Was there ever a really popular YA book that you just didn’t like?
Was there ever a really popular YA book that you just didn’t like?
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Was there ever a really popular YA book that you just didn’t like?
Everything, everything! And Dorothy must die
I couldn’t stand Dorothy Must Die.
It’s the only book I’ve ever started and not finished!
Yes, Dorothy must die. ?
City of Bones
I agree. I couldn’t get into that series at all, BUT I love Lady Midnight and Lord of Shadows
Im reading City of bones now, and I feel like if I was 16 I would’ve loved it
Like I felt the same at first, but it really gets way better in the series, and all of the spin offs are amazing. They’re worth sticking it out lol
Infernal Devices series is her best series!
Matched by Ally Condie
I heard so many great reviewed and I liked the idea but ?
I loved the first 2 but the 3rd was a let down
I didn’t like that either, didn’t even finish it.
I couldn’t get into it at all.
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Cinder. I just couldn’t get in to it!
Mechanica is better.
The entire red queen series so far (finished kings cage)
I usually will like the first book in a series. I can’t think of a popular first book where I went “yuck”. If they have an interesting enough concept and gather interest from an agent and a publisher then there is a good chance I’m going to like it.
BUT I do struggle as the series goes on. I stopped a couple of popular series due to the sophomore effort of book two: Matched, Divergent and Mara Dyer. And this year there have been two notable clunkers in two very popular series that make me want to quit the whole thing.
One author that I kept hearing about was Colleen Hoover and I thought I was going to be blown away. Nope. I read Ugly Love and thought “if I’m going to read a no world building cookie cutter heroine madly in love with a damaged semi-asshole there are like 6,000 free e-books with some shirtless guy on Amazon I can read instead”.
Shatter Me series, Red Queen series, I used to love Sarah J Maas but not anymore, Carry On, An Enchantment of Ravens, Rhapsodic, Maze Runner.
Probably a lot more I can’t think of
Yeah I didn’t like the Shatter Me Series at all, Maze Runner took some getting into but I loved it/kinda hated it at the end.
Hunger Games.
I just couldn’t get into the first book. Maybe one day I’ll try again ?
Maybe try listening to it on Autobook. That’s what I do when I can’t get into a series that I want to read.
I may have to give it a go ?
That is the one ya serious I don’t get how someone could dislike… lol… my fave ya series!
Why didn’t you like it?
Christine
Honestly I may have not been in the right mood for it but I never made it past like Chapter Two.
Like I said Maybe one day I will give it another go.
Cinder.
I read every book and it was okay.
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If anyone asks me about those I just say “they’re cute”. They aren’t very deep.
For me it’s Looking for Alaska which I thought was boring and The Raven Boys which was confusing to me.
I DNF Looking for Alaska
I actually sold off All my Other John Green books after that.
Except one and I’ve been trying to get my hands on Turtles all the way down but My library hasn’t had it in stock recently lol.
Divergent!
Fallen. Loved the first Divergent book, but found the sequel incredibly disappointing. Numerous others, the titles of which I can’t remember.
Ready to be beat up, but Raven Boys
Same!
Red Queen series read the first book and it wasn’t for me.
Same
Red queen
Vampire academy
House of night
Anything to do with Cassandra Clare
Yes to the Vampire Academy, I remember when those were super popular ugh.
I loved vampire academy. I binged the whole series. But I agree with the house of night. I read quite a few too because I use to be one of those people who had to read all the books in a series ?? I stopped tho I just couldn’t take it
Cinder and Fallen
Fallen 🙁
Hush, Hush is better.
Hold on what is the premise of that book because i have read two different ones. One about a highschool boy who’s an angel and the is about one two kidnaps a girl to make her a wraith… o.O the kidnapping one was trippy and a poor read.
First one for Hush, hush.
What? I’m talking about the Fallen books.
Ignore previous comment then.
Matched….couldn’t even finish the first book, I tried but it was brutally boring to me.
Fault in our stars. I just don’t like contemporary books but I’m going to try and read more this year cause there are so many that people love and I haven’t tried many.
I don’t like contemporary novels either. Sarah Dessen is the only one I like a lot. She’s the type of author where you think you’re reading a fluffy novel and then suddenly realize that it was actually very meaningful.
Red queen, divergent, harry potter, maze runner, dorothy must die,
Divergent, Looking for Alaska and Twilight
The Fault in our Stars
hunger games
That is the one ya serious I don’t get how someone could dislike… lol… my fave ya series!
