Musing Mondays – January 23, 2012

I used to ask myself the same thing.  Being a Virtual Book Tour Coordinator with Pump Up Your Books/Literal Exposure I have had the opportunity (I have been doing this for years) to monitor the internet and follow lots of different blogs.  The one that I have found to be the most dead set on what they will read are the YA bloggers.   I never used to read too many YA books (I did not care for Twilight…sorry my friends) but I have changed my tune.  The Hunger Games trilogy is one of my favorites and I am currently reading The Iron Fey series by Julie Kagawa..and loving it as well.  I will read just about anything, but after perusing MANY different blogs/sites it seems as if there is a staunch rebellion by the YA book bloggers, they stand behind their genre and many of them choose not to read anything else, or blog about it is they do.

Why is it so popular with adult readers?  I can only speak for myself but I do find them to be “easy” reads.  It is not that the storylines aren’t good, or that the characters aren’t developed.  They just seem easier to pick up than a book by someone like Stephen King.  A prime example of a YA book that blew me away was Blue by Lou Aronica (you can read my review here).  This book is still one of my favorite all-time reads and has such a fabulous story and characters that I fell in love with.  I will continue to read whatever books sound good to me, and YA is certainly included in the mix!