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I think I need to turn my "50 books per year" challenge into 30 or so... Blah.
When I saw the Netflix Shadow and Bone trailer, it looked so good! It also sort of pinged my memory as a book I had considered.
The reviews I had seen of the book were bad, so at the time I had passed it up. But it was going to be almost two weeks before the Netflix show dropped, so I decided to try the first book.
All those negative reviews were right. It was full of all the worst YA book tropes. The main character was a white bread-dull girl who JUST HAPPENED to have the most powerful magical powers in the history of her entire world. Yet she was so passive and boring and ugh. And yet, men loved her, so of course there was a whole stupid love triangle.
The worldbuilding and magic system were interesting, so I pushed through the whole stupid love triangle thing and made it to the end of the book. As a whole, it was at the very best, only okay. There was not one single character I liked, and it was just such a typical "bad YA" book.
I started marathoning a different show, so when the Shadow and Bones show dropped, I wasn't ready to watch it. Since the book series is supposed to get better as it goes on, I picked up the second book, Siege and Storm.
For the first time in the two books, there was a character who was interesting. I kept reading because of him, but about the halfway point I just couldn't put up with how boring the main character was (and yet so super special that the people of her world actually made her into a saint).
Life is too short for bad books. I decided to give up on the series and moved on to a new book. I am going to watch the Netflix series soon though! It's gotten quite good reviews.
Partial book credits:
Point reached in DNF books: 50 (estimated, was reading an omnibus)
Previous abandoned book total: 134%
New total: 184% (one book)
When I saw the Netflix Shadow and Bone trailer, it looked so good! It also sort of pinged my memory as a book I had considered.
The reviews I had seen of the book were bad, so at the time I had passed it up. But it was going to be almost two weeks before the Netflix show dropped, so I decided to try the first book.
All those negative reviews were right. It was full of all the worst YA book tropes. The main character was a white bread-dull girl who JUST HAPPENED to have the most powerful magical powers in the history of her entire world. Yet she was so passive and boring and ugh. And yet, men loved her, so of course there was a whole stupid love triangle.
The worldbuilding and magic system were interesting, so I pushed through the whole stupid love triangle thing and made it to the end of the book. As a whole, it was at the very best, only okay. There was not one single character I liked, and it was just such a typical "bad YA" book.
I started marathoning a different show, so when the Shadow and Bones show dropped, I wasn't ready to watch it. Since the book series is supposed to get better as it goes on, I picked up the second book, Siege and Storm.
For the first time in the two books, there was a character who was interesting. I kept reading because of him, but about the halfway point I just couldn't put up with how boring the main character was (and yet so super special that the people of her world actually made her into a saint).
Life is too short for bad books. I decided to give up on the series and moved on to a new book. I am going to watch the Netflix series soon though! It's gotten quite good reviews.
Partial book credits:
Point reached in DNF books: 50 (estimated, was reading an omnibus)
Previous abandoned book total: 134%
New total: 184% (one book)
