I won’t deny it! I’m a critical reader. I spend 98% of my reading time analysing books and there may or may not be a snarky interior monologue to go with that. (Sometimes that escapes into my Goodreads status updates.) And you know me, do I ever hesitate to give a book a low star rating?! No way! I can be super tough.
But I have to confess something to you, peoples.
THERE ARE SOME BOOKS THAT I WILL DEFEND NO MATTER WHAT.
And I mean NO MATTER what. Completely illogical? IN THIS CASE, I AM.
I’m as stupid as a pineapple frond around these books. I just love them unconditionally. Even when they have obvious failings. Even when the romance is iffy. Even when the plot sort of sagged here or there.
I WILL DEFEND THEM FOREVER.
Me, fabulously defending like a mama bear…or like Aragorn.
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Now, as a critical and analysing person, I decided to ask myself why I do this. Come on! I show serious, illogical favouritism. Why, Cait, why? And, even though I thought about this for a good 3 long seconds, I don’t have an answer. I just love some books unconditionally no matter what they do. Although, one thing I did notice is: I often go for an underdog. If I think a book is wonderful yet it gets a right royal bashing from a lot of people — odds are I’ll love the series MORE.
Because I’m cantankerous and disagreeable, apparently. But let’s not dwell on that.
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Now I know what you’re thinking…
“SO, CAIT, WHICH BOOKS INSPIRE YOUR FIERCE LOYALTY WHILST YOU DEFEND THEM WITH ARAGORN-LIKE FLOWING LOCKS AND GLORY?”
I know that was the exact wording on your mind. So, wonderful. I’m glad you asked.
\\ By the way, I’m not having a go at you if you hate these books. I’m just talking about my fiercely loyal passions! //
- ALLEGIANT: I will forever feel like the ending was perfect and totally in line with the characters. FOREVER. I actually have reached a point in my fierce adoration where I will decline talking about Allegiant. I don’t want to argue whey I love it! But I get way too worked up in discussion about hates and loves. I’m like a tiny Allegiant-loving tornado. It’s scary. I have teeth and can bite.
- MOCKINGJAY: Again, with the deaths! I STILL THINK IT WAS PERFECT. I also believe that the deaths in Mockingjay weren’t “mindless” and they did serve purpose and they really represented how war can strike anyone. (Plus we had to remove That Certain Someone to tip Katniss over the edge so she’d go after Coin.)
- THE FAULT IN OUR STARS: Gus is pretentious? YES HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE! He wears pretentiousness like an armour and it’s so heartbreaking because, at the end of the book…he’s not nearly so cocky is he? Excuse me a moment, I need to go cry nine buckets of tears.
- THRONE OF GLASS: Actually, to be honest, Heir of Fire (book 3) wasn’t my favourite. I was really disappointed with the the lack of Chaol, basically. But that aside: I love Celaena Sardothien and her love of cake and puppies and murder. I can’t enter discussions on if this series is good or rubbish because I find myself turning into a porcupine. As cute as that sounds…it is not.
- CITY OF BONES: I cry inside every time someone says “Can’t Cassanrda Clare give up the Shadowhunters already?! She’s just doing it for the money”. Because, um, yes, she is. Writers do that. It’s called A CAREER. But that aside, I love all of Cassandra Clare’s books and barely ever find other fans. I tend to shriek and flail alone and it is sad, hence me = a little prickly when someone bashes it.
- THE MAZE RUNNER: I admit! This series is not perfect
! (The movie and cast on the otherhand, totally are.) It’s confusing and the ending is weirdness and the romance leaves one sitting there looking feeling like they’ve been slapped with a tuna fish. Because, what even?! BUT. I love this series. I adore it. It’s exciting and unique and funny and just inspired something deep in my soul that wants to run from mechanical monsters, I guess. I can’t hear ill against it. I can’t.
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I’m not saying I get ridiculously ranty around people who disagree with me and hate these books. I DON’T. Usually I don’t say anything. Because I DON’T MIND! Like ’em, hate ’em. It’s your decision and I can’t force you to be right like me. I’ll never fight someone over the series I get defensive about. I’m inwardly protective, and outwardly logical and calm. Heh. Mostly. Although I do draw the line when someone directly talks to me about how much they hate them. Then I get stompy.
These series are my small guilty passions. They’re the ones I’ll love always. They’re the ones I don’t say a bad word about (even if I secretly have faults with them).
Because I think, once in a while, it’s okay to blindly love a book and NOT be my average critical-analytical-reviewing-self. It’s okay to just be passionate about something. It’s okay to love that book or series like a protective mama bear. It’s okay to throw the “reviewer” title once in a while and just flail like an unabashed pineapple.
No regrets, blogglings.
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If there are books where I see clear flaws, I won’t give them five stars. Pretty much the only issues that a five star book can give me is feels. But there are books- like the the Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl- where I know that it’s ridiculous, or The fine Art of Keeping Quiet, which is a little too melodramatic to be believable, that I just like. Because they’re awesome. And I really really love them (even if they did commit some absurd crimes) I’ve only been seriously and regularly reviewing since this year began, and I’ve never had a one star or two star book (since goodreads at any rate). I will defend the Old Kingdom books, The Montmaray books, The LUnar Chronicles etc. With my dying breath BECAUSE I LOVE THEM SO. But if there are definite elements I don’t like about something, I can’t love it totally. 🙁
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I need to hug The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl because it was so so perfect and I just…gah. It really hit home for me, for some reason, the day that I read it. :’) (Have you read Life in Outer Space by the same author?! I LOVE SAM SO MUCH. WRITER!!) THE LUNAR CHRONICLES. YES. *hugs all the characters and two extra hugs for Wolf because he needs them although he’ll probably bite my head off*
The Harry Potter series and the Jack Reacher books.
Good on you! And I’m glad it’s not just me who’s super protective over favourites. 😉
My ones are probably Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, TFIOS, Eragon (which gets criticised a LOT) and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Oh, TFIOS also gets criticised quite a bit as well, because of Gus (and yes, I agree, his pretentiousness is LITERALLY HIS CHARACTER FLAW GAH).
I just hate in reviews when people say “how could anyone like this book, it’s terrible and shouldn’t exist.” Like, nobody wants to hear that, especially about their favourite books!!!
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You know I got Eragon out on audio because I’m so determined to finish it. 😉 AFJDKLSA TO PERKS. YES! That one should’ve been on my list too!! I keep getting frustrated with all the contemporaries coming out these days that are “the next Perks!” NO. I like the original Perks. x)
Yessss! That’s why I really think we should word negative reviews carefully because it’s always someone’s favourite book, right?! (I mean, well, um, I’m guilty of being too harsh though, sometimes. BUT I TRY TO BE NICE.)
