female protagonists will literally go through 30 life altering traumas at the age of 16 and you ppl still have the audacity to call them annoying bc they cry about it and act like teenage girls
Tally Youngblood (Uglies). Oh I am so sorry that she was in fact shaped by her dystopian regimes propaganda and believes it at least at first, and that she does not do a Katniss Everdeen or Tris Prior and is heroic and morally upstanding about being blackmailed by the government.
She is sixteen and grew up in an presumed Utopia without ever having to fight before, of course she is naive and does bad choices.
Oh no, a teenager who is so afraid about being different and not fitting in all the time actually being bad with other people and self-focused and ruining all her relationships/friendships? Instead of just claiming she is oh so not like other girls but everybody loves her nevertheless?
What is that, being brainwashed for two fucking times actually affects the way she acts and makes her do even worse choices? Bad writing of course!
There are legitimate criticisms with these books, but all this whining about how unlikeable Tally Youngblood is just borders on lacking reading comprehension. Also, like... its dystopia. Not all dystopias need to have heroes you totally agree with and like.
Personally, how massively bad at being a hero Tally is is one of my most favorite parts of the series, because she feels so human.
