Thank you so much to everyone who signed up to #CritYourFaves! The list of all the participating blogs and their respective discussion topics are included here. I will be updating this list all throughout October.
There are no set posting schedules, those participating can post at any time as long as it’s within October! Remember to use the #CritYourFaves hashtag when crossposting on social media so I can make sure to help you promote your post 🙂 If you can manage it, please also leave a link to your post in the comments below when you have published it!
| Name | Blog Name | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Regina | The Bibliotheque | Unhealthy Romance in Fiction/Cooleen Hoover’s Books |
| Daisy | Feminists Read Love | Tamora Pierce: From Childhood Fave to Problematic Fave |
| Jenna | Reading With Jenna | To Be Decided |
| Dev | A Writer is a World Trapped in a Person | Whitewashing in Book-to-Movie Adaptations |
| Kelly | Diva Booknerd | Toxic Romances |
| Helia | Rose Quartz Read | The Issue With Killing Off Minority Characters |
| Monica | Tomes Project | Lack of Diverse Representation in Harry Potter |
| Bianca | The Ultimate Fangirl | ABC’s of Contemporary Cliches or Fantasy VS. Contemporary Male Leads |
| Fadwa | Word Wonders | Lack of Diversity in the Harry Potter World |
| Laura | Blue Eye Books | The Young Elites Discussion |
| Kate | Between the Sky and Me | Discussion of Harmful Tropes |
| Grace | Ashen Reads | Lack of Representation in Cassandra Clare’s series |
| Monica | She Might Be Monica | Lack of diversity & toxic relationships in the Throne of Glass series |
| Liz | Bitchy Fantasy | The Taming of the Bad Boy (e.g. ACOMAF) |
| Natalia | A Court of Tales | Discussion of Throne of Glass and its problematic elements |
| Mishma | Chasing Faerytales | To Be Decided |
| Patricia Alferez | Patti’s Book Blog | Problematic Faves and How To Deal With It |
| Dani St Clair | Romancing the Social Sciences | Harmful tropes/Problematic faves/Representation of POC (Representation, the White Saviour and the Other in Meredith Duran’s The Duke of Shadows) |
| Zoe | If The Book Will Be Too Difficult | Tamora Pierce’s Protector of the Small quartet |
| Miriam | Miriam Reads Books | Obsidian Mountain Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey |
| Haley | Been There, Read That | Queerbaiting in Cursed Child |
| Puput | Sparkling Letters | Paper Princess: An Addictive Read Despite Its Problematic Tropes |
| Jess | The Bookaholic Life | Discuss a series you love and what issues you had with it |
| Nemo | Young Adult at Heart | The Romance That Is Not Romantic in Wuthering Heights |
| Anushka | Going Through Books | Discuss a series you love and what issues you had with it |
| Alin | Ace Readss | The Raven Cycle and the fear of the word bisexual |
| Guinevere | Twinja Book Reviews | Discussing the Percy Jackson books, where they fail in diversity/inclusivity despite being well written stories. |
| Aimal | Bookshelves & Paperbacks | Lack of Diversity/Post Series Additions in the Harry Potter Series & Supernatural |
| Booknuts101 | 21st Century Once Upon A Times | Unhealthy romance in fiction |
| Victoria | Addlepates and Book Nerds | Is bad representation better than no representation? |
| Tessa | Crazy for YA | Looking back on my first favorite YA series |
| Wendy | Falconer’s Library | Ethnicity in Eleanor & Park. Responsibility as a white reader. |
| Jeann | Happy Indulgence | Why Throne of Glass is Problematic…But I Still Love It |
| Blika | Armchair Adventures | Sexuality, Gender & Diversity |
| Chris | Lovely Black Ink | Unhealthy romance in fiction |
| Lynette | Charmingly Simple | Harry Potter: Why Snape’s a Git and Dumbledore is an Asshole. |
| Morgane | Bookworms Eat Brains | Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke |
Read at Midnight 
Hey, I’ve decided that I’ll be writing about whitewashing book-to-movie adaptations. Can’t wait to start writing!
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Thanks Dev, I will update the post! I really appreciate you joining the event! Can’t wait to read your post 🙂
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i cannot wait to see what everyone has to say, this is such a brilliant series!
