One thing I do w books like this is I avoid buying them lol, usually when I buy a book I’ll go in person to a bookstore and flip thru and read a few pages from the beginning, middle, and end of the book just to kinda sample the content. If it’s something I know for a fact I wouldn’t read then I won’t buy it. But then I get major FOMO bc I didn’t read a super popular book lmao

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This is me with a lot of popular books of booktok bc sometimes I feel like bc they are so overhyped they aren’t actually good and everyone is just going with the trend of liking them. What I do when I really want to read one though is look through the tropes to see if I’d actually like it. I also go on story graph to see the percentages of like character development or how the book is paced and if I don’t like it, I don’t read. Another good thing is maybe reading the book online (kindle, Libby)

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I read one chapter and leave the book alone. Nothing more for that day, even if it’s deeply interesting.

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