3.76 avg rating — 1,885,723 ratings

"*sighs* Long story short, read them because 1) I'm a bookseller and I wanted to have an informed opinion instead of hating a book purely because of the hype and 2) promised another bookselling friend that I would give it a go before I judged it too harshly. Bella is the BLANDEST, neediest non-character I've ever had the misfortune of coming across. The argument that the writer made the character as blank as possible so that readers can place themselves into her shoes and essentially be in the book as the main character is just awful. It might as well have been one of those cheesy gimmicky insert your name into a story gift book."

3.68 avg rating — 7,368,458 ratings

"*sighs* Long story short, read them because 1) I'm a bookseller and I wanted to have an informed opinion instead of hating a book purely because of the hype and 2) promised another bookselling friend that I would give it a go before I judged it too harshly. Bella is the BLANDEST, neediest non-character I've ever had the misfortune of coming across. The argument that the writer made the character as blank as possible so that readers can place themselves into her shoes and essentially be in the book as the main character is just awful. It might as well have been one of those cheesy gimmicky insert your name into a story gift book."

3.74 avg rating — 2,007,042 ratings

"*sighs* Long story short, read them because 1) I'm a bookseller and I wanted to have an informed opinion instead of hating a book purely because of the hype and 2) promised another bookselling friend that I would give it a go before I judged it too harshly. Bella is the BLANDEST, neediest non-character I've ever had the misfortune of coming across. The argument that the writer made the character as blank as possible so that readers can place themselves into her shoes and essentially be in the book as the main character is just awful. It might as well have been one of those cheesy gimmicky insert your name into a story gift book."