This months T5W task is to pick your top five buzz words or words that guarantee you buy a book. T5W was created by Lainy from Gingerreadslainey.
5. Discover/ investigate - if a book has the word 'discover' or 'investigate' written by either the publishing company or in the books blurb I'm always interested. You can always guarantee a book with 'discover' or 'investigate' is going to have something new and exciting happening to a character.
4. Best selling author/ award winning - I think this is self explanatory. If a book is written by a best selling author or award winning then the book is probably going to be good... people don't generally buy or give awards to books that suck...like I said, self explanatory.
3. This isn't really so much a buzz word as a buzz question...books that contain rhetorical questions really sell a book for me...it makes me feel like they are speaking directly to me. Cheesy...yes, but also true. if a book has something like 'can she overcome the challenge?' well then I have to read to bloody find out whether 'she can over come the challenge?'
2. Normal/ ordinary - I know what your thinking...really you see the word normal and you have to read a book?... well yeah, why? because if a book has the word normal or ordinary describing it, it has probably had something written about how it this book and it's story are anything but normal and ordinary. I'm pretty sure this classifies as reverse psychology.
1. Thrilling - I love books that pull you in and make you invested in the plot, the characters, the world and everything else in between. If a book is being sold as thrilling, and not just because they are a thriller or mystery, then I have to read the book to find out why this book is so thrilling. What is it that has dragged others in, and will it be just as thrilling for me.
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