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 thought Babel was so close to being great. There were so many parts where I was like, “yes! We’re talking about important and interesting themes in a subtle way! I am enjoying this!” And then the next sentence would just be explicitly stating what the book was trying to get across. The overexplaining made the quality of the writing diminish, made me feel like my intelligence was being insulted (I kept thinking, yeah I know), and killed the pacing because there were so many scenes that were dragged out so we could make sure the reader knew exactly what the issues were.