Thursday, 17 July 2014

DNF Round-Up: June




This is probably my last DNF Round-Up for a while, since I read all my July books and didn't DNF any, and I've almost finished my August books and haven't DNF'D any there either, so two months of full book reading, I'm happy. 





I didn't finish The Truth Against the World because it was 1) boring and 2) about Wales and Welsh people. Welsh people should not read it.



05/25 "A Welsh person reading a book about and set in Wales. What could go wrong?..."
05/26
14.0% "Yeah and dw i'n hoffi coffi, but what the fuck has that got to do with anything?"
05/29
14.0% "You're on hold. Go sit in the naughty corner."
                                       
 

 
 
Yeah. I got to 14% and put it on hold. I never picked it back up.




 
Now, I didn't finish this because 1) boring (see the trend?) and 2) this should be marketed towards the younger YA than YA. It's kind of between MG-YA, it was just...ugh. I read the first 30% and then skimmed to 50% and gave up.
 
 
06/01
marked as:
currently-reading
06/01
20.0% "Ugh, this is painful."
06/03 marked as: read




The whole "pretending to be a boy and they don't know she's a girl until oops they do' rubs me the wrong way for some reason, especially because she's liking the one guy and yeah, if it's supposed to be a transgender or gay romance, I'm for it, but because it's not, it just got weird.

And they all talked...weird. The adults didn't sound like adults, and that more than anything in a book, makes it all...off for me.


 

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Oh too bad the first one had an interesting cover, it was intriguing. I'm sorry they weren't for you darling. Hope your next reads will be better.
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Yeah, it's a shame. :( But plenty more books, right? :)
Aw sorry you didn't like this one. It does sound quite frustrating...
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Haha, yup, it was.
Ha! I could have sworn the first book was set in rural Ireland - but I guess maybe rural Ireland and rural Wales look pretty alike. I don't know since I've never been to Wales. (I've always wanted to go though!) But I'll give this book a miss.

Take Back the Skies got a good review from Arianne on my blog, but I haven't read it myself. I don't have all that many DNF - I tend to stick to books till the bitter end, although I have abandoned one or two lately.
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It's also set somewhere else (could be Ireland, I can't actually remember) and some in London.

I'm used to heavier books you know? So I don't read that many light ones, but it did just feel like a MG, and though I've read a few which I loved, I guess I have to be in the mood for one. Ha, I used to, too. I can't take the torture anymore though. ;)
Take Back the Skies looks really interesting and I love the colors on the cover, but if it's more 'younger' YA then I probably won't like it so I do believe I'll skip that one. I haven't heard of the first one but just seeing what you wrote I think that was a good thing :)
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I wish I'd known it was, I would've skipped it altogether. I guess you either love it or hate it.
Sorry these didn't work for you! Love the goodreads progress updates
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