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[ SECRET POST #5306 ]

⌈ Secret Post #5306 ⌋

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03. [SPOILERS for the Tearling trilogy by Erika Johansen]

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04. [SPOILERS for Danganronpa V3]

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05. [WARNING for animal death]

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06. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia]

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07. [WARNING for discussion of sexual harassment]

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What books did you find you liked that came out around the same time as HP and similar genre that didn't take off like HP? But you feel should have?

I have no idea what was popular. :/

Loved the Uglies series when I read them (only read the first 3).

I really enjoyed the Switchers trilogy. Not sure if anyone here has read them?

Animorphs were popular but I wish they had held their popularity so we could get a series from them....on HBO.

Man, I loved Animorphs. And I do think the concepts in that series were extremely strong, and very serious and weighty. OTOH, the writing was also, imo, pretty pulpy a lot of the time, and weak in the way you generally expect of pulpy writing. It's a weird one because I will always tout Animorphs as a fantastic kids/YA series with concepts that were more than strong enough for adults to sink their teeth into--while also feeling like the prose itself doesn't hold up very well to an adult reading.

Which, I guess, is to say that YES. An HBO Animorphs TV series could potentially be phenomenal.

Animorphs had a ton of ghostwriters which made for the uneven writing. KA Applegate wrote the first 24 and the last 2. A couple in between that as well.

Man, just thinking about how dark the ending was. I definitely feel like it dealt with the themes of grief and PTSD better than any other YA series out there.

Animorphs is what I was obsessed with before I got into Harry Potter. Though the books are a lot shorter, and quickly written, and often ghost-written...it is just really, really good. I've read them again as an adult and gotten adult friends into them who didn't read them as kids. They hold up.