For my first top 10 list I thought I would do an easy one. Tropes I Hate in books. Let me know what your favorite ones are as well…

1. Memory loss
   • what could be more annoying then reading a whole book and then at the end the protagonist loses all memories of the events of the book and they never get them back. I can think of 4 books off the top of my head that did that exact thing, and 2 of them are from the same author. I’m to scared to read more of her books because I don’t trust her to not do it again
2. Love Triangle
   • nothing puts me off like a love triangle, I don’t care for it, I don’t need it, and I don’t want it anywhere near my books.
3. Bait and Switch Love Intrests
   • Hand in hand with love triangle, but reading a book with one love interest and then something happens to break up the romance. Then the other books are about her/him falling in love with someone else and you know we are just expected to move on but I can’t…I just can’t.
4. MISCOMMUNICATION!!!
   • Just freaking talk to each other, how is that so hard.
5. To dumb to live
   • authors making female protagonist make stupid choices so they can progress the plot. Then they try to justify it by having the character think in their head something like “I know that I was being irrational but I just had to go I could stay here in safety I need to see this through for myself” which is just their way of telling the reader “hey you can’t get made at this stupid choice because you can see the character knows its stupid”
6. Mulitple Personalities
   • This is very very very specific to one series in particular and if you know it then you know my pain, it was truly unbearable.
7. Characters loosing their personality
   • Is what it sounds like, character having strong defined personalities and then acting extremely out character for no reason. Or all characters just start to talk and think the same way.
8. More the one true love
   • I know I know it’s childish but I don’t like romance where one or both lost a spouse or partner that they were in love with and now this is their second love. I get it because it happens in real life but I don’t read books to be in real life. I want to live where people have soulmates and grow old together.
9. Bad subversion
   • if your idea of subverting an expectation is to name a character for example darkling then expecting it to be a huge twist at the end that they are evenly then you don’t really know what subversion and plot twist are.
10. Last but not least, open endings
    • You got to lay it out for me, no we will never know, or maybe one day such and such will meet again. Nope give me an epilogue that ties up every loose end.