Nightshade - Autumn Woods

30%

23.11.25

You know the phrase 'So bad it's good?' Yeah, well, that doesn't apply here. This is so bad in so many ways that it's like a first-time author's first draft that nobody's bothered to read or revise or comment on or edit or proofread before it was published. 

All Good Things - Amanda Prowse

30%

26.01.25

This was bad in almost every way a novel can be bad: characterisation, continuity, exposition, plotting, dialogue... Not quite Danielle Steel-bad but it's surprising from such an experienced and widely read writer.

My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult

14.08.05
30%



This is dreadful in almost every sense. Contrived, predictable, badly characterised and, worst of all, riddled with hackneyed metaphors that undermine any attempts at realism. It's certainly down there with the Da Vinci Code as an overhyped, badly written, inexplicably popular novel, but gets a couple of marks more just because it isn't by Dan Brown. [Ju note: I've succeeded in avoiding all subsequent Picoult books so far, which are all Issue Novels like this one.]