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.
“The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts.” Fuck off with that.
He wrote that in his early 20s. The series gets much better. But, to each their own! Even he acknowledges in a prologue that it was a creative-writing major, ego-stricken kid who wrote that first book.
I know, years later I revisited the series (still not my thing, but liked it well enough) but the I put the book down for more than a decade after that.
“The desert was the apotheosis of deez nuts.”