What are the books that have disappointed you? Especially if you were waiting for them come out perhaps? #nospoilers
What are the books that have disappointed you? Especially if you were waiting for them come out perhaps? #nospoilers
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I was really upset with Tower of Dawn, since I didn’t realize it wasn’t the last book (and I was impatiently waiting for the Empire of Storms which felt like the first one with an actual cliffhanger). And also because it felt like a book to please fans, not the story. And even sadder I was upset with The court of wings and ruin. In my mind it doesn’t even compare to ACOMAF 🙁
Into The Water disappointed me. So did Miss Peregrine.
I tried Miss Peregrine and for the life of me I couldn’t understand why people enjoyed it so much 😀
I’m pretty sure I wrote in my review that the first like 200 pages should have been cut. Then I was so mind numbingly bored I started skimming and accidentally missed the climax, and didn’t notice. ?
I expected more of fantasy world and books always have inconsistencies, but this one was contradicting itself from page to page. The utter nonsense of the tunnels and how the time flows just made me cringe in despair 😀
Care to spoil Into the Water for me? I couldn’t finish as I was too bored.
The Martian and Fierce Kingdom were my biggest disappointments this year
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
I’m reading an ARC I was very excited to read (book comes out in January) and I’m very, very disappointed in it.
Whats the arc, its not cruel prince is it
@Aneesah no
I wasn’t waiting for it to come out, but there was a bit of hype around it, and I just wasn’t digging it, but The Nest
I have picked that book up in the store at least a half dozen times because it looks like something I’d like, then I read the reviews again and put it back.
Probably A good choice lol
I adored that book, but I can see why others do not care for it. I often have unpopular book opinions lol.
I really wanted to like that one, too. But I just wasn’t feeling it.
After You by Jojo Moyes!
The night circus ?
I’ve started this book so many times. I can’t get into it.
@Katie I finished it, but only drudgingly. I know so many who loved it, but I’m not one of them ?
So much better when Jim Dale reads it. (Audiobook won me over)
I got to almost a third way through and then for some reason switched to a different book and somehow the desire to come back never came 😀
Lynn Mudroch, agreed! I don’t think that I would have gotten through it without the audiobook. But, the audiobook is wonderful!
The Martian, after you, the couple next door….
Why the couple next door? Its on my to read list. #nospoilers
I couldn’t get thru the Martian. It kept reading like a giant math problem and gave me a headache
You really didn’t like the Martian? I haven’t read it myself but I have only heard good things about it 🙂 What bothered you most about the book?
@Jessica exactly!!!!!
The couple next door starts out great then goes terribly terrible. That’s the only way I can say it without ruining anything. I was so excited.
Now the Martian. My sister recommended it. I read it in like two days but holy crap. Math math math math. The movie beat the book for this one
The Martian is another one that is better on audio! Matt Damon reads it and it’s great!
Really? He was awesome,in the movie. Maybe ill try the audio version then
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders. It was one of those books where I loved the concept but the book itself….not so much.
Oh, my! It’s on my TBR. Though I’m always wary about stand alone fantasy novels. I just can’t imagine it being satisfying 🙂
the weekenders by Mary Kay Andrews. Unlikeable characters.
Your House is on Fire, Your Children all Gone. I was expecting a short novella with disturbing children, but it was more short stories set in the same town. I want to give it a re-read now that I know what to expect from the format but I still don’t think I’ll love it like I thought I was going to.
Wow, I never really thought about re-reading a book I was only ‘meh’ about 🙂 Apart from the guilty pleasure of re-reading Twilight. Then again I liked it so much the first time I read a ton of fanfaction which may or may not have been better than original 🙂
@Sofija , I really liked it!
The Night Circus, everyone has hyped that book up and made me want to read it. I got halfway through with it and I was just not happy, it didn’t give me enough. Beautiful writing, but I felt like that plot was just meh.
