 Listen, I find it near impossible to DNF series, so if a series is on this list, you know, I really didn't like it. Welcome back to my channel. Today we're going to be talking about the book series. I won't finish! I won't do it! I won't do it! I think I'm tired from this video, the book series you couldn't pay me to finish, which I know sounds harsh, but a lot of you all know I'm really trying to finish as many series as I can this year. I'm trying to get my currently reading series down to the lowest number and we're already in dire straits. Like, it's already bad? And I really scratched my head and I wonder where's God when you need him. So you couldn't pay me to add these books back onto my currently reading series and to add to that number. That's why it's titled that. Before we get into chatting about those series, I want to say a massive thank you to today's sponsor, which is Book of the Month! My favorites! I love Book of the Month. 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Use my code, make a book, get your first book for only $9.99. Okay, so I have about 12 series here that I have DNF'd. I've left in the past. We're going to go in order of oldest to most recent DNF's because the more recent ones you probably remember hearing we talk about. But of course, further back in past, there was less of your hair. So it makes more sense to talk about those ones first. This is all of them apart from like series that I read or started for videos that I knew I was probably never going to continue with the series like Kendall and Kylie Jenner's book or book series that I read when I was a kid and I read the first book again, but knew I wasn't going to continue with the series, that kind of vibe I haven't included in this list. But every other series that I have DNF'd, we're going to chat about. So I also have unhauled most of these books. So we'll have to have pictures. So the first one is the, I don't even want to say Montague, is that how you say it? Siblings by Mackenzie Lee. I read the first one, A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue. This wasn't for me. It's not for Main Park. I feel terribly ill all of a sudden. I can't see. I've gone to shake it. So what I remember about this is that we're following a guy as he goes on like his rich boy tour of Europe back in the day. I can't remember what the plot is of this, like what the inciting incident is. But I know we're following him and his friend and his sister. I know this series is LGBTQ friendly. I remember finding the writing really annoying. When I read this in 2020, it was still like a pretty popular series. I feel like it's died down a bit now. But it was still like a big, a big gun, you know what I mean? And in the field, it was still a book that everyone loved. And I remember listening to the audiobook and I was like, Oh no. Oh girl. Oh no. There was also some kind of controversy, I remember with the author. I mean, listen, it was an awful long time ago, I love. And I don't remember. I don't remember love. I don't remember at all. I really don't. It was an awful long time ago. I don't hold on to every nugget of tea in my brain. But I remember she was like signing her name on other people's books, like other authors books and like just facing them. I feel like there was something more extreme than that as well, like more serious. But everyone just made fun of the book signing. I can't remember. Let me not say stuff that's not true. But that was right after I read it. And I remember just thinking, I'm good. We can leave that one in the past. So I think that was the first series I ever properly DNF. Before that, you know, I am innately a finisher of series. I like don't like not ticking stuff off. I feel like it's also tied into like, I don't like unhauling. I don't like getting rid of stuff. I find that difficult. So like it's all one big happy family. And so usually I make myself finish series. But this was the first one where I was like, I'm okay. Next is the Gumiho series by Katcho. The first is Wicked Fox. Now this one makes me really sad because I really think Katcho seems like the sweetest person ever. I love her author tube channel. Like I love her author tube channel. And she just seems so sweet. And I wanted to love this. This is what is this about. We've got I think a girl who is also a fox spirit. Oh girl, we're trying to remember a lot now. This is in the past. There's like a romance in it as well. There's a sweet little romance. She has a difficult relationship with her mom who might also be, I'm not going to say anything because I'm like, what is a spoiler or what's not? I don't think that is a spoiler, but let me just shut my mouth. So yeah, this one makes me sad because I really love Katcho. But here's the situation. I listened to this via audiobook again. I just didn't like the book. I found it really boring. I didn't enjoy it. I gave it two stars, finished the series, whatever. But since then, I have listened to more audiobooks narrated by that narrator. And I haven't liked them. So I think I, I've spoken about this before. I think I have a problem with this narrator. And like, when I listen to them, I don't like, I don't say, oh, I don't like how they're narrating that. Like I do, but everything I listen to them, I rate low. Even one point, I was reading the Poppy Ball Physically majority and I remember I switched to the audiobook and I found it so boring. And then I switched back to the physical and I liked it again. So it's obviously just an issue I have with this audiobook narrator, but I don't care enough to go back and give that sequel to Wicked Fox a go physically. It could just be left in the past, but now I know to not really pick up stuff by this narrator. I mean, they're a really, really popular fancy narrator. Like everyone else loves them. It's a me problem. It's not them. Something about my brain and them just don't vibe. So yeah, Wicked