When I read the synopsis for The Raven Boys, I thought it was going to be a light paranormal romance. But, as it turns out, the only book in that series with a significant amount of romantic emphasis is The Raven King. Even though it wasn't what I expected, it's now my favorite series and I love it so much.

The synopsis for *Throne of Glass* really threw me off. It's not necessarily that it isn't true, but the synopsis focused on the competition and how it is the only way to gain her freedom. The the book completely glosses over that aspect. Also, to be honest the protagonist did not behave like she ha just been in a death camp, and didn't even seem physically effected by the camp. She just was called 'painfully thin' and was slightly less fit that she was before, but still more fit than the average person. Sorry if that was a bit ranty it's just that I was expecting a high stakes fight for your life type of book, not day to day antics at the castle with puppies, candy, and flirting. I do feel like the rest of the series fit the tone of the synopsis a bit more though.

Book : "Why we broke up" Supposed to be about their relationship . Was about an old lady , random movies and stuff .

The book that comes to my mind immediately when I think of misleading synopsises is The Raven Boys. I hesitated picking it up for the longest time because it sounded like your typical boring paranormal romance to me and that is not at all a genre I am a fan of. But then I read it and it was so much more than the synopsis made it out to be and I fell in love with the series right away. :') Also heck yes I would love more pirate books! I'm actually working on a book that involves pirates and while it's still in the very early stages of planning I hope I can write it one day. I need more pirates :T

The Raven Boys. It is far greater than it's synopsis. I wouldn't have picked it up if it didn't have glowing recommendations from literally everyone. I'm not here for paranormal romance. Magical realism mystery thriller? Sign me the heck up.

Such a shame about the bisexual character. I absolutely agree, I wouldn't even finish a book like that. What a shame 😥

Hate it when synopsis spoil some element of the story. That's happened to me a lot, and now I no longer read them for fear of being spoiled, and so far I have been pleasantly surprised with everything I have read.. Let's hope it stays that way! Btw, I'm loving your eye make up; looks stunning👌🏼

The Host by Stephenie Meyer had a pretty misleading synopsis. It's not that what they stated wasn't true, but that book was much more than just another romance, and in my opinion, way better than Twilight.

For me it's "I'll Give You the Sun." I'm not a contemporary person, but I expected romance and fluff with family drama in the background. What I got was the most accurate depiction of heartbreak and sibling dynamics.

The raven Boys put me off because I saw girl sixteen kisses true love she'll die so I was like nope until I was convinced to pick it up and realised it was so m u ch more then that and loved it. There are too many times to count when the premise has sounded amaazing and then turned out to be a utter fail.

OH MY GOSH THANK YOU!!!!! me before you was not a romance imo. My mom hates romance reads and movies and refuses to watch it or read it and I'm like ITS NOT A ROMANCE LOL i see it more as a coming of age/character growing type of deal

Like a lot of people who went into it based on the blurb, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet was really not what I was expecting plot wise. I also just read The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts, which markets itself as being like "The Thing" at the south pole, with two characters and maybe aliens. In reality, it's weird time-spanning, philosophy-heavy speculative fiction with many different perspectives. Not what I was expecting, but much more interesting, if disturbing in parts.

For the Lux series I didn't read the synopsis so the twist actually worked for me.

I like her aesthetic. The makeup, plus the hair and all is really nice.

In kind of a combination of Obsidian and Black Hearts, I felt the same way about Passenger. I was waiting for the time travel FOREVER, but it didn't come into play until the last 75%ish. I also thought it would have swashbuckling Pirates. Nope. Definitely more a historical romance with a dash of time traveling. Super bummed about that one still ☹️️.

So agree with the Lux book , honestly that is why I picked the book to read because it is about aliens, and I start reading and nothing happens , no one talk about aliens for a while.

pleasee do separate video just discussing hades and persephone! I would love that!

