 Hey fellow reading warriors and welcome back to another video Recently I uploaded a video of series that I've started and I want to continue, but I haven't there's been some delay For one reason or another just series. I've started and really want to talk about But I haven't finished so I can't really talk about them cuz I gotta I gotta finish them, you know So kind of in response to that video I'm gonna talk about some series that I started that I do not finishing. So these are my DNF popular series People may not come as a surprise as I've kind of talked about them before in previous videos So the first one that I will be starting with is the thousandth floor by Katherine McGee This has at least two other books in the series and I just didn't enjoy this first one I had a very hard time With the plot because it seemed like there wasn't much of a plot it was all very drama-based and It's the characters just refuse to communicate with each other and they didn't really have good reasons for it other than They just didn't want to they didn't feel like if they're teenagers. They don't care Um, and that kind of story really bothers me I really do not enjoy stories where the whole point of why there even is a book to begin with is because Someone decided to just not talk about something With some they should have or are close to and then they act up because of it or you know I'm just those kinds of stories are not the kind of stories I enjoy reading and so I read this book and I completed the first book, but I decided I'm not gonna move forward with this series Just because I don't want to read more of immature teenage drama. So This is the first one that I will not be reading the second series I've talked about quite a bit and I have heard some people who love it and some people who hate it I am one of those who did not like it and that is the winner's curse by Marie Rutotsky Um, I did not like the main character. I felt like she didn't have much of a backbone She didn't have much of her own opinion Not because she was conflicted between what her father and her people believe and what the people of Her love or the guy she likes I felt like she just flat out Didn't Want to be in that situation but didn't know what to do and so she kind of just sat there in the situation So I read this first book and I read the second book and it's about the general's daughter Who her people have the valourians have taken over the Hurons? Have taken over and other people have turned them into slaves She ends up buying a slave at a market falls in love with him and then he's like actually Trying to start an uprising and a rebellion to free his people and then she kind of gets she gets put in the position of being a Mediator kind of between her people and the slaves because of that relationship Which isn't even much of relationship like that's another thing. I didn't like about it was how much You know, you want them to get together But then they refuse to but then they do but then they don't and it just it was again very like drama-filled And I felt like there wasn't good reasoning behind it. So This is one that I will not be continuing I really wanted to because I really wanted the series to get better But as I read the second and started the third book, I was like, no, I just I just can't it is not worth my time In my opinion, so I won't be continuing the series either Now the next one may come as a bit of a shock as it's a series that I have never Mentioned reading because it was a long time ago that I started it and even to this day I Don't want to read it and the thing is is I own the entire thing. I own the entire series It was actually gifted to me years ago and it's on this shelf But I did not want to read it so much that I actually hit it behind the selection And so if you watch my bookshelf tour, you'll see it and you'll know what it is But in case you haven't I am talking about the maze runner series by James Dashner. I Know I know this was a huge series when it came out Everyone loved it. Everyone was reading it and then movies came out and just and just and they're still making movies for it It was such a popular thing and such a huge thing for like kind of dystopian sci-fi. I understand that I just I Read the first two books and I couldn't do it. I couldn't keep going. I didn't quite understand What all was happening? I didn't get the point of anything the characters kind of started to merge together And they didn't seem very different or independent after the second book I think the first book was great. I think the first book was fantastic and I love the idea However, once you got to like the second book and kind of the third book. I was like It's just not something I want to continue reading about you know like the first two books maybe but after that I was just kind of Done and there's a little part of me It's like you should reread it and try it again because it's been a while But I also know that there's so many other books in series. I would rather Read so I am DNFing the maze runner series Don't kill me I have two more series that I will not be finishing and the first one is one that I read quite recently And that is dream a little dream This is a trilogy that I read and I read the first one and I was like, mm-hmm. I can do without reading it Again, I felt like the I don't know. I felt like the book tried too hard Also, sorry if you hear music. There's literally no quiet time for me to film with these neighbors So like almost in every video, there's gonna be some background noise of them and I'm sorry But anyway back to the point. I just felt like this book Tried to be so dark, but then at the same time wasn't super serious Like it's the whole idea of you of this girl learns how to walk into other people's dreams if they let her and then She ends up joining a group of guys who made a deal with the devil and he granted their wishes But now they have to do his bidding, but nothing has ever really happened To them other than some of them got their wish and they haven't had to do anything other than just keep doing rituals, which Sounds very interesting But I just felt like there were no real-life repercussions for what they were doing and the characters all kind of blurred together a little bit And I just I didn't really care much for the characters or the plot of what was happening I thought the concept I was cool, but I don't I guess I don't kind of like the idea of she can walk Through other people's dreams while also having this dark satanic ritual thing happening I felt like I had a very hard time connecting the two Together and I didn't I just I couldn't see a connection there So I felt like they almost should have been two separate books and two separate ideas So I will not be continuing with that one either Then the last book or the last series that I will not be finishing the first book is called a thousand pieces of you And I read this last summer Two summers ago two summers ago when I first started my bookstagram And it was like the second or third picture on my bookstagram and I read it and I was like it's fine I guess But there wasn't much of a cliffhanger, I mean there was a cliffhanger, but it just wasn't much of a book that I liked Sorry, I felt like the concept was a little lost and a little simplistic as well as the characters being a little simplistic I thought everything was very two-dimensional and like it didn't really dive in as deeply as I had wanted it to it Just didn't quite capture me as much as I was hoping it would in order for me to continue on with this series I think the first book was fine, but it wasn't good enough to really make me Want to keep reading about the characters once keep going into this plot and everything like that so Yeah, those are the five series that I have started and I will not be continuing some of them are quite popular and so I'm sorry if some of these are like your favorite books ever But I just don't care to finish them. I would rather read other books instead so Yeah, if you liked this video comment down below what series you started and didn't like to other or not They were popular Give this video a thumbs up subscribe I will be posting every Thursday and I have been for a while now and I'm kind of proud of myself for it So yeah, subscribe hit the bell so you'll be notified on Thursdays when I do upload a new video and until then I hope your new year has been going well, and I wish you all a happy reading