I always like to try to step out of my comfort zone. I was once strictly a mystery/thriller reader but I picked up a fantasy book after discovering BookTube and my eyes were opened to a whole genre I once thought I would hate. Now I try to follow BookTubers/BookTokers that read similarly to me and some that read just outside what I’d normally pick up. That way I’m hearing about books I know I will enjoy and some that I can pick up to give a try (and usually end up enjoying).

I don’t really look at what the blurbs say but I look at who blurbed the books. If I see some of my favourite author’s names, it gives me higher hopes that I’ll like the book I’m about to read.

100%. I loved Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunters but after the The Dark Artifices series, I broke up with Clare. I was finding myself losing interest and I much rather depart with fond memories over having a book that I wasn’t enjoying. I did try Sword Catcher and got about 100 pages into it but ended up dnfing as I wasn’t enjoying it.

It is sad when your reading preferences take you away from your favourite author but I think it’s perfectly normal. As we are reading a variety of genres and authors, I think we fine tune our preferences and sometimes our favourite authors just don’t fit that mould anymore.