The Worst YA Book I've Ever Read

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[maxthepaladin]

Most of the prose sounds/looks something like this:
"I went to the kitchen and made myself a sandwich. It was however a normal sandwich, not one of those sexy sandwiches that slutty girls make just to impress guys (those sandwiches were inferior to mine anyway). Suddenly, I felt my tribalistic cherokeeness tingling and I knew that it meant I have to go and receive my prize for being the most gifted in everything. It was given to me by my gay best friend who afterwards gayly went somewhere, probably to a gay orgy with other gay men. I'm so happy that I'm not prejudiced against anyone"

[nishatjamil]

Love how Zoey says she'd love to be a flapper - you know an icon of women's liberation by shortening the length of their skirts, participating in casual sex, partied like crazy, drank, and smoke (along with being known for other things of course) - right before shaming other girls for wearing short skirts, having sex, partying, drinking, and smoking.

[damascus]

Hmmmm...head-cannon: Zoey isn't special, she's just so egocentric and mean that she's easy to control. Nyx chose her because she knew she could use her as a puppet and all Zoey needed was "you're special" every two minutes in order to fall in line. Perfect host, 10/10, would never fight back.

Edit: I realize this would make Nyx more of a powerful spirit-like parasite rather than a deus ex machina who simps over Zoey and I feel like that's a pretty decent improvement to the story. At least it would be more interesting.

[curouscatfsh]

Zoey is like if Ebony Dark’ness was raised Baptist

[ashina]

this was the book that made my best friend in grade 7 believe she was a vampire fairy. fast forward 8 years, she’s now in a cult. coincidence?

[queencleopatra]

Its weird that Zoe doesn't get along with her super religious step father considering they probably share a lot of the archaic beliefs about women and sex.

[mvo]

My highschool had an exchange student program with China, and it was typical for Chinese students to choose an "English" name before coming over so that they didn't have to struggle with American's not being able to pronounce their names correctly. One girl chose Aphrodite, because she read in a book that it meant "Goddess of Beauty" and assumed, "Goddess of Beauty, well that's got to be incredibly popular name in America!" She thought it must be a common name like Emily or Sarah. Honestly, her logic was flawless and it should be a popular name.

[nekkidnora]

Is anyone else made massively uncomfortable by the constant conflating of Cherokee traditions and greek vampire goddesses...?

[val]

"I can't stand homophobes. Good thing he's not one of those obnoxiously obviously girly gay guys."

[CuppaJo_]

As someone who is an Oklahoma Cherokee (from the United Keetoowah Band), I remember reading these books as a teen and always cringed at the use of Cherokee "culture" in the books. I have mixed feelings about them using Cherokee culture, because they get some things right (which is always nice to see) but they also get a lot of things wrong and play into old stereotypes of Native Americans/Indigenous people as noble savages. Cherokees aren't ancient wizards practicing magic on the daily, not even pre-colonization were we like that. We are out here being contemporary human beings.

I teach beginner level Cherokee so to help with pronunciation for anyone interested:
uwetsi ageya is oo-way-jee ah-gay-hyah (meaning offspring woman). Colloquially, people don't really specify male or female when talking about their own children, but they can if they want. However, they would use the word for girl (ageyutsa) instead of woman (ageya). I think they're using Eastern Band Dialect from North Carolina which is a little different than Oklahoma dialect.
Tsilugi is jee-loo-ghee (welcome)
Usti dotsuwa is oo-sdee toe-joo-wah (little/baby redbird/cardinal)
"Daughter of Night" makes no sense in Cherokee. uwetsi ageya vhna svnoyi (uh-hnah suh-no-yee) is "offspring woman there night" ?? "it's night there, daughter" maybe?

[JamesTullos]

Oh God, you've reminded me this exists.

[mosaic.owl.studios]

You know how bullies often play the "victim" or like they're "just misunderstood"? This is what happens when the bully grows up, never learns that they are, in fact, NOT the victim, and then thinks the world deserves a book about the "misunderstood victimhood" of a person who was only ever a self-deluded bully.

[ona]

I was genuinely shocked to hear goth slander in a VAMPIRE book.

[neu_dae]

this is the most hatefully written story and for literally no reason. their hatred of women adds nothing and detracts everything. it's like these women wanted to write opinion pieces shitting on anyone and everyone, but decided to write it in vampire novel format.

[inanimatecarbongod]

I refuse to accept the "it's for teen readers" argument. That's not an excuse for just serving up shit to them.

[colettejameson]

"Thank you for appreciating my blackness" my jaw DROPPED this was wild

[warriorcatskid]

Every time Zoe sees another woman she’s like “she’s stunningly beautiful like nothing I’ve ever seen” and all I have to say to that is

[midgematic]

“Hey, white skin, blue lips, red blood! Am i patriotic or what?” Made me choke on my air. This entire book is a clusterfck but in an ironic hilarious way

[MF-R]

"There were no other girls in the vicinity to s1ut shame; so she turned it on herself."

With great powers comes great responsibility 😆

[jello]

The vibe this gives off is that the daughter was a mean popular girl and the mom was a Cool Mom who gossiped with her and let her and her friends drink wine