So lately I’ve had several book recommendations here and in other subreddits for novels or audiobooks that sounded great, but when I pursued them, I found these were young adult novels. Despite long discussion threads, no one mentioned this.
Don’t get me wrong, I like the occasional YA book. But it seems like something people should mention it is YA, like you might mention if something was softcore. It makes me wonder: Is this is not a big deal to people? Or do people not even realize these are YA?
The most recent was Red Rising, which was suggested as an audio book recommendation. One comment mentioned that they found this after looking for something like Game of Thrones . This is a fun book, and the audio narrator is great, but it is definitely YA and nothing like Game of Thrones, lol.
Anyway, just a thought…
I think regardless of media type it’s important to set expectations when recommending something. If I told you one of my fav movies starred an academy award winner and was about a blended family overcoming obstacles and finding happiness you might have certain expectations going into it. If I told you that movie was “Stepbrothers” your expectations might change 😂 I always like giving people context when making recommendations
I swear to god reading your description I thought to myself “There is no way that the movie Blended is anyone’s favorite movie” and then I reached the end and thought “well at least I got the same general category”