the throne is burning, What are your top 10 guiltiest pleasures regarding YA books?
February 9, 2012 - 3 months ago - O
lolololabilly asked:
What are your top 10 guiltiest pleasures regarding YA books?

like tropes/elements? or actual books? I’LL DO BOTH COOL OK

Tropes:

  1. FAMILIEEEEEES. I suppose it would really be “cool relatives/friends of the supernatural protagonist that are often cooler than the actual main characters” because dude I just love all the dynamics yo!!!! GIVE ME SUPPORTING CHARACTERS OR GIVE ME DEATH
  2. FALLEN ANGELS. Idegaf y’all I love this shit. CREEPY ASS NEPHILIM? CHECK. 2000 YEAR LONG REINCARTION LOVE STORY? I AM THERE WITH BELLS ON. YOU CANNOT KEEP ME AWAY FROM A FALLEN ANGEL STORY AND TBH YOU NEVER WILL because you know that when shit gets Biblical it also, by proxy, gets real.
  3. The inevitable second book breakup/complication/introduction of second love interest/rival:  because yeah I love that angsty shit. What is the point in reading YA if you don’t? Also BOOM as soon as you have a second love interest you have ship wars and they are the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off.
  4. “”Crazy”” makeout sessions that are PG13 at best: because these books are marketed to the Taylor Swift demographic and sometimes girls just want to read about boys who keep it on the kitchen counter, guys.
  5. Backstories!!!! GIVE ME ALL THE BACKSTORIES!!! ESPECIALLY FOR THE BEST FRIENDS/MENTORS/PARENTAL FIGURES TBH, I WANT TO KNOW IT ALL. Background on the other characters are also a nice break from the protagonists/love interests’ fuckery as well.
  6. ~~~Lingering glances: because I too am a thirteen year old girl and I think that the three hundred year old werewolf/vampire/alien/magical being/hybrid/mutant making bedroom eyes at the plucky young girl during science class is sexy and I am only a little ashamed about that.
  7. The guy turning evil and the girl having to kill him/save his soul: grew up on Buffy/Angel, never looked back.
  8. The guy using his super hearing to accidentally pick up on the girl talking about him with her friends: lmao this is weirdly specific but hey YOU ASKED OK I JUST LIKE MY YA THE WAY I LIKE IT
  9. WEREWOLVES. Werewolves make everything better. I would watch/read just about anything for werewolves and tbqh that policy has not led me astray yet (TEEN WOLF IS AN EXCELLENT SHOW AND YOU SHOULD ALL WATCH IT RN).
  10. Likeable, believable protagonists: which is something you should never ask of a YA series. Ever.

Books/series

  1. Vampire Academy
  2. A Great and Terrible Beauty
  3. Shiver
  4. Bloodlines
  5. Fallen
  6. Hush, Hush
  7. Poison Study
  8. Artemis Fowl (does this even count? idgaf it’s going on here)
  9. Evernight
  10. Leviathan

  1. darlinghurricane said: ugh a great and terrible beauty broke my heart. I can’t re-read the third book, i’ll just pretend everything’s fine. hmhmhm nothing to see here. no her man did not get sucked in my a tree.