Overhyped Books!
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- Some books that I think are just "okay"
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Am i the only person who felt this way about The Fault in Our Stars?
bookisland i did too
I didn't care for the movie at all either
bookisland I thought I was the only one
bookisland no your not, it is the most overhyped book on the planet, it's insane there are tons of other books with exactly the same storyline which are written better!
bookisland that is my least favourite from John Green. He has much better books
Finally, looking for Alaska in my opinion has zero character development he just meet ppl. Lol I'm the only one.
YES YES YES. NO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. Zip! And that's what killed me! I mean sure I'm sure there was the slightest bit, but I find that almost non existent! To me a story has to have character development, in some way. Even if at the end of the story the character is just left of from the beginning and is like "well, I now know that nothing is going to change" (hint: Hemingway) at least there is some substance! In LFA I found it so hard to connect with the characters. Most of the main characters I despised, and not in a good way. It wasn't like there was a villain like Voldemort or something that was supposed to be disliked but many people liked for being so bad. I just found John Green's characters as well.... Bad. I found it hard when I saw so many people love it though and it be all over tumblr. I don't read a lot of books and rarely do I buy them, so when I bought this one I thought it would be a hot for sure, but I ended up disliking it quite a lot..
Shhhh
Fictitious rain drops magnet haha what do you think about it?
I feel impartial about the whole thing. There are always those books that everyone is talking about or reading that you see in every video but that just means that a lot of people are excited to read and share the experience. There is nothing wrong in reading hyped books and there is nothing wrong in NOT reading hyped books.
Oh yeah I totally agree and I tried to disclaimer that in the beginning of the video. That said I was asked by a lot of people to share some books I felt were over hyped, I dunno I think it's kind of an interesting question
She clearly stated that she didn't intend to make it like reading hyped books is wrong in the disclaimer.
Personally, John Green is great. But after reading quite a few of his books, all the characters feel kind of the same. They all have their own unique little thing and are so "I am different and that is cool." Yeah, these characters can be relatable, but from my experience a lot of them aren't. Don't kill me. All the books just kind of blend together. A lot of the plots feel a bit the same. We're always dealing with things in his books that we have already dealt with in his writing. I want something different from him!
Why isn't Jandy Nelson a very popular ya author. She is amazing (and I personally think her work is more creative and realistic than John Green's).
Sorry, I Had To Say it.
I'll Give You the Sun is probably one of my favorite books of all times. I read the book in less than a day in just 2 sittings.
Oh my God finally someone who's with me! I feel that every characters in John Green's books are basically the same!
I thought so too
When I read a John Green book I feel like I am in the same universe as all his other books, but not in a good way. Super cliche plot lines and characters. A book that I feel much better expresses this theme is "The Schwa Was Here" by Neal Shusterman.
Bradley Peterson I agree, I don’t read John greens book anymore because all the story lines are the exact same.
Totally agree with you on the whole John Green/manic pixie dream girl thing! I like his books, they're fine for what they are, but I have a lot of problems with his characters... I always hear people saying how "real" his characters are, but I don't see that at all. I have read all of his books but one, and have yet to find a character he has written who I have been able to relate to. Nobody talks like a John Green character. Literally nobody. I feel like all of his characters walked straight out of an angsty teen indie movie. It's annoying.
I feel the pain! not particularly invested qith JG books anymore..only read two, could not get into paper towns and so forth
YESSSS !!! I MEAN WHO TALKS LIKE THAT ?? No one :/
I dislike John Green's books too, they're all boring and annoying
I understand your opinion but I read The Fault In Our Stars and Paper Towns and loved them both. I found the characters quite relateable and I speak like them so, I know a lot of people don't but some people do.
All of John Green's books are overhyped haha
BooksUnstitched Finally some one agrees with me
I haven't read them because of that reason
No just fault in the stars one
yes I agree but some of them are really good.
plus I like the idee of a main protagonist is not perfect, make them more human.
but that is just me
I've only read tfios and I disliked it.
My overhyped book/series: Divergent.
Finally someone that gets me!
YES
True :s
Yes! thank you for saying that. I honestly made no emotional connection to any of the characters what's so ever.
+Samantha Plater SAME! I'm so glad I'm not the only one! I enjoyed the first book but after that, Tris just became ridiculous honestly
I thought Divergent was over hyped.
I don't agree with that so much for the first two books but I kind of lost interest in the last one
I lost interest in the second book.
Kimba Totally!
Antoinette Chua totally! i feel it's very overhyped! i have definitely lost interest in the divergent series! it's just too overhyped
John Greene's books are all overrated
I only bought one recently because it was on sale for 5 dollars at Target haha
I'm a simple girl, i saw Bastille on the wall and I clicked on the video (which was really good btw) ❤
Ruby Red, Sapphire Green and Emerald Blue. lmao
That sounds like pokemon games
'Cause they are Pokemon games tittles. And I can't take them seriously because of it... at all. I know, it's really unfair for the books but... eeehhh. Maybe later.
+toogletoggle As someone who plays pokemon I can confirm that Ruby Red, Sapphire Blue, and Emerald Green are all well known pokemon titles. Just a few years ago Ruby & Sapphire got a remake for the 3DS as well, actually.
In German the titles sound so much better, in my opinion. I'm still confused reading the English names...
(Rubinrot, Saphirblau, Smaragdgrün...)
As much as I love John Green, I do agree with you here! John obviously believes that teenagers/young adults should be portrayed as intelligent and mature which I do agree with - I mean, we are, right? ;) However I sometimes feel like the language that he uses when his characters speak is just too alien to how we really speak. I'm not saying his characters should use slang and all that, but be a bit less "sesquipedalious" (I totally did that on purpose..!) I think they sound a little bit pretentious, that's all...and it does make it difficult to connect to them...
Omg! That exactly what I've been saying about his books!
