So this past week I had a series of pictures I posted on Instagram about series. I had series I needed to start, series I needed to finish, series I've finished, series I need to read the second book to...the list went on and on. So today I wanted to just talk about some of those series.
Note: All the banners are taken from I'm Loving Books.
You can also find most of these banners in my side-bar.
Also, I'm only going to feature books/series I own, because if I don't own it, I can't read it (I have too many to be read books lol)
Series I've Started/Finished
Series I Don’t Really Want To Finish
Series I Won’t Buy The Second (Or Third ) Book To But I’ll Read If I Get It For Free
Series I’ve Tried Out But Couldn’t Get Past The First Book Because It Was So Bad
Series Everyone But Me Have Read (And I Don't Mean The Entire Series, I Mean The First Book)
Series I’ve Finished
Popular Series I Will Most Likely Never Read
Soooo...That was a lot of series. And a lot of books. I hope you enjoyed this post. I know it's a lot different from what I usually post, but I'm kind of going in and out of reading slumps so I'm trying to find different topics to post about. But I'm currently reading a book and I'm getting into it, so I'll hopefully be posting a review soon.
Anyway.
WHAT ARE YOU THOUGHTS ON MY LISTS???
It's a shame that you aren't planning to read The parasol protectorate series, because I loved the first book (and I can't wait to continue as soon as possible). Fun characters, snarky humor and an interesting mystery with some steampunk aspects :D You aren't missing out on Carrie Jones' books. I've read Need a while ago and it was just.. meh. I agree about Fifty shades. I'm not going to read it EVER. Even if it was the last series on earth. You should read The immortal rules and The lunar chronicles. They are amazing <3
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The Gallagher Girls and Heist Society series are both amazing! I hope you give those a try :) That is a lot of series, too! lol, I haven't read too many. Great post!
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ReplyDeleteYou should give the Curse Workers series a shot, it's really really good :)
Those are great lists! It's so difficult for me to read a second book in a series unless I LOVED the series to death. I couldn't get past the first book in the Across the Universe series. And I don't think I'll ever read The Mortal Instruments past the first book. It's just so long! My take on The Lunar Chronicles is that the first book wasn't all that spectacular but the second was AMAZING. Enough that you should give the series a chance.
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I'm kind of amazed that you can call yourself a reviewer when you feel the need to make lists of all the books you don't like. Good reviewers don't do that. They don't stop reading a book and then give it one star. If you don't like the book, fine. But don't give it one star. If you actually finished the book and you still didn't like it, then by all means, share your opinion, but do it in a constructive way. Don't leave a 4 sentence review stating you hated the authors writing, or the characters, or whatever. I don't know how you review, because I refuse to read any of your reviews. I was a reviewer, so I know how to construct a review that doesn't offend the author but also expresses that I wasn't fond of the book. But at least I finished it. And this making lists, saying a book was so bad that you won't even finish the series, that's horrible. It's rude, it's degrading and above all it's childish. You really need to take a step back and look at your reviews and see that, while you may enjoy reading, you need to figure out if reviewing is for you. What you've done in this post is absolutely ridiculous. Putting books and series into categories and not even explaining why you hate them. What if one of the authors see this? I know one of them already has, and they were hurt by this. Do you really feel like this is the right way to go about things? Really? Bashing authors and their writing all because you didn't like it? If they got published, then obviously their writing style is good and their story is compelling. While it may not be to you, it is to hundreds of other people. To review a book is to look at it critically and analyzing it, and either praising their writing, or suggest ways they can improve in the next book. It's not about NOT finishing a book because you didn't like it. This is not what reviewers are meant to do. And honestly, I don't think you care enough about the authors to put up a constructive review. You review to get views on your little blog and to possibly get free books. You don't do it to help, like other reviewers. You need to check yourself.
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