Q: What writing device or trick most irritates you when reading a book? For example, if an author employs an omnipotent narrator that is sometimes considered bad form.

I m really not a fan of authors who use the same phrasing or words over and over again in a book. It’s a pet peeve. So for example in Fifty Shades of Grey (which I didn’t love), the constant annoying mention of her “inner goddess” did my head in. Come up with something original! There was a true crime biography I read ages ago that kept repeating a word (it escapes me now) over and over to describe situations, and I couldn’t even finish the book because the constant use of the same word was frustrating to me. I kept thinking that this is the reason thesaurus’s were invented! lol

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