Fox, maybe I would have loved if I read it physically. It's one that got away, you know what I mean? But yeah, another early series I DNF'd. Then we have Skyward by Brandon Sanderson. Like is it called the Skyward series? I don't know. Now this I enjoyed. I think I gave it three stars, but I was just happy to leave it as a standalone. There's not much tea here. This is the only Brandon Sanderson I've ever read. My dad loves Brandon Sanderson. He has all the books next door and I just like have never delved into that situation. I don't really have any bad opinions about this. This is like a sci-fi set on this earth where they're trying to get off the earth and they live underground and the girl's dad was like a traitor and so she wants to be a pilot now like he was, but no one wants her to be a pilot because he was a traitor. There's no tea. I would just like we can just leave this as a standalone. I don't often do that, but like I was just, you know, the books are long and the days are short. Oh, okay. Next was Fable by Adrian Young. I can't even say it. I hated it. I hated this book. I just did not enjoy this. This is like a sea book. I just think it's a little bit of my imagery telling because the girl is ginger on the front. It's to do with the sea, but it's not. It's definitely not. My problem with this is the majority of the book is about romance and it's set on a ship with like maybe five characters total. I did not know any of the characters other than the two in the romance. Like all the other characters in the ship have no personality, no personality. They are cardboard. They are vanilla. Like, oh my god, that's mean, but like it's true. This was like a one star for me and I very rarely give one stars out and this book is offensive. This was just like upsetting to me. I just hated it. It is so bad. I want to give you a zero, but that's not possible. So I give you a one. Adrian Young's adult debut has just come out and everyone's been really hyping it up and excited for it and loving it. And I'm just like, I don't think I should go there. I think just let everyone else enjoy it. And I would, because it's like a murder mystery as well. I was like, oh, like I've got to, maybe I've got to give it a go, but I don't. Sitting here thinking back to how Fable made me feel, I don't. I don't need to do that to myself. Next is a controversial one, but it's an Ember in the Ashes by Sabah Tahir. Another one that really upset me because I loved Sabah Tahir before I read this book. I listened to loads of podcasts with her on. I took, I think, a Skillshare class that she did and I just found her so interesting that she talked about writing and stuff. And then I just, I don't like it. I found it boring. I know this is a really unpopular opinion. Like, I remember everyone when I gave this opinion being like, oh, maybe you should delete your channel. But yeah, I just found this boring. It's like too perspective, which sometimes I don't vibe with because it was kind of dual timeline. It was like similar. We're following these two characters, one who I think is a guy who was kind of in the army and another is a girl whose family I think were like revolutionaries. I can't remember. Anyways. And it's kind of dual timeline because although it's like set in the same time, they're two different storylines we're following. And I just don't think that works for me because I just get bored with both of them because neither of them strong enough to hold a book on their own. If we're going to do a dual timeline, you have to have been able to write a book just from that perspective. In my opinion, a lot of what's on this list really is YA fantasy. And I'm trying to be a lot more careful with the YA fantasy that I do pick up. The next one is the never-torting world by Rin Chepeko. This was another victim of dual timeline, right? We're following twin sisters who I think don't know they're twin sisters. I really like, listen, if I'm doing after series, it's out of my brain. The world is split in half, one in darkness, one in light eternally because the world doesn't tilt, right? So one is always in darkness, one's in light and they've been in those two separate kingdoms and they've each got like a mission that they're going on and so you're looking back and forth between their perspectives. And yeah, just another one that I didn't love. But yeah, this was I think the turning point for me realizing that I really don't like dual timeline. This was like the realization. This was the light bulb. And so since then I've read less, but you can definitely see in books I rated low before this and DNF that there was a lot of dual timeline stuff. Next was a super disappointing one for me and it was Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Wilberg. This is probably one of my like most disappointing murder mysteries. I mean I gave it a two and I've given like one or two murder mysteries a one star before, but this was really disappointing to me because I was so excited for it. It was a locked room murder mystery set in the 1950s with like this underground secret government organization. It set in the 1950s but like there was nothing that set it in the 1950s. Other than like the occasional mention of how she had to get married and how shameful it was that she hadn't gotten married yet. There was like nothing that put me in that era. That was one of the things that annoyed me most because I love historical murder mysteries because I always feel like the historical setting lends itself to creating a vibe for the murder mystery, but this didn't. Like you could have said it present day. The thing that annoyed me was there's so much like technology in this secret government agency that we don't even have today. And so it felt like futuristic in a way, but it was 1950s. The only thing that set in 1950s was like oh girl, you haven't gotten married yet? Oh, you know what I mean? That was it. I didn't