From The World We Make, a fantasy novel about defeating Lovecraftian monsters and fascism with magic and multiculturalism
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60399181
From The World We Make, a fantasy novel about defeating Lovecraftian monsters and fascism with magic and multiculturalism
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60399181
I dunno what it is about YA twitter, but it seems like a uniquely toxic place even among social media.
this isn't even YA, this is fiction for and by adults
Chronological adults at least, the best YA is often just accessible regular fiction you wouldn’t realize is YA without the label.
Like, “Island of the Blue Dolphins” was only marketed as YA because the only publisher who gave it chance was a YA publisher. Decades later every school kid in CA still reads it afaik, it’s used to teach to literary analysis and ties into social studies modules.
okay but that book's good as hell
That’s the point I was trying to make. Sure, it was marketed as a kids book, but was not written as one. It turned out being a classic used in schools.
Why is it so hard to tell the difference these days?
As far as i can tell the only thing that makes a story ya is slapping the ya label on it. I've read a bunch of ya novels that go as hard as much "adult" fiction.