I get so excited when my favorite book becomes a movie—then I panic and hope that it isn't going to be ruined. Unfortunately for us bookworms, our wishes aren't granted most of the time. Most of the time, the adaptations of our favorite books will change so much that it becomes a totally different story, and we have to explain to our friends why the book is better, knowing they won't actually read the book. Here's a look at some of my favorite books and how its adaptations didn't go well.

1. "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher

"Thirteen Reasons Why" is a novel about a boy named Clay who finds out about his former co-worker Hannah Baker's suicide by cassette tapes narrated by her. She explains the thirteen reasons that led her to kill herself and explains that everyone who is given the tapes is part of the reason she killed herself. When I first started reading "Thirteen Reasons Why," I told everyone around me that they need to read it. They would nod in agreement and would pretend they'd go out and find it but never did. It became a Netflix show in 2017 and of course, everyone was watching it.

I could go on and on about the major differences between the book and the movie, but what I liked about the book the most was that it was just about Clay spending the night listening to the tapes—it didn't involve messy high school drama, it doesn't describe in detail the suicide like the show does, and it stays in Clay's point of view.

2. "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult

"My Sister's Keeper" is the story of a family dealing with leukemia. Younger sister Anna was born and genetically altered to be a perfect match to her older sister with leukemia and after tiring of hospital trips and bone marrow and cell transplants, she takes their family to court to get her freedom back, which causes controversy within the family. I think I watched about five minutes of the movie before shutting it off, I actually had to look up the differences between the book and the movie to see what was wrong with it, and man, there was soooo much wrong.

The movie pretty much erased the entire purpose of the book, removed characters, changed personalities and even resolutions. The movie was so far from the book that even author Jodi Picoult was shocked and had no idea it was happening.

3. "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

"Insurgent" is the sequel to "Divergent", a story about eighteen-year-old Trish who lives in a world that's divided into factions. Unlike the rest of the world, she has the rare ability of being Divergent and having multiple talents, making her unable to fit into just one faction. Insurgent was painful to watch for a multitude of reasons.

First off, if you have read the books, you'd know that Trish is dealing with the aftermath of the death of her parents, which in turn gives her terrible PTSD around guns, and is also afraid of intimacy, which was shown in the fear simulator when she's given the chance to put her and Four's relationship to the next level. What does she do in the second movie? She's constantly seen with a gun in her hand and she has sex for the first time with Four.

Additionally, because of how they changed the book ending so dramatically, it makes it even harder for the next movie to be able to be like the books and is pretty much not even connected to the books at all.

I don't think there will ever come a time where books and their adaptations can be equal, but the shining light is that the book will always be there to remind us of its great story.