Publication date: October 17th 2013
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Where does friendship stop and love begin?
At just 19, Kendall Bettencourt is Hollywood’s hottest young starlet with the world at her feet – but behind the glamour and designer dresses is a girl who longs for normal.
Payton Taylor is Kendall’s best friend since childhood, and the one person who reminds her of who she really is – her refuge from the craziness of celebrity life.
With her career taking off, Kendall moves Payton to LA to help keep her sane. But Payton is hiding a secret that could make everything ten times worse. Because to her, Kendall is more than a best friend – she is the only girl that she has ever loved.
Just as they need each other more than ever, they’ll have to answer the question of where friendship stops and love begins? And find out whether the feelings they have can survive the mounting pressure of fame…
The Gravity Between Us is a daring, romantic, emotional story about friendship, love, and finding the courage to be yourself in a crazy world.
New Adult novel: recommended for 17+ due to mature themes and sexual content
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New Adult vs. YA
By Kristen Zimmer
As a reader, I absolutely love Young Adult – especially YA of the dystopian and
sci-fi/fantasy persuasion. But as a writer, I wanted to tell a story set in the
real world. Before I even started writing The
Gravity Between Us, I knew I also wanted to create characters who had
already survived high school (and all the drama that comes with it), and who were
just beginning to embark on grown-up adventures, while still having the mindset
of teenagers. Sometimes, life seems to throw things at us that force us to
grow-up pretty quickly, as is the case with Kendall, who, at just 19, has
skyrocketed to fame. She’s got boat loads of money and one of the most
recognizable faces in Hollywood… I imagined changes of such epic proportion
wouldn’t be easy for anyone, let alone someone so young. On the flip side,
Payton is a pretty average, American college student who is faced with not only
the prospect of uprooting herself from her home and family to move
cross-country and be on her own for the first time, but learning how to
navigate her changing feelings for her childhood best friend and what that
might mean for their relationship.
While writing, I came to one very simple conclusion: the
difference between Young Adult and New Adult goes beyond curbing myself from dropping
however many f-bombs I may deem fit throughout my book, or even crafting a
racy-yet-appropriate “intimate” scene for an under-17 crowd; it’s recognizing
that adolescence doesn’t necessarily end once you graduate from high school,
that no miraculous chemical reaction occurs in your brain the day you turn
eighteen, thus magically transforming you into a fully mature adult. Adulthood
takes many years to reach, and everyone gets there at their own pace. I
honestly believe that most people learn more about who they are, who they want to be, and life in general between
the age of 18 and 22 than they could have handled in their younger teen years.
The problem is, YA fiction doesn’t always address the real-life issues that older
teens and twentysomethings encounter—moving out of your parents’ house, finding
an honest-to-goodness job, paying rent, utilities, student loans, etc... Basically,
just learning how to stand on your own two feet without toppling over and
hurting yourself.
So, did I nail it? What’s your take on the differences
between NA and YA?
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