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.
Audiobook version of Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’. I listened to 10 minutes of the authors narration and just decided that at least for me, if I had to listen to a whole book of this person speaking I would puncture my own eardrums.
It was the kind of singsongy voice where even statements seem like questions/suggestions and/or feel like complaints. It remains the only audiobook I’ve ever returned and ‘never again’ is too short an interval for when I would want to engage with it again.
Shame, because it got so much hype and I was looking forward to it.