Worst Series Enders! || Top Five Wednesday

Hello!

Welcome back to Top Five Wednesday, on an actual Wednesday!

This week's topic is the worst series enders, or the final book in a series that was just not up to par with the rest of the series.  Let's get started!  

#5:  Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

  I actually really liked this series!  It's still one of my favorites, but I didn't like the last part of this last book.  Literally, the last line was what killed it for me.  I still love the series, but when the last line doesn't give that punch in the gut that I'd like, it can bring a book down a star rating, and that is what happened with this book.

#4:  Mockingjay by Susan Collins

  Again, I really really love this series, but when I first read this book, I hated, and I mean hated the ending.  It was the first book that I ever threw down after I'd finished it.  I felt like there could have been more, and the huge death at the end was just too much for me when I read it the first time.  I actually haven't read it again, but I'm more okay with the ending now.  

#3: Shadows over Balinor by Mary Stanton 

 

  We're going back to my childhood with this series.  This was one of the series that I just devoured during my unicorn obsessed stage.  I remember really liking the books as I read them.  The main character lost her parents somehow, I don't quite remember how, but the whole series has to do with her finding out who she is and what happened to her parents.  But by the end of the last book (the 8th in the series) so much had happened that we never found out what happened to her parents.  I don't know if I missed something while reading them, or what.  But I was really disappointed that I never got a concrete answer as to what happened to the main character's parents. 

#2: Allegiant by Veronica Roth

  I'm not as angry about the way this series ended, but I do feel that there could have been something else to make it all a little more enjoyable.  So much happened in this book that just didn't really make sense.  So much info was dumped on us that it became a jumbled mess.  Many people will understand why this book upset so many of us readers. 

#1: Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick

  I liked the Hush, Hush okay...but the last line of this book just dropped a rating off of it for me.  Patch, the main male character and love interest could be really jerky and cocky at times, but from what I remember from reading the series, he got better and we got to see a better side to him.  I thought the last chapter, or the epilogue, I'm not sure which it was, was completely unnecessary.  It is several years later and the main character's best friend is getting married to a man we didn't even meet.   It seemed just thrown in there so that we could see some more weird kinkiness from Nora and Patch, which really didn't work.  The last line is something along the lines of "I don't dress to impress, I undress to impress."   No, Becca Fitzpatrick, that is not how you end a series.  Just, no.  

Top Five Wednesday! *Bookish Habits* | I'm Back!

Hey everyone!  So sorry about my absence the last month.  I have been busy with school and my new Booktube Channel!  I want to start posting book reviews on this blog as well as a new series called Top Five Wednesday.

Top Five Wednesday is not a new thing, actually.  It was created by Lainey of GingerReadsLainey on Youtube.

Here is the Goodreads page dedicated to it!  https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/118368-top-5-wednesday

So basically, each Wednesday has a topic dedicated to it.  Some people make videos, some make blog posts.  I think I will jump back and forth between the two, depending on if I have the time to film the video or not.

Last week's topic was Bookish Habits.  I didn't get around to doing it, so I thought that I would do it this week instead!

Here We Go!

#1: Dust Jackets

 I absolutely cannot read hardback books with the dust jacket on.  I can't deal with the way they flop around and get crunched if I have to stash the book away in my purse.  I don't want to rip the paper, so I just take them off and put them on the bookshelf in place of the physical book.

#2:  How Many Pages Left?

  I will always look to see how many pages are in the chapter before starting it.  I read by chapters, so I will know whether or not I will have the time to read the next chapter by looking to see how long it is.  If the chapter is too long and I'm tired, I'll usually put the book down for the night instead of starting a new chapter.

#3:  Book Buying

  I'm actually not a huge book buyer.  Not because I don't want any books, but because I want too many.  My Amazon wish list is so big that just looking at it overwhelms me.  I don't know what book to buy next, so I won't buy anything.  It's like the opposite end of the book buying spectrum, and it's definitely weird!

#4:  Lacing My Fingers into the Pages

  While reading, I will fold my fingers into the pages that I haven't read yet.  It might be every few pages, or the next page, but I don't just hold the book, I become the book.  My fingers just need to be in those pages.  

#5:  Hand Blockade 

  If I can tell that there is going to be a big reveal in the next couple of lines--like a death or something really emotional--I will cover the rest of the page with my hand and move it down as I read so my eyes don't glance down and see the big reveal before I actually get there.  This way, my eyes won't glance down and spoil it before it actually happens.

Let me know in the comments if you share any of the same habits!  :)