I used to read and critique/review. I haven't in a long while, but I was looking for something to read and...

I just have to say, the quality on here seems to have taken a huge nosedive and pretty much exploded into a ball of flames then crashed into the ocean, sank to the bottom, and rolled into a trench before being attacked by a giant octopus.

Let's try for some originality, shall we?

PLEASE, NO MORE ...

teenage love triangles

quiet, quirky, bookworm girls who are bullied for being the quirky, different one

jocks who are secretly super smart but afraid to say so cause people will make fun of them

girls getting kidnapped by their favorite band who then all fall madly in love with her

the dark brooding boy in class who talks to no one ever except the new, awkward quiet girl in class

the chosen one who fights against their destiny to the point of throwing a childish tantrum before suddenly accepting their fate 

any type of 'my loved one died and I must seek REVENGE!'

the princess is booted from her kingdom by bad guys and whines about it before all of a sudden becoming a super warrior and taking back her kingdom

if English isn't your first language and you aren't comfortable with it PLEASE DO NOT WRITE IN ENGLISH! 

give your characters PERSONALITIES! 

Cause I mean, come on...

Aren't we all sick of the Bella/Edward/Jacob dynamic at this point?

Can we have some girl power? Accept the fact you're different because let's face it, we're not all the same. Embrace who you are and ignore the jerks 

I could care less if you're a jock, in the band, popular or whatever else. If you're smart then be smart. Don't hide who you are.

Your favorite band isn't gonna show up and nab you in the night (or anything else) and if they did, they'd eventually get arrested. And if y'all fall in love ... that is not a healthy relationship. Just please don't. 

Getting sick of the 'i fell for the bad boy' books. Like everything else on this list, it's been overdone.

I'm not against the chosen theme (obvious, I have an entire series about it) Just over the whiny chosen one who seems to accept their fate without a reason. There's no journey and no growth.

I don't think the revenge thing needs much explanation. Unless you have an epic story that's well written with deep characters, it's just an excuse to write about a lot of bloodshed

If a pampered princess gets tossed from her castle and has no survival skills, she isn't instantly going to become a super warrior unless there's some sort of magic involved. Give the poor girl some skills.

I've seen so many books on here that look as if the person took it and tried to run it through Google translate, which is seriously crap to use for a translation. If you're trying to practice your English, run it by an editor who is proficient in English before posting it. It's just torturous to read choppy sentences or sentences that read oddly or don't make sense. There is also a difference between British English and American English.

Your characters need to be real, have quirks, and flaws. A killer isn't a killer just for the hell of it. Give us some background, let us know why they've turned out this way. What made them go down this path?  I'm tired of flat characters with dialogue that makes no sense and isn't realistic and characters that are so shallow a mosquito couldn't drown in that puddle.

Also, please stop writing about stuff you know nothing about.

If you've never been to a country, then don't write about it unless you get help from someone who lives there. 

Never had sex? Please don't try and write sex scenes.

If you haven't been to college, just don't. It's not like high school. Totally different experience. 

Don't have kids, never given birth? Good lord, do not give me a birth scene where the woman is cheerfully pushing a seven-pound baby out her whoo-ha. If she isn't sweating and threatening to kill everyone, or happily enjoying her epidural, you're doing it wrong.

If you haven't driven a car...just no. It isn't as easy as it sounds. This is not X-Box.

Adulting is hard. Please, don't give me some chick making minimum wage who lives in a fabulously large downtown NY apartment or something similar. First off, NY is DAMN expensive. You'll be lucky to live in a small closet while working three jobs. Living, in general, is expensive and it's hard to make enough to pay all your bills. So unless the person is super-wealthy, it ain't happening. Sorry.

Okay, so I'm not saying go out and commit murder so you can write a good murder mystery/thriller, but can we stop having crappy obvious plots? Ones where you can spot the killer from the opposite side of the world? Or thrown in because you think it will make the book more exciting? Think things out. Make certain your characters have personalities, that we aren't just killing because 'hey it's fun'. Make them real. Let's not have stereotypical killers.