I mentioned a few things which annoy me in the thread "Female lead characters":
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Originally Posted by hildea
- Where have all the women gone? Ie. almost no female characters. Any character who could be either a man or a woman just happens to be a man.
- Narrative voice or woman's internal dialogue describes her sexy body, in situations where it's alien and irrelevant. For instance woman walking while thinking about politics, and the author takes the time to describe how her breasts move.
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Other things which annoy me:
- Characters (especially important characters) who are too one dimensional, all good or all evil or all competent. I abandoned McCullogh's First Man in Rome series halfway through the last of six (or was it five?) books because Gaius Julius Caesar became too annoyingly good at everything he did
- World building which doesn't make sense within its own logic. I don't mind shapeshifters who don't respect conservation of mass -- I'm willing to handwave that. But it annoys me that Ron Weasley has old-fashioned dress robes when his mother is a wizard with lots of experience in household spells -- she could have fixed those robes for him in five minutes with her wand and glance at a fashion magazine
- Plots which hinge on people not talking to each other unless there's a very good reason for them not to do so