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.
Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’
Had no idea the book is written as a series of letters from Harker to his beau
Not an easy book to read unless you enjoy such formats
I just finished it myself. Well, DNF. I chose it because last month we saw the comedy play Dracula: The Bloody Truth, which was hilarious! The program points out that the play isn’t meant to rewrite the story. The premise is that Professor Van Helsing is pissed off because Stoker got the story all wrong so he hires three actors to present the real story, but of course the people he hires are incompetents who fuck up the production. The four actors play every part.
I found the first half to three quarters of the book to be engaging, especially Lucy’s story. But after that Stoker spends waaay too much time having the characters think about or express just how much they admire each other! I quit and read the Wikipedia page for the ending.