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.
I picked up a sci-fi book and the first scene was oral sex and it was such a bad start I put the book down before even finishing the chapter.
– Chapter One –
So I’m sucking him off…
Which one? Just so I can avoid it…
There are just so many out there, I need to know which one
Yeah, that’s so disgusting
It’s not though. Smut is fun. It just sucks when you’re after something else, becomes annoying. Romance novels for men should be more obvious, like ones for women are, so it’s easier to pick if you’re gonna read smut or actual scifi
I mean, I was expecting quality prose from Sluts in Space (real book).
That does sound amazing
And share the opening few pages too please… Just in case there are multiple titles.
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand? If so, exactly where I put it back on the library shelf.
That is a TERRIBLE title.
Hey now, it’s not quite at Japanese Light Novel territory yet.
“That Time I Was Reborn in Another World as the Strongest Space Traveler With Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand.”
Say what you will, Light Novel/Manga titles at least have the benefit of being descriptive. Sure, titles like “The Cute Girl Sitting Next to Me Is Trying to Make Me Fall in Love With Her as a Way to Ridicule Me but the Tables Were Turned on Her Before She Knew It” are an abomination in the eyes of the Lord, but you can’t say you don’t know what you’re getting into with it.
It’s supposed to be, like, artsy and quirky 🤪🤪🤪
The author does some really weird stuff with words to seem verbose, but really it just gave me a headache.
Was it Iris by William Barton and Michael Capobianco? That’s what I was going to post here anyway.
The concept seemed so cool where a crew of settlers stumble on an ancient alien ship, but then started off with a BDSM/assault scene. Quit that book on page 1. Read a few reviews to see if I could just skip that part, but apparently the whole book is derailed by more like it.
Had the exact same issue with the Witcher. First page of the first book is a cheesy “horny male nerds pls buy this book” sex scene. Made me laugh from how blatantly pandering to its intended audience it was and I never picked it back up. I swear, either some authors have no concept of delayed gratification or it’s some kind of marketing ploy…probably both.
Which Witcher book was this? Because I recall the first story being a little different, though it’s been awhile
Surprising author to get that from!
Reminds me of a Canadian sci-fi TV series I never watched. The main characters were astronauts, going to make first contact with something from space. There was an alien hidden on the spaceship (so part of this trip was a sham), and that seemed like a developing mystery.
The scene in the first episode everyone talked about? Zero-g sex. It’s technically connected to “exploration” but it had nothing to do with the plot.
Lexx was Canadian TV too, and it was all sex appeal and weirdness.
That was the entire point of the series though. I liked Lexx. It’s not like the sex appeal was obscuring an interesting plot.