Suggest me books that start perfectly but later gets bad….
I'll go first…for me it's –
Silent Patient – heard a lot about this…start so good….buildup was nice but soon gets predictable and climax was supposed to be mind-blowing which it was but I already predicted it few pages before….
Now it's your turn
by jack_samuraii
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Oh, that’s odd. I really enjoyed The Silent Patient. I think with these books, it’s best not to try to predict or guess the outcome. Just enjoy the journey and see how things unfold.
For me,
It was Hail Mary and Nightwatching (Nightwatching had so much potential, but it turned out to be another simple mystery).
Black Chalk by Christopher J Yates. Allegedly a psychological thriller following a group of Oxford students engaging in a game of increased stakes that ends in tragedy.
The only tragedy that happened was forcing myself through 368 pages of the flattest, most unlikable characters imaginable and a floundering plot that never actually went anywhere.
The Unhoneymooners. Started great, but i hated the ending. Hate the ML and really wished it ended differently.
La belle savage (the book of dust) by Philip Pullman. Such a beloved author and the book had so much potential …
The secret history
Babel by RF Kuang. It goes downhill pretty quick
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo. Started really well, the writing was fantastic, interesting setting. But towards the end, the plot got ridiculously unbelievable and the characters so unsympathetic. Usually I don’t finish books I dislike, but the start of this was so strong I powered through.
The first half of The Stand by Stephen King was one of the best thing I had read at the time.
The second half was… not…
Iron widow, fist couple chapters were really interesting
But I didn’t enjoy the characters/story after that, doesn’t help that I didn’t know it had a poly relationship and I’m just not into reading those
first, i have an alarm within me that goes of with a “book title” like this: “The Silent Patient: The record-breaking, multimillion copy Sunday Times bestselling thriller and TikTok sensation”. can’t help it. this is such a no go. and second i dnf’d a very famous book that seems to be very loved, “Night Film” by Marisha Pessl. the narration is very old school(i would say dusty), and i guess i just didn’t like the POV – older man, bordering on being an incel, who is an alcoholic and overall no nice guy. not for me. even with the theme “Haunted Media” i’ve read so much better!
I felt the same about the silent patient. I know a ton of people loved it. But for me, I was really enjoying it and then thought the ending was super lame.
I read the Ferryman but Justin Cronin earlier this year, and I was really enjoying the story and engrossed. And then it took a turn and really kind of fizzled out.
I’d probably say the same for the Light Pirate.
Neither were terrible. But neither’s back end lives up to the journey to get there.