1. The Status Quo
2. Superhero overload
3. Parents Don't Exist
4. They all grow up too fast
5. Everybody's sexy
That's all for this week's rant. lol
Join me again next week where I promise to be more positive and less bitter!
Bah humbug! Today's topic for Top 5 Wednesday has me searching the bowels of my shrunken little heart for things that bug the crap out of me in the bookish world. That's right. Not everything is peaches and sunshine. Here are my top 5 bookish things that I'm a mean, old Grinch about. 1. The Status QuoThere seems to be this pressure among the bookish community to read what's popular. And not just read it, but love it too. There have been so many extremely hyped books that I've read in the past few years that I thought were going to be 5/5 favorites because of the amount of love they get on Goodreads, Booktube and Bookstagram. Half the time, these books end up being just okay or even kinda crappy to me. I then feel bad if I give it a bad rating because I don't want to lose any friends or followers for hating up on their beloved books. I just wish that more people in our community would read some less popular and older books as well. It feels like there's this pressure to be caught up on all the new releases, and then you don't have time to get to older books that you may love even more. It's rough. 2. Superhero overloadThis one goes for both books and movies. In the past decade, superhero stories have risen extremely in popularity. Some are great, most are uncalled for. I'm not a huge superhero fan (although I do love me some Guardians of the Galaxy) and I definitely don't want to read dozens of books or watch hundreds of movies on the same topic. I hope that this fad doesn't last too long. It would be nice to have more original ideas, and less copycats of whatever is popular at the moment. 3. Parents Don't ExistDo you ever read a YA book and wonder where the heck all the parents are? Maybe they make a 10 second appearance at one point. Maybe they died when the hero was just a wee lass. The point is, 9 times out of 10, they are nowhere to be found or just plain useless. In the books, the teens will sneak out and have an epic adventure. The parents will be none the wiser. In real life, my mom would never let me sneak out, let alone hunt down an evil emperor and singlehandedly free a nation of oppressed zombie warriors. At least in Harry Potter, Mrs. Weasley was there to fight for Ginny. 4. They all grow up too fastIn real life, 16 years old is young. Very young. In some places, you're not even old enough to drive or get a job or vote or be trusted to do pretty much anything on your own really. In YA books, 16-year-olds (and all teens really) think that they are fully grown for some reason. They are ready to fight to the death or make major life decisions because they fell in instalove and let's get real. Real 16-year-olds probably aren't even responsible enough to grocery shop on their own, let alone save the entire universe or marry a vampire. 5. Everybody's sexyGah, this one pees me off so bad. It seems like these days, authors think that nobody will take a character seriously as a hero or heroine unless they are gorgeous. I'm so sick of all the hunks and hotties I could scream. Give me a character with some actual character, not just a cookie cutter clone of generic sexy love interest #1. At least in Jane Eyre, Mr. Rochester was a dog-faced wretch and Jane was plain. That's all for this week's rant. lol Join me again next week where I promise to be more positive and less bitter! |
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