Andrew’s Wizardly Reads 13.2K subscribers · Feb 17, 2025

10 Most Disappointing Hyped Series on Booktube – My SHOCKING Hot Takes! 🔥

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A Little HatredJoe Abercrombie
Not a fan

I then start tried to do the follow-up Trilogy with starting with a little hatred I think is the first book there and immediately bounced off something that I'm just not into

Dark AgeUnknown
Not a fan

I felt like Dark Age was a huge departure for the series we went down this dark path that I just didn't feel was right for any of the characters or the storyline it just escalated so quickly in a level of Darkness that we didn't even see in the first Trilogy

I can't St in the last 30% the conclusion of last argument of Kings it invalidates my whole journey with that series and you could say that's the point but again I like catharsis when I'm raing so I don't like last argument of Kings

Nemesis GamesJames S. A. Corey
Not a fan

then we get to book number five Nemesis games where we start retconning Naomi and we then in the intervening books like the villains are just kind of very mustache twirling style of villains that just didn't overall work for me

Prince of FoolsMark Lawrence
Not a fan

red Queen's war and this book didn't work for me on such a level that I can barely tell you any I think there's like snor and Jil J jayen are the two main protagonists but that's all I can tell you about the series I've erased this from my brain

Red RisingPierce Brown
Mixed

the first three Red Rising books are phenomenal I love those books except the first one first one's a little rough it's a little hunger games Style

Season of StormsAndrzej Sapkowski
Not a fan

the prequel novel was just atrociously bad season of storms I think it's called and we've got like farting guard women who pin geralt down and fart all over him like what is happening

I thought name of the wind was okay it was interesting not a whole lot happening to justify that amount of page count but again I do enjoy a good Academy setting so that was done really well

The Poppy WarR. F. Kuang
Not a fan

I just don't understand poppy War I for ped my way through the first book and I just the World building in the magic system was fantastic but the main character was just absolutely insufferable

where my issues come is in wise man's spere we've got this epic adventure that's shortened down to a paragraph we've got this kind of just seemingly random interaction and then there's a whole bunch of teenage wish fulfillment stuff in there that just doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me

The five Warrior Angels by Brian Lee dery I thought book one was okay but again it's got some of the same issues I had with poppy War like it was a very Grim Dark World and then the main character is just kind of this petulant teenager

Wind and TruthBrandon Sanderson
Not a fan

I'm about halfway through wind and Truth and I am just having to digest this in absolute chunks I cannot read it all the way through as a single novel I find it boring I don't like the direction that this series is going