#young adult fiction

[gabriellemkari]

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

If you love sword lesbians two queens in love you should preorder mine and Anna Kopp's graphic novel releasing in March!

-> The Marble Queen Preorder

and if you preorder you can pick up some extra goodies

Summary: A sapphic YA graphic novel with sword fighting, political intrigue, and magic where the princess needs a marriage alliance for the welfare of her kingdom, but she unknowingly accepts a proposal from a mysterious country, having come not from the prince, but his sister.

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[halcyon-and-elysian]

boy who teaches you how to dance x girl who teaches you how to fight

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[mrzastudies]

What a great day to read a YA novel I’m too old for hehe

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[doctaaaaaaaar]

Why everyone who likes sci-fi or fantasy should read Iron Widow by @xiranjayzhao​ as told by memes:

Everyone should go read it right now. Please.

#iron widow #xiran jay zhao #young adult #young adult fiction #young adult science fiction #polyamory #queer #queer representation #queer relationships #disability #disability representation #disabled characters #disabled main character #characters of color #queer characters of color #representation #well written representation #shadow and bone #six of crows #historical fiction #hunger games #mortal instruments #the mortal instruments #harry potter #girls of paper and fire #percy jackson #city of bones #divergent #the giver #i may be obsessed

[charliejaneanders]

This is amazing news!

My YA debut Victories Greater Than Death is part of a program where libraries bring together groups of teens to "study powerful works of young adult literature," and an amazing 29 libraries have signed up!

#books #ya scifi #ya fantasy #ya fiction #young adult science fiction #young adult fiction #young adult #writing #victories greater than death #dreams bigger than heartbreak #promises stronger than darkness

[thatstonerfriend]

I’m not sure if anyone who follows me is big on reading, but I’m just getting back into it (I’m terrible at feeding my hobbies). Anyways, I’m a HUGE lover of young adult books. It’s one of my top favorite genres, I just think the writing in Y.A. is unmatched and transformative.

I just read Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. When I tell you I devoured this book. The plot, the characters, everything was perfection. The education and insight it gives into the LGBTQ+ world, especially for young adults; it’s amazing. I wish I’d had a book like this growing up. One that made me realize the differences and fluidity in sexuality and gender and how beautiful every aspect of our community can be.

I highly recommend this book if you like Y.A. Fiction with a post apocalyptic feel. Normally I’m not an apocalyptic girly but everything about this from the religious turmoil and family trauma, to the romance and community is utter perfection.

#hell followed with us #andrew joseph white #young adult #fiction #young adult fiction #bookaddict #book of the month #transgender #trans community #lgbtq+ #lgbt #queer #queer books #lgbtq books #book review #book reccs #book recommendations #bookworm

[everbluems]

“If you punch me back, you will be sent home, Pixie.” I kick him in the shin.

— Red Rising by Pierce Brown

#book quotes #quotes #bookish #funny books #funny #red rising #pierce brown #darrow au andromedus #darrow of lykos #dystopian fiction #dystopia #young adult fantasy #young adult #young adult fiction

[headspace-hotel]

I think that middle grade books tend to have more complexities to them first of all because there's less publisher focus on them, there was a YA boom not a middle grade boom so they're not as... squished into a money-making formula. And secondly because there's a lot less romantic plotlines "allowed" in middle-grade books, romantic subplots aren't inherently bad but they're a lot more likely to be forced into a book that doesn't need or want them because they "boost engagement" or be written by people who don't want to be writing because Love Triangles Sell. Middle grade books can't have the sort of "heaving muscles, sexy body, no/awful personality but I just Want Them" thing that can kind of absorb a book's interesting aspects and devour them, it's not safe for the kids!

Also middle grade worldbuilding might not always have pressure to make sense because it's "just for kids" but it's more likely to try and get exciting or weird or fantastical with it because it's For Kids, so people who have an interest in a world they're writing might have more freedom to do what they want with it leading to more novelty if not universally higher quality.

I think the romance thing is part of it.

I think this is evidence that the way romance is treated in "teen" novels has a ripple effect on every level of the web of character relationships and interactions in a YA novel.

In a "teen" novel, other characters the MC's age are almost always being courted by the narrative as potential love interests. This can starve the book of other character interactions through pure overcrowding.

"Love triangles" were common throughout the YA boom, and I'm convinced it's partly because it's a money-making strategy. Manufacturing a "ship war" is a way to get people to talk about your book even if there is really nothing there worth discussing. I've seen small fandoms have a sudden explosion in activity after a "love triangle" plot was introduced.

But a triangle needs three points, and a "love triangle" means you need to devote a lot of "page time" to the romantic subplots because...you have to develop at least two love interests. There are many YA novels that have the MC torn between more than two possible love interests.

This got even worse when multiple POV's became the norm in YA, because then multiple MC's needed to be "paired up." So you had books where the MC's were romantically involved with each other and also each had something going on with another character, or books where EVERY POV character was paired with another POV character.

For one thing, this crowds out other character interactions just because there's limited space in a book.