Seriously Cait, are you me? I agree with everything you said about each of those books. It’s a little scary, actually. Out of those, City of Bones is the one I find the most fault with, but as the series developed it just became more awesome.
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I’m not actually too analytical when reading books. I think because books are an escape for me, I often get caught up in them and don’t tend to over analyse them – if there’s something that really stands out to me and annoys me, then that’s different.
You’ve never found anyone who’s a Mortal Instruments fan? Well, Cait, you’ve found one now. Are there really that many people who have a problem with it? The only other Clare book I have read is one she co-wrote: The Iron Trial. Have you read it? I liked it – there were some Harry Potter similarities I think, which didn’t bother me, but might bother some people.
I love all the books you mention above!
I have just met a TON of Mortal Instrument fans so HUZZAH AND HALLAY!!! *parties furiously* I was a bit miffed with the Iron Trial. Like I was weirded out it seemed to unoriginal AND THEN THAT EPIC ENDING HAPPENED AND WOOOOOOW. I liked it, yes. 😉
I am exactly the same with The Maze Runner series! I always am recommend it to people but so they don’t come back to me and go “what was the ending” I just warn them that it’s not perfect haha 🙂
Sarah x
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It’s not perfect BUT IT IS BRILLIANT. *cries because still has so many questions*
*cries also because Newt*
I’m especially protective and emotionally attached to my childhood favourites, which include A Mango-Shaped Space, the Harry Potter series, Finding Cassie Crazy, Feeling Sorry for Celia, His Dark Materials and The Book Thief. Sometimes, though, I’m kind of afraid to read again them because WHAT IF they’re not as awesome as I remembered? That would suck. (But then rereading them always bring back lovely memories…)
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AHHHH !! That struggle is real! I mostly avoid the books I loved as a kid, because I’d rather have the fond memories. xD
You are not alone!!!!! I am fiercely protective of the entire Divergent trilogy and the entire Hunger Games trilogy. I must confess, I haven’t read some of the books you listed, and I’m midway through The Maze Runner right now. (I agree on that one, the movie is better, and while I can find fault with the mechanics of the book, I still think the spirit of it is just the best.) I’m also fiercely protective of authors–like, I will think no wrong about Ally Carter or Ray Bradbury. Don’t you give me no flack about Inkheart or the Phantom of the Opera or Watership Down (or any of the books I listed in the cake tag). Basically, if I love a book, I may see its faults, but I won’t dwell on them. And I will just smile and nod at all the poor unfortunate souls who don’t get how awesome those books are.
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Yaaaaay. We can be protective together! LET US DON OUR ARMOUR AND PROTECT OUR BABIES. *hugs Divergent and THG* I think it is perfectly wonderful and fine for us to get all protective over the books was ABSOLUTELY adore. Why not?!! We can be unconditional fans and it is good.
Ooh yeah, I have those books that make me feel ALL THE PROTECTIVE FEELINGS. I’ll totally support people’s right to hear whatever they want to say about those books, but if it’s negative, then I’m totally gonna support my own right to not hear those thoughts, haha. I will stick my fingers in my ear and “lalala” basically. If I see reviews of those books, I generally look at the rating to see if I even want to read the review because I just. . . those books are SO special to me. Most of them are childhood favorites–Harry Potter, Narnia, etc.–but a recent one is I’ll Give You the Sun. I just love that book SO much & I basically won’t look at reviews on Goodreads for that book anymore unless they’re raving.
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Hehe, that’s what I do too. xD If I see it’s a review of the Maze Runner these days…I check the rating before I read so I don’t get worked up. I don’t want to argue with people about my loves! But I DO want to feel confident and okay with loving them unconditionally. So I’m 100% okay with avoiding discussion if it’s going to end in war. xD AJFDLKAS I LOVED I’LL GIVE YOU THE SUN. I BASCIALLY CRY OVER IT’S BEAUTIFUL WRITING.
Yes!!!!!!! There are SO many blogs I will defend more then anything! Even myself (not really) but TFIOS is like one of the most hand crafted pieces of amazingness that has ever amazed so I will not except any opinions other then great. Boo hoo
WE SHALL WEAR TFIOS DEFENDING SHIRTS AND RAVE ABOUT IT UNCONDITIONALLY ALL OUR LIVES.
Yes! I’m the exact same way with the Mortal Instruments or the Infernal Devices! I’m also like that the Princess Diaries series as well. Same with the Theone of Glass series. I got so annoyed when people complained how Celaena went from being an assassin to playing dress in the castle. She is a GIRL!! Girls like to wear dresses sometimes, even assassins. I don’t do well with people who disagree with my fandom! Awesome post!
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YESSS. Omg, YESSS. That’s half the reason I loved Celaena so much. She was the first heroine I’d read (EVER) that actually loved puppies and dresses and eating chocolate cake…and was absolutely kick butt and wickedly talented as an assassin. It renewed my faith in fantasy actually. :’)
The closest I ever got to reading Divergent were (a) when I watched a Chinese-dubbed version while half-asleep on a bus across Taiwan and (b) the Honest Trailer. So I have no idea how Allegiant played out, although I do remember the Internet frenzy at the time. I have zero problems with Mockingjay’s deaths (liked them, in fact!) — I wasn’t so invested in it because I liked The Hunger Games for Katniss, and Mockingjay’s best point was the politics. (It is weird when you are more interested in the Presidents and Johanna Mason than the MC, okay?) Haven’t read the rest except Maze Runner, and I did enjoy the process of reading them, but the second two just weren’t gush-over-them-forever? I STILL LIKED THEM THOUGH.
I think I’m a little overprotective of His Dark Materials — I know they pissed off a lot of religious people, but it’s so beautifully written! DAEMONS. Just, DAEMONS. Also, LORD ASRIEL. Also, MARISA COULTER. *flails* I do so wish they made the rest into movies, because (a) I must see the Republic of Heaven and (b) what WAS Christopher Lee doing in the first movie? I MUST KNOW.
I’m also not too jaded when it comes to A Song of Ice and Fire — when I read them I was more in the “woah all the deaths okay finish this series ASAP”. I flew through it within one week, give or take a couple of days. Also I hadn’t learned the nuances of feminism from Tumblr so I wasn’t so critical of the stuff there as I am in the TV show — someday I’ll have to reread with a sharper eye.
