Most disappointing books you've read this year?

I quite liked the previous two books of Alan Partridge but Big Beacon was just ok. I haven’t read any terrible books that I can remember but not read that many this year.

Another vote for Lessons in Chemistry
I also hated (and so did every single member of my book club) Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone.
How either of those ever got published is beyond me.

The Skeleton Key - Erin Kelly
The Couple Next Door - Shari Lapena
Reminders of Him - Colleen Hoover. I'd never read her before so decided to see what the fuss was about...

Started reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow but have put it down. I'm not into gaming and struggling to get to grips with it - don't want to give up just yet though.

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood.

Its sitting looking at my judging me for only
being halfway through but it’s so slow! I am really disappointed in it.

Murder before Evensong by Richard Coles.

Dear God (no pun intended) I gave up after about 3 chapters. Pretentious? I have never needed a dictionary beside me when I read a 'light' novel, actually I've never needed one for ANY novel.

Open random page and find tintinnabulation, duumvirate, entablatures for example.

And I know he's a Rev. But he goes into so much religious detail it's mind numbing!

Lessons in Chemistry for me too. It says nothing that isn't mainstream or widely accepted. Wow, women should be allowed to study science. So brave. I am a woman with a chemistry degree and was so excited to read it. Elizabeth reminded me of the type of pretentious snot person who would (unironically) use scientific names in day to day life solely to sound more intelligent and feel superior. Kind of like the book really: wanted to seem witty and intelligent but came across as utterly vapid.

How To Stop Time by Matt Haig. Straight down the charity shop.

A 'feminist' take on the legend of Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur. So bad I can't even remember the name.

Off the top of my head, Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson and Tge Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell, both of which I had been looking forward to reading. I didn't hate them but they fell short of expectation, just about reaching 3/5 stars.

Lessons in Chemistry, I'd read such rave reviews and everyone was loving it. I barely made it through 40ish pages and gave up.
Dead Head by C J Skuse, the third in the Sweetpea trilogy. I loved the first two but this was so boring.
The List by Yomi Adegoke. Mind numbingly dull.
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi. This was highly recommended to me but it was so crass and badly written.

The Fraud by Zadie Smith. Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes. Mrs England by Stacey Halls. I couldn't finish any of them. And for a book I did finish, Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson, which I thought was flimsy and dull despite its promising setting.