For another thing, it's almost always bad when every character in a book is either a POV, a love interest, or both, because mains and love interests are virtually always the least interesting characters in the story.

The protagonist has to be "relatable" above all else, and love interests in YA are unbearably generic and stripped of all unique qualities. Part of it is the "attractiveness" requirement; there is only one "attractive" body type (thin with muscles) from this point of view, and in general "hot" means such a narrow selection of things that all you can ultimately do is shuffle hair, eye and skin colors. And they rarely ever have distinct personalities. They're just kinda angry and broody but also protective but also angsty. Or they're just generically nice.

(You also almost always can't have them be nonhuman in any meaningful way, because, idk, that would be Weird I guess.)

So...you don't have enough characters that are fucked-up weird gremlins. When your story is dominated by a huge love polygon that somehow involves 5 people, none of those characters get to be ugly, and that can be devastating.

Middle grade characters have to be interesting, not so much attractive or relatable. So you have characters that are weird, gross and nasty. You can have things like sentient kitchen appliances or telepathic Pegasi as important characters because you don't have to spend so much story RAM on characters that are acceptably hot. You can have scrungly trolls and giants with hairy nostrils and warts. You can have all your characters be cats.

#middle grade fiction #young adult fiction #books

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

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[halogen2]

i made this comparison of my YA books for twitter / instagram / my Professional accounts but i figured i could share it here too :)

i am Not good at marketing myself / talking about my books, but i Know that i need to be getting my name out there so... this is one such attempt. read my YA novels perhaps??

request the ghost of you on netgalley

pre-order the ghost of you

buy if i can give you that

#txt #michael gray bulla #if i can give you that #the ghost of you #young adult novel #young adult literature #young adult fiction #yalit #ya fiction #ya author #authors of tumblr #trans books #queer books #lgbt ya #harpercollins #quill tree books #my writing #tgoy #iicygt

[mccoppinscrapyard]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge July

Day 29: This Month’s Favorite

Highly recommend Clap When You Land!

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #clap when you land #elizabeth acevedo #books #novels in verse #young adult fiction

[miss-chevious19]

Book Review: Loveless by Alice Oseman

Loveless by Alice Oseman For fans of Love, Simon and I Wish You All the Best, a funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of a girl who realizes that love can be found in many ways that don’t involve sex or romance. From the marvelous author of Heartstopper comes an exceptional YA novel about discovering that it’s okay if you don’t have sexual or romantic feelings for anyone . . . since…

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#aromantic #asexual #book club #LGBTQ YA #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQ+ Reads #YA lit #Young adult fiction

[thedisabilitybookarchive]

'Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens'- Nijkamp, Marieke

Disability Rep: Unidentified Mental Health Condition (Possible Bipolar), Blind, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Wheelchair User, Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Idiopathic Pain, Cane User, Schizophrenia, Depression, Hallucinations, IBS, Chronic Pain, Bipolar II, Cerebral Palsy, Autism

Genre: Short Stories, Multi-Genre, Fantasy, Historical, Contemporary, Romance, Realistic, Science-Fiction, Horror

Age: Young Adult

Setting: Persia, USA, Multiple Settings

Additional Rep: Chinese Female MC, POC, F/M, Sapphic Characters, F/F, Latin MC, Muslim Female MC, Transgender Man LI, Black Female MC, Non-Binary MC, Biracial Native-American MC, Cuban wlw Female LI, Queer wlw Female MC

For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:

#books #disability books #disability representation #disability #disabled characters #fiction #lgbtq books #lgbtq+ #lgbtq characters #lgbtq representation #multiple disabilities #multiple setting #multiple contributors #multigenre #young adult #young adult fiction #short story anthology #short stories #link

[tobias-fell]

you guys understand that YA itself is not inherently bad, right. It literally just means "young adult fiction" or fiction for a 13-18 year old audience. The only reason so much YA nowadays is shit is because of publishers who care more about making money than actually giving good books to teens, and therefore they publish books that are basically the exact same mediocre story 200 times a year

#young adult fiction #YA #bookblr #books

[mystcldydrms]

the inheritance games series - jennifer lynn barnes

review:

the inheritance games 5 ⭐️ the hawthorne legacy 4.75 ⭐️ the final gambit 5⭐️

I absolutely loved this young adult series. a must-read if you're into solving mysteries and crazy plot twists. it was nerve-racking, exciting, happy, sad and so much more. I will definitely re-read it at some point.

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[charliejaneanders]

Marcus Aurelius crashed my attempt to make a cool tableau to let y'all know that my YA threequel PROMISES STRONGER THAN DARKNESS is out in paperback today 😹🚀🎉🎸⚡💕💃

#books #writing #ya fantasy #ya science fiction #young adult science fiction #young adult fiction #ya books #ya fiction #ya romance #space opera #book tumblr #bookwyrm #bookworm #book worm #reading #star trek #victories greater than death #dreams bigger than heartbreak #promises stronger than darkness