Miscommunication/people not talking to each other as a plot device. When everything could be solved if the two main characters talked honestly for 5 minutes.
I’m deaf and miscommunication is a daily reality for me. People assume. People have prejudices. People don’t listen.
I agree that much of it is stupid, but a lot of people ARE stupid. I’d like to see one character have proactive skills at least. Make the difficulty level higher enough.
Sometimes authors forget that other people don’t have the same inhibited communication they may do. They have to reason from the character’s nature. IMO a lot of passive-aggressive people have lousy communication skills and they think… that’s how things should be. Why I hate some stories that have the problem you pinpoint– only they’re not talking AT ALL, forget honestly.
One could just be a jerk that sabotages communication, of course.
Miscommunication/people not talking to each other as a plot device. When everything could be solved if the two main characters talked honestly for 5 minutes.
It depends on the nature of the miscommunication.
I’m deaf and miscommunication is a daily reality for me. People assume. People have prejudices. People don’t listen.
I agree that much of it is stupid, but a lot of people ARE stupid. I’d like to see one character have proactive skills at least. Make the difficulty level higher enough.
Sometimes authors forget that other people don’t have the same inhibited communication they may do. They have to reason from the character’s nature. IMO a lot of passive-aggressive people have lousy communication skills and they think… that’s how things should be. Why I hate some stories that have the problem you pinpoint– only they’re not talking AT ALL, forget honestly.
One could just be a jerk that sabotages communication, of course.
Vampires with love triangles!
@Ursula and werewolves. Sick and tired of them. Also banal romantic fiction and/or erotica. Especially if the title contains the number 50….
Thirding love triangles. And female protagonists who need a man/a romantic relationship to save them.
This!!!
Oh the SATC type…i’ll pass thank you very much
Domestic abuse / violence as suspense or thriller
Character discovers she’s magic, falls in love with guy who told her she was magic.
Love triangles!!!!!
Over-bearing mothers–and their daughters who never tell them to stuff it.
Friends and family who think a woman needs a man/baby to be happy.
That type of book….”common dear , find a husband , have a baby”….it will be fun they said ?
Yes I have a husband(light of my eyes /nail to my coffin) and no we don’t have babies….just 2 cats witch is about the same 😀 @Fee
I’m not to keen on books about the second world war …..to close for comfort. Some are down right painful to me