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Stories that left you disappointed for a reason

bosslady said:
Recently, I was looking for something longer to read, and I went with something that was around 100k. I thought it would be alright and... oh boy, do I regret it. I mean, at this point it was my fault for continuing to read, wasting a few hours, and I am not getting those back. To be honest, I was in awe of how the author managed to just... turn what should be a very short scene into something that felt like it was going on and on AND ON. Restating the same premise over and over, the MC being smart on one page and dumb the next. I didn't even remember if it was simply the prologue or chapter 1, but by the time I jumped ship I just hated everyone in that family (not that they really did anything, they were just... so boring). At some point I ended up skimming, something I rarely do, and on a first read too! And then just skipped until I reached the next choice. It felt like the author was afraid of choices...

And the writing, it was just too... tryhard for my taste, as if the characters were doing their absolute best to be either mysterious, amusing or clever all the time. It did none of those, it just annoyed me further.

Phew... finally got this out.
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Is it The Cruel Palace?

Edit: Oh, my page didn’t update and I missed your confirmation! Anyway, yeah that game has grown disappointing… to see so many new words for very little pay off, no stats that mattered and a rewrite that was mostly unplayable because it was heavy with lore… idk why the author doesn’t just focus on 7 Days as that’s a genuinely interesting story with decent work done to it so far.
 
Ah...don't get me started with 7 Days, I still haven't gone past the first pages because having to set everything about mc AND the family was boring to me and what I saw at the beginning didn't really convince me to push forward. And it was disappointing since I was excited for a new zombie story. At this point, I admit that maybe this author isn't for me.

But one thing that I found funny was that I could have a wild age gap relarionship with the spouse. Like 26 (?) mc and a spouse who was in their 30s with a 12 year old in the mix. And vice versa. Sorry if I messed up the ages, been a while since I tried it.
 
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