Poorly describe a fantasy book in one line, and lost points when people guess it correctly

Good evening/afternoon/morning,

Back at it again with another game to play with the wider r/fantasy group.

I won't lie, I was inspired by Letterboxd and the unhinged movie descriptions.

I'm sure you're familiar with this kind of game, but I thought it'd be really fun to apply it specifically SFF books, both popular and obscure.

Essentially, you describe the plot of a book in one sentence, but you make it intentionally bad and pull on features you typically wouldn't highlight when trying to seriously pitch it to someone.

How it works:

1. Terrible summaries only

• When posting your entry, deliberately butcher the plot so it sounds either silly, misleading or hilariously bad
  • I.e. for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: "Malnourished boy discovers his trust fund and immediately blows it all on candy from a train"
• Keep it to one line, don't give away obvious keywords (like character names or places)

2. Guessing

• The community replies to your 1-line pitch to guess which fantasy book it is
• Don't reveal the title too soon—let folks guess for a while

3. Scoring

• You start with 3 points
• You lose 1 point for every correct guess within the first 3 replies
• When you run out of points, you can let the guessers know they were correct
• If no one guesses... I guess you win

General rules:

• No self-published titles unless relatively successful
• Try to avoid overly obscure novels
• Only ONE pitch at a time

I'll start.

Pitch: "Local water-bending helicopter parent learns to chill out after her kid proves government websites can't be trusted"