Most Disappointing Reads of 2016

It's easy to choose my favorite books of 2016. Way too easy, in fact, that I decided to switch things up and share some of the most disappointing books of this year. Quick disclaimer before I begin: These choices are all my opinion of the books. That also doesn't necessarily mean that if a book is featured here, I hated it. In fact, some of the books on here were 3 or 4 star reads. I enjoyed them, but my expectations for some of the titles were not met or exceeded. 

1. Beast by Brie Spangler

As one of my most anticipated titles of 2016, I was disappointed to not even have finished this book. You can read all about my full DNF review here. Would I have taken this book of my list had I finished it? Maybe, but now we'll never now. I specifically stated in my review why I didn't make it past 100 pages. I don't even want to talk about it again, so if you want to know in detail be sure to read my review. 

2. Calamity by Brandon Sanderson

If you all know me, I am absolutely obsessed with the Reckoners trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. That is all true, except for the fact that I wish this third book didn't exist! You know that saying, "if you're going to do it, do it right"? I don't know if it was intended or not but the ending to this marvelous trilogy was very rushed and abrupt, to say the least. The final battle went by in a blink of an eye and before I knew it, things were happening that I had no knowledge of. It just felt very rushed and the pacing was different from its predecessors. 

3. The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson

I was sadly disappointed. When I read Since You've Been Gone back in the summer of 2015, I was sure that Morgan Matson was instantly going to be an auto-buy author for me. TUE sounded like a dream come true and a novel that I would really enjoy. It's not that I didn't enjoy it, after all I did give this book a very high star rating. I was just disappointed in it compared to what I had read from her a year before in SYBG. Frankly, I don't like to base my opinions of a book based on the character's themselves but the characters in this book were just infuriating! I didn't like where the story went, and I think the relationship between her and her father could have been taken a little farther. 

4. Night Film by Marisha Pessl 

I loved Night Film by Marisha Pessl. It was exactly the mysterious, thrilling read that I had been looking for at the time I read it. However from all the hype it was receiving, I was expecting a lot more. Some people might not agree, but I thought the ending really let the entire story down. The whole story and plot was leading up to this huge revelation in the end, where hopefully we got some closure and some drama. I didn't get any of that. I thought the author took the easy way out and gave us an ending that, sure, made sense but wasn't at all entertaining or gave me that "oh wow" moment. I just wanted the ending to blow me out of the water, the same way the beginning of the story and characters did. 


What were some of your most disappointing reads of this year?

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  1. I didn't enjoy The Unexpected Everything either - I think I DNF'ed it :(
    I haven't read the other books, but I'm sorry you didn't love them! <3 Especially Beast, since you were looking forward to it so much!
    Geraldine @ Corralling Books

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    1. Yeah, I don't like it either when books don't turn out the way I expected them too but oh well, what can we do :D Thanks for reading!

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  2. Oops I'm sorry you didn't enjoy any of those books! Carry On was one of my most dissapointing books, I really anticipated it but I ended up really disliking it :/ The Rose and The Dagger also one of my most anticipated, but it ended up feeling anticlimatic...

    Tasya // The Literary Huntress

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    1. Oh for sure! I really did enjoy The Rose and the Dagger but it did not live up to my expectations as the first one blew me away! Thanks for reading :D

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  3. I agree, The Unexpected Everything wasn't the best. It could've lost a 100 pages and Andie was very annoying. To be honest, my favorite character was Clark's dog haha. My least favorite/most disappointing book of this year had to be The Haters by Jesse Andrews, it had overly too much dirty humor which got to be annoying after time. Also, one character was said to have a peanut allergy and then he says, oh I didn't have an allergy? (not a spoiler b/c it's minor) That aggravated me! I was disappointed in the book because I thought I was gonna love it since it said road-trip, which wasn't really much either.

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    1. Oh my goodness, you got me girl! I was so drooling over Clark's dog, just the cutest smol little thing! Ohh I'm sorry you didn't like The Haters. I know for a lot of people it was a hit or miss. Thanks for reading ;)

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  4. I'm sorry these disappointed you :( I actually did like The Unexpected Everything a lot. Not as much as Since You've Been Gone. SYBG is my favorite Matson book, but TUE falls only a little bit behind. I understand your qualms, though. The beginning was pretty dang slow, and when you don't love the characters, it can be really hard to fall in love with the book. I think some of my disappointing reads would me ACOTAR and Miss Peregrine. I liked them both, but I didn't love them as much as I expected to!

    - Lefty @ The Left-Handed Book Lover

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    1. I totally understand what went wrong with ACOTAR. Believe me if I say you should try reading ACOMAF? It's honestly a game changer. I know people who read ACOTAR, hated it, then read ACOMAF and fell in love with the whole series. Yeah... I don't think I'll be reading Miss Peregrine anytime soon. Just haven't been hearing really amazing things from a lot of people. Thanks for reading!

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  5. I haven't read any of these yet. But for me I think some of the biggest disappointments were Between the Devil & The Deep Blue Sea, The Last Star, Cress, And I Darken, The Raven Boys, Lady Midnight....oh my....I'm realizing I have a lot. hahahah

    Molly @ Molly's Book Nook

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    1. Oh I'm so sorry you didn't enjoy The Raven Boys! It's personally a great book. Yeah, I've just heard too many disappointing things about The Last Star, and I don't think I'm going to get to it!

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  6. I haven't read any of these, though I did read a couple pages of Beast and decided not to continue. I'm glad to not see any of my favorites on here though :D

    Brittany @ Brittany's Book Rambles

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    1. Oh I'm really glad I"m not the only one who DNFed Beast because there are seriously raving reviews on Goodreads, which I totally respect but I didn't want to be the only one! :D

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