Hello readers! This week’s LTB is about my unpopular opinions about popular books. I have a few posts on here centering on this topic, but I thought it’d be fun to talk about some more! It’s always fun to see what people will say about the books I disliked or liked.
Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme that was originated by Eternity Books and is currently hosted by Book Nook Bits and Dinipandareads. The accompanying thumbnail was also designed by Book Nook Bits. Each Friday, bloggers craft posts where they engage in discussions centered around the designated topic for the week.
Prompts: Have you ever experienced what seems like the whole book community raving about a book, only to discover it’s not all that? What are some story elements that put you off while reading? What about books others dislike that you love? Feel free to share examples of which books everyone loved and you didn’t, and vice versa! 🤭
I think my biggest unpopular opinion is Emily Henry. I don’t dislike her books overall, but I do dislike the romances.
She sort of mixes literary fiction with romances, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I never enjoy the romances in her books.
I’ve come to learn that I don’t like 2nd chance romance and both the books I read by her were 2nd chance, so I might try one more book by her down the road that for certain does NOT have that trope.
I really loved everything about Happy Place except Wyn. And I believe the book would’ve been perfect if Harriet had just dumped him in the end.
Another really popular one is Yours Truly. This one has such a high rating, and I just didn’t vibe with it. I think it had too many romance tropes shoved into one book.
I mean, it starts out as rivals to lovers, then adds fake dating, only one bed, and even forced proximity mixed with the miscommunication trope and misplaced jealousy. I don’t get it at all.
I swear I like romance books! I just never like the ones that are popular on Booktok.
This is the one that I am truly confused as to why I am the only one with this opinion.
I didn’t like anything about this book including the romance that flipped from hate to love very quickly. It honestly didn’t even make sense. Did they really have any real reason to hate one another?
But most of all, I don’t get the fantasy world it takes place in. And it may be explained more later in another book, but I felt like I needed to be told more here.
It felt like I was reading a book that was originally written as a historical fiction and then she went back and added in fantasy elements that weren’t really thought out.
There is a war, of course. Why is there a war? What stake do humans have in it? It really didn’t explain that humans were inherently religious. But, they are fighting this war between gods and I don’t even know why they are fighting one another.
For a book that I LOVED and everyone hated, I’d have to say Lord of the Fly Fest.
Despite not being the biggest fan of the original work, I loved this book. It is basically Lord of the Flies, but it’s a bunch of rich influencers stuck on an island where a music festival was supposed to take place, but was cancelled.
It seems from looking at Goodreads reviews that people either didn’t get or just didn’t like the satire element of it, but it was such a fun read for me. I am a chronically online person, so it was fun to read about these characters and sort of create my own theories of who each person was based on.
CLICK HERE or HERE to see some of my unpopular book opinions I’ve share in the past!
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