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Originally Posted by LadyKate
As someone who enjoys fantasy, paranormal and urban fantasy I find the category young adult to be a suggestion that it is going to appeal, by nature of the theme, to younger readers but I take that as a suggestion. As I said in a previous post, the level of reading difficulty is not really different from that of any other popular fiction.
I've discovered authors I've enjoyed by ignoring their category. It seems that most of the fantasy I've enjoyed over the years that was "lacking" sex scenes has been categorized young adult lol. (Oh to be young again)
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One of the reasons I love YA is that it doesn't usually have graphic violence or graphic sex. GENERALLY speaking, because the characters are young, you can expect some character development. But in the last few years, there have been a large number of "angst" YA books where there isn't much character development and there is a lot of Love Triangles (the bane of any genre if you ask me). Just about the one thing most real young adults lack is oodles of dating prospects--never mind two or three of the BEST LOOKING RICH AND SUCCESSFUL ALPHA characters in the world dying to be the "one and only."