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So you found a book that you hated! Perfect. Roast it with us. And then give us a toast in the form of a book you loved!
THE ROASTED:
I wanted this to be good. It had so much potential. The first 100 pages were good, the next 100 needed some consistency editing, the next 100 were bad. The last 50 pages I was begging to DNF it. The big reveal at the end didn't even seem credible. This book needed MAJOR editing to become something wonderful. It didn't get that. - FallinThe Artic Fury - Greer Macallister
No historical research and least qualified women possible to find the Franklin expedition disaster. Additionally reveal wasn’t actually a reveal! - MJ7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hugo by Stuart Turton
1st 100 pages don’t need to happen, very slow start. - AmyACOTAR Series
I wanted so bad to be into it because so many people in my friends circle are.Sleeping Dogs by Sonya Hartnett
But I couldnt bring myself to even start it lol. and nothing about the world-building appealed to me. and then i saw that poc death in the books are used at plot devices for the non-poc characters which as a non-white person i was just mehhhh, nahhhh. - Kit
Required reading in UNI. Incest in the countryside. - JenFlowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
Siblings are locked in the attic. - JenLord of the Flies by William Golding
The teacher ruined it when we read it in school. - BeeAtonement by Ian McEwan
The annoying child character. - BeeThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Too many timelines changing throughout the book! - BeeThe Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaétan Soucy
It was terrible and brilliant. Very Shirley Jackson-esque.
THE TOASTED
Fallin's Toast: The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
Beautifully written with the whimsy of a childhood fantasy novel (think merhorses and flying cats) in an adult cozy fantasy novel. - FallinMJ's Toast: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Amy's Toast: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jeminsin
Written by a black woman, blackness as a metaphor, physically hurts but is also a wonderful story of revenge. -AmyKit's Toast: If You Want to Scare Yourself by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg
Jen's Toast: Two Necromancers, a Bureaucrat, and an Army of Golems by L.G. Estrella
YOUR THOUGHTS
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