Am i the only person who felt this way about The Fault in Our Stars?

All of John Green's books are overhyped haha

Finally, looking for Alaska in my opinion has zero character development he just meet ppl. Lol I'm the only one.

Personally, John Green is great. But after reading quite a few of his books, all the characters feel kind of the same. They all have their own unique little thing and are so "I am different and that is cool." Yeah, these characters can be relatable, but from my experience a lot of them aren't. Don't kill me. All the books just kind of blend together. A lot of the plots feel a bit the same. We're always dealing with things in his books that we have already dealt with in his writing. I want something different from him! Why isn't Jandy Nelson a very popular ya author. She is amazing (and I personally think her work is more creative and realistic than John Green's). Sorry, I Had To Say it.

My overhyped book/series: Divergent.

I feel impartial about the whole thing. There are always those books that everyone is talking about or reading that you see in every video but that just means that a lot of people are excited to read and share the experience. There is nothing wrong in reading hyped books and there is nothing wrong in NOT reading hyped books.

John Greene's books are all overrated

I thought Divergent was over hyped.

Totally agree with you on the whole John Green/manic pixie dream girl thing! I like his books, they're fine for what they are, but I have a lot of problems with his characters... I always hear people saying how "real" his characters are, but I don't see that at all. I have read all of his books but one, and have yet to find a character he has written who I have been able to relate to. Nobody talks like a John Green character. Literally nobody. I feel like all of his characters walked straight out of an angsty teen indie movie. It's annoying.

Ruby Red, Sapphire Green and Emerald Blue. lmao That sounds like pokemon games

I'm a simple girl, i saw Bastille on the wall and I clicked on the video (which was really good btw) ❤

i feel like the fault in our stars was wayyyyy over hyped, in my opinion, looking for Alaska is one of the best john green books

mmmmm preach girl. We Were Liars. grrrrr so frustrating. i concur. also, all John Green books are overhyped in my opinion.

Mad props for sharing your opinions of the overrated books. I feel like I have the same feelings sometimes of the overhyped books being okay but not stellar. Some deserve the hype, but quite a few just aren't up my particular alley. Side note: I'm not much of a fan of fantasy, but I think I need to get into Cinda Williams Chima's books. They just look really neat. :)

GIIIRL WHERE DID YOU GET THAT BASTILLE POSTER I AM LIVING

As much as I love John Green, I do agree with you here! John obviously believes that teenagers/young adults should be portrayed as intelligent and mature which I do agree with - I mean, we are, right? ;) However I sometimes feel like the language that he uses when his characters speak is just too alien to how we really speak. I'm not saying his characters should use slang and all that, but be a bit less "sesquipedalious" (I totally did that on purpose..!) I think they sound a little bit pretentious, that's all...and it does make it difficult to connect to them...

Ok overhyped book is wait for it (insert all the stuff Reagan put in the beginning of this video) ok do not hate do not kill me with all of the hate ok The Fault in Our Stars Its a good book just yea im still gonna get hate aren't I But remember this is an OPINION no ones opinion is correct everyones opinion is valid this is just mine

The Hunger Games.

I think that the Maze Runner series is kinda over hyped, I did enjoy the first one a lot by after that I felt like I had to force myself to read them and I thought the storyline was dragged out quite a bit

Definitely paper towns🙄🙄🙄 couldn't get past the half way point and I've tried to read it more than once😒

LOOKING FOR ALASKA FRICKIN THANK YOU. The characters in that book were so all so awful, I couldn't like a single one. And Miles felt so entitled to Alaska. I was so done with that book as soon as I started it. I think Rainbow Rowell is so overhyped. I've read Fangirl and Eleanor & Park and both of them I left feeling kind of meh. They won't stick with me, and I thought they were both SO slow.

I have no idea how people can read multiple books by John Green. All of his books follow an almost exact same plot with different characters :( After reading my first one, however, (Looking For Alaska) I was amazing. I wasn't expecting to have the next book that I read my him to be as similar as it was.

All of John Green's books are overrated, in my opinion. I've read three of his books, and they were all okay, except for "The Fault in Our Stars". That was a shabby book from beginning to end.

For me it was Cinder. It didn't suck, but it really wasn't as amazing as everyone on youtube said, and I won't be reading the rest of the series.