I got distracted around 1/3 of the book and then totally forgot about it 🙂
The Maze Runner….the first book was okay, the second book was bad and the their I didn’t even finish
Whyyy 🙁 Those books are great
I just couldn’t get into the third one……I might try to read through it one more time because I do have the fourth one
It’s so nice to have someone to agree with. It was so hyped, though I haven’t even heard about it until the movie came out. I think I even lost some respect towards a fellow reader who proclaimed it a better series than HP ?♀️
The sun is also a star.
I got kinda far into the book but gave up. It was wasting my time.
Oh, I hated Everything Everything with a passion that I stayed away from her second book. I’m curious, but at the same time I’m more than convinced I’m going to hate it 🙂 Did you like Everything Everything?
I was so so on Everything Everything. I disliked it more than I liked it. Her writing is simple and boring.
@Patty it was a really waisted ?pointless useless one.
@Sofija I really enjoyed reading everything everything I think that the novel was pretty, cute, pure one
big no for the sun is also a star
The Infinite Sea the second book to The Fifth Wave. I just couldn’t get into it.
The lovely bones.
I loved this one.
Tower Of Dawn! I thought it was the last book in the series and I was so excited to see how it ended. Then I was almost done with the book and I realized it wasn’t. Not only that but it felt more like a novella not something that was part of the series.
Yeeesssss!!! I was super disappointed with the book! It also felt like a book to “redeem Chaol” and it felt like such a fan service 🙁 And I agree it read more like her initial novellas only dragged on. Have you read the ACOTAR trilogy? 🙂
@Sofija i have the first book, but I haven’t started yet because I wanted to finish this series first. That’s just not gonna happen. The next book in this series doesn’t come out until like September. So I’ll probably start it soon. There are a few other books I want to read before I start another series.
@Nun, I had a hard time reading book1 in ACOTAR, I think I only managed it from 3rd attempt by listening to audiobook (the narration is miles better than for TOG). In the end I still have mixed feelings because I absolutely loved book2, but book1 and 3 where just meh for me 🙂
@Sofija I’ve heard that a lot. I didn’t think I would like TOG because I’m more of a YA contemporary fan, but it sucked me in. To be honest tho. If I hadn’t listen to it on audible I never would have finished or even started to read it.
@Sofija I love Perks of Being A Wallflower. Me, Earl, and The Dying Girl, anything by John Green (I know he’s a little manic pixie dream girl. But I still enjoy the way he uses words). I haven’t read many but in the YA genre that’s the one I tend to prefer.
The Anita Blake series. Once upon a time it was a favorite of mine. But the last several have been nothing but pages of unnecessary descriptions and pointless dialogue.
Yes! I stopped buying them a few years ago. I miss Anita being a strong “I am my own woman” type.
They were such good books! Lately it seems like she’s just out of actual plot ideas. I haven’t been able to give them up yet, sadly, I keep hoping for a come back.
The first three Anita Blake books are my favorite series ever. But the last, oh, 6-7 books…not so much.
I started losing interest when there was more porn than story. I think I’m 4 books behind at this point and it doesn’t sound like it’s gotten better. Same with the Meredith Gentry series.
@Jaclyn I agree!!
She cut back on the amount of sex in the last few, but there’s still no story. ?
It was getting too trashy, no story
Caraval. From all the hype I was expecting to be swept away and fall in love with the magic, but instead I got a random and rushed romance, dense characters, random scenes put in for “shock value”, etc etc. I wasn’t a fan at all.
Agree
I was just about to post the same!
I’m so glad there are others who thought this book was mediocre at best ?
I’m in love with Caraval!?
I was just about to get it because pretty cover and good reviews. I think I’ll borrow it first now 🙂
Oh I couldn’t agree more. And don’t get me started on the purple prose ?
The rest of divergent
I couldn’t get past the first book.
I chucked the last book at the wall when I had 50 pages left! I was mostly annoyed how in book 3 suddenly the whole story changed focus and there was certainly not enough pages left to develop it properly. What made you dislike it?
