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I know a few good ways to ruin fantasy books. A couple would ruin any genre of book. For example, having a god-awful ending. That just kills any enjoyment I had from that book. Or a bad sequel to a book. A good first book in a series means nothing if you can't keep it up to that standard. This will sound weird, but a good way to ruin fantasy books for me would be to make it too unrealistic, if it's set in modern-day Earth. For (a random) example: a meteor is about to crash into the earth and all of a sudden little run-of-the-mill Bob, a mediocre spell caster, stops it, gets all the hot chicks, even though he's a fat, greasty, ugly, rude man, and becomes Earth's hero. That's going overboard on my part, but you get the idea. I've never read one like that, but I've seen the first two happen, on a number of occasions. Bad plot points make me cringe, but I won't stop reading it. I mean, if I stopped reading books every time I saw something that either annoyed me or made me question something about the plot, I don't think I'd have finished all that many books. Though if something stupid happens early on in a book, I'll stop reading a book and try to finish it later.

I feel taht example is a great way how to ruin a book. especially some guy named Bob who is fat and and all that stuff. though, there would, for me to ruin it moreover, more fluff crap that doesn't really belong in the story.

It's called the Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams I like part of it, I'm over halfway, but it just bugs me. Especially in the beginning the main character is so flighty as to be almost stupid. *shrug* and he doesn't really seem to give the characters the depth that I would expect from a book this long...I don't know, maybe it's just me. sweatdrop

Of course...concidering I'm reading about 3 other books also....including Harry Potter 6 rofl

Too much foreshadowing--when the author foreshadows something up to the point where you actually know what happens before you get to the end of the book, just because it's so blatantly obvious. That's happened at least once in something I read--I don't remember what, but it was awful. sad

I don't like it when a book goes way to indepth with the politics. I love adventure and action and romance, but when you read a whole chapter about the politics, I sometimes lose interest.

Really? Politics from certain books can be really interesting. Like Through Wolf's Eyes. It's a really good book, and there's action mixed with politics. The whole plot of the book is about who will get the throne after the current king, whose children all died, dies. I love it. The politics can get a bit confusing sometimes, but it's so interesting. And I don't know why. Normally I hate politics.