I agree with Looking For Alaska and We Were Liars.. I will add to that list: Paper Towns by John Green (awful book), Shatter Me trilogy by Tahereh Mafi (good first book and then downhill after that), the Lux series by Jennifer L. Armentrout (too much teenage drama and ridiculousness), Rainbow Rowell - more specifically Eleanor & Park (everyone LOVES her books and I find them to be okay or pretty good. Eleanor & Park was boring), and Gayle Foreman - specifically If I Stay (her books end when they should begin - there's too much left out of them and it's never a satisfying conclusion).

For me, Divergent is one of the most overhyped book. I felt extremely underwhelmed by the 1st book. In fact, I did not plan on reading the 2nd and 3rd books but I got them as gifts so I guess I'll still read them, lol. I'm also reading Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore and I'm not getting all the hype surrounding it either!

I bet John Green would actually agree with the points about Looking for Alaska. I don't want to speak for him but he always talks about that version of his past self with a lot of self-deprecating disdain. But I liked the book ^_^

John Green books are overrated. ESPECIALLY TFIOS

I tend to stay away from books that are really popular. Not to seem "cool" or anything. I do it because I get the feeling that I won't really like them. I mean I'll make exceptions if the book sounds really good, but I usually think I won't feel the same way as everyone else so I'm just setting myself up for disappointment.

I wanna say that I'm sorry, but I'm not really sorry for feeling this way. But I actually wasn't that happy about "The Fault In Our Stars", everybody was like: "YOU ARE GONNA DIE, YOU'RE GONNA CRY SO MUCH, OMG IT'S LIKE THE BEST BOOK EVER" and I got very disappointed. It's an okay story, the characters were fine (I really liked Isaac though, he was great) but there never really seemed to be a climax, and that bothered me a lot. Waaaaay overhyped in my opinion.

Honestly as soon as I read the title I thought of a particular book that is probably gonna get me killed for mentioning it in that context xD Throne of Glass I only read the first book, so maybe it gets a lot better later on, but I was so disappointed. I expected a badass warrior assassin and got a whiny little girl. I expected battles, and an amazing tournament, and got castle rumours and complaints. I found the characters, especially Celeana (?), to be extremely flat. Liking books and killing people is not a character trait. Do these books really get that much better later on? Should I give it a chance? Or is it just not for me? Idk, for now I just prefer to read other fantasy, with characters I can actually connect to and where I don't count the pages.

your videos are great and you seem like such a cool person!! and also that bastille poster in the background stole my heart 💕

Don't kill me but the book that I think is really overhyped is 'Throne of Glass', am I the only ome who think this way? Like, I am gonna give a second chance and read Crown Of Midnight but I wanted to kill Caelena. Hugs from argentina!

Please so no one hate me ! But if I stay ...

I actually never knew that Vampire Academy was hyped lol. I really enjoyed the series, but I felt like the sequel series "Bloodlines" REALLY blew it out of the water. It was so much more interesting and I liked the characters a lot more. All hail Sydrian.

I don't like John Green books, they aren't real

So..... I completely agree with a lot of what you have said. I have found myself picking up books lately which really don't even interest me, but because of the 'hype' I bring them home to read (luckily for me, I get most of them from my work - public library). So, I have now made a conscious decision NOT to do this any longer. I am going back to reading the things I want to read and ignore the hype. I own over 1800 unread books - I don't have time to read books I am just meh about. Also, I am not watching so much booktube - it is saturated with YA and I want more variety and more adult, so am only watching my faves. (Can you tell you are one? Hehehe) Great vid as usual

I agree with looking for alaska, for me one overhyped book for me is Anna and the French Kiss I LIKE THIS BOOK A LOT a give it 4 stars in goodreads but every person in booktube was telling is THE BEST BOOK EVER YOU NEED TO READ IT I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE IT, it's to overhyped.

I agree with all of these and I think John Green is extremely over rated, I don't really like his style of writing and theres literally no character development in his books. I can see why some people find them appealing, they're quick and easy to read but I just didn't enjoy them

I agree with the Vampire Academy. I read it when I was in those early teens, which is why I think I was able to go through it so fast, because of where I was in my life. Looking back on it now, it's kinda just an okay book, but it's very nostalgic.

UGGGGGH I hated Looking for Alaska

Overhyped Teeny Books that come to mind: Divergent Series, John Greene books in general, The Kite Runner, Pretty Little Liars Series,everything by Cassandra Clare ... Overhyped Classic Books that come to mind: Wuthering Heights, Jane Austen books in general, The Catcher in the Rye, 100 Years of Solitude, To Kill a Mockingbird...

