What sticks out to you in a glutted marketplace?

[TheGrayLady]

Originally Posted by breaking_burgundy

In addition:

1. Stories that don't focus on romance.

2. Books where I can't identify "hawt love interest," "token minority friend," and "token jealous bitch-slut," within the first three chapters.

3. It's not that I'm sick of dystopia. I'm just sick of dystopias that are either silly gimmicks, or ones whose worldbuilding doesn't go beyond "totalitarianism is bad." Why can't we have more complex dystopias?

THIS.

1. It's fine if romance is involved, but I can't stand when the entire story revolves around it (unless of course I'm reading a romance novel). I also don't like when the MC has no respect/consideration for anyone else but the LI and is willing to ignore everyone else to serve only their needs.

2. This made me laugh. Could not agree more.

3. THANK YOU. I would love to see a very complex, incredibly detailed, well thought out dystopia. Not just a "the government controls every aspect of our lives, food and supplies are rationed out, and it's been this way since the Great Big World-Changing War" dystopia.