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.
Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier. Utter misogynistic garbage with a whopping score of 4.2 on Goodreads.
I am so sick of these books about high-achieving girl boss women who we are told are hardcore feminists but are the exact opposite in their actions. The worst part is that I’m not quite sure that the authors even realize they’re doing this. And this is the worst example.
Question: you’re a badass ~girl boss~ superstar and your husband has cheated on you once in the past. You find out he’s cheating a second time. Do you:
a) Divorce or at least lay the blame on your piece of shit husband, since he’s the one responsible for his behavior in your marriage and it’s clearly HIS problem, especially since he’s cheated in the past; or
b) Hire someone to kill the woman he’s cheating with. Because eliminating that beyotch will clearly fix everything and it’s not like this hasn’t happened before and you might want to consider that this is your husband’s issue.
I’ll let you guess which option the wife chooses. The other option isn’t even really brought up in the book, which is why I wonder if the misogyny is unintentional on the author’s part…