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Originally Posted by Dazrin
It sometimes feels like people take the "gritty realism" of GRR Martin or Joe Abercrombie or Steven Erikson and say "adult books need to have these elements" when really they don't. That's a style choice by the author.
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Agreed. I like a lot of that "grit" in my books (some, but not all), but I don't mistake it for being any more "adult" than the output of any other author who chooses to forego profanity and/or decides not to dwell on every nuance of their character's baser instincts. My mention of Daniel Abraham's Long Price Quartet is an example of fantasy that I consider written with adults in mind. Just not necessarily adults looking to get their cussy killy smut fix. Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that, mind you.