Thank you for this. I've heard so many people DNF and my curiosity has been going down every time I hear about it, but the things you mentioned are things I have no patience for, so I took it off my library holds list.
I am very quick to cast aside a book if I'm finding it boring, or even if I see a shiny new book that I want to read more, but I never really regard any book as a "final, no coming back from this, end of story, DNF" - even if I find them really boring I regard them as DNF-WTF (Did Not Finish - Want To Finish). So I have tens of books on my shelves with bookmarks in the middle of them, waiting for me to get back to them. Sometimes it takes decades. I recently picked up Clifford Simak's "City" and Walter Tevis's "The Man Who Fell to Earth" , both of which I hadn't come back to in literally 19 years. I've now finished both of them.
I mean, I don't want you to suffer for content's sake, but this was SO damn fun and I'd 100% watch more hahahaha I had an ARC of this but then saw the questionable early reviews and noped out of there real quick, sounds like I did myself a favour 🤣
Yeah, the argument I’ve heard a lot about bisexual people boils down to “well, there is twice as much temptation for you to cheat.” First of all, that’s not how that works because bisexual people, I venture to claim, aren’t going to be attracted to EVERYONE they could possible be (you know, just like straight or gay people aren’t). Second of all, even if they were attracted to every man and woman they saw, they’d still have to act on it - which entirely depends on the person, not their sexuality. Anyway, yeah, this book sounds insane, echoing a lot of the stupidest stereotypes out there. If it were meant to be about a sexually liberated character, she’d need more than one dimension to her personality.
I've definitely had a few hate reads in my day 😂 I'm good at DNF'ing now, but sometimes I need to finish a book so I can in good conscience rate it what it deserves. My worst offenders: Frostblood by Elly Blake - all my friends loved it, and I thought it was offensively basic (her name is Ruby and she's a Fireblood) A Winter's Promise by Christelle Daboa - uses the word "lugubrious" at least 5 times, all incorrectly Florida by Lauren Groff - I only read this for Florence Welch, but I didn't know it was short stories Remember Love by Mary Balogh - this one I was just too shocked by how bad it was to stop, because she's usually a decent historical romance author
I didn't get Deadpool from this at all. I just got a tired woman who was fucking tired of being alone and tortured for many years, that she's just all fuck it.. I didn't read it in your voice at all. I mean, what if you read it in the voice of a person who was just fucking tired of it all and couldn't die? if you had a chance to redo this book, what sort of characteristics/personality would you give this woman? Weepy damsel? The Next Karate Kid? I don't get it.
The comp for the book is Deadpool in the blurb for it so that seems to definitely be what the author was going for in the tone. I’d just tone down the irreverent/snarky/fourth-wall breaking stuff. And the immature over-sexualizing of everything. Like I said, it’s a concept that could be intriguing to me, it just wasn’t executed in a way that I enjoyed at all. It seems to have worked for lots of people, I saw lots of reviews of people who did read it as a successful Deadpool-esque tone. Just not for me 🤷🏻♀️
Crier’s War was my hate read. I totally trashed that book in my notes and remarks to my friends. It can be fun every now and then. 😁 Then just a couple of weeks ago I DNF’d ‘Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea’ when the mage slammed a spell on guards for no good reason when she went to introduce herself to the local lord. No, just no. 🤦🏼♀️ This book sounds sooo juvenile.
Juvenile is a great way to describe it! (At least the 10% I read 😆) Yeah hate reads can be fun every so often! My last true hate read was House of Sky and Breath, I think. No no, Good For You by Camille Pagan was the most recent one - contemp romance with dumbassery abounding 😅
@@JashanaC personally I avoid anything with the title X and Y…right there is a potent warning. Pride and Prejudice, ACOTAR…just double checked my shelves and not a single blah & bleh title. 😆
I had this on my library TBR, I thought it was satire or could be funny. I think the footnotes would make me wish for death. I hate forced comedy the footnotes are trying to do.
Thank you for this. I've heard so many people DNF and my curiosity has been going down every time I hear about it, but the things you mentioned are things I have no patience for, so I took it off my library holds list.
@@tennille9dawn glad to be of service! 😄🙌
lmao I need more in this series. 💀☠💀 you made it further than I anticipated lolol
Oh boy 😂 i have this on my tbr. Still gonna try it out because apparently i hate myself.
Hahaha maybe you’ll end up liking it!
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Happy belated birthday !!! 🎉 I hope you’re day was amazing
@@BreeShareeReads oh thank youuuu!!!
Long chapters are the worst!! And everything else in this sounds terrible too, I think I'm gonna take it off my series to try list lol
I am very quick to cast aside a book if I'm finding it boring, or even if I see a shiny new book that I want to read more, but I never really regard any book as a "final, no coming back from this, end of story, DNF" - even if I find them really boring I regard them as DNF-WTF (Did Not Finish - Want To Finish). So I have tens of books on my shelves with bookmarks in the middle of them, waiting for me to get back to them. Sometimes it takes decades. I recently picked up Clifford Simak's "City" and Walter Tevis's "The Man Who Fell to Earth" , both of which I hadn't come back to in literally 19 years. I've now finished both of them.
