Top Ten Tuesday: Series & Authors I've Given Up On

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic: 

Series and Authors I've Given Up On
Whether it's a series that didn't wow me or an author that I decided to break up with... you have to know when to say when.

T H E   S E R I E S

The Remnant Chronicles | Mary E. Pearson

I know a lot of people loved this trilogy but I read the first book and just didn't care enough to continue.

Sulfur Heights | M.S. Brannon

I made it through the first two books (Scarred Love and Tragic Love) when I just couldn't take the cheesy dialogue and over the top drama any more.

Wintersong | S. Jae Jones

I had high hopes for this one, but after making it through the slow-paced first book I couldn't work up enough interest to pick up Shadowsong.

Immortal Guardians | Dianne Duvall

I read the first book in this vampire series and I admit it was entertaining. But at the end of the day there just wasn't enough there to make me really want to continue the series.

Scorpius Syndrome | Rebecca Zanetti

I tried to read this one at what turned out to be the start of a months-long reading slump. So I'll never know if it was me or the book, but Mercury Striking turning out to be one of my very few DNF's. I gave up after roughly 50 pages and have no desire to try again or continue the series.

T H E   A U T H O R S

Jennifer E. Smith

After three of Smith's young adult contemporary novels, I gave up. All three stories felt so generic and forgettable to me.

Jane Green

This is a sad one because Green used to be one of my favorite go-to authors. Throughout the early 2000's I inhaled everything she read. But by 2010 things seemed to take a turn and her storytelling felt more generic, more bland and just uninspired. By the time I read 2014's Saving Grace I was done. It seems that I'm not alone because the GoodReads ratings for Green's last several novels are hovering around the 3.4 mark.

Jandy Nelson

It only took one book for me to realize that Jandy Nelson's writing is Not. For. Me. The number of 5 star ratings for I'll Give You the Sun is staggering, but the purple prose and artsy metaphors left me cold (or rolling my eyes). I won't be reading more from Nelson.

Debra Anastasia

I actually made it through the entire Poughkeepsie Brotherhood trilogy but by the second book it was mostly just so I could take copious notes for scathing reviews. Maybe Anastasia's writing is supposed to fall into the so-bad-it's-good category? But every character, every plot line and every line of dialogue was so absurd and so over the top that I just kept thinking "Is this woman for real?" 

Ann Brashares

The Traveling Pants series was a fairly entertaining YA contemporary series. Each of the four girls annoyed me to no end at times but it was okay. Then I read the miserable adult follow-up, Sisterhood Everlasting, in which Brashares turned every character into unlikable train wrecks. Then I tried her adult novel, The Last Summer, and almost DNF'd it multiple times. And finally came the hot mess that was YA dystopian The Here and Now. Ann Brashares, we're over.

What series or author have you abandoned?