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.
Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCrackin. I heard a review on NPR and thought it sounded like a fun, quirky, New England book which I always love as a New Englander. But I very quicky found it was trying way too hard to be quirky so much so that it was difficult to follow. And I’m generally a fan of magical realism so I have a high tolerance for that but yeeesh.