Bugbears

I'm a few chapters in on 'The Arms Maker of Berlin' by Dan Fesperman.  The plot is good, but not so keen on the writing style.  Fesperman employs a couple of devices that bug me.  The first is unnecessary repetition.  So he'll have a sentence such as 'The woman looked tired and bedraggled.'  Followed by: 'She was a wreck.'  The second sentence is redundant.  Another one is telling the reader what is going to happen later in the story.  For example, stating something like, 'Little did he know that on Friday he'd be sitting on a plane with the woman flying to Switzerland.'  I now know how the story is about to unfold and what is going to be happening in four days time.  I don't need to know this, it serves no purpose, and knowing it detracts from my reading experience.  I can live with the balance of show and tell, though I'd prefer more tell, and the melodrama and stock characters, but the other things bug me (and I'm sure there are aspects of my writing that annoy the hell out of people).  Regardless, what makes the book interesting and enjoyable is the story itself, which has me hooked.  Does plot supercedes everything else ...?

What are your reading bugbears?