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…
Yes they should say this. All book recs should be labelled fully and appropraitely. But on reddit the majority demographic thinks everyone is white, male, tech industry, 18-25, and into anime. So the assumption is we’re all into YA and are at that reading level.
There’s also a major astroturfing industry on all book subs. Any chance to push their book will be taken no matter how blatantly wrong
I was on r/fantasy yesterday when I saw a thread asking for “books with soft magic”. The OP had to post that Brandon Sanderson was not what they were looking for. Sanderson is famous as the HARD magic guy. But his fans will recommend his work to everyone. Even ppl who are LGBTQA+ - Sanderson is a tithing Mormon and a lot of LGBTQA+ ppl have had to say please stop recommending him to me for that reason.
The YA stuff is the same astroturfing and hyper pushy fans.