Alli the Book Giraffe

Hello readers! It’s time for a tag post. This one is the book sacrifice tag, and is centered on books that you strongly dislike.

I noticed my blog is getting a bit more traffic this month than usual. I wanted to say thank you for being here, whether you’ve been here for a long time or a little!

This tag was created by Booktuber Ariel Bissett. Ariel’s channel does still exist, but she wiped it of quite a bit of its bookish content a few years ago, including the original link to this tag. She now does mainly renovation content. HERE is a link to the prompts if you are interested!

Don’t forget to check out my Book Tag Masterlist for the 100+ book tags I’ve done before things one!

An Over-Hyped book: Let’s start this off with a Zombie Apocalypse! Let’s say you’re in a bookstore, just browsing, when BAM! ZOMBIE ATTACK. An announcement comes over the PA System saying that the military has discovered that the zombies’ only weakness is over-hyped books. What book that everyone else says is amazing but you really hated, do you start chucking at the zombies, knowing that it will count as an over-hyped book and successfully wipe them out?!

It took me a long time to decide what book to pick for this prompt because there are really so many. But I think The House in the Cerulean Sea is a unique one because I read it because of the hype and was let down.

I remember when this book came out, everyone was talking about how great it was, how it was like a middle grade for adults, and how it was super cozy.

I’m not saying that I didn’t like this book on any level, but I do remember reading it and being confused why people loved it so much.

The only thing I really loved about it was the representation of a romance for a man who was in his forties. He was also not conventionally attractive, which I liked. Most of the romances I see follow someone from 15-20 who finds the love of their life, and that just isn’t what happens for most people.

I just don’t think this book gave me the feelings that I heard everyone else say they got when reading this book. But I by no means disliked it.

A Sequel: Let’s say you’ve just left the salon with a SMASHING new haircut and BOOM: Torrential downpour. What sequel are you willing to use as an umbrella to protect yourself?

I’ve talked about This Wicked Fate a few times since I read it last year, but it’s the second and final book in a duology called This Poison Heart. This Poison Heart follows a teen girl named Briseis who has plant powers. Also, Briseis is adopted, and one day is contacted about inheriting her birth family’s estate.

Briseis and both her mothers go to the estate and learn more about both her abilities and her birth mother.

This poison heart had really good pacing and information about her abilities that we were sort of exploring along with her. There was also a sort of love triangle happening. The book also ends on a cliffhanger, so I immediately picked up book two.

We pick up in book two right where the last one left off because of the cliffhanger, and we just take off running till the end of the book. It felt so incredibly rushed. There was really no more character development that we got to see. It almost felt like this book was written by a different person. I think maybe if it had been a trilogy and this was the middle book, it could have been fine. However, the pacing was too quick, the characters were one-dimensional despite not being so before, and it just left me completely disappointed.

A Classic: Let’s say you’re in a lecture and your English teacher is going on and on about how this classic changed the world, how it revolutionized literature and you get so sick of it that you chuck the classic right at his face because you know what? This classic is stupid and it’s worth detention just to show everyone how you feel! What Classic did you chuck?

This is going to be extra controversial (especially if my boyfriend sees this), but I really dislike Lord of the Rings.

It honestly is just Frodo. I cannot stand Frodo as a character. I really tried to push myself through the books and the movies, but I just can’t.

The thing is, I like The Hobbit movies. It’s just Frodo that is intolerable. Does anyone agree with me? I can’t be the only one who thinks this.

Your least favourite book of life!: Let’s say that you’re hanging out at the library when BAM global warming explodes and the world outside becomes a frozen wasteland. You’re trapped and your only chance for survival is to burn a book. What is the book you first run to, your least favourite book of all life, what book do you not fully regret lighting?

I can’t understand why anyone likes this book. It has such high ratings on Goodreads, and it confuses me a lot.

Firstly, there is on-page violent murder of cats. Multiple cats having their hearts ripped out.

What is worse is the incest. I know it’s supposed to be inspired by Oedipus, but I don’t think it encapsulates that story at all. I had to read on-page an incestuous sex scene between a 15-year-old boy and his own mother.

Some things were weirdly sexualized, like Kafka, who again is 15, when he is showering. It was so uncomfortable to read.

There are quite a few books I’ve read that I really hated in my life, but this is one at the very top. I wish I never read it, to be honest.

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