first person wave

[wishfulclicking]

After reading The Hunger Games and other YA books, I have to ask: is the first person pov especially prevalent among YA novels with female protagonists? Is this something to make the characters easily related to? Something more common with female protagonists? Is it a recent trend? Because I didn't necessarily read a ton of YA growing up, I jumped into classics in an attempt to prove myself and compete with my cousin, but the ones I did read were written mostly in the third person pov.

Onto other things:

It's been less than 24 hours since I started googlewave and it's okay. I have jumped in a Sons of Anarchy wave but no one has replied yet and I joined the glee wave but I don't expect it to be too active until tomorrow. I just logged off because it seemed to be slowing down a bit. I do wish when I joined a wave, it would center on the most recent blip thing, I don't like having to scroll. I still haven't figured out how to add video to a wave yet.

Is it etiquette to just click on any contact? How does that work? If you see me on wave, feel free to start up something if you want. What ever you want to wave about is cool.

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[nafs]

I read a ton of YA growing up and I still poke my head into that section from time to time (although I'm really really picky now, YA has gotten so bad over the years) but the only books I can remember reading that have a first person POV are the Babysitters' Club series.

[wishfulclicking]

thanks for the input. Most of the YA I remember was written in third person, but when I look through the YA section now, I see a ton of first person.

Any recent YA you've read that you would rec?

[nafs]

Not very much of it? *g* Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book is the most recent thing I liked although it's probably targeted younger than YA. I spend a lot of time in the YA section of the bookstore reading the backs of books and wrinkling up my nose. This may have something to do with the fact that the YA I read is usually fantasy and JKR and Stephanie Meyer have produced a million imitators, all apparently *worse* writers than either of them although it's very hard to believe that's possible. (I haz opinions)

Diane Duane's Wizardry series, Pamela F. Service's Winter series and Jenny Nimmo's Snow Spider trilogy are favourites, athough all started (and in the case of the trilogy, ended) in the 80s, so I'm not sure how recent they'd be considered!

[wishfulclicking]

I did want to read Neil Gaiman's book, it's won a bunch of awards too.

Sometimes I skim the back covers and there's just so many girl meets random supernatural being and then they have an adventure that I can take.

I'm seeing an increase of steampunk influence in YA stuff, but right now vampires/werewolves/fairies are the main draw. There's just so many books on the shelves now.

[saintseverus]

I don't know how much you are into fantasy that is just about animals but The Sight and Firebringer by David Clement-Davies are both great books IMO.

[saintseverus]

Although they both do follow a very similar story line, just one is about deer, the other about wolves. I still really enjoyed both of them though.

[wishfulclicking]

thanks for the recs, I'm adding them to my list TBR :)

I've read some books featuring animals and I like them. I read Animal Farm and I liked the stories set on the Farm in Fables, so I can get with animal featured fantasies.