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I love Johanna Mason a LOT. She makes me cry. And she was so so perfectly done in the Catching Fire movie. AFJDKLSAF TO MY FEELS RIGHT NOW. Anyway. I’m totally knew to His Dark Materials and I’ve only read the first one…but I listened to a dramatised audio and every time they nearly separated Lira (Omg did I spell her name wrong though? I listened to it! I have excuses) and Pantalimone I NEARLY CRIED.
Wait waaaait, you read ALL the ASoIaF books in a week?! DUDE. I TAKE LIKE 2 MONTHS PER BOOK. YOU ARE SUPER HUMAN.
Johanna Mason is so sassy, and Jena Malone (ooh look, same initials!) plays her so well. It’s actually Lyra and Pantalaimon. I cannot do anything on audio — I mean, I pass my listening exams, but audiobooks just mess me up because I forget characters soooo quickly. BUT ARGH AMBER SPYGLASS (i.e. book 3) MESSED ME UP SO BAD.
Why thank you. I just couldn’t put them down, and I was on holiday, so I just never put them down. I did miss a couple of plot points, though, so there’s that.
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Oh my God, Cait. Please don’t let this be the end of our friendship because I dislike all those books above. As in, I fiercely dislike all of the above. *hides face* If it makes it any better, I really love you!
To discuss, I enjoyed The Maze Runner, actually. It was something else, but then you reach the end of the series, and it just turned into a mess. But oh yes, the cast is great. The movie probably drew a lot of watchers because of the cast.
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hehe. We shall be adults and agree to disagree. *nods*
YEEEEES!!! This totally happens for me. I adore this middle grade series called The Keeper of the Lost Cities. Is it fluffy? Maybe. Strangely like Harry Potter at times? Yes. But I LOVE IT. It has adorable romance (ish…it’s more just cute crushing just they’re all like, 15 and under) BUT STILL. It’s weird how much I love this series.
And there’s the new Avengers movie Age of Ultron…gee, I loved it. So much. There’s this new character that comes in at the end and HE IS PERFECT AND AMAZING AND GAAAAAH SO EPIC. So basically, I ignore any other problems with the movie (which, actually, there aren’t many) because of this awesome new guy.
ZOMG I WANT TO SEE AGE OF ULTRON SO BAD. And now I’m uber curious about this guy. Is it Vision?! I want to see Vision in action SO BAD.
Yes, it is Vision. (resisting the urge to fangirl and flail…) he was just pure awesomeness. And he’s going to be in Captain America 3!!!! Gaaaaah!!! Can’t wait!!!
REALLY?!!! I’M SO PLEASED. I always loved JARVIS. Is he still JARVIS-ish?
YES!!! He has Jarvis’ voice, and he’s still really classy. HE’S JUST SO EPIC, PARDON MY FLAILING.
Huh. What a terribly interesting thought. I think I’m that way a little bit with The Knife Of Never Letting Go because CAIT ABJUYDHJL THE FEELZ ABOUT KILLED ME AND YES THERE WAS SWEARING AND YES THE BEGINNING FELT KINDA SLOW BUT I STILL LOOOVVVEEDDDDD IT.
I’m a very weird person when I get around books. O.o
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Great post! I 1000% agree with you about Allegiant and Mockingjay. Yes, I will defend them forever!! When I first read Allegiant, I was shocked but then when I thought about it, I understood why it had to happen. Yep, it was perfect.
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YAAAAY. It’s so nice to finally know people agree with me on this!!! I feel like I get drowned in a sea of their haters mostly. 😉 I was TOTALLY shocked. Like, I felt physically sick. It took me FOREVER to compute it…but now…it was perfect. I’m so proud of Veronica Roth.
Blood of Olympus. All the way. Tonnes of people have all these massive gripes about it and I was really happy with it. Also, anything that’s funny, no matter how illogical, I will love – John Dies At The End springs to mind. It made NO SENSE. But it was obviously just meant to be funny so *shrugs*. I’m like this with a lot of manga too.
I hear ya. I hear ya. (And, for the record, I’m soooo excited to get to BoO. Is it after Mark of Athena? No. There’s a book before that right…gah. I’m reading them slowly because I still believe I might trip on a pot of gold and therefor suddenly be able to buy their wonderfulness. I LOVED LOST HERO SO BAD.)
I am so glad that you liked Allegiant’s ending! I thought I was the only one:) I loved it,and adored how unique and mind blowing it was.
To tell you the truth,I even refuse to read Heir of Fire because I am afraid that my poor shipper heart which adores Chaol and Celaena too much will be broken into pieces when I read it.
As for me, I guess I am protective over Harry Potter because the series practically carved my childhood and it angers me quite a lot when people insult the books and call them childish. HOW DARE YOU?
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YAAAAAY. All the Allegiant lovers are coming out of the woodwork and I’M SO HAPPY!!! I’M NOT ALONE!! *parties quietly* I cried over the ship in Heir of Fire. It’s not exactly broken though. There’s basically just no romance there and I don’t know if they’ll get back together or not. 😐
I KNEW THEY WERE SOMEWHERE. I found my fellow supporter of Mockingjay and Allegiant! I knew that there HAD to be someone, but you were hard to find amongst all the hate. I will hide under my bed on two of these, but I am kind of scared to read the Mortal Instruments (there’s just SOOO MANY BOOKS), but I am pretty interested in reading the Infernal Devices trilogy (historical YA paranormal fiction? YES, PLEASE).
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*hi fives* WE SHALL HAVE MATCHING SHIRTS AND AN EXCLUSIVE CLUB OF MOCKING AND ALLEGIANT LOVE. THERE WILL BE CHOCOLATE CAKE AND LAMB PLUM STEW. The Infernal Devices is delicious. I just read book 2 and so. many. feels.
I will fiercely defend The Iron King, All Fall Down, and Entwined among others. I adore them, and it makes me angry when people bash them. I WILL PROTECT THEM WITH TEETH AND CLAWS, PEOPLE.
I’ll also do stuff like this with characters. I tend to like characters that aren’t people’s favorites. Malia from Teen Wolf especially. Too many people don’t like her because of the StilesXLydia thing. Grrr. It’s frustrating.
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MY FEELINGS EXACTLY. (Is that the Iron Fey trilogy?! Omg I must read them asap. I love Talon by Julie Kagawa so I need more of her books.)
MALIA. OMG I LOVE MALIA. I totally relate to Malia. SO IS SO EPIC AND FABULOUS. AJDFLSKA Okay, but I ship Stiles and Lydia still, kind of. I mean kind of because I think Lydia was too dismissive of Stiles for YEARS and suddenly, when he’s not available, she’s into him? No. That’s unfair.
