Okay so here’s my thing: I hate YA (Young Adult) Novels.
I hate their corny lessons about how being strong is all about dying or sacrificing yourself or doing something for a war-like purpose. I hate how there is always some kind of love triangle. I hate that the main character is always a girl that believes that she is so unattractive yet has roughly fifteen guys pursuing her. I hate how she has some kind of parental issues and for some reason grows up with some kind of major environmental flaw. Here’s why I hate these books: They’re all the same. Not just “haha Divergent and Hunger Games are the same story,” but alllll of them. I’ve always wondered why this idea of a strong-independent-don’t-need-no-man-i-can-take-care-of-myself character was so appealing especially when all of these female characters always end up with some kind of love interest. I hate YA novels because the characters are always subjected to some kind of treatment or circumstance in which they have to become more cynical or more depressed than they were when they started. Everyone calls it “realistic,” but it’s not really. I mean, yes it was probably realistic for Katniss and Peeta to struggle with PTSD for the remainder of their lives, but it was extremely unrealistic for Tobias to mourn and be so overtaken by Tris’s death for as long as he was because they literally knEW EACH OTHER FOR LIKE TWO MONTHS. Just sayin. Sometimes, there are people who have struggles and they push through them. Does that mean they become the lonely shell of a person that has just “seen too much”? Here is a list of the new protagonists I want to see in YA novels:
This turned into kind of a rant but it needed to be said.
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