Series:
A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle): Victorian schoolgirls and Wicca! In a nod to historical writing, the author avoided actual research and threw in lumps of racism instead.
Battle Royale: The original childmurder games novel. Recommended.
Chosen of the Sun (Exalted): The first Exalted tie-in novel. Full of setting confusion, too many characters, and a plot revolving around finding the legendary +1 sword.
Darkest Powers trilogy: Chloe can see ghosts and do other necromancy things! The plot crawls along about teen drama instead and eventually lurches to a stop without resolving anything much. Bonus mental health failures abound.
Fault in Our Stars: Pretentious pretentious pretentious pretentious. Pretentious? Pretentious pretentious.
Graceling: Well meaning attempt at a feminist message that mostly revolves around guys and is full of terrible attempts at characterization, with bonus research fail. Also demonstrates that no matter how simple and straightforward a magic system, authors can still screw it up.
Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay: The one that started it all. Recced to me due to feminism and worldbuilding, contains a nonsensical world full of basic research failings with a murderhappy protagonist forced into a relationship where she's constantly criticized for not loving him back enough.
Matched: In a poorly thought out dystopia with all sorts of problems going around in the background, the heroine just goes on about how in love with a boy she is.
Pokemon Black and Pokemon Black 2: The newest generation of pokemon, with an absurd plot, a tutorial mode that lasts most of the game, cutscenes that will not end, and constant usurping of my spotlight by Douchy McFlamehair.
Pokemon Blue: The first and best! A run through of the original game and all the million things the players back then believed in the original colors.
Wither: Kidnapping people to have sex isn't rape! Even with the thirteen year olds. And thirteen year olds acting like thirteen year olds are worse than rapist kidnappers. Also some worldbuilding issues and the core plot is just one giant plot hole.
World War Z: Recommended to me as a realistic take on the zombie apocalypse. Is anything but.
Individual reviews:
Bionic Heart: What's wrong with dating games for guys.
Cinders: Feminist Cinderella visual novel!
Dear Esther: A first person ghost story.
Erfworld, Fate, and Poor Planning: Discussing some (very bad) plot choices.
Fatal Hearts: A visual novel with vampires, impossibly hard minigames, and nonsense choices, oh my!
I am a Hero: Zombie manga with some unconventional choices.
Last Scenario: A somewhat unusual, intensely difficult RPG.
Logical Journey of the Zoombinis: Fun kid's logic game.
Long Live The Queen: A princess raising sim where one wrong move gets her killed.
Oz the Great and Powerful: Why this movie is a stain upon existence.
Stolen: A brief look at just how terrible the YA genre has become.
Temeraire: Dragons in the Age of Sail.
Also, there's fanfic. For Hunger Games, I wrote Fox Games, where there's no clause about needing your district partner. For more on the subject, there's also Zero Sum by Ember Keelty. And Act is working on a complete rewrite, The Hunger Games: A Retelling. I also wrote a Wither fanfic about advice for daughters in the world.
If you enjoy the idea of Let's Reads, you may also like Reviewing Rowling, doing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Dodging the Anvil is another hate-based blog currently doing The Taking.
The RPG.net forum also has a number of threads on the subject. I particularly enjoyed the reads of The Death Gate Cycle, Marvel's Civil War event, and Gor.
Further recommendations can be left in the comments.
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