Do you get bookishly « hype annoyed » ?
Good morning!
As we know, some books get quite the hype in tte blogosphere, newly released or not, some books just seems to be EVERYWHERE!
Ofcourse as a book blogger, I love to go read other’s posts- besides updates & personal posts, my faves remain book lists or recs. Especially lately, it seems like everyone are reading the same books.. do you ever get annoyed at seeing this ONE cover for no reason other than seeing it everywhere?
I have a few covers that I find particularly unattractive.. and the more I see them on posts, the more annoyed I get 😅
In a different way, like with nothing but blackened teeth or In the dream house, I didn’t felt the annoyed emotion at all. But rather by seeing them everywhere, it gave me even less interest in them or even knowing what it was about.
It’s only much later, after the hype passed, that I actually stumbled on a review and go “hmm- I wonder what this book is about”, and actually marking it as interresting and I might want to pick it up eventually.
Odd how for some I just jump on the train, such as for romcoms for exemples, while others just annoys me 🤨 and it’s not only since I joined book blogging either- back when The hunger game was HUGE, I wanted nothing to do with it, and still isn’t interrested.
We hear alot how sometimes the hype fails us and we pick it up to not like the thing at all- but this is quite different in a way that I didn’t even picked it up yet! Just the look of it and the title repulse me.
How do you react to hype, in most cases?
Have you ever gotten annoyed at a particular book or cover aswell?