I love videos like this! Honest yet polite. I really loved We Were Liars however it was the first book of that genre that I've read in a long long while. I can see how one may guess at the twist if one reads as many books as you do. Also, I'm sure you've heard this before, but I definitely recommend The Fault in Our Stars. It's the best John Green book I've read out of three (the others being Paper Towns and Looking For Alaska) and it made me bawl my freaking eyes out for the last 100 pages or so. But again! I loved this video. Very informative! :D

i saw the bastille poster.. so i had to watch

I think the main issue with john green's books are that many people have never been in certain situations or felt certain things that pertain to his characters but they still like the characters because he writes them very well. However I've never had that issue, Looking For Alaska is my favorite john green book and I could relate to the characters 100% but I do see how many people wouldn't be able to handle that much crisis or never having a really full ending ♥

The two books/series I find overhyped are The Hunger Games, I tried giving it 3 shots, the first time I got 6 pages in, the 3rd time I got 45 pages in. I just really couldn't handle the writing, it wasn't doing it for me, I couldn't push past that. I felt like it was being narrated with the voice of a 12 year old, not a 16 year old and that bugged me. The second book I find overhyped is The Fault In Our Stars. I PERSONALLY didn't find it was a good book at all, though I appreciate the appeal and I can see how so many people love it. I just found too many problems in the book for my taste. So I'm not telling anyone that they have bad taste in books if they like these two, I'm just saying that they weren't my cup of tea! To each their own :)

Ha, everything of John Green's is overhyped. I totally agree.

So good to see a video like this! I've only read Looking For Alaska on this list and I agree with you on that one alooooot! I find John Green's characters really difficult to connect to!

I think the legend series is overhyped. I really enjoyed Legend but after that I just felt it was cheesy and not very well written. I kind of felt like I'd wasted my time after reading all of it.

Divergent, The Fifth Wave, and The Mortal Instruments are overhyped in my opinion. I haven't finished the last two series's, mostly because there were other books I would rather read at the time and I still haven't gotten around to reading them.

Books i think are overhyped: 1. The shatter me series- maybe thats just bc ive only read the first one and everybody says they get better, idk but the writing just seemed a little bit TOO much overdone and like metaphors in every sentence and its just like ok, we get it, move on. And the romance was too mushy and kind of insta-lovey. I'll probably read the rest of the series eventually but not any time soon. 2. If i stay. It was good but it wasn't mind-blowing in any way, like the plot was soooo predictable and i feel like the only thing it had going for it was that it was sad like ok congrats you can make me cry by telling me a story about ppl who die but nothing else really came out of that. I just kind of thought the whole choosing to live/die thing was kind of dumb, maybe bc i cannot relate to that at all like i cant imagine not wanting to keep living even in that situation.

I love your glasses! Where did you get the frames?

You have a few I loved on your list, like Looking for Alaska but then...I read that way back when it first came out, before I'd read much YA, and at a different time in my life. If I'd read it now, who knows if I'd like it as much. I think timing is important with books. Overhyped books to me: - Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge (the writing was lovely and it was original, but beyond that it was kind of a mess with a narrator I didn't care for, but everyone else seems to love it) - Me, Earl & The Dying Girl (I just found it incredibly dull, didn't give a damn about the characters and literally can't think of anything nice to say about it except that the stylistic choices the author made were - interesting?) - Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler (it's a physically beautiful book but beyond being aesthetically pleasing, I'm not fond of the stream of consciousness narration and what could have been a great story was ruined by insta-love making it seem so painfully over dramatic)

I always get hated on for believing that the Divergent series is hyped up.. I just.. ughh.. The first book was good but then it just went meh.. Am I the only one who believes this..?

THANK YOU SO FREAKING MUCH for posting this because several of these (5th wave especially) has been WAY over hyped. Also you're hilarious okay bye.

I feel ya! Some books just don't live up to the hype. I actually find that I sometimes shy away from super hyped books, as I find I don't always like them. I think in part because they're so built up that you expect something AMAZING.....and then it isn't. Great video!

The Maze Runner didn't deserve an ounce of the hype it got when the movie was announced. I cringed when I saw so many people picking it up. I wish I could get the time back that I spent reading that awful series.

I haven't read Looking for Alaska, but I felt that way about TFIOS. It was good, but it isn't the best book I've read this year by a long shot and I was expecting to have my mind blown by John Green's writing. I would read his other books, but I have a ton of books that are at a higher priority level

Oh I looooved We Were Liars. Fun video. I haven't read a lot of them because I don't read much YA. How did you get into doing this? I'm a library director and would have so much fun with something like this...

