Have you/are you going to watch the new film? I want to but haven’t had the chance yet, it looked pretty good from the trailers. The movies were one of the rare occasions were i thought they equalled or maybe actually were better than the books (personal opinion, I enjoyed the films more). Tbh i’ll still see it even if everyone says it’s rubbish though
I think I will have to try this and experiment with some more of the 3.5s. I don’t know if it was more to my taste in fiction but years and years ago I thought pretty much all the books over a 4 that I read were really good, but have found that not the case so much anymore (if I was in a charity shop I would look up the books that I was drawn to and if it was over a 4 I’d get it. Now I’ll still do a check just to make sure its not got an absolitely dire rating everywhere).
Not trying to sound like a snob, I think its that since becoming ever more popular the high ratings will be often on books popular on “booktok” etc. Not looking down on people that do enjoy them.but they’re usually just not to my taste, or will be books that have paid there way to popularity. A court of thrones and roses got a 4.2 and is hugely popular but I managed some of it and its really not my thing. I’ll often now find account of people that have highly rated books I do like, seem to have similar taste, and see what else they’ve given good reviews to. A lot of the 4+ are there because of their popularity which doesn’t = good
I agree really, I didn’t find it well written (although I guess that’s debatable in that it was compelling enough to keep going) but my nan bought me all 3 books when they were at peak hype while I was really sick in hospital, and thats exactly when you want some fun easy reading, an easy to follow plot and a page-turner. Got to admit I’m tempted to read the one she did from Edward’s point of view
Now for actually terribly written, and definitely deserving of the crap, is 50 shades of gray. I didn’t know it stated off as a twilight fanfic. It was another hospital stay (had some bad luck in my early 20s lol) I was allowed out when well enough to an asda next door, I saw it top of the bestsellers list, 3 for 2, so grabbed it without having read anything about it and barely glancing at the back. And i didn’t even find it good in a trashy entertainment way alone, BUT, it was really great for reading parts out loud to the other people I was there with, we would take turns (how many times she bit her lip). But also it deserved crap for how it depicted BDSM based relationships, what being a sub and a dom should be