I’m currently revising two YA novels with male protagonists, so when, Agent Jill Corcoran asked her friends and followers on facebook to name romantic YA novels written from a male point of view, I copied down some titles. From reading them, I learned much about the details that make the voice and passion realistic. Below are three novels listed in order of increasing edginess.
By Eric Luper
HarperCollins, 2010
When Seth (17) loses his girlfriend, his faith in his parents’ marriage and his job, he creates a supposedly anonymous podcast to figure out love.
By Jennifer R. Hubbard
Viking, 2010
Colt (16) has been having a year-long clandestine love affair with a rich girl. When she is killed in an accident, he is left alone with his secret and his grief.
I Am the MessengerBy Markus Zusak
Alfred A. Knopf, 2002
Nineteen-year-old Ed meanders through life, stuck in a dead-end job and in a hopeless relationship with the girl he loves. When he inadvertently stops a bank robbery, he starts receiving mysterious messages that direct him on missions to help others, sometimes at great personal risk.
1 comment:
I loved The Secret Year. That was a great choice. Good luck with the revisions.
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