cyd⭐️ > Status Update

books that came out recently (2024-2026) yk, that have any kind of new slang. like “love that for you” which as someone who says it… 😃 like can we stop??
people giving away books that are literally unreadable.
i was at my local bookstore/thrift (i suppose you can call it) and the amount of water damage pages, covers half ripped off, water smudging annotated parts. like yes it’s also the managements fault, like why do they want to make such a quick buck that they try to sell that??

definitely when books overuse slang, same with frequent pop culture references. oh and I also hate insta love ofc lol

@ophelia yuppp!!
i was reading a new YA release idk when but the second there was a “can i get your tiktok?” i was out of there bro istg

oh girl i've got soooo many

A) anachronisms will ALWAYS be getting on my nerves bc why tf are you in a medieval fantasy land and saying shit like 'adam's apple' and 'achilles heel'?? girl since when did you have christianity and the trojan war??
B) grammar/punctuation/spelling errors in tradpub books. how did nobody catch that shit
C) dumb MCs
D) no diversity. im not reading that shit if there's no POC or LGBTQ rep
E) scenes that do absolutely nothing for the plot

anyways i can do more but i dont wanna be a negative nelly

cyd⭐️ wrote: "@ophelia yuppp!!
i was reading a new YA release idk when but the second there was a “can i get your tiktok?” i was out of there bro istg"

once I read a book where the MMC was a tiktok dancer 💀

@ophelia i think i would cry

vyn targaryen ‎♡‧₊˚ wrote: "@ophelia i think i would cry"

fr I literally had to put down the book and stare at the wall lmao (the only reason I didn’t dnf it was because it was an arc 😭 like the main romantic scene in it was then filming a tiktok dance together 💀)

BRO I WOULD TWEAK ISTG!! “oh let’s hit the renegade real quick then we can netflix and chill!!” get the freak away from me and respectfully i’m gonna throw the book

also @vyn you’re speaking straight facts bb holy cow,the spelling error one is SOOO real bc tell me why i’m getting MAJOR and i mean HUGE MAJOR spelling issues???

also another one i have is when books will advertise themselves as like “the new hunger games!!” or “the new: how to kill a mockingbird!!”
imho that’s just setting you as an author up for failure and ppl comparing the books and the chance that the new authors book actually sucks dookie, ppl will be like: “this book was so bad i can’t believe it was even compared to #####” yk what i mean???

@cyd ahhh tysmmm and YOURE SO REAL for that omgg

cyd⭐️ wrote: "also another one i have is when books will advertise themselves as like “the new hunger games!!” or “the new: how to kill a mockingbird!!”
imho that’s just setting you as an author up for failure a..."

yesss and then sometimes they’ll compare it to another book but it’s actually just pure plagiarism of that book 😭

too much pop culture references. the use of the word “cunt” to describe a vagina (actually an instant dnf). gay male best friend for the fmc for the sake of forced diversity.

when the mmc says “what was that?” or “is that so?” as a way to flirt (its so cringe)

anything that happens off page like relationships starting or smth else rlly relavant to the plot

I was reading a book by a guy and the TEENAGE GIRl was with a cute guy and the girl never thought about him and only thought the feeling was her being sick! Like so unrealistic.

“Sheathed…” those who know, know.