Unpopular Book Opinions

A Popular Book/Series You Didn't Like:

Wicked by Gregory Maguire - one of the few books I never finished reading. One day I will give it a chance again (so many people like my cousin love the book, I love Wicked which was based off it.), but I just didn't like it.

A Book/Series You Love But Everyone Seems to Hate:

I don't love this series, at all - but when I first read Twilight as a little high school freshman I did love the book. My YA Librarian introduced me to it, then later we had a trivia, tshirt making event before the fourth book came out. At the time, I enjoyed the series although my interest waned with each subsequent novel. Re-reading it now (I read the gender-reversed version for the anniversary), I find it enjoyable as a piece of casual fiction but not what I would consider award-worthy writing.

I would also put the Hush, Hush series here. I read it years ago, but I remember enjoying it and people don't seem to like it. 

A Love Triangle Where the Person Ended Up With the Wrong Person, or OTP That You Don't Like:

I sat here and absolutely couldn't think of a good answer for this. There wasn't someone that immediately came to mind - so these are my sort-of incorrect pairings:

When I read the book, I wanted Katniss to end up with Gale. Reading people's reasonings on Peeta vs. Gale, I see how Gale was an incendiary presence whereas Peeta was always there for Katniss, the good guy, blah, blah blah. But come on, Gale. How could you not?













Again, this is one that I don't particularly care about - but Edward and Bella. If pushed, I definitely liked Jacob better than Edward so I would have preferred that she end up with Jacob. But... I was also Team Jasper (and Alice). I liked them and didn't really care who Bella ended up with.









Finally, Ron and Hermione. It's not that I necessarily think that they ended up with the wrong people, but I just didn't see that coming. I could see it just as easily have been Harry and Hermione (although I love Ginny.) So I don't know exactly how I feel about it, but I know I didn't read the series and say "That's perfect. Those two belong together." As such, they're on the list. 

A Popular Genre That You Hardly Reach For:

I love detective/mysteries, but I hardly ever read them even though Sherlock Holmes is one of my favourites and my entire youth was spent reading Nancy Drew in my grandma's trees.

A Popular Character You Do Not Like:

Snape. I know he had that slightly-misguided redemption at the end of the series, people are always quoting "Always." But... I do not like Snape. I don't care that he loved Lily through it all. I don't care that Dumbledore trusted him. He was terrible to many beloved characters and he wasn't redeemed in my eyes. Sorry.

A Popular Trope You Are Tired of Seeing:

Love triangles or insta-love. I feel like almost every book I read lately has a love triangle in it, generally featuring our heroine being incredibly indecisive about two lucky guys. Sometimes its the guy, but I feel like its usually the girl which makes it even more tiresome. Insta-love is just utterly unrealistic and makes a book less appealing.

A Popular Series You Have No Interest In Reading:

Beautiful Creatures by - I don't know what it is but I just see the books and think, I don't really want to read that. 

The Book is not Always Better Than the Movie/TV Show:

Hands down I think the Vampire Diaries is one of those series that the tv show surpasses the source material. I enjoyed reading the series as maybe a high school freshman, but looking back at the writing I'm just not impressed. The TV show is so much better.