every book I DNF'ed in 2023 🤯 (the 20 books that were so boring I couldn't even finish them)

one of my favorite books from him ever is a house at the bottom of a lake which is like a short story so like I know that Josh malerman is capable of writing a really great five star short story for me

I love the book bunny from Mona Awad and I just typically I do really like her writing style

that was one that I gave like two stars like I really did not see the hype with that one

I remember dnfing that one too because I was so annoyed that all of the stories were not that great

it's just so repetitive it feels like another Thriller that I've read before it just feels like nothing new like I feel like I've seen this time and time again and it just read like such a generic Thriller to me

I think that one was a one-star book for me like I just really despised it

I could not get invested in this story because I thought the characters were so obnoxious

this really actually reads more like a friends to lovers romance which is not one of my favorite tropes in Romance and I just can't stand it I think it's so freaking boring

I feel like her writing is the kind of writing where like she's desperately trying to make the reader feel emotional and it just feels very cringey and cheesy to me personally

I personally found the story to be a little bit like hard to follow at times like what was even going on like most of the time I just felt confused

Christina Henry wrote near the bone which is like one of my favorite horror books of all time

the fact that this book left literally no impression on me at all just says a lot right there

this book was just very smudy I mean it was very smudy from those first opening two hours that I listened to I was like oh my gosh wow

I was struggling to get invested in the story like I just never felt like I cared about anything that was happening

the way that this story is being told is just not investing me in the story the way that I thought it would because we're doing a lot of like jumping back and forth between days and I'm also finding the timeline can be a little bit hard to follow at times

this thriller it just didn't work for me in particular because I feel like this is one of those Thrillers that was very heavy with tropes that I don't usually like

I really liked the Vibes like the atmosphere in this book was really great however I did feel like the characters read a little bit younger than they were intended to be which is why I was a little bit annoyed with the storyline

I dnfed the first three before I just completely gave up and like dnf the entire book cuz I was like I'm not going to waste my time reading these next two stories

I was not a fan of the writing style just in general like I thought the writing style was very it's like one of those writing styles that's very wordy and very poetic but almost in a way where like I can't really get a grasp on like what's even going on in the story

I thought the concept sounded very cool but the execution of this book was just not my favorite

I actually ended up looking up full spoilers for the ending of this book because I just wanted to see what it was that everybody was talking about that happened in this book and I could not be more glad about the fact that I decided to dnf

I was just bored out of my mind from the beginning I didn't really like the characters I felt like they were very one-dimensional and had no chemistry and they just like they were so flat on the page

I thought these characters had like no chemistry to the point where it was like kind of awkward to be reading this story