Hey guys, it's Kirsti. Welcome back to my channel and welcome to the Nope book tag.
You guys seem to love it when I drink haterade, so let's do another whole video
in which I do exactly that. This tag was created by Farah from A Booktube Book, and
I was tagged to do this by Chelsea from ChelseaDollingReads, because one of my
answers is the same as hers and, like, we bonded over the fact that we both hate
this one particular thing but we will get to that in due course. I'm going to
just get right into the questions, because there's a lot of them. I'm also
going to be reading them off my phone, because they're really fucking long.
Question number 1: a nope ending. A book ending that made you go nope, either in
denial, rage or simply because the ending was crappy. For this one I have to go
with Last Gleaming by Joss Whedon, which is Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8
volume 8, so the Buffy Season 8 comics. I hated this book so much that I threw it
across the room. Like, literally hurled it across the room in a fit of rage because
I hated one particular moment in that so much, and I hated it to the point where I
have not gone on and read any more of the Buffy comics as a result of, like,
this one particular experience that I hated this moment so much and every
fibre of my being has been like "No, I can't deal with the Buffy comics
anymore", even though I have heard they've gotten a lot better since season eight
finished? Still not gonna read them because rage. Question number 2: a nope
protagonist. A main character you dislike and who drives you crazy.
Jessica Sweet from Sweet by Erin McCarthy. I read this series - all four
books in this quartet - I read in 2014 I think it was? I think it was 2014?
I had heard really good things about this new adult series and I was like "Well,
they're like $7 for the bundle on Kindle, I may as well buy
all four of these books, I have a lot of plane flights ahead of me, it'll give me
something to read." Holy shit, these books were fucking terrible. But by far the
main character that I hated the most in these books was fucking Jessica Sweet,
who was a manipulative piece of trash who just... Everything was always somebody
else's fault and she annoyed the shit out of me. She was incredibly
manipulative for, like, the duration of the book,
she just... She drove me nuts time and time and time again, and I'm still not
sure why the male lead fell in love with her rather than being like "Bitch, get
the fuck out of my house" because that is the treatment that she deserved for her
actions. Question 3: a nope series. A series
that turned out to be one huge pile of nope after you invested all of that time
and energy in it or a series you gave up on because it wasn't worth it anymore.
For me, the answer is one in the same. And that answer is Throne of Glass by Sarah
J Maas. I love the series for the first... two books? Also maybe the third book. Like,
I enjoyed a lot of stuff that was going on in the third book. I liked the prequel
novellas. But then book 4 came long and then book *5* came along and now I will
not be reading any more of that trashy trashy series. Unless it's like $2
on Kindle in which case I might hate read it. But probably not. Question
number 4: a nope popular pairing. A ship that you don't support. There is
really only one answer to this question for me. I mean, I have a lot of ships that
I don't support but my NOTP to end all NOTPs is fucking Aelin and Rowan
from the Throne of Glass series, most particularly Empire of Storms. I mean, I
hated them in Queen of Shadows as well. I liked their dynamic in Heir of Fire when
it was strictly platonic, but the second that that relationship turned romantic?
Nope. No no no, get that shit the fuck away from me which is a big part of why
I hated the Empire of Storms as much as I hated Empire of Storms. I hated that
Aelin started spending the entire fucking time being like "Mmm, let's have sexy
conversations in my head while I'm holding a war council!" Like, bitch. Fucking
stop. Focus on one thing at a time. I would be perfectly happy if Rowan died
in a fire and was never seen again. Like, then I might contemplate going back
to reading the series. Probably not. But I might. Question number 5: a nope plot twist.
A plot twist you didn't see coming or didn't like. There are not very many
occasions where I do not see a plot twist coming. I don't know what it is -
maybe because I've read it so many books? - that I'm like "Yeah, I can kind of see
what's coming here". But I think the plot twist that stands out the most to me,
like, over the years is what happens at the end of The Third Day the Frost. I did
not see that coming at all. I'm still not okay with it. I
just... I...I have a lot of feelings about the plot twist that happens at the end
of this book. I just...why would you do that? Why? Why would you do that? Ever??
Why. Question number 6: a nope protagonist action or decision. A character decision
that made you shake your head, nope. For this one I'm going to go with the,
like, big decision that Braden from Conviction by Kelly Loy Gilbert makes.
It's...it's a pretty big decision that he makes and I'm not going to go into
detail about what it is because spoilers. But the decision that he makes is actually
kind of against the law, and so that decision... I understand why he made the
decision that he made, but oh my God, it annoyed the living shit out of me.
Question number 7: a nope genre. A genre that you will never read. I think
really the only genre that I would flat-out say no, that's not my thing, I'm
not going to read it is erotica. Like, it's...it's just not my thing. I will read
romance books occasionally but I don't want straight-up porn, it's not my jam.
I don't care about it, I'm not interested in it, not going to read it. So I think
erotica is probably the only category where I will draw an absolute line in
the sand and say "nup, not going to do it." Question number 8: a nope book format.
Book formatting that you hate and avoid buying until it comes out in a different
edition. This will surprise literally nobody. Fucking hardback books.
