Welcome to yet another Top Ten Tuesday post, a weekly fun feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is: Ten Books I Feel Differently About After Time Has Passed (less love, more love, complicated feelings, indifference, thought it was great in a genre until you became more well read in that genre etc.)
I decided to do five each, five books or series I love more now and five books/series I love less as time passed.
More Love
- The Infernal Devices (Cassandra Clare)
I used to read The Infernal Devices books as filler in between The Mortal Instruments books because that was how Cassie released them. Now, however, I feel that I didn’t give TID credits for being a great historical fantasy AND for Will and Jem, the very definition of bromance. - Anna Dressed in Blood (Kendare Blake)
When I read it I gave it 3 star, but as time passed I realized that this book lingered on my mind. There are times when I see a YA book about ghost and I immediately compared it (the ghost) to Anna Korlov, who was a total badass. - Gone series (Michael Grant)
Gone was a six-book series and my ratings of the books ranged from 3 to 4 stars. However, as a whole I have grown to love this series more because I think Gone deserved credits for not being your typical kids without adults trying to save the world series. It was seriously dark and didn’t avoid the gore and the horribleness that might come with superpowers. - The Diviners (Libba Bray)
I didn’t appreciate it enough back in the day. Now that I’ve read Lair of Dreams, I realized that The Diviners, albeit a little slow, is a great setup book for the series. The romance in this book still annoy me though so no rating increased from me. LOL. - The Heroes of Olympus series (Rick Riordan)
I owe an apology to Jason and Reyna and Piper and Hazel and Leo and Frank and all the new kids (kids not in PJO) for not giving them enough love. HERE, group hugs.
Less Love
- Divergent series (Veronica Roth)
I read Divergent back when I haven’t read that much of dystopian books (and apparently Divergent series are not even that dystopian?). I still enjoy the books, but no longer think of them as special. - BZRK (Michael Grant)
Came from my days when Michael Grant could do no wrong. - Paper Towns (John Green)
I read all of John Green’s books and out of all of them, I retain my ratings for The Fault in Our Stars (never really liked it), Looking for Alaska (liked it, but not loved it), and An Abundane of Katherines (my favorite of his). This one though. As time passed, I fell out of love with Q and Margo. - Caster Chronicles series (Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl)
It promised me great things, but at the end of the day I don’t even care that much about the characters to continue with the series. - Team Human (Sarah Rees Brennan and Justine Larbalestier)
This was the case of 5* rating that never should have been. You see, I was so excited when this book was announced and when it was released I felt that this book was perfect because I wanted it so bad to be perfect.
Let me know:
- Have you ever re-read a favorite book to find it was not that great after all?
- Have you ever avoid re-reading a childhood favorite because you’re afraid you’ll love it less?
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Anna WAS awesome, wasn’t she? I didn’t think super highly of the book, but definitely adored Anna. I definitely had some do’s and don’ts. My TTT
I have Divergent on my list too – apparently I gave it five stars when I first read it, which is sooo uncharacteristic, haha.
I’m also not a huge fan of John Green, but I think my feelings for his books have been largely consistent throughout the years.
LOL. Feelings changed. I gave it four stars when I first read it, but my rating now is more like 3-ish.
Gonna check out your list. I’m fully expecting it to be full of shocking revelations and disbelief on your younger self. xD
Disbelief on my younger self is something I’ve been feeling ever since I made that list. Dear god, the things I enjoyed when I was a teenager… xD
I also started but never finished the Caster Chronicles. I liked the first book when I’ve read it, but at the moment I have no desire to continue. Also, I’ve never manged to read a John Green book from start to finish. I’ve read the first couple chapters of most of them, particularly Paper Towns which I own a copy of, but have always gotten distracted before reaching the end.
Yeah, it sounds really interesting at the beginning what with the different types of caster and all that.
I don’t think you’re missing a lot by not finishing Paper Towns. I like it just fine, but it wasn’t as spectacular as some people make it to be.