A lot of these books were, to use that word we all fear now, problematic. In execution, however, it was mostly college romances with lots of sex. It was intended to be a stopgap between YA and adult fiction, mostly focused on college-age stories that explored the liminal space between adolescence and the ‘real’ adult world. Oh, you thought the Bad Art Friend drama was weird? The things I have seen, my friends… Around the time that Fifty Shades of Grey became a terrifying and unstoppable juggernaut, a new subgenre called New Adult fiction began to take shape. I cut my teeth in the post- Twilight era of young adult fiction, so I have, to put it politely, seen some sh*t. For people like me, it was a little more complicated.Īs some of you may well know, once upon a time, I was a book blogger. The film is described by the site as a college romance between freshman Abby and ‘bad-boy Travis.’ It seems pretty innocuous if you’re not familiar with the book. This week, Deadline announced that filmmaker Roger Kumble is directing an adaptation of the novel Beautiful Disaster, which will star Dylan Sprouse and Virginia Gardner.
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