This week’s Top 5 Wednesday, hosted by the Goodreads group, is a freebie. I decided to share some of the book I’ve recently removed from my TBR.
1. Queen of Air and Darkness (The Dark Artifices #3) by Cassandra Clare
First of all, I am not a Shadowhunters fangirl. I have had many problems with the multiple series, but I have also enjoyed several of them, as well. So why am I quitting this series at it’s finale? First of all, it’s 900+ pages. Just no. I’ve also happened to read a couple reviews that involved some spoilers and it has made me not at all interested enough to invest my time in this. Maybe if it was around 300 pages I would still give it a try, but not for 900 pages. The only thing I really care about in this series is Julian and Emma and their resolution sounds kind of stupid. I also refuse to ship polyamorous relationships. If that’s how you want to live your life, then ok, that has nothing to do with me, live your life. But I’m not going to choose to read and ship it.
2. Kiss Collector by Wendy Higgins
It’s been a long time since I’ve read anything by Wendy Higgins and I was excited for her new book. I did actually get this one from the library and I read the first chapter and knew I was just way too old for this book. I never marked it as reading and I didn’t really give it a chance past the first chapter, so I’m not marking it as DNF, I’m just removing it from the TBR.
3. I Like You, I Love Her by J.R. Rogue
I did get this off of Kindle Unlimited and read a few chapters before I knew I wasn’t in the right mood for it. I put it back on the TBR because I did plan on trying it again, but the more I think about it, the more I’m convinced I will never pick it up again.
4. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Ok, don’t hate. I’ve read pretty much nothing but wonderful things about this book and I have no doubt the author is very talented. However, lately I just CANNOT get into fantasy novels. Add that to the whole thing on Twitter where Adeyemi accused Nora Fricking Roberts of copying her and I just can’t. She did end up apologizing for jumping to conclusions and did eventually delete the tweet, I believe, but how full of yourself do you have to be -as a debut author, no less – to think an author as popular as Nora Roberts would need to copy you to sell books…
5. Moonlight Sins by Jennifer L. Armentrout
This is another book I have actually read several chapters of before deciding I wasn’t in the mood for it. I used to want to read all of JLA’s book, but a good deal of them end up just not being for me and this series falls into that category.
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I feel you on the fantasy thing. Because I really have to be in the mood for them I am picking about the ones I read!
Really high fantasy stuff has always been a bit of struggle for me, but I used to really enjoy some lighter fantasy. Now if I’m not a a very specific mood for it, I just can’t with it.
Better to remove them than to read them and feel you’ve wasted time on them. I need to clean out my TBR.
Exactly! I need to do a more comprehensive purge, too, but this was a good start!
I had Children of Blood and Bones on my TBR once and took it off. It is rare that I’m in the mood for fantasy. Right there with ya!
Glad it’s not just me! I just can’t get into fantasy these days!
I haven’t read any of these – but your reasons for dropping them seem sound! Especially the Twitter fight – come on!
I just just couldn’t get over that that tweet! So ridiculous. It’s why don’t follow many of my favorite authors on twitter anymore.
I follow almost no famous authors. Just regular peeps like me!
I am with you on the fantasy. I had Adeyemi’s book on my TBR because of the rave reviews but took it off because I can’t see myself picking it up. I definitely would have removed her over the Nora Roberts tweet had I known about it. I don’t think twitter is the proper place to address an issue of this severity even if it were true. As if Nora Roberts/JD Robb can’t sell books on her own lol.
I recently cut down my TBR list and it felt so good! I removed so many books but can’t remember any of them. I previously removed Cassandra Clare. Her books are just too long. I was going to listen to them and I can’t even make myself do that.
I think I’ve gotten it from the library 2 or 3 times and never once opened it before it expired. And, yeah, definitely agree an annoyed tweet is not the way to go when accusing another author of stealing from you… I need to do a more comprehensive culling of the TBR. Need to make room for all the other books I’ll never read haha. And yes, Clare’s books are always way, way longer than they need to be. And they’re rarely worth it for me.
I don’t blame you for Children of Blood and Bone. I thought about listening to the audiobook, but then that Nora Roberts thing happened and no messed with the queen of romance.
Right?! I just couldn’t believe such an accusation.
Even my husband thought it was nuts and he’s not a reader. He was just like, Nora Roberts is old and has a million books. That’s crazy talk.
Yeah, I’m not actually a huge fan of her, but I know that she’s super successful and popular and has written like a million books. She absolutely does not need to jump on someone’s coat tails.
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Life’s too short to be reading books you’re not looking forward to, and there re so many great books out there! All your reasons make perfect sense to me 🙂
Agreed! And I’m glad my reasons make sense!