Top Ten Tuesday-- The Struggle

Top Ten Tuesday is a really cool original feature/weekly meme created over at The Broke and The Bookish. Each week they post a new Top Ten List that bloggers join in on answering... and today (September 5th) I'm one of them :)

Today's Topic

Top Ten Books I STRUGGLED With

• All of these books were ones that I thought I would like but UGHHHH-- they became a chore to read for various reasons.

1.  This is How it Happened by Paula Stokes

• I was thinking this would be a ME book-- but it really wasn't.  I didn't like the main character and I didn't FEEL from her what I expected.  It was a major let-down.

2.  Stealing Snow (#1) by Danielle Paige

• This was a retelling that I was really looking forward to and..... it was SO hard for me to get through it.  I had to set it aside because the world building was so terrible and the main girl was boy-crazy and annoying.

3.  How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather

• I didn't think the writing was very good in this one, so it was tough right off the bat-- but THEN there is a ghost-romance and I was OUT.

4.  The Girls by Emma Cline

• How could I not like a book based on the Manson Family???  Well, if it's weird and slow and full of flowery writing, I guess that will do it.

5.  The Outliers (#1) by Kimberly McCreight

• I really liked this author's previous Adult books, so when I found out she was writing YA, I was PUMPED.  But this book DRAGGED.

6.  Anything to Have You by Paige Harrison

• This book was already getting tough to finish AND THEN it decided to start all over from the beginning through a different character's perspective.  Like, no thanks-- I was bored enough the first time through.

7.  Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfeld

• This book is about nothing but adjectives.

8.  Perfect Fifths (Jessica Darling #5) by Megan McCafferty

• I loved this series and then THIS happened.  There was A LOT of skimming involved in me being able to finish this book.

9.  If I Stay by Gayle Forman

• I know, I'm a robot-- but I just didn't get into this book.

10.  Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetti

• I read this before I was blogging, so I didn't know anything about the hype surrounding it.  I just picked it up on a whim at the library because I liked the Poppy flower on the cover.  And then I just did NOT get it.  It was SO confusing.  The whole time I was like: TELL ME WHAT IS GOING ON AND WHO THESE 20 CHARACTERS ARE!!!

What books gave you a hard time??  Have you read any on my list??