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 I use to be this way. I use to have book shelves after book shelves filled to over flowing with novels. When I first became an avid reader the majority of books that I delve into was Historical romance. And a lot of times it was with a form of interracial couples, Native American male with a white woman. I devoured these books but you want to know what they all had in common? It was ALL BEHIND CLOSED doors. They left the sexual intimacy to the readers imagination. And I loved this because I never really pictured the characters the exact way the writer described them. 

Don't get me wrong I enjoy a good erotic romance and even love the smut but that's practically ALL you get now. There is very little story line or plot to the book. It is all very predictable. This is why I started reading Horror and Thriller books because I wanted more to the story. While I love horror and don't mind being scared and gore smearing the pages it is starting to be the same way, all very predictable. 

While I love watching fantasy movies I don't like reading them. I loved the Game of Thrones series on cable. I love the House of The Dragon series but I refuse to read the books because I don't enjoy the way the author writes. He will take 10 pgs to describe a tree. I don't need 10 pages to know what a tree looks like. 

I don't mind a bit of spice but give me the juicy parts of how the couple interacts, what drives him insane about her, what makes her furious about him but yet you know both characters would go to the end of the world for each other. Those are the type of romances I want to read. I want to laugh, I want to cry, I want to be mad for the characters sakes and I feel anymore its extremely RARE that writers will do this. Make me fall in love with the hero and wish I was the lucky lady instead of the woman on the page. 

Adult novels can delve this deep into the story, into the plot, into the characters and explore every avenue going because it's for adult readers 18 +  give me back the meat and bones of the story but so many are just the icing on the cake. I want to be able to believe I can live in their world just as I am my own. 

Yes, I am very much frustrated with reading at the moment. I went to reading middle grade and YA and while I enjoy them for what they are ALLOWED to represent it's not enough. I also think this is another reason why I dont watch a lot if any tv anymore. It is all just so LACKING. 

What do you do when you are sick and tired of the mindless numbness that is 99% tv shows, movies, books?