FF: Whats your bookish Pet Peeve?

Follow Friday!

If you are new to the #FF fun, Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. Feature & Follow Friday is now hosted by TWO hosts, myself of course and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it’ll allow us to show off more new blogs!

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them “hi” in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!

Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. If you are interested in becoming a Feature click on the drop down link above FEATURES &; Follow Friday and get on the waiting list! It is also required, that if you participate you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) and the two Feature blogs.

Q: What is your biggest pet peeve when it comes to books? Maybe you don’t like love triangles or thin plots? Tell us about it!

Inconsistencies within a book/series: What do I mean by this you ask? Its when an author messes up their own details, it drives me nuts! If I can catch that mistake why can’t you (who wrote the book), your editor, and all the other people who read the book between rough draft and publication. I mean seriously how many people read a book before its actually published? And no one could spot it?

Some examples (This may or may not be real examples that I have seen) : In a series one of the supporting characters in one book is assaulted by a knife and then in the same book when said assault is brought up again all of the sudden the assault weapon is now a gun.  What happened to the knife?

Time lines and ages: You at some part they age of a character say they are 30 for example, but then later you say so and so meet on that fateful day when character A and character B were only 5, now 10 years later they are still the best of friends. Huh? What happened to the 5 years? Wouldn’t that make them 25 not 30? Or book 1 was at the end of its journey and an 2 events happened within say 1 day of each other, a major injury of Character A and a wedding of Characters B and C. So the next book in the series starts and major injury to Character A still happens when it happens but all of the sudden the wedding of Characters B and C took place a week after the injury of Character A. What happened to 1 day?

You would think that someone would catch these things. Real life example I was reading an ARC and there was this scene a pretty hot one at that, but the author had the guy removing his shirt twice. At the beginning the hot and heavy and then again like a page later. Not that I mind a man removing his shirt more than once as long as there are some 6-pack abs under there. LOL

Some authors jack up their own details so often and so badly I start to wonder if they think their readers are stupid and that we wouldn’t notice, or if the author really just doesn’t care enough about their own work to pay attention to the details.

Ok rant over! Can you tell it annoys the crap out of me? 


New Rant: Wishy Washy characters. Make up your damn mind!! And where there is a wishy washy character it is almost always a female. Man, do you love him or not??