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?
My big issue was that that book did not need a villain in it.
It’s the ultimate Person Vs. Nature story. A few hundred desperate survivors struggling to hold on and support each other in the face of history’s greatest disaster.
And then halfway through a stock Evil Politician shows up out of nowhere and promptly turns half of them against the other half for no good reason. It felt like Stephenson lost a bet and had to insert a random TV Trope into his sci-fi epic.