 Hey guys it's Liana and I'm here today to talk about the book series that I do not intend to finish. Being a fantasy sci-fi primarily fantasy reader, the starting of series is a frequent occurrence. The finishing of series is less frequent but these are there's actually quite a few series that are started and I do not intend to ever finish. Some are ones that I thought about pushing myself to and others are ones that I was probably never gonna finish it so it won't be a shock that it's on this list. I have actually quite a few. So let's just get into it shall we? First up is Dune. I don't think I super need to explain that. I posted a review for Dune which was somewhat critical. I thought it was pretty balanced. I wasn't in love with Dune but I think I see why it's a classic. There's a lot to it in terms of reading enjoyment. It wasn't all that enjoyable for me. I thought it had pros and cons. People acted like I murdered their mother and I was already not super interested in reading the rest of the books and I'm definitely not anymore. In a similar vein the Stormlight Archive. I did actually originally think maybe possibly I might consider reading Words of Radiance and seeing if maybe if I read on I might begin to get into it. I didn't think it likely but I was kind of I mean it's such an epic series that everyone is so into that I was originally considering giving it that shot and it has become legend now. The reaction that I got on my Way of Kings video so absolutely not. In the way that you're often able to judge people by the company that they keep you can likewise judge books and fandoms by the people who love them and the vitriol that has been thrown my way over the fact that I did not love the book. I have no interest in being a member of that fandom. Next is Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Mas. I was originally going to try to push through. I was pushing myself and the fandom is also in a very different way from Stormlight Archive. It's just very extra and very intense and I have no interest in being a member of that fandom either because those books I find fairly problematic and it was just kind of a light slightly problematic why a romance kind of thing. I thought might be some decent escapism is relevant to the book community talks about those books. I kind of want to know what's going on. I want to be in the know but those books were getting longer and longer and I just was not enjoying them. So I read like three of the core novels and then the prequel bind up of short stories so I read like four that are part of the Throne of Glass series or saga and it's just not for me. I'm happy for everybody that loves those books. It's great but not for me. Next up is Mistborn because era two. I finished the Mistborn trilogy but I know there's a second era of Mistborn that takes place many, many, many years after the Mistborn original trilogy and again originally even though the end of the Mistborn trilogy left me very... I did not care for the way that the Mistborn trilogy ended the sort of resolution that we were given kind of ruined it for me. I was still interested in reading the second era because it was as from when I gather the concept of pushing your fantasy story into a more modern age that has independently evolved and isn't based on our modern age. It's just the natural progression of things in the way that in our real world as in technology improves society changes technology improves society changes and like there is a natural... like things aren't stagnant and most fantasies treat the world as stagnant. It's just this medieval or renaissance kind of world that never seems to progress beyond that. So the idea of progressing your world to a slightly more industrial age which is what Joe Abercrombie did with a little hatred interested me but once again the reaction I got for being dissatisfied with the ending of Mistborn trilogy and then the reaction that I got on Stormlight has just really put me off the idea of reading Sanderson. I do own Skyward and I'm kind of because I've never read it Sanderson writes I've never read any sci-fi by Sanderson so to complete my Sanderson journey I feel like I ought to and I own it and I've heard things decent things that it's kind of like just like a fun adventure so I might read that. But Mistborn anything that's in the Cosmere I've just been... I have been so beaten down by the fans who I imagine their purpose is to get the world to love Sanderson and all they are doing is pushing people away because again I would have considered reading words of radiance. I would have... I was interested in reading the second year of Mistborn but the thought of picking up a Sanderson book makes me want to vomit at this point because I just associate it with all of those people who who behave so inappropriately to an independent book reviewer who has no power or sway over the sales of the book or anyone else reading them that that level of hatred and vitriol I have no interest in being reminded of that existing and reading a Sanderson book I wouldn't necessarily need to talk about those books on my channel because I talk about everything that I read and if I did not like those books I feel like those people will come back and say you're just reading them so that you can hate on it again which isn't true or if I end up liking it they'll say see you were wrong all along and you're an idiot woman and I have no interest in having either conversation so good job guys all you have done is insured the fact that I will never ever read a Sanderson Cosmere book again. Whew sorry I had to get that off my chest. Next up is the Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Claire. I love the infernal devices and I read it before I even really knew what the Shadowhunters were I just saw the cover and thought it looked cool and then discovered that it was actually a prequel for the Mortal Instruments and then my understanding was that I should read the Mortal Instruments in order to then read the Dark Artifices and now the last hours and I tried I god knows I tried so hard to read the Mortal Instruments I got through two of them and the word is got through not a good time I know they were the first series she wrote so understandably they would be the poorest writing the weakest but oh god I already don't like modern settings and the characters are too dumb to live it's so angsty and bad infernal devices is angsty but it's you know satisfying and heart-wrenching the Mortal Instruments is just I just can't do it so I've given up if I if I there's something that confuses me about the Shadowhunter world because I do want to read the Dark Artifices if there's something that I'm missing I'm I will go to like the Shadowhunter wiki and figure out what I'm not getting. Next up is a Roar Rising I think the series is called Roar Rising uh that's the