The Worst Books I Read in 2025 🙅🏻‍♀️

I feel like Bunny is one of those horror books that's going to be talked about for years. You know, like it just has that timeless quality to it.

I just wish there were more layers to like the mystery in this. I'm pretty sure this one is like over 400 pages, and if it's going to be this long, I'm going to need more to the story than just like a man treats women like [ __ ] for 400 pages.

You know, Ruby Dixon is the same author as the Ice Planet Barbarian series, which I actually read the first book of, and I had fun reading that one. Like, I didn't think it was that ridiculous, but like this just felt next level ridiculous.

I can see what Peter Swanson was trying to do. Like I think in theory, sure, maybe it's a cool concept, but oh my god, maybe this could have been like a hundred pages less because there was so many filler moments.

But like, oh my god, the writing in this book was so bad. It really did not work for me. Like nothing about this writing style worked for me.

So, at the end of the day, you have a list of like maybe 30 plus characters that you're trying to keep track of, which is just ridiculous. Like, it's too many.

And then it's just like smut for like 90 pages. And like that's fine, but like the smut wasn't even written well. It was just so stupid.

I also think this one has got to be like the most frustrating book that I've read this year because of the plot twist at the end of the book. Like it just felt so unrealistic and like so stupid.

It was actually so frustrating though to read this book because I feel like so many of the scenes get so repetitive. It's like you're reading the same scene over and over and over and over again.

The romance in this book was fine. It just wasn't very well written in my opinion. Like it was just so basic, so generic.

But the violence in this book felt so incredibly random to me. Like what was the point?

It was so long and it just completely overexplained so many things that I was like, I don't need all this explanation, you know, because I do think what makes Bunny so great is the ambiguity, like the not knowing, whereas like this book just doesn't really leave much room for that and it just overexlains everything ever.