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It's been about 5 years since I read it, but I think Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry would work well for you based on what you've said.
Sabrina wrote: "It's been about 5 years since I read it, but I think Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry would work well for you based on what you've said."Thanks! I'll give it a look :)
Sabrina wrote: "It's been about 5 years since I read it, but I think Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry would work well for you based on what you've said."Thanks! I'll give it a look :)
Maybe I read totally different books (I’m rather into fantasy or science fiction, not contemporary, I’m also not fan of romances), but I really rarely meet this clichés of morally bad, abusive boy. I think that most often authors want to write about someone “bad”, just to be “original” and catch readers’ attention, and this all wrong is easily forgotten, the only symptoms of it is character dressing in black, listening to metal or having bad fame – which is totally not confirmed by facts. I don`t like that – these author’s attitude ‘I like to write about someone bad, but it should be someone who every teen reader would love, so let`s call him “bad”, and pretend that he is bad’Instead I’d love to read a book about a character who is consequently lead as morally wrong, or at least ambiguous, who does bad things – and this isn`t ignored by an author, it`s made intentionally and used as an important part of plot. The book when love isn`t happy, undoubtedly good, doesn`t have a magic power to fix bad characters. Something realistic, something in dark, bleak climate. Something about weird, even toxic relationship. If you know some such books, I`d be grateful for titles ;)
Coming back into a subject (I feel I`ve written so big offtop, sorry, I coudn`t stop ;)) : maybe you would enjoy “A Thousand Perfect Notes”? It`s not perfectly meeting your criteria cause the main character isn’t definitely a typical bad bad-boy, he isn`t even bad… but my intuition whispers quietly to me that that may be something you are looking for. It`s a story of feeling lost, abused by his own mother boy, who tries to keep emotional distance from others – and about an extraordinary, stubborn optimistic girl who helps him. Sound like something oversweeten and banal – but managed to steal my heart :)
Sorry if I had made any mistakes, I`m not native English speaker.
Stormraised wrote: "Maybe I read totally different books (I’m rather into fantasy or science fiction, not contemporary, I’m also not fan of romances), but I really rarely meet this clichés of morally bad, abusive boy...."It's ok, I'll search it.
About what you said... As more as I looked for what I wanted (a boy who was bad because life had made him that way -and who was gray as every person, not just bad- not because he was just one more frustrated rich boy or the poor little kid who had to fight his way out of misery -poor him-) I realised that those boys don't exist in YA literature. At least not in the most famous or common or listed books. I passed like 100 pages in the YA category in Goodreads, and all I could find before I got tired was the same story every time with little changes and different author.
As you said, I hate characters that are that way just to fill the holes or because the author has a secret obsesion with bad boys, but she/he can't figure it out how to really make a bad boy. All they do are stupid boys who are toxic, bully one day, in love the other, and jealous. I hate so much the trope where the bad boy comes to the good girl's life to fix all her problems and magicallly, she forgets everything and everybody that was hurting her and is a new and "fixed" person.
I read a lot of epic fantasy too, where love is in... ¿one or two pages? If ever exists. That's why I had to ask for help in this subject hahahaha
PD: I'm neither a native english speaker so, sorry for any mistake ahahhaa
I really loved A Very Large Expanse of Sea!It revolves around Shirin and Ocean, he's not a bad boy though but I really do think you might like it.
FloorM wrote: "I really loved A Very Large Expanse of Sea!It revolves around Shirin and Ocean, he's not a bad boy though but I really do think you might like it."
Hey, I've heard about that book but never read anything about it. I'll give it a try, thanks!
I’ve just started the Sea Breeze series by Abbi Glines and i’m really enjoying it already. There are 9 books in the series each following a different couple so plenty to look forward to!! :)
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Have you read "The Mara Dyer Trilogy" by Michelle Hodkin?
if you haven't read it then maybe the Six Of Crows duologue by Leigh Bardugo
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