Following up (finally!) to our last Chat on bookish letdowns, today we're talking about the books or authors that were *originally* letdowns, but that were redeemed with a second chance!
This chat is also part of my Friday Five meme, so if you want to see more of those, you can check them out here; and if you missed the Bookish Letdowns chat, click here!
Oh, and bee tee dubs, there's a poll in the video about a potential upcoming chat! So be all democratic and stuff and make your voice known!*
*Unless you're Trump. Then you can just really be quiet, pls.
MENTIONED:
- General works of Sarah Beth Durst, specifically, Ice, Drink Slay Love, Vessel, and Lost
- The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies series
- Shiver and The Raven Boys by Maggie Steifvater
- A Great & Terrible Beauty series, Beauty Queens and The Diviners by Libba Bray
REVIEWS:
Ice (vs. 2 other retellings)
Drink, Slay, Love
Vessel
Lost
Shiver
The Raven Boys
The Scorpio Races
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies:
http://www.thebookrat.com/2009/09/review-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies.html
http://www.thebookrat.com/2011/06/vid-rev-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies.html
http://www.thebookrat.com/2011/06/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-graphic.html
Beauty Queens
The Diviners
Disclosure: This is NOT a sponsored video.
I really enjoyed your Second Chance chat. Mostly because I am a mood reader, but I've got mulish tendencies so that I haven't given second chances to books that really brought out the loathing in me for some reason.
ReplyDeleteI do use the rule of thumb that if it stayed on my mind or I thought about it when I caught sight of it later then I give due consideration to picking it back up. I have three or four on my shelves right now that I stopped reading, but something made me put them up there instead of trying to give them away.
I have had early loves reverse on me so re-reading can be daunting and I confess to being a coward and leaving well enough alone with some books. And sequels, sigh...really struggle with those when they follow something big. Gone With the Wind and Scarlett. Yeah, that was disappointing. I wouldn't do it with To Kill a Mockingbird. Nope.
As to topic ideas: Along the lines of not wanting to kill a childhood favorite, maybe also talking about books that should have never had a sequel or a series that should have ended before it did.
This is so funny...I have three Sarah Beth Durst books SOLELY because you raved about her at one point. :D
ReplyDeleteMaybe Ice was her still developing as a writer, or she had a crap editor.
A Great and Terrible Beauty is not the best, but I'm one of Libba Bray's legion of fans- reading Going Bovine made my life so much better. It's similar to Beauty Queens, but more subtle and fun. And, of course, The Diviners is awesome.
I keep hearing people have issues with Cassandra Clare- I feel like I must've missed something. Was she behaving badly, or something? :/
I liked the first three books of her first series, but the rest of her books were relatively lackluster, and I think her extension of the series is pointless. And YES EXACTLY LIKE LAURELL K. HAMILTON and her pointless smut-filled, no-plot books. Ugh.
Good on ya for giving second chances, even if it's not your rule of thumb. I don't have the time to re-read books I dislike, but I do give authors 2 books to win me over before I give up on them.
Libba Bray is definitely one where I hated her first trilogy and love pretty much everything she's done since.
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