Top 10 Most Disappointing Books of 2024 👎

one of the things that this series really had going for it was having amazing stakes and really great pacing and that just completely fell apart by book three the stakes were so low the pacing was so slow and it just felt like we were spinning our Wheels

book one in Ember in the ashes was so good it blew me away it's one of the best ya fantasies I've read in a long time

this book is terrible I hated my experience of reading this so much not only does this book feel so completely out of place in the Ann of Green Gables series but Anne herself feels very unlike herself she is so mean and judgmental throughout this book

with dust it was chaotic it was messy and I found it pretty unsatisfying I still gave it three stars it still did some interesting things I'm still really impressed by this world that hu Hoy built it's very creative

even though I loved the protagonist and the concept this was such a let down such a waste of an awesome premise

I just struggled so much with this book it feels really ethically and more morally wrong to me to write a book like this that takes the real life trauma and suffering of still living people who went through this trauma and suffering very recently and then to change just a couple little details and a couple names and write a book for entertainment

if this had just been an essay collection focused on the actual message the author was trying to get across I think I would have loved this but all of the fictional elements of the story were painful to read

I did not hate this book I gave it three stars there were a lot of things I did like about it but there are also lots of things I didn't like about it and I did not find it romantic or particularly empowering

overall I just ended this book thinking their relationship was built on such a toxic foundation and the fact that there was no real acknowledgement or working through or atonement for the ways that they hurt each other on such a deep level was really upsetting to me

I must admit I was also disappointed by shift but not nearly as much as I was disappointed by dust

the drawing of the three was a huge disappointment after how much I enjoyed the Gunslinger and it's made me want to dnf the series altogether

I read the Gunslinger and really loved it surprised me it was not at all what I expected but I really enjoyed it and was super excited to read on in the series

it is chaotic it's a mish mash of so many different things

the writing was very poor the structure was super messy and it just felt like she wasn't ready to write this book

wool is incredible I highly recommend book one in the series

I do not understand the romanticization of Mr Rochester just like I don't understand the romanticization of heathcliffe in weathering Heights both of them are terrible neither of them are boyfriend material