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I DNFd this book, the writing didn‘t work for me… 😔

Cathy wrote: "I DNFd this book, the writing didn‘t work for me… 😔"
It's being a struggle to keep going with it. I have this guilt about abandoning books not from my demographic, I worry that I'm not trying enough to get where the author is coming from. I've been tempted to DNF frequently

I started skimming in the 5th chapter, about 50 to 60 pages into it. It felt so scattered. The plot wasn‘t progressing much and then there was that silly staged kaiju-mecha fight in the middle of the city. I was also not a fan of the narrative voice of the flying bot. It sounded too all-knowing and removed, not like the voice of someone participating in the story. I DNFd in chapter 8.

I tend to read at least 20% of any book, before abandoning it, to give it a fair chance to grab me. To DNF is hard. I used to finish every book I started, even if it took me months. But why torture myself, there are so many books out there.