So I don't know if you'd count it as reading, but...
Picked up "Half-Off Ragnarok" at a used bookstore. I'd opened it up and read the first page or so and it seemed interesting.
Then I take it home, and find out that first scene is a random prologue, has nothing to do with the story, and is basically a lie.
The first scene is this young boy who is testing out an aquarium with his latest find, a little lizard, and it's hiding, and his mom comes in and asks some questions and he figures out what he needs to do to make it come out, and it's a flying lizard, and they're both happy. Yay, cute set-up to who knows what, and best of all it's in 3rd person.
Then the next chapter starts, and that little boy is an adult, with a different pet altogether, and it's in third person, and that first flying lizard pet NEVER SHOWS UP AGAIN, and his mother doesn't either (and she's not tragically dead or anything, he calls home and gets his dad and his father mentions she's out at a flea market with his little sister; she's just not in the book at all).
And suddenly it's now in FIRST person PoV.
UGGGHHHH!
So I basically threw it across the room, then sulkily picked it up and skimmed through it until the end.
Not really sure if it counts. I haven't really *read* it, just skimmed it, but I'm not planning to, either. It might be stupid but I actually feel a little betrayed. So now I'm changing genres to historical romance for a while, because at least those are rarely in first person.
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