She has this uncanny ability to make me feel so much for the characters she creates. I don't know what it is about Cynthia Hand, but I've felt it ever since I finished her wonderful Unearthly series. I'm going to tell you right now that this was exactly the YA contemp book I needed. I also didn't like how it was too romance-centric. So yeah, I've been carefully avoiding contemporary YA because I didn't like the whole whymsical approach towards death type thing that's been going on nowadays. I only reread books when they're a series, and I need to catch up on what happened so I can finish said series.Īnyways, I digress. Which I won't, cause I just don't feel like it. I know that once upon a time, I gave TFiOS five stars, but I don't doubt that my opinion would change if I reread it. But with contemporary I don't want anything that's all whymsical and shit. I love fantasy YA, of course it's all I've read in the past several months. When I read contemporary YA, I want something real.
You could argue that that's been a part of contemporary YA for a long while, but I feel like The Fault in Our Stars really ignited it into what it is now. I've kinda been avoiding contemporary YA because, even though I haven't read many of the new stuff, there seems to be a common thing going on where authors are exploring death in a kinda quirky, lyrical type of way, mixing it in with surrealism and wit and charm and whatnot. When I tell you I was bawling my eyes out in that minibus, I was bawling my fucking eyes out in that goddamn minibus, gurl. Whahahappen wuz, I was on a public transport on the way back home from outta town when I finished this book.
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