Hey guys, it's Emily! For today's video we are talking about all of the book series that
I have broken up with. It's not them, it's me. Except for in the cases where it is
them. These are all book series that I've started, but right now I just have no
desire to finish any of them. This is going to be a mix of book series
that I did enjoy, that I had fun reading, but just now I don't want to do that any more,
I don't want that anymore. And it's also going to be books that I just hate. That
I hated, and I obviously have no desire to continue series and books that I hate.
So it's a mix of things that I did like and things that I definitely did not
like. Just one little caveat, because apparently that's something that you
have to do on the Internet... If I mention a book that you love and I
say I really don't like it or I hate it, nothing against you! You're totally
allowed to have your own opinions. That's totally cool! Also I think it's sometimes
good to separate the work from the author themselves. Because maybe it's a
very nice person, I just didn't like the book that they wrote. They might be very
nice, but I don't like their book. Right, okay,
done with this little rambling rant thing. First off is a series that I enjoy a
lot when I first read it in high school, but I never read the final book, and that
is the Divergent series by Veronica Roth. I really liked the first and second books.
I know some people really didn't like the second. I was not one of those. But
then I kind of fell off the wagon, and then someone spoiled the ending of the
final book for me, and I was like, "Oh no. No, none of this for me please. No thank
you." So not finishing that. Another series
that I liked fine, I just I'm in a different place and I
just don't really want to finish it is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar
Children by Ransom Riggs. I really liked this book at first. I thought the concept
was really cool and the execution was pretty good. The concept exceeded the
execution, but I still liked it quite a bit.
I just I'm so far removed from it. I would have to reread it and I don't want
to reread it. So I'm just not gonna finish it. Next I have The
Grace of Kings by Ken Liu. I don't know the name of this series, and I think it has
something about storms in the series name? I really, really, really wanted to
like this because I absolutely loved The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
by Ken Liu. That is Ken Liu's short story collection. It's a mix of sci-fi
and fantasy short stories, and it's absolutely amazing. I can't recommend
that enough. I would not recommend The Grace of Kings, though. I thought it was
very heavy on the telling rather than showing. I was not a
very big fan of it. His writing is beautiful though! The prose itself is
very, very nice. But I wasn't crazy with the book, so not
going to finish, but I'm definitely going to pick up more of Liu's work in the future
because I have loved some of his work. Next up I have a series that I'm not
finishing because I read the first book and I absolutely hated it. I hated it so
much it makes me angry to think about it. That's how much I dislike this book.
I think this might be my most hated book of all time. And that is The Bronze Horseman by Paulina
Simons. It's bad. It's just so bad, guys. It's
800 pages of recycled plot, poorly developed characters, unlikable
characters--there's no redeeming quality, not like a kernel of something
to latch on to. And then on top of that it has this super gross abusive
relationship that's made to seem very romantic and it's this epic love story.
But it's just.... No, no, no. Oh I don't like it at all. I don't like it at all.
No, no, no, no, none of that. Please don't read it. I would recommend you pick up
something else. Anyway I finished this book. It ended on a really bad
cliffhanger, and obviously because I invested the time to read 800 pages--I
don't know why I read the whole thing. I think I read it all because I was like,
"It has such good reviews and ratings and all that kind of stuff! Am I
missing something? Is there's some big twist at the end that's gonna fix all
these problems?" No! No, it was just bad. It's just bad.
And then I found out that it had these sequels, and I was like, well I don't know
what happens. I don't want to read them. So I looked up the plots and they
made me just as mad as the book that I'd just finished! So never, ever, ever going
to pick that series up. Next I have the Fever series by Karen Marie
and the reason I'm not gonna finish this is because it kind of concludes after
five books but then she kept writing a bunch more and Alice sugar she filmed
the video in which she was basically like don't really pass with this book
like just don't do it so I'm not gonna next I have a wrinkle in time by
Madeleine L'Engle I think this is a quartet but Langille also wrote just a
ton of books in the same universe that are all kind of connected to varying
degrees I just don't really want to read any of them I love a wrinkle in time but
like it's done for me I don't want to read the sequence very much
if you've read and loved the seagulls I would love to hear it because I've never
really heard people talk about the sequel's so unless someone is like Emily
you're totally crazy they get so good they're just as good every other one
then I'm not gonna read them next I have three REO clinicals by Michael Sullivan
RiRi reah reah reah reah reah it's hard to say for some reason I read the first
two books in one volume I was kind of confused was going on
it's called theft of swords and I guess it's technically books one and two of
the reread chronicles and I really enjoyed the first book second book I did
not like it all I just really didn't like it that much so no desire to
continue that series next I have snow like ashes by Sara SH
right oh I don't know how to say your last name this is a Y fantasy series I
read the first two books and I enjoyed them fine they were fine quick reads but
I don't remember what happened and so I would have to reread those books again
to read the third book and I just I don't want to do it I don't want to do
it and lastly I have the bone season by Samantha Shannon I really didn't like
this book oh yeah I thought the concept was so
cool really really cool but it was the coolest part of the book and we really
didn't get that much information about it it's very very messy in its
world-building and on top of that it has a kind of gross toxic relationship that
I really don't like this is weird like master/slave dynamic and didn't not like
that at all not continuing that series so that's it some book series that I am
breaking up with let me know if you think I'm crazy for not finishing any of
these I would love to hear your opinions leave a comment down below if you like
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