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what are some books youve DNF’d and why😟☕️
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Jun 17, 2024 06:12AM
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Call me Daddy by Jade West- Because it was just.... icky imoGild by Raven Kennedy- I was so bored I was finding any and every reason not to read
Finale by Stephanie Garber - Also, I was bored. I muddled through the first 2 hoping they would get better but no. I was bored and both FMC's were incredibly stupid and whiny
Caraval series: i wanted to the ouabh series, caraval was boring
The C*ck Down the Block. I was actually pretty excited to read this, until the MMC had my brother's name. Immediate dnf.
twisted love, it seemed very predictably, even the spicy chapters, to be honest
for me book lovers by emily henry, its promoted as an “enemies to lovers” but there was never any enemy-ing😕 who makes the characters kiss 70 pages into the book? there was no banter and no tension to grip🤷♀️
Today tonight tomorrow. I'm usually a sucker for acedemic rivals trope but i could barely make it past the first page for this one
truly devious
i just couldn't bring myself to finish it
i just couldn't bring myself to finish it
Wait for Dark by Kay Hooper- Nothing ever happened. Instead of solving the crime, the characters just sat around the majority of the time, talking about the same thing repeatedly. I read some reviews to see if I should keep going because I was already halfway through, but from what everyone was saying, it didn’t seem like it was going to get any better.
The Secret History, I really tried but the writing was a bit bland and pretentious for me. I just couldn't get into it and then I tried to listen to the audiobook to see if it that helped but narration just killed it. I don't know I guess it was her voice or the way she did character voices that conflicted with her accent and speech pattern.
Den of Vipers
I have never read something so stupid
I have never read something so stupid
a thousand boy kisses… i’m sorry but it was the cringiest book i’ve ever read.
happy place , writing style wasnt for me
Sick Boys series I dislike reading books when they’re doing it in the first few sentences.
Three Dark Crowns cause it was kinda boring
The Secret Garden, stopped at 80 pages in, I just didn't feel the book. I got bored.
How to get away with murder, I didn’t like the 3rd person 😅
The Cruel Prince cuz I could not bear jude like girl is sooo annoying. And I knew abt the ship of jude and cardan and considering the intense bullying it was just yucky
Normal PeopleIdk the writing gave me a headache, i just couldn’t
Enjoyed the show tho!!
I've got three at the moment that I am still holding out I will finish at some point or another haha!1) First Base (70%) - it's a cute romance with quite a slow burn but I got a litte bored for this exact reason.
2) Give Me More (86%) - super spicy, potentially too much spice vs actual plot.. I got a little bored
3) Pucking Around (74%) - very, very hot and spicy but definitely did get a bit too tired with the spice seemingly outweighing the actual plot
I'm also wondering if polyamory is just not my thing... even in fiction haha!
Is anyone else also OCD enough to leave their reviews only AFTER finishing the book? Nope? Just me? Hahahaha!
there is many and they are so forgettable that I don't even remember one name
I actually just DNF'd the last book that I was reading, so this is very timely. It was The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard. The primary reason that I DNF'd it was that the writing was just too slow-paced for me. I'm still pretty new to the genre of historical fiction, so I don't know if it's just a staple of the genre or if it's this particular book (that also happens to be a mystery). Usually I feel bad about DNF'ing books, but I absolved my own guilt with the fact that I had actually seen the movie adaptation first (before I even knew it was based on a book), so I pretty much knew how it would end. Another book I've DNF'd in the past year was Gideon the Ninth. I tried so hard to enjoy this book (twice, in fact, after watching some YouTube videos on it), but I just couldn't get into it. There was just too much in the world of the book that wasn't explained; too many foreign terms and hierarchies.
Butcher and Blackbird. This is what Booktok has been hyped about? This is high school level writing 😭
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley and The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley. Both are SOOO SLOOOWWWWW and have way too many POVs from different characters. it gets too tedious to keep track of, and the slow writing is unbearable.
YolkI just couldn't TwT
Planning to come back to it though
Sex and the City by Candace BushnellIt was so freaking boring, I hated how the book was set up. It didn't make any sense to me, it was all over.
Moby Dick - cuz I wasn't in the least interested in the anatomy and the skull size of the whales
little women...it was difficult to read and i was already reading a fantasy series..also,i had already watched the movie and knew the details
What does "dnf" mean anyways? I see it everywhere books are discussed.
Sick Fux by Tillie Cole. It was a fast DNF for me. Being a mother and reading this I couldn't get through it.
«Khloe» wrote: "What does "dnf" mean anyways? I see it everywhere books are discussed." It means Did Not Finish
five survive by holly jackson bc all the characters were so insufferable and i wish none of them survived ( but unfortunately, when i skipped to the end thats not what happened ).also tell me when i skipped to the end, i guessed the plot twist.. like…such a disappointment after the agggtm trilogy.
13 reasons why because i didn't feel like reading it at the time but i'll probably read it again. verity cuz it's colleen pooper and i would never again subject myself to the torture of reading a freaking colleen pooper book. :)
emily wilde because even as someone with an advanced vocabulary for her age, I did not appreciate having to whip out a frickin thesaurus just to decipher a fifteen word sentence that could have easily been said in five.
tsitp- it was so boring and the writing was bad. definitely like the show betterher soul to take- the writing was awful and i couldn’t stop cringing only 17% in
den of vipers- quite literally the worst book ever
glow (book 4 in plated prisoner series)- disappointed, the concept is amazing but the execution is a huge miss
normal people. there was really nothing special to it and really no plot. I think I stopped reading with like only 100 pages left.
omg i have so many, most recently i dnfed the very secret society of irregular witches it just read very immature and wattpad-ish 🫤
I've got three so farCredence by Penelope douglas.. I went pretty blind I admit but keeping it in the family... Nope, no thank you
A heart so fierce and broken by brigit kemmerer first book was nice then it just went downhill I wasn't interested on the new mc's at all
A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole just boring
Any penelope douglas book (the only one i liked was Punk 57)Any Tessa Bailey book. I will give them 0 Stars
Emily Henry books are not my cup of tea. Too slow. Too much dialogue and I was bored out of my wits.
My Killer Vacation, i usually love Tessa Bailey books but this was highly cringey and although the plot was interested, it just wasn’t executed right
Poppy wrote: "What does dnfd mean"dnf means did not finish, it's basically when you stop reading a book before the end because you're bored or uninterested
Ohhhhh okayyyy that makes sense ummm I’m gonna have to say the hating game because it was good at the start with all the tension but then when they said that they liked each other it got really crap and so I stopped reading it for ages and then reluctantly finished it The movie of it tho was acc good
The Midnight Library;the main character wanted to suicide, she found herself in a library that offers infinite amount of alternative lives, but none of them suited her and she wanted a near perfect life. i didn't like that 🤷🏼♀️
Renegades, it’s SO slow
So many, especially in the romance category...which I love so much. Poor writing craft...which covers all the topics of why it went wrong. I usually know fairly quickly, though. Otherwise, if I've invested time, I may skim to get to the finish line so I know what happens. Good thing there are so many books out there for all of us!
Dev wrote: "Caraval series: i wanted to the ouabh series, caraval was boring"THANK YOU!! I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who was bored by it.
