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I love it when books do this

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petronella23 · 11/03/2023 09:07

I started this thread about what people hate in books

I hate it when books do this http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/whatweree_reading/4760537-i-hate-it-when-books-do-this

but got me thinking about stuff that I always like

For me, it's when an author is really explicit about money - how much the characters earns, how much the house cost, how much debt they're in and how they pay it off. So often people gloss over it and I love knowing the specifics!

I also like one character, third person, past tense traditional storytelling

You?

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petronella23 · 11/03/2023 10:03

ColdAndGrumpy · 11/03/2023 09:34

If it's a mystery/whodunnit book, I love it when one of the detectives sums up the case and says what happened and you think yay that's fantastic! Then the other detective says yes that's what I thought too, until.... so you have 2 brillant endings (instead of completely disappointing ones)
Ruth Rendell's Wexford books are classics if this type of ending.

Yes! This is such a good one

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ColdAndGrumpy · 11/03/2023 09:34

If it's a mystery/whodunnit book, I love it when one of the detectives sums up the case and says what happened and you think yay that's fantastic! Then the other detective says yes that's what I thought too, until.... so you have 2 brillant endings (instead of completely disappointing ones)
Ruth Rendell's Wexford books are classics if this type of ending.