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korsriddareSeriously, I think my top pet peeve with novels are authors who kill off characters for the fun of killing off characters. Not minor characters, mind you, but quite well developed ones.
Or even better, kill them off so they do not have to deal with resolving a love triangle (lulz the third one is dead), or so that they can avoid doing some kind of romance resolution.
Even better, doing so in a way that boggles my mind. For example: two pilots held prisoner by a very, very disturbed enemy general. He is so apt at torturing people that he can beat them up enough so they do not die immediately, but with fatal wounds.
He subjects both of them to beatings. Different beatings, mind you, since he wants them to die and recognises that the male has stronger constitution. What happens? The female dies, but the male somehow survives.
At the end of the book, there was about... a single paragraph discussing about her at her funeral. That was it.
Ugh.
Or even better, kill them off so they do not have to deal with resolving a love triangle (lulz the third one is dead), or so that they can avoid doing some kind of romance resolution.
Even better, doing so in a way that boggles my mind. For example: two pilots held prisoner by a very, very disturbed enemy general. He is so apt at torturing people that he can beat them up enough so they do not die immediately, but with fatal wounds.
He subjects both of them to beatings. Different beatings, mind you, since he wants them to die and recognises that the male has stronger constitution. What happens? The female dies, but the male somehow survives.
At the end of the book, there was about... a single paragraph discussing about her at her funeral. That was it.
Ugh.
