THINGS I HATE IN BOOKS 

My biggest bookish pet peeve is female main characters that need a guy to help them understand how “truly beautiful” they are.

I hate it when the main character is convinced she's 'plain' yet she's actually beautiful and everybody knows except her

'I'm Just PLAIN, BORING, and COMPLETELY ORDINARY LOOKING girl. No one gonna want me.' SURPRISE! 3 Male characters try to kiss her in the next chapter.

One thing that bothers me about female main characters in fantasy (and other genres) is that they never mention their period. It's a weird pet peeve, but it's just soooo unrealistic if they try to survive or are travelling or wathever for months and they never mention their period. I mean...how do they survive in the jungle without tampons? Just a little unrealistic. Another thing is typos, they irritate me so much!

I hate the "I'm breaking up with you because I love you" trope and the "everything falls apart because of miscommunication" trope

"hate is a very strong word" *like twenty seconds later* I DESPISE this"

'She let out a breath she didn't know she'd been holding.'

This may not be a popular opinion, but I'm really getting sick of the "bad boy" character. I much prefer a sweet, thoughtful love interest to one who smirks, is totally ripped, and makes rude jokes. Not to mention the female main character ALWAYS falls for him. 😒

I hate it when the main characters think there ugly and plain when their described like models. Like seriously?!?! Also I hate when they have to have their boyfriend tell them they're beautiful or else they won't believe it.

'Love triangle' *eye starts twitching*

I hate the "girl waits till her guy best friend (that she is in love with) has a girlfriend before she confesses her love to him" thing

I feel like I must be the only person ever that never cares or remembers what the characters look like? Like they could give me a detailed description of the protagonist and I'll still probably make up my own image of them (Obviously that doesn't mean that we dont need representation of different shapes and sizes-- WE DO. I just never remember what the characters look like lol)

Some of my bookish pet peeves are cover changes mid-series, bad love triangles, insta-love and the I'm not like other girls trope.

“Different body types being represented in media!” SAY IN LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK JESSE

I don’t like books where the entire plot takes place in one or two days. I understand that sometimes it’s hard to make a plot last over months without it dragging on, but sometimes I’m reading a book that’s filled with so much action and the author expects me to believe all of that happened in two days. At least give it a week or two at most.

I hate when parents neglect to inform the children of their history and shenanigans ensue. *shiver and gag.*

I just HATE when a character describes himself through is reflection on a mirror. Especially when this character is a girl who describes herself as ugly with ugly weird eyes and ugly straight hair and everything but every male in the book are like "woaaaa she's so gorgeous". Meh.

I dislike love triangles as well. I think authors need to focus less on sexual tension, and start writing emotional tension

"Hey, check out this Love triangle" "GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME!" "But it's Jem, Will and Tessa!" "Ok, bring it back"

I absolutely HATE it when clearly, everything could be solved and good if the character just got right to the point of explaining something and then they lag on and on with useless stuff not actually getting to the point with would fix their problems and causing a lot of unnecessary drama.

"The main girl character has more chemistry with the best friend then the main guy character" *sees the collection of Shadowhunters books behind him* Holy shit if that isn't some irony

I don't know why but I hate reading dreams in books. Sometimes it's not so bad... especially when they are quick. but I hate when people tell me their dreams in real life, especially in extreme detail, so those feelings always creep up when I'm reading dreams.

(More like a fanfiction thing) -if the person is EVER sick, they're pregnant -“oh my god, i'm too young to have a baby“ continues to have baby -no one considers abortion or has even heatd of it (pro life and all, but you can't tell me they aren't thinking about it for at least a split second. Also, nobody mentions it) -mc is the daughter of /insert canon character/ (can be good if it's well done) -“omg, mc is sooo powerfull, she could punch darth vader in the face, kick thanos off his chair, outwit the doctor, correct sherlock, and kill voldemort all while painting her toenails!!

When authors try way too hard to refrain from using he/she/they. This is mostly in fanfictions, but I see it in published books too. I cannot tell you how many times I've read a Merlin fanfiction that uses "the raven-haired boy" instead of "he" or "Merlin." It's just not necessary.

