Any romance book

Whenever a book is labelled as “new adult” it really just means “YA but I wanted to put smut in it so had to bump the age range up so it wasn’t too weird”

Whenever a book is labelled as “new adult” it really just means “YA but I wanted to put smut in it so had to bump the age range up so it wasn’t too weird”

Pretty much any toxic and borderline rapey porno- sorry, I mean “romance” novel.

Seriously though, romance authors don’t know what romance is. The relationships in romance novels these days are awfully toxic and have absolutely no depth or development beyond fucking. Every one I’ve tried has ended in me wishing I could rate it negative stars.

Pretty much any toxic and borderline rapey porno- sorry, I mean “romance” novel.

Seriously though, romance authors don’t know what romance is. The relationships in romance novels these days are awfully toxic and have absolutely no depth or development beyond fucking. Every one I’ve tried has ended in me wishing I could rate it negative stars.

Enemies to lovers is never actually enemies to lovers and it’s so annoying. It’s always just “they said a mean thing a few years ago and the protag hasn’t forgiven them for it.” That’s hardly enemies. Also, Romeo and Juliet is not an enemies to lovers story, yet so many enemies to lovers books are retellings of it. The whole point of their story is that they were the only ones who weren’t enemies!!

1 - I felt like meeting my maker while reading this book. Maybe I finished it, maybe I physically couldn’t due to the agony, or maybe I skimmed through the last 16 chapters at a rate of 1 word per page so that I could say I finished it without suffering the pain of actually finishing it. Either way the author owes my bloodline compensation.

2 - Eh, this book was bad, but I didn’t want to die while reading it so there’s that. That’s about the only plus it has though.

3 - It was okay. Nothing to write home about. I wouldn’t reread it and I’m giving it away to charity now that I’m done with it, but it was palatable once I switched my brain off.

4 - I very much enjoyed this book a whole lot, but either there was one little thing that irked me that honestly doesn’t even matter, or I just don’t want to give it 5 because every book I enjoy is given 5.

5 - this book is likely going to be taking up my every waking hour for the next 5-6 months. Maybe years. We’ll see.

I mean, people used that word a lot back then, even if they weren’t particularly bad people by the standards of the time period. It’s bound to show up. If you want to read realistic historical fiction then you’re going to have to accept that slurs got thrown around and will show up in the book.

The video footage analysis sections of the Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. The narrator of these segments is a video analyst and the story is told through the analyst transcribing the events of the story to us as they witness them on CCTV footage. It’s very inventive and makes for some funny commentary.

Treasure hunt!!

I don’t like that style of writing either (assuming you mean wordy prose that uses quite archaic language) but it’s definitely not just a British thing. It happens in books from all over the world and might be due to the author’s background, time period of the release of the book itself, location of the book’s setting, or the genre. Most books I’ve read with that style have been American; it’s just that they’ve been historical fiction and have emulated the style of the time period they’re writing in.

Calm down. They’re analysing the work of a multimillionaire. It’s healthy to view works through a critical lens. You don’t need to get angry or nasty about it.

Stephanie Garber and Erin Bowman could sell me anything.