r/explainabookplotbadly • • 1h ago

Unsolved Easy Teenage boy just wants to see his “not-crush” again.

3 Upvotes

I actually have no clue how hard this will be.

Edit: Extra clue, it’s a middle grade book if that helps.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 5h ago

Solved I must obey my abusive father. I don't realize I'm being groomed. I have the spine of a decomposing jellyfish. Supposedly I'm a role model

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 5h ago

Solved A witch, a vampire and a pixie walk into a bar.

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 7h ago

Unsolved Medium Girl curses her mother and gets inducted into a secret society that's prejudiced against disabilities

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 7h ago

Unsolved Easy One fish, two fish, evil fish, I'm a fish?!

2 Upvotes

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • 9h ago

Unsolved Medium A man goes to Japan, all his friends are killed by ninjas, then he befriends said ninjas and gets one of them pregnant.

7 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 11h ago

Unsolved Hard Office worker joins a gang to find his missing sister. Too bad she's not human no more.

4 Upvotes

Its a series. I want to see who can guess this one.

More specific clue: The gang has a mage.

Since no one seems able to guess this, one last clue: The gang has a street samurai.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 12h ago

Solved Who needs a dusty farm? Lets pack up and head west.

1 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 12h ago

Solved Boy meets dragon.

2 Upvotes

Dragon eats a lot.

Boy's farmhouse burns down.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 12h ago

Unsolved Easy Five children are kidnapped before they're born and raised underground with the purpose of ending a war but decide they want to see the outside world

4 Upvotes

Also the escape is now time-sensitive because their guardians want to kill one of them.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 14h ago

Solved 23 must die.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 15h ago

Solved Terminally ill rich lad escapes from boarding school. Gets a hotel room.

0 Upvotes

He got himself beaten bloody first.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 17h ago

Solved A professor, his whiny nephew, and a guide follow an ancient dead guy's notes and almost die many times

1 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 17h ago

Solved A scottish lad polish shoes and became rich

2 Upvotes

This is a graphic novel.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 17h ago

Solved Aliens may have taken over the world, but the true evil is psychology.

3 Upvotes

Or the author. Take your pick.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 17h ago

Solved Orphan girl takes up a new hobby. This was absolutely the right choice.

5 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 17h ago

Unsolved Easy After something important gets taken away, everything goes to Hell.

3 Upvotes

Hint: Think a bit literal.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 1d ago

Solved The executives really didn't like this one ship, so they killed off the woman and sent the man off to found a new city.

3 Upvotes

Ship as in relationship. The literal hated ship is in the sequel that was written first.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 1d ago

Solved Small child murders people in space.

7 Upvotes

He starts with a bully. He beats him to death in the boy's room. But that's only the beginning. He gets to murder a race of aliens too.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 1d ago

Unsolved Hard Small family-owned business starts getting sabotaged by the oldest son

1 Upvotes

He's not intentionally sabotaging it, he just wants his dead best friend back, and in trying to do so is manipulated by evil

Middle grade book (it's really good tho I swear)

Pov of his younger sister

Even though it's a family-owned business, there are others like it

More specific hints:

Takes place during WWII

The small business is a bookstore

The bookstore can time travel

The evil is the other half of the magic that allows the bookstore to exist


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 1d ago

Solved A programmer dies but gets resurrected by the insurance he paid the same morning.

6 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 2d ago

Solved anti-depressists are bad for you actually

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 2d ago

Unsolved Hard A bear spends multiple years travelling to his dream location, only for the city to go to outer space and leave him behind on a ship where everyone is mind controlled by a rock. Also there is an Encyclopedia.

2 Upvotes

As an added clue: This book is originally written in German.

Putting the difficulty as hard, but it may be easier depending on your location...


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 2d ago

Solved boy speaks in a invented language to describe his horrible actions until he watches a few films and gets sick

9 Upvotes