[ SECRET POST #4800 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4800 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I imagine it's because you're older and you have a harder time relating to the characters. It makes sense that a YA fantasy wont interest someone who isn't a YA anymore. Fantasy itself can be very repetitive as well in most cases, so I'd think it'd be an easy genre to get bored of.

[(Anonymous)]

If it helps, the New Adult genre (or marketing scheme disguised as a genre, I'm still not sure which) was designed as essentially "YA but the main characters aren't kids".

I haven't actually seen it anywhere but Wattpad, which puts a few points on the "marketing scheme" side of the scale, but the demand is known to exist, so it might be a real genre in time.

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DA

New Adult didn't take off with librarians and book stores like publishers hoped it would. So, for now, publishers have abandoned NA as a thing. So, yeah, you're more likely to find it on Wattpad or if you go looking for indie titles.

NA has made a mess of YA shelves and what some publishers are even considering YA anymore. And to make matters worse, the series they used to try and make NA a thing, they're now turning around and marketing as Adult as it should have been in the first place. It was an adult series, the publisher deliberately marketed it towards upper YA to make NA a 'thing.' But it's like fetch. Not a thing.

[catdetective]

Yeah-- now that I'm an adult, in a lot of YA I just wonder where all the grown-ups are when kids are fighting for their lives. There are standouts in the genre, and I have a lot of respect for it, but I'm not the main audience anymore.

The real problem is that a lot of books get marketed as YA that shouldn't be-- because publishers push female authors into that niche, or push adult fantasy into YA. With publishers ditching NA, as I see has been talked about, they make it harder for everyone to find what they want.