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I cannot help but automatically assume the quality of a book is lower when the title includes tropes/“a thrilling mystery you’ll love”
I know it’s not universally true, and idk if title changes like that are up to the author or publisher or whoever, but I just immediately distrust. I get that it’s marketing, but from a reader standpoint it’s like they don’t trust I can read the summary/blurb on my own, and if you can’t trust me to do that then the book is going to be repetitive telling-not-showing ad nauseam. I’ve still gotten books with tropes in titles or the title telling me it’s “the most chilling horror novel of your summer” and have been proved right more often than not

(some books are entertaining despite that title style, though titles like that are cringe and stupid and I can’t imagine (most) authors actually want their books to appear that way)

EXACTLY!!! I agree with everything you said, @lemonysnickety. I immediately assume the quality of a book will be less when they have the long, unnecessary tags in the title. Anyta Sunday is above that. There’s just no need for it. The trope info was not part of the six titles of this series for the first few months the books were on here. Someone has recent come in and changed them from, say, “The King’s Man: Book Four” to “The King’s Man: An M/M Slow-Burn Romantasy” so all six titles are exactly the same without the numbers in them… which is RIDICULOUS. Drives me up the wall with frustration. Obviously I’m reading this particular series regardless of the incorrect title tags on here, but I can guarantee you I’ve passed over hundreds (if not thousands) of books in my day because they have these tacky long trope included titles that absolutely no one needs. That’s literally what a synopsis is for. Ugh. I’ll never not be annoyed by this in publishing.