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I’m a personally a huge lover of booktok and bookstagram (and book related subs too, like this one!) but it’s always a toss up on what books are gonna be hits and misses. What books do you think are or aren’t worth the hype?
My personal hits:
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Big Swiss by Jen Beagin – I absolutely loved this. It was hilarious and the dark humor was so well done, in my opinion.
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh – Another “weird book for weird people,” that I thought was very well done. The underlying themes of grief being covered by an interesting take on how to cope with it was so interesting to me.
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro – This was the first literary fiction book I read! When I first got back into reading I was only reading romance, and this was an eye opening read for my personal reading journey.
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Almond by Sohn Won Pyung – Breathtakingly beautiful and so sad all the same. One of my favorite Booktokers posted that this was one of her favorite books of 2024 and I am so grateful that I read it!
My personal misses:
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The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa – This book is so loved by so many but I really had to trudge through it. I thought the writing was jncredibly detached from the story, and I despised the ending.
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Tomorrow x3 by Gabrielle Zevin – I don’t really have much of an explanation for this, but I made it about 60% of the way through before DNFing it and returning it to the library. I found the plot to be very boring and it didn’t pique my interest at all.
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Bunny and Rouge by Mona Awad – I actually read two Mona Awad books, who is a very popular author on both Booktok and Bookstagram, and they were both misses for me. I wasn’t a fan of the writing, or either storyline. I think generally speaking she’s a fairly talented writer but it just didn’t work for me.
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Annie Bot by Sierra Greer – I was so excited to read this because everyone on Booktok was raving about it for a minute. It really let me down. I also hated the ending and how it was incredibly undereveloped in my opinion (I won’t say anything further because I don’t want to give any spoilers, though I will say most people’s favorite part was the ending).
So yeah, I’m very curious to see what people think! I’m expecting to see Project Hail Mary, ACOTAR, and Fourth Wing in a lot of people’s lists (which categories, I am unsure, as they’re mostly pretty divisive). Thank you for your input in advance 🙂