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Originally Posted by issybird
I pulled up a review of a highly rated Goodreads book that sounded positively dire to me, and here are some of the trigger words and phrases in the blurb:
- Soul
- Noble student
- Profound spiritual insight
- Finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world
- Somber backdrop
- Unusual story
- Soulmate
There are more, but you catch the drift. Some of these would make the all-time list, notably “soulmate” and “spiritual insight,” but others, less specific, still add up to not being able to hit the back button fast enough. And mostly because the author or whoever was responsible for this drivel tips her hand. I don’t mind a soulmate or spiritual insight in theory, but if you’ve got to label it, you’ve got serious problems. You clearly don’t trust your narrative to do the job. |
Those are good words/phrases to ignore.