I just started getting into your videos .. and just wondering what is your favorite type of books to read?

Do you ever read Classics? Just curious :) I've always wanted to get into really Classic authors like Mark Twain, Fydor Dostoevsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez etc. and was wondering if there were any other teenagers who want to read the classics. ;)

for me it was Paper Towns....I mean the meaning was deep, but the plot just annoyed me. Yes there were some very funny and enjoyable moments, but overall, I thought it was very over hyped.

I scroll through my recommendations and see a Bastikle poster in the background. I must watch.

I'd love to see more of this kind of videos on the booktube comunity. I love seeing this kind of videos, It makes me want to read the books even more....and they are so fun to see xDD I really love your videos

John Green is unbelievably overhyped! Especially the fault in our stars... my god. The pretentious in that book is ridiculous and the metaphors lmao

Regan, you're totally wrong... to give a shit about what anyone else thinks. We're here to hear about what you like and don't like. True, there are a few sad mad-persons who only watch youtube to have their tastes validated, and go ballistic when their precious favourites are challenged, but don't apologise to these people. By telling them that their beloved stories are in fact NOT universally loved should be a learning experience for them. In fact, you should have ended your video by shouting YOU'RE WELCOME! (Other acceptable sign-offs would be: 'you're welcome, bitches', 'you're effing welcome', and 'stick that in your pipe and smoke it." Great video! You're totally right.... apart from the bit where I think you're wrong. ;)

I really did like we were liars. I was so excited to read it, but then again kind of expected a lot more from it because of how much it was hyped and the whole 'it's better to not know what this book is about and just read it' thing everyone was saying. You should totally do a video on which books you think are under hyped!

Im in love with that bastille poster

Okay, don't kill me, but...I think Hunger Games is overhyped. Admittedly I only read the first book, and I did like it, but yeah, I just think it's overhyped. Also, what about a video on underrated/underhyped books?

We Were Liars has been one of my favorite books this year, *but* in my experience people either tend to love it or find it predictable/not that great, as you did. So you're definitely not the only one, and I think maybe it's just one of those books that not a lot of people are in the middle on. I think Looking for Alaska is also possibly a 4-star book for me, though I haven't read it in a long time...I prefer An Abundance of Katherines and his other books, but like I said, I haven't read it in several years. Probably need to get on that. Thanks for making this video, though! As far as my own personal overrated books, I honestly can't think of a ton? I haven't read a lot of the super-hyped YA stuff recently, so maybe that's why. I definitely didn't like Legend as much as a lot of people, though, and I haven't continued on to the rest of the series.

You're so nice! I really like how polite you are about your opinions :)

Ha, I think you're right about the twist in We Were Liars being obvious because I guessed it and I never ever guess things like that right. I think one of the reasons I liked the book so much is because when I finished it I was like "woo, I guessed it right" and it felt good haha

Also..... would be cool if you did a video on books that did deserve the hype????

Yeeeeeeeeeeeees! Looking for Alaska is so overhyped. A below average book for me personally. Paper Towns as well. While I appreciate the premises of both books, I cannot stand ANY of the characters.

I totally agree with Looking for Alaska! I'm happy that someone else feels the same way.

I LOVE THIS VIDEO, looking for Alaska is one of my favourites books ever, but I respect all the things that people say about it,it's interesting for me to see what people think about my favourite book or the book that i like it

Best books/series in my opinion: Black Beauty (cannot go wrong with classics), Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (Wolves of Mercy Falls series), The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima (The Seven Realms series), The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare

Harry Potter 😳 It was just okay to me. I cant even remember if I actually read them all or stopped somewhere halfway. Maybe the schoolsetting, the christmas scènes, the summers felt a bit repititious for me personally.

This is the first video of yours that I've watched and omg its so so cute how you keep apologising for your opinion! Can't wait to watch your other videos 😊

I agree with you on We Were Liars. I haven't heard much about it lately but when it came out Soundless was really hyped up in booktube...and I couldn't understand why after I read it..I mean it was ok... Also what book did you hold up at the end that you whispered was a good fantasy??

