Micro Brew Monday: 4/8

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This was created by Melanie / The Library of Mars and Hexen Librarian.

They post a prompt to be answered the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month.

Today’s Prompt:
What’s your go-to genre? What about it do you enjoy so much? What’s your least favorite genre to read?

I really like to read young adult urban fantasy. I realize that’s weird that I’m a thirty-something year old mom reading young adult, but let me explain why. I have picked up a small handful of adult urban fantasy in my life and every one of them had steamy sex scenes and those make me uncomfortable. Sometimes the young adult ones do as well, but less often. So I tend to grab the young adult ones because I know they’re “safe”. LOL!

As for why I prefer the urban fantasy, I’m not really sure. The magic? It often sucks me in. I mean, I like other genres, too – high fantasy, sci fi, and historical fiction are often amongst my favorites. It’s just that urban fantasy pulls me in so quickly.

My least favorite? I don’t like a lot of non-fiction, but I’ll stick in the fiction realm. I’m not a huge fan of mysteries. That seems crazy because I love a good cop show, but those are more about the characters. I’ve only been able to get through a few mystery books in my life. If they’re mystery with some sort of fantastical element thrown in, then I could probably read it easily. Just common people with common problems seems boring to me.

I read to escape. When I read a book, I don’t want it to be like real life. I love the element of magic thrown in there. The idea of magic thrown into our world is even more exciting.

So, young adult urban fantasy it is. Unless someone can recommend clean adult urban fantasy. That would be even awesomer (