This is what I found annoying in TFIOS because while Hazel&Gus are pretty intelligent they're not realistically going to be using those words, plus it was infuriating as John Green woul kinda incorporate today's "lingo" into their dialogue but then this complex vocabulary which I felt kinda detached myself as a reader from the actual story (I kept looking up half the words in a dictionary lol)
But I'm so glad someone has the same toughs as me!
But I have gotta say I do love John Green's novel though, he just needs to tone the complex vocabulary down a little bit :P
I agree! Teenagers ARE intelligent and ARE capable of the kind of conversation John Green uses. But- in no way do we talk like that all the time. The smartest and most poetic teenager still lets loose a little bit and makes really stupid jokes and says small words. Not all characters have to be metaphors for something 100% of the time.
Rochelle McIntosh God bless you! That's exactly what I wanted to say. That's the reason why I never finished the Fault In our Stars
To me it felt like:
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"I go seek a great perhaps."
"And dude what should that mean?"
"If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."
"?"
"What you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person."
And that's why I never finished Looking For Alaska. Loved it but also it felt a bit unrealistic about the talking and plenty of quotes.
Leah Stubbs read the infernal devices
Mad props for sharing your opinions of the overrated books. I feel like I have the same feelings sometimes of the overhyped books being okay but not stellar. Some deserve the hype, but quite a few just aren't up my particular alley.
Side note: I'm not much of a fan of fantasy, but I think I need to get into Cinda Williams Chima's books. They just look really neat. :)
Dooooooo iittttttttt
mmmmm preach girl. We Were Liars. grrrrr so frustrating. i concur. also, all John Green books are overhyped in my opinion.
also overhyped book of the year for me is Half Bad by Sally Green. i just don't understand.
WellDoneBooks I totally agree on that! Half Bad didn't really have that witchy vibe to it, you know? Not much magic either.
Same! I thought I was the only one that though John Green was so overhyped, like I read tfios because of the hype and just it was OK, I thought it was an OK book - nothing special
Exactly! TBH I felt like TFIOS wasn't that good. The plot was, but I felt like it just wan't good...
Ahh! Someone who shares my dislike for John Green. I swear if TFIOS didn't have cancer in it, and didn't have John Green's name on it, it would not have sold as well as it did... :/
i feel like the fault in our stars was wayyyyy over hyped, in my opinion, looking for Alaska is one of the best john green books
Yes tfios is so overhyped, I couldn't connect with the characters at all and didnt find it sad. I love looking for Alaska and paper towns. I've just read an abundance of katherines and that was boring
Meg Davies Yup!
Yep, feel the same about tfios. I did enjoy it for what it was, but didn't feel the need for everyone to be raving over it. I'll have to give Looking for Alaska a go :)
I agree, TFIOS is way overhyped! And Looking For Alaska is my favorite of his books, just because the first time I read it I knew SOMETHING was coming but I had no idea what was coming and it kept me glued to the pages!
to me, looking for alaska felt like john wanted to brain dump every random idea he's ever had that seemed good and make a book out of it lol
I think that the Maze Runner series is kinda over hyped, I did enjoy the first one a lot by after that I felt like I had to force myself to read them and I thought the storyline was dragged out quite a bit
LOOKING FOR ALASKA FRICKIN THANK YOU. The characters in that book were so all so awful, I couldn't like a single one. And Miles felt so entitled to Alaska. I was so done with that book as soon as I started it. I think Rainbow Rowell is so overhyped. I've read Fangirl and Eleanor & Park and both of them I left feeling kind of meh. They won't stick with me, and I thought they were both SO slow.
I just couldnt get into it and i reeeeally tired, just because its John Green and my friend almost murdered me when I said I didnt like it.
Since I've read more, I realize there are much better authors out there than John. As much as I love him and the work he does with Nerdfighteria, I just don't think his books are outstanding. Though I very much enjoyed Papertowns.
curiousfudge I think that the problem with Eleanor & Park is that it isn't really very challenging...I like an easy read as much as the next reader, but not only was it simple; it was too predictable...like, I totally knew who was graffitying her stuff really early on...I dunno, I think I wanted a bit more of a challenge more than anything :) Enjoyable though...
curiousfudge I loved Eleanor and Park!!!! not criticizing your opinion or anything. I've never read any of Rainbow Rowell's other books, just Eleanor and Park
Oh thank the Lord someone said it! I will give it 1 star for his gorgeous writing, however the plot was boring, the characters were unrealistic and the twist was horrible, sorry.
Ok overhyped book is
wait for it
(insert all the stuff Reagan put in the beginning of this video)
ok
do not hate do not kill me with all of the hate
ok
The Fault in Our Stars
Its a good book just
yea
im still gonna get hate aren't I
But remember this is an OPINION no ones opinion is correct
everyones opinion is valid
this is just mine
I agree with you. I read it and I confess that I did because everyone was reading it. I don't regret it, it's just not what I expected.
Oh and also the Mortal Instruments
yea its JustAHistoricalOpinion
hahahah
not a good pun #donotkillmecauseidonotenjoyeverythingthatyouenjoynorviceversaandthishashtageiswaytoolangBTW
I think The Hunger Games is SO overhyped. Specially Mockingjay. Omg, I just HATED that book, and everyone was loving and I thought something was wrong with me, but no, now I know people who don't like the way everything ended and I know I'm not wrong.
Teteus Pimentinha I agree I kinda liked TFIOS
and I actually really like The Hunger Games but MockingJay is the worst
YES YES YES IM NOT ALONE!!!
All of John Green's books are overrated, in my opinion. I've read three of his books, and they were all okay, except for "The Fault in Our Stars". That was a shabby book from beginning to end.
GIIIRL WHERE DID YOU GET THAT BASTILLE POSTER I AM LIVING
I agree with Looking For Alaska and We Were Liars.. I will add to that list: Paper Towns by John Green (awful book), Shatter Me trilogy by Tahereh Mafi (good first book and then downhill after that), the Lux series by Jennifer L. Armentrout (too much teenage drama and ridiculousness), Rainbow Rowell - more specifically Eleanor & Park (everyone LOVES her books and I find them to be okay or pretty good. Eleanor & Park was boring), and Gayle Foreman - specifically If I Stay (her books end when they should begin - there's too much left out of them and it's never a satisfying conclusion).
