I have two. The Ritual and Drowning.
The Ritual is pure smut. 61 chapters and every one contains a graphic, demeaning sex scene. I’m convinced the author was an adult film screenwriter and decided to try their hand at writing a novel. There isn’t a single likable character in this book.
Drowning isn’t a great work of literature. I felt that the characters were very two-dimensional. I hated how naive the author made the protagonist. It made me have a lack of sympathy for her. The ending was series finale of Dexter bad.
I’m feeling so validated to see this one at the top, it was far and away the worst thing I’ve read all year. I’ve always taken Good Reads with a huge grain of salt but the reviews here were shockingly positive. To each their own, art is subjective, etc., etc., but I really can’t help but think anyone who truly loved Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow has never read something that couldn’t be adapted into a Hallmark movie. That’s the only explanation I can think of that would make the non-linear character development seem groundbreaking or even interesting. As OP highlighted, the prose wouldn’t even be graded well in a high school level creative writing class.
Yeah I can’t believe it has a higher rating than a lot of actual good books on GR. one thing is liking the story and the plot or wtv but this is objectively badly written. “X did a. S felt like this. They went out.” It’s all exposition, just terrible. And she is a English major for Harvard… idgi