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…
Red Rising the series isn’t really YA, that may be why you got recommended it, the readers don’t associate it the whole thing with being YA, only the first book kind of.
Some tropes that are associated with YA are present in adult books too, like the age of characters.
Maybe you just need to state no YA in the future or anything with young characters even if it’s adult or if you want more smut, etc.