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Question: Is A Book About Teenagers Which Includes SERIOUS issues and gore!.!.!.!?
A Young Adult book pushing the boundaries, or an Adult novel whose main characters happen to be teenagers!? I'm just wondering how to categorize the book I'm writing!. It's got sex (non explicit, but situations such as cheating, getting pregnant), violence (and I mean rated R horror movie violence; people getting their heads cut off, corpses getting found, people getting lit on fire- quite scary at times actually), and a lot of mature concepts and depth!. Too much for YA, too little for Adult- what do you think!? Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Adult!. Book that are actually called "young adult" tend to be fairly innocent, or else the violence and sex teaches some sort of lesson!. Those books are meant for very young teenagers (age 12-18)!. It sounds like your book would appeal to older teenagers (ie not 12-year-olds!), or adults, both of which would be called "adult" in the book industry!

No all adult books with gore and sex have EXTREME gore and sex, of course, so you don't have to worry that it's too little for adult as much as you have to worry that it's too much for young adult!. Plus alot of books popular among young people are "adult" rather than "young adult" due to the fact that they aren't particularly wholesome, eg Anne Rice, so having it considered an "adult" book doesn't exclude younger audiences!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It sounds scary but also really interesting at the same time!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think it would be a good book for adults, Young adults may be too muchWww@QuestionHome@Com