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You're on a first date, and you ask your date what their favorite novel is. They answer, and you immediately know this relationship won't work. What novel was it? 

Twilight doesn't count. No freebies. 

Bonus points if you give a reason.
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"Halo: Glasslands" by Karen Traviss. Full-blown case of [url=https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WriterOnBoard]writer on board[/url]. Traviss goes out of her way to show the character Catherine Halsey (the creator of the SPARTAN-II Program and Project MJOLNIR) as an irredeemable monster. Kidnapping children and replacing them with clones that will degrade and die, and training and augmenting them to be supersoldiers to combat an insurrection movement on a galactic scale? At best, that's morally dubious. But canon has shown that Halsey cared for her Spartans, and knew them so well she could tell them apart even in full armor. She's a very nuanced character. Meanwhile, ONI (Traviss's pet characters in Glasslands and the other two books she wrote) are good guys. You know, basically space-CIA who get up to some fucked-up stuff, including assassination, spying, destabilizing enemy homeworlds to prevent them from continuing the war, and okaying the SPARTAN-III Program, which took orphans and trained and augmented them for suicide missions before they were even out of their teens.