Dear Authors, Please Write More About… (Part 2)

Well, well, well. Look who’s finally continuing her creatively named series after half a year.

Honestly, you know just by looking at my blog title that anything I name won’t be groundbreaking at all. I’m sorry, future child (aka John Smith).

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜɪs sᴇʀɪᴇs: There are certain topics, tropes, and types of characters that make me gravitate towards a book. In this series, I’ll share those items with you all in hopes that an author will come across these posts and answer my pleas for more books about these things. Here’s to screaming into the void (because let’s be real, this series is futile.):

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Reliable narrators are so predictable 🙄. But seriously, a sure way to execute a plot twist that will blow my mind is to write a character who is hiding something from the reader or is giving a false account of the book’s events. I’ve only read a couple books with unreliable narrators (not mentioned here because spoilers), and would love to be surprised by them more.

On the other hand, maybe unreliable narrators would get unsurprising and boring if they were more common 🤔.

It’s so relieving to read books, specifically from the young adult genre, in which the protagonist has a healthy relationship with their family (ex. The Upside of Unrequited and Highly Illogical Behavior). Having a teenage character that engages in open dialogue with their parents is an important occurrence that may resonate with an impressionable audience going through many changes. Authors have the ability to show teens what it may be like if they seek help from the people they live with as opposed to folding inwards on themselves or gaining questionable advice from their peers. This is something I wish I realized in high school, and maybe reading a book or two with a character with good familial support would have guided me in the right direction.

My siblings are my best friends, and I’m probably a little obsessed with all of them. While part of the fun of reading is immersing myself in a would unlike mine, I do appreciate parallels between stories and my life. In a way, it becomes easier to get lost in a book when I can relate to an aspect of the story so that even the craziest of plots is grounded by some reality. I can think of no better way for me to connect to a story than introducing a cast of siblings.

Here’s a question I like asking people and now pose to you:

Which would you prefer: a zombie apocalypse or AI takeover?

My answer is zombie apocalypse because at least we have a chance to outsmart the suckers. If an AI wanted to takeover, it’d be game over for us 🙅.

It’s probably that latter sentiment that makes AI so intriguing to me. Why invest the resources in a technology that can possibly enslave us? Asides from the morbid fascination with AI, I also can’t wrap my mind around something having computing power of their magnitude. Books like Illuminae captivate me with their stories of AI “malfunctioning” and gaining sentience, and I need more.

I’m pretty iffy about most romance tropes, but I’ve loved “the boy/girl next door” cliche for as long as I can remember. My appreciation for this trope probably stems from my preteen dreams of encountering “the boy next door” in the ultimate meet-cute, but actually being stuck instead with “the elderly couple next door” (although they were pretty cute too 😂). I’m constantly perusing romance shelves for stories like On the Fence by Kasie West and am repeatedly left with the familiar disappointment felt by my twelve year old self.

Authors out there, please humor this twelve year old 🙋‍♀️.

Thanks for reading 🙂! Do you love any of the things I mentioned as well? What’s something you wish there were more books about? Let me know 😊.