There are many things that piss me off about reading YA books: overly simplistic synopses that don’t highlight a text’s real strengths; the way bookstores and editors seem to think if there’s one good book about a thing we need ALL the books to be about that thing (we don’t, and this is not a problem that’s isolated to YA publishing, though it is particularly prevalent there); and, most of all, the fact that other people think it’s alright to look down on an entire […]