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@bookisland65159 жыл бұрын
Am i the only person who felt this way about The Fault in Our Stars?
@jadelove30569 жыл бұрын
bookisland i did too
@Savannah268899 жыл бұрын
I didn't care for the movie at all either
@AriaLouisa9 жыл бұрын
bookisland I thought I was the only one
@oliviaroberts56739 жыл бұрын
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!
@macymace37269 жыл бұрын
bookisland that is my least favourite from John Green. He has much better books
@naty99489 жыл бұрын
Finally, looking for Alaska in my opinion has zero character development he just meet ppl. Lol I'm the only one.
@chunkymonkey90979 жыл бұрын
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..
@everydaynyeacnyeac37689 жыл бұрын
Shhhh
@chunkymonkey90979 жыл бұрын
Fictitious rain drops magnet haha what do you think about it?
@LetsReadSFF10 жыл бұрын
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.
@PeruseProject10 жыл бұрын
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
@whoizzat9 жыл бұрын
She clearly stated that she didn't intend to make it like reading hyped books is wrong in the disclaimer.
@BooksUnstitched9 жыл бұрын
All of John Green's books are overhyped haha
@grachisol82369 жыл бұрын
BooksUnstitched Finally some one agrees with me
@autumnlucy17519 жыл бұрын
I haven't read them because of that reason
@everydaynyeacnyeac37689 жыл бұрын
No just fault in the stars one
@4shadowdragon138 жыл бұрын
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
@ivey24598 жыл бұрын
I've only read tfios and I disliked it.
@Neverrgreen9 жыл бұрын
My overhyped book/series: Divergent.
@gracegallagher20059 жыл бұрын
Finally someone that gets me!
@hippopajamas9 жыл бұрын
YES
@lukasingel9 жыл бұрын
True :s
@Vampirelove489 жыл бұрын
Yes! thank you for saying that. I honestly made no emotional connection to any of the characters what's so ever.
@Abookwormfreak9 жыл бұрын
+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
@bradleypeterson23229 жыл бұрын
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.
@bradleypeterson23229 жыл бұрын
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.
@tiaralarasati42479 жыл бұрын
Oh my God finally someone who's with me! I feel that every characters in John Green's books are basically the same!
@daphnedee76259 жыл бұрын
I thought so too
@michaylalovitt27967 жыл бұрын
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.
@Ena-qy3ik6 жыл бұрын
Bradley Peterson I agree, I don’t read John greens book anymore because all the story lines are the exact same.
@CyberOne66610 жыл бұрын
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.
@lulu_frances10 жыл бұрын
I feel the pain! not particularly invested qith JG books anymore..only read two, could not get into paper towns and so forth
@161uptowngirl9 жыл бұрын
YESSSS !!! I MEAN WHO TALKS LIKE THAT ?? No one :/
@krystalliana32239 жыл бұрын
I dislike John Green's books too, they're all boring and annoying
@thebookgoddess73809 жыл бұрын
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.
@alwaysgonnabestefan9 жыл бұрын
John Greene's books are all overrated
@coffeehousebooknook66676 жыл бұрын
I only bought one recently because it was on sale for 5 dollars at Target haha
@kimba_leigh8 жыл бұрын
I thought Divergent was over hyped.
@smk_tvsenpai20978 жыл бұрын
I don't agree with that so much for the first two books but I kind of lost interest in the last one
@antoinettechua9598 жыл бұрын
I lost interest in the second book.
@tudorarada468 жыл бұрын
Kimba Totally!
@onlyangel1528 жыл бұрын
Antoinette Chua totally! i feel it's very overhyped! i have definitely lost interest in the divergent series! it's just too overhyped
@iaracaceres51607 жыл бұрын
I'm a simple girl, i saw Bastille on the wall and I clicked on the video (which was really good btw) ❤
@welldonebooks10 жыл бұрын
mmmmm preach girl. We Were Liars. grrrrr so frustrating. i concur. also, all John Green books are overhyped in my opinion.
