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I've been writing British WLW crime fiction for ten years and I still regularly devastate readers who prefer their British crime to focus on a romantic pairing and not be so bloody British. I add more British just for them.

I just checked and the food stand at my Home Depot has smoothies but NOT milkshakes on the menu.

Love the analogy!

😂🥴 kinda reminds me of when (overqualified) I was rejected for an on-call job (zero guarantee on consistent hours or any hours on any given week) because they wanted someone with full-time commitment 🤦‍♀️

There are professional book reviewers that don’t understand this and it drives me bonkers. And I say that as a professional book reviewer. At least for now. Austerity measures is being murmured in the wind.

Yes!

And trying to mix them up doesn’t work: www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stor...

My milkshake brings all the boys to the appliance section.

Aw. You’re going to trigger Andy Ngo.

“Jack could have fit on the door!” The problem is with the prop department, not the script

Several chapters later, I realized that set me up perfectly to have the love interest walk the dog, run into the annoying woman, and have the shy dog slip her collar and run away, setting up a Big! Emotional! scene of them searching for her in the rain. 2/2

“What if they DIDN’T end up together at rhe end of this romance” fine no one is stopping you from doing that, just don’t call it a romance

Very much so.

There are so many reviews like this!

Review of my fake-fiances romance: "I don't think it's realistic that people would pretend to be engaged" um, okay, probably true.

Or to quote the most iconic scene from Code MENT: "WHY ARE YOU BUYING CLOTHES AT THE SOUP STORE!??!?!"

I usually say something along the lines of "you wouldn't go to a cheese shop just to complain that they don't sell staplers." Or that when I review, I try to review what the thing is, not what I desperately want it to be so I can look smart.

I feel this is my very soul.

Perhaps he was just looking for an easy out, but I dunno, I think he was just such a dumb fuck he couldn't process people he didn't like having anything in common. I wonder if he ever grew out of that shitty attitude.

I’m teaching genres expectations this week. This is golden.

Wow. So this is blowing up big time. Hi! I write romance! adelebuck.com/books-3/

1-star reviews on found footage horror movies for "doing that stupid shaky-cam thing."

It wouldn't even be that big a stretch. They already sell snacks.

Home Depot milkshakes are great! They come in any color you can imagine, and you can buy them by the gallon! I don't recommend Tart Orange (a little too tart, if you ask me), but Thai Teal tastes just like blueberry!

Wait. Do they have milkshakes at Home Depot? I go there every day, I’ve never seen one. #joking

I try to expand my horizons from time to time and read YA as an adult or genres I don’t usually read and don’t leave a review if it just wasn’t for me. I really don’t understand how hard that is to grasp.

It's only true up to a point. Working within a genre gives you some extra suspension of disbelief but the plot should still make sense on its own merits

Brilliant

LOL.