Top 5 Saturday: Books To Avoid
This Saturday Top Five series was created by Amanda at Devouring Books, she has kept it going since last October, every Saturday and holy hell has it grown!!! I don’t typically tag anyone but anyone and everyone is welcome to join. Here is the schedule for May
Rules!
- Share your top 5 books of the current topic– these can be books that you want to read, have read and loved, have read and hated, you can do it any way you want.
- Tag the original post (This one!)
- Tag 5 people
The Saturday Top Five Schedule for June:
6/6/20 — Books Set Near/On the Sea I think we can all agree that it has been awhile since I’ve gone rogue.
6/13/20 — Books with One Word Titles
6/20/20 — Books You’d Give a Second Chance
6/27/20 — Books with Morally Grey Characters
Since I’m Going Rogue…. Disclaimers
- I’m the one going rogue so they are my rules, which means they can be changed, bent and just well broken, at any time I please.
- If you are going to be defensive, you probably don’t want to read this post. It isn’t personal. Everyone has a right to love what they love and hate what they hate. Go ahead and curse Six of Crows in the comments if it makes you feel better. I have no issue. Just makes my soul purer… I kid.
- I hands down have not, nor will I, read some of the books on this list. You don’t need to stick your hands in the fire to know it’ll burn you. You won’t argue me out this. They are rare cases, but when it happens, you won’t talk me out of it.
I think that is Oh, wait nope… This will not contain the usual suspects. For the newcomers around here, that means:
- Verify, which almost a year later, still has me tired.
- All the
Tropes and TropesStars and Teeth - At 42, You Should Off Myself If This Book’s “Data” Is Correct, Because My Life Was Over 10 Years Ago: You Are Not Alone
- The most recent addition: A Book With Characters I Hope Were Quarantined With Covid And Potholes So Big I Needed A Zamboni: The Guest List
There is one predictable and one that is probably predictable- I’ll do those first.
The Twilight Series
All of them already published and still to be published by whatever her name is. Also, I’m not linking anything nor will I put pictures up of this crap.Nope. Haven’t read the books. I did go see the first movie. Correction. I walked into the first movie. I’m not sure at what point I started cringing, but I know I bolted out the second there was glistening. Two rules people.
YOU DON’T FUCK WITH THE FAE.
VAMPIRES DON’T GLISTEN IN THE SUN. THEY BURST INTO FLAMES AND DIE. YOU DON’T MESS WITH VAMPIRE CANON. That is just the tip of this iceberg that is this shit show. I trust Gerard Way. Apparently at some point they wanted him to play the vampire.
Wait… let me have a second.
OK. To be fair. That is a rumor. A very serious rumor but no actual confirmation. There is actual confirmation and a whole backstory to MCR not giving into Warner Brother’s threats when the franchise wanted them to do a soundtrack. There’s the nail in that proverbial coffin. Not that it needed one but, if you had doubts. You shouldn’t. But if you did.
Plus, as L.L McKinney pointed out. The next time someone says that quality is quality and that is all that determines what gets chosen in the publishing industry? That ethnicity has nothing to do with it. Please look them in the eye and remind them that Twilight happened.
American Dirt
I feel gross just giving it space. And that is all I have to say about that.
The Other Mrs.
This book made me physically ill. It is one of those books you DNF but don’t. I like skimmed the last 100 pages just to confirm what I already knew. I won’t spoil it for anyone. Let’s just say that the fact that Netflix is turning this into the movie is so reckless I would never deal with them again if not for the Umbrella Academy and Six of Crows, but they got me there.
I’m used to mental health being utilized in Adult Psychological Thrillers. It is a plot device I can live with and I’m bipolar. So, whatever. But the way it is used in this book is so incredibly wrong. There are so many layers of irresponsible, despicable and just gross that I could make a seven-layer cake and have some left over for a taco dip.
Sadly, there are many that are thrilled with this book and even think it sheds a light on mental health issues. My lens and view are just completely different. This isn’t a light. It is a bullseye at best and will give abusive husbands/boyfriends terrible ideas, at worst.
Mortal Instruments
Now to be fair, I did get through the first 100 pages before I chucked it and, quite literally, googled “JK Rowling sues Cassandra Clare for plagiarism.” I was then completely and utterly dumbfounded to find absolutely nothing.
Maybe if I hadn’t seen all the Harry Potter movies, multiple times, I would have liked them. I don’t know. But 100 pages was enough to tell me exactly what this was, where it was going and that I didn’t want any part of it. It was also enough to tell me that Rowling needed to get on the ball with this lawsuit.
Wicked Saints
You know or you don’t.
Well… that is it… this post at 1000 words is the equivalent of a human salt lick….
haha I love that you went with this theme!
Lmao I love when you go rogue! Topics are always open to interpretation!! As for this one… I have some things I need to rant about as well!
Okay so. The Mortal Instruments. Originally was Harry Potter fan fiction that got so popular that Cassandra Clare published the books. I read book one and the whole time I read it I was like, this feels like Harry Potter. Pretty sure there’s an old goodreads review where I compared the two. Once I learned that she made a franchise off of Harry Potter fan fiction…. ugh. Fan fiction should stay fan fiction. You have no right to use someone else’s characters and plot ideas and call them your own. Ughhh!!
As for Wicked Saints.. I read like 40 pages or something and DNFed. Idk what the big problem is but I couldnt get into it at all. And American Dirt.. dont touch me with that book. I havent read it but I’ve heard the criticisms and I dont even want to be involved.
Wow… I had no idea about that actually being fan fiction. Now there is a book at the end of the month that I’m reading that started off as Sherlock Holmes fan fic but that seem like a different ball park. LOL
Yes on AD. And WS is just — yeah. NO Lol
Go find Ink in the Blood for your Goth Fantasy hit
Oh I completely get behind the sending Twilight into the sea…in concrete boots!
What’s the beef with ‘Wicked Saints’ ? I confess to not knowing ! And it’s on my tbr ????
YES WITH CONCRETE BOOTS! LOVE THIS IDEA… and I think we covered the second part LOL!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I LOVE ALL OF THIS. I got through 1.5 Mortal Instruments and never went back and that’s before I new about all the Clare nonsense.
Thank you!!! : ) I’m glad I’m not the only one with MI- it seems so insanely popular that I thought that was going to be pretty unpopular lol
Haha, you really went rogue on this! I have to agree with some points in here but that’s not the point of my comment. I’m just commenting to say ‘HURRAH’ for speaking your true mind and giving a salty post. I love reading them 😀 Fab post Susan! – Jen
Thank you! It helps soothe the mind and soul to get it all off your chest sometimes, you know?