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Post by driedflowers on Mar 19, 2019 14:06:38 GMT -5
here it is! your opportunity to Let Loose about all those books you read as a teen/young adult that started off great only to crash and burn and make you regret spending your money. I'm really posting this because I want to read other people's tea, but for the heck of it I'll post a little list of series that I was frustrated with, too. - Maximum Ride - The Hunger Games (Okay yall i get it, this an unpopular opinion. No More about it please I beg you) - Maze Runner - Beautiful Creatures - Strange Angels - Hush, Hush - Shiver - Lockdown: Escape from Furnace im positive there are others but those are just the few that come to mind.
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Post by The Noble Dragon on Mar 19, 2019 14:08:13 GMT -5
MAXIMUM RIDE MAXIMUM RIDE MAXIMUM RIDE
I will never get over how angry the Max Ride series made me.
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Post by Cosmos on Mar 19, 2019 14:14:44 GMT -5
Maximum Ride, yes, my god it was awful Divergent
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Post by driedflowers on Mar 19, 2019 14:16:26 GMT -5
AH YES, DIVERGENT.....I pushed that one so far out of my mind that I managed to forget about its very existence.
I honestly wish I hadn't remembered.
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Post by แแชแ แฝ แพf fแชแแ แพms ใโ on Mar 19, 2019 14:47:50 GMT -5
dude i dont even know how Maximum Ride ended...the amount of books overwhelmed me so i cant even rememeber if i read the "last book" or not...? i just know the last couple i did read weren't the best....
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Post by jacob on Mar 19, 2019 14:58:28 GMT -5
y'all are making me glad i never read half of these series and never heard of the other half
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Post by แแชแ แฝ แพf fแชแแ แพms ใโ on Mar 19, 2019 15:12:51 GMT -5
also forgot to add: the last hunger games book was meeeh...? The ending seemed fine to me, so im surprised a lot of people find it bad. i adore all the hunger games books so much though.
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Post by driedflowers on Mar 19, 2019 17:42:36 GMT -5
imo hunger games started to get Eh for me when Peeta was introduced as a fully realized love interest. i understand the circumstances is really what made their love blossom, but i honestly thought the way their romance was written was very forced and Obviously Planned, and it turned me off. the whole concept and the tension of people vs government was really fantastic, though, so i cant discredit it as a Completely 100% horrible series.
im glad we're all on the same page that maximum ride was insanely bad though. Its What She Deserves
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2019 18:16:32 GMT -5
private by kate brian. spoilers for the series but it turns out that the main girls are all witches even tho everything was realistic and no magic happened at all before that so it was just pulled out of the author's lint filled pockets to sell more books and while it was def a guilty pleasure series this is what killed it for me, p sure the books ended after the reveal book tho so like, good riddance shshshsh
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Post by ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ on Mar 20, 2019 18:34:55 GMT -5
Maximum Ride stabbed me in the back and burned down my fields
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native american cowboy
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Post by will on Mar 20, 2019 20:32:30 GMT -5
max ride, as far as i'm concerned, didn't have an ending. hell, the "it was just a dream" explanation would have been better than what we got. uhhhhhh the last apprentice - also called the spook's apprentice in the uk. it didn't necessarily end BADLY, it was just clear that the author had so many more ideas he wanted to explore and needed more time to do that. it's really a good series and i would 100% recommend it, but in the 11th of 13th book, joseph delaney introduces an entirely new character/society???? to make a reason for the final conflict to need to happen???? and it also served as the basis for the 2nd series which i didn't read past book 1 because he changed the very rules the original series was based on just to get feminist points. as i said, he needed more time, and then waited too long to actually elaborate. i had been finished with the series for years before i found out about the sequel. also intense spoilers for the end of the story but it made me wanna throw the book legit THE SINGLE LOVE INTEREST, set up from BOOK ONE to get with the protag, LEAVES HIM FOR A WARLOCK IN THE FINAL ACT?????? TOM GOES TO RESCUE HER AND SHE'S JUST LIKE "SORRY IM EVIL NOW" LIKE WHAT but other than this the plot is really good and makes sense and works within the rules it gives itself the entire time. it's a bit slow at times? but good. read it.
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Hunger games overall ending was honestly not bad. I liked it enough. But it was all so rushed you could tell. How I remember it was everything happened and... That was it. The romance of it was really really meh. I don't know why gale was a factor at all. That's the thing that sucks about writing love triangles though. Nobody really wins. Although I do want to say that I was always a fan of peeta so yay for him.
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Post by infernoMarshmallow on Mar 20, 2019 21:45:19 GMT -5
the mara dyer trilogy had one of the worst endings ever (and was one of the worst series i've ever read), not because "oh no their relationship is destined to end badly :,,,(" but it was SO poorly written, it was SO RIDICULOUS, honestly i get mad thinking about it. if you haven't read the books, save yourself the time and think of it as a paranormal hallmark movie with the most ridiculous of explanations for everything.
