Need recommendations as someone has finished all of Booktok’s popular books. (No spice.)
Hi! 13F here. I am getting really bored of YA’s books because they simply aren’t that different. Coming from someone who has read a lot of things they probably shouldn’t (Fourth Wing, ACOTAR, ehm... other things) I really dislike spice because I feel like it takes away from the intellectual and emotional value of the relationship two characters have in a story, and the character stereotypes most authors write. Tall. Dark hair. Imposing. Even the characters have the same scent described. ok, enough with the yapping, I just really need some books where the main character is a boy, or not a brunette, or a tall female. And preferably fantasy. Should I go into adult fiction and look for stuff there? I’ve read The Eye of the World, but none of the other WOT books, and I’m afraid adult fictions is going to be a lot like that, but I’m just not finding what I’m looking for in YA. I don’t want romance as the main them. I want a good plot and some diverse character arcs and I am DONE with all the MMC’s looking exactly the same. Please give me something to read that isn’t boring but also isn’t the same thing most YA books are.