![]() ![]() Now, you can pick up any YA contemporary and pretty much guarantee that 1-3 characters are depressed and anxious and zero of them are going to become anthropomorphic garbage cans because of it. Young adult fantasies had mentally ill villains / mentally ill deus ex machina / mentally ill teens moping around being unlovable, too. Young adult mysteries had mental illness as crime motives. Young adult contemporaries had sad mentally ill teens moping around and being unlovable. In the early to mid 2010s, mental illness was consistently treated like a plot twist, a thriller trope, and, like, a death sentence. That expresses progress, if anything.Īnd finally: None of us have to read books like this anymore!!!! Which is: this is Katrina Leno's first book, and it is by a country mile her worst one. Which makes it extra impressive that just six days into 2022, I'd already given this one. I would read books exclusively because they were popular, I would hate them, I would write a rant review, repeat.Īnd while you may be tempted to say, "emma, you still do that," and while in many ways you would be correct, I have this piece of evidence for you: I only gave five one stars in all of last year. ![]() First: I used to give one star ratings all of the time. ![]()
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