Hi friends! I’m SO EXCITED for today’s topic because when I think about it, there are quite a few books I’d like to rewrite. Of course, these are all my personal opinions, and every author works hard! Anyways, it’s not like I could rewrite these much better but it’s a nice thought. Don’t forget that Top 5 Tuesday is hosted by Shanah @ Bionic Bookworm!
Escaping From Houdini!
This is a book that I think could do with a rewrite, mainly, Thomas and Audrey Rose’s relationship. The amount of unneeded angst is ridiculous. WHY CAN’T SOME PEOPLE* JUST GET OVER THEMSELVES AND COMMUNICATE. It really took away from the mystery, which kind of sucked because the atmosphere and setting is so incredible!
*by “some people” i mean “audrey rose”
War Storm!
By rewrite, I mean cut out half the book. There are so many perspectives, and so! much! filler! Even the ending was kind of anticlimactic, especially considering everything that lead up to it. Honestly, this whole series probably could have ended a lot sooner, if certain characters didn’t make the dumbest decisions in the whole wide world.
Truly Devious
Truly Devious has an amazing premise and an incredible cast of characters! But the first book is basically 70% romance and drama and 30% mystery. I require my mysteries to be at least 60% mystery, okay. So back to the drawing board this goes!
Empire of Storms!
y’all are going to disown me…
But if I could rewrite this book purely for myself, I would add in MUCH more diverse characters on all spectrums and leave out the, um, explicit scenes. Both of those aspects are what stops me from properly stanning this series so if they were fixed…it’d be war on my favorites list.
Twilight!
Okay but can you imagine 2019 Twilight? Fresh, unproblematic, diverse, not stupid, actually romantic, with maybe-not-so-sparkly vampires? I WOULD BE SO HAPPY YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW.
And that’s it! Hopefully, you all don’t totally hate me now. Tell me: what books would YOU want to rewrite?
I liked Truly Devious and Escaping From Houdini, haha.
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That’s awesome!!! Did you read the sequel to Truly Devious?
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I did! I thought it was really good and am excited for the final book.
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Ooh yay! I’m hoping to read it soon XD
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Truly Devious is among my Top 5 of least favorite books ever, lol.
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Oh my gosh, really?! I’m so sorry! What was your least favorite thing about it?
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This is an interesting tag and I’ve heard mixed of things for the first three books despite having never read them myself so iy sounds like a rewrite would be good.
I agree about Empire of Storms as I feel like major improvements could have been had for these books.
I’m not sure which books I would rewrite, it is quite a hard question š
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That’s an interesting perspective!! Haha I didn’t think that anyone else would rewrite Empire of Storms! That is a hard questionš
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I own War Storm but I’m not sure I will ever pick up mainly because of the sheer size of it!
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It is VERY big lol! I hope that you do end up enjoying it if you read it!š
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I agree with you with twilight.. that would be so much better.
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Yesss, exactly!! It’d be super entertaining!
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I so agree about War Storm, I can’t get over my disappointment yet!!
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IKR it could have been so good!!
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I hope I enjoy Escaping From Houdini as I recently treated myself to the series after being ill. I kind of want to rewrite the end of Undone. Not the whole book, just the end š
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Oh, I hope you adore the whole series!!š who wrote the Undone series?
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Thank you, fingers crossed š And it’s a standalone by Cat Clarke (:
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Ahh thank you so much, I’ll check it out!
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War Storm is also on my list!!!!
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Ahh, I’m glad I’m not the only one XD
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I second the rewrite to Escaping from Houdini. All the rewrites, please and thank you.
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AMEN to thatšš
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Great post! I love Twilight and Empire of Storms as they are but definitely agree with you about changing Truly Devious. The potential is there for so much more mystery!! Jen
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Thank you!!š That’s fair, they’re not bad books at all! And yes, there’s such fantastic potential there š
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O GOD, GREAT CHOICES! Please rewrite Truly Devious – I cannot stress how much that ending annoyed me… It’s mystery, not romance?! And also please rewrite Twilight – that would be the coolest thing ever – although I have to admit I still watch the movies with my mum from time to time haha!
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IKR! PREACHHH. And yes that’s true!
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I’m with you on Empire of Storms. Hell, I may have pushed through if SJM had made Manon x Elide canon. Instead, I’ve bitterly refused to finish the series (for more reasons than just that, but still).
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OOF I feel that. Too much predictable, similar romance. And same hereš
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I haven’t read any of the books on you list, although I have watched the first two Twilight films – too angsty for my grumpy sensibilities! š
I wimped out of talking about specific books this week and did something different with my T5T. š I hope you enjoy the rest of your week. Here’s my Top 5 Tuesday Post
Flora x
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I can relate! Lots of angst.
And ahhh, I hope you enjoy your week!š Ooh, thank you for linking it, I’ll have to read it when I have time!!
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I actually don’t mind explicit scenes in Empire of Storms because I’m me and that’s how I roll (lol), but totally respect your wishes here in that regard. š I one thousand a million percent agree that the series really needed to be more diverse on all fronts. I mean, one of the things I like about that series is that it’s kind of cliche but that also works against it in a lot of ways too. Great post!
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That’s totally understandable! And YES it’s awful how basic it is. Haha true. Thank you!š
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