Top Ten Books I Thought I'd Like More/Less Than I Did
While choosing books for both sides, I discovered all the books on my "more than" list are books that were outside my comfort zone and wouldn't have read unless forced to...so thanks to my friends and my teachers :)
Books I thought I'd like less:
1) Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling - This series was so mainstream I made it my business to avoid reading it. Everything inside me was screaming that I would hate Harry Potter, a little boy riding around on a broom...yeah...I was wrong...so wrong, dead wrong. I LOVE HARRY POTTER!
2) The Help by Kathryn Stockett - I didn't think I'd like this book because the author wrote the words exactly the way the characters spoke and I usually have a hard time connecting with books like that but The Help was an exception. This book is so emotional and funny. It's not YA but if you get a chance to read it, pick it up.
3) Bumped by Megan McCafferty - Another book I didn't think I'd like because of the dialect. The author makes up her own lingo for the characters to speak and I just didn't get the humor. But after awhile I caught on and yeah, it was actually pretty good.
4) Kindred by Octavia Butler - I had to read this in college and I just did not want to. The premise was cool: a black woman from the 70s travels back in time to the south, pre-Civil War. I tend to shy away from slavery books. I don't like reading about racism, I went through enough of it growing up with a white dad and a black mom. But Kindred was excellent. It was gritty and harsh but it wasn't a book I could've missed out on reading and glad my teacher assigned it.
5) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - Another book I was assigned in college that I wanted to stay away from. A book set in Afghanistan and war and all that, no, no, no, not for me. The Kite Runner ended up being one of the best books I ever read. It made me cry. It was amazing. AMAZING.
Books I thought I'd like more:
6) Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas - I thought this book would be like The Hunger Games except with castles, assassins and magic. But it was mostly fluff. Pretty dresses and balls and ZzZzZz...
7) Across the Universe by Beth Revis - A lot of people loved this book but I just couldn't understand why it was so popular. When I read the summary I thought I'd like it but this one couldn't hold my interest. The insta-love, the weird orgies going on in public, the sloppy rushed plot...nope, wasn't for me.
8) Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia - Amazon claimed this book was "a hidden gem". This was the book not to be missed, it's all anybody talked about. I liked what I read on the blurb and gave it a try. I liked the idea of Castors, witches that can go to the light or the dark side of magic. But this book was about 500 pages and most of it was the main characters making out and many references to How To Kill a Mockingbird.
9) Fathomless by Jackson Pearce - I love Jackson Pearce's fairytale retelling series. Sisters Red and Sweetly were really good and I went to BEA last year to meet her and get a copy of Fathomless. I unfortunately didn't get the opportunity to meet Miss Pearce but I did get the book. But...it just didn't live up to the prior two. I'm hoping the next one, Cold Spell is much better though. Keeping my fingers crossed.
10) Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - Yes, I loved The Hunger Games. Loved Catching Fire. But I did have trouble with Mockingjay. Most of the book felt like filler, just a bridge to the ending of a series. But what an ending it was. That ending was memorable and my favorite part of the book.
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