I hate romance stories that contains rape. Even if the male lead change afterwards, its still a no for me. There are few novels that doesn't contain rape issues that caught my interest like "My villainous wife" and lol " Villains wife".

    Novels with 'robotic/emotionless' MCs, no matter the genre. MCs acting like they were mere videogame dummies controlled by someone else, not touched by what happens around him/her.
    It's even worse when horror is involved, it totally breaks the mood. I can't empathize with blasé characters.
    When I stumble upon it, I always think the author is afraid of writing about emotions in general (and thus, unable to make believable characters) or refuses to acknowledge that emotions would make the character act differently and perhaps spoils its 'planned plot'.
    Also, I don't think a 'badass' character is necessarily someone who never fears.
    Some well-praised novels here were unbearable to me because of this issue.

      Harem other then a few where it is not the focus or somewhat believable due to the novel setting every harem novel I have read as been at the cost of the stories quality usually so forced as well that every time a harem part comes it just kills the chapter. Also for example the MC clearly is already in love with someone else, but they force a harem to happen even though he is perfectly happy having just one girl. Seriously one of the novels I read wasn't tagged as a harem was a masterpiece at first, but 200 chapters in the harem cliches started popping up bringing the story quality down so much what makes it worse is that the MC spent the whole novel clearly in love with someone already having done amazing emotional scenes that made you attached to the relationship, but he flirts with every single girl despite having no feelings for them. The story also had almost zero romance and what it does have is so force at times that you can tell it is just done for the sake of it rather then the story.

      Seriously the harem genre is one that is made to disappoint and does not go well with other genres and serious stories.

      Tomoyuki of course not. Because I like Yuri and GL. 🥰
      But I also like the non BL/GL.
      And I like Harem too.
      So.... if its Yuri/GL and its Harem too....
      Thats a win win solution for me. 😍

          SrtaA

          Omg! I found a like-minded author/ reader!

          I don't like to write about smart MC that knows everything/ plan everything in advance. Yes, I know that is too easy to write and many readers like super smart MCs but to me, is emotionless, cardboard and illogical. That is why some authors (chinese/ japanese writers) made them die once and reborn so that their second life is suddenly very smart. But their first life isn't smart....you know...it still make no sense at all lol...at least to me.

          But well, the readers like smart MC that can kill all they hate, take all they need...but you know they are young kids and their tastes:X

          I prefer to write more toward western fantasy; heroes may be foolish but brave while smart characters are the rogues but unscrupulous.

          I used to play role playing games like D&D. I notice something disturbing. Players that like rogues are true rogues in real life too. They are smarter, cunning and unscrupulous lol. And have little friends.

            Two genres I hate are technically under the romance sub-genre. They are harem and billionaire stories.

            Harem because I just don't like how these stories are usually projected. It always ends up with characters being one dimensional and I just feel like a lot of these stories feel... Unnecessary, if you know what I mean?

            And billionaire stories just rub me the wrong way. Most of the time, these are just filled to the brim with cliche tropes and unhealthy power dynamic. Yuck. It's not that healthy to read into them. They make both the girl and boy in these stories bland usually...

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