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?
Books with unlikeable characters are not meant to be unlikeable books.
Just rate the book based on if you like it or not, there are plenty of books I rate highly even though some characters aren’t unlikeable. Doesn’t almost every book have unlikeable characters?