Are there key words on the jacket that puts you OFF a book?

[sweetnessandlite]

Me?

As soon as I read the words 'Cornwall' or 'Painter' or 'tea shop' or 'young mother'
I immediately Put The Book Back.

Why do a lot of female authors set their story in Cornwall? It's so boring and predictable.

Ha! I have a JoJo Moyes ad on the right of my MN page - anyone else? She's watching . . .

Jodi Picoult is all Doom and Gloom. I can't stand her books.
My Sisters Keeper was about the only decent one and even then, it was one of those rare instances where the film was actually better than the book.

tipsy! I see it! They are Watching Us!
When I was on a Lifestyle Thread a few hours ago - I had slimming ads on the Right.

Everybody is raving about that One Plus One book, but I don't know whether I can be arsed to read it.
It doesn't sound like my type of read.

When Cressida, a show-loving klutz, found the hidden letter little did she know it would take her back to the past, with flashbacks to her Irish 1950's childhood and a discovery that is both heartwarming and harrowing.

The young mother, whilst juggling her children and her career, instantly leaves for Cornwall to knit cupcakes in a tea-shop and work on a colonial farm, when she meets angry but sexy twin farmers Dermot and Nermal, and so begins an intoxicating, haunting and hilarious quintessentially British family saga spanning fifteen generations because they travel to the future on planet Zurg and find there is no greater love.

This collaboration by Booker Prize Winning Authors Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Paul Auster will appeal to fans of Sarah Waters and anybody who loved Twilight and is recommended by The Guardian and Grazia magazine and is written entirely in twirly font with bad sepia photos dipped in glitter on the front cover.

Worst book ever

GameofScones, Strangely enough, you putting all those horrors together, actually made it sound interesting!

instantly leaves for Cornwall to knit cupcakes

I actually know somebody who does this. I kid you not!

I've just picked a random book up:

Powerful and Emotional. (it wasn't)
Her technique is faultless (so what)
Relentlessly suspenseful (really?)
Deeply moving and lyrical (lyrical wtf?)
A real page turner (lies)

GaemOfScones - think you might be sitting on a goldmine there.

Game

Romantic or yesteryear.

Chicklit

As soon as I see the word Chicklit it puts me right off not that I'm not partial to a good bodice ripper if it's done WELL

But Chicklit is usually mass produced garbage.

Any embossed gold text on the cover.

MrsS,
around Christmas time espeically, there seems to be a Glut of embossed gold, silver and glittery text on covers!

I always know it's going to be a rubbish book when I see that!

Sad thing is Game, if that was £3.85 in Tesco, I'd still buy it . . .

High heels on the cover.

I would too, especially if it was the 3 books for a tenner offer.

High heels with a City Scape background.

God yes.

'Gritty'. Also to be found lauding the content of a crap Channel Four production- 'A Gritty Drama'. Sometimes, but not always, coupled with 'Mean Streets'.

Bog off with your grit.

Three sisters who don't get on are forced to put their differences aside when...
One is no doubt a hard-nosed career woman, one a worn down mother of sixteen, and the other a free spirit. They overcome their differences and reminisce over their childhood over copious bottles of white wine. The free spirit might have a cocktail, just to show she's a bit crazy.

And anything with clogs/bonnets/shawls on the cover.

Miserable tripe that usually includes the same phrases repeated ad nauseam.

Gritty = Hard Work

Oh wow, this is great.

Googled the "One Plus One" book and got Jojo Moyes' site in German (I'm in Germany, it's not randomly trying to confuse me). Chrome translated it for me so I get this excellent description instead:

Once accepted, your life is anything but round. Your husband has flown the coop. You barely manage to keep your family afloat. Your talented daughter gets a unique opportunity. But you lack the money to allow her dream. Suddenly there is a wad of cash. You know that it is wrong. But in one fell swoop would be your life so much easier ... And once accepted, you strandest middle of the night with your children on the road - and that the man who owns the money in front of you and offers to carry you? Would you enter? Would you eventually admit him during your crazy road trips, what have you done? And is that possible, when you fall in love just in this man?