Mid-Year Reading Check-In: Favorites, Least Favorites, and DNFs

Usually I do the Mid-Year Freakout Tag for my mid-year check-in, but a lot of those questions don't apply to the way I read, so this year I'm doing something different. I'm basing it off the way I did my end of year favorites/least favorites from last year where I would say why I liked/disliked something and then go through reviews that felt the opposite and see why they felt that way. I'm also going to go over the books I DNFed in the first half of the year and why.