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Nov 13, 2023 10:47PM
The City of Bones
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tsitp trilogy, i stopped reading the gone series after the 4th book (it became it a bit of too much), silent patient (messed up and delusional) sorry not sorry!
it ends with us & the red queen
City of Bones and City of Ashes, OH MY GOD I COULDN'T STAN THEM, they almost gave me a reading slump ah
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Break my heart, hahahaha! Do you mind me asking why you didn't like it? This is what I love about books, someone's favorite is someone else's dnf.
Haunting Adeline. Hate that it's going viral and getting attention
it starts with us made me want to rip my fucking eyes out.Also one of us is lying and the cousins.
Incest??? I think not.
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett. Literal trash that tries to be feminist but instead discusses girl-on-girl violence and cannibalism. No thanks.
I don't know if it's SUPER popular, but To Love Jason Thorn and To Hate Adam Connor by Ella Maise are two books I read because the reviews were so high. Suffice it to say, I did not enjoy them at all XD
haunting adeline, red queen, one of us is lying, the cruel prince, the inheritance games
Julia wrote: "haunting adeline, red queen, one of us is lying, the cruel prince, the inheritance games"gotta disagree with you on the inheritance games (totally get it though) but I 100% agree with one of us is lying. The structure of the book was so odd to me! I never really enjoyed it
Black wrote: "it starts with us made me want to rip my fucking eyes out.Also one of us is lying and the cousins.
Incest??? I think not."
one of us is lying YES I see such mixed reviews on it, always one end of the extreme. I made it all the way through, so there's that, but I can't even say I remember most of it since it was pretty forgettable
@Brenda righttt one of us is lying was more a highschool drama shit than a mystery. literally have no idea why it's so popular, it felt like a 2016 wattpad fic
@Julia yes omg the murder mystery had almost NOTHING to do with the plot and I heard the show was worse
For me it's the entire "The summer I turned pretty" trilogy. I couldn't stand Belly, she was so annoying!! Oh and the Mortal Instruments. I started the first book but I didn't enjoy it
the summer i turned pretty. all the characters were annoying asf and i wanted to rip my eyes out reading it.
anything by colleen hover I’m sorryyyyyy
Luna wrote: "anything by colleen hover I’m sorryyyyyy"I feel the same
It Ends with Us and It Starts with Us, Check & Mate (it was weird I thought), Icebreaker, November 9, Ugly Love, All Your Perfects, Regretting You, Verity, Hopeless, Too Late, Never Never(Really all the Colleen Hoover books. They are so cringy, and discusting)
All Colleen Hoover books, the twisted series and also Inheritance games.....also the The Cruel Prince I'm sorrrryyyyyyy
Ooh I see some people saying they didn't like red queen. I LOVED red queen. Mainly because I'm a plot reader. I don't really care about characters anyway. Although even I can admit the charcters were two dimensional
The Cruel PrinceI hated it, think what you want but I was full Jude and Locke. I read for about 2 hours only to see that shattered so badly I wanted to murder Taryn. Now I’m better but it was sad because I already knew it was the Prince but it felt terrible, someone so terrible can’t be redeemed, my opinion!
Red Queen
Same thing, supported the wrong people, Maven and Mare was who I loved as a relationship, I read all the way to book 3 of the series but it felt like a slog and I wasn’t seeing enough Maven so I gave up on it. Turns out Maven stays the villain throughout so there was no point to push myself anyways.
1) If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin. The characters are emotionally cheating on their long-term boyfriend/girlfriend with each other for YEARS and if there's one thing that pisses me off, it's cheating, so this was a major miss for me. There was also no plot.2) Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins. Again, cheating was a major theme. How am I supposed to find the love interest appealing in any way when he's emotionally cheating on his girlfriend with Anna throughout the entire book? Also, the fact the fact that he took no accountability at the end and tried to say he didn't cheat after literally KISSING Anna pissed me off so bad. And they were super judgey towards his girlfriend for the stupidest things. Like, she dressed up as a nurse for Halloween and they made a huge deal about how she's "changed" and how she's "basic." Respectfully, shut the f up. It's literally a Halloween costume. So judgey for no reason. They villainized that poor girl over nothing
if he had been with meit was a nice premise but I just couldn't stand aautumn as a character. Major pick me vibes and like, she would be one of the girls everyone hates if she went to my school.
