Worst Book of 2014

MrsJenE · January 2015

What was your least favorite/worst book of 2014?

Menrandes · January 2015

Oh there were some bad ones this year. Free kindle books can be very hit or miss!
My least favorite though was The Island by Jen Minkman.

MrsJenE · January 2015

Hush, Hush.

I hate that @84lauren actually suggested I read it so that she would know for sure that it was really as bad as she thought it was.

It was.

SnShne322 · January 2015

I had 5 or 6 two star books this year, but I think Orange is the New Black was my least favorite. Which is funny because I love the show.

abs05 · January 2015

The Goldfinch. I want the weeks I spent on that book back.

kelshaws1311 · January 2015

Orange is the New Black was horrible. I had to force myself to finish, it was so terrible.

Must Love Dogs. I only got this because it had been on my TBR list for years... I was about 4 chapters away from the ending and could not have cared less how it ended. There was not one interesting sentence in that entire book.

ThisModernLove · January 2015

It pains me to say this but probably Rachel Dratch's Girl Walks Into a Bar.

I wanted so much more out of it.

booneybear · January 2015

Thr3e by Ted Dekker. It was pathetic.

Leeba25 · January 2015

Breathe by Abbi Glines

Poorly written, poorly edited. It was embarrassingly bad.

MrsJenE · January 2015

Leeba25 said:

Breathe by Abbi Glines

Poorly written, poorly edited. It was embarrassingly bad.

I got conned into reading this in 2013. HORRIBLY BAD.

Leeba25 · January 2015

MrsJenE said:

Leeba25 said:

Breathe by Abbi Glines

Poorly written, poorly edited. It was embarrassingly bad.

I got conned into reading this in 2013. HORRIBLY BAD.

Well the good thing is, now I know to remove Hush, Hush from my TBR. So, thank you!!

kpow · January 2015

Either Fever by Lauren DeStefano or The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma. Both were awful.

I had such high hopes about The Reading Promise. It's a memoir from a dad and daughter about how they read together each night for years. I thought it would inspire me about reading to my B, but I hated every second of it.

sassypants527 · January 2015

It's a toss up between the Ally Condie book Reached and Emily Giffin's The One and Only. Blech on both. I think I may be reading my worst for 2015 right now, though. It's a David Bowie bio and its ridiculously sensationalized, full of hyperbole, and just bad. I won it on GR though, so I feel obligated to finish it.

dmlk413 · January 2015

Growing Up Duggar. It was AWFUL and I can't for the life of me figure out why I wanted to read it.

xDanniellex · January 2015

Blue Lines by Toni Aleo. It was a Netgalley read and the 4th in a new to me series. But the characters were hard to like.

mbgreenwalt · January 2015

The Maze Runner series. I still don't understand what was going on in those books.

BabyRN2006 · January 2015

The Boy Who Sneaks In My Bedroom Window

GilliC · January 2015

The Paper Magician. It was my first Kindle First book, and I think it may be my last.

sagoon · January 2015

Delta of Venus by Anais Nin. I think it was my only 1 star book of the year. Awful. awful erotica that veered between boring, tedious repetition to the most perverse sex acts imaginable (necrophilia, WTF?) with no warning. Anyone that tells you that this is a 'must read' for women is wrong.

A close second was The Godfather. Stick to the movie, the book is terrible and will make you hate all the characters and Mario Puzo to boot.

SnShne322 · January 2015

BabyRN2006 said:

The Boy Who Sneaks In My Bedroom Window

That just sounds creepy.

packfan20 · January 2015

The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman

BabyRN2006 · January 2015

SnShne322 said:

BabyRN2006 said:

The Boy Who Sneaks In My Bedroom Window

That just sounds creepy.

Lol! Not creepy, but so so bad. I rarely give 1 star ratings because I feel bad doing it but this was a 1 star book (and the only one of the year).

GilliC · January 2015

BabyRN2006 said:

I rarely give 1 star ratings because I feel bad doing it but this was a 1 star book (and the only one of the year).

This! I haven't given anything a 1-star rating in almost five years, but this time there were just soooo many things wrong!

julie37619 · January 2015

The Good Girl by Mary Kubicka

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Wise Craft by Blair someone - a blogger. An actual suggestion for a real craft is leather covered rocks. Where you take a leather scrap and use it to cover a rock and then give it to someone as a gift. This was not a joke book, a la Amy Sedaris. She was serious.

booknerd226 · January 2015

Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard. I didn't even like the main characters, only the secondary characters. The writing felt rushed and the characters didn't go well together at all. The plot didn't make sense. The heroine was terrible and HATED the hero and everything about him. Then they got engaged. To quote from my review: "No one who has three broken engagements gets engaged one week after talking to a guy she previously hated, no matter how good the first sex session is."

jenndawnp · January 2015

Allegiant, it was just bad so very bad. I wish I had stopped at Divergent.

CTDec03Bride · January 2015

Might be a toss up between Rooms by Lauren Oliver and The Fever by Meg Cabbot.

MrsC7 · January 2015

BabyRN2006 said:

The Boy Who Sneaks In My Bedroom Window

Oh, you mean the Twilight series?

@BabyRN2006

MrsC7 · January 2015

julie37619 said:

The Good Girl by Mary Kubicka

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Wise Craft by Blair someone - a blogger. An actual suggestion for a real craft is leather covered rocks. Where you take a leather scrap and use it to cover a rock and then give it to someone as a gift. This was not a joke book, a la Amy Sedaris. She was serious.

Someone on DIYNetwork actually called these "the most inspired paperweights I've ever seen."

o_O Really? Really???

@julie37619

SnShne322 · January 2015

CTDec03Bride said:

Might be a toss up between Rooms by Lauren Oliver and The Fever by Meg Cabbot.

Bummer, I just started this!

packfan20 · January 2015

SnShne322 said:

CTDec03Bride said:

Might be a toss up between Rooms by Lauren Oliver and The Fever by Meg Cabbot.

Bummer, I just started this!

Ugh.... Definitely one of my worst too.

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