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Five Books I Should Have DNFed

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme: books you had a hard time with!

I've talked about DNFing books a few times on here a few times, but in case any of you have missed that, the gist of it is that I don't DNF books very often. Over the past couple of years, I've started doing it more, but I've still only ever DNFed 11 books!

This tendency to finish books I'm not particularly enjoying has led to some low star ratings and bad reading experiences that I think could have been avoided. Maybe if I'd been a bit more generous with my DNFing, I'd have missed out on that. And maybe if I remind myself about those books, I'll DNF more books that I'm not liking in the future. Here are five books that I really would have been better off putting down. (I really tried for ten, but since I only DNF books I have strong negative feelings about, I tried to use those same standards.)
ROYALLY LOST by Angie Stanton: The premise of this book sounded amazing, but I could tell from about halfway in that I hated pretty much everything about it. I think the only reason I kept reading was that I desperately wanted it to redeem itself. It didn't.

THE WARLOCK by Michael Scott (The Series of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #5): I really hoped that this would be good. I liked the first four books in this series, but the ending of the fourth book didn't quite sit right with me. I should have taken that plus my disappointment in this book as a sign and just quit the series.

EMMA by Jane Austen: I just couldn't bring myself to DNF a Jane Austen book, but I really, really should have. I was bored, I ended up just skimming huge sections, and it was so long. I knew I wasn't liking it and I just kept reading anyway. Why did I do that to myself?

THE SCORCH TRIALS by James Dashner (Maze Runner #2): I loved the first book in this series, and I think that's why I finished this one, but I was enjoying it so much less that I should have just given up on it. It was so different from the first one - everything that I liked was gone. And it just kept getting weirder. At least I learned from this one and didn't bother reading the last one.

BLOOD RED ROAD by Moira Young (Dust Lands #1): I read this book so long ago that I don't remember all of the specifics, but I remember that it just kept getting weirder and weirder, in a bad way. I had no idea what was going on but I didn't really care. I was reading this on a friend's recommendation or I probably would have DNFed.

What are some books that you should have DNFed? How often do you DNF books? Tell me in the comments!
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