The fault in our stars - it just didn’t hit for me. I feel like the whole plot what with finding that author fell flat and the romance was way too rushed for me to want to root for themWe were liars - like a year ago I picked it up, read the first page, and immediately quit from boredom and hatred for the writing style. Maybe I’ll pick it back up again someday 🤷♀️
Spindlefish and Stars, The Young Elites, and KOTLC Everblaze.
Powerless by Lauren Roberts. Was just too stereotypical for me, and yes, I did push through until the end, and even decided to give it another go and started Reckless, but DNF’d after sixty pages :( no hate to anyone who likes it though!
kelyn wrote: "Shatter me, I really struggled with that one."I agree. the first book was kinda bad but I haven't gotten a chance to finish the rest of the series yet, so I'll have to see how that goes
Jasmine wrote: "Samantha wrote: "I have Shatter Me out from the library now.. I have to be honest, I wasn't going to read it, but now that there are opinions that differ so GREATLY, I want to see how I will feel a..."I just read the first book and did not like it, but I want to continue the series
"A Series of Unfortunate Events" -- read the first book to see what I've been missing out on all these years, only to decide I wasn't missing *anything,* actually."Percy Jackson" -- it's fine, and I get why so many people like it and feel nostalgic about it, but it just felt so generic and boring to me. Idk, I guess it's just not for me.
"My Hero Academia" -- read the first volume. Got mad at it. Haven't revisited the series since.
The Cruel Prince series and the Twisted series. Sorry not sorry.
The Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black The Beautiful series by Renee Adieh
I wish I had never opened them :D
Hunting Adeline .. the first book was very dark romance and I liked it but the second ugh. I liked the characters together but the plot lost me. I forgot why I was reading it.Also the descriptive r scenes… I had to completely skip over those parts.
We Were Liars. I didn't finish the book but I searched up spoilers. The writing was extremely weird and it just wasn't for me.
We Were Liars - It was too boring and I didn't understand the ending until I did some research on it. The ending was soo lame. The Cruel Prince - Again, it was too boring for my liking and Cardan was too rude... I don't think I can stand Jude falling in love with him, so DNFed the series.
The Fault In Our Stars - The day I completed this book, was the day I realised sad books were not my cup of tea. Sad books are so boring and realistic imo. Like dude I'm reading to escape reality smh
Any CoHo book outside of It Ends With Us, because all of her works follow the same tired formula.The Inheritance Games, this one was painful despite getting me through a reading slump. This book had so much potential, only for it to be an extravagant scavenger hunt/love triangle mix. Not enough danger and suspense.
Red Queen, was literally a carbon copy of all other high-fantasy dystopian YA books. It reads WAY too much like Shadow and Bone.
We Were Liars, over hyped on social media as a "page-turning thriller", ended up reading as a gender-swapped John Green book.
The Selection, was supposed to be like The Bachelor but lacked sufficient inter-contestant conflict and world-building. Also, America is a Mary Sue.
Shatter Me, mainly because the plot was a great disappointment. I had to read chapters and chapters of the MC and her love triangle.
Vrushali wrote: "
every single page was pure torture..."
1000000% agree it was TERRIBLE
Lilian wrote: "painted scars by neva altaj. CRINGE"Every single one you said I completely agree with!
Very unpopular opinion but i do not like the Bridge to Terebathia
If He Had Been With Me. I didn't like the characters at all and there were a lot of mature themes which I didn't really feel comfortable with. I couldn't stand the writing style, either. DNF.
A Court of Thorns and Roses. It might’ve just not been for me, but I found it painful to read.
Jasmine wrote: "Sabrina wrote: "Hush, Hush. Everyone I know loved the series, but I just couldn't get into the first book. I struggled to finish it and never read the others. Also, the Gone series. I stopped rea..."
same! i couldn't get past the first chapter, i'm not really a fan of the writing style
Ok, keepers of the lost city and a series of unfortunate events. I just can't with those series.
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