@HappyPuppyShawnie After and Chasing Red, for sure.
I read them because of their popularity and both were recommended to me. Reading them, I think I was pretty unbothered, if I remember. But reflecting, they kind of sucked.
The Bad Boy's Rules and the series by Ava Violet (Which I can't remember the name of because I'm an actual Idiot), I both lost interest in and stopped reading, tbh.
I honestly feel like most popular Wattpad stories follow the same basic outline. Dude is a bad boy, sometimes, (a lot of the time) he's in a gang. Most times, he's the leader, but he has a tragic backstory and he's usually pretty freaking bad to the girl at first and then you find out he's actually a marshmallow towards her. The girl is almost always set to be similar to the demographic the author is going for. Usually (emphasis on usually, because anyone can read any book they'd like to) the ones reading these books are young, nerdy in one way or another, and introverted. So either the female lead is just like this (and usually smart) or she's sort of the opposite, so that the readers can live vicariously through them, as it's stuff they'd never do and things they'd never say.
Plot lines are all recycled but rarely ever unique enough that the reader can disregard that.
Never are all parents alive and well or treat their kids well.
Many things are pointless in moving the plot forward, but on the flip side, many things are plot devices. (I hate this so much. I hate novels that are all around contrived and relationships that become relationships out of nowhere with no room for friendship beforehand.)
Personally, some of my favorites on Wattpad are the Storm and Silence series, Arrows and Anchors (not mega popular, but I very much loved the book and the characters. Plot was great, too), The Bad Boy and The Tomboy, and Cupid's Match, as well as Pause and Rewind.
Sorry for my tangent. Yikes.
