Fantasy and Vampire Book Club discussion

This is for your reading pet hates, and anything else you would like to rant about. You may or may not get a reply but that is not the point of a rant. Ranting helps get things off your chest. and then can sometimes make you feel better.

For me Personally I hate Cliffhangers in books.
They seem to give me a bit of anxiety and reading should be a peaceful thing!

angsty characters.... they also annoy me, i don't mind a bit. but when they are capable of so much more you just want to scream at them!

If the books are in a series, I wish the number was on spine so I didn’t have to look inside to see order!

OMG!! I hate this too. I've actually taken a sharpie to my books to mark them. I'm a new author, (#1 in my series just came out in July) and I asked my publisher to put the series number on the spine and they told me it isn't done in adult fiction. ARGH!!

Then how is it with some of the fantasy books I've read they have the volume number or the number on the spine. But can't do it for others? Its annoying to me too. Thats why i shelve them in numerical order. And if im missing books i have a list of which books im missing and which order they are in. A bit obsessive i know but its the only way to keep track when your phone is on charge or flat at you are at the library. I take my lists with me Everywhere! It lives in my handbag!

OK, the publishers are idiots then as the numbers should be both on the spine and the corner of the front cover, especially for those series that really matter and build upon one another.

Adele, I totally agree with you and it is becoming more annoying and common. Cliffhanger, when it is not advertised as a serial book, is just unfair to readers. The worse is when you get a cliffhanger and the next book doesn't even have a release date. But truly, I don't go on anymore with any of the cliffhanger books unless they were great, absolute great up to the cliffhanger and that is just rare and very hard to judge if it is a cliffhanger.

When I read a cliffhanger today with a new author, I put it on my "I hate cliffhangers shelf" and I quit the series and author, especially if it is a first book. If a favorite author does it once in the middle of a series, I complain and dock a star. Cliffhangers are one star dock no matter what. You can have loose ends but if the main character have no completion, then it wasn't a complete story and I'm not giving complete stars.

It is my biggest pet peeve of books today.