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Top Ten Tuesday (#109) (10/06/15) Top Ten Series I Quit, or Will be Quitting

10/06/2015

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
 

Top Ten Series I Quit, or Will be Quitting


I really try not to quit series, but ultimately I do have to let a few go.  There can be a variety of reasons, but I am confident I will never finish these series.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8235178-across-the-universe



https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263147.Vampire_Kisses

This series was not really bad exactly, it just never really held my interest. The bigger issue for me is that I read the first few so long ago that I just can't see myself picking up the rest of the very long series.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12411687-indelible

I debated putting this book on the list, but the bottom line is that it was so incredibly bizarre that I just can't see myself reading the rest of the series.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30183.Marked

I stuck with this series for a really long time. It just never seemed to end. Now I'm left with a situation where I have only a couple of books left to finish the series.  Sadly I just don't see myself ever reading them.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16070143-teardrop

I managed to read every book in the Fallen series, and I really wanted to give this series a chance. I just couldn't connect with the story or the characters, so I doubt I will read the rest of the books.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13589580-what-the-spell



https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6387565-witch-wizard

I broke up with this series a bit ago.  I read the first four books and after that, I had enough. It's just terrible. I can almost see where kids would love this series, but it was like nails on a chalkboard to me. 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12988106-changeling



https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6741865-motorcycles-sushi-one-strange-book

This series is fine if you want to be bashed over the head with religion. I didn't realize what I was getting into when I picked up the first book in this series.  One book was enough. It was so preachy that I now have to double check the publisher when picking out new books so I know to avoid this one.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3934321-nightfall

I think I've talked about this series before, but here it is again.  I didn't mind the first four books in this series, but after the TV show came out, the hot mess of these books followed.  I read the first of the new books and one was enough. It was so bad.



Top Ten Tuesday (#58) (05/06/14)

5/06/2014

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
 

Top Ten Book Covers I'd Frame As Pieces of Art

Book covers are so interesting.  they have to convey the story and make you want to pick it up.  We judge so many books by the covers.  That being said, there aren't a lot of covers of YA books I would actually put on my wall.  Here are the one's that may have a chance.







Honestly, it's not my normal type of art, but I like the nature aspect of it.








I like the Georgia O'Keeffe look to this cover.


I love the cutout art of this cover.  It makes it even more special that the author designed it herself.


It doesn't really come out in this, but the cover of the hardcover is a really pretty cutout.







A Friday Five (#17) Indelible (The Twixt #1) by Dawn Metcalf

8/30/2013


Each Friday I'll feature one of my favorite books or a book I read in the last week and come up 5 words to describe it.  View it as a super mini review.  This week I'm featuring:


I finished this last Sunday during a reading marathon to finish off my reading during Bout of Books 8.0.  Here are the five words to describe it:

  1. Bizarre
  2. Confusing
  3. Unique
  4. Likable
  5. Intriguing

Bizarre:  As in very odd. Because this is a supernatural/paranormal book, the reader is expected to make some pretty crazy leaps of faith.  The characters, besides the humans, were just bizarre as is the world the inhabit.

Confusing:  I had a hard time following this book.  There were so many different elements, between the otherworldly characters that I couldn't wrap my head around to the world building descriptions, to some of the plot-lines.  I stayed pretty confused until the second half of the book.

Unique:  This book was totally outside my comfort zone.  I found it to be very unique and I haven't come across any other books like it.  Maybe others who read more supernatural/paranormal books won't find it very different, but I have never read anything like it before.  This is not your typical vampire/zombie/werewolf/fairy/angel book. 

Likeable:  In general the characters were very likable.  I didn't LOVE any of them, and those characters that you were supposed to dislike, I did indeed dislike them. 

Intriguing: After a bit of a slow start for me, I did find the book to be ultimately intriguing.  I didn't know where the story was going to go, and I remained interested in finding out what happened.  This was the first in the series, so while I will probably pick up the second book to see what happens, I won't be rushing out to get it either.