Top Ten Tuesday - Books I DNF-ed

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. Here is the topic of the week:

✖️ Books I Did Not Finish ✖️  

I DNF-ed a lot of books over the last few years, but I haven't put all of them on my Goodreads DNF list. The thing is, sometimes I'll read only 5-10 pages and decide the writing style is not for me - those books don't go on the DNF list because I barely even started them, and for some reason I knew I wouldn't like them. What I do put on the list is books I read a few chapters of, at least, and then made an opinion on them. 

 

Echo North - Joanna Ruth Meyer

Echo North was something I never thought I'd see - too whimsical. I love reading fairytale-like writing and having lots of symbolic elements or poetic comparisons. This however was so whimsical I literally didn't understand what was happening. 

Bellegarde - Jamie Lilac

I read 30% before deciding it's too big of a cringe-fest for me and reminded me of the Netflix Persuasion adaptation. Modern dialogue in historical movies is a difficult thing to do right and most don't. 

The Box in the Woods - Maureen Johnson

Sometimes, it's the wrong expectations that bring on the DNF. For this one, I thought it's a continuation of the Ellingham Academy mystery, instead it's sort of a spin-off with the same characters. I realized I couldn't care less about this new case and just dropped it so I wouldn't ruin the original trilogy, which I adored. 

A Thousand Boy Kisses - Tillie Cole

After only reaching 8%, I've come across this: "And she was different to any other girl in our class. (...) Unique in a town full of carbom-copy bimbos. She didn't want to cheer, or bitch, or chase boys." So basically, if you like cheerleading or sometimes complain about things or like to talk to guys, well, you're obviously horrible and dumb and just like every other basic girl ever 🙄 There were too many cliches and general hate from Rune towards girls who weren't like his "perfect little Poppy"

Somewhere Only We Know - Maurene Goo

Everything I read in the first 20% was just ridiculous - they meet twice accidentally, she manages to leave the hotel without anybody noticing she's gone even though she's a mega-popular Kpop star and has 392470 people watching her at all times, and she doesn't know basic things about restaurants and bars??? She literally went into a jazz bar thingy and was surprised they didn't sell hamburgers there....

Zero Repeat Forever - Gabrielle S. Prendergast

This was just a boring rip-off of The 5th Wave. There's a "badass" alien who's got orders to kill every human on sight but changes his mind when he sees a "pretty and strong" human girl. The pace is extremely slow. The 5th Wave was also a bit slow but it had a dark atmosphere, it had "something" that pulled you in. This one has a bunch of teenagers doing drugs while aliens are murdering their friends. Brilliant.

Again, but Better - Christine Riccio

I literally don't have anything to say except CRINGE. I love Christine and I was really looking forward to this, but I couldn't finish it. 😂😂

Skyhunter - Marie Lu

I loved both Warcross and Legend so it really shocked me when I found this book to be so. freaking. boring. I don't think I finished the 2nd chapter 😂

Oatbound - Victoria McCombs

Oathboud had too many plots so I didn't care for a single one. I read 40%, and by then there was: a pirate set on getting the mysterious treasure from an island, a girl also going there to find a cure for a deadly disease, a magic boot that tells you what kind of person you are, a random mermaid situation, ghosts, giant sea beasts, mysterious dark ship following our MCs, a random girl they saved who has connections with aforementioned ship, moving islands etc. And I couldn't care less for the MCs....

Full Flight - Ashley Schumacher

I don't have anything bad to say about this one - I just wasn't pulled in. Maybe my mood is to blame, idk. 

💬 Which books did you DNF? 💬