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Post by Cosmos on Mar 20, 2019 22:02:49 GMT -5
I want to add more to this list, but most of the books I can think of that ended badly, also started badly and middled badly ;~;
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What do you mean it's *checks watch * July
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Post by โถJaysongโถ on Mar 20, 2019 23:47:59 GMT -5
Okay, so I haven't read Maximum ride, but now I definitely won't be.
I must be one of the few people on the planet that actually didn't mind the way the Hunger Games ended? Like, I was never a huge fan of Peeta or their relationship towards the end, I just liked Katniss' character. But I don't think the last book of the story was bad. I think there's a difference between a "bad" ending and a "sad" ending, which might be why I'm confused here I also adore the The Maze Runner. I was pissed with how it ended, yes, because I was emotionally invested in the characters that *spoiler* died. But I liked the series over all. The Kill Order was meh, okay. It's an extremely depressing book series overall, so if your ideal ending for a book isn't sad you're probably not going to like either book series. Aside from the fact that most sequels are never as good as the originals, they're not bad.
Yes, Divirgent sucked.
Another book series that was a huge let down for me was the Kiesha'ra series by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. The first book was okay, but I was intrigued by the premise. The second book was good and the 3rd in probably my favorite of them all, but from there it kind of went down hill.
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Post by ๐จ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฏ on Mar 21, 2019 1:14:01 GMT -5
I honestly didn't like the way the Grisha trilogy ended. it felt like such a cop out to me. it was too good to be true and even if it hadn't been it didn't seem like a believable ending. it also undid a lot of the discussions on good and evil in earlier books imo.
honestly mal should have stayed dead. not so alina could end up with nikolai (I honestly never saw them turning into anything more than friends) but because that seemed to me like the natural end for him and for alinas character arc throughout the series. it would have cemented the whole 'she's not perfectly good' thing but also really forced her to confront and truly accept it, which I never feel she did. it would have been a bigger twist, too, because I always expected them to find a way for mal to live. and it would make the emotional toil of his death a little more hard-hitting. idk it just felt like a waste to have him die at all if it was only going to last for five minutes anyway.
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don't hold me accountable for any characters i created when i was 16
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Post by rat on Mar 23, 2019 6:45:24 GMT -5
max ride, as far as i'm concerned, didn't have an ending. hell, the "it was just a dream" explanation would have been better than what we got. uhhhhhh the last apprentice - also called the spook's apprentice in the uk. it didn't necessarily end BADLY, it was just clear that the author had so many more ideas he wanted to explore and needed more time to do that. it's really a good series and i would 100% recommend it, but in the 11th of 13th book, joseph delaney introduces an entirely new character/society???? to make a reason for the final conflict to need to happen???? and it also served as the basis for the 2nd series which i didn't read past book 1 because he changed the very rules the original series was based on just to get feminist points. as i said, he needed more time, and then waited too long to actually elaborate. i had been finished with the series for years before i found out about the sequel. also intense spoilers for the end of the story but it made me wanna throw the book legit THE SINGLE LOVE INTEREST, set up from BOOK ONE to get with the protag, LEAVES HIM FOR A WARLOCK IN THE FINAL ACT?????? TOM GOES TO RESCUE HER AND SHE'S JUST LIKE "SORRY IM EVIL NOW" LIKE WHAT but other than this the plot is really good and makes sense and works within the rules it gives itself the entire time. it's a bit slow at times? but good. read it. honestly that was the only thing that annoyed me about the entire series. like I was all for this whole tom and Alice thing and she just goes ahead and turns evil after everything they did to prevent that? disappointing and Alice is now dead to me. absolutely love grimalkin though.
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will
native american cowboy
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Post by will on Mar 23, 2019 8:52:54 GMT -5
max ride, as far as i'm concerned, didn't have an ending. hell, the "it was just a dream" explanation would have been better than what we got. uhhhhhh the last apprentice - also called the spook's apprentice in the uk. it didn't necessarily end BADLY, it was just clear that the author had so many more ideas he wanted to explore and needed more time to do that. it's really a good series and i would 100% recommend it, but in the 11th of 13th book, joseph delaney introduces an entirely new character/society???? to make a reason for the final conflict to need to happen???? and it also served as the basis for the 2nd series which i didn't read past book 1 because he changed the very rules the original series was based on just to get feminist points. as i said, he needed more time, and then waited too long to actually elaborate. i had been finished with the series for years before i found out about the sequel. also intense spoilers for the end of the story but it made me wanna throw the book legit THE SINGLE LOVE INTEREST, set up from BOOK ONE to get with the protag, LEAVES HIM FOR A WARLOCK IN THE FINAL ACT?????? TOM GOES TO RESCUE HER AND SHE'S JUST LIKE "SORRY IM EVIL NOW" LIKE WHAT but other than this the plot is really good and makes sense and works within the rules it gives itself the entire time. it's a bit slow at times? but good. read it. honestly that was the only thing that annoyed me about the entire series. like I was all for this whole tom and Alice thing and she just goes ahead and turns evil after everything they did to prevent that? disappointing and Alice is now dead to me. absolutely love grimalkin though. grimalkin and tom's mom are queens
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Post by Cuppa Tea on Mar 23, 2019 11:00:31 GMT -5
warriors. i know theyโre still pumping out books but warriors ended with OotS for me. the last hope sucked and i am still disappointed to this day.
