I remember asking my 8th grade english teacher if she got tired of reading young adult books. She said no, good books are good no matter the age range. Now I’m a couple decades older and 100% agree.
I’ll never understand the culture of belittling YA fiction, people reject the genre wholesale and it drives me crazy
I think my challenge is that it isn’t a genre, it’s a demographic. It’s somewhat insulting to young adults to believe the only novels they should consume conform to the genre as you’ve said.
Good books are good books. I’d rather they start slapping PG-13 on books instead of designing an entire YA “genre”.
I dont belittle the genre, I like a lot of YA books actually, I belittle the people that in their 30s still only read YA and fanfiction and refuse to branch out while simultaneously thinking that they are well read.
I totally get what you’re saying, but at the same time most people these days just don’t read for pleasure whatsoever. With that context I would prefer people only read YA than not read at all. I’m not here to gate keep reading you know, there’s endless phenomenal YA books out there.
