TTT: Things That Will Make You Not Want To Read It

Posted on by thelittlebookowl
toptentuesday
It is that time of the week for another Top Ten Tuesday. It is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010. This weeks topic is things in books that make you not want to read them. Some of these are things that may turn me off a book before I’ve even read it and some are things that will turn me off while reading a book.
  • Love triangles – just please stop.
  • When a blurb focuses alot on romance – romance heavy books just aren’t my thing.
  • Zombies – I’ve never seen the appeal of them. Also vampire, werewolves etc.
  • Horror – not a genre I enjoy.
  • People on the cover – I’m sorry but if there are people on a book cover I am probably going to pass it by completely.
  • When a book is compared to another book – I don’t think it does anyone any favours.
  • The mean girl – why do we have to pit women against each other for no reason other than that they are both women… I don’t get it and it puts me off a book every time.
  • Info dumps – yes I want to know about the world but I don’t want it dumped on me all at once.
  • Insta love – again just stop. It is not a thing.
  • Frequent and unclear changes in perspective – sometimes this can be changes between character perspective, sometimes switches in time but it makes things hard to follow.

 

There you have it – ten things that will make me not want to read a book. I have to admit that it took me quite some time to come up with all of these but I got there in the end :). Do you guys agree with me on any of these? Or do you think I’ve missed any? I hope you are having a wonderful day and I will see you next time.

 

Pippa

 

 

27 thoughts on “TTT: Things That Will Make You Not Want To Read It”

  2. Hi there ! I never normally do this but I had to comment and tell you how much I adore your blog! I just came across it now and I am so happy I have, it is so wonderful and you truly have a great blog. I am going to follow you so I can keep up to date with all of your latest posts. Keep up the great work!

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

    1. Aw thank you so much! That means alot. Sorry it’s taken me so long to respond – for some reason your comment was hidden away in my spam folder. Again thank you so much for the positive feedback. I really appreciate it. I hope you are having a wonderful day.

      Liked by 1 person

      Reply

      1. Aww you are so welcome! You have a wonderful blog. Do you have Twitter or Instagram? I just made accounts and would love to follow you! And no problem at all, I have to rescue comments from there too! Can’t wait to see what you post next (:

        Like

      2. Aw thanks! Yeah I do – my Twitter is @philippamary_94 and my Instagram is @philippamary94 – they should both be linked on the right hand side of my blog display!

        Liked by 1 person

  6. I agree on the mean girl thing! Slut Shaming is on my list, because I hate how characters, and this is even in YA where the characters can be so accepting of so many differences, but any female rival is a “slut”,or one dimensional, aka the “mean” girl. That’s just lazy writing.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

    1. I totally agree and I just don’t understand why authors feel it’s necessary to pit woman against each other. I just don’t understand it 🙂

      Like

      Reply

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s