also nice rose of versailles avi op
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 12:16:39 GMT -5
In my opinion, Maximum Ride was just bad from the second book.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Mar 23, 2019 12:53:40 GMT -5
surprised nobody has mentioned Blood of Olympus yet
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Post by cal โฉ on Mar 23, 2019 15:47:52 GMT -5
the last divergent book was just bad i never finished it i wish they would've made the last movie so i would've known how it ended, but alas i know only the big spolier-y parts and the book was bad enough that i don't care to find out the rest
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don't hold me accountable for any characters i created when i was 16
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Post by rat on Mar 24, 2019 2:31:54 GMT -5
honestly that was the only thing that annoyed me about the entire series. like I was all for this whole tom and Alice thing and she just goes ahead and turns evil after everything they did to prevent that? disappointing and Alice is now dead to me. absolutely love grimalkin though. grimalkin and tom's mom are queens yes I'd die for them omg
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Post by ๐โ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ on Mar 24, 2019 2:43:58 GMT -5
The Galahad Archives Man that ending sucked big time
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Post by dreamgurl42 on Mar 30, 2019 11:35:23 GMT -5
Mmm, probably every Meg Cabot book ever. I might be over exaggerating with this statement, but I read a handful of her books and it's so weird about her characters. If anyone ever knows about the plot of The Princess Diaries with Mia then you would know some of her character traits are clumsy, she only has one best friend, she the odd one out of the whole school, develops a crush on a guy that is later on a jerk. Stuff like that. It's stuff on top of my head. Anyways can you imagine if 'Mia' is a character is in every book Meg Cabot ever wrote? Not Mia herself, but her character traits and her personality is. I remember reading American Girl (a plot where a girl saves the president of the USA from being shot); which I thought was an interesting story until I realized the main character is very unchangeable or different from Mia's character traits. I moved onto another book after finishing that one. It was Shadowland or something like that. A plot where a girl is strike by lightening and she has the powers to know where murdered children are hiding or where the murder put them. It sounds morbid, though it sounded interesting and it'll be fascinating to see what the writer does with this. It was poorly executed. It sounded like a neat idea to work with and the author does it badly Certainly, Meg Cabot's books are not a series I just thought her collections of books are just considered bad. At least in my taste. It's like Mia is in every plot of her books, but a different plot, different characters, different situation. Possibly, if the characters were likable and she didn't make so many stupid mistakes (for the sake of plot devices) then maybe this wouldn't be noticeable? Of course, these books weren't for my age group (I was in my early 20's reading this), though I do want to counter with this quote. "A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.โ โ C.S. Lewis
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Post by driedflowers on Mar 30, 2019 13:03:02 GMT -5
dreamgurl42 this whole thing was hilarious to read for me because my name is Mia
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Post by dreamgurl42 on Mar 30, 2019 13:12:07 GMT -5
dreamgurl42 this whole thing was hilarious to read for me because my name is Mia The difference is I like you, you seem unique by all ends, and you're interesting. At least on the forum.
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Post by Thunderheart57 on Mar 30, 2019 14:40:34 GMT -5
I read the first Maximum Ride book, and it was over before it began. I read it in an hour, usually it takes me more than an hour to finish a book, and I didnโt feel a connection to any of the characters. I never continued the series because the first book was not that great.
I would say for a series that ended badly for me was the AVOS arc. The two plot lines presented were not connected properly, I swear that they could have been two ideas for separate arcs, on top of having underdeveloped protagonists, and the writing quality dropped after Shattered Sky. Not to mention the recycling of previous plot points, cliches, and completely breaking canon by resurrecting Tigerheart as leader using the nine lives ceremony, which has never been mentioned before Tigerheartโs Shadow that StarClan had the power to do so. The series had made me stop purchasing future Warriors books because of how poorly executed everything ended up, even though that Darktailโs rise to power was one of the only good moments it had to offer.
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Post by Northstar3213 on Mar 30, 2019 21:16:29 GMT -5
My โbookโ series that I wrote as part of my kindergarten class. I apparently kept writing about a lonely dinosaur who always ends up lonely at the end of a fantastical adventure in every book.
My series ended with the lonely dinosaur getting hit with the meteor that made dinosaurs extinct
I was so demented now that I think about it lol
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Post by ๐๐ธ๐ท๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฎ on Mar 30, 2019 22:09:31 GMT -5
The Gemma Doyle Series by Libba Bray The writing style of the book was beautiful, but the main character felt unlikable to me and the ending made the whole series feel like a waste of time. At the end, the main love interest turns into a tree. A tree. And the reasoning for it felt very unrealistic to me.
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