Not specific to books...but I hate it when the author tries too hard in portraying their main character as strong and powerful...when they’re not.

Jesse: *brings up SJM* me: *reaches for the popcorn*

My least favorite trope (in y/a books specifically) is the "short, petite, doesnt think shes beautiful but everyone else does" character😩 I also really hate the "bad boy who's misunderstood and has a sad past" trope

I feel like most of the time love triangles are only there because: 1. The Main Character is annoyingly indecisive 2. Add more to the non existent plot 3. To annoy the reader

I highly dislike it when the main character is just realizing how 'magical' they are. Unless its explained like a random magical girl type thing, but I mean they suddenly find out that their parents have been hiding this huge secret. Here is why: most of the time, the main character just accepts it. There is no realistic reaction 99.9% of the time. If I found out that my parents were hiding that I was some secret supernatural being or powerful, I would be freaking out and questioning why I had never noticed before, not accepting it immediately. Also, I don't care for OP characters.

Repeated phrase. City of fallen angels. Froze, frozen and ice metaphors. I ended up smacks the book into my face many times. Something else that annoys me is when a character suddenly knows how to fight with no training whatsoever. Do you know how long it takes to learn high level defence. Ages. Trust me.

I get why Jesse stands where the mortal instruments are😂 "Missing parents" "Love triangle" "picks the guy she just met rather than the best friend" *roll eyes*

"Hunky, perfect, WAY too good looking character" Soooo its Edward Cullen?

99% of love triangles: Character meets a person who they instantly falls in love with but oh no, their opposite sex best friend for many years is in love with them too! Who will they end up with? (It's always the one they instantly fell in love with.)

You can say "I love you" immediately if you're Ted Mosby

Book that starts off with what you assume is a love triangle but actually turns into a healthy poly relationship. Let's explore that.

Can we take a moment and respect Harry Potter once again: An extremely refreshing lack of conventional beauty He fell in love with Ginny BECAUSE she became strong a confident in her own time, his love didn't CAUSE her to become brave and intelligent out of no where.....also she weaved Harry falling in love with her so slowly into the story that it just felt right when it finally came along-insta love was just not even a thing at all (ok except with Mr. and Mrs. Weasley but "when you know, you know") The Hermione/Ron/Lavender "love triangle" was done so subtly and briefly that I wouldn't even really call it a love triangle, it was just the characters maturing into who they were meant to be with Also I hate when characters just automatically either have "straight As" or a "B average" and that just defines them as a human for the rest of the series and then they never bring up school again, HP and Ron literally uniquely struggled through their course work in every single book and that's real life ok Also Harry is hardcore angsty teen in book 5 but then you find out that he literally was being influenced by voldemort's soul and it wasn't just for the aesthetic..... Anyway I have lots more to say but you see my point long live JK Rowling and her perfection

Lol, for Sarah J. Maas I thought you were going to say "Their eyes were lined with silver" to indicate someone tearing up. No one cries in those books, their eyes are just "lined with silver." Good luck unseeing that now :P I actually love love triangles when they are done well. So much drama!

YES! The parent never being around trope is just so ANNOYING! Like, I remember reading Miss Mayhem and there is a part where Harper disappears and doesn’t comes home all night. ALL NIGHT. AND HER PARENTS DO NOTHING! My mother would literally be calling in the police, army and SWAT teams to look for me. And I am a 25 year old adult.

These were some good ones, but personally I'm really getting tired of the trope where there's a really pretty female main character who just has really low self esteem so whenever some random guy comes along who becomes a prospective love interest tells her that she's beautiful, she can't even take a compliment so she can't believe he thinks that of her so she just falls in love with him for it, sometimes even regardless of what his personality is like. So if that trope was gone out of books forever I'd really be okay with it! 👌

"Their heart beat so loudly they feared the love interest/villain could hear it."

When authors put a gay character mainly for the purpose of being gay and sassy. Not all gay people behave that way. Also, I've read books where after like 2 books into the series the main character feels the need to repeat that someone is gay like 50 times, and says she's all about being differen't. Can't we treat being gay normal in books? (usually YA)

I feel like the MI characters, usually Clary, black out like 58 times every book. And she ends half the chapters with someone either passing out or falling asleep. I also hate the phrase "he/she looked up through their lashes" like how is that physically possible ??? Cassie Clare explain ???

