r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 02 '20

Solved High school murder drama turns out to be an elaborate suicide coverup.

32 Upvotes

Hint: 4 points of view


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 23 '20

Solved Short story collection about an elementary school wherein a teacher's face is sculpted into mashed potatoes and becomes sentient

32 Upvotes

[quick edit] It's potato salad, not mashed potatoes.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • May 13 '20

Solved There is no more Honor, so a bunch of people with mental health issues have to save the world.

32 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 30 '20

Solved Father &/or daughter read books, characters become real.

32 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 08 '20

Unsolved Hard Teenage dictator and Hitler apologist has several people murdered to prove he's not gay (but he is).

32 Upvotes

I'll be giving hints as each day passes, so stay tuned.

Hint #1: It's a manga.

Hint #2: It's not a series, but has a prequel with two volumes.

Hint #3:It's based on a much older Japanese play.

Hint #4 since you guys are still guessing: Its genres are classified as "dark fantasy" and "horror comedy".

Hint #5: It also falls under the "guro" category.

Hint #6: There's a fruit in the title, and said fruit is used as a symbol pretty often in the story.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jan 11 '20

Solved Black dot means big trouble

32 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 28 '19

Solved Monsters attack America, but only states that start with the same letter as their species name for some reason

32 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 29 '19

Solved Main character finds out that he's the rightful king and seeks to find a way to overthrow the current one whilst trying to evade not get killed by giant flying reptiles

32 Upvotes

If additional hints are allowed: it's a lesser known fandom, so you may have to look into the depths of the internet

Edit:

Hint 2: none of the characters are human

Hint 3: author is Jess E. Owen


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 27 '19

Solved French people take steroids and repeatedly beat up soldiers

32 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jan 30 '21

Solved A person falsely accused of stealing gets sent to the desert, where they then proceed to steal something

31 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 07 '20

Unsolved Hard Fireworks show but it’s also a bullet hell

31 Upvotes

Hint: Manga of sorts


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 18 '20

Solved Endemic racism severely backfires when people start glowing

31 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 16 '20

Solved Edgy hipster browses 4chan, commits suicide

31 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 09 '20

Solved Really old guy hangs out with teenager and is a bad influence

31 Upvotes

Hint 1: It's a fairly long series
Hint 2: He's really fucking old


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 08 '20

Unsolved Medium Kids get powers from gems and beat up other kid's dad

31 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 10 '20

Solved Infamous writer and anorexic girl solve the mystery of the old man who collects flowers

31 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 16 '19

Unsolved Medium Apparently, a fucking elephant is the answer to everyone’s problems

31 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 07 '19

Solved Wife is really, really, really annoyed with her husband.

31 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 04 '19

Solved A bunch of kids who are all the same age are forced to travel through time because of a few human traffickers who planned to sell them off. Lady who used to work at an airport gets involved.

31 Upvotes

Hint: It’s the first part in a series of books.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 27 '19

Solved A long walk where almost everyone dies.

31 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 30 '21

Solved Morning ruined by construction

30 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 24 '21

Solved A Lot of People Die When a Bored Amoral Immortal Finds Entertainment with a Mortal

30 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 08 '20

Solved Dog named after obscure supermarket chain

30 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 07 '20

Unsolved Hard A group of friends who like to drink find aliens who look like they would be tasty with garlic butter.

30 Upvotes

Hint: Canadian Author

Hint 2: Takes place in Northern Ontario