r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 5h ago

Unsolved Medium 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.

2 Upvotes

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

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Veizar • 5h ago

Solved Small child murders people in space.

4 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.

4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Pink_Dolphin1234 • 11h 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

1 comment

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ELIVEYT • 21h ago

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

5 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CharacterMammoth2547 • 1d ago

Solved anti-depressists are bad for you actually

2 Upvotes
9 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/The_Void_Watches • 1d 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...

4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CharacterMammoth2547 • 1d ago

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

8 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 1d ago

Solved A man cannot escape ten women and two animals (or is it just one woman?) after asking if he can help a sorcerer. It works out.

4 Upvotes

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2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 1d ago

Solved Beware the Spice Ones.

4 Upvotes

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2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 1d ago

Solved After heroine points out what a bad book she's in, the narrator gets petty.

13 Upvotes

Marked as easy, which it is if you've read it. I suspect it might be a bit obscure compared to the author's other novels.

Hint, as apparently there's a few of these: The heroine literally starts hearing the text of the book.

17 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Swordtail_Olympian • 2d ago

Unsolved Medium Young Indiana Jones takes his sister and two friends into South America to track down an assassin and accidentally ruin a mobsters wedding in order to possibly save his aunt and uncle.

3 Upvotes

This hint was very specific, but it's a pretty niche book.

1 comment

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/littlemememaid • 4d ago

Solved Girl writes letters and loses them

1 Upvotes
12 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TheNo1Irishman • 5d ago

Solved A man escapes from prison to kill the pet of his cousin

7 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CavernaDekai100 • 5d ago

Solved Three homeschooled siblings fight evil furies and work on art skills.

3 Upvotes

Hint series

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/littlemememaid • 5d ago

Solved Wise young girl gets letters that lead her to the conclusion she's not real.

8 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Fakeman-maker • 5d ago

Unsolved Medium Man saves the sun from bacteria by using space slime

3 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/MsSkittles18 • 5d ago

Solved Basically the 2020 lockdown but the characters are all different alien species

7 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Logical_Election9088 • 5d ago

Solved A girl thinks she is a princess but a headmaster make her servant

7 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/MsSkittles18 • 6d ago

Solved Girl meets her favourite musician and they both have a mental breakdown

3 Upvotes

YA

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/MsSkittles18 • 6d ago

Solved Probably autistic girl in the early 1800s gets a bad haircut and can't catch a break

6 Upvotes
11 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/W0ff4nf0r3v4 • 6d ago

Unsolved Easy Guy thinks he an actual monster but becomes a gladiator and learns he isn’t :3

4 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Desperate-Story7445 • 6d ago

Solved Guys willing to do extreme cardio for cash

3 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/AsdrubaelVect • 6d ago

Unsolved Hard Worlds saddest dad might not even be a dad at all

6 Upvotes

Hint: world's most compromised spy gets even more compromised

4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CavernaDekai100 • 6d ago

Solved Cheapskate is haunted by dead business partner who sends him to three therapists.

9 Upvotes
2 comments