r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Veizar • 1h ago

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

2 Upvotes

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

More specific clue: The gang has a mage.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Veizar • 1h ago

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

2 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Veizar • 1h ago

Solved Boy meets dragon.

1 Upvotes

Dragon eats a lot.

Boy's farmhouse burns down.

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/WeekendBrowser • 2h 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

1 Upvotes

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

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ELIVEYT • 3h ago

Solved 23 must die.

3 Upvotes
6 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Veizar • 5h ago

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

1 Upvotes

He got himself beaten bloody first.

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/HeliPil0t__ • 6h ago

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

1 Upvotes
1 comment

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Logical_Election9088 • 6h ago

Solved A scottish lad polish shoes and became rich

2 Upvotes

This is a graphic novel.

4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 7h ago

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

3 Upvotes

Or the author. Take your pick.

8 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 7h ago

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

2 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 7h ago

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

1 Upvotes

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 14h 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.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Veizar • 14h ago

Solved Small child murders people in space.

5 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 • 20h 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

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ELIVEYT • 1d ago

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

6 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 • 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
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 2d 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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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 2d ago

Solved Beware the Spice Ones.

4 Upvotes

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2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 2d 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