Marked as DNF 6/15/16: This was surprisingly easy to DNF. I enjoyed RED QUEEN but it was one of those reads where as much as I saw every other book in it, I was able to look past all of the comparisons and I enjoyed it for what it was. The ending was surprising and exciting! 
 GLASS SWORD kicked off with action and yet somehow......... it was so boring. It all felt very flat, standard action scenes, not much excitement or intrigue. The characters lost their luster and had no chemistry. Everyone is too upset now to even talk to each other and even interact. 
 When it comes down to it, I really started to lose interest in the series when I read the novellas. One was interesting but nothing too special and the other I didn't even finish. I started losing my desire to read the series at all BUT I really did enjoy RED QUEEN and found myself weird attracted to it for how many times I compared it to other books. Starting GLASS SWORD was just rough. I wasn't interested at all and couldn't focus on my audiobook whatsoever. Having finished recent audiobooks where I practically time traveled to work because they were so good and I got lost in the story, it was VERY noticeable how much I was not enjoying this audio. I do like Amanda Dolan and I liked her narration in RQ but this book was just too slow and I started to really get annoyed with Mare. 
 Whenever I feel like I'm about to DNF a book, I usually go peek at other reviews on Goodreads to see if I'm the black sheep or to see if there's something just beyond the horizon that I should stick around for but there were SOOO many one, two, and three star reviews and so many statements that were similar to how I was already feeling, the decision to DNF was an easy one. I see that the ending may be shocking like the last book but I'm not reading 350 boring pages to get to 25 good ones.