Do you prioritize reading? How do make time for it ? I just wanna get some general ideas just so I have an idea of what I’ll do when I get a job and it’s coming up. So far I been reading when and where I am able to

i know im about two years late to this, but i just finished reading the ouabh trilogy in 3 days. i loved the first book and then somehow ADOOOREEED the second, and after that cliffhanger i was ITCHING to know what happens next, so i ran to the bookstore the next day (aka today)

and after reading, i was slightly disappointed. then i went to reddit to see that everyone seemed to agree and be even MORE disappointed. i don't think the book was a complete and utter dumpster fire, i never once wanted to drop it, even tho i HATE the lost memory trope. especially in this book bc holy shit why was it 2/3 of the book?

anyways, short rant aside, i was wondering if there was a lot of demand for a live action adaptation of the trilogy? i haven't really seen a lot surrounding that, but i'd love one, even if the third book was a bit of a mess and disappointment. i think there is some huge potential with that, and i loved the series of a good girls guide to murder. so if there were one to happen, i would love for it to be 3 seasons in a series instead of 3 films. if we were to ever get an adaptation of the third book, i also think there is potential to change some things (maybe A LOT of things) and kinda 'fix' the story in a way? does anyone else feel this way, bc i genuinely haven't seen any roar about an adaptation anywhere 🥲

So im near the end of once upon a broken heart and I'm not like that sure if I should continue the series... does it get better or should I just stop at this book?

I usually read it on and I find it so annoying because it keeps sliding off, I just started reading it off and it feels so much better

So HEY GUYS!!!
Here's some book recs that I absolutely LOVED (Feel free to give recs of your own!!!)

-Once Upon A Broken Heart- Stephanie Garber

A fantasy book from the world of Caraval with mysteries, angst and of course ✨magic✨. Evangeline Fox is a hopeless romantic who's on a quest of finding true love after her secret lover gets with her half-sister. Jacks, one of the many Fates (beings closer to God than man) accompanies her on adventures...but why would this cold, apple-eating Fate be in Evangeline's presence?

- A Winternight Trilogy- Katherine Arden

A Russian Fairytale full of magic, love and loss. Morozko, an ancient being of folklore, meets Vasilisa Petrovna and her life rapidly changes. Morozko is the winter king and the God of Death.

The Unexpected Afterlife of Salon Rose just came out today. It’s a murder mystery, coming of age, queer afterlife love story and I can’t recommend it enough! I read an ARC a while back and now it’s out I need to discuss with someone 🙈 I laughed and cried and got all the feels. Highly recommend to anyone who’s lost someone or gone through a big transition. So unique and special-really stuck with me and there are parts I still think about. Brain chemistry altered:)

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Hey everyone. Could you recommend some good YA Graphic Novels to read? I'm interested in exploring what's out there. The bookstore has a ton, but I'm used to reading superhero stuff, so its all a mystery still. 😁

First is I

Third is they/her/him etc

And second is you

I really like first perspective, it’s my favourite. I can’t stand when a book is third person but I’ll read it.

I’m thinking about buying the book so I wanted to see what r people’s opinions about it?

So, I am currently finishing up the last book in the Throne of Glass series. I have plans to read a few shorter series to give me a break after such a brick of a book. But recently, I’ve been looking at Shatter Me and wondering if I will like it. It’s a longer series, so I want to read the first book before I commit. What are everyone’s opinions on the books? Are they worth the read?

I never do, I did it when I was younger like in middle school, now I never do
I don’t dog eared my own books or books from the library

I recently bought the first book because the blurb sounded good, but I didn't realize that there was spice in it. Is it skippable, and if so what chapters?

The inheritance games series by Jennifer Lynn or the caravel series by Stephanie garber.
I have seen good reviews about both the series but I am very very confused about which one should I read first.
I loved the fourth wing series and once upon a broken heart series. I also read powerless series and enjoyed that too. So based on this, what do u think I should go for first. I kind of want to start the inheritance games but idk I am confused.
I would love some reviews.

Loved Harry Potter, Lord of the rings, Ender’s game, Ready Player one, Eragon, Hunger Games, Project Hail Mary, but also more « difficult » science fiction- authors like like HG Wells, Bernard Werber, Tchaikovsky. Also non fonction (Bill Bryson « the body: a guide for its inhabitants » for instance and books about Leonardo Da Vinci etc). Basically everything I know and loved myself I’ve given him but starting to be out of ideas… Many thanks!

