One-star reviews of my favorite books

My taste is highly questionable

There are a lot of things going on in the world right now deserving of one star or less. It’s a good time to brush up the many ways to express our displeasure and hate, and laugh through the pain.

Plus, three new paid subscribers joined The Booktender recently (thank you David, Lindy and anonymous person!). It seems only fair to be up front about the flaws in the product.

So today I bring you one-star reviews of ten of my favorite books. Thank you to

Natalie McGlocklin

for this idea. She shared hers recently on

Subverse Reads

and cracked me up. If your taste is on the spooky side, and you don’t take yourself too seriously, you should definitely check out her recommendations. Also, if you follow

Ottessa Moshfegh

she recently posted to Notes one-star reviews of her own books— had me crying.

Here we go…