Name a book that was really popular that you absolutely hated

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Intermezzo by Rooney

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@nick I didn’t hate them but Rowling lost my trust, for want of a better word, with the later books. I will gladly buy into pretty much any world an author builds, so long as the plot makes sense within that world.

I enjoyed reading all the Harry Potter books with our children, but my personal interest waned in book 3 when pre-teen Hermione is given a time turner allowing our young heroes to not just observe the recent past but to change it; but meanwhile it doesn’t occur to the Ministry of Magic to do the same. That was the first of a number of plot contrivances that I found difficult to overlook.

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The Women by Kristen Hannah. Didn’t hate it, but did NOT like it ! After reading Nightengale and the Great Alone, I was very disappointed in The Women, finding it trite and not meeting my expectations.

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I agree, @Davina_Morgan-Witts. I really enjoyed the first two books, but not only did they start dropping the ball on things like the time turner, as you mention, but I thought the plots got excessively complicated and dark.

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That is mine, too! Loved A.J. Fickry but not Tomorrow. . .

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