Top Ten Tuesday 1. Hyped Books I've Never Read

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I don't know what really spurred me to join this bookish meme but I think it has something to do with missing the book blogger in me. Way back when I was still actively blogging about books, I've always find the time to participate in the said weekly meme as it's a good way to discover new blogs, meet other bloggers, and of course, I love doing the list! 

This week's topic is all about the hyped books I've never read and prolly, will never read in the future. XD

  

1. Fifty Shades Darker and Freed by E.L. James- No offense to fans but Fifty Shades is not just for me. I find the heroine so annoying and the hero downright creepy.  To be fair, I read Book 1 and gave it two stars but that's about to change soon. 

2. The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon- Pitched as the new Harry Potter, it's no wonder that The Bone Season attracted so many readers like bees to honey.  But as a die hard Harry Potter fan, I felt pretty scared in reading the book (what if it's a disappointment?!) even though I bought it months after its release. 

3. The Selection and all its sequels by Kiera Cass- That dress is really pretty but not enough to convince me to read the book.  I love stories about princesses but I just didn't feel the pull of The Selection.  It didn't help that Kiera Cass and her agent (?) sort of attacked a book blogger a year and half ago due to a harsh negative review.  And that incident really cemented my decision not to read The Selection and all of Kiera Cass' books.

  

4. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins- Had it not been for the negative reviews I've read about Anna and the French Kiss, I would have picked it up in a heartbeat.  The premise seemed cute and the cover just oozed with fluffiness. Apparently, the reviews really got the best of me so I stayed clear of it.

5. If I Stay by Gayle Forman- There are only two reasons why I never considered reading this book.  The premise seems manipulative and I was afraid that the story's going to be a fucking sobfest.  But don't take my word for it, almost every blogger that I know who have read it loved it to pieces. 

6. Paper Towns by John Green- Ok, I love John Green's The Fault In Our Stars and greatly enjoyed his Looking for Alaska but the thing is, the characters of the two books were almost the same.  For that reason alone, I felt skeptical in trying out Paper Towns.  My intuition was somewhat valid since I read some reviews that mirrored my sentiments about John Green's characters.

   

7. Halo by Alexandra Adornetto- Ever since Becca Fitzapatrick's Hush, Hush, I'm always wary when it comes to picking up angel books.  But I still buy one or two occasionally as long as the premise is interesting.  Halo, however, would never have the chance of residing in my bookshelves since the blurb only promised a cliched forbidden love story and well, the author is quite an unrepentant diva.

8. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl- Magic? Curses? I'm all for that but unfortunately, I don't think Beautiful Creatures will work for me.  It's not only the negative reviews that's stopping me from reading it but it's also giving me the Twilight vibes.  FYI, I enjoyed Twilight but books 2, 3, and 4 just made me think that I should have just stopped reading at book 1. 

9. Evermore by Alyson Noel- I really feel terrible every time I say that "I didn't pick up this book due to the negative reviews" because it seems that I don't have the courage to pick up books without heavily relying on reviews. But just think of it, there are millions of books in the world and life is too short.  I just don't want to spend my time reading books that I will potentially hate by the time I reach page 30, thus, I read reviews in order to filter out those that I probably won't like.  Unfortunately for Evermore, it fell into the "I-will-probably-hate" category. 

10. Eragon by Christopher Paolini- One of the things that would really make me excited about a fantasy book is dragons.  And Eragon has them! Too bad though, Eragon was released at a time when the sequels of Harry Potter were also being released.  And as a student who practically has to beg her mother for money to buy books, I have to prioritize in buying the one that I truly love.  And as the years went by, I totally forgot about Eragon and I don't think I'll read it now.

Do you also have a list of hyped books you haven't read yet? Want to share?