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Originally Posted by booklover6
This is at the bottom of the blurb for a book 3 in a series in KU:
**This book contains a male with an unhealthy addiction to human television. A feisty handbag welding female who sees her friends finding love and longs to find happiness of her own. And the desire that consumes them when they finally meet.
Totally puts me off the entire series. If you are going to use the wrong word in a blurb, how is the story going to be right? (Author is E.M. Reder)
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Handbag welding. Its the next new hobby craft craze, just you wait
I wish I knew which sci fi romance you got the arc for. Its one of my favorite sub genres and it seems its the hardest to find the good stuff in. It is amazing how much SFR garbage is being put out. So I always like to stay away from the bad stuff. I don't read samples of books so I have to rely on friends reviews, or goodreads followees. I can't even trust most reviews anymore, especially on Amazon as so many now have the street teams and arc teams that are only there to supply 5 star rah rah reviews out the gate.
Pretty amazing how many indy books have average ratings of over 4 stars, many even 4.5 stars. Yet you look at some of the greats in the romance genre and 3.8 used to be a great high average rating.
I don't browse anymore. I been adding books to wishlists for KU as I come across them from recs and then read those. My wishlists are quite large now and I have one for each subgenre, which makes it easy to grab them right from my Oasis.
Thankfully Montlake has a lot of stuff to pick from and at least I know I get a edited read there. And a few other small publishers are in it with some books.