“I wish I could show you the book I was thinking about” he says standing in front of the mortal instruments series

Yeah, love at first sight? I don't believe in it. EXTREMELY annoying in books... but even worse in real life!

I am so early and I also hate when characters fall in love in like the first 50 pages after never knowing each other, like come on!

When Jesse and Emma post at the same time 😱 I am so happy 😇

Repeats sentences or phrases: Stephanie Meyer in all of Twilight: HE CHUCKLED

“Love within days? **Puts on Sunglasses** Can’t relate🙄” -Jesse 20-something 😂

I can't stand love triangles

And maybe I’m a little too hard on my authors, but I can’t stand seeing typos while I’m reading! There should always be tons of proof reading BEFORE the book is printed!!

“but being able to say I love you in two days?” *slides dark sunglasses on* “.....can’t relate” me: OOOOOO DAMN HE WAS RIGHT THAT’S SOME HELLA SHADE

1:52 I think we all know what book he's talking about. *SPOILER* Mortal instruments :)

Some pet peeves I have: cover changes during the series, characters that come mid series and tell the main character they are meant to be together when there's a ship with the main character and his/her friend that was there since the beginning of the series and not being able to get the next book in the series after I finish a book

I DESPISE instalove. It immediately gets at least a star knocked off for ish like that for me. I just can't. NO TOLERANCE FOR PEOPLE WHO FALL IN LOVE IN 4 MINUTES lol. I agree with literally everything you said here XD.

YES, instant love drives me crazyyyyy, like where’s the draaaaama and the moments where there’s sexual tension that drives everyone crazy cuase they usually hate eachother.😭

Sarah J Maas with the word 'growled'

What I hate is when one character blames themselves for something they could not have foreseen. Like: Character A invites character B over for dinner. On their way to the house B gets into an accident and is severely injured or even killed. Then A will blame themselves forever for inviting that person over and I just CAN NOT STAND IT, does anyone use common sense in these books, ever? Don't you have enough issues without blaming yourself for something you by no means of interpretation had any control over?

love shady Jesse

SJM is horrible with being repetitive. Ever read ACOMAF? "He snarled, she snarled, they snarled." "My mate, his mate, her mate." "I flipped a rude gesture, he flipped a rude gesture, she flipped a rude gesture." PLEASE MAKE IT STOP I CANNOT STAND THOSE BOOKS.

This video is actually very helpful for an aspiring young writer

The trope when the female protagonist is a doormat character and always fall in love with the bad boy

I'm an aspiring writer/author... I'll keep this in my mind.

"Wowwww I didn't expect that!! ...No i did expect that"😂

The book that's right behind him is the one where the girl falls in love with a random guy rather than her guy best friend.

Omg the repetitive writing thing is so true with Sarah J Maas, like “made flesh” and “hissed”. The other one is Cassie Clare’s “dripping with sarcasm” 😫😂

I hate , Hate, hate ,hate love triangles With burning passion !!🙅🙅🙅😤😤 The only one that I liked was in the infernal devices trilogy but it's by Cassandra Claire , she can pull off anything .

I feel you on the heavy-handed “important message” bit. I️ certainly don’t mind characters having specific values and naturally living them, so you can just see what they stand for in an organic way. But it drives me bananas I feel like I’m being preached to by the author (and not the character) about their politics/ideology/whatever message they have. And makes me even more frustrated that the author does this and must think it’s subtle enough that we as readers won’t pick up on the fact that they’re giving us a values lecture.

My pet peeve is probably when the editor misses typos and I find them

Hi Jesse! I love your vids. Something I personally HATE in books is when the author falsely describes characters. Like when they try to make you think that eg. this person is ruthless and doesn't have emotions, but those things don't describe their actions and in reality they are this emotional sweet and kind person. It just comes off like they are trying to show that this peron is changing but we didn't see the process of them changing.

I feel prophecies are over used and predictable. If they are written well they can add to the story, but whenever I see a prophecy I cringe a little.

