The Most Disappointing Reads of 2025 || On the Struggle Bus with These Books!

24 Shadows by I can't remember the author's name now that I'm sitting here on the spot. ... there were some other books like that I gave one star that were just absolutely awful, awful books.

I hated that book so much that I literally forgot to include it in my monthly wrap-up because I had like already cleared it from my memory completely.

Dead House Gates, one, it is my favorite fantasy novel of all time. I five-starred the crap out of that one again.

I actually had kind of a I think community minority opinion of having a pretty decent time with book one.

I absolutely loved rereading Gardens of the Moon, book one, and I actually rated Gardens of the Moon higher on a reread than I did the first time around.

It's it's not super pleasant to read. However, it is phenomenally well written. After that the book sort of died a very slow painful death for me.

I was absolutely blown away by those. So, that's my preface to all of this. When it comes to the character development in this series, that's where I really fell off the wagon very, very hard, very, very fast.

Memories of Ice, you know, I still enjoyed it about the same as I did the first time.

I am into Midnight Tides about 100 pages now and I'm really enjoying it. It is phenomenal.

I just didn't care. I didn't feel like I was pulled into the story in any way by anything that was happening.

I just Paladin was such an underwhelming book for me. ... Bold is a beautiful pros writer.

Sunrise on the Reaping, which is the new book that just came out about Hamitch and his quarter quell, was phenomenal in my opinion, and it did, it's not a perfect book, but it did everything I was hoping that it would do...

I just think the execution of this book was absolutely deplorable.

Absolutely loved Curse of Shalon by Lois McMaster Bold. Brilliant book. Oh my goodness.

I really did not enjoy my experience with this book and I was so annoyed by it. I was so annoyed that I made an entire dedicated video to talk about how annoyed I was with The Princess Bride.