[ SECRET POST #2182 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2182 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Authors that follow really similar trends?

[(Anonymous)]

i think it's most likely the publisher that demands a pattern be followed rather than necessarily it being the author, but when it is the author i always wonder how incredibly bored they must get churning out the same lame formula

what you described above is very obviously YA fiction...not everyone can relate to a girl who is attractive, but if you also write her as disliking herself, with few friends, and a burdensome power or gift, you've quadruple your audience...adding 2 love interests who are the opposite of one another covers most teenage fantasies about male 'types', and a mildly problematic family structure where the parent(s) are divorced/dead/too busy at work/don't appreciate your ~speshulness rounds out the gamut of teenage 'problems' which young girls can relate to

*fun fact - in Australian bookstores, a YA category doesn't actually exist and all these books are labelled "children's fiction", which i think is more indicative of the genre...by naming it Young Adult, the adults reading think they are keeping "young at heart" and the youngens think they are reading "grown up" fiction, so just like the formulaic dramaz within, it covers more bases

Re: Authors that follow really similar trends?

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that a lot of these just reflect regular YA books--beautiful protagonist doesn't see herself that way, two love interests, societal outcast.

But they do happen in a very similar manner in these two books--for instance, the two love interests never form a love triangle. It's always clear the protagonist is not interested in a long-term relationship. Both secondary love interests were the jealous possessive type (eventually coming head to head with the patient, understanding love interest that clearly lays out which is better). Secondary love interest is nobility, but actually less noble than the main love interest, and is a longterm friend of the protagonist.

Patient LI has a loving family that the girl will get inducted into, after warming herself up to one member in particular. Patient LI has a young female relative who he is shown to be very patient and kind with, and becomes the daughter-figure of the girl (who doesn't want kids herself).

I could go on. But it's a very specific subset.

Also, I think the YA genre exists simply to differentiate it for the people who ARE in that age--don't forget, you don't go from child to adult that easily.

Re: Authors that follow really similar trends?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know what Australian bookstores you've been going to anon, but as an Australian I'm sure I've seen a YA category in bookstores - possibly under the joint heading 'children's and young adult' fiction, but still. And though I don't read a lot of it and I think a lot of what is published as YA fiction seems to be not particularly original or well written, I don't think there's much wrong with the title of the category.

YA books are basically aimed at a teenage audience - emerging adults - and as such can have more adult themes than purpose-written children's books. However, I think the most significant marking of the genre is that a lot of YA seems to be coming of age stories, if not classic bildungsromans (yes, often with romance as a big part of that - I never said they were good stories). In other words, YA fictions covers narratives that 'young adults' can appreciate much more keenly than children or 'proper grown ups' can because of where they are in life.