@welldonebooks10 жыл бұрын
also overhyped book of the year for me is Half Bad by Sally Green. i just don't understand.
@xuanxuan349710 жыл бұрын
WellDoneBooks I totally agree on that! Half Bad didn't really have that witchy vibe to it, you know? Not much magic either.
@konstandinapteris38549 жыл бұрын
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
@BritneySao9 жыл бұрын
Exactly! TBH I felt like TFIOS wasn't that good. The plot was, but I felt like it just wan't good...
@hazuki_music9 жыл бұрын
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... :/
@Cubannerd8 жыл бұрын
Ruby Red, Sapphire Green and Emerald Blue. lmao That sounds like pokemon games
@adiazrue57767 жыл бұрын
'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.
@bigwingboy27487 жыл бұрын
+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.
@elenam.42327 жыл бұрын
In German the titles sound so much better, in my opinion. I'm still confused reading the English names... (Rubinrot, Saphirblau, Smaragdgrün...)
@megdavies56898 жыл бұрын
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
@mollyann32578 жыл бұрын
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
@tudorarada468 жыл бұрын
Meg Davies Yup!
@sarahashford64917 жыл бұрын
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 :)
@jkveaas7 жыл бұрын
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!
@fountainpenink65936 жыл бұрын
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
@ConnorBright9 жыл бұрын
The Hunger Games.
@gdfgdfgdffdgfd78019 жыл бұрын
You may be the only one for this one. Lol
@TheTurtleBookWorm9 жыл бұрын
idek lel omg! Ba ha ha. Thanks for that!
@13hail9 жыл бұрын
I agree
@helenbendell22079 жыл бұрын
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)
@animeonly19939 жыл бұрын
Helen Bendell it is overhyped lol i have read better story about teenage survival
@elizziebooks10 жыл бұрын
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. :)
@PeruseProject9 жыл бұрын
Dooooooo iittttttttt
@leahlovesroses9 жыл бұрын
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...
@sprinkleofhappiness989 жыл бұрын
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
@hippopajamas9 жыл бұрын
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.
@Maria-tt2wh9 жыл бұрын
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
@lukasingel9 жыл бұрын
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.
@dashyknockback94695 жыл бұрын
Leah Stubbs read the infernal devices
@justahistoricalopinion40310 жыл бұрын
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
@vcdc674210 жыл бұрын
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.
@justahistoricalopinion40310 жыл бұрын
Oh and also the Mortal Instruments yea its JustAHistoricalOpinion hahahah not a good pun #donotkillmecauseidonotenjoyeverythingthatyouenjoynorviceversaandthishashtageiswaytoolangBTW
@vcdc674210 жыл бұрын
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.
@justahistoricalopinion40310 жыл бұрын
Teteus Pimentinha I agree I kinda liked TFIOS and I actually really like The Hunger Games but MockingJay is the worst
@rekha321210 жыл бұрын
YES YES YES IM NOT ALONE!!!
@kingkags36047 жыл бұрын
John Green books are overrated. ESPECIALLY TFIOS
@highlyhp10 жыл бұрын
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.
@joanaramacciotti461510 жыл бұрын
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.
@highlyhp10 жыл бұрын
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.
@leahlovesroses9 жыл бұрын
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...
@AKthehood9 жыл бұрын
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
@emmawhitelaw-mm4mr9 жыл бұрын
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.
@lise16377 жыл бұрын
GIIIRL WHERE DID YOU GET THAT BASTILLE POSTER I AM LIVING
@isismolina310 жыл бұрын
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.
@HysteriCool10 жыл бұрын
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.
@skfrench00310 жыл бұрын
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.
@HysteriCool10 жыл бұрын
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.
@missbilika10 жыл бұрын
HysteriCool isismol1993 Just my thoughts.
@29jgirl929 жыл бұрын
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.
