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Yeah I think the book series should end because now it seems like the series is just continuing because it was a hit not because the the author still has more to say with the characters. Actually it probably should have ended awhile ago. I kind of think of it like movies that are big hits then they start making all these sequels that are terrible but since they continue to bring in cash they just keep making them. (you know like the American Pie movies)
Heather wrote: "Maddie wrote: "I love the True Blood show but when I tried reading the books I just couldn't get into them ..."I read the books before the show started and I loved them and was not thrilled with ..."
My Mom just got me into them during season 4... I watch mainly for Eric... LOVE HIM!!!
I'm with ya Maddie I love me some Eric!
I think the Sookie series only has the book coming out this year and one after that left. I think it is for the best. I loved this series when it first started, but I do think the quality of the books has declined over time.
I have two series I just couldn't read. In fact in both cases, I never finshed the first book in the series. The Vampire Diaries was just dull.
I also disliked Glass Houses by Rachael Caine. It is the first of the Morganville Vampires series. When a character is caged in a pen in the town square in preparation to be burned alive, I lost interest. I didn't feel the character's reaction to these events to be likely. And because of the execution by burning, I just didn't want to spend my time in that kind of a world.
I really really dislike the Carpathian series by Christine Feehan. I have nothing against a strong dominant male character, but imo, these men take dominant way over the line into rapey (yea, I know that's not really a word).Twilight also got on my nerves. Bella is annoying and whines too much, and Edwards is just a creepy stalker. I also think that the message it sends to young teenage girls about relationships is totally wrong. I know a lot of YA books have obsessive 'love' but this goes a little too far for me.
I really like the Morganville vampire books, but I do agree. The way some of the people react and act is really odd. But then agian the town is run by vampires and the population knows it, it has to make people go coocoo.
For me Now, It's the BDB. I think the first 6 books were awesome and I absolutely Loved them but I find Rehv's book took a not so good turn in the way that I found she started focusing more on the other characters of the book rather then the couple the book is actually supposed to be about. It took me almost three days to read Rehv's book and I haven't been able to bring myself to read the rest. Couldn't really get into the Demonica series either and when I attempted to read book 1 of the Acro series I couldn't do it... Hopefully I can try them again but at the time I just couldn't ... I haven't given up though lol
I noticed for me Abby somtimes it's a "mood thing." Certain books that I tried before bored me to tears and then I go back and I'm totally into them.
Heather wrote: "I'm with ya Maddie I love me some Eric!"ALCIDE !!!!!
Moonlight wrote: "I also disliked Glass Houses by Rachael Caine...."I read the Morganville vampire books. Don't give up on them - the whole burning thing - isn't what you think and... well... you'll see...
I just don't really care for YA and reading about 16 year olds angst. But it gets much better... I just kept waiting for SMUT. LOL
Abby wrote: "For me Now, It's the BDB. I think the first 6 books were awesome and I absolutely Loved them but I find Rehv's book took a not so good turn in the way that I found she started focusing more on the ..."I agree!! I'm glad someone else put it into words that explain what I feel also. I wanted more shitkicking boot wearing heros and their MATES.
Susan *ARK* wrote: "Abby wrote: "For me Now, It's the BDB. I think the first 6 books were awesome and I absolutely Loved them but I find Rehv's book took a not so good turn in the way that I found she started focusing..."I can't bring myself to even read the rest of them because of it...
Now see, I Loved the Twilight books though I thought BD had too much Jacob in it lol . For me it was Harry Potter that I couldn't get into... Sookie stakhouse either (The books only)
Michelle wrote: "vampire diaries I don't understand why the series is even continuing. the series was just too boring"I LOVE THE VD ITS RLY GOOD BUT I THOUGHT THAT ONE BOOK WAS MESSED UP WITH THE BROTHER AND SISTER TWINS WERE LIKE DOING IT THAT WAS JUST MESSED UP THAT THE ONLY THING I DIDNT LIKE, I HAVENT READ THE NEW BOOKS YET.
