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.
It was like, >!the girlfriend of the guy who thinks he did it has this workmate always hanging around and you’re supposed to think she’s up to something… I thought maybe she was an undercover journalist but at the end she was just the girlfriend’s long-lost mum, and when the policeman said to the mum ‘do you want to tell Girlfriend that she is your daughter’ she was like ‘nah I’m good’ and just left town. It was like ??? Why did that happen?!<
The antidepressant thing had me like ??? as well like, what a stupid drug to put on the black market. If you’d said they were all off their tits on Adderall or Ritalin I’d have been like oh yeah I guess.
The whole thing just left me feeling like I’d eaten a bad McDonalds but without the satisfaction of having eaten something. Boo Audible for advertising it at me, and boo Joy Ellis for writing something so average.