a giant BOOK UNHAUL before the end of the year 🫣 (50+ books)

This is a book that I think I only ended up giving around three stars to because I think the concept for this book is so freaking cool. But the execution of this one wasn't my favorite.

Like I really thought that I was going to love this, but this is another one where I got like 50 to 60 pages in and I was so immediately bored and I did not care.

I tried to get into this and I just can't seem to get into this. Like both of the characters are just so flat and so boring and so uninteresting.

This one actually hurts me because I really thought that I was going to love this one and I just really didn't like this. Like this is one of my least favorite books that I've read from Alice Fenie.

And then Dark Places is a book that I've had on my TBR for literally forever and we finally read it for the book trip together in January and I just really was not a fan of this one. I think I gave it two stars.

I've tried to read this book two different times and every time I try to get into it, I just feel the immediate urge like I want to DNF this and like I don't care.

And this entire story is revolving around her sobriety and like how difficult it is for her. And that just wasn't really what I was expecting from this book. So, I just realized that this one wasn't really for me.

Like this is the worst news ever for me because, you know, Don't Let the Forest In by CJ Drews is probably like my favorite book that I've read this year in the year of 2025.

And then same with The Manade of Smoke by Alex North and Don't Open Your Eyes by Liv Constantine. I actually really liked both of these.

It is beautiful. but also because I have read books that I've enjoyed from this author in the past, but this one I just did not feel the chemistry between these two at all and I was just so immediately bored.

This is one that I actually read earlier this year for the Literally Dead Book Club and I only gave it two stars. I really didn't like this one.

This book was just so hard for me to get into. Like we were following so many characters and I just didn't care about any of them.

And this one was pretty good for like a cozy mystery. I've just come to realize that I don't really love cozy mysteries.

The writing in this book just felt so pretentious and it just really bothered me.

I really thought in the first half of this book, like I thought this was going to be like a new favorite and I was so excited about it, but then by the ending it just really got really cheesy and cringy and I hated like I really didn't like the second half of this book.

I gave it two stars, and that is the most devastating and heartbreaking upset of the entire year for me. Like, I cannot even believe that I didn't like this book.

Oh, this one had so much potential to be great, but I just thought this one was okay. This honestly read a little bit more like a cozy mystery than a romance, and I think that's partially why it didn't really work for me.

Like this book just ended up being fine for me. You know, a lot of people said this one was a really emotional read and like I didn't really get that from this.

This one is really cool though because it has the really cool sprayed edges but unfortunately I just didn't care that much for this one. I think I gave it two or three stars and even though it's only been a few months, like I could barely remember some of the story.

This was a thriller that I actually really liked that I read last year. I think I gave this one four stars, but again, it's not an all-time favorite for me, so I don't have any reason to keep this one.

I was also debating unhauling Immaculate Conception because I ended up giving this one three stars. I thought it was just okay.

And I was actually kind of surprised by how much I ended up enjoying this one. I think I gave it like three and a half to four stars.

Listen to Your Sister was a horror book that we read together in March, and I gave it two stars. It just really wasn't for me.

I think out of all the poems in this collection, I only really enjoyed like two of them, maybe like two or three of them.

And then same with The Manade of Smoke by Alex North and Don't Open Your Eyes by Liv Constantine. I actually really liked both of these.

I also gave two stars to Matchmaking for Psychopaths and this one was such a bummer because I really thought I was going to love this one but sadly I did not.

No, I think I DNFed it. I just really was not a big fan of the way that this book was written.

Like both of these were enjoyable books for me. I have Nanny Needed by Georgina Cross as well as The Traitors. And both of these books I did like them quite a bit.

People Watching is one that I was actually really excited about because I recently just read Out on a Limb by this author and I loved that book. Oh my god, five stars. So good.

And I was reading this one during Summerween and I think I got like 60 pages into this before I was like, "Yeah, you know what? I just don't care."

But then I was trying to read this one and I want to say I got like 50 to 100 pages into this one before I was like, "Yeah, I'm not really feeling this one very much."

This was such a cool concept, but it honestly was such a let down with like the writing. I just didn't feel connected to this at all.

And oh my gosh, the writing in the slowest burn, like what the heck. I think I only got like 30 pages into this one. But some of the quotes that I was reading from this book in that video that I made, what the actual The writing in this was so weird.

I thought I would really love this one because I do typically love horror books that are kind of about horror movies or when we follow like an actress who's the protagonist, but this one just really did not grip me right off the bat and I was so bored with the story line.

Same with Soul Searching by Laya Sage. I feel like this author just might not be for me.

Same with The Coup's Trip and Such a Bad Influence. These are two thrillers that I've recently read that I thought they were pretty good.

I think this one was our April book club pick, and this one was a thriller that I thought it was just fine. I gave this one three stars.

Another horror book that just really wasn't for me was The Changeling by Victor Lavale. I feel like a lot of his horror books tend to lean very fantasy in a way that just kind of like loses my interest.

I'm glad that I finally got around to reading it. Even though I think most of this book was so slow

I'm also going to be unhauling The Honey Crisp Orchard in because this book was such a hot mess. I think I ended up giving this one two stars.

You know, I think I only ended up giving this one like three or three and a half stars, but I know that this is one of the most popular horror books of this year and that a lot of people are really, really, really loving this one.

Like I've had these books on my TBR for quite some time and both of them were just okay. Like I definitely liked The Vegetarian more than The Steepford Wives, but I didn't really care for either one of these as much as I thought I would.

Like I've had these books on my TBR for quite some time and both of them were just okay. Like I definitely liked The Vegetarian more than The Steepford Wives, but I didn't really care for either one of these as much as I thought I would.

You know, like I really don't like the writing style at all. I just don't feel connected to anything that's happening. And it just really wasn't for me.

I think I read it back in 2018 and I really loved it. And I've always considered this to be my favorite book by Simone St. James.

I thought that I could really love this though because I do love Julie Sodto's, you know, adult romance books and so I was really curious to read a young adult thriller from her, but unfortunately this one just wasn't for me. I think I gave it two stars.

And like maybe this is a romance book that I would have loved like maybe if I read it like 10 years ago, but honestly like this is so not my taste when it comes to romance books these days.

This one was the sequel/ prequel to Bunny, and sadly, this just really did not do it for me, and I was not a big fan of this one.

And then Well Actually is a book that I did enjoy for the most part. I actually really loved the love interest in this book. But then the main girl, Eva, she kind of like drove me a little bit crazy in this book and I didn't always love like her decisions and I think because I had so many problems with her, it definitely like took down my enjoyment overall of the story.

This one was interesting. It was a good read. I gave it three stars maybe or three and a half stars, but I don't think this is going to be a series that I'll be coming back to.

This one is such a bummer that I didn't really care about this one. And I think I got like 100 or maybe like 150 pages into this one.