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Hey Pandas, What Is The Angriest You Have Ever Been At A Book? (Possible Spoiler Alert!)
Every author has a wonderful way of angering their readers. Whether it is a terrible betrayal or death of your favorite character, a terrible plot line, or a character in general. What is yours?
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I don't remember the name of the book series but it was a Sci Fi trilogy that ended in the protagonist and her love interest sacrificing their lives to save everyone else. Really unexpected and powerful for a YA book, but if course the epilogue had to ruin everything! Turns out the aliens were advanced enough to bring back the dead or something. They were given a second chance for their heroism. Ugh!! Then why have them make that sacrifice if it's ultimately undone!? It makes it seem trivial! I was so annoyed. They could have saved the world some other way in that case lol
I once got through an entire YA book I was meant to be proofing to check if it was appropriate for my sibling, closed it, and realised that I'd barely cared about the protagonist more than the average side character.
There was EVERY reason on paper to root for the protagonist, and the concept was interesting enough, if not necessarily the sort of thing I'd read for fun. There was conspiracy, determination, murderous wronged fairies doing horrible things to teenagers, and slightly screwed up but understandable education systems. It should have felt like /something/ at least, even if the something ended up being disgust or something.
SOMEHOW the author made the setting so bleak and the protagonist so... I dunno, not unlikeable but something was very wrong... that by the time she achieved the monumental feat of surviving the murderous supernatural creatures that less than 1 in 10 people get away from (protagonist needed mobility aids just to walk), taking down the traitor in a massive fire (directly after the ) and all that jazz, it was like. Oh. Okay. No impact. Nothing. The literal Bury (Half) Your Gays moment was more impactful by means of fairy involvement only, and that happened halfway through and then I forgot the characters had even been together until I was forcibly reminded. The protagonist went home, I felt basically nothing despite her being by all means a massive badass, I closed the book, and woke up the next day full of a burning rage at what an utter waste of a character and idea the entire thing had been.
I did not recommend it to my sibling.
I was livid when I read Dahlgren by Delaney. It meandered nowhere, then ended as it began.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. The way Gus dies. An outrage.
