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 often get book recommendations that, upon following up, aren’t right for me. Even if you ban people from ever mentioning YA novels, people will recommend books to you that you don’t want to read.
I generally think saying “I dislike this entire very broad category of books and won’t consider them at all” is a lazy way of choosing books to read. It’s a guarantee that you’ll miss out on some things you’d have really enjoyed and gotten a lot out of. And Red Rising is not YA, so you’re already applying that filter poorly.