Ooh, I suddenly realized why the main romance in McGuire's Toby Daye books doesn't really click for me. I'm not a fan of the banter and bickering. Fortunately, I do enjoy the other elements enough to keep reading. And there are plenty of instances where her dialogue doesn't bother me at all... like when it's not meant to be part of a romance. Interesting.
The same thing applies to the main couple in the first two of her InCryptid book series. But again, the dialogue between the romantic leads is outweighed by other things that I really do like. She does write romances that I enjoy, but they're usually less 'front and center' in the stories.
The Duffer brothers have this problem where they "fix" things in a later season--El and Max as friends feels like a direct reaction to people pointing out the "only girl hates new girl in the group" trope as a problem, for example. Given Netflix's business model, though, it's unlikely that the Duffers will get a chance to fix this.
I've been fairly neutral about Nancy/Jonathan; I didn't really like it early on (given that Jonathan stalked her in season one), but wanting it to go away doesn't really work, so... I mostly just tune it out. If they argue more than before I'm going to go back to disliking it, so we shall see. And so far the problems between Mike and El have their origins in Hopper's actions, although Mike is still a fool. But he's of an age to act like a fool, so it grates less.
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The same thing applies to the main couple in the first two of her InCryptid book series. But again, the dialogue between the romantic leads is outweighed by other things that I really do like. She does write romances that I enjoy, but they're usually less 'front and center' in the stories.
The Duffer brothers have this problem where they "fix" things in a later season--El and Max as friends feels like a direct reaction to people pointing out the "only girl hates new girl in the group" trope as a problem, for example. Given Netflix's business model, though, it's unlikely that the Duffers will get a chance to fix this.
I've been fairly neutral about Nancy/Jonathan; I didn't really like it early on (given that Jonathan stalked her in season one), but wanting it to go away doesn't really work, so... I mostly just tune it out. If they argue more than before I'm going to go back to disliking it, so we shall see. And so far the problems between Mike and El have their origins in Hopper's actions, although Mike is still a fool. But he's of an age to act like a fool, so it grates less.