Recently, Savannah at SeeSavRead.com posted about how confused she was by the similarity of these three book titles: As the author of one of those books (Shadow and Bone, on the far right), I had to admit, even my head got a bit muddled. But if you take a look at the YA shelves, you'll notice quite a few words in heavy rotation: shadow, bone, fire, crown, dark, stars. The trends seem to come in waves. For a while, it was all about adjectives: Abandoned, Marked, Matched, Tangled, etc. There's the aforementioned "and" trend that includes not only the books above, but others like
A Tale of Two (or Twenty) Titles
A Tale of Two (or Twenty) Titles
A Tale of Two (or Twenty) Titles
Recently, Savannah at SeeSavRead.com posted about how confused she was by the similarity of these three book titles: As the author of one of those books (Shadow and Bone, on the far right), I had to admit, even my head got a bit muddled. But if you take a look at the YA shelves, you'll notice quite a few words in heavy rotation: shadow, bone, fire, crown, dark, stars. The trends seem to come in waves. For a while, it was all about adjectives: Abandoned, Marked, Matched, Tangled, etc. There's the aforementioned "and" trend that includes not only the books above, but others like