This week I’m sharing the books and series that I have abandoned. Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and Bookish and is hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl. 

It’s rare that I don’t finish a book or a series but today I thought I would share some of those. There are different reasons that I abandon books or series. Many different reasons really. Sometimes I fall out of love with the series. Sometimes I just can’t connect with characters or the plot. And Sometimes books are just bad. 

So today I’m sharing some of those books and series that I abandoned. Some of these I only got through a few chapters, some I read a few books in the series. Like always these are in no particular order. 

Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J. Maas: This won’t be the last Sarah J Maas book on my list. However, I actually really enjoyed the first book of this series. It was exactly what I was loving at the time and it felt like I could love the series as a whole. And then it went downhill from there. I don’t like what she does with her characters I really don’t. Everyone hyped this series so much and people still buy this series non-stop today but I just couldn’t. 

The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey: Now I haven’t full abandoned this one. I just haven’t picked it up since I started reading in January. I started reading it but didn’t get to finish it before my holiday and didn’t want to carry something that I would finish in an hour. So I left it at home. And just haven’t picked it up since. I really hope to soon though. 

King Series by T.M. Frazier: I read a good chunk of this series. Not sure why I did. Because I wasn’t enjoying it that much. I just wanted to find out things that happened. But I really didn’t like it at all. I wasn’t a fan of the writing style or the characters. Everything really. I normally don’t like not finishing a book. It happens but not a lot. So I kept on pushing. And then they all left on cliff hangers and I wanted to know what was going to happen next. Luckily they were through KU. So I don’t feel as bad. But I will not be reading anything more in this series. 

Storm MC Series by Nina Levine: This is another series that I’m not sure why I kept on reading. I wanted to pick up book 2 because it had a single parent. But I hated both books that I read. They were both 1 star reads for me. And I rarely give those out. But I really disliked so much about it. If you are looking for a good MC series, check my recommendations post out. 

Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake: This is another series that I haven’t fully abandoned but I just have put it on hold. I’m finding it harder and harder to love young adult fantasy. There are some that I live for and adore. And then some like this one that I liked but just haven’t picked up yet. So right now I am abandoning it. But maybe one day I will read it again. 

Caraval by Stephanie Garber: This is another series that I finished the first book in the series but haven’t read anything else. But I think that this is going to stay that way. I thought that Caraval was okay. I didn’t love it, I didn’t hate it. There were problems with it though. I just don’t think it was for me. 

A Court of Thorns and Roses Series by Sarah J. Maas: I said there was going to be another Sarah J. Mass. Much like her other series, I loved the first book. It was one of my favourite books I read the year it came out. But it went downhill from there. Most of the problems in this series were the same from her other books. I don’t like what she does with characters, how they are treated. How she flips everything that they do. I just think that Sarah J. Maas is not for me. 

The Selection Series by Kiera Cass: This one is a strange one and I don’t think that I’m in alone as to why I stopped reading this series. I read the original trilogy and enjoyed. It’s my guilty pleasure read. I also started the ‘second’ duology as I like to call it. The first one was okayish. The last – yer not so much. I haven’t read any of the short stories and I might not read anything more by Kiera Cass again. Her books sound good, but they aren’t written well. Not for me at least. 

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris: I cannot believe that is this on my list. On paper, this sounds like my perfect book. It’s about World War II, come on. But I got maybe 30 pages in and had to stop reading. I don’t like the writing style – at all. It felt very jarring to me and I couldn’t connect with either the characters or the story. I really wanted to love this. We sell it nearly every day at work, but I just couldn’t. 

Pawns in the Bishop’s Game by Emilia Finn: I got about 10% into this one before I gave up. It was really horrible. I don’t DNF books a lot. Most of the time I’ve got a clear idea of what I like to read and what I don’t. But this sounded like something that I would like. I was wrong. So wrong. I can’t even pinpoint really what was wrong with it. First, there are different titles for it, but also it’s like the end of one series and the start of another and it took me a while to figure out which book to read first. And second I just didn’t enjoy it. 

 

And that is it for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday. What are the books or series that you have abandoned? Do we share anything that is the same? Let’s Chat!