5 YA Books That Should Get A TV Show
Ever since the Young Adult novel boom that began in the 2010s, any YA book that becomes even a little bit popular is immediately workshopped into a screen adaptation. It makes sense; most YA books are meant to keep the reader engaged and have very cinematic stories, especially the ones that lean more towards sci-fi and fantasy, which makes them perfect for the screen. The Hunger Games and Divergent are some of the more well-known examples, and there have been countless others that were either well-received by fans (like the recent Shadow and Bone series on Netflix) or flopped and flew completely under the radar (or, like Divergent, didn't even get to finish the series of movies). Fans can turn on an adaptation very quickly if it doesn't live up to its source material, or if too much of it is changed.
One of the most infamous examples of this is the Percy Jackson movies. So much of what made the books great was changed, and it resulted in two films that are underwhelming at best and just plain bad at worst. However, Disney Plus just gave the green light to a Percy Jackson TV series, which gives the series a chance for redemption with their on-screen adaptations, especially now that the author Rick Riordan is directly involved in the writing process. Turning the series into a TV show gives the story more room to explore the characters and get into every little detail. In fact, turning popular book series into TV shows rather than movies is probably the best way to go about it. So this begs the question: what other YA books would work well as a TV show?
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