Top 5 Tuesday is hosted by Shanah @ Bionic Book Worm. It’s a weekly meme where you pick your top 5 books for a given topic.
This week’s topic is – Top 5 Books that weren’t what I expected
Below are my thoughts and if we do not agree it’s okay. I know some of you may want to come after me by the time I am done.
- City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
This is the 4th book in the Mortal Instruments series. To just be brief this book made me so mad I felt that her twist was very unnecessary and just created conflict to sell more books in this series. Yes, you can come after me now. lol I did read books 5 and 6 but I feel they were not enough to recover the series. - The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
I went into this book thinking it was going to be everything I needed and I just thought it fell flat. I had no connection to anyone and just was not impressed. I also think that I let the hype get to me and I just expected way too much. - Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
I like a good retelling but this one just didn’t do it for me. I ended the book more confused then when I started it. And I am just going to say it the love triangle was just weird. - Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe by Melissa de la Cruz
LOL if you want you can read my review. - The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
This was supposed to be the greatest Fae story of all time, and I was so disappointed the only thing that caught me was the ending. Once again this could be a result of the hype building it up so much but either way, it was not what I expected it to be.
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I love how you chose “hyped books” and went against the tide LOL
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I figured if people might come after me I would give them a good reason too. 🤣🤣
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I haven’t read any of the books you’ve listed, but then that’s not surprising as they’re not from my preferred reading genre. 😉
I try not to listen to hype (hard sometimes) and I have become more picky with the books I chose to read as I’ve aged. It doesn’t stop the odd stinker sneaking passed though. 😉
I hope that 2020 is full of more joyful surprises than bitter disappointments in both our book shelves. x
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Thank you. I am learning to back away from the hype as much as possible.
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haha I actually really agree with you about city of fallen angels! (and the books get more unnecessary over time as well) Shame about cruel beauty- I’ve been curious about it for a while. And I hear you about cruel prince- I see that as more of an entertaining series than a masterpiece (and a lot of the hype around it suggested it’d be a masterpiece) I guess I didn’t buy into the hype too much, cos I’d already read a couple of Holly Black books and knew what to expect. Great post!
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Thanks! Yea this was my first Holly Black so that didn’t help. Cruel Beauty wasn’t terrible they just didn’t explain anything. I still have no idea how the magic system is supposed to work. And there is a fair amount of magic in the book. So for me that took a lot away from it.
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Sorry these were such disappointments for you! That’s always tough.
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The one that bothered me the most was City of Heavenly Fire. There was just no need for that.
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