name of the first book I'm not aware of there being a series name different from that hated it I have no interest in seeing where that story goes that book reads to me like cash grab from a couple of authors who were like people love snark and sci-fi worked in illuminate all we need is snark and sci-fi here's another we just vomit it up another one for you I hated it have like a nearly hour long negative variant review of that book and again unlike unlike Stormlight archive which I thought might possibly if end up being something that I might get into if I read the next one like maybe like I'm not sure but I'm willing to give it a shot Roar Rising seems like garbage to begin with and it doesn't it lacks um a sincerity which I feel like Stormlight has like I think Brandon Sanderson is pouring kind of his soul into writing this expansive world I do I think it's flawed deeply but there is a sincere a sincere desire to craft and build this world in this story Roar Rising reads to me is just such a cash grab and that puts me off next up is wicked saints by Emily dunk Emily a Duncan Emily Duncan again I have a rant review for the first book when I knew there would be a second book coming out and I have had people ask me to read the second book so that I can rant about it and I never pick up books that I think I'm going to hate as many rants as I have on my channel you may not think that's true but I always pick up books that I think I'm going to like or at least find interesting and oftentimes I'm let down but I never intentionally pick up a book in order to hate read it I why would I waste my time so I was going to see if the reviews for ruthless gods were from people who were iffy about the first one like me or I mean clearly interested enough to pick up the second one but didn't especially love the first one if they reviewed the second one and said oh wow she really turned it around it's like a whole other ballgame like whatever you didn't like but wicked saints like it's none of that in here and it's like really good now I would have picked it up but all the reviews I've seen are that it's it's same if not worse so if you love wicked saints then you might love then you probably love ruthless gods because she just goes further down whatever bad paths she was already on so no thank you uh next up is zero repeat forever which again is the name of the first book and I'm not aware of there being a serious overarching name for it which is a YA kind of sci-fi dystopian that was highly recommended to me and the cover is gorgeous and the naked book is gorgeous um and it was so boring and mediocre and utterly forgettable I want it so I get so bad just because the book is so damn gorgeous and again it was recommended to me but it's not bad it's just extremely cliche and there's like almost nothing original about it so yeah not for me next is The Faithful and the Fallen and one of my most recent videos is a rant for the first book in that series so this comes as no surprise I bought the whole series before reading it because I was so sure that I was gonna like it and I hated it and I do not have any reason to believe the series gets better and I have no interest in giving it a chance so no thank you I was all set to plow to chew through this long viking inspired fantasy series I was so excited nope nope one and done next up is The Guinevere Deception by Carson White which again is the name of the first book I know there's another one for sure possibly two coming out that again I'm not aware of there being an overarching series name but that series I have a rant review for the first book in combination with Sorcery of Thorns which is a standalone so I'm off ski on that one but it's an Arthurian inspired story where a guinevere is not guinevere but a changeling sense to impersonate guinevere and the whole thing was strange and boring and juvenile and made no sense so yes the ending left me with questions but they were the kind of questions where I'm just like why the fuck would you write it like this so I'm really not interested in seeing where it goes or seeing the answers to the mystery of who is doing what or what the ultimate plan here is with this changeling situation whatever's identity is keeps being thrown at you as something mysterious but like honestly I don't do not give a shit next is Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahouran I think is her name Mahouran this was hesitantly recommended to me because I apparently I have been known thanks mainly to Amanda for picking up and enjoying a romance now and again mainly Thesedere and Grace Draven so I was it was suggested to me that I'd read this it was gifted to me so that I would read it and it was so bad I have a vlog rant thing on my channel for it if you want to see the romance was bad the story was bad the world was bad the magic was bad it was bad bad bad bad it wasn't the kind of book where like because again like I read books like the infernal devices and shatter me and stuff where it's kind of like just like this trashy bingey over saturated over dramatic romance or something like that with like world stakes and blah blah blah like I can I've been known to get into that but you have to have written compelling enough characters to where I can like sink my teeth into them and get invested and Serpent and Dove the characters were fairly two-dimensional and what there was of a character was pretty insufferable so no thank you next is The Witchlands by Susan Dennard this has been often I've seen people talk about how this is a good bridging series if you're kind of feeling like YA is is not doing it for you enough anymore and you're interested in going into dipping your toes into the waters of high fantasy and adult fantasy that this is a good one to kind of segue because it's it's oh it reads a little bit more like adult fantasy but it is YA and I would not disagree in the style of the writing and the style of the world building it does come across more like adult or high fantasy but bad adult or high fantasy just because you're adult fantasy doesn't mean you're good so it just it's it's very convoluted and boring to me and I just could not get into it the characters the characters are kind of like YA like it's sort of insufferable know-it-alls that I can't really root for identify with the world is there's a lot of intricate detail that is thrown at you but it doesn't feel organic it doesn't feel like a world is being built it just feels like you're being given a bunch of facts to memorize like you would in like a college class it's a bad college class where you're just like learning like facts for an exam that's almost the feel of it where like there's constantly all these like complicated facts being given to you about the magic the world the history and it's just like dumped at you in a way that doesn't feel like I'm