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Which authors are an instant "Yes." Which are an automatic "Heck No!"?
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My insta buy authors: Vi Keeland, Sabaa Tahir, Leigh Bardugo, Sarah J. Maas, Cassandra Clare, Ali Hazelwood, Carissa Broadbent, Stephanie Garber, and Christina LaurenI can’t get into A.L. Jackson and Saffron A. Kent. I can’t get into their writing styles at all.
Mo Hayder is my Heck NO! as for Yes I have a lot
i dont have a "heck yes" since i'm not really into authors. if the book sounds like sth i'd read, i'll put it on my list.however, "heck no": sarah j. maas, ava reed
Instant yes: Rick Riordan, Adib Khorram, Lily Chesgreen, Kerri Maniscalco, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Andrew Joseph White, Aiden ThomasInstant no: Colleen Hoover
yes: kennedy ryan ilona andrews mariana zapata no: sarah j maas
yes: Sarah j maas, rina kent,karen m mcmanus, stephanie garber no: Jennifer lynn barnes, josephine angilni
yes: Brandon Sanderson, Adam Nevill.no: Riley Sager.
Instant no: Agatha Christie, James Patterson, anything by a celebrity turned author, with the exception of Richard Osman (OK, so I’ve just outed myself as a stinking snob), Martina ColeInstant yes: the master that is Stephen King
Instant hell yes: Kelley Armstrong, , Richelle Mead, Gena Showalter, Lisa Gardner, Lisa Jackson, Holly Black, Robert Dugoni, Robert Bryndza, Fredrik Backman (sorry if I misspelled his name, Rachel Higginson, Marissa Meyer, Sara J. Maas, Ruth Ware, Riley Sager, Mike Omer, Clare Mackintosh, Tessa Bailey, and Cara Barastone that's only a few that I didn't have to think twice about.Not necessarily a No more like a maybe, I'd have to really think about it maybe get a sample before buying their book or maybe just get it from the library instead, lol, anyway they are :
R.F. Kuang, don't come at me, it's not that I hate her books they are just not for me. I started to read The Poppy War and Babel and I have yet been able to finish because the political war info just drags for me.
Leigh Bardugo is again not necessarily an instant no, I did enjoy Shadow and Bone for the most part but not necessarily a favorite.
Colleen Hoover, the books are just way over hyped, I tried to read a couple and I could not. They were not for me, although a friend recommended me Verity and I trust her judgement so I might make an exception.
Steinbeck, Hemingway are an instant yes.Don't really have an automatic 'no go' author. I've read a few classic novels that were painful, but it's hard to base an opinion on one read. If l did that...l'd have never read another Dickens...after Bleakhouse.
Instant YES: Stephen King, John Grisham, Freida McFadden, Kristin Hannah, Jess Lourey, Dan Brown. NO: Colleen Hoover
Instant YES: Leigh Bardugo, Stephanie Garber, Sarah J Maas, Freida Mcfadden, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Holly Black, Carrisa Broadbent, Sabaa Tahir.Instant NO: Colleen Hoover
An instant yes for me is Holly Jackson! So far I've loved all of her books and they're some of my all-time favourites!Currently, an automatic no for me is Colleen Hoover. I haven't read any of her books (so my opinion isn't based on her writing) but after hearing everything online about the scandal, she's just a no from me. No hate to anyone who likes her books but I can't bring myself to support her.
BIG YES: Lisa Kleypas, Stephanie Garber, Alessandra Hazard, BB Easton
ABSOLUTELY NO:
Saffron Kent, Nicola Jane, Alison Rhyme, Portia Moore, CoHo
I immediately unconsciously say yes:Jennifer Lynn Barnes Heck nawww: Colleen Hoover. Fight me
Instant readSandra Brown
Iris Johansen
Janet Evanovich
Mary Higgins-Clark ( R.I.P.)
T.J. Newman has only wrote 2 books and I loved them.
Shari Lepena
B.A. Paris
I have read a few years ago but avoid Stephen King,
Dean Koontz
I haven't read enough books to be able to decide whether they'd be an instant yes, but so far I'd say,Heck yes: Stephen King and Riley Sager
Heck no: Colleen Hoover
I have read a couple books from Stephen King that I didn't like, but that's not going to stop me from going to check out his books first everytime I enter a bookstore. I only read a couple books from Riley Sager, but my opinions on them are great so far.
I haven't read anything from Colleen Hoover, but hearing what she apparently glorifies is an instant turn off for me.
Automatic Yes: Erik Larson; Agatha Christie; Daisy Goodwin; Philippa Gregory; Daphne Du Maurier; Alice Hoffman; Automatic No: Ruth Ware; Any author that writes smut
Yes: Jane Austen, Chris Colfer, Erin Hunter, Alice OsemanNo: Andy Weir >:P
Instant buys: Sanderson, Abercrombie, Andy Weir, Christopher RuocchioIf they write again, I would instantly pick up their new book: Hobb, Rothfuss, GGK
Yes: Ali Hazelwood, Ruby Dixon, Silvia Moreno-GarciaNo: Colleen Hoover (I tried but so much toxic masculinity), James Patterson (which we all know now, Stephen King calls him out on, is just a name place holder and he has ghostwriters)
YES: RF KuangNO: Sarah j maas and Cassandra. Im tired of them and I don't want to read 10 books to see the good part of the story
Cassandra Clare , Lauren Roberts, giant yes, and Jennifer Lynn Barnes but I don't bother learning the names of authors I don't like
Yes: Nora Roberts, Kristin Hannah, Shari LapenaNo: Colleen Hoover, Katherine Center (liked her older novels, dislike her newer ones), Jennifer Weiner
LadyRemy wrote: "Yes: Ali Hazelwood, Ruby Dixon, Silvia Moreno-GarciaNo: Colleen Hoover (I tried but so much toxic masculinity), James Patterson (which we all know now, Stephen King calls him out on, is just a nam..."
Agree on Colleen Hoover!!
YES: Rainbow Rowell, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, Suzanne CollinsNO: Paulo Cohelo, Julio Cortazar
Yes: Phillip Fracassi and John Lynch.I don't have any no's.
YES: August Ansel, Stephen Graham Jones, Craig Johnson, Noelle West Ihli, Catherine Ryan Hyde, Kate Atkinson, Belinda Bauer, Becky Masterman, Jack McDevitt, William Kent Krueger, Trae Crowder, Lily Brooks-Dalton, Joe Ide, Sarah VowellNO: too many to list
Lee Child is an instant no for me. One with capital letters. An instant yes is Gillian Flynn.
Yes: Annette Marie, KF Breen, Sarah J Maas
Anything by Nora Roberts or Adrian Tchaikovsky I'll usually want to read and anything by Clare Sager is in my basket before I even realise it.
But I will not read anything by Cassandra Clare and sadly, I've read several books by James Kennedy and they are just not for me.