I didn’t like the direction they took with Four. I found it unnecessary. The second book was just a long bridge between a really good book and a weak ending.
Artemis ? it had such potential
A Court of Thorns and Roses. I loved her other books but for some reason hated ACOTR, I read all three books but never enjoyed them
I started reading ACOTAR because I was having a major book hangover after the Empire of Storms. I pretty much picked up book 2 because I wanted a confirmation that I guessed the plot (which I did) and I got thoroughly obsessed with book 2 and then dreadfully disappointed with the last book. How do you feel about the Tower of Dawn?
I had mixed feelings about it. I loved Chaol in the other books but he just bothered me in this one. I feel like I didn’t need 600 pages of him healing.
Heir of Fire … I’ll come back to it at some point, but two tries in the past 3 months, I don’t think I made it past like Chapter 12 🙁
Is there a particular thing that bugs you about it? Or is it just a general “don’t care what happens with the lot of them” kind of feeling? 🙂
I absolutely fell in love with all the characters in the first two books … I don’t know if it’s just because of the different setting, or rather the characters kind of being separated in a sense (from what I have read) … like I said, I picked it up two different times, I had to start over after the first time because I thought “Well maybe I just missed something”, because I felt confused but I learned it was more confusion of “Why aren’t I motivated to read this?” … I don’t think that really answers your question, but I honestly can’t pinpoint anything specific! A lot of people have told me though they had a hard time with HoF, but QoS would be worth it …
I was re-reading the whole series before Tower of Dawn and I think I know what you’re talking about. Almost half of the book is her struggling with herself, with life. And though I liked it enough the first time around to continue on with the series – this time around it felt much less substantial. Maybe just skip the book and go on to the next one? 😀 The important points will be retold and the supposed clues are so veiled even when you know this is the clue you don’t get it 😀
I don’t know if I can skip a whole book! XD That’s like with anime, I’ve had so many people tell me (for certain series) to skip over the “filler” episodes, and even though they’re meant just to fill a space and they have no meaning for the rest of the plot, I always say “No, I don’t want to miss anything!” XD
You can’t really skip HOF, or you won’t have Manon’s background and understand Kaltain and Elide…
but I do agree, that’s where it started going downhill for me.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for peculiar children. Absolutely HATED that book!
Me too. I could have really enjoyed the story if somebody else had written it I think. ? I could barely force myself through the book.
Me too. I didn’t get the hype for the movie.
I sooo agree! I have no clue why people like it all 🙂
Night Circus
Also An Enchantment of Ravens
Any of Oprah’s selections, except drowning ruth
Three Dark Crowns. What a huge press to such a meh book ?
I gave up after about 40 pages. I just couldn’t do it.
Ack. I finished it cuz I bought the hardcover *eye roll*. But when I complained about the stupidity that that story is, some people commented that it would get better at the end. I found it just as sufferable at the end as it was at the beginning. You missed nothing!
I’m so glad I stopped then.
There are better books on the world. Such as This Savage song *cough cough*
Schwab is Queen.
That’s so funny because I really liked Three Dark Crowns and its sequel but I just couldn’t get into This Savage Song — started it twice, DNFed it both times. I just couldn’t.
It’s ok. It took me a while to get into this Savage song as well because, at the beginning, I wasn’t understanding anything, but then I got it and it has such an awesome mataphor that I have to recommend it to everyone. But Three dark crowns was too boring until ten pages to the end, I guess, so I just wanted to be over with it. BTW, did you see that finale coming?? (In TDC, I mean) because I called it at the beginning of the book, after all three were presented, and found it boring ?
@Caroline I understand, it’s not for everyone. If you are someone who needs constant action, it will probably be boring. But I loved the discovery of the characters’ lives — it’s a more quiet tension and suspence than constant action. And no, I definitely didn’t see it coming! More surprises yet in the sequel!
