“Welcome, fellow haters, to another bilious edition of the Most Scathing Book Reviews of the Year. As longtime readers of this annual feature will know, each year in the run up to the holidays, we make a sacrificial offering to the literary criticism gods in the hope of a bountiful review harvest for the coming year. So here they are, in all their gory, gut-punchin’ glory: the most scathing book reviews of 2023.”