Your friend recommends a new book to you. Everyone is talking about it, from online reviews to book bloggers, everyone cannot stop talking about this book. So you finally give in, borrow or buy the book, and begin reading.

You read.

You read.

And you read.

Until you get to the last line of that final chapter and you ask yourself: this is it? This is the book that was so great that everyone is talking about? It wasn’t that great at all, so what is the big deal?

Fellow readers, you have just become a victim of book hype.

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