I'm so glad, I read Obsidian (First Lux book) in german, because the synopsis does not reveal that fact! It just talk about her moving and being a book blogger and having this neighbor who is rude and strange. IT sounded interesting. And I hadn't heard anyone talking about it before, so I didn't know it while reading. I'm so glad. And then I was at the bookstore with a friend of mine and wanted to show her this book and someone working there came up and told her it's about aliens and I was just: Nooooo, don't do that! That's a massive spoiler! (Also the covers are way more beautiful)

TBH, I will never get past how much "The Madman's Daughter" pissed me off in this regard. The back cover promised me a dark adventure story where a girl goes to track down her morally grey/possibly insane mad scientist father and I thought we'd be seeing this really complex and twisted relationship between them... and what I got was a friggin' love triangle. And it was PAINFULLY obvious who she'd pick, which made it even more annoying because I liked the other guy better. What especially sucked was that I actually really did dig the character of her father once we met him, but he was barely in it. The entire time I'd be getting these lovey-dovey scenes I'd be like, "GO. BACK. TO. THE. MAD. SCIENTIST."

I've been wanting to read Black Hearts. Kinda glad I have a heads up about the real synopsis now. Thanks!

totally agree about the lux series

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. I thought it was going to be about a man getting kidnapped....but OH MAN it is SOOO much more than that!

I went into the Obsidian series not knowing what Daemon and Dede were and it made such a good reveal I will always be upset that the fact that they're aliens is in the synopsis of the book

Great idea!

I liked the fact Me Before You wasn't romantic. I was putting off reading it because I wasn't in a romance mood, and it surprised me in a good way.

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet: Says it's about "Rosemary Harper" and about her leaving her life but no. it's not. She's one of 10 underdeveloped main characters, not even one of the MAIN main characters. and I know it's an unpopular opinion but yeah. Misleading cover and synopsis and 2/5 book for me.

I have never before subscribed to a channel just from watching one video but here we are, you made me do it

Two books come to mind here: Northanger Abbey puts the focus in the synopsis on stuff that doesn't happen until towards the end of the book, as if that is the main plot. I spent large parts of the book waiting for 'the plot' to happen. Truismes by Marie Darrieussecq is possibly the weirdest book I've ever read (I'm not sure if it was good weird or bad weird, but I enjoyed the ride, despite there being too many gross or sexual parts for my taste). I had to read it for a French class and went into it completely blind, reading the original French with a completely white cover, no synopsis, and not knowing what the title meant. The book starts with a woman whose body is changing: at first it seems obvious what is going on, but then it gets weirder. I've seen pictures of the English version and I am so annoyed. Not only do some version of the summary spoil this part of the story, but the TITLE and the TITLE PAGE spoil it too! Just... don't read this book in English?

This is an amazing Top 5 Wednesday!

mine was the love that split the world! it gave the most misleading synopsis and honestly i put it down after 130 pages...

I recently read Heart Of The Matter by Emily Griffin and by the synopsis I expected the two main female characters to bond over this thing that happens and portray a strong female friendship and that was absolutely not what happened. But maybe I was just too hopeful.

An audible ad played right before your video and after watching one. The music is your outro music and I was very confused.

You're arguments about Cut Both Ways makes sense to me. I haven't read that boo, but, and I'm straight, when I see people celebrate awful characters who are apart of the LGBTQAI+ community just for being representation it makes me feel so weird. Characters like that never help me grow to be more accepting/understanding and they get away with racism/sexism/etc..

Hey Sam, I've been watching one tree hill lately and Peyton sawyer (Hilarie burton) kept reminding me of someone and I just realized it was you. You look a lot like her both in your appearance and gestures. Btw you're one of my fav booktubers. 💕

The worst synopses I ever read was the one from leviathan wakes by James Corey. The German version gave away that a person is dead but in the book you only find that out after you read 300 pages. It disturbed me so much!

When I recommend The Night Circus to people these days, I try to remember to tell them not to read the synopsis, because that book description has MAJOR SPOILERS!

