Mal ,'War Stories'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Kate, did you read his 33 1/3 book? It has a teen protagonist.
I did! And loved it, especially the first section. I thought it was one of the best YA novels I read that year. That's what made me think to ask the question. (He says no, or at least that he doesn't write with a particular audience in mind, but says if he wrote a book and his publisher told him it was YA, that would be fine with him.)
What makes something YA? I've never been sure.
It's a tricky question for sure, and has probably as much (or more?) to do with how a book can be marketed than with the content of the book itself. But in general, YA books have teen protagonist(s) and are primarily, in some way, about teenage concerns, and/or told from a teen perspective (as opposed to the perspective of an adult looking back on their adolescence, although I'm sure there are at least a few YA books that do that).
What I love about this is that Jilli is saying it with zero sarcasm.
I EMBRACE MY RIDICULOUS BAT-WINGED CLICHES. I OWN 26 DIFFERENT EDITIONS OF DRACULA.
The problem is there are so many direly awful vampire books out there, even reading them for eye-rolling fun gets a little painful.
I would recommend the direly awful books in a heartbeat (what? I'm still alive WITH heartbeat) but this wasn't even amusingly or entertainingly bad (I think I already sent you that one - The Cowboy and the Vampire?). It just ... came off as kind of blah. I didn't even finish it ... skimmed through some and there weren't even any "good parts".
I cried in the car this morning listening to Code Name Verity. Darn it.
I am maybe half way through? I don't have a ton of listening time, so I'm going slow, but boy howdy is it compelling.
I am somewhere in Part 5 and yeah, this is one of the most compelling narrative voices I've ever encountered, and the reader is amazing. God, when she sings, it's haunting.
I feel like I'm missing some of the details of the plot since my mind sometimes wanders while driving, but I am getting the general trajectory of things.
CNV is SO AMAZINGLY GOOD. It's one of those books you're jealous you didn't write.
Indeed. It made me go read some of Wein's earlier work, but I didn't like it nearly as much.
I do want a yuletide crossover of CNV, Narnia, and Montmaray, starting all the awesome women fighting Nazis.