Yes! Describing a few set pieces and mashing them together is not a novel! I was SO angry after I finished the Starless Sea but because it’s got cats in it people on Goodreads were obsessed with it. GAH.

Erin Morgenstern is a shit writer and i will die on this hill.

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. I don’t know how it’s possible to make a book with fucking Arthurian dragons in it so boring but i gave up after about 50 pages. Worst thing i’ve ever read.