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All Our Yesterdays, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Brigid Kemmerer, Cara Lynn Shultz, Crash, Cristin Terrill, Elementals, Half Bad, Kady Cross, Kylie Fornasier, Let the Sky Fall, Lisa McMann, Masquerade, R. J. Anderson, Sally Green, Shannon Messenger, Spellbound, The Girl in the Steel Corset, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, Top Ten Tuesday, Ultraviolet, Underrated YA
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This Week’s Topic: Top Ten Underrated books/series in YA
So, basically I interpreted this as ‘books/series that are not as popular as they should be’.
1. All Our Yesterdays, by Cristin Terrill
2. Ultraviolet, by R.J. Anderson
3. Elementals (series), by Brigid Kemmerer
4. Masquerade, by Kylie Fornasier
5. The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, by Ambelin Kwaymullina
6. Let the Sky Fall, Shannon Messenger
7. Crash, by Lisa McMann
8. Spellbound, by Cara Lynn Shultz
9. Half Bad, by Sally Green
10. The Girl in the Steel Corset, by Kady Cross
Now, this one was hard, because I find it hard to tell what’s popular, and what’s not. So, basically, my rule was to look at the number of ratings on Goodreads. If it had under 20000 ratings, it made the list.
Interesting note: some series had a high number of ratings for the first book, but books 2 and 3 often had significantly lower numbers.
The Magical Adventures of Cassie the Weird 
I keep meaning to read All Our Yesterdays. I don’t even know what it’s about, but I’ve heard it’s really under-rated 🙂 And I really want to read Masquerade, it sounds amazing!! 😀
YES! All Our Yesterdays was amazing. Best impulse buy I’ve ever done.
Pretty much all you need to know about it is that it involves time travel. It was awesome!!
And Masquerade was really good.
HUZZAH FOR HALF BAD! *hi fives* Brilliant minds obviously think alike. I actually am not sure it’s so underrated as just hated. Which makes me sad and momentarily angry, but I freakishly love that book and hardly anyone else does!!! NATHAN NEEDS TO BE RESCUED. Oh, but I would really love to read All Our Yesterdays. I definitely think it’s underrated because I never see it around.
I loved Let the Sky Fall! I have Half Bad, The Girl in the Steel Corset, Spellbound and All Our Yesterdays and I hope to read them soon. I will check out the others on your list.
Michelle @ Michelle’s Minions
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It’s weird yet understandable when series continuations don’t live up to their first installment! It seems like that’s the case for trilogies most of the time at least. All Our Yesterday’s is sitting on my shelf right now too (it was an impulse buy I think haha) and I’ve seen a lot of praise for it!
Side note: I wonder how Half Bad and Half Wild would look side-by-side, their covers are pretty neat.
Cheers,
joey via. thoughts and afterthoughts
What I’ve noticed, though, is not that more people dislike the later books in a series, but they just haven’t read them.
For example, Storm by Brigid Kemmerer. On goodreads, it has around 14000 ratings, with an average of about 4 stars. The next book in the series, Spark, has around 8000 ratings, but still maintains the 4 stars average. The third book has even less ratings.
This is a shame, because while the first book was good, the later books just keep getting better and better.
I sort-of get why it happens, though. There are so many series to read, sometimes you only have time for book 1, and if it didn’t impress you enough, you might not go out of your way to continue the series. I know that’s what I do.
I bought All Our Yesterdays on an impulse…that was a year ago, and I still maintain that it is the best impulse buy I’ve ever made.
And yes, Half Wild will look so pretty next to Half Bad.
Oh! I thought you were referring to how sometimes sequels fall flat of the first book (which I guess I could sometimes relate to). But yes, you could be right on the money with why that happens considering the infinite TBR pile!