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Originally Posted by JSWolf
To me, it depends on the YA book. Some do not feel like YA books. Age doesn't matter. The story matters.
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The books that don't feel like YA books have something in them that shelters the reader from the usually bad writing of YA literature.
The first The Hunger Games book is an example of that. I gave it 4 stars on Goodreads. But I no longer collect YA books because the odds are stacked against me finding a hidden gem.
I remember during a Book of the Month discussion 4 years ago, someone took The Iron King by Julie Kagawa to read. He made a mistake. The actual author was Maurice Druon. The reader was wondering how such a book could be so bad...then he realized his mistake.