Caleb Joseph 193K subscribers · Aug 18, 2025

I've read 42 books this year (and I'm still alive)

Reviews23

I probably read this book like five or six times. No joke. But I never read the rest of the series. And so when I was reading lots of books, I was like maybe it could be fun to like buy the entire box set of all like nine or 10 of the books. So I did and I read them.

BoneUnknown
Loved it

Bought this big old hefty version and they have all the different books in one and all the art is so pretty and it's so cool. I read all nine of these.

Glass SwordVictoria Aveyard
Mixed

So then I read the second one and it was good. I didn't like this one as much to be honest. It kind of like took a turn I wasn't really vibing with.

In TonguesThomas Grattan
Neutral

It's one of those books where it's more of just like a vibe and it's more just like here is the vibe and then you read it and you're like that was the vibe and now it's over.

I liked it. It was perfect. It was exactly what I needed cuz unfortunately some of the other books I read weren't really scratching the itch, but this was like perfect. This is exactly the vibe I wanted.

Prince's GambitC. S. Pacat
Not a fan

This isn't like a guilty pleasure. I don't feel any pleasure. I just feel guilty. Some of it was still weird. This one is a little bit less yikes than the first one.

Red QueenVictoria Aveyard
Loved it

I freaking ate this up. I read this in like days and I literally gave this a five stars which is so embarrassing and then I was like I guess I'm going to just read the whole series.

The Cruel PrinceHolly Black
Mixed

It was really interesting at the start. I liked the direction of it and then it just kind of kept on going and I swear I was like 300 pages in and I was like wait what's the plot of this?

I definitely didn't like this one as much as the second one, but the last however many pages kind of blew my mind and it was lit. So, yeah, read this book. Read the series. It's great.

It was really good. I read a bunch of V E Schwab books back in the day. like the darker shade of whatever. I really liked all of them. I thought that like her writing is always really cool. I liked her vibes. The writing was beautiful.

The Poppy WarR. F. Kuang
Mixed

First like half I was just in it. I would get super invested in certain characters or certain ideas and then it would just kind of change like super fast... I might give this another try. I don't I'm not even going to say I don't like this. I just it didn't work out.

I've seen a lot of people say that this is the worst book in the Misborn series and they don't like it and they say it's like a filler book and that it's boring and bad. I think this is freaking incredible. This is true art.

War StormVictoria Aveyard
Not a fan

I read like a 100 pages of this one. Really didn't really like the direction we were going. I think by this point, I was kind of over it.

YellowfaceR. F. Kuang
Loved it

I freaking love this book. This was one of my favorite books that I've read. Kind of like thriller. It's kind of a comedy, but it was like right up my alley.