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Okay nobody said His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman. So that's my hated reading experience.
The first book was okay, seemed promising, the rest got worse and worse by the page. I've picked up lousy books and I can quickly tell if they would be a waste of time, so I drop them early. I have no beef with those books. But His Dark Materials? What a disappointment. I want my time and money back.
What didn't you like? I remember having a few issues here and there but otherwise being entertained.
How cliche/cringe the characters and stories turned, in particular Lyra's love subplot, Lyra's mother storyline, plus somehow getting God mixed in just to make some kind of "social commentary" which IMO felt cringe and broke my suspension of disbelief as I was reading ( and I'm an atheist btw ). All in all it was good starting concept, the world looked promising but the story was lame. And I didn't like those weird wheel aliens. Biologically their description made no sense, and their storyline was so boring.
The only cool character in the series was the bear.