{"id":619,"date":"2021-01-26T12:59:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T12:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2021-01-28T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T11:47:33","slug":"popular-books-i-did-not-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/popular-books-i-did-not-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Books I Did Not Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatartsyreadergirl.com\/top-ten-tuesday\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TTT-NEW.png?resize=500%2C203&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TTT-NEW.png?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TTT-NEW.png?resize=300%2C122&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Click the image to be taken to the blog hosting Top Ten Tuesday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s topic is New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2020, but I&#8217;m pretty much done reflecting on the past year if you know what I mean. So, instead I&#8217;ve opted to discuss 10 popular books that I&#8217;ve DNF-ed. Coincidentally, most of these seem to be audiobooks and the primary reasons for not finishing them are not liking the narrator or narration style or not caring for the plot overall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/480204-1.jpg?resize=280%2C475&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"631\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/480204-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/?attachment_id=631\" class=\"wp-image-631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/480204-1.jpg?w=280&amp;ssl=1 280w, 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loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"317\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/43220998._SY475_-1.jpg?resize=317%2C475&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"639\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/43220998._SY475_-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/?attachment_id=639\" class=\"wp-image-639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/43220998._SY475_-1.jpg?w=317&amp;ssl=1 317w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/43220998._SY475_-1.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/44679263._SX318_-1.jpg?resize=318%2C318&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"640\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/44679263._SX318_-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/?attachment_id=640\" class=\"wp-image-640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/44679263._SX318_-1.jpg?w=318&amp;ssl=1 318w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/44679263._SX318_-1.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/44679263._SX318_-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readwithstefani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/44679263._SX318_-1.jpg?resize=80%2C80&amp;ssl=1 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/480204.The_Phantom_of_the_Opera\">The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux<\/a>  &#8211; Came highly recommended by one of my favorite booktubers, but seems I don&#8217;t care much for stories about ghosts and frankly I found the descriptions of the opera (both the building and the performances) quite tedious, I&#8217;m more of a theatre fan myself. I could potentially go back to this, but definitely not in audiobook form. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/891775.The_Sword_of_Shannara\">The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks<\/a> &#8211; I wanted to watch the TV show and decided to try the books first. After reading 200 pages of descriptions where little action happens, I&#8217;ve lost interest in both! Seems I prefer action-heavy fantasy recently and this is not it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/3777732-city-of-glass\">City of Glass by Cassandra Clare<\/a> &#8211; Please don&#8217;t hate me when I say I&#8217;m utterly perplexed by the hype around the Mortal Instruments series. By the point I was curious enough to check out the series, I was several years past the target audience and found it to read rather young, I didn&#8217;t care for any characters and the only moderately interesting bit was the runes. I decided not to continue, it&#8217;s a six book series after all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/10428902-miss-peregrine-s-home-for-peculiar-children\">Miss Peregrine&#8217;s Home for Peculiar Children by Random Riggs<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve read my fair share of books set in an orphanage and this one apparently failed to impress me back in 2016. I still have it on Kindle should I ever wish to return to it, but whenever I scroll through my ebooks and see this, I skip to the next page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/11293412-looking-for-alaska\">Looking for Alaska by John Green<\/a> &#8211; Another audiobook. Green&#8217;s writing seems to have been a one-book-wonder for my reading taste since I loved The Fault in Our Stars some 6 years ago (wonder if it&#8217;ll hold up if I reread?) and pretty much disliked or DNF-ed everything else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/26032825-the-cruel-prince\">The Cruel Prince by Holly Black<\/a> &#8211; Not sure why I keep trying to read YA fantasy when I&#8217;ve had very little luck with it, my penchant is more towards adult high \/ epic fantasy. Probably the hype got me curious but I couldn&#8217;t make it past the 17% mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/26367032-a-darker-shade-of-magic\">A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab<\/a> &#8211; I was looking for an audiobook to the likes of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s <em>Neverwhere<\/em> and whilst this reminded me of it somewhat, there&#8217;s a reason I love Gaiman and a reason I haven&#8217;t read or tried to read any more Schwab books. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/34605662-the-city-of-brass\">The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty<\/a> &#8211; The most recent DNF on this list and at 55% the one I read farthest in before marking it as such. I so wanted to love this as the premise sounds different than any other fantasy I&#8217;ve read. After the half point of the audiobook, I no longer cared about the audiobook nor what happened to any of the characters and decided to stop there. I may give it another chance as the premise of the following books still intrigues me, but that won&#8217;t be any time soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43220998-the-fountains-of-silence\">The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys<\/a> &#8211; As much as I adore historical fiction, I have not liked any of Sepetys previous writing. This intrigued me because I love Spain (Madrid especially so!), I mean at that cover, if anything screams Madrid to me, it&#8217;s surely the building in the background! Figured if I ever liked one of her books, it was sure to be this one. I was sadly disappointed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/44679263-normal-people\">Normal People by Sally Rooney<\/a> &#8211; People seem to either hate this or love this. I don&#8217;t know which side I fall on seeing as I didn&#8217;t finish it. And it&#8217;s such a short audiobook so that says a lot. I strongly disliked the characters and what even was the plot here? Not much seemed to happen other than my annoyance level rising so I gave up at 50%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, to sum up: I mostly DNF audiobooks of the young adult fantasy genre and of the ten books listed, I&#8217;d maybe revisit 2 at some point in the future. What books have you DNF-ed? Leave your TTT post in the comments below. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s topic is New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2020, but I&#8217;m pretty much done reflecting on the past year if you know what I mean. 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