learning and discovering a world it's just like information not a story so I I read two of them I know there's a prequel novella and the third one has is out I think there's going to be five not sure but I wanted to get into it it seemed like a series I'd be into because people are talking about the female friendship in it I did not like the characters did not get into the story the world was not for me next up the great coats by Sebastian de Castel oh my god I ranted for so long about that book when I read it I read it not last year but the year before because so many people have compared it to the lives of La Clamora and said that if you like there's like bantry kind of crew of like somewhat miscreant parts of gold kind of thing that this is a great series for that and I was so excited to read it and that book oh my god it wasn't just bad it was just what the fuck there's a nun that basically like rape heals the protagonist like she he says no but she ties into a bed and like fucks him to health and then he's like thank you and then leaves and there's like a like a whole like the purge you know like the movie the purge where there's like you can commit any crimes you want for like 24 hours well there's a city that is doing the purge in that book where like every night for a week or something all bets are off and all crimes are illegal and I was like what like the twist in the story which like I mean I won't spoil it for you in case you want to read it but the twist that's being teased the entire time that there's like something more going on there's something else happening here there's some other plan in play when you find out what that is oh oh no oh no oh my god that book was so uh why why I have no interest in reading any more of those books because what the fuck next I have the diviners by librae which is a well loved YA series which I was really excited to read it's 1920s like prohibition America but there's like psychics and like I don't know what paranormal kind of stuff going on and yeah and it's like a little on the horror side and I was really excited to read something that sounded so exciting you rarely see a setting like that especially in YA and so many people love the series and I was really excited to read it and it was really boring honestly not all that scary and it was so long and I didn't like the character especially the there's several main characters that you follow but there's one like main main character the way that like six of crows yes there's six characters you follow but you mainly like Kaz is the main character the main character and the diviners she's kind of insufferable so like I kept being like you know hope something bad happens to you and you learn your fucking lesson yeah not for me and the lunar chronicles by Marissa Meyer which again is very well loved and I read the first book thought it was like better than I expected but like a three stars where I was like uh it was more enjoyable than I expected that everyone kept saying yeah well the first one's the weakest one a lot so if you like the first one keep reading because they just get better I read scarlet and I didn't like it nearly as much as I like cinder which I expected to like out of all of them I expected to like scarlet the best because I love wolves um I like red riding hood I liked that one sounded like it'd be my jam and uh uh it was terrible oh my god I hated it so yeah I don't think I'm gonna keep reading that series and last but I suppose not not least because this wasn't ranked in any like particular order but Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Gabaldon however you say it I read the first book a long time ago and I didn't love it but then I did kind of try to pick up the second book and I just was like I know I can't do this idea enough that so I watch the show because the show is just like fun just a bunch of dudes and kilts and the music and it's a good time I watch it with my mom but that looks like the thing that makes the show bearable is that for for the most part you really don't get Claire's insufferable internal monologue which makes things so much worse because she already does a lot of dumb stuff that's infuriating but when she's just doing the dumb stuff that's infuriating you're like that's dumb and you shouldn't do it and usually Jamie comes around to be like you infuriating Sasanak like don't do that and I'm just like yeah don't fucking do that but in the book you get her internal monologue being all uppity being like why shouldn't I do it and like I'm just like do you have a death wish you're in a historical time period woman like you can't mouth off to the men who have all the power in this situation like it's kind of that problem with like talking Jack the Ripper in stories like that where it's a historical time period and you have this like hashtag feminism character who's just mowing off and I'm like do you have no sense of self-preservation like I understand that it's frustrating as a woman even in the modern day like being told no in situations where a man would be told yes yes that's frustrating that you're not taken seriously that you're viewed as your parts rather than a human like of course that's infuriating but this sense of entitlement and this like oh dear you talk to me that way I'm just like you do understand that in this historical time period young lady you have like zero rights so yeah it's frustrating as a fuck but do you want to die because Jamie is basically telling you shut the fuck up because I don't want you to die and she's like oh my god so again in the show she still does dumb stuff that is gonna get her killed and Jamie has to save her in the book in her head she's so entitled about it and uppity about it and just like well why shouldn't she do it and how dare Jamie tell her not to do it and I'm just like he's trying to help you woman anyway those are all the series so far that I have picked up and do not intend to finish I'm sure moral be added to this list in my lifetime let me know the comments down below if there are any series that you picked up and did not finish if any of the series on what this list that I had today are series that you picked up and did not finish or if these are series that you did finish and you can let me know if I am right in my decision to not finish them because they don't get better or if I really ought to give them a second chance because you like me considered not finishing them but then you did and you're really glad you did now let me know I'm not unreasonable I might change my mind anyway I post bookish videos on Saturdays right now I'm posting vlogs as of the filming of this video I'm posting vlogs on Tuesdays and Thursdays until further notice so let me know all the things in the comments down below if you enjoy this video please like and subscribe and I'll see you when I see you bye