@22OrangeGirl9 жыл бұрын
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.
@lysstenn9 жыл бұрын
TinyTeacup I loved that series! It definitely gets better as it goes on and Cress is the best so far in my opinion.
@emilyhanks51639 жыл бұрын
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.
@lausommeils66689 жыл бұрын
TinyTeacup same!
@BahamaBeauty249 жыл бұрын
I refunded Cinder because I wasn't feeling it..
@skfrench00310 жыл бұрын
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).
@skfrench00310 жыл бұрын
That's the only John Green book I've liked so far. I liked it on the first read, loved it on the second.
@161uptowngirl10 жыл бұрын
I agree !!
@rispaca10 жыл бұрын
I sooo agree about the Lux series! The first book was okay, but it kinda went downhill and slightly ridiculous after... x
@opodobed10 жыл бұрын
I agree on everething minus Rainbow Rowell. I just love all of her books.
@aabatteryful10 жыл бұрын
***** John Green books in general are just really really overhyped.
@ellashearer69629 жыл бұрын
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
@isabellesvoic3s10 жыл бұрын
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.
@CamilleGuiang10 жыл бұрын
My thoughts about TFiOS exactly.
@SusannaPowers7 жыл бұрын
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.
@serenity891010 жыл бұрын
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!
@JamesLawner10 жыл бұрын
Penumbra > Divergent, but that's just my opinion.
@sashabsanti10 жыл бұрын
Divergent is way overhyped! I don't think the first or second books are all that great.
@surithyarulmoli512010 жыл бұрын
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
@serenity891010 жыл бұрын
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.
@serenity891010 жыл бұрын
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!
@abigaillewis91988 жыл бұрын
Definitely paper towns🙄🙄🙄 couldn't get past the half way point and I've tried to read it more than once😒
@Eowyn.8 жыл бұрын
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😭
@kaitlyncarroll33148 жыл бұрын
+Abigail Lewis Paper Towns is definitely my least favorite John Green book. I didn't think it was that great.
@treg.21898 жыл бұрын
that book was so good!
@Eowyn.8 жыл бұрын
+Tre G. well great for you then, I just didn't enjoy it, especially after the spoilers my teacher gave me
@light81748 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised that it was even able to turn into a movie.
@Kakemonster18987 жыл бұрын
I don't like John Green books, they aren't real
@kingkags36047 жыл бұрын
Katrine B. Harr Dybdahl Finally! Yes!
@Mia-eo7pr7 жыл бұрын
Katrine B. Harr Dybdahl the only john green book I liked was looking for Alaska tbh. The rest are shit
@keiraduband7 жыл бұрын
Katrine B. Harr Dybdahl they're fucking fiction lol
@angelacantu424410 жыл бұрын
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.
@briannahillier942510 жыл бұрын
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...
@BookNomming10 жыл бұрын
Finally someone else who likes them but doesn't get the hype!
@ellensynove10 жыл бұрын
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.
@StellaPlayss10 жыл бұрын
It was just okay.
@katisobsessive8 жыл бұрын
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.
@quackerzsis998 жыл бұрын
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.
@sarcasticsugar44669 жыл бұрын
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...
@alexcross59 жыл бұрын
Lemon Drops I thought To Kill a Mockingbird was amazing, but I guess we all have our opinions.
@sarcasticsugar44669 жыл бұрын
Alex Cross Teu, and I'm not trying to convince anyone here - just stating my own! :D
@miam90229 жыл бұрын
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.
@everydaynyeacnyeac37689 жыл бұрын
Um did you just insult John greens books
@SnigdhaKucharlapati8 жыл бұрын
+Lemon Drops The Kite Runner? Really? I didnt even know it had hype in the west
@JennaJoker10 жыл бұрын
UGGGGGH I hated Looking for Alaska
@sashabsanti10 жыл бұрын
Ugh me too! I don't get why so many people love it! -.-
@arnellp877110 жыл бұрын
I dont hate the book but its not good
@312crazygurl9 жыл бұрын
TOTALLY DISAGREE! I loved it! But I can understand why you didn't like it, it was not for everyone
@22OrangeGirl9 жыл бұрын
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.