I hate hardback books with the fire of a thousand suns. They are stupid expensive,
the dust jackets get ruined really really easily, and in Australia at least
we tend not to get the thing where, like, you take the dust jacket off and it's
really pretty underneath. We just get like shitty brown or black boring books
with, like, the title on the spine. And even if you take the dust jacket off to
read them, like, the book itself underneath gets damaged if you're
transporting it. So, like, why the fuck would you buy a hardback book?? Question
number 9: a nope trope. A trope that makes you go nope. I would have said
something along lines of like the Manic Pixie Dream Girl or The Reluctant Chosen
One or the Lost Princess or something like that. I do hate all of those things.
I think they're all incredibly overdone and they just need to stop. But at the
moment, the one that is pissing me off the absolute
most is a parent who is dying of cancer or a parent who has died of cancer or
parents who died in a car accident or a sibling who has drowned. Like, some kind
of past trauma that involves the death of a family member who is very close to
the protagonist and which is used either as, like, a thing that that they need to
overcome in the course of the story and that meeting a significant other will
help them to overcome or it's basically used as an excuse to, like, not have
parents in the book. And that just annoys the living shit out of me. It is really
not that difficult to include decent fictional parents in your story. Like,
look at The Hate U Give! The family dynamic in that book is fucking amazing
and nobody is dying of cancer. Question number 10: a nope recommendation. A book
recommendation that is constantly hyped and pushed at you that you simply refuse to
read. The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare. I read the first book back in, like,
2012 or something? And I didn't, like, hate it hate it. But the whole time that I was
reading it, it felt incredibly familiar. It was like I had read that thing before
but in a slightly different form. And I finally realised that okay, yeah, there
are a lot of similarities in this not only to Harry Potter but to things like
Buffy and other 90s pop culture where if you've grown up on 90s pop culture,
you're like "Hmm, yeah I see what you did there". So for me it just felt
incredibly familiar. I was not a big fan of the characters, I was not a huge fan of
the writing because it felt like I've read it before. So I did read that first
book. Will not continue with the rest of series, no matter how many times the kids
at work are like "But you really need to read the rest of the series, it's soooo good."
Ain't gonna happen. Question 11: a nope cliche or pet peeve. A cliche or writing
pet peeve that always makes you roll your eyes.
Crooked smiles in love interests or, like, weird descriptions of facial expressions
or facial features .Like, I don't know what it is about the way that some
writers describe people but it just makes me kind of do a confused dog head
tilt because I don't quite get what they're getting at. You either get the
descriptions where their eyes are showing, like, ten thousand
emotions at once and you're like "Are they really? Are they?" Or you get the
weird things like "cheekbones so sharp you could cut yourself on them", which,
like, dude. Fucking stop. Question number 12: a nope love interest.
A love interest that's not worthy of being one or a character you don't think
should have been a viable love interest. I mean, I have to start by saying
literally everybody in the Twilight series. Like all those characters suck.
Nobody deserves to be happy. That's all I have to say. I mean, really especially
Renesmee is not a viable love interest and should never be a viable love
interest and yet she's a viable love interest. That shit needed to not happen.
But I think the one that I'm going to go with here is Peter K from the To
All the Boys I've Loved Before trilogy by Jenny Han. I don't what it is about that
dude, I just cannot fucking stand him. I actually really enjoyed the second book
where there was, like, another guy coming into the picture and I was like "Yes, yes!
She needs to be with him!" So, um, yeah. I think I have to go with Peter. I don't
like him at all. Sorry not sorry. Question number 13: a nope book. A book that
should not have existed that made you say nope. I'm sure literally every single
one of you can guess what the answer to this question is going to be. Yeah.
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. I hate everything about this book. Every. Single.
Thing. Including the length, why the fuck is this book so long?? Question
number 14: a nope villain. A scary villain or antagonist you would hate to cross
and would make you run in the opposite direction. I struggled with this one for
a while because I tend not to find villains all that scary when I'm reading
books. But then I remembered St George from the Enemy series by Charlie
Higson. That dude is fucking terrifying, starting with the fact that, like, he
basically eats his own son. He's a zombie so, like, it kinda makes sense. But yeah.
Fucking creepy as hell, would not want to go anywhere near him. Question number 15: a
nope death. A character death that still haunts you.
I could go with pretty much any death in the Harry Potter series because, like,
reasons. But the one that I am going to go with happens towards the end of The
Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. If you have read this book,
you will know what the death is. I am not over it. I will never be over it. I don't
think I will ever forgive Patrick Ness for that particular death. Just...no. I'm
not okay. And question number 16: a nope author. An
author you had a bad experience reading and have decided to quit. I could
list a lot of authors, I feel like, for this one. Like, Stephenie Meyer is
obviously off the list forever. Cassandra Clare?
Not a big fan of, not going to read anything else she writes. Brandon
Sanderson, same deal. But I think the actual final definitive answer
that I'm going to go with here is Jennifer Niven. I hated All the Bright
Places with the fire of a thousand suns. It causes me physical pain when I see
kids borrowing that book at work. I'm like "Oh, honey, no. Please don't read that
book, it's so awful." Like, I just I hated that book so much. I did not like the
writing, I have no interest in reading Holding Up the Universe. Just...no. Not
going to read it, not not going to read anything else that she writes because I
just... you know, that's how much I hated All the Bright Places. So there you have it,
friends. That is my answers to the nope book tag. If you want to do this tag,
go right ahead and consider yourself to be tagged because I don't know who's
done this shit and who hasn't. So if you want to do it, go do it. I tag you.
Thank you guys so much for watching, I love all your faces and I will see you
on Friday. Bye guys.
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