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Let's vent about practices that spoil a romance.
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I guess that scenario doesn't bother me too much. But what I particularly dislike is the hero or heroine not feeling "worthy" enough for the other. Who does that? For me it's replaced The Big Mis as the most annoying trope just because of it's frequency.
A lopsided / crooked smile Grrrr it makes me so mad lol.Every romance books have a lopsided smile in it, especially YA / NA books!
I don't even know what a lopsided smile is, I mean have you tried to do one??!?!?!
Sometimes I still love the story but the crooked smile gets a star taken away, I've even created it's own shelf because it bugs me so much haha!
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I recently finished a book with that unworthy trope and it wore me out. It tarnished what would have been a really delightful and smoking romance.
JaneA wrote: "I guess that scenario doesn't bother me too much. But what I particularly dislike is the hero or heroine not feeling "worthy" enough for the other. Who does that? For me it's replaced The Big Mis a..."Agreed. Why should the reader find the hero/heroine worthy if the characters doesn't?
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It just gets tiresome.
It's also tiresome when they keep asking themselves why they're behaving a certain way when they've never behave that way before. We get that this is their first time to ever feel or behave that way,so there's no need to keep saying it.
JaneA wrote: "I guess that scenario doesn't bother me too much. But what I particularly dislike is the hero or heroine not feeling "worthy" enough for the other. Who does that? For me it's replaced The Big Mis a..."I'm totally there with you! Whenever that comes up in a book, I feel like slapping them in the face. Who the hell are you to tell another person who they should date/sleep with/marry? You should freaking respect that they know their own mind and are the best person to decide who they should be with. Grr!
That's why I rated
2.5 stars:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
D.G. wrote: "Crooked smiles for V!!! hahahahaha!"
Very nice! Ian def wins the prize for the best crooked smile. Paul Walker had a pretty good one too. (I can't remember how to post pics on here.)
As far as what turns me off of a romance novel ... It has to be an unrealistic development of a relationship. I've read way too many books where the 2 lead characters hop into bed after knowing each other all of 5 minutes, but somehow, all that animalistic lust and lack of self-control supposedly develops into love--I'm sorry, but real love is never based on how good the other was in bed. I've seen a few authors pull it off and find a way for the real feelings to develop, but when using the bed before I know you scene, it's a hard sell.The other one is when neither the the story nor the dialogue supports the developing relationship. One very popular book had me scratching my head how it ever got so popular--I couldn't finish it, because the 2 characters never said a word to the other except, "Tell me," and "I can't tell you." but somehow, their "deepening feelings" for each other landed them in bed over and over. You can't fall in love if you aren't talking and getting know each other, and again, sex is not love.
I hate when the author makes the heroine TSTL. I've read 2 books where there's a roomful of big mean good guys making plans on how to kill the bad guys and the heroine sneaks out and turns herself over to the bad guys "in order to PROTECT all those big good guys." How totally stupid is that? That's suppose to make her look brave but it just makes her look stupid.
It seems to be a common practice for critical events or for the "secret" in the hero's or heroine's life to be told to the hero or heroine by some other character.I so dislike this practice. For instance, the heroine experienced some life-altering experience that is keeping her and the hero apart. The hero and unavoidably, I, the reader, find out what this event was when some best friend or whatever tells the hero. After I find out so far in advance of the two of them discussing this event, I pretty much close the book. If someone has to spoil this secret, authors should still keep the details a secret. This practice is especially irritating when later the hero/heroine finally shares a secret that the reader already knows.