That's the only John Green book I've liked so far. I liked it on the first read, loved it on the second.
I agree !!
I sooo agree about the Lux series! The first book was okay, but it kinda went downhill and slightly ridiculous after... x
I agree on everething minus Rainbow Rowell. I just love all of her books.
***** John Green books in general are just really really overhyped.
For me, Divergent is one of the most overhyped book. I felt extremely underwhelmed by the 1st book. In fact, I did not plan on reading the 2nd and 3rd books but I got them as gifts so I guess I'll still read them, lol. I'm also reading Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore and I'm not getting all the hype surrounding it either!
Penumbra > Divergent, but that's just my opinion.
Divergent is way overhyped! I don't think the first or second books are all that great.
OMG I agree so much....I felt like it was just recycling plots and the writing was also bland. I don't even acknowledge that this series exists
John Smith Yes, so far I also think Penumbra is better than Divergent. But I also don't think it's as amazing and wonderful as people say.
Surithy Arulmoli Yeah. I thought the concept of Divergent was interesting but the execution was just not there. It lacks in world-building. The writing was nothing special, but I haven't really read any YA books with amazing writing either!
I have no idea how people can read multiple books by John Green. All of his books follow an almost exact same plot with different characters :( After reading my first one, however, (Looking For Alaska) I was amazing. I wasn't expecting to have the next book that I read my him to be as similar as it was.
Oh my god the fandom is in booktube
aye SnazzyUnicorn
+Julie Kubica lol I mean *phandom and sup fam
+Julie Kubica lol I mean *phandom and sup fam
For me it was Cinder. It didn't suck, but it really wasn't as amazing as everyone on youtube said, and I won't be reading the rest of the series.
I consider reading Cinder because there were so many good reviews about it. But I'm afraid I wouldn't like it because it's about a cyborg and I'm not much into Sci-fi. So yeah, I'm pretty indecisive.
TinyTeacup I loved that series! It definitely gets better as it goes on and Cress is the best so far in my opinion.
TinyTeacup I read Cinder in a 3 day setting. I went to pick up Scarlet - but put it off because I wasn't sure how I felt about it. For my TBR this month I have to listen to an audiobook, so I picked it. Oh em gee! It's better than a I thought. I'm excited to read the rest of the series.
TinyTeacup same!
I refunded Cinder because I wasn't feeling it..
I wanna say that I'm sorry, but I'm not really sorry for feeling this way. But I actually wasn't that happy about "The Fault In Our Stars", everybody was like: "YOU ARE GONNA DIE, YOU'RE GONNA CRY SO MUCH, OMG IT'S LIKE THE BEST BOOK EVER" and I got very disappointed. It's an okay story, the characters were fine (I really liked Isaac though, he was great) but there never really seemed to be a climax, and that bothered me a lot. Waaaaay overhyped in my opinion.
My thoughts about TFiOS exactly.
I bet John Green would actually agree with the points about Looking for Alaska. I don't want to speak for him but he always talks about that version of his past self with a lot of self-deprecating disdain. But I liked the book ^_^
i think he could only write stuff like that. I didn't even finish reading Paper Towns and I don't wanna read Looking for Alaska. I'd really be suprised to see John write something different
+Jack Grimm They're all very different in their own ways, I think. But authors do tend to write very similar books over and over again, I would say :P It's sort of a product of being human and liking to do things a certain way? haha idk I bet someone could tell me an author's name who's infamously versatile. I've heard The Casual Vacancy is nothing like Harry Potter, so maybe that's an example.
Yeah, and Chris Colfer's Struck by Lightning is not a bit comparable to his The Land of Stories series. And I get how authors wanna stick within their comfort zones: Almost all of David Levithan's books are about love. I love David so i guess similar aspects are okay sometimes
+Jack Grimm I didn't enjoyed Paper Town at all, but i did love Looking for Alaska :D And I read them when John Green wasn't so popular yet, so maybe you could give it a try! I remember it being so sad but at the same time so funny!
+EhyWisdom Sure! *screams at my dad to drive me to Barnes & Noble* I'll try to read it
The Hunger Games.
You may be the only one for this one. Lol
idek lel omg! Ba ha ha. Thanks for that!
I agree
Yes! The first two were good but but I just didn't like Mockingjay, it was very slow and not much happened (I only read about half of it before I stopped so there may have been more action at the end but nothing was going on in the first half)
Helen Bendell it is overhyped lol i have read better story about teenage survival
Definitely paper towns🙄🙄🙄 couldn't get past the half way point and I've tried to read it more than once😒
This is so truee.. when I read it I was like.. when will I finish this book so I can read another book 😂 and my teacher spoiled the ending for me, so just.. no😭
+Abigail Lewis Paper Towns is definitely my least favorite John Green book. I didn't think it was that great.
that book was so good!
+Tre G. well great for you then, I just didn't enjoy it, especially after the spoilers my teacher gave me
I'm surprised that it was even able to turn into a movie.
I tend to stay away from books that are really popular. Not to seem "cool" or anything. I do it because I get the feeling that I won't really like them. I mean I'll make exceptions if the book sounds really good, but I usually think I won't feel the same way as everyone else so I'm just setting myself up for disappointment.
Same...My reason for not reading the hyped up books though, is the expectation. When you have thousands of people endorsing a book, my expectations tend to raise a bit...and that can make me not like a book at all, instead of just thinking its okay. Because when I go into it I expect it to be great.
HysteriCool
I have the opposite reaction. When thousands of people are endorsing a book, I think "It has to be at least somewhat good if so many people like it. There has to be a reason for it." With an unknown book you take the full risk of feeling anything in the spectrum of love and hate for it, whereas if most people have positive opinions on it, I'm more likely to be somewhere closer to love on the spectrum.
