Addicted to YA discussion

Because I know some people consider it to be base on the delivery. So there could be a story with a mature idea like hunger games as long as it's contained and not so graphic and rated like. While others look at it in terms of the story itself. SO like red rising if anyone has read it the first book was considered a young adult because the people involved where young even though the content was kind of graphic.

I guess, personally, I tend to lean toward the second. I consider young adults to be adults, just young ones. Like 19-25. After teens. In general, such age group should be able to handle graphic content. So for me, it comes down more to the people in the story.

I agree if it is solely based on teens then it's probably YA but I have seen NA books that center around teens as well so it's sometimes hard to tell until you start reading it.

The problem with YA is that it's so incredibly broad. You have the juvenile YA which is focused on an audience as young as 13 and then you have mature YA that usually targets older teens and young adults. The genre NA was introduced I believe to help attract the mature YA crowd, but because YA has gone so big and broad, people still struggle with what qualifies as YA and they miscategorize those books.

For example, The Queen of the Tearling should not be YA. But many people put it down as such.

As far as the industry goes, I believe a book is considered YA when the protagonist/s is from 13 to 18 years old.