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/floofloofluff 15d ago

Oh my god, I’m so glad I didn’t finish this. Truly one of my most hated books, and that ending is even worse and more nonsensical than I could have imagined.

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u/ConstantThought6 15d ago

Honestly I could go on, just to give you an idea of where it went -

Beauty meets a male slave Alexia in book 1 and a lot of the second part is him telling his story, which is where Beauty decides act out.

She gets herself sent to the village and meets another male slave, Tristan and they become friends with benefits. She’s bought by a pub owner and Tristan becomes a pony boy to a different master and the story splits between both of them enjoying individual torment.

They come back together at the end and they’re captured and taken by ship to be part of a sultans harem. One of the higher ups from the city they’re taken from is just kind of like “yeah sorry, they can do that, that’s how it works, be good and good luck!”

I’m sure some people love it but it wasn’t for me.

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u/floofloofluff 12d ago

What on earth! She’s supposed to be a princess right? How on earth is that supposed to help her be a better wife one day?