What’s a book that you think is overhyped?

[jayla (semi-inactive)]

I’ll start with the cruel prince. The first book was slow and mid. I think the second book makes up for it but the first book is not as great as everyone says it is. It’s very overhyped.

[♥️ alli ♥️]

archer ‘ s voice is way overhyped for what goes in the book . Yes , the start is promising but then it’s just a downhill slide . Whenever there was conflict it was forgiven within 5 pages . 🤷‍♀️

[Aadya]

I agree with the cruel prince one

[Aadya]

I absolutely hated the Spanish love deception

[Aadya]

I kept rolling my eyes and sighing all through the book it was so cringe

[Casey]

There's a few, but I'll say The Midnight Library and Ask for Andrea. I wished I had stopped reading The Midnight Library, but I kept on reading, and I struggled to finish it. Ask for Andrea is deemed a thriller on Goodreads, but it's really not. It has a supernatural theme. It's kinda the same genre as The Lovely Bones. It's very slow...I stopped reading about halfway through.

[Aleksandra]

shatter me

[Kristina]

The Invisible Life of Addie Larue. It was pretty good, but I’ve read 5 V.E. Schwab books and out of all of them, I’d rank it at the bottom. Not sure why this title gets so much love on booktok compared to her others.

[Malena]

For me it was Book lovers, i found it super boring. The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo also, it didnt live up to the expectations

[Kaya (non-hiatus)]

I most probably dnf-ed spanish love deception! Also Book lovers- I just couldn’t get into it after reading lets say 30%-+

[♥️ alli ♥️]

Forgot to mention but also LengendBorn , dnf ‘ f about 25% through . Fmc made me scream and punch the wall everytime she made a remark . 😭 , she was ignorantttt

[Annie]

if only he had been with me and chestnut springs series

[Laura]

Book Lovers definitely didn’t do it for me.. the characters annoyed me. I loved all the others by Emily Henry though, but this one was just lacking.

[Rob]

Brooklyn Crime Stories. I despise that book.

[ali]

Honestly I didn't even hate the Throne of Glass seires but from the way everyone talks about it I thought it was going to be some life changing experience

[Anthea]

fourth wing. just no

[Teresia]

Legendborn and Red queen

[Kie]

fourth wing. i don't get the hype at all I'M SORRY!
and most popular romance books such as the twisted series and others like it. i feel like i'm reading the same book with the same characters and 90% smut most of the time that i just quit reading them

[Ｇｈｉｔａ]

mindf*ck series
shatter me series
twisted series
icebreaker
the Spanish love deception
book lovers
practice makes perfect
butcher and blackbird
:/

[maja]

shadow and bone

[Sirena]

tender is the flesh. I made myself finish it. Everyone said it was disturbing but I thought it was meh.

[Leice ✨]

Book Lovers 👎🏾 Emily Henry.
I really wanted to enjoy their writing but it just didn’t grab me and felt a chore to finish it.

[vivxreads]

any coho book

[Dee]

Piranesi by Susanna Clark. I LOVED Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, but Piranesi was just awful. Here it is, in a nutshell: a well-educated but mind-broken guy wanders in complete isolation for years in an apparently inescapable, sea-soaked grotto--but he was just a victim of kidnap, and he's rescued. References to Narnia abound. WTF

[Tanja]

the twilight series. I dnfed the first book after 50%. Not my cup of tea

[Lynn]

The Silent Patient.

[bipolar_bookbish]

I hated both.

[Morgan]

A Court of Silver Flames

[Sam]

the atlas six by olivie blake

[Henna_UwU]

I really didn't like Gallant by VE Schwab. It felt like a gimmick book with all the illustrations, and all of the actual important aspects (characters and plot especially) felt unfinished and uninteresting. It never really felt magical or scary, either. Really disappointing.

[Aideen]

Fourth Wing
and the whole ACOTAR series, I liked it but it's definitely overhyped

[Celeste]

most of the booktok darlings don't deserve the hype tbh

[Emma]

Powerless 😅

[Leslie]

Aideen wrote: "Fourth Wing
and the whole ACOTAR series, I liked it but it's definitely overhyped"
I haven't read Fourth Wing, but I agree about ACOTAR

[Sarah]

Shatter Me

[Cassandra 🍁☕️📚]

Night Circus

[LilaBeth]

The Midnight Library

[Diane]

American Psycho

[T.A.]

The Secert History...goes on and on and on....

[Jayden]

Probably Fire & Blood in the Game of Thrones series.

[Janaki]

The girl who drank moonlight

[Sarah]

The Midnight Library and Where the Crawdads Sing

[Eilidh]

I hated ugly love by Colleen Hoover. I’ve never been so angry over a book in my entire life. Even if I hate a book, I can see why certain people might enjoy it but I couldn’t even see that with ugly love. I’ve never been so mad 😂😂

[Tanya]

I sometimes read a ‘very popular’ book, and then wonder afterwards what all the hype was about? American Dirt, Verity, The Midnight Library, and Lessons in Chemistry to name a few.

[Ivy]

If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin. I’ve seen it start to pop off on booktok and I have to just groan every time I see it in a book store. I get why people may enjoy the book but honestly I just can’t see why it’s as big as it is.

[Jo]

My book club read Drive your plow over the bones of the dead, which has loads of good reviews and a Nobel prize but I thought it was definitely overhyped and quite boring in places.
I did manage to finish it but a few of my book club buddies struggled to read it.

[✨sophie✨]

Like, I know it won awards and stuff, but the hate u give was boring to me

[Annie]

if he had been with me

[Yamini]

Happy Place

[Vera]

I liked the Harry Potter series, but EVERYONE over hypes it, even when they only watched the movies. Also the movie isn't even accurate so that doesn't even count.