It was literally the author ranting through their character and preaching. Just write something on Medium… novels are for characters, and their development, not your views and vitriol.
Writing an unlikeable character is different than a self insert used to preach about stuff you dislike.
Churro showed me passages, and I couldn’t help but imagine the character as an old man complaining talking shit about people at the country club.
But that serves a purpose. That’s “local gentry political intrigue”. Unless the person is in their place like school, umdermining everyone they are dissing, its mroe “GET OFF MY LAWN!”
It didn’t add anything to the story.
Eh, although I used to read it when I was in that age-group, I just don’t much care for YA books (particularly fantasy, as that’s what I mostly read) anymore. There’s some I stand by that are good, but overall it’s just thinly veiled romance with some fantastical elements. Not entirely bad in theory, but when they delve into this “I can’t live without you” “we’re mates” “we’re destined to be together” nonsense, I lose interest. I also don’t much like smutty adult romance novels, just not for me.
Having said all this:
Six of Crows or the other one by her. Never really liked Leigh Bardugo’s storytelling voice, too confusing and convoluted for me to enjoy.
50 Shades, 'nough said.
Agree about Coleen Hoover, she’s gross. Difference between representing certain themes and endorsing them, and she certainly teeters on that line a little too much.
Although I used to be a fan when her books were coming out, anything by Sarah J. Maas. Genuinely think she had some good ideas but this weird “girlboss, let’s have sex constantly, woo we’re epic fighting females, oh and we have MATES” narrative perpetuated esp. in her later books was, uh, ODD. Especially when she, under pressure of fans, attempted to include more diversity in her books. That was… a strange take she had, not to mention super embarrassing. I feel embarrassed when I remember how much time and consideration I gave her series’.
Anything by Stephen King. Just really dislike him and I’m not too big of a horror-genre fan. His takes on women are, uh, something to be desired.
John Green (someone else mentioned him here, and I agree) I read Fault In Our Stars, and by no means do I think he’s a bad dude, I’m just no longer his target audience and, tbh, never really got into romance novels–they weren’t of interest to me.
My mom forced me to read that book before I think I was the age to actually understand it. It was the first book I read where there were a lot of swear words in the beginning 
I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, actually.
It’s kinda depressing. Maybe that’s the point though. Idk.
I watched like an hour-long review/rant about one of her books and it was shocking how much DV was depicted as being okay in her stories. I don’t get why people enjoy reading about things like that. Do they not see the problems?
You know, I thought we left the MATE thing behind with werewolves. Apparently not.
It absolutely is the point.
twilight and gothikana. for obvious reasons 
Its out of touch with modern society. We are used to kids failing, don’t send them to a shrink before sending them off to a news school, sex is treated as ok not a part of being unhappy with yourself–and we certainly dont take that mess from a prep school lout who upsets females.
I can see why they would have had kids read it back in the day: the pressures of society were different. I mean, it was before my father’s generation that baf grades neabt you were going to Vuetnam, and the era the biik is written is a biut a genuine Boomer child. (Kid post WWII).
The background of it would need some serious updating, to fit in.
(happy cake day!)
Ha! Didnt notice.
At this point, most of them. Especially YA. I gave The Cruel Prince a try, within a few pages I was absolutely bored to tears with, in my opinion, one of the blandest writing styles I’ve ever come across (not to say it’s bad! Just really so far from what I like). I’ve tried going back to it, but I’ve written off pretty much anything YA or UF that’s over hyped. Not my cup of tea at all.
I see someone else mentioned Colleen Hoover, so, she’s also a write off. I tried reading one of her books, didn’t love it, but then found out about Colleen’s lovely, charming son. Anything by her is on my “do not go near” pile.
Twilight’s influence on the YA genre has been nothing but awful.
I read some of Gothikana in order to copy the writing style, though.
WHEN someone can write better than Twilight and emulates it? Sometimes those have a few good ones–but then the question is “Did this writer live up to their full potential?” (Which is an obvious no because no one actually does, but we are more prone to ask it around things like this.)
It’s the bad writing following bad writing.
The thing is that if you’re following the current Werewolf genre with all it’s godawful tropes–it came out of that, so it’s a further derivative of the same problem. I played around in it, trying to get a feel–and the longer I allowed that to control my writing, honestly, the more frustrated I got. (Although most the stance I took made far more sense than using the tropes as they were…but that’s not really relevant to unreadable popular styles.)
No wonder I banged out Mini Moo in 10ish days. It was cathartic to get something “wholesome” out.
I don’t know about awful. It brought vampires, werewolves and creatures of the night out of the horror genre and humanised them. Deserves some credit
I was attempting to make my writing less minimalistic and more expectedly fancy.
You see how I write on here. Minimal is a chore, for me. lmao
It wasn’t the first, just ask @J.L.O. about Lost Boys or Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Also, Count Duckula.
Werewolves are a weird case, though, and I prefer Powerwolf’s take on them the most.
My master plan was to bait normies in with the writing style that they are used to, and then hit them with Sonder the She-Boar.