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.

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      1 year ago

      Thank you for that. I was listening to the audiobook years ago and gave up on it.

      I was then very confused by the love around The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I thought they were the same book! They were not …

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      1 year ago

      I picked this up in a bookshop today, thought about it, couldn’t justify buying more books this close to Christmas, feel so glad now I put it back, would have been another book tube disaster for me I think!