What is a highly recommended book you read and hated?

I’ll start…

For months everyone kept recommending The Never King in all of my reading groups. I finally caved and read it. It was terrible, but that’s my unpopular opinion!

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Xalvadora · 18-21, F

Well, I don't have a book like that, but I do have a book series that made my depression skyrocket. They made those books into Lifetime movies.
The series is called The Dollanganger Series.
The Lifetime movies are: Flowers in the Attic, Petals in the Wind, If There Be Thornes and Seeds of Yesterday. The final book, Garden of Shadows, has not been made a movie.
I am still currently reading Seeds of Yesterday. I am on the second part of the book and I had to put it down because my depression skyrocketed. The characters all except two made me pissed, but I also like the series because it fills me with dread, it shows lots of drama and trauma, and I'm reading it because I'm into incest. Apparently it runs in the family. It has been four years since I've put that book down and I still remember it.

I kind of take back on the characters who pissed me off. The main character kind of pisses me off as well.

whisperingwillow · 36-40, F

@Xalvadora As soon as you said lifetime I lost it 🤣

When I was younger I was obsessed with VC Andrews. I can’t even tell you how many I’ve read! Eventually I realized that pretty much every series involves some twisted form of incest and I just couldn’t take it anymore. Lol Those books used to depress me too, so I hear you!

The book that literally made me suicidal and I had to stop reading was Wuthering Heights. Who can love that book unless the WANT to feel positively devoid of any good?! No thanks lol