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Popular books you didn't like?
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Sofia, duckish things
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Dec 05, 2020 05:58AM
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Same, I thought THG series was okay but nothing special. (I am disappointed that I bought the series)
I loved the first book but the second and third were kind of disappointing.
I disliked Throne of Glass, The Hunger Games, The Selection, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Anna and the French Kiss, Fangirl, Delirium and Circe.
Amelie wrote: "I disliked Throne of Glass, The Hunger Games, The Selection, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Anna and the French Kiss, Fangirl, Delirium and Circe."can you elaborate on circe? I'm interested in reading it so I just want to hear your thoughts.
laura likes lit ⁷ wrote: "Amelie wrote: "I disliked Throne of Glass, The Hunger Games, The Selection, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Anna and the French Kiss, Fangirl, Delirium and Circe."can you elaborate on circe? I'm inte..."
I went in with high expectations and I was really disappointed since there was nothing that stood out to me, and there was little that happened in the plot. The whole book just revolved around Circe’s exile and loneliness and that was it. There was literally no plot. I couldn’t connect well with the characters and I found the writing to be incredibly boring. Having said that, I did like the incorporation of Greek mythology, but it wasn’t enough to draw me into the story. The book just wasn’t for me, but you may still enjoy it, so I think you should definetely consider reading it.
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Sofia wrote: "Did you like her other book? Isn't it called Song of Achilles or something?"I haven’t read any of her other books, and I don’t plan on reading them anytime soon. You may still like Circe though, I’m probably in the minority of people who didn’t enjoy it...
Jyoti wrote: "One of the popular books I didn't like was City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. The ending really put me off! I was like: "YUCK!"But I did like Clockwork chronicles. They were nice. And now I'm look..."
same
The last two books in the Daevabad trilogy. I never have been THAT salty with a series before... I wasn’t the biggest fan of the Starless Sea either (gave it 3 stars). I agree when people call it substanceless 😅. American Royals was one of my most disappointing books of the year. Comparing it to Gossip Girl was not a good idea....
Jyoti wrote: "One of the popular books I didn't like was City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. The ending really put me off! I was like: "YUCK!"But I did like Clockwork chronicles. They were nice. And now I'm look..."
it is the freaking worst honestly. L>ike no just no. City of bones wlecome in the wolrd of incest , a winny charracter that acts like a know it all aka clary , a insta love wich is also incest with is great. Oh and a lot of female / female hate because jelousy
I didnt like the remnant chronicles wich a lot of people seem to love , because it also had an insta love triangle and overall just was super boring. It is called a high fantasy but in the first book was no fantasy wich is well not a high fantasy.
Shadow and Bone, Divergent, Harry PotterThat’s mostly it.
Rithi wrote: "Shadow and Bone, Divergent, Harry PotterThat’s mostly it."
shadow and bone is quite ew. especially the whole romance
krista ☽✧ wrote: "never readed mazerunner"to save your brain cells don't read it
Thomas Jefferson wrote: "krista ☽✧ wrote: "never readed mazerunner"to save your brain cells don't read it"
i wont even tho my brain is already damaged
im sorry but i never liked divergent
Divergent is kinda boring. I like it before, but I DNFed it in the middle. I also DNFed The Borrowers.
- The Maze Runner: boring af, and also Teresa was woefully underdeveloped. Please just give someone besides Newt an ounce of personality. Plus there were like 30 boys there and all of them were straight? Sure, James.- Throne of Glass: I HATED this, I was bored and annoyed the entire time. Celaena was the worst, Dorian was the only saving grace.
- Serpent & Dove: cringe-worthy, and should NOT be considered YA. It was like....laughably bad.
- Fangirl: irritating as hell, not a fan of Cath's fetishization of Simon and Baz or her complete inability to understand what a college-level creative writing class is. Oh no, the teacher won't let you submit your fanfiction in their class? That's what the find-and-replace feature is for, Cather. Jeez.
- A Court of Mist and Fury: boring. Toxic relationship. Godawful character "development". Also should not be considered YA.
- The Afterlife of Holly Chase: I just really didn't like this one. It had a super interesting concept that was squandered for a bland romance. Also the main character was awful, I didn't care about her even after her development.
- All the Bright Places: incredibly harmful depictions of mental health, and basically just The Fault In Our Stars but with mental illness instead of cancer.
- Bloom: I HATED the main character, and the main romance was awful. I'm sorry, but (view spoiler)
Oh, and also The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein: really butchered the multifaceted characterization of the original novel for a Victor Bad Monster Good retelling. Which is fine, I guess, but it felt like Victor's complexity was erased and he became an almost unintentionally comedic version of what thriller writers think sociopaths are. It would've been far more interesting to see a Victor who followed his original interpretation more closely interacting with a much more gray Elizabeth. Also Clerval was handled really badly, I hate how whenever he's included in retelling he's regulated to a plot device and used just to make drama by having some forbidden love for Elizabeth. It's such an unnecessary addition that has no basis in the book; in fact I would argue that romantic tension between Clerval and Victor has much, much more canonical basis but nope! Gotta have the hetero love triangle I guess.
I LOVE your paragraph on why you didn't like The Dark Descent. I think I can determine that you don't love popular books..
Thank you! I do love some popular books, but a lot of others fall flat for me. I think I build the hype up too much for myself and then usually get let down.
Of course! I think that is a common occurrence for people. A lot of people hype up a book and then you read it and are confused as to why so many people love it. It has happened to me a sad amount of times (I really need to stop doing that to myself).
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I loathe that book.
Wow it was that bad.. (I haven't read your review because I haven't read it but I am now tempted to read it instead of reading the book)
Carry On definitely cannot carry on onto my tbr
Oh geez. The book is kinda getting interesting now, but I'm worried because you don't like it.
I've heard a lot of mixed things about Carry On. I might try it but I don't think I'll like it. I've also heard really iffy things on the rep in it.
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Sofia wrote: "The rep is bad. Simon's bisexuality was completely erased. I was very unhappy with how that was handled."That's what I'd heard, and also that there were some homophobic comments made towards lesbian characters (don't remember the exact words, but I know I've seen some quote in regards to Ebb that was pretty bad)
Also my biggest experience with Carry On was a former classmate who was one of those "uwu my gaybies!! I'm reading ~sin~" straight girls, and she LOVED it and that really turned me off of the book for a while.
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Ew.
No.
*concerned*
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I'd really like to see more arospec and acespec characters in fantasy, as well as more trans/nonbinary/genderfluid/etc. ones.
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Sofia wrote: "THAT PUNI'M DYING"
hehe I love making puns but they are very rarely funny..
Sofia wrote: "The rep is bad. Simon's bisexuality was completely erased. I was very unhappy with how that was handled."Oh that sounds extremely terrible. Rainbow Rowell is not the best either sooo maybe it's a good thing that I won't read the serie s
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Eva wrote: "Also my biggest experience with Carry On was a former classmate who was one of those "uwu my gaybies!! I'm reading ~sin~" straight girls, and she LOVED it and that really turned me off of the book ..."I HATE THOSE GIRLS
I am luckily not one of them.
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acceptance is not a personality trait. that's just basic standards for human beings.
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Sofia wrote: "I hate when straight people read gay stuff and then are like "omg I'm so quirky""It was super awkward, especially since I think she thought I was straight too? Which I'm not lol