GOSH I LOVE CELAENA SO MUCH!! And THRONE OF GLASS! Totally agree with the lack of Chaol in Heir of Fire (plus, his doubts). D: ME NEEDS CHAOL and if Celaena doesn’t want him, I will gladly. <3 <3 Also, porcupines and hedgehogs are very much made of awesomeness (right after wolves and owls and dragons and phoenixes, of course)
Shadowhunters are uber awesome and I just need the Simon binding with all the novellas so that I can read them already!! *dreamy sigh* How excited are you about the TV show?! I'm only about as excited about a monkey high on kool-aid who's leaping from tree to tree cuz it sees banana in a distant horizon.
Other than those two and Mockingjay, I highly disliked all the other books on your list. *hides behind ze couch*
I am soooo like that with Cruel Beauty and Grave Mercy! I know some people didn't like the books but I am enamored by them and shall defend them with my cake! (I mean, if I just give someone a little bit of cake, they'll be forever grateful, right? Also, take note of my great sacrifice! I'M WILLING TO GIVE AWAY SOME CAKE! There probably was something in the banana, I ate… psht, healthy food)
~Fari 0:)
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CHAOL. *sobs* AND DORIAN TOO, IN THAT HORRIFIC ENDING. I’m traumatised, I truly am. I want to own a hedgehog. I couldn’t cuddle it, but, ya know, I still want one. Or a small tortoise.
I can’t waaait till the new novellas are all together. ^-^ It’ll be like the Magnus Bane novellas, right?! SO EXCITED BECAUSE SIMON IS MY FAVOURITE. I ship him and Isabelle rather hard. I’M SUPER EXCITED FOR THE SHOW. I actually loved the movie a lot, and I’m struggling with the new version of Jace because I think Jamie Campbell Bower was more perfect. 😐
Oh, I totally get this! I’m not CRAZILY in love with TFiOS but I still thought it was a great book, so. THRONE OF GLASS, ALWAYS. I will also defend Rainbow Rowell’s books to the death. All of them. But I will also especially defend Simon and Baz, because they are my children. (It is definitely a legitimate reason 😉 )
I’m still crying over Allegiant, but I think that was the right path for it. It just…hurt. Still. It’s just nice to feel a blind, all-consuming, I-will-buy-infinite-copies-of-you love for a book sometimes.
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Oh my gosh yes, I will defend any and all of Rainbow Rowell’s books as well.
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@Appletaile: OH GOODIE, CAN WE BE SUPER UBER EXCITED ABOUT CARRY ON TOGETHER, THEN?!! *parties quietly* I’m so excited to see Rainbow Rowell do an epic-ish fantasy!! HUZZAH.
There is not enough chocolate in the world to numb the pain of Allegiant.
I’m kind of the opposite, I think. I rarely love a book enough to actually defend it. And I also know that if I do like a book, it’s usually for reasons of personal preference, which is totally subjective. When I don’t like a book, though, I have a tendency to get prickly and want to explain why it was problematic. There are a couple of things that really bother me, and I have no problem calling people out on them. Equating emotional connection to good writing is one of them. You can totally get the feels from a badly written book. You can feel nothing from the most technically perfect piece of writing ever put on paper. Emotions and grammar are two different things… and so it really bothers me when people gush about how a book was written so well simply because they loved it. Then I go and pick up what I think is a well-written piece of fiction and end up saying “WTF?!” every second page because the author doesn’t know how to use a semicolon. The other thing that bothers me is weak world-building, especially when readers gush over it. If you think a world with barely any description or logic or complexity is amazing, it means you have a good imagination that can fill in the blanks… not that the author necessarily did a good job of building the world.
So I will disagree with people who say that it’s okay that Gus is pretentious because he’s supposed to be (what’s Hazel’s excuse?), or that Celaena is a kick-ass assassin (because she didn’t actually assassinate anyone in Throne of Glass), or that Unwind was an awesome story, even though it had plot holes that you could drive a truck through. I guess people get protective over these books because they form an emotional connection with them. But I get… “reverse protective” for technical reasons.
I am super analytical about the books I read (as if you couldn’t figure that out from the rest of my comment). 🙂 Maybe that’s why I’m not really protective of many of them: I tend to be more of a technical reader than an emotional one. I’m sure there’s a spectrum, though; I just happen to fall at one end of it!
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I think that’s fair enough. Anyone can be any kind of reader they want to be…although, I feel like I personally wouldn’t read if I couldn’t ever enjoy a book because I doubted the author was doing it right. 😐 A lot of stuff is subjective too (as in the author’s styles and choices of words) which doesn’t necessarily make it wrong.
I think it’s fair to disagree, but sometimes I wonder if it’s always needful and if it can be okay just to let people flail unconditionally?
I completely agree with you on Mockingjay. I don’t have anything to add to what you said. It just makes me feel better that at least one person in the world agrees. lol 😀
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OMG. WE ARE IN AGREEMENT ON THIS MATTER?! COME HUG ME, MY FRIEND.
hugs abound. Lol 😀
Oh my gosh this happens to me too!!! The Maze Runner is the book I’m sooooo protective of xD I love it so much!
WE SHALL PROTECT IT TOGETHER. *Dashner Army hi five*
I’m like that with Mockingjay, too, because of the deaths and the love triangle resolution. Also with Lauren Oliver’s Requiem, because I know some people hated the writing and the outcome of the love triangle, but man, I love that book. I’ve also seen quite a few negative reviews of My Heart & Other Black Holes recently because people think Warga used romance as a cure-all for depression and I always feel the need to defend it when I didn’t feel that way at all, and because I want everyone to know it is AMAHZINGGGGGG.
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I still have to read that series by Lauren Oliver, but I’ve read like 4 of her other books and afjdsklad so many good feels. I HOPE I LIKE DELIRIUM TOO. And you make me want to try My Heart And Other Black Holes so so badly!
Yes!This post was a gem!I feel you,girl! And by saying that, I mean, nobody can put those dirty hands on my “The mortal instruments” series or “The infernal devices” trilogy or my “Lux” series and I could go on for ages…Just keep your hands in your pockets,people!
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We shall just don our tinfoil armour and kitchen pot helmets and DEFEND our babies! HUZZAH.
