Hi-isLiv OP t1_ivy8q35 wrote on November 11, 2022 at 2:37 PM

Reply to comment by ItsJOVANI in The Seven Husbands of Eveling Hugo: I don’t get the hype by Hi-isLiv

Agreed. It’s not bad. Maybe I had expectations for the reviews.

Not every book should be a masterpiece and I enjoy both deep and fun books. I expected this to leave an emotional mark. More than one reviewer said that they were still crying after reading. I put on too much pressure on the emotional delivery

ItsJOVANI t1_ivyaasg wrote on November 11, 2022 at 2:48 PM

Yeah, it’s hard to know based on reviews, especially some I saw on TikTok/Instagram. I don’t know if a lot of those creators are maybe just newer readers (as in they are just discovering their love of reading away from an academic environment) or if there is some sort of internal pressure to overhype things when they are also creating social media reviews. That’s really where I saw the overhyping. I felt similarly about The Midnight Library and I saw a lot of people calling that life changing. Maybe it was for them, but it didn’t hit that way for me at least.

Hi-isLiv OP t1_ivyapns wrote on November 11, 2022 at 2:51 PM

I understand. I don’t have tik tok but I have instrsgram and sometimes the book proposed aren’t that good.

It ends with us comes to mind. I enjoyed it more than this one but it’s not emotionally pulling or remarkable

LemonSqueazee t1_ivymjjh wrote on November 11, 2022 at 4:12 PM

Yes! I saw so much hype about Colleen Hoover, and people claiming It Ends with Us is their new all time favorite book and just don't get it. I don't tend to finish 'bad' books, so the fact that I read it in a few days says something. But I think it was just a quick easy read, nothing groundbreaking about it. (if anything I felt it was a little problematic..)

Hi-isLiv OP t1_ivyncsu wrote on November 11, 2022 at 4:18 PM

Same here. It was predictable and fluffy. I need something like that sometimes. It was a good book it it’s category, I think I liked it also for the theme.