There are days I go online and find everyone (i.e. two reviewers I follow on Instagram) is raving about a novel, and I don’t know what they see in it. It’s meh. Whatever. Take it or leave it. Preferably leave it.
I wanted to like it.
The cover was perfect, the description enticing, the hero swoonworthy (of course that’s a word. And if it isn’t, why not?), and the heroine the perfect mix of sassy and vulnerable.
Can you relate?
Do you ever pick up a book expecting to love it, because a particular reviewer loved it and you have similar tastes … yet you find you can’t get into it? That it simply doesn’t grab you the way you’d been hoping?
Yes? No?
I’m not going to embarrass you, me, or the author/s in question by asking which books gave you that meh feeling.
No. I want to get a little deeper. Why do you think we feel this way? Is there something wrong with the book? Are all the raving reviewers hiding something? Or … is it me, us? Is it my fault I’m not getting it?
Yes! It has happened to me. The majority have loved a book, and to me it was just “ok”.
Maybe it was me. But I reminder myself that no two people read the exact same story.
True. We all bring our unique life experiences (and the books we’ve read!) to our reading, and that can affect our enjoyment.