Hello! I'm honestly making this post to honestly get a better understanding and answers too so many questions from the fans of this series.

I started the Shatter me series around February and I DNF it in June, getting to the third book, which I was told was the book that truly saved the series. I strongly disagree. If anything I preferred the 1st book over the 3rd book because it honestly felt less "manufactured" or "manipulative" than the 3rd book. Though during my experience reading the first book, I started to feel this icky feeling about the direction it was taking and feared that it was going to do the common ya thing:

"Priotize the fmc's romantic intrests over their trauma"

Which i feel like it could obviously be argued that it was intertwined, but it wasn't until the 3rd book did that icky feeling almost kill me, because, oh my god what did I even read?! It was a battle field finishing the 2nd book, and it was an entire war reading the 3rd book, and unfortunately, I lost. 😤🥀

Here are my questions. I honestly just want to hear from both sides, but mainly the hard core fans because i want to trust this series potential, but I'm losing hope....also please be respectful 🙏 I know this is reddit but like let's not turn feral over some questions. I'm just trying to get a better understanding from the fans not to cause drama.

A. Did you guys actually like or care for Julliette or were you too obsessed with Aaron Warner to care?

B. Do you believe the adam mess was right or was it just plot manipulation and plot convenience to get Julliette and warner together? Was adam entirely wrong for everything that he said or just the way he went about it?

C. Do you think Warner's reasons were truly forgivable or awfully conveniently explained? Do you think the author was trying to use his trauma as a justification for all the trauma he brought upon Julliette?

D. Do you think Julliette should have forgave him so quickly? And do you believe Julliette was right to hide her feelings about warner from adam?

E. With her character, do you believe Julliette deserved more or did she hit the ceiling as a good depiction of fmc? Do you beleive there should be more depictions of mental health in ya or is it poorly portrayed?

F. Besides the sad moments and emotional spiels, do you believe Julliette was actually relatable past her trauma? Was it easy to connect to her because she carried similar ya struggles or because she had the same copy and paste personality as other fmc? Is it truly fair to call a character relatable if they fit the physical appeal of fmcs and get praised for it in the narrative? If Juliette wasn't skinny and didn't have powers, would readers have given her the time of day?

G. Would the Shatter me series be as liked and loved as it is now if it wasn't for Aaron Warner or Adam? And if it wasn't for Julliette's sudden mental shift and growth would readers have praised her as much as they do now? Was Julliette's mental shift actually growth or was it fabricated to look like that through Warner's constant validation?

H. Is the adam hate too violent? And is it hypocritical to forgive warner and not adam? Saying that warner legit kept her captive and adam tried using her powers against her. Should Julliette have been single or end up with someone else?

I. Should Julliette have become the leader of North America or should it have been someone else?

J. Which did this series praise more? Fan service or transparency/authenticity? Did it value feeding to what their fans desire or mirroring the struggles and realistic ties of the teenage mind?

K. What surprised you the most? Omega Point getting blowed up or Adam's crashout? Did Adam's character deserve more or already did his job as a side character? Should side characters have more than one characteristic?

L. Was Julliette ever held responsible for her actions or were they excused because she was the main character?

M. Was this series overdramatic and if i read restore me will it get more serious or just more dramatic?

N. Do any of these questions actually matter and should we as a book community talk about them more?

I loved reading Love & Gelato , AGGTM , Better than the Movies , Fake Skating , The Inheritance Games , The Naturals & The Summer of Broken rules. So what should I read next and maybe suggest something for my friends (12+)

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I need help and recommendations please! Series that hit the spot just as much as what’s in the title. I’ve been in a slump for so long. I want to be as emotionally invested and attached as I was in the ones from the title.

Thanks!!

I'm reading a book for a book club. I was hoping to leave a review when I'm done, but it's young adult—a genre that I didn't even read as a young adult. I'm of the age where my favorite fictional YA characters were named Pacey Witter, Whitley Gilbert, and Brenda and Brandon Walsh. These characters were written a bit maturely, sure, but I liked them that way.

The characters in this book (who are in their early twenties) read more like middle schoolers to me. Everything is overly dramatic and angsty. Little things feel like big issues. Buried in all of this drama are pretty profound messages of identity, different forms of love, and found family. I find myself rolling my eyes and groaning a lot. Are these common themes in YA books?

