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TofuTuesday · 2026-07-31T18:10:12+00:00

You know when you are reading something great, and then the character says or does something beyond belief, or a character appears, or the dialogue fails? I’ve just hit it with the book I’m reading. I’m now in the ok this is stupid phase, and making myself read it.

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TofuTuesday · 31/07/2026 19:51

NeededANameChangeAnyway · 31/07/2026 19:32

I read a single (single!) line in a book which was the opposite of what I understood the character to be and it ruined the rest of the book for me. So disappointing.

Easily done! The whole of a book was ruined for me by the epilogue and im still furious thinking about it.

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Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies · 31/07/2026 19:48

My mother and I frequently moan about Mariella (Masquerade at the Wells). She kicks off the shackles of the expectation to dance, gets into Vet School… then giv s it up with only a year left to marry the handsome Vet (she did say she could use her training to act as a nurse). There is no way she would have given up like that. Unless she was pregnant, I suppose. But no pattern of tiny feet.

Whynottryagain · 31/07/2026 19:47

Marycontrarygarden · 31/07/2026 19:42

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Carol.
I don't like it at all.

BendyDickCumbInMySnatch · 31/07/2026 19:44

The year of the locust
Behind her eyes

Marycontrarygarden · 31/07/2026 19:42

Whynottryagain · 31/07/2026 19:41

Not quite the same, but my current book is driving me crazy because the author keeps having characters refer to things that happened earlier in the book as if the reader should already know about them, even though they've never mentioned it before. I keep having to go back to check I haven't accidentally missed stuff. There's a whole paragraph where I can only assume something was removed at the editing stage because otherwise it makes no sense. It's a famous book too and I'm very unimpressed.

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Whynottryagain · 31/07/2026 19:41

Not quite the same, but my current book is driving me crazy because the author keeps having characters refer to things that happened earlier in the book as if the reader should already know about them, even though they've never mentioned it before. I keep having to go back to check I haven't accidentally missed stuff. There's a whole paragraph where I can only assume something was removed at the editing stage because otherwise it makes no sense. It's a famous book too and I'm very unimpressed.

NeededANameChangeAnyway · 31/07/2026 19:32

I read a single (single!) line in a book which was the opposite of what I understood the character to be and it ruined the rest of the book for me. So disappointing.

MissyB1 · 31/07/2026 19:28

TofuTuesday · 31/07/2026 19:25

Oh no! I hate that it’s like a big jump back into reality.
my pet hate is thrillers where a local shop owner or postman decides to join forces with the heroine to find the missing woman/dog/child and they start driving to abandoned places or investigating. I mean come on. As if you’d agree to help Mrs jones across the road check out an abandoned warehouse six miles away.

Same on TV dramas, you’re watching what seems like a good drama then it descends into absolute unbelievable nonsense. Sooo annoying!

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TofuTuesday · 31/07/2026 19:25

Oh no! I hate that it’s like a big jump back into reality.
my pet hate is thrillers where a local shop owner or postman decides to join forces with the heroine to find the missing woman/dog/child and they start driving to abandoned places or investigating. I mean come on. As if you’d agree to help Mrs jones across the road check out an abandoned warehouse six miles away.

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OnMarket · 31/07/2026 19:18

It would be outing because I've moaned about it in real life but it's a book set in England, written by an American (I think) and it gets something wrong that's dear to my heart!