10 Popular Booktube Books That Are Not Worth The Hype

Let's discuss some books ‪@FunFantasyBooks‬ and I are slightly overrated according to booktube!
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[@FunFantasyBooks]

Semi-ranting books is always though but fun! Thank you so much inviting me to do it together! I had a blast! Hopefully it is useful! 😂

[@pollys6192]

Tell Johan that if he doesn't want his copy of "Nettle and Bone" I'm ready to adopt it and give it a good home

[@civoreb]

Jorg is 14 in the first book. Tbh, working in social services, i have met and worked with 14 year olds that make Jorg seem innocent as a newborn puppy based on their upbringing.

[@heatherauton655]

Prince of Thorns was out so long ago and felt so fresh and different for the time

[@KillerGnutt]

Reading the Poppy War trilogy right now, that has been recommended quite a lot. Currently at the end of the second book. First book was rough imo, second book have been better but I don't think it deserves the hype it has gotten. Still worth the read, but nothing special, will be interesting to see how book three turns out

[@libraryofaviking]

The Poppy War is often mentioned as overhyped! I loved it but I totally understand where you are coming from!

[@sarahgonzalez162]

Book 3 sucks:/

[@nazimelmardi]

Agreed. It’s on my shelf. It’s a good read but she is not delivering that what they say. That would be Malazan Book of the Fallen. She copy pasted a historical era and her characters are superficial, too much focus on them and they are dumb. She is (simply sad) not smart enough to do a full blown war reflection book with this, especially not with political implications. It’s a simple adventure of its heroes. Usual fantasy. In that very good.

[@strawberrylime33]

I feel weird not liking Neil Gaiman. I read Ocean at the End of the Lane and i couldn't help but think i missed the point of the story. What was the story trying to say? I felt so stupid, like i missed an important message.

[@6ixpoint5ive]

I love ya Library of a Viking, but man we couldn't disagree more about humour in books haha I don't just adore humour and absurdity in my fantasy books, I require it :P But hey, we all have different tastes. Still a great video as always, don't stress if Pratchett, One Piece, and Murderbot aren't for you :)

[@chrissybooksandberries]

This is such a cute video! I really like how you guys acknowledged the difference in opinion when it comes to books.

[@libraryofaviking]

Thank you!

[@JosephReadsBooks]

I'm glad someone else thinks Priory of the Orange Tree is overhyped. I was over a third of the way through it when I gave up. It is written well I just didn't care about the characters or what was going on.

[@tanja9364]

Me too, me too!

[@cazevans]

Good video but man that music is obnoxious

[@robinmixon6999]

I despised Legends and Lattes. I don’t care for cozy anything in my books. I also rated Fourth Wing with 3 stars but the further away from it I am the more I dislike it.

[@AwesomeTingle]

I don't think Nettle and Bone needed to start in media res, I think it would've been better just completely chronologically. The first half is a bit sluggish, but once the crew is assembled, I had a really fun time with it. great video!

[@MistbornPrincess]

“Seraphina” is a great book! I like the sequel, but I think it takes away some of the charm of the first.

[@AJCCycling]

I still have nightmares about The Atlas Six and The Atlas Paradox... Never read anything worse :p

[@libraryofaviking]

😂

[@triplehood]

I feel Babel by R.F. Kuang should have been on this list.

[@Tr33ba1t]

an important thing to realize about Prince of Thorns is that it is heavily based off of A Clockwork Orange, which is why Jorg is so young and so depraved.

[@shawnyofthedead]

Just finished Nettle and Bone and I loved it. It has been the best read this year. Perhaps I just wanted something fairytale like going into autumn

[@seanbester1465]

I just finished the first Murderbot diary, and while I really liked it (the humor actually hit with me), I don't think it deserves the insane amount of hype and awards it has received. I think it cleverly speaks to those extreme introverts who don't get to see those respective character traits very often in speculative fiction, and the quick paced story is fun enough to keep it interesting. But my god, this isn't the most beautifully written, deeply provocative, groundbreakingly new idea that many fans will have you believe.

[@bradleymier2167]

Completely agree on Nettle & Bone - I found it basically unreadable 😢

[@jenniferanderson7010]

Good Omens is one of my favorite books. Ever. I also love Gaiman and Pratchett! Haven't read the others, though.

[@grandadmiralmanatee]

I definitely agree with everything on here except The Priory! Good list

[@chestersnap]

I will say, I felt kind of meh about Unsouled and Soulsmith but it just kept getting better after that. I get not wanting to keep going with something you don't like, though

[@Maximus0623]

100% agree with Good Omens. It has a lot of funny parts, but at some point, I need character development in my books. However, the tv show is very entertaining. I normally side with books when comparing books to movies, but the best way to consume Good Omens is through the tv show.