I’m also very protective of the Throne of Glass series, but much less protective of ToG itself than I am of Heir of Fire. So OF COURSE I inwardly cringed at your criticism of HoF! I love that book SO MUCH. I can’t believe I almost quit after Throne of Glass O_O
And I TOTALLY AGREE about Mockingjay. To me, that was the best book, because it held such an emotional impact. Like, almost everyone either hated it or at least thought it was the weakest of the series and I CAN’T with those people. Those deaths, like you said, were not mindless. I’m 100% sure Collins didn’t just randomly kill her characters without going over every single option. I mean, writers don’t just write things in for the hell of it.
I love this post. There are plenty of books I will blindly defend (Grave Mercy, Cress, The Sky is Everywhere, Black Iris) both because I believe they’re wonderfully written but also because MY FEELINGS.
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OMG. I AM SORRY!!! I know how this feels so so much when an off-handed slight to a favourite book. It huuuurts. But yes, omg, I’m very glad you kept reading. CoM is one of my most favourite books EVER. Although, ya know, I’m still mad at Celaena and Chaol. Why can’t they just talk about this? *sobs*
I 100% AGREE WITH YOU AND I’M TOTALLY BEHIND SUZANNE COLLINS WRITING DECISIONS. She just totally…wow. I HAVE SUCH FEELINGS ABOUT MOCKINGJAY. And I don’t think writers do things lightly either. And plus I always respect the author so so much when it’s obvious they’re writing for the STORY and not for the audience. I think that’s when they capture the heart of things so well. :’)
YES YES YES I DO THIS ALL THE TIME. With: Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone Series; Jandy Nelson’s books; The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale; The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer and Harry Potter…Also the Shadow and Bone books by Leigh Bardugo and If You Find Meby Emily Murdoch and SO MANY MORE.
did I use those semi-colons right? I never do.. >.>
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Pfft, don’t ask me about semi colons. The only time I use them is for this 😉 HEHEE #epicEnglishfail ANYWAY. YES and YES. Shadow & Bone won my heart with Sturmhond. Seriously. My entire heart. *flails and flops*
I think I have a bias towards books that I read and loved when I was younger like Poison by Chris Wooding and The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong (yes, the one that I featured five-stared on my blog recently I’M NOT ASHAMED) but I’ve also re-read both of these and still loved them! Maybe there’s a little nostalgia bonus in the rating there because I remember how I felt back then and don’t realize how much Chloe’s a little damsel in distress now that I’m older (wait.. or do I?) but I like to think they’re just good books.
NEVER BE ASHAMED. We shall party over our fierce loyalties and eat cake and be PROUD. (Sometimes I avoid reading my childhood favourites in case I don’t love them so much. >_< Except Narnia. I accidentally was rereading a lot of Narnia the other day and omg, so many fond memories.)
“Safe?! Of course he’s not safe! But he’s good.” -Beavers on Aslan
One of the feeeeeeew books where the movie did it enough justice. But nothing’s going to ever beat the book. (s)
I’ve read all of them but the Last Battle.
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I LOVE THE BEAVERS. Although the old version of the Narnia movies nearly gave me nightmares from their horrific costumes. o.O WHY DIDN’T YOU READ THE LAST BATTLE?! It was so bittersweet. :’)
Becausee you hadn’t yelled at me yet! I’ll hop to it soon(ish), Ma’am. Just… after I finish my NetGalley reviews… and the prequel to a sequel I promised to review.. and two books I told bloggers I’d read and review for them… and one book I promised my mother in law I’d try out… and.. maybe “hop to it” wasn’t the right phrase..
But I WILL add it to my TBR!
(Which is only like.. two hundred books long, but it’ll be at the top, I swear!)
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I am like this with the original Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories. Sherlock Holmes is my favorite character of all time and I CANT’ STAND IT when his character and the stories are changed for films and TV … except for BBC Sherlock, that show stayed true to the Sherlock Holmes spirit with lots of inside jokes for people who read the stories. But otherwise, I’m extremely protective over those stories. XD
Your question made me think for a second…but I’m actually not analytical when it comes to readings. It’s pretty much…Good book, okay book, bad book. I don’t actually have time to tear books apart, just enough time to read them and decide how they were on an overall scale. XD That was a great question! 🙂
~Jamie
Yay! I’m glad you liked the post! And I can definitely understand how Sherlock would be an issue because, omg, so many representations and ALL so different!
I definitely know what your talking about here. While I am a fairly critical reader, or at least like to think I am, there are some books that I will always defend. I do try to make sure that my argument is better than ‘it’s good because it’s good’ but sometimes I do occasionally go to those levels.
Out of the book you mentioned the only one I’ve read is The Fault In Our Stars. I’m not a huge John Green fan in general but TFIOS is definitely my favourite from him. I wouldn’t count it as a favourite but it’s a very solid book that I did enjoy. I seem to be in the minority though and I can definitely see why you love it so much.
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Yesss, this is how I feel! I feel bad for saying “I like ’em because I do” when usually I have a solid argument for my love and hates about books. But, pfft, sometimes we just have to shush our brains and be wild fans, right?! 😉
I’m right there with you on Allegiant – I thought I was the only one! Also really enjoyed The Maze Runner (though I think it helped that I watched the movie first).
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The movie is too adorable. Did you see the trailer for the Scorch Trials?!! It looks EXACTLY how I pictured it!
I will forever protect the Percy Jackson series. It has to be one of my favorite book series, EVER! Okay, so the storyline in the books are basically the same. Percy destroys a school, goes to camp, goes on a quest. But they are still great books. I’ve been recommending them a lot recently.
And Harry Potter, that’s a great series as well. I know that some people won’t let their kids read/watch them because it has magic in it. But I’m still a fan, and its still a great series.
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I HEAR YA. And I think we’re very logical since we can see the flaws…but we just choose to ignore them and love anyway. 😉
OH MY GOSH CAIT THIS POST SPEAKS TO ME SO MUCH. THANK YOU <3333
I'm a die-hard Cassie Clare fan. I LOVE her TMI & TID books, and I never want her to stop writing books. 🙂
I adore Throne of Glass too. I will sing the praises of that series forever and ever.
When I first joined Goodreads I used to get in verbal fights with people, trying to defend the honor of my favorite series xD
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It’s sooo tempting to get into those battles of Book Love Righteousness, right?! IT IS HARD. I used to get very hung up about it. But haters gonna hate. *dances away*
YEsss I am so glad you are owning what you love Cait! Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and your opinion here is that you love these books! We have wildly different opinions on what we think about Allegiant and Maze Runner, but you know what, let’s agree to disagree. I do agree with your arguments for Throne of Glass and TFIOS though, because we hear so many criticisms about those books.
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YES. And sometimes I think we forget, as readers, to remember it’s okay to agree to disagree. It’s a super important thing to learn though. *nods* We shall mutually and fiercely love TFIOS and ToG!
