> female characters standing around tugging on their hair or smoothing their dresses

Or folding their arms under their breasts. Or commenting on one another's cleavage. Or really any excuse for the author to mention boobs out of the blue for no reason at all.

This seemed to start somewhere around book 4, and it happens WAY more than in any other books I've ever heard of. Super awkward once you notice it. WTF man?

It's like they did some market survey and found that their average readers were all 13 year old boys who wanted to hear about... you guessed it.