@CreativeDudette9 жыл бұрын
I only liked it for Chip/The Colonel because I came to the conclusion that I have a thing for that type of person.
@MagicTurtle6438 жыл бұрын
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 ^_^
@Amee698 жыл бұрын
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
@MagicTurtle6438 жыл бұрын
+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.
@Amee698 жыл бұрын
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
@EhyWisdom8 жыл бұрын
+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!
@Amee698 жыл бұрын
+EhyWisdom Sure! *screams at my dad to drive me to Barnes & Noble* I'll try to read it
@anais_429110 жыл бұрын
Please so no one hate me ! But if I stay ...
@lannapeanut10 жыл бұрын
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).
@bea96318 жыл бұрын
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
@spokenbookthoughts10 жыл бұрын
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 :)
@KtRosemary10 жыл бұрын
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.
@rodamo923710 жыл бұрын
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
@BeautyCheer10010 жыл бұрын
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.. :((
@nerverfadingbooksc71859 жыл бұрын
tfios totally agree
@Ambzillius9 жыл бұрын
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 -.-')
@ThaliaEmberwolf8 жыл бұрын
Ha, everything of John Green's is overhyped. I totally agree.
@kazzerism10 жыл бұрын
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.
@genawortman857810 жыл бұрын
I love that series...its not the best writing. I like it wayyy than the Divergent though.
@MAKaplan559 жыл бұрын
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
@korinap20968 жыл бұрын
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 ♥
@YNJ7110 жыл бұрын
John Green is unbelievably overhyped! Especially the fault in our stars... my god. The pretentious in that book is ridiculous and the metaphors lmao
@DolphinGirl82610 жыл бұрын
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.
@petitchocobo290510 жыл бұрын
totally agree for If I stay!!
@andrean35149 жыл бұрын
agree to both especially shatter me. Could not understand how people enjoyed the writing. It made me cringe. It was way too much.
@sunwear715010 жыл бұрын
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!
@CooleenBooks10 жыл бұрын
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 :)
@wanderwhereyouwill10 жыл бұрын
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!
@TheHG1210 жыл бұрын
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!
@Bec1810 жыл бұрын
It gets better!!! Keep reading :)
@cupcakecutie9forever10 жыл бұрын
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
@morgancollier74598 жыл бұрын
I totally agree with Looking for Alaska! I'm happy that someone else feels the same way.
@HunebeeNZ4010 жыл бұрын
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
@HunebeeNZ4010 жыл бұрын
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.
@CaitlinVanasse9 жыл бұрын
If you're interested Ashley of Climbthestacks pretty much exclusively talks about classics and literary fiction. I've been love love loving her videos.
@GoToBedJoffrey8 жыл бұрын
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.
@onabalcony10 жыл бұрын
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.
@bethanchalmers91210 жыл бұрын
Prodigy is the best
@CaitlinVanasse10 жыл бұрын
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.
@rae88mh10 жыл бұрын
Bethan Chalmers I agree. After Prodigy I had really high expectations for Champions and it just didn't deliver
@bethanchalmers9129 жыл бұрын
rae88mh agreed, it wasn't the worst but it wasn't the best as far as final instalments go
@hannahgreen54889 жыл бұрын
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.
@amberpersson41829 жыл бұрын
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.
@pabloesco45007 жыл бұрын
i saw the bastille poster.. so i had to watch
@hollisb89028 жыл бұрын
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.
@engenharialiteraria81579 жыл бұрын
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. >_
@cameronwhorton46639 жыл бұрын
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
@whoizzat9 жыл бұрын
Agreed. I'm sorry but Cassandra Clare's books were okay, not that great though.
