The Passage TV show trailer

Regular readers of this blog will know that I'm totally obsessed with the book trilogy "The Passage" by Justin Cronin.  When I first heard that it had been optioned for a TV show, I was pretty excited, especially because originally it was going to be adapted for a movie and I knew there was just no way to cram that whole book into a movie.  Then I heard the TV show was going to be on Fox, and I started to worry.  Because this really is a show that screams for premium cable or a streaming network.

Books I Hated

So far on the blog, I have focused on books that I love.  Obviously, if I'm recommending books to people, I'm going to talk about books I love.  But I thought it would be fun for a change to talk instead about books I hated, since I can get equally worked up about about that.  And I mean really hated.

I'm also not going to include any books that I had to read for school, rather, these are all books I read on my own, either voluntarily or for book club.

And since I have this weird compulsion to finish reading every book I start, these are all books I actually suffered through to the end.  Occasionally there have been books that I hated at the beginning but which actually grew on me as I read them.  But the books below are books I finished and still hated.  I don't mean disliked, but HATED, and which still inspire me to feelings of white hot hatred!

Please Don't Call Your Book the Next 'Gone Girl'!

Please, do me a favor, and don't call your book "the next Gone Girl."  It's just going to set your readers up for disappointment.

Look, I get it - it's not necessarily the authors that do this - it's the publishers or the marketers or the reviewers.  And I even understand why they think it's the right thing to do, because it will draw people in.  And I might even be one of those people who is a sucker for pithy blurbs myself - I recently saw something about a book described as "'Station Eleven' meets the 'Hunger Games'" and pretty much started drooling and added the book to my Amazon wishlist.

But if you make a promise, you better deliver on it, and all too often these books - especially the "next Gone Girl" books - are disappointing.