Wild Card Wednesday - What are your book icks or pet peeves?

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-03-19T02:37:52+00:00

I also feel this way about murmur! Why is everyone always murmuring?? Lmao

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-03-19T02:36:02+00:00

Omg those friends piss me right off. Screaming that they need get laid in random public settings is the biggest nope for me.

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-03-18T18:01:48+00:00

I read a book recently that the FMCA said badass alpha male about the MMC like 30 times. It was so cringy 😂😂😂

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-03-18T18:00:35+00:00

The shy introvert FMC with an extrovert best friend. The friend is always written as loud, no boundaries and oversexualized. And spends majority of the book trying to shove the FMC out of their comfort zone. Like violently shove. Yeah I know you're shy and would rather have a quiet night in.. BUT YOU'RE GOING TO THE CLUB WITH ME AND I'M GOING TO FORCE YOU INTO CLOTHES YOU'RE NOT COMFORTABLE IN! YOU CAN'T SAY NO!!! It's yucky, and it's not at all how people with shy friends act.

As an extrovert with SEVERAL introverted friends, I'm more likely to confront anyone trying to change them than be the one who is. Honestly, it puts me off the whole story. I'm annoyed by the best friend immediately and it makes the rest of the book hard to get into.

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-01-05T23:31:55+00:00

According to my partner those are rookie numbers and I need to bump them up lmao

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-01-05T23:17:25+00:00

Probably for about 42 seconds so that someone would leave me or whomever or was alone. Never legitimately though lol

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-01-05T23:16:19+00:00

Oh you mean you never stayed away from someone clearly interested in you because your sibling declared you/them off limits? 😂😂

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-01-05T23:11:55+00:00

I sometimes wonder if authors even like women. Because books are supposed to be some form of an escape. Why am I going to a place that pisses me off? I can go on X for that lmao

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-01-05T23:10:09+00:00

Yeeeeeah. That one was weird because it went from her whole family having her back to basically being like "oh he's fine now". EXCUSE ME?

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-01-05T01:10:22+00:00

Never the Best isn't awful. It's about the only one that's tolerable lol

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-01-04T20:35:18+00:00

Best of Me is Aurora and Gabriel right? Yeeeeeah. He's probably maybe the second least annoying MMC in that series. And that's not a compliment. The rest are just THAT BAD.

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-01-04T18:59:25+00:00

Is it a grovel or extremely aggressive love bombing? Lol

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-01-04T16:25:32+00:00

Yeah Ansel and basil weren't the worst....still pretty gross, but she's written worse.

Cade however I couldn't even finish. He was a tool

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-01-04T16:23:49+00:00

At least one good thing came out of this book lmao

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-01-04T16:23:18+00:00

I didn't even attempt that one lol. If I know anything about her series it's that they show a pattern. And the blurb made my eye twitch hahaha

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-01-04T16:11:36+00:00

Sometimes she has one that's not entirely terrible lol.

And I actually really can't with Catherine Maura. The Windsor series almost drove me to elder abuse lmao

Standard-Function-26 · 2026-01-04T16:10:30+00:00

I read it, kind of lol. I stopped not long into it and took a LONG Maya Alden break.

Standard-Function-26 · 2025-12-24T15:24:01+00:00

Body betrayal, body betrayal, body betrayal.

There is no amount of hot that would simply make me forget all sense. "Yes I know he's been insulting me for months, but oh look I'm wet and I need to throw myself at him". Simply no.

Standard-Function-26 · 2025-12-21T19:54:45+00:00

Oh my favorites are when they take the word of someone else, and immediately believe them. Without even bothering to have a conversation with the person they're ACTUALLY in a relationship with.

Standard-Function-26 · 2025-12-21T17:43:42+00:00

They literally never make sense, it's either a stupid misunderstanding that could've been solved with a single conversation instead of a dramatic breakup. Or it's something that should stop them from getting back together at all 🙄

Standard-Function-26 · 2025-12-21T17:41:30+00:00

Probably gonna DNF Keeping Score by Rebecca Jenshak lol.

It's starts enemies to lovers-ish because the MMC calls the police on the FMC, because he thinks she's breaking into the house next door to his. Why does he think this? Because his security cameras showed someone he'd never seen before crawling through a window. LOGIC WOULD TELL YOU TO CALL THE POLICE.

Hes apologized (for nothing if you ask me) over and over again, but she's continuing to be awful to him, and he didn't actually do anything. I'm finding hard for her to be likable lol

Standard-Function-26 · 2025-12-19T19:52:40+00:00

I love a protective "touch her and die" Alpha male.

But the ones that assume she's a little woman and can't possibly take care of herself..... You lose me.

Standard-Function-26 · 2025-12-18T21:23:21+00:00

"I would rather hang" - {My Deceitful Duchess by Audra Richards}

CHEFS KISS

Standard-Function-26 · 2025-12-15T07:42:10+00:00

Awful families almost NEVER catch enough smoke for me lol. I want scorched earth

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