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Goto's crimes against the source material and literature as a whole aside, I've only had one real "I actively disliked reading this" experience with BL so far: Battle for the Abyss.

It's absolutely a book I'd recommend skipping, helped by the fact that the entire story is pointless in the grand scheme of things. It adds absolutely nothing, with a negative payoff that made me wonder why the hell I'd just bothered reading the damn thing.

The entire plot could easily have been condensed to a subplot of a larger book, or even just mentioned off-hand as a footnote to drive something else.

Any value gained from characterisation is absolutely wasted on a few hundred pages of objective nothing.