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wait...did I just get through 3 whole YA fantasy novels in the same series without someone important dying (and staying dead)...what is this feeling? You can write a YA book without killing someone I love? My world is altered...I have been lied to...all these authors causing me unnecessary pain--I--

Mating Bond: Rant

Soooooo I’ve read enough of Twilight and ACOTAR to have a idea of this imprinting/mating bond/ultimate fate couple idea. 

But honestly, the idea is so toxic. Like even Rhysand talks about how some people think they ‘own’ the person they imprint on and how fate or whatever upper power decides can pick mates poorly and basically almost decides based on who will produce the most powerful offspring but that is beside the point. 

I know you can reject it but how? If you do figure out this person is wrong for you...how can you turn away? Push past the pull to do what’s right? Look at how toxic Rhysand’s parents’ relationship turned out to be--even Tamlin’s parents and Sam Uley and Emily Young, these relationships were unhealthy, but they could not look past this blinding love or bond or attraction or whatever you want to call it.

Think about it though. You’re going about whatever life and you fall in love with someone. You really love them. With every part of your being. Every freaking molecule. But there is no bond. But who cares right? What matters is that love, that feeling, that connection...right? WRONG. How can you love someone for however many days, weeks, years, centuries, with this looming threat that they may not be ‘The One’? 

And what of marriages then? You marry someone, give your life to them, let them know you in every way only to find out fate has other plans? What about that underlying guilt that you guys don’t have ‘that bond’? That your love isn't good enough? 

Even if you do look past it, trust that either your relationship is strong enough as it is, or that the bond will ‘snap into place’ eventually, what if you do end up meeting you mate? The one? How do you come to terms with that? Even if you love the person you are with from the bottom of your soul, how can you look past those instinctive feelings? 

How many people even find this ‘mate’? I mean look at Rhysand and Feyre, even Jacob and Renessme, can your mate be another species? How does that even work if humans don’t have that bond?

Thanks for coming to my TEDx Talk...

no because feyre doesn’t need to have a CHILD to be happy

Does anyone else want a book about the next generation of the inner circle?