Hunch vs Goodreads: which tells you if you'll like a book?
Goodreads tells you how thousands of other readers rated a book; Hunch predicts how you specifically will rate it, based on your own taste. Use Goodreads to read reviews and track your shelves, and Hunch when you're holding a book and deciding whether it's for you.
What Goodreads does well
An enormous catalogue, reviews for almost everything, reading challenges and a social feed of what friends are reading.
Where it falls short for choosing
Its star average blends readers whose tastes may be nothing like yours, so a 4.2 can still be a book you abandon. Its recommendations lean on what's popular among people who shelved similar books.
What Hunch does differently
Hunch scores a book against your profile — genres, themes, writing style, pacing, characters, length, favourites and dislikes — and explains each part. Rate books as you finish them and it calibrates to you. If you already use Goodreads, you can import your library so Hunch starts from your real reading history.