[@safinan8008]

Hi 👋 liked the video!! 🎥

[@asfaloth12]

I have to agree that Nettle&Bone was worth the hype. I quite enjoyed it. "Whimsical" is a great description, with a splash of darkness. I also got Last Unicorn vibes for some reason. I am nervous to see that most of these books are on my TBR . However, they are all either going to be library loans or books that I already own. So, no huge loss Thanks for sharing!

[@danilegge527]

Agree totally about Legends and Lattes. Wish I had read it before I had heard the hype. On the other hand I had heard so many reviews about how bad Fourth Wing was, that I was pleasantly surprised when I read it and really enjoyed it.

[@jayhowden2933]

You're 100% correct with The Atlas Six. I hated every single one of the characters and the ending was its only saving grace. Also very clear how the author had clear favourites with the amount of time she spent with them in terms of chapters. Very disappointed. Rant over :)

[@spencercorpuz]

Woah you guys are in the same place! Haha that's awesome.

[@ernstbrehm1135]

That shirt pretty much says it all!!!😂

[@libraryofaviking]

😂

[@vic70ria]

Legends & Latte is hyped because of its quietness. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@victorq20]

Yeah it's slice of life

[@chyndonax]

Unsouled number one? Nooooooo. And I was (mostly) agreeing with you up until that one. To be fair I don't see Cradle on a whole lot of Booktuber best of lists. So take him off this list, now. Having said that I can see how it's not for everyone. I personally love the leveling/progression dynamic. But even I felt Lindon was annoying in how obsequious he is. But I looked past it and I'm glad I did.

[@lukepoplawski3230]

Glad to see priory up there. Her world building is superb, but other than that the author describes fashion better than anything else. Fantasy, sword fighting, magic, and ontop of that so many feud ex machina moments. Characters were good. And don’t get me started on it’s advertising. OOOOOoooh a FEMALE author and main character!?!?! Some LBGT characters??!? Such pandering. Samantha Shannon isn’t a great “female author,” she’s just a great “author.” Period. But this book is severely underwhelming.

[@dakotarobinson5370]

Absolute bait having sword of Kaigen in the thumbnail hahaha

[@nyxian_grid]

When I hear people saying that Legends & Lattes started cosy fantasy, I just want to shove Howl's Moving Castle in their face.

[@samanthaschafer8086]

I love Priory!!!!

[@Prest646]

Cradle is a vibe, W series

[@ZamWeazle]

Are you guys the new Daniel & Merphy? 😝 Would be interesting to watch a video on the books that you both disagree on. 😆👍

[@libraryofaviking]

Haha I don't think we deserve that title 😂 Thank you!

[@ZamWeazle]

@@libraryofaviking Haha, was just teasing. Both you guys bring your own flavor to fantasy booktube. I'm here for it 😊

[@DanExploresBooks]

I will never understand what people love about Murderbot, after only reading one book. But im glad it lands well for so many. To me, the humor just fell so flat. Wanted to like it but it was one of my only 1 stars ever.

[@sCWasP]

Cradle feels like a series that would be super addictive for someone who's never read or watched a shounen manga/anime, but if you do have a lot of prior experience with that genre, then cradle feels pretty dang average tbh, it really doesn't to anything new or interesting on that front.

[@margaretdyal1380]

Love Murderbot and Good Omens! I haven't read Nettle and Bone yet but T. Kingfisher can do no wrong!

[@jonbelakio]

I really enjoyed legends and lattes personally. I would say top 3 reads for me this year for sure

[@kendrarichardson8811]

I’m happy to see Good Omens on here 😅 I actually like humor in my books but I didn’t think this was funny 🤷🏻‍♀️ I heard I would be laughing out loud when I read it and I didn’t think anything was THAT funny 😬

[@raineydayscott]

That’s probably a good sign, I would guess it means you don’t have overwhelming amounts of religious trauma. I do, and had to pause the audiobook multiple times to catch my breath from laughing too hard

[@Gna_d54]

@@raineydayscott Agreed. This is definitely a book for people who either grew up more with religious trauma or are a bit older and grew up in a time in which Christianity was much more emphasized and prevalent in everyday life and society than it has been for the last 20 years.

[@kendrarichardson8811]

🤣🤣🤣 well that’s good to know I don’t have religious trauma 😂 I’m glad you were able to enjoy it!! I guess I didn’t think of it that way but I can see how people would it enjoy it more with that background. I do think Neil Gaiman is coming from a similar background so that makes sense.

