Topic:
Worst/Weakest Books In My Favorite Series
1. Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1) by Sarah J. Maas - Ok, So I think we've established I really enjoy the ToG series. Especially from Heir of Fire on. So why do I think book one is the worst of the series? Throne of Glass itself had 100% a different feel for me from the rest of the series. It felt clunky. It was the most awkward book of the series for me to read. It felt like I was reading it in chunks. It absolutely did not have the smooth flow that picked up about halfway through Crown of Midnight and continued through the series. Another reason, I was a bit bored with it. The action bits felt more repetitive and the talking points lacked the way with words Sarah puts in them now. Now I get it, Throne of Glass was pretty much her first book and she was definitely working on her writing style with it. And I think she 100% found it by the time she got to Heir of Fire. I won't hold that against her. I'm just saying overall, Throne of Glass, definitely not the best in comparison to the rest of the books. But am I glad I persevered through Throne of Glass despite the clunky feel, you bet I am!! I do know however a lot of people feel Crown of Midnight is their worst of the series, so if that's you, tell me why!
2. Restore Me (Shatter Me #4) by Tahereh Mafi - So I did really enjoy Restore Me. I did. But in comparison to books 1-3, I felt it was definitely lacking. There was so much happening in the first 3 books, whether plot wise, or with the characters growing themselves. Restore Me just lacked in comparison to that. We saw Juliette really come out of the shell she was hiding in in Ignite Me. I LOVED that Juliette. She was fierce and a force to be reckoned with by the end of it. And then Restore Me came and it really felt like it took away everything from Ignite Me. Juliette immediately reverted back into the unsure, not confident, frightened girl she was in the first books. She refused help when she knew she needed it, imploded her relationship with Warner over things he was literally just learning himself but acting like he always knew. So much of her character growth was just tossed out for Restore Me and that bothers me. I get a fair amount of the story was needed for the build up for the next books, but to completely destroy and change the Juliette we followed in the first three books. Yeah, definitely made Restore Me the weakest book in the series even with the shocking surprises.
3. Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #2) by Laini Taylor - Honest to god, this felt like filler. Daughter of Smoke & Bone was the bomb!! I fell in love with the story immediately. And then DoBaS came and it felt like nothing happened at all. We get so much dialogue and side stories. The only big thing happened right at the end. This was just a huge filler book to bridge the events of DoSaB and DoGaM. It was a lot of repetitive talk involving chimera and seraphim and a lot of repetitive actions on both sides. It was just a series of small little events that set things up for the big events of the third book. I honestly felt like we could have cut a number of things from DoBaS and still had a good book and it could have been much more effective and interesting.
