Tuesday, November 18, 2014

It's not you: It's me: Did not finish pile

It's not you: It's me, the short and tweet version:

I have done this several times on my blog. Books that just don't work for me. I know my reading style pretty well, and I can tell whether I will like the book or not accurately about 80-90% of the time. If I finish a book, then there are aspects of that book that I enjoyed. I never talk about the author in a negative way, I only say what doesn't work for me. Normally if I finish a book, I give it at least 3 stars, meaning that I liked it. For these, it just wasn't a good fit for my stylistically, but since these were sent from the publisher, I decided to give it a try.

All of these books will be or have already been offered for giveaway in hopes of finding a reader that will love them and hopefully review them.

Karen at For What It's Worth and Mary at The Book Swarm occasionally post twitter-style reviews. Karen calls hers Short and Tweet, and I am going to borrow that review style here.

Stolen (Heart of Dread, #2)
Heart of Dread Stolen by Melissa De La Cruz- haven't had a chance to read the first one

Alistair Grim's Odditorium
Alistar Grim's Odditorium: too strange for me and mg feel



Stray
Stray by Sussman: too high fantasy for me


The Fall
The Fall by Griffin: I don't do much horror, so too scary for me.


The Invisible (Brokenhearted, #2)
The Invisible by Kahaney: 1st book wasn't the greatest fit for me.

    That isn't to say that the writing is poor or the characters are poorly constructed, it's personal on my end.


15 comments:

  1. hope you will find them to read those books and i hope you will get more good books for your self :)

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  2. Your triage is much like mine! I DNF a -lot- of books because I know what I like and if a book isn't working into that groove I don't spend my time on something I won't enjoy. I'm with you on reviewing only 3s and better, as well. It takes at least a 3 to get me to finish a book. :) Glad to hear from another picky purveyor of reviews.

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  3. Normally a reader who has to finish a book once I have started because of an ever growing TBR pile I'm seriously thinking about giving up on books that are not to my taste so love your idea of a Did Not Finish list.


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  4. I am struggling with reads lately as well, and tempted to quit, but no I keep pushing through.

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  5. I DNF a lot lately because honestly, who has the time to read bad books, but I haven't even tried any of these.

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  6. I am actually looking forward to reading The Fall and Stray, so it's a shame you didn't like them :( But I understand if they just weren't to your liking, and no one has to read something they don't enjoy. Too many good books for that ;)

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  7. I couldn't finish Stray either. But I did love The Fall although I'm usually not a horror fan.

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  8. Oh its a shame these didn't work for you! But this is a great way of sharing those that aren't a good fit.

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  9. Sorry these didn't work for you- but I think it is great that you try to find homes for them. Many of them sound like they just aren't your style. I liked the short and tweet style. :)

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  10. Oh many books, I'm sorry they weren't for you.

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  11. I am really not a horror reader and I have learned that I just have to say no to it - even though its hard to say no to any book! :)

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  12. It happens...better to realize early on that it's not for you than push through and have to write a negative review...not that there is anything wrong with writing negative reviews...but I just prefer to spend my time reading books I enjoy more. I just posted some of my own DNFs today if you'd like to take a look:)

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  13. I haven't had too many of these this year (2 on the last count). I understand why they didn't work for you, though.

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  14. Ooo no horror here either. Good to be able to put down a book when it's just not for you.

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