Welcome to Tuesday Book Chat. This is where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week.
Today’s question is:
Do you finish reading a book that doesn’t fit your genre expectations?
We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation by commenting on this post or on the blog post shared in our Australasian Christian Writers Facebook Group.
Let’s chat!
No especially if they are labeled romance but isn’t. Sometimes I will continue reading but most of the time I DNF the book.
Your turn.
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Jenny Blake (Ausjenny) is a cricket fanatic who loves reading although not reading as much as she use to. She loves to be able to help promote good Christian books and support authors. In her spare time she is enjoying the company of her two cats, enjoys jigsaws and watching cricket.
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Jenny Blake (Ausjenny) is a cricket fanatic who loves reading although not reading as much as she use to. She loves to be able to help promote good Christian books and support authors. In her spare time she is enjoying the company of her two cats, enjoys jigsaws and watching cricket.
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If possible, will finish every book I start. Not being in the genre I expected isn’t a reason I would stop reading a book. It is only if the book has really bad writing (there have been some of those coming through from self-published authors) or I just can’t keep reading a particular plot, or a character drives me crazy, or there is bad language, that I would stop reading.
I understand. most of the ones I didn’t finish last year were wrong genre (womens fiction) with very heavy subjects when I wasn’t up to it at the time. The other couple were similar to you. One had to much bad language and an heroine I just couldn’t like. the other was a hero that I couldn’t handle the self entitled chip on the shoulder but again I think with that one it was timing.
Hi Jenny, I find the mislabel of romance, when the story is really contemporary fiction with romantic elements, very frustrating. If the romance element is resolved midway through the book, with all the conflict and issues sorted, it’s not a romance. If I finish the book, I’m cranky and disappointed and reluctant to read another book by that author. But, if the book had been correctly labeled as contemporary fiction, I wouldn’t have been looking for the romance story arc and may have enjoyed the story.