YA Fiction

  What is it about Young Adult fiction that keeps me, and a lot of other people, wanting to read more of it. Is it the way it's written or is there something about been a teen or a young adult that we seem to connect with. All the best stories, in my opinion, come from YA. I couldn't tell you why. In fact a lot of the stories I read in that genre don't give an exact age for the main characters. So is it the experience of reading something so unbelievable, and provides an escape, or is it that I can connect to the character. Or maybe it's both. Don't get me wrong there are some good adult books too but for some reason I keep coming back to young adult. 

    Is it easier for authors to write YA? Or maybe it's easier to come up with whole new worlds when you think about young adults. I find YA fiction enchanting and very diverse actually. You have YA historical fiction, YA fantasy, Ya sci-fi, YA romance, and probably a lot more. I think that because the YA genre is so diverse it's easier to be creative with that. YA I feel is the label that has infinite labels. I know that might sound weird but if you think about it you can take all the other genres and make them for young adults and poof it's YA.

   I know a lot of people don't really read but the audiobooks, I've heard, are very good as well. Some of them are even read by a full cast of characters which I assume would be like listening to a play. Regardless I think the appeal of YA is simple, it's magic. It's where anything can happen, you can go anywhere. And yes it has it's limitations all genre's do. But I personally think that YA has the most leeway within it. So nine times out of ten when I'm picking up a new book it's in the YA genre. 

   I'm not here to convince you to read, or listen to, YA. But if you don't read a lot YA might be the best place to start. All books though are magical in their own way. Fiction gives us an escape and/or entertainment. Non Fiction teaches us things or gives us advice. So maybe it's just that I'm a bookworm but I feel like books might be the most precious things man has ever made. It's an example of what the human mind can imagine. I would hate to see the day that imagination runs out. 

   So I hope that new stories, new worlds will never stop being created. That they never stop being wanted. I know I'll never stop wanting new stories to devour.