Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Last year, I made 16 5 Star Predictions for some fantasy and sci-fi books that I thought I'd love and now it's time to see how badly I did 😅

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* Making these 5 Star Predictions: youtu.be/QfBWuBtww1c
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:52 The Longest Library Hold Queue
1:20 Pushed Back and Less Appealing?
1:53 Super hyped book but DNFd for bad writing
4:12 Supposedly magical but was it?
6:00 Favourite Author Fail 😭
8:28 History Lessons
11:08 At Least She's Pretty
13:08 I guess Gods have more Time for Slow Stories
15:21 Terrifyingly Close to Reality
17:38 Is the First Book always Best?
20:08 "Just" Fun
21:22 A Story within a Play within a Dream within a story...
23:14 Great Setup for a Disappointing Sequel
26:09 Can Our AI Gods be Trusted? (No)
28:15 Watch out for the Trees! (And also AI)
30:31 Too Easy to Get This 5 Star Prediction right
32:28 Conclusion
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