February 20: Books I’ve Decided I’m No Longer Interested In Reading.
This week splits pretty evenly into two camps.
1 – Books I’ve nothing against but have lost interest in because they sound the same as a (and/or with less diversity than) a lot of similar books I’ve read.
2 – And books where the author has said/ written/ done something I find offensive. While I get the whole ‘seperating an artist from their work’ thing, there are so many amazing books out there I want to read, why would I waste my time and money on these, instead of just picking up something else?
What’re your thoughts on these books? Which books went on your list this week?
Red Queen // Victoria Aveyard
The Selection // Kiera Cass
The Night of the Mi’raj // Zoë Ferraris,
Mrs. Beast // Pamela Ditchoff
Throne of Glass // Sarah J. Maas
The Mists of Avalon // Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Final Empire and Elantris // Brandon Sanderson
Red Rising // Pierce Brown
The Raven Boys // Maggie Stiefvater
I completely agree with you. I don’t want to support awful authors as well.
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The Selection series is one that has always been lurking on the outskirts of my TBR but I’ve never read any of them. In fact, aside from Red Queen I’ve not read any of the books on your list!
Here’s my TTT.
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Red Queen and Red Rising were not worth it. I really enjoyed The Raven Cycle books but do realize there is so little poc in there. 😦 I stopped reading Sarah J Maas after the third TOG book. Not really worth it either in my opinion. *ducks*
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😂
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I have the Mists of Avalon on my self, but have yet to read it! I’ll get to it..someday. Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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I had a copy for sooo long. But after what came out about the author, it just tainted the whole thing for me, and I know I wouldn’t enjoy it now.
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Great list! The Raven Boys made my list this week as well, and I know what you mean about Sanderson – I haven’t read any of his work and now I’m not sure if I want to.
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Yeah. I think his work’s pretty standard ‘white guy fantasy’ so I don’t feel bad about disliking him and passing on it.
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I made it through Red Queen but definitely won’t be continuing. I couldn’t even make it through Red Rising… so bad. I don’t understand the love. lol
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It’s odd because although I feel like it’s so hyped, I can’t remember ever actually reading glowing reviews of it?
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I actually only read it because my work friend raved about it. lol She’s not even reading the rest of the series though.
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Typical 🤣
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I’ve had Red Queen on my TBR forever and I can’t seem to ever get into it. The Selection is one of my favorite series.
Great list!
Here’s our tuesday posts:
Top Ten Tuesday: http://jennreneeread.blogspot.com/2018/02/top-ten-tuesday-books-i-broke-up-with.html
Teaser Tuesday: http://jennreneeread.blogspot.com/2018/02/teaser-tuesday-your-one-and-only-by.html
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I’m not too fussed about Brandon Sanderson’s books either. I remember when they were extremely hyped up and popular but they never seemed like something I would be interested in. And I think I might have been interested in The Selection a while ago, but it was probably just for the cover, haha.
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The cover, admittedly, is beautiful. I feel like I thought Sanderson was one of those ‘must read’ authors years ago, before I discovered blogs, GR, book Twitter etc. And now I just… expect more from a book? And an author?
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I’ve crashed out of the Red Queen series, so don’t blame you there. I also gave up on The Selection after the first book.
I agree about not supporting problematic authors as well. I haven’t heard what’s placed some of these on your list, so I’ll have to do some investigating!
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I loved The Selection! It was such a fun read 🙂 I disliked Red Queen though; I was expecting it to be amazing and was really…underwhelmed
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I was interested in Red Queen at first, but then I started reading the reviews and knew there was no way we’d make a good fit. Red Rising is one I meant to try, but I’d have to force myself to pick it up and I really don’t want to do that.
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There’s so many amazing sounding books I’ve yet to read, I’m trying not to force myself to pick anything just because it’s popular. Who has the time for that?
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I feel like I am getting more and more comfortable with this mindset, the more I blog.
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Me too. 🙂
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I haven’t read any of these. But yes, I wanted to read Selection series and the Raven Boys at some point. I am not sure though when that time will come 😛
My TTT: http://flippingthruthepages.com/2018/02/ten-books-want-read-beautiful-covers-featuring-black-women/
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Maybe one day when they fit a reading challenge prompt. One day 😂
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Haha 😂 that’s beat we can hope for 😜
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Bad reviews have steered me clear from The Selection and Red Queen series. I think I might’ve read Throne of glass but I don’t remember finishing it and I’m not interested in reading it. Knowing how little POC characters she has in her books, I’m not reading any SJM books.
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I wasn’t a huge fan of The Selection, which made my Top Ten Tuesday
and had a bit of a difficult time with Red Rising. But, I did love Throne of Glass.
~Elena@TheNovelistics
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Still interested in the ‘Selection’ and the ‘Red Queen’ books, but must confess those “Throne of Glass” books are looking less and less interesting. They’re SO long, plus the number of books in the series contiues to grow. So yeah, I’m leaning more and more towards skipping that one. 😉
Thanks so much for visiting Finding Wonderland!
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