This is one of my biggest pet peeves in books well in movies and TV shows for that matter as well but at least in movies and shows it doesn't last that long. Having to read 20 pages about it drives me nuts. Like how Hank loves Gretta the misfit from the upper class town who would rather dance all night than have fancy cocktail parties with the other elites. What makes it worse is "Does she hold a dark secret?" And no, she doesn't just wanted to throw the misdirection at you to make her charecter feel more important.