I agree with Allegiant. The ending was perfect. I don’t get why some people hate Veronica Roth for that ending. It just makes perfect sense.
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*hi fives* WE SHALL BE BEST FRIENDS.
YES YES CASSANDRA CLARE!! Funnily enough, I also haven’t met very many people who love her books like I do – but I just stick with the assumption that not many people KNOW about them, and just try and sneakily slip her books into any conversation (it worked once, I got my sister attached!!)
Sneakily slipping favourite authors into conversations is a GOLDEN idea. I LOVE IT. And FJASDKLA TO CASSANDRA CLARE. We shall stick together, you and I, Lauren, because not many people love her insanely much. But she is soooo incredible. MAGNUS BAAAANE.
Honestly, you’ve just proven my point with your flamboyantly use of dramatics that you are in fact, Ivy Pocket.
Of course. But mine’s a little more internal. I often see reviews pop up on my Goodreads feed especially and loved the book, where another review has really dished out on it. It upsets me that they didn’t enjoy it and obviously didn’t appreciate it the way I did. Then I rent a car and track them down… I kid.
It kind of hurts though. I appreciate that we all have different opinions, but I try to be mindful and tone down the angryness when I’ve really disliked a book because for some, it’s like telling them their child is unattractive, or that their ass look fat in those jeans. It’s personal.
PS. Allegiant, good on you smushie *pats head* good on you.
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I am Ivy Pocket. I’ve lived many lives and people write about them because I’m just THAT fabulous. Geesh, it’s exhausting. I might need to lie down for a minute. Fetch me cake, why dontcha, Kelly.
As long as you don’t run them over with the car, okay? Although I’ll visit you in prison. I’M THAT KIND OF AWESOME FRIEND.
It is personal! And I think it’s easy to forget that in the heat of being a critical analytical reviewer sometimes. Or the people who feel they ALWAYS must tell you how much they hate that book. Or something. Ugh. Sometimes it’s okay to flail with abandon. *nods*
I am generally fairly good at just letting it go, but there are some things I defend like that. Like Captain America: The Winter Soldier. At my bookclub, the person who organises it was dissing Cap and I had sour cream and guacamole with my nachos, and let me tell you, he nearly ended up wearing the sour cream.
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Well, I applaud you thinking about your stomach first and eating the nachos instead of hurling them. BUT I UNDERSTAND. *nods* Except, omg, I was an awful Cap hater. I WAS. But the Winter Soldier converted me so so so much. I HAVE A LOT OF WINTER SOLDIER FEELS. Cap. :’) I ship him with Natasha though. Very hard. Bucky is like a little puppy they need to rescue and adopt.
Love this. You always come up with the best topics! I am totally like that with TFIOS too. I think it is great and shush to those who hate. I am also like this with Gone Girl which I loved and I don’t care if the ending was jacked I still love it.
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GONE GIRL TERRIFIED ME. I don’t doubt it was good, but I was too busy freaking out after watching the movie before reading the book. I know. Epic bookworm fail there. -_- I should read the book, right?!
Oh yes, I can get very protective of the books I am truly passionate about. I can understand that no book is flawless and that there is no book that EVERYONE would love. But I still get protective when someone starts bashing MY all time favorites in conversation with me.
What books do have I in mind? Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness, Bad Romeo by Leisa Rayven, Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown, Forever series by J.M. Darhower and Penryn and the End of Days series by Susan Ee. I got in pretty heaty discussions with my friends about these books when I started defending them LOL
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Exaaaactly! The whole point of “no book everyone will love” needs to be shouted around, because I feel like we, as readers, forget that and start to demand perfection. bUT COME NOW. No book can please everyone. Red Rising is incredible. ajfdklsa And I need to finish the Susan Ee trilogy, because the first one was AMAZING.
This does happen to me! I’m inwardly ranty too though. You’ll rarely here a squeak from me unless it’s on my blog, maybe.
I get this way about the whole Hunger Games trilogy and the movies. There’s someone at our church who likes to voice her opinion on it, which by of way happens to be a little…well, never mind. And I’m just like, not listening, I can’t hear you!
Also, Allegiant. So much Allegiant! And if someone wants to tell me about the Divergent movie, I get very moody. I just think, no! Do not say ‘movie’ ever again to me. It is the book that is amazeing. Oh, you said it again! Stop saying that word! The book was fantastic; you don’t know what you’re talking about. *sobs* The movie- Why!?
And somebody- it’s terrible- I read an article, no, a couple articles on The Giver after reading it. I don’t know what was wrong with them, but I had to open up a Word document to rant and cool off. I was upset…
Inwardly ranty FTW I say *hi fives* We don’t offend people, but we feel justified. ERGH. I’ve heard people go on and on about how “bad” THG is. “Kids killing kids? What kind of rubbish are you reading” they screech. And I’m just there like…”UM, DUH. THAT’S THE POINT.” -_- Humans. Sometimes…ugh.
I can definitely relate to this! Sometimes if I’m on the fence about a book and I’ll read a review I can see that the negatives were true and I begin to change my feelings. However, if it is one of my favorite certain books I will pterodactyl screech and usually go on a heated internal monologue about how my precious is perfect. It’s probably Throne of Glass for me. Side note, good to know you liked the ending of Allegiant, it makes me want to pick up the series again!
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Pterodactyl screech? OKAY THAT DESCRIBES ME PERFECTLY. Although it’s a quiet-on-the-inside screech mostly. hehe. Unless it’s to my sister. We might’ve gone to war over The Maze Runner.
I am exactly the same about Allegiant! The ending was absolute perfection and I will argue that to my death. There was no other way for it to end so well, and not to mention how Tris’ development peaked there. She finally learned what bravery and selflessness and sacrifice means, and I will forever love her for what she did. Admittedly, I understand that the plot was a bit iffy, but I don’t care. That book is awesome.
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WE SHALL DEFEND ALLEGIANT TOGETHER, ERIN. We need “We <3 Allegiant!" tee shirts or at least small buttons to pin on our shirts. *nods* Someone make it happen.
Defending Allegiant to the death! And even then, as ghosts, or vampires, or whatever it is when we die!
