[ SECRET POST #5457 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #5457 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.



__________________________________________________



02.



__________________________________________________



03.



__________________________________________________



04.



__________________________________________________



05.



__________________________________________________



06.
















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 20 secrets from Secret Submission Post #781.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[philstar22]

It is a great book, but who would think it was YA? It is not remotely YA. There are plenty of YA books dealing with serious, even intense topics. But the Poppy war is not YA.

[feotakahari]

I’ve been told this happens a lot to female sci-fi and fantasy writers who aren’t white. Their books just go in the YA section automatically.

[(Anonymous)]

I thnik it might be the school setting - the first half read very YA to me, with all the school-based rivalies and friends and enemies and master, and her being basically the scholarship student amont the rich and powerful kind of thing. That's a popular YA trope and whatever violence it had in the first half it wasn't much more than what I consumed in media for teenagers as a teenager (granted, some of it wasn't US media. And yeah, the second part of the book went into much more mature themes (especially with that almost one-to-one depiction of the Nanking massacre, which I continue to have mixed feelings on), but I could sort of see how it could be first shelved wrong if one didn't read the whole thing and looked mostly at the bare bones of the summary on the back cover....? I remember that people on GR also kept tagging it as YA at first, before it became clear what it really was. So, all in all, it might have been an easy mistake to make when it was unknown quantity, but it shouldn't be happening anymore, especially when the whole trylogy got more popular; one could easily get the idea what kind of book/series it even without actually reading it, nowadays.