desertprince answered your question: So here’s a question.
i think you are focusing too much on age.
Well, the reason it’s a problem for me in the first place is because in our society, certain experiences (in general) are tied tightly to age, and literature geared towards age demographics reflects that. Teen books commonly address sexuality, for instance, or the idea that nasty things do happen to nice people and this is not childhood anymore. Books written for “grown-ups,” so to speak, often center on disenchantment with jobs or the performance of unusual jobs, adults saving the world, or family drama. My point is that I feel that there is a whole different set of common experiences tied to twenty-somethings, that while we may be able to strongly relate to books written for younger or older people (and it is normal to write books for an intended age group, whether or not the actual audience reflects that intended group) they aren’t for us, strictly speaking. I’ve felt this way for years now— I don’t think it’s a focus so much on age as on issues I’d like to read about that aren’t being written about, but they do tend to be linked.
I really enjoyed the Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning. Try that one.
Thank you kindly, I’ll have a look!
Sort of? I mean most stuff probably geared towards 30-somethings onward always spoke to me. John Bellairs and Rowling still speak to me…
Oh, and it’s true that we can absolutely love books that aren’t meant for us as a demographic. I love Neil Gaiman’s adult books andhis children’s books alike, I love John Green’s teen books, I love Beat writers and Thomas Harris’s Hannibal books and I relate in some way to all of them. However, I don’t see this as a good reason to settle for not having good books written to fill that fairly large gap, unless you simply think you wouldn’t be interested.
