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That’s an odd assumption.So, I suppose mentioning nipples in one section makes it a YA.
Sounds like YA to me, although why your 17 yo protag would have a 9-11 flashback confuses me to no end.My book is right on the edge between YA/Adult and I'm not sure where to put it. First of all, is 81K too long for YA? Some searches say 40-80K, but then books like Hunger Games and Maze Runner are between 90-110K.
My MC is 17-years-old and there's a lot of coming-of-age stuff, dealing with high school, etc., but it also gets really dark. There's a part where the MC gets tied to a fence and beaten for being gay and non-White, and the guy beating him up is going off on this big racial rant. There's a 9/11 flashback, and at least one other chapter I've been told should almost come with a disclaimer because it's so heavy and devoid of any humor. The book is also going to be controversial, it's about a Jesus clone and deals with religious themes. But overall the tone for much of it is light and humorous. Would this stuff fit in an upper YA novel?
It's multi-POV. The adult antagonist has a flashback halfway through the book.Sounds like YA to me, although why your 17 yo protag would have a 9-11 flashback confuses me to no end.
Yeah, you didn't mention an adult POV. Any particular reason it can't all be from the POV of the protagonist?It's multi-POV. The adult antagonist has a flashback halfway through the book.
Yeah, you didn't mention an adult POV. Any particular reason it can't all be from the POV of the protago
The MC thinks his parents and high school teachers are conspiring against him. He's right. Over the course of the first half of the book, he blows the lid off the conspiracy and finds out he's actually a clone of Jesus. His parents aren't his real parents. His teachers and principal are pretending. Everything he's ever known is a lie. This cult has been controlling and manipulating his life experiences to mold him into the antichrist. The second half is him discovering he has superpowers and taking revenge against his oppressors.Yeah, you didn't mention an adult POV. Any particular reason it can't all be from the POV of the protagonist?
Dean Koontz did it (I'm sure others have too) and that made it adult. I had to revisit my fantasy novel where I had multiple POVs because I was being lazy. Sometimes it's necessary to the story, sometimes it's not. Only you and your beta readers know for certain.The MC thinks his parents and high school teachers are conspiring against him. He's right. Over the course of the first half of the book, he blows the lid off the conspiracy and finds out he's actually a clone of Jesus. His parents aren't his real parents. His teachers and principal are pretending. Everything he's ever known is a lie. This cult has been controlling and manipulating his life experiences to mold him into the antichrist. The second half is him discovering he has superpowers and taking revenge against his oppressors.
I tried doing it all from the MC's POV, but the first 50 or so pages then is just him whining about his problems. It also would leave a lot out. What's more interesting: reading 10 pages about him being bullied or seeing it from the bully's POV, who's actually being blackmailed to do all these mean things? Just one example. So I found a middle ground, the reader is let in on the conspiracy right away, but you don't find out WHY they're doing this until the same time he does
Maybe I'll just stick to adult then. One of my beta readers said it was adult black comedy.I love multi-POV stories, but if you have major POVs that aren’t teens, you’re not likely to market it successfully as YA.