A weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish
*** Disclaimer: I don't hate any of these books. I thought they were okay but they didn't impress me enough so I probably won't pick up their sequels when they come/came out. If you are super obsessed and think these series get better and I should read them, let me know why and I'll think about it. ***
I was super excited about this book when it came out. A Wizard of Oz retelling where Dorothy is the villain, sign me up. But I remember nothing about it and I'm generally just not interested in finishing the series.
2.) The Remnant Chronicles by Mary Pearson - My ReviewI know this series is super popular but it as far as fantasy goes it did not impress me. And I hated the narrative structure and wish they had maintained the mystery a little bit more. It just wasn't my thing.
3.) A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas - My ReviewSpeaking of wasn't my thing. Please don't hate me for this! I love Sarah J. Maas and the Throne of Glass series is a favorite but this series just wasn't for me. But everyone flailing about the second book does make me a little more interested.
4.) Half Bad by Sally Green - My ReviewThere was so much hype surrounding this book when it came out. And I liked it but now that I realize the series is complete and I have no interest in finishing it. I think maybe it just didn't stick with me after I read it.
5.) Blood of Gods and Royals by Eleanor Herman - My ReviewI thought Legacy of Kings was alright but there were just so many perspectives and I found the reveals a bit predictable. I know I probably won't finish this series when I passed on getting a copy of this at BEA.
6.) The Witch Hunter by Virginia Boecker - My ReviewSpeaking of passing on getting a copy at BEA. I actually rolled the sequel in the Little Brown dice game and just gave it away to a random person in line because I wasn't at all disappointed about it. I may have read it, but probably not.
7.) Reawakened by Colleen Houck - My ReviewI kind of liked this one when I read it but now that I sit with it I realize that it felt a little tropey and that I didn't connect with the characters or the story even. I saw the cover for the sequel and thought I should be excited about that and wasn't really.
8.) The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas - My ReviewI liked this book when I read it but the more I thought about it the more I realized that the tropes within it are not my favorites. It just didn't find it as creative a fantasy as I had hoped. Plus it's hard to impress me with elemental magic sometimes.
9.) An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir - My Review
Seeing everyone waiting in the crazy long line for this at BEA made me realize that I am totally the black sheep on this one. I liked it but there were a lot of moments and character development that didn't sit well over time.10.) Court of Fives by Kate Elliot - My Review
This is the one on the list that I think I will read. For one thing because I did get a copy at BEA and while I don't remember much about the details on this one I do remember I liked it. I think I just need a reread and then I will get excited again.
There you have it, the ten books whose sequels I probably won't read because I'm not as excited about these books as time goes by. Should I rethink my plans to not read the sequels? Do they get better? Have you loved any of these books?
I am reading the sequel to ACOTAR, but like you, wasn't extremely impressed by it. Feyre just got on my last nerve most of the time. I also never jumped on The Remnant Chronicles bandwagon either and don't know if I will ever continue on with it.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on An Ember in the Ashes. I actually remember liking it well enough when I was reading it, but now I can't remember hardly anything about it. Like, I couldn't even tell you the main character's name. I'm not super interested in continuing a series so forgettable.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the sequel to ACOTAR but I wasn't overly impressed by the first book either!
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I've started The Witch Hunter and put it aside for a while so unless it gets really better the next time I pick it up, I don't think I'll read the sequel at all...
ReplyDeleteACOMAF & Torch I'm quite excited to read, so I'll let you know once I do!
This happens to me a lot. I'll like the first book or two of a series, but by the time the next one comes out I just don't care anymore.
ReplyDeleteOw. About half of these are in my I LOVE NEED IT GIMMEE MORE NOW areas of reading! But I totally understand that not every book is for every one. And sometimes hype does play into things. I know I wanted to enjoy Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas because everyone raved about it and I really didn't care for it at all. That being said, I adored ACOTAR! So I'm still a SJM fan! Just not of her leading series! Though she did say she worked on ACOTAR first, she just got published with ToG first! So there's that! LOL!
ReplyDeleteI know some people had issues with Dorothy Must Die and Reawakened, but I really enjoyed both! Being a fan of fairy tale retellings, I loved how twisted DMD was! Though its sequel kind of left me needing/wanting more. Hoping book 3 provides all that! I enjoy how diverse Colleen's books are! I knew nothing of India before her first series and its culture, now I feel like I'm learning more about Egypt, which I do remember learning bits and pieces of.
I loved the twisty-ness to Kiss of Deception! Of course, we lose that mystery by book 2, but I still enjoyed how the characters continued to develop.
But as I always say, (pretty much at least! ;) ) by not fully loving one series or another, you're lightening the TBR mountain up a bit! So that helps! Sometimes that does factor in for me as well. If I'm not hooked, I don't want to keep reading a series when I have 200+ other books I want to read as well!
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If you change your mind about the Eleanor Herman book I have the sequel from the Harlequin line :)
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