Yes that is very true and I think love is meant to prove you can look beyond faults. Was it easy for Belle to love the beast? Hell no! But that is what made their relationship strong. When she could look beyond him being ugly and see how kind and loving he really is.
YA to me seems in phase of 'telling people what they want to hear'. It's selling as you said - fantasies in a package. I'm all for fantasy, I like books where you can escape into a fantasy world. I just don't like a fantasy that is leading you to bad things. Like Smeyer thinking suicide is romantic. Yes dieing for someone you love maybe, but not killing yourself because they decide to die. That to me was such a bad message, I am surprised they let that book get published.
I don't mind relationships in older romance books. Since we all know older woman in relationships want to indulge in a fantasy romance now and again. It's these books with teenagers as young as 15 and 16 that gets on my nerves. At that age your hormones are so messed up you would not be able to tell the difference between lust and love. They're still growing, it's so wrong to start making out they need to find the perfect bf to love them or they're not normal. As if media does not push that out enough, we have YA now doing it.
I mean yes they could be lucky and find the true love of their life at a young age. I have read books where the couple were that young and very much had what I call a true relationship. Most did not start off that way though, and they were realistic enough in plot and character for us to believe it.
Then there are books like twilight and vampires kisses that just throw 2 second romances at you. Where love is as you said '2x2' boy meets girl, they're in love.
I think I would want to change that if i ever write a book. :(
I would definitely change that. I actually started writing a book which is partly a parody of these YA 'romances', which basically shows them as the abusive and superficial relationships they really are. (-cough- Bella and Edward. -cough cough- Nora and Patch.)
YA to me seems in phase of 'telling people what they want to hear'. It's selling as you said - fantasies in a package. I'm all for fantasy, I like books where you can escape into a fantasy world. I just don't like a fantasy that is leading you to bad things. Like Smeyer thinking suicide is romantic. Yes dieing for someone you love maybe, but not killing yourself because they decide to die. That to me was such a bad message, I am surprised they let that book get published.
I don't mind relationships in older romance books. Since we all know older woman in relationships want to indulge in a fantasy romance now and again. It's these books with teenagers as young as 15 and 16 that gets on my nerves. At that age your hormones are so messed up you would not be able to tell the difference between lust and love. They're still growing, it's so wrong to start making out they need to find the perfect bf to love them or they're not normal. As if media does not push that out enough, we have YA now doing it.
I mean yes they could be lucky and find the true love of their life at a young age. I have read books where the couple were that young and very much had what I call a true relationship. Most did not start off that way though, and they were realistic enough in plot and character for us to believe it.
Then there are books like twilight and vampires kisses that just throw 2 second romances at you. Where love is as you said '2x2' boy meets girl, they're in love.
I think I would want to change that if i ever write a book. :(
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