Love the thread:)

Here's one:

Beautiful Beings by Kailin Gow- 4 bad stars: words cannot explain how bad this book was.

It was so bad that I actually speed-read the entire last few chapters just to get it over with. The idea behind the story was a good one, don't get me wrong, but the writing and characters made me wish I had never learned to read....

yes, i hated it. It was one of the worst books i have ever read....the dialogue, action and characters were horrible- my 4 year old could have written a better book

That being said, that is just my opinion- I have come across plenty of people who like the books (why?!!) so you should read it and judge it yourself...

Not In Love with Kale Eddison: completely ridiculous drivel. couldn't finish. Not even worth its 99 cent cost.

Carrier of the Mark

-5 stars
I wish I hadn't picked it up.

I wish I hadn't picked up Carrier of the Mark at all. It's an offence to the paranormal romance genre. The whole thing lacks depth on every level - characters, plot, romance, setting... Not to mention the MC... She calls a girl "b*tch" just because she dares to walk to school with MC's secret love interest.

-4 stars                              Words cannot explain how bad this book was.
I'd have to put the Sookie Stackhouse series, George RR Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice series, the Eragon series, and anything written by Tad Williams here.
Sookie:  There's something to be said for a somewhat stupid main character. It gives the writer plenty of chances to have other characters explain things to the MC (and us). However, when your MC is so freaking stupid that she does the same things over and over again, never learning from her mistakes...that's when the writer needs to kill her off and find someone new to write about.
Martin:  Deadly dull. And just when it starts to get exciting, he starts killing off main characters. I slogged my way through the first two books and decided to look at Wikipedia to see if it got any better. Imagine my surprise when I learn the by the fourth or fifth book, he's managed to kill off every single main character except for one, who's a prick. I don't much like it when authors kill off characters, but when I went to all the effort to drag my way through his writing...*shakes her head* That I cannot abide.
Eragon:  I hate Eragon on multiple levels. There's the fact that he was this "genius author" who wrote his book when he was, what 17? 19? Yeah, a great book that takes the plot of Star Wars and sticks it in Tolkien's fantasy world, an author who has no imagination and poor descriptive abilities, one whose freaking PARENTS owned the publishing company that published him. He gets all sorts of accolades, when authors like Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (who wrote her first book at 14, was published without family connections, and has new ideas) are completely ignored.
Williams:  I've tried reading his different series on multiple occasions. What drove me crazy was his ADHD writing style. He would write a few pages from one character's perspective, rarely giving you enough information to figure out WHICH character, and then switch to another character..and another..and another. I felt like I needed to make a spreadsheet so I could write down the character's names, and what little I knew about them, just to figure out whose perspective I was reading. Entirely too frustrating!

-5 stars                              I want to murder this book. It has pushed me to brink of insanity.
The Elric Saga. Worst. Series. EVER. By the end of the sixth book, Elric manages to kill his entire family, everyone he loved, everyone he was ever friends with, everyone he met, and eventually destroys the world. And if that isn't bad enough, then his demon sword kills him and flies off. WTF?


...This is kinda cathartic. Thanks, Poprad!

*smiles wryly* There are only two people I know IRL who read as much as I do as well as the kind of books that I read: my dad and my brother. But I rarely get to sit and discuss what we've been reading. So..yeah. Thanks again! ;]

Not In Love with Kale Eddison: completely ridiculous drivel. couldn't finish. Not even worth its 99 cent cost.

I actually quite enjoyed it - yes it is far-fetched but isn't that what reading is all about? Escaping from reality for a few hours. Well, that's what reading is about for me.
Anyway, one book that I really didn't like was Immortal by Lauren Burd. I really forced myself to finish this because I rarely abandon a book. The whole story had been done before and I really wished that the author put an original spin on the subject instead of copying someone else's work.

Okay. My list:

1. The Immortals Series by Alyson Noel 3 stars
- The first two books were great but I just get tired with the way the story goes and end up not finishing the series at all.

2. Take Me There by Susane Colasanti 4 stars
- This book just didn't take me there at all.

3. Reincarnation by Suzanne Weyn 4 stars
-  Honestly, the plot of this book is really intriguing. But I think the author focused on the 'reincarnation' part and she forgot to include the powerful love story that should have been the center of this story.

4. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins 2 stars
- Even though I really loved the first two books in this series, I must admit that I don't like the way Suzanne Collins ended things. I hate what she did to Peeta.

Godmother - Carolyn Turgeon

5 Stars - Wish my friend never told me about it and gave it to me

It is more of the fact that I went into this book completely unaware of the complete and utterly depressing undertones of the story and was in for a happy, trouble free book.  Ended up hating the book, character, author (for making such a story), and my friend (for recommending the book without the warning). Made me afraid to read her other modern fairy tale books in fear of total depression and regret of having ever read the book in the first place. Story seriously pissed me off, depressed me beyond compare (not in a good way, yes there is a good depression with other books), and for once made me wish I never read the book in the first place. HATE HATE HATE it

Because I just want the e-mail update on this thread. lol But I will post a book(s):

-4

Anything after the second book in Melissa DelaCruz's Blue Bloods series. I loved Sky. When I read book 3 I couldn't help but wonder what happened to the tough girl that turned her into Bella.

And barf on that one scene between Jack and Mimi in that one book. I don't care if they've been reincarnated and are only related just because, that was just icky in my opinion. I wanted to puke when it happened but I couldn't help but continue to turn that page on that train-wreck of a scene.