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.

  • Ladyhappy@alien.top
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    1 year ago

    I just recently put down the prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. I absolutely love poisonwood Bible and I’ve heard good things about demon copperhead, but 30 pages in and all it was talking about about was divorce and botany and I love the botany part but it wasn’t enough to get through the divorce part. It’s very much for a woman of a certain age. And I put that age as much older than the 40