forum Things You Want LESS Of In Books

Started January 21, 2019 by @evastardust groupRRAAAARRL

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OH! my b. I misinterpreted.
But I totally agree with virgin girl/hoe boy trope.

He is honestly a mix of grown up cynicism and innocent childishness mixed with a more that healthy dose of angst. And he really could not manipulate her at all. She is way more in control of her emotions than he is. It has a little bit of growing up in the story and discovery for him. But he is not exactly the leader in the relationship. It honestly has traces of a first crush to it.

He is far more the child than she is.

Sounds like it could work, just make sure you don't shift things too far the other way to compensate, and you should probably be fine.

What do you mean?

I mean he seems ~16. She's legally an adult. As long as you don't make him practically a child (you said more of a child, which, at that age, I assume you meant less mature emotionally), it seems like it would work out.

I mean my boy is going through puberty for a long time and his mind is messed up. Feel sorry for him.

Imagine the mind of a sixteen year old boy. That's him. Except even more… not depressed exactly… but yeah.

Oof. That's tragic.

He has literally killed a lot of people. By accident. It messed him up.

Does anyone here have specific tropes that they know aren’t very good, but they’re sort of your guilty pleasure trope? To read or write, doesn’t matter to me.

Boarding schools no matter how terrible, girl from other world is in modern world and has a male love interest/guide thing
(That's all I can think of rn)

I'm personally a big sucker for anything even vaguely "friends to lovers," or "found family." I don't think they're bad tropes, necessarily, but I'm sure there are people out there who think they're overdone.

The suave, cocky prince.
I would sell my soul for them
Also the eccentric soft scientist

enemies to lovers, highschool aus, the accidental confession mid-fight

Main characters that are actually the weakest out of their teammates. I don’t know what it is about that trope but I love it.

Daniella is sort of like that. She has the best power but it is literally impossible to control.

I like that trope too.
It’s just so satisfying to see characters working extremely hard just to reach the same level as the people around them.
It’s also very relatable

I feel like it can be done really well, it just bugs me when it's so obvious that they can't control their powers that you start to wonder why the hell they're in charge of their team (if they're the leader) or allowed to be in combat situations.

Same.

All dystopia protags Lol.

Honestly just stuff like gore for the sake of gore.
Looking at you, Titus Andronicus

Yes, that's perfectly fair.

Titus Andronicus Yasss

can we maybe stop having random like, sexual assault scenes??
also one thing i really hate in books written by cis men is the whole thing they do with describing peeing in uncomfortable detail
"his pee shooting for the stars" is a phrase i actually found. in a crime book. in a published crime book.

Why are they discussing the character peeing in the first place???

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