I’m so tired of books titled ‘The X’s Daughter’ or ‘The X’s Wife’.
Maybe it’s because I’m a librarian, but I feel like every second book at the moment has a title following this format and it immediately turns me off. It’s just so overdone!
I wanted to see if anyone else has noticed this trend and it turns out I’m not the only one:
…it’s that familiar-sounding titles drive sales because they help give readers a small feeling of comfort when they’re contemplating which book to purchase out of the thousands and thousands available. Maybe repeated words like daughter, wife, salt, etc. etc., give an overwhelmed person standing in front of a new fiction table a place to start? And it goes double for the books with the empty shoes and the headless girls in sundresses on the cover. If you’ve had a good experience with one in the past, it makes sense to try something similar on your next trip.
Does anyone else hate this as much as I do?
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