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Old 01-17-2020, 05:31 AM   #54
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Originally Posted by Luffy View Post
The fact that everything is subjective doesn't mean there are no patterns. The YA genre caters to people whose minds are still forming, who still are finding themselves. Add romance, and its bastard child, the love triangle, to it then a picture emerges where fully grown adults find these books cringe-y, full of awkwardness, with cheap twists galore. It's not rocket science.
So in your opinion, there should not be any romance in the YA books? Ever?

As to romance being cringe-y, not everyone finds it so. Again, it's subjective. You don't like romance, that's perfectly fine. But many others do.
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