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Originally Posted by Victoria
My pet peeve is the all too common practice of lumping mysteries and thrillers together in the same list. I don't get it - they seem to be very different genres to me. Sheer laziness on the part of the list-markers  |
I guess what's interesting is the differences in pace implied by the titles. Mystery evokes a conundrum that is unravelled in the course of the story whereas thriller implies an adrenalin rush; an edge-of-the-seat thrill ride.
It's not impossible for both to co-exist in a book, but I guess there is some disparity in the terms.