...aka, what I read.
First off, I read everything on my Kindle Fire (or my Touch if I'm going to be outside.) Because of that, I tend to read a lot of the smaller-published works through Amazon rather than those from more mainstream publishers. Immediate exception is granted to anything from Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunters/Chronicles of Nick series.
Squee:
1. Honest reviews from the heart. I have high standards for fiction, but that doesn't mean I won't get wrapped up in silly love stories, too. Books don't have to be high art or Deep, they just have to touch me in some way.
2. An absence of fangirling. Even my favorite authors have let me down and I don't hold back in saying so. (I'm the sort that ignores all 5 star reviews on Amazon and Goodreads because while not all authors have friends/fangirls/paid services leave those, many do.)
3. A lot of Young Adult fiction, but some adult stuff, too.
4. Paranormal fiction, humans, and I even see dead people.
Blarg:
1. Anything of the 50 Fiasco genre (see page of the same name for further info.)
2. Horror, Sci-Fi, Anime, History, Bodice Rippers, anything remotely resembling rape fantasy (ie The Fever Series)
3. Long, reflective reviews the likes of which you'd see in college research papers or The New Yorker. I prefer to read reviews that are short and sweet - don't make me wade through fifteen SAT words, just tell me what you thought - so I write my own the same way.
4. Sheep reviews. Even if everyone and their brother loves something, it's no guarantee I'll baaaaa along with the crowd. I've been a square peg my whole life, I don't see it changing now.
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