Happy Friday Bibliofriends,
How are you getting on with your reading goals? It’s always around this time that I feel my goals start to slip a little, however with the continuation of lockdown into March, I guess I still have no social life so I may as well keep persevering with my goals! 😂 Thankfully, it’s time for #FaeFriday again!
Fae Friday is a weekly blog prompt hosted by the wonderful Kristy at Caffeinated Fae. It seems like the perfect way to spread a little more magic across the blogosphere every week.
Here are the rules:
- Link back to this page on Caffeinated Fae.
- If the prompt idea is from another blog, link to that blog as well.
- Use #FaeFriday when posting to social media so we can all find each other!
- Participate when you can & have fun with the prompt!
February 12th prompt:
It’s #FaeFriday and I bet you already knew what this week’s prompt would be based on last week! 😉
What book didn’t live up to the hype?
This question always fills me with a little bit of dread as it’s usually always accompanied with an 🚨 unpopular opinion alert 🚨! I also find it really awkward at having to say that book just isn’t for me – I’m too much of a people pleaser sometimes! 🙈
My immediate thoughts go to Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin. I first read this series when the book came in my Fairyloot subscription box and it was mega-hyped as the best witchy book you’ll have read in a long time… so I went into it with major hocus pocus vibes only to find that the thing I enjoyed most about the book was the constant references to sticky cinnamon buns. I know some people have major love for the series but it just wasn’t my thing at all.
I have since found my perfect witchy book that definitely WAS the best witchy book I’ve read for a long time, but that’s a different story… 😉
Other notable mentions include:
The Shadow and Bone series by Leigh Bardugo – which is so odd as I LOVE Six of Crows!
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
What books didn’t quite cut the mustard and live up to the hype for you? As always, leave me a comment to chat!
Enjoy your weekend Bibliofriends!
T xx
thebiblioshelf.com 
ahhh yes!! shadow and bone definitely didn’t live up to the hype for me either – but i LOVED six of crows so so much!! i’m sorry you didn’t enjoy serpent & dove – it is quite silly, but i love it all the same haha – it’s kind of a trashy fave for me now!! 🙈💖
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To be honest, I think it’s all my own fault: I read (and love) so much YA but then wonder why I expected something a little more gritty and complicated! 😂🙈
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