1. Love Triangles: I know that love triangles have been around forever and unfortunately aren't going anywhere but I don't like them and they are everywhere so I choose to avoid them when I can. I also think that love triangles are usually lazy writing because they usually occur to cause conflict in a relationship but a better way to cause conflict is having the couple have different values, goals or plans and then have the characters try to sort those things out because that leads to not only great character development(which you won't get in a love triangle) and strengths the relationship not weaken the relationship like a love triangle does. I know that people say that love triangles are only bad if there not written well but almost all love triangles are written badly that I've read or seen the only okay ones I can think of are Liberta/Felicita/Nova(Arcana Famiglia),Summer/Seth/Anna(The OC) and that time when Sakura and Syaoran both had a crush on Yukito in Cardcaptor Sakura but then they ended up with each other and Yukito ended up with Sakura's brother, pretty sure the last one doesn't count as a love triangle but it's still my favorite.
2. Graphic Sex: No... Just, no. Also gross and yuck and I don't ever need or want to read anything like that ever.
3. Superfluous Descriptions: I'm not a huge fan of descriptions so when I feel like it's unnecessarily long I tend to hold that against the entire book and the author in general. I know that descriptions are needed up if you say describe a forest and you neglect plot development and naming characters to instead ramble on about the forest for the 15th time I'm going to ended up hating the book.
4. Love Dystopia: I love Dystopias and I love romance but I don't want the dystopian society to be about how your not meant to fall in love or choose who you love because it makes it too easy for the series to become a love triangle set in a futuristic world instead of a dystopian novel so I prefer that dystopian not involve romance but I have zero problems with a romantic sub plot in fact I hope for one, I just don't want it to be the main plot in this sort of book.
5. Bad Boy love interest: My definition of what a bad boy here maybe a bit different then most because I'm not talking about a trouble but cute boy which translates to me as some who's made mistakes and feels bad about that or has a dark past and is trying to move past it.I'm talking about the guy who's an asshole for no real reason, the guy that feels he's entitled to the girl even after she rejects him or is just a bad person. I dislike this type of guy as a love interest because I don't want to read about the main character falling in love with someone who treats her like crap because that's sad not romantic like the book is trying to tell me it is.
6. Dumb Mean Girls: I don't really mind the mean girl character in fact I tend to enjoy them because they usually have good bitchy one liners that make me laugh and have a level of confidence that I admire a bit and usually always look great. But if the mean girl is dumb then she's no fun and is she annoying also it seems weird that the main character can be bothered by her.
7. Sports: I don't like sports at all there not my thing and I'm not interest in them expect for womens gymnastics and womens figure skating but the sports books are never about those sports so I'm not interested in reading about sports because I find them boring.
8. Medical Drama: I'm just not really interested in the medical stuff unless it's mental health or bio-tech in a sci-fi or dystopian series.
9. Westerns: I've seen westerns before and I didn't enjoy them and I'm guessing that's not going to change in book form although it did with war(I loved Catch-22 and liked Slaughter House Five) but I doubt it would happen with westerns.
10. Zombies: I just don't think I'd like them because I always think of zombies as gross although I did love both Zombieland and Warm Bodies so maybe I should give them a try.
I LOVE YOUR LIST!!! Bad Boy love interests are the worst. I also hate when authors write every bad boy as having to be covered in tattoos. Just because someone is a badass doesn't mean they have to be tattooed. It's getting played out. Anyway... I DON'T read Westerns and never will, and graphic sex is an automatice put down for me!!
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Thanks for Commenting. I also dislike the tattoo thing but that's mostly because I don't find tattoos attractive at all and there's not anything badass about them like some authors think they are.
DeleteYep, I find sport books to be very dull. And love triangles! Gosh, those things make me so frustrated!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment. For the most part I'd rather watch paint dry than watch sports so I obviously avoid books about them. The worst thing about love triangles is 8 out of 10 times they add nothing to the story.
DeleteSports books are not really my type of books. I've never read any Westerns before, but they don't sound like my type of books either.
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Thanks for the comment, sports and westerns definitely not my thing either.
DeleteSuperfluous Descriptions is a great item for this list. I should have thought of that!
ReplyDeleteI admit, I'm a sucker for bad boy romance, but I'm usually more disappointed than not.
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Thanks for the comment. I'm glad to hear that someone else is frustrated by over detail in books. There are some romances I do like that supposedly involves bad boy getting the girl but there not usually actually bad so I'm okay with that kind of thing and can understand and there's no shame in if it's actually well written but it's often not therefore those relationships often leads to disappointment.
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DeleteI hate books that promote mean girls. Like the books where it's just constant girl drama and the girls are tearing each other down and being catty instead of realizing that something else is the real problem. There needs to be less books like that and more books celebrating friendships between women!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment. While I agree with you about there needing to be more books about female friendships I don't hate all mean girls in books. I think that rivalry and fighting between female characters as long as it's not about a boy isn't all bad because it does focus on girls and things that are important to them and if a book is well written about this subject the cattiness will just be on the surface and as the story goes on the real issue will be dealt with.
DeleteI had zombies on my list. I agree with love triangles. I tend to find them a way of creating conflict and usually a waste of time. They usually stretch way too long through a series.
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Thanks for the comment. I really hate love triangles because they waste time and they usually keep the characters from developing which is my favorite part of the story. I agree with the stretching on too long thing so much I've actually decided to quit watching Vampire Diaries because of this that and the writing was really terrible in season 4.
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