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books that weren't as good as people made them out to be
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Alisha (Taylor's version)
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Jan 26, 2024 01:36AM
don't hate me but the Spanish love deception and the love hypothesis they were so cringe and the mml weren't even as good as people made them out to be
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Sofia khan is not obliged was the worst book I've ever read was such a let down and i did not find those cheap jokes funny
Icebreaker.. sorry. I dropped it, then after a few months, I finished it. It was okay, I guess? not the type of book I'm going to reread though.
Colleen Hoover - It ends with us.I expected it to be more in depth and emotional (I like the impactful storylines).
I did finish it though but didn't purchase the second part It starts with us. The story was not interesting enough for a further read.
The Fault in Our StarsWe Were Liars
It Ends With Us
Twisted Love
The hunger games series.I know when it was published it was the biggest dystopian novel but I think there are better books out there.
Catch 22. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
I find myself struggling to get through Family Meal by Bryan Washington.. but people said oh this is so good you need to read it.... However, the author has the characters jumping all over the place.... and not in a flowing way!! uugghh.
Pretty Girls. It was soo slow with chapters that were way too long.
Like a lot of y'all I can't stand Colleen Hoover! I just picked up one of her books for the first time and read about 40% before dnf'ing it. I hated every second of it.Also, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, was honestly a mid-book, I found it to be really slow and just boring. The only reason I finished it was I had to know how Monique and Evelyn where connected after reading over 50% of it.
Tiago wrote: "lord of the rings trilogy"Yes!!!
Carøline wrote: "Also, The Seven Husbands of..."YES!
Under The Glacier, Halldor Laxness; Housekeeping, Marilyn Robinson; Tinkers, Paul Harding; The Rabbit Hutch, Tess Gunty; The Yellow House, Sarah Broom; practically anything by Hemingway
"twisted hate" (don't come after me )
I thought the shadows between us was soooo over hyped. Very disappointed tbh. It was the first time I didn't like the FMC.
The inheritance games, it was boring! I don't know why people love it that much
Anything by Jane Austen. Not my genre and boring to read
'The Husbands Secret' not sure what all the hype was
50 shades of grayAll the light you cannot see
Eat pray love big dnf
House maids secret-all the characters are evil
I didn't like Cruel Prince... the story wasn't per se bad, I just felt really uncomfortable reading the romance between Jude and Cardan. He was downgrading and bullying her, yikes. The second and third books are better though.
a good girls guide to murder. don't get me wrong it was good. but I expected more than a simple pretty little liars type of "shocking" reveal.
Twilight....I know that we as a society at this current point in time have come to an agreement that its not a great series but seeing all the praise it got back when it came out is JARRING
the seven husbands of evelyn hugo(kind of boring sorry sorry) , shatter me series(bad writing imo) , the ballad of singbirds and snakes(i just cant get into it)
The Shadow of the Wind. Wanted to read it literally for years and when I finally did I was like HUH?
I wasn’t able to get into The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue… and I’m disappointed! Should I give it another go?
Circe by Madeline Miller. Maybe my expectations were too high but I ended up really disliking this book. It left me with such a bad taste that now I no longer want to read the song of achilles because I'm scared it will disappoint me like circe did...
Anything by Dan Brown struggled through the De Vince Code and some others
Is it bad I just couldn't get into Where the Crawdads Sing? I didn't think it was the worst book ever but I just didn't like it.
okay… don’t murder me but the shatter me series. I honestly didn’t even like warner, so ignite me wasn’t really that good. I also didn’t enjoy once upon a broken heart. I felt like everything that was mentioned on the back of the book happened in the first 6 chapters and then it was like a whole new story. Another that i didn’t like was the cruel prince. I absolutely hated it, it was so confusing and i’m not sure why everyone hyped it up? ANOTHER book that I’m not exactly sure if i liked or hated was powerless. The enemies to lovers in that book didn’t really hook me in, it just didn’t interested me until the last 100 pages. The last one that I honestly didn’t enjoy was As Good As Dead. I had A LOT of trouble getting through that one, i didn’t fully understand the whole plot yk?
Mexican Gothic. I learned to stop trusting booktok/bookstagram after this god awful novel. It was so incredibly stupid and I'm convinced that everyone who recommended it has never read another horror book because this one was the worst of the worst (but i still gave it 2 stars because it had a pretty good run in the middle of the book)
Throne of Glass and ACOTAR. Mediocre at best
Gallant by VE Schwab won a Goodreads award in 2022, but I thought it was awful. It took way too long to get started, none of the characters were interesting, the climax was underwhelming, and it felt like it borrowed too many elements from The Secret Garden.
Two of the biggest, longest-standing online book community faves that ended up being big "meh"s for me were The Night Circus and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.I was so on board for the concepts of both, but there was little to no substance. The Night Circus is all vibes, no plot, no character development. Addie LaRue seemed to be trying really hard to be grand and poignant and wound up feeling pretentious and shallow. And dull 😅
Some of you may want to kill me for this - most of the Paulo Coelho books, including the highly overrated "The Alchemist"!
devils night series and dreamland billionaire series and anything by ana haung (i think that’s how you spell her name)
Haunting Adeline and Icebreaker.Icebreaker had like zero plot and felt so stretched. I just don't get the hype. I had to force myself to finish it. Plus I had to take a 2 week break because I couldn't continue to read it. My stubbornness made me bite through.
Haunting Adeline was okay at best. I *sometimes* liked the Plot, mainly the mystery part but the last 10% of the book was so bad. Especially considering Zade is so overhyped for what? He was disturbing and his POV was written like a badly written fanfic.
icebreaker... but i will say that wildfire was so much better and way cuter
