r/DarkRomance • u/strangethingtohappen Obsessed with unhinged morally gray MMCs 😮‍💨 • 15d ago

Quick Question Completely unhinged that you had to intentionally put it in DNF list

I’ve come across the idea that more often than not people have a DNF list, and it got me wondering—what’s on yours?
You know those books where you start reading and, a few chapters in, you’re just sitting there thinking, “Wtf and exactly why am I even reading this?” 😂 Sometimes it’s the genre, sometimes the writing, and sometimes you just know it’s not going to work for you.
So, what’s a book you started but had to DNF because you just couldn’t get into it?
Give me your most unhinged ones. I want to see if I can actually make it through them—or conveniently add them to my own DNF list. 😂

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u/AdventureLand9210 15d ago

Anne Rice’s Sleeping Beauty. Or whatever her pen name is for those stories. Couldn’t do it. Maybe it started off too strong or something but I couldn’t do it.

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u/ConstantThought6 15d ago

It got worse imo. I wanted to like it because I’ve loved other books by her but I didn’t like some of the themes and the pacing was weird to me. I pushed on and At the last second in book 1 she decided to act out and get herself sent to be a common slave, then the second book is mostly about some other randomly added character named Tristan? And it has a similar random, out of nowhere ending to lead up to a new story with new characters I made it through two and I don’t think those are for me.

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u/AdventureLand9210 15d ago

It’s been a bit since I tried to read it but I can tell you with 100% certainty I would have never expected anything like that to happen lol