Top Ten YA Characters in Need of an Intervention Letter

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You know those moments where you yell at a book and you really wish the made up people inside it would just listen to you? Like, you can see that the path they are headed down is DOOMED TO MISERY, and if only they'd just heed your words, everything would be fine. You could save them.

I have those moments a lot. So this week, I am going to write intervention letters to some of YA's most deserving candidates.

AKA the character that inspired this topic. Girl. Reconsider every single one of the choices you make in Her Dark Curiosity. I so wished I could step into this book and save her from herself and her awful, DANGEROUS judgment.

Thank God for Kenji who basically serves as a walking, talking intervention letter in Unravel Me.  I adore Juliette for the progress she makes, but poor girl always gets too much into her own head and you just want to take her by the (hopefully covered up) shoulders and tell her to PULL HERSELF TOGETHER.

(Also, actual Juliet. As in Juliet Montague) (Apparently Juliet(te) is the name for girls who need reasonable people in their lives to give them reasonable adult advice)

Oh, Mal. Oh Mal, honey, no. Noooo. Let me help you STOP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING. 

I understand where Tris is, mentally, in this book, but it's so hard to watch her make so many reckless, downright suicidal decisions. LET ME SAVE YOU FROM YOURSELF.

I wish I could squirrel her away to a land without disco ball virgin vampires or rage-challenged, shirt-challenged, underage dogpeople and teach her how to not endanger her life on the regular.

PICK A BOY MAXON. Make a decision, girl. It's okay. We can talk this through. I'm here for you. You can do it. I promise.

I ADORE Bianca, and I adore that she makes rash and sometimes questionable decisions and she doesn't care what people think of her, but I so wish I could have been there to help her avoid the rock bottom she reaches. I'M HERE FOR YOU, BIANCA.
Honorable mention: Whitley from A Midsummer's Nightmare

ADAM. OMG. YOU POOR SELF-LOATHING MESS OF A BOY. LET ME HELP YOU. STOP THINKING AND DOING THE THINGS YOU THINK AND DO.

Violet no ohmigod no seriously no no young lady be wise omg OMG

Cath, my kindred spirit, my bookish twin, I have been there. More than anything, I wish I could crawl into Fangirl and a) hang out with Cath, because she is awesome, and b) help her through the issues she goes through and the fears she's forced to conquer and the boundaries she's forced to stretch.

 Have you ever wanted to write an intervention letter for a character?