star reads the whole year so that was great. Unfortunately we are hardly a month into this year and I already know I’ve broken that streak 😂

My worst book of 2023 was Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle. That book made me realize the romance genre was not for me.

True crime is my fave.

WHERE DID YOU GET THAT MUSHROOM MUG

The worst book I read last year was Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard. The writing style annoyed me so much.

" The first ten years" was the worst book I have ever read.. I hated every second of it, but had to read it for my book club... :/ do what you will with that..

My worst book of 2023 was Heatwave by TJ Klune absolutely would not recommend it was so disgusting in terms of language the “ main “ character” described certain things. I found this book so gross and definitely recommend this as a DO NOT READ

The worst book i read in 2023 is Asimmetry by Lisa Halliday. Didn't even finished it.

Listen, Gilded is ok, but Cursed is so bad 😅

i loooooved the salt grows heavy- you're the second person i know to not enjoy nothing but blackened teeth by them, maybe i should stay away after all lol xD (oh and just a heads up, cassandra khaw uses they/them pronouns!)

Not a specific title (well, lots but too many to name her) but I am OVER thrillers with unlikable characters. You lose all sense of what is intriguing or suspenseful about a thriller when you hate the characters you're suppose to root for!! It's just lazy in my opinion and I ran into way too many last year. I'm being so much stricter when I look for thrillers this year.