• stevehobbes@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think my challenge is that it isn’t a genre, it’s a demographic. It’s somewhat insulting to young adults to believe the only novels they should consume conform to the genre as you’ve said.

    Good books are good books. I’d rather they start slapping PG-13 on books instead of designing an entire YA “genre”.

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      Maybe calling it a genre modifier or medium would be more accurate but that’s semantics.

      It’s not called YA because young adults should only read YA, more like it makes a good stepping stone for young adults to get into reading.