Tuesday 27 May 2014

A Re-Examination Of Young Adult Book Reviews

By Marci Glover


These are books aimed at adolescent children of the age brackets of 13-21. The themes used in writing of young adult book reviews mostly are drug abuse, love and romance, sexuality etc. The plot of the stories is written within the age bracket of the readers and they get to experience and live with the characters in their world.

The author puts himself in the adolescent stage and tries to imagine what issues affect or interests them. For instant, an author may decide to write about self-esteem and title the book inner beauty. Then a review of inner beauty is written in a way to attract the targeted audience who in this case re the youth. He/ she use a character, Mary, who has issues with her self-esteem.

The story goes on to say that the vampire and the human being get married and live for many years with children, all this time the wife not knowing she is married to a vampire. It is only one day that the wife discovers some strange things going on and decides to ask her husband about it, that is when the husband lets the cat out of the bag and tells her the truth about himself.

The story above is obviously fictional as there is no good and bad vampires, the fact that they are vampires they are all bad. The author also incorporates love and romance into the story, now this happens to many young people, they do fall in love, and by the author using that theme he/she might sell a lot of his/her novel.

Then the author tells us how this good boy turns into the most wanted criminal by the police and is feared by many. Suddenly things change when this boy decides that he is tired of crime and turns himself to the police, interestingly he is given a pardon to be released out of jail after serving only one and a half years, I mean this is the kind of criminal that should stay in jail for many years if not forever, that is what many readers would think but the author decides to surprise us by this turn of event.

In the modern society or should i say in the twenty first century you will notice that many novels, especially the young adult books are being published then later on they are acted out as movies. This strategy being used today has made the youths to buy both novels and movies thus increasing the sell and ratings, and the authors who are sometimes script writers are being appreciated by people through awards. These show that the authors are able to connect easily with the youth; they know what the experience and have their interests in mind.

In the nineteen nineties is when the field for young adults literature matured coming on its own, serious and better written. The young adult book has sometime been referred to as the problem novel because of the things authors choose to write such as crime, drug abuse, alcoholism etc. Which are societal and personal problems.

Young literature has also been incorporated in schools making learning not only interesting but also improving the students comprehension. In addition it has helped to nature talented children in writing of such books.




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