@kenzieburke76639 жыл бұрын
READ THE INFERNAL DEVICES THEN YOU WILL LOVE IT
@engenharialiteraria81579 жыл бұрын
Kenzie Burke I read the infernal devices... and I hate it... sorry! lol xD
@babs54819 жыл бұрын
Engenharia Literária What books do you like then? Like one of your favorites.
@whoyouare949 жыл бұрын
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.
@AngelineProductions9 жыл бұрын
Yes. John Green's characters are the WORST.
@winterbananaful9 жыл бұрын
whoyouare94 Yeah I've only read paper towns, but I agree, they don't read like normal teenagers!
@mocogirl34horan9 жыл бұрын
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.
@teagangay97610 жыл бұрын
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..?
@juliarhapsody10 жыл бұрын
No I totally agree with you. divergent was great, insurgent was okay, but Allegiant just ruined it
@rmt-books10 жыл бұрын
i agree too
@melissabereading10 жыл бұрын
To me divergent was good, insurgent was my fave, & allegiant was horrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Dadiddy9710 жыл бұрын
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 :(
@juliarhapsody10 жыл бұрын
***** OH MY GODS ME TOO! My Insurgent and Allegiant are hard cover and Divergent is paperback
@msdebruin.5 жыл бұрын
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.
@cierrajanay66129 жыл бұрын
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
@SamsCozyCorner10 жыл бұрын
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!
@lannapeanut10 жыл бұрын
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)
@CaitlinVanasse10 жыл бұрын
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.
@lannapeanut10 жыл бұрын
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
@toiletteregina10 жыл бұрын
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!)
@xexemery10 жыл бұрын
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!
@CaitlinVanasse10 жыл бұрын
lannapeanut 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.
@georgiam630010 жыл бұрын
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.
@nullhypothesis273510 жыл бұрын
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. ;)
@Ashleyymoon8 жыл бұрын
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!
@AnnTheAnonymous10 жыл бұрын
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?
@chickchickclapclap10 жыл бұрын
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.
@petitchocobo290510 жыл бұрын
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!
@NaomichatswithAngus9 жыл бұрын
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
@BlushinganticsBlogspot10 жыл бұрын
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
@shelbygregory57448 жыл бұрын
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.
@shelbymoore69568 жыл бұрын
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.
@prttygurl3799 жыл бұрын
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
@HunebeeNZ4010 жыл бұрын
Also..... would be cool if you did a video on books that did deserve the hype????
@SamanthaBartonYAY8 жыл бұрын
I scroll through my recommendations and see a Bastikle poster in the background. I must watch.
@veronicaperez93618 жыл бұрын
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
@liychi9 жыл бұрын
You're so nice! I really like how polite you are about your opinions :)
@---ut6fk9 жыл бұрын
You're all going to hate me but Throne of Glass is really overhyped.
@Bobobottle28 жыл бұрын
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.
@haechanverse8 жыл бұрын
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 :(
@Seitenfetzer8 жыл бұрын
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".
@perfectlyfrank88 жыл бұрын
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.
@pranjalpunekar76458 жыл бұрын
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
@perfectlyfrank88 жыл бұрын
+pranjal punekar That's fair enough, I'm glad you enjoyed it, I'm just saying it didn't have any impact on me.
@pranjalpunekar76458 жыл бұрын
***** 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
@perfectlyfrank88 жыл бұрын
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 :)
@hannah_dan85508 жыл бұрын
Thank god I'm not the only one that hates Divergent😅
@HeatherRising9 жыл бұрын
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
@emilymercado76688 жыл бұрын
Tbh, I didn't even like twilight. I think its really overhyped
@NixieEppler7 жыл бұрын
I absolutely LOVED Looking For Alaska! But I totally understand where you're coming from and, honestly, I agree.
