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…
I’ve done a little browsing of booktok and seen lots of young adult novel recommendations, but many of them don’t specify the age group, which can be an issue. Take ‘Icebreaker’ for example, I’ve always seen it described as a romance by adults recommending it, and then it took a while before I got a video on my for you page of a teenager stating how shocked they were when they discovered how mature the book really is. I haven’t read it myself, but apparently there’s some parts with strong sexual themes, and if you look at the cover it looks like something aimed at young teenagers.