I really didn't like the morganville vampire series. I read the first book and i just didn't like it
For me it is the Anita Blake series. I just couldn't get into it. Anita drove me crazy. She was supposed to be all strong and kick some ass but to me it seemed like all she did was complain and say how scared she was. After 3 books of that I quit.
i didn't care for Bared to You (never warmed to characters, seemed much too illogical even for a fantasy) & have always detested Sookie Stackhouse (tried to read books 1 & 2 - hated book 1 and couldn't even finish book 2).
The Blue Bloods series. It's not that I really hate it but more that it's boring and doesn't go anywhere. The same things are rehashed from book to book which really got annoying.
Carrier of the Mark. it was a Twilight rip off i swear. i just gave up on it.
LOL!! I had that on my TBR pile to read next, but I don't need Twilight revivals of any kind.
i love true blood but really didnt care for the sookie stackhouse books, i think the show ruined them for me. also the argeneau series didnt really do anything for me, a friend recommended them so i stuck it out through 3 books but didnt really enjoy them so i gave up there!
The only series so far that I haven't cared for is the Vampire Diaries. I liked the first two books, but after that it just went downhill. The show is like 100,000 times better.
The first two book were amazing for me (which I guess now is just considered book 1 with the reprint). I finished up the next two and thought they were awful. There has to be a stopping piont.
*Twilight by Stephanie Meyer- The last two were worse than the first two though. I also noticed a lot of spelling mistakes. *The last few Southern vampire mysteries by Charlaine Harris- Although really like the first few the series should have ended by now and it seems like she is stretching for stories and getting more influenced by the show. I can no longer 'suspend disbelief'.
*Tales of an urban werewolf by Karen Maclnerney- I do not exactly hate these books but the books are full of mistakes. Just silly things like in the first book there was a no lock on a door and then a few chapter later there was. In the second book (which I have only just started reading) a passing comment is made about someone's daughter who was actually a niece in the first book. I feel like I have made more of an effort to remember the story than the author and her publisher did.
Tales of an Urban Werewolf rubbed me the wrong way. It was like the author didn't care for her books and didn't put in enough effort. I don't know how you made it to book two.
I bought all three in one go (I almost always look for a series with at least 2 in it) and then feel the need to read it even if it is not great. But I 100% that it was like she did not put the effort in as well. It is times like that when I am sure I actually could do better. After the first few chapters I did get pulled into the story but then I would read something and it would make me stop and think about how it contradicted something earlier.
It was a good story, but to many of the facts and story lines just didn't add up. ONe thing that really bugged me was that her leg hair would get all crazy when the fullmoon would come so she would have to make all these emergencey shave stops. Hello, it's called pants. Embrace them. Would have saved her a lot of bathroom shave time.
Lol. Yes that is exactly what I thought! I loved that she added the fact her leg hair grew so quick but never got why on earth she would always wear a skirt. Also why was there that one mention of her having no hair on her legs as a wolf and then it is not only never mentioned again? Even when seeing other women as a wolf it is never mentioned. It seems like a lack of detail. The first two books do not talk about how she changes and then she gives it a go in the third but it was like she read Rachel Vincent's shifter series and saw how it was supposed to be done.The character does become less irritating in the third book and does not constantly mention labels of everything but by the third book the characters personalities become the same. The third book has a mistake where someone who was a characters brother in the second book is now called a cousin. The plot in the third book is actually good but I just do not see how someone making so many huge mistakes got published.
Wow, I am so glad I did not continue with the series. It would have driven me crazy!!Yeah they whole leg hiar thing was wacked.
Thanks, everyone! You saved me time and money. I'm not touching Vampire Diaries.
This topic opened more than a year ago but I want to add Sookie series by C. Harris. It began filled with creativity and mystic turns and event but the last two in the series feels like the magic is gone. I know Ms. Harris has an amazing creative streak and I hope the "advisor" that worked the last two book will step aside so Charlene is back with Sookie being Sookie.
The inmortals series by alyson noel.I absolutely don't like this series ('hate' is a big word, but maybe very accurate in this case)
I disliked the Vampire Diaries so much, I gave the book away to my nephew who actually liked it. He has ADD but he sat down and read it for hours. I also disliked the Morganville Vampires by Rachel Caine. I never finished either and actually stopped reading YA because of those two books.
