Things in books that instantly made you put it down

[IronTeeth]

I was reading a book, and it was OK (not brilliant, but had some interesting maybe potential.... and then this (image)

Ooh, you smell fresh, innocent like a good egg... not like a nasty spoiled one...

(The first in the Half-Moon Hollow series is “wry, delicious fun” (Susan Andersen, New York Times bestselling author) as it follows a librarian...)

@Cheeseandlobster totally agree with this "I hate misery lit with titles like "No Daddy. Stop". Why would you want to read books about children being sexually abused?" My DH and I say you can spot them on the shelves by three things: pastel colours, handwritten title, picture of sad child. I read one when I was a teenager and it was scarring!

I still can't understand why the hell he wanted to specialise in obs and gynae when a) he clearly doesn't really like women, b) he doesn't seem to want to learn about women

My uneasy sense is that those are precisely the reasons he wanted to specialise in Obs and Gyn.

I hate misery lit with titles like "No Daddy. Stop". Why would you want to read books about children being sexually abused?

My sister and I have a running joke to look out for the crassest of those titles - we refer to it as spotting books called 'Not Again Daddy'. Honestly, of all the things that shouldn't be commercialised...

Also books where the ditsy heroine breaks up with her partner and goes hurtling down to Cornwall or the Cotswolds where she ends up opening a book shop or cafe which of course is a roaring success and she ends up falling in love with the gruff but misunderstood local vet or lord. If its a lord he always drives a battered land-rover and wears old clothes so she has no idea he is minted.

See now that is the appropriate level of detail for that type of story. Doesn't need to be 200+ pages