#yafictionconfessions
I really dislike it when readers bash a writer’s work. Maybe they do not understand because they are not writers themselves, but these books are the author’s work and they have every right to do what they please with it. If the reader doesn’t like the book then they need to stop reading it and start writing something of their own. Maybe they can do it better.
Confessed by fullycapabledamsel
(Picture from phonotactless’s post about The DUFF by Kody Keplinger.)
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I don’t think enough people appreciate the wonderfulness that is Kiera Cass’s series, The Selection.
Confessed by badwolfbibliophile
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It winds me up when one genre gets popular and suddenly all authors must use this idea cause it makes them popular. I prefer books cause they’re different.
Confessed by Anonymous
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I frequent this blog because I’m writing my own YA fantasy and reading here, what people like and don’t like, gives me a better idea of what sort of things to write for my potential fanbase.
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All the books I don’t like are becoming/have become movies, while all my favorites are left in the dark. Blah.
Confessed by Anonymous
(Film poster from Vampire Academy)
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My biggest YA pet peeve? When and if a book gets turned into a movie they always ALWAYS change the front cover to the movie poster. They don’t do this with kid’s books, so why do they do it to books aimed at an older audience?
Confessed by Anonymous
(Cover from If I Stay by Gayle Forman)
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I wish I could stop obsessing over Percy Jackson. I think my mental health is in shreds now.
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I wish female protagonist didn’t mean “guaranteed romantic subplot and/or love triangle” in fiction. It’s in everything, including genres where it doesn’t make sense.
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“I let out the breath I didn’t know I was holding in.” Please, YA authors, stop that. This is probably one of the worst book cliches.
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I’m seriously in love with some of the covers that came out in 2014.
Confessed by Anonymous
(Cover from We Were Liars by E. Lockhart)
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I have a lot of fictional crushes and they’re better than actual guys.
Confessed by divergentgrl22
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As much as I think Orson Scott Card is a d*ck, I really loved Ender’s Game. Both book and movie.
Confessed by Anonymous
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(Sent as fanmail by veela-valoom)
Thanks for the recommendations! Posting this for anon and anyone who wants more books by Aussies.
I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but I’m really excited for The Seventh Son. Even though it looks nothing like the Spook books (and Alice is completely wrong), it looks really cool.
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I hate Celaena Sardothien with a mighty passion.
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(Art by walkingnorth)
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Has anyone else noticed that cats always feature in Middle Grade, and dogs always feature in YA?
Confessed by Anonymous
(Cover from There is No Dog by Meg Rosoff)
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Anna Dressed in Blood and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children are my guilty pleasures in life. They take me back to the gothic days.
Confessed by Anonymous
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“Alien Secrets” by Annette Curtis Klause, “Keeper of the Isis Light” and “The Game” by Monica Hughes, and “Winter of Fire” by Sheryl Jordan were some of my favorite YA Fantasy/Sci-Fi books growing up…but sadly it seems that nobody knows about them now, because they’re lacking in Love Triangles and Dangerous Pretty Boys. Ugh. So sad!
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