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CatLass007
The Children of Men | P. D. James
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Bailedbailed

I listened to this book for an hour, and that was all I could bear. I kept waiting for it to become interesting and it just didn‘t. #HailTheBail #BetterBooksAhead

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CoveredInRust
Bailedbailed

I was expecting to love this book but 200 pages in and I was just honestly bored. The writing was lovely, but it felt lovely in a way that I was kept at a distance. I didn't feel anything for the characters. With so many other books that I'm looking forward to, I've learned to DNF as an act of self-care 🤣 Love that so many do adore it tho.

TheSpineView I felt the same about this book too. 6d
CoveredInRust @TheSpineView I'm glad I'm not alone 🥲 5d
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CoveredInRust @dabbe HAIL THE BAIL is amazing 🤣🤣 5d
dabbe @CoveredInRust It should make us feel good about moving on in order to find a book better suited for our tastes. 🤩😍🤩 5d
CoveredInRust @dabbe 💜💜🙌 absolutely 5d
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Leniverse
Butcher and Blackbird | Brynne Weaver
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Bailedbailed

DNF at 31%
I don't get the hype or why this even has a mainstream publisher. Was it popular on Booktok or something? You can find better self-published books on KU. Dark? Please, there's zero depth or emotional attachment so it doesn't feel dark. Romantic? The courtship is more painful than the torture scenes. Comedy? A light tone and irrational characters isn't enough to make it funny.

#HailTheBail

julesG I'm glad I gobbled it up on audio, this way I didn't notice the shortcomings. 😁 6d
Leniverse @julesG Hah, yes I can see how good narrators might make a difference. 6d
monkeygirlsmama I enjoyed this one in #audiobook format despite it not being my typical genre. I agree that the narrators definitely helped bring it home for me. 6d
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Roary47
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Bailedbailed

I got 11% through this and there were some funny jokes, but most of the time I just didn‘t find the jokes funny. It‘s time to unhaul this book.

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DieAReader
In For The Kill | John Lutz
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Bailedbailed

#Wardens2025 #SeriesLove2025 #Read2025

A reread that didn‘t quite work for me this time. I remembered enough to make some important things predictable & other things annoying🙄😬 I will continue with series though.

TheSpineView #HailTheBail 😵‍💫😬 2w
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Hooked_on_books
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Bailedbailed

This book looked great, but after an hour of the audio, I find myself not paying attention to it at all. I‘m not sure if it‘s me, the book, the timing, or the narrator. Maybe I‘ll try it again someday in print.

LeahBergen Too bad! It sounds good. 2w
shanaqui I found this one very variable per-chapter -- some of the figures he chose to talk about were interesting and some... less so. 2w
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TieDyeDude
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Bailedbailed

I had been listening to this as background noise, and realized that I have zero interest in the plot. Cal is an emotionally immature, whiny punk, instead of a budding, confident Jedi. Merrin is an insecure, pining schoolgirl, instead of a powerful, self-assured Nightsister with whom trust needs to be earned. And the whole thing is weirdly horny; not that romance is not welcome, but it is too much a focus for how poorly it is developed.

TieDyeDude I recently replayed the first game and wanted to read this before playing the second game, but I bailed after confirming the story has no impact on the second game. (edited) 2w
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DGRachel
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Bailedbailed

I reached 67% and have 3 1/2 hours at 1.5 speed to finish. I‘ve been arguing with myself about bailing all morning, and I surrender. I don‘t know if it‘s the narrator, the translation, or the source material but I dislike the characters, the author seems oddly obsessed with menstruation, and non-white male characters are not written well. I wanted to read this before watching Dept Q, but I think I‘ll skip the TV show as well.

mcctrish This is on my TBR and now I think I will take it off 2w
DGRachel @mcctrish There seems to be a lot of love for the series but @Hooked_on_books has a review here that captures some of the key things that bothered me. I might have been able to power through except I found the story itself and the main detective both tedious. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2w
Hooked_on_books Yeah, there are big issues with this one. Bailing was a good move. 2w
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thebacklistbook
The Night Auction | Lila Mary
Bailedbailed

DNF at 30 pages. Wowie first person with third person name usage. More telling than showing. Victim blaming. Eesh. I really wanted to love this story. So many syntax errors. So, so, many.

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Erinreadsthebooks
Love Letter to Whiskey | Kandi Steiner
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Bailedbailed

I‘m giving up at a little over a third of the way through. It‘s very New Adult, very ‘why, exactly, aren‘t yall together,‘ very frustrating. I‘m hanging it up and moving on ✌️

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