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LiterarySloth
Foe | Iain Reid
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It‘s not a terrible book, but it was my least favorite that I read (and finished) this year. There is another book that I didn‘t finish, but I don‘t think I can label it worst in case it did get better later. I just didn‘t care enough to find out. Like I said, Foe isn‘t terrible, but I‘m not recommending it to anyone. It was very slow and predictable for me. It felt like reading an episode of Black Mirror.
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GingerAntics
Swordland | Ruadh Butler
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I‘d never bailed on a book before this year. I always powered through and just hated it the whole way. When I bailed before the book, I was well into the book and knew finishing was going to be painful. I bailed on this book part way into the second chapter. There was just no way. The writing was dry. The chapters were ridiculously long. There was Medieval cross dressing (not sure that was really a thing). #worstreads #swordland #worstreads2018

Caroline2 This book made me roll my eyes too much! 🙄 6y
julesG I bailed on quite a few. This I bailed on because the convoluted writing was unbearable, there were nonsensical mistakes in the descriptions ("from somewhere in the house she heard the back door falling to" - or so - - - if she knows it's the back door, why say from somewhere? Her position was static, she was in the drawing room.) ? 6y
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julesG Too many POV. They are connected. But I didn't care about it. The technical aspects gave me a headache. It was too far fetched. 6y
julesG The first few pages were technical descriptions of a bird like drone circling above the leader of a fictional Asian country, which was an obvious copy of North Korea. 6y
julesG I've started this several times since I bought it in 2009. I gave up. It's soooo big, it has two time lines and I couldn't connect to it. It's supposed to be good though. 6y
julesG Oops, totally misunderstood this meme. Sorry. 6y
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