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 started reading “Light of Eidon” by Karen Hancock and the story seemed pretty generic fantasy, but something struck me as off about it. The main character was a devotee of her god, and she was really, really devoted. Like long passages of how empty her life would be without him, and the horror of not feeling his love in her heart.
This seemed a bit too on the nose, so I checked and found that I’d discovered an entirely new genre for me: “Christian Fantasy”. I dumped the book and moved on to something else.
a few months later, I started a new book that showed up in my Amazon suggestions, and within a few pages it was looking familiar…and I discovered I’d downloaded yet another book from Karen Hancock. THAT was the book I dropped faster than any previous one.