@@Beery1962 hey, if that works for you, that’s awesome! 😄🙌 I am very much an avid, decisively done dnf-er - haha!
I mean, I don't want you to suffer for content's sake, but this was SO damn fun and I'd 100% watch more hahahaha
I had an ARC of this but then saw the questionable early reviews and noped out of there real quick, sounds like I did myself a favour 🤣
Hahaha 🤣 I will take that feedback into consideration
I read the arc in March and was so excited as I love his other books but ended up giving it two stars😢
@@caitlinl2750 eek! No fun
I have this in my Libby app waiting to be read…thank you so much for posting this so I know to just return it without wasting my time! 😅
@@aineaileen haha you’re so welcome! 😄🙌😆
😂😂😂😂 I absolutely needed this
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Yeah, the argument I’ve heard a lot about bisexual people boils down to “well, there is twice as much temptation for you to cheat.” First of all, that’s not how that works because bisexual people, I venture to claim, aren’t going to be attracted to EVERYONE they could possible be (you know, just like straight or gay people aren’t). Second of all, even if they were attracted to every man and woman they saw, they’d still have to act on it - which entirely depends on the person, not their sexuality.
Anyway, yeah, this book sounds insane, echoing a lot of the stupidest stereotypes out there. If it were meant to be about a sexually liberated character, she’d need more than one dimension to her personality.
@@JRTraas yes yes and yes to all of this!
I said this like two years ago but your rants are freaking epic! You could do a sub-channel of just rants!
@@chuckshingledecker2216 haha well thank ya!
Yeah that’ll be a no for me as well…….thank you for your sacrifice 😂
haha any time!
I've definitely had a few hate reads in my day 😂 I'm good at DNF'ing now, but sometimes I need to finish a book so I can in good conscience rate it what it deserves. My worst offenders:
Frostblood by Elly Blake - all my friends loved it, and I thought it was offensively basic (her name is Ruby and she's a Fireblood)
A Winter's Promise by Christelle Daboa - uses the word "lugubrious" at least 5 times, all incorrectly
Florida by Lauren Groff - I only read this for Florence Welch, but I didn't know it was short stories
Remember Love by Mary Balogh - this one I was just too shocked by how bad it was to stop, because she's usually a decent historical romance author
@@Katiedora122 the “lugubrious” at least five times all incorrectly made me cackle 🤣😆💀
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welp .. i own this book and it's on my TBR. but i'm 9 min into this and. uhhh perhaps I should unhaul the book. LOL.
@@danimorin6283 haha clearly that is what I would personally recommend 😅
Yup. Me and my wife were reading this together and dnf it after 10 chapters lol. All the cringy sex stuff was weird
@@darren2880 SO cringey! SO weird!
I didn't get Deadpool from this at all. I just got a tired woman who was fucking tired of being alone and tortured for many years, that she's just all fuck it.. I didn't read it in your voice at all. I mean, what if you read it in the voice of a person who was just fucking tired of it all and couldn't die? if you had a chance to redo this book, what sort of characteristics/personality would you give this woman? Weepy damsel? The Next Karate Kid? I don't get it.
The comp for the book is Deadpool in the blurb for it so that seems to definitely be what the author was going for in the tone.
I’d just tone down the irreverent/snarky/fourth-wall breaking stuff. And the immature over-sexualizing of everything. Like I said, it’s a concept that could be intriguing to me, it just wasn’t executed in a way that I enjoyed at all.
It seems to have worked for lots of people, I saw lots of reviews of people who did read it as a successful Deadpool-esque tone. Just not for me 🤷🏻♀️
Crier’s War was my hate read. I totally trashed that book in my notes and remarks to my friends. It can be fun every now and then. 😁
Then just a couple of weeks ago I DNF’d ‘Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea’ when the mage slammed a spell on guards for no good reason when she went to introduce herself to the local lord. No, just no. 🤦🏼♀️
This book sounds sooo juvenile.
Juvenile is a great way to describe it! (At least the 10% I read 😆) Yeah hate reads can be fun every so often! My last true hate read was House of Sky and Breath, I think. No no, Good For You by Camille Pagan was the most recent one - contemp romance with dumbassery abounding 😅
@@JashanaC personally I avoid anything with the title X and Y…right there is a potent warning. Pride and Prejudice, ACOTAR…just double checked my shelves and not a single blah & bleh title. 😆
@@LaughingStockfarm1 haha I do have & enjoy several with those kinds of titles, but I have also dnf-ed or hated several with those kinds of titles 😆
to be deadpool funny, it has to be cleaver and it seams here that's what's missing. this sounds dumb as fuck.
@@lesyablackbird YAH! 🙌 exactly
I had this on my library TBR, I thought it was satire or could be funny. I think the footnotes would make me wish for death. I hate forced comedy the footnotes are trying to do.
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This sounds terrible 😂
Twasn't great! lol