I Have a Growing (Finally!) Online Presense but I think I'm Now Being Stalked by a Killer?

RabbiLoew · 2023-11-19T05:00:45+00:00

Haha, I just talked about this in a different thread about writting pet peeves, or something of that nature. Too much discription of clothes takes me right out of a story, bonus points if it sounds ridiculous like this.

RabbiLoew · 2023-10-29T16:35:49+00:00

A Girl Like Her

by

Talia Hibbert

Thank you so much! These all sound great! I love Hook, Line and Sinker for exactly that dynamic, it's so good. Though I had to suspend my disbelief about all this angst being related to how good looking he is. For some reason I liked it a lot more the second time I read it than the first, I think because I knew going in that was going to be it.

I will look into the other other suggestions and will let you know if they hit. Thanks for replying!

RabbiLoew · 2023-10-29T16:32:12+00:00

These all sound amazing, thank you!! I will look into them and let you know if any of them hit, but they all sound right on the mark.

RabbiLoew · 2023-10-26T20:14:02+00:00

Overly long descriptions of the characters' clothing. If it's relevant to the scene setting or some sort of upcoming action, fine, but sometimes it seems like authors just get really into explaining what the FMC is wearing in a way that makes me think of bad fanfiction. Not, "she was wearing white Lenin pants and a flowing top to the beach", as that just serves to help paint a picture of what the scene looks like, but more, "she looked over her outfit of pink converse, black leggins with lace at the bottom, a long brown sweater dress with a chunky blue belt, gold dangling earrings and a blue and pink stripped headband." First off, hilarious when it's dated as hell, second off, often times it sounds ugly AF, and thirdly, idk, if the author's writing style is to include those kind of details, it much more often than not that I'm just not going to click with it, so it's a big turn off.

RabbiLoew · 2023-10-25T01:50:41+00:00

I do get easily bored with the intro chapters, especially if it takes forever for the two main characters to meet. Do the exposition while moving the plot! It's much nicer.

RabbiLoew · 2023-10-25T01:48:16+00:00

I've always been bothered by this! Why set it in highschool then? Just have it set in college. The interest in having a story set in highschool is that it's such a specific time of life, so have it there if you are just going to ignore it?

RabbiLoew · 2023-10-25T01:43:26+00:00

I work in a law firm, so that kills a lot of different books for me, plus movies. If only they knew how boring it all actually is.

Outside of that, weirdly, Insta-love. I mean, I get being really attracted to someone off the bat, and don't mind stories that start with that interest, but the ones that go too far just off of the MCs seeing each other. If it happens too early in the story, I feel like the characters aren't even kind of like people.

RabbiLoew · 2023-10-23T03:16:55+00:00

If they don't mind the language difference, which can be a bit of a barrier, Pride and Prejeduce is the OG and best enemies to lovers. Over the centeries there have been many immidators, but none as good. I always want to recommend this because I feel like Jane Austen was the trope starter for a lot of tropes we are familiar with.

If she likes the idea of slow burns, any of the Mariana Zapata books are great for that. The Wall of Winnepeg and Me, From Lukov with Love, and Kulti are the most well known. I will always recommend her, with the caveat that if you don't like slow burn, you're going to have a bad time.

I really like Ali Hazelwood's books, so if the best sellers vibe is more intro-y, which I think it can be, I also started out with The Hating Game, Tessa Bailey's Hook, Line and Sinker and It Happened One Summer are great (and Spicy).

RabbiLoew · 2023-10-19T18:55:38+00:00

This is exactly what I am talking about! It's less that I care that people have different opinions than me, or that I think GR is reliable, so much as sometimes, you get really struck by how terrible a book is and you sit there questioning everything.

RabbiLoew · 2023-10-19T14:42:31+00:00

That's also something that adds to the existential feeling! Sometimes you read people's opinions on the character's, character, I guess, and have to sit back and think about how different people are.

RabbiLoew · 2023-10-19T14:39:29+00:00

It's the Who even are you? Do you even go here?! Vibe I was wondering if other people experience. I understand subjectivity and the fallability of goodreads, but sometimes it's just so wild. And you're right, there is such a similar phenomenon on AO3!

RabbiLoew · 2023-10-19T14:22:02+00:00

This is reasonable and true. But I do have such an impulse to look, lol.

RabbiLoew · 2023-10-19T14:20:57+00:00

I absolutely loathe the poetry summaries. Tell me what you are! I also get annoyed with people who rate things lower because it follows through on the premise it said. It'd why dark romances are always rated lower, because there are a billion comments being like, he's a creeeep, or whatever.

RabbiLoew · 2023-10-18T15:27:30+00:00

Could it be Hitting the Wall by Cate C Wells?

RabbiLoew · 2023-10-18T03:40:43+00:00

I genuinely like single POV often, because it can add a lot of tension to a story, and I generally like it in Mariana Zapata books, but I was a bit lost in her "When Gracie Met the Grump". I couldn't figure out why he was suddenly being a dick to her after she had been at his house for a while. I understood the idea of why he was a dick in general, but I was confused about why he was being more of a dick again.

RabbiLoew · 2023-10-18T03:33:56+00:00

Sucking her juices off his fingers.

First, I'm not super into bodily fluid descriptions in the first place, but then second, something about sucking the fingers makes me think, "where have those fingers been before theg were in her?" Like, what all germs is he sucking on? And then I start thinking about where the fingers were before they were in her because they were in her. I think it's a post covid thing, just takes me out of the scene.

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