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Two count 'em two whole paragraphs in and it's about this guy going on and on about this woman he [I mean I don't need to say it you're already thinking it] in Paris and and going on with all these romantic French terms only self-important self-absorbed imbeciles use and I can only think, I want to pummel this guy's face i .

DNF at Page Goddamn ONE

I'm on pg 23, the start of Ch 3, and I'm already livid about all of the BS it's bern listing and how the only takeaway worthy from the pandemic is that I've been spending the entire time deeply shameful of being a part of this stinkin, rotten, no good species called humanity that in no way ever deserved or deserves existence, where I just simply hope for a sudden mass extinction event to end us all

Reading the preface about how the authors go on and on about COVID in the most tone deaf, privileged and just obnoxious way possible that it pisses me off so much that I want to visit the authors personally so I can pound their faces in until they agree to never pick up a pen, pencil or touch keyboard ever again.

Automatic DNF at page 1, for just pissing me off that much on page 1.

DNF'ing at 142. I just got done with one self-congratulatory egotistical trip in book form about the incredibly empty, shallow and meaningless world of television production, don't need to follow up with a second.

You know what, from now on any and all books that take place in a religious boarding school are a hard pass. We get it, they suck, apparently so much they suck the creativity right outta anybody who attends one.

DNF, I just...no. Can't possibly get into this.

If they're actually gonna freaking eat a freaking mermaid in this one then, that's it, even for me, even for manga, that's 3unhinged5me

...this is JF?????

Nope, sorry, too triggering. PS if you're going to put in trigger warnings for self harm you really should put in trigger warnings for COVID/pandemics

ps the only lesson possible from COVID is that the survivors should envy the dead

Well it at least sounds like the book I've been looking forever.

Also Goodreads refuses to recognize the last 5 books I read last year, and people wonder why I get all vitriolic and trolling on their X account.
and basically refuse to give them and their PR staff respect.

Mega-DNF'ing on page freaking ZERO because I am D-O-N-E with stupid vane insipid fake dating plots, at least for this year.

...before the narrative even starts we have a page from the author about how much the TikTok ban (that obviously never came to pass anyway) would suck and I'm like, getting the hardest kick in the crotch physically possible right now is still better than this.

And I mean...tbh I don't even care if TikTok is banned or not but still.

...so this was written by an adult?

...ok fine I'll read it.....

...and yeah yeah I know one of the books I just read (not saying which one for sake of spoilers) has a closeted relationship in it, but 1) I didn't know until I was knee-deep in it, ok? and 2) meh whatever

DNF'ing on literally the freaking back cover blurb. Are queer Latinx authors just only capable of writing stories where the mains are forcibly closeted?

Eff this.

DNF'ing on page 2> because I'm sick and tired of queer people being closeted. Look, I know it's a lived experience for a lot of people but I'm sick and tired of stories where people aren't free to be themselves.

DNF at (Angry Joe style) ZERO! [expletive deleted] ZERO PAGES! The two Doyle books I read were super-mid and if you think I'm reading Irish fiction about the Pandemic starting with some sods debating masks you've got another thing coming, namely, me bashing you with the book until only one of us is standing.

So I picked this up randomly from the new releases shelf hoping for the best but expecting the worst - but seeing it as a debut novel and a Goodreads reading challenge pick really cements it as really just, be prepared for the worst.

"Varya is thirteen. New to her are three more inches of height and the dark patch of fur between her legs. Her breasts are palm sized, her nipples pink dimes."

Literally first paragraph of the whole book.

Why do women write like they're actually creepy Boomer guys?

Two whole whopping pages in and I want S to whack Lady square in the head with a ballpeen hammer.

The barely incoherent ramblings of a pretentious type, the type exactly poked fun of in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, the type who probably feigned being drunk while writing this because well literary geniuses always write drunk, right?

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