Worst Book of 2014

BabyRN2006 · January 2015

MrsC7 said:

BabyRN2006 said:

The Boy Who Sneaks In My Bedroom Window

Oh, you mean the Twilight series? @BabyRN2006

@MrsC7 This book makes the Twilight series look like high quality literature!

julie37619 · January 2015

MrsC7 said:

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

W.T.F? It's a rock with a piece of leather glued to it. I can't?

MrsJenE · January 2015

julie37619 said:

MrsC7 said:

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

W.T.F? It's a rock with a piece of leather glued to it. I can't?

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooo...

You're telling me to get rid of my leather rocks?

One Sweet Shannon · January 2015

I had two worst books. Love & Lies: Marisol's Story by Ellen Wittlinger. So, so bad, although it was apparently a sequel to a Printz Honor. The plot was so predictable that I think it would be lame even if read in print, but I listened and it was particularly excrutiating, with the worst choice of narrator possible I think. The protagonist was 17 or 18 years old, but the narrator made every character sound as if they were 45. And also like Thurston Howell (or, I suppose, Lovie). Imagine listening to hours of teens and twenty-somethings voiced in that haughty manner.

The other was a Kindle First pick, The Fracking King by James Browning. It was a huge disappointment because the premise appealed to me so much -- boarding school, a scrabble prodigy, rowing crew, enviro-activism... but it failed hard. In several places there were hiccoughs in plot and description that made it seem like there were entire sections missing from the book. And I hated every single character -- but not in a love-to-hate them way. Ugh. It makes my blood boil to think of the time wasted on that POS. And I just noticed that I gave that one 2 stars on GR. I think I have to revisit my rating and lower it to a 1, because I can't imagine why I would give it 2. If anyone has this in their library and thinks they'll get around to reading it because it sounds quirky and interesting, save yourself and don't do it.

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