I kept seeing people talk about The Fourth Wing everywhere, and I decided that if I came across it at some point that I’d just see what all the fuss was about.
I was browsing Libby recently for audiobooks available now, and I saw what I thought I had remembered was the title. What I ended up checking out was called The Four Winds. I thought, great, this will be fine to listen to while I do chores and I can evaluate it for myself.
A couple hours in, I was like, wait a minute? Weren’t there supposed to be dragons in this? I don’t see how dragons will show up in Dust Bowl-era Texas. I realized my mistake, but I was invested at this point and ended up really liking the book.
Has something like this happened to you? What were the books and the outcome?
This isn’t exactly what you’re asking, but my wife read two books in very close proximity to each other. One was Wild by Cheryl Strayed and one was Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. She told me about these books as she was reading them. We went to the movies to see Gone Girl, and a little more than halfway through, I became very confused and I turned to my wife and said, “I don’t think this is a true story.” She was like, “Of course it’s not. Wtf are you talking about?” Turns out I conflated the two books she read.