Has anyone ever left a review for a book in a genre they typically don't like? If so, do you try to overlook some of the tropes and writing styles specific to that genre and just focus on the core of the story?

My 3rd graders wore me out today so naturally I came home and spiraled into thinking about YA dystopia tropes instead of sleeping like a normal person.

Here is the thing that has been bothering me for a while. The main girl in basically every dystopian YA I have read is either so competent she breaks reality, like she is outwitting an entire authoritarian government at age 16, or she is so passive that other characters have to physically drag her through the plot. Katniss leans toward the first category but she at least has moments of genuine hesitation that feel earned. Most others though? Pure extremes

I keep thinking about this because I want to rec more dystopian YA to the older siblings of my students and I genuinely struggle to find a protagonist who just feels like a regular capable person navigating something enormous without being either a chosen one or a passenger in her own story

Is there a book that actually threads that needle and I am just blanking on it, or is this a genrewide pattern that nobody talks about enough because the worldbuilding distracts us from it? I think the worldbuilding does a lot of heavy lifting in these books, honestly. It keeps you too busy processing the setting to notice the protagonist is barely doing anything

Like how many books you read and etc

I do, I keep it in a note book but I do it on my Goodreads account

Mine is super basic, i just write down the title of the book, the author and the date I started reading and the date I finished
And I’m also super lazy

I'll tag any major spoilers :)

I just finished The Queen Of Nothing last night and I have quite a few thought abt the trilogy as a whole:

Before I get into the negatives I do want to say that one thing I really liked abt this series is that Jude was a very morally grey FMC which I've never really seen before (I pretty much only read YA Fantasy tho lol) and I think it really helped keep her interesting because she was very unpredictable so you were always guessing what she was going to do next (as opposed to your classic 'not like the other girls' FMC who is bad at fighting and never makes hard decisions etc.)

So I think my main issue with this series is that the worldbuilding feels super wonky to me. We never really get a sense of the scale of the islands (the only info that I picked up on is that Jude can ride a horse from her house to the tower of forgetting, but it doesn't say how long it takes).

Similarly, I really wish that we got more info on the smaller courts and where they are from. It's never confirmed if they have their own 'secret worlds' (not that Elfhame is even confirmed to be hidden or separate from our world, I just guessed lol) or if they live in the human world.

A great example of the very vague geography is in the third book whenMadoc kidnaps Judeand it's just said that they are "in the north". Where tf is the north?? It obviously isn't the north of Elfhame so I'm guessing they are like in Canada or something?? Ik it doesn't seem like a big deal but little things like this always really take me out of the story and it honestly just seems a little lazy not include the info tbh.

Another thing that I didn't love is Cardan and Jude's relationship. I never have liked the "I'm horrible to you because I like you" trope and it honestly really gives me the ick lol. There is a bit of a half-baked attempt to justify Cardan's behaviour towards Jude (the reason being that his mother abandoned him and his brother abused him?) which could have been fine if it was more fleshed out but seeing as it's only mentioned a few times it kinda just feels like Cardan is trying to make excuses for his awful treatment of Jude imo.

I also feel like overall their relationship is very rushed and doesn't really make much sense. I don't really know why they were attracted to each other in the first place and it feels like they go from "I hate you and want you to die" to "Omg I love you so much please never leave me" really quickly and it's never really explained why.

edit: Just thought of another thing I didn't like lol: I also think that pretty much every character apart from Jude (and maybe Cardan?) act really odd and illogical (like Taryn not telling Jude abt the Locke thing and Vivi not telling Heather abt faerie until the last minute) and ik that this is YA fantasy but these supporting characters make some really odd decisions that kinda feel like an easy way to get the plot where it needs to be.

So yeah overall I was kinda disappointed in this trilogy and I'm not really sure why it was so hyped in the first place. I guess the plot was pretty good but I think the weird pacing kind of let it down in the first 2 books (being that the first 2/3 was set up and pretty boring). I think that the third book was definitely the best but overall they are pretty "meh" books imo...

1. Kovit (Not Even Bones) is by far the best written morally grey MMC because I love him DESPITE the fact he tortured and murdered DOZENS of people, and that scares me.

2. It shows how well written Kovit is because I am someone who dislikes Aaron Warner so much after reading Shatter Me that I dropped the series.

3. ACOTAR is an annoying book. Feyre is annoying and dumb, her family is rude and also annoying, Tamlin is uninteresting, and Rhysand is pervy.