This year I only rated 13 books 1 star! The worst book I read this year, by a wide margin, was:
Darker by ELJames
This series has so many problems I started a separate blog to discuss them all in detail.
The other terrible books I read mostly fell into these categories:
Bad Romance Novels
You kind of expect these to be terrible, right?
The Winter King (Weathermages of Mystral #1) by C.L.Wilson
This book was basically Frozen 2: Your Brother Is Mad You Have Weather Powers And All He Can Do Is Talk to Birds
Dragon Pact by Mac Flynn
This plot-hole ridden ride is about a dragon vampire, as you do.
The Geek Girl and the Scandalous Earl by Gina Lamm
This time traveling romance is somehow even dumber than the cover makes it seem. And yet I still read the sequel:
Geek Girls Don’t Date Dukes by Gina Lamm
Another time traveling idiot finds love instead of being burned as a witch or immediately getting typhoid.
Love Finds You in Humble Texas by Anita Higman
This book was not reflective of my time in Humble, Texas. No one went to Sonic? No one spent forever in traffic? At one point, a character falls asleep outside and doesn’t wake up covered in mosquito bites and sun burn? Okay
My Wild Irish Dragon by Ashlyn Chase
This book is about two supernatural shapeshifting fire fighters, a dragon and a phoenix, finding love.
Other Books That Did What They Set Out To Do
It’s really my own fault for reading these
Nearly Dead by Brendan P. Myers
This is about zombies attacking my hometown of St. Petersburg, Florida. I was hoping it would be hilariously bad, but it was just normal bad. I wrote that on my GoodReads review too, and the author liked it. So maybe he agrees.
By Book or By Crook by Eva Gates
Cozy mysteries are just not for me, gang. I just can’t suspend my disbelief enough. Plus, this one was about a library, so there were a lot of setting details to gripe about.
Color Me Murder by Krista Davis
This one REALLY pissed me off because I ordered it thinking it was a coloring book. I was so disappointed to just get a shitty cozy mystery about a coloring book designer instead.
The Battle Begins: The Story of Creation by Caleb Seeling
This one was actually pretty hilarious.
True Disappointments
Unpunished by Charlotte Gilman
I wanted to like this mystery because of its place in early feminist history, but, like a lot of early feminism, it is hella racist. Plus the mystery story was very boring.
The Space Between Us by Brenna Yovanoff
This book is a YA romance about star crossed lovers: a human boy and THE DAUGHTER OF SATAN. That has so much potential, but inconsistent world-building just made it frustrating.
Previously: 2018: The Good
Next: 2018: The Ugly
“This book is about two supernatural shapeshifting fire fighters, a dragon and a phoenix, finding love.”
How in the WORLD did they manage to fuck up such an amazing premise
Action Bible owns though