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Mahea wrote: "The entire Falling Kingdoms series. I hate almost everything about it. The characters are so annoying and there are so many plot holes and too much plot armor. My review of [book:C..."
That's funny because I also have mixed feelings. I'm on book 5, and I can't stop reading, but I keep (and did so with the other books too) taking breaks to read other books. It's kind of a filler book for me. The characters are so childish and blah. I feel like a lot of stuff could've been solved if they weren't so damn wishy washy. I've come to like Amara purely because at least she knows what she wants and she's way more interesting than Cleo or Jonas.... but I am determined to finish this series. The pretty cover is a plus, right? :)
I hated "love letters to the dead", did not finished it because I was driving myself crazy with the main character.
Lilly wrote: "The matched series!!! I couldn't even get past the first book"Absolutely! I couldn't even finish the first book!
Ik vond Matched juist leuk😆 Grappig hoe meningen kunnen verschillen.
I loved Matched. Funny how different people are.
I love how people say that hated Matched even though it's popular, yet I have never heard anything positive about the book until I read Maartje's comment lolYana wrote: "With time I dislike more and more books, a few years ago I liked almost everything I read.
One of the worst things I've read is book 1 and 50 pages of book 2 from the Half Bad trilogy. I didn't ge..."
Those are all books I'm looking forward to so I hate to hear that you didn't like them! Well except for Allegiant... The first two were only okay to me and I already know how the third one ends. I personally don't care about you-know-who dying so maybe I will end up loving it! =D
The Handmaid's TaleEvery person I know that has read this and the majority of reviews I have read gave it 4 or 5 stars and absolutely loved it and the symbolism it shows of our society.
I thought it was boring. I didn't see much character development which I'm big on and the ending left you with so many unanswered questions which is infuriating because you get no resolution.
The Hulu show is much better because they start to develop the story and give answers since they run out of material quickly.
I hated Glass Sword (the Second book in the Red Queen series). Mare annoyed me so much. I think she's dumb and tiresome and she flip flops back and forth. I also hated how she never asked for help and she felt like she needed to suffer by herself.
I don't believe this book is YA so I don't know if this counts but I hated
. This book and series was so highly rated and recommend to me. It was the most boring book I have ever read. I slogged through it and had to resort to skimming the rest of the book just to see if it got any better. It did not. After a horrible first book, it turned me off of the series. I won't read any more from that author.
the lux series. I managed to read the first book but I couldn't even go halfway the second. the main male character was just too annoying for me.
The Winners Curse. I DNFed this about hundred pages from the end.
I'm really starting to think that I should stay away from 90% of the books rated a 4 and up.
So over-the-top unbelievable; i know there are mean girls in high school etc, but i just couldn't even begin to give this one any more of my time.
I know. How could anyone not like it... well, I hated it. No world building. No explanation of how or why the world is the way it is. Way too many holes in the fabric of the story. And especially for me, the version I read had a new forward from the author, and she was SO sour grapes that Hunger Games was more popular than the Giver that I basically hated the book before I even started it.
I think enough others already explained it here.
A whole new world- a twisted tale by liz braswell. Hated it
A Court of Thorns and Roses...not for me
Also, Lady Midnight. It wasn't bad, but I didn't like as much as other people did
The Lying Game it sounded really interesting and pretty little liars was great but a few pages in and they where already saying gross things. And when I saw it was a series with a lot of books I new Sara shepherd was just trying to get money it was like an awful TV show that you just can't look away from!
Throne of Glass series. liked the first 2, was ok with the 3rd and absolutely hated the rest
and also acowar. i found it poorly written and trust me im not saying this bc im salty cos i didnt even ship any ship from the beginning so dont accuse me of being salty over a sunken ship
and also acowar. i found it poorly written and trust me im not saying this bc im salty cos i didnt even ship any ship from the beginning so dont accuse me of being salty over a sunken ship
and lady midnight but im giving the second book a try
I didn't like Red Queen. Just wasn't for me I guess
I'm surprised by how many people hated the House of Night series. I absolutely loved the first one, but after I had gone through Hunted, Untamed, Chosen, and Tempted, I pretty much had the idea.
