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…
These discussions are always fascinating, coming from country where there hasn’t really been young adult, new adult and so on age-based genres. There are children and young as a one group, and adults as the other group, that’s it. Then there might be categorizing by genre: scifi, romance, war, crime, etc. But the big, age based genres are just children and other people.
And I can see YA giving confusion among our librarians, I’ve seen Maas’ A Court of Thorn and Roses in the children and young people side at library.
In my country it’s marketed and categorized for 11-12 years old, and given the excerpt I read, from a writing style perspective, this is completely fitting.