Yep! That’s exactly why I didn’t like it. It’s great you liked it, tho. There are public to every scenery, as the saying goes ?
ACOTAR
Did you not like the whole series or just the first book? I’m still super conflicted as I find book1 boring, book3 disappointing and I just love book2 – this has never happened to me before. It almost feels like it was written by a different person.
I was so disappointed in the first book. I felt like nothing interesting happened until the very end.
ACOMAF was much better but Feyre annoyed me to no end. I had a hard time enjoying it because of her.
ACOWAR is my fave so far because Feyre stops whining about everything and I enjoyed the battle scenes but the rest of the book was just ok.
I read the TOG series first and preferred them but they were also problematic at times. I feel like Maas has great ideas but doesn’t execute them well. Or she’s catering to her fans instead of what she thinks should happen? I’m not sure.
What really ruined her books for me was reading Anne Bishop “The Black Jewels”. The series is fairly old in terms of YA books, since it was published in 1998, so no one really talks about it. I found it through the site “what to read next” (or whatever it’s called). The Black Jewels is much much darker than ACOTAR or TOG but reading it felt like Maas put a little glitter on it and sold it as her own work. I still have no idea how it’s plagiarism at times and unfortunately for me none of my friends like Maas’s books enough to read something similar 🙂
Hard Breaker by Christine Warren. I waited about a year for it and was really disappointed because the whole book seemed to rush to the end. To me it seemed like the author had lost interest and was just trying to get it over with. ?
That’s so sad. It’s just the worst when it feels like the author is not enjoying their own book 🙁
The Bees
Wintersong! Waste of time and money
Nooooo ? I’ve it on printed version but haven’t read it yet. It HAS to be good.
I bought a hardcover copy because I’ve heard great things about it and then … so disappointing.
*stops typing to go check if not mistaking books with similar covers again*
Edit: yeah. We are talking about the same one. The good thing is even if it’s not all that great I got it cheaper than usual (also hardcover), otherwise I would be as frustrated as I’m for having payed(?) too much on the overrated Three Dark Crowns
Edit 2: at least they are very pretty on the shelf ?
That’s mainly why I bought the book lol at least the cover’s gorgeous. A book meant to be just displayed :-\
Ha, I knew it! Thanks for the heads up! I had a feeling Three Dark Crowns wouldn’t be a good book.
Caraval ?
Omg same. I stopped reading it. I just couldn’t.
So many people raved and raved about it and it was just so predictable and the language was soooo basic!
I know! The descriptions werent really as vivkd as i expected and Julian and Scarlett’s “love story” was just egh
? I’m in love with it!
So many, lol. A Man Called Ove. Eat, Pray, Love. Truly, Madly, Guilty.
Oh I love A Man Called Ove. Sucks that you don’t like it.
I know, I’m in the minority for sure!
I love A Man Called Ove lol
Love Ove
I was so excited to find a sci-fi trilogy by C. S. Lewis at a used book store and it just wasn’t good. I made it through the first 2 books and a little into the 3rd. I never quit books, let alone not finish a trilogy so it was pretty disappointing.
Turtles all the way down down down…
madameng disspointed jan hehe
This!!!
@Nikko maganda pa din nmn ung turtles (if you think about it) meron pdn ung quality katulad nung ibng john green books (ung profound realization ng entirety ng universe blah blah. Or sa case ng turtles… since ung main theme is spiral… towards inner self…blah blah…) anyways ung panira kc is ung ocd ni aza.
Firebrand by Marianne Zimmer Bradley -loved it the whole way through and the last chapters totally ruined the whole experience for me,it actually made me really angry
If you mean Marion omg. I read her Mist of Avalon series and after her daughter came out and revealed things that happened to her by her mom….yikes. Nope. No more.
I did mean Marion my phone gave me so much trouble with that name!
Ugh,I hate to hear that-I don’t know the story and I love that series ?
