Books You Don't Like.

A Necklace of Kisses; Francesca Lia Block.

She is my favorite author and this book is a sequel to a series she had written that I adore, but I was not a fan of this book. It didn't have the same magic to it, despite the mermaids.

I found it particularly difficult to get into To Kill A Mockingbird and Catcher In The Rye. Both books have been suggested to me to read, but I found them hard to get into. I just feel the plots weren't all that appealing to me. Both have good storylines, I'll admit that, I just didn't like how they were written.

I also did not like the fourth book of The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. After reading the first three books (and adoring them endlessly), I had very high hopes for the book when it came out. Then I found that I couldn't even get past page 100. It bored me horribly, and I can't even tell you why. It just felt like everything was dragging. I think the series should have ended with book three. It would have been a good ending, as well as a happy one, instead of feeling like it was dragging pointlessly in the fourth.

I don't know if anyone has said this or not but, the Witch Season series was awful. The author's name escapes me right now, and I can't be bothered to Google it. The main female character is a total "Mary-Sue" that falls for a vampire guy. Her friends are each a different stereotype. There's an emo guy, a sweet girl, a jock, and I can't remember the others if there were anymore. Not to mention the plot wasn't even really memorable at all. I just remember the main characters getting chased by a witch.

I'm not sure if anyone's said this or not, but The Pretty Little Liars simply gets on my nerves. I read the series when it was in it's infancy and followed it closely until the TV show came out. By that time, the plot of the new book was really over done and all of the books after it seemed really unnecessary. I thought the series was going to be four books at first. Then it turned into eight. And now it's going to be twelve. Like, are you kidding me? It's dragging on way past what was needed for the story line.

After they killed the main threat to the characters (Mona as "A"), it should have ended. But then they made "New A" and were terrorized all over again. The girl who's supposed to be dead turns out to have a twin sister - but wait! - the twin is the girl who actually died. Then the girls kill someone, one becomes addicted to speed, another gets pregnant, some guy's dad is a drag queen, and - what?

I mean, talk about using a crutch to continue a story. The author just continues to pelt these girls with every single dramatic plot twist she can think of in order to "keep the readers guessing" on a series that should have ended ages ago. It just kills me thinking about it.

I really didn't like Evermore by Alyson Noel. I read it a couple of years ago, so I can't quite remember the details, but I remember it following a very similar storyline to Twilight. A lot of the plot was cliched and overused - things like how the main boy and girl started off hating one another, and then just so happened to fall in love. And I remember Damen, the main guy, being a rather unrealistic character who, very conveniently, was near enough perfect at everything he did. There was also a lot of stereotyping - there was a "goth" girl who was constantly described as being the most stereotypical goth you can imagine. I didn't bother reading the rest of the series.

The other one I didn't like much was Pride and Prejudice. The writing itself was fine, but I just found the plot pretty boring. The entire thing is just based around discussing which men the girls are going to marry, and I just didn't find it hugely interesting.

Divergent by Veronica Roth. This book/series has been growing in popularity especially as the dystopian literature trend escalates. While I thought the premise was interesting, I was not a huge fan of the novel (particularly the ending). Part of my distaste for this novel can certainly be chalked up to the fact that I'm not a huge fan of dystopian literature... I've only ever come across one novel of this genre I loved and that was The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Otherwise, I thought the ending of Divergent was extremely rushed and poorly executed. But, like I said, interesting premise.

The Pretties/The Uglies/The Specials

I really didn't like those books at all. And I also hate that book about the boy who pushes his best friend out of a tree and he dies. I forget..I think it was called A Separate Peace? Ughhhhh.

@Isadora Pierce: Yes, that's A Separate Peace by John Knowles. That book irked me as well. I had to read it in school sophomore year and it bored me.

@ sunset boulevard
good God it was boring.

@ Isadora Pierce: Yes, and I thought the writing was quite dry too. It's unfortunate because the novel had potential to be really good, primarily because the idea was relatively interesting and original, but it didn't meet expectations.

@ sunset boulevard
It really pissed me off the entire time how the author made the boys seem like best friends yet enemies in Gene's mind. It was just really confusing and it bugged me.

Wild Roses by Deb Caletti. Just...awful.

The Host. I tried to like it. I really did. I liked the Twilight series when I read it in middle school (notice I was in middle school, where that childish relationship belonged), but the movies just make me want to blind myself.

