Somehow, Levithan (the man behind Boy Meets Boy, Wide Awake, The Lover’s Dictionary co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson with John Green and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist with Rachel Cohn) has managed to breathe new life into a genre that in my (very humble) opinion is drowning in average to below-average paranormal romance titles. I’d recommend it to teenagers, to adults, to anyone who asked me “have you read anything good lately?” And here I am, recommending it to you! If I was still a bookseller now, I would recommend David Levithan’s latest, Every Day, to those parents. Sure there were books about love and romance for teens, but they were easily digestible not particularly deep or thought-provoking. As a bookseller a couple of years ago, I found it quite difficult to recommend YA fiction to customers who were looking to steer their adolescent offspring away from the vampire/paranormal section. Boy meets girl or girl meets boy, there is an obstacle, there is usually a paranormal/supernatural twist, there is quite often a girl in a long flowing dress on the front cover with her head turned away, and they usually live happily ever after… after 2-3 sequels with more obstacles and more drama than some long-running TV soapies. Sometimes it feels like YA romance fiction has been done to death.
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