Read about it , and now I can say the Firebrand book had a seriously dark scene that involved the abuse and murder of a child-its something I read that I really wish I hadn’t because it’s so graphic and not what I was expecting.
@Lydia, your experience sounds so brutal I perversely almost want to read the book to understand what you felt
Strange the Dreamer
What?? No. Y???
Cornflower blue, blue like dragon fly wings, blue like spring not summer sky… yyyy?
same feeling @Katherine, I loved it.
I tried hard to appreciate it but it wont get me really ?
@Maggie but the prose… the prose was beyooond…
I totally agree! I have a feeling this will be a great duology that might even rival Six Of Crows.
@Maggie, did you read the Daughter of Smoke and Bone? Did you like it?
Hi @Sofija not yet. But its on my TBR list.
Was so boring in the beginning, after about 120 pages I gave up
The sequel to This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab Our Dark Duet. I loved This Savage Song but could not get far in the sequel.
The sequel felt awkward. I can’t say I liked book one a lot but I felt like so many things could have been done better plot wise. Even if the ending had remained the same.
Dexter is Dead (#8)
enchantment of ravens
Borne and Meddling Kids
All the Light We Cannot See
Ditto that.
Loved it!!!!!!!
Empire of Storms
New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
Turtles all the way down and Gone Girl
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
Same! I just couldn’t get into it ?
@Icy I’m glad I wasn’t the only one! There was so much hype about it too I was really disappointed ?
Red Queen every book after first one.. alot of hype and mediocre
I agree. I couldn’t finish the others 🙁
I scanned 2nd one lol. 3rd one was better but nah
I can’t even remember if I stopped in the middle of the second or third. I meant to go back to it but just…. never… did….. ?
I despise that book!!!! I’ve read only the first one, with a stupid romance rushed up at the end. Ugh. So overated *eye roll*
Red Queen was really boring. I have the Glass Sword in tbr tho.
It’s not out yet but The Wife Between Us is getting a ton of hype. For me it was just…MEH…
I cannot get into it. The massive info dump at the beginning tried to be mysterious and compelling but it was neither.
Insurgent!!!!!!
Allegiant was worse.
Cursed child
It’s been over a year since I read it and I feel like still could fill a whole book whit all the things which are wrong with this book! I just refuse to consider it canon. And I’m so sad that absolutely everyone who loves HP and went to see the play actually loved it 🙁
A court of wings and ruin
YES!!! Can we talk about how disappointing this book was after ACMAF? It’s what inspired my question 😀
All the Crooked Saints
When The Sea Is Rising Red by Cat Hellisen. I love thrillers and stories of things that go bump in the night, so the worker at the bookstore recommended this to me. I wish I was indecent enough to beat her with the book. It was all over the place and trying to hard to incorporate a little bit of everything.
Carve The Mark
The Girl on the Train
The zookeeper’s wife and Lincoln in the bardo
cursed child tbh
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Horrible book. Miserable don’t read it ??
I couldn’t agree more! I can’t believe JK actually approved of it. It ruins canon, goes against all that HP has build and frankly she’s the last person who needed that cash grab 🙁
The Great Gatsby. I know its supposed to be a great classic but I don’t like how it’s written.
Diary of an Oxygen Thief – the first page was leaked and circled around instagram. The first page itself was intriguing but I struggled reading the rest of that hundred and something paged book
Twisted palace by Erin Watt… I really wanted to love it but.. It was so so ^^’ Maybe I get my expectations too high while waiting for it
It was so so. I found the female main character a stupid and insecure girl. Jeez, what an annoying fictional human being *eye roll* Easton is not awesome, but he has problems. They both have so they should get treatment, family love and hugs and then later, maybe someday, they could be a healthy couple.
But the fact that she might have killed one of… Them is bugging me and I dislike her even more. Ugh
P.s. sorry. I needed someone who also read the book to rant to about it ?
