30 days tv meme
Day 17 - Favorite quote from your favorite book
Well, currently (and this really changes all the time so if you ask me tomorow I'd probably have a different answer) the Percy Jackson books are my favorites, of which teh Last Olympian is my favorite book. But honestly? I have a lot of favorite quotes, from any book, but I'm not sure abotu this one. I thiink I'm going with this one (again, ask me again tomorow and i'll probably have a different answer)
“Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.”
Mostly because I love this scene with Hestia, actually I love every scene with Hestia.
Day 18 A book that disappointed you
At first I was going to go with 'Promise of the wolves' the sequel to Secret of the wolves, which I loved so much I have read it a million times. Mostly, because it wasn't as great as the first one. But I have come to the conclusion that I had unrealistic expectations for that book and it really is a good book. So instead I decided to go with the House of night series. (No offence to anyone who likes them.)
The thing is when I started readign these, and I read the first three books together because I got them for my birthday, I really did enjoy them. THey weren't anything great, but they were enjoyable and fun to read; But the more I kept reading, the more problems I began having with teh series, with the storylines, the plotholes (in my opinion), the characters, the pov's, just everything. The things that were interesting weren't explored or explored from a POV that had little to nothing to do with it, some reactions by the characters made me dislike them, even though it was obvious by the way everyone (and I do mean everyone) acted that I was supposed to be on their side and think the other one was a terrible person (he wasn't.) Some characters changed from one scene to the next with no explanation and it annoyed me. So much that I only skimmed the last two books I had (I didn't evne buy them, I borrowed them, mostly because I was hoping that it would get better.) And I'm not even waiting for the last book, I don't think I'm goign to read it.
So in short I was dissapointed by this series because it had so much potential in the beginning and then it just started sucking.
Well, currently (and this really changes all the time so if you ask me tomorow I'd probably have a different answer) the Percy Jackson books are my favorites, of which teh Last Olympian is my favorite book. But honestly? I have a lot of favorite quotes, from any book, but I'm not sure abotu this one. I thiink I'm going with this one (again, ask me again tomorow and i'll probably have a different answer)
“Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.”
Mostly because I love this scene with Hestia, actually I love every scene with Hestia.
Day 18 A book that disappointed you
At first I was going to go with 'Promise of the wolves' the sequel to Secret of the wolves, which I loved so much I have read it a million times. Mostly, because it wasn't as great as the first one. But I have come to the conclusion that I had unrealistic expectations for that book and it really is a good book. So instead I decided to go with the House of night series. (No offence to anyone who likes them.)
The thing is when I started readign these, and I read the first three books together because I got them for my birthday, I really did enjoy them. THey weren't anything great, but they were enjoyable and fun to read; But the more I kept reading, the more problems I began having with teh series, with the storylines, the plotholes (in my opinion), the characters, the pov's, just everything. The things that were interesting weren't explored or explored from a POV that had little to nothing to do with it, some reactions by the characters made me dislike them, even though it was obvious by the way everyone (and I do mean everyone) acted that I was supposed to be on their side and think the other one was a terrible person (he wasn't.) Some characters changed from one scene to the next with no explanation and it annoyed me. So much that I only skimmed the last two books I had (I didn't evne buy them, I borrowed them, mostly because I was hoping that it would get better.) And I'm not even waiting for the last book, I don't think I'm goign to read it.
So in short I was dissapointed by this series because it had so much potential in the beginning and then it just started sucking.