Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

The Wolf Within Me by Cheree Alsop. After four DNF books, I was this close to adding this one to the pile. The writing is lazy, there are plot holes out the wazoo, and the story is completely unoriginal.

A normal boy turns out to be a werewolf ends up at a school for mythical creatures for reasons explained in about two pages of text. Basically the author wanted to just get to the school part of the story.

The school felt 98% like Hogwarts, except it had young mythical creatures as students instead of human kids. The students were the most interesting part of the story.

I really have no idea why I enjoyed this book. Like I said, it was lazy and had too many plot holes, yet somehow I finished it. It helped that it was extremely short (about 4 hours of reading, most YA books are 6).

Did Not Finish

The First Paladin Dull writing, unbelievable plot. DNF 2%

SNAFU: Wolves at the Door: An Anthology of Military Horror Military horror, so not my style. Maybe I picked this up for one of the authors within it? If so, I can't remember who. Read the first two stories, but they (unsurprisingly) weren't to my tastes at all. DNF 16%

Hero in a Halfling A Humorous Fantasy Adventure (Epik Fantasy Book 1) Not humorous. Plus the author wrote a review of his own book on Goodreads saying "...but I think my writing could use a few more years of work. My sentences need more variation..." and he went on listing all of the issues. Why publish something you're not proud of? That you yourself would say "I think this is only a 4 star book"? DNF 3%

Wren and the Ravens All the reviews mentioned how slowly it started, and I got tired of waiting for that to change. DNF 8%

Partial book credits:
Point reached in DNF books: 2% + 16% + 3% + 8% = 29%
Previous abandoned book total: 348%
New total: 377% (three books)