02/21 Some Thoughts On “Book Review: Young Adult Fiction”
You obviously have never been a young adult then. I have to tell you that most young adults and some even younger readers know about more than half of that stuff by the time you classify it appropriate that they should, through personal values horrifying experience alone. Don’t think you are doing anyone, but bubble wrapped children any favors by writing this silly article. What you fail to realize is that the plots of a lot of these books are the reality that a lot of young adults face today: murder, death, destruction, rape, self mutilation and much more happens whether you want to hide from it or not. Those of us who have dealt with that kind of horror don’t appreciate you sweeping under the rug and making light of it. Calling it fiction. Because it isn’t just fiction. For a lot of us including myself it is very real and it was very real long before any of us learned how to read. Maybe you should consider it from the other side of the coin, there are some of us out there who want to read books that you consider DARK, because finally someone is telling us that we aren’t the only ones. That we’re not in this alone. That we aren’t socially unacceptable, because bad things happen. For more than 60% of the people you are trying to protect for the evils of the world, it’s already too late. Not because they picked up YA books that don’t fit your perfect vision of butterflies and ponies, but because they lived it. If you want to criticize YA books, criticize the lack of character, plot, and truth in some of the books you deem appropriate.
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