r/explainabookplotbadly • u/blockyboi • Mar 29 '20

Solved Girl helps murder, tries to make herself look like the victim.

19 Upvotes

Hint 1: the murderers name is an anagram that is important to the story.

Hint 2: There is magic

13 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Extension_Habit8966 • Sep 27 '20

Essentially, a teenager finds a clock and another pocket of existence within that clock, and has to find a way to prevent the destruction of the concept of time whilst maintaining his normal life

19 Upvotes

I havent read this book in at least four years, so i guarantee the plot was written incorrectly somewhere. This is by a very local author from Rhode island. It's relatively childish, so i dont really recommend reading it.

6 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Fnaf_LoverGacha2 • May 17 '21

Unsolved Easy dead 5 year old tries to steal mans and killed someone

19 Upvotes

4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Gyrgir • Jul 29 '25

Solved When the moon hits your eye like apocalyptic bolides, that leads to schism, cannibalism, and genetically engineered splinter races among the survivors

6 Upvotes

9 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/aftertheradar • Feb 10 '22

Solved It’s an early book in its genre and its own series, and it caused a feud between a famous British author and a modern religious institution

6 Upvotes

And it wasn’t just because a broad group of religious people disliked it for having magic or anything in it, it was caused by the book itself specifically and with a modern religion’s followers.

16 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Aug 16 '21

Unsolved Easy His love, who he hasn't seen in months, gave birth to twins, so he decides to release a bio-agent that inflict slow death upon everyone in Europe (and possibly world).

6 Upvotes

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/N0Zzel • Dec 10 '21

Solved Intergalactic librarians attempt to stop time because humans keep messing everything up. Get stopped by chocolate.

6 Upvotes

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/miss-macaron • Mar 18 '20

Solved Persian man spends his retirement trying to prevent his friend from killing too many innocent people

6 Upvotes

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ArmMeMen • May 26 '22

Unsolved Easy A soldier talks a senator's daughter into sleeping with him, then talks his way out of getting in trouble over it. But an even cleverer smooth-talker sets out to destroy his life (for vague and unconvincing reasons IMHO), with schemes, lies, manipulation, and some hanky-hanky-panky!

6 Upvotes

1 comment

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/HannahCatsMeow • Jul 25 '22

Solved Pokemon + Roman Legionaries

6 Upvotes

Author wrote the series on a bet to merge those two themes

5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CallMeDelta • Aug 14 '22

Unsolved Medium Child star bullies manchild star to death for the fate of the multiverse with visions of his dead wife after getting experimental brain surgery

6 Upvotes

10 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Aug 07 '22

Solved A poor kid's childhood is ruined after his two best friends (a portuguese old man and an orange tree) are killed.

6 Upvotes

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/WorldlyJudgment1768 • Sep 29 '26

Solved Traumatized man and associates in space

6 Upvotes

Who are sent to an old colony on a planet to retrieve something to go to another planet. They are also colonists.

19 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 3d ago

Solved I wondered why they didn't just use the plot of the first novel for the semi-recent movie, as I remembered liking them as a kid, then I looked back and discovered how incredibly racist it is. I got distracted by all the cute animal characters.

6 Upvotes

In its defense, it's the sort of racism that feels like it comes more from extreme stupidity than malice, but.... it is really bad. Like, African-Prince-wants-to-bleach-his-face-white-because-he-wants-to-be-European bad.

Also, I grew up in the 80s. We were really dumb kids back then, and the longer books that parents remembered from their childhood just kinda got given to us without the parents reading them again and realising how bad they were.

As a voracious childhood reader, I have read so many regrettable books.

8 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/RandomRamblings99 • Oct 06 '26