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Written by rednikki on 2025-01-21 at 12:59

Dear authors: if you are setting a book in a location, I BEG you to have someone from that area read the book before you publish. And if it’s set in another country, make sure people of that country check that you have certain things right. Signed, me, who is reading a book set two miles down the road and SO MUCH is WRONG. #books #bookstodon

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Written by Denis 🌏 on 2025-01-21 at 14:08

@rednikki Companion pet peeve: fictional places that are clearly meant to be an existing place.

To me, that's just laziness on an author's part. Is that unreasonable of me?

I read some noir recently that honestly, was meant to be LA or somewhere around there and it was clearly made up.

I guess maybe there are cases where an author is basing their work on real people or events and wants to avoid that kind of identification? I dunno... usually a hard DNF from me...

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Toot

Written by rednikki on 2025-01-21 at 15:26

@constantorbit I am a bit “it depends” on this. If it is a small town that takes inspiration from a couple of real small towns I can understand it. Or if it’s a fantasy/science fiction alt-world. But what you describe would make me VERY frustrated.

I had a kind of weird opposite experience — a series of romance books where the city is never named, but it is SO CLEARLY Boston! The author did an incredible job of conveying what the town is like.

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Descendants

Written by Naomi T on 2025-01-22 at 13:04

@rednikki If you’d recommend those Boston-y romance books, I’d be interested in knowing which books they are. (I spent most of my time in Boston in a pretty small area, but I’m curious.)

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Written by rednikki on 2025-01-22 at 13:12

@enting Bria Quinlan. The first novel in the series is The Last Single Girl, but I started with Worth the Fall (for reasons I can’t remember now). She writes delightful books.

http://briaquinlan.com/books-romcom/2196-2/

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