TMST: No-Nos That Make Me Toss The Book

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6/21 What are book no-nos that make you figuratively want to toss a book across the room?

Oooo man. 

I would have to say super nonconsensual smexy scenes and then one character being all okay with it after like a day. NO!!! *tosses book* 

OR when one person is SUPER abusive and just flat out mean and terrible and the other character is all "That's okay. I lurve him/her/it". >_> And I don't mean tropes with enemies becoming friends or lovers. What I mean is a character literally abusing and hurting the person they so-called love and the abusee is all okay with it and makes excuses. Can't deal with that. *tosses book*

OR when a character is SO shitty and does shitty things and has shitty excuses. There was one book where a character decided to just walk away from his responsibilities as a father. "Oh, he's better off. I work way too much." WHAT? It's not like you are a druggie or whatever....but a workaholic? So just because you are TOO busy to spend time with the kid you are just gonna walk??? Literally, nope. *tosses book*

Those are just just the top three I could think of right away. 

TMST: DNFing and When to Do It.

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When do you know it’s time to DNF?

I hate, hate, HATE DNFing. I always have a huge cloud of guilt over me when I even contemplate calling it done and over. However, sometimes enough is enough and I have to close the book and walk away. 

Here are my huge red flags that I need to let it go:

- Something happens or a character says/feels/does something that really bugs me and makes me not want to read any further. 
-  If I dread reading more. That is not a good sign
-  Taking a long time to finish a book just because I really don't want to not because of other external reasons that have nothing to do with said book. 
- Starting to skim and not retaining anything I did read.
- When the story makes me fall asleep especially at critical points in the story that should be making me stay up WAY too late. 
- When the writing makes me groan and roll my eyes. 
- Just when the book just flat out suckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkks. 

It sucks, but sometimes you have to just let it go. Someday...maybe...I may retry it.