Discussion What makes you mad and stopped reading a novel midway

For me:

When the Author decided that the Over-Powered MC needs to take care of another character (example: MC's love interests, MC's pupil, MC' s friend) and suddenly the MC's lover/pupil/friend becoming more powerful than the MC.

I was like "WHAT? The MC needed hundreds of chapters to became an OP but this Extra Character only need a mere 2~10 chapters?!"

And just with that, eventhough the novel is a 5 Stars with many good reviews, I'll still dropped the novel. That's a no for me~ it's annoying!!

 

Darkness induced apathy, I think it's called. I read a few novels recently where I just thought to myself "death would be preferable to this" and after coming to that conclusion, I can't deal with the misery porn.

Also gender-benders where the bending means nothing because their previous gender made no difference outside the first chapter. What's the point if there's no conflict? No growth?! May as well just write off the whole bending thing (i guess this works for all isekai, too)

 

Remember that fish movie that won an Oscar? Now THAT was creepy.

 

Well .. im pretty much read everything as long i spend my time with fun but i can easly drop any work for many reasons, this is what i can think of at the moment:

- Harem, like come on love isnt the only feeling there u know? and humans are over billons in the world and you want to conviouse me alll the men will like that one girl?

- limited relationships .. for example everyone loves mc but hate eachother. No friendship ir family stuff .. no good hate relationships so on.

- no character developments or crappy one. Like making one character a tottal abuser but with love they change ?? We allll know its not how this work

- when auther try to justfy toxic acts and overly side with thier main character that they will make everything work for thier favor.

 

When the author decides to cut down MCs IQ + increase of the hormones + because of using reincarnation plot he thinks he is genius, but we know he is not. (no need for smug face.)

*sigh*

 

There are many reasons why would people suddenly drop a novel (mostly referring to the web novels we read here) midway, but we can all attribute them to essentially what we call the stupidity meter. All web novels are built on the similar premise of cliches, they use a very well tried and tested plot progression, world setting, cultural values. Once in a while they hit a writer block and cannot creatively get around it to force progression of plot or create a situation they want to write about. So they cheapen the story to introducing a very convenient and idiotic plot element in the story which we as long as the quality of the story keeps up.

These small plot holes generally accumulate, and at a certain point, if we for some reason finally sees through the sham that the story has been, we hit a eureka moment. Suddenly we think, "WTF have I been reading all this time, do I really want to continue reading this knowing the author is gonna keep this bullshit up later in the story again?". The veil of illusion that the story concealed thus far shatters leaving behind what it really is.

P.s I have no idea what the hell am I talking about.

 

I'm okay with plotholes if it's not too obvious.
I just hate novels with bland Mcs, unnecessary love interests.
I don't mind having a break in the story (filler chapters) if the plot is heavy but I will drop if nothing changes for like 100 chapters.
Also, no rape and harem
I feel like most of the Mcs in harem stories think with their d*ck so it's a big No.

 

When I realize the main priority of author is to make more chapters by writing more words instead of using his brain let alone making any plot.

 

When character's (side or main cast) stated to be strong and/or above the norm get taken out far to quickly with no build up/kidnapped or used as a hostage/having a MASSIVE lapse in judgment in intelligence.

Spoiler: Example

THE NEW GATE Start of Volume 7

A LN that did that made me hard stop reading it for like 3 years. But when I was starved for something to read and remembered it one day, I finally went back to it to see if it Get's Better (tm). It does and in my eyes was the only time that it really bothered me, and I am REALLY glad I gave it another chance.

 

It's like someone's eyes, or dimples, or neck, or shoulder blades.
The opposite of an unattractive nose that people cannot help but focus on.

I dislike it when mcs reveal their past, especially if they were some demon lord and now inhabit the body of a human child. The logical next five minutes is he gets skewered or knocked out to be burned at the church plaza.

The only other one that made me stoppdd reading is pseudo not-ntr. Some princess sees her loyal retainer of many years gets beheaded on the battlefield and the next minute she is pining for the mc, a stranger she met only for a few days. Ntr guys at least demonstrate they have the skills or effort for their task. Give me the sex scenes or some effort by the guy to take the girl's heart and not just hand her love on a silver platter due to hero aura.

