Any books that you hated?

might be controversial but harry potter and the cursed child. I LOVE the Harry Potter books and films but cursed child is so boring and confusing. I haven't watched the play on the premise that it will be boring and I wouldn't be able to follow and understand the plot line. Please let me know if you've read the book and watched the play and how they compare as I would love to know!

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte is... boring. Very boring. Gave up about 300 pages in during an excruciatingly detailed description of a village fete. And marrying your first cousin is quite weird.

Is Charlotte Bronte not the author of the book Jane Eyre? the passages I read made me curious enough to read it when I come to it.

She is. Shirley back then was a man's name, this book apparently helped switch that over because the character of Shirley is a woman

Have you read Jane Eyre? I wants to know whether it is worth to read it or not, that is why my question.

I have read it - mostly because I realised I had hardly read any classics, but it was quite good. But it's not on my list to re-read some day.

I see your answer as a recommendation to read this book one day. I just need to buy it.

As the title says - what is a book you hated? Popular or unpopular, and why?
For me it was Glass Sword, the secomd Red Queen book. I liked the first, the concept was good and enjoyable but by the second the mc had become INSUFFERABLE. She felt no remorse or guilt for what she did, but she'd always go on about her tough life and how she loses every other character. But gets over it? Also I felt no chemistry to either of the love interests - I'm not a love triangle person but both of them were boring.

Ugly Love - Colleen Hoover.
I do not care how cancellable this statement might be, but I hate all of Hoover's fics. They're just so cliche, the writing is appalling, totally basic (my 7 year old sister could write some of the sentences better than her) and it's always the same plot where the girl has been through some trauma, finds some questionable man (who also has been through some ****) to start a relationship by bonding with some good old trauma sex😍😍😍 I especially hated Ugly Love though, because of the trope and some things in that book left my jaws hanging on the floor (not in a good way either‼). One of the main things that annoyed me was that Miles seemed too in love with Rachel than Tate (cue eye roll). Like my man does not know what 'moving on' means. In some scenes he describes Rachel/ his relationship with her in such a romanticised and alluring way (bro turned into Shakespeare for her fr), but I just wish that same could be said for Tate, I mean she was 'meant' to be the lead love interest in THE BOOK but Miles just can't let go of everything that happened before THE BOOK. And also the fact that Miles was horny 24/7 was just a big ick. Oh, and wait I almost forgot the fact that Miles called Tate 'Rachel' during one of their 'arranged sessions' and I was so flabbergasted I didn't even know how to react like hello???? And Tate, fem lead, was just sooo boring and basic. She put up with Miles' **** ALL the damn time, like hun you don't have to do that😭 And every time he mugged her off, or treated her *****y, all he did was gave a vague explanation about his 'traumatic past' (which is valid to some extent, like it's... traumatic, but c'mon just go therapy sessions, honestly never that deep...) and all is forgiven??!! I don't stand for female leads like that. The sex scenes in Colleen Hoover books are harrowing too, to say the least. Like it's so bad, I don't even know how to describe it- leaves you dryer than the Sahara desert is all I'm saying. And another thing that gets to me is just like the way the two characters are suddenly just so attracted to each from the first millisecond they meet. There's no build up (that I would appreciate) , or nothing and just next chapter we have them making a '**** buddies pact'. Their romance in this was literally just blatantly ugly to put it out there. And not ugly in the painful and devastatingly beautiful way. Just straight out hideous and rotten, inside and out, kind of ugly. No one wants romance like that, it's unrealistic, NOT LOVE and just toxic. The whole plot of this I found to be pathetic. I've read It End with Us too, and let me just say it wasn't even worth finishing for me (despised the male lead). me and Colleen hoover ended with that book. Like it was my last straw with this author. The only decent book of CoHo I've read is Verity, like a solid 3/5 stars from me (which is surprising because I would rate Ugly love a 1.5 and same goes for It ends with us). However even with Verity, the ending could have been done much better so that it was more enticing and interesting. But I will admit, as a 13 year old, I worshipped this author but the older I got and once I got back into reading a year and a half ago, I re-read this fics and honestly wondered what was wrong with me when I first read these. Colleen Hoover books are just not for mature audiences imo, but a lot of older people do love it so it's just opinions I guess. But my advice... stay clear (and safe).
BUT FIRST LET ME SEND YOU SOMETHING FROM THAT BOOK😐

STOP I DIDN'T EVEN READ THIS BEFORE SENDING MY ENTRY TO THIS AND I'M SO WITH YOU LMAO I'm glad I'm not alone in the slander xx

Ugly love by Colleen Hoover. I do not need to elaborate. It was horrific

As the title says - what is a book you hated? Popular or unpopular, and why?
For me it was Glass Sword, the secomd Red Queen book. I liked the first, the concept was good and enjoyable but by the second the mc had become INSUFFERABLE. She felt no remorse or guilt for what she did, but she'd always go on about her tough life and how she loses every other character. But gets over it? Also I felt no chemistry to either of the love interests - I'm not a love triangle person but both of them were boring.

Alright, let's go.
Just because it's been mentioned already, but I quite liked Divergent. Insurgent and Allegiant, though, were almost offensively bad. I virtually never stop reading a book or trilogy once I've started, but Insurgent was so bad that I very nearly didn't read Allegiant at all. I did, and then wished I hadn't.
Twilight. Ok, I know I'm not the target audience, I also know that it's rarely the case that the best written books are the most popular. Nor should they be. People get all sorts of things from books, and guilty pleasures are par for the course. I also see the attraction in Twilight for the target audience. But for someone who isn't the target audience, Twilight is really, really bad. I didn't read the second one, nor will I ever.
For books that I am actually the target audience for, anything written by Dan Brown that isn't Da Vinci Code or Angels and Demons. Those two books, albeit having received far more attention than they deserve because of the religious controversy, are fine, surface level thrillers. The problem is that Dan Brown is a bad writer, and actively cannot write books outside of the same highly limited formula that resulted in those two books. Digital Fortress and Deception Point are entirely predictable when you've Da Vinci Code, because the plot is fundamentally the same. And then Lost Symbol might actually be the worst book I have ever read. It's just awful with no redeeming qualities at all. If there's one book that I would probably erase from existence entirely, it's the Lost Symbol.
More recently, I went on a bit of a classic sci fi binge, and was amazed at how good a lot of the classic novels are. There was, however, one glaring exception. Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein. Don't confuse it with the film. The film is brilliant sci fi satire. It has virtually nothing in common with the book at all, which is actually really quite serious military propaganda wrapped in a wafer thin plot. It's terrible, and I just don't understand why it's considered to be a sci fi classic when actual, stone cold classics like Childhood's End, Flowers for Algernon and I Am Legend exist.