YA Lit.

Has YA lit. been discussed here? I can't remember.
In most situations I prefer YA to its adult counterpart. Because it is being written for a younger audience the language used to describe the difficult topics is often less harsh. And they don't out right describe skwicky situations. The other thing I find sometimes is YA lit. is better written simply because it cannot rely on shock value, and the people it is aimed at is still supposed to be learning and forming opinions on the use of and the speaking of the English language. Please don't take any of the above to be that I don't read adult works or the that all YA is best, simply that some authors write YA better than adult.
Sharon Shinn is in my opinion one of these people. I have time after time enjoyed her YA books better.

I thoroughly enjoyed Summers At Castle Auburn.

I felt the need to write something, when all I really wanted to do was record that I had finished another book.