I’m a librarian. Intended audience age and literary tone of writing are NOT indicative of quality writing.
For example- ‘Oh the Places You’ll Go’ by Dr. Seuss. (Which is frequently bought as a college graduation gift despite being written for toddlers.)
Also, you are TOTALLY the intended audience for Fourth Wing. Are you kidding? That book is basically a summary of every single book teenage girls loved from 2008-2015, but with overt sex scenes.
Is the book great literature? Probably not. But there hasn’t been a book that hits all the same spots as Graceling,Hunger Games,Divergent (which was incredibly popular for a while, despite what the internet tells you,) Eragon and Tamora Pierce’s books in a while. And Yarros did a great job capitalizing on that.
Was I surprised even once while reading Fourth Wing? No. Not even a little bit. I’m not kidding when I say I knew everything that happened was gonna happen. But I didn’t care because I like the stuff I expected to happen, and it was done well enough to be fun anyway.
Fourth Wing is basically that stupid pop song that didn’t win any awards but is still playing on the radio 20 years later because it’s fun and people have good memories about it.
You wouldn’t pay attention to somebody who insisted adults should only listen to classical music, right? Most people would agreed that guy’s an asshole. The people who insist adults shouldn’t read YA & have to stick to quality literature are also assholes. Don’t listen to them.
I’m a librarian. Intended audience age and literary tone of writing are NOT indicative of quality writing.
For example- ‘Oh the Places You’ll Go’ by Dr. Seuss. (Which is frequently bought as a college graduation gift despite being written for toddlers.)
Also, you are TOTALLY the intended audience for Fourth Wing. Are you kidding? That book is basically a summary of every single book teenage girls loved from 2008-2015, but with overt sex scenes.
Is the book great literature? Probably not. But there hasn’t been a book that hits all the same spots as Graceling, Hunger Games, Divergent (which was incredibly popular for a while, despite what the internet tells you,) Eragon and Tamora Pierce’s books in a while. And Yarros did a great job capitalizing on that.
Was I surprised even once while reading Fourth Wing? No. Not even a little bit. I’m not kidding when I say I knew everything that happened was gonna happen. But I didn’t care because I like the stuff I expected to happen, and it was done well enough to be fun anyway.
Fourth Wing is basically that stupid pop song that didn’t win any awards but is still playing on the radio 20 years later because it’s fun and people have good memories about it.
You wouldn’t pay attention to somebody who insisted adults should only listen to classical music, right? Most people would agreed that guy’s an asshole. The people who insist adults shouldn’t read YA & have to stick to quality literature are also assholes. Don’t listen to them.