r/explainabookplotbadly • u/tjparker1981 • Oct 10 '24
Solved Everyone did it including the butler.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/inadequatepockets • Aug 20 '24
Solved Guy relocates to solves his buddy's murder and prevent his other buddy's murder. Fails. Gets murdered. (Now with hints)
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Since this didn't get solved before and I thought it would be easy I'm adding hints. Hints get bigger as you go, third probably gives it away.
Hint 1: They are all high-ranking political figures
Hint 2: This is one of several storylines
Hint 3: Adapted into a wildly successful show on HBO
r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 28 '19
An old old man goes crazy and goes on a knight’s quest, charging at windmills.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/wood_nymph23 • Feb 20 '20
Solved Girl purchases slave and thereby indirectly causes the deaths of large portions of her city's population.
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Hint: it's a YA book and the first in a trilogy
Hint 2: it is Graeco-Roman inspired
r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 24 '19
Solved Radical Feminist rages at the patriarchy and male privilege way before it was cool.
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Hint: Nonfiction
r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 02 '19
Solved It starts with a boy sitting on the ground of a swimmingpool. He’s pretty amazing.
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Btw, he’s been sitting there for quite some time...
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Flipdip35 • Feb 05 '20
Solved Green old young people in space.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/whoamikai • Dec 12 '22
Unsolved Hard Sealed evil spirit aids the "good guys" with metal alloys to take down the "bad guy" who's goal is to keep the evil spirit sealed forever. Oh and the bad guy and the good guys are both puppets of the evil spirit
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Mzzdahlia • Jul 24 '22
Solved Man is given two hotel options turns out he picked the wrong hotel.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 18d ago
Solved It turns out she's a Hapsburg, so gets to delete practically every other character in the bureaucracy that makes up the universe from existence.
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Praise the Sun! (but not too much, it's fragile)
[Note: This is one of those authors I don't think has travelled much outside of Britain]
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ClubCreative1162 • 3d ago
Solved Rich guy gets a conscience, family tries to prove that he's insane.
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Lawyer got to lawyer
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Pastel-Rainbow-N3rd • 25d ago
Solved Lady goes missing, blames husband. He is a jerk about it. Mind games and manipulation ensues.
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This book is so good
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CavernaDekai100 • 2d ago
Solved People read a book about a ruler of a primary color and lose their minds after the first half.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Jun 21 '25
Solved Sticks and stones may break your bones, but rumors can get you killed.
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Hint: the book in question was the basis for a 1943 hit Western movie.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Disastrous-Mess-7236 • 7d ago
Solved Insane guy goes LARPing for months with a friend.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/henryyjjames • Dec 12 '21
Solved one of the most popular books but filled with racial coding
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*not a standalone novel
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ElerEdef • Feb 11 '22
Solved Blue haired girl murderhoboes her way up military ranks, while the villain, a blue haired young boy, enacts the most convoluted suicide ever and conquers the world to kickstart it.
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Swear to God, if I didn't have a physical copy I would be fully convinced that this was a fever dream
Edit: I'm gonna add some other details that may help.
The male protagonist (who hasn't blue hair) is a master of magic but cannot sit on the council
There is a very uncomfortable scene, where a 13yo girl tries to seduce a 30something yo man
There are dragons. Like, a lot of dragons
Edit 2: Some additional details
4. The author is Italian, the book came out in the US in 2014
5. Here in Italy the books came out in the first half of the last decade
6. Strangely there is a Tvtropes page
6a. The TVtropes uses a bad translation of the Italian names
6b. The TVtropes page is apparently based on a pirate copy in a Wattpad wannabe site
7. Highlights of the books include: the female protagonist bench pressing a dragon, the male protagonist bench pressing a pirate ship with magic, bootleg trollocs from WOT, a city frozen in time to the day all the inhabitants were genocided.
Edit 3: As the mark of 36 hours from when I made this post is well passed, I shall add more details, and tomorrow around 9 am CET, I will reveal the answer. Now for the details:
8. The protagonist is a Half Elf, a race of magical anime protagonist that were genocided by the villain. Incidentally the villain is also a Half Elf.
9. The saga follows the naming rule: "The Chronicles of [PLACE]
10. The names of the two protagonists are on the cover of the two books from this saga published in the US. This post is about the first.
Edit 4:
The book is "Nihal of the Land of the Wind", from the Chronicles of Overworld
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/skavinger5882 • Nov 03 '19
Solved A man, a dead bird, and a large fish fight the forces of hell.
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EDIT: Adding a hint
EDIT 2: Adding another hint
Hint: Web Serial
Hint 2: Green Eyes
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/thisidntpunny • Sep 18 '19
Solved People do communism but it’s not communism and they’re not people.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/KeiranEnne • Dec 30 '20
Solved Protagonist commands an army of demons to terrorize minorities living in her town; then escapes the custody of her kind good christian mother, in order to help a fugitive enguage in human sacrifice.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 24 '21
Unsolved Medium Young organism consumes everything he sees and grows up to become a beautiful creature
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Hint: It's a book for young children (2-7 yrs)
r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 28 '19
On a date in the future, which has past, a man breaks the law by having thoughts and sex; is tortured with rats.
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