@tonjw977 жыл бұрын
Clicked on this the second I saw the Bastille poster on the wall 😅
@AshleighJordynXO9 жыл бұрын
Oh my god I agree with you so much with the 5th Wave. I was looking forward to it for ages and the action was great but then it just kind of . . . You know.
@kingkags36047 жыл бұрын
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?
@kaseridonrivers93247 жыл бұрын
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.
@kingkags36047 жыл бұрын
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..
@aflowerthatcannotbebloomed7 жыл бұрын
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
@alysynreinhardt10 жыл бұрын
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.
@justcody47808 жыл бұрын
Throne of Glass
@camilamoralesvera28657 жыл бұрын
Bookish Beauty yes!!!! Thank you!!! I started to think I was the only one who believed that. Everyone loves that book, that saga and there are other really good fantasy books.
@ishipit749 жыл бұрын
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.
@MDArts66610 жыл бұрын
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.
@zuzannarudzinska16157 жыл бұрын
your videos are great and you seem like such a cool person!! and also that bastille poster in the background stole my heart 💕
@joanaramacciotti461510 жыл бұрын
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
@poppyyukia10 жыл бұрын
The second book is WAY better then the first. I loved the first book but the second blew the first out of the water.
@angelicarodarte707310 жыл бұрын
Feel the same I really wanted to like it so I could continue with the rest of the books, but I can't
@eleanormorrison275110 жыл бұрын
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.
@jeanfranco38510 жыл бұрын
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
@Bookish_hollow10 жыл бұрын
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.
@genawortman857810 жыл бұрын
Yes I totally agree with you on the Divergent series
@hannahwilson667710 жыл бұрын
I think divergent was amazing but insurgent and allegiance were not so great
@xxbeexx979 жыл бұрын
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.
@thefinalfurlongx9 жыл бұрын
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!)
@161uptowngirl9 жыл бұрын
Agreed !!! TFIOS was too overrated !
@kitty240799 жыл бұрын
I agree with you 100 percent! I was never that big a fan of the Vampire Academy books, I thought they were okay but nothing that I'd be super excited for a new release or anything.
@imaneouadi6710 жыл бұрын
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)
@sjess9410 жыл бұрын
I felt the same way but the second book is WAY Better!
@Super29Girls10 жыл бұрын
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.
@imaneouadi6710 жыл бұрын
All righty. I might reconsider
@laurenmiller48246 жыл бұрын
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
@jordanreese16359 жыл бұрын
I've read many books in my young life so far, and I've only read TFIOS by John Green, but so far he is my favorite author. His characters might not be as relatable as everyone says them to be, but John Green writes to make you think, and he has to communicate that through his writing somehow which would be with his characters. I personally love the way his mind works and the way he questions the world and I just eat that stuff up, and he really puts a little bit of his soul into all of his characters. His style isn't for everyone, and the sooner we accept that, the sooner we can move on with our lives.
@SnorriSnibble9 жыл бұрын
I think that delirium is so overrated. Everyone loved this book and I read it and thought "meh... this is boring. And it reminds me of twilight" It's not that I'm a big twilight fan, but the books have a lot in common. And it's supposed to be a dystopian novel, but the dystopian part was casually mentioned in the background. The love story was the main thing and I didn't like it. But I'll stop raging.
@tjean409 жыл бұрын
Trust. You are not alone.
@sugarkats219 жыл бұрын
Tbh I loved Delirium but Pandemonium just killed it. UGH WHYYY so bad!!!!
@wilmarie55688 жыл бұрын
+Snorri Snibble yes, I couldn't finish.
@jenniferb159910 жыл бұрын
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.
@wrinkleintime42578 жыл бұрын
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. ;)
@treg.21898 жыл бұрын
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.
@LastMinuteGuess9 жыл бұрын
i had a heart attack when you said looking for alaska, but a lot of people couldnt connect with the characters. I probably had an easier time since I am also a junior in high school who suffered the EXACT same thing (except the smoking and borderline sex).
@Becksnnc9 жыл бұрын
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.