Huuuuuuh what ? Did we read the same book ??? XD I found Ella (the female character) strong ^^ She’s not used to the love feeling so I don’t blame her for how she reacted and.. it was justified ^^’ I love Easton :3 And he’s not in a relationship with Ella O_O And what ? Ella killed who O_O ?! No problem but I really feel like we read different story xD The thing that makes the book soso was the storyline for me ^^’… The jail issue went on and on and till the end of the book. I wanted it to end much earlier.
Wicked: Witch & Curse by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié. I thought it was gonna be WAY better but I decided to not finish it because I really didn’t like the book, at all.
ACOWAR
Enchantment of ravens
Three Dark crowns
I couldn’t with Enchantment of ravens either D:
Three dark crowns = Uuuugh
The rooster bar by John Grisham
Young elites series
I abandoned book1 around 100 pages – I just wasn’t enjoying it at all!
I finished book 1 to give it a chance but it did not met my expectations. But the worst part is, i bought the 3 books ?.
Warcross and This Savage Song. I just couldn’t get into the latter one! It kept switching from action to boring and I just couldn’t ?
oh no 🙁
Of Fire and Stars, Three Dark Crowns, One Dark Throne, Windwitch, Prince of Thorns.
Carry on
Deep end of the ocean.
Peter Ackroyd, Shakespeare: The Biography. A book made to be thrown across a room.
Red Queen. Allegiant
A Court of Wings and Ruin
The Alchemist. i enjoyed it, but it just wasn’t as good as i was expecting from all the hype about it.
Regina Rising
The book thief. Ugh
Flame In the Mist
The Handmaid’s Tales, The Night Circus, Harry potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The last Janet Evonovich, & the last Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
The handmais tale
Roseblood
Hunger (Roxane Gay)
I guess it was just not my taste. My friend read and liked it though.
Divergent- after the first book it just went downhill.
I was never able to finish the second one and never even opened the third.
Jean Auels last one!
The Sookie Stackhouse books. It was a good series in the beginning but by the end of the series it just bad. I actually didn’t even read the last book of the series because the one before that wasn’t even good.
I liked the first one. I dnf the second. I quit after that!
I liked the 4th book out of the series that had to be my favorite but after that it was touch and go book 7 wasn’t good at all. But being a fan I kept reading them but the last few books were just bad and like I said I didn’t even read the last book.
^
Such high hopes were had for this series! I really enjoyed the first few books and absolutely hated the last two. I finished the series only because I had to find out how it ended. I heard rumor that a ghost writer was used for the last few books? But because they were so bad, I will not read anything else she has written.
Same here I thought wow if these are how this series goes and how bad it is I wonder how her other books are. I know what happens in the last book because when it came out I sort of looked up what happened but from peoples reviews on the last book I am so glad that I didn’t read it lol. Never heard that but just say it was a ghost writer for the last few books the person didn’t do much better lol.
Many but lately Me Before You.
Way back,Tess of the D’urbavilles.
I agree with both of those, hated the way Tess of the D’urbavilles ended and never thought Me before You was that great despite friends telling me how great it was
By Your Side
I wanted it to be so much better. Trapped in a library? So many possibilities lol.
The woman in the window.. was looking forward to it so much and I was unfortunately disappointed with it ?
They often have such great titles.
The Handmaid’s Tale
same.
@Haley thank you! Granted, I know there’s often a difference between a book versus the movie or TV version, and I get the exploring how life could be if certain situations happened…but, I just thought the writing style was horrible! So many people raved about the book, and I just kept reading and reading, thinking I would see what others did. Nope.
The book thief
I loved the TV adaptation so in the bookshop I flicked through the book but couldn’t get past the writing style, so I didn’t buy it. Clearly you are not alone…
I almost didn’t make it through The Book Thief.
Its still in my tbr pile. Dine day ill power thru it, like maybe when i run out of books to read
…but I like that book?
