Argh!! Pet peeve news

 I read, and I mean that I read a lot. A new book or two a day most times.  When starting a new story you are introduced to the main characters, where they come from, what is their motivation, what they look like, it stokes our imagination. There are several things that drive me up the wall and cause me to growl and shake my head: Changing the description of a character mid story and constantly bringing up the back story throughout the tale, and also,  writing the same story over and over. 

How hard can it be to create a post it note with a character's physical description on it? When the author changes eye color repeatedly of one of their characters I blow a fuse.

When an author has to repeat back story multiple times? I feel like it's filler and they are insulting my intelligence, a sure fire way for me to stop reading their book, write a snarky review and read something else. There are also authors that write the same story multiple times simply changing the names and places. Needless to say I stop reading them, and cannot for the life of  me understand why some readers continue to follow them. After a while I fear that they are being brainwashed. I mean that while Alpha stories are great, their heroines act like spoiled children, and women do not deserve to be constantly shown to act like children, because we are not. Good grief, find something else to read before you actually believe that crap.

I realize that self publishing is an evolving genre. After being dependent on library availability and the elimination of physical bookstores, I appreciate daily the ability to peruse and download books. There are many fantastic authors I would never have been exposed to if there wasn't a Kindle unlimited for me to explore. But where there is great there must also be terrible. I rarely write a negative review, but when I do it's because they asked for it writing something that does not deserve to be in my reading list. Please write stories that are for thinking and feeling adult women. It's ok that they are vulnerable, but please not stupid, who act like they were still a pre-teen who has been spoiled their whole life.

Thanks,

Kel

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