Goodreads has launched the opening round for their yearly awards for the best books just recently. I skimmed through the categories myself, yet already saw quite mixed reviews about the suggestions for this year’s nominees.
Some categories like poetry and children books were removed (yeah, you can say that children ain’t a target audience for the Goodreads yet this platform always seemed to be well rounded).
Graphic novels is also something that was removed unfortunately. Although these ain’t my cup of tea, I’m almost sure it must be upsetting for a large group of people.
Monstrilio is one of those books that are really difficult to fit neatly into any categories and marketers don’t really know what to do with them.
I’ve read quite a few books this year that ended up being marketed as horror just because they had some kind of monster in them, even though they didn’t fit the genre. one of them was even a romance book lol it just happened to have werewolves in it