[@bazoo513]

5:30 - Heathen! Martha Wells is almost as good as Iain M. Banks in this series. (The humor of those books was not the laugh out loud kind. FWIW, the initial novella has most of it.) Out of all other books you cover, I only read the Pratchett/Gaiman one - practically never heard of any of other eight. Now I have to see which books you _do_ recommend. BTW, "TBR list longer than my life expectancy" ? Amateur! My Kindle library has about 10k titles in it, only about 10% of them read, and I am 67!

[@bobkeane7966]

I like you two together.

[@pollys6192]

I'd add Naomi Novik's "Uprooted". The pace was off, the story was inconsistent, the characters were vaguely portrayed and according to a friend who is knowledgeable in slavic folkore, the use of said folklore was wrong and misleading. I said what I said.

[@ZamWeazle]

Yeah and Petrik also really hates it too lol 😆

[@pollys6192]

@@ZamWeazle I love him more now than I did 5 minutes ago 🤣

[@ZamWeazle]

@@pollys6192 😂

[@miyayume_eclectic_dream]

The MURDERBOT Diaries are wort the hype... I love every sentence!

[@CBCB8282]

Prince of Thorns ... I hated it I read half the book and dropped it the main character did not vibe with me at all and was not even fun to hate.

[@cynthiafialka]

I wasn’t that crazy about Legends & Lattes or Nettle and Bone. I enjoy your videos but your background music is pretty distracting.

[@tanja9364]

I couldn’t, just couldn’t read ANY of Sarah J Maas’s books.

[@OrangeHand]

The story about her books being published with different bonus chapters depending on which store you bought from really turned me off from her work.

[@kate-np9rz]

@@OrangeHand You can read all those stories online for free, so not really a big deal.

[@LunarArsonist]

bro i loved The Murderbot Diaries

[@kate-np9rz]

Are you slowly transforming into Daniel Greene? Your thumbnails are clearly trying to mimic his style.

[@JEDIGENX]

I think Murderbot deserves the hype...

[@warnerblair]

I love Brandon. But I also love forth wing. So..

[@crazyforbooksandcoffee]

Same!!!

[@crazyforbooksandcoffee]

I love to read Diversity I read all Genre as well as middle grade and YA alongside adult reads I love an epic high fantasy 900 page just as much as 300 pages of Smut 😂 they all have their place 😊

[@sarahgonzalez162]

Prior had its slow moments but I enjoyed the whole ride

[@jeroenadmiraal8714]

Omg you said the word romantasy.

[@heatherauton655]

I would add book 1 Of Fire and Blood, I hear book 2 is a huge step up and later ones way better but goodness book 1 was stand out awful on character, plot, writing. Flat characters and plot craters more than just plot holes. Worst book I’ve read in decades. So I just don’t get the hype around book 1. But it sure is a social media fav like Fourth Wing Definitely the worst debut I’ve ever read 😢 I find it strange how some reviewers will happily call out some books as being poor, such as some of the WOT ones, but not a murmur of anything but absolute love for OBAF Looking forward to later ones though 😊

[@jaishans]

It’s weird how guys who review Fourth Wing always have to declare that it’s not their type. It’s like they are ashamed of having read it, and they need to keep their dude status intact by denouncing romantacy.

[@thomas112595]

You should read Dawn of wonder great book that you loose yourself in

[@mlouis7]

Brandon sanderson should be on this list

[@WilliamSullivan-uv1ht]

@FunFantasyBooks is adorable!!!

[@protagonistspub]

Murderbot is SOOO incredibly over-hyped and not humorous.

[@vinodvagadurgi414]

Where is storm light archives Definitely not worth hype

[@davidblandin8139]

Most over hyped books EVER "The Kingkiller Chronicles ".All I hear everyone boasting about is the prose,well to me it has more cons lol.And isn't Denna just Jenny from Forrest Gump ?

[@erikaeriksson9840]

Legends and Lattes was nothing special. Much prefer Pratchett when I want funny, cozy writing, a book like Wyrd Sisters has all L&L has and then some. ❤

[@DustinHarrisWHBC]

Can’t get with Murderbot being on this list HOW DARE YOU

[@jujubean9063]

i love cradle, but it is overhyped.

[@jamesmswenko8292]

Sword of Kaigen was such a waste of time for me.

[@caewing85]

Legends and Lattes is so boring to me. And I like Robin Hobb. Lol 😂

[@kendrarichardson8811]

😂😂 Same!!

[@tanja9364]

Totally agree.

[@aliciasorenson3807]

The Poppy War is MASSIVELY overhyped.

[@devinking8144]

Murderbot is worth the hype!

[@libraryofaviking]

Glad you love it!

[@jennychasteen]

I'm planning to read it soon, so I'm glad to hear that! 😃

[@DanExploresBooks]

​@@jennychasteenI did not enjoy the first one in the slightest. I was so bugged that I bought the 4 books, think I would jive with them. The humor just didn't land for me. But glad people like them.

