For me, shitty style / lazy writing make me put a book down immediately. I was raised on the worship of style you find in writers like Flaubert or Nabokov (who also happened to have deplorable political views) and I can’t shake it.
Others commented here recently that making every female character in a story into a sex object is a bad thing.
What are some reasons you’ll put a book down after you’ve spent at least a little time giving it a try?
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I have only read a couple of light novels, my experience with these tropes mainly comes from reading manga or fanfiction.
The slanted power dynamic thing does explain why i hate harems as when i read romance novels i avoid ones with uneven power dynamics like for example one of the main characters being a billionaire.
There's an entire subgenre of cheap awful romance books that are about stuff like Navy SEAL werewolf billionaire romantic partners.