Why didn’t you like it?
Nothing specific , I perhaps wasn’t in the right mood for it. Just couldn’t get into it .i even liked twilight when it came out. I did love the 5th wave series, though. Have you read it?
Yes… I liked it… all the povs was a little much but the story was good.
City of Bones, Sarah J Maas books
Shatter me, the Martian, girl made of stars
The Mortal Instruments series…read them but wasn’t my cup of tea for some reason…I really wanted to like them tho
What about the infernal devices? I’ve read a few in that series and thought about picking it up again…
Divergent
Across the universe by Beth Revis(this book is awful) and all books by John Green(i really don’t know why are they so popular).
ACOTAR
Twilight
A Series of Unfortunate Events (couldn’t finish book 1)
Raven Cycle (dream thieves got me scared so)
Septimus Heap (i just cant get into it)
Chrestomanci series (stopped on 1st volume)
Abhorsen Trilogy (the last book was….)
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (forced myself to finish the first book)
House of Night (got as far as book 3 or 4?)
The Land of Stories (book 1)
Couldn’t do the flamel one either. Gave up on the few first pages of book 2. I wanted to like it so much! The premise is fantastic, but the book is boring af. It doesn’t help the audiobooks were read by two different people. I get a print book for home and audio when I go on errands.
Twilight for sure!
Red queen, cinder, Nantucket blue, and I struggle with any John Green books
Mazerunner series
I can see that. I liked the books but the movies were awful. If I had seen those first, no way would I have read the books.
Thank you Kristen! The movies ruined everything and now everyone likes the movies better.
Ahh John greens books mainly ?
Same but I did like tha fault in our stars tbh
Yes! To all the boys I’ve loved before by Jenny Han
Caraval. The Wrath and the Dawn. I understand why they are popular, but I think that the former is really poorly written and that the characters in both were utterly infuriating. I’m fine with having unlikeable or problematic characters (that often makes books more interesting), but I don’t really like when an author treats shitty characters sympathetically. I left both books feeling like I was SUPPOSED to like the characters but dude there was no way I was going to be convinced that a character who systematically marries and kills innocent bystanders every single day is a good guy who is essentially a victim and misunderstood.
twilight and the shatter me series
All Maggie Stiefvater books. It’s so weird, I know objectively that she’s a fantastic writer, but I just can’t connect with anything she writes.
Divergent and Hunger Games
Y? I loved them
Hated Hunger Games as well.
@Haylah I’m not too sure. It just didn’t interest me at all
@Haylah, when Katniss tried to drown a cat I was immediately turned off and hated her. So I could never get into the book.
The Graceling by Kristen Cashore. Just plot hole after plot hole. Stupid characters with stupid names. Annoying protagonist. Like literally if you can kill anyone by touching them why is she enslaved by her uncle? -_- This book made YA look bad
And John Green books, I LOVED Looking for Alaska. Tried an Abundance of Katherines – put down. Tried Paper Towns – Put down. Tried Will Grayson x2 – just what. Can’t.
Please try Turtles all the way down.
@Rakshya I’ll try 🙂
Great!
An Abundance of Katherines was the only one I liked by him, though I didn’t finish Fault in Our Stars and I never even read Paper Towns, but some people do say it’s super boring ha.
All of John Green
Fault in our stars
Cinder and Hush Hush. Can’t do them, don’t know why though. I feel like cinder would be right up my alley… I think it’s the mechanical body parts that throws me off.
I realized I dislike all cyborg stuff. Couldn’t get into Cinder because of it.
@Levi have you tried the illuminae files? I must say I live AIDEN
@Cari no I havent. I’ll have to check it out!
Red Queen, Dorothy Must Die, Alice in Zombieland
The 100 series. It was a long time ago so I don’t remember much of the plot but I’m fairly sure I enjoyed reading them..BUT the ending of book 3 was utterly riddled with plot holes And unanswered questions. While I’m aware there is now a book 4 at the time 3 was supposed to be the last one (I asked the author).
Percy Jackson
The Hobbit (actually)
The Selection series. The names were cringy and the last two books in the series were pointless.
The first one that comes to mind for me is Harry Potter. Honestly, it took me a while to get into it. I started reading the first few chapters of the first book, then put it down. It wasn’t till a few years later that I could really get into it. Once I read most of the first book I loved there series there on. Crazy, huh?
I’ve never actually read the Harry Potter series. >.< And I'm 26.