I've finished 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher, which I thought was a v. powerful book. The only thing I'm not sure about is the ending, which seemed a little abrupt.
I've seen a couple of posters here talk about Graceling by Kristin Cashore. Is that marketed as a YA in the US, because over here in the UK it's on the 'grown-up' fantasy and SF shelves?
MM
I've finished 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher, which I thought was a v. powerful book. The only thing I'm not sure about is the ending, which seemed a little abrupt.
I've seen a couple of posters here talk about Graceling by Kristin Cashore. Is that marketed as a YA in the US, because over here in the UK it's on the 'grown-up' fantasy and SF shelves?
MM
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They made a conscious decision to publish Graceling as an adult book, because the upper-end YA audience (14 upwards) is less in evidence in the UK and they thought the book would sell to adult fantasy readers.
Interesting. I've heard from a couple of editors about how the YA market is less sophisticated than the YA market in the US (in the UK, YA is treated as anything for readers over the age of 12), but the lines get blurred when publishers decide to release YA covers for classics like Pride and Prejudice or Wuthering Heights and more recently, YA covers for fantasy novels such as The Black Magician trilogy by Trudy Canavan and David Eddings's Belgariad series.
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So I'm wondering if some publishers are pushing the envelope and others aren't?
Reading Catching Fire, The Ask and the Answer and just finished The Forest of Hands and Teeth, followed by watching The Road, so it's been a very apocalyptic week.
Just finished Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers. It was brilliant!
I really enjoyed Cracked Up to Be too, I liked that the big reveal wasn't an obvious one. I'm currently reading Ash by Malinda Lo. The writing is beautiful but I'm not hooked by it so far.