forum Things You Want MORE Of In Books

Started January 21, 2019 by @HighPockets group

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Lmao or have a nail-chewing habit like me

I just like girls who can throw punches lol

Play an instrument and have long nails, you cowards. Unless it's a stringed instrument, then f I guess

Broooo even if I just see the white of my nails my intonation is screwed.

God systems. I think that they're interesting, and I want to see more of them that actually play into the story.

I’m thinking of doing that. I have a technically not god system for Althalos.

something about books from the perspective of animals who call their humans their pets makes the child in me go :DDDD

I'm a WHORE for the good twin evil twin trope

The Mysterious Benedict Society.

That and The Secret Series started my love for it

I want to see more of the good guys taking one of the bad guy's henchmen hostage for some reason or another, but instead of the henchman becoming good or something like that, they instead help the good guys because it would help them out in the end. They know for some reason that if they try and go back to the bad guy they'll just be killed or tossed aside, so they help the good guys, but they themself don't just become a good guy.

• Characters who can't read/write because they never learned how/dyslexic but they're not treated as disabled. I want one where it's something like that but it's treated as normal.
• Where it's set in, say, Brazil. PICK SOMEWHERE UNUSUAL PEOPLE! WE'VE SEEN CHICAGO AND NY SO MUCHHHHHHHHHHHH! too much
• Where a girl and boy actually JUST HAVE A PLAIN OL FRIENDSHIP WITH NO SHIPPING! AND THEY DONT CRUSH ON EACH OTHER!
• One where the MC tries to like, run away from their destiny because they're a coward. Don't make them get braver, keep them a coward! And all the 'heroic' things they do are accidents….
• An MC where English WASN'T their first language. I feel like we need WAY WAY MORE of that in books.

Where it's set in, say, Brazil. PICK SOMEWHERE UNUSUAL PEOPLE! WE'VE SEEN CHICAGO AND NY SO MUCHHHHHHHHHHHH! too much

I feel this on a spiritual level. Once I read a book that was set in Botswana, and it wasn't very good tbh but it was a breath of fresh air compared to like every other YA novel which all seem to take place in New York, California. Sometimes England or Paris if you're lucky.
I get that it's hard to write about settings that you're not familiar with, but even dystopias that are so far removed from what our world is like all seem to take place in the US. Like, if the Hunger Game took place in say, Russia, for instance, would it really be that drastically different? Probably not.

This is kind of the same thing, but as a Canadian, I'd really specifically like to see more books set in Canada. Seems like even Canadian authors all set their novels in the US as well. And tbh if you can write an American character, it probably wouldn't be that hard to write a Canadian one.

Where it's set in, say, Brazil. PICK SOMEWHERE UNUSUAL PEOPLE! WE'VE SEEN CHICAGO AND NY SO MUCHHHHHHHHHHHH! too much

I feel this on a spiritual level. Once I read a book that was set in Botswana, and it wasn't very good tbh but it was a breath of fresh air compared to like every other YA novel which all seem to take place in New York, California. Sometimes England or Paris if you're lucky.
I get that it's hard to write about settings that you're not familiar with, but even dystopias that are so far removed from what our world is like all seem to take place in the US. Like, if the Hunger Game took place in say, Russia, for instance, would it really be that drastically different? Probably not.

This is kind of the same thing, but as a Canadian, I'd really specifically like to see more books set in Canada. Seems like even Canadian authors all set their novels in the US as well. And tbh if you can write an American character, it probably wouldn't be that hard to write a Canadian one.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS! I'm ALSO Canadian, and I feel that too! its like GIVE USSSSS OUR DUE GLORYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

I can't tell you how happy I was as a Massachusetts native to see Boston be featured in the Magnus Chase novels and Godzilla: King of the Monsters. It was just so nice to go "Oh, look! It's Fenway! I've been to Fenway before!"

