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What was your: "What the hell did I just read????" Book? Why?
the housemaid by freida mcfadden😭😭 my faces were: 😁🫢🤨😳😨🤨🙁🫣🤢
Act of god by Jill cement lol so random.
How to Survive Your Murder. I thought it was predictable, was wrong. eventually guessed it but , what was the ending.???? I am still in shock
once upon a broken heart. so stupid and overrated
Icebreaker definitely, the cover is so miss leading. I read it before all the hype so I had no idea what was coming. 😬
the house of roots and ruin. it was so disturbing that it was genuinely good but still had my "wtf did i just read" moments near the end
the silent patient. so many plot holes it was painful
@raichu I agree, I never really liked OUABH that much- way overhypedMines probably a good girls guide to murder, but of an unpopular opinion but I think it’s overrated
I just finished the naturals, and it was amazing but I am still in shock from the ending.
Saving Noah. I haven't stopped thinking about it since I finished it a couple of months ago. I'm still not sure how I feel about the book.
every single Colleen Hoover book. I've read one of her books and got sneak peeks from the others against my will on social media... never reading anything from her again
i think i win this one: morning glory milking farm. I was terrified the entire book
The Ritual. When she decided to take that drug I just face palmed and stopped read it.
Credence by Penelope Douglas. I just can't with that book
Us Dark Few by Alexis Patton. It’s just so horrible and so sad. I was so into the storyline, it made me go mad (at thhe unexpected twists)
American Queen by Sierra Simone. Usually love her work but couldn't get into this one!
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. Honestly, I just picked this up as the cover caught my eye, it's been a while since I read a good vampire book and there are some gorgeous illustrations. I am slowly making progress with it, but it's slow going for me as most of the book is speech, and it's written with the accents of the individuals too (one person is Scottish!). Oh, and the timeline jumps around a bit just to add to the difficulty!Started reading The Atlas Six just to feel like I'm making progress with a book as it's frustrating to always feel like you're still only halfway though. I had heard a few good things about it from a girl I was talking to about books when in a shop a few weeks ago. I'm enjoying it so far!
The mist by Stephan King. I read the short book and sat in silence it took me two days to finish. I hated every bit of it. It was confusing and just no. If anyone else has read it, what’s your opinion on it?
the starless sea i loved it but it kinda blew my mind
Bunny by Mona Awad it made me question my reality up until the last word of the book!
Finding Vanessa by Loralai Blake!!Probably the darkest book I have read with most definitely wtf moments
any colleen pooper book and ana huang book lmao. though i liked twisted hate
Amelia by A.W. Rene - It was one of those suspense novels. In the end I literally said "what the... did I just read?" It was good though. Also remember having that feeling with the Silent Patient.
Haunting adeline.... I literally said that as my first sentence for the review I did on it😭
Scandalous by LJ SHENabsolutely egregious and disgusting. the fmc is 18 and the mmc is 33, he’s a man whore, and he compares the legs of the fmc to the legs of his FOUR YEAR OLD DAUGHTER
omg that's a good one!! i have a few, but hunting adeline was the worst and most disturbing of all
reckless by lauren roberts but in a good way. in a bad way, probably....nohing comes to mind because i thoroughly research everything before i read it lmao and i trust my gr friends to tell me if smth is good or not.
one i just read the other day unfortunately, Toxic by Nicole Blanchard. i was like “wtf is this” like 30 times and i have no idea why i thought it was a good idea to finish it
the do-over by Lynn Painter, literally never will i ick up another one of hers again
Fiend by Peter StensonI was looking for a book to read to “mix it up a bit” and that is definitely what this book serves! Think zombies mixed with meth addicts meets the end of the world! I am 25% in and I think I’m just going to ride this one out to the very end!
Girl in pieces bc what was that?! The worst book to ever exist
mine was literally "What The Hell Did I Just Read?" by David Wong so many plot twists and i could not trust my eyes and its was just SO crazy
Twisted love- good book but some random stuff in there...
the roommate by rosie danan 🌚 WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT ABOUT
While I often have that thought cause I don’t value my peace of mind when it comes to the books I read, the book that legit made me stare at the wall and ask “wtf???” was Sick Boys by Clarissa Wild. I refuse to believe that was a real book. Credence is a very close second.
The Midnight library because I was not prepared to read suicidal thoughts of an annoying FMC. This book started as a great idea but turned into a poorly made self-help book that I didn't ask for.
Definitely “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” for me. Talk about a book dripping with the entitled, rich, popular-but-depressed, mommy-daddy issues trope. 🙄 I was optimistic going into it but it was a genuine catastrophe. To be fair, I’ve read Ottessa Moshfegh’s work before (thought it was okay) and decided to give her another try. Lots of people said good things about it, but I was ready to put it down after 50 pages.
I mean, it was about 100 pages of dr^gged stupor and sleep (which would be ok normally, but since nothing interesting happened and we just kept hearing about how she was blacking out all the time, it was extraordinarily boring.) The ending didn’t make up for it at all, although endings are usually Moshfegh’s strong suit. I genuinely hated every moment of this book, although I like Moshfegh’s writing style.
There was practically no character development of the main character, but I didn’t mind the side character (I can’t remember her name) who made some minimal progress. Honestly the whole book just depressed me AND put me into a 4-month reading slump. 🫥
all rhodes lead here. the fmc was so immature and creepy
Am I the only one who thought the plot of The housemaid and Verity were kindof similar?
tampa. it was literally about a relationship between a female teacher and a fourteen year old boy and i was gagging all the way through. worst book i’ve ever read and im now scared to take any more horror book recommendations from tiktok. the only reason i sat through it (it took me like a month to read because i hated picking it up) was to see her get caught for what she was doing. and to make things worse, i found out that it was based on a TRUE STORY.
Lilie wrote: "Credence by Penelope Douglas. I just can't with that book"Oh same! I dnfed it because I'd had it with how she had the horn for EVERY MALE CHARACTER INTRODUCED *cringes intensely*
credence i literally could not go a page without going WHAT THE FUCK or WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT PLEASE STOP but in the best way yk
Lilac by B.B Reid - the shock I had with this one was so unexpected lol 😳once things started to happen i questioned why I started it. when I got done with this one I said I need to clean my eyes out 😂 the cover doesn’t prepare you for what’s in this book it’s a great example of don’t judge a book by its cover
Why? Well the question implies that the plot of the book is so complex, that one cannot even explain, or put their thoughts on one particular thing about the book to sum up the amazement/strangeness of the book. Maybe it's the self-destructivenss of a the character? Or the thoughts that pledged the main character? They all came together, and appeared so real, almost as if I experienced what he experienced in the flesh.
I remember when I got to around the end of the book, watched all those horrible self-destructive events play out, and then, when I flipped to the back of the book to close the book (already very bewildered mind you) , I see the quote;
"Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being."
If you've read the book, you would know that this quote was the very first two sentences of the start of the story. When I shut the book and saw it again, I couldn't help but realize that everything said at the start was so true. And terrifyingly true at that. Once you've read it, experienced it, and ultimately know what happened, these two sentences definitely become far more heavy weighted. Or at least for me.
Like I said before, it is one of those books where I cannot point my emotions and love for it in one particular direction; so I do apologize for the crappy explanation!