Let's Do Some Public Littering

Williard Gaylin once said, “Expressing anger is a form
 of public littering.” 
 S o come do a little littering with me. 
What makes you mad, I mean really mad, when you come across it while reading a book? Well, I posed that question to a group of readers and here are some of their responses:
A wishy-washy heroine. Women are strong...so show it!A mean hero or a wish-washy heroine. When she’s stupid and refuses to believe the obvious, I'm furious and then I'm gone.When the description is just what you've been looking for, but the book has lots of editing errors.A while ago I read a series in which a large amount of the story was cut and pasted from previous books. Now that was disturbing.Cheating, I can't get past it.Wimpy heroines. As Helen Reddy once sang, “I am woman, hear me roar.”A mean hero or a wishy-washy heroine. Just the thought of either makes me angry.Graphic sexual violence in and of itself is a warning note to me not to buy the book.Editing issues where names are constantly being mixed up.Reading a scene and finding out it was just a dream. Hate that!Definitely editing, especially where the book is one really long paragraph.Graphic sexual violence for no apparent reason, extensive grammatical errors and typos. I don't buy from that author again. Two strikes and they are out!I've actually stopped buying from a particular publisher because too many of their books had typos.When an alpha goes soft...all steam no force.Borrowing library books to find that people have corrected the dialog! That ticks me off! I want to know how the character would speak, not what a grammar Nazi corrected it to say!Wishy-washy woman that can't make up their minds on who they want. Frustrating!I don't like perfect characters. I like conflict.I don't like perfect either, I like conflict.I don't like head-hopping. And lately I've read a couple books where I didn't know who was speaking and had to look back. That takes me out of the story.
      So by far, wishy-washy heroines made readers the angriest and then editing errors. How about you? What makes you mad when you find it in a book?      Leave your comment and I will enter you in a drawing for a copy of one of my full-length books plus my newest sweet romance western novella - Stolen Horses, Stolen Hearts .

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     Happy reading! Happy commenting!
Cindy A. ChristiansenSweet Romance, Humor, Suspense…and Dogs!Fly into a good book at:  http://www.dragonflyromance.com


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Cindy A. Christiansen
Sweet (clean) Romance Author