Top Ten Tuesday: Series I’ve Given Up On & Series I'd Like To Finish One Day

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday theme is “Series I’ve Given Up On/Don’t Plan to Finish" and this feels like a painful subject, especially since I know that I will might get in trouble for saying what I'm about to say. At the same time, Jana also allows us to change the prompt a little bit and make it about the series we'd like to finish one day. Because I'm me and I love to make my life difficult, I'm going to combine them and make two top 5 lists: one for series I've given up on, and the other about series I want to finish one day. So without further ado, here are

Five Series I've Given Up On

• ACOTAR by Sarah J Maas - I remember reading the first book and being in love. I remember reading the second book and feeling confused and betrayed. I remember starting reading the third book, putting it down halfway through and just...not feel a thing. I want to finish the third book, and I probably will, but for me, ACOTAR will be a trilogy. I remember it was announced as such and I fear some plots and subplots were added in and changed along the way because the transformation from trilogy to a longer series happened. I'm sorry if this offends fans of this series, but I don't see myself going past the third book.

• Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella - Sophie Kinsella is one of my favorite authors, and she's been on my top 5 authors for the last ELEVEN years. But dear God, Becky Bloomwood... She just doesn't learn. The last book I read with Becky was the third book, I think, the one with the wedding(s). And while it did elicit some giggles out of me, it wasn't as funny or heartwarming as with Kinsella's stand-alones.

• Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward - My big thing with long series is that the more I read the series, the more I need to trust the author. Long romantic series mean that, at their core, the stories have the same basic idea. Main character meets other main character, sexy times happen, feelings run wild, angst happens, and the connecting thread between the books, whether it's a family saga or a paranormal series about the fight between good and evil, is continued and built upon as either the backdrop of the love story or as the main event with the love story being the side dish. The problem comes when my trust in the author isn't there anymore. And while I will cherish this series forever, and I will remember it fondly, and I might even reread the first 9 or 10 books from the BDB series, I know I won't go forward with it, because my trust just isn't there anymore. 

• Anything new in the Harry Potter universe by J.K.Rowling - Harry Potter has been the book series for me, the one that showed me that words on paper can be fun and not a waste of valuable video gaming time. It made me a reader. It made me expect and demand more from books. But for me Harry Potter is made up of just 7 books. I am very thankful that we have Tales Of Beedle The Bard as a companion, because I love books within books. But I don't care about the rest. Unless it's an update on characters that really need their own stories, like Neville or Luna, I just don't care.

• The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare - As I said when I talked about the BDB series, I need to trust the author. Clockwork Angel was a good book, but then the ending let me down in such a way that I don't really trust the author to make the other two books sound better. Aside from that, I really hate it when YA portrays girls being bitchy to each other for no real reason other than the fact that society deems it impossible for two or more females do get along. 

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Now that I've shared the series I'm not planning on finishing, let's talk about 

FIVE SERIES I'D LIKE TO FINISH ONE DAY

• Mila 2.0 by Debra Driza - I remember that at the time I read this book, I was completely in love with it. I don't really remember much about it, except that there was a cyborg/android (I still don't know the difference...shhhhh) that was passing off as a regular girl and she didn't know she wasn't human, but then she finds out because of a freak accident, so the mad scientists that made her go after her and she has to run and I think the book ends with her at a bus stop or something. I loved the book and I really have no excuse for not finishing the series. I want to finish reading it.

• The Midnight Affair by Mindee Arnett - It's not a secret I love Mindee Arnett's writing style. I loved Dusty, she was funny and I want to learn what happens to her and Eli.

• Lux by Jennifer L Armentrout - I loved this series, especially because at the time I read it, I had just finished watching Roswell, and it reminded me of that show in some way. I need to find out what happens with Daemon and Katy, especially since I heard talk about a spin-off.

• Fall and Rise by Chelsea M. Cameron - I rarely go for NA books, but I remember enjoying the drama of this series. It made me think about what happens after a tragedy to the people involved in that tragedy and that came out of it mostly fine. The first book was tragic, the second one also, and I am very curious to see what the rest of the series is about.

• The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer - Although my rating for the first and only book I read from this series is only 3 cups, the more I think about it, the more I want to read about a cyborg Sailor Moon meeting fairy-tale characters. And I want to know how Cinder's story ends, and I want to know more about Iko

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So this is it, folks, the five series I won't be finishing and the five series I'm very, very curious about finishing. What about you? What are the series you've given up on? What about the ones you're curious about enough to want to finish it?