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Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week I’m talking about the six books I’ve DNFed so far this year. Let’s get straight into it.

The Witch King (The Witch King #1) by H.E Edgmon

This was my first DNF of the year at the end of January. This duology was meant to be a book club read but I ended up not being able to get through it. I can’t remember the exact page I got to now, but I gave it a good go and I think it was around page 150-170 somewhere that I gave up.

Fear by Bob Woodward

I was reading this as part of a collaboration looking at the Goodreads Choice Awards. I really struggled with this—there was a lot I didn’t know or understand because I’m not American and don’t know the ins and outs of their politics or what half of the different governmental bodies and etc were.

Crystal Crowned (Air Awakens #5) by Elise Kova

I reread this entire series so I could finally pick this one up and then ended up DNFing it only 30 or so pages in. I loved books one to four when I read them originally, but rereading them, I found that my reading tastes have changed a lot.

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

I don’t do thrillers or crime beyond Christie, Marsh and a few others but my friend Mel picked this for me to read and so I tried. She’d recommended The Guest List to me previously and I’d enjoyed it, so I was interested in this one. I found it way too unsettling to read more than 100 pages of it and ended up just looking at the ending online.

In the Ravenous Dark by A.M Strickland

This is the only one on the list I’d consider coming back to. I made it 50% of the way through and I was a bit unsure about it, but I needed to return it to the library and couldn’t reborrow it at the time so I ended up DNFing it. It’s something I’d be interested in trying again, maybe as an audiobook instead.

Sugar by Carly Nugent

I had extremely high expectations for this one—it’s a YA contemporary about a Type One Diabetic written by someone who actually has diabetes. I’ve been diabetic for 13 years so I was incredibly excited to read this, especially as Nugent is also an Aussie. The diabetes representation was fantastic, but the rest of the book was so angsty that I couldn’t keep reading.

And that’s everything I’ve DNFed so far this year. What books have you given up on?