I'm reading a book at the minute and one of the characters ENTIRE future plot line is based on a two liner where she tells her partner that they are too old to adopt because you have to be under 40, and he agrees. So, instead of checking it out, they embark on another completely different course of action.
Now, why this bothers me is that the novel is set in the UK, where there is no upper age limit to adopt, only a lower age limit. Both characters had a decent income and would have been prime adoption candidates. If the author had bothered to check.
It's a small point, and normally I would have glossed over it, but it changed the course of the rest of their story, and that's annoying me as I read (I'm finding that I'm also getting twitchy because it's written in present tense, but that's by the by)
Has anyone else come across bad/lack of research that has changed a whole story line? How much did it annoy you?
Now, why this bothers me is that the novel is set in the UK, where there is no upper age limit to adopt, only a lower age limit. Both characters had a decent income and would have been prime adoption candidates. If the author had bothered to check.
It's a small point, and normally I would have glossed over it, but it changed the course of the rest of their story, and that's annoying me as I read (I'm finding that I'm also getting twitchy because it's written in present tense, but that's by the by)
Has anyone else come across bad/lack of research that has changed a whole story line? How much did it annoy you?