FriedIce
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I just finished watching You're the Worst (which is awesome, if you haven't watched it yet what are you waiting for?) and I'm finding myself with a weird craving for Rom-Com books. I don't just want any Rom-Coms though, I'm after good shit. Therefore, because I don't have the patience to read through forty different books searching for one that isn't crap I'm asking for recommendations.
To give a brief insight into my taste things I generally enjoy are:
- Good quality writing - I don't want no 'panicked frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement'
- Realistic characters - I like characters to be at least two dimensional, though I prefer three
- Good quality plotting - you know, the normal stuff - decent foreshadowing, actions have consequences, etc. Basically I don't want 'I forgot I already killed that character off so I resurrected him to kill him again'
- Interesting storylines - anything different from 'boy meets girl, fall in love, have a fight, break up, get back together, credits roll' is nice
- I'm not a huge prude so I don't mind sex scenes, large amounts of swearing or whatever. Hell, I'll even read outright erotica as long as the writing, characters and plot are up to speck
- I'm always up for a good subversion of the standard cliches and structures, it's one of the things I liked most about You're the Worst
- Nothing absurdly dark - I don't mind some darkness where it creates drama/conflict but if you guys recommend me a novel where some girl is kidnapped, repeatedly raped and slowly falls in love with her rapist we're going to have issues.
To give a brief insight into my taste things I generally enjoy are:
- Good quality writing - I don't want no 'panicked frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement'
- Realistic characters - I like characters to be at least two dimensional, though I prefer three
- Good quality plotting - you know, the normal stuff - decent foreshadowing, actions have consequences, etc. Basically I don't want 'I forgot I already killed that character off so I resurrected him to kill him again'
- Interesting storylines - anything different from 'boy meets girl, fall in love, have a fight, break up, get back together, credits roll' is nice
- I'm not a huge prude so I don't mind sex scenes, large amounts of swearing or whatever. Hell, I'll even read outright erotica as long as the writing, characters and plot are up to speck
- I'm always up for a good subversion of the standard cliches and structures, it's one of the things I liked most about You're the Worst
- Nothing absurdly dark - I don't mind some darkness where it creates drama/conflict but if you guys recommend me a novel where some girl is kidnapped, repeatedly raped and slowly falls in love with her rapist we're going to have issues.
