I’ve always known that #youngadult authors were among the best storytellers…stories are well-written, fast-paced and just plain…well, brilliant!

Young adult lit comes of age

 

Authors may gear their novels toward the junior and senior high crowd, but adults are snapping up the books, often about misfit teens or fantasy worlds.

• (Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times)

March 08, 2010
By Susan Carpenter

It used to be that the only adults who read young adult literature were those who had a vested interest -- teachers or librarians or parents who either needed or wanted to keep an eye on developing readers' tastes.

But increasingly, adults are reading YA books with no ulterior motives. Attracted by well-written, fast-paced and engaging stories that span the gamut of genres and subjects, such readers have mainstreamed a niche long derided as just for kids.