Khalilah D. 148K subscribers · Nov 8, 2025

I Read Overhyped Books So You Don’t Have To (And Found Better Ones) 🤯

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Disliked

It felt like she had an incredible idea and then very lackluster execution and that was just unfortunate. Also I want to preface this by saying just because I feel like this book is over hyped, doesn't make me feel like it was a bad book. It wasn't a terrible book. It was just an okay read, but I felt like because of how much hype it had and how everyone talked about how it was incredible, I just had certain standards and it just did not meet that unfortunately.

Loved

And it's a really, really beautiful, very sad, very thought-provoking book. And though it's not as sad as the other ones, it is like a little heartbreaking at times because you learn things about the mother and she just went through so much trying to give the best, give her best for her children and it makes you like realize the love of a mother, realize like everyone has their own battles and how that translates to your children and all of these other things.

Mixed

There wasn't any real substantial understanding of the fantasy world because it was so underdeveloped. There wasn't much to look for because there wasn't much there outside of the fact that they wrote letters to each other.

Loved

I rated this book five stars. I thought it was incredible. I thought it was a great way to teach people and also show your creative freedom and she did both those things very, very well.

Disliked

This book was supposed to be the most heart-wrenching, absolutely emotionally destroy us and it did nothing. It was so underwhelming, so anti-climactic. I could not believe we were reading the same book everyone was telling us about.

PanenkaUnknown
Loved

It leaves you with so many thoughts, so many like revelations, and really makes you step outside of your own life unbiasedly and look down at it and see if you're living the way that you want to live.

Liked

The book was so good until the very ending. I feel like she, I don't know, like got lazy or something, but the ending was so unsatisfactory, so anticlimactic. I couldn't believe that's how she left us off, especially after the roller coaster that we had.