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Overhyped & Not Hyped Enough

I'll Read What She's Reading

I'll Read What She's Reading

Arts, Books

4.4541 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of I’ll Read What She’s Reading, Reggie, Kennedy, and Mikayla dive headfirst into their thoughts of "bookish hype." You know those books that everyone and their dog is raving about on BookTok or in your group chat? Yeah… we’ve read them. We’re breaking down the titles we think are overhyped, plus sharing the underrated reads that totally deserve their moment in the spotlight. Prepare for strong opinions, chaotic tangents, and maybe a few hot takes you weren’t expecting. ...

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0:00.0

Hi guys. Welcome back to All Read what she's reading. I'm Michaela. I'm Reggie and I'm Kennedy.

0:18.0

Today we have an anticipated episode from you guys.

0:22.4

We've been requested to do this multiple times, and I feel like, I don't know why we haven't

0:27.6

done it.

0:28.2

We've only done it once.

0:29.2

Yeah.

0:29.8

Yeah.

0:30.4

I fear we have not, well, for me, the reason why I haven't been super gung-ho about

0:34.5

this is because I read a lot of appropriately. Appropriately

0:39.3

hyped books. Yeah. Yeah. Same. Yeah. So, um, but we're going to do it. Sorry. I didn't

0:47.7

explain what we're doing. Um, we're going to be doing overhyped and under-hyped books. I think our, the first time we did it was overhyped and not hypedped books. I think the first time we did it was

0:55.8

overhyped and not hyped enough. I think we did. Do you want to say not hyped enough? Yeah, sure.

1:01.7

Overhyped. We did also appropriately hyped, but like I said, I read a lot of appropriately hyped books, so there would be a lot in that list. Yeah're just we're keeping it to overhyped not hyped enough

1:11.9

yeah yeah which one are we starting with um what if we end on a positive you know with our under

1:20.8

underhyped let's start with it i love it i love it books okay um Kennedy oh i'm gonna go first oh okay

1:27.3

going down the line my first book on this list Okay. Kennedy? Oh, I'm going to go first. Oh, okay.

1:28.5

Going down the line.

1:35.9

My first book on this list is Lightlark by Alex Aster.

1:37.6

That's a good one.

1:43.2

And that series in general, I made it to what is the second book called?

1:46.6

Nightbane? Nightbane. I made it halfway through Nybane and DNFed it. You know, it just wasn't it. I will say, Alex can write really good banter. I have yet to read her romance book she came out with

2:05.4

recently, and I can see how her writing would thrive really well in a romance setting. When it came to

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