A but off topic but talking about pirates... Do you watch black sails?? It's soo good! (well, starting from season 2, cause the 1 is meeeh)

The synopsis of The Raven Boys is very misleading because it makes it seem like the story is all about Blue's curse when it's really not. And I think that synopsis drives a lot of people away because it sounds like a cheesy, cliched YA novel. And it's about so much more than that. The synopsis doesn't do the story justice at all. This is kind of the opposite with the direction you went in this video, but is still a very notable example, I think.

Woah. I got "Everneath" because I thought it was Hades/Persephone. I really love Orpheus/Eurydice, but really? How weird...

This Norwegian murder mystery/crime/thriller book called The Gospel of Lucifer by Tom Egeland, the synopsis made me believe it would be a The da Vinci Code-style book about satanist cults and an adventure around Europe trying to find the Gospel og Lucifer, but it turned out to be a book about ancient aliens (and the whole Jesus was an alien-thing) written by a guy who CLEARLY had strong mommy and/or girlfriend-issues because the main guy got 'friendzoned' a lot and was so angry that no woman wanted to fuck him and also his mum abandoned him, so poor him the bad bad women didn't want him. jesus i hated that book.

I can't remember the book, but I remember the synopsis had this one fact that turned out to be the plot twist at the end of the book and I was like Wtf

Bi characters I know.......Emily in Pretty Little Liars. In the show she is a lesbian and in a lot of the books, but she did have one boyfriend that was really good, so I'd put her up there and I like how she wasn't like über sexual; Sara Shepard did great with her, but don't read past book eight.

I know what you mean with Blackhearts :( Even though it's one of my favorite novels I've read this year, I was expecting pirates and ships. When I was looking for pirate novels, someone had told me about it (before it came out) and it sounded exactly what I was looking for :|

I’m total trash for a Hades and Persephone retelling!!

Two for me are Look Both Ways and Reality Boy. Look Both Ways because the book is pitched as a lady romance but ends with the mc realising she is actually straight and was never attracted to her so called love interest (it's also my most hated book) as well as Reality Boy. It didn't mention there was going to be a romance and the romance took up most of the plot which I hated

Hey Sam, I know this is very random but I always browse your tumblr (I'm lowkey obsessed with the Hades/Persephone stuff) while listening to your videos and since I don't have a tumblr acc I can only ask you here: What did Johnny Depp and why won't you support him any longer?

If you want to talk about misleading (well misleading in that it doesn't happen until the end) you should watch a kdrama. Those will give you teaser clip for the next episode and usually the most dramatic part of the teaser doesn't happen until the very end of the episode. And these are usually hour or more long episodes which does not include commercials. Though it is usually worth it if it is a good kdrama.

The Murder Complex by Lindsey Cumming TBH sounded so awesome and cool and it was prob one of my least favorite books ever

For me, Me Before You IS romantic. It´s just much more subtle than an average Hollywood romance, and the romantic element is just one part of it, not the whole story. It´s very obviously written by a Brit, and I wouldn´t have it any other way.

OMG BLACK HEARTS YESSS I was so angry when I finished it and... it was just a historical romance book....... I was so sad.. so very very sad

"Graceling meets the Selection"

Biggest one for me, and no, I didn't dislike it, was The Rest of Us Just Live Here. I was expecting something more like the Mystery Men and that's not at all what this was. Maybe it was a little bit in part because of youtube...people were playing it up as being hilarious and sure, it's funny here and there but it's more sad and realistic than ha ha laugh out loud funny. I really wanted a high of school for superheroes, with your classics Superman, Spiderman, etc as the popular kids or something...I can definitely see a brooding teenage Batman; and then your misfit other kids with weird, quirky superpowers. I can brew the perfect cup of tea every time, throwing spoons, the Bowler, weird things like that. Maybe, just maybe, someday I'll do nanowrimo, and this will be my topic!

I know this has nothing to do with the video, but in another of your videos you said you hated book covers with girls in dresses, and I thought it was kinda funny, but I totally agree with that, it's kind of annoying and cliché, it's just super dumb.