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The Satsuma Complex

Bob Mortimer

DID NOT FINISH: 0%

Boring

How to Be Popular

Meg Cabot

DID NOT FINISH: 5%

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Marlon James

DID NOT FINISH: 42%

Slow, boring and trying too hard. Ten hours in and no change. I only made it so far as it was an audiobook and I really wanted to like it but... It just wasn't enjoyable. Life's too short.

Very graphic sex, murder, abuse and more. Not recommended.

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Thea and Denise

Caroline Bond

DID NOT FINISH: 9%

Dull.

The Luminaries

Eleanor Catton

DID NOT FINISH: 1%

Maybe Not

Colleen Hoover

DID NOT FINISH

DNF 49% (and for a very short book, that's saying something)

This came up as a popular new in book at the library. I've not read the series so maybe I'm missing something but I found the characters bland and unlikeable. It seems to be a novella centres on a bloke who lives with mates getting a surprise new roommate. He's possessive and weird immediately, keeping walking in on her naked and obsessively searching porn in front of all his housemates in an attempt to find one that she was in as an extra, something he finds out when listening in to her phone conversation with a friend. They then randomly have sex during which he finds she's immensely vulnerable. She leaves, he follows. She says no. A lot. He forces himself on her to give her an amazing time and all that rubbish. It's just rape. She said no. He's not sexy. She's aggressive and boring. He's plain boring. And again, she said no.

I can't believe I wasted time on this.

Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees

Roger Deakin

DID NOT FINISH

DNF 21% - I gave up after five months of dipping in and out. I'd read in reviews that the first half could drag and the rest was better but even with a massive love of nature, I just couldn't bare with it anymore after months of trying.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Mark Manson

DID NOT FINISH

DNF 53%

Don't bother.