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.
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.