Books you finished and just thought: "Well...that was shit"

[AgDr_ODST]

much as I loved both series I have to say the third book in the Hunger games Trilogy, Catching Fire absolutely killed it for me....the ending just hit me like a curve ball of the worst sort.

Then I have the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind on the chopping block, I loved the books up until I stopped at the 3rd or 4th one, I mean for the love of God in each progressive book the situations his heroes found themselves in got progressively more and more fucked up, while managing to also be somewhat solved before the books end.

 

[Clinky]

Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox. A book that I felt really doesn't belong in what is probably my favorite book series and had characters that I love act out of character for the sake of a romance that felt more like it was written as a piece of FanFiction.

Why?

Spoiler

- The two characters in question: Artemis Fowl and Holly Short are in story about the ages of what I'd say are about 15 and early to late twenties. In this book they have to time travel and as a side effect of it Artemis is aged forward to age seventeen and Holly back to her species'(elf) equivalent age.
- Later on Artemis gets mauled by a gorilla and after Holly heals him she kisses him. Something which is chalked up to hormones due to her age reversal.
- Later on they get in an argument revolving around Artemis being an ass(which honestly shouldn't surprise anyone anymore) and is informed that his 'elf kissing days are over' and then they make up over a 'touching' moment and everything becomes hunky-dory again.
-When they get back to their proper time their ages are sorted out and in the end we get a reference back to it and a teary consideration of 'in a different time it could have been' sort of thing which made me wrinkle my nose to say the least.

I don't know if Colfer meant for this to happen from the start of the series and he just implemented it badly or if he shoved it in there for the sake of the shippers, either way the whole thing just felt... wrong. Maybe I'm biased since I don't care for romance in stories very much at all along with the fact that I just don't like this couple to begin with but the whole thing still felt wrong to me. It felt shoehorned in and like it really didn't do much for the characters development, it could have been completely cut out and it would not have made any difference. He somewhat seems to try and save it in the next book by kind of parodying it, I guess?

 

[Durgiun]

The Crystal Shard. Holy Hell, it was crap. True, I did buy it back when I was an early teens and didn't read it up until a few months ago, but damn, it was crap.