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SednaNariko t1_iycux9w wrote

I think it's appropriate for a 14 year old. I mean she's as old as some of the characters in the book going through things.

Like ooo scandalous, kissing... at 14 years old you are entering the 9th grade (aka high school). It's plenty fine. There's a scene in the last book where they get a bit handsy but it's over the bra feeling at absolute most.

HOWEVER, the concern I have with the series is how kinda toxic the romance starts off in the books. Though granted every single YA book from the time had toxic relationships. And I will say that the relationship progresses in a very healthy way.

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Rominions t1_iydppdy wrote

Always find it funny that Americans can question kissing or sex as being too adult, but murdering nah that shits fine even to a toddler. Weirdest example? Ring around the rosey.....

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Least-Conference-335 t1_iye4hj4 wrote

How do you convince your population to join the military as teenagers if you don’t desensitize them to murder at infancy? Funny enough, in the same American military complex during WW1, they enforced sexual abstinence, kept attractive women around but detained any prostitutes or promiscuous women to psychologically frustrate the male soldiers in hopes that they would be more focused and lethal.

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kithien t1_iydbemd wrote

This - you should probably read the series and talk about both the ending and the romance with your 14 year old.

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SpiderSmoothie t1_iyde6eh wrote

Considering op says this is their friend it's pretty safe to assume they are close to the friend in age. It's not like it's their kid or anything. So while this is true enough for adults looking at gifting a young person they're responsible for, it doesn't appear to be relevant advice in the context of this post.

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SednaNariko t1_iydbrlz wrote

And probably also the poorly handled PTSD that only flairs up when convenient for drama reasons and is entirely forgotten about outside of that

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