Can't Trust BookTok Reviews

Some books are constantly highly recommended on TikTok and I decided to read one and it was so bad I DNFed after 250 pages of no plot. It's made me suspicious of content creators who review books, especially when it's the same book being recommended by multiple creators.

I'm feeling frustrated at time wasted but just in general how it's impossible to trust reviews these days. I have a feeling they are being paid and of course aren't being transparent about it.

How do you determine what to read? Do you trust reviews?