Chapter Addicts discussion

Do you have any bookish pet peeves? Whether it is a publishing thing or a least favorite writing style, let us know!

How there are spelling mistakes in every book📕 I read

I hate third person present tense (I think that's what it is). when it's like "he sees the sleeping dragon and creeps up to it, sword in hand, careful not to make any noise. he freezes as the dragon snorts and sighs a puff of smoke, but sighs in relief when its eyes remain closed."

ugh yes those are both awful!!

Not really

also swearing. I hate when there's a bunch of swearing in books :D

When the protagonist CLEARLY cannot accomplish the task and tells her team that she's "going alone" and they all fight back that they're going. It's so unnecessary.

OR when the protagonist tells her love interest that she'll never lie to him and theyre a team and then go off alone, and when he confronts her, shes just like "I was trying to protect youuuu" and hes okay with it.

(im using she/her pronouns because i feel like these situations always happen with female protagonists.)

multiple povs and time changes (like, when there's happenings in different years) because i get sooooooo confused

i hate instalove. worst thing everrrr

"She let out a breath she didn't know she was holding"

yessss

and I hate "those eyes." why not say "his eyes" or "her eyes" lol

When the paperback is floppy, like you can wiggle it about and it flip flops in your hands

I agree with all of these 100%

I hate deckled edges

When pages are dog paged or when you get a used book or a library book and one of the pages is ripped just enough where you can't read it without moving around the page.

I hate how hardbacks are usually prettier but it's more comfortable to read paperbacks.

I think somebody already said it but I hate instalove. I also hate the “I’m not like other girls” trope. I guess SOMETIMES it fits in the story but can we stop pitting girls against girls? “I’m not like other girls, I don’t shop or care about fashion. I’m different.” There’s nothing wrong with girls that like those things!! Let girls like things 🙄

I really, really hate cliche happy endings unless they're written right. Like it has to be unexpected and not something you've foreseen since the start of the book.

instalove is the absolute hecking wORST. as a demisexual and demiromantic person it bothers me more than most people but i just hate it so muchhh-

LJ The Bookdragon wrote: "instalove is the absolute hecking wORST. as a demisexual and demiromantic person it bothers me more than most people but i just hate it so muchhh-"

agreed!!!

agreed!!! 2 (like...how do characters do this? also, for me, instalove doesn't make sense)

I can't stand when there is miscommunication. It bothers me so much. Also when hardcovers have those paper-ish dust jackets. I don't know how to describe it. I don't see those often, but I have a book with it. It feels like normal paper and super Unstable. Like it would Tear apart the second you touche the book

Yes! I hate miscommunication, especially when it is the plot of the entire book. Ugh can't characters just talk it out

I HATE the netflix sticker things that they put on the cover. I have them on all of my Leigh Bardugo books 😭

I also hate enemies to lovers books where the characters start out hating each other for absolutely no reason

Grace wrote: "I HATE the netflix sticker things that they put on the cover. I have them on all of my Leigh Bardugo books 😭"

UGH THOSE ARE THE WORSTTT

The miscommunication trope in romance novels!
It's getting old and frustrating, just talk to each other!!

Badly written disabled character's, or disabled characters who's disability is badly written

Raynah wrote: "I hate deckled edges"

deckled edges are pretty to look at but a pain to read with~r

Casper wrote: "Grace wrote: "I HATE the netflix sticker things that they put on the cover. I have them on all of my Leigh Bardugo books 😭"

This plus when the book cover is the movie cover version. 😩"

I ABSOLUTELY HATE THE MOVIE COVERS!!! ~r

When the characters are dishonest or lie to each other. It happens in most books I've read, and I am so annoyed by it like why isn't there one single honest character 😩

i hate stepback covers!! every paperback in bookstores nowadays (that i can find) all have them and i don’t understand why they can’t just be printed normally😩

Netflix stickers are the worst or stickers that just don't come off, it's so irritating!!

Also badly written characters from minority groups, such as BAME minority groups, LGBTQ+, and the disabled community

cassidy wrote: "i hate stepback covers!! every paperback in bookstores nowadays (that i can find) all have them and i don’t understand why they can’t just be printed normally😩"

stepback covers look sool when there's a little design on the page behind the cover, but they always get ruined so quickly ~r

Not really related to the story, but when the author tries way too hard to sound like a good writer. For example, they'll make their sentences too long and complicated. They often add unnecessary adjectives as well.

Also, when authors feel like they have to explain every character's emotions and motivations to the reader like we can't figure it out ourselves. One book I read recently did that a lot and it got old fast.

The translation when I read a book in Spanish, that was originally written in English

uggh that sounds awful

@Willow YES agreed yuck

reading_with_chlo wrote: "Netflix stickers are the worst or stickers that just don't come off, it's so irritating!!"

I really hate those

when the whole stock of books has crease, istg this happened to me when i bought simon vs the homosapien agenda

when people intentionally crack the spine.

repeated descriptiveness