Today I thought I’d do a bit of a throwback post. I’m going to talk about some of the books that I loved in high school. I feel like I don’t talk about a lot of these books as much as they deserve, and wanted to gush about some of my old favourites.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I was total Hunger Games TRASH and you know what? I recently revisited it and it’s GREAT OKAY. Honestly, the first book is so good. It’s a WOC who starts a rebellion against her oppressive government. And in the second book, the rebellion is mainly sparked by the death of a black girl. AND it deals with PTSD and it’s honestly so good and I’m so sorry that we in the book world have forgotten about it, and that Hollywood did what it does best (erase POC, disability, and mental illness).
Legend by Marie Lu
I don’t have as passionate feelings as I did for THG, but honestly I love Legend and think (given Marie Lu wrote it when she was like 16 or something) it’s so good. Again, it’s about teenage rebellion and taking down corrupt governments. Is this a theme I like? Yes, obviously, it is always good.
Beastly by Alex Flinn
I am trash and will admit that and I love this book. This is a Beauty and the Beast retelling, and I highly recommend it if you want some fluffy high school romance. ALSO the movie was l i t e r a l t r a s h and is maybe the worst book-to-movie adaptation I’ve ever seen in my life. Like, truly the worst.
Anna and the French Kiss by Anna Perkins
same as above. sorry.
Poison Study by Maria V Snyder
AGAIN there is so much good in this book. The main character has PTSD and decides she’s not going to live as the damsel in distress and is so great and badass. And it’s so sweet and good. I love it. The romance, the friendships, the characters. Everything about it is perfection, don’t @ me.
So those are some books I read and loved in high school! What were some of your favourites? Have you read any of these? What were your thoughts? Let me know!!
Ally xx
Poison Study and Anna were both amazing!! Yet to read the others, but I did see the movie Beastly… I didn’t think it was super bad, but I also never read the book!!
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Yes, they’re both so good!! The Beastly movie was fine as it’s own movie, it was just so different from the book
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Oh I hate it when they change things for the sake of changing them!!!
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I really enjoyed Hunger Games and Poison Study, but haven’t read the others. As for my own High School favorites, they included Anne McCaffrey’s Talents series (which was new at the time) and The Lord of the Rings.
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Yay so glad you agreed!! I still haven’t read LOTR but I’ve read the Hobbit!
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LOTR is good, but I think The Hobbit is better. Also, you can get most of LOTR from the movies, they did a really good job (even though not perfect) with the movies.
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Yes!!!!!!!!!!! I was Beastly trash, too lmao and even though I didn’t love the movie, I did love the movie poster. I had it up in my first dorm room! Lol
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Omg yay!!! I feel like no one remembers it??? And the movie poster was pretty great tbh
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Oh gosh what a throwback I was such trash for Hunger Games and Beastly back in middle school. Love this post!
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Thank you!!! 💕 so glad you agree!
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I was such trash for Hunger Games and Legend many years ago! I still adore the former one as well! I need to reread that trilogy soon! 😍
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Same!!! The Hunger Games is still amazing tbh
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All good choices!! I loved The Lunar Chronicles in high school and was a big fan of Legend as well!!
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Thank you!! So glad you agree about Legend 😃
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Great post! And I think almost every bookworm can say The Hunger Games, it went off with a bang, and left everyone stunned 😂
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It did!! It was so popular for a while, but I forget about it sometimes (which is so bad haha)
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I love how some of these I just recently read LOL!
Maybe at some point you can reread some of these and give us updates about what you think of them now vs. then!
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Better late than never!!
I would love to do a post like that! Just need the time to read them lmao
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