The 10 Worst Books I Read in 2025... ❌

This book was way too long, extremely boring. These characters feel like they are living in a fantasy land and this is not meant to be set in a fantasy world.

I found this to be very poorly written, very confusingly written. This is a book that wants to be smart and poetic and lyrical and does the most. So many of the sentences and paragraphs in this book did not make sense or contradicted themselves.

This was a interesting premise that was executed extremely poorly and I did not have a fun time with it. I found it honestly kind of shockingly bad.

And if that wasn't enough, the sex scenes in this book were so off-putting and cringey. I cannot express to you how dry they made me. Everything about this made me very upset for so many reasons and I am still angry about it 11 months later as is probably obvious and I'm going to move on now.

This is just a very poorly written book and I had a really awful time trying to make sense of it and trying to pull any kind of value out of it. There was one character in this entire book that I appreciated. They were the shining gleaming light of hope for me in this book.

But I will just say so much of what this book says is not based on the data. So many of the citations do not back up what he is saying in this book.

I had a very bad time with it. I found it quite off-putting and disrespectful to the kinds of trauma that it was presenting. And I also once again found the characters deeply, deeply, deeply unlikable and not in a fun way.

I found the entire framing of this story to be deeply problematic and deeply upsetting. I found it to be a very disrespectful portrayal of what it is like to be dealing with suicidal ideiation. I found it to be trivializing of that experience.

And on top of all of that, this book is primarily a series of melodramatic romantic entanglements with said completely unlikable and irredeemable protagonist. And there are so many very soap opera-esque, completely unbelievable reveals and moments throughout the book that I was very confused by.

I felt very off-put by the tone of this novel, by the protagonist, by honestly the concept in general of finding the events of this book humorous.