Books I DNFād In 2019 (with spoilers)
I am going to be including spoilers so if you donāt want to read any of that, then donāt read this. Also, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. These are mine. If you loved these books, thatās great! I just didnāt click with them so if you know youāre going to get offended, donāt read whatever Iām going to write. Itās that easy.
The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord
I could not even make it past the first chapter because it was that bad. I was cringing so hard and like, Iām a person who can deal with a lot of cringy things. Just the way that the book had started out was so wrong and left a bad taste in my mouth. It was like the author was trying to pin some sob story onto every character that was introduced, as a way to make readers sympathize and then hopefully like them. Also, the dialogue was kind of bad. It wasnāt realistic and it just all sounded out of place. Another thing was that we are to believe that the main character is in love with this one guy because of this one nice thing when itās clear that she really only likes him because heās hot. I am very glad that I did not read any further because I would have been a ball of rage for a while.
When We Collided by Emery Lord
Another Emery Lord bookā¦ I am genuinely upset that I could not finish this book because I was so far in, but I couldnāt do that to myself anymore with reading it. Itās better than The Start of Me and You, but goddamn, it was the cringe that stopped me again. These characters, I tell you, were not realistic. The main girl was literally a straight up MPDG. Literally, the one absolute problem that I have with The Start of Me and You, and When We Collided is that the main characters are teenagers, but they are definitely not written to be teenagers. You got these sixteen and seventeen year olds behaving like adults. Itās not accurate and it bugs the life out of me.Ā
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
I am so so so sad that I did not like this book like a million other people. Like I was so hyped for this book because of itās premise and itās plot and just everything about it sounded so amazing and thrilling, and then it didnāt live up to what I was expecting. I was ready to love this book and its characters, but I didnāt. I made it about 200 pages in before DNFing the book. The characters kind of annoyed me, it felt like there were too many things shoved into this book/plot that just seemed so convenient. Youāre probably thinking Iām being too critical, and I am, but I was just expecting for more. Mind you, I was about 200 pages into the book, and nothing intriguing had really happened. Thereās just so much I have to say about this book. Anyways, I was deeply disappointed.
Renegades by Marissa Meyer
Another book that I was so sad that I did not like. A lot of people around me had read this book and loved it so I was hoping that that would be me too, but it wasnāt. I am devastated that I didnāt like it. I just found it to be too cheesy for me. Like the whole superhero and villain concept really intrigued me but I think the execution of it was not there.Ā
The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
This is the most recent DNF for me, and let me tell you, I am not going to finish this ever. I was so excited for it too because Jandy Nelsonās other novel, Iāll Give You The Sun is one of my favorite books so I was hoping that this would live up to what I had in mind, but it really didnāt. Like this girl is literally expressing her grief about her sister who recently died while also expressing her horniness towards guys at her sisterās funeral LIKE WHAT THE FUCK. Also, this trope of the main character falling into a relationship with their sisterās/friendās/brotherās/close relativeās/personās significant other is such a big no no for me. Like why. And the pacing of this book was just too fast for me and the pace that she was already getting with each guy was wayyy too quick for me to even comprehend everything. I was just left with such a bad taste in my mouth.
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
Now this is a book I have started like three times and still have DNFād but I am planning on finishing the whole thing in the future. I just think that itās such a heavy book that I need to mentally prepare myself for whatās to come. Iām genuinely excited to read this book and finish it, but every time I started, it just didnāt feel like that right time so hopefully when I do pick it up again, it will be the right time and I will finish it.
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
This is also another book that I am really wanting to finish. The concept and the plot is super interesting and what Iāve read of it is very intriguing. Itās just hard for me and my tiny brain to comprehend a lot of things while reading Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels. Thereās a lot that goes into them, and I find that I need to be in the right mindset to fully delve into the world with my entire self. It also seems like a really badass book so Iām super excited for it.
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Iāve started this book like three times, and itās so hard for me to get past a certain point in this book. Itās not that itās a bad book, again, itās just that my brain is very small so itās harder for me to really fall into a high fantasy world. I am definitely planning on reading this and finishing but only when the time is right. I find that forcing myself to read books is never good because then I end up feeling bitter towards the book, so when my brain is ready, I will pick it up again and finish it.
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