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I AM! There are some books where I’m like ‘don’t even talk badly about my babies, I don’t care’ and some I won’t read ANY reviews of because it might hurt to hear and see negative things about them. Others, I’m less in love with, I feel less for, but the special favourites, oh no, they are MINE. Great topic Cait!<3
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We gotta protect our babies, Amanda. WE GOTTA DO IT BECAUSE WHO ELSE WILL? *dons mama bear attitude*
I’m not really that protective over my favorite books though, I don’t mind reading negative reviews about my favorites but if someone mentions something that is clearly not the case like I loved Grave Mercy, and a reviewer said there was insta love which just pissed me off because there was no such thing, so I did ranted back about that. Great topic though <3
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It is sooo weird when I read a review and the reviewer lists a “fault” that I totally didn’t get. It’s kind of like, “WHAT BOOK WHER YOU READING?!” XD
Though I’m usually not that critical about books — or if I am, I usually talk myself down from a few of my complaints — I can sympathize with this! What I find interesting is that the books you love unconditionally are such popular books, even if some of them, like Mockingly and Allegiant, have “controversial” endings, though you also tend to root for underdog books. Any clue why?
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I don’t knooooow. Maybe I’m just cantankerous?! I think (with Allegiant and Mockingjay anyway) that I get quite proud of books that mess with my emotions and kill of key characters. It just really grabs me, you know?!
I actually do not understand the ending of The Maze Runner series at all. I really need to read it over again because I think something happened, but I’m not sure it did…? I was just confused by that ending and disheartened.
I never got why people didn’t like Mockingjay. I mean there were deaths that were horribly cruel, but they made the book BETTER.
I’m hardly ever analytical about the books I read. I mean I think about what’s going to happen next especially with mystery reads, but I’m pretty much a go with the flow kind of reader. I think it’s why I rate books high most of the time although I’m not afraid to rate them low now that I’m reading more. I just don’t have time for nonsense.
There are some books and characters I gush about like D.J. from The Dairy Queen. That girl is my idol. You say anything against her and those are fighting words.
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It WAS confusing, but I liked it. It was like the prelude to more and I loooove when books don’t end in a neat little package. AND YES IT DID MAKE MOCKINGJAY BETTER. It was realistic, too. Because war doesn’t avoid the cool main characters, right?!
Oh yes, this most definitely happens to me! I am with you on Mockingjay, by the way- I really don’t see how there could have been a better ending, even though the whole thing tore my heart into pieces. Also, agree with TFIOS and your analysis of Augustus. SO true.
I have this problem with like, books that are SO clearly flawed, but I don’t even care. Now, I DO tell my lovely reader friends that there ARE problems but I don’t care, so seek critical reviews elsewhere but… yeah, I can’t help myself. Examples? Sin Eater’s Daughter (which is not so much flawed as a “love it or hate it” kind of thing), The Jewel (holy freaking flaws in the beginning, no question), The Cage (it’s weird as sin but I love it anyway!)… I could probably think of a few more. But yes, I just agree very much with all of this!
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GUS IS MY BABY. His precociousness is like his character flaw, but at the same time DON’T EVER CHANGE, AUGUSTUS. *Cries*
I think we should be allowed to do this and have NO REGRETS. What’s life if we can’t be weirdly passionate about stuff for no reason?!
It’s weird, because I got into a situation where I faced the dilemma if I should defend my favorite series ever, Harry Potter, a couple of weeks ago, and I was just in the process of writing a similar post! Looks like you beat me to it, though. xD
Anyway, my situation was a little different from yours because no one was dissing HP. My dad and I were discussing about how realistic some theories people come up with are, or if these people were just delusional, and he just had to use Harry Potter as an example. He said something like, “Do you think Hogwarts is real?” to make a point and I literally gnashed my teeth together because — WHAT THE HECK WAS I SUPPOSED TO SAY TO THAT.
Obviously I know that Hogwarts isn’t real, as much as I would like it to be. But then, I felt this shattering sense of guilt when I thought about saying, “No, it isn’t,” because this was the series I grew up with. This is the series I LOVE to death. This is the series I would recommend to everyone. This is the series I would fight tooth and nail to defend if someone dissed it. I think I’ve wandered off tangent here, but honestly, I still don’t know what I would say if someone asked me a question like that head-on. I feel a huge desire to defend my favorite series, but how far is too far, you know?
Just in case you have no idea what this comment is saying (I am so unbelievably rambly, please forgive me): I am so totally protective of books I love. I don’t do analytical. I do emotions. 😉
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OMG BUT YOU SHOULD STILL WRITE YOURS. I want to read it. 😉
I suppose deadpanning and saying “Heck yes it’s real.” isn’t always the appropriate response, even though it totally legit should be. Grr. That’d be like me admitting there is no Narnia in the wardrobe. IT DESTROYS DREAMS AND HOPES AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS OF MAGIC. *cries a little for childhood magic* I always want to defend my favourites. We shall don our tin foil armour and kitchen frypan helmets and stand strong, Megan.
Sometimes I have so much love for a book/series I’m just afraid to recommend it to other people, because I can’t deal with it if they hate it. It feels like it’s MINE. That is why I never read negative reviews from those books, because it truly makes me sad :’)
Harry Potter, Throne of glass, Cruel beauty, Tiger Lily, Daughter of the forest (and everything else by Juliet Marillier), The book thief, Grave Mercy are just some examples.
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I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN. Particularly if you do recommend it and they come back and start being all judgy about it and picking these faults…and I’ll just be there clutching the book thinking “THEY ARE HURTING MY BABY.” XD The struggle is real for this one.
I loved the Allegiant ending, although sad as it was, I still loved it and I don not regret it! Allegiant fan forever!! XD Lovely post by the way!
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Aww, thanks Kristin!! I had fun with this one. xD ALLEGIANT RIPPED OUT MY HEART. But I still love it.
Ugh, yes! The two series I protect like a mother hen are Gentleman Bastards by Scott Lynch (The Lies of Locke Lamora is the first part) and The Kingkiller Chronicle (The Name of the Wind) by Patrick Rothfuss. I have a huge weakness for thievery, orphans, unique swear words and malnourished heroes, it seems! (I want to adopt both Locke and Kvothe and feed them and sing lullabies.)
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I need to read something by Patrick Rothfuss! I NEED TO QUITE BADLY.
If you haven’t read anything by Rothfuss yet I’d recommend waiting a bit longer, until the release date for Book 3 of the series is known at least – otherwise, you’ll just suffer once you get to the end of Book 2 and you’ll have to wait for the conclusion with the rest of us. 🙂
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You actually made me want to read Allegiant and I have ownded the book since release and never felt the urge to read it then. Then recently someone in a facebook group just flat out spoiled a big plot twist and I hate knowing that, grrr. I also thought Mockinjay was a good book, it might not have been perfect, but I still enjoyed it. I actually DNF’d Throne of Glass, as it wans’t for me. Some books I will defend always involve some 5 star books and mostly books by my favourite authors, like SJ Pajonas her Nogiku series, yes it isn’t perfect, but I love it so much! And I recently finished Jennifer Estep her newest book Cold Burn of Magic and I loved it and then I was surprised at how many people gave it a low rating and criticized it, I loved it so much I couldn’t even find something to critice about it. Although in most cases I can still point out or agree that a book wasn’t perfect, but love it all the same. Great post!
