Authors to Avoid

[Rebecca]

FYI...wanted to post a note of an author you may want to avoid. Kristin Cashore. She is a great writer and her stories are very interesting BUT she is pushing an agenda that includes casual sex, promiscuity and homosexuality/gay marriage. She isn't graphic, so it isn't offensive in that way but I wouldn't want my teenager reading her books...

I would love to see other clean readers post on this topic.

[Karen]

Rebecca wrote: "FYI...wanted to post a note of an author you may want to avoid. Kristin Cashore. She is a great writer and her stories are very interesting BUT she is pushing an agenda that includes casual sex, pr..."

So many books like this.

[Marla]

Meg Cabot has some sweet and clean(ish) books and then others have sex or other "unclean" behavior, sometimes in the same series. So don't avoid her, but beware.

If you are Christian, I suggest you avoid the Golden Compass trilogy by atheist Philip Pullman.

I really like Tamora Pierce's Lioness series, but there is casual sex that might be offensive to some people.

Agree on Cashore. I like her stories and writing, but she is not clean and has a questionable agenda.

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has anyone read the violet eden chapters books
and if so, how clean are they or are they not clean ? someone recommanded it to me and i have been wondering about it

[Lora]

Watch out for Robin McKinley's "Sunshine", as well as some others. I actually loved "Sunshine", but it's got sex scenes with some crude terms and lots of violence. It's nothing like Stephen King, which I used to read a long time ago. McKinley has some great lit for kids. adults, as well. It's so tricky when someone like Pierce or McKinley have some really good stuff, and then...the other stuff. You can't just turn it over to your kid and say. "This is an author you can trust." You have to read each and every book to see how it plays out.

[Lora]

Which brings up a related issue: Personally, for middle aged me, I enjoy "Sunshine" and almost didn't notice some of the sexual references the first time through. But I would never let my kids read it. It's so different from her clean and wonderous titles like: "Beauty", "Rose Daughter", "The Blue Sword", and "Hero and the Crown". Those are fantastic.
But then I keep "Sunshine", for myself. I loved the story enough to ignore the other things. It's unusual for me, too, because I'm usually pickier than that. I guess each person has their standard, and it has to be measured book by book depending on how the book plays out. Maybe one day I'll reread it and find I've changed enough that it no longer works for me.

[Laura]

Jean Auel. I found this out the hard way, unfortunately. Her first book Clan of the Cave Bear has one small scene of mild to moderate sexual content, but when you read her second book in the series, there is more than one scene of graphic sexual content. I loved the first book, but unfortunately I have to stop and cannot read the rest.