![]() ![]() If I was still a bookseller now, I would recommend David Levithan’s latest, Every Day, to those parents. Sure there were books about love and romance for teens, but they were easily digestible not particularly deep or thought-provoking. As a bookseller a couple of years ago, I found it quite difficult to recommend YA fiction to customers who were looking to steer their adolescent offspring away from the vampire/paranormal section. ![]() Boy meets girl or girl meets boy, there is an obstacle, there is usually a paranormal/supernatural twist, there is quite often a girl in a long flowing dress on the front cover with her head turned away, and they usually live happily ever after… after 2-3 sequels with more obstacles and more drama than some long-running TV soapies. ![]() Sometimes it feels like YA romance fiction has been done to death. ![]()
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