Biggest Disappointments | Reading With Danielle

This is a list of some of the books I've read in the past year or so that I would say were some of my biggest disappointments. These aren't necessarily bad books (except for one of them, which I didn't like in the least bit), but they were just disappointing either because of the hype surrounding them or the preceding book in the series...

These aren't in much of an order, except for the fact that #1 is the one I hated/was most disappointed by.
So, let's start at #4!

4. Truthwitch by Susan Dennard

This was so hyped up and I was really looking forward to it, back when it first came out. I even got a signed copy when Susan came to my local bookstore. But the world-building was off for me, I didn't really get any of it, and I hated the budding romance. I could sense it from a mile off and was like "No thanks!!!"

I like the friendship aspect of it and it did make me wish I'd enjoyed the rest of the book, but I just didn't. I'm kind of bummed because everyone else seems to love this book and the next one, but it just didn't work for me.

3. Everything Leads to You By Nina LaCour

Now I really enjoyed this book, don't get me wrong! It was a super cute contemporary and I loved the movie set aspect of the whole thing. If I hadn't been reading it for the romance, it wouldn't have been a disappointment at all. But I was reading it for the F/F romance and I found it to be lacking? Like, they were super cute together and I liked how it worked out, but there wasn't enough of the actual romance! It was barely there and I just wanted more.

2. The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

Now, I gave the first book 5 stars and a place on my favorites list, so maybe it's not super shocking that this wasn't as good and, thus, a disappointment. But this was just too political for me and there was barely any action. It was dull, and now thanks to this (and other recent enlightenments about the author) I don't know if I really care to finish this trilogy...

1. Timepiece by Myra McEntire

Oh. My. God. I could rant for days about this book and what a disappointment it was! For starters, the first book in this trilogy (Hourglass) was such a surprise and I adored it back when I read it. And I loved Kaleb so much (lowkey wanted Emerson to end up with him, even though I knew it wasn't going to happen). I was heartbroken to discover how difficult it was to get my hands on Timepiece, since the series had gone out of print. It took me a solid year to finally get my hands on a reasonably priced copy of this book.

And it was such a disappointment.

One, I hated the fact that the POV was changed. The change in voice did not suit the story at all. Plus, Myra McEntire basically just made me hate Kaleb, even though I had adored him in the previous book. He was such an asshole??? And so much less complex than in the first book. Everything I had liked about the first book was gone and this literally ruined it all for me.

Ugh! I am still so mad at how this book went. I couldn't even tell you anything that actually happened in it; I was too engrossed with being pissed. Needless to say, I did not try to get my hands on the third book. (I am so happy that I buy series one book at a time! I would have hated to waste the money.)

This book was just really not for me and ruined how good the first book was. 

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So yeah, those are my biggest disappointments in books that I've read. It's very rare (as you can see) that I dislike a book/am disappointed by a book, since I usually just DNF it if I'm not enjoying it. But I finished all of these and was let down by each and every one of them.

What are some of your biggest disappointments in books? Or better yet, what are some of your best surprises?