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Cheating. Gah I can't stand it. I'm getting ready to post a big ranting review about it lol

Amanda wrote: "Cheating. Gah I can't stand it. I'm getting ready to post a big ranting review about it lol"

Ooh, yeah, that's a big one. Luckily I haven't seen it often, heroes in romance novels mostly know better. There is always that one idiot. Or even worse, sometimes, a TSTL girl "but he is sooo hot".

Which book inspired the rant?

Secret babies. ALL DAY LONG.

Sherri of A Thousand Books wrote: "Secret babies. ALL DAY LONG."

Forgot about that too! And that's one of my biggest issues! It makes me want to kill everybody involved. IMO, there is no good reason to hide a child from a father(unless he's a violent psychopath or something), so it's always selfish.

Cliffhangers don't bother me much - unless they're absolute cheats, but I'm pretty generous in my thinking about those.

Cheating, I hate. Very, very few authors can pull this one off and not make me want to kill both the hero and heroine.

Secret babies are one of my biggest, to the point where I don't read a book if it's got any mention of a secret long kept from a guy she used to know <-big secret baby hint. Probably the only way I could work with a secret baby (and still root for the couple) is if one or both of them thought the other was dead/couldn't find them (and had seriously looked).

But the one that shows up the most in romance and I HATE, HATE, HATE is the Big Misunderstanding, and hard on it's heels: Deception (kind of goes hand in hand with secret babies). The Big Mis, if it goes on too long - and it nearly always does - makes me want to slap them and make them talk to each other like adults (disclaimer: I have read books where it worked well for me, i.e. Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie). But deception just makes me wonder how in the heck they can manage to have a loving, trusting relationship after that.

Mimi wrote: "Which book inspired the rant? "

Sorry just saw this! The book was Sins Of Temptation.

I hate the secret baby thing too. I also hate the gay guy who hooked up with a woman and got her pregnant and now the woman is holding the baby over the now out gay guy and his lover/boyfriend/partner/whatever.

Angela wrote: "Cliffhangers don't bother me much - unless they're absolute cheats, but I'm pretty generous in my thinking about those.

Cheating, I hate. Very, very few authors can pull this one off and not make ..."

Right, the BIG misunderstanding. And you KNOW what's going to happen, and it's dragged along till the end. Really, predictable and annoying... Can't you figure out a better plot twist?? Geez. Now I'm getting annoyed all over again, lol.

Amanda wrote: "Mimi wrote: "Which book inspired the rant? "

Sorry just saw this! The book was Sins Of Temptation.

I hate the secret baby thing too. I also hate the gay guy who hooked up with a woman and got her..."

That sounds very specific. Hadn't seen that twist before. Is that a specific book?

Oh, wait, I do know a book with a similar situation! More complicated of course, but it's in (view spoiler)[Special Forces by Aleks Voinov (hide spoiler)]

Ugh yeah. That's one of them! There's not any other ones coming to mind right now. I always try to steer clear of them if that's mentioned in the blurb.

Amanda wrote: "Ugh yeah. That's one of them! There's not any other ones coming to mind right now. I always try to steer clear of them if that's mentioned in the blurb."

Yeah, I steer clear of secret babies all the way. In any context. :)

lol good! I also hate the friend that feels like they know everything about their friends boyfriend/girlfriend/partner and won't let them make their own decisions.

Amanda wrote: "lol good! I also hate the friend that feels like they know everything about their friends boyfriend/girlfriend/partner and won't let them make their own decisions."

Right! They're saying: he's an asshole, he must have done this/that/whateva, it would be best if you-. Yeah, right.

Oh, and the self sacrificing idiots that are really just morons. You know the ones: "I'm doing it for their own good. I will not talk to my love and allow them to decide, no I know BETTER, because I'm omniscient and know the best for everyone."

Omfg I hate those! Where they bitch and moan for pagesssss over something simple! All because they're doing it "for their own good"

Just once I'd love to read a story where the hero/heroine "leaves them for their own good" and the other takes them up on it and walks away. Justice for the suffering reader!

Sherri of A Thousand Books wrote: "Just once I'd love to read a story where the hero/heroine "leaves them for their own good" and the other takes them up on it and walks away. Justice for the suffering reader!"

Right! And sadly, that doesn't happen. Rather the "for their own good" mentality brings to the book "The Big Misunderstanding" making it even more annoying.

Bk70lvr wrote: "1. Infidelity
2. Yeah, cliffies!! (unless the next book is handy)
3. Repetition: I don't need to be told some 20 times over, thank you very much, thank you very much, thank you very much... ;-}"

Yeah, repetition. If it's a series, and it's been a while since I read the last book, it can help. But in one book it can get annoying. Like it got to me in Jennifer Estep's Elemental Assassin series.

Mimi wrote: "Yeah, repetition. If it's a series, and it's been a while since I read the last book, it can help. But in one book it can get annoying. Like it got to me in Jennifer Estep's Elemental Assassin series."
There are series that I've learned I can't read back to back for this very reason.