I’ve come to accept that there’s a time in your reading life when you just have to say, “Enough is enough!” and give up on that series that you’ve been “meaning” to read. This has happened to me several times over the years and I wanted to share a few of those with you today.
I just want to clarify real quick, I’m definitely in the middle of some series that have…ahem…stalled…but that I’m still planning on getting back to (Caraval, Jackaby, or Miss Peregrine’s for example). In contrast, this is a list of series that I have legitimately no intention of going back to.
I Am Number Four series
I really liked this series and meeting the whole cast of characters, but it just has droned on and on. I think there are like…10 books at this point? I’m just done with the series and it would probably read too young for me anyway.
Cassandra Clare
I never ended up reading book 6 of The Mortal Instruments series let alone The Dark Artifices series. This is another case where I really liked the series when I was in high school, but I think that the writing probably wouldn’t live up to my current standards.
Legend trilogy by Marie Lu
I’m pretty sure I read the first two books in this series? But then by the time the third book came out, I’d lost interest. I had a copy of Champion on my shelf for a while, but I eventually unhauled it.
Firebird trilogy by Claudia Gray
Similar to Legend, I read the first two books and I actually still have the third sitting on my Kindle, but I feel no draw to get back to it.
Rick Riordan
This is another series that has kind of exploded with the number of books that are in it. There’s like three different series that are all intertwined or something? I’ve just completely lost track of which books I’ve read in which series. I’ll always love Greek and Roman mythology and they were great for the time of my life that I was in when I was reading them, but I need to move on.
I also gave up on the I Am Number Four series and books by Rick Riordan that weren’t in the original Percy Jackson series… I just couldn’t keep up with them all!
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Right? It’s not like they take a long time to read, but there are just so many of them!
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I am so confused with the Rick Riordan books, I want to read them but dont want to try and unravel the order!!!
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I know! It’s so confusing! I’m sure there’s someone out there who has a goos reading order list…sometimes Goodreads has one?
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One day, one day I will find it…..and I will read them!!! 😂
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Haha good luck!
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I gave up on I am number 4 after book one, it was good but not enough for me to read book too. I didn’t even get through book one of Legend, was not a fan. The rest I haven’t read.
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Yeah, I liked the I Am Number Four books as I was reading them, but then just kind of faded off…
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I just want some YA standalones to be written. I’m tired of everything being a series because I can’t keep up! Frances Hardinge is my hero because she writes excellent standalones!
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Agreed! I’ve read a couple of Hardinge’s books and really liked them. Contemporary seems to do a good job with standalones, but fantasy and sci fi can’t seem to shake the series.
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I understand series are easier to market since they have a built-in fan base. And I’ve met desperate parents who want nothing more than to find a 12-volume series to give their son so he’ll be occupied for awhile before the next library trip. But I just can’t keep track of all the series being published. I thought Spin the Dawn was a standalone and almost wept when I realized there’s a sequel. Yes, I loved it. But I just want a story to be over sometimes.
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I 10000000% agree!
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