Books I've DNF'd Recently!

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[dogloverandfr]

Some of us just aren’t “cozy” readers and that should be normalized.

[Miichaninwonderland]

what do you mean you'd be scared to see yourself with a moustache? You've always had a moustache 😏🧔

[atinyemeralddragon]

Having recently gotten into cozy mystery, i want to check out Death by Bubble Tea! I haven't DNFed anything too recently. But also as a mood reader, I am "currently reading" more than 10 books 😅

[books_with_clementine]

For cozy fantasy, I might not be the best person to say this since I loved Legends & Lattes, but I would recommend the prequel Bookshops & bonedust, since it has more plot in it?
A better rec might be Emily Wilde, as it does have some creepy vibes but is a cozy academic setting, and it does have a plot, an animal companion… so cozy but not too cozy?

[araya]

You should try Hörrorstore by Grady hendrix. It's his best imo and it's based off a haunted "ikea" like store. It was great

[books_with_m]

I don’t know if you’ll enjoy Grady Hendrix but I’m not sure if those were good to start with. Honestly, I’ve never even heard of those haha if you want to try his books, I’d say read his newer ones, particularly my best friend’s exorcism, horrorstor or the southern book clubs guide to slaying vampires. All 3 are fun to read!

[jenniferclark]

The mustache sounds sooo interesting! I think you'd like The Spellshop for cozy fantasy, and Paperbacks From Hell by Grady Hendrix! It's a non fiction that talks about pulp horror novels from the 70s to 90s

[thebookishvalkyrie]

If you’re looking for a cozy coded fantasy with real stakes and plot, I would recommend T. Kingfisher’s Nettle and bone. I wouldn’t really call it cozy fantasy, but I would call it grim cozy fantasy.

[viraswaggy]

watching you brings me so much comfort please never stop making videos or yapping ❤

[jessdibb]

My recommendation for Legends and Lattes is to try the audio book! The person who wrote it is a voice actor and it makes it so much more dynamic. Completely understand if it's just not a vibe you like though. If you ever want to try it again, just try the audio book 😊

In a way I also like Bookshops and Bonedust better.

[kizzyneetyan]

Given I also DNF'd Legends & Lattes, now I need to check out Can't Spell Treason Without Tea to see if that works better for me!!

[lifeandtabroad]

Not even an hour after upload and I am baby!!! I feel like I have leveled up in my Jesse stanmanship!

[BellaRosenfeld]

For cozy fantasy with enough plot to pull you through i think the Ravenfall series (its middlegrade), the Spellshop, Where the Dark Stands Still, Flowerheart and then anything by T. Kingfisher!! I liked Legends and Lattes but it is definitely not my favorite of the bunch <3

[craftyyams]

I feel the exact same about cozy fantasy! I tried to read the spell shop but there was just no tension, nothing to keep me interested. I love cozy games and I think spell shop and legends and lattes would make great switch games, but as books it was hard to keep interested

[astoldbykat]

I just DNFed "Ordinary Monsters" by J.M. Miro. I picked it up at a book sale last year on a whim, without reading the first page, because it sounded interesting, but when I started reading it I could just tell from the first 20 or so pages it wasn't going to be for me. Also possibly soft DNFed "You, Again" by Kate Goldbeck. I heard it was first Reylo fanfiction, and once I started reading I couldn't unsee that at all.

[julielocktree]

Totally agree with you on soft DNFing and rereading the beginning again, while I didn't like it before. I find this so hard and quiet often this keeps me from trying again. So sometimes, if I do not wait to long and I still know what happend, I just restart a book where I left off... 🤷🏼‍♀️ This really helps me giving a book a second chance.

[eht]

I'm finally in a place in my reader journey where I'm allowing myself to DNF and it's *SO DIFFICULT*. I keep trying to tell myself it will get better and I just need to stick it out, when a bigger part of me knows that if I like a book, I shouldn't have to stick it out 🙃

That said, I DNFed 3 books so far this year: "Sun of Blood and Ruin", "A Court of Thorns and Roses", and "How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying" (still devastated about the last one!)

[melissahastings]

I read legends & lattes and was like ???? What’s up with all the hype?? I didn’t even think about picking up his second book.

[mysteryfan]

I recently DNF a book that I borrowed from the library. I forgot the name of the book but I knew it was a romance but as I kept reading it I found I didn't like the two main characters. So I decided to stop reading. I'm going to return it to the library tomorrow afternoon.

[OliviasCatastrophe]

I love Mexican gothic but yeah it’s very much the gothic book structure that is quite classical with slow build and atmosphere and then it crescendos at the end. So if you don’t like that structure you absolutely did the right thing in DNFing it! Gothic is one of my favourite genres though so I eat up that slow build every time 😅