Comment on My father the tween literary critic

ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• python@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Might be a religion thing? The Twilight author is mormon iirc so she stays within the lines of what’s okay there. So the dad might have considered non-mormon behavior to be inappropriate, even if the book isn’t 18+?

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Different parents have different sensibilities i guess, and different books have different contexts. I’m not very well read in this field at all, but at the beginning of one of the Tiffany Aching series of Discworld books, a subseries wrote specifically for young adults, a 13 year old side character gets beaten by her drunken father into a miscarriage after he found out she had a boyfriend and the main character has to bury the remains and saves the father from hanging himself.

  Most of the series are Harry Potter level magic and adventure, but that was pretty shocking and I’d be a bit wary letting my 12 year old read that.

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  • ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    subseries wrote specifically for young adults

    but that was pretty shocking and I’d be a bit wary letting my 12 year old read that.

    While I do think that letting children read dark books (as long the “darkness” isn’t because the author’s edgy) is not only ok, but necessary for them to be able to handle darker emotions, I want to mention that 12 is teen, or pre-teen, but definitely not a young adult.

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