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I love how 1 star book reviews are either like a whole analysis of the book and how the plot is bad and the characters are unrealistic and how the author is problematic etc or just "this book sucked lol"
All love triangles in ya books (1 girl and 2 boys) have at least 3 of these :
The two boys are best friends
The two boys are brothers
One boy has blonde hair and one boy has dark hair
The girl's only/worst problem is having 2 boys fight over her
The girl thinks she's "plain"
One of the boys is the girl's best friend or current boyfriend, the other is a mysterious bad boy
The girl waits until one of the boys leaves town or dies or dates someone else or something so she doesn't have to choose
The two boys have more chemistry with each other than either of them do with the girl
The girl is too good for either of the guys and is better off alone
Both the guys are 6ft tall and have sharp cheekbones (weird one but you know I'm right)
At least one of the boys is a vampire.
Try this with a love triangle and reblog with your results :)
Sometimes, being a writer is taking a 30-minute detour from writing to go on a wild goose chase after a word you're pretty sure maybe hopefully exists, and dragging in all the word-nerds in your family to help along the way, because the thesaurus has utterly failed you.
And all you can tell them about the identity of this missing word is, "it's somewhere between castigated and in the doghouse, and kind of a cousin to disgraced."
Because, of course, you only have the breath of a shadow of a ghost of whatever-this-word-might-be lurking in some back alleyway deep in your brain, and you can't even remember what letter it starts with. If it really does exist at all, which, after three of your fellow word-nerds fail to identify it, you're beginning to question.
We eventually found the word, by the way. After a few wrong turns past chastened, chastised, discredited, and besmirched, we came upon abased, and concluded it to be our elusive quarry.
The crowning absurdity in all of this? I just looked up disgraced again in the thesaurus. And there was abased, not quite halfway down the list. (My apologies to the thesaurus. It seems I need to read more carefully in future.) But at least we all got a nice, little linguistic evening stroll.