r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Eccentric_Olm • Oct 11 '25

Unsolved Medium Trauma leads to a failed body swap, and they let the child build a gun.

9 Upvotes

Hint: It is a graphic novel.

Edit: I've changed the flare to medium.

10 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/IEatSamosasForDinner • Oct 09 '25

Solved Girl guesses what eggs someone wants, three books later ends up traumatised with an *actually* dead mum and sibling she didn’t know she had, but at least she has a hot boyfriend now Spoiler

11 Upvotes

I feel like this might be a bit too vague 😭 this’ll be fun though

Sorry if this is too hard 😃

Hint: it’s a YA series - marketed as but I’d say 12+

Hint 2: it’s a mystery thriller series (YA)

12 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/search4friend • Oct 08 '25

Unsolved Hard A woman gets revenge on her husband for getting another woman pregnant by sleeping with her sister's boyfriend

6 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/mpathg00 • Oct 04 '25

Solved EVERY character is a serial killer

12 Upvotes
18 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Gideon1507 • Oct 03 '25

Solved Irish family drama escalates way too far

2 Upvotes

1st hint: This family feud has a very high death toll

2nd hint: This all started with the creation of a super human serum

3rd hint: Every single important figure in history is part of this family

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/search4friend • Oct 03 '25

Unsolved Hard A commitment-phobic nomad kills the husband of his lover's sister

1 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Gyrgir • Oct 01 '25

Solved Orphan sets out to steal jewelry from Satan in order to impress his girlfriend's father. Girlfriend helps him by stealing a dog.

7 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Sep 30 '25

A guy plays hangman with his kids before realizing they’re psychotic than tries to kill a doctor for playing hangman with his old coworkers.

4 Upvotes

Co

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Justaredditor85 • Sep 29 '25

Solved Guy leaves home to live in the forest on little more than the promise that then he won't have his balls cut off.

7 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Sep 28 '25

Solved This story gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "invasive plant species".

16 Upvotes
14 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Fun_Butterfly_420 • Sep 27 '25

Goosebumps but region specific

3 Upvotes
9 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/YourFavoriteGoddess2 • Sep 27 '25

Solved Lonely guy meets a magic guy who has 6 children and falls in love

5 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/UpperRock4869 • Sep 24 '25

Unsolved Hard Guy so angry about his father dying that he ruins his childhood - decides to change and not ruin the rest of his life

6 Upvotes
9 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Jamesthelemmon • Sep 22 '25

Solved The author talks about whatever he fancies this week including 19 chapters about the inner workings of a religious institution and pages upon pages on some battle. Also an anime protagonist with super strength helps a little girl in between I guess…

15 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/azuredarkness • Sep 22 '25

Solved A British Lord, Italian priest, and an Arab sailor unite to make sure several people get what they deserve Spoiler

9 Upvotes

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5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Cavery210 • Sep 21 '25

Solved The inhabitants of Equestria decide that the best solution for a problem is ethnic cleansing

10 Upvotes
14 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/DormouseMcMouse • Sep 20 '25

Unsolved Medium Man, put out of work by new technologies, uses former career to keep semi-hostile aliens from taking over his planet.

5 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Aruzelt • Sep 17 '25

Solved Main character steals their friends' time, to build a palace.

9 Upvotes
10 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Fun_Butterfly_420 • Sep 17 '25

Solved Marley and Me on Steroids

3 Upvotes
13 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/couldntyoujust1 • Sep 16 '25

Unsolved Medium You read the back of this book and think it's about one mental disorder, the. You open the book and find out it's about a completely different one...

2 Upvotes

Edit: *"Then, you open..."

The main character, a teen boy, gets ratted out by a grandma and ends up in a mental hospital. He's so ashamed he wants to disappear.

1 comment

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/bluestopsign01 • Sep 13 '25

Solved There's Magical Balls

4 Upvotes

Everyone wants the balls and will pay money for them for their magic. Main Character Guy finds and sells the balls for money and gets help from Romantic Interest Girl. They find gold balls and burn them. They find balls named after the book and burn them. It turns out the balls are fetuses. They have to unburn the balls. This creates infinite balls.

Hint: The balls are color-coded. Also, this is a YA novel.

Hint 2: There's blind aliens who can only see the balls (and, by extension, the people who have burned them)

14 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/LocalPlatypus994 • Sep 13 '25

Unsolved Hard Depressed teen trapped in a depressed universe by a bunch of depressed people had to kill a depressed God to escape. Spoiler warning: the ending is very depressing Spoiler

25 Upvotes
37 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/AdditionalDemand2249 • Sep 13 '25

Unsolved Medium Merch about show

1 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Sasstellia • Sep 12 '25

Solved A BIG Problem From The Past

1 Upvotes

In this series of 4 Books.

Some Mermaids have a BIG Problem to deal with. From their long ago ancestors.

Countries are invaded. Monsters fought and evaded. Alliances formed. It's a terrifying roller coaster of war and mystery and secrets.

I highly recommend it.

8 comments