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gmw · 12-05-2019, 05:39 AM

When I checked that series on Kobo it didn't classify it as Kids/Teen/YA, as it does many other works by the same author (Kobo AU only had book 3).

Yes, works in any genre may be widely diverse and difficult to categorise. But, with that disclaimer out of the way, the excerpt was what I would describe as first-person self-obsessed, so YA would have been my first guess if Kobo had not suggested otherwise. (Yes, first-person is annoyingly ubiquitous these days and not limited to YA, and no, self-obsessed is not the exclusive purview of YA, so I might have been wrong, but my initial reaction was still: YA.)

12-05-2019, 05:39 AM	#8
gmw cacoethes scribendi Posts: 5,818 Karma: 137770742 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura One & H2Ov2, Sony PRS-650	When I checked that series on Kobo it didn't classify it as Kids/Teen/YA, as it does many other works by the same author (Kobo AU only had book 3). Yes, works in any genre may be widely diverse and difficult to categorise. But, with that disclaimer out of the way, the excerpt was what I would describe as first-person self-obsessed, so YA would have been my first guess if Kobo had not suggested otherwise. (Yes, first-person is annoyingly ubiquitous these days and not limited to YA, and no, self-obsessed is not the exclusive purview of YA, so I might have been wrong, but my initial reaction was still: YA.) Last edited by gmw; 12-05-2019 at 05:45 AM.