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Originally Posted by cfrizz
New adult, young adult, college student etc. I'm mature, I don't have the patience to read about clueless kids.
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Some of the best books I've read have been young adult fantasy. An adult plot and story but the main characters are young adult. No sex, but maybe some light romance.
The Queen's Thief series is one and the
Abhorsen series is another.
I have a problem where I cannot finish a book unless the author makes me care about the characters. The vast majority of books are purely plot driven and simply treat the characters like chess pieces to be moved around on the board for the plot. Young adult books seem to be more character oriented.
This is also why I think I drifted from science fiction to fantasy; the former is almost always about some idea while the latter
may have better character development.
Mysteries rarely have satisfying character development but there are a few (e.g., Donna Leon).
Late in life I discovered Westerns, where the plot is often a good guy vs a bad guy with a woman for the good guy to fall in love with (for example, see Bat Wing Bowles which I recently uploaded).