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Many many years ago I abandoned a book because it used lots of French phrases/sentences (or I assume they were French) with no context clues for what they meant and no explanation. This was before we even had a computer so I didn't have a way to translate. I also found the story lacking, but that might be because I was so distracted by the dialogue I couldn't understand. There was nothing I had seen in the blurb on the back to indicate there was any French involved. I still wonder what the climax would have been because the heroine was just bouncing around all willy-nilly.
I DNFed a book a few years ago because the author got all preachy about veganism. Like, every page of an alien romance said how the aliens were friendly and helped the human race by forcing us to be healthy by only eating plants. Then the female (she was no heroine) became a slave to one and hated them, but I think she got Stockholm syndrome and "fell in love". I never made it that far to see, but I've read reviews that day that's what happened.
Those are the two that stand out to me. I think there have been a few inadvertent ones, but I know one I'm trying to read now.
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