The Hunger Games
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What's the worst YA book you've ever read?
I book I didn't like is called
and the reasons why I think it is awful for young adult is because I don't care about the characters and the world building is really confusing to me.
I loved Divergent and Insurgent but Allegiant was so so bad; storyline, character development and ending...same with Mockingjay
I cannot not like books I read so in my opinion, there are no bad ones. Except for series of unfortunate events, that series wasn't very good.
Definitely Captivated and The Forest of Hands and TeethBoth protagonists are dull and infuriating, the story could have been better, but the characters are unbearable.
The Purgatorium.Yeah I just saw that there are a bunch of posts praising this book. I thought it sucked on so many levels.
Demosthenes wrote: "Therealbadkitty wrote: "The following
[bookcover:Gossip..."It was just really underwhelming and I expected so much more. I disliked the writing and couldn't really care for the story or characters.
The Girl of fire and thornsby Rae Carson
I might get some hate for saying this, but Haven (winter haven 1) is the worst fucking ya book ever written. No, not just in ya but in every book catagory EVER!!!! It's one of those where you finish it and say "what the fuck did i just read!?! It's dreadful! The writing is awful and it's a rip off from at least 5 different stories that I can name. The plot is weark, the characters are lame, and it goes no where. I refuse to read the other books in the series because the first book was so horrid to read. It was a traumatizing book for me because it was so awful.
Can't remember all of the ones I hated but the ones I do....The Fault in Our Stars
Read it because of all the hype and was sorely disappointed by how pretentiously BORING it was.
The View From The Top
Not a popular book at all but should have known that if the author was writing from six different point of views, it was gonna suck if five of them liked the same girl and the book was less than three-hundred pages long.
The Here and Now
Needless to say, I will NEVER EVER pick up a book by Ann Brashares ever again. Faulty time travel reasoning, crappy plot, unrelated trip tangents, insta-love, bad characterization. This book was all over the place. Plus the main character's name reminded me of pasta.
Just One Day/Just One Year
Don't understand and never will understand how these books became popular. All I saw was a whiny character that had no backbone and a boring plot.
Gemma wrote: "Percy Jackson. Boo me, I know. I just found it disappointingly easy to read for a 'YA' book. 
[bookcover:The Titan's Curse|5..."That might be because the target audience is actually middle grade and intermediate elementary school students.
Crazy in love xd
Insurgent. I couldn't get through it. At all. The Hunger Games series kind of swept me off my feet, but saying that, Mockingjay is the worst of the 3. Read it again. The word Mockingjay appears like 42247902 times, at least by chapter 3. Ugh.
Cassia was plain annoying and way to obsessed with poems. It was interesting at first, but then it got out of hand.
Allegiant for it's awful writing, failing to pass a middle-school level biology class, and a completely contrived "plot twist." And, if you count it as YA (Personally, I don't, considering it was not marketed as such and is more literary fiction, but I've seen it placed in the category), The Catcher in the Rye, for a boring (I literally fell asleep trying to read it) and stupid protagonist and barely-there plot.
<-Who thought this cover was a good idea? Yes, I did read the book..
and all the rest of the trilogy, such potential, but ugh!
Raevyn wrote: "I HATED 
!! The only good thing about it that I can remember is the name Calder, but that doesn't change the awfulness of the book!"It was actually pretty good. The writing was excellent and the plot was very funny =) but definitely for younger kids..
It got so boring I could only read a few chapters and then I had to stop.
The main character was so whiny and unrelatable that it was a struggle to finish the book.
Alyson Noel. Mostly the Immortals. I don't remember why I felt the need to read 3/6 of them. Ugh. I can't even put into words how much I hate them. The first one isn't so bad. It tricks you into thinking the rest aren't bad. Nope. Book 2 and book 3 were a hundred times worse.I also disliked Hush, Hush and Fallen
Twilight. Although there are some really cool ideas, Meyer's writing style is just godawful. I ended up googling the synopsis for the series to find out what happens. Again, she brings some new and interesting ideas to table but just couldn't bring myself to read her prose.That said, she writes a lot better than E.L. James!
The Eve books by Anna Carey. I admit I enjoyed the first book as a bit of fluffy enjoyment, but the last book Rise was so poor like the writer ran out of steam.
Oh. I didn't read so many YA books, I guess.The worst ones?
Eragon - the entire series, actually. Meh. Really. It always gives me pains when someone recommends these books to others. Eugh.
Another one of those young writers: Twelve
Most things in this book are highly ridiculous.
This one was a big let-down:
Graceling
When will some people actually learn that 'strong female character' doesn't equal 'female character who could kill everyone if she wanted to'?
Also, lots of worldbuilding fail and the romance was freaking annoying (she suddenly realizes that she loves him? Bull.) Super awkward names to boot. Fantasy doesn't mean that you can simply throw around funny words and call them names, unless there's some system to it (like in The Farseer Trilogy).
Aileen wrote: "Alyson Noel. Mostly the Immortals. I don't remember why I felt the need to read 3/6 of them. Ugh. I can't even put into words how much I hate them. The first one isn't so bad. It tricks you into th..."
I completely agree with you. I really don't like how she writes!
I completely agree with you. I really don't like how she writes!
I finally caved and read the Divergent series, I never thought I'd like anything less than I liked Twilight, but Veronica Roth makes Stephanie Meyers look like a literary genies. The first book had potential if it had been written by a more competent writer, but the second became boring and the third made me want to throw everything within reach out of my window. I also really hated Iron King and Graceling.
