Have you ever hate-read a book? Like you knew it was going to be bad and you just had to see exactly how bad so that later on you could share with someone else just how immeasurably awful it was?
You don't HAVE TO share titles or authors, but if you do I'll enthusiastically enable you. 😈
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Did I mention it's a 10 book series?
@MotherDucker I tried, once, but I couldn't get past the second (?) chapter once I realized it was actually another, previously written book with just the names and locations changed . . . and no research at all into common phrases and identifiers of the culture . . .
@MotherDucker 50 Shades. It was 50 Shades. smdh . . . 50 Shades.
@ToriLRidgewood a hate-read classic! My book bestie and I light this up often to anyone who will listen. 😈
@MotherDucker THANK YOU! 😂 I remember when it was popular and someone asked me if I liked it . . . #diatribe
And then . . . when my own titles came out (#shamelessselfpromo), one of my colleagues read my books and told me I was <<une cochonne>> and worse than 50 Shades, which she had actually loved . . . honestly, I kind of took that as a point of pride!
@MotherDucker Fifty Shades. It was so much worse than I imagined it would be, and I imagined it would be the book equivalent of getting a splinter under my fingernail.
@sargiegirl a splinter under the fingernail of the index finger of your dominant hand. 😈
@MotherDucker The Alice Network by Kate Quinn. I started it in earnest but it quickly devolved into a hate read. So bad.
@MegaMew I've been dodging recommendations for this one right and left. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
@MotherDucker After I got a few chapters in, I decided to check some of the less glowing reviews to confirm my doubts about this book. One review nailed it by describing the story as “cheap, vanilla candle-scented, wine-mom porn.” I know everyone has different tastes and all but it is a poorly written book.
@MotherDucker Yes! A terrible book called 'Blood on the Orchids'.
Guess what? There never was any blood in the terribly-written murder mystery, on orchids or anywhere else. #CoSoBooks
#CoSoOrchids
🧐 I mean... How dare they? @okika_hilo
I was given a copy of an apocalypse novel in which the main character was described as a "med student prodigy." On page four after a tsunami struck both the east and west coasts simultaneously, the main character yelled, "don't worry the UN soldiers will protect us!" By page 10 it was clear the author had not even working knowledge of medicine, disasters and disaster response, how the US government worked... Both character & author seemed to be drowning in internalized misogyny. So YEAH.