I love sarah j maas books too, but w hers specifically i dont like how possessive the character ships are of each other. Like they are constantly dominating each other saying "you are mine" and making like they own the other person. Idk i dont find that romantic at all maybe its just me lol

The internal devices is my life that love triangle was breaking me and it still does!

In YA, I get so fed up with teen characters that are just into older music/classic rock. Like you rarely see any mention of modern music?? These authors know that most teens listen to newer music right???

She's not like other girls, she wears shoes without laces at a school dance.

"Velvet wrapped steel" STAHP. JUST STAHP.

ToG be like- Aelin "swore she..." Dorian "swore he..." Chaol "swore he..." WE GET IT, YOU FREAKIN BLIND

Add "my mate" and "brutal" to the SJM list of repetitive writing. I have to put the book down and let out my own breath every time those pop up.

Dude, I was yelling, "PREACH!!!" the entire video. Lol. Love triangles has to be my #1 pet peeve. And repetitive writing is the #1 writing sin I commit myself. 😅

In Sarah J Maas' books you see a lot of 'he barked and he purred' as well. 😂

“Being able to say I love you in two days.. *puts on shades* can’t relate” 😂😂😂 me either Jesse me either. That’s why i don’t watch shows that include love at first sight

I don’t like love triangles either but i also really dislike when characters have unrealistic lives. Like teenagers just having a whole bunch of money and being able to travel or having perfect fighting skills or perfect magic skills right after learning about it😂

'I ran into a brick wall' end up being a person

The Throne of Glass one - I can't STAND the "armed to the teeth" phrase because she used it ALL THE TIME! But now I'm gonna notice the "loosed the breath" as well lol

Things I hate in books : WheN tHeY end!

Me: I don’t like love triangles in books either Also Me: My favourite book has a love SQUARE

One that really drives me nuts in Sarah J Maas novels is the description of someone being “feral.” Like, what does that even mean? How can a human look feral? And why does every single person look feral at some point or another? Why did she use feral twice on the same page? IS FERAL THE NEW FAD?! 😂

“ He smiled and held the knife to my throat” *4 months earlier* Me: Bish what 😧

1:20 shadowhunters: the mortal instruments!!!

Why do I always agree with youuu! Great vid Jesse!! I always love that you never really "hate" anything, you're so positive and nice!

I feel like Sarah J. Maas repeats herself a lot in her books

*puts on sunglasses* “can’t relate” You’ve officially won me over XD subscribed

1:30 hmmmm sounds like “Tall Girl”

When you talked about SJM being repetitive, the first thing I thought of was her use of the word “steel”...I’ll keep this PG by saying she’s ruined it for me forever 😂🙄😂

The last minute falling in love with the friend!!!

I hate it when a couple or best friends or something break up because of an accident or miscommunication like JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER. This also happens in anime a lot

I’m loving the fact that you have the whole city of bones series and I just binged the whole series

Check out the Penryn and the End of Days series, I really love how badass both the main characters are like they are strong enough to fight on their own and I love that kind of trope

When you mentioned repetitive writing, I immediately thought of the "Ranger's Apprentice". I've noticed that the author's favorite word is "virtually". I'm new to your channel, so I don't know if you've read "Ranger's Apprentice", but if you haven't I HIGHLY recommend it! I'm still only on the fifth because school and laziness take up a lot of my time, but I'm already hooked. My brother has the entire series, so I knew it was going to be good. Again, I definitely think you should read "Ranger's Apprentice" by John Flanagan.

The only love triangle I'll accept is Jem, Tessa and Will. I think the main reason for it is the relationship between Jem and Will - they were so close and one of the thing I mostly notice in love triangles is the 2 people who like that one person are always super jealous of each other and hate each other. Both of them only wanted the best for Tessa and it was so wholesome and sweet.

I don't like when books throw you shovels and shovels of information about characters, relationships between characters, events that happened to those characters or any backstory from characters you don't even know who they are because is the first time they appear, and which by the way, sometimes don't even appear again, in a single chapter for you to remember and be able to understand and follow the rest of the chapters that will be about all that pile of info. I'm talking about The Passage. I'm lost half of the time and have to go back to remember who they are talking about too often.