I've heard that The Immortal Instruments suffers from the same over hype as Twilight and Divergent so I'll pass on that series.
There seem to be a lot of YA series that are so ridiculously over rated, and it's not that the subject matter is bad, but the fact that those author's can't write. And I find it upsetting.
Even Hunger Games and The Percy Jackson series (though I think PJ is written better than HG), are lacking the magic within the writing that can really make you fall in love with a book. -shrug-
Matched and the entire Mortal Instruments series. The problem I find with both of them is that the main character is just meh. I truly dislike the way Clary acts. She is so annoyingly stubborn that she wants to do everything herself but wont take ANY help from others, and then gets mad when said others wont let her do things because she inevitably almost kills herself and everyone around her. And I don't particularly care for Jace either (despite my trying to like him for the sake of the Herondale name). Didnt finish either of these series.
For me it's Kiss Crush Collide by Christina Meredith, for very specific reasons. If you'd like to know more, you can read my review at:http://erinoriordan.blogspot.com/2012...
...but just because it wasn't the right book for me doesn't mean it isn't the right book for anybody. You might like it, and that's OK.
I think the main problem I have with YA fiction as a whole is the prose is often workmanlike at best. The other thing I dislike is when there is a lot of unoriginal, introspective whiny crap. That may be what teenagers actually think like (and I probably did and worse) but in a book you don't have to be 100% realistic. I mean, if you can have sparkly vampires and a girl who can shoot a teeny-tiny moving target, using a homemade barebow while running for her life, then you can have some lucid and insightful first person observations!
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. I didn't believe it for one second. I wasn't sympathetic to the main character at all. In fact, I didn't like her. The dual narrative in the book was a bit difficult at times. I won't say anymore b/c it will spoil it.Oh... The Giver,also. Hated it.
"Twilight" and "Eleanor and Park". God those were too bad for words.
The Selection. I really wanted to like it, too, but the world didn't work the way the author wanted it to. Bugged the heck out of me.
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a while ago and it was so bad!!! i am not a fan of love triangles and this was one of the worst love triangle books i have read. the characters was not good and he plot made no sense
'If I Stay' and 'Where She Went' by Gayle Foreman. I actually thought her writing was a little high schoolish and not particularly good.
WakeThis book was not very well written and very unrelatable. Just wasn't excited to pick it up when I was reading it, which is rare for me.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
I know that that isn't really a YA novel but I had to put it on the list. I am a sucker for historical fiction books and was super excited to read this book cause I had heard so many great things about it, but I just couldn't get through it. It bored me.
I hated, hated Evermore. I couldn't even finish the second book, it was that bad.
I think the worst YA book I have ever read would be TFIOS. I seriously did not understand the huge deal about how great and fabulous it was. I thought it was just your average book. I don't understand the big deal about it.
The Twilight Series
The Fault in Our Stars (& anything by John Green that I've read)
The Catcher in the Rye
Therealbadkitty wrote: "The following
[bookcover:G..." Noooooooooooooooooo not the Maze Runner.
Sheena Rose wrote: "Hush, Hush and also FallenTo be fair, I have concluded that the fallen angel sub-genre is not for me after hating both of those books. The reason I didn't like them ..."
something is wrong with you those we're really great books
v.v wrote: "Ayesha wrote: "I didn't like
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there must be something wrong with your head cause all those are really amazing bboks and so are the authors
Any or all of The Hunger Games series. The reading level must be elementary, no character depth, and boring. I am a former middle school teacher, and I would never have my students read this.
Beautiful creatures. I love the movie but the book is sooooo sloooooow paced.
Vicki wrote: "Any or all of The Hunger Games series. The reading level must be elementary, no character depth, and boring. I am a former middle school teacher, and I would never have my students read this."
Surely, getting your pupils (or past pupils) to develop an interest in reading is a priority and if this book helps surely that's a good thing? Hunger Games clearly has an appeal even if you don't like it or connect with it. Perhaps a book like this could have saved a youngster's love for reading and then they could move on to books you deemed more appropriate.
Hunger games may not have details or depth as some books but I found there was an addictive quality to the storyline. And what you call elementary reading, I call easy reading, which is no way a bad thing if you just want to be entertained by a book. I'll pick up a book for a variety of reasons or whatever mood I'm in for, whether I want to read something that makes me think or just to be entertained.
I think it would be a mistake to deny someone a chance at reading this or any book, they might like it or dislike it, but it should be their choice. I think fifty shades of grey was poorly written and the funniest and most terrible thing I've read but I tell someone my opinion and tell them to read it and make their own mind up. Readers shouldn't feel like they're being condemned or embarressed for reading any book, or to feel pressure into only reading certain books. It might just turn them off reading altogether.
I know these books aren't very popular, but I. Slowly. Died. While reading
The Different Girl
and
Island of the Blue Dolphins
. Maybe it's because they both take place on desert islands and each have like, six characters each. I don't know, but they're both really sucky. I understand why they're widely unknown. And trust me, that's a good thing. And for all you people talking crap on
,
, and
you either have those books confused with something else, or you need some serious help, because they're unhateable.
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To be fair, I have concluded that the fallen angel sub-genre is not for me after hating both of those books. The reason I didn't like them ..."
Those were just the two I was going to list! Couldn't stand them.
For angels, Susan Ee's "Angelfall" is the only one that has done the "enemy angel" thing right. Try that one. It actually has something to do with angels, not vampires with wings.