Hi 👋🏻 While writing my review about Fourth Wing, I was thinking about how I had different standards/level of expectations for different kind of genre. For instance if I read Fourth Wing as a fantasy book, I would expect a lot more of it (better writing, a more detailed world building,…) but if I read it as a romance, I am more inclined to let pass some flaws because in my head romance is more about the overall feeling it provides rather than a perfect setting. So I had a hard time deciding in which way to read it and finally decided that for me it’s a romance in a fantasy setting and therefore I have to live with the fact that I didn’t enjoy the introduction to the world (which was a bit unclear for me and hard to fully immerse myself into it) but once I started reading it as a romance I committed more to the story and enjoyed it even.
And this made me realise that I have different levels of standards for different genre. For instance, I am more picky about sci-fi because it’s my favourite genre and I don’t want to be disappointed by them so I choose wisely, but with romance I just go with whatever I am in the mood for and I will not expect good writing or anything more on the technical side of being an author (like flaws in the editions) from it. And the same for non-fiction I will be a lot more picky about the topic and the author because I want to read reliable infos. And I realised that for like thrillers and mystery novels I have my to go authors and I rarely go away from them, because I know that they are good at what they do (and because I usually never expect the ending of who is the murderer and that’s great when it’s unexpected).

Now I am wondering if you also feel this with some genres and maybe with which genres in particular? So yeah what are your thoughts 💭

Hi guysss!! So I have been a fan of Agatha Christie for some time now and since reading her books, I have fallen in love with murder mystery novels. I want to branch out and check out other stories from different authors but don’t really know where to start.

Do you have any recommendations?