Have you ever read a book so bad you've had to retroactively revise the rating of *another* book because you realised you were too harsh at the time?

So I was thinking… is there any movie/tv show adaptation that in your opinion is BETTER than the book? 🤔 I, for example, believe that the movie adaptation of The Virgin Suicides is way better than the book, and I love the book, but I feel like the movie did a better job capturing the Lisbon sisters, like, the director understood them better than the author of the book. 🙂‍↕️ Do you think it’s possible an adaptation is better than the source material? 🫢

So not gonna lie i have an embarrassing long tbr (around the 200 books🥲) and no clue what to read next. This is my top 10, please help me pick one, I’m almost finished with “Just for the Summer” :) 1. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil 2. Priory of the Orange Tree 3. Trials of Apollo series (Percy Jackson) 4. The Song of Achilles 5. People We Meet on Vacation 6. King of Scars series 7. The Atlas Six series 8. Death at Morning House 9. The Seven Year Slip 10. Fourth Wing I’m having a hard time choosing because I don’t really have a genre preference so please let me know what you enjoyed :))

Have you ever read a book so bad you've had to retroactively revise the rating of *another* book because you realised you were too harsh at the time?

I had to look up if Tracy Deonn's mom had passed and I wasn't surprised to see that she had. I was 20 when my mom died and I've found myself relating to a lot of Bree's grief throughout the book. I'm not sure a trigger warning is exactly the right term I'm looking for, it was manageable, but do take care entering chapter 32 if you find yourself relating ❤️‍🩹 That was a heavy one

Beautiful prose but so boring and lengthy. Why did it take 3 chapters to say that the sisters are estranged, and their father died?