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Originally Posted by HarryT
The reason I don't personally like YA books is that they all (that I've come across, at least) seem to be written in the first person, which I can't stand.
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Not all of them, but there's been a definite trend in the last few years for that - I'd say the majority of YA books released in the last five years (that I've read) are indeed written in first person.
At least not all of them are in present tense - there was a huge explosion of first person present tense YA books after The Hunger Games. I can tolerate it by now, but I far prefer past tense.
There is the occasional YA book written in third person, but I think it's far more common in current children's/middle-grade/age 9-12 books than current YA.