forum Things You Want LESS Of In Books
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@HighPockets group

I enjoy open endings because they allow for room to breathe. Want a ship to end up together? Maybe they do! Want to speculate what the ships name their kids? Go ahead!
I feel like the author should provide some form of an ending, not just "and the war was done, the end"

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Idk if this was mentioned but Happily Ever Afters.
Just….let there be misery.

Girl who hurt you

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Idk if this was mentioned but Happily Ever Afters.
Just….let there be misery.

Girl who hurt you

looks off into the distance towards the man that will never return from war

No one.

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Yes! Or bittersweet endings!

Cries Why les Miserables why

Because AMAZING that's why

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Personally, I like it when the story hints at a good ending but never commits when everything is over. It's heartbreaking when you know there's a chance everything could go well, but it keeps going downhill in such an entertaining fashion, like a trainwreck you can't look away from.

@actual-fandom-trash

Personally, I like it when the story hints at a good ending but never commits when everything is over. It's heartbreaking when you know there's a chance everything could go well, but it keeps going downhill in such an entertaining fashion, like a trainwreck you can't look away from.

Voltron

@HighPockets group

I'd really love some fairlytale retellings, but like….not the same old 'she gets kidnapped but the captor is a hot guy??? and he loves her??? look at my batb retelling!!" I want some Lunar Chronicles style fractured fairytales

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Rey is kinda…..basic actually. Very altruistic and naive, like most female Disney characters.

@HighPockets group

  1. Mary Sue is a term made up to demonize female characters for traits that male characters get away scott free with.
  2. I don't need a reason for liking a character? I don't have to justify why I like or dislike a character?
  3. No matter what variant of 'Mary Sue' you go with, it doesn't work. She doesn't click the boxes, despite what the manchildren who make youtube rant videos would have you believe. She has no canon love interest, sure she has skills but they make sense in context (the flying is because she has a flight simulator, she's not even skilled with a lightsaber, her technique is sloppy and unrefined) she only defeated Kylo because he'd literally been shot with a weapon we've seen throw fully armored stormtroopers across a room and Finn got some hits in too, not to mention the extreme emotional turmoil of patricide. She would've lost the battle in the throne room if Kylo hadn't been there. Hell, she wasn't the one to kill Snoke, that was Kylo.
    Tl;dr, she's a woman with powers and guys got Offended.

@HighPockets group

I'm really really really sick of books that are just way too long. This usually happens in YA, authors will think good=long and they'll write these bricks that's mostly fluff. It's just really annoying.

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I'm really really really sick of books that are just way too long. This usually happens in YA, authors will think good=long and they'll write these bricks that's mostly fluff. It's just really annoying.

What is considered a brick, because I hate short books. 300 and less is too short.

@HighPockets group

Also I'd like some antiheroes who are antiheroes beyond 'broody bad boy'. I want antiheroes who are excitable and energetic loose cannons who don't see what's wrong with killing a guy who gets in their way. I want antiheroes who are talkative and can filibuster their way out of situations. I want antiheroes who start off doing the wrong thing but then join a cause by being pressured in. Basically I want lovable con artist characters.
I just really really want fun characters who aren't perfect!