Thats the thing though. having so many people endorse a book and rave about it makes me think its going to be the best thing since sliced bread. It pushes my expectations of it being amazing that much higher. And what can happen with that for me is, I'll be expecting it to get so great and good, all consuming and awesome...and it won't be and its that much more of a let down. Whereas if I don't hear any hype or w/e for a book, I go into it with a clean slate and it has a better chance to wow me. Hype for me sets the bar high for a book and if it doesn't meet or surpass that bar, then I'm going to be disappointed.
HysteriCool isismol1993 Just my thoughts.
The two books/series I find overhyped are The Hunger Games, I tried giving it 3 shots, the first time I got 6 pages in, the 3rd time I got 45 pages in. I just really couldn't handle the writing, it wasn't doing it for me, I couldn't push past that. I felt like it was being narrated with the voice of a 12 year old, not a 16 year old and that bugged me. The second book I find overhyped is The Fault In Our Stars. I PERSONALLY didn't find it was a good book at all, though I appreciate the appeal and I can see how so many people love it. I just found too many problems in the book for my taste. So I'm not telling anyone that they have bad taste in books if they like these two, I'm just saying that they weren't my cup of tea! To each their own :)
I agree about TFIOS! Read it because of all the hype and I have no desire to read it again. I mean, John Green is an excellent writer, the story just didn't do it for me.
I 100% AGREE ABOUT THE HUNGER GAMES. I read TFIOS when it came out and loved it but can understand people not liking it xP another issue with the hunger games was how long it took to get to the hunger games
THIS COMMENT WAS SOO TRUE FOR ME. I FEEL GUILTY BECAUSE THESE TWO BOOKS WERE SOOO POPULAR, BUT HONESTLY THE IDEA OF CANCER ROMANCE JUST ISNT APPEALING. (I didn't read the hunger games, but I attempted to at least 4 times (😂) and just didn't appreciate as much as I hoped. 😪 SORRYY EVERYONE.. :((
tfios totally agree
Before THG was hyped up I thought it was amazing, this was probably 4/5 years ago? Now I think back and I can't even read 10 pages without feeling remorse for myself. How did I ever get through reading such things?
I remember everyone raving about TFIOS, but I don't like the idea of main characters dying... the premise didn't really entice me and now, after getting 19 chapters in, just gave up. Was told I had to commit emotionally, and when I do that, the pain of a character dying is just too much and sticks with me for years (Still can't get over the death of Lynn's mum in Not a Drop to Drink -.-')
Honestly as soon as I read the title I thought of a particular book that is probably gonna get me killed for mentioning it in that context xD
Throne of Glass
I only read the first book, so maybe it gets a lot better later on, but I was so disappointed. I expected a badass warrior assassin and got a whiny little girl. I expected battles, and an amazing tournament, and got castle rumours and complaints.
I found the characters, especially Celeana (?), to be extremely flat. Liking books and killing people is not a character trait.
Do these books really get that much better later on? Should I give it a chance? Or is it just not for me? Idk, for now I just prefer to read other fantasy, with characters I can actually connect to and where I don't count the pages.
Overhyped Teeny Books that come to mind: Divergent Series, John Greene books in general, The Kite Runner, Pretty Little Liars Series,everything by Cassandra Clare ...
Overhyped Classic Books that come to mind: Wuthering Heights, Jane Austen books in general, The Catcher in the Rye, 100 Years of Solitude, To Kill a Mockingbird...
Lemon Drops I thought To Kill a Mockingbird was amazing, but I guess we all have our opinions.
Alex Cross Teu, and I'm not trying to convince anyone here - just stating my own! :D
Agreed with John Green... tfios for me was way too "feel sorry for me" and Hazel annoyed me a lot... they spoke like middle aged upper class people, not teenagers. Most of all I didn't cry at the book or movie. Which made everyone think I was heartless. Oops.
Um did you just insult John greens books
+Lemon Drops The Kite Runner? Really? I didnt even know it had hype in the west
Don't kill me but the book that I think is really overhyped is 'Throne of Glass', am I the only ome who think this way? Like, I am gonna give a second chance and read Crown Of Midnight but I wanted to kill Caelena.
Hugs from argentina!
I hear a lot of people like Crown of Midnight more than Throne of Glass. But my favourite book out of the bunch (so far) is Throne of Glass :)
Yeah, the throne of glass series gets better as it goes on! Crown of Midnight was the one that really hooked me. I say give it a go!
I'm reading Crown of Midnight right now and it is like 100 times better I promise!! It gets more about the magic and mystery than the kinda dumb competition!
It gets better!!! Keep reading :)
OMG YES! I read it during testing so that might be why I disliked it so much but I bought it bc everyone was saying how much of a badass she was and that there was a ton of action but when I read it I found myself skipping a lot of pages and the "plot twist" at the end was really predictable. I bought the second one bc people said it was better but i haven't had the courage to read it yet
I agree with all of these and I think John Green is extremely over rated, I don't really like his style of writing and theres literally no character development in his books. I can see why some people find them appealing, they're quick and easy to read but I just didn't enjoy them
John Green books are overrated. ESPECIALLY TFIOS
I actually never knew that Vampire Academy was hyped lol. I really enjoyed the series, but I felt like the sequel series "Bloodlines" REALLY blew it out of the water. It was so much more interesting and I liked the characters a lot more. All hail Sydrian.
I agree with looking for alaska, for me one overhyped book for me is Anna and the French Kiss I LIKE THIS BOOK A LOT a give it 4 stars in goodreads but every person in booktube was telling is THE BEST BOOK EVER YOU NEED TO READ IT I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE IT, it's to overhyped.
I kinda agree with you although it's one of my favourite books! I loved Isla and the Happily Ever After more than Anna and the French Kiss and everyone seemed to only like Isla...
