Books are different for everyone. Sometimes the things you hate in one book you love in another and there’s no real explanation other than it just feels different in every book. Sometimes, you also happen to find yourself disliking a book that everyone loves. Here are some unpopular bookish opinions on some of the book community’s well loved books.
Serpent and Dove
Everyone and their mothers loved this book and honestly, I wish I did to lol. I’m all for the enemies to lover trope/marriage trope and a sassy main MC but in this book, I disliked all of those tropes. I didn’t think that this story really delivered on these tropes properly.
I don’t even know if this book can be considered enemies to lovers. Yes, fundamentally, they’re enemies, but they really didn’t hate each other that much. The guy Reid fell way too quickly for Lou. He trusted her way too easily. It was too fast and easy for me. And Lou’s humor honestly felt forced for me at times. My main problem with this book is the world building, or the lack of world building. There was absolutely none. I read in a review somewhere that this book felt like the second book in a series and that’s exactly what it was. The story starts off with a heist where they steal this object. It’s made out to be a big deal but nothing, NOTHING, happens regarding that object until the end. And the way it was brought up felt like an afterthought?
I don’t think I’ll buy the second book and I’m not in a rush to read the sequel. But I guess the ending did redeem itself a little but I don’t feel connected to any of the characters or the plot much to continue.
The Kiss Quotient
I’m so sad I didn’t like this book because I absolutely loved the second book. I accidentally read the second book first and really loved it. That’s probably why I went in with high expectations for the first book. Unfortunately, I didn’t love it. I love romance books, but I love romance books with some plot. I felt like the plot in this book wasn’t as gripping as “The Bride Test”. Nothing much really happened and the main mysterious aspect of the male MC was constantly brought up throughout the book but it was stretched out so far that I didn’t really care when it was “revealed” at the end.
Daisy Jones and the Six
“The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” is one of my favorite books of all time. Unfortunately, I couldn’t care this book. I didn’t hate it by any means or dislike it, it just did nothing for me. I did read it physically so that may be why I didn’t enjoy it as much as everyone. I didn’t really care for the characters or Daisy. Daisy’s also a “bad”/”morally gray” character but I feel like there wasn’t anything redeeming or interesting about her. I think I felt that this way because I couldn’t really connect with her one on one as much as we did with Evelyn. In “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”, we got to see Evelyn’s story, we spent most of the book from her POV. With “Daisy Jones and the Six”, the plot jumped from character to character and everything felt surface level. The interview style writing format also put some more distance between me and the story. I feel like the plot wasn’t as riveting or gripping because of the script like text.
Red Rising
This is the one book on this list that I couldn’t even finish. I really, really, disliked the main character. He came off so unbearably cocky and pretentious. There were times where he’d say something to his wife that felt so controlling and ugh, I could care less about what might have been great world building. I couldn’t stand the main character and something about the writing style really turned me off of this book.
What are some books that everyone loved but you didn’t?
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