Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
*Cue gasps of shock* Yep, that’s right. I never finished reading Twilight. Shocking, I know. I was only like 10 maybe and I decided I wanted to read the book before watching the film. Well, it got to the day of my mom and I watching the film and I still hadn’t finished the book. We still decided to watch the film and after that I couldn’t be bothered to finish the book. Twilight is actually the first ever book I DNF’d.
I did think about picking them up again at one point as I was really stubborn when it came to finishing books back then, but they never interested me enough. Probably because I knew there were films coming out for them all so I just didn’t care enough to read the books first.
Synopsis: When 17 year old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town.
But in spite of her awkward manner and low expectations, she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale, dark-haired new girl in town. But not, it seems, the Cullen family. These five adopted brothers and sisters obviously prefer their own company and will make no exception for Bella.
Bella is convinced that Edward Cullen in particular hates her, but she feels a strange attraction to him, although his hostility makes her feel almost physically ill. He seems determined to push her away – until, that is, he saves her life from an out of control car.
Bella will soon discover that there is a very good reason for Edward’s coldness. He, and his family, are vampires – and he knows how dangerous it is for others to get too close.
Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
This is another super early DNF that I’ve never really thought about since. I didn’t track my reading when I first tried to read this so it didn’t even occur to me until recently that I never finished this book.
I remember enjoying the first book in the series but couldn’t make it past the first few chapters of this one. I’m not entirely sure why. I had the same issue with Allegiant. I suppose sometimes you genuinely just can’t connect with a book and that’s ok.
Synopsis: Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena’s family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.
Sometimes life-ending.
Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan’s eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there’s no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town’s tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.
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