Finally someone else who likes them but doesn't get the hype!
I have yet to pick that book up, I really want to because people say it's so good, but I'm just scared because of all the hype, I don't want to be dissapointed.
It was just okay.
The Maze Runner didn't deserve an ounce of the hype it got when the movie was announced. I cringed when I saw so many people picking it up. I wish I could get the time back that I spent reading that awful series.
I love that series...its not the best writing. I like it wayyy than the Divergent though.
i felt really bad cause that is my friends favorite series and i really didnt think it was anything special. she was like "when are you reading the rest of the series" and i didnt have the heart to tell her i would rather reread all of twilight than open another book of that series.
i could actually get into twilight, at least and i gave a crap about the characters, unlike maze runner
I agree with the Vampire Academy. I read it when I was in those early teens, which is why I think I was able to go through it so fast, because of where I was in my life. Looking back on it now, it's kinda just an okay book, but it's very nostalgic.
I don't like John Green books, they aren't real
Katrine B. Harr Dybdahl Finally! Yes!
Katrine B. Harr Dybdahl the only john green book I liked was looking for Alaska tbh. The rest are shit
Katrine B. Harr Dybdahl they're fucking fiction lol
So..... I completely agree with a lot of what you have said. I have found myself picking up books lately which really don't even interest me, but because of the 'hype' I bring them home to read (luckily for me, I get most of them from my work - public library). So, I have now made a conscious decision NOT to do this any longer. I am going back to reading the things I want to read and ignore the hype. I own over 1800 unread books - I don't have time to read books I am just meh about.
Also, I am not watching so much booktube - it is saturated with YA and I want more variety and more adult, so am only watching my faves. (Can you tell you are one? Hehehe)
Great vid as usual
Frieda, don't get me wrong, I LOVE YA. I read 50% YA ad 50% adult, just because there is so many fantastic books in both categories - it is just I would love to see more booktubers celebrating adult books as well.
If you're interested Ashley of Climbthestacks pretty much exclusively talks about classics and literary fiction.
I've been love love loving her videos.
I think the legend series is overhyped. I really enjoyed Legend but after that I just felt it was cheesy and not very well written. I kind of felt like I'd wasted my time after reading all of it.
Prodigy is the best
With you here, the things I liked most about legend weren't in the later books and the things I liked in prodigy weren't really in champion. I admire the way Marie Lu ended Champion (I think that took guts) but by then I didn't really care what happened to characters, etc. I also felt the interesting threads from the beginning of the series were dropped with no explanation.
Bethan Chalmers I agree. After Prodigy I had really high expectations for Champions and it just didn't deliver
rae88mh agreed, it wasn't the worst but it wasn't the best as far as final instalments go
YES YES YES. I bought the boxset because I was convinced I would love it but I found it so boring. Read all three and it just never got going for me.
Books i think are overhyped:
1. The shatter me series- maybe thats just bc ive only read the first one and everybody says they get better, idk but the writing just seemed a little bit TOO much overdone and like metaphors in every sentence and its just like ok, we get it, move on. And the romance was too mushy and kind of insta-lovey. I'll probably read the rest of the series eventually but not any time soon.
2. If i stay. It was good but it wasn't mind-blowing in any way, like the plot was soooo predictable and i feel like the only thing it had going for it was that it was sad like ok congrats you can make me cry by telling me a story about ppl who die but nothing else really came out of that. I just kind of thought the whole choosing to live/die thing was kind of dumb, maybe bc i cannot relate to that at all like i cant imagine not wanting to keep living even in that situation.
totally agree for If I stay!!
agree to both especially shatter me. Could not understand how people enjoyed the writing. It made me cringe. It was way too much.
I think the main issue with john green's books are that many people have never been in certain situations or felt certain things that pertain to his characters but they still like the characters because he writes them very well. However I've never had that issue, Looking For Alaska is my favorite john green book and I could relate to the characters 100% but I do see how many people wouldn't be able to handle that much crisis or never having a really full ending ♥
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I completely concur. Everyone seemed to love that but I thought it was so bland and kind of boring (one of the rare cases where the movie is better).
John Green is unbelievably overhyped! Especially the fault in our stars... my god. The pretentious in that book is ridiculous and the metaphors lmao
Divergent, The Fifth Wave, and The Mortal Instruments are overhyped in my opinion. I haven't finished the last two series's, mostly because there were other books I would rather read at the time and I still haven't gotten around to reading them.
Ha, everything of John Green's is overhyped. I totally agree.
We Were Liars has been one of my favorite books this year, *but* in my experience people either tend to love it or find it predictable/not that great, as you did. So you're definitely not the only one, and I think maybe it's just one of those books that not a lot of people are in the middle on. I think Looking for Alaska is also possibly a 4-star book for me, though I haven't read it in a long time...I prefer An Abundance of Katherines and his other books, but like I said, I haven't read it in several years. Probably need to get on that. Thanks for making this video, though! As far as my own personal overrated books, I honestly can't think of a ton? I haven't read a lot of the super-hyped YA stuff recently, so maybe that's why. I definitely didn't like Legend as much as a lot of people, though, and I haven't continued on to the rest of the series.
I always get hated on for believing that the Divergent series is hyped up.. I just.. ughh..
The first book was good but then it just went meh.. Am I the only one who believes this..?
No I totally agree with you. divergent was great, insurgent was okay, but Allegiant just ruined it
i agree too
To me divergent was good, insurgent was my fave, & allegiant was horrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, you're not alone. I love Divergent but I just want to burn my copies of Insurgent and Allegiant which are hardcovers when my copy of Divergent is a paperback :(
***** OH MY GODS ME TOO! My Insurgent and Allegiant are hard cover and Divergent is paperback
i saw the bastille poster.. so i had to watch
Harry Potter 😳
It was just okay to me. I cant even remember if I actually read them all or stopped somewhere halfway. Maybe the schoolsetting, the christmas scènes, the summers felt a bit repititious for me personally.
