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.
Reminds me of a Canadian sci-fi TV series I never watched. The main characters were astronauts, going to make first contact with something from space. There was an alien hidden on the spaceship (so part of this trip was a sham), and that seemed like a developing mystery.
The scene in the first episode everyone talked about? Zero-g sex. It’s technically connected to “exploration” but it had nothing to do with the plot.
Lexx was Canadian TV too, and it was all sex appeal and weirdness.
That was the entire point of the series though. I liked Lexx. It’s not like the sex appeal was obscuring an interesting plot.