In the biological world there are generalists, animals or species which can make it just about anywhere, like the crow or cockroach. Then there are the specialists, who need a specific and very narrow niche in order to survive. Think many of the endangered species of the world, or something like the great sloth of S. America, now gone. Anyhow...
I'm a generalist. I'll read just about anything, and have. I don't dislike or won't try something because of POV, mood, location, time it was written, or genre. I'll pick it up, read a few pages and bang, off I go. I'll even read badly written self-published, and have.
But books written in present tense? Thought I didn't like them until I wrote one myself - well a short story. I couldn't get it right, then saw everything happening right then, right there, playing out before me. I switched to present, all the while thinking OMG what am I doing?
But the story worked. I realized then that I should give present a chance and have since read several books and shorts written in present and liked them. I got so deeply into the last novel I finished, Kitty Foyle, I barely realized when the author threw in some present tense here and there. You're reading along, listening to this woman tell her story - almost always in the past - and then suddenly she's 'so we are doing this, and going here and saying this' - and I am wow. Brilliance. (The voice is powerful in that book, if anyone else has ever read it. It was written in 1939.)
Again, not knowing if I'm adding much here. I'm just a reading junkie. It seems to me if it has words, I'll read it. If it sucks me in by page four or five, I'm lost to it 'til the end.