Hey Pandas, What Popular Book Genre Do You Hate And Why? (Closed)

Not so much a genre… but a style… “fanfic made legit”…

There is a staggering amount of very ropey manuscripts that have been published in recent years, that have started life as fan fiction for other series that have been ‘updated’ to try and resemble something original.

The most famous of these set hearts (and nethers) a flutter when they author apparently rewrote her idea for a ‘glittery bloodsucker’ story.

The very fact that publishers are willing to put these types of books out hoping to catch a spark of the current fad makes me cringe.

I'm not sure what kind of response I'll get for this one, but I find it a little hard to read at times are light novels. Let me explain.

Light novels are usually side stories used to complement a manga (Japanese comic book/graphic novel) or anime series, but written in novel form. I don't dislike the concept of light novels, as I found some to be enjoyable. Death Note: L, Change the World and Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases, being some of my favourites (slight Death Note bias, lol), and the ones based off of the Haruhi Suzumiya series were enjoyable.

But because some of these series that I enjoy, like Bleach (fast paced sword fighting with supernatural elements) or Full Metal Panic (giant robot battles, with a good side of slapstick comedy), are notable for having great visual moments or good quality animation (when in anime form), light novels aren't always the best way to represent what's going on, and would have been better suited for a manga or anime.

There are some series that work as light novels, but there are also some that don't work. Not a genre I hate, but one that has some examples that I think work, and some that don't work.

Any book in Spanish. I don't speak Spanish

Cozy mysteries.

There's always a middle aged woman who works as a baker (or caterer or retailer) who loves cats and finds themselves in the middle of a murder investigation, usually because they found the body. And somehow they always solve the murder before the cops. Always.

I'm looking at you Joanne Fluke.

self help/ make your life better books
why..
they don't work

Horror. What is the point? It’s pretty much always the same. Person buys house/gets a job at a new place that everyone is scared of. Some creepy stuff happens, and they get haunted. Eventually, they make peace/free the thing/save themselves.

country romance, it aleays ends with s3+ with a cow or something

The Rupi Kaur stuff. Waste of paper.

Also 20-something influencer autobiographies.

Young Adult. That genre drives me nuts. Take The Hunger Games: these are children. They don't smoke. They don't drink. They don't do drugs. They don't have sex. I don't think they even swear. But they straight-up murder each other.

I'm a parent. Now, if I were to walk on on my kid doing something wrong. which would I be most upset by? Drinking? Smoking? Sex? Drugs? Swearing? Or FREAKIN' MURDERING ANOTHER KID?!?!

And the required reading for schools: the main character always dies; that's what makes it fine literature, I guess. I told my kids right up front to not get attached to the main characters, even if they're dogs, because they're gonna die, and that's supposed to make it, I dunno, deep?

Horror- can't stand the movies, can't stand the books, just the thought makes me shivery.
Thrillers- all the terror of horror, and wayyy too close to home

Horror. I know that this might offend some people, but it heightens my anxiety. I respect all of those who love horror and I hope you enjoy those books.

Stuff aimed at teenagers that gets taken over by adults.
Used to work at a fast food place, this grown @ssed woman came through the drive thru with twilight tattoos. Fang puncture tattoo on her neck and threw a fit our store didn't have the promotional stuff for the last movie (we were franchised, so boss had the choice not to opt in) CRINGE.

If a book is plugged as "the next Gone Girl," I know it is going to be a flat and predictable thriller.

the entire cliche unimaginative YA genre - romance, dystopian, everything to do with YA. just no

You know those like children's horror books those are the worst

SS because its boring

Fantasy, all fantasy books seem too cliched and generic nowadays. That's just me though.

For me, it's true crime novels. I got through The Lovely Bones okay because it seemed engaging, but Helter Skelter was one of the scariest books I've ever read. There was absolutely no redemption in the end, it was just horror after horror. Completely turned me off that genre.