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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I suspect the Sturgeon rule applies to YA books, i.e. 90% is crap. I think the better YA writers (Rowling, Riordan and Stroud to name some of the more famous ones) are very good, but since the demographic group as a whole tend to read a lot of books and aren't exactly sophisticated readers yet, much of it is fairly putrid.
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These days the YA genre is dominated by even more dubious but just as successful authors as Riordan. E.g. Maggie Stiefvater, V. E. Schwab, and Sarah J. Maas.
These authors have all books on Goodreads with 4.00+ ratings! My blood boils whenever I see a young reader in denial about their quality. Typically they might rate their book 3.5/5, then round it up to 4 stars. I've seen stuff like that for other genres too, but it's festering in the YA genre specially.