So many DNF books...

[thistlechaser]

Current theme: Books on my Kindle with things with wings on the cover.
Alternate theme: I used to get way too many self-published books... Five of the below seven books were self-published (7th Sigma and The Last Gargoyle were traditionally published).

DNF #26: Kingdom's Fall by Andrew Reid. This book doesn't even have a page on Amazon for me to use to link the cover image. It's a Wattpad story, and I've had zero successes reading those. Set on a fantasy world... I didn't get much further than that. So many typos and editing issues. I DNFed it quickly.

DNF #27: Children of Zero by Andrew Calhoun. This one had fewer editing issues than Kingdom's Fall, but the story was dull, so I checked reviews to see if I should keep going. Those said things like "If bad grammar bothers you, this is not the book for you" and "learning of the main couple's enhanced sexual prowess just seemed dumb and pointless", which made my decision easy.

DNF #28: Crowchanger: A Changers of Chandris Novel by A.C. Smyth. I love crows, so I stuck with this one hoping for it to get better. It was so dull though, eventually I checked reviews. The general theme of them was "starts out slow but becomes decent by the end". Not worth sticking with, sadly.

DNF #29: Black Shift (The Consilience War Book 1) by Ben Sheffield. Ever meet a dumb person who tries too hard to sound smart? That's how this book came off. The author used unnecessarily big words, but made mistakes like this, speaking about human hands:

We always speculated that if an alien race evolved that didn't have ten fingers on each hand, they'd use base 12.

Also, he used a lot of those big words (and some smaller ones) incorrectly.

DNF #30: The Wall by Jen Minkman. Such a stereotypical YA book. All of society lived on an island, but split by a wall. People on one side believed one thing, people on the other the opposite. And both thought the other side were stupid/wrong. It reminded me of that Star-Belly Sneetches story by Dr. Seuss.

DNF #31: 7th Sigma by Steven Gould. What a bait and switch story. The summary says that it's about alien bugs that have an unstoppable hunger for metal, so humanity has to stop using it. People with metal fillings or pacemakers are screwed. But in truth it's about a boy with unbeatable plot armor who fights adults. The book isn't one single story, but instead a series of short scenes about him fighting.

DNF #32: The Last Gargoyle by Paul Durham. 1) The main character was not a gargoyle. He stated that in the first couple pages and repeated it through the the story. 2) He wasn't the last one. But I suppose "The Only Grotesque in This One City But There Are Tons of Them Around the World" isn't quite as marketable. But my annoyance with the title aside, the book was well written. After so many other DNF books, I really tried to stick with this one, because it wasn't bad at all. The only problem is it was written for a much much younger reader (middle grade? earlier? Amazon says 8-12 years old) and I just wasn't enjoying it. DNFed at about 30%. I suspect young kids would really enjoy it.

Comments

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Wait, you don't have ten fingers on each hand? lol

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Think how fast we'd type if we did!