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Thank you!! I can’t wait to read the posts either, their titles are certainly enticing 😍
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I am so happy to see all the participation. I am sorry I couldn’t get it together enough to contribute. I look forward to reading all the #CritYourFaves posts.
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Thanks for your support, Brendan :)!! I will look forward to reading all the posts along with you!
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I second Brendon. I can’t wait– and I wish I had my stuff together to participate. Great idea, Aentee!
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This is such a wonderful concept – I am looking forward to reading all the posts! Stiefvater and Maas are definitely problematic, no matter how much I adore their work. I think there will be some really valuable discussion here!
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I really look forward to reading the posts ❤️ And yes, there’s definitely issues with a lot of YA books because of the tropes inherent in them, though I love the genre.
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Hey! I’m sorry for having to ask you to do this – but if you can’t, that’s absolutely fine. Can you change my topic to ‘Unrealistic character shifts in the ACOTAR books’? Actually, while filling the sign-up form, I didn’t understand that criteria and thus entered something else into it. Now, reading everyone else’s discussion topics, I finally get it 😛
Also, thank you so much for organizing this! It’s absolutely amazing 🙂
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Yeah that’s all good – I’ll update it when I get back on the laptop 🙂
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This is one of the best events/thing ever! Yes please do update this list as you go along because I want to read these all ASAP. YOU BETTER UPDATE THIS OR I WILL TRACK YOU DOWN.
But seriously. Such a great idea. I would have had a post, but I think I have written everything I wanted to in the past. And I have nothing new to talk about hahah.
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I totally forgot sign ups closed at the end of September. But I’m very excited to post my posts anyways (yes, 2, because I couldn’t decide!) and link them down here. I’m very excited for Toxic Romances (and all the troubling romance posts) and Queerbaiting. Also the taming of the bad boy would be an interesting read!
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Here is my post on The Problem With Killing Off Minority Characters
I can’t express how much I am in love with the idea of this challenge – thank you so much for creating it! There are some really important topics listed here that I can’t wait to read about, especially because I know that in the past I’ve ignored some of the more obvious problems in my favourite books.
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Helloooo 😀
I posted my discussion earlier today about the lack of diversity in Harry Potter ! here’s the link: https://wordwoonders.wordpress.com/2016/10/10/crityourfaves-harry-potter-and-the-lack-of-diversity/
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There are soooo many! I can’t wait to read all of these. Yay!
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This is going to be very interesting to read! I hope everyone will remember to link to their post here, so that I can find them 🙂 Great idea, Aentee!
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My post just went up today! Thanks for hosting this!
https://ifthebook.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/crityourfaves-tamora-pierce/
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I’ve just posted about queerbaiting in Cursed Child. It’s here: http://hmweasley-blog.blogspot.com/2016/10/crityourfaves-albusscorpius-in-harry.html
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My post is up! Criticising the romance between Cathy and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights.
https://youngadultatheart.com/2016/10/13/crityourfaves-the-romance-that-is-not-romantic-in-wuthering-heights/
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My post is live! ‘Unhealthy Romance: Respect & Communication 101’: http://21stcenturyonceuponatime.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/crityourfaves-unhealthy-romance-respect.html
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Hi! I just posted my discussion here ❤ The Royals: The Most Addictive Yet Problematic Books I’ve Ever Read
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I’m.so looking forward to this Aentee and thank you do much for hosting! I’m planning on mine this week and looking forward to visiting all the other blogs. So incredibly important to share experiences as readers, and facilitate respectful discussion ❤
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I’ve changed my URL (previously @ Feminists Read Love) and just posted my discussion here: https://wishuponwords.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/crityourfaves-from-childhood-fave-to-problematic-fave/
Thank you for hosting this wonderful event and giving me this opportunity to discuss my problematic fave ❤️ I can’t wait to check the other posts out!
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Hi guys, my post is up, with a slight title change to ‘Colonialism and Representation in Meredith Duran’s The Duke of Shadows’: http://sociallyscientificromance.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/crityourfaves-post-colonialism-and.html
And thanks so much Aentee for letting me be a part of this, I really appreciate it!
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I missed the sign up but decided to post my idea inspired by this amazing event anyway https://cornreviewsbooks.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/realizing-your-fave-is-problematic/
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