I think people should normalise not finishing books that are terrible even if others say ‘it gets better’

I apply the same rule to movies and shows that I watch because time is an irredeemable asset and I’ll be damned if I waste away my leisure reading or watching trash.

I just picked up It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover because a friend of mine recommended it and I can’t even finish the first chapter. I swear I have read wattpad books better than this, as someone who used to love them when she was 15/16. In what world is an adult woman who meets a stranger on a rooftop at night going to tell him practically her whole life story while she barely knows more than his works struggles under the guise of ‘bonding’.

And oh wow we need to be reminded every 3 sentences how hot he is, how his biceps are too big for his shirt, how the way he scrunched his nose and bites his lip lights a fire in her I mean come onnnn. It’s just so on the nose and cliche it’s really starting to fall over the border into cringe. I’m surprised I even got that far but I can’t keep going. Granted I’m not really a romance fan but I do believe there are many more out there better than this that probably deserve a lot more attention.

Even knowing it apparently explores interesting themes and and introduces another key character, I just cant be asked. Not when the beginning should, in my opinion, be the most compelling of a story to draw the reader in and retain their attention. I just feel bored and annoyed.

PS – I use the word normalise in the title cos I’ve often heard that if you don’t finish something you haven’t given it a fair chance. And you cant form a concrete opinion of a piece without experiencing it whole.

by interlacedfingers_