Books That Disappointed Me

No matter how much we hate it: we all have books we ended up liking a lot less than we thought we would, which always ends up being a major disappointment. As I explained in my '25 bookish facts about me' post, I try to only buy books I know I will enjoy, but sometimes it still end up enjoying books a lot less than I thought I would. Today I'll be talking about some of those books.

The Fault In Our Stars
A book I think most reader have read and love. It was the first (and only) book I ever read by John Green and because everybody always talks about him like he is some kind of god, I had to read one of his books. The reason I chose this one is because I watched the movie when it was released and I enjoyed it.
I ended up liking the book a lot less than I thought I actually would. I thought there was nothing special about the way he wrote, which I thought would be the case. The characters were enjoyable, but didn't have anything special about them besides the fact that they both have cancer. I also didn't enjoy the general storyline and thought it was kind of your regular 'doomed lovers' story.


I Was Here
This was the first book I read by Gayle Forman and I knew a lot of people liked her other book 'If I Stay' and the story of this book sounded like something I would really enjoy. I hadn't read a book that dealt with suicide before, so I couldn't wait to start reading.
Nothing in this book ended up being a big surprise for me. In the beginning the reason behind the whole suicide is actually already pretty clear and as soon as the main character met the male love interest, I knew they were going to end up together...

Allegiant
Allegiant, the final book in the Divergent trilogy was such a big disappoinment to me. I LOVED Divergent and thought Insurgent was a pretty good book as well. Then I got to Allegiant...I hated it. I felt like the story was so incredibly slow and boring and nothing exciting happened aside from like 20 pages in total, in a book that is around the 500 pages. It was nice to find out the whole 'story behind the story', but it was just waaaaay too long for me....Also the deaths felt so unneccesary, like Veronica Roth only put them in there to shock her readers. That's really how it felt for me.

Red Queen
I don't really want to call Red Queen a disappointing read, because I still enjoyed the book and am excited to read the second one, but I just thought there were so many influences from other fantasy novels such as Game Of Thrones that made it a bit unoriginal for me.
Honestly I also didn't remember much from most of the events that happened in the book, because it didn't wow me enough.
Overall I was just expecting a lot more from it.


Passenger

The last book that disappointed me a lot was Passenger by Alexandra Bracken. I wrote a review on this book, so if you're interesten in my full thoughts, you can read it here.
The concept of the book sounded so amazing to me and I was about 99% certain I would absolutely LOVE this book and that it would end up being one of my new favs.
This wasn't the case.
The first 50 pages of the book were fast paced and great, but then out of the blue it became so incredibly slow. It took me about 2 weeks to read it, which is usually the time it takes me to read a book such as A Game Of Thrones or The Fellowship Of The Ring...
I just felt like there was so much unneccesary information being thrown at you every single page and most of this information wasn't even really about the plot of the story. This is what made it a very boring read to me.


Question of the day:
What are some books that disappointed you? Do you agree with me about these books or not?

~ Amber