Write your own ending, one that resolves better for you.

Also, what was the book? I love to ugly cry in the bathroom.

That funny cause the book is a solid 3-4 stars and really dragged in the middle. It was also super triggering as you said and the romance was quite dull. I only really liked it cause I liked her other book! But your thoughts and opinion is valid. You’re allowed to hate and dislike books! Let me be ur tiktok friend so we can be hateful together LOL

Tik tok hate brigade is on another level. They tend to have almost an obsessive call out culture. They love finding a tiny human flaw that doesn't need correction and massively pile on telling you how to correct it to be pleasing to all. Any deviation from the group woke-think on that app makes you some kind of 'phobe' or 'problematic '

I'd call them a tough crowd but more accurately they are hair trigger out rage masters is all. Clicks and engagement is what it's all about on that app.

>Anyways, I seem to have this issue where I would be super into a book then few months or years after I finish I it, I barely remember any content from the book.

Likewise. I need to read a book 3 times before I can remember it smh

Do you even know what that is?

Lmao same and I do this weird little thing where I mouth the words as I read them. I can’t read in public because it’s too embarrassing…my brain reads a little faster then my mouth can keep up so it just looks like I’m aggressively chewing gum.

I won’t read booktok books and I deleted TikTok A long time ago. After Verity, which I didn’t like, I won’t read boosted books. I mean c’mon. It has 200K reviews which is ridiculous.

Same, it would be weird. My only issue is, my internal voice takes is sweet damn time

The Pathfinder series by Orson Scott Card. I hope you like it :)

Because those people were most likely children/teenagers who cannot fathom people not liking their things.

Very polar; basically 1* , 5* and nothing in between😂

where did you find the nice and well reasoning people on here? lol

I would just like an added option of “did not finish”. With the current system, it looks like I’ve finished a book even if I had to quit early on.

(At least how I understand the system)

Another vote for Rivers of London!

Can't imagine that the people who willingly install Chinese spyware are the best at critical thought.

I write little summaries of each reading session, key plot and character developments and my thoughts on them. When I need to refresh, say because a sequel comes out a year later, I reread my notes.

Doesnt need to be long or expansive, a short paragraph or two every time you put the book down will do it.

This. It doesn't 'cure' it, but it helps a whole lot.

Even here there is some baffling commenters who seem to think readers should not criticize ("bash") books, or with comments like "It's not my fav too but how bout u just say it wasn't ur type nd move on w/o dissing on it?" (notice spelling... this in response to somebody saying a book was one of the worst they ever read) or lots more of the implied thing "if you can not say something nice, do not say anything". I think tiktok might encourage that kind of toxic positivity way more.

There really is a mindset that it is almost like unfair of readers to dare think a book is objectively bad, or worse than the average they read or one of the worst books they read. In case it hurts the feelings of those who loved it, or even worse, the author

You didn’t know this would happen? On TikTok?

It’s a teenage clique with a really skewed version of progressivism. It’s high school for everyone. I’m not trying to invalidate your experience, but the fact you didn’t know if this is going to happen it’s quite surprising. Especially booktok, damn that place is rough, Colleen Hoover supporting ass

Imo the book fans on tiktok are just a bunch of 9 year old who read big words they didn't understand and decided the book was deep and cool.

Good read, interesting stuff. Thank you for posting.

Don’t share your trauma with internet strangers, you’re just as likely to get validated as you are to get trolled. Especially when it’s related to a thing with “fans”. Fanatics are indeed irritating.

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Rook by Daniel O'Malley may be right up your street. First person urban fantasy set in a government department for the supernatural. The structure of the story reminds me of Andy Weir's writing in that a problem presents and the protagonist solves it competently. I really enjoyed it.

agree with most of your points but just want to point out that "chronically online" is a dumb insult in this hyper connected world we live in.