Top Ten Tuesday: Trends You'd Like To See More Of/Less Of

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created here at The Broke and the Bookish. This meme was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists This week the topic is "Top Ten Trends I'd Like to See More/Less Of."  But of course, I am going to separate this list into two.

Trends I Want to See More Of

1. Zombies -- Have you guessed that I absolutely freaking adore zombies?  Well, I do.  And I'm always up for a good zombie story.  Of all the supernatural being genres, this is one that I want to see more of.

2. Unicorns -- I recently read the anthology, Zombies vs. Unicorns, and found myself really loving the unicorn stories.

3. Relatable characters -- I love characters that are real.  Not every romantic female lead in a YA novel needs to be from a horrible home life or be an outcast.  Why can't we get more down-to-earth characters?

4. Funny stories -- I love humorous stories.  We don't always need a heavy-hitting drama.  I love light hearted farces also.  More Funny!

5. Food/Travel Writing -- With the exception of Eat, Pray, Love (whiny, whiny lady!) I love travel/food writing.  Joanne Harris is a master of this.  Anyone else loved Chocolat?  I know I did.

Trends I Want to See Less Of

1. Vampire/Human Romance -- Twilight has killed this for me.  I'm done with this whole thing.  No more vampire romances.

2. Christian Historical Fiction -- My disdain for sermon filled CHF is very evident on this blog.  I don't need all the cliched stories and characters.  Make is real.

3. Love/Hate Dating -- Every romance (YA and adult) that I've read lately has the main characters in a love/hate relationship.  Not every great romance starts with the leads hating one another.  People can like each other or even be friends before dating.  Let's get some variety here.

4. Bad Romance -- I love the romance genre.  But what I don't love. bad plots with tons of sex scenes.  I don't mind the sex scenes, as long as I've got a good story going into it.