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Date: 2015-09-17 01:55 pm (UTC)Yes, this! I have an older brother and a younger sister, both of whom I'm really close with, and I find that it's really rare to find a work of fiction that manages to portray anything like my experience. You always find either a relationship which involves endless petty bickering, or the author treats any pair of siblings that are able to express their affection for each other as uncomfortably close/bordering on incest, and I just feel like Sarah Rees Brennan did a really good job of siblings who are each other's most significant relationship without acting as though she was courting controversy by making siblings who are also friends.
I love Sin. I love Sin so much. I have a bit of a bias for dancers, and also family-oriented characters, because it's so rare to find that in a main character - although that's actually true of pretty much all the major characters in those books, and I just really enjoy it. I also enjoyed her the way her relationship with Mae developed throughout the book.
I think when I read the Tomorrow series, I was still young enough that what struck me most was the fact that the books talked about things I hadn't heard people talk about much - like that sex can be awkward, and your first relationship is not always the best decision. And yes, they also do feel like a celebration of the resourcefulness and adaptability of a generation which I wasn't really aware enough to have heard demonised then, but I have now, and in hindsight I really appreciate that passionate defence of Gen Y.
(To be fair, I really enjoyed the first three books, but I felt after that that they went downhill a bit. Not sure what popular opinion is on that.)
If there's interest, I could start up some kind of Dreamwidth comm and/or themed Tumblr for this.
I for one am putting my hand up! I'll let you know if any catchy names come to mind.
(How do you feel about Melina Marchetta (particularly Jellicoe Road?))