The quotation mark thingy also happened to me. At first I thought I had bought an ill formated version (I mostly read digital).
After trying to find out what had gone wrong with my book on the internet, I came across an article talking about this and that’s how I found out it was supposed to be that way.
It took me a bit aback, but after a few pages I forgot about it.
I don’t know, really, I don’t usually read this genre. I just knew of the stereotypes surrounding this genre and the book was nothing like that.
If you don’t know about the book I recommend you check the book blurb, it will most likely do a better job than me.
I enjoyed the book overall and would recommend it to other people like me who don’t usually read romance novels. I don’t know what people who use to read this genre would think about the book, perhaps it might not be their cup of tea or perhaps it might be.
It happened to me last week.
I decided to give a chance to a book genre that I don’t usually read (romance) and I started reading Normal People by Sally Rooney.
It did not captivate me from the start. The first day I didn’t stay up longer than usual. But the second day, when I had passed the first fifty pages, I found it hard to put it down because I wanted to know what happened next.
I stayed up until pretty late that night even though I had to get up early to study before going to university.
What I usually do is I follow Instagram accounts of book retailers (the one I check the most is Waterstones) and scroll down their feed to check the books they publicise).
Then there are other other book genres that I read that are not widely publicised on social media, as History books are (I’m a History undergraduate, so I read them quite often), for which I have to go to a book retailer’s website and check their History section. I don’t usually like this method because if you want to check books that are not brand-new or bestsellers, you have a quite tedious work of leafing through the tons of books that are there until I find something that catches my eye.
I’m glad you made this post, because I would like to find better ways to find new books.