There is another thing worse than an awful book: an awful book that comes at the end of an otherwise amazing series.
Looking at you, Jean M. Auel.
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How about an awful shambling corpse of a book that's trying to extend the story from a satisfying ending because the publisher wants more books.
This was the True Blood series for me. The writer had a lot of good ideas, but the way they put the ideas into words (kind of boring writing) and glazed over a ton of characters was so disappointing. Yet I still read the whole series. I appreciate what the show tried to do more now lol.
Yes, omg! And the world building idiocy drove me absolutely insane.
Like, this one part where the were-something (might have been a werewolf?) was like, "only the first born of any pair of weres will also be a were" or something, and the immediate reaction... was to wonder why the were population wasn't taking over the whole country or whatever. And the were took that seriously, saying the only reason their population wasn't huge was a large number of stillbirths and such.
They try to backtrack that a few books later, and deal with the actual consequences of the fact that they literally can't increase their population without polyamory - clearly someone informed the author of how stupid that was - but still, that initial response was some of the most obviously not-thought-out world building I've seen.
... okay, maybe that's not true, but some of the worst I've ever seen in a book I continued to read, anyway.