Favorite Tropes Of YA Fiction

[redbrunja]

For me, it's road trips, the boy/girl next door, music geeks, boy/girl BFFs and the perfect dress.

What are you favorite YA tropes?

Comments

[terenewen.livejournal.com]

Totally unrelated, but I was reading the sequel to Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and I cannot, cannot, cannot recommend this heartily enough. THE BADASSERY. I know they're on your reading list already, but seriously. Wow.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*claws at desk in despair*

I'm number 22 on the hold list.

[keirelle.livejournal.com]

I love boy/girl bffs too, there's just not enough of them.

I'll have to think on the others, since I don't read enough YA fiction.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

If you come up with new ideas, feel free to share them.

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

Totally agree on boy/girl bffs, but do you have an example of perfect dress? I'm sure I've probably seen it used, it's just not jumping out of my memory at me. ;)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

The most explicit example I can think of is in a books whose title I cannot remember, but Meg Cabot has a couple in the Princess Diary books, Cordelia has one in Buffy, Buffy has one in Buffy, and Prom Dates From Hell has one.