Hey everyone! Happy Tuesday! It’s been a few weeks since I participated in Top Ten Tuesday!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly post currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It celebrates lovely lists, wonderful books and the bookish community. This week’s topic is Unpopular Bookish Opinions. This is in regards to being a reader, a book reviewer or it can be about opinions you have on books that go against the grain.

Anyway, without further ado, let’s go!

#1: Relationships in Romance

I’m not into romance novels. I think most of them aren’t really realistically written to what relationships are actually like and what kind of people that people would actually dare/marry and actually have a successful relationship with. It’s just… ugh.

#2: Large Guys

This one is kind of similar to the first one, in that it’s very closely related to romance novels (as well as romantasy), but I’m so tired of huge guys. And I don’t mean guys with supernaturally large 🍆 – though that’s gotten annoying as well – but guys that are like mountains next to their love interest. I also garw it when they’re also described as being humongously tall, but then the author actually adds height descriptions in like inches or something, and the guy turns out to be like 8 inches taller than the girl or something. Then why are you describing him like he’s three feet taller than her or something!!!!

#3: Listening to Audiobooks

Now I’m not saying that I don’t consider using audiobooks as reading because that’s absolutely not true. Listening to audiobooks definitely counts as reading novels! What I’m talking about here is that I personally don’t care for listening to audiobooks. It kind of gives me a headache for whatever reason.

#4: Booktok

A lot of people seem to be obsessed with Booktok and it’s recommendations. Well I’m tired of the biggest recs from this platform being either not-very-well-written romantasy or dark romances. Like, I’m glad that people are reading, but I want to learn about other books that are my type! Come on!

#5: Organizing Bookshelves by Color

Now I think that bookshelves organized by color can be very pretty. I like seeing what some people’s look like when I’m on Instagram or YouTube or whatever. That said, it also tears me apart to see books from the same series separated in order to do this. I could never violate the series I own in such a way.

#6: Re-Binding Books

I hate this. I’ve seen people make some really nice looking covers on Instagram and stuff, but it feels like they’re mutilating the book and I can’t stand it.

#7: A New Cover Release Based on the Upcoming Adaptation (Movie or TV Series) of a Book/Series

I think this one is pretty self-explanatory. I hate movie covers – they always look terrible to me.

#8: When Authors/Publishers Release a New Cover for a Book or Series That is Less Than 10 Years Old

Let the books/series have at least a decade! It never seems like the books/series are old enough to justify a new cover, otherwise. It doesn’t help that I often find the original covers to be better.

#9: Romantasy Book Titles

The titles based off of A Court of Thorns and Roses and A Curse So Dark and Lonely are getting really old. Actually, they got old about five years ago. Recently, I saw a book with a title that was almost a mix between these two books specifically and it hit me then how much I despise this way of titling things. It’s not new and fresh anymore guys – it’s overused and annoying, and it’s certainly overstayed it’s welcome at this point.

#10: Most Blurbs/Book Descriptions on Books

And last – but certainly not least! – this. This is absolutely my biggest pet peeve when it comes to books. I actually love the idea of book descriptions in books to entice and attract the reader and get them pumped for reading books. But I’ve found so often nowadays that the blurb either outright lies or misconstrues things that happen in the book, OR the blurb is talking about and spoiling something that happens in like the second half of the book. The worst ones are the book descriptions that do both! Ugh!! I hate this so much! There’s just so many bad blurbs in books lately!

What are your unpopular bookish opinions? Are they about books and social media? Are they about what people tend to think or like or dislike about books?

As always, thanks so much for reading, and I hope that you have an amazing day/night!

See ya ~Mar