The 2nd book Syndrome

WHAT IS THIS 2ND BOOK SYNDROME??

The 2nd book syndrome is a pattern i have found occurs quite often throughout YA novels. 

So you have just finished book one, and it's awesome! You loved it, everything's good, the couple got together, everyone is friends again, it's all good. So you rush to the shops and get the next book because you're so excited. You read the book, and by the end of it you want to haul yourself across the room because it has a case of 2nd book syndrome.

SYMPTOM 1. At the end of book 1, the couple you were rooting for finally gets together. Everyone is happy, then all of a sudden BAM. They start having the most ridiculous arguments over pointless things! And you're juts sitting there reading going 'WHAT JUST HAPPENED!'

SYMPTOM 2. The couple may be having ridiculous fights, but that is not the worst of it. Out of the blue, a love triangle is introduced! Now i really hate love triangles, i think they are so last year and we see WAY too many of them! If it isn't a love triangle, the couple somehow discover that they are related! Like, WHAT? Whether it's just that someone who has no proof that tells them or they see a birth certificate which could have totally just been printed out, they just accept it. WHY?

SYMPTOM 3. The best friend of the main character, who was so awesome in the first book, suddenly becomes the most annoying person in the world. They share their opinion way too much and you just think to yourself 'seriously, just go away'. 

SYMPTOM 4. We find hardly anything out about the actual plot. The focus is completely on the ridiculous relationship and how it is spiraling downwards and nothing that actually has relevance to the main plot.

Now, I'm not saying that this applies to every YA book series, but it does apply to A LOT, and i do not know about you but the '2nd book syndrome' is VERY common among the YA series that i read!