TGIF is hosted by Ginger at Greads. It’s about answering/asking our readers a random book related question. The question posted by Ginger today is..
Book Disappointments: Have you ever come across a book you were so stoked to read, but it failed miserably in your eyes?
The Ending of the Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning
I Loved this series. Seriously, LOVED. It follows this one girl, MacKayla a.k.a. Mac through this transformation from spoiled pretty-girl to kick-a$$ unseelie fighter. Oh, and then there was that AMAZING sexual tension between Mac and Barrons, the hotter than hot, bookstore owning, slightly supernatural, maybe villain, guy. A hook-up that is books and books in the making.
The first four books were so strong! And then the last one, it just didn’t deliver. A big poo poo on the entire series. I was so disappointed in the end I don’t even recommend it to others. Which is so horrible because I was ready to run off to Vegas and marry the first four books.
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
(sort of)
Before anyone freaks out…this is a “sort-of” answer (note the ‘sort-of’ in my title). Every review I read loved this book. Like LOVED, Where-has-this-been-all-my-life LOVED. I Liked the book, I enjoyed the book, I’m going to finish the series eventually and will recommend the book to my students…but I don’t feel the need to bring the L-word into my relationship with this book.
Sometimes these are the worst fails. The “Likes” when you were expecting to “LOVE!!!”. Just a little reminder to TheLibrarian, that not all books are for all people…
The Summer I Turned Pretty Review
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Publisher’s weekly said this was: ”darkly sexy prose and suspenseful storytelling”
On Amazon and Barnes and Noble hundreds of readers give the paranormal novel a combined star rating of 4.5 stars along with reader reviews titled things like “Highly Recommended”, “Yummy”, and “My Absolute Fav”.
I HATED this book. HATED. Look at that…two complete capitalization hates in a row, that means I really mean it. Probably the only review I’ve ever written in which I seriously hate-on a book. Ugh, it was bad. I couldn’t even BookTalk it! And we all know how I can craft a BookTalk outta just about anything…
Anyone else out there disappointed? It’s ok…feel free to whine along with me, lol.
Nice choices. It’s always sad when a series ends in a disappointing way. A lot of times I like the second to last book the best because it usually has the most drama. And I think I’d have the same reaction to The Summer I Turned Pretty. Everyone seems to really love it. But I think too much hype gets my expectations too high.
I have only read the first one in the Fever series so far. I did like it and loved Barrons!
Oh Barrons…Probably the one fictional guy I’d love to bring into existence and make my own…Sorry hubs! lol
I so agree with you about the Fever series!! I was so disppointed with the last book. It felt like a wild goose chase, where the author used every possible scenario only to retract it later on. And we didn’t even get THE answer to THE question: What is Barrons??
Ugh! I seriously agree. We don’t know what/who Barrons is. And it just felt like the author really didn’t know how she was going to tie it all together. I wanted a stronger ending…a real BAM! explanation…
Hehe I ran off to Vegas to marry the first 4 Fever books too. I liked the 5th book too but I felt that so many things were left unresolved.
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A friend just loaned me the 1st of the Moning series. I am looking forward, but hate that I may be disappointed come #5. The Summer…was not a 5 star series for me either.
Completely with you on Shadowfever! In my opinion, it completely bombed. Blech. I also had the same reaction to the entire Summer series. I didn’t get the hype at all.
Nooo! I’m so looking forward to reading the Fever series! Is the ending really that bad?! 😦 Sadness!
I haven’t read any of those, but I have ‘the summer I turned pretty’ on my list. Thanks for your honest opinion. I’ll still give it a go.
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I haven’t read any of these…and kinda glad I haven’t now 😉
I never like it when I hate a book that everyone else seems to love. It always makes me wonder if I just didn’t “get” it or something.
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I accidentally checked the last Fever book out of the library and then read about a third of it before I realised it was the last in a series. …okay, I was a little out of it because how could I miss that?
I didn’t decide to get the first book to replace it because I was so disappointed with the writing… I’m second thinking that choice now! If I know it ends weakly, the first few books can still be fun to read!
I’m torn with my advice for you, the first 4 really were addictively good…but they set you up for that fail of an ending…though the whole experience might be worth it for Barrons, having a little fantasy right now just thinking of him…very yummy…
I loved the first three books in the fever series. The reason I did not like the fourth one is because the dreaming had nothing to do with Dreamfever….so what was the point? Why the title? The last book, Shadowfever, did not deliver because Karen did not answer the questions here readers wanted answered. Karen is a lovely person, and I love all of her other books but the last two in the series. I, too, was very disappointed. I do not think Barrons is worthy of Mac. He is a narcissistic psychopath.