May DNFs

I’ll try to keep these write ups short and sweet for these three books. For the first two, I do not remember much, just enough to know that these were not the books for me. Oh, all of these DNFs came on the same day.

Both of these had something within the first five percent that turned me off. I do not remember anything about The West Passage except for the fact that I went ahead and cancelled my Caffeine and Legends box, of which this was a pick. (I will have more thoughts on my eventual book box audit post.)
All I remember of The Scorpion Queen was that it read too juvenile, an odd critique from someone that reads as much middle grade and young adult as I do. I struggle to convey what I mean so hopefully what follows will suffice. The writing that composed the narrative read more like someone of the YA age range wrote it and little editing was done. Perhaps if I had read more, I could give a better description. Rather than torture myself, I noped out.

Unlike the other two in this post, I made it almost halfway in this one, starting the audiobook on my long run and getting a considerable way through. I found myself quite perplexed at first because a modern setting with a subsequent portal to the fae along with a quasi-magical school training for trials was not what I expected. I kept grasping at straws, hoping that I would eventually understand. After time away from

the audiobook after my run and the attempted start of the previous two novels, I realized that I had no interest in the story or in struggling through several more hours of the narrative and set it aside.