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Oh that is SO ANNOYING. I would’ve hated to read Allegiant knowing the spoiler beforehand. 🙁 If you do go for it, best of luck!! And hey, not every book is for everyone, so that’s okay. Good thing there are so many styles out there right?! 😉
I will shriek and flail right along with you about Cassie Clare’s books. It makes me so angry when people say she should “stop writing” Shadowhunter books. A) If you don’t like them you don’t have to read them and B) She came up with such a vast, intricate, and interesting world that why SHOULDN’T she continue to explore it?! It’s really what everyone dreams their favorite authors would do.
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EXACTLY. OMG. YOU HAVE SUMMED UP MY FEELINGS EXACTLY!!! And plus nooooo one says that to contemporary authors, right?! No one says “stop writing books in our world and make up your own!” So why should they say that to Cassandra Clare?!! GAH. She is incredible and I’m so glad she has so many more Shadowhunter books coming out!!
OH YEAH SO WITH YA. I get blindly protective over certain things such as GANSEY GANSEY GANSEY
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BASICALLY GANSEY EVERYTHING. I WISH TO TACKLE HUG RONAN INTO A SAFE PLACE WHERE NO ONE CAN EVER ATTACK HOW HORRIBLE HE IS. LITTLE DARLING BABY.
I am 110% with you on Allegiant. I think the ending was honest to the character, and ending it any other way wouldn’t have done the series, the book, or Tris justice. I will always defend that ending.
I also defend TFIOS. My Mum read it, and really enjoyed it, but moaned at how pretentious Gus was. All teenagers are pretentious! Well, I was anyway, so I will always defend him.
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The Peleg Chronicles, all the way! Ascendance Trilogy too… But I’ve never heard anyone bash those. 😛
WELL THAT IS GOOD. I love False Prince. 😉
I’m so glad you mentioned TFIOS, no one seems to get that Gus’s pretentiousness was a mask that did inevitably slip, they focus solely on Gus as he is at the start of the novel rather than the person he becomes.
You’ve inspired me to do this post myself, I’m ridiculously protective over so many books
Ummm… am I ever blindly protective over certain books? YES LIKE EVERY SINGLE BOOK THAT I HAVE EVER LOVED. *flail* I tend to NOT be a critic, so whenever critics, or even normal people, tear apart and bash and shred or even mildly criticize any book that I love a ton I am like NO MY BABY DO NOT TOUCH IT OR I WILL PERSONALLY SEND MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS AFTER YOU TO KNOCK OVER YOUR BOOKSHELF IN RETRIBUTION. *flail* Ahem. This post was fabulous and I love it. ^_^
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I agree with you on Allegiant. I don’t think I’ve talked to anyone else who thought the ending was fitting. I saw that ending coming a mile away, to some extent, and I honestly would have been disappointed if she hadn’t gone there with it. I think it was a brave way to write a book, especially based on people’s outrage about it. I have the total opposite opinion of The Fault in Our Stars. I hated it with a burning passion, probably far more than it actually deserved. It’s one of my least favorite books of all time. Haha! I love how people can read the same book and totally disagree while being on point with each other about other books.
I’m sure there are terrible books that I love no matter what but I can’t think of any at the moment. There are tons of televisions shows that are really awful that I blatantly love. I’m sure there are books like that too. I’m typically very critical of the books I read but I do occasionally read something that I should give a low rating to but that I really enjoyed for an unknown reason.
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NO WAY CAIT! WHO WOULD HATE THOSE BOOKS YOU ARE DEFENDING? ESPECIALLY NOW THAT YOU’RE LIKE ARAGORN-LIKE! AAAAAAHH!! Awesome feature, Cait. Well, I defend books too that I love but are getting bashed. Sometimes, I would hate myself why I don’t feel the same way as them but I guess those books who mostly get bashed (or wtvr people think of and say so) still deserves love from readers and that’s me! LOL. 🙂
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I totally agree with you on Allegiant, sure it took me a little while to get over the ending, but at no point did I ever doubt that it wasn’t the right choice. It was the perfect ending (although also heartbreaking!)
And I also love The Mortal Instruments series, thankfully I did not meet any of these horrible sounding people who wanted her to stop writing them, I can’t get enough of her books! And I so excited for the new TV show Shadowhunters, and really hope it is better then the film!
I devoured The Maze Runner trilogy. LOVED it, yes there are some niggly bits, but I was so into the story to even properly notice them. Just recently saw the trailer for the second film, excited! 🙂
Really great post, your writing never fails to make me chuckle!
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I mostly take an analytical standpoint with most of the books I read, but I am fiercely protective over The Lord of the Rings, The Hunger Games, the Maze Runner, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Dragons in Our Midst. NOBODY MESS WITH MAH BABIES! Those were my childhood books and I can’t stand to see them dissed. XD
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I know there are some books that I will blindly protect! Personally I will always protect Twilight because I just love that book xD I will partly protect Allegiant? I though the ending and huge plot twist everyone hates was on point, I just found the book in general boring, and I didn’t like how the characters were AFTER the big deal had happened. TFiOS just wasn’t for me, :/ Too many things I disliked, but I think John Green’s style for me. The movie however </3 is my everything and makes it worthwhile that I read it. I hated Mockingjay if I am honest, but I wasn't a huge HG fan of any of theme excepting Catching Fire. That book is amazing <3 And I shalt protect it.
Olivia Roach recently posted…Prince Charming Must Die! (Review)
I completely get where you’re coming from! There are so many books I’ll always defend. Just a couple include Ari and Dante, All the Bright Places and every single one of Colleen Hoover’s books. I’m not usually analytical unless it’s a book I’m reading for school. When I just read for fun, I only pick up the genera surface stuff. I think it’s just natural for me to pick up things that the everyday reader wouldn’t, just because I know I’m going to have to review it. 😀
Laura Plus Books recently posted…May’s Decline and June’s Hopeful Renewal
AHHH I WILL DEFEND ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES TOO. So so much. I’ve seen a few people tear it to shreds, and I had not not comment because I was too angry. xD hehe. That book hit me so so deeply. Omg. I think I need a moment.