I wish books and media would go to different locations and sometimes ACTUALLY SHOW CONSEQUENCES OF THE STORY HAPPENING IN THOSE AREAS. New York gets rebuilt all the time, what happens to poorer neighborhoods? Godzilla nuked the shit out of Boston to the point where steel cranes melted when he passed by! The news cycle the next day should have been "Mayor Marty Walsh got super-cancer and died and Jamaica Plains has devolved into a Mad Max wasteland" or some shit, right?

speaking of Godzilla I like how the destruction jumps up from 2014 to 2019. the city in 2014, definitely damaged, but I think we can manage it…
Boston? gone. nuked out of existence. rubble everywhere. I don’t think it’s coming back from this one…
And I’ve seen gvk and I don’t wanna give out spoilers but the cities definitely get pummelled too, not to mention the death count there has to be from all of that (actually in all of the movies. We know from real life that evacuations aren’t always going to evacuate everyone so there’s people still left in the city..RIP to the people who didn’t evacuate in Boston)

Also I think though, radiation from the Titans in Godzilla works differently, like it was mentioned in KOTM that San Francisco (the city where Godzilla took down the MUTOs) was overtaken by vegetation and many parts of the city were deserted and left to nature. https://godzilla.fandom.com/wiki/San_Francisco#Godzilla:_King_of_the_Monsters
So in a way it did mention a bit of the consequences, but it never really touched up on them too much aside from a brief mention in KOTM I believe, so I wish we got a bit more detailing what happened to places ravaged by the Kaiju fights/rampages especially during KOTM.

also as a Canadian I would like to see more media/novels set in Canada.

I'm surprised Atlanta is never a setting in books tbh
I know it's always New York or somewhere in Cali, but like, Atlanta would be a fantastic story setting.
(I only bring that up as someone from GA lmao)

The only book I can think of that takes place in Atlanta is Yes, No, Maybe So by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed…I can count on one hand the amount of books I've read that take place in Wisconsin and I want morrrrrre-

I can't tell you how happy I was as a Massachusetts native to see Boston be featured in the Magnus Chase novels

I felt the same way about Heroes of Olympus when they went to Vancouver. I know it was only for like 2 or 3 chapters but I remember they mentioned Crescent Beach and I was just like "Hey I was literally there like a week ago!" It was like the first and only time I've ever had that in a book.
I don't think I've ever even really watched a movie or tv show that was set it Canada. They film a lot of stuff out here, and every now and then I'll recognize certain places. But there's even a saying about how Vancouver has starred in many movies but never as itself.

I want more books in Alaska that don't go "wow this is so remote and cold and tiny" and then the author obviously has never been?? looking at you, Rick Riordan bc the book in Percy Jackson that takes place in Alaska is just…not phenomenal

How could anyone look at Alaska and go "lol this is tiny!"

Lol I meant the towns/cities, but yeah

@Opener. Yes.

I had three things and I forgot one.

I wanna see casual trauma. Not the center of the book. Like a character casually mentioning something about dealing with ptsd from manipulative parents and their friends being aware of it but it’s not a big deal it just is.

Also I wanna see more guys with trauma. And not the sad emo boy/abusive boyfriend way. Or because they fought in a war. Men deal with serious trauma too.

#3 goes here ‘cept I forgot

And something I’ve been thinking about. People do a lotta things. Like yawning. Have you ever seen a yawn that isn’t relevant to the story? That’s bull. Dudes should casually yawn for no reason. And sneeze. Etc.

Awesome chapter names like the ones Rick Riordan writes
(“I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher”
“My Sword Has a Better Social Life Than I Do”
“I Become a Purple Chimpanzee”
“My Sister, the Flowerpot”
“Three Old Ladies Knit the Socks of Death”
“Phil the Potato Meets His Doom”
“Could You Please Stop Killing My Goat?”
And many many more, found here:
https://riordan.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_List_(CHB)
https://riordan.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_List_(KC)
https://riordan.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_List_(MC))

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Also if more books can be this engrossing from the first line:
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“Yeah I know. You guys are going to read about how I died in agony, and you’re going to be like, ‘Wow! That sounds cool, Magnus! Can I die in agony too?’
No. Just no.
Don’t go jumping off any rooftops. Don’t run into the highway or set yourself on fire. It doesn’t work that way. You will not end up where I ended up.
Besides, you wouldn’t want to deal with my situation. Unless you’ve got some crazy desire to see undead warriors hacking one another to pieces, swords flying up giants’ noses, and dark elves in snappy outfits, you shouldn’t even think about finding the wolf-headed doors.
My name is Magnus Chase. I’m sixteen years old. This is the story of how my life went downhill after I got myself killed.”
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-Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer
(I read it in 5 days!)

OMG I LOVE THOSE BOOKS SO MUCH

Mixed genres

Also books where the main character isn't the chosen one, maybe the real chosen one just gave so they were like 'fine, then i'll do it'. Or maybe they basically have the role of a side character, but are the main focus.