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.

  • ThankfullyIDontCare@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Ready Player Two. While not the greatest, I enjoyed the first book. In the sequel though there were so many stupid and unnecessarily pop culture references within the first chapter or two that I put it down and never picked it up again.

    • sundance1028@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      You didn’t miss much. The whole thing was basically a retread of the first one. It was like he had a list of pop culture references he didn’t get around to using the first time so he crammed them all into the second book.

    • MasterOfFate1@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      THANK YOU, this comment does not have enough upvotes. The second one was just so goddamn bad. I feel like he had a really good balance between the references and storyline/plot, and the second is no plot and just tons of references. I made it to chapter 9 and it just only got worse and worse.