Hello, I’m a 17 (soon to be 18) year old girl and I’ve found myself stuck in my reading journey.
I still really enjoy YA books but feel I have outgrown the writing style of a majority of them. I’ve read a few adult fiction books but, except for Remarkably Bright Creatures and classics by Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters, I’ve gotten extremely bored or weirded out/uncomfortable by the subject matter or contents of the book.
Also, I feel a little alienated by books when the plot is just like “I’m thirty and I have a job and I’m in the dating scene and taxes yada yada”, because I guess I’m not at a point in my life where I can fully understand it yet.
I really desperately need help filling the fiction & fantasy loving hole in my heart. And freaking BOOKTOK has done more harm than good this past year when it comes to recommending books.
I really love fantasy with interesting world building and characters. I also LOVE a good romance side plot when it isn’t too in-your-face, rushed, or boring.
I’ve always been a diehard fan of Percy Jackson, Anne of Green Gables, and Lockwood & Co, and no other book couples have been able to compare to the ones in these YA Series so far </3. (Might just be nostalgia bias but I don’t want to admit it to myself)
I’m currently really enjoying The Mirror Visitor series, and just finished the second one in tears, that’s how good it is. But I’m dreading the end because it’s infamously bad or something like that.
I enjoyed Divine Rivals a lot but liked the second book significantly less. I also enjoyed The Knight and The Moth but the romance in it was kinda meh and I really wish it was a slower burn.
I was surprised by how much I liked Binding 13 because it’s so hyped on TikTok by people who like books I personally don’t enjoy all that much but ended up totally sucked in. I’m always a sucker for a good teen drama like Dawson’s Creek or shojo
anime’s like Fruits Basket, Horimiya, and Kimi Ni Todoke.
For reference, I personally really didn’t enjoy:
– Shatter Me
-The Dead Romantics
– Archer’s Voice
-Anything Colleen Hoover
This is really long and ramble-y. Sorry about that.
by postmodernmaiden