Asian Readathon: Young Adult Color Trend

Asian Readathon Announcement Video

(Mini-comment: On the covers overall I like how minimalistic they are. The three color minimal color scheme=different color dress, text, and background. However,  the expression of the cover model and the yellow dress makes the middle my favorite. )

So it all started with Fake It Till You Break It swoon reads cover voting which  was going to be a part of a larger post on  all the Asian cover voting on swoon reads. While drafting my cover post I saw the cover for  Bliss (not young adult but I was in connecting mode) which is pink too. I may have connected another book like The Way You Make Me Feel or It’s Not Like It’s A Secret at this point either way it got into my head that pink maybe a little of a trend color in Asian young adult books. Then after research I realized its actually a big trending color it is not like the red trend in black ya novels.

Background

The girls you’re looking for

This Time Will Be Different

Fake It Till You Break It

Rani Patel In Full Effect

Good Enough

You Must Be Layla

It’s Not like Its a Secret

Here We Are Now

Emergency Contact

The Authentics

Nothing but the Truth

Ombre

Saints and Misfits

The Magnolia Sword

The Astonishing Color of After

The Way You Make Me Feel

The Library of Fates

Does This Count?

A Girl Like That- both covers use clothing to showcase the color

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me -I’ve connected the two covers so I have to add this cover even though I found out it is a graphic novel so probably should not be on here

I Love You So Mochi– cherry blossoms are prominent in background

A Match Made In Mehendi– pink lettering. The wall background  looks pink but I’d have to see it in person.

Sad Girls– I think it is pinkish white

Thoughts

~there are only two fantasy and one magical realism novel among, unsurprising, mostly contemporary

~According to my totally sound* analysis the color pink is slightly rising over the years in Asian ya

~Pink is so wide that there are micro trends: pink background, ombre, and more

*there is not enough information about pre-2017 Asian young adult fiction to tell how prominent it was at the time

 

Would I be remiss in not acknowledging millennial pink being a thing in the adult book community (a fact I did not know about until drafting this post)?

I love talking about covers so more posts about covers…

Black Young Adult Cover Trends

Analyze Book Covers: Layers

Analyzing Book Covers

 

(all images are from goodreads except the swoon reads cover voting)

249: With The Fire On High

I want to first of all thank Harper Collins International and Afire Pages I’m thankful to be a part of this opportunity.

ISBN: 0062662856

Title: With the Fire on High

Author: Elizabeth Acevedo

Publisher: HarperTeen

Release Date: May 7^th 2019

No. of Pages: 400

Genre: YA Contemporary

Synopsis

With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions, and do what must be done. The one place she can let her responsibilities go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Still, she knows she doesn’t have enough time for her school’s new culinary arts class, doesn’t have the money for the class’s trip to Spain — and shouldn’t still be dreaming of someday working in a real kitchen. But even with all the rules she has for her life — and all the rules everyone expects her to play by — once Emoni starts cooking, her only real choice is to let her talent break free.

Review

🍊 Message About Teen pregnancy

• Story is set post-pregnancy: not about so many things teen pregnancy books are usually about because it starts at a point most teen pregnancy stories have already ended it is not
•  goes against because you are a teen mom your life is over and you cannot do anything (which is layered very strongly on certain girls of color because they are seen as hypersexual so any amount of sexuality in them needs to be tamed)
•  Things that happen around teen pregnancy: teen fathers, how many parents of the father act, and more

🍊Malachi

• feels like a white knight: guy who is never wrong
• on opposite hand he made it able for there to be conversations about dating and etc

🍊There is no conflict (sometimes the story felt like it had no conflict)

• There is something to be said about things going well and happy happening against what we expect for people of color (and for teen moms)
• it has a good feeling vibe because despite everything it is hopeful

🍊Poverty/poor representation

• why a lot of poor people struggle to go to college
• Level of responsibility a lot of poc (particularly women of color) are expected to do or have to do for family

About the author:

ELIZABETH ACEVEDO is the youngest child and only daughter of Dominican immigrants. She holds a BA in Performing Arts from the George Washington University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. With over fourteen years of performance poetry experience, Acevedo is a National Poetry Slam Champion, Cave Canem Fellow, CantoMundo Fellow, and participant of the Callaloo Writer’s Workshop. She has two collections of poetry, Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths (YesYes Books, 2016) and winner of the 2016 Berkshire Prize, Medusa Reads La Negra’s Palm (Tupelo Press, forthcoming). The Poet X is her debut novel. She lives with her partner in Washington, DC.

 

Find her on:

Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

 

Purchase links:

Indiebound | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Tour Schedule:

1^st week

April 22 – Afire Pages | Welcome Post & BTS Look on the Cover Design Process

April 23 – Reading Peaches

April 24 – Shut Up, Shealea | Printable wallpapers/ bookmarks

April 25 – A Book Devourer | “The Life of Emoni; A Comparison”

April 26 – Bookish Wanderess

April 27 – Flipping Through the Pages

April 28 – Utopia State of Mind

 

2^nd week

April 29 – For the Love of Diversity in Books | Aesthetics + Quote Graphics

April 30 – The Royal Polar Bear Reads | Instagram Photos

May 1 – Endless Chapters | Recipe

May 2 – The Ultimate Fangirl

May 3 – The Wolf & Books

May 4 – Book Lover’s Book Reviews

May 5 – Weekend Reader | Cover Inspired Hairstyle

 

3^rd week

May 6 – The Writer and The Story | Favorite Quotes

May 7 – Themollyweather

May 8 – All Things Gene

May 9 – Darque Dreamer Reads

May 10 – Your Tita Kate

May 11 – Afergtale | “Stories Our Abuelas Wouldn’t Tell Today”

May 12 – F A N N A

 

Giveaways

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