Angela R. Watts asked Brian McBride:

What are your least favorite and most favorite trope(s) in YA fantasy?

Brian McBride Least favorites: love triangles (ew), girl falls for bad-boy (because that's borderline toxic), flawlessly attractive heroes, and unskilled heroes inexplicably defeating the villain without any sort of training.

Favorites: the chosen one (hey, I'm just a sucker for a good chosen one storyline; Percy Jackson, for example), stumbling onto another world (bc who doesn't want that to happen irl?), and discovering magical objects or artifacts (bc we've all inherited a piece of jewelry we secretly wondered was cursed...)

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