I haven't read Looking for Alaska, but I felt that way about TFIOS. It was good, but it isn't the best book I've read this year by a long shot and I was expecting to have my mind blown by John Green's writing. I would read his other books, but I have a ton of books that are at a higher priority level
UGGGGGH I hated Looking for Alaska
Ugh me too! I don't get why so many people love it! -.-
I dont hate the book but its not good
TOTALLY DISAGREE! I loved it! But I can understand why you didn't like it, it was not for everyone
I also didn't get why people hyped for it. I'm guessing it's the "BOOM!" part that had people's appeal - that part also got my jaw hanging. It's John Green's style anyway. He likes surprises.
I only liked it for Chip/The Colonel because I came to the conclusion that I have a thing for that type of person.
for me it was Paper Towns....I mean the meaning was deep, but the plot just annoyed me. Yes there were some very funny and enjoyable moments, but overall, I thought it was very over hyped.
I love videos like this! Honest yet polite. I really loved We Were Liars however it was the first book of that genre that I've read in a long long while. I can see how one may guess at the twist if one reads as many books as you do. Also, I'm sure you've heard this before, but I definitely recommend The Fault in Our Stars. It's the best John Green book I've read out of three (the others being Paper Towns and Looking For Alaska) and it made me bawl my freaking eyes out for the last 100 pages or so. But again! I loved this video. Very informative! :D
Regan, you're totally wrong... to give a shit about what anyone else thinks. We're here to hear about what you like and don't like. True, there are a few sad mad-persons who only watch youtube to have their tastes validated, and go ballistic when their precious favourites are challenged, but don't apologise to these people. By telling them that their beloved stories are in fact NOT universally loved should be a learning experience for them. In fact, you should have ended your video by shouting YOU'RE WELCOME! (Other acceptable sign-offs would be: 'you're welcome, bitches', 'you're effing welcome', and 'stick that in your pipe and smoke it." Great video! You're totally right.... apart from the bit where I think you're wrong. ;)
You have a few I loved on your list, like Looking for Alaska but then...I read that way back when it first came out, before I'd read much YA, and at a different time in my life. If I'd read it now, who knows if I'd like it as much. I think timing is important with books.
Overhyped books to me:
- Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge (the writing was lovely and it was original, but beyond that it was kind of a mess with a narrator I didn't care for, but everyone else seems to love it)
- Me, Earl & The Dying Girl (I just found it incredibly dull, didn't give a damn about the characters and literally can't think of anything nice to say about it except that the stylistic choices the author made were - interesting?)
- Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler (it's a physically beautiful book but beyond being aesthetically pleasing, I'm not fond of the stream of consciousness narration and what could have been a great story was ruined by insta-love making it seem so painfully over dramatic)
Chiming in to say I totally agree about Cruel Beauty, it was good but, when it made it further than Half Bad (my favorite of the YA/MG debuts I've read this year) in the debut goodreads author category of the goodreads choice seats I was all "Whyyyyyy?"
I also found Red Rising a bit over hyped.
I haven't seen a lot of people hype Why We Broke Up. I think it's interesting the installation love turned you of since, to me, the book illustrated how a relationship can be built on illusion. That being said, it's not my favorite book ever or anything.
Caitlin Vanasse I'm a book blogger, so that may be why I saw more hype for Why We Broke Up (Cruel Beauty got a lot of hype from bloggers too), it wasn't hyped as much by the booktubers.
I guess it was just... so many YA books do the whole insta-love thing anyway (often very poorly) that I was hoping for better from Daniel Handler. The reviews made it sound so much better, like it was this book most people would relate to about relationships falling apart.
Instead we just get another insta-love book that makes the female character seem like an irrational drama queen with a pre-teen attitude to relationships (and it made no sense in the end because the reason they broke up was blatantly obvious and not relating to her box of reasons really).
...Sorry, that morphed from clarification into a rant about the book (which, for the record, I rated 3 stars so I didn't hate it exactly). I'll need to check out Half Bad. :P
I totally agree! Timing is everything with books, I find. There are some books now that I just can't be bothered to use my money on but I know if I were younger I'd pick them up in a heartbeat.
Re: Why We Broke Up- I picked that up on a whim, not knowing any feedback on it. It REALLY broke my heart -- so much that I wanted to slaughter the protag and burn the book LOL so I hafta give props to Daniel Handler for inducing such feels in me.
Not totally defending it or anything. I just think it's great how we differ in opinions. Just goes to show that a book isn't necessarily for everyone just because it's so "in" and stuff (like fashion trends!)
I agree with you about Looking For Alaska! It was the first YA book I read, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. And I feel the same about Me and Earl and the Dying Girl too!
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I think I gave it 3 stars too but... I didn't think it was a typical love/break-up story by any means. Odd that's the way the hype trended.
I feel like I should disclaimer my Half Bad love by saying it's gotten a love/hate kind of vibe so, I really liked it but I don't want to hype it too much for you.
Also, timing IS everything, definitely. I like to think there are some books out there that will be amazing whenever they're read (Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta, I'm looking at you) but others are certainly affected by what else you've read or what's going on in your life. On Goodreads I can almost always explain why a book got 4 stars over 3 but explaining why my 5 star books are 5 star? purely personal.
Okay, don't kill me, but...I think Hunger Games is overhyped. Admittedly I only read the first book, and I did like it, but yeah, I just think it's overhyped.
Also, what about a video on underrated/underhyped books?
I despise the series. I tried to read it and even tried the movie but I couldn't even get past the trailerxD. It's terrible and I don't care if I'm shot by lightning for saying that.
chickchickclapclap I love this series but I get why some people wouldn't like it :) and also a video on underrated books is a great idea!
