We’re down to the last three days of our Back-to-School Extravaganza. Included in today’s bag is:
Mistress of the Game by Sydney Sheldon
Taken and Seduced by Julie Latham
Red Kiss by Deidre Knight
Thirteen Chances by Cindy Miles
What is a series that you’ve given up on?
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Kenyon’s Dark Hunter Series.
Its Anita Blake for me. I tried, really. Everyone told me how great the first few books were, and they were right, but(and I’m gonna steal from the Smart Bitches here) once LKH went from actual plot and characters to f*ck fest and turned Anita into a Large Gleaming Orifice, I was done. As a matter of fact, I remember my boyfriend hauling ass into the bedroom to ask me what happened when i chucked Obsidian Butterfly against the wall. I’m still hanging in with Merry though
I have given up on Gerry Bartlett’s vampire series. I just can’t finish the book, I keep falling asleep. I may try again in a month or so, it is funny. Maybe I’ve just read my full of vampires.
Hi 🙂
I’ve given up on Piers Anthony’s XANTH series.
(I think it is nearing 40 books)
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All the best,
RKCharron
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I’ve dumped Evanovich’s Plum series.
I’ve given up on LKH’s Anita Blake series. Just more of the same.
Anita Blake series here too. I got to about book 7 i think and just got bored.
Mary Beth and I are in the same boat! The Plum Series by Evanovich…just couldn’t bring myself through it!!
I’m with Mary Beth and AuroraBorieAlice, I’ve given up on the Plum series by Evanovich…just wasn’t feeling it anymore.
Sadly for me, it’s the Mallory Family Novels by Johanna Lindsay. I read up through the first generation, but then there got to be so many of them and I kept getting confused on which Mallory was which.
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Anita Blake & Stephanie Plum series. Both started off good, but both suffered from “it’s getting old syndrome.”
I don’t really read series, except for the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. I love it so much I would never stop reading it. Even though I haven’t given up on a series, I hope you will still enter me. Thanks!
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The Argeneau/Rogue Hunter series by Lynsay Sands. Just too repetitive for me.
Hm, given up on…well there are these David Gemmel fantasy books and I just could not take any more
The Merry Gentry series (LKH). I read the first 4 (maybe 5?) and they just got too weird and the plot really hardly moved from book to book and after the whole sex with the thing with tentacles I kinda was like…mmm – these books really aren’t for me.
I could’t work my way through Christine Feehan’s Carpathians. Same story each book, it got ridiculous.
I wholeheartedly agree with Patti. Feehan’s Carpathian series is so repetitive and no longer entertaining for me.
I have to agree with most about the Stephanie Plum series. I prefer to read a series over stand-alones.
I did not give up as much as I did not realize more had come out! But I am enjoying picking back up with the Mallory family from Johanna Lindsey.
I agree with many people about the Stephanie Plum series.
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I have a really hard time giving up series. I’ve “given up” on LKH’s Anita Blake series. This basically means I refuse to buy any more of her books, get them from the library, read them, and grumble about how I’m giving up the series … until the cycle repeats.
I haven’t given up on any of the series’ I read. Once I start a book/series I have to finish it no matter what.
I have not given up on any yet. Knock on wood. I try to pick ones that I am pretty sure that I will like all the way through.
I gave up on Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel series. I think I read like three out of the 6 or 7 that are available and even got the rest of them from my library, but gave up and returned them without reading them. They weren’t making too much sense to me, even though I somewhat enjoyed the first one.
I’ve given up on the Sue Grafton, Kinsey Milhone alphabet series
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I have given up on Anita Blake. I loved the series in the beginning, but now it is just too much about Anita and her men. I liked when there was a bad guy to chase down and crimes for Anita to solve.
I’ve given up on the Queen Betsy series by MaryJanice Davidson.. I loved the quirky writing style, but.. Betsy didn’t really advance as a character, there wasn’t any growth there. And after a while, it felt like the same thing happened over and over.
And for those of you that’s given up on Anita Blake, check out her newest one, “Skin Trade”.. it’s almost as good as the originals.
I’ve only ever given up on one and it was ages ago – The Left Behind series. I can usually plow through anything but after the first few books they got shorter, repetitive and preachy – thank goodness I only bought one and borrowed most of the others. I think I stuck it out for 8 or 9 books and there were 12 or 13 I think – not sure.
Sue Grafton’s Alphabet series, to many any to long between for new releases!
I’ve with scottsgal & tetewa and given up Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Milhone alphabet series.
Both the Merry Gentry and Anita Blake series. I have tried over and over again to read the next books in each, and always end up putting them down. I just don’t like Anita and Merry. Can’t put my finger on why, just don’t like them and probably won’t try reading them again.
