I watched a like, twenty minute video essay on this book and decided that was worth enough to pick it up lmao.
I watched an hourlong video from a Booktuber whose reading tastes mostly align with mine and was convinced that Fourth Wing is not for me. XD
That coupled with how hard BookTok* ppl have pushed for this book was all I needed for me to not even bother to pick it up. Not cuz I think I'm better than/I have a refine reading taste. It's simply a combo of having a v. delicate hype backlash button + having a ton of other books I'd rather check out. Instead of, you know, forcing myself to read thru something I'm already so heavily biased against.
*Not going to, like, super generalize here. However, ime, a lot of what BookTok tends to squee abt is either actually horrible (think super-racist or misogynistic novels) or mediocre books. And, unfortunately, this has happened enough times for me to immediately be suspicious of anything that gets tagged as 'super popular on BookTok'. Mind you, I'm sure that there are really good books getting recced, but those are in the minority, IMO.
Also: this thing is something that happens in every social media platoform, btw. It so happens that BookTok is the most prevalent one due to it being the 'new thing' or whatever. /rant over. (sorry!)
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I watched an hourlong video from a Booktuber whose reading tastes mostly align with mine and was convinced that Fourth Wing is not for me. XD
That coupled with how hard BookTok* ppl have pushed for this book was all I needed for me to not even bother to pick it up. Not cuz I think I'm better than/I have a refine reading taste. It's simply a combo of having a v. delicate hype backlash button + having a ton of other books I'd rather check out. Instead of, you know, forcing myself to read thru something I'm already so heavily biased against.
*Not going to, like, super generalize here. However, ime, a lot of what BookTok tends to squee abt is either actually horrible (think super-racist or misogynistic novels) or mediocre books. And, unfortunately, this has happened enough times for me to immediately be suspicious of anything that gets tagged as 'super popular on BookTok'. Mind you, I'm sure that there are really good books getting recced, but those are in the minority, IMO.
Also: this thing is something that happens in every social media platoform, btw. It so happens that BookTok is the most prevalent one due to it being the 'new thing' or whatever. /rant over. (sorry!)