Nina wrote: "I'm surprised by how many people hated the House of Night series. I absolutely loved the first one, but after I had gone through Hunted, Untamed, Chosen, and Tempted, I pretty much had the idea."I listened to the audiobooks for the first three and they weren't my favorites, but I did really enjoy them. The narration is way too obviously-Canadian-but-trying-to-sound-like-a-90s-valley-girl though, so I will probably like the rest of the series that has a different reader even more.
For me it was Heartless My Marrissa Meyer Honestly I was so excited to read this book it appeared on every booktube video or instagramm books ( idk how to call it ) i've watched and then When i read it it bored me beyond limits from the first pages it the most painful read i've ever had
Mostly it was because I hate Alice In wonderland ( And as i don't like to read books' baccover to avoid spoilers 'My Mistake xD') i didn't know that untill i've already begun it but that wasn't all everything was predictable and the characters were plain and boring. It was sucha disappointing book that i gave up on reading any of that author's books even though i was planning on reading The Lunar chronicles before
I really didn't like the Red Queen series :( I feel like I'm totally alone in disliking it!
KimyQueen wrote: "For me it was Heartless My Marrissa Meyer Honestly I was so excited to read this book it appeared on every booktube video or instagramm books ( idk how to call it ) i've watched and then When i re..."
I didn't care for Heartless, it barely earned 3 stars for me, but I recently read Cinder and it was much better than Heartless. I also hear it's the worst book of the Lunar Chronicles so that has to be a good sign, right? Read a free sample from Amazon before you give up.
Farren wrote: "KimyQueen wrote: "For me it was Heartless My Marrissa Meyer Honestly I was so excited to read this book it appeared on every booktube video or instagramm books ( idk how to call it ) i've watched ..."
Ok thanks ^^ I'll give it a try then
The last one I didn't like at all is Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell. I don't know, everything was so slow for me...
Probably The Fault in Our Stars. Don't get me wrong, I liked it, but I didn't think it lived up to the hype. It was good though, just not that AMAZING
^^ ahh, I'm glad I'm not the only one :)
Shatter Me - I only finished about 15 pages.The Catcher in the Rye - I ranked it 1 star. I was hoping that my eyeballs would fall out from all the crap in that book.
The Book Thief - 2 stars. Should have been 1.5. Not a good book.
Gathering Blue - After The Giver, I thought this was the worst crap written (I hadn't read TCitR yet).
Kyla wrote: After The Giver, I thought this was the worst crap written...Thank you! So glad I am not the only one to put The Giver on this list.
I didn't like
series. I hoped it would actually get better but it didn't. Finished it only because I was bored and needed something fast paced. I wanted a dystopian, got stupid love triangle instead.Also I don't really understand the hype around
series. I mean... Celaena/Aelin is so undecisive and narcissistic it hurts.It's really refreshing to see I'm not the only one who thinks these books aren't so good. I only see praises for them.
Delia ✨ (Bookish Nymph) wrote: "Pretty Little Liars The Darkest Minds"I have to differ with you on the Pretty Little Liars but Darkest Minds was so mind-numbingly stupid that I won't finish the series despite my compulsive self telling me to. That ending was absolutely atrocious imo.
I've always found
to be really poorly edited? Plot-wise I felt like I should enjoy it but I just didn't like how it was written.I'm not as fond of
as most people I know either. It was fine, but nothing special.(And I'm one of the biggest Harry Potter fans out there, but someone needed to edit out half of
- great book with far too much waffle masking some of its greatness)
The Magicians series. Love the show but I'm not a fan of the books.
I do not get Twilight or other books that are basically an unexplained insta-love with barely any plot outside of that. Other examples of this in my opinion: Marked, Shatter Me, The Selection.
I have some MAJOR issues with the Twilight saga.It's hard to write a book about bad ass vampires that I don't like, but Stephanie Meyer did it.
There is the insta love, bella is just boring and Edward is a wuss, but that is not even what annoys me the most...
Sparkling vampires who are able to have children???
*rolls eyes*
NO... just... NO!
Fifty Shades of Grey. I wasn't even able to finish reading it!
Please don't hate me ...
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I hate almost everything about it. The characters are so annoying and there are so many plot holes and too much plot armor. My review of Crystal Storm explains quite a few of my problems with the series.