Thread: What are your red flags?
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Old 07-12-2013, 02:09 PM   #123
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Originally Posted by FizzyWater View Post
Gak!

This pointed out a recent "red-flag" for me...first person present tense for the entire novel. I muddled my way through The Time-Traveller's Wife because the story was compelling, but most days, if it's FPPT, I refuse to even purchase it, no matter how compelling the blurb is.

I have lots of other personal red-flags, but this excerpt reminded me how much I hate FPPT.
This this this this this!

I had to fight my way through the Hunger Games trilogy (which I really enjoyed otherwise), but I find Present-Tense (first person or otherwise) so jarring that it takes something really well written and original to make me finish the book.
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