What is your favorite YA genre to read? Least favorite? Is there a theme or topic your tired of reading? What about a theme or topic you wish there was more of?
I honestly don't have a favorite genre, since I like to read a mix of everything, but I suppose if you made me choose right now it would be Dystopian. I love how there are so many strong heroines right now in the genre. Plus its all a bit dark and dramatic, which I love!
My least favorite is horror because I'm a totally wimp when it comes to all the blood and gore. Plus reading horror is so much worse then watching a movie of it, since your mind can imagine things far more frightening then anything you'd see on screen.
As for the second part, I am so tired of Vampires! Yes I love them, just ask anyone that knows me, I practically grew up reading Anne Rice novels, but they're everywhere! In movies, on TV, in magazines, even music! I think that's part of the problem, if they weren't all over the media, I don't think I'd mind reading about them in books. Now will this stop me from watching Being Human or The Vampire Diaries? NO! Will I stop reading the Sookie Stackhouse books? NO! I just won't be reading anything like Vampire Academy or The House of Night series anytime soon, sorry!
I would love to see more novels inspired by urban legends and fairy tales. I think its a theme that has barely been explored. Obviously there are quite a few, such as Beauty and the Beast, that have been done to death, but I would really love to see more stories redone in an original way.
I honestly don't have a favorite genre, since I like to read a mix of everything, but I suppose if you made me choose right now it would be Dystopian. I love how there are so many strong heroines right now in the genre. Plus its all a bit dark and dramatic, which I love!
My least favorite is horror because I'm a totally wimp when it comes to all the blood and gore. Plus reading horror is so much worse then watching a movie of it, since your mind can imagine things far more frightening then anything you'd see on screen.
As for the second part, I am so tired of Vampires! Yes I love them, just ask anyone that knows me, I practically grew up reading Anne Rice novels, but they're everywhere! In movies, on TV, in magazines, even music! I think that's part of the problem, if they weren't all over the media, I don't think I'd mind reading about them in books. Now will this stop me from watching Being Human or The Vampire Diaries? NO! Will I stop reading the Sookie Stackhouse books? NO! I just won't be reading anything like Vampire Academy or The House of Night series anytime soon, sorry!
I would love to see more novels inspired by urban legends and fairy tales. I think its a theme that has barely been explored. Obviously there are quite a few, such as Beauty and the Beast, that have been done to death, but I would really love to see more stories redone in an original way.
I'm really quite sick of angels, vampires, and shallow romances. If I read anything about angels and/or vampires in a book description I pass over the book almost immediately. Unfortunately how deep a romance may be is harder to tell from the description >.>
ReplyDeleteI would really like to see more high fantasy in the YA sphere, and I'm liking the dystopian trend but a lot of the books seem to be half-baked at release.
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Dystopian is my favorite. Always has been. I just never seem to tire of it.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing I am really tired of reading. I know a lot of people are sick of vampires and werewolves but if the description tickles my fancy I'll get it. I go through phases with genres. Like right now, for instance, I don't usually go out of my way to read contemps but I am on a huge contemp kick right now. Just depends on my mood I guess.
Urban legend inspired stories would be really neat though. And more fairy tale retellings are always welcome :)
I love horror for the same reasons you said you don't like it. I also love re-tellings of faery tales too...there are a lot of them if you look around. I also love Arthurian myths legends. And I agree with you on the vampires...I like vampires, but the whole teen vampire thing I'm just not interested in.
ReplyDeleteI (Farrah) love love LOVE contemporary. I can't get enough of Sarah Dessen, Elizabeth Scott, Lauren Barnholdt, or Meg Cabot. I like being about to relate to characters, problems, and situations. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I have a favorite genre. I just want to be pulled into the story and get lost in it. I do toward to lean toward historical fiction though.
ReplyDeleteI agree about vampires. The market is just so over-saturated with them right now. I still read a few of them now and again if they sound good.
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