- What always gets me is sexual or gratuitous violence. I can definitely appreciate some violent scenes that are necessary for the progression of a story, but stuff that's only there JUST BECAUSE... Nope, not for me.
- I hate the dumb heroine. By dumb, I'm talking about the ones that have no survival instincts. When something should tingle her spider senses, she doesn't act.
- I despise love-triangles. Unless the book is really good, I may defenestrate it.
- I hate it when in a FPP narrative series, the main character keeps talking accurately about events from previous books.
- I can't stand books that read like a lecture done by the author on his/her view of the world.
- I don't want a book that contains profanity, inserted just for shock value.
- I can't suffer the obvious lack of incoherency between the description the author gives and the actions of the characters. Oliver Twist acting like a butt-face? No, thank you.
- It really annoys me when, having defined a set of rules governing the world as the story develops, the author then consciously breaks those rules.
- I don't like foreshadowing of the plot as well as an absolute lack of intrigue.
- I can't read a book with little dialogue and even lesser descriptions.
Each week, The Broke and Bookish inspires a Top 10 Tuesday list.
Our responses are group member generated.