I agree on Looking for Alaska. I got to the end and felt not much had really happened. Another one I feel is massively overhyped is The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Best books/series in my opinion:
Black Beauty (cannot go wrong with classics),
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (Wolves of Mercy Falls series),
The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima (The Seven Realms series),
The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins,
The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
Dont be angry, but I think everybody overhyped about the books from Cassandra Clare, the reading was so tedios for me and the characters....oh the characters... they are so annoying. >_
Engenharia Literária oh i read city of bones and i disliked all the characters and thought it was meh and same for city of ashes. city of glass was better, but i didnt actually start to like the series til city of fallen angels and when i started reading TID on the side. by the time i got to city of heavenly fire i was in love haha
Agreed. I'm sorry but Cassandra Clare's books were okay, not that great though.
READ THE INFERNAL DEVICES THEN YOU WILL LOVE IT
Kenzie Burke I read the infernal devices... and I hate it... sorry! lol xD
Engenharia Literária What books do you like then? Like one of your favorites.
So good to see a video like this! I've only read Looking For Alaska on this list and I agree with you on that one alooooot! I find John Green's characters really difficult to connect to!
your videos are great and you seem like such a cool person!! and also that bastille poster in the background stole my heart 💕
I started watching Hank and John Green in 2009 and I devoured John Green's books. I even pre-ordered The Fault in Our Stars. I loved his books so much when I was a teenager--before I was a feminist, before I had my first college literature class, before I had my first writing workshop, before I became a fully formed person with thoughts and opinions of my own. I'm thankful to him for giving me something decent to read at the time, but honestly, I wouldn't own one of his books, I wouldn't buy one of them, and I definitely wouldn't read one again. His characters and themes are contrived and cishet-white-male-centric. We have enough media (especially literature) dedicated to cishet white men and his tiresome outlook on life can't seem to break free of the constraints of his station in society. He adds nothing to the genre, therefore he's a fluff writer of books only fit for kids who need something trashy to read at the beach. I hear Looking for Alaska was a satire on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, or maybe it was Paper Towns, but either way, every novel of his contains a MPDG or a MPDB and it's just perpetuating existing harmful stereotypes of women and girls. Satire is great unless you're a person of privilege trying to write it about someone who doesn't have your privilege (like Tina Fey and her horribly racist writing on 30 Rock). Overall, I just don't like his books. He's a good writer, but he perpetuates harmful ways of thinking and he's overhyped as an author whether it's Looking for Alaska or The Fault in Our Stars.
Also..... would be cool if you did a video on books that did deserve the hype????
I totally agree with Looking for Alaska! I'm happy that someone else feels the same way.
Ha, I think you're right about the twist in We Were Liars being obvious because I guessed it and I never ever guess things like that right. I think one of the reasons I liked the book so much is because when I finished it I was like "woo, I guessed it right" and it felt good haha
I loved the plot and premise of the 5th Wave but the characters killed it for me. It has too much insta love and also the main character was really whiny and I couldn't deal with it
People are going to hate ne for this but I personally think that Allegiant was kind of overhyped. I loved Divergent and Insurgent was pretty good but it was particularly hard for me to get into Allegiant. Usually it's easy for me to remember the details of the books I read. I still remember what happens in all the books I've read but not Allegiant? A lot of fighting between Four and Tris happened in the book and all that but literally the only thing I can remember perfectly was the plot twist.
whoop :(
I really did like we were liars. I was so excited to read it, but then again kind of expected a lot more from it because of how much it was hyped and the whole 'it's better to not know what this book is about and just read it' thing everyone was saying. You should totally do a video on which books you think are under hyped!
In terms of not relating to the characters of Looking for Alaska, And John Green books in general, I have a very hard time relating to most YA contemporary protags, but for some reason I personally relate to most John Green characters.
I think the Mortal Instruments is way overhyped. It's an ok series and it's pretty funny but... Meh. I'm not attached to the characters at all and the plot is sort of cliche.... To me it's just a good time and not really much else.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeees! Looking for Alaska is so overhyped. A below average book for me personally. Paper Towns as well. While I appreciate the premises of both books, I cannot stand ANY of the characters.
Yes. John Green's characters are the WORST.
whoyouare94 Yeah I've only read paper towns, but I agree, they don't read like normal teenagers!
Yeeessss there's finally somebody who agrees with me on looking for Alaska. It seemed incomplete and although the plot was unique, It was just filled with holes and I hated the ending.
THANK YOU SO FREAKING MUCH for posting this because several of these (5th wave especially) has been WAY over hyped. Also you're hilarious okay bye.
I feel ya! Some books just don't live up to the hype. I actually find that I sometimes shy away from super hyped books, as I find I don't always like them. I think in part because they're so built up that you expect something AMAZING.....and then it isn't.
Great video!
Great video! I don't really read YA but everyone and their mother was telling me to read The Fault In Our Stars so I did. I think it was very overhyped. To be fair I had recently read The Emperor of All Maladies, a kind of biography of cancer. It reads as a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist and that was a stunning, magnificent novel. In comparison TFIOS felt (don't kill me) cheap. 2/5 stars.
I'm sorry if anyone gets offended but Throne of Glass is overhyped. I'm in Heir of Fire right now and I'm trying so hard to get through it but it is so damn hard today get into. Crown of Midnight was amazing! But everything just went downhill after that... :/ Should I continue?
Hey Brekker! I loved the first few books, but the recent ones... I lost my interest, which is sad because I genuinely enjoyed the others.
laura goetz You got me wrong. I like High Fantasy. I just think Heir of Fire is slow. However I am still trying to read it..
AGREE WITH YOU hated the first book and never read the others and not planning on reading them either. same goes for acotar like hated that one even more abd absolutely not reading the rest. and like before anybody says woaw maybe it's because high fantasy or fantasy isn't for you. haha not the case though cause high fantasy and fantasy is my favorite genre to read😂😂 i just thought the her books were shit. can see why people like them but I'd rather read something that's more my thing and well better imo but everybody can and should like what they like
I kept waiting for a book series I completely disagreed with to come up, but it didn't-I completely understand your opinion on every one of these choices! Thanks for posting this! Btw, as far as Vampire Academy, I really liked the spinoff series Bloodlines more.