like the writing, didn't like the characters. I can't even remember how the murder mystery was solved, like what the result was. I really can't remember. This one was a huge disappointment for me. Right, then I'm like bracing myself. Another one that I, DNF and the series I DNF was These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong. I just didn't vibe with this. I'm not really interested, sorry. Like I'm just not interested. To be fair, I read this when I was starting to become these latter ones or ones that maybe I think earlier on I would have continued this series, but I was becoming more aware of how many series I was actually in the middle of. And this one I was just fine living behind. This is obviously a Romeo and Juliet retelling. I think it's set in 1920 Shanghai. This just wasn't for me. I just didn't enjoy it. I remember being really bored throughout it. And I feel terrible, but listen, Chloe Gong has got her success. You know what I mean? Like she doesn't need me to like the book. I am one fallen soldier. She has many others who love her stuff. When the book ended, I was just like I have no interest in seeing why this goes. I think I gave it like a 2.5 maybe even a 3. Did I give it a no? So yeah, this was just another one I was happy to leave to the fans and just step away from, remove myself from the situation, remove myself from the narrative. Next we've got two that I actually haven't unhauled because this one especially, I think I gave this three stars. This was Legend Born by Tracy Dion. I will not be continuing on with this series. I liked aspects of this, right? I gave it three stars. I liked the writing. I think this is a good book. This is probably one of the best books on this list in my opinion. I can see why other people love it. It's just long and I knew the sequel would be long. Like it's like tiny font. It took ages to read and I'm like I just don't love this enough to continue. I'm again happy to treat this as a standalone. It had interesting magic systems. I liked the main character. I liked the journey that she went on throughout the book. I actually quite liked the love interest. You're like Megan, why did you why did you DNF it if you're saying good things? I was just a bit bored and I wasn't super interested in it. I can recognize its good aspects but I also think I read this around the time I read a lot of five stars and so maybe if I hadn't done that I would have wanted to continue on with the series more but I would give Tracy Dion a go in the future which is not, I can't say that for a lot of authors on this list. Like when she publishes a new series or a new standalone you know her next book that isn't in the series I think I will pick up and give a go. Then we have got a book that I hated probably one of my least favorite books of this year and that is the Gilded Ones by Namina Forna. This is about these girls who are seen as demons by society and they're kind of made into like this army by the nation they live in. This was just one where I really didn't like much about this book which I feel terrible about because I was so excited to read it. I didn't like the writing, I didn't like the plot, I didn't like the characters, I didn't like the ending, I didn't like what else. The villain, I didn't feel like any tension was built throughout, I didn't like it. I also remember feeling like this was young YA writing, like very young YA writing but with very mature YA topics and violence as well. So I just felt like those two were at loggerheads with one another. I don't mind younger YA writing, I don't mind more mature topics in YA but I don't feel like those two should necessarily go together so I just couldn't figure out who this was for either. And then we just have two more that I've DNF'd in really recent videos. The first was in My Cats Pick My TBR vlog and it's Bella Donna by Adeline Grace. This one was actually a really big disappointment for me as well. This is about a girl who can't die and who can see death and she moves in with a new family because she's an orphan, she's kind of passed around relatives and she thinks a murder happened right before she got there and she wants to have deaths help to solve it. It has a love triangle which I think I figured out isn't my thing if like the love triangle isn't equal. You know it's a very gothic but I feel like if you love vibes you'll love this but I just didn't vibe with the writing again. For me I think the big problem with a lot of these is the writing. If I don't vibe with the writing we're not going anywhere you know. And then finally one that I think surprised a lot of people. This was in my last vlog that went out like two days ago so if you want to spoil yourself look away. But I am not continuing with the In The Hall With A Knife Cluedo Clue Mystery series. I didn't dislike this, I gave it three stars but again we're up against it with the series at the moment and I would just find a treat as a standalone. I think it was an enjoyable experience. I liked reading a book with clue characters in it. Yeah you know I enjoyed the the theory of it but it was just a fine mystery and I'm just fine not knowing what happens to the characters beyond this point. You know what I mean? Like I can just leave it here. It was a fun enjoyable experience but I don't need to read two more of pretty much the same thing. So there we have it that is all the book series that I will not finish that I have started. Let me know if you've read any of these. I would you know if you've loved any of these let me know why you love them because I'm one person with one opinion. I would like to hear yours as well. So let me know what you think of any of these series if you've read them, if you GNF them as well or if you continued with them. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to go check out Book of the Month down below and I will see you very soon with another video. Bye!