Last December 21, Lyka Cali and I published our first posts in the Fuck 2016 marathon featuring what we think are the worst young adult covers ever made. Now it's the day before Christmas and it's time to bring you guys the second "episode" to this bookish marathon, THE WORST BOOKS I HAVE READ IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.
I consider myself pretty generous when rating books, I try my best to really look at their good points. But there are just those particular few which barely have good in them that I couldn't deny anymore how truly BAD they were. I know when a book just didn't hit it for me whenever I feel like it was a waste of my time to read it also when I am very frustrated with it. The kind of frustration wherein you question that book's very existence and meaning. Disappointment is also a key indicator. It's when I expect a particular book to be good because it has a good premise or had a huge amount of hype around it only for it to not meet my standards.
I am sure that the authors who wrote these books are very lovely people and I have nothing against them. I am only rating their books and nothing more. If any of you liked or even loved the books on my list, feel free to like them. I wish I had your experience but I simply did not.
Also, like my last list in Episode 1, this list is in no particular order.
1. If I Stay (If I Stay # 1) by Gayle Forman
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If you have read my If I Stay Review, then you know I absolutely did not like this book. It was boring, underwhelming, and pointless. The pacing was all wrong. It was mostly very slow until the last few chapters wherein it rushed to tie everything up. The characters were also minimally interesting. Those who managed to capture some my interest aren't even the main characters! They were just side characters! What was more frustrating was that it had a pretty interesting premise but the interest I had in it quickly diminished after the fist few chapters where nothing remotely exciting was happening. I read the last word of the entire book feeling very irritated and unsatisfied which should never be if you just read a great book.
2. Playlist For The Dead by Michelle Falkoff
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Oh God I was so so so disappointed after reading this book.
Playlist for the Dead has a very cool premise. It's the type I am definitely drawn to so when I heard about it for the first time earlier this year, I bought it the first chance I got. I even bought the hardbound copy of it. After reading the book, I regret spending so much money on it. It was just really bad. Like If I Stay, it was pointless. Everything that was set up didn't have a pay-off that was worth the time and energy spent on making it seem essential. I'm telling you guys it set up so much stuff but in the end nothing really happened. The playlist wasn't even much of a player in the book! The book was named after the something that didn't even matter much until the very end! The disappointment I felt after reading this book was unlike any other.... at least unlike any other but one. But that's later on in the list. The point is I expected so much more from this book but it just let me down.
(To view my initial review on Playlist for the Dead, click here)
3. Save Me, Kurt Cobain by Jenny Manzer
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Another book I regret spending so much money on because I bought the hardbound version of it.
Save Me, Kurt Cobain took me TWO weeks to finish and it's not even that long. If that's not an indicator at how boring this book was I don't even know what is. This book tried I can give it that. It tried to be thrilling and mysterious but it just didn't work. I guess that time spent trying to be thrilling and mysterious added to how boring this book turned out. It took too long setting things up that I found myself losing interest in it. It ended up being a real job just to finish this book and that should never be the case. The main character, Nico, was really rash and glum that it made it really hard to invest and root for her. Also, the million Kurt Cobain facts did nothing but distract me from the story. It would have been fine if kept at a minimum instead of it popping out every two paragraphs. Like Playlist for the Dead, I expected so much more from this book but I ended up disappointed and frustrated.
(To view my initial review on Save Me, Kurt Cobain, click here)
4. Soulmates by Holly Bourne
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I don't mind reading thick books don't get me wrong but as long as it was necessary for that book to be long. The length of this book was not necessarily. I bought this book because I wanted to read a twisted version of soulmates, not to read a girl's life with her friends and crush. I have read millions of books with that premise, I don't need another one. The big difference was I knew those books were about a girl's life with her friends and crush. I signed up to read those books. This book failed to mention that it was mostly going to be a normal contemporary novel. I feel like I bought something different from what I expected. If it was going to focus more on the life of the girl rather than the supernatural aspect of soulmates, at least make it worthwhile and interesting but it was not. It was cliche. In the end, it made me feel nothing major. It left no impact. I just turned the last page and set it back on my shelf.
(To view my initial review of Soulmates, click here)
5. Harry Potter and The Cursed Child (Harry Potter # 8) by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne
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I said above that Playlist of the Dead disappointed me like no other book did except for one. Cursed Child was that book.
I am not sure I can express my disappointment enough. I LOVED the Harry Potter series. There was not one book that I did not love. The story, the characters, the action, and everything in between were amazing and unforgettable and I will always be thankful to Rowling for creating the magical world of Harry Potter. So of course, I was super excited when I heard about Cursed Child and how it was going to be the "eighth" story of the Harry Potter franchise. After actually reading it, I tried my best not to think about how it was canon.
Where do I even begin? The characterization of most of the original characters were inconsistent with the other seven books, especially Harry fucking Potter. The stuff he did in this book/script were stuff his character would never do. It tried to tell a mind-blowing and massive story but in the end, it just created more confusing plot holes in a world where there are already more than enough plot holes. There were also things in Cursed Child that were clearly just convenient plot devices. If you think about it really carefully, it does not make sense. The Malfoys were the only bright spots from this story and nothing more. You would be crazy if you were a Potter fan and you didn't have expectations going in to this book. My expectations were missed by a long shot to say the least but not only that. I was disappointed out of my mind.
If you read my initial reviews of Playlist for the Dead, Save Me, Kurt Cobain, and Soulmates, you would notice that I liked them better there as compared to here. I guess the more time away from them has given me perspective on how bad they really were as stories so I don't regret putting them in this list. That said, I am actually quite surprised on how this list turned out. I thought there would be more. I have come across blogs and vlogs alike with numerous books on their most hated list. But then again, shouldn't I be thankful that there are only a handful of books that left a bad taste on my mouth? It's inevitable that I will encounter much more terrible books eventually but I guess I can look at it this way. Without them I wouldn't be able to gage terrific ones as well as separate and value the books I really love. You guys can look at it that way too if you keep on feeling overwhelming hatred towards those specific books you have read that really got on your nerves. It's better than them being the banes of your existence and paperweight after all.
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