An Idle Observation About Teen Paranormal Romance

vampires — Vampires…are not emotional sissy boys, do not attend high school, do not sparkle.

Barnes & Nobel now has a shelf titled ‘Teen Paranormal Romance.”

But “normal” has never been a point on the map with teenage girls has it? Adding romance? When did that situation get solved? I seem to recall teenage romance being a cross between the movie Inception and a George Romero flick with a menstrual cycle.

Young girls smitten with dreamy boy band rejects, or the kid from the wrong side of the tracks, all of whom are secretly self-loathing outcasts that totally get each other–then don’t…. describes almost every “normal” teenage relationship I’ve ever heard of. And if she’s a vegan your bacon obsession is on the same plane of reality as sucking the blood out of dead animals to survive. (You may tell her you’ll give up bacon but we know the truth.)

I don’t think Teenage boys are even human until they reach, I don’t know, forty?

Teen Paranormal Romance shouldn’t have a shelf. It should have it’s own wing.

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Steve MacDonald

Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, complaint department, Op-ed editor, gatekeeper (most likely to miss typos because he has no editor), and contributor at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, The Republican Volunteer Coalition, has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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