@Pensive I respect that. So many people loved it. That’s why there are different styles, authors, genres, and readers. We are all diverse.? Read on! ?
Loved that book!!
Caraval
Hunted by Meagan Spooner
Caraval
I found Everything, everything really badly written, and Caraval was a good book, but not as good as i expected because of the hype
Everything Everything tops the list of the books I hated. It also might be the only book I ever hated. I have no idea what people are seeing in it. It’s horribly written, it’s shorter than a book that size usually is, the plot is paper thin and predictable from page one. Argh!
The woman in cabin 10
Everything everything :/
Yes! I hated everything everything about this book 😀
Me too its so overrated
Can I please like your comment more than once 😀
Yesss sure XDD
Turtles all the way down
Don’t say that ?
It’s hard to find a good book to read these days…I like a good old saga covering decades.
Me too! What are your favorites? I’m always looking for a new series!
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@Lisa Hi Lisa, I am so desperate for a good read, I’ve read my own book twice. Maybe you will like it! Apparently it brings grown men to their knees in tears – so have a box of tissues ready. It has great reviews.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/House-Called-Mbabati-novel-Africa/dp/1533445397
Thanks!!! I’ll have to check it out!!! I will sneak a copy in with all of my Amazon Christmas shopping!
The Cursed Child. Not a book. But a disappointment.
What annoys me the most about it is that it’s apparently canon now and it contradicts so many things from HP!. I mean the lunch lady alone was enough to chuck the book 🙁
Yes! Some fanfictions seem more canon-appropriate than cursed child! And it was all the more upsetting because we had been waiting for new content since a very long time. :/
Allegiant
I was so annoyed with the constant changes of POV and you could never understand whose thoughts are these. And the plot that suddenly changed completely. Ridiculous!
Game of thrones book
The Girls by Emma Cline. I was really looking forward to it and was so disappointed when it turned out to be a totally different book than the synopsis made it out to be.
Turtles all the way down.
The Girl On The Train. Mehhhhhhhh.
Caraval too much hype
Allegiant
Aleph
Everything, Everything
Genuine Fraud by E Lockhart. My least favourite book of the year!
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, made me never want to read one of his books again…
After I read fault in our stars I felt like I had to read all the books he wrote before and felt a bit let down. I think he was getting better with each next book and Abundance of Katherines left me unmoved completely. Did you like any other John Green’s books?
@Sofija The Fault in Our Stars was a good book, why? Because it touched a sensitive subject for a lot of people and since the main characters were teenagers it touched another sensitive part of us. Humans are much more caring for children and teens. If it weren’t for those two important aspects the book wouldn’t have gotten half its fame. Sure, the SPaG was good and he did have good ideas like the Make a Wish trip to Europe but the cancer teens were the most touching aspect of it all. I don’t think I’ll be read more of him, I do understand that writers evolve with practice (like everyone else) – that’s happened to my own writing – but I’m not into his kind of plots anymore. Now I’m much more into “heavy” stories and self-help books
@Marta, I think I re-edited my comment too much to sound less exulted and lost a bit of my thought along the way. After I read the book I realized I liked his writing and wanted more of the same, hence the very hasty decision and purchase. I suppose I wanted more books that would make me feel and I couldn’t figure out how to find more of the same. I enjoyed the book and I can totally see your point, though I’m not sure I agree completely. I’ve read a few of Nicholas Sparks books. Are they good? I’m not sure. Will they be classics? I really doubt it. But even knowing that he’s going to manipulate me into crying I couldn’t help but cry. The problem is – the manipulation of the reader I think. I felt the same way about “we were liars” by A.S. King. I love it when books make you feel some shriveled part of your soul. I cried reading Anna Karenina, I was gutted reading The Color Purple. I suppose “heavy” comes in a lot of varieties depending on what resonates with a person. What are your all-time or recent favourites within the categories you mention?
