Before reading an ebook, I check the reviews from goodreads first, especially the one and two star reviews. Most of the time, I don’t trust these reviews. I mean, if you don’t read YA novels, why are you reading and reviewing one? If you hate cliché plots, why did you read it when the brief/summary screams cliché already? So, Keeper, why do you read these reviews? BECAUSE if I can handle all the things they hated about the book, then it’s worth reading :3

This is like a continuation or another version of this post. I seem to be a picky reader... but I'm not. And it's not because I have no choice. 

It's just that... when Keeper reads,

1. It doesn't hurt that the male protagonist is handsome. I won't blame the author for giving me a physically attractive guy. The author can downplay his good looks but I can make him as handsome as I want him to be #hohoho

2. I don't mind that the female protagonist is beautiful/pretty. Beauty is subjective. I want my male and female protagonists to look good together even when the other characters think otherwise. But I find it impossible when everyone falls in love with her. Reverse harems and harems don’t work for me.

Speaking of which, my sister asked me this morning before she left with her friends if I wanted to watch Brothers Conflict. I saw the anime preview in Animax so I know what kind of anime it is.

“I finished all the episodes. I have a copy,” she told me while applying make-up.

She said it so casually, I snapped my head up feeling scandalized. “How could you watch that? It has a story?”

Look, the creative writer in the family is hard to please. She always talks about substance. But then again, it’s the same sister who dragged me to the cinema to watch Edward Cullen. And I didn’t mean to be so… mean… I was running a program so early in the morning and I am feeling the frustration.

“It doesn’t have one. I like Juli, their pet.”

If I’m going to watch a reverse harem, there’d better be other pets.

Anyway, like my sister, I can also read a book just because I want to laugh.

3. I don’t care if the main characters and I don’t have anything in common. I acknowledge that I am unique and I don’t expect fictional characters to think or act like me. Let’s celebrate diversity! It is more important that I can empathize with them, root for them.

4. I can ignore my pet peeves (i.e POV labels, POV switching) if the story is engaging.

In between real life activities, I managed to finish two ebooks: Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor and Park (POV labels, POV switching) and Wedelin van Draanen’s Flipped (POV switching). They are short reads and are wonderfully written, so no biggie. But they gave me so much feels and substance XD 

5. I prefer a good writing style over storyline. Cliché plots don’t hurt as much as having too much descriptive paragraphs that bog me down. I mean, I have to read the story to enjoy it. I can read paragraphs bu-but you don’t have to tell me every single thing -_- I want to read. Not edit.

6. I’d rather have open endings than fail endings. At least there is hope that their story would be a happy-ever-after.

I think I am too much of an optimist to want to read dystopian novels. Thanks for the recs guys :3 Oh! Aside from Eleanor and Park and Flipped, try Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl. The main character is a fanfic writer ^^ Park (in Eleanor and Park) is half-Korean and pretty and sweet and haha. Then Flipped... just flipped my chest and tummy... So cuteeee! So adorable! And made me cry a little and laugh a lot.  It has a movie version too :3 I better stop here before I go incoherent. It's a holiday today!

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