20: Lock Every Door, Pumpkinheads, Anna Dressed in Blood, and more

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.
Series I've Given Up On

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.

What are some series that you’ve given up on? Let me know in the comments! And stay tuned for another blog post coming soon featuring series that I’ve finished and remember nothing about!

23 Best Book Deals for 5/7/19: Shadow of the Fox, And I Darken, Bridget Jones’s Diary, and more

Book Deals

As of this posting, all of these deals are active, but I don’t know for how long!

Less than $1

Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa

Less than $2

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu

Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J. Maas

Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Terrier: The Legend of Beka Cooper by Tamora Pierce

And I Darken by Kiersten White

Now I Rise by Kiersten White

The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls by Jessica Spotswood

The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A History of Glitter and Blood by Hannah Moskowitz

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Feminists Don’t Wear Pink and Other Lies: Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them by Scarlett Curtis

Less than $3

The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Less than $4

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan

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24 Best Book Deals for 4/13/19 : Yes Please, It’s Not Like It’s a Secret, Wild Beauty, Feminist Fight Club, and more

You guys might have noticed (or not) but I’ve been MIA for a little over a week now. My personal life has pretty much just exploded and I’ve been crazy busy (I’ve barely even had time to read let alone blog). I’m hoping to get back in the groove of things soon, but it might not happen until April’s over. Until then, here are some book deals.

Book Deals

As of this posting, all of these deals are active, but I don’t know for how long!

Free

Ella, the Slayer by A.W. Exley

Less than $1

Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava Series #1) by Roshani Chokshi

I’ll Be Yours by Jenny B. Jones

Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid

Less than $2

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

Get It Together, Delilah! by Erin Gough

Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford

Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J. Maas

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu

Geekerella by Ashley Poston

Denial: Holocaust History on Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt

Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray

It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura

Less than $3

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin

One Plus One by Jojo Moyes

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd

Loves, Lies and Spies by Cindy Anstey

Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore

Less than $4

I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson

Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace by Jessica Bennett

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8 Best Book Deals for 3/9/19: Six of Crows, Sharp Objects, Batman: Nightwalker, and more

Book Deals

As of this posting, all of these deals are active, but I don’t know for how long!

FREE

Reign of Queens by Melissa Wright

Less than $2

Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu

Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire

Less than $3

The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Less than $4

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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Top Ten Tuesday: Author Collabs

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week there is a new topic and this week’s topic is: Top Ten Author Duos You’d LOVE To See Write A Book Together

1) Sarah Dessen + Morgan Matson = Contemporary YA with the best girl/girl best friendship ever.

2) Leigh Bardugo + Laini Taylor = Fantasy with crazy world building and hardcore heroine.

3) Jennifer E Smith + Kasie West = YA romance with the girl we all wish we were and the best male lead.

4) James Dashner + Michael Grant = Hardcore boy(s) survival story.

5) John Green + Rainbow Rowell = Something contemporary with all of the feels.

6) Cassandra Clare + Gail Carriger = STEAMPUNK. Snarky heroine.

7) Veronica Roth + Marie Lu = Dystopian world, heroine who has so many more skills than I could ever dream of.

8) Marissa Meyer + Rosamund Hodge = Best fairytale retelling of all time.

9) Ally Condie + Kiera Cass = Civilized dystopian world. Love triangle.

10) Megan Shepherd + Lauren DeStefano = Mildly science-fictiony with a thread of something dark, almost gothic.

Because the only thing better than reading is more reading.

As of this posting, all of these deals are active, but I don’t know for how long!

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As of this posting, all of these deals are active, but I don’t know for how long!

Less than $1

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Less than $3

As of this posting, all of these deals are active, but I don’t know for how long!

Less than $1

Less than $2

Less than $3

As of this posting, all of these deals are active, but I don’t know for how long!

Less than $2

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I Am Number Four series

Cassandra Clare

Legend trilogy by Marie Lu

Firebird trilogy by Claudia Gray

Rick Riordan

What are some series that you’ve given up on? Let me know in the comments! And stay tuned for another blog post coming soon featuring series that I’ve finished and remember nothing about!

As of this posting, all of these deals are active, but I don’t know for how long!

Less than $1

Less than $2

Less than $3

Less than $4

As of this posting, all of these deals are active, but I don’t know for how long!

Free

Less than $1

Less than $2

Less than $3

Less than $4

As of this posting, all of these deals are active, but I don’t know for how long!

FREE

Less than $2

Less than $3

Less than $4

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