EARLY ACCESS: Top 10 Worst Paranormal Tropes
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If you're going to have a love triangle, they better be a poly V or Triad!
Not in the poly/triangle discussion, but if you want good werewolf fiction, look up the webcomic "How To Be A Werewolf" by Shawn Lenore.
Additional thought for #6, DON’T GO IN THE BASEMENT!!!
Love this one, there’s just so much in the paranormal genre that shouldn’t be romanticised but is.
Ooh! The other thing that bugs be is when the MC "levels up" at the end of a book, as if life is a fantasy roleplaying game. I eventually stopped reading a couple of authors for that reason. I like when the MC learns a new skill, or becomes better practiced at skills they have. I hate magical Deux Ex Machina (Deus Ex Magica?) doubling their abilities.
I can think of a popular 2023 fantasy novel that nearly lost me b/c of angsty DRAMA! and incredibly lazy world building. If the dialog with the paranormals hadn't been well written and the main plot actually well developed and played out, I'd have canned it.
I have one I bought in 2022 that I couldn't get though because of the "Romance idiot ball"
Say it louder for the people in the back! (If anyone can recommend me polyamory stories that are actually good, I would be very grateful!! If those polyam relationships are more about the actual relationship, not just sex, that'd be even better!)