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 60 page monologue is a lowlight in a lowlight of a book.
I read it when I was in college, and got kind of engrossed in the storyline of the book. So, when I hit the monologue, I got annoyed with it, found where it ended, and skipped the whole thing. Looking back, I laugh, because that was essentially the message of the book. I wasn’t going to sit there and read 60 pages of sanctimonious blathering. So I essentially skipped the presentation of the main point.
Right? Like, having your characters just come out and explicitly state what that they are feeling, thinking and the literal message and theme of the book is bad writing even at the best of times, but to do it for 60 PAGES? Even if you agree with Rand’s morally bankrupt “philosophy” I cannot fathom why anybody likes this as a book.