I am here today to discuss with you the bookish things that drive me bananas. Whether it be things that people do to books or things that happen in the books, these are the things I find that I just can't deal with!
1. First of all, I HATE when I go into a store to buy a book and the store puts stickers on the covers! Why do you need a sticker on the book when you can put one on the shelf underneath it? I don't need a permanent reminder of how much I spent! As much as I love Target, they are very guilty of this with their stupid round 20% off stickers on every book!! STOP IT!
2. I hate open endings in a book. I want closure! I didn't buy a book to use my own imagination to figure out what the end is, I bought this book to read what ending came out of YOUR imagination! If I had an imagination I'd probably write my own books! Sometimes an open ending is okay. It all depends on what's going on in the book I guess. For example, the open ending in The Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons is acceptable in my opinion because there is no one out there trying to free all the girls. The main character just wants to get her family back together and live happily in the mountains. But the ending of Requiem by Lauren Oliver I didn't find to be okay! At the very least they need an epilogue showing that they are taking down more cities than just the one! Anything could happen! And it could very well not be favorable for the resistance! I say again, I don't want to use my imagination!
3. When you let someone borrow your precious babies and they don't treat them with the tender love and care that they deserve to be treated with. I had a friend that I used to let borrow my books and I watched her shove them into things like overcrowded drawers in her bedroom or her smelly gym bag and I'm like ...lol please no. I also let a cousin borrow some of my books that came back in terrible condition and she hadn't even read them! How on EARTH DID YOU DO THAT?!
4. When bookstores don't have hardcover copies of books that are also out in paperback. I feel like at least you should have a few hardcover copies on hand of really popular books or at the very least have some in stock until all the books in the series are out in paperback at the same time! Maybe I want to buy all of them, but they all have to be in the same format!!!
5. When a character 'lets out a breath they hadn't realized they'd been holding.' That never bothered me until one day I saw something say something about that and now I see that phrase being used in every other book I read!!
6. I can't stand books where the love interest is really abusive or controlling in some way and they're written to be so swoony and everyone looks at them with all of the heart eyes... NO! Don't make them likable. Gross!
7. The last thing that I can think of that drive me nuts in a book is when they have all the overly descriptive, flowery detail. Please spare me and just give me the basics. I only have so long to live.
What are your bookish pet peeves? :)