
Have you ever started a series with great enthusiasm only to give up before you got to the end? I sure have. A lot.
Here is a list of some of the series that I began and never completed. I’ll tell you where I left off and why I stopped reading. If you come across one (or more!) that you think I should finish, please let me know!
1: The Hunger Games
Where I left off:
Right in the middle of Mockingjay
Why I stopped reading:
I started reading The Hunger Games at some point in high school. I had the goal of finishing the series before the final film came out because I often want to read a book before seeing its adaptation.
When I got to Mockingjay, I found myself extremely bored the entire first half of the novel. So bored that I just put it down and didn’t pick it back up.
A couple years later I tried to read it again only to stop at around the exact same place for the exact same reason. I still watched the film if you were wondering.
2: The Maze Runner
Where I left off:
The Death Cure
Why I stopped reading:
I never actually planned to leave this series incomplete. It was just bad timing I suppose.
I don’t remember when I read The Maze Runner but I know that I finished it before the movie came out. I then set my sights of finishing The Scorch Trials before that movie came out and succeeded.
Unfortunately, when I got to the The Death Cure I had just graduated from undergrad and was in the process of moving across the Pacific Ocean. I never got around to reading it and now at this point, I’d have to start from the beginning.
3: Divergent
Where I left off:
Allegiant
Why I stopped reading:
I don’t know if this is a spoiler or what but I read Divergent, Insurgent, and Four and then I bought Allegiant to read. I tend to have really bad anxiety about not knowing what’s going to happen in a book or film–I often can’t see a film without reading the synopsis first–and so before I read Allegiant I decided to look up the story. I didn’t like what I read and so I never bothered actually reading the book.
4: Harry Potter
Where I left off:
In the middle of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Why I stopped reading:
To be honest I think this was just the case of me being terrified as a kid of the sheer volume of this series. I had watched a bunch of the movies and decided that maybe I should take a crack at the books.
I was probably just ending middle school or starting high school and I think I just got scared of the idea of having to read 7 “giant” books.
5: The Mortal Instruments
Where I left off:
I think book 3??? I honestly can’t remember.
Why I stopped reading:
I was actually really enjoying this series. I had started reading it when I was doing this amazing thing where I would read a book a week on my kindle.
I bought the first 3 or 4 novels on my Kindle to read and I can’t remember why I stopped. It was probably that I was tired of not reading physical books or that my school workload became too demanding.
6: Ender’s Game
Where I left off:
The middle of Speaker for the Dead
Why I stopped reading:
I read Ender’s Game my sophomore year of high school as part of an English assignment. We were given a list of approved books and we got to choose which one we wanted to read.
I finished reading it, wrote up my book report or whatever it was I had to do, and decided that I liked it a lot. I bought Speaker for the Dead maybe in college? I’m not exactly sure when, but before I read it, I reread Ender’s Game again. After a few chapters of Speaker for the Dead, I found myself bored and stopped.
I totally understand you with The Hunger Games and Divergent. Mockingjay was definitely not the best way to end the series, in my opinion. I spoiled myself with Allegiant as well and I was SO tempted to not finish it because I didn’t want to see how I knew it would end. With the Mortal Instruments, the first three (the original trilogy) was sooo good. I haven’t finished the series either but I’m close to and I already feel like it should’ve been left as a trilogy. We’ll see how it ends up though. Great post! Followed on bloglovin.
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Thanks for the comment! I’m new to blogging so can I ask what bloglovin is?
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It’s an easy way to follow and keep track of blogs 🙂 Sometimes your fav blog isn’t on wordpress so it’s an easier way to see latest posts etc. I’m also a new blogger and starting to slowly figure things out. Great post! I also felt the same about the Hunger Games 🙂
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Thanks!
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I’ve finished all of these series except for Ender’s Game. I read the first book and really loved it so I’m honestly not real sure why I didn’t finish it. I guess I should do that!
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I also stopped reading The Hunger Games! I honestly didn’t like the first book, even though I adored the movie! Allegiant is a really bad finale, it crushed my young heart into pieces
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Oh wow I recently reread the first book and liked it a lot more than I did the first time around! I’m still afraid to read Allegiant
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It’s honestly a bad book, it took me a long time to get through it. But it was very sad 😦
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