Recently I read “Yellowface” by R.F. Kuang and I’m part way through “Caging Skies” by Christine Leunens. Obviously in these books the characters are meant to be unlikable since they are racist/anti-Semitic and it would be problematic if they were written in a better light. So is it wrong to give the book a lower rating if you didn’t like a protagonist who was supposed to be unlikable?
I think it’s wrong to give the book a lower rating because you don’t like the characters. To say that you disliked the book because of the characters but that it’s well-written would be fine