Okay, you know the drill by now. I am participating in the weekly meme Top Ten Tuesday created by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is “Ten Characters You Just Didn’t Click With” so, let’s do this!
(again I just want to remind you that this is not really a ranking, but more of a “numbering”)
1. Quentin from the Magicians Series by Lev Grossman
I’ve talked about this series in the past days because I am currently reading it and I mentioned that I just don’t like any of the characters very much. They are all pretty miserable and a drag, but since Quentin is the protagonist, I chose him.
2. Eadlyn from The Heir (Selection #4) by Kiera Cass
I just do NOT like this girl. For the matter, I didn’t liker her mother much either, but seriously? Eadlyn is a spoiled brat with not a trace of empathy in her body. If the book hadn’t ended with a cliffhanger, I wouldn’t want to continue the series with her as main protagonist. But since I am too curious to stop now, I will have to.
3. Sutter Keely from The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
I like that the book isn’t like every other teenage story out there. It is a lot more cynic than that, but I just did not click with Sutter (not even when he was portrayed by Miles Teller in the movie …). He drinks way too much, is an immensely selfish person and is not nearly as funny as he thinks. Maybe I was just really disappointed with the outcome of the story though …
4. Harriet from Geek Girl by Holly Smale
What is that girl’s problem with being called a “Geek”? I would embrace the heck out of that, but she is just embarrassed about it and let’s it drag her down. Also, she’s too naive for my taste.
5. Greg from Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
The book was fine, but I just really couldn’t connect with Greg. He was mopey and in complete denial. Why couldn’t he just say that the others are his friends? What on earth is so bad about caring?
6. Bianca from The DUFF by Kody Keplinger
As much as I like the message behind the story, snarky Bianca is not my kind of person. Her voice definitely wasn’t for me.
7. Teresa from the Maze Runner Series by James Dashner
Seriously? What was the point of that girl? She was supposed to be Thomas (to whom I also couldn’t really connect) soulmate or something but she was barely even there. In book one she was basically in a coma most of the time, in book two she has a couple appearances and in book three the end? Come on!!! If that was her sole purpose and I was supposed to be sad, you should actually have made her do something important during some point in the series before.
8. Lola from Lola and the Boy Next Door (Anna and the French Kiss #2) by Stephanie Perkins
Everybody seems to love Lola or at least prefer her a lot over Isla, but I am not one of those people. As much as I love the series as a whole, Lola was way too eccentric, selfish and also a bit annoying. I clicked with her the least of all three girls.
9. Laurel from Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
Maybe it was the fact that her whole story was pretty much an identical female version of Charlie’s story from the Perks of Being a Wallflower or maybe it was something entirely different. But I did not really enjoy her as a protagonist. But for the record, I didn’t exactly bond with Charlie either …
10. June and Day from Legend by Marie Lu
I’m sorry, okay! I know how many people love this series, but I just can’t. It’s totally not for me and I did not like either of them very much which is probably the reason I never read farther than volume 1 in the series.
What are some of the characters you just didn’t click with? Leave a comment and let’s talk!
The protagonist from “The Coldest Winter Ever”. Nothing she did made me like her or feel sympathetic to her. Everything bad that happens to her at the end, I cheer for because she was so stupid and brought it all on herself.
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I barely ever know the books you talk about, but I am definitely not tempted to pick this one up.
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Good, because the only good use this book has is if you want to torture yourself.
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Hahaha yeah definitely don’t want to do that. But man, you REALLY don’t like that book!
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I also hate Wuthering Heights with a passion.
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Never read it, but I thought that was a real classic. Which doesn’t mean that you have to like it of course.
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It’s only a classic because the author Emily Bronte got her much more famous sister Charlotte Bronte (author of Jane Eyre, by the way), to write a foreword for the second edition, which got people reading. The first edition was panned by many contemporary critics at the time…and by many still today.
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I know who Charlotte Bronte is and I also know who Emily Bronte is lol and I have read Jane Eyre … almost completely …
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Sorry. I forgot for a second who I’m talking to.
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My classics collection is very small though. We don’t really read any of the English stuff in school because we have our own German and Austrian classics. But as a bookworm you feel obliged to read to them at some point in your reading life …
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I’ve been there before.
