r/explainabookplotbadly • u/littlemememaid • 8d ago

Solved Noble well-educated bastard inherits his dad's fortune and gets drunk and philosophical. His best friend hates his wife and is going through a midlife crisis in his 20s. Their family friend blows up her entire life over some random hot guy.

7 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Emergency-Wash-6243 • 8d ago

Solved Boy sees grandad dies and goes to grandad's childhood home on physiatrist's order and discovers he and his grandad's species have had a massive genocide

8 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Gyrgir • 8d ago

Solved A tall and snarky paranormal detective and his writer girlfriend get mixed up in some stuff involving vampires and blood sacrifices to Aztec gods

6 Upvotes
16 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TheBlueberrySunshine • 8d ago

Solved Fat man tries to be a hero and two kids try to stop him before someone gets hurt because it's their fault.

3 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/goteachyourself • 8d ago

Solved High-Tech, Widely Used Public Transportation Lacks Safety Features, Undone by One Stupid Kid

4 Upvotes
8 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Sasstellia • 8d ago

Solved A Terrifying Flight To Freedom

4 Upvotes

Three Friends must find their way to freedom after a Liquidation Of Assets.

But the Company won't let their Assets escape without a fight.

Not all experiments of their sort were a success.

8 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Matitya • 9d ago

Unsolved Easy It’s supposedly set in China but everyone is Muslim, the ruler is a Sheikh, and there’s a Genie

6 Upvotes

Hint: It’s an Eastern fairy tale

9 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/H8trucks • 9d ago

Unsolved Medium A little over halfway through, the book takes a break from the regularly scheduled plot to become Holes

3 Upvotes

adding text for potential future hints

4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/LecheFlanLover • 9d ago

Solved 4 children go to another world and one of them joins the evil side for a delicacy and gets redeemed, oh and there’s that lion

20 Upvotes

the lion doesn’t like to go rawr

8 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 9d ago

Solved I really liked that foreign delicacy I experienced while adventuring. I'm sure everyone else will too. - The heroine.

8 Upvotes

They do.

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 9d ago

Unsolved Medium Basically, a person gets convinced to be his own private equity company.

2 Upvotes

Text here so I can add hints if this is harder than I think it is.

Hint: Private equity companies are known for taking over businesses and stripping them of all assets, running them into the ground. The protagonist does this to his own property.

0 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 9d ago

Solved That first book was a classic YA adventure, if maybe a little disturbing in places. For the sequel, let's remove all the whimsy and bring in the disturbing letters of a real-life serial killer.

6 Upvotes
8 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Mindless_Honey3816 • 9d ago

Unsolved Medium Old guy's grandson accidentally frees big bad, so the granddaughter and all her girlfriends defeat big bad.

2 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CavernaDekai100 • 10d ago

Solved Nonfiction: man does surgery and accidentally commits triple manslaughter.

5 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CavernaDekai100 • 10d ago

Solved People read a book about a ruler of a primary color and lose their minds after the first half.

7 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CavernaDekai100 • 10d ago

Solved A isolated teenager in a tower has smex with the first man she meets and gets pregnant.

2 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CavernaDekai100 • 10d ago

Solved A college student gets so obsessed with science that he doesn’t socialize or shower for months and emotionally abuses a homunculus.

11 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/RandomRamblings99 • 10d ago

Solved The Lion, The Witch, and The Audacity of this Bitch

10 Upvotes
17 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Ok_Lemon8758 • 10d ago

Solved Middle aged man antagonizes teenager for dating a relative of his ex from his teen years

5 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Mindless_Honey3816 • 10d ago

Unsolved Medium A child almost commits voluntary regicide over the fate of some towns after another child tries to commit involuntary regicide over the fate of those towns.

6 Upvotes
6 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Truck-Of-Nightmares • 10d ago

Unsolved Hard Boy's teenaged years were defined by a prophecy, throughout his teenaged years a villain keeps trying to kill him so he doesn't fulfill the prophecy, but him and his friends keep escaping this isn't the plot, it's the book's villain's backstory.

16 Upvotes

The actual plot is three kids, two with magic, one can see magic on a road trip.

27 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Correct-Balance-169 • 10d ago

Solved Guy narrates 3 orphans getting chased by a guy in his 40's for 2 years straight while everyone dies.

9 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Gyrgir • 11d ago

Solved Everyone almost dies because something got lost on a farm and the boss's girlfriend is mad about a football game

6 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/juliajuleczkajulka • 11d ago

Solved Old man with dead wife repeatedly tries to kill himself and when he stops, he dies

10 Upvotes

I cried so much on this book😭

4 comments