as i have said repeatedly, TO EACH HIS OWN. if you don’t like it don’t read it. but just because you don’t like it or someone else doesn’t like it, doesn’t mean that it’s crap and everyone else who enjoys it is a moron etc. good grief.
Actually, as a conservative, I believe there are standards beyond like/dislike. Character development may or may not be found in a book, and finding it is good. Dialog can be realistic or not. The former is good. If the protagonist spends her time obsessing over a boy, and that is accepted as love, then the book is bad.
It is like when a movie substitutes sex for love, or action for suspense - it may make it popular, but it doesn’t make it good.