I love Kimberly McCreight but I just can’t get into her new Outliers series. I need to give it another chance one of these days.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. It was just a 3-star book for me, nothing I got too excited about, but it wasn't necessarily bad.

I wasn’t impressed with that one either.

I think I would have to go with Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, if that counts. It's really bad! How did he write something that bad? And some of the Shakespeare plays that aren't good are still good, like Timon of Athens where I don't understand it and I don't necessarily like it but it remains fascinating. But T&C bites.

I've seen Troilus and Cressida once, which is quite sufficient. I'm not particularly grabbed by Timon of Athens either, but it is better than T&C.

The Seduction of the Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig. It's the 4th in her Pink Carnation series, and I loved the three previous and the ones I read after. (It's a 12 book series and I've read 9 of them.) This one, however, I just did not much care for. I didn't like either of the two leads.

Woohoo, another Lauren Willig/Pink Carnation fan! I guess I didn't mind the Crimson Rose book as much since most of the other leads prior to that book were shown as sympathetic. It's been ages since I've read the earlier books, but I think Lauren even made Letty overly sympathetic even though (according to the synopsis) she was being a complete busy-body and had no one to blame but herself for her situation, plus Geoff, too. I guess there had to come a point where the leads had to be a bit different.

I need to finish the series. I haven't read one in a looooong time, and I don't know why.

My favorite author is Connie Willis and I'm loath to say that I have a least favorite of hers, since I wish she'd write more, more, more!, but I was looking at my Goodreads rankings for the books of hers that I've read so far, and the one that currently has the lowest score (3 stars) is Passage. I haven't read some of her earlier stuff, so my opinion on least favorite might change at some point.

This breaks my heart to admit. ;; Because the main character was super cool and the ancestor of one of my favorite characters.

Mastiff by Tamora Pierce

It felt like she rushed the romance in it and it negatively impacted the plot. :(
I did read it again a few years after (because I do own it) but it still made me sad. It was so unlike her norm. And I loved the plot and even the couple but..it just wasn't..Pierce. I was especially bummed because this was the final book of a trilogy and it felt like..she could have had one more and then it would've been fine. :/ It was smushed.

I admit this could be because I am pretty anti-first sight/instant romance. Maybe I'll try reading it again this year. :/

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I still haven't tackled that one or the trickster series.

It's still a good series. I really liked the main character and her neighbors but I think it was her darkest series. Or saddest.

Trickster is so awesome! One of my favorites! I wish there was more. <3

Changing Planes by Ursula K LeGuin. I'm less fond of short story collections in general, and the title story ... I really didn't like.

I'd say "In nomine" from Giacometti and Ravenne. It's a short story serving as a prequel to their series and it was really disappointing.

I have lots of favorite authors, but Drood, by Dan Simmons springs instantly to mind.

I love just about anything by Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant (already read four books by her this year, three new and one re-read), and her Toby Daye series is one of the few where I pre-order every book as soon as I can. That being said...Into the Drowning Deep. Sequel to Rolling in the Deep. Boat sets out to the Marianas Trench to film a 'mockumentary' about mermaids and comes across the real thing. And there's a reason the songs warned us about them. RitD is very good and creepy and I was looking forward to ItDD and it opens with so much anti-captivity misinformation about orcas, and then continues on with dolphins later in the book. Incredibly disappointing and if it was a new-to-me author, I would have put it down. Or if I knew there weren't big mermaid biology reveals later in the book. As it is, I cannot recommend it, especially to anyone in the zoo field, which is really disappointing. She's very active on Tumblr, but it's just not worth the effort to say hey, you're wrong.

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your icon! <3

Depth of Winter by Craig Johnson. I love all the other Longmire books and enjoy the TV series quite a bit even though there are some major differences. But, his newest was just full of what felt like pointless violence and tone deaf depictions of Mexico and Mexican people.

There is a new book coming out in September and I'm kind of dreading it and really hoping that it will be better.

The Eagle's Prey, by Simon Scarrow. It's book 5 in a series, and the thing I love most about said series is the relationship between the two main characters. Unfortunately, for most of book five, they are separated from each other, so most of the book is missing their brilliant relationship :-(

Oh wow. I'm probably going to hell for this but Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling. Struggled to get into it, plot seemed lacking in any major events and it felt like a filler book to get her to the next one. The movie felt the same.

I actually remember that being the same way too. Some of hers I raced through and one or two I felt were fillers too. One of these days I am going to go back through and re-read them all!

I will too one day. It's too easy to pop the DVD in though and watch!

Never Never by James Patterson. It was the first in a new series but it was just blah to me. The second, Fifty Fifty, was much better.