For me, the most recent book regret is Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Predictable from the get-go, bland, boilerplate sci-fi ideas, too many of these way-too-convenient plot devices just to push the story forward. I frankly don’t get the hype, and I am a pretty big science fiction guy.
Another one is Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. I read this in college and this whole book should have been a one-page essay. It was too repetitive, and the whole premise of “trust in your snap judgments and gut reactions” is way too simplistic and honestly stupid. Like all Gladwell books, it was anecdotal, superficial, and a waste of time.
Honestly so many booktok books are so terrible. They’ll be raving about books romanticizing abuse or it’s just smut that is written poorly with no plot and so many times it’s clear there’s been barely editing done. I’ve gotten so picky taking recs now and can honestly say I’ve read better stuff on wattpadd than some of the booktok recs
TikTok doesn’t have the smartest people and when I first heard about booktok I avoided it. Don’t have the want to look at it and probably never will.
One would think some authors almost don’t want their books to get popular on there because some people, like me, tend to shy away from them for this reason. that said, it’s too bad because some books that have gotten popular I read and enjoyed long before they got BookTok Famous and it may give people the wrong impression. I really liked Secret History by Donna Tartt and A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara