So lately I’ve had several book recommendations here and in other subreddits for novels or audiobooks that sounded great, but when I pursued them, I found these were young adult novels. Despite long discussion threads, no one mentioned this.
Don’t get me wrong, I like the occasional YA book. But it seems like something people should mention it is YA, like you might mention if something was softcore. It makes me wonder: Is this is not a big deal to people? Or do people not even realize these are YA?
The most recent was Red Rising, which was suggested as an audio book recommendation. One comment mentioned that they found this after looking for something like Game of Thrones . This is a fun book, and the audio narrator is great, but it is definitely YA and nothing like Game of Thrones, lol.
Anyway, just a thought…
Personally I’ll read young adult and regular fiction interchangeably.
The main differences to me is that YA usually focus on one character with other characters being the support for the one characters arc.
As far as writing style I’ve read regular fiction books that were written better or more poorly than YA.
I don’t really consider YA a genre like romance or sci-fi either- it can be any of those.
But it’s really up to you. An answer is readily found on google if you want to confirm