Hehe.

Not that I completely stopped reading. I just gave up on a book.

It is "Shadow Hunter" by Will Baker.

My relationship with that book is tragic. I began to read it in January, and I am still at the two hundredth page. Reading that book was a challenge. I forced myself to read it. But in the end, I just gave up, just like how I like to give up on people.

There are many reasons for me to give up on that book. While writing this, I will probably be thinking about what those reasons were.

The book has rusty looking texture. The words look collided, and I am someone who does not care about having such an ambiance. I used to be, maybe. It is the story of mutation, just like something that aligns with Darwin's theory. I will be a little more precise in the description.

Most of you might have already watched the movie "X-MEN." Humans in the film considered the mutants as threats. So, humans use their power to eradicate and gain control over them. The mutants, who sense the future, fight back. These confusions turn out to be war.

After reading the initial chapters, I realized that this was the central theme. But although I love science fiction, this one disappointed me.

Those words looked clustered. The story either had a sudden shift or did not shift at all. Some of the sentences were too complicated to understand. The sentences looked professional and cannot gain the attention of the reader.

The situation annoyed me. But I have never given up reading a book in my life. Hence, I felt confused. I made many efforts to get back to it, but they all went in vain. I googled to find if it was alright to give up on a book. It is okay. But I was not okay. I landed up in a state of having a pang of constant guilt. I loved the characters. But they felt very cliche.

How do I explain this?

In the end, I kept the book back on the shelf. I still think about the book.

All the while, with the book, I was reading for the sake of reading. Somewhere I realized that I should be reading for my pleasure. I can never force a plot on me. I am still unhappy about it. But I did not want to stress upon it. So I gave up.

And it is okay to give up on books. It is easier than giving up on people. But again, this depends on your relationship with those books.