I am a pretty voracious reader and I read about 300 books or so a year, fiction/non fiction in @ variety of genres.
I just wanted to express a personal pet peeve from those of you who write dystopian. Apocalyptic, SHTF, TEOTHAWKI, patriot fiction. Nothing kills a story for me quicker than to be reading along and encounter a totally gratuitous graphic sex scene. I’m no prude, I enjoy sex, but if I wanted to read porn I’d buy porn. We are adults we can get the picture without lengthy explicit passages about adolescent fantasies.
Maybe that’s what it takes to make a book sell, but it ruins them for me.
Rant over, and not directed at any specific author.
I just wanted to express a personal pet peeve from those of you who write dystopian. Apocalyptic, SHTF, TEOTHAWKI, patriot fiction. Nothing kills a story for me quicker than to be reading along and encounter a totally gratuitous graphic sex scene. I’m no prude, I enjoy sex, but if I wanted to read porn I’d buy porn. We are adults we can get the picture without lengthy explicit passages about adolescent fantasies.
Maybe that’s what it takes to make a book sell, but it ruins them for me.
Rant over, and not directed at any specific author.