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Just three books. That's all I could contribute to this list. Sad.

Edit: I take that back. I've just voted for a few more books.

I don't know what it says that so many of my votes are for old books!

Ug, Cassandra Clare is at the top of this list.

Please, kill me now.

Can I vote 4 more times for Laini Taylor to fix it? ;)

Dude. I clearly said NON-ABUSIVE heroes. Hush, Hush is on this list. WHAT?!

Penny wrote: "Dude. I clearly said NON-ABUSIVE heroes. Hush, Hush is on this list. WHAT?!"

You can delete it!

Penny, your list has been destroyed. There is nothing quality about half of these books. Oh well, we tried...

Tatiana wrote: "Penny, your list has been destroyed. There is nothing quality about half of these books. Oh well, we tried..."

Ha, Shiver is listed twice too.

The Host isn't YA lit. It's adult. Even the author bills it as sci fi for those who don't like sci fi

*sigh* Okay, who added a gazillion stupid books to the list?

C'mon, fess up!

If you click on the votes, you can see who voted for them. If there's more than one person though, there's no way to tell who added it first. Plus, you can always just edit the list if people keep adding stupid stuff.

I can edit the list? How? This is the first list I've ever created so I don't know how this all works.

I feel like my list has been violated. :(

Ah, ok. Just go to the top, at the end of your description:

(*coughFALLENcough*). (edit) <-click edit

On the next page, you'll see these links:

check for duplicates
remove particular books <-click this

Then delete away!

And also, you don't have to be the creator to delete books, any librarian can, but if someone comes and deletes books off a list for no reason goodreads will go as far as deleting the member's account.

Okay, so I did delete Hush, Hush for obvious reasons. The Mortal Instruments series is still up though (because even though I don't care for the series it isn't controversial in the same sense that Hush, Hush is controversial. Although the non-incest "incest" freaks me the crap out, especially when Jace starts to get off on it at one point during the third book), as much as it pains me to see them there, so far up on the list.

Also, I got rid of the duplicates.

As for the rest of the books, either I have not read them or don't have justifiable reasons to delete them. If any of you girls have read any of the books on the list and feel they clearly don't belong, go ahead and delete.

Penny! How can you not want to delete VA? Two words: statutory rape. oh or alternatively cradle snatching. eew! oh oh oh, or gold-digging narcissist.

I guess quality is a subjective term these days. To be fair I am incredibly jaded when it comes to paranormal YA these days. I blame many things, everything but myself.

I'd like to point out that the book Betrayal by Mayandree Michel is both self-published and not actually out yet.

The former may not bother any of you, but the latter makes it kind of hard for anyone else to judge if it actually belongs on the list.

As Vinaya has pointed out the Vampire Academy series has cradle snatching. All those in favor of deleting?

(I am, but I feel I need a little more support here.)

I went ahead and edited the description of this list by adding Age Appropriate Heroes. But I just realized VA already breaks the whole "protagonist that doesn't use her sexuality as a weapon" thing.

I can't judge VA properly since I haven't read the series but student/teacher relationships being portrayed as true love is a big no-no in my book.