Book icks

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I love hearing peoples biggest book icks.

I hate when plot holes are explained by characters being so rich that they have access to technology that doesn’t exist.
I hate when a character is paralysed and then it turns out that they were faking it - you can’t fake it for months or in some books years!
I hate when books are described as ‘the next gone girl’ like it isn’t a major spoiler.

I'm sure I have loads more I can’t think of right now.

But as TinyToeBeans said, women don't always want to read about women. It does sometimes seem like box ticking bandwagon jumping by publishers. Some years ago it seemed like every other new book was a police procedural where the central character was a woman DI or DCI. Who of course has to contend with jealousy and sexism from her male colleagues, and probably has personal problems too.

Talking of Bethnal Green, Hester Burton's In spite of all terror has London schoolchildren setting off for evacuation from a tube station which is not named, but is clearly on the Central Line east of Liverpool Street, but the Central Line didn't run east of Liverpool Street until after the war.

I will allow one exception: Susan Gates's Criss-cross, where the story is told entirely through notes passed in class by schoolchildren. Then the different fonts make sense as surrogates for different handwritings.

I have rather embarrassed myself! I will get a new copy and reread; paying proper attention this time! Oh dear. The shame.