Activating hater mode: #13 of the book asks 🖤
13. What were your least favorite books of the year?
most of the full books I read this year were pretty good, but here's a novella and a short graphic novel for my hater list.
things have gotten worse since we last spoke: suuuuch a tasty concept, but such a failure in execution. suffered from its efforts to incorporate realism into its disturbing toxic lesbianism, and suffered more from boring characters with no clear motivation for being disturbing and toxic.
open earth: my critiques about this are probably unfair because it's a small publisher and I just randomly picked this up from a display at the library, but it's my poly rep and I get to be annoyed by it. I know it was a short graphic novel, but I wished the setting was more fleshed out, I wished the characters were more interesting, and most of all I wished the plot was something less basic than "learning to communicate needs to multiple partners." literally that's the whole plot. presumably the intended audience for this book is already polyamorous...we know this shit! give me something at least slightly interesting to read