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I’m such a picky reader that it’s hard for me to find something to read and I end up going into slumps it’s so depressing
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Anonymous 17w

I get like this too so I started reading more classics and it’s really helped, I mean they’re timeless for a reason

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Anonymous 17w

I think being bored during covid and then immediately going to college and studying English opened me up to more reading. I totally get being picky w books.

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Anonymous 17w

What are things that turn you off of books? I’m curious

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 17w

Weak heroines, egotistical love interests, miscommunication, dark romances sometimes just piss me off idk what it is about them, books that create too much drama just for the plot, when characters do something cringe (Alex volkov singing), when the FMC is too docile, when it’s labeled romance but the only time he compliments her is saying he wants to fuck her, improper writing, not being able to build tense as a writer like THEN STOP WRITING, when the mmc is so shitty towards the FMC and

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 17w

She just takes it (I have read the book but it reminds me of a scene I saw from ballad ever after or whatever that series is called) a lot of things just irk me which is why I stick to Wattpad, OH HOLD ON I FORGOT ONE, when they label the tropes and you see no 3rd act break up but then something happens that 1000% should’ve made the fmc leave the mmc

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 17w

Idk book men get away with too much and it makes me fucking angry

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 17w

Thank you for coming to my ted talk 🥰(there’s more I just can’t think of them)

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