This week's theme: Bookish Pet Peeves.
Here are some of mine...in no particular order.
👎 Overuse of the word smirk in romance and YA novels. Especially when the author uses it wrong. Smirk is neither cute nor flirty. It's an irritatingly smug or condescending smile; a sneer or a snigger. And when it's used ten or more times in the same book it drives me crazy!
👎 Love triangles. Enough said.
👎 When authors write dialogue without using quotation marks. What's up with that? Who decided that was a good idea? It's annoying enough to make me want to DNF the book. (Inane or badly written dialogue bugs me, too.)
👎 Stupid heroines! It drives me crazy when an otherwise intelligent character does something stupid like wander into an abandoned warehouse at night looking for a murderer without telling anyone where she's going. Honest mistakes are one thing; blatant stupidity is another.
👎 Manufactured conflict. Like when the two main characters in a romance novel end up in a long drawn out fight or angsty separation that goes on for pages and pages over some silly misunderstanding that could have been resolved with a simple 30 second conversation.
👎 Cliffhanger endings! Especially when the next book hasn't even been written yet.
👎 An unsatisfying ending to what was an otherwise awesome trilogy.
(Yes, I'm talking to you Suzanne Collins!)
👎 And don't get me started on people who borrow books but never return them!
There's my short list of bookish pet peeves. Can't wait to hear some of yours.
Happy Reading!
