#ya book trend

[alexyquest]

i tried that ya book trend, how’d i do?

[beautyinsteadofashes]

i miss shadow and bone (tv show) i think maybe i am a YA or romantasy fan but i just don't like cliches and spice. the show was so well done and good and fun and yet i can never have that vibe again.

[lolzqa]

Liz and Wes | Better Than The Movies by: Lynn Painter

[artemis-dawn8]

We’re so winning my dudes. Six of crows is 4th in the list of most popular books for tumblr year in review and Kanej went up 44 points in the list of most popular ships for tumblr year in review. KEEP THE GRISHAVERSE ALIVE!!!! WOOOOO!!!

[rebeccajk]

So over the last few months I’ve been looking into something and I’m not quite sure what to make of my results. Basically from what I can see novels featuring and/or starring Transmasculine characters seem to far outnumber novels featuring and/or starring transfeminine characters. For that matter there seems to even be more available material with non-binary characters, then transfeminine ones. For example, Audible is currently doing a focus on trans and non-binary writers. And if you look through all the highlighted books under general fiction, Science Fiction/fantasy, and YA fiction you should see what I mean. https://www.audible.com/blog/category/trans-nonbinary

What I find especially odd is that from my own research it seems like the reverse is true when it comes to movies, television, and even comics. In these mediums, transfeminine characters seem to be more prevalent than Transmasculine ones. But what I can’t seem to figure out per se is why. Obviously, there’s something about visual mediums that is having an impact on all this, but then why is there such an imbalance in the other direction when it comes to the written word?

Like I don’t have enough information to try and determine is it something to do with how generally successful trans men are at blending (aka passing but that’s a term I don’t like) versus trans women? I might almost think so except that in said visual mediums when trans feminine characters they are almost always presented as capable of blending with little difficulty. I don’t know. It’s something I wish I had the time and money to really dig into. You know like reach out to various authors and media experts and get a conversation going on it. Because to me, it’s such a fascinating dichotomy and one way or another it’s a topic I intend to further explore going forward. there’s something here. There’s definitely something here.

[theclearblue]

I've had to read a lot of YA for my book club and wow going back to it the genre just really hates women huh

[mag200]

365 books in 365 days is like what i did to cope in middle school but its not like. a healthy or normal move lol. like i lived like that bc of things that were deeply wrong with me & my home life lol. its not like aspirational.

[displayheartcode]

I think I’ve come to the conclusion that adult romantansy isn’t for me

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

Wren Martin Ruins It All

YA contemporary romcom

student council president proposes to cut the school valentine’s dance because it's expensive and alienating for queer/single people, but instead the vice president (who he adamantly hates for being perfect) suggests they get sponsored by a popular friendship app

he decides to secretly give the app a go to “know his enemy” but ends up making a friend, and starts to catch feelings for him...and maybe realises the guy he hates isn't actually so bad either...

ace mlm MC, aro-questioning side character

I loved this so much! great MC with a funny internal monologue

despite the title most issues or misunderstanding are sorted out pretty quickly rather than drawn out for the drama and plot. which is refreshing

I was a little nervous about the concept of ‘ace hates the school dance and wants it shut down’ - there's a bit of a stereotype of aspecs being boring Fun Haters - but I think it did a really good job of showing the specifics of why, not dragging it out, and also that he’s just a snarky fun hater in general with not much weight behind it.

There’s also no discovering of sexuality or big coming out (just one-on-one) - he already knows he’s ace, and it comes up naturally a bunch, talking about how dances etc can feel isolating, the way the friendship app called buddy being called ace-friendly can feel infantilizing, avoiding dating because of the stress of having to check upfront if people about it, etc.

I would have liked to know more about his relationship with his mum? Though I understand that it’s clearly something he avoids thinking about - going too deep into his relationship with his parents might have changed the tone a lot. but still.

ARC from netgalley thanks netgalley

[bumblepuppy]

I agree that bury your gays is a bad trope but I can't say I'm thrilled with how many undead gay romance novels have ended with 'jk they're not dead anymore!' like GEEZ sometimes I just want the tragedy of knowing your lover has to go someday!!!

