Haunted Week 2012: Ghosts of Books Half-Read

[Learn more about my HAUNTED WEEK meme here.]

Welcome to the first day of Haunted Week! I'll pull up a scare for you. (Oh, the terrible jokes I make...)

Today's topic: Ghosts of Books Half-Read. Now, I try to finish every book I start, but there are some I put down and I didn't pick up off the shelf ever again: they've been haunting me ever since.

So I introduce to you five of the ghosts of my reading pasts. Explore my graveyard of half-finished novels below: Enter at your own risk.


1. Saving June
 by Hannah Harrington

This is definitely my most recent read—err, half-read. My bookmark's still wedged nearly halfway through my paperback: I just don't feel like picking it up again. The book sounded amazing when I read the summary, but from the moment I started it, I didn't like the main character, Harper. I wasn't enjoying the book, so it got put to the side. Or more accurately, put onto my overstuffed bookshelves.

2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
 by J.K. Rowling

No, I have not read the Harry Potter series. (Please, put your wands and dangerous non-muggle items away—I mean you no harm.) Better late than never, right? The series has become my guilty pleasure reading for when I have reading time but no books to read for my blog. But I haven't had a lull in blog books for a while now, though, so my Harry Potter Book Counter is currently stuck in the middle of #3.

3. Juliet Immortal
 by Stacey Jay

Now this one is a bit unique: I was only a couple of chapters in, but I was loving the book. However, it was an audiobook I'd downloaded from my library, and before I finished it, the book expired. Since I don't really listen to audiobooks anyway (and also because I'm incredibly lazy) I've never gotten back on the website and downloaded it again. But I plan to! Maybe tomorrow. Or next week. Eventually.

4. The Pledge
 by Kimberly Derting

Oh, insta-love. How you vanquish even the most amazing of books. Guys, I loved the prologue to this book. Really. It will go down in history as one of my all-time favorite beginnings. But lo and behold, a certain guy was introduced and, right after him, the very dreaded insta-love. Now, here might be a reason, or maybe it's justifiable in some way if you read on in the book, but otherwise...no. Just no.

5. The Lost Saint
 by Bree Despain

I didn't exactly enjoy the first book in this book's series, The Dark Divine, (see my review of book disgruntlement here) but I was hoping the sequel would blow me away with wonderfulness. I got a few chapters into it and...nope. I'm still not a fan of the books. I'm still not rooting for the main couple. And I'm still wondering why the covers have awkwardly-pale legs on them.

So now you've seen the dark side of my bookshelf—should I pick any of these up again? What half-read books are haunting you?