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Reviews you wrote for books you didn't like. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by eightpix@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.world

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We spend a lot of time reading books. Some of them, maybe a disproportionate number, we like. Others, not so much.

Disproportionate because, at least for me, it's difficult to get through 500 pages of something I dislike.

This is one of those occasions where you are encouraged to be constructive in your criticism. Hopefully, with some wit.

Leave a review for a book you didn't like and tell us what to read instead.

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[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

The Haunting of Sunshine Gilr by Paige McKenzie:

Made it 3/4 of the way through before losing interest entirely. The Young Adult tropes are way too much. This girl is just SO SPECIAL y'all. She dresses in vintage clothes! She reads Jane Austin and likes photography! She's CLUMSY. She's definitely not the typical pretty girl because her hair is so thick (never thin, I've yet to meet a heroine with alopecia).

She shows empathy to a child ghost who was violently killed. Don't you get how special that is? No normie- I mean normal human would do that. She's Not Like Other Girls. She's the chosen one. But of course she doesn't want it. In spite of relishing her outsider status, she goes through this actual thought process:

"I'd rather not spend my life helping spirits and exorcising demons. I'd like to go to college, get a normal nine-to-five job, have health-insurance and a 401k."