I want to re-state that the books I talk about in this series aren’t necessarily popular as in ‘everyone has read this’, it’s more that they have pretty high ratings but I didn’t like them. That doesn’t quite roll off the tongue though so that’s why it’s ‘popular books I didn’t like’.
Berserk by Resa Nelson
This book almost has a 4 star average rating in Goodreads, which genuinely shocked me. I wouldn’t say I remember a lot about it as I read this back in 2019 when I wasn’t writing reviews. But I do remember not being very impressed.
I’m surprised I even remembered not liking it enough to add it to my list for this series that I put together a while ago. To be honest, I do rely on my reviews a lot to jog my memory on what I thought of a book, so the fact that I don’t remember anything about this makes sense.
I talk about the random free books I ‘bought’ on my Kindle back in 2019 in my Goodreads organise series. This is one of those books and clearly it came back to bite me. I think I actually read a few of them back in the day so it will be interesting to see if any more of them pop up in this series.
Synopsis: When you lose everything, can you trust a monster to help?
When Benzel is a boy, his family is murdered and his village is destroyed by berserkers. Now grown, he dedicates his life to finding the berserkers responsible but is stymied at every turn by magic, dragons, and dragonslayers. Benzel meets a monster that can help him, but at what cost?
The Dog Share by Fiona Gibson
I listened to an audio-ARC of this book and I was not impressed in the slightest. Again, this is pretty close to having an average rating of four stars, which is WILD. However, I did review this one so please enjoy this exact quotes from my review:
“For a book called ‘the dog share’ there was not a lot of dog sharing. This concept isn’t even discussed until over halfway through the book and honestly, the dog just was not an important element.”
I’ve never held back my genuine thoughts in my reviews but this one in particular really made me laugh:
“The book was not bad but it has definitely been marketed wrong. The title led me to believe that this would be a fluff-filled romance that centred around a dog. Instead, it was just general adult fiction that centred around a whiskey distillery in Scotland and a dog just happened to be involved.”
Apparently I listened to this before I started DNF’ing books, which I actually said in my review I would have done. Not exactly a glowing review considering I’d just said, in the same review, that it’s not a bad book. I clearly needed to make my mind up.
Synopsis: Suzy Medley is having a bad day…
… when a shabby terrier turns up at her door. Just like Suzy, Scout has been abandoned, although only Suzy has been left with a financial mess and a business in tatters thanks to her ex.
Suzy takes Scout in and her chaotic world changes in unexpected ways: strangers have never been more welcoming and her teenage kids can’t wait to come home to visit.
Then a chance encounter on a windy Hebridean beach makes things more complicated, because Suzy isn’t the only one who needs a friend.
Scout has plenty of love to go round… but does Suzy?
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