Do you have a genre or subject that turns you off automatically when it comes to books or fiction? I decided to have a good old fashioned rant about my two, so enjoy.
Note: I am perfectly willing to give these two genres another chance, so if you have any reading recommendations for them please let me know. Change my mind.
Zombies
I’m going to say it: Zombies are dumb.
I feel like I am the only person in the world who hates the zombie horror genre. It is the most repetitive horror genre in the world. I have never understood how you can make so many films and write so many books about the exact same scenario with the details tweaked just enough to make it a “unique” piece of fiction. Newsflash, it isn’t unique at all. This is how you write zombie fiction:
- Step 1. Think how humanity messed up and caused zombies (mad scientist, big corporation, plague, pollution etc the choice is yours)
- Step 2. Introduce your boring main character
- Step 3. Zombies + Gore
- Step 4. Profit.
Bonus points if you include:
- A zombie with some humanity left over
- A character getting bitten but hiding it from the rest of the group
- Scavengers/Looters/Human Bad Guys
- Zombie animals
Vampires
Don’t get your knickers in a twist about this point, I think there are plenty of good old fashioned vampires stories out there. I love Anne Rice, Bram Stoker, and Let the Right One In is one of my favourite books. …But, the genre is kinda dead.
Vampires are getting a tired out and boring. If they not being overly romantised as some sort of sexy pale guy who falls for a girl with zero personality, they are being used to liven up the zombie genre as mindless monsters. No one uses them creatively any more and I am a little bored of them.
And I am not just saying this because I get at least 3 emails a week asking me to read and review vampire porn.
Also, why do vampires date teenagers or young adults in books? Would there not be a HUGE maturity gap? What would they have in common? Wouldn’t a 100 year old vampire have more in common with a 90 year old pensioner? Just saying.
Spine Cracker 
Agree with this!
I used to read vampire books as a teen but it was a phase. Still like Dracula though.
Hahaha, so true!
I quite like vampires as long as they don’t sparkle.
I agree about zombies, though… not interested.
I think zombies get repetitive for sure so id agree there but that only makes me want to challenge it and try to take it on through a new perspective xD Vampires I still like~ classic whether they be horrifying or sexy.
I think ghosts and werewolves can get a bit overdone too