Top Ten Tuesday – Top Ten Things I Like/Dislike When It Comes To Romances In Books

Welcome to another edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish!  This weeks top 10 are “Top Ten Things I Like/Dislike When It Comes To Romances In Books”

You can see my “Top Ten Things I Like/Dislike When It Comes To Romances In Books” below, grouped by like/dislike. Click on the book cover to go to Goodreads to read more about the book.

Likes/Loves:
1. I love when characters have great chemistry and you are desperately pulling for them to end up together.
2. I love when characters develop a relationship over time that is founded on respect and friendship for each other.
3. I love when the two characters falling in love are better together than they are apart, basically that they enhance each others’ personalities
4. I love it when the romance focuses on two characters and not on multiple character vying for the same person.

Dislikes/Hates:
5. I hate it when the story/world-building is sacrificed in a romance; basically the story is just vehicle to get you from one sex scene to the next.
6. I hate insta-love, it just doesn’t happen and makes for a completely unbelievable story.
7. I hate it when all the females in a romance are drop dead beautiful and all the males are described as alpha muscled studs.
8. I am not a fan of uber-alpha males.
9. I am not a fan of love triangles.
10. I am not a fan of when males are portrayed as super experienced lovers and that is okay, but the female needs to be a really inexperienced damsel in distress in order for her to have worth.