I have become allergic to the lack of logic in books. For example, a police officer who always solves crimes, but who goes to visit friends and family of the deceased (aka suspects!) without telling the station where she’s going, and forgetting to bring her phone, taser, baton, or gun. And the reader should be shocked that the officer gets kidnapped?
I read a book last year in which they substituted a police officer (who looked a lot like the dead girl) for the dead girl, to get information from her roommates. They just pretended the dead girl was still alive. But how in the world is the officer supposed to fool her roommates? Oh, they have a few videos of the dead girl with the roommates. (*Eye roll to infinity*)
Maybe I read too much, or pick the wrong books. Anyone agree that logic is taking a hit recently in thriller/mystery/psychological suspense novels?
by missblissful70
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logical faults always take me out of it. I drop a lot of books nowadays, so if it’s really bad I just move on.
So you’ve become allergic to people behaving in books the way they do in the real world?
Humans aren’t logical creatures. It’d be a far different world if we were.