Since The Host was apparently Stephanie Meyers's attempt at an adult book, I thought I'd give it a whirl, but I was so bored through the entire thing. The main character spends most of her time in a hole. Not much happens. Granted I only got about halfway through, but it was a 600 page book. I was really reluctant to throw the towel in after I invested that much time in it. It was just boring.

The Vampire Academy Series, book three i think was it.
I died in that book. I'm not even kidding. Around book three, things went downhill. Maybe it was four, but something tells me three. It just got so boring, that I quit reading it all. Sorry, it didn't appeal.

I so want to like To Kill a Mockingbird, but I just don't. I just can't stand Scout's voice. It's probably because my mum gave it to me to read when I was about ten and the descriptions of Boo Radley scared me silly, but either way, I just don't like it.

And Fifty Shades. God, let me list the things I hate about Fifty Shades. My main complaint is that you can't point out what a controlling stalker he is without someone saying "ah, but in those types of relationship..." and then start saying how all Doms track the phone signal of a girl who they've met all of twice. To top it off, he's a really irresponsible Dominant, she's annoyed me the most out of any character I've ever come across, and the sex isn't even that hot. I just can't understand the obsession with these books. I really can't.

I find it really, really amusing that one of the major complaints of the more "classical" (i.e. wrote more than fifty years ago) books is that "nothing happens".

Read a Samuel Beckett play and come back to me. Beckett is the bonafide Master of writing a lot where nothing really happens. I personally don't mind if anything happens or not. In fact, when there's too much action happening at once, it makes my head spin.

And I feel like I'm the only one who liked The Catcher in the Rye. Mind you, I did read it repeatedly for three months.

The only book I found I quite disliked was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I adored Wuthering Heights by her sister so I gave this a go and Jane is...I know this sounds bonkers but she comes across as like she was a bad character for a Jane Austen fandom? Now, the book is technically nicely done: lots of interesting themes and running metaphors and use of liminal zones but I just dislike many of the main characters.

Chosen by P.C Cast

The last two books were fun to read but the plot in Chosen was about a girl getting with her teacher...and that was really bizarre. I stopped reading the house of night series there.

unapalomayunaflor:

Chosen by P.C Cast

The last two books were fun to read but the plot in Chosen was about a girl getting with her teacher...and that was really bizarre. I stopped reading the house of night series there.

Oh yes, definitely yes. I liked it during the first two books (Chosen is the third book right?) because they had a nice setting for me and it was a teens book which I could definitely relate to but with the protagonist (what's her name again?) being with the teacher I couldn't bear to read the next sequel.

a mimosa pudica:

Oh yes, definitely yes. I liked it during the first two books (Chosen is the third book right?) because they had a nice setting for me and it was a teens book which I could definitely relate to but with the protagonist (what's her name again?) being with the teacher I couldn't bear to read the next sequel.

I stopped reading the series because of that as well! It was peculiar, really. I had liked the environment and everything as well, but then all of a sudden, BAM! The girl shags her teacher, and I just wanted to rip the book apart.
Then, I realised that the main character was a massive Mary Sue and that the names of some of the students (Aphrodite) were silly and predictable. What maddens me the most is that I had already bought the rest of the books in the series and now they're just sitting on my bookshelf. I don't wanna touch them.

•I haven't read Fifty Shades of Grey, but I've read excerpts and it repulses me from just those small paragraphs. It's just so laughable when it's not supposed to be. Inner goddess? The main character is such an airhead, and I want to throw a boulder a Christian Grey.
•I don't like Twilight either. That doesn't need to be explained.
•I tried to read Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins but I could never finish it because to me it was so bland and boring and I was just sighing with every page. People have agreed with me on this though; my cousin, in fact, said she skipped the middle of the book and went straight to the ending.
•I could never finish The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick. I didn't like the writing, and really just the first 50 pages itself. I didn't feel connection with the characters, which made the reading for me extremely insipid.

festus:

I stopped reading the series because of that as well! It was peculiar, really. I had liked the environment and everything as well, but then all of a sudden, BAM! The girl shags her teacher, and I just wanted to rip the book apart.
Then, I realised that the main character was a massive Mary Sue and that the names of some of the students (Aphrodite) were silly and predictable. What maddens me the most is that I had already bought the rest of the books in the series and now they're just sitting on my bookshelf. I don't wanna touch them.

A MASSIVE MARY SUE. There, that was also what I wanted to say but I just couldn't say the words. You made me realize that definitely!