ysabetwordsmith | Books by Character Genres (Reply)

kateelliot describes books by character genres, detailing the ones she can't read.

Let's see, I don't read these character genres, and my summaries are blunt and vulgar.

Intelligent, powerful woman hates an obnoxious guy and then for no explicable reason falls in love with him.

Two fascinating characters from different cultures become romantically or platonically involved, have serious issues over cultural differences, and these all get handwaved away instead of dealt with methodically like an actual relationship would require.

Miserable outcast hates fucked-up society, but then for some reason society decides that the outcast is terrific, and the outcast gleefully joins in the society instead of telling them all to fuck off and die.

Heroic character gets screwed over by ungrateful society and/or specific people in power, yet nevertheless refuses to let them be hoist in their own petard and repeatedly saves them at extreme personal cost.

So basically, I don't like characters who are doormats, and I don't like authors who fail to demonstrate vital points. These things will make me drop your book like a red-hot rock. There are millions of other words I could be reading instead.