Recently Released Books That, Not Surprisingly, Won’t Be Reviewed By Me This Month or In The Near Future 

There’s a short list of books recently published by authors I like and would have normally read and reviewed. However, for several reasons, each book has one or two elements that have made it into my “nope, not going there” category of book reads and reviews. 

Starting off strong and really surprising in the Christmas category is 

💀Merry and Bright by N.R. Walker, one in her Hartbridge Christmas series.  Why is it on the list? Because as an opener, a heartwarming story begins with the main character running over a cat and killing it with his car. Accidentally of course, but nothing says holiday season like dead animals. Unbelievable. What is this author doing? Nothing more to say.

🔷Milo Ashby Needs A Bad Boy : Princes Take New York by K Sterling 

I actually stopped a book prior to this release. It’s stories about billionaires/mega millionaires and royals who despite their wealth need love. Now K Sterling does a great job with nuances in her characters but filthy rich is still filthy rich.  I realize that Sterling started this series years ago however the political climate and current situational dynamics make this an awkward series to continue. 

Particularly as the atmosphere around here in RL is definitely not favorable towards the 98 percent of the RL billionaires and millionaires currently behaving so poorly. So books and characters of this kind feel tone deaf.

So hard pass on billionaires and multimillionaires as main characters unless they’re villains or cadavers.

And royals? Overseas, that’s the audience. But it feels less geared towards an American readership, so more likely an element people can’t connect with.

And Sterling isn’t alone here. There’s several writers, some British authors, some American, who’ve recently published stories about billionaires searching for love. And it’s books that feel out of touch with current reality . 

Like rich influencers trying to complain about the lack of money and views because nobody wants to see them hawking their products in mansions when people are scrambling to buy food and pay bills. 

These stories have lost their credibility with me. I have no interest in this trope. 

PS: Don’t kill any animals, don’t make them disappear. Don’t mess with the animals.  Movie or book. No!

So nope. Nope to all of the above. There’s so many other fantastic writers and tropes to explore that I just don’t feel like reading any of the above. And definitely not reviewing them. 

Your thoughts? Any absolute nopes now in your reading?