I caught a lot of flack about my post-RT rant regarding the Young Adult bandwagon back in 2011. And now I see the same thing happening all over again with "New Adult". I have the same reaction to "genre" trends that I do to overly-hyped books. I stay the heck away from them.
I think what upsets me about both Young Adult and New Adult is that it speaks to our laziness as readers. These trends, which so narrowly focus on specific ages, seem to be less about helping readers find books they can relate to and more about manipulating them into shelling out more cash. And it also speaks to our increasing reliance on publishers and the book industry to tell us what to read.
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