You wanted to read the book, you were excited to crack it open, you came into it with good faith and anticipation… but you ended up dnf-ing it. Which book and why?
Mine was The Maid by Nita Prose. It was for my book club and looked like a fun murder mystery. Instead I got instant manic-pixie-dream-neurodivergent-girl vibes, and I noped out before the crime scene was even found.
You didn’t miss out on much. I was fairly excited to read that one, as the blurb on the jacket suggested that the novel was about the mystery of a missing passenger in a sealed plane that crashed into the water. Come to discover that this plot is basically only explored for one chapter and then totally abandoned, in favor of essentially no plot at all for the rest of the novel.
I pushed through in the hope that there’d be some redeeming story by the end, but there really wasn’t. Two stars for me.