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is this what straight people find romantic?

there is something actually insidious about a male character written by a woman saying that a girl is going for "manic-pixie-dream-girl" just because of the way she looks and how she "leans over" a bar. like that term is so demeaning and with no basis just assigning a random female character who won't show up again "manic pixie dream girl" so that the reader knows that this is not a cool girl is actually really gross

when the threat is so virulently obvious and insidious before even a quarter of the book, how is any sort of tension supposed to exist. i know who the bad guy is. i know what he looks like and how he acts. i know his motives and i know his m.o. i can't be scared of a boogey man who has forwarded me his whole evil plan before even taking his first step

the NUMBER 1 rule of thrillers is "DONT BE BORING". so far the only "thrilling" part of this novel has been a few sentences about a man who didn't even die!!!!

fully dressed as a minion and this man is like "that's hot"

one of my stupid pet peeves is when a book is in first person present tense. for some reason i can rarely ever immerse myself in a present tense story