Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish
- Dog-eared pages — its just sacrilegious
- paranormal subject matter
- Cartoon drawings on book covers — for some reason I associate them with supermarket trash
- erotica
- food spills on pages (although I am sometimes guilty of this)
- ripped pages/book covers (I like my book in pristine condition)
- cutesy animal stories (no Black Beauty for me)
- an “I’m setting this book up for a series/sequel” ending
- Goosebump cliffhangers, I don’t know if anyone read R.L. Stine’s Goosebump series in the 90s but his chapters would end with a door creaking open only for it to be a cat. Even at the age of ten it annoyed me.
- Infidelity — I still read books that include this topic but I think its gross and over done
- Absentee Parent — This is an extremely prevalent theme in young adult books (and even tv shows) its an invitation for “girls gone wild” and the consistency of this theme gets a little old.
I don't get the whole paranormal trend either, though I'm fine with paranormal elements, like a ghost story, as part of a book set in the real world.
I agree, I enjoy a good ghost story but once you start putting zombies into the mix…well that's a different story.