Yes, very much so. I've always found Pierce's crushes fairly plausible, and I appreciate that both Alanna and Kel do not settle down with their first crush...but then Daine and Aly do, and in the former case it's her teacher and in the latter, it's a crow (!). I dunno--I think you can marry off 16-year-olds OR give them crushes, but the combination is...unlikely, at least if you want that marriage to succeed. And I don't find Pierce's love marriages all that plausible, for the most part.
I dunno, I'd like to see more overwhelming first crushes that turn out not to be Forever Love in YA.
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Date: 10 Jan 2011 09:22 pm (UTC)From:I dunno, I'd like to see more overwhelming first crushes that turn out not to be Forever Love in YA.