Young teen books for romance fan
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| My 13 year old has read all of the Twilight books in a week and loves the romance aspect. Any other suggestions? I don't want anything too steamy due to her age but like to see her reading so much. |
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Ohhh I know the answer!
The shatter me series (it gets weird at the end but I still loved it). The cruel prince series. I’ll come back with more, I don’t want this post to to get lost in a refresh. Not a court or thrones and roses , that is too explicit for young adults in the later books. Or anything by Sarah J Maas. |
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The mortal instruments series by Cassandra Claire (this is a prequel to another series of hers but that series includes incest ans the writing isn’t as good, apparently. But I really likes the mortal instruments series.).
Six of crows. This wasn’t my favorite but it’s well-written and very popular. The matched and divergent series were meh but I still enjoyed the first books. The selection series is also popular but I hated books about a bunch of girls fighting for a mediocre man. I still read them all though. Another one not to read that somehow gets shelved in young adult: the From Blood and Ash series. Definitely too steamy. Of all the romance young adult books I have read, the mortal instruments series is just favorite, followed by The Cruel Prince series, followed by the Shatter Me series. |
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| Thank you!! |
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Sorry one more comment and then I will shut up: books I haven’t read and can’t vouch for but I plan on reading because I hear they are good:
Cinderella is dead Bridge kingdom The priory of the orange tree (maybe not ya?) The song of Achilles Also I can’t believe I forgot hunger games and Percy Jackson. The romance in these isn’t a big plot like though. |
Anonymous
Ha, you're welcome. I don't know what came over me but I got really into young adult romance novels over the pandemic/lockdown. Pretty weird for a 37-year old but I totally loved some of these books and it was an excellent escape. |
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| Summer Sisters by judy blume |
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Ahh no, I am wrong! It's not the mortal instruments series, its the Infernal Devices that I like. The Mortal Instruments is an evolution of the author's ginny/ron incest fan fiction, so I totally avoided it! The infernal devices is series Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, And Clockwork Princess. |
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| Library of Fates |
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The Marissa Meyer Lunar Chronicles books are good (first one is Cinder.) I’d skip Fairest, which is very dark and technically a companion novel and totally skippable.
If you want realistic romance without the sci-fi/fantasy component, To All the Boys I’ve Lived Before or The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (both have sequels). Or anything by Sarah Dessen. |
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| * To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before |
Anonymous
| My daughter discovered Alice in Zombieland (the White Rabbit Chronicles) before Twilight and loved it. I think it got steamy, but to be honest she isn't a big reader and flew through them and I just decided to let it go. |
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I like the etiquette and espionage series (definitely not that steamy as I recall)
Priory and the orange tree is a very long book and i might hesitate to recc it? You should see me in a crown is a cute book but not a series |
Anonymous
| If you don't mind Christian historical fiction, The Mark of the Lion series by Francine Rivers is great, steamy, but not-to-steamy romance series. I'm serious. The author was a romance writer and then converted. But it is definitely Christian in message. |
Anonymous
This! |