I started watching Hank and John Green in 2009 and I devoured John Green's books. I even pre-ordered The Fault in Our Stars. I loved his books so much when I was a teenager--before I was a feminist, before I had my first college literature class, before I had my first writing workshop, before I became a fully formed person with thoughts and opinions of my own. I'm thankful to him for giving me something decent to read at the time, but honestly, I wouldn't own one of his books, I wouldn't buy one of them, and I definitely wouldn't read one again. His characters and themes are contrived and cishet-white-male-centric. We have enough media (especially literature) dedicated to cishet white men and his tiresome outlook on life can't seem to break free of the constraints of his station in society. He adds nothing to the genre, therefore he's a fluff writer of books only fit for kids who need something trashy to read at the beach. I hear Looking for Alaska was a satire on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, or maybe it was Paper Towns, but either way, every novel of his contains a MPDG or a MPDB and it's just perpetuating existing harmful stereotypes of women and girls. Satire is great unless you're a person of privilege trying to write it about someone who doesn't have your privilege (like Tina Fey and her horribly racist writing on 30 Rock). Overall, I just don't like his books. He's a good writer, but he perpetuates harmful ways of thinking and he's overhyped as an author whether it's Looking for Alaska or The Fault in Our Stars.

I loved the plot and premise of the 5th Wave but the characters killed it for me. It has too much insta love and also the main character was really whiny and I couldn't deal with it

I love love love John Green! Looking For Alaska is one of my favorite books although I do agree it was slightly overhyped. Great video as always.

I loved this video and i was shocked when you said looking for Alaska because i have the full book with the red shiny cover and it was amazing to me but your opinions were very appreciated

Dont be angry, but I think everybody overhyped about the books from Cassandra Clare, the reading was so tedios for me and the characters....oh the characters... they are so annoying. >_

People are going to hate ne for this but I personally think that Allegiant was kind of overhyped. I loved Divergent and Insurgent was pretty good but it was particularly hard for me to get into Allegiant. Usually it's easy for me to remember the details of the books I read. I still remember what happens in all the books I've read but not Allegiant? A lot of fighting between Four and Tris happened in the book and all that but literally the only thing I can remember perfectly was the plot twist. whoop :(

I kept waiting for a book series I completely disagreed with to come up, but it didn't-I completely understand your opinion on every one of these choices! Thanks for posting this! Btw, as far as Vampire Academy, I really liked the spinoff series Bloodlines more.

I agree on Looking for Alaska. I got to the end and felt not much had really happened. Another one I feel is massively overhyped is The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Clicked on this the second I saw the Bastille poster on the wall 😅

For me, it's pretty much all of these YA dystopian future books, the Hunger Games and its wannabes. I just find them really pretentious, and difficult to connect with because they're just so pessimist and downbeat, but I don't think they have much reason to be because there isn't much realism or anything. It's not like 1984 or Brave New World where the author was REALLY thinking about the possibilities of this world being real. I do NOT like Divergent at all. Nothing felt real, not the emotion, not the action, not the world, it just didn't make me feel anything. Although Veronica Roth is someone to be admired because she's a bestseller and has a lot of fans, I don't think you can call her a GREAT author. It's no coincidence that Divergent was published when the Hunger Games was HUGE. I don't think Divergent stands on it's own. Generally, the best fiction sets trends, rather than follows them.

so agree with the we were liars. I tried so hard to finish it because I was told so many times it was so amazing, then I got to the end (eventually) and was like it was not worth making myself finish it.

what's the name of that book in the background with like half circles or half moons or something like that in its side?? Btw i love your vídeos!

I'm sorry if anyone gets offended but Throne of Glass is overhyped. I'm in Heir of Fire right now and I'm trying so hard to get through it but it is so damn hard today get into. Crown of Midnight was amazing! But everything just went downhill after that... :/ Should I continue?

Daughter of smoke and bone for me is overhyped. I mean I have read the first book and I really did enjoy it, but i cant seem to find the will to continue on... It makes me sad I really want to love it! Im so confused if I should go on with it

Oh my gosh, I'm a new subscriber but this popped up in my recommended - baby Regan! The glasses, the plaid... So very 2015! 😂❤️

Great video! I don't really read YA but everyone and their mother was telling me to read The Fault In Our Stars so I did. I think it was very overhyped. To be fair I had recently read The Emperor of All Maladies, a kind of biography of cancer. It reads as a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist and that was a stunning, magnificent novel. In comparison TFIOS felt (don't kill me) cheap. 2/5 stars.

Throne of Glass

Oh my god I agree with you so much with the 5th Wave. I was looking forward to it for ages and the action was great but then it just kind of . . . You know.

I admire your courage and and I keep loving this channel more and more if it's possible to do so

The Divergent Series was definitely overhyped. I enjoyed it but it was not as fantastic as I thought it would be after all of the things I heard about it. I also feel like the reviews that I saw for Me and Earl and the Dying Girl overhyped that book as well. It was okay but not fantastic.