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?
Verity by Colleen Hoover - laughably bad
and Jpod by Douglas Copeland - pretentious drivel. It was a struggle to finish and when I was done I threw it across my living room lol
*anything by Colleen Hoover
*anything by Colleen Hoover
Verity was the only one I read so it made me never want to read anything else she’s written!
I’ve hated HAAAATED everything by Hoover but I heard Verity was a whole different style. It’s been sitting on my shelf for two years because I’m scared to read it.
It’s a good read if you want to laugh your head off. I read it in an afternoon!
I liked Verity a lot! I finished it in an afternoon.
Yeah, I’m a weirdo. I liked it. Tried a couple other books of hers and was not impressed. Like, it wasn’t great by any stretch, but it kept me interested right from the start.
I’ve hated HAAAATED everything by Hoover but I heard Verity was a whole different style. It’s been sitting on my shelf for two years because I’m scared to read it.
When I finished Verity I was almost shocked by how bad it was. It was awful!!!
Those sex scenes live in my head rent free. The teethmarks on the headboard. I CACKLED
When I finished Verity I was almost shocked by how bad it was. It was awful!!!
I couldn’t even finish Verity!! The writing was bad and the characters were just cringey. I felt like I had second hand embarrassment and cringe for the main character the whole time and I couldn’t handle it
Really? I kept getting recommended a lot in one of my reading FB groups last year, so I thought it was an incredibly good book!
Was coming to post Verity. Glad I found it not so far down! I sincerely don’t understand how it has good reviews. Makes me question the collective intelligence of humanity because I felt that book was insultingly bad.
I was thinking about re-reading Jpod but you’ve reminded me of how disappointing the main plot and ending were. I think I was just remembering how much I liked the general bits about the workplace. It hit home for me as any of the ridiculous software companies I worked at in the early dot com days, similar to how that Silicon Valley hbo show hit a little more recently.
But yeah, it was no Microserfs.
I read and loved JPod when it first came out. I wonder how it would hold up as a reread 20 years later.
i hated verity so much i don’t even know where to start with it. for a thriller it was as thrilling as watching paint dry. 80% of it was bad sex and when i saw the thanks to el james in the acknowledgements i was like well this shit makes sense.
i HATED verity. will never understand why people rave about it so much.
A friend said to me that if she could read any book for the first time again, it would be Verity. I took that as quite the endorsement and read it. Good grief… the main character? What a wet fucking blanket she was. Hated her. Hated the writing. Hated the book. Won’t go near another CoHo book again.