You're so nice! I really like how polite you are about your opinions :)
The Divergent Series was definitely overhyped. I enjoyed it but it was not as fantastic as I thought it would be after all of the things I heard about it.
I also feel like the reviews that I saw for Me and Earl and the Dying Girl overhyped that book as well. It was okay but not fantastic.
Yes I totally agree with you on the Divergent series
I think divergent was amazing but insurgent and allegiance were not so great
Daughter of smoke and bone for me is overhyped. I mean I have read the first book and I really did enjoy it, but i cant seem to find the will to continue on... It makes me sad I really want to love it! Im so confused if I should go on with it
The second book is WAY better then the first. I loved the first book but the second blew the first out of the water.
Feel the same I really wanted to like it so I could continue with the rest of the books, but I can't
I read Daughter of Smoke and Bone in 2012 and I also thought it was kind of meh and I got annoyed with some characters. BUT I then read the second one Days of Blood and Starlight this summer and I absolutely loved it. I immediately picked up the third one and the writing is so beautiful in it and made the trilogy an immediate favourite. Sometimes I think you just need some time away from those kind of books and I didn't re read Daughter of Smoke and Bone, just dived into the second one and I think this helped.
I love love love John Green! Looking For Alaska is one of my favorite books although I do agree it was slightly overhyped. Great video as always.
I do agree with you about Looking for Alaska because the writing was great, but the characters are really difficult to connect with. Love that you did this video
For me, it's pretty much all of these YA dystopian future books, the Hunger Games and its wannabes. I just find them really pretentious, and difficult to connect with because they're just so pessimist and downbeat, but I don't think they have much reason to be because there isn't much realism or anything. It's not like 1984 or Brave New World where the author was REALLY thinking about the possibilities of this world being real.
I do NOT like Divergent at all. Nothing felt real, not the emotion, not the action, not the world, it just didn't make me feel anything. Although Veronica Roth is someone to be admired because she's a bestseller and has a lot of fans, I don't think you can call her a GREAT author. It's no coincidence that Divergent was published when the Hunger Games was HUGE. I don't think Divergent stands on it's own. Generally, the best fiction sets trends, rather than follows them.
I mean to be extremely polite but I love these books u r talking about . I can't say I am speaking for every teen but some to most ppl I know who read these book whether or not they realise this is they read it to loose themselves from reality (which is not always pleasant) maybe to just remind themselves that things could be worse and I completely disagree on how they lack "real" emotion or whatever like clearly thousands of ppl who read it didn't pour themselves into it, didn't live and die with the charecters. its not like we didn't nearly die with the end of allegiant
+pranjal punekar That's fair enough, I'm glad you enjoyed it, I'm just saying it didn't have any impact on me.
***** I see I wish u could enjoy it as much anyways I am glad u didn't yell as I have observed most ppl on Internet tend to do that when someone doesn't agree with them
Well, it just doesn't interest me. I don't feel like I'm missing out or anything; there are so many books I've got to love. I also appreciate you being quite polite as well :)
Thank god I'm not the only one that hates Divergent😅
this is probably social suicide, But I thought that the 'Divergent" series was WAY overhyped. I don't know, I just didn't like it.
so agree with the we were liars. I tried so hard to finish it because I was told so many times it was so amazing, then I got to the end (eventually) and was like it was not worth making myself finish it.
I LOVE THIS VIDEO, looking for Alaska is one of my favourites books ever, but I respect all the things that people say about it,it's interesting for me to see what people think about my favourite book or the book that i like it
I think Anna and the French Kiss was overhyped. Just seemed like another contemporary romance book to me. I enjoyed it but I don't think it was as good as people were making it out to be.
Tbh, I didn't even like twilight. I think its really overhyped
Why do people tiptoe around any criticism surrounding John Green books? They are allowed to be critiqued just like any other books. Thanks for sharing your opinion about Looking for Alaska; I agree!
And I thought I was the only one feeling that way about "The 5th Wave". I'm glad that isn't the case.
I can also agree with you about "Looking for Alaska".
Clicked on this the second I saw the Bastille poster on the wall 😅
Do you ever read Classics? Just curious :)
I've always wanted to get into really Classic authors like Mark Twain, Fydor Dostoevsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez etc. and was wondering if there were any other teenagers who want to read the classics. ;)
I've read all of Mark Twain book when I was around 10 or 11, and I loved them. I didn't really know that they were classics at the time, so I didn't see them as old or boring.
Love you for actually having an opinion & being brave enough to say it. I love Looking For Alaska, mostly cause that manic pixie girl trope is one of my favorites. But one that's super overhyped to me is Winger. I remember forcing myself to finish it trying to see what everybody else saw in it.
I scroll through my recommendations and see a Bastikle poster in the background. I must watch.
At last someone else who thinks We Were Liars and Looking For Alaska were overhyped. I was really disappointed in WWL and I couldn't even finish Looking For Alaska...I wasn't a huge fan of TFIOS either (don't hate me!)
Agreed !!! TFIOS was too overrated !
I think that Throne of Glass was overhyped , I enjoyed it but did not find it mind blowing which is why I don't think I'll ever continue on with it (no offense I know you like this series)
I felt the same way but the second book is WAY Better!
It gets much much better with the second book, like the first one was good, kind of 'meh' the second one was great and the third was basically mind blowing in my opinion.
All righty. I might reconsider
Funny seeing this 3 years ago, considering all of Sarah J Maas’ books are major overhype, and probably even more so now :/
I don’t get it! Lol
This is the first video of yours that I've watched and omg its so so cute how you keep apologising for your opinion! Can't wait to watch your other videos 😊
I'd love to see more of this kind of videos on the booktube comunity. I love seeing this kind of videos, It makes me want to read the books even more....and they are so fun to see xDD
I really love your videos