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 really really really try to give a book at least 100 pages. sometimes ill DNF sooner if I’m just not in the mood for the type of book it is but I know ill pick it up later. but a true DNF where I’m just not happy and I have no desire to ever pick it back up again I still try to push through at least to 100. Only because the first 50 pages of any book is really “entry level” things rarely start to pick up before then or have a good sense of what’s going on. books deserve that grace period of pages to see if you are into it or not.