TTT: Series I’ve Given Up On

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

This week we’re talking about series we’ve given up on and wow, I have a lot, but I’ve whittled it down to ten!

Across the Universe Series – Beth Revis

I read and really enjoyed Across the Universe. The premise was exciting but the plot fell a little short with such a predictable villain. I read it years ago and it clearly didn’t have enough of an impact to make me want to continue.

House of Night Series – P.C. and Kristin Cast

I mentioned this in a previous TTT and I gave up on this a LONG time ago. Convoluted plots, annoying main character and excessive recapping made this a pain to read.

The Mortal Instruments series – Cassandra Clare

I read City of Bones and just didn’t like the pacing of this book. It felt like a watered down urbanised version of Harry Potter and though I loved The Infernal Devices and these are ridiculously popular I can’t be convinced to continue! (Plus I read plot summaries online ages ago, so no need, right?)

Private series – Kate Brian

I loved these books as a teen. They were like Gossip Girl set in a boarding school featuring glamorous parties, drama and murder. I almost made it to the end, but the series carried on forever, the plots seemed a little too contrived and I gave up.

Crazy Rich Asians series – Kevin Kwan

I’ll admit that when I read this, I had no idea that this was going to be part of a series so it hadn’t been on my radar at all. It was however, really a very long book for how much substance there is to the plot – fun but not compelling enough to read the sequel.

Read my full review of the book here.

Matched series – Allie Condie

I really loved the first book in this series but the second one fell a little bit flat. I don’t think I enjoyed the flipping between viewpoints and I just don’t remember enjoying the second book as much.

Heist Society series – Ally Carter

I enjoyed the first book in this series, I really did. I love me a good heist story but this is one that I just forgot about a little and haven’t looked out for the sequels for. And again, it clearly didn’t excite me enough to want to actively try to read the sequels.

Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series – Ransom Riggs

This book was clever and although I loved the original photos that Riggs used to inspire the story, I just didn’t love it. I think I expected it to perhaps be written for an older audience and maybe be a little bit darker (though that’s not to say it isn’t dark).

Uglies series – Scott Westerfeld

This was originally a trilogy which I did enjoy. But when the fourth book, Extras, came out I just wasn’t interested. There’s just not enough fluidity between the books as at the start of each book the MC Tally is almost rebooted and I wasn’t committed enough to the series very much by the end.

The Medusa Project series – Sophie McKenzie

These books were about teens with psychic powers and I really enjoyed them. I stopped reading these mostly because I kinda forgot about them and they weren’t popular enough to be on my radar at all times. This is possibly the only series I’d consider retrying from this list!

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What do you think? Any series I should give a second chance? What have you given up on?