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What's Your Least Favorite Book You Read in 2016?
Tampa (No redeeming factor in the main character. Sex (and perverse at that) pretty much defined her.The Dinner (Despicable folks abound)
Illicit (Boring erotica)
Harry Potter and the cursed child... >.<
Half Blood by Jennifer L. ArmentroutUprooted by Naomi Novik
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
Hush Hush and Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick.
After by Anna ToddShade Me by Jennifer Brown
Kindling the Moon by Jenn Bennett
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Easily.
Steel Scars by Victoria Aveyard - it was just completely unnecessary and irrelevant and, well...bad.
Wasn't Steel Scars about the Red rebel leader? Or am I remembering wrong?
Yup, that's the one - Farley, I think.
Why was it unnecessary?
I just feel like it was just a means to get another book and she could have morphed everything we needed to know about the Resistance throughout the series. For example, let's take Queen Song. That's a different story, it added depth and understanding to the story that would have seemed stretched to add in the main books. Anyway it's just how I see it - it was not horrible though, I just don't see why we needed another book/novella for it.
I haven't read the novellas yet, but I sorta want to since I'm a glutton for punishment and always finish what I start no matter what.
You should read them, Queen Song was good and I liked it and maybe you'll feel differently about Steel Scars. (the reason I said if was the worst book I read last year isn't because it was horrible, but because I mostly read good books in 2016). So do give them a shot :).
Alright but do remember I considered Red Queen the worst thing I read last year, gave it a solid two stars. Hated the characters, the world was a confusing mix-match world of medieval feudalism and a high-tech fantasy world, the plot twist was extremely dumb and predictable, but the plot is interesting at least. And Glass Sword was slightly better than Red Queen, but only slightly because at least it had some character development and Maxton wasn't in it.
Well, at least they're really short, so they won't bother you for long if you hate them :).
Tie - Head Full of Ghosts and The Deep
I did NOT like Empire of Storms
Frankenstein (required for school) and Breaking Dawn. I read great books this year, so i'm not saying that breaking Dawn was bad, bu that I just didn't enjoy it as much
I haven't even read Crown of Midnight yet and with the rate I'm reading these books I should get to Empire of Storms by the time she's already written the thirtieth book in that series.
I'm supposed to love fantastic beasts, and I gave it a 5 star just because J.K Rowling wrote it, but for some reason I just couldn't connect with the characters and the setting at all. Also it wasn't as magical as the other Harry Potter books she wrote.
Throne of Glass and Crown of Midnight. I've given up on that series I HATED these two books. Also The Art of Not Breathing was bad too.
Pride and prejudice, i finally called it a dnf after those horrible 6 months. The only reason I attempted to read this is because my dad read Harry Potter.
Bella wrote: "Pride and prejudice, i finally called it a dnf after those horrible 6 months. The only reason I attempted to read this is because my dad read Harry Potter."Your comment made my night thank you!
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My biggest disappointment was Outlander... :/(2 stars)I also didn't like Goddess of the sea by P.C cast (1 star) and Soundless by Richelle Mead (2 stars)
Seven black diamonds. Ugh... really slow paced
Cinder.I didn't like the cyborg theme and although I really wanted to like the whole Lunar Chronicles series, I couldn't bring myself to finish the first book.
My least favorite was probably A Beautiful Mind . I adored the movie and since I'm a psych major I thought that reading this book would help me to gain insight to schizophrenia. Alas, it just confused me. I got so caught up in the math terms (which I suck at math) that I couldn't really enjoy the book like I wanted too.
To be honest, I wasn't a huge fan of Pride and Prejudice either. I think it was the writing. It was my first classic novel that I've read so I think I was unprepared for the flowery language they used back then.
Paper Towns by John GreenWicked by Jennifer L. Armentrout
The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima
Aliens in Paris by Sally Ann Melia
Everything Under the Sky by Matilde Asensi
After by Anna Todd The Lighthouse by PD James
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfield. I felt like she used Jane Austen's coattails to launch a rendition which in my opinion was unworthy of the association. There are better "Jane Austen project" novels.
Throne of Glass by Sarah J MassSwitched by Amanda Hocking
Biggest disapointments- Iluminae and Six of crows. Still enjoyed them just not as much as I thought.Least favourite- Rook (DNF) and The Siren.
i am very lucky in that my 2016 was full of books i really liked. maybe i'm just getting to be a good chooser in my old age. ;)that being said, my least favorites were probably under the harrow and the shiver trilogy.
Heartless was pretty bad to me. I was really disappointed everyone was raving about it, but it was not for me.
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