That moment when the book turns terrible

I loved the, the book and series.

Second Sleep- great start, dire ending. Chucked it on the floor in annoyance!

The worst detective book I ever read was about a murder that initially looked like a suicide. After an entire book of detective work... Turns out it was a suicide after all. Argghhhh.

I stand corrected, thank you!

He actually was First Sea Lord during WW1!

No he wasn't!

He was First Lord of the Admiralty, which is quite a different post.
First Lord of the Admiralty is or was a political appointment, a Cabinet post.
First Sea Lord is the highest rank achievable by a serving Naval officer, which Churchill never was. The actual First Sea Lord at the outbreak of the First World War was Prince Louis of Battenberg. - Prince Philip's grandfather.

He actually was First Sea Lord during WW1! From 1911 to 1915, as far as I recall. Responsible for the Gallipolli campaign, which led his star into eclipse for a while. People forget that Churchill led men in two wars, not just one. Maybe you should pick that book back up

🤣 love this idea

could be quite dystopian with the AI having hallucinations and falsely accusing people

I picked up a book at the library because it mentioned a police force using an AI detective and I thought that sounded interesting - until it becomes clear this is a hologram (ok…) and one who acts like a robot in a sitcom, not understanding any jokes or idioms. This might have been ok a few years ago but it was published last year and we’ve all used AI, and it doesn’t act like that! Annoying as I found the premise quite appealing if done properly.

There’s one book where the heroine gets off the bus at our local bus station, turns right and walks to a caravan park overlooking a beach in an hour or so. No bloody way did she!

Two recently

The Enchanted April went from feminist awakening to centring men

and an award winning book where the man explains that the doctors asked him to choose between the wife and baby and he chose to save the baby because that’s what she would have wanted. They wouldn’t have asked him you dingbat

Also a history book which presented something about the navy as fact, which I explored further and turned out to be a myth.
I found it hard to trust either book after that.

I once ploughed through a well reviewed book about the outbreak of the First World War, what was going on in the various governments, what diplomatic activity was taking place. Got to the last chapter and the author said Winston Churchill was First Sea Lord. So I was left wondering, if the author could be wrong about something so well known, what else had he got wrong that I wouldn't have known.

The Snakes - at the end. Just wtaf

Well not me obviously?

I hate it when I know an area well and the author clearly hasn't been there or bothered to research.

First Cormoran Strike book. He needed to travel from St John's Wood to Bromley. She sent him via the Blackwall Tunnel.

I started reading a Regency romance in which a character lived in Charing Cross Road. No, he didn't. I didn't read any further.

And I think I mentioned this one on another thread recently - when a character got a train from Victoria to travel to NE England.

I read a non-fiction book once in which the author said he'd got a degree from Oxford but the college he mentioned only exists at Cambridge.

Also a history book which presented something about the navy as fact, which I explored further and turned out to be a myth.

I found it hard to trust either book after that.

The fact the sister was a chimp was telepgraphed from page one, I think everyone who read it got it immediately?

I’ve just finished Katabasis, was taken out of it by the fact the English character got ill in third grade. I can only assume it’s deliberate to leave it in for all the editions, maybe it’s cheaper. Is Babel no good then? I do like her writing style.

I once threw a book across the room because the protagonist petted a dog and it was sweaty. NO. Famously, dogs don’t sweat!! That was the end for me.

I started off loving her books, decades ago, but they got more and more repetitive and just not credible. I wish she’d just started with new characters and a new series.

Then I completed gave up on her when she decided that Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper

I hate it when I know an area well and the author clearly hasn't been there or bothered to research.
She walked past Greggs and into the train station..... no, she really didn't!

On the other side of the coin, I love it when it is well researched and even if I haven't been there, I feel like I have.

The year of the locust made me so cross! I loved I Am Pilgrim so was really looking forward to it, but as another pp says, it was like two different books stuck together! Load of old shite.

You actually guessed the sister was a chimpanzee?

I read a book by Prue Leith the main character was left a single mother but just took her baby to her office job and tucked her under her desk! I had a same age baby at the time and was 🙄🙄 at the utter implausibility!!

I did see the twist in We Are All... quite early on, I must admit. I managed to finish it in the end but didn't enjoy it.

In fact, that was the book that made me realise that just because everyone is raving about a new book it is no guarantee that it's not going to be complete garbage. I'm doing quite a lot of re-reading atm

I have a trick now of looking up a book I'm hating on Good Reads, and checking out the 2 and 3 star reviews. I often find that they reflect what I'm thinking and makes it easier to abandon.

I read an interview with the author when her latest book came out, she sounded extremely up herself

how does something like that get past extensive edits and proof reading?

I once read a book published by a reputable publisher in which the dialogue was punctuated wrongly throughout. Basic primary school level stuff that got through editing. It was really irritating and distracting.