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 find that oftentimes, many books aren’t even marked YA anymore. Fourth Wing, other than its sex scenes, felt extremely YA to me and yet it’s marked as Fantasy, New Adult, and Adult on Goodreads. Sure, the characters are 20 and there are two sex scenes, but that’s the only thing separating it from YA.
So while I agree that it would be nice to know ahead of time, I assume many people don’t know themselves and/or would not be able to call it YA if they looked it up. The lines between genres are getting a bit blurry, which is fine because things change over time, but it does cause some issues lol.