[@jonbelakio]

I actually found it hard to get through the first book. Hopefully the second picks up

[@anthonykane4127]

Me you and Will are longer freinds 😂 only joking

[@EarhirX]

Murderbot is so cringe. It is a teenager's fantasy of how they are better than anyone else and just pretend they are not because they are not interested in human interaction.

[@afiaiftekhar405]

Autistic ppl and introverts relate to it better

[@cloudedsky88]

Agreed on Legends & Lattes, Fourth Wing, Murderbot, Good Omens and Cradle. DNF’d them all except L&L and Murderbot but those two I found dull.

[@CBCB8282]

Good omens is a riot wonderful for a good laugh very clever, it is what it is not everything is serious. I think the hype is deserved for what the book is, which is not classic fantasy or even fantasy with humor sprinkled in, it is humor first fantasy second.

[@nazimelmardi]

Forth Wing. Planned hype. That’s the key. But not SJM level. Extremely bad prose like a draft without editing. And so on. It’s just a bad book. Mark Lawrence-the kid is 13 in it and growing up in the story to 16 mainly in the first book. Just saying. SJM acotar is not that popular in booktubers. More like younger wannabes and TikTok. It’s DNF by Merph and all her subs and Daniel made a vid by joke drunk. That’s all. A lot never reads it or no vids about it. And for a reason. I read it we didn’t even put it on book tier when Daniel made it from 300 or so list. Zero votes. Good Omens IS a winner!! The masters Neil and Terry Pratchett are just good. Not their best work both wrote better but it’s a good book definitely. Worth the hype. Mastery of writing. And show case how to do it together.

[@kate-np9rz]

Fourth Wing had a high rating before the book even came out, book 2 isn't even out yet and last I checked it was like 600 5 star "reviews" and ratings already. Super annoying!

[@nazimelmardi]

@@kate-np9rz planned hype. About rating: the book was in the hands of some “special” readers. I saw it in the hand of Chrissy Costanza, singer of Against the Current, famous of being a fan of SJM and a very famous twitch streamer too (of games like League of Legends, Valorant) and likes to speak about books (fortunately she likes way better books too 😂). Shows how the hype started probably. Just saying.

[@kate-np9rz]

@@nazimelmardi Ahh interesting, thanks for that info :)

[@PhreakPhantom]

I know I am probably alone here: anything Brandon Sanderson I unbearably overrated. Weak predictable writing.

[@TheMrNukeman]

LMAO if you want to say his initial writing was weak, that is fair... but to call Sanderson predictable is asinine. He is successful for a reason, but please continue to ignorantly hate!

[@SuperSuperdude88]

throw in JADE CITY

[@AuthorJohnADouglas]

Neil Gaiman is overrated. Edit: Just a bit.

[@AuthorJohnADouglas]

@@joshhall1967 I said what I said lol

[@pranavprasad8793]

​@@AuthorJohnADouglasBoooooooooo

[@AuthorJohnADouglas]

@@pranavprasad8793 Just a little.

[@libraryofaviking]

That's a spicy opinion 😂

[@Rumham7291]

wrong, legends and lattes, is an amazing book. The coziness and heart warmingness is great.

[@quirrel1453]

Fourth Wing worth the hype. I hate these clickbait videos

[@michaelldennis]

It’s probably worth the hype for the right reader. But much of the hype I’ve seen - mostly off booktube - has not appropriately identified the type of reader that will enjoy it.

[@joshdoe3507]

What do you mean? It has been, very accurately might I add, portrayed as a combination of Game of Thrones and Eragon. Take the best parts of both and subtract the worst and you end up with Fourth Wing

[@zackattack366]

@@joshdoe3507 what a combo to describe a book that's a YA romance Fantasy. No wonder people get confused and disappointed with the book if they're told its GOT and Eragon.

[@SimplementInefable]

​@@joshdoe3507and, in your opinion, which are the worst/best parts of GoT? I have not read Fourth Wing, and from what I have seen, I'm not sure it is for me, but I really really love GoT so maybe I could give it a try, how would you recommend it to me?

[@joshdoe3507]

@@SimplementInefable Sorry, that was sarcasm but it's probably hard to read that through text. That was the first marketing jargon I heard of about this book and just a quick search of reviews told me that was a lie. Probably one of the big reasons books like this get a lot of backlash from the SFF community is the inaccurate marketing pushing them as something they aren't. The marketers are trying to trick readers into buying a book that's not targeted towards their interests. Doesn't matter if they like it or not as long as they already bought it. Not even just the marketers really, a lot of the initial reviews I saw compared it to similar book series that I think the reviewers must not have even read to make the comparisons they do.