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There’s other YA fic targeted to girls that didn’t get nearly as much hate, Divergent and Hunger Games for example. I think a lot of the hate was just because of what a massive fucking cultural phenomenon it was. Seriously, I don’t think most people here remember, but it was like fucking Beatles fever but for bad YA lit. You couldn’t turn on the news and not hear something about “Twilight Craze”.
There’s other YA fic targeted to girls that didn’t get nearly as much hate, Divergent and Hunger Games for example. I think a lot of the hate was just because of what a massive fucking cultural phenomenon it was. Seriously, I don’t think most people here remember, but it was like fucking Beatles fever but for bad YA lit. You couldn’t turn on the news and not hear something about “Twilight Craze”.
Also it is very poorly written, even for YA lit.