Anita, Merry, Diana Gabaldon (couldn’t get through the last one) and both Brenda Joyce’s current paranormal series AND her current historical series. Though I might try the historicals if they turn up for a quarter at a garage sale. –willaful
L.A. Bank’s novels. 🙁 Alas, le sigh… too many blurs btw the good and bad guys for me.
~Rachel M
i gave up the undead series by MaryJanice Davidson, i started to read the books but i didnt like the newer books.
Evanovich’s Plum series – I won’t say I’ve given it up but I haven’t read the last 2 books and have no immediate plans to do so.
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I can’t think of a series that I have been reading that I am tired of.
LKH – both Anita Blake and Merry Gentry.
And I think I may be cured of Janet Evanovich and J. R. Ward. But I make no promises.
Cindys
Honestly, I have NEVER given up on a series. Once I begin a series I feel “obligated” to continue til the end, hoping that it will get better. And it often does. Also, I just plain love to read and will read almost anything regardless if it starts or ends with a bang.
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Sadly, I’ve since given up on the Cynster Series. The first generation of books were fabulous (especially Devil’s Bride). But Ms. Laurens’ heros, heroines and plots are so interchangable now that it’s just become boring and predictable.
It breaks my heart, but I can barely finish her books these days.
Evanovich’s Plum series.
I try to continue giving some series a chance to get better, but it doesn’t always work. I’ve mostly given up on MaryJanice Davidson’s Undead series. I’m several books behind and don’t really care anymore.
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I can’t say I’ve given up on many romance series. I don’t read Anita Blake anymore, but I only ever read a couple of those anyway. I read only two or three of Stephanie Laurens’ Cynster books, because everyone warned me they got repetitive if one read too many. Mostly I find that if I space a series out, I enjoy them more than if I glom them too close together.
In scifi/fantasy, I have given up on the Pern books, finally, and I quit the Ender books, too. I also gave up on Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, but then his estate hired one of my favorite authors, Brandon Sanderson, to finish it. I had to go back; I think that’s a first for me.
I gave up on LKH Anita Blake series, Christine Warren’s Other series and after this latest book, I’m seriously considering tossing Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
Let’s see… Anita Blake, Stephanie Plum, Kinsey Milhone – and I’m sure I can find a few more… Oh yes, Bubbles Yablonski! And I somehow don’t feel like reading any more Shopaholic books *sigh*
J.T. Ellison’s Taylor Jackson series. The individual stories are interesting and enjoyable, but I’m tired of the back and forth on the relationship between Taylor and her fiancee, John Baldwin.
I have kind of given up on the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. IMO, the later books have Anita working on fewer cases. I really liked reading about her “day job.” But I have not given up 100%, though; I just don’ buy the books as quickly as I used to.
Thanks,
Tracey D
One series I’ve given up on is Julia Quinn’s Bridgertons. While I have not yet met a Julia Quinn book I haven’t liked, I just couldn’t get myself to read the whole family. Maybe I’ll get to it someday, but the plots don’t really catch me.
Series that I gave up on? Let’s see…
1] Carpathians by Christine Feehan
2] Eve Duncan (I’m not sure if it can be classified as a series) by Iris Johansen
3] Mallory by Johanna Lindsey
Those are the only ones that come to mind right now. But I’m sure there are more…
I have given up buying Christine Feehan’s Carpathians series. I’ll still read it but I borrow it from some one.
I also have to go with Christine Feehan’s Carpathians. Other than that, I really can’t think of any other series I’ve completely given up on.
Anita Blake for me too.
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Eve Dallas series by J.D. Robb. I just can’t read them anymore.
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Anita Blake, Kinsey Milhone, and The Brotherhood. It’s been a while since I’ve read LKH or Grafton, but Ward just did me in after #5.
I stopped reading the Grant County Series by Karin Slaughter when kill Jeffery.
LorettaC,
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kenyon’s Dark Hunter series and Feehan’s Carpathians
I think I’ve given up on George RR Martin’s Ice and Fire series. I’m thinking he’s never going to finish . . . .
I haven’t given up on any series yet. I trudge through and complete books in series, even if it is painful, in the hopes that they will live up to the first books in the series. I guess I’m a pollyanna!
I hate to say it, but Christine Feehan’s Dark series has gotten tired for me.
Deidre
deidre_durance at hotmail dot com
I have not really given up on any series…I just avoid them for awhile. I have not read Laurell K. Hamilton for awhile, but I do eventually plan on continuing on.
i’ve given up on sherrilyn kenyon’s dark hunter series (i couldn’t stand her writing, similar plotlines, and high school-esque characters anymore) and the black dagger brotherhood series by j.r. ward (because it stopped being romance & became too urban).
I can’t think of any series I’ve given up on. I’m still following Christine Feehan’s Ghostwalker series and JAK’s Arcane Society series.
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