Cover is the first thing you know about a book and it is a genre-definer. More books are sold because of a well-made cover than because the book is good.

That being said, nowadays few books/authors live up to their initial hype or survive the best-selling lists for a long time. Reading in a certain genre feels like burning matches one after another, and it's making me disillusioned on the industry, to be honest.

Ah, this book. I read it long ago when it was all the hype. Needless to say, it didn't vibe with me, mostly because I couldn't figure out what the book was about... the book itself didn't seem to know either.

I know what made this book so hyped back in the day, and I think it's the exact same thing that steals the focus away from the premise entirely and turns the whole thing into a wasted opportunity for something epic, IMO. If that was the plan, then marketing did an awful job at selling this book like something it definitely isn't.

I usually do not keep reading a book if I'm not feeling it, no matter how many pages in. You can give it another try, or you can move on to the next book!

*completely personal opinion, and rather unpopular for what I know.