![]() ![]() So many YA novels fade to black as the young lovers roll off-screen to penetrate each other. The Hunger Games casually features twenty-two murdered children, The (very dark) Bunker Diary won the 2014 Carnegie Medal but sex, inexplicably for something most of us are doing on the regular, remains shocking. Sex is, I would say without question, the only taboo left in YA. This is, after all, a book that deals so honestly with sex in an environment obsessed with gatekeepers (who often don’t exist) and parental complaints. I wonder if Forever would struggle to get published now. Spoiler alert: the eventual drift in affection Katherine experiences is as authentic as the first flush of love she feels. Of course, it’s not just a book about sex it’s a book about Michael and Katherine’s relationship and the sweet and sour nature of first love. It’s so exploratory it almost borders on non-fiction. Yet, there’s still something pure and undiluted about the examination of sex in Forever. ![]()
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