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oh, we just have one in common 😀 I liked your list, most of those books I’m not very tempted to read…
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Well, next to Greg, I almost put Thomas from the Maze Runner on the list, but thought that Teresa was even more pointless.
Also, I was really tempted to put Jessamine and Jacob on it as well, but they didn’t end up making the cut … I was still working on my list when I wrote the comment on yours hahaha
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lol, as I only read the first book, I don’t have that strong of an opinion on theresa 😉
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She’s useless. She has no character whatsoever and is just a boring plot device but not nearly as important as everyone always tries to make her out.
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that I’ve gathered. Doesn’t she die?
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Yes. She saves Thomas. That’s really the whole reason she was there.
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lol, I really should read the rest of the books…
BTW, Aaron and Adam are brothers?! WTF???? My jaw dropped!
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It took me a while until I got that hahaha (happens when you never call the dude Aaron). YEAH! YOU DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING; HUH!? (I have no idea why I wrote this in all caps)
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LOL, I didn’t want to spoil anyone, lol.
It’s not so much the fact that they’re brothers, but how his father pulled it off, you know? He really loved Adam’s mom, really? Is he capable of something like that?
Also, their father is not at all like I imagined him in Destroy me, which is so much worse.
And I was feeling so much for Aaron when his dad was talking to Juliette about how a disgrace his son is, I wanted to kill him myself.
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I know 😉
Yeah, I hate his dad too. And I am glad to hear that Aaron is growing on you! I clearly don’t remember it in as much detail as you do right after reading it, but that was some important info.
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he is growing, especially because he apologized her for kissing her against her will
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See, he isn’t really that much of a psycho. He just had a difficult time while growing up and has some issues to work through.
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some? Oh god! He makes Juliette sound like the sane one there
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Yeah, well that’s what happens when your father treats you like you ain’t worth anything. It’s rooted real deep!
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yeahhhhh… there’s a lot of messed up people in these books… Tahereh’s mind is a bit twisted…
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All the best are crazy! Alice in Wonderland taught me that 😉
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LOL
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Also, Juliette is getting better every day. The isolation wasn’t the best thing for her sanity but by the end of Ignite Me she’s just a super-confident girl.
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I also took issue with the little lecture that Kenji gave her about how good she got it and that she needed to get over herself. He was right in some things, but that was terrible, no one can imagine how 17 years of being less than nothing can do to a person, and him telling her that it was time she got over it, really? she was free for just a few weeks, how is she supposed to learn something new like that, when all her instincts are telling her to keep away? I wanted to slap him, but just for a moment
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I like Kenji, but I know what you mean. It’s not realistic that a person would be able to get over something that’s been programmed into her very fabric of being for more than a decade. But I guess we just didn’t have that much time in the book and maybe she just always had it in her anyway?
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I like Kenji too, though I’m still not sure about his purpose on the series… I0m glad she gets over herself, I just wish he had phrased it differently, because he was harsh and mean and totally unfair.
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But people are always harsh in war-like situations. There is no nice way to ease someone into this sort of stuff.
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=/ hummm… ok… you might have some point there, but I don’t know, I din’t like it. he was mean!
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Okay, I’ll give you that.
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😀 😉
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I have Eadlyn and Laurel on my list as well; Eadlyn was such a snob and I just couldn’t fully connect with Laurel much. I’m sorry to see June and Day on the list, though I understand the Legend trilogy isn’t for everyone. XD Cool list!
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Eadlyn is just such a terrible person, and Laurel .. you read my review for the book.
I’m sorry I had to put June and Day on it. I did apologise in the post though 😉 somehow the series just didn’t work for me….
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I didn’t ever connect with Lewis Carroll’s Alice. I found her dimwitted and dull. Maybe I didn’t give her enough of a chance but she just seemed so slow on the uptake that I kept getting irritated. I know those books are true classics and so many people love them, but I just couldn’t get into the first one so I didn’t even try the others.
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I love the Alice in Wonderland story by itself, but the book is something different. I always have troubles connecting to anyone really when I’m reading classics, that mostly my concentration is taken up by the different style of writing and not by the character.
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