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.
Perdido Street Station, China Mieville. Twice I read the prologue and shelved it: it deals with a very depressed character trying to kill himself.
This time, I pushed past, and the book is brilliant, and funny. That morose prologue is completely different from three test of the book.