The Motivation Manifesto by Brendon Burchard! I had high expectations, and although the book was okeeeey, I felt a bit betrayed because it didn’t tell me anything new and I feel like it was talking a lot about “them”, “they” and not so much about “me” or “you”. So yeah!
I’m always skeptical when book titles have words like “manifesto” in them 🙂 What is the book about?
it’s a self help book, you know, they all sort of claim to help you with your personal growth and take on the world differently but I just couldn’t feel it with this one. It felt incredibly generic or maybe it’s just me
After You
Same
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
I was super excited to start six of crows because of the hype, but like I didn’t find it *that* amazing. Also miss peregrines peculiar children was super hard to get into
I can’t get into any books by Leigh Bardugo and V Schwab. Everyone is raving about all of them and something just isn’t working for me there 🙂
@Sofija i dont know, like I liked Leigh bardugo’s books (I haven’t read crooked kingdom yet because I wanted to take a break) but like the only one I was really in to was siege and storm, and it’s purely because I love Nikolai
Caraval
Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield. I loved The Thirteenth Tale, so I think my expectations were too high.
Warcross was not really a disappointment but I was expecting it to be more? And it was just ‘so’.
I really didn’t like Gerald’s Game by Stephen King but apparently I’m a minority. ?
It began well but fell apart. He disappoints me when he hints at supernatural and then doesn’t follow through–like Cujo. I just felt sorry for the poor dog.
@Barb ditto. I cried for the dog. I was only 11 when I read it and it was my first Stephen King. I’ve since read everything he’s written except Sleeping Beauties (TBR pile?) and I’m a big fan but there are a few I didn’t like and they were supernatural type ones….Gerald’s game, The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon, From A Buick 8 and the last half of Dreamcatcher.
I listened to the Girl/Tom Gordon, and liked that one. Not those others. Bag of Bones was pretty good. Loved the Dark Tower series. All on audio. But my first King was Salem’s Lot. Can’t remember how old I was, but one evening while I was still reading it, I peeked out the front window for some reason–and a face was looking back in at me! Freaked me out! It was my reflection. LOL! I was more impressionable then.
I’ve had it forever, but finally got around to reading it this year, and I hated it. I love Stephen King, but I thought this book was just stupid.
which title?
@Barb Gerald’s Game
Caraval
ACOWAR ugh
All the bright places. I had heard it was a really good representation of mental illness but I really disliked the ending. I just thought it was kind of terrible.
I think someone mentioned Behind Closed Doors in one of these feeds. Borrowed the audio from the library –& I’m skipping through it, kind of like the author is skipping from past to present to past and endlessly repeating herself.
Woman No 17. I was really looking forward to it, but I found the main characters so thoroughly unlikeable and unrelatable that I had a hard time even getting through the book. Very disappointing.
Also, Tears We Cannot Stop. I enjoy a book that challenges my thinking, but the contempt and divisiveness that permeated the book was overwhelming.
We were liara
I was so angry on it that I threw it in the fire
I felt like the author didn’t have the right to do that ^^
TDA by Cassandra Clare, as well as the final 2/3 TMI books.
Everyday by David Levithan. I just don’t understand it.
The glass spare
ACOWAR
100%!
Caraval ???
Oh darn! No spoilers on Behind Closed Doors? Let’s just say I’m glad I skipped through it.
Tower of Dawn by SJM
Noooo I’ve been saving this one! Same as ACOWAR.
A lot of people loved it, don’t worry ! Personally, I didn’t because Chaol is the main character and I can’t stand him.
@Mélodie I actually like Rowan.
Me too! He’s the best
Handmaid’s tale & Eat, pray, love. I’m not a quitter but I quit Eat, pray, love. Terrible.
OMG yes, Eat Pray Love is the one book I ever actually threw in the trash. It was just awful and annoyed me so much.
Thank you for agreeing with me on Handmaid’s Tale! I haven’t tried the other one you mentioned & I may now stay away!
Yep, never understood the Hoo-Rah about Eatpraylove.