Kids/Teens Book Club discussion

Does anyone know of a good book where the girl saves the guy for once???? I'm really getting tired of the stereotypical guy-saves-girl- because-guys-are-stronger thing. I really want a good romance with a good heroine white not a damsel in distress!!

I know exactly what you mean! The girls are always so dependent on guys in books and it is very infuriating. I'm sorry, I can't even think of a book without a damsel in distress, but I'm trying to find one. There's always some hot guy that the heroine falls in love with and I'm so tired of it. That and love triangles.

Seriously every book is the same now. There is a girl, two guys, one if them is a bad boy and the other is a good boy, and the bad boy saves and gets the girl while the good boy moves on. EVERY BOOK!!! Ugggg well I'd you find one let me know!

Ugh, that is so accurate! I will definitely let you know. It's the worst when you love the book so much and then they introduce romance and it just becomes typical bull. Actually, have you read the Scorpio Races? Because it's a really good book (albeit kind of weird, but what good book isn't?) and there's only a teeny tiny bit of romance, but it's not, like, typical romance and it's written really well. So, if you're interested, you can try to read that! :) (you have to be accepting of weird concepts though)

Hmmm I haven't, but I will definitely add it to my to read books! Thanks, and I am plenty weird myself so I am sure I will love it! And your totally right every book is weird lol thanks a bunch;)

The Scorpio Races was weird but it was good!

Sweet can't wait to read it! And is it a series or just a book.....

It's just a single book, but the way it ends you wish it was a series :D

Alex wrote: "It's just a single book, but the way it ends you wish it was a series :D"

Agreed!

Oh and check out the Raven Boys by the same author the girl in it is quite independent.

Also, in the Maximum ride books Max (female lead) is quite kick butt and self-dependent.

I actually have the Raven Boys right now; I checked it out from the library the other day! But I have a bunch to read before it. I read the first Maximum Ride but never ended up getting a hold of the rest of the series. I'm reading the Timeriders right now and I love it :D

What is everyone else reading right now?

Alex wrote: "I actually have the Raven Boys right now; I checked it out from the library the other day! But I have a bunch to read before it. I read the first Maximum Ride but never ended up getting a hold of t..."

It's pretty different.


And I am struggling though Pathfinder

Struggling through books is the worst. Especially when they're good books that tons of people like and you really want to like it... And then you don't

Irene wrote: "Alex wrote: "It's just a single book, but the way it ends you wish it was a series :D"

Agreed!

Oh and check out the Raven Boys by the same author the girl in it is quite independent.

Also, in ..."
I have read the maximum rude series and it was AMAZING!!! I loved it although it seemed kinda slow in the middle books..... But I still loved it!!
And I am reading an awesome series called the violet eden chapters.... but the last two books haven't come out yet ahhhhhh

Alex wrote: "Struggling through books is the worst. Especially when they're good books that tons of people like and you really want to like it... And then you don't"

Yeah, see it's by the same dude who wrote Ender's Game, which I really liked, and this book is supposed to be good. I want to like it but it's not happening, and the reading is going super slow.

KERFUFFLE wrote: "Irene wrote: "Alex wrote: "It's just a single book, but the way it ends you wish it was a series :D"

Agreed!

Oh and check out the Raven Boys by the same author the girl in it is quite independen..."

Have you read the final book? It came out a few months ago.

The final book in what series?

The Maximum Ride series. He wrote the last one: Nevermore

OMG DJAPICHEASDFGHJKL I just finished a book WITHOUT a damsel in distress. The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa. It's about a vampire, but it's so good. I don't really usually like vampire books but I loved it and there's romance but the girl saves the guy's butt a zillion times. So, if you don't mind vampires, (even if you hate them you should try this book) then you should read it :D

Sorry to jump in, but I'm excited to see that The Raven Boys features an independent heroine. I'm about to start it, and I find it really challenging to get through any book with the typical "damsel in distress" business.

Ooooooo yayayayay!!!! Two new books bwahaha thx guys!!! And oooo ya I have read the last one, but I kinda wish he made another one after that because so much could still go wrong but o well I guess we have to use our imagination :-) and I LOVE vampire books. Lol

And us the tavern boys a series or just or stand above book? Same question for the immortal rules.....

The Immortal Rules is a series and I'm pretty sure the Raven Boys is too but there's only one so far

I lied! There's two books - so far - in the Raven Cycle. I'm just about done the 1st

Alex wrote: "I lied! There's two books - so far - in the Raven Cycle. I'm just about done the 1st"

The second one is out!?!?

Sorry, apparently not! I just saw that it had ratings on it and - inanely - assumed that it was out, but I looked deeper into it and apparently it's supposed to come out Fall sometime?

Alex wrote: "Sorry, apparently not! I just saw that it had ratings on it and - inanely - assumed that it was out, but I looked deeper into it and apparently it's supposed to come out Fall sometime?"

That's what I was thinking but then I got excited thinking I had misread the dates. It's alright though :)

Sweet is the immortal rules series all out or are we still waiting for more books....

I'm pretty sure there's gonna be more books - the second one's out but I haven't read it yet

That's actually on my to-read list! I just have to pick it up at the library. I'm excited to read it!

Yeah, that annoys me too. Well, there's theRaven Boys, the Scorpio Races, or pretty much anything by Maggie Stiefvater. Also Maximum Ride, and the Hunger Games. I know I've read a lot more, but I can't think of them right now...

Maximum Ride,
The Raven Boys(I am currently obsessed with this one),
The Scorpio Races,
Gathering Blue(no romance),
Anything by Tamora Pierce,
His Dark Materials series,(Lyra's younger, but it's still good.)
My Sister's Keeper (no boys to save),
The Running Dream,
Numbers.

The Fault in Our Stars is also really (really really really) great.

I like books where the girl saves the guy. In The Hunger Games, Katniss saves Peeta, but there is the annoying love triangle. Strong heroines are usually my favorite characters. Girls can be just as good as guys! As Alaska Young would say, subvert the patriarchal paradigm!

I know exactly what you mean. As a young girl growing up it always seemed like the girls needed to be rescued by the boys. I have actually just finished my first novel where I made a conscious decision to write two strong female characters who didn't need to be rescued. Have any other authors done this?

That's probably why I liked Hermione so much-she did have to be saved in the last book, but she saved Harry and Ron's butts way more times.

I like books where the guy and girl always have each other's backs and take turns helping each other. Mine's the only one I can think of off hand, unfortunatly its not out yet

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card? No damsels there. No many women, but even so ...

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Here's a few you can try,

You can always do girl saves boy by Steph Bowe. Or you can read throne of glass. It's spectacular.