 

Its not just love, loyalty is handed on a silver platter which is just too hard to stomach.
The review of Thunder Martial makes perfect sense:"MC just gets loyal noobs who need saving show up out of nowhere"
The lack of betrayal too is also disappointing, excluding the first betrayal that started the story.
This is why I love Reverend Insanity, Fang Yuan claimed to not trust anyone at the start of the story but he ended trusting someone and got betrayed like 150 chapters later.
It makes his next actions believable. It was not some "I never trust anyone" nonsense pulled out of his ass
He also got repeatedly betrayed even with all his contingencies because he cannot read minds
Most protagonists seem to be experts at gaining loyalty by doing nothing haha

 

There are two things I'm very sensitive too for some reason, and they are usually the reason I would drop a novel midway. Those two things are betrayal, and unrequited love. I really hate those two thing, especially when they involve the MC, but unfortunately for me both those things seem to be really poplar in story telling. I guess I'm the weird on for not liking it, but that's just the way I am. Nothing I can do about it.

A lot of authors seem to like the MCs to be heart breakers with a bunch of attractive woman having unrequited love towards them. Apparently this is appealing to some people, but form me it's just torture. Especially the more they make me know, and sympathize, with the woman. If they just casually mentioned in passing that some woman has unrequited love for the MC it's no big deal, but when they get all up close an personal about it I end up feeling really bad.

There are other things I dislike such as logical inconsistencies, stupidity and bad writing, but if these things are bad enough to stop me reading I'll usually stop reading at the beginning not the middles.

 

I am cool with clichés and repetitive plotlines to an extent.So I am pretty okay with pure, virginal, oppressed, Mary sueish, perfect female leads. However what I am not okay with is how forgiving and saintly they are.They are raped by the male lead but they forgive him in seconds because of his sob story. They were abused by their family for most of their lives but they will still forgive them. The can even forgive the antagonists for the stupidest of reasons. The only person they can't forgive will ofcourse be the 2nd male lead even if at this point he will probably be the only decent human being in this entire story. I read a novel once where the FL cut all ties with the 2nd ml because he pointed out how abusive the ml was.The fl said he was just being jealous and all the ml's action including rape were acts of love.
Revenge marriage is another contrived plotline usually in cnovels where the male lead marries the FL for revenge because he thinks she killed his first love.Because of course how else can he prove his love for her besides sleeping with her killer. As usual the reason he fell in love is extremely stupid usually in the lines of 'I met her when I was 2 years old and she smiled at me and I promised myself that I would marry her even if I was at an age where I couldn't even spell my own name'. As expected it's revealed that his first crush was actually the villain and FL was the one he saw in his childhood. Happy ending. And the male lead doesn't even ask for forgiveness not once for all that he made the FL go through.
I think someone mentioned something like this earlier, quite a few novels are inconsistent in tone . You can't show rape on one page and then show the victim joking around on the second page. It's as if rape is treated as a way of life. Plus quite often rape is treated as a punishment that the villain deserves.Sometimes the leads, who are glorified as saints, are the one who arrange for that to happen to the villain and it's sickening
Another thing that irritates me is the Deus ex machina trope.You can't explain a plotline.There is no rhyme or reason for something to happen. Just say God did it. This happens in loads of transmigration story.Why did mc get transmigrated?Why was it the mc and no one else? Well it was all God's will.There was a story, whose name I forgot, where the mc keeps reliving her life and suffering again and again and the only explanation for her endless pain was that God chose her.Whether she agreed to it is of little to no consequence

 

My advice: Read light novels instead of webnovels. At least those have been professionally edited

 

BL

 

Re:monster because the MC is overpowered,everyone was bland or become bland,no conflict and poor world building,but drugged rape was it.im ok with rape but the MC drugging people and saying it was consent made me uncomfortable,which a lot of chinese novel do,like a lot a lot

Shi ni Modori, Subete wo Sukuu Tame ni Saikyou He to Itaru- it started as a cool prepare survival series,but after the first arc it became a cheesy school arc with nothing really going on and no direction

Berserk of Gluttony- it was basic, no direction really,and lack of description,it was really slash,shoot and die, power scale was bad and the worst part is hyping a final boss kind of monster and killing it without effort,like it was a mob monster despite it being 10x stronger than him

 

Well it only happened once but

< Reads novel i forgot which one.

< Dunno if it was the Translator or the Editor but they included their comments specifically bitching about a certain character

< It happened on many chapters

Seriously I'm here to read the novel not your rantings.

 

When the MC is a Kirito v2.0 with the looks and personality of a blank paper or mc who bought slave as soon as they got transported to a shitty world.

Also this one story where the MC commit suicide then got transported to another shitty world. I didn't even finish the first chapter to know that it's going to be a trash story.

 

When MC needs a certain item to reach his goals faster :

After 3 chapters, BOOOM!
He gets lucky and become a fisherman watching the fight between a snipe and a clam.

Those stories that make it super convenient to the MC or in other words super plot armor

 

If I realise I'm spending more time criticising the decisions and thoughts of stupid characters/plot choices than enjoying the story I gotta drop it for the sake of my health.