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…
YA is just very popular at the moment. I am not a young adult anymore and still like to read them sometimes. It’s a genre like any other, and I don’t always specify all genres in a book suggestion either.
The normal thing to do is to look up a boo a stranger recommended to you, to see if that’s what you want to read. Goodreads and other pages normally lable YA books reliably.
If it does bother you, YOU should specify in your request that you don’t want YA recommendations. People can not read your mind. It’s not on them to label recommendations like YA is a trigger warning.