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The Lowest Rated Books I’ve Read

The Lowest Rated Books I’ve Read

April 12, 2020 Posted by angelreads Discussions 2 Comments

I normally don’t read books that I know I won’t like. For the most part, I’m pretty picky with what I read. But as the years have gone on and I started not only reading more and more but also starting reading different genre’s. I started reading books that I really didn’t like. So today I thought I would share my lowest rated books that I’ve read. 

Now I just want to say, these are the books that I personally didn’t like. They might be something that you loved, but they just didn’t click for me. These are also only the books that I’ve read in the last 8 years since I started using Goodreads. Like always these are in no order. All these books here are 1 star or less. 

Approximately Yours (North Pole, Minnesota #3) by Julie Hammerle: I didn’t even rate this one. It was a DNF for me – which I tell you is very rare. I normally try and get through a book even if I’m pushing it. But, I only made it 20% and I had to give up. I can’t even really remember what it was about to tell you the truth. 

Playing For Keeps (York Bombers #3) by Lisa B. Kamps: You all should know by now that I love my sports romance books and this one came up as a suggestion so I thought I would give it a go. It’s a 1 star for me. I couldn’t connect the characters. The plot was bad, the romance wasn’t good. It just wasn’t for me. 

Storm (Storm MC #1) by Nina Levine: I’ve been on a real single parent romance kick lately and the second book in this series had one of those, so I thought I would start from the start. Yer it was bad. I’ve read a couple of MC romances here and there but this one. I wasn’t able to keep up with what was happening. I felt like I was jumping every two seconds to something new. 

Fierce (Storm MC #2) by Nina Levine: This one wasn’t any better. I was looking forward to the single parent romance and while that part was okayish. Everything else was bad. I’ve never read a romance that jumped so much. They were together, they weren’t, they were, they weren’t. And then the protagonist always gave in a way to easily. This series isn’t for me. 

Kissing in Cars (Kiss and Make Up #1) by Sara Ney: This one here was a review book, it’s when I first started getting into romance and didn’t know what I liked. So I picked it up and from the start, I knew that it wasn’t for me, but I kept ongoing. My comment on Goodreads was ‘Why did I continue reading?’ So that says everything. 

The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries #1) by L.J. Smith: So I did what any normal book lover would do. I tried reading books from one of my favourite TV series. Yer that was a bad idea. I didn’t even get through this book. It was that bad. It wasn’t that things were different, that wasn’t the problem. But things just weren’t good. And what it’s one of my lowest rated books. Elena was just horrible in the very few pages that I read. 

The Gathering by Isobelle Carmody: This one is strange on my list. On paper, I really should like this book, but there were so many things about it that I didn’t like. I had to read for English in high school and I thought wow, this would be amazing. Nope. I couldn’t connect with the characters, or the plot or anything. 

 

And that is it for today’s post! What are some of the lowest-rated books that you’ve read? Do we share any that is the same? This isn’t all of my lowest rated books that I’ve read, let me know if you want to read about more. Let’s Chat! 

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  • Bec @ Happy Indulgence
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    April 12, 2020 at 8:05 PM

    I think I’ve only started two books on your list. The Vampire Diaries book, which I don’t think I even got more than a chapter or two into? (I remember I couldn’t stand Elena either). And I’ve read The Gathering and a couple of more books in that series, and all I remember is that it’s a strange book. I need to reread it and finish the series actually.

    Like you I’m generally pretty picky with what I read so I don’t DNF or rate anything under 2stars usually. Most of my reads are 3-5 stars. I have rated a few New Adult romances pretty low recently though (they were very repetitive with mediocre plots and badly written characters…)

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    May 7, 2020 at 5:11 AM

    Oh my goodness, I read the first Vampire Diaries book and it was so awful. I love the TV series, but the characters in the book were so unlikeable. Elena was awful!

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