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This is all great feedback, guys. The Hate U Give is on the list of books in a literature course I'm taking in the fall, so this is one I'll be reading. I just finished Saints and Misfits, which was all about rape and coming to terms with that and finding yourself, so I do know there are dark things, but I guess I had never encountered a YA book with explicit blood and violence in it. Hunger Games has a lot of violence, that being the nature of the plot, but it's all very mildly depicted. So I'm going to be trying to find examples of YA with more explicit content to see what's out there.
For what it's worth, the people in my writing group told me they already thought the book was supposed to be YA and had been reading it that way this whole time, so I guess it reads that way anyway (maybe because of the age of the characters and thus the softer voice). So I'll file that away.
For what it's worth, the people in my writing group told me they already thought the book was supposed to be YA and had been reading it that way this whole time, so I guess it reads that way anyway (maybe because of the age of the characters and thus the softer voice). So I'll file that away.