I guess so far I have to say twilight series is my least favorite. Stephanie Meyer seems to be a good writer, I just couldn't enjoy the series as much as many other people. Read the first 2 books and didnt continue from there. I will give it that they were more enjoyable to read then the movies were to watch for me.
I just cannot love The Mortal Instruments. There is so much wrong with those books I could write a paper on them. Hell, I practically have if you read my reviews. I'm reading the third one now, and I've realized I have to build up the courage to even sit down with it. I wish I hadn't taken up the challenge to read the original three.
Can someone please tell me what BDB stands for? I've heard great things but can't even look it up because I don't have the name!
Alissa wrote: "Can someone please tell me what BDB stands for? I've heard great things but can't even look it up because I don't have the name!"That is Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward
Christie wrote: "Moonlight wrote: "I disliked the Vampire Diaries so much, I gave the book away to my nephew who actually liked it. He has ADD but he sat down and read it for hours. I also disliked the Morganvill..."I really liked the first collection of books, then after that the series just fell apart.
Twilight books rub me the wrong way as well.
LeeAnna wrote: "I just cannot love The Mortal Instruments. There is so much wrong with those books I could write a paper on them. Hell, I practically have if you read my reviews. I'm reading the third one now, and..."bahahahaha i only just managed to finish the first book and i couldnt fathom why SO many people love the series. especially when the two love interests may be related! YUK!
though in saying that i am planning - in some very distant time - to try the second book, just to give it a second chance, but i have no hopes really of it being any better.
My hairdresser loves this series, but then she is 21 years old -- may be why. I plowed and struggled through the first volume and I got the 3 volume set. I figure the problem is I cannot relate to teens in a difficult setting..I went on to book 2, only to quit after five pages.
I hated the twilight series, Bella is such a whiner, I also did not like The Awakening by L.A Banks, I read the first book all the way, then halfway through the second, thinking that maybe it was just a rough start? Nope, worst book i've ever tryed to read. I read Fallen, and I must say, what was the author thinking?
With everyone who hates Twilight 100 percent. I also could not stand "Wheel of Time'. The writing made my eyes bleed.
BDB! suffered thru the first book but could not endure any more after that! I just dont get why so many people love this series!
I couldn't get into the Vampire Huntress Legend series. The writing style was poor, and the characters and plot weren't enough to get me to read more after suffering my way through the first book (Minion).
I agree that the Vampire Huntress Legend by LA Banks was the worst series I tried to read. I was yelling at it most of the time and gave up after book #4. Probably ready three to many of them.
Amanda wrote: "I agree that the Vampire Huntress Legend by LA Banks was the worst series I tried to read. I was yelling at it most of the time and gave up after book #4. Probably ready three to many of them."I'm impressed that you stuck with it long enough to make it through book 4! I disliked the first book so much I had to constantly prod myself to read it to the end, and then couldn't bear to read any more of the series.
I haven't really enjoyed anything written by L.A. Banks (her stories have been in a few anthologies I've read over the years). Her African American characters are so in-your-face black, it's like being in a ghetto. My best friend is black, and he doesn't act or talk like that, nor do any of my other African American friends. So her books were disappointing to me in this way, too, for perpetuating stereotypes.
Read the first three BDB and decided that it wasn't for me. The juvenile dialogue irritated me beyond belief and I could not get worked up about villains who smell like baby powder. I like my baddies to be truly evil and threatening.
Amanda wrote: "I agree that the Vampire Huntress Legend by LA Banks was the worst series I tried to read. I was yelling at it most of the time and gave up after book #4. Probably ready three to many of them."The first book really turned me off, I was hoping it was just a really rough start.
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I read the books before the show started and I loved them and was not thrilled with the direction the show went (though I still watch it ahh Eric!!).
I was also disappointed with Dead Reckoning (#11). Each book before had a main plot that was worked through in the story line and I felt this one didn't really have a point. It was hard for me to get into and moved slow in the beginning. By the end of that book I did enjoy it overall but it is my least favorite in the series and I hope the next one is better.