Do you like the idea of Soul Mates in YA books?
I’ve always found myself getting very annoyed with YA books about soul mates. I usually cant help but think that 16 and 17 are ridiculously young to be finding your soul mate. Am I just not romantic enough, or do other people feel this way too?
In books, not so much. It seems like an easy out for the author. Oh, they love each other instantly, they were meant to be. That way I don’t have to develop them, the relationship, or any background to make their magical love even the slightest bit interesting.
But I’m not so sure I believe in it in real life either. I’m a positive person, but when people say that they found "the one" and then get divorced 2 years later, it is hard to believe in it.
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I am a teen and I think books with soul mates and for ever yours are crap.
Annoying is the best word. It gets your hopes up if your gullible, or it just gets gross and obsessive (*cough* twilight *cough*)
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In books, not so much. It seems like an easy out for the author. Oh, they love each other instantly, they were meant to be. That way I don’t have to develop them, the relationship, or any background to make their magical love even the slightest bit interesting.
But I’m not so sure I believe in it in real life either. I’m a positive person, but when people say that they found "the one" and then get divorced 2 years later, it is hard to believe in it.
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the concept of YA books are stupid. Dumbing down literature is never a good thing.
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I was 17 when I met my husband, we’ve been together for almost eleven years now and married for five. Is he my Soul Mate? I like to think so. There is no one in the world who knows me like he does and no one I feel safer with.
In saying that, I’m not one for damaging books but I would gladly burn all the books that have, and continue to come out about young love that lasts longer than forever.
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I never liked the idea of soul mates in general, too far-fetched that they would even exist let alone find you in your lifetime, and meeting your true love in your teenage years is even less plausible. I think the idea is cliched, too many authors grasping at straws and hoping to appeal to love-sick little girls who want to find their perfect man.
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Quiet frankly, soul mates in books with characters of *any* age seem ridiculous. The whole concept of soul mates, destined to be together until death and even thereafter, is just gag-worthy. Maybe it’s just me, but I personally think a much better reasoning behind romance is that the two people, after getting to know one another, simply fall in love because they unexpectedly did so. Not because of destiny, and *not* because their souls were pre-determined to fall in love, but because they genuinely grew to love one another.
So take that rubbish romance novels.
**I also agree with the user who said that the concept of "soul mates" seems like a cheap tactic by the author to not develop the relationship/characters. Like throwing in the fact that they’re "soul mates" explains everything? It really doesn’t.
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June 26th, 2010 at 2:53 am
I see what you mean. Yes it it extremely cliche but it does excite teens to think that there someone out there that their destined to be with. That’s probably why teens like reading those kind of books. Usually I find them a bit cliche anyways soul mate is just another way of saying " your perfect for me" Oh well hope I helped here!
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Mine? Plleeeaaasssee?
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