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Mar 17, 2023 09:59AM

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I was disappointed by The Fifth Wave series by Rick Yancey. I thought I would like it because I read The Hunger Games but the end of the series was disappointing. It wasn’t very satisfying.

I heard that it was either liked or really hated and when I started reading one of her books, I dnf-ed it right away! I now truly understand why other readers hated it…
gotta be red queen. the second book, to be exact. Can't go further on that.

Every interesting bit in the first book was skipped over (the entire trial part? The only thing that could have possibly be a little interesting?) in favor of showing our heroine (ah!) lounging and eating chocolate cake. Oh and she is beautiful, and smart, and she is the Most Fearsome Assassin except we don't really know how that's possible since she doesn't do anything remotely fitting of this fame. She barely trains, despite claiming she's not fit (but still she's so stunning, of course). She brags all the time, then complain all the time. The big reveal is so obvious I basically guessed it from the back cover. It's a mess. And not even a hot one - both love interests, because we had to have a love triangle since she's so amazing, are dull. Chaol is even a little creepy. The prince is ridiculous is his obsession for her, completely out of the blue.
Yes, I'm ranting, but seriously, that was bad.

Without Merit
Reminders of Him
pretty much every colleen hoover book is bad, her best books are somewhat okay
and To All the Boys I've Loved Before the movie is better though
The Spanish Love Deception felt like every other romance book with the basic tropes in my opinion


The series seems to have a huge fan base and I fairly liked Throne of Glass so I started it. I think I finished it? Can’t really remember much of the plot but the characters didn’t speak to me and it felt like it dragged on and on. Maybe I’ll give it another shot sometime. Maybe.

And Verity by Colleen Hoover. I see many people feel the same way about her books. After Verity, I couldn't bring myself to read anymore of her books. She's a subpar writer. I think I've read/heard better writing on fanfiction websites and in the No Sleep Podcast. The characters were terribly written and the so called twist? Horrible.



It just wasn't for me and I have no idea how people found it heartbreaking.
Also IEWU series wtf was that coho?

i loved the cruel prince but i recently reread it and it wasn't great so idkkk

Hey once again, thanks for my year long reading slump, One of us is lying!

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