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.
The Guest List by Lucy Foley. Approximately 20 pages in, I returned it. The characters, literally every single one, were the most annoying, insufferable people I’ve ever read. I’ve been told that’s the point, and I’m sure it is, but at the time I just wasn’t in the mood to wait to see them to their inevitable ends. Perhaps at some point, I’ll give it a shot again when I feel I have more patience for it.
I got about a third of the way in and then just read spoilers. It was not a good book.
I read that one! You did not miss anything.
Sounds very like another of her books, The Paris Apartment. Every character was so unlikeable and every plot point seemed so daft, I got about a third in and quit because I realised I could not care less what happened to any of the pricks in it
The MC of Paris Apartment was so fiercely unlikable. I actively rooted against her :D
The ending was so ridiculous. If you ever wanna laugh hysterically at absurd writing, finish it 😂
I had it on audiobook and bumped it up to like 3.5x speed and I still couldn’t stick any of them hahah
Same for me. That one was BAD
I read this one recently after finding it in a free box of books on the street. Actually didn’t mind it. Hated basically all the characters so the looming expectation of a murder was very much a positive thing. Thought it was a decent enough brain-off crime mystery.
She also wrote The Paris Apartment and every character on that was insufferable. I finished it but god it was bad lol
I describe this as the book winning. Ok yes you made thoroughly unlikeable characters. Congratulations, you win. Return.
Yes! That’s basically what happened. 😅
I also DNF’d that one and ended up reading the plot summary with spoilers online because I didn’t see myself returning to it. It sounds like we didn’t miss out on much.
I predicted every single moment of that book and had no idea why people were acting like it was something new and different