[alexyquest]

okay i did that YA book trend. how’d I do?

buy it here!

[laceyarcher]

🌊Clean Summer Reads🌊 (YA):

“Sunkissed,” by Kasie West

“Love & Gelato,” by Jenna Evans Welch

“Kisses and Croissants,” by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau

“A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow,” by Laura Taylor Namey

[elizabethrobertajones]

That YA post you reblogged is not really accurate. There are some good sources in the notes, you should check it out

I know, I'm a five times published YA author :D However, it is funny!

[mistninja]

I think s.hadowhunters being... kinda decent if you overlook the horrors is what made it last so long and be so influential. It has all the things that people make fun of in modern "romantasy": horny teens, stupid love triangles, super especial female lead (not just clary, every main girl is built different in some way). But! The plot is alright and the worldbuilding is way too good for this series. It's the perfect successor to t.wilight it simply didnt get a good movie so it didnt reach the level of mainstream cultural impact it could have had. The plotless fairy smut books wouldn't exist without s.hadowhunters and the fanfic-to-novel pipeline also wouldn't exist without it. So what I'm trying to say is that we have to kill c.assandra clare

[citrusotakutea]

People that make it a joke to be like: "Omggg the introductions to classic books are soooo annoying, why would they put so much of this useless shit here?" after they only started reading classics to be a part of the pretentious booktok fucks who read classics just to say they read them... Hi, pretentious fuck who always reads the introduction... It is literalllyyy a free literary analysis you dipshits. If you're reading some abstract shit, well it was written that way and people have been trying to read and interpret it since it was published. There is 200% popular explanations or theories of the plot there, if not straight up quotes from an authors diary/notes on their process and intentions for writing their novel (if those were left behind by the author). Fun facts, relevant historical context, translation deep-dives (which are fucking great btw, translation is an art and even the best translations will always lose something) and more. Honestly, people bragging about not reading it is like. ok fine whatever. To call it useless is just indicative that you are a VITCIM of the media comprehension crisis. If you're just going to parrot some rando from tiktok who summarized the plot (badly) in fortnite terms (do not recommend) read the fkn intro instead. If you're not going to try analyze the book yourself, or if you don't know where to start- read the intro!!!111!!! I am old enough (21. sarcasm.) to remember the time when the media lit crisis was in full swing before Lolita blew up on tiktok where people were making the most bare bones, surface level interpretations of it, calling the author and people who liked the book pedophilic. Saying they didn't know why it was a classic because it was just some old man's sick fantasy. I'm pretty sure there are old arguments on this blog of me trying to explain it to people. Nabokov was very open about the true meaning of his novel, there were many resources for people on and offline, plus the book that I had (not special, from library and then one from B&N) had an intro AND author's note. Yet people only got it when it was oversimplified for them on tiktok? Introductions are literally some nerd who was so obsessed with the author/book that you're reading that they who wrote something (barely anything usually, not a fucking lot) to help you understand the book better. Obviously, its meant to be supplementary and you can and should find your own meaning. Plus, usually for compiled works, the introduction are the guy(s) who made the fucking book, but ofc they are only credited in the intro (& copyright page) because they didn't write it. Surprise, people actually have to pick what works go into those types of books. Intros are usually just: "wow, I love this author so much that I did research on their entire life, read every single word they left on this earth, read 50 decades of analysis of their works and researched the era they lived in to understand why and what they wrote the wrote better, " and you mfs that don't even read it call it useless. fuck you. Oh and before anyone with -80 IQ reads this and gets upset, if you want to avoid spoilers for the 103935405739 year old book, read it after you finish the book...

[ookaookaooka]

Does anyone have any recommendations for (audio)books where the characters are nice to each other and the protagonists win in the end without being traumatized beyond recognition? The last four or five books I’ve listened to have been real downers and I need a palette cleanser. Don’t care what genre as long as it’s fiction, preferably aimed at adults