Quite honestly I can’t stand only a few books that I’ve read, recently The Awakening by Nora Roberts.
Holy crap, do I reallllyyyyy want my money back. I was bored. So. Bored. The magic system was subpar, the characters just….ew, everything was so, so boring. The MC is an idiot.
What book is a zero star read for you?
The new testament: not enough fire and brimstone for me personally
The book of Revelation is in the new testament lol. All the fire and brimstone you need. All the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Also some of Paul’s letters to the early churches are quite stern.
Revelation appeared to imply that the original author somehow died which led to a war on earth and is the okayish part of the new testament but not enough to upgrade to 1 star now if the god character returned to smite and otherwise do war upon his creations I would go for 7 stars.
Fair enough, the prequel definitely did deliver in that regard but The New Testament was kind of lacking?
Also I didn’t like that the first four parts of the book were essentially just the same story from different perspectives (pretty darn repetitive), but with some inconsistencies? I guess they’re intentionally written as unreliable narrators? Idk
Then some dude called Paul just shows up and picks up the narrative? It’s a bit jarring switching out the protagonist after only four chapters, but fine. I tried to stick with it, and admittedly epistolary novels aren’t my favourite, but Paul just gets so preachy and keeps contradicting himself in his letters that it really broke the immersion in some parts.
Don’t even get me started on the last chapter, written by yet another author?! I do love magical realism, but it just went waaay too far. Also finished with a cliffhanger, and they haven’t followed it up with another sequel for like 1900 years? I’m already annoyed that George RR Martin has been promising the Winds of Winter for 12 years, but this just takes the cake
Fair enough, the prequel definitely did deliver in that regard but The New Testament was kind of lacking?
Also I didn’t like that the first four parts of the book were essentially just the same story from different perspectives (pretty darn repetitive), but with some inconsistencies? I guess they’re intentionally written as unreliable narrators? Idk
Then some dude called Paul just shows up and picks up the narrative? It’s a bit jarring switching out the protagonist after only four chapters, but fine. I tried to stick with it, and admittedly epistolary novels aren’t my favourite, but Paul just gets so preachy and keeps contradicting himself in his letters that it really broke the immersion in some parts.
Don’t even get me started on the last chapter, written by yet another author?! I do love magical realism, but it just went waaay too far. Also finished with a cliffhanger, and they haven’t followed it up with another sequel for like 1900 years? I’m already annoyed that George RR Martin has been promising the Winds of Winter for 12 years, but this just takes the cake
I don’t know. The prequel did for measurements and family lines what Moby Dick did for whales. I mean, it’s great if you want to know exactly how God wanted things measured thousands of years ago and are really into genealogy, but otherwise…
Totally my read of the NT too! Jesus hands the keys to Peter, the rock of the church, and neither is heard from again. Then this Saul dude has a seizure and hijacks the entire movement!