I mean there are definitely good works of fiction intended for younger readers. Off the top of my head there’s the edge chronicles, skullduggery pleasant, mortal engines, a series of unfortunate events. All things I read when I was younger and from what I remember they never did any of the “this person is eeeeevil” things, I guess skullduggery pleasant had some things verging on that but it was usually eldritch horror type unknown evil than straight up “bad because I say so”. And all of those series had depth.
I think you might have missed my last line there. :)
I’m not terribly familiar with those specific works, but there certainly are some that are actually worth the time investment. I just personally find most of it that I’ve tried not to be, for me and maybe OP up there, because they lack depth (being intended for younger audiences). I read through young adult stuff in elementary school and moved on to whopper 1,000+ page books around 5th grade (read sphere and the third pandemic that year), so admittedly I don’t have a lot of experience with more modern YA stuff, tho what I have explored has sometimes been far superior to what was available when I was young. And the shows made for younger people are also sometimes real gems, like adventure time.
Yeah looks like I did miss that bit. Still going to recommend stuff though :P. I was definitely reading stuff not intended for kids while I was still in school though so I might have a skewed perspective.
I mean there are definitely good works of fiction intended for younger readers. Off the top of my head there’s the edge chronicles, skullduggery pleasant, mortal engines, a series of unfortunate events. All things I read when I was younger and from what I remember they never did any of the “this person is eeeeevil” things, I guess skullduggery pleasant had some things verging on that but it was usually eldritch horror type unknown evil than straight up “bad because I say so”. And all of those series had depth.
I think you might have missed my last line there. :)
I’m not terribly familiar with those specific works, but there certainly are some that are actually worth the time investment. I just personally find most of it that I’ve tried not to be, for me and maybe OP up there, because they lack depth (being intended for younger audiences). I read through young adult stuff in elementary school and moved on to whopper 1,000+ page books around 5th grade (read sphere and the third pandemic that year), so admittedly I don’t have a lot of experience with more modern YA stuff, tho what I have explored has sometimes been far superior to what was available when I was young. And the shows made for younger people are also sometimes real gems, like adventure time.
Yeah looks like I did